US09312561B2
A microbattery that includes, in succession starting from a first substrate: a first current collector, a first electrode, an electrolyte, a second electrode consisting of a solder joint, a second current collector and a second substrate. Additionally, a method for manufacturing a microbattery, which includes the following steps: forming a thin-film multilayer including, in succession from the first substrate, a first current collector, a first electrode, an electrolyte and a first metal film; forming a second current collector on a face of a second substrate; and forming a second electrode by soldering the first metal film and the second current collector together, said substrates being placed facing each other during assembly.
US09312556B2
A polymer electrolyte membrane having good resistance to radicals is provided. A polymer electrolyte membrane is characterized of containing organic/inorganic hybrid particles in which a surface of an inorganic particle, which is a radical scavenger, is modified with organic compounds in a polymer electrolyte. As the organic/inorganic hybrid particles in which a surface of an inorganic particle is modified with organic compounds, a radical scavenger prepared by reacting inorganic particles with organic compounds in a solvent by supercritical or subcritical hydrothermal synthesis is preferred.
US09312554B2
A hydrogen generator includes: a tubular reformer configured to generate a hydrogen-containing gas by a reforming reaction using a material gas; a CO reducer configured to reduce carbon monoxide contained in the hydrogen-containing gas generated in the reformer; a tubular hydro-desulfurizer provided at an outer periphery of the reformer and configured to remove a sulfur compound contained in the material gas; and a material gas supply passage through which the material gas to be supplied to the hydro-desulfurizer flows. The material gas supply passage is configured to perform heat exchange with the CO reducer, and a material gas inlet port of the hydro-desulfurizer is provided at an end surface closer to the CO reducer.
US09312552B2
The problem is that a large force is required to open a flow-dividing shut valve provided in an air supply path for supplying the air to a fuel cell stack at a start of a fuel cell system. This problem is solved by reducing a pressure difference between upstream and downstream of the flow-dividing shut valve, before the flow-dividing shut valve is opened, at a start of the fuel cell system.
US09312538B2
Provided is a technology for producing a positive electrode active substance mainly composed of FeOF having a sufficient charge-discharge capacity, in the short-time and easy manner. Also provided is a positive electrode active substance mainly composed of FeOF. The method for producing the positive electrode active substance mainly composed of FeOF comprises the steps of admixing iron oxide Fe2O3 and iron fluoride FeF3 both in solid states, and melt-quenching the mixture in an atmosphere of inert gas. The positive electrode active substance mainly composed of FeOF is composed of not less than 50% by weight of FeOF with a remainder being iron fluoride FeF3 and/or iron oxide Fe2O3.
US09312537B2
A method for modifying graphite particles having a prismatic shape or a cylindrical shape characterized by an edge function fe and a basal function fb, said method providing increase of the edge function and lowering of the basal function, wherein the method includes submitting the graphite particles to at least one physical means selected from attrition, jet mill, ball mill, hammer mill, or atomizer mill, in the presence of at least one chemical compound chosen from the group of compounds of the formula MFz, in which M represents an alkaline or alkaline-earth metal and z represents 1 or 2, NaCl and NH4F or a mixture thereof, said compound or compounds being added in solid form, at the beginning of the step using the physical means.
US09312534B2
Provided is a nonaqueous electrolytic solution secondary battery having a high energy density, and a positive electrode and a negative electrode used therefor. The nonaqueous electrolytic solution secondary battery includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode, wherein: the negative electrode contains a negative electrode active material having an initial charge/discharge efficiency of 75% or less when charged and discharged by employing metallic Li as a counter electrode; and the positive electrode contains a metal oxide (X) represented by AxMeOy (wherein A is Na and/or K, Me is Ni and/or Cu, x satisfies 1.9≦x≦2.1, and y satisfies 1.9≦y≦2.1).
US09312533B2
Disclosed is a material for an electrode having an excellent performance and an excellent durability by maintaining high electrical conductivity and by restraining the growth of the grain at a high temperature. The material can be manufactured by synthesizing composite materials through use of a metallic material of Mo and a ceramic material, and then the composite materials can be used as the electrode.
US09312523B2
Provided is a non-stop battery exchanging system including a battery to which a locking protrusion that can enter or exit is coupled, a main body having a receiving groove in which the battery is received and a locking groove recessed in the receiving groove to allow insertion of the locking protrusion and fix the battery, and configured to move in a state in which the battery is mounted, a battery separating unit disposed in a moving direction of the main body and configured to separate the battery from the main body, a battery mounting unit configured to mount a charged battery on the main body, from which the battery is separated, from the battery separating unit, and a power supply unit configured to compensate a voltage difference generated during separation of the battery and mounting of the charged battery, and supply power to the main body.
US09312518B2
A first conductive member is positioned on a base substrate. A second conductive member is positioned on the first conductive member, the second conductive member being electrically coupled to the first conductive member, and having a resistivity higher than that of the first conductive member. A mask substrate is positioned on the second conductive member. A portion of the mask substrate that contacts the second conductive member is removed.
US09312513B2
The lighting device includes a first resin layer having a first refractive index and a second resin layer having a second refractive index lower than the first refractive index and higher than the refractive index of the air, which are over a light-emitting element layer, a plurality of granules provided at the interface between the first resin layer and the second resin layer and each having the second refractive index or a plurality of projections each having an apex provided inside the first resin layer and a flat surface in contact with the interface between the first resin layer and the second resin layer and having the second refractive index, an uneven structure provided at the interface with the air, and a resin substrate having the second refractive index.
US09312511B2
In some embodiments, a first product is provided. The first product may include a substrate, a device having a device footprint disposed over the substrate, and a barrier film disposed over the substrate and substantially along a side of the device footprint. The barrier film may comprise a mixture of a polymeric material and non-polymeric material. The barrier film may have a perpendicular length that is less than or equal to 3.0 mm from the side of the device footprint.
US09312506B2
An electroluminescent element which can easily control the balance of color in white emission (white balance) is provided according to the present invention. The electroluminescent element comprises a first light-emitting layer containing one kind or two or more kinds of light-emitting materials, and a second light-emitting layer containing two kinds of light-emitting materials (a host material and a phosphorescent material) in which the phosphorescent material is doped at a concentration of from 10 to 40 wt %, preferably, from 12.5 to 20 wt %. Consequently, blue emission can be obtained from the first light-emitting layer and green and red (or orange) emission can be obtained from the second light-emitting layer. An electroluminescent element having such device configuration can easily control white balance since emission peak intensity changes at the same rate in case of increasing a current density.
US09312503B2
The present invention provides a green light iridium (III) complex and a method of preparing the same, which has a formula as follows: wherein m is 2 or 3; at least one of Ar1, Ar2, Ar3, Ar4, and Ar5 is a group containing fluorophenyl unit, which has a formula as follows: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 are H, CH3, or FCF3, and at least one of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 is F or CF3. The green light iridium (III) complex of the present invention has higher light emitting efficiency; the method of preparing the same has tender reaction conditions, simple synthesis steps and easy to handle. Due to the fluorophenyl unit capable of transporting electrons introduced therein, carrier current mobility and exciton transporting equilibrium are increased to contribute better exciton recombination so as to enhance performance of an organic electroluminescent device.
US09312497B2
Provided are a heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1 below, and an organic light-emitting diode and a flat display device each including the heterocyclic compound. The organic light-emitting diode including an organic layer including the heterocyclic compound has a low driving voltage, high luminescence efficiency, and long lifetime.
US09312496B2
Provided are a novel nitrogen-containing aromatic heterocyclic compound and an organic electronic device using the compound. Specifically provided is an organic electroluminescent device, including a plurality of organic layers between an anode and a cathode laminated on a substrate, in which at least one of the organic layers contains a nitrogen-containing aromatic compound represented by the following formula (1). In the formula, L represents an n+m-valent group arising from an alkane, a cycloalkane, an aromatic hydrocarbon, an aromatic heterocyclic compound, a triarylamine, or a diarylsulfone, A represents an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, a silyl group, an acyl group, an aromatic hydrocarbon group, or an aromatic heterocyclic group, X represents C(R)2, oxygen, S, or Se, R represents H, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an alkenyl group, an alkynyl group, an aromatic hydrocarbon group, or an aromatic heterocyclic group, m represents an integer of 1 to 4, and n represents an integer of 0 to 3. The total number of m and n is 2 to 4.
US09312493B2
A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting layer having a two-layer structure in which a first light-emitting layer containing a first light-emitting substance and a second light-emitting layer containing a second light-emitting substance, which is in contact with the first light-emitting layer, are provided between an anode and a cathode. The first light-emitting layer is separated into two layers of a layer provided on the anode side and a layer provided on the cathode side. The layer provided on the anode side contains only a first light-emitting substance, or a first organic compound of less than 50 wt % and the first light-emitting substance of 50 wt % to 100 wt %. The layer provided on the cathode side contains a second organic compound and the first light-emitting substance. The second light-emitting layer, which is provided in contact with the first light-emitting layer, contains the second light-emitting substance and a third organic compound.
US09312485B2
There is provided a process for forming a contained second layer over a first layer, including the steps: forming the first layer including a fluorinated material and a photoinitiator, and having a first surface energy; treating the first layer with a priming layer including an aromatic amine compound; exposing the priming layer patternwise with activating radiation, resulting in exposed areas and unexposed areas; developing the priming layer to effectively remove the priming layer from the unexposed areas resulting in a first layer having a patterned priming layer, wherein the patterned priming layer has a second surface energy that is higher than the first surface energy; and forming the second layer by liquid deposition on the patterned priming layer on the first layer.
US09312482B2
A semiconductor structure includes a memory region. A memory structure is disposed on the memory region. The memory structure includes a first electrode, a resistance variable layer, a protection material and a second electrode. The first electrode has a top surface on the memory region. The resistance variable layer has at least a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is disposed over the top surface of the first electrode and the second portion extends upwardly from the first portion. The protection material surrounds the second portion of the resistance variable layer. The protection material is configurable to protect at least one conductive path in the resistance variable layer. The second electrode is disposed over the resistance variable layer.
US09312481B2
Some embodiments include memory arrays having a plurality of memory cells vertically between bitlines and wordlines. The memory cells contain phase change material. Heat shields are laterally between immediately adjacent memory cells along a bitline direction. The heat shields contain electrically conductive material and are electrically connected with the bitlines. Some embodiments include memory arrays having a plurality of memory cells arranged in a first grid. The first grid has columns along a first direction and has rows along a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction. First heat shields are between adjacent memory cells along the first direction and are arranged in a second grid offset from the first grid along the first direction. Second heat shields are between adjacent memory cells along the second direction, and are arranged lines in lines extending along the first direction. Some embodiments include methods for forming memory arrays.
US09312477B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device is disclosed. The device includes first magnetic layer, second magnetic layer, first nonmagnetic layer between them. The first magnetic layer includes a structure in which first magnetic material film, second magnetic material film, and nonmagnetic material film between the first and second magnetic material films are stacked. The first magnetic material film is nearest to the first nonmagnetic layer in the first magnetic layer. The nonmagnetic material film includes at least one of Ta, Zr, Nb, Mo, Ru, Ti, V, Cr, W, Hf. The second magnetic material film includes stacked materials, including first magnetic material nearest to the first nonmagnetic layer among the stacked materials, and second magnetic material which is same magnetic material as the first magnetic material and has smaller thickness than the first magnetic material.
US09312476B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory is disclosed. The magnetic memory includes a substrate, and a contact plug provided on the substrate. The contact plug includes a first contact plug, and a second contact plug provided on the first contact plug and having a smaller diameter than that of the first contact plug. The magnetic memory further includes a magnetoresistive element provided on the second contact plug. The diameter of the second contact plug is smaller than that of the magnetoresistive element.
US09312472B2
A vertical Hall device indicative of a magnetic field parallel to a surface of a substrate comprises first, second, third and fourth terminals. The vertical Hall device further comprises contacts to generate a Hall effect signal indicative of the magnetic field. At least one pair of Hall effect regions is provided which comprises a first Hall effect region and a second Hall effect region formed in the substrate. A first group of the contacts is arranged in or at a surface of the first Hall effect region, the first group comprising a first and second outmost contacts. A second group of contacts is arranged in or at a surface of the second Hall effect region, the second group comprising third and fourth outmost contacts. Each of the first, second, third and fourth terminals is connected to a same number of outmost contacts.
US09312468B2
A nano-piezoelectric generator includes a first electrode and a second electrode, at least one nano-piezoelectric unit, formed of a semiconductor piezoelectric material having a nano-structure, disposed between the first and the second electrodes, and an interlayer, formed of an insulating material, disposed between the first electrode and the at least one nano-piezoelectric unit.
US09312464B2
A flip chip package structure includes a package base and a LED chip. The package base includes a first substrate, a first and a second electrodes disposed on the first substrate and a bonding layer disposed on the first substrate. The LED chip is flipped on the package base and includes an epitaxy layer, a third and a fourth electrodes disposed on the epitaxy layer and contacting the first and the second electrodes, a second insulating layer disposed between the third and the fourth electrodes, and a plurality of bonding pillars disposed on the second insulating layer and contacting the bonding layer. A minimum interval between the bonding layer, the first and the second electrodes and a minimum interval between the bonding pillars, the second and the third electrodes are larger than a width of each bonding pillar.
US09312450B2
Disclosed are a light emitting device and a light emitting device package. The light emitting device includes a first electrode, a light emitting structure including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the first electrode, a nano-tube layer including a plurality of carbon nano tubes on the light emitting structure, and a second electrode on the light emitting structure.
US09312446B2
Provided is a self-supporting gallium nitride substrate useful as an alternative material for a gallium nitride single crystal substrate, which is inexpensive and also suitable for having a large area. This substrate is composed of a plate composed of gallium nitride-based single crystal grains, wherein the plate has a single crystal structure in the approximately normal direction. This substrate can be manufactured by a method comprising providing an oriented polycrystalline sintered body; forming a seed crystal layer composed of gallium nitride on the sintered body so that the seed crystal layer has crystal orientation mostly in conformity with the crystal orientation of the sintered body; forming a layer with a thickness of 20 μm or greater composed of gallium nitride-based crystals on the seed crystal layer so that the layer has crystal orientation mostly in conformity with crystal orientation of the seed crystal layer; and removing the sintered body.
US09312438B2
An epitaxial structure of light emitting diode with a current modulation layer, and more specifically, a high-resistivity material is injected to change the current conduction path, and implementation of the main structure is to grow a high-resistivity material (e.g., InxAlyGa1-x-yN) over the N-type conductive layer or the P-type conductive layer till part of current conduction path is exposed through high-temperature H2 in-situ etching in the reacting furnace and to grow the N-type or the P-type conductive layer for coverage. This design for forming a current modulation layer without second epitaxial growth provides the injected current with a better spreading path in the N-type conductive layer and the P-type conductive layer, which more effectively and uniformly injects the current to the active layer and improves luminous efficiency.
US09312429B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting layer and a first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer is arranged with the light emitting layer in a first direction. The first semiconductor layer includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion and a second portion include a nitride semiconductor. The first portion has a first lattice polarity. The second portion has a second lattice polarity different from the first lattice polarity.
US09312415B2
Provided are a multi-layered sheet, a backsheet for a photovoltaic cell, a method of preparing the same and a photovoltaic module. The multi-layered sheet in which a resin layer including a fluorine-based resin has excellent durability and weather resistance, and also exhibits strong interfacial adhesion to a substrate or polymer coating layer is provided. When a drying process is performed at a low temperature in preparation of the multi-layered sheet, production cost can be reduced, producibility can be increased, and degradation in the quality of a product caused by thermal deformation or thermal shock can be prevented. Such a multi-layered sheet may be effectively used as a backsheet for various photovoltaic cells.
US09312411B2
In one embodiment, a connector assembly comprises: a connector; and a pair of side collectors, each comprising a connector engagement region having a size and geometry to mate with the connector so as to hold ends of two adjacent panels together; and a panel engagement region comprising a receiving area and having a size to attach onto an edge of the panel; and a clip, wherein the clip has a base that can be attached to a support, an engagement, and a stem extending therebetween, wherein the engagement has an extension projecting from a side of the engagement, wherein the panel engagement region further comprises an opening in a joint wall on a side of the panel engagement region opposite the receiving area, wherein the opening is configured to receive the extension of the engagement.
US09312409B2
An ink for forming a compound semiconductor thin film is provided, which contains a binder includes a compound includes an S atom or an Se atom and metallic compound particles which are both dispersed in an organic solvent. A compound semiconductor thin film is formed by applying or printing the ink for forming a compound semiconductor thin film and heat-treating it. A solar cell is constituted, which has a light-absorbing layer formed of the compound semiconductor thin film.
US09312397B2
A transistor structure includes a first terminal region, a second terminal region and a channel region therebetween in a semiconductor substrate. Additionally, the transistor structure includes a control electrode associated with the channel region, the control electrode having a control electrode portion which is elastically deflectable under the action of a force and spaced apart from the channel region. The distance between the control electrode portion and the channel region is changed based on the action of force.
US09312396B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory transistor includes an island-shaped semiconductor having a source region, a channel region, and a drain region formed in this order from the silicon substrate side, a floating gate arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the channel region with a tunnel insulating film interposed between the floating gate and the channel region, a control gate arranged so as to surround the outer periphery of the floating gate with an inter-polysilicon insulating film interposed between the control gate and the floating gate, and a control gate line electrically connected to the control gate and extending in a predetermined direction. The inter-polysilicon insulating film is interposed between the floating gate and the lower and inner side surfaces of the control gate and between the floating gate and the lower surface of the control gate line.
US09312395B2
Provided are a thin-film transistor (TFT), a method of manufacturing the same, and a method of manufacturing a backplane for a flat panel display (FPD). The method of manufacturing the TFT according to an embodiment of the present invention includes forming a gate electrode on a substrate; forming an insulating layer on the substrate to cover the gate electrode; performing a plasma treatment on an upper surface of the insulating layer using a halogen gas; forming an oxide semiconductor layer on the insulating layer and positioned to correspond to the gate electrode; and forming source and drain electrodes on the insulating layer to contact and over portions of the oxide semiconductor layer.
US09312394B2
A semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, a first insulating layer formed over said semiconductor substrate, first grooves formed in said first insulating layer, a gate electrode and a first interconnect filled in said first grooves, respectively, a gate insulating film formed over said gate electrode, a semiconductor layer formed over said gate insulating, a second insulating layer formed over said semiconductor layer and said first insulating film, a via formed in said second insulating layer and connected to said semiconductor layer, a second groove formed in said second insulating layer, and a second interconnect filled in said second groove, formed over said via and connected to said via.
US09312392B2
A semiconductor device includes a dual-gate transistor in which an oxide semiconductor film is provided between a first gate electrode and a second gate electrode. In the channel width direction of the transistor, a side surface of each of the first and second gate electrodes is on the outer side of a side surface of the oxide semiconductor film. The first or second gate electrode faces the side surface of the oxide semiconductor film with the gate insulating film provided between the first or second gate electrode and the oxide semiconductor film.
US09312386B2
This application discloses a Fin FET structure and a method for forming the same. In the Fin FET structure, there are lower stress spacers disposed over the lower portion of the fin's opposite sidewalls, asserting one stress type to suppress the carrier mobility; there are also upper stress spacers disposed over the upper portion of the fin's opposite sidewalls, asserting an opposite stress type to increase the carrier mobility. Therefore, the leakage current in the fin FET is reduced and the device performance is improved. In the method, the stress spacers are formed by depositing stress layers and etching back the stress layers, where stress types and magnitudes are controllable, resulting in a simple process.
US09312374B2
A semiconductor device that includes a plurality of isolated half-bridges formed in a common semiconductor die.
US09312368B2
A graphene device including separated junction contacts and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The graphene device is a field effect transistor (FET) in which graphene is used as a channel. A source electrode and a drain electrode do not directly contact the graphene channel, and junction contacts formed by doping semiconductor are separately disposed between the graphene channel and the source electrode and between the graphene channel and the drain electrode. Therefore, in an off state where a voltage is not applied to a gate electrode, due to a barrier between the graphene channel and the junction contacts, carriers may not move. As a result, the graphene device may have low current in the off state.
US09312365B2
The present invention provides a non-planar FET which includes a substrate, a fin structure, a sub spacer, a gate, a dielectric layer and a source/drain region. The fin structure is disposed on the substrate. The sub spacer is disposed only on a middle sidewall of the fin structure. The gate is disposed on the fin structure. The dielectric layer is disposed between the fin structure and the gate. The source/drain region is disposed in the fin structure. The present invention further provides a method of forming the same.
US09312361B2
Semiconductor devices and methods for manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises: forming a first shielding layer on a substrate, and forming a first spacer on a sidewall of the first shielding layer; forming one of source and drain regions with the first shielding layer and the first spacer as a mask; forming a second shielding layer on the substrate, and removing the first shielding layer; forming the other of the source and drain regions with the second shielding layer and the first spacer as a mask; removing at least a portion of the first spacer; and forming a gate dielectric layer, and forming a gate conductor in the form of spacer on a sidewall of the second shielding layer or on a sidewall of a remaining portion of the first spacer.
US09312353B2
A double gate type thin film transistor includes a first electrode on a substrate; a gate insulating layer on the first gate electrode; a semiconductor layer on the gate insulating layer corresponding to the first gate electrode; an etch stop layer on the semiconductor layer; source and drain electrodes contacting both sides of the semiconductor layer, respectively, and spaced apart from each other on the etch stop layer; a passivation layer on the source and drain electrode; and a second gate electrode on the passivation layer and having a double-layered structure of a transparent electrode and an opaque electrode.
US09312346B2
A semiconductor device has a cell field with drift zones of a first type of conductivity and charge carrier compensation zones of a second type of conductivity complementary to the first type. An edge region which surrounds the cell field has a higher blocking strength than the cell field, the edge region having a near-surface area which is undoped to more weakly doped than the drift zones, and beneath the near-surface area at least one buried, vertically extending complementarily doped zone is positioned.
US09312344B2
A method includes annealing a silicon region in an environment including hydrogen (H2) and hydrogen chloride (HCl) as process gases. After the step of annealing, a semiconductor region is grown from a surface of the silicon region.
US09312343B2
A transistor may include a semiconductor drift layer of a first semiconductor material and a semiconductor channel layer on the semiconductor drift layer. The semiconductor channel layer may include a second semiconductor material different than the first semiconductor material. A semiconductor interconnection layer may be electrically coupled between the semiconductor drift layer and the semiconductor channel layer, and the semiconductor interconnection layer may include a third semiconductor material different than the first and second semiconductor materials. In addition, a control electrode may be provided on the semiconductor channel layer.
US09312342B2
A new composition of matter is disclosed wherein oxygen vacancies in a semiconducting transition metal oxide such as titanium dioxide are filled with a halogen such as Fluorine, whereby the conductivity of the composition is greatly enhanced, while at the same time the chemical stability of the composition is greatly improved. Stoichiometric titanium dioxide having less than 3 % oxygen vacancies is subject to fluorine insertion such that oxygen vacancies are filled, limited amounts of fluorine replace additional oxygen atoms and fluorine interstitially inserts into the body of the TiO2 composition.
US09312341B2
A compound semiconductor device includes: a substrate; and a compound semiconductor lamination structure formed over the substrate, the compound semiconductor lamination structure including a buffer layer containing an impurity, and an active layer formed over the buffer layer.
US09312337B2
This device includes a first base layer of a first conduction type. A second base-layer of a second conduction type is provided above the first base-layer. A first semiconductor layer of the first conduction type is above an opposite side of the second base-layer to the first base-layer. A second semiconductor layer of the second conduction type is above an opposite side of the first base-layer to the second base-layer. A plurality of first electrodes are provided at the first semiconductor layer and the second base-layer via first insulating films. A second electrode is provided between adjacent ones of the first electrodes and provided at the first semiconductor layer and the second base-layer via a second insulating film. A resistance of the first base-layer above a side of the second electrode is lower than a resistance of the first base-layer above a side of the first electrodes.
US09312335B2
A lateral bipolar transistor includes trench emitter and trench collector regions to form ultra-narrow emitter regions, thereby improving emitter efficiency. The same trench process is used to form the emitter/collector trenches as well as the trench isolation structures so that no additional processing steps are needed to form the trench emitter and collector. In embodiments of the present invention, the trench emitter and trench collector regions may be formed using ion implantation into trenches formed in a semiconductor layer. In other embodiments, the trench emitter and trench collector regions may be formed by out-diffusion of dopants from heavily doped polysilicon filled trenches.
US09312333B2
A resonator and a method for manufacturing a resonator are provided. The method may include doping a wafer, and forming on the wafer a substrate, a drain electrode, a source electrode, a gate electrode, and at least one nanowire.
US09312331B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type provided in the first semiconductor region, an element region, and a termination region. The element region includes a third semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, a fourth semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, and a gate electrode disposed on a gate insulating layer that extends adjacent the third semiconductor region and the fourth semiconductor region. The termination region surrounds the element region and includes a first electrode, which includes first portions extending in a first direction and second portions extending in a second direction. A plurality of first electrodes are provided on the first semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region. An interval between adjacent first portions in the second direction is less than an interval between adjacent second portions in the first direction.
US09312320B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The OLED display includes a substrate, an active layer and a capacitor lower electrode positioned on the substrate, a gate insulating layer positioned on the active layer and the capacitor lower electrode, a gate electrode positioned on the gate insulating layer at a location corresponding to the active layer, a capacitor upper electrode positioned on the gate insulating layer at a location corresponding to the capacitor lower electrode, a first electrode positioned to be separated from the gate electrode and the capacitor upper electrode, an interlayer insulating layer positioned on the gate electrode, the capacitor upper electrode, and the first electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode positioned on the interlayer insulating layer, and a bank layer positioned on the source and drain electrodes.
US09312318B2
A display device includes: a substrate; a plurality of light-emission elements arranged, on the substrate, in a first direction and a second direction intersecting each other, each of the light-emission elements having a first electrode layer, an organic layer including a luminous layer, and a second electrode layer which are laminated in that order; and a separation section disposed, on the substrate, between the light-emission elements adjacent to each other in the first direction, the separation section having two or more pairs of steps. The first electrode layers in the light-emission elements are separated from each other, and the organic layers as well as the second electrode layers in the light-emission elements adjacent to each other in the first direction are separated from each other by the steps included in the separation section.
US09312315B2
Disclosed herein is a display including: a pixel array part configured to include pixels that are arranged in a matrix and each have an electro-optical element, a write transistor for writing a video signal, a drive transistor for driving the electro-optical element based on the video signal written by the write transistor, and a holding capacitor connected between gate and source of the drive transistor, wherein the holding capacitor includes a first electrode, a second electrode disposed to face one surface of the first electrode for forming a first capacitor, and a third electrode disposed to face the other surface of the first electrode for forming a second capacitor, and the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in parallel to each other electrically.
US09312311B2
Provided are organic luminescence display and method for manufacturing the same. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an organic luminescence display comprising a substrate and a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate. The pixels comprise a plurality of first pixels, each comprising a first organic light-emitting layer, and a plurality of second pixels which are smaller than the first pixels and each of which comprises a second organic light-emitting layer. The surface roughness of the second organic light-emitting layer is greater than the surface roughness of the first organic light-emitting layer.
US09312302B2
A light emitting module is provided in which color unevenness of illumination light is difficult to occur. An optical member formed from a translucent material having a refractive index higher than air is interposed between a first light emitting part and a second light emitting part. A side surface of the optical member has a region facing a first sealing member, and the region is at least partially in contact with a surface of the first sealing member. The side surface of the optical member has a region facing a second sealing member, and the region is at least partially in contact with a surface of the second sealing member. In plan view, an upper surface of the optical member does not substantially overlap either of an upper surface of a first light emitting element or an upper surface of a second light emitting element.
US09312296B2
A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes photoelectric conversion devices, a dopant layer, a low concentration region, and a transistor. The photoelectric conversion devices are disposed on a semiconductor layer. The dopant layer is disposed on a layer same as the semiconductor layer where photoelectric conversion devices are arrayed, and includes dopant having a conductivity type reverse to a charge accumulating region of the photoelectric conversion device. The low concentration region is disposed inside the dopant layer and has dopant concentration lower than the dopant layer. A transistor includes an active region disposed on the dopant layer.
US09312292B2
A manufacturing method of a BSI image sensor includes providing a substrate having a plurality of photo-sensing elements and a plurality of multilevel interconnects formed on a first side of the substrate; forming a redistribution layer (RDL) and a first insulating layer covering the RDL on the front side of the substrate; providing a carrier wafer formed on the front side of the substrate; forming a color filter array (CFA) on a second side of the substrate, the second side being opposite to the first side; removing the carrier wafer; and forming a first opening in the first insulating layer for exposing the RDL.
US09312291B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a first-conductivity-type semiconductor well region, a plurality of pixels each of which is formed on the semiconductor well region and is composed of a photoelectric conversion portion and a pixel transistor, an element isolation region provided between the pixels and in the pixels, and an element isolation region being free from an insulation film and being provided between desired pixel transistors.
US09312288B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a thin film transistor array panel includes a gate line and a data line insulated from each other an insulating substrate where the gate line and the data line cross each other to define a pixel region, a thin film transistor (TFT) disposed at an intersection of the gate line and the data line, a floating electrode where at least a portion of the floating electrode overlaps the data line, and a pixel electrode disposed at the pixel region where the pixel electrode is connected to the TFT and overlaps the at least a portion of the floating electrode.
US09312287B2
A display panel includes a TFT substrate, an opposite substrate and a display layer. A TFT of the TFT substrate has a drain. A first insulating layer has a first sub-layer and a second sub-layer disposed on the drain sequentially. The first sub-layer has a first opening with a first width. The second sub-layer has a second opening with a second width on the first opening. The first and second openings form a first via, and the second width is greater than the first width. A passivation layer is disposed on the first insulating layer. A second insulating layer is disposed on the passivation layer. A pixel electrode layer is disposed on the second insulating layer and disposed in the first via to connect the drain. The display layer is disposed between the TFT substrate and the opposite substrate.
US09312279B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate includes a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate line, a first data line, and a second data line on the substrate, a gate insulating layer that covers the gate electrode and the gate line and includes a first opening that exposes a portion of the first data line and a second opening that exposes a portion of the second data line, an active layer disposed on the gate insulating layer so that at least one portion of the active layer overlaps the gate electrode, a drain electrode and a source electrode that extend from opposite sides of the active layer, a pixel electrode that extends from the drain electrode, and a connection wiring that extends from the source electrode, and connects the first data line to the second data line through the first and second openings of the gate insulating layer.
US09312276B2
A method for manufacturing an array substrate for producing an amorphous silicon (a-Si) array substrate of a low-definition OLED display is provided. The method includes: patterning a gate metal and a pixel electrode on a glass substrate by using a first mask which is a first half tone mask; patterning a gate insulation layer and a semiconductor layer on the glass substrate with a second mask which is a second half tone mask; forming source/drain metallic layers and a channel with a third mask; and forming a bank layer with a fourth mask. The a-Si array substrates of low-definition OLED display panels undertake less manufacturing processes, which means that mask plates are used less and cost is reduced.
US09312269B2
A semiconductor device with a novel structure in which storage capacity needed for holding data can be secured even with miniaturized elements is provided. In the semiconductor device, electrodes of a capacitor are an electrode provided in the same layer as a gate of a transistor and an electrode provided in the same layer as a source and a drain of the transistor. Further, a layer in which the gate of the transistor is provided and a wiring layer connecting the gates of the transistors in a plurality of memories are provided in different layers. With this structure, parasitic capacitance formed around the gate of the transistor can be reduced, and the capacitor can be formed in a larger area.
US09312252B2
A semiconductor device 100 includes: a first semiconductor package 10; a first interposer 12 having an upper surface on which the first semiconductor package 10 is mounted; a first molding resin 14 that is provided on the upper surface of the first interposer 12 and seals the first semiconductor package 10; a second semiconductor package 20 mounted on an upper surface of the first molding resin 14; a second interposer 22 on which the second semiconductor package 20 is mounted by flip chip bonding; and a second molding resin 40 that is provided on the upper surface of the first interposer 12 and seals the first molding resin 14, the second semiconductor package 20, and the second interposer 22. The second semiconductor package 20 is mounted, with a surface thereof opposite to another surface mounted on the second interposer 22 faced down, on the upper surface of the first molding resin 14 via an adhesive 30.
US09312247B2
An illuminating device includes a first light module and a second light module. The first light module emits a first light beam to a first illuminating area, and the second light module emits a second light beam to a second illuminating area. The first light module includes a first blue chip emitting a blue light with a main wave peak from 461 nm to 480 nm.
US09312246B2
The present invention provides a light emitting device comprising a first light emitting portion that emits white light at a color temperature of 6000K or more and a second light emitting portion that emits white light at a color temperature of 3000K or less, which include light emitting diode chips and phosphors and are independently driven. The present invention has an advantage in that a light emitting device can be diversely applied in a desired atmosphere and use by realizing white light with different light spectrums and color temperatures. Particularly, the present invention has the effect on health by adjusting the wavelength of light or the color temperature according to the circadian rhythm of humans.
US09312240B2
A method of forming semiconductor assemblies is disclosed. The method includes providing an interposer with through interposer vias. The interposer includes first and second surfaces. The through interposer vias extend from the first surface to the second surface of the interposer. The interposer with the through interposer vias enable attachment and electrical coupling of a die having very fine contact pitch to an external device having relatively larger contact pitch. At least a first die is mounted on at least one die attach region on the first surface of the interposer. The first die comprises a first surface with first conductive contacts thereon. The interposer comprises material with CTE similar to that of the first die. The first conductive contacts of the first die are coupled to the through interposer vias on the first surface of the interposer. A bonding process which does not require a reflow process is performed to form connections between the first die and interposer.
US09312237B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package stack with a first and second substrate interconnected by solder further includes solder resist openings (SRO) of mixed lateral dimension are spatially varied across an area of the substrates. In embodiments, SRO dimension is varied between at least two different diameters as a function of an estimated gap between the substrates that is dependent on location within the substrate area. In embodiments where deflection in at least one substrate reduces conformality between the substrates, a varying solder joint height is provided from a fixed volume of solder by reducing the lateral dimensioning of the SRO in regions of larger gap relative to SRO dimensions in regions of smaller gap. In embodiments, the first substrate may be any of an IC chip, package substrate, or interposer while the second substrate may be any of another IC chip, package substrate, interposer, or printed circuit board (PCB).
US09312235B1
An aluminum-based alloy conductive wire used in semiconductor package is composed of 0.05 to 0.14 weight percent scandium (Sc), 0.01 to 0.1 weight percent zirconium (Zr), 0.01 to 0.1 weight percent silicon (Si) and the balance aluminum (Al), wherein the aluminum-based alloy conductive wire is made from high purity aluminum, aluminum-scandium alloy, aluminum-zirconium alloy and aluminum-silicon alloy by a melting treatment, a casting treatment, a solution treatment, a plastic processing and an aging treatment.
US09312234B2
There is provided a semiconductor module and a method for manufacturing the same which make it possible to joint the electrode of the bare-chip transistor and the wiring pattern on the substrate by solder mounting operation, in the same process of solder mounting operation for mounting the bare-chip transistor or other surface mounting devices on the wiring patterns on the substrate. A semiconductor module includes: a plurality of wiring patterns formed on an insulating layer; a bare-chip transistor mounted on one wiring pattern out of the plurality of wiring patterns via a solder; and a copper connector constituted of a copper plate for jointing an electrode formed on a top surface of the bare-chip transistor and another wiring pattern out of the plurality of wiring patterns via a solder.
US09312226B2
A semiconductor device includes a chip, a contact pad arranged over the front side of the chip and an identification mark arranged over the contact pad. The identification mark includes an information about a property of the chip.
US09312225B2
A bump structure that may be used for stacked die configurations is provided. Through-silicon vias are formed in a semiconductor substrate. A backside of the semiconductor substrate is thinned to expose the through-silicon vias. An isolation film is formed over the backside of the semiconductor substrate and the exposed portion of the through-silicon vias. The isolation film is thinned to re-expose the through-silicon vias. Bump pads and redistribution lines are formed on the backside of the semiconductor substrate providing an electrical connection to the through-silicon vias. Another isolation film is deposited and patterned, and a barrier layer is formed to provide contact pads for connecting to an external device, e.g., another die/wafer or circuit board.
US09312222B2
The present disclosure is directed to a semiconductor structure and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure in which a spacer element is formed adjacent to a metal body embedded in a first dielectric layer of a first interconnect layer. A via which is misaligned relative to an edge of the metal body is formed in a second dielectric material in second interconnect layer disposed over the first interconnect layer and filled with a conductive material which is electrically coupled to the metal body. The method allows for formation of an interconnect structure without encountering the various problems presented by via substructure defects in the dielectric material of the first interconnect layer, as well as eliminating conventional gap-fill metallization issues.
US09312208B2
A through silicon via structure is disclosed. The through silicon via includes: a substrate; a first dielectric layer disposed on the substrate and having a plurality of first openings, in which a bottom of the plurality of first openings is located lower than an original surface of the substrate; a via hole disposed through the first dielectric layer and the substrate, in which the via hole not overlapping for all of the plurality of first openings; a second dielectric layer disposed within the plurality of first openings and on a sidewall of the via hole while filling the plurality of first openings; and a conductive material layer disposed within the via hole having the second dielectric layer on the sidewall of the via hole, thereby forming a through silicon via.
US09312205B2
A method including forming a through-substrate via through a thickness of a substrate, the thickness of the substrate is measured from a front side of the substrate to a back side of the substrate, removing a first portion of the substrate to form an opening in the back side of the substrate such that a second portion of the substrate remains in direct contact surrounding a vertical sidewall of the through-substrate via, and filling the opening with an alternate material having a lower modulus of elasticity than the substrate.
US09312199B2
An integrated circuit (IC) stack device for thermal management is disclosed. The IC stack device can include a primary IC having a first set of cores with a ratio of first enabled cores and first disabled cores. The IC stack device can also have a supplementary IC interfaced with the primary IC, and having a second set of cores with a second ratio of second enabled cores and second disabled cores, with the second ratio being less than the first ratio. The integrated circuit stack device can also include a cooling element located such that the primary integrated circuit is between the cooling element and the supplementary integrated circuit. The cooling element can be designed to facilitate heat dissipation of the first and second enabled cores of the primary integrated circuit and the supplementary integrated circuit.
US09312196B2
The present invention relates to a curable silicone composition comprising: (A) an organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups in a molecule and represented by the average unit formula; (B) a straight chain organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups in a molecule and having no silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms; (C) an organosiloxane i) represented by the general formula, an organopolysiloxane (C2) having at least two silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms in a molecule and represented by the average unit formula, or a mixture of components (C1) and (C2); and (D) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst. The curable silicone composition forms a cured product having a high refractive index and a low gas permeability.
US09312194B2
A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: providing a leadframe having a mounting platform; applying an attach layer on the mounting platform; mounting an integrated circuit die on the attach layer; forming an encapsulation on the integrated circuit die and the attach layer, the mounting platform exposed from the encapsulation; and forming a terminal having a terminal protrusion from the leadframe, the terminal protrusion below a horizontal plane of the mounting platform.
US09312191B2
A method of reducing etch time needed for patterning an organic planarization layer (OPL) in a block mask stack so as to minimize damages to gate structures and fin structures in a block mask patterning process is provided. The block mask stack including an OPL, a developable antireflective coating (DARC) layer atop the OPL and a photoresist layer atop the DARC layer is employed to mask one conductivity type of FinFET while exposing the other conductivity type FinFET during source/drain ion implantation. The OPL is configured to have a minimum thickness sufficient to fill in spaces between semiconductor fins and to cover the semiconductor fins. The DARC layer is configured to planarize topography of semiconductor fins so as to provide a planar top surface for the ensuing lithography and etch processes.
US09312190B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device may include a first metal gate electrode provided in a NMOS region of a substrate; and a second metal gate electrode provided in a PMOS region of the substrate, wherein the first and second metal gate electrodes may be formed of TiN material or TiAlN material. Here, the first metal gate electrode may have a higher titanium (Ti) content than the second metal gate electrode, and the second metal gate electrode may have a higher nitrogen (N) content than the first metal gate electrode.
US09312189B2
Methods for fabricating integrated circuits are provided. In an embodiment, a method for fabricating an integrated circuit includes providing a structure having an n-channel gate stack and a p-channel gate stack formed over a semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming halo implant regions in the semiconductor substrate adjacent the p-channel gate stack and forming extension implant regions in the semiconductor substrate adjacent the p-channel gate stack. The method further includes annealing the halo implant regions and the extension implant regions in the semiconductor substrate adjacent the p-channel gate stack by performing a laser anneal process. Also, the method forms extension implant regions in the semiconductor substrate adjacent the n-channel gate stack.
US09312169B2
Method for producing a microelectronic device formed from a stack of supports (W) each provided with one or more electronic components (C) and comprising a conductive structure (170, 470) formed from a first blind conductive via (171b, 472) and a second blind conductive via (171a, 473) with a greater height, the first via and the second via being connected together.
US09312167B1
Methods for reducing the k value of a layer using air gaps and devices produced by said methods are disclosed herein. Methods disclosed herein can include depositing a carbon containing stack over one or more features in a substrate, depositing a porous dielectric layer over the carbon containing stack, and curing the substrate to volatilize the carbon containing stack. The resulting device includes a substrate with one or more features formed therein, a porous dielectric layer formed over the features with an air gap formed in the features.
US09312166B2
This invention provides a method for manufacturing composite wafers in which at least two composite wafers can be obtained from one donor wafer, and in which the chamfering step can be omitted. Provided is a method for manufacturing composite wafers comprising: bonding surfaces of at least two handle wafers and a surface of a donor wafer which has a diameter greater than or equal to a sum of diameters of the at least two handle wafers and which has a hydrogen ion implantation layer formed inside thereof by implanting hydrogen ions from the surface of the donor wafer, to obtain a bonded wafer; heating the bonded wafer at 200° C. to 400° C.; and detaching a film from the donor wafer along the hydrogen ion implantation layer of the heated bonded wafer, to obtain the composite wafers having the film transferred onto the at least two handle wafers.
US09312164B2
An integrated circuit is formed by forming an isolation mesa over a single crystal substrate which includes silicon, and forming a first epitaxial layer on the substrate by a selective epitaxial process so that a top surface of the first epitaxial layer is coplanar with the top surface of the isolation mesa. A non-selective epitaxial process forms single-crystalline silicon-based semiconductor material on the first epitaxial layer and non-crystalline silicon-based material on the isolation mesa. A cap layer is formed over the second epitaxial layer, and a radiantly-induced recrystallization process causes the non-crystalline silicon-based material to form single-crystalline semiconductor over the isolation mesa.
US09312143B1
Embodiments of present invention provide a method of making well isolations. The method includes forming a hard-mask layer on top of said substrate; forming a first resist-mask on top of a first portion of the hard-mask layer and applying the first resist-mask in forming a first type of wells in a first region of the substrate; forming a second resist-mask on top of a second portion of the hard-mask layer and applying the second resist-mask in forming a second type of wells in a second region of the substrate; applying the first and second resist-masks in transforming the hard-mask layer into a hard-mask, the hard-mask having openings aligned to areas overlapped by the first and second regions of the substrate; etching at least the areas of the substrate in creating deep trenches that separate the first and second types of wells; and filling the deep trenches with insulating materials.
US09312138B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming a buffer layer over the semiconductor substrate. The buffer layer is in an amorphous state. The method includes nitriding the buffer layer into a nitride buffer layer. The method includes forming a gate dielectric layer over the nitride buffer layer. The method includes performing a thermal annealing process to convert the gate dielectric layer into a crystalline gate dielectric layer. The method includes forming a gate electrode over the crystalline gate dielectric layer.
US09312122B2
A rinse liquid for an insulation layer, the rinse liquid including a solvent represented by the following Chemical Formula 1:
US09312121B1
The method for cleaning a contact hole and forming a contact plug therein is provided. The method includes steps of: providing a silicon substrate; forming a contact hole in the silicon substrate; performing a pre-cleaning process to clean the contact hole; and forming a contact plug in the contact hole. The pre-cleaning process includes steps of: performing an oxide dry etching process; performing a first thermal annealing process with a temperature which is equal to or greater than 300° C.; performing a degassing process with a temperature which is equal to or greater than 300° C.; and performing an Ar-plasma etching process.
US09312119B2
An open electrostatic trap mass spectrometer is disclosed for operation with wide and diverging ion packets. Signal on detector is composed of signals corresponding to multiplicity of ion cycles, called multiplets. Using reproducible distribution of relative intensity within multiplets, the signal can be unscrambled for relatively sparse spectra, such as spectra past fragmentation cell of tandem mass spectrometer, past ion mobility and differential ion mobility separators. Various embodiments are provided for particular pulsed ion sources and pulsed converters such as orthogonal accelerators, ion guides, and ion traps. The method and apparatus enhance the duty cycle of pulsed converters, improve space charge tolerance of the open trap analyzer and extends the dynamic range of time-of-flight detectors.
US09312117B2
A miniature, low cost mass spectrometer capable of unit resolution over a mass range of 10 to 50 AMU. The mass spectrometer incorporates several features that enhance the performance of the design over comparable instruments. An efficient ion source enables relatively low power consumption without sacrificing measurement resolution. Variable geometry mechanical filters allow for variable resolution. An onboard ion pump removes the need for an external pumping source. A magnet and magnetic yoke produce magnetic field regions with different flux densities to run the ion pump and a magnetic sector mass analyzer. An onboard digital controller and power conversion circuit inside the vacuum chamber allows a large degree of flexibility over the operation of the mass spectrometer while eliminating the need for high-voltage electrical feedthroughs. The miniature mass spectrometer senses fractions of a percentage of inlet gas and returns mass spectra data to a computer.
US09312110B2
LC/MS data generated by an LC/MS system is analyzed to determine groupings of ions associated with originating molecules. Ions are grouped initially according to retention time, for example, using retention time or chromatographic peaks in mass chromatograms. After initial groupings are determined based on retention time, ion peak shapes are compared to determine whether ions should be excluded. Ions having peak shapes not matching other ions, or alternatively a reference peak shape, are excluded from the group.
US09312108B2
A magnetron assembly for a rotary target cathode comprises an elongated support structure, a magnet bar structure movably positioned below the support structure, and a plurality of drive modules coupled to the support structure. The drive modules each include a motorized actuation mechanism operatively coupled to the magnet bar structure. A controller and battery module is coupled to the support structure and is in operative communication with the drive modules. The controller and battery module includes an electronic controller and at least one rechargeable battery. The battery is configured to energize each motorized actuation mechanism and the electronic controller. One or more power generation modules is coupled to the support structure and in electrical communication with the battery, such that electrical energy output from the power generation modules recharges the battery.
US09312105B2
Disclosed is a method for etching an insulation film of a processing target object. The method includes: in a first term, periodically switching ON and OFF of a high frequency power so as to excite a processing gas containing fluorocarbon and supplied into a processing container of a plasma processing apparatus; and in a second term subsequent to the first term, setting the high frequency power to be continuously turned ON so as to excite the processing gas supplied into the processing container. In one cycle consisting of a term where the high frequency is turned ON and a term where the high frequency power is turned OFF in the first term, the second term is longer than the term where the high frequency power is turned ON.
US09312098B2
Examining a sample in a charged-particle microscope of a scanning transmission type includes: Providing a beam of charged particles that is directed from a source through an illuminator so as to irradiate the sample; Providing a detector for detecting a flux of charged particles traversing the sample; Causing said beam to scan across a surface of the sample, and recording an output of the detector as a function of scan position, resulting in accumulation of a charged-particle image of the sample, Embodying the detector to comprise a plurality of detection segments; Combining signals from different segments of the detector so as to produce a vector output from the detector at each scan position, and compiling this data to yield a vector field; and Mathematically processing said vector field by subjecting it to a two-dimensional integration operation, thereby producing an integrated vector field image.
US09312095B2
A method and system is provided for automatically preparing transmission electron microscopy (TEM) samples for examination by depositing extremely small samples onto a grid without need for a blotting step. A sample liquid droplet is formed at the end of a capillary, wherein a portion of the liquid is transferred to the TEM sample grid by contact. The excess volume in the liquid droplet is then retracted by an adjacent capillary. After a predetermined time interval, the retraction capillary is moved toward the drop of the sample to remove the excess volume. As compared to a conventional machine, where the blotting procedure can deform the structure of the molecule of interest, the present invention utilizes a very low shear rate for removal of the excess sample fluid.
US09312094B2
This charged particle beam device comprises: an electron beam source (1); a charged particle optical system that includes an object lens (9) and that irradiates a sample (10) with electrons emitted from the electron beam source (1) as an electron beam (2); an aberration corrector (6) that corrects aberrations in the charged particle optical system; and a control unit (24) that controls the components of the charged particle optical system and the aberration corrector (6). The charged particle beam device further comprises an automatic aberration-correcting device (17) that autonomously acquires, through leaning, optimum adjustment procedures in order to reduce the time required for correcting parasitic aberrations that arise in the aberration corrector (6).
US09312091B2
In order to provide a charged particle beam apparatus enabling reduction of deflecting coma aberration in cases such as where wide field-of-view scanning is carried out, a charged particle beam apparatus is provided with an electromagnetic objective lens and a stage on which a sample is placed, wherein the electromagnetic objective lens is provided with the following: a plurality of magnetic paths; an objective lens coil; an opening disposed so as to face the sample; an inner lens deflector disposed more on the objective lens coil side than the end of the opening.
US09312085B2
A circuit breaker including an ejection device including an arc-extinction medium for improved extinction of an arc formed during a breaker operation and an exhaust-cooling medium for improved cooling of exhaust gases in the circuit breaker. Thereby, the arc-extinction liquid includes an organofluorine compound having a boiling point Tb at 1 bar higher than −60° C. and being selected from the group of: a fluoroether; a fluoroamine; a fluoroketone; and mixtures thereof.
US09312082B2
An interlock structure is coupled between actuating structure and a travel adjuster of a circuit breaker. The interlock structure includes a body having a bore therein. An engaging member has a portion sized to be received by the bore and the engaging member is coupled with the travel adjuster for movement therewith. A slide member is movable with respect to the body between operative and inoperative positions. Linkage structure is coupled to the slide member for moving the slide member and is also coupled to the actuating structure such that upon movement of the actuating structure, the linkage structure moves the slide member to the operative position so that the slide member blocks at least a portion of the bore to prevent the engaging member from entering the bore and thus prevents the travel adjuster from moving in a certain direction to allow the closure of the circuit breaker contacts.
US09312065B2
A machine (10) for manufacturing stackable laminations (4) for a magnetic core (6) is disclosed. The laminations are formed from a magnetic strip material (2). The machine (10) includes a first electromechanical cam drive for actuating a folder that folds the strip material (2) and a second electromechanical cam drive for actuating a cutter that cuts the strip material (2). The folder and the cutter are independently drivable between an uppermost position and a lowermost position. The folder may include a folder platen (130) having an associated folder bar (150) to fold said strip material (2). The cutter may include a guillotine platen (230) having an associated upper cutting blade (245) that cooperates with a fixed lower blade (255) for cutting said strip material (2). The electromechanical cam drive may include any suitable electric actuator (100,200) such as an electric motor.
US09312056B2
A coil assembly is provided, comprising a coil former, a coil, and a connection block which is pivotally joined to the coil former. The coil is wound while the connection block is pivoted away, the winding wire ends are soldered to the terminal pins, and the connection block is pivoted close to the coil.
US09312055B2
A production method for a case-integrated bonded magnet includes: filling a tubular cavity with a magnet raw material that includes a rare-earth magnet powder and a thermosetting resin binder; heating the magnet raw material to cause the thermosetting resin softened or melted while compressively molding the magnet raw material to obtain a tubular compact; discharging the tubular compact from the tubular cavity while press-fitting the tubular compact into a metal tubular case having an inner peripheral surface coaxial with the tubular cavity; and heat-curing the tubular compact with the tubular case to cure the thermosetting resin. The tubular compact press-fitted into the tubular case is thermally cured thereby causing the tubular compact to transform to a tubular bonded magnet, which expands unexpectedly due to heat.
US09312043B2
A polyamide composition which provides moldings having a significantly reduced percolation threshold and an improved electrical conductivity is provided. The composition contains a) at least 40 parts by weight of a polyamide; b) from 0.15 to 25 parts by weight of an electrically conductive carbon; c) from 0.3 to 8 parts by weight of an oligofunctional compound; and, optionally, d) conventional auxiliaries and additives, wherein the electrically conductive carbon comprises at least one of carbon nanotubes and graphene, the oligofunctional compound comprises at least one functional group reactive with reactive groups on a surface of the electrically conductive carbon and at least one functional group reactive with an end group of the polyamide, and the sum of the parts by weight of the components a) to d) is 100.
US09312042B2
Metal seed layers for solar cell conductive contacts and methods of forming metal seed layers for solar cell conductive contacts are described. For example, a solar cell includes a substrate. A semiconductor region is disposed in or above the substrate. A conductive contact is disposed on the semiconductor region and includes a seed layer in contact with the semiconductor region. The seed layer is composed of aluminum (Al) and a second, different, metal.
US09312040B2
An adaptive x-ray filter for changing a local intensity of x-rays includes an x-ray absorbing first fluid and electrically deformable control elements. The electrically deformable control elements change a layer thickness of the first fluid at a site of a respective electrically deformable control element by at least partially displacing the x-ray absorbing first fluid.
US09312039B2
A monochromator is adapted to select at least one band of wavelengths from diverging incident radiation. The apparatus includes a first crystal and a second crystal. A band of emitted wavelengths of the first crystal is adapted to the at least one band of wavelengths. A surface curvature of the first crystal is adapted to focus emitted radiation in a first plane. A band of emitted wavelengths of the second crystal also is adapted to the at least one band of wavelengths. Parallel faces of a lattice structure of the second crystal are oriented at a first predetermined angle from a surface of the second crystal. In another embodiment, an apparatus is adapted to select at least one band of wavelengths from diverging incident synchrotron radiation in a given range of wavelengths with an energy resolution finer than about five parts in 10000 and optical efficiency greater than about 50 percent.
US09312034B2
The invention includes a heat exchanger provided at a position higher than a primary containment vessel; a condensate storage tank disposed below the heat exchanger and above an upper end of a reactor core placed in a reactor pressure vessel; a non-condensate gas discharge line connected to an upper section of the condensate storage tank and to a suppression pool; a second condensate discharge line connected to a position below that section of the condensate storage tank to which a first end of the non-condensate gas discharge line is connected, and to the suppression pool; and a condensate return line connected to a position below that section of the condensate storage tank to which a first end of the second condensate discharge line is connected, and to a side portion of the reactor pressure vessel, the side portion being above the upper end of the core.
US09312030B2
An apparatus and method for acquiring data of fast fail memory includes a pattern generator for generating a pattern to be recorded to a device under test (DUT) and receiving DUT data from the DUT; a data transmitter for sending the DUT data and the pattern generated so as to correspond thereto to a failure analyzer from the pattern generator; and a failure analyzer for analyzing the DUT data and the pattern generated so as to correspond to the DUT data, which are received from the data transmitter, thus producing failure analysis information. The data transmitter (FIFO) able to advance the failure analysis time allows failure analysis to be performed before completion of testing, thereby shortening the total failure analysis time and overcoming hardware limitations for failure analysis.
US09312012B2
A method of programming an EEPROM, including: a first mode where a writing into cells is performed under a first voltage; and a second mode where the writing is performed under a second voltage smaller than the first one.
US09312008B2
According to example embodiments, an operation method of a nonvolatile memory device includes determining a location of a selected word line among word lines connected to the nonvolatile memory device, selecting one of a plurality of different read disturbance reducing modes according to the location of the selected word line, and performing a read or verification operation according to the selected read disturbance reducing modes. The nonvolatile memory device includes cell strings. Each one of the cell strings includes memory cells stacked on top of each other in a direction perpendicular to the substrate and between a ground select transistor and a string select transistor. The ground select transistor is between the substrate and the number of the memory cells. The string select transistor is connected to a bit line and is between the bit line and the number of the memory cells.
US09312004B1
A driver for a semiconductor memory may reduce an error in writing data in memory cells by adjusting the height and width of a spike current, when the memory cells in which data having the same level are written are arranged at different distances. In addition, the driver may reduce the error by controlling the amount of charges supplied to each of the memory cells that are arranged at different distances.
US09312003B2
A semiconductor memory device comprises: a plurality of first lines; a plurality of second lines extending to intersect the first lines; a plurality of memory cells disposed respectively at intersections of the first and second lines and including a variable resistance element; and a control circuit configured to control a voltage applied to the memory cell. The control circuit is configured able to, during a setting operation that changes the memory cell to a set state, execute the setting operation such that a setting voltage is applied to a selected memory cell connected to a selected first line and a selected second line. The control circuit is configured able to change a voltage application time of the setting voltage according to a state of change of the selected memory cell during the setting operation to execute an additional setting operation that applies the setting voltage to the selected memory cell.
US09312000B1
A semiconductor apparatus includes first and second variable resistors, a variable resistor selection unit and a threshold voltage adjustment unit. The variable resistor selection unit includes a plurality of transistors suitable for electrically coupling each of the first and second variable resistors to a sense amplifier in response to resistor selection signals. The threshold voltage adjustment unit provides a first voltage to bulks of the plurality of transistors during a read operation, and a second voltage that is different than the first voltage to the bulks of the plurality of transistors during operations other than the read operation.
US09311991B2
A solid state drive (SSD) with a hybrid storage mode includes a flash memory, and a data processing module in information communication with the flash memory. The flash memory includes a first storage sector that stores data by a first potential storage mode, and a second storage sector that stores data by a second potential storage mode. The first storage sector corresponds to physical block addresses P0 to PM−1 and logical block addresses L0 to LM−1. The second storage sector corresponds to physical block addresses PM to PM+N−1 and logical block addresses LM to LM+1−1. The data processing module has a data processing mode. In the data processing mode, the data processing module identifies the logical block address included in a command, and executes the command at the corresponding physical block address. Accordingly, an SSD having a high stability and a high data storage capacity is provided.
US09311988B2
A row buffer 102 in DRAM 100 stores any data read from a memory array 101 in a specified data length unit. An LLC 206 is cache memory, and extracts and stores a part of data stored in the row buffer 102 as cache data. In a MAC 701, when push-out control of the LLC 206 is performed, it is predicted that data at which DIMM address is stored in the row buffer 102 in the near future based on the queuing state of an MRQ 203. In the MAC 701, each physical address of the cache data in a push-out target range 702 on the LLC 206 is converted into a DIMM address. If the converted address matches the predicted address of the data, then the cache data corresponding to the matching addresses is pushed out on a priority basis from the LLC 206.
US09311981B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array of nonvolatile memory cells having a variable resistance element, and a conductor line array capable of generating a compensation magnetic field for the nonvolatile memory cells. A current driver selectively supplies current to conductive lines, a magnetic field sensor senses an applied external magnetic field and generates external magnetic field information, and a controller controls generation of the compensation magnetic field in response to the external magnetic field information.
US09311976B2
A memory module having integrated circuit (IC) components, a termination structure, an address/control signal path, a clock signal path, multiple data signal paths and multiple strobe signal paths. The strobe signal paths and data signal paths are coupled to respective IC components, and the address/control signal path and clock signal path are coupled in common to all the IC components. The address/control signal path extends along the IC components to the termination structure such that control signals propagating toward the termination structure arrive at address/control inputs of respective IC components at progressively later times corresponding to relative positions of the IC components.
US09311969B2
A method of writing data is performed in a data storage device with a controller and a memory. The memory includes latches and multiple storage elements and is operative to store a first number of bits in each storage element according to a first mapping of sequences of bits to states of the storage elements. The method includes loading data bits into the latches within the memory and generating manipulated data bits in the latches by manipulating designated data bits in the latches using one or more logical operations. The method also includes storing sets of the manipulated data bits to respective storage elements of the group of storage elements according to the first mapping. The designated data bits correspond to states of the respective storage elements according to a second mapping of sequences of bits to states. The second mapping is different than the first mapping.
US09311966B1
A storage device enclosure may include a baseplate having a bottom portion and walls extending from a perimeter of the bottom portion, a cover that includes a planar interface surface with the baseplate, and a gasket configured to be compressed between the baseplate and the cover at the interface surface. The cover may include a skirt extending about a perimeter of the cover and one or more discrete areas with a hem in place of the skirt. The baseplate may include one or more close clearance areas are thinner and that correspond to areas of the cover that include the hem. One or more hemmed seals are formed when the baseplate and the cover are pressed together.
US09311964B2
In a case where a chapter that introduces a predetermined non-heating step is being played back and execution of the non-heating step has not been completed, a moving image playback control section included in a terminal apparatus controls playback so that the chapter that is being played back is repeated or paused, and when execution of the non-heating step is completed, a subsequent chapter is played back.
US09311958B2
If a fault, or deterioration in read-out quality, is detected during recording processing with respect to a first recording face, a duplication is made, with respect to the recorded data on the second recording face of the same recording medium, on a separate recording medium.
US09311954B1
A tape head is provided for use with a tape drive that is configured to receive a length of tape. The tape head includes a head body including at least one head element for performing read and/or write operations on the tape, and a protective layer extending over at least a portion of the head body for inhibiting wear of the head body when the tape is moved with respect to the head body. Furthermore, the protective layer is made of titanium oxide, chromium oxide, zirconium oxide, aluminum oxide, or zinc oxide.
US09311948B2
A perpendicular magnetic recording layer of a magnetic recording medium includes a plurality of bit-patterned magnetic islands, wherein each of the plurality of islands overlay a soft magnetic under-layer. Each of the magnetic islands includes a first magnetic sub-layer adjacent a second magnetic sub-layer, wherein the first sub-layer has a relatively high magnetic anisotropy that is greater than a magnetic anisotropy of the second sub-layer. The magnetic recording layer further includes a third sub-layer, which extends to connect each of the plurality of islands. The third sub-layer may have a magnetic anisotropy that is less than that of the second sub-layer of each of the magnetic islands and/or may serve as an interlayer, extending between the first sub-layer and the soft magnetic under-layer of the recording medium, and having a structure to help to produce the greater anisotropy first magnetic sub-layer.
US09311945B2
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a MAMR head. The MAMR head includes an STO and an embedded contact sensor (ECS). The STO and the ECS are electrically connected in series and are connected to the same terminals. During operation, the current applied to the STO is controlled with respect to a change in resistance of the ECS.
US09311942B2
An embodiment of the present invention implements some or all major servo subfunctions for a storage device in integrated servo fields comprising sequences of encoded bits having selected mathematical properties. The integrated servo field is composed of a number of encoded sequences, which are members of a selected sequence set that is constrained to preferably provide some or all of the following functions: the Servo Track Mark (STM), the Position Error Signal (PES) and positional information such as the track-ID. The integrated servo fields can provide a Position Error Signal (PES) in relation to the center of a data track through the amplitude of the signal read for adjacent sequences. The servo system detects the sequences in the signal from the read head using a set of digital filters for the set of encoded sequences.
US09311934B1
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to a MAMR head. The MAMR head includes an STO and a current switching system electrically coupled to the STO. The current switching system can be used to optimize the STO frequency by changing the STO bias polarity, i.e., by changing the direction of the current flowing to the STO. As a result, the difference between the STO frequency and the magnetic media frequency is minimized, which improves recording capability of the MAMR head.
US09311931B2
Methods and apparatuses for context assisted noise reduction are disclosed. In one example, noise data associated with background noise detected by a microphone at a mobile device is received. The noise data is processed to identify whether a threshold noise level has been exceeded. An event notification is transmitted, where the event notification is operable to initiate identifying a location having a reduced background noise.
US09311924B1
A method to watermark an audio signal includes inserting a first symbol in a spectral well, the spectral well corresponding to at least one of a second spectral portion when amplitude of a first spectral portion and amplitude of a third spectral portion exceed amplitude of the second spectral portion, or the second temporal portion when amplitude of a first temporal portion and amplitude of a third temporal portion exceed amplitude of the second temporal portion.
US09311901B2
A method of producing an image with a blurred background (151) from an initial image (111) and a depth map (112) identifying a foreground region (236) and a background region (237) of the image, said method comprising determining (670) an edge visibility measure (671) for one edge (231) in the depth map (112) by comparing (820) a pixel value (233) in the foreground with a pixel value (234) in the background, said edge visibility measure (671) distinguishing between the foreground (236) and the background (237); applying (680) a spatially variable blur to the depth map (112) to produce a compositing matte (681), dependent on the edge visibility measure (671); applying (530) a blur to the background region (521) of the depth map (112); and compositing (150) the blurred background image data (531) with the initial image (111) to produce the rendered image with the blurred background (151).
US09311899B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to detecting and describing visible features of a data set on a visualization. Visible features among a set of data in a view-space are detected. The visible features include potential data clusters and trends. These visual features are characterized using data-space. The characterized detected features are overlaid on visualization for supporting interaction and exploration of the data. Detected features are explored across two or more clusters for comparison of select data.
US09311898B2
Various embodiments provide a user device comprising a touch screen display having a touch screen input; a proximity detector arrangement comprising a plurality of sensors for detecting a location of an input device; and a control unit comprising a processor. The control unit is configured to receive data from the proximity detector to determine the location of the input device, including a value related to the distance of the input device to the display; and control the display to perform a zoom function to enlarge or reduce the size of content on a portion of the display based on the value related to the distance of the input device to the display. The proximity detector arrangement and control unit are configured to detect the location of the input device within a detection volume and to provide a gradual variation in enlargement or reduction of the size of content as the distance of the input device to the display varies. Providing a gradual variation in zoom allows for a more precise and enjoyable user experience.
US09311897B2
Drive signals for a display device may be generated using Separable Non-negative Matrix Series Representation (SNMSR) of source image data and applying a nonnegative matrix factorization (NNMF) process to source image data to generate approximation image data (Ii), partial sum image data (Pi) and residue image data (Ji). Iteratively, NNMF may be applied to Ji such that subsequent Ii and Ji may be generated, where each Ii can be associated with a corresponding sub-frame image. At each iteration, the Ii may be sent to the display buffer for selective activation of multiple row and column drivers during a single sub-frame interval. At each iteration, a determination may be made if a predetermined criterion is satisfied. The iterations may be terminated and the series truncated when the predetermined criterion is satisfied. Integration of the sub-frame images displayed over a complete frame interval by human eye effectively corresponds to the source image.
US09311892B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an electronic paper display device and its driving method. The electronic paper display device comprises a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels includes at least two thin film transistors, and each thin film transistor is electrically connected to a corresponding data line and a corresponding gate line respectively, and within one refresh cycle, is turned on once separately. Embodiments of the invention can make refresh rate quicker and requirement on storage capacitance lower so as to achieve faster grayscale refresh.
US09311889B1
A color palette can be a collection of representative colors each associated with a weight or other metadata. A computing system may generate a color palette based on palette generation criteria, which may facilitate or control a palette generation process. Illustratively, the palette generation process may include image pre-processing, color distribution generation, representative color identification, palette candidate generation and palette determination. Representative colors with associated weight can be identified from a distribution of colors depicted by the color image, multiple palette candidates corresponding to the same color image can be generated based on various palette generation criteria, and a color palette can be identified therefrom.
US09311887B2
A pixel of a display apparatus includes at least a first transistor and at least a second transistor. A cell of transparent fluid including particles charged to have different polarities from each other is arranged between a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The first and second transistors are connected to the pixel electrode. The pixel is drivable according to pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) and pulse width modulation (PWM) such that a frame of an image is displayable using a single field.
US09311881B2
Provided are: a liquid crystal display device capable of rapidly removing residual electric charges in a panel when a power supply is turned off, and in particular, suitable for a case where IGZO-GDM is adopted; and a driving method of the liquid crystal display device.In the liquid crystal display device, when an OFF state of the power supply is detected, a power supply OFF sequence including an initialization step, a first discharge step and a second discharge step is executed. In the initialization step, only a clear signal (H_CLR) among GDM signals is set at a high level, and a state of each of bistable circuits which constitute a shift register is initialized. In the first discharge step, only the clear signal (H_CLR) among the GDM signals is set at a low level, all of gate bus lines are turned to a selected state, and electric charges in pixel formation portions are discharged. In the second discharge step, the clear signal (H_CLR) is set at the high level, and electric charges on floating nodes in each of the bistable circuits are discharged.
US09311878B2
A display panel and a scanning circuit are disclosed herein. The scanning circuit includes a plurality of shift registers. Each of the shift registers includes a driving unit, a control unit, and an operating unit. The driving unit is configured to receive a start signal and a driving clock signal, and provide a scan signal to an output end according to the start signal and the driving clock signal. The control unit is configured to provide a second voltage to the output end according to a first voltage on a control node, and to provide the second voltage to a driving end according to the first voltage on the control node. The operating unit is configured to operatively provide the first voltage to the control node according to an operating clock signal after the scan signal is outputted.
US09311876B2
To suppress malfunctions in a shift register circuit. A shift register having a plurality of flip-flop circuits is provided. The flip-flop circuit includes a transistor 11, a transistor 12, a transistor 13, a transistor 14, and a transistor 15. When the transistor 13 or the transistor 14 is turned on in a non-selection period, the potential of a node A is set, so that the node A is prevented from entering into a floating state.
US09311864B2
A method for updating image frames displayed on a display device including charged particles is provided and includes steps as below. A first image frame is displayed according to a first image data value. A second image frame is displayed according to a second image data value. Whether an image frame switching period between the first image frame and the second image frame is less than or equal to a predetermined period is determined to decide an updating manner for the second image frame displayed on the display device. When the image frame switching period is greater than the predetermined period, a reset pulse and a second data pulse are sequentially generated such that the display device operates in a second updating mode. A display device is also disclosed herein.
US09311858B2
A circuit for driving an organic light emitting diode display includes a display panel that displays an image by using organic light emitting diodes disposed at intersection areas of a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines; a threshold voltage detection control unit that supplies a precharge voltage by sequentially turning on transistors for threshold voltage detection, which are connected among the data lines and the organic light emitting diodes on the display panel, in units of horizontal lines, and enables threshold voltages to be detected; and a source driver that detects threshold voltages of all organic light emitting diodes arranged on a corresponding horizontal line, and repeats an operation, as necessary, for sampling/holding the detected threshold voltages through M sample/hold circuits, converting the sampled/held threshold voltages into digital signals, and storing the digital signals in a memory.
US09311857B2
Disclosed are an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method for driving the same, which are capable of minimizing required memory capacity and the use rate thereof while achieving an enhancement in display quality through execution of an overdriving (or accelerated driving) in accordance with image information of plural accumulated frames. The OLED display device includes a data modulator for sequentially receiving image data of a current frame from a timing controller, counting a number of accumulations of pixels corresponding to image data having a lower grayscale value than a grayscale value of predetermined reference data, generating modulated image data through application of a weight determined in accordance with the counted accumulation number, and supplying the modulated image data to a data driver.
US09311856B2
A driver and a display device using the same may be provided. The driver, according to an exemplary embodiment includes at least one logic unit, receiving a plurality of clock signals and a plurality of input signals, to generate and sequentially transmit output signals to a plurality of pixel rows included in a display unit, and a buffer unit, receiving a plurality of control signals, to generate and simultaneously transmit the output signals of a same waveform to a plurality of pixels included in the display unit, wherein the at least one logic unit is supplied with a logic power source voltage, and the buffer unit is supplied with a buffer power source voltage, the buffer power source voltage being different from the logic power source voltage.
US09311853B2
Disclosed herein is a display device in which light emitting elements of a plurality of colors including a light emitting element emitting blue light are formed in each pixel on a substrate on which a transistor is formed for each sub-pixel, and a plurality of pixels formed with sub-pixels of the plurality of colors as a unit are arranged in a form of a matrix, wherein relative positional relation between transistors of sub-pixels of respective light emission colors including blue light and a light emitting section of a light emitting element emitting the blue light is laid out such that distances between the transistors of the sub-pixels of the respective light emission colors including the blue light and the light emitting section of the light emitting element emitting the blue light are equal to each other for the respective colors.
US09311840B2
A display and an operating method of the display are provided. The display includes a display panel, a timing controller, and a plurality of source drivers. The source drivers are coupled to the timing controller and the display panel, and the source drivers are coupled to one another. The timing controller outputs a plurality of training packets to the source drivers. When the source drivers lock a clock of the timing controller according to the training packets, the timing controller outputs a plurality of color data packets and a plurality of control packets to the source drivers according to a lock signal. The source drivers respectively output pixel voltages to the display panel and determine output timings of the pixel voltages according to the clock of the timing controller and the control packets. The training packets and the color data packets are serially transmitted to the source drivers.
US09311838B2
The present invention proposes an LCD of switching to show 2D/3D image. The LCD adds a plurality of switch units to every row of scan lines while no additional gate driver is added. The plurality of switch units separately control charging and charge sharing of pixel units, therefore pixel charging and charge sharing are separately controlled. Hence the present invention fixes flicker in 3D image display while no additional gate driver is added.
US09311837B2
A system for playback of messages. Context appropriate messages for an environment may be played back. Messages may be user behavior interactive and subject to user behavior initiated message playback conditions. User generated environment events may be automatically analyzed and user behavior interactive messages may be automatically coordinated. An automated themed message playback apparatus may have a self-contained housing within which a stored themed message, an in situ user generated environment event sensor, and an automated themed message playback device are housed. User generated environment events may be automatically sensed in situ.
US09311821B2
Ground vehicle reporting and tracking techniques are provided to track vehicles associated with a particular area (e.g., an airport, a military base, etc.). Ground vehicles may regularly report information about the vehicle to one or more control stations via corresponding communication links. The communication links may include, for example, an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) link and a non-ADS-B link.
US09311817B2
A traffic monitoring system includes one or more processors operable to collect location data from a third-party network having a mobile user, weight at least one element of the location data based on reliability, and generate traffic speed data at a roadway location based on the weighted data. The third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network. The one or more processors are operable to deliver the traffic speed data at the roadway location to an alternate third-party network. The alternate third-party network is one of a mobile communication network, a computer network, a television network, a radio network, and a road sign display network.
US09311814B2
A system and method for configuring a remote control to command the operation of appliances, to capture demographic data, and to provide services, such as automated warranty registration, instructions, viewing guides, etc., relevant to the appliances is provided. The system includes a database and associated server that are located remotely from the remote control and accessible via a network connection. Command codes, graphical user interface elements, and services are accessed and downloaded to the remote control, as appropriate, using data supplied to the server that identifies the appliances and/or functional capabilities of the appliances. This data can be supplied by the appliances directly or can be obtained from other sources such as barcode labels, network devices, etc.
US09311806B2
A device and method for monitoring the removal or consumption of fluid from a container. The device has a housing with an attachment means on one side for affixing the device to a fluid container and a plurality of electrical components environmentally protected within the housing. The electrical components include a display screen having a length about the height of the container, a keypad, a timer and a processor. All of the electrical components are powered by and connected to a power source. The processor contains computer instructions that when activated indicate on the display screen the level of fluid that should have been removed or consumed based on the time since activation. This provides the user with information for monitoring fluid consumption.
US09311798B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system for determining the position of an object which can be a passive or an active tag (140). The system comprises a plurality of anchor nodes (111,112) and a plurality of non-regenerative relays (121,122,123) of known positions. In case of an active tag, a UWB pulse signal is emitted by the tag and received by the anchor nodes either directly or via a relay. In case of a passive tag, UWB pulse signals are sent by the anchors nodes and reflected back, either way being either a LOS path or a relayed path. A processing node (130) collects the signals received by the anchor nodes (111,112) to estimate the position of the tag.
US09311797B2
An anti-theft device monitors bottles. It is comprised of a two components hingably connected together. They can move from an open position to a closed position to enclose the neck of a bottle. One component has a first latch element and contains electronics including an arming switch. The other component has a second latch element. The latch elements combine to hold the two components in the closed position. When the two components are moved to the closed position, and a bottle is in position, the bottle changes the state of the arming switch. One of the components, or both, may have a protrusion that engages a feature on the bottle to keep the tag in place on the bottle. The anti-theft device may be armed or disarmed by remote devices. The latching elements may be releasably lockable such as by a magnet. The anti-theft device may have passcode protection capabilities.
US09311796B2
Systems (100) and methods (600-800) for adaptively controlling a transmitter field in an Electronic Article Surveillance (“EAS”) detection system. The methods comprise: detecting, by at least one first proximity sensor (108a, 108b), a presence of a first person located in proximity to a pedestal (102a, 102b) of the EAS detection system; determining a first distance from the first proximity sensor to the first person; and using the first distance to adaptively control the transmitter field of the EAS detection system.
US09311789B1
A sensorimotor rehabilitation system can analyze body movement kinematics of a person, and in particular analyze the use of limbs (e.g., upper limbs) to provide feedback for sensorimotor rehabilitation. Parameters of body movement (e.g., quantity and type of body movement) can be assessed based on data recorded from an inertial sensor affixed or connected to, for example, an upper limb of a person or outer clothing such as a sleeve. Automated feedback can be provided to the user to improve sensorimotor rehabilitation.
US09311787B2
An electronic gaming machine includes a display for displaying a first array of game symbols for playing a game and two or more second arrays of game enhancing elements, said second arrays being associated with columns of said first array. In response to a trigger event occurring in the columns, the second arrays each randomly award one or more game enhancing elements. A gaming method is also provided.
US09311784B2
According to some embodiments, systems, methods, and/or articles of manufacture are associated with determining whether a first condition associated with a first player of a gaming device is satisfied, determining whether a second condition associated with a second player of the gaming device is satisfied, and awarding, in the case that both the first and second conditions are determined to be satisfied, a benefit to the first player.
US09311780B2
Gaming apparatus and methods of conducting a wagering game of chance. A gaming machine is disclosed which is configured for mutually concurrent play of a plurality of games of chance on a single display screen. A method of conducting a wagering activity includes providing a player with a plurality of differing games of chance, at least some of which are mutually concurrently playable on a single screen display of a gaming device and enabling mutually concurrent play of the plurality of differing games of chance or the single screen display. Various other gaming machine configurations and methods of play related to multiple differing games of chance on a single display screen are also disclosed herein. Networked gaming machines are also disclosed.
US09311771B2
A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include determining a position of a player in physical world space (“player's position”) in front of an autostereoscopic display (“display”). The display includes optical units configured to project views of wagering game content with an autostereoscopic, three-dimensional effect. The operations can further include performing a repeating subroutine for each of the optical units associated with the wagering game content. The repeating subroutine, for each one of the optical units, determines that one of the views has a viewing angle that corresponds to the player's position, configures a virtual camera in virtual world space according to the viewing angle and renders, based on configuration of the virtual camera, a portion of the wagering game content that corresponds to pixels of the autostereoscopic display associated with the one of the optical units.
US09311765B2
A banknote deposit apparatus includes: a storing box 70 configured to receive the banknote stacked in a stacking unit 60 so as to store the banknote; and a clamping and transporting mechanism 10 configured to clamp surfaces of the banknote stacked in the stacking unit 60 and to transport the banknote to a direction parallel to the surfaces of the clamped banknote so as to store the banknote in the storing box. A front opening 61 through which the stacked banknote is taken out from outside, and a front shutter unit 62 configured to open and close the front opening are disposed on a front surface of the stacking unit 60.
US09311764B2
A coin counting apparatus includes a mounting unit with a base plate, and a guiding unit connected to the mounting unit. The guiding unit includes a guiding member connected to the base plate, a cover member cooperating with the base plate to define a guiding space, an adjusting plate connected to the base plate, a positioning bolt connected to a pivotable swing arm and slidable in a guidance sliding groove of the cover member and a base sliding groove of the base plate, and two fastener members fastening the adjusting plate to the base plate. The adjusting plate is movable relative to the base plate to cover a portion of the base sliding groove so that a range of the sliding movement of the positioning bolt is adjustable.
US09311761B1
A method identifies, for a vehicle, a low friction surface from a road surface with a slope. With the vehicle at standstill, the vehicle ignition is switched on. A normal load for the vehicle is calculated. It is determined if the vehicle is moving, and if the vehicle is moving, a vehicle load is calculated using suspension information from the vehicle. A road slope angle is calculated based on the calculated vehicle load and calculated normal load. A normal slope angle is calculated and is compared to the calculated road slope angle to determine if the vehicle is on a low friction surface or on a sloped surface. In accordance with another aspect of an embodiment, a method determines whether a trailer is coupled to a vehicle.
US09311758B2
A vehicle control method according to an embodiments includes: collecting data in a first communication data format from at least one electronic unit in a vehicle; converting the data collected in the first communication data format into a second communication data format in order to be transmitted to a pre-connected destination; transmitting the converted data to the destination; receiving, from the destination, control data of the second communication data format corresponding to the transmitted data; converting the control data of the second communication data format into the first communication data format; and outputting the control data of the first communication data format to a corresponding electronic unit.
US09311752B2
Disclosed herein is an image displaying method for a head-mounted type display unit which includes a frame of the glasses type for being mounted on the head of an observer, an image display apparatus attached to the frame, and a control section for controlling image display of the image display apparatus. The image display apparatus includes an image forming apparatus, and an optical apparatus. The image displaying method includes the steps of: storing a data group configured from a plurality of data in a storage section; adding a data identification code to each of the data; sending a designation identification code and display time information at predetermined intervals of time; and reading out the data whose data identification code coincides with the received designation identification code from the storage section and controlling the image forming apparatus to display an image based on the read out data.
US09311750B2
A mapping program for execution by at least one processing unit of a device is described. The device includes a touch-sensitive screen and a touch input interface. The program renders and displays a presentation of a map from a particular view of the map. The program generates an instruction to rotate the displayed map in response to a multi-touch input from the multi-touch input interface. In order to generate a rotating presentation of the map, the program changes the particular view while receiving the multi-touch input and for a duration of time after the multi-touch input has terminated in order to provide a degree of inertia motion for the rotating presentation of the map.
US09311744B2
A system and method for generating a representation of an outer layer of a three-dimensional object is disclosed. The object is represented by a plurality of two-dimensional triangles. The method comprises receiving the plurality of two-dimensional triangles representing the object and determining a three-dimensional bounding box comprised of a plurality of voxels that encapsulates the object. The method also includes determining an intersecting set of voxels of the plurality of voxels. A member of the intersecting set of voxels intersects with at least one triangle of the plurality of triangles. The method also includes determining an outer set of voxels from the intersecting set of voxels, wherein a member of the outer set of voxels shares a face with a voxel that is not a member of the intersecting set of voxels. The method further includes determining an outer layer set of triangles from the plurality of triangles.
US09311743B2
This disclosure describes techniques for performing hierarchical z-culling in a graphics processing system. In some examples, the techniques for performing hierarchical z-culling may involve selectively merging partially-covered source tiles for a tile location into a fully-covered merged source tile based on whether conservative farthest z-values for the partially-covered source tiles are nearer than a culling z-value for the tile location, and using a conservative farthest z-value associated with the fully-covered merged source tile to update the culling z-value for the tile location. In further examples, the techniques for performing hierarchical z-culling may use a cache unit that is not associated with an underlying memory to store conservative farthest z-values and coverage masks for merged source tiles. The capacity of the cache unit may be smaller than the size of cache needed to store merged source tile data for all of the tile locations in a render target.
US09311742B1
A computer determines a modified location for an avatar of a first entity in a virtual environment based on a location of the first entity in a capture volume and a transformation used to map a second entity from the capture volume to the virtual environment. The modified location of the avatar of the first entity relative to a location of an avatar of the second entity is consistent with the location of the first entity relative to the location of the second entity in the capture volume. Once the modified location is determined, the computer displays a graphical cue corresponding to the first entity at the modified location of the avatar of the first entity provided that a distance between the modified location of the avatar of the first entity is different from a current location of the avatar of the first entity in the virtual environment.
US09311733B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for improved rasterization of round points mapped into a tile space within a graphics processing pipeline. A set of candidate tiles are selected based on proximity to a round point. A tile within the set of candidate tiles may be rejected based on a rejection boundary. A tile may be rejected if no vertex associated with the tile is within the coverage area. Performance is improved by rejecting certain unneeded tiles that would otherwise be included in conventional rasterization. One embodiment advantageously enlists line drawing circuitry to determine whether a given tile intersects the coverage area.
US09311723B2
An attenuation correction method and device for an image in a PET system. The method includes: acquiring transmission scanning sinogram data from a PET apparatus; reconstructing the transmission scanning sinogram data with Bayesian model-based Ordered Subset Expectation Maximization (OSEM-B) algorithm and Filtered Back Projection (FBP) algorithm, to obtain an OSEM-B attenuation image and a first FBP attenuation image respectively; performing a weighted calculation on the OSEM-B attenuation image and the first FBP attenuation image to obtain an effective attenuation image; and performing attenuation correction on emission scanning sinogram data from the PET apparatus by using an attenuation sinogram generated based on the effective attenuation image.
US09311719B2
An image monitoring apparatus includes: a singleton selector selecting at least one singleton from a plurality of objects in an image; a single foreground image generator generating a single foreground image of the singleton; an eigenvector extractor extracting an eigenvector of a foreground singleton contained in the single foreground image using at least one of a centroid of the foreground singleton, the number of pixels of the foreground singleton and coordinate values of the pixels; a vanishing point location calculator generating a reference vector by connecting a predetermined point in the image to the centroid of the foreground singleton, and determining the predetermined point as a vanishing point when the predetermined point minimizes an angle between the reference vector and the eigenvector; and a gradient determiner determining a gradient of the foreground singleton using the vanishing point, and correct an inclination of a bounding box of the foreground singleton.
US09311716B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for static image segmentation are provided herein. A method includes segmenting a static image containing a target object into multiple regions based on one or more visual features of the static image; analyzing video content containing the target object to determine a similarity metric across the multiple segmented regions based on motion information associated with each of the multiple segmented regions; and applying the similarity metric to the static image to identify two or more of the multiple segmented regions as being portions of the target object.
US09311715B2
A method and system analyzes data acquired by image systems to more rapidly identify objects of interest in the data. In one embodiment, z-depth data are segmented such that neighboring image pixels having similar z-depths are given a common label. Blobs, or groups of pixels with a same label, may be defined to correspond to different objects. Blobs preferably are modeled as primitives to more rapidly identify objects in the acquired image. In some embodiments, a modified connected component analysis is carried out where image pixels are pre-grouped into regions of different depth values preferably using a depth value histogram. The histogram is divided into regions and image cluster centers are determined. A depth group value image containing blobs is obtained, with each pixel being assigned to one of the depth groups.
US09311713B2
An estimator training method and a pose estimating method using a depth image are disclosed, in which the estimator training method may train an estimator configured to estimate a pose of an object, based on an association between synthetic data and real data, and the pose estimating method may estimate the pose of the object using the trained estimator.
US09311708B2
Techniques for aligning images are disclosed. The frames might have been captured by a video camera on a hand held device, as one example. Collaboratively aligning related frames of image data is taught. Collaborative alignment determines a correspondence between pixels in pairs of the frames of image data, as well as a confidence in that correspondence. A coordinate system (or transformation) is assigned to each of the frames that is consistent with the correspondences between each of the frame pairs. The confidence in the respective correspondences may be used to provide a weighting to a correspondence when assigning the coordinate systems. Outlying frames may be discarded, and the process repeated for a robust solution.
US09311706B2
A system for calibrating a vision system of an object. For example, a system for calibrating a surround view system of a vehicle. The system may be configured to capture, via a first and second image sensor, a first and second image of a plurality of objects. Upon capturing such information, the system may be configured to determine a position and orientation of the first and the second image sensor relative to the plurality of objects based on the first and the second captured image. Further, the system may be configured to determine a relative position and orientation between the first and the second image sensor based on a result of the determining a position and orientation of the first and the second image sensor. Also, the system may be configured to determine intrinsic and extrinsic parameters of the first and the second image sensor.
US09311699B2
This disclosure relates to systems, devices and methods utilized to quantitatively measure the level of mottle in multilayer laminates. The systems and method are generally free of the inconsistencies, variability and inherent biases of the traditional subjective process by which a person of ordinary skill in the art can assess and categorize the mottle of a multilayer laminate. In the method, variations in the images of mottle produced by a shadowgraph are quantified, measured and classified.
US09311698B2
Various embodiments for detecting defects on a wafer are provided. Some embodiments include matching a template image, in which at least some pixels are associated with regions in the device having different characteristics, to output of an electron beam inspection system and applying defect detection parameters to pixels in the output based on the regions that the pixels in the output are located within to thereby detect defects on the wafer.
US09311694B2
A method for filtering a digital image, comprising segmenting the digital image into a plurality of tiles; computing tile histograms corresponding to each of the plurality of tiles; deriving a plurality of tile transfer functions from the tile histograms preferably using 1D convolutions; interpolating a tile transfer function from the plurality of tile transfer functions; and filtering the digital image with the interpolated tile transfer function. Many filters otherwise difficult to conceive or to implement are possible with this method, including an edge-preserving smoothing filter, HDR tone mapping, edge invariant gradient or entropy detection, image upsampling, and mapping coarse data to fine data.
US09311689B2
An apparatus includes: an input/output interface configured to have a reference surface model and a floating surface model inputted thereto; a memory having instructions for registration of the reference surface model and the floating surface model stored therein; and a processor configured for registration of the reference surface model and the floating surface model according to the instructions. The instructions perform: selecting initial transformation parameters corresponding to the floating surface model by comparing depth images of the reference surface model and the floating surface model; transforming the floating surface model according to the initial transformation parameters; calculating compensation transformation parameters through a matrix calculated by applying singular value decomposition to a cross covariance matrix between the reference surface model and the floating surface model; and transforming the floating surface model according to the compensation transformation parameters, and executing registration of the reference surface model and the floating surface model.
US09311686B2
A fitness monitor having a unitary wristband configured to receive a module, such as an electronics module, is disclosed. In one or more implementations, the fitness monitor comprises a module, such as an electronics module, that includes a housing having a first thickness. The fitness monitor also comprises a unitary wristband configured to be worn about a wrist of a user. The unitary wristband includes a housing receiving structure configured to receive the housing of the module so that the combination of the housing receiving structure and the housing has a second thickness, where the second thickness is at least substantially equal to the first thickness. In embodiments, the housing of the monitor may further have a first width, and the combination of the housing receiving structure and the housing may have a second width, where the second width is at least substantially equal to the first width.
US09311678B2
In one embodiment, a user comment system receives a user comment associated with a content object, assigns one or more privacy settings to the user comment, and stores the user comment in a data store in association with an identifier unique to the content object.
US09311676B2
The invention relates to systems and methods for analyzing data collected from sensors monitoring property. In particular, the systems and methods analyze the data to make property insurance underwriting decisions based on the collected sensor data using a computerized process that varies the way in which it manipulates the collected sensor data based on a characteristic of the property being insured, a characteristic of the entity seeking the insurance, and/or on the value of one or more collected data parameters. The invention also relates to systems and methods of making property insurance pricing decisions based on a similarly dynamic computerized process.
US09311668B2
Embodiments for determining whether the activity of a customer within a retail store violates a business rules are disclosed. The embodiments include a customer performing actions within a retail store via a mobile computing device, generating at least one business rule, and comparing the customer's actions with the business rules.
US09311647B2
A system and computer implemented method for providing a widget are described. The method and system include receiving a configuration of the widget and rendering the widget on a site. The widget is for dynamically displaying multimedia content, is embeddable, and is copyable. The configuration includes an event with which the widget is associated. The multimedia content includes at least one updatable tracking mechanism for the event.
US09311646B2
A system and method of verifying the identity of a user or registrant. The user or registrant provides identification information and registration information. The identification information may be a visual representation of an identifying item associated with location information. In some embodiments, the identification information may be a visual representation of a government issued identity. An identification module verifies the identification information and compares the verified identification information to the registration information.
US09311631B2
According to one embodiment, a system includes a processor and an interface. The interface receives, from a terminal, planned-deposit information. The terminal is at a location that is remote from a deposit location. The processor associates a deposit identifier with the planned-deposit information and stores the planned-deposit information and the deposit identifier in a memory.According to one embodiment, a method includes recognizing, at a deposit location, a deposit identifier. The method includes identifying, based on the deposit identifier and information stored in a memory, a planned deposit. The method includes detecting that the planned deposit has been delivered to a depository and determining, by a processor and based on one or more business rules, an availability of funds associated with the planned deposit.
US09311624B2
One or more artifact drafts may be associated with each of a plurality of artifacts, each of the artifact drafts representing a state of the associated artifact at a point in time and one or more commands in a command stack that transformed the artifact draft's parent into the artifact draft. Multiple traceability links and traceability vertices represent connections between the artifact drafts of the artifacts. A traceability link includes an edge between an artifact draft of an artifact and an artifact draft of another artifact. A module is operable to navigate through said one or more artifacts of the plurality of artifacts from a reference temporal point via the plurality of traceability links.
US09311615B2
An approach for infrastructure asset management is provided. This approach comprises an end-to-end analytics driven maintenance approach that can take data about physical assets and additional external data, and apply advanced analytics to the data to generate business insight, foresight and planning information. Specifically, this approach uses a maintenance analysis tool, which is configured to: receive data about a set of physical assets of an infrastructure, and analyze the data about the set of physical assets to predict maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets. The maintenance analysis tool further comprises an output component configured to generate a maintenance plan based on the predicted maintenance requirements for each of the set of physical assets.
US09311614B2
Providing access at a jobsite to an electronic record of a locate operation. Data related to the locate operation is acquired by locate equipment and transmitted to a data repository for storage in the electronic record of the locate operation. A site-specific access mechanism is provided that establishes a link to the electronic record of the locate operation. In one example, the site-specific access mechanism is a physical mechanism, such as a printout of a website address, a barcode, or an RFID tag. In another example the site-specific access mechanism is a virtual mechanism, such as geographic location information provided by a location tracking system (e.g., GPS apparatus) and/or derived from information available to a wireless communications system or WiFi network. In one aspect, the access mechanism may be configured for use at the jobsite only by a person particularly authorized to access the electronic record of the locate operation.
US09311612B2
Certain embodiments enable improved execution of service-oriented tasks by coordinating service providers that access service-input values from other service providers and generate service-output values that are accessible by other service providers. Improved performance results from distributed operations of service providers that do not require centralized exchange of all information.
US09311609B2
Techniques for evaluation and/or retraining of a classification model built using labeled training data. In some aspects, a classification model having a first set of weights is retrained by using unlabeled input to reweight the labeled training data to have a second set of weights, and by retraining the classification model using the labeled training data weighted according to the second set of weights. In some aspects, a classification model is evaluated by building a similarity model that represents similarities between unlabeled input and the labeled training data and using the similarity model to evaluate the labeled training data to identify a subset of the plurality of items of labeled training data that is more similar to the unlabeled input than a remainder of the labeled training data.
US09311601B2
Techniques for identifying knowledge use an graphical user interface for inputting one or more terms to be explored for additional knowledge. Then a search is conducted across one or more sources of information to identify resources containing information about or information associated with said terms. The resources are decomposed into elemental units of information and stored in a data structures called nodes. A group of nodes are stored in a node pool and, from the node pool, correlations of nodes are constructed that represent knowledge.
US09311599B1
Methods, systems, and media for identifying errors in predictive models using annotators are provided. In some embodiments, a method for evaluating predictive models in classification systems is provided, the method comprising: causing an input region to be presented to a user, where the input region receives an instance from the user that corresponds to a predictive model; retrieving a classification conducted by the predictive model for the received instance and a confidence value associated with the classification; determining whether the received instance has been incorrectly classified by the predictive model; determining a reward associated with the incorrect classification made by the predictive model in response to determining that the received instance has been incorrectly classified by the predictive model, where the reward is based on the confidence value associated with the classification of the received instance; and providing the reward to the user.
US09311596B2
A simple format is disclosed and referred to as Elementary Network Description (END). The format can fully describe a large-scale neuronal model and embodiments of software or hardware engines to simulate such a model efficiently. The architecture of such neuromorphic engines is optimal for high-performance parallel processing of spiking networks with spike-timing dependent plasticity. Methods for managing memory in a processing system are described whereby memory can be allocated among a plurality of elements and rules configured for each element such that the parallel execution of the spiking networks is most optimal.
US09311591B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a microcircuit card, including steps of: forming a first antenna coil in a card, the first antenna coil having a part following the edge of the card, forming a module having a microcircuit and a second antenna coil around and connected to the microcircuit, and implanting the module into the card at a precise position in relation to the edge of the card, the first antenna coil being coupled by induction to the second antenna coil, the first antenna coil being pre-formed in such a way that only one part of the second antenna coil is at a distance from the first antenna coil of less than 5% of the width of the second antenna coil.
US09311589B2
An anti-counterfeiting RFID tag structure includes a body and a RFID device disposed on the body. The body is an O-ring. The RFID device includes a RFID chip circuit and an antenna structure. The anti-counterfeiting RFID tag structure is disposed fully between the cap and the opening of the bottle container whenever the bottle container is sealed. A user reads anti-counterfeiting ID code and product curriculum vitae data stored in the RFID device, using a stationary or handheld RFID reader, so as to effectuate identification and anti-counterfeiting.
US09311583B2
A copy protection system for barcode includes a barcode pattern that is printed together with a security pattern that includes a line screen that intersects elements of the barcode pattern. A difference in print density between the barcode elements and the security pattern is sufficient to allow the barcode pattern to be read by a barcode scanner. However, upon reproduction of the printed barcode pattern and security pattern by a copier, the barcode pattern is not similarly readable on the resulting reproduction.
US09311576B2
Disclosed is a correction method of printing image data, including correcting printing data for printing, based on color information of an adhering medium bonded to a printing medium after performing printing on the printing medium.
US09311574B2
There are provided a printing apparatus which holds a job, determines whether attribution information of a sheet to be used by the stored job is registered for a sheet storage unit, judges whether a sheet exists in a sheet storage unit to be used by the job, and notifies a result of the determination and a result of the judgment.
US09311567B2
Systems for manifold learning for matting are disclosed, with methods and processes for making and using the same. The embodiments disclosed herein provide a closed form solution for solving the matting problem by a manifold learning technique, Local Linear Embedding. The transition from foreground to background is characterized by color and texture variations, which should be captured in the alpha map. This intuition implies that neighborhood relationship in the feature space should be preserved in the alpha map. By applying Local Linear Embedding using the disclosed embodiments, the local image variations can be preserved in the embedded manifold, which is the resulting alpha map. Without any strong assumption, such as color line model, the disclosed embodiments can be easily extended to incorporate other features beyond RGB color features, such as gradient and texture information.
US09311564B2
Age-estimation of a face of an individual is represented in image data. In one embodiment, age-estimation techniques involves combining a Contourlet Appearance Model (CAM) for facial-age feature extraction and Support Vector Regression (SVR) for learning aging rules in order to improve the accuracy of age-estimation over the current techniques. In a particular example, characteristics of input facial images are converted to feature vectors by CAM, then these feature vectors are analyzed by an aging-mechanism-based classifier to estimate whether the images represent faces of younger or older people prior to age-estimation, the aging-mechanism-based classifier being generated in one embodiment by running Support Vector Machines (SVM) on training images. In an exemplary binary youth/adult classifier, faces classified as adults are passed to an adult age-estimation function and the others are passed to a youth age-estimation function.
US09311558B2
A method for identifying a pattern in an image. In a first step the image is normalized to a binary matrix. A binary vector is subsequently generated from the binary matrix. The binary vector is filtered with a sparse matrix to a feature vector using a matrix vector multiplication wherein the matrix vector multiplication determines the values of the feature vector by applying program steps which are the result of transforming the sparse matrix in program steps including conditions on the values of the binary vector. Lastly, from the feature vector, a density of probability for a predetermined list of models is generated to identify the pattern in the image.
US09311554B2
A digital image of the object is captured and the object is recognized from plurality of objects in a database. An information address corresponding to the object is then used to access information and initiate communication pertinent to the object.
US09311551B2
A system and method for situational awareness and target cueing for use in military applications is disclosed. In extreme low light situations where the LLL sensor cannot provide SA information, the system allocates thermal information to the green SA channel to maintain the supply of contextual information to the user and thus situational awareness (SA) never drops below the native resolution of the thermal sensor. This improved SA capability, surpasses any existing LLL sensor technology in a single channel (stand-alone) application in overcast star light and below conditions.
US09311548B2
Handling data for a photographic image, includes detecting a reference pattern in the data, detecting at least one sticker in the data, determining an action associated with the at least one sticker, and performing the action on the data. The reference pattern may be a uniform grid pattern of dots preprinted on paper. A paper type may be determined according to the reference image. Determining an action associated with the at least one sticker may depend, at least in part, on the paper type. Detecting a particular one of the stickers may cause data for the photographic image to be stored in a particular location. Detecting a particular one of the stickers may cause data for the photographic images to be assigned particular tags used for organizing and searching.
US09311546B2
A method and apparatus for providing biometric authentication of a user uses a registration process in which a reference data sample representative of a biometric attribute of a reference user is used to train a statistical classifier such as a neural network to achieve a target output. The set of parameters of the statistical classifier, e.g. the weights that achieve this in the neural network, are stored on a user's device as a first data set. For subsequent authentication of a user to be tested at an access point, the first data set is retrieved from the user device and a second data set representative of the biometric attribute of the test user is generated directly from the test user. The first data set is used as a set of parameters in a statistical classifier, e.g. as weights in an artificial neural network, to generate a trained classifier or neural network and the second data set is then used as input to the trained classifier or neural network. The output of the trained classifier or neural network is then used to determine a degree of correlation between the biometric attribute of the reference user and the biometric attribute of the test user to be authenticated.
US09311527B1
A gaze direction determining system and method is provided. A two-camera system may detect the face from a fixed, wide-angle camera, estimates a rough location for the eye region using an eye detector based on topographic features, and directs another active pan-tilt-zoom camera to focus in on this eye region. A eye gaze estimation approach employs point-of-regard (PoG) tracking on a large viewing screen. To allow for greater head pose freedom, a calibration approach is provided to find the 3D eyeball location, eyeball radius, and fovea position. Both the iris center and iris contour points are mapped to the eyeball sphere (creating a 3D iris disk) to get the optical axis; then the fovea rotated accordingly and the final, visual axis gaze direction computed.
US09311515B2
Various embodiments herein each include devices, system, methods, and software for automatic scanner lighting tuning. One method embodiment includes determining a distance from a scanning surface to a surface of an item presented for scanning, determining an illumination setting based on the determined distance, and illuminating a scanning field according to the determined setting. Another embodiment is a scanner including a scanning module with a scanning surface imaged by an imaging device and a lighting module including at least one adjustable lighting element that illuminates according a received illumination setting. The scanner further includes a distance determining module that determines a distance between the scanning surface and a presented item and a lighting controller that receives a determined distance from the distance determining module, determines the illumination setting based on the determined distance, and provides the illumination command to the lighting module.
US09311496B1
A system for privacy screen-based security comprises an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receive authentication information. The processor is configured to, in the event authentication is determined to be successful, provide a privacy access screen, wherein the privacy access screen provides access to a set of applications or data, and determine whether to transition to a new privacy screen.
US09311484B2
An approach is provided for operating a mobile device having first and second operating systems (OSs) installed. While the mobile device is executing the first OS but not the second OS, (1) based in part on battery power remaining in the mobile device being less than a threshold and a lower power consumption of the mobile device if executing the second OS but not the first OS, execution of the first OS is terminated and the second OS is executed in the mobile device; and/or (2) based in part on (a) the mobile device being currently located in the first geographic region which has a greater likelihood of attack on the mobile device, and (b) the mobile device being more secure while operating the second OS but not the first OS, execution of the first OS is terminated and the second OS is executed in the mobile device.
US09311474B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus configured to execute at least one function, including: a storage configured to store a first code; an authentication unit configured to obtain a second code from an external storage medium, and to verify the second code against the first code to thereby authenticate the second code; an execution allowing unit configured, when the authentication unit succeeds in authentication, to allow execution of a predetermined function out of the at least one function; and an update unit configured, when the authentication unit succeeds in authentication, to update the first code stored in the storage with another first code, and to update the second code stored in the external storage medium with another second code such that the authentication unit will succeed in authentication based on the updated first code.
US09311472B2
Example methods and apparatus for authenticating a user login are disclosed herein. An example method includes displaying an image and dynamically presenting symbols adjacent the image. The example method includes receiving a code, the code formed by an arrangement of one or more of the symbols on the image. The example method includes authenticating a user based on the code.
US09311451B2
A medication dispensing apparatus for preventing a medication dispensing error is provided. The medication dispensing apparatus includes: a communication unit configured to communicate with a manager server; a medication collecting unit configured to contain capsules or tablets for one dose which are discharged from cartridges; a medication image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image of the capsules or tablets contained in the medication collecting unit; and a control unit configured to comprise a dispensing information delivery unit to transmit to the manager server the medication information acquired by the medication image acquiring unit, and a dispensing control unit to continue a medication dispensing process or control capsules or tablets to be re-dispensed according to a user's dispensing control instruction received from the manager server. Accordingly, it is possible to prevent a medication dispensing error.
US09311441B2
A designer uses an option device to switch one or more signal flows in a schematic design to create different versions for the same design. Currently, there is no related automatic tool for the automatic placement of option devices. In various embodiments, option device instances are used to decide option device positions. Option devices can be automatically placed and routing considered and adjusted as needed.
US09311435B2
Method for determining a cut for a gemstone, comprising selecting a generic shape for the cut; selecting a plurality of cut designs of a group of cut designs having the selected generic shape; simulating a number of optical metrics for the plurality of cut designs using simulation models having modeling coefficients; selecting one or more cut designs of the plurality of cut designs based on the simulated optical metrics; varying the geometry parameters for each selected cut design within a range, simulating a number of optical metrics for said range of geometry parameters, and determining an optimized cut design having optimized geometry parameters based on the simulated number of optical metrics for said range; cutting and polishing of the gemstone using the optimized cut design having the optimized geometry parameters; analyzing the visual appearance of the polished gemstone; changing or adapting the simulation models and/or the modeling coefficients thereof and/or the range for varying the geometry parameters and/or a cut design of the plurality of cut designs, and/or adding one or more new cut designs to the group of cut designs, on the basis of the analysis of the visual appearance.
US09311434B1
A computing device may create a time based block diagram. The time based block diagram may comprise a ladder logic diagram and at least one block. The at least one block may correspond to at least one of a differential equation system or a difference equation system. The computing device may also execute the time based block diagram to simulate behavior of a dynamic system, device, or process. Executing the time based block diagram may include executing the ladder logic diagram and the at least one block. The computing device may further output results of the simulation of the behavior of the system, device, or process based on executing the time based block diagram.
US09311428B2
A restoration apparatus restores backup data without running an operating system (OS) until a time point until which the total amount of the data read out along with the start-up of the OS and a business system remains equal to or smaller than the total amount of the data that is restorable while running the OS and the business system, and subsequently restores the backup data in parallel with the start-up of the OS and the business system.
US09311418B2
An information processing apparatus includes a collection information obtaining unit configured to collect information stored in a plurality of apparatuses so as to obtain collection information assigned to predetermined category groups, and a display controller configured to control display of the collection information. The category groups include first and second category groups. The display controller controls display of an image including a first category group display region which displays categories of the first category group, a second category group display region which displays categories of the second category group, and a content display region which displays concrete content of the collection information which corresponds to one of the categories selected in the first category group and which corresponds to one of the categories selected in the second category group.
US09311413B1
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes receiving, from a computing device, one or more user inputs that include levels of relevance for multiple facets of multiple applications. Each of the facets represents a different set of behaviors from a plurality of behaviors of the applications. Each one of the applications has an associated value for each of the facets based on the set of behaviors of each of the applications. The method further includes organizing a list of the applications based on the levels of relevance for the facets and the value of each of the facets for each of the applications. The method further includes providing, to the computing device, the list of the applications for presentation on a display device at the computing device.
US09311398B2
A system to process navigation information includes a receiving module to receive a data request from a network entity. The data request includes a network entity identifier that uniquely identifies the network entity. The system further includes an application to generate a network event based on the data request, the network event including the navigation information. Finally, the system includes a publisher module to communicate the network event to a first server that is distinguished from a first plurality of servers based on the network entity identifier.
US09311396B2
Video drive-by data provides a street level view of a neighborhood surrounding a selected geographic location. A video and data server farm incorporates a video storage server that stores video image files containing video drive-by data corresponding to a geographic location, a database server that processes a data query received from a user over the Internet corresponding to a geographic location of interest, and an image processing server. In operation, the database server identifies video image files stored in the video storage server that correspond to the geographic location of interest contained in the data query and transfers the video image files over a pre-processing network to the image processing server. The image processing server converts the video drive-by data to post-processed video data corresponding to a desired image format and transfers the post-processed video data via a post-processing network to the Internet in response to the query.
US09311368B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and a system for identifying and handling slowly changing dimension (SCD) attributes for use with an Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) process, comprising importing a data model for dimensional data into a data integration system, where the dimensional data comprises a plurality of attributes, identifying via a data discovery analyzer one or more attributes in the data model as SCD attributes, importing the identified SCD attributes into the data integration system, selecting a data source comprising dimensional data, automatically generating an ETL job for the dimensional data utilizing the imported SCD attributes, and executing the automatically generated ETL to extract the dimensional data from the data source and loading the dimensional data into the imported SCD attributes in a target data system.
US09311367B2
A digital repository 20 includes data items. A user can add additional functionality or program routines to data item by including as a data item a data processing identifier pointing to at least one data processing routine. Such routines are accessed by a client 22 by sending from a client to the digital repository 20 a request to access a data item, wherein the repository provides an interface description document 32 from the digital repository 20 to the client 22 as the response to the request. The client 22 can then transmit a data processing request from the client to a service 26 identified by the data processing identifier of the interface description document 32, the data processing request including the identifier from the interface description document.
US09311366B2
An interactive object retrieval method is provided. The present method includes receiving a time-space searching condition and a query, and selecting a plurality of searching results from an object database in accordance with the time-space searching condition, a similarity between the query and each of a plurality of data records of a first category in the object database, and a time information and a location information corresponding to each of a plurality of data records of a second category in the object database. The method further includes receiving at least one user input corresponding to at least one of the searching results, and determining a display manner of the searching results on a user interface in accordance with the at least one user input and the similarity between the query and each searching result.
US09311354B2
Queries may be processed more efficiently in an massively parallel processing (MPP) database by locally optimizing the global execution plan. The global execution plan and a semantic tree may be provided to MPP data nodes by an MPP coordinator. The MPP data nodes may then use the global execution plan and the semantic tree to generate a local execution plan. Thereafter, the MPP data nodes may select either the global execution plan or the local execution plan is accordance with a cost evaluation.
US09311352B2
The present invention is a system and method for external equipment monitoring. The presenting invention uses a network of sensor-devices that constitute a system that provides information about entities within a facility, where entities may mean industrial equipment, personnel, parts, raw materials, etc. The invention allows the entities to be tracked; monitored and optimized without input from a user of what type of entity or what type of entity it is (e.g., users, rooms, etc. can be monitored. The present invention uses devices that do not require an electronic connection to the entity and with the ability for one entity to monitor the activity of another entity.
US09311351B2
Techniques to block records for matching are described. Some embodiments are particularly directed to techniques to block records for matching entities with inconsistent identifying information. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a configuration component, a coding component, a blocking component, and a matching component. The configuration component may be operative to receive a data set comprising a plurality of records and operative to receive a set of blocking variables, the blocking variables present as variables in each of the plurality of records. The coding component operative to generate match codes based on the blocking variables. The blocking component operative on the processor circuit to produce a plurality of blocks of records from the data set based on the match codes. The matching component operative to match records within each of the plurality of blocks by performing deterministic or probabilistic entity resolution based on similar variables of the records within each of the blocks. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09311346B2
A data communication system comprising a first plurality of software entities, each having a respective entity identifier and a respective plurality of characteristics, and a data repository, wherein a first software entity of the first plurality of software entities instigates establishment of a first collection of data at the data repository, the first collection of data having at least one collection identifier selected from the plurality of characteristics of the first software entity, each of a second plurality of the first plurality of software entities having a respective set of the respective plurality of characteristics that matches the at least one collection identifier instigates addition of the entity identifier of the respective software entity to the first collection of data, at least one of the second plurality of software entities instigates addition of data to the first collection of data, and at least one other of the second plurality of software entities obtains a portion of the data from the first collection of data.
US09311345B2
An automated database analyzer is uses templates to accommodate multiple database languages, such as SQL and its dialects. The templates are combined with metadata that define a database schema and operations on the database schema. An SQL file instantiates the database schema on a database system being tested. Operations on the database schema may then be performed to assess the performance of the database system being tested.
US09311343B2
A method and system of managing a database is disclosed. The database may be structured to include a sequence object. The sequence object can have a set of sequential values. The set of sequential values may be used as a set of key values for a set of jobs. A count of jobs accessing the sequence object may be monitored. Based on the count of jobs accessing the sequence object, a quantity of sequential values of the set of sequential values may be allocated.
US09311341B2
A method includes identifying a stored photographic image and metadata associated with the stored image, wherein the metadata includes a location and an orientation of a camera when the stored image was captured. The method further identifies a target photographic image to be requested, wherein a description of the target image is derived from the metadata of the stored image and includes a target location and a target orientation. The method monitors the location of a plurality of mobile communication devices and, in response to determining that a first mobile communication device is proximate to the target location, notifies the first mobile communication device of a request to capture the target photographic image, wherein the request includes the target location and the target direction.
US09311329B2
A system for assuring the integrity of information files includes a first server, a manifest transfer engine and a second server. The first server stores information files and an associated manifest file containing a manifest entry for each stored information file. The manifest transfer engine receives the manifest file and the information files from the first server on a predetermined basis. The manifest transfer engine compares an identifying characteristic of each received information file with the manifest entries in the manifest file and, when there is a match, transfers the associated information file on the output as an authenticated information file. The second server receives the authenticated information file from the manifest transfer engine, optionally segments the authenticated information file, and then generates an associated manifest entry for the received authenticated information file (or segmented information files) and stores the associated manifest entry (or entries) in an updated manifest file.
US09311327B1
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for protecting data. This might include identifying a file modification, modifying a previous file entry, wherein the previous file entry is stored in a key value database, and creating a new file entry in the key value database. Modifying the previous file entry might include modifying the end version of the entry.
US09311324B2
A computerized-method of synchronizing data among a federation of servers interconnected over a network that has intermittent or low signal transmission bandwidth is provided. Each server in the federation of servers can receive update messages, determines connection status, maintain data catalogs and transmits updates such that nodes in the federation of servers are synchronized.
US09311318B1
Improved backup and storage operations are disclosed for virtual computing environments using a backup proxy server to perform storage operations on one or more virtual machine disks. The proxy server can include a module that intercepts application programming interface (API) calls, for writing backup data to a first location, prior to the data arriving on the proxy disk. During the intercept process, the data can be compressed in memory pages of the proxy server and redirected to an alternative backup disk location. The proxy server can also include a differential engine that identifies changes to the virtual machine disk at the block level since the last full backup. The differential engine can advantageously leverage memory pages of the proxy server to compare differences between signatures of blocks of the last full backup with signatures of new blocks. Subsequently, only blocks with non-matching signatures are processed for backup.
US09311316B2
Technologies related to migration in place are generally described. In some examples, software and/or data associated with a platform customer can be “migrated” to a new platform while allowing the platform customer's software and/or data to remain on same hardware. A data center and/or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provider may be configured to support migration in place for example by providing hardware identifiers upon request, providing platform identifiers upon request, providing platform compatibility information upon request and/or approving platforms for migration in place operations, deploying platform modules to migration in place hardware, providing user session support during migration in place operations, and/or performing security operations.
US09311301B1
Systems and methods for coreference resolution are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes locating, for each of a selected plurality of chains of coreferent mentions, a particular context-based name from the respective chain, wherein the coreferent mentions correspond to entities and the context-based name is a longest name in the respective chain, a last name in the respective chain, or a most frequently occurring name in the respective chain. The method also includes determining an entity category for each respective one of the plurality of chains and determining one or more entity attributes from structured data and unstructured data. The method further includes, based on the located particular context-based name, the entity category, and the one or more attributes, assigning high-probability coreferent chains to high-confidence buckets, such as to produce a Zipfian-like distribution having a head region and a tail region.
US09311296B2
A semantic phrase suggestion engine that provides term and sentence suggestions based on context-specific user groups. Knowledge domains within a semantic network may be automatically derived from user software applications, and each term within the knowledge domain includes meta-data about the terms, e.g., term type and an importance indicator. The indicators may be defined within the context of specific user groups and relate to how many times that group has used the term (e.g., in documents, emails, etc.) The semantic phrase suggestion engine may also include spelling conditions and grammar conditions, which can then provide phrase suggestions according to the conditions and importance indicators, specific to a user group.
US09311295B2
A method for extraction and enrichment of a procedure from a document is provided. The method may include identifying a potential location of a procedure in the document. The method may also include detecting a beginning boundary and an end boundary associated with the identified potential location of the procedure. The method may further include validating a text associated with the identified potential location of the procedure in the document. Additionally, the method may include determining an intent from the identified potential location of the procedure based on at least one of the beginning boundary, the end boundary, a surrounding text associated with the identified potential location of the procedure, a context associated with the document, and a title of the document. The method may also include enriching the procedure based on the determined intent.
US09311293B2
A computer-implemented technique can include receiving, at a server including one or more processors, a source word in a source language. The technique can include determining, at the server, one or more potential translations for the source word in a target language different than the source language. The technique can include determining, at the server, one or more synonyms for each of the one or more potential translations to obtain a plurality of potential translations. The technique can include determining, at the server, one or more translation clusters using the plurality of potential translations and a clustering algorithm. Each translation cluster can contain all of the plurality of potential translations that have a similar denotation and each of the plurality of translations that have a similar denotation can be included in a specific translation cluster. The technique can also include outputting, at the server, the one or more translation clusters.
US09311288B2
A data processing system comprises a plurality of electronic book reader devices, each of the electronic book reader devices having a display and being connectable to a wireless network of electronic book reader devices, in which: a first electronic book reader device of the plurality comprises a data transmitter configured to send, via the wireless network, reading position data defining: a current book data file being displayed by that electronic book reader device, and a current display position within that book data file; and at least a second, different, electronic book reader device of the plurality comprises a data receiver configured to receive, via the wireless network, the reading position data sent by the first electronic book reader device, and a display controller configured to control the second electronic book reader device to display at least an indication of the current book data file and the current display position of the first electronic book reader device.
US09311283B2
Disclosed is software which enables a service which allows users to load screen-shots of webpages to boards as clipped content, which preserves “live” links to the webpages from the clipped content, which identifies the content which was clipped, and which preserves links and other dynamic content in the clipped content.
US09311277B2
A calibration method for a device for identifying materials using X-rays, including: a) determining at least one calibration material and, for each calibration material, at least one calibration thickness of this material, b) measuring, for each of the calibration materials and for each of the selected calibration thicknesses, attenuation or transmission coefficients for X radiation, c) calculating statistical parameters from the coefficients, d) determining or calculating, for each calibration material and for each calibration thickness, a presence probability distribution law, as a function of the statistical parameters.
US09311274B2
A system includes a memory bank and a control unit. The control unit is configured to perform FFT computations based on Merged radix-2 butterfly calculations by performing FFT computations over N input items, and to access the memory bank for (½×log2N)×(10×log2N) times.
US09311270B2
A scheduler and scheduling method perform scheduling for a reconfigurable architecture. The scheduling, performed by the scheduler, includes path information extracting including extracting direct path information and indirect path information between functional units in a reconfigurable array complying with predefined architecture requirements, based on architecture information of the reconfigurable array, command selecting including selecting a command from a data flow graph (DFG) showing commands to be executed by the reconfigurable array, and scheduling including scheduling the selected command based on the extracted direct path information and indirect path information.
US09311262B2
A transmission control device in the present invention includes: a data storage memory in which data are written; a plurality of data copy memories into which the data written in the data storage memory are copied; an unread copy-memory selection unit that selects one of the data copy memories for which reading of data is not performed from among the data copy memories; a memory copy unit that copies the data written in the data storage memory into a data copy memory selected by the unread copy-memory selection unit; a read copy-memory selection unit that selects a data copy memory into which the memory copy unit copies data from among the data copy memories; and a data output unit that reads data from a data copy memory selected by the read copy-memory selection unit and outputs the read data to a transmission unit.
US09311242B1
A computer-implemented method for enabling write-back-cache aware snapshot creation may include (1) identifying a cache that implements write-back caching to selectively store at least one write to a backing store, (2) receiving, while the write is stored within the cache, a request to create a snapshot of the backing store, and (3) creating, in response to the request, the snapshot of the backing store by (a) determining that the write is stored within the cache and (b) tracking, in response to the determination, the write stored within the cache to ensure that the write is included in the snapshot of the backing store. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09311235B2
Method of erasing information stored in a nonvolatile rewritable memory of a computer, wherein a master module sends erasing requests to a slave module of the computer, the memory including at least two interleaved sectors. The method includes preliminary steps of determining a virtual memory addressing space associated with the memory, in which each sector extends over a specific range of consecutive virtual memory addresses, and establishing a first correspondence function for determining, from a range of virtual memory addresses, the sector or sectors whose contents must be erased, and for each erasing request received by the slave module indicating a range of virtual memory addresses, a step of determining the sector or sectors whose contents must be erased by the slave module. The memory includes a plurality of segments, each segment breaking down into a plurality of sectors and at least two segments including interleaved physical memory addresses.
US09311220B1
A system and method are disclosed for determining the root cause of non-deterministic tests. An exemplary system may receive a non-deterministic test and run the non-deterministic test with call trace collection enabled. For each trace, the system may determine whether the trace was associated with a passing or failing test. Each trace may be labeled according to the trace's association. Then, dynamic call trees may be constructed, one for the traces associated with passing tests and one for traces associated with failing tests. The dynamic call trees may be compared to determine subtree patterns that occur in one tree, but not the other. The subtree patterns may then be ranked based on the number of times the subtrees occur in the traces in order to determine the root cause of the non-deterministic test.
US09311181B2
A partial data changing method of a memory controller includes receiving a request to change partial data from a host; detecting an error of old data, the old data being partial data read from a memory device using an error detection code; if the old data is not erroneous, calculating a data difference between new data provided from the host and the old data, and calculating a new parity using the data difference and an old parity read from the memory device; and storing the new data and the new parity at the memory device.
US09311180B2
A semiconductor storage circuit includes a memory core which includes multiple memory cells; an error checking and correction (ECC) encoder; and an ECC decoder. The memory core is activated in response to input of a command for each operation cycle. The ECC encoder performs ECC encoding of input data which is input together with a write command and thus generates ECC data, and generates write data including the input data and the ECC data. The ECC decoder performs ECC decoding of read data which has been read from the memory core according to a read command, using ECC data included in the read data, and thus generates output data. An adjustment is made to equalize a delay from input of a write command until activation of the memory core and a delay from input of a read command until activation of the memory core.
US09311179B2
A method begins by a set of storage units of a dispersed storage network (DSN) receiving a plurality of read requests regarding a plurality of sets of encoded data slices from a requesting device of the DSN and outputting a plurality of read responses that includes encoded data slices and corresponding trust level indicators. The method continues with the requesting device arranging the encoded data slices of the plurality of read responses into received sets of encoded data slices. The method continues with the requesting device selecting a decode threshold number of encoded data slices from each received set of encoded data slices based on the corresponding trust level indicators to produce selected sets of encoded data slices and decoding the selected sets of encoded data slices to recapture data segments of a data object.
US09311178B2
A transactional memory system salvages a hardware transaction. A processor of the transactional memory system executes a salvage indicator instruction, such execution including obtaining a salvage indication information specified by the salvage indicator instruction, and saving the salvage indication information comprising a salvage indication. Based on a pending point of failure being detected, the processor uses the saved salvage indication information to avoid aborting a hardware transaction, wherein absent salvage indication information, the pending point of failure causes a hardware transaction to abort. The processor detects the point of failure, and based on the detecting, determines whether the salvage indication has been recorded. Based on determining that the salvage indication has been recorded, the processor executes an about-to-fail handler, and based on determining that the salvage indication has not been recorded, the processor aborts the transactional execution of the code region.
US09311177B2
A mechanism to support reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) flows in a peer monitor is disclosed. A method of the disclosure includes receiving, by a processing device, a system management interrupt (SMI) event. The method further includes invoking, in response to the SMI event, a privilege manager to execute from a read-only memory (ROM) entry point to handle the SMI event, the privilege manager comprising a hot plug service module to provide support for memory hot plug functionality and processor hot plug functionality.
US09311176B1
A technique evaluates a set of storage devices (e.g., magnetic disk drives, solid state drives, etc.). The technique involves receiving, by processing circuitry (e.g., a storage processor, a standalone computer, etc.), storage device evaluation factors which (i) map possible storage device error events to individual weights and (ii) map cumulative weights to recommended activities. The technique further involves receiving, by the processing circuitry, a storage device error log containing storage device error entries identifying actual storage device error events which were encountered by the set of storage devices while performing data storage operations over a period of time. The technique further involves analyzing, by the processing circuitry, the storage device error entries based on the storage device evaluation factors to produce a set of evaluation results identifying a set of recommended activities to be performed on the set of storage devices.
US09311175B2
An approach for collecting log information for a plurality of services according to a common format for a connector string, each service running at least one instance of a process, parsing the log information in relation to a key map, and storing the parsed information in a database.
US09311172B2
A computer system and its booting and setting method are disclosed. Power supplying and a booting process of the computer system are controlled by a basic input/output system (BIOS). The computer system includes a super input/output chip, a south bridge chipset, and a power supply module. The super input/output chip includes a timer. A counting time is set by the BIOS and the timer counts down when booting the computer system, wherein the counting time is longer than a normal booting time. The south bridge chipset is electrically connected with the super input/output chip and exchanges data between a south bridge chipset and a peripheral device. The power supply module is used for providing power to the computer system. The BIOS controls the timer to stop counting down when the computer system is capable of booting normally.
US09311152B2
Exemplary embodiments of methods and apparatuses to dynamically redistribute computational processes in a system that includes a plurality of processing units are described. The power consumption, the performance, and the power/performance value are determined for various computational processes between a plurality of subsystems where each of the subsystems is capable of performing the computational processes. The computational processes are exemplarily graphics rendering process, image processing process, signal processing process, Bayer decoding process, or video decoding process, which can be performed by a central processing unit, a graphics processing units or a digital signal processing unit. In one embodiment, the distribution of computational processes between capable subsystems is based on a power setting, a performance setting, a dynamic setting or a value setting.
US09311144B1
A data processing method comprising the computer-implemented steps of using a process management computer, receiving an electronic workflow document in response to execution of editing instructions at a user terminal that is coupled by network to the process management computer, wherein the electronic workflow document defines a workflow using a plurality of tags and statements that specify steps in the workflow, wherein each of the steps is either an atomic type step or a non-atomic type step, wherein at least a first step that is atomic comprises a plurality of instructions and is programmed to signal, to a second and successive non-atomic step, normal completion of execution of the first step; wherein at least a second step that is non-atomic is programmed to call a completion callback in response to the signal; using the process management computer, parsing the electronic workflow document to form an in-memory representation of the workflow in computer memory; using the process management computer and using the in-memory representation, executing the first step, transitioning to the second step and executing at least a portion of the instructions that are programmed in the second step; using the process management computer, receiving a completion callback signal from the second step in response to normal completion of execution of the first step; using the process management computer, and only after receiving the completion callback signal from the second step, continuing execution of other instructions that are programmed in the second step.
US09311142B2
A multi-core processor system includes multiple cores and memory accessible from the cores, where a given core is configured to detect among the cores, first cores having a highest execution priority level; identify among the detected first cores, a second core that caused access conflict of the memory; and control a third core that is among the cores, excluding the first cores and the identified second core, the third core being controlled to execute for a given interval during an interval when the access conflict occurs, a thread that does not access the memory.
US09311137B2
A mechanism is provided for completing of set of instructions while receiving interrupts. The mechanism executes a set of instructions. Responsive to receiving an interrupt and determining that the interrupt requires processing within an implementation time frame, the mechanism delays the interrupt for a predetermined time period. Responsive to completing the set of instructions within the predetermined time period, the mechanism processes the interrupt.
US09311134B1
A computing device receives information describing one or more workflow components. The computing device determines whether at least one executable step can be determined for each of the one or more workflow components. The computing device provides an indication of whether at least one executable step can be determined for each of the one or more workflow components.
US09311129B2
A computer implemented method for processing virtualization of physical computers that are part of a group into virtual computers is provided. The method includes obtaining relationship data from the physical computers, where the relationship data identifies parameters used to communicate within the group. Then, the method analyzes utilization parameters for each of the physical computers of the group. A visual model for proposed virtualization of the group of physical computers is then generated. The visual model identifies hosting machines designated to define a virtual computer for each of the physical computers, where the visual model provides a graphical illustration of the group of physical computers once converted to virtual computers. The method enables adjustment of the proposed virtualization of the group of physical computers. Then, an execution sequence of virtualization operations to be carried out is generated, if execution of the proposed virtualization is triggered, and the execution sequence is saved to storage and accessed upon execution.
US09311123B2
A method performed by a network system having a plurality of processing units implemented using a plurality of respective virtual machines, includes: receiving a first packet at a first virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines, wherein the first virtual machine is configured to receive the first packet from a network through an interface and has session processing capability; calculating a first value using a mathematical algorithm based on one or more information regarding the first packet; and using the calculated first value to identify a second virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines in the network system.
US09311122B2
A system and method can support a signaling method in a virtualization environment. The management domain on one or more physical servers can be provided with a mapping table. The management domain operates to receive a message from the subnet administrator, wherein the message indicates a path record change event, such as a virtual machine (VM) migration event in the network. Then, the management domain can forward the received message to one or more virtual machine associated with the management domain based on the mapping table.
US09311114B2
A method, system, and computer program product for creating a virtual display overlay are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A first value of a visual characteristic of a presentation and an ambient condition are detected at a first time, the ambient condition changes a user's perception of the first value of the visual characteristic to a perceived value of the visual characteristic. A difference is identified between the perceived value of the visual characteristic and a preference specified by a user. The virtual display overlay having an adjustment value is generated responsive to the identifying. the adjustment value when applied to the perceived value of the visual characteristic reduces the difference to less than a tolerance threshold. The virtual display overlay is displayed on the display device such that the virtual display overlay covers the presentation.
US09311110B2
Examples are disclosed for remotely initializing or booting a client or host device. In some examples, a network (NW) input/output (I/O) device coupled to a host device connects to a remote server via a NW communication link. For these examples, modules of the network I/O device establishes a control path to a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) controller maintained at the remote server using a remote direct memory access (RDMA) protocol. Properties of a storage device controlled by the NVMe controller have an RDMA service tag (STag) to indicate accessible allocated portions of the storage device. A system basic I/O system (BIOS) is capable of using the RDMA STag to access the storage device and load an operating system (OS) kernel. Also, one or more device drivers can remotely boot the host device using the RDMA STag.
US09311106B1
Techniques and mechanisms allow for implementing multiple configuration profiles for dynamic reconfiguration of an Intellectual Property (IP) core. A minimum set of data may be generated, as well as detecting errors between the configuration profiles.
US09311095B2
Two computer machine instructions are fetched for execution, but replaced by a single optimized instruction to be executed, wherein a temporary register used by the two instructions is identified as a last-use register, where a last-use register has a value that is not to be accessed by later instructions, whereby the two computer machine instructions are replaced by a single optimized internal instruction for execution, the single optimized instruction not including the last-use register.
US09311094B2
The described embodiments provide a processor that executes a vector instruction. In the described embodiments, while executing instructions, the processor encounters a vector memory-accessing instruction that performs a memory operation for a set of elements in the memory-accessing instruction. In these embodiments, if an optional predicate vector is received, for each element in the memory-accessing instruction for which a corresponding element of the predicate vector is active, otherwise, for each element in the memory-accessing instruction, upon determining that addresses in the elements are likely to be arranged in a predetermined pattern, the processor predicts that the addresses in the elements are arranged in the predetermined pattern. The processor then performs a fast version of the memory operation corresponding to the predetermined pattern.
US09311079B2
Software configuration management includes removing a selected section from a first artifact in a first stream. The first artifact includes a plurality of sections, and a second artifact in the first stream is created including the selected section. The second artifact does not include at least one other section of the plurality of sections. An annotation is generated using a processor that specifies the first artifact, a range within the first artifact corresponding to the selected section, and the second artifact into which the selected section is moved. The annotation is used to apply changes implemented in selected artifacts from one stream to another.
US09311074B2
A distribution control apparatus that controls distribution of firmware to be mounted on an image forming apparatus in a network, comprises: a storage control unit configured to cause a first storage unit installed in the network to store different versions of firmware; a control unit configured to control, based on information of the different versions of firmware, publication and suspension of publication of the different versions of firmware; and a distribution unit configured to cause distribution of a publicized version of firmware from the first storage unit in accordance with a request, wherein the control unit causes deletion of a version of firmware whose publication is to be suspended from the first storage unit.
US09311070B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamically recommending configuration changes to an operating system image are provided. Embodiments include monitoring, by an image deployment monitor, configurations of a plurality of deployed copies of a master operating system (OS) image; detecting, by the image deployment monitor, a change in one or more configurations of a first set of deployed copies of the plurality of deployed copies; and in response to detecting the change, generating, by the image deployment monitor, a configuration recommendation to recommend the change to an OS image.
US09311069B2
A system and machine-implemented method for facilitating an application launcher providing direct access to one or more items, the method including identifying one or more items maintained at one or more sources accessible by the user at the computing device meeting search criteria specified by a user, determining an application associated with each of the one or more items facilitating access to the item, generating an instance of each of the one or more items facilitating direct user interaction with the item, where the user is able to interact with the item directly from the instance of the item and providing the instance of each of the one or more items for display to the user at the computing device in response to the request.
US09311068B2
In one aspect, a transformation of web application archives (WARs) to Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi™) web bundles is performed. WARs are specialized Java® archives for packaging web applications and the transformation to OSGi™ web bundles is realized by applying proper entries to the manifest of the WARs thus making them OSGi™ compliant. In another aspect, the transformed WARs to OSGi™ web bundles are marked as auto started so that the web application is available for requests after product installation.
US09311060B2
A web development, application development, or other tool can be enhanced by configuring the tool to support an overlay for defining a plurality of regions (i.e. slices) simultaneously. Embodiments include providing, via a computing apparatus, a graphical user interface comprising an overlay over the area of a visual element, the graphical user interface configured to define from one to nine adjustable slices, with each slice corresponding to a respective region or component of the visual element. The method can comprise associating a default repetition behavior with each slice based on its relative position in the overlay and receiving input via the overly and adjusting a characteristic of at least one slice, the adjusted characteristic comprising a size or position of the slice. The default and/or adjusted characteristics can be used to generate HTML, CSS, and/or other code for providing the desired scaling behavior for the visual component.
US09311059B2
A software application development tool provides context-based data schema code hinting. Code “regions” are defined in the code for an application that is under development. One or more data sources that are referenced by a code region may be defined. The development tool detects when a designer is attempting to reference a data schema, such as by detecting that the designer has input a specified trigger, within a region of the code, and in response, the development tool provides code hints for the data schema for corresponding data source(s) that is/are referenced in the corresponding code region in which the designer is working. Thus, rather than providing data schema code hinting for all data sources referenced by the application, targeted code hinting is employed by presenting data schema code hints for only the data source(s) that are referenced by a defined code region in which the designer is working.
US09311058B2
Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, using one or more computing devices to facilitate or otherwise support one or more processes or operations for Jabba language.
US09311055B2
Described herein are systems, methods and apparatuses that can provide a holistic, bottom-up approach to facilitate the design of objects (e.g., modular objects that can facilitate industrial automation applications). The design approach includes selection of an object from a library of a plurality of objects; filtration of functionalities of the object based on a workflow of an application; and display of the object for customization of the object for the application with the filtered functionalities masked.
US09311047B2
A matching circuit includes pattern circuits, and a signal path in which the pattern circuits are series-connected, wherein each of the pattern circuits connected to a preceding-stage pattern circuit through the signal path is settable in a first operation mode and in a second operation mode, wherein each of the pattern circuits in the first operation mode generates a result of matching in response to both a result of matching supplied from a preceding-stage pattern circuit and a result obtained by matching data supplied from the preceding-stage pattern circuit against part of a regular expression pattern, and wherein each of the pattern circuits in the second operation mode generates a result of matching in response to a result obtained by matching the data supplied from the preceding-stage pattern circuit against part of a regular expression pattern, without relying on a result of matching supplied from the preceding-stage pattern circuit.
US09311041B2
A device is described. The device comprising: a first processor and a first display coupled to the first processor, the first processor being configured to generate first display data, pertaining to elements of a first active application currently being executed on the device, for display on the first display, and generate link data pertaining to a subset of the elements of the first active application; wherein the first processor is configured to output the generated link data to a second display. A system and method are also described.
US09311036B2
A data processing system includes a first processor and a second processor and further includes an intermediate data generating unit that generates intermediate data; a first storage control unit that stores the intermediate data and identification data that identifies the intermediate data in correspondence with each other in a first storage area; a second storage control unit that stores the identification data in correspondence with the intermediate data in a second storage area; a process requesting unit that sends a request for processing the print data to an image processing apparatus; and an obtaining unit that obtains a processed result from the image processing apparatus based on the identification data.
US09311030B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a communication program stored thereon and readable by a controller of a communication apparatus, the communication program, when executed by the controller, causes the controller to perform: determining whether a wireless setting for performing wireless communication by the wireless communication method is set in an external apparatus when the communication apparatus is in communication with the external apparatus through the first communication unit; determining whether a wireless setting which is settable by the communication apparatus is stored in a storage; and transmitting the wireless setting stored in the storage to the external apparatus through the first communication unit when it is determined that the wireless setting is not set in the external apparatus and it is determined that the wireless setting that is settable by the communication apparatus is stored in the storage.
US09311024B2
An output system including at least one output apparatus, an information processing apparatus, and a network connecting the at least one output apparatus with the information processing apparatus includes a reading unit that reads identification information stored in a portable recording medium, and an output setup change unit that changes, when the portable recording medium is a portable recording medium for setup, an output setup of the output apparatus to another output setup associated with the identification information of the portable recording medium for setup.
US09311023B2
This disclosure uses both an administrative thread and multiple worker threads (N) to process the LUN on-lining work in parallel at both the volume level and the LUN level. When the administrative thread receives the message to start the initialization, the administrative thread assigns the work for reading the VTOC information for the LUNs in a volume to one or more worker threads and moves on to perform additional initialization tasks. N worker threads work on N volumes in parallel. These worker threads then independently send messages (e.g., asynchronous messages) to the file system layer, and once the file system layer is done loading the required buffers, the file system layer sends replies back to the administrative thread. The administrative thread then again assigns work to the worker threads to finally bring the LUNs on-line.
US09311020B2
A method for controlling the storage of data among multiple regional storage centers coupled through a network in a global storage system is provided. The method includes steps of: defining at least one dataset comprising at least a subset of the data stored in the global storage system; defining at least one ruleset for determining where to store the dataset; obtaining information regarding a demand for the dataset through one or more data requesting entities operating in the global storage system; and determining, as a function of the ruleset, information regarding a location for storing the dataset among regional storage centers having available resources that reduces the total distance traversed by the dataset in serving at least a given one of the data requesting entities and/or reduces the latency of delivery of the dataset to the given one of the data requesting entities.
US09311018B2
Disclosed is a hybrid storage system, which can include a hybrid RAID controller coupled to a system control board. Coupled to the hybrid RAID controller are a DDR RAID controller and a HDD/Flash RAID controller. A set of DDR RAID control blocks are coupled to the DDR RAID controller, each of the set of DDR RAID control blocks can include a set of DDR memory disks. Further, a set of HDD RAID control blocks are coupled to the HDD/Flash RAID controller, each of the set of HDD RAID control blocks can include a set of HDD/Flash SSD Units.
US09311013B2
If a monitor measurement cycle is set as a long cycle, promotion in a short cycle cannot be performed; and even if the number of I/Os is very large in response to fluctuations of the number of I/Os in several minutes to several hours of normal work, pages will be promoted after waiting for several weeks. As a result, I/Os which could have normally accepted by an upper tier will be accepted by a lower tier, which results in a problem of worsening the performance efficiency. A monitoring system capable of preventing demotion due to temporary reduction of the number of I/Os for specific pages from a viewpoint of a long cycle and enabling prompt promotion in response to an increase of the number of U/Os for 3 the specific pages is realized.A load index value defined from a viewpoint of a long cycle and a load index value defined from a viewpoint of a short cycle are updated based on the number of I/Os which is counted cyclically for each storage area. Promotion and demotion are implemented based on a value(s) calculated from these load index values.
US09310985B2
A system and method may include determining a target stimulation volume based on modifying a patient population image for which an efficacious volume had been determined. A system and method for suggesting stimulation devices may include determining which stimulation device is capable of producing an output volume of activation that most closely matches the target volume. A system and method for facilitating selection of stimulation parameters may include graphically identifying a maximum volume in which tissue is stimulatable by an implanted stimulation device. A system and method may pre-compute volumes of activation that result from a predetermined modification of programming settings. A system and method may transmit stimulation programming settings from a stimulation programming module to a stimulation generating device.
US09310980B2
A computer-implemented method includes providing one or more data streams; providing one or more target groups for comparison with the one or more data streams; providing a focus format for improving the one or more data streams relative to the one or more target groups; and providing an infinite cylinder user interface for display of data associated with the one or more data streams, the one or more target groups, and the focus format.
US09310979B2
A method for providing an energy map may include receiving an indication of status for each of a plurality of individual entities with respect to corresponding priorities defined for each respective individual entity, correlating received indications of status to respective group priorities, providing a representation of a plurality of the group priorities, and mapping an amount of energy associated with the group priorities by providing a graphical representation of a respective amount of resources associated with the group priorities based on the received indications.
US09310974B1
Systems and methods are provided for generating a user interface that enables a user to navigate content by requesting to zoom in or zoom out within the user interface. For example, an initial user interface that includes content at an initial zoom level may be generated for display. Based on a request to view content displayed in the initial user interface at a second zoom level, an updated user interface may be generated. The updated user interface may include an enlarged representation of some of the content previously displayed in the initial user interface and/or content not previously displayed at the initial zoom level. In some cases, the updated user interface may include dynamically generated content that is generated based at least in part on a user selection received in association with content displayed at a previously presented zoom level.
US09310971B2
A MFP is a document viewing device for displaying document data divided for each page. The document viewing device includes a processing device which performs a process of generating a viewing history of a document by a user based on a user operation performed for the document currently displayed on a display device; a process evaluating relevance to an object displayed on the display device to extract the page relevant to the object displayed on the display device from the document data; a process of determining based on the viewing history whether the object is checked or unchecked by the user to extract, from the extracted pages, a page for which it is determined that the object is unchecked; and a process of causing the display device to display, together with the displayed object, a shortcut linked to the page for which it is determined that the object is unchecked.
US09310970B2
A graphical user interface adapted to control a conference call and configured for display on a display screen of an electronic device is disclosed. The graphical user interface comprises of at least three user selectable display spaces configured for simultaneous display on the display screen of the electronic device, each space adapted to receive a user selection, wherein a first user selectable display space is configured to display a list or a portion of the list of all groups defined in an address book of the electronic device, a second user selectable display space is configured to display a list or a portion of the list of all members of a group selected from the first user selectable display space, and a third user selectable display space is configured to display members selected for the conference call from the first or second or both user selectable display spaces.
US09310966B2
A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the operation of the same are provided. A list screen including a list, in which a plurality of items is arranged in a first order is displayed on a display module. The list in which the plurality of items is arranged in reverse order of the first order is displayed upon receiving a multi-sequence input performed by touching a first item through a second region of the list screen while the first item is being touched through a first region thereof. It is possible to control various operations on the mobile terminal using a multi-sequence input that is performed such that a second touch input is performed through a second region of the screen while a first touch input is being performed through a first region.
US09310950B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including: a display section that displays information; an electrostatic-capacitance touch panel layer that allows visible light corresponding to display contents of the display section to pass through the touch panel layer and that determines a pair of two-dimensional coordinates indicated by an indicator having conductivity; glass that protects the touch panel layer and that allows visible light corresponding to display contents of the display section to pass through the glass; a depression sensor that detects deformation of the glass; and a control section that validates a pair of two-dimensional coordinates when a plurality of pairs of two-dimensional coordinates are determined by the touch panel layer and when deformation is detected by the depression sensor, the pair of two-dimensional coordinates being determined last among the plurality of pairs of two-dimensional coordinates.
US09310932B2
Disclosed are an electronic device, a wireless power reception apparatus, and a display device. The electronic device, which is equipped with a wireless power receiving apparatus to wirelessly receive power from a wireless power transmission apparatus, includes a signal receiving part to receive a signal required to operate the electronic device, and a wireless power signal removing part to remove a signal having a frequency used for wireless power transmission among signals received in the signal receiving part.
US09310927B2
A first plurality of contact locations may be determined in view of a first scan of a touch-sensing surface and a second plurality of contact locations may be determined in view of a second scan of the touch-sensing surface. A number of total contact locations may be identified in view of the first plurality of contact locations and the second plurality of contact locations. Furthermore, a first correlation process may be performed when the number of total contact locations satisfies a threshold number and a second correlation process may be performed when the number of total contact locations does not satisfy the threshold number.
US09310926B2
A touch event processing method and a portable device implementing the same is provided for protecting a touch event occurring on a touch screen from hacking. Touch coordinates from a touch panel are first provided to the first operating system. It is then determined whether a function corresponding to the touch coordinates is to execute a security application. If so, a touch event processing right handover message is transmitted from the first operating system to the second, to hand over a right of processing a touch event that occurs on the touch panel to the second operating system.
US09310925B2
An apparatus includes a touch panel display having one or more sensors for detecting an input operation on the touch panel display, the input operation corresponding to a bending operation whereby the touch panel display is bent and/or a touch operation whereby an instruction object contacts a surface of the touch panel display. The apparatus includes circuitry configured to detect, when the bending operation is detected, a presence of a stripe pattern based on sensor values output when the bending operation is detected. The circuitry determines, when the stripe pattern is detected, one or more features of the detected stripe pattern, and based on the one or more features of the detected stripe pattern, determines whether the detected stripe pattern matches a predetermined pattern stored in a memory. The circuitry executes a predetermined function or process corresponding to the predetermined pattern when the detected stripe pattern matches the predetermined pattern.
US09310916B2
A touch sensitive display capable of compensating for crosstalk in the display is disclosed. Crosstalk in display components can be reduced, eliminated, or otherwise compensated for by reducing or eliminating parasitic capacitances that cause the crosstalk. To do so, gate voltages to the display components, such as thin film transistors (TFTs), that introduce the parasitic capacitances can be reduced or otherwise adjusted. In one approach, the gate voltage can be set at multiple different low levels to generate respective sets of touch signals having different amounts of crosstalk. The different crosstalk amounts can then be used to determine and compensate for the crosstalk in the touch signals. In another approach, gate voltage can be modulated between multiple different low levels to push crosstalk out of band with the generated touch signals. The out-of-band crosstalk can then be used to compensate for the crosstalk in the touch signals.
US09310907B2
A computing device with a touch screen display simultaneously displays on the touch screen display at least a subset of a plurality of arrays of user interface objects and at least one destination object. The computing device detects a first input by a user on a destination object displayed on the touch screen display. While continuing to detect the first input by the user on the destination object, the computing device detects a second input by the user on an array name icon. In response to detecting the second input by the user on the array name icon, the computing device performs an action on all user interface objects in an array that corresponds to the array name icon. The action is associated with the destination object.
US09310893B2
A mobile terminal having a QWERTY key layout and a method of setting and inputting a symbol therein are provided. The method of setting a symbol in a mobile terminal having a QWERTY key layout includes selecting a setting function of a symbol defined a user; adding, if the selected setting function comprises an addition function, a selected symbol to a key mapping table, deleting, if the selected setting function comprises a deletion function, a selected symbol from the key mapping table, and changing, if the selected setting function comprises a change function, a selected symbol to another selected symbol. Therefore, symbols frequently used by a user can be viewed in one screen, thereby minimizing steps for searching for a desired symbol. Further, a symbol set by the user can be immediately determined by displaying symbols mapped to each key of a key input unit with a QWERTY key layout, and thus a character including a symbol can be easily input, thereby improving user convenience.
US09310878B2
A circuit system includes: a plurality of memory blocks; a power supply circuit configured to supply operating power and substrate power to the plurality of memory blocks; a plurality of first power supply switches configured to control whether or not the operating power is supplied from the power supply circuit to the plurality of memory blocks; and a control circuit configured to control the power supply circuit and the plurality of first power supply switches, wherein the control circuit changes a voltage of the operating power to be supplied by the power supply circuit and a voltage of the substrate power to be supplied by the power supply circuit, based on a state of whether the first power supply switches are in a supplying state or a blocking state.
US09310869B2
A memory storage device, a memory control circuit unit and a power supply method are provided. The power supply method includes: providing a first power voltage to a host interface circuit of the memory storage device; providing a second power voltage to a memory management circuit of the memory storage device; providing a third power voltage to a memory interface circuit of the memory storage device, wherein a reference voltage terminal of the memory interface circuit is coupled to a power input terminal of the memory management circuit. Thus, the overheat problem of the memory storage device due to the voltage conversion may be improved.
US09310868B2
A method and apparatus are provided. The VBUS conductor is checked to determine whether the voltage on the VBUS conductor is greater than a vSafe0V voltage within a dead battery detect time interval, and the device policy manager is instructed to apply a vSafeDB voltage to the VBUS conductor if the voltage on the VBUS conductor is greater than the vSafe0V voltage. The policy engine waits for a bit stream to be detected within a bit stream detect timer interval. If the bit stream is not detected within the bit stream detect timer interval, then the device policy manager is instructed to apply the vSafe0V voltage to the VBUS conductor. The device policy manager is instructed to apply a vSafe5V voltage to the VBUS conductor if the bit stream is detected, and the policy engine waits for the bit stream to stop within a device ready timer interval. If the bit stream has stopped within the device ready timer interval, then the policy engine sends capabilities as a source port.
US09310865B2
Disclosed is a method and system for optimizing a composite load disaggregation. The system comprises an input module, a factor graph module, a contextual information database, a rule engine, a priori database and a rule database. The factor-graph module is configured to perform factor-graph analysis on one or more input variables received from the input module to generate confidence measures wherein the confidence measures indicate the composite load disaggregation. The method and system is enabled to retrieve contextual information from the contextual information database. The method and system is further enabled to optimize the composite load disaggregation by means of the rule engine. The rule engine is adapted to retrieve one or more rules from the rule database and further adapted to apply retrieved rules to the confidence measures and to the contextual information for identifying at least one appliance from one or more appliances in an electrical environment.
US09310864B1
Customers in a multi-tenant environment can obtain energy 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 energy 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 energy 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, energy consumption, or other such factors.
US09310862B2
A method and apparatus is provided for monitoring performance of an processor to detect tampering and place the processor in a safe operating state that prevents unauthorized access to contents of the processor. In one example, the method and apparatus compares a measured value of an operating parameter (i.e., a temperature, supply voltage or clock signal) to predefined limits to identify an out of limits measured value. If an out of limits measured value is detected during a normal operating mode, the processor enters a reset mode, and if an out of limits measured value is detected during power up or reset, the processor in retained a reset mode.
US09310857B2
An air guide unit is disclosed, which is adapted to be disposed between the back of a motherboard and a chassis. The motherboard and the chassis are joined by at least a first locking unit and a second locking unit. The air guide unit comprises an annular side wall. The annular side wall comprises: a first engagement portion adapted to engage with the first locking unit; and a second engagement portion adapted to engage with the second locking unit, wherein the engagement of the first engagement portion with the first locking unit and the engagement of the second engagement portion with the second locking unit limit the movement of the air guide unit in a first direction and a second direction. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction.
US09310853B2
An expansion card securing mechanism includes a rail component, a sliding unit and a fastening component. The rail component extends in a sliding direction, is connected to an insertion side of an expansion card connecting device, and is pivotable about an axis that extends in the sliding direction. The sliding unit is connected to the rail component, is slidable in the sliding direction, and is formed with a securing structure that is adapted to be secured detachably to an expansion card. The fastening component interconnects the rail component and the sliding unit for positioning releasably the sliding unit relative to the rail component.
US09310851B2
A three-dimensional user interface system includes at least one pointing/input device and an imaging device configured for capturing one or more image frames each providing at least two different views of a scene including the at least one pointing/input device. The imaging device is a multi-view imaging device which provides at least two different views of the scene per each of the one or more image frames captured. One or more software programs calculate from reference points in the image frames at least a spatial and a velocity parameter of the at least one pointing/input device when moved through a three-dimensional space and for rendering on a graphical user interface of a computing device a visual marker corresponding to the spatial and velocity parameters of the at least one pointing/input device in three-dimensional space. Methods for three-dimensional pointing and/or data input incorporating the described system are also provided.
US09310850B2
A synchronous movement device applied to dual-shaft system includes a first shaft and a second shaft, which are assembled with each other and synchronously rotatable. The synchronous movement device further includes a driver disposed on the first shaft and a reactor disposed on the second shaft and a link unit connected between the driver and the reactor. When the first shaft drives the driver to rotate, the driver pushes the link unit to move along the first and second shafts to forcedly push the reactor to rotate in a direction reverse to the moving direction of the driver. Accordingly, the first and second shafts are synchronously rotated.
US09310846B2
A touch control display device includes a back cover, a front cover, a touch panel, a display panel, and a composite adhesive layer. The back cover has a frame and an accommodating space. The front cover has an opening. The front cover is aligned with and attached to the frame of the back cover. The touch panel is fixed on an outer edge of the front cover and is aligned with the opening of the front cover. The display panel is disposed in the accommodating space of the back cover and aligned with the opening. The composite adhesive layer surrounds the inner edge of the front cover and is aligned with an edge portion of the display panel. The composite adhesive layer is attached on the edge portion of the display panel to fix the front cover on the display panel tightly.
US09310843B2
An electronic device is provided with a display and a light sensor that receives light that passes through the display. The display includes features that increase the amount of light that passes through the display. The features may be translucency enhancement features that allow light to pass directly through the display onto a light sensor mounted behind the display or may include a light-guiding layer that guides light through the display onto a light sensor mounted along an edge of the display. The translucency enhancement features may be formed in a reflector layer or an electrode layer for the display. The translucency enhancement features may include microperforations in a reflector layer of the display, a light-filtering reflector layer of the display, or a reflector layer of the display that passes a portion of the light and reflects an additional portion of the light.
US09310842B2
A vehicle entertainment system includes a tablet unit and a cradle. The tablet unit includes a display and a touch screen input device disposed on a front surface, a first electrical connection, a first mounting mechanism, and a wireless receiver. The wireless receiver is configured to receive media data from a wireless network and the touch screen input device is configured to receive input from a user. The cradle is disposed in a headrest in a vehicle and includes a second electrical connection and a second mounting mechanism. The tablet unit is electrically connected to the cradle via the first and second electrical connections, and is physically coupled to the cradle via the first and second mounting mechanisms upon mounting the tablet unit to the cradle.
US09310837B2
A rotating mechanism for a computer or similar device cooperates with a case to hold the computer or similar device in a desired position. The rotating mechanism has a cradle to receive the computer or similar device and a mounting disk to attach to the case. The cradle has an aperture to cooperate with the mounting disk to secure the computer or similar device to the case.
US09310832B2
Techniques and systems for synchronizing a clock via a backplane. An apparatus includes a backplane, a clock coupled to or included in the backplane, a synchronization interface, and at least one processing element coupled to the clock via the backplane and coupled to or including the synchronization interface. The at least one processing element may be configured to compare first time information received from the clock via the backplane with second time information received from the synchronization interface. The second time information may be associated with an external clock. The at least one processing element may determine adjustment information based on the comparison and synchronize the clock with an external clock using the adjustment information, via the backplane. The apparatus may be a PXIe chassis. The clock output may be sent to modules plugged into the backplane in order to synchronize them with an external chassis clock, for example.
US09310831B2
A method for building a clock tree for an integrated circuit design. The clock tree has a plurality of clock tree nodes that couple to sink pins for circuit elements of the integrated circuit design to distribute the clock signal to the sink pins, which are clustered into one or more clusters. Timing information is determined to measure the clock signal delay from the root to the sink pins in the one or more clusters based on the placed one or more clock tree nodes. Different sets of timing information may be determined based on different sets of clock tree timing variation parameters.
US09310830B2
In embodiments of a high-speed I/O data system, a first computer chip includes a data transmission system, and a second computer chip includes a data reception system. A data channel communicates an NRZ data signal, and a clock channel communicates a forwarded clock signal, from the data transmission system to the data reception system. The data transmission system includes a first differential serializing transmitter to generate the NRZ data signal from pulsed data, and further includes a second differential serializing transmitter to generate a forwarded clock signal. A first multi-phase transmit clock generator generates transmit clock signals for the first and second differential serializing transmitters. The data reception system includes a data receiver and a de-serializer to receive and de-serialize the NRZ data signal, and includes a multi-phase receive clock generator to generate receive clock signals from the forwarded clock signal for the de-serializing data receiver.
US09310828B2
A complementary output generator (COG) module generates at least two complementary outputs determined by rising and falling event sources. In a simple configuration of the COG module, the rising and falling event sources are the same signal which is a signal having the desired period and duty cycle. The COG module converts this single signal input into dual complementary outputs. The frequency and duty cycle of the dual outputs substantially match those of the single input signal. Blanking and deadband times may be introduced between the complementary outputs, and the dual complementary outputs may also be phase delayed. In addition the COG module may provide up to four outputs for controlling half and full-wave bridge power applications.
US09310827B2
An integrated circuit (IC) stack device for multiple active vertically stacked cores is disclosed. The IC stack device can include a primary IC having a first set of cores, and a supplementary IC interfaced with the primary IC having a second set of cores. The IC stack device can also include a peripheral component connection located such that the primary IC is between the peripheral component connection and the supplemental IC. The IC stack device can include control logic configured to route, in a primary mode, signals from a particular core of the first set of cores to a data bus. The control logic can route, in a secondary mode, signals from a particular core of the second set of cores to a data bus. The control logic can route, in a dual mode, signals from both of the particular cores to a data bus.
US09310822B2
Disclosed is a solar photovoltaic power generator system that includes a solar cell panel and a power conditioner that controls a voltage or a current of generated power output from the solar cell panel as an operating value in accordance with a characteristic of the solar cell panel to search a maximum output point of the generated power so as to be supplied to a power system. The power conditioner includes a data memory module that stores a plurality of operating values and a plurality of patterns of the generated powers from the solar cell panel based on the operating values, and a maximum power point tracking module that adds a new operating value based on the pattern of the generated power in the past to calculate the operating values for the next search, and sets the maximum value through an algorithm.
US09310817B2
Embodiments of the invention generally provide an device that regulates a negative output voltage from a power supply using a positive representation of the negative output voltage. To convert the negative voltage to a positive voltage, the device changes the negative voltage into a current using, for example, a current generator that outputs a current corresponding to the negative voltage received from the power supply. This current is then transferred from the negative voltage domain to the positive voltage domain and is fed through a voltage generator that outputs a positive voltage corresponding to the current. By doing so, the negative voltage output is transformed into a corresponding positive voltage. This positive voltage may then be compared to a positive reference voltage to determine an error signal for adjusting the power supply.
US09310816B2
An immediate response low dropout regulation system includes a low dropout regulation unit, a tracking voltage generation unit, and a self-driving unit. The low dropout regulation unit is used for generating and outputting an inner output voltage according to a reference voltage. The tracking voltage generation unit is used for generating and outputting a tracking voltage according to the reference voltage. The self-driving unit is coupled to the low dropout regulation unit and the tracking voltage generation unit. When a voltage difference between the tracking voltage and the inner output voltage is greater than a constant times threshold voltage, the self-driving unit provides a compensation current to an output terminal of the low dropout regulation unit.
US09310813B2
A water heater appliance and a method for operating the same are provided. The method includes receiving a first temperature measurement from a temperature sensor of the water heater appliance, receiving a second temperature measurement from the temperature sensor of the water heater appliance, and establishing if water is flowing through a conduit of the water heater appliance based at least in part on the first and second temperature measurements.
US09310804B1
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for using prior maps for estimation of lane boundaries or other features within an environment. An example method may include receiving a location of a plurality of detected points on a roadway in an environment of an autonomous vehicle, determining, from a prior map of the roadway, a location of a plurality of reference points from a boundary marker on the roadway that correspond to the detected points on the roadway, determining distances between the detected points and the corresponding reference points based on the location of the detected points in the environment and the location of the reference points from the prior map of the roadway, determining a confidence buffer representing a threshold amount of variation associated with the prior map based at least in part on the distances between the detected points and the corresponding reference points, selecting one or more of the detected points such that the distance between a selected detected point and a corresponding reference point is less than the confidence buffer, and using the selected points to direct the autonomous vehicle along the roadway.
US09310801B2
A method for determining an equivalent mechanical load of a component includes a dynamic mechanical loading. A first measurement value of the mechanical load of the component is measured and compared to a first reference value. Further, at least one count value representing the number of load half-cycles of the component is updated based upon the result of comparing, wherein the load half-cycles correspond to a predetermined range of mechanical loads and occur within a time period prior to the measurement of the first measurement value. A first equivalent mechanical load of the component is determined based on the first updated count value. It is further described a program element and a computer-readable medium having stored a program for controlling the described equivalent mechanical load determining method.
US09310797B2
A single degree of freedom vibration isolating device of a linear motor and a motion control method thereof. The vibration isolating device comprises a balance block, an anti-drifting driving unit, and a control unit. An upper surface of the balance block is connected to a stator of the linear motor, and a lower surface of the balance block is connected to a base. The anti-drifting driving unit is connected to the balance block for controlling the position of the balance block. Provided two motion control methods: inputting a second grating ruler signal to the control unit as feedback to perform variable stiffness and nonlinear control on the balance block; inputting a first and a second grating ruler signal to the control unit as feedback to obtain resultant centroid displacement signals of the rotor and the balance block to perform nonlinear anti-drifting control on the balance block.
US09310795B2
A safety controller for controlling an automated installation in accordance with a user program has a control unit receiving a plurality of control input signals from a plurality of sensors. The control unit produces a plurality of control output signals on the basis of the control input signals in accordance with a user program. The control output signals drive actuators in order to adopt one of a plurality of installation states of the automated installation. An installation diagnosis evaluation unit produces a number of installation state signals representing which one of the plurality of installation states is existent at a defined moment of time. In addition, a system diagnosis evaluation unit produces a number of system state signals, with each system state signal representing one from a plurality of operational system states of the controller system, which is formed by the control unit and its connected sensors and actuators, at the defined moment of time. A diagnosis report unit produces a number of diagnosis signals depending on the installation state signals, depending on the system state signals, and depending on predefined associations between said installation states and said operational system states. The diagnosis signals represent a number of diagnosis reports which are a result of a combination of both the installation states and associated operational system states. A display unit displays the diagnosis reports in response to the diagnosis signals.
US09310793B2
A data synchronization method and apparatus are provided for a distributed control system where multiple controllers can control a plurality of actuators or sensors. The actuators or sensors are assigned to logical groups that share a common state. One of the actuators or sensors within a logical group serves as a reference device for a state variable. Before taking a control action, the controllers read the current value of the state variable from the reference device. Data synchronization is maintained by one or more refresh master controllers.
US09310787B2
A particular device may configure one or more of other devices to accept and execute remote control commands from the particular device's remote control unit. This may be performed via one or more various communication links between the devices on that enables the devices to communicate with each other. For example, the remote control of a set-top box can be used to control both the set-top box and a television without a user having to specially program the set-top box or other universal remote control. One example of a communication link between the devices that enables the devices to communicate with each other is a device-to-device messaging protocol such as that provided by the High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) standard.
US09310782B2
A method for measuring the displacement of a planar motor rotor. The measuring method comprises: four magnetic induction intensity sensors are distributed on the planar motor rotor; sampled signals of the four distributed sensors are processed to obtain signals Bsx, Bcx, Bsy and Bcy and magnetic field reference values Bksx, Bkcx, Bksy and Bkcy; and X-direction displacement and Y-direction displacement can be measured respectively according to inequalities (I) and (II) by judgments, wherein Δx and Δy are X-direction displacement resolution and Y-direction displacement resolution respectively, and BM is the magnetic induction intensity amplitude of the magnetic field of said planar motor. The method provided by the invention is simple in calculation, can avoid calculation of a transcendental function and solve the quadrant judgment problem, is favorable to real-time high-speed operation and has a high engineering value. B ksx B cx - B kcx B sx B M 2 ≥ Δ x ( I ) B ksy B cy - B kcy B sy B M 2 ≥ Δ y ( II )
US09310778B1
A double sided alarm clock with a first panel and a second panel spaced apart from the first panel by a hinge. Each of the first panel and the second panel has a substantially rectilinear shape with a first end and a rectangular second end spaced apart from the first end. The hinge is disposed adjacent the first ends. A speaker is disposed within each panel. Each panel has a digital display screen, a plurality of controls, and a central processing unit, such that each panel is fully separately controlled. The central processing unit is in operational communication with the speaker, the display screen, and the plurality of controls. Each panel is fully and separately functional with settings and display screen, with the exception of a selectively shared power source.
US09310776B1
A circuit having an input comparator configured to receive an input voltage and output an input dependent polarity signal along with an input dependent timing signal; a reference comparator configured to receive a reference voltage and output a reference dependent polarity signal along with a reference dependent timing signal; a time-to-digital converter configured to receive the input dependent timing signal and the reference dependent timing signal and output a digital signal; and an output encoder configured to receive the input dependent polarity signal and the digital signal and output an output data representing an analog-to-digital conversion of the input voltage.
US09310774B2
A method of improving the pivoting of a wheel set for a scientific instrument, including an arbor pivoting or oscillating about a wheel set axis, is provided. A static balancing of this wheel set is performed to bring the center of gravity onto this axis. A desired value is determined for the resulting unbalance moment of this wheel set about this axis, corresponding to a predetermined desired divergence between a first principal longitudinal axis of inertia of this wheel set, and this axis. This wheel set is set in rotation at a predetermined speed about this wheel set axis, and the resulting unbalance moment is measured with regard to this axis. An adjustment is made to the value of the resulting unbalance moment of this wheel set about this axis within a given determined tolerance with regard to this desired value.
US09310773B2
An analog electronic timepiece includes a stepping motor, a gear train mechanism having gears, a pointer, a drive control unit, a control content changing unit, and a pointer position adjustment unit. If an operational command to rotate the pointer to a different moving target position is obtained while an operational control for rotating the pointer to a certain moving target position is in progress, the control content changing unit terminates the control and changes a control content to an operational control according to the command. If the reverse rotation driving operation is being performed, the pointer position adjustment unit performs an adjustment operation for removing shifting between a predicted position of the pointer and an actual position of the pointer which occurs because of rotational input from the stepping motor not being transmitted to the pointer due to gaps relating to the mesh of the gears.
US09310764B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming portion; a first housing; a fixing device; a second housing; a first opening of the first housing facing a space; a second opening of the second housing facing the space; a first air supply fan that supplies air from the outside; a first air discharge fan that discharges air from the inside; a second air supply fan that supplies air from the outside; and a second air discharge fan that discharges air from the inside. The first housing and the second housing communicate with the atmosphere through the first and second openings, respectively. When the air pressure in the first opening of the first housing is P1 and the air pressure in the second opening of the second housing is P2, a relation of P2
US09310762B2
A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The cartridge includes a drum, first and second guidable portions guidable by first and second guides when the cartridge enters or advances in the main assembly, first and second regulatable portions provided at leading and trailing sides of the cartridge with respect to the advancing direction and regulated by a first main assembly regulator when the process is advancing in the main assembly, and first and second positionable portions to be positioned at first and main assembly second positioners, respectively, by the urging force of a main assembly urging member after the first and second regulatable portions pass the first and second regulators, respectively. The cartridge is mounted to the main assembly with the first and second positionable portions at the first and second positioners, respectively, by the urging force of the urging member.
US09310757B2
An attachment mechanism of an optical scanning device includes a frame body provided with a supporting base having engaging parts; and a position fixing member arranged between the optical scanning device and the supporting base to have an erection plate, a first supporting plate and a second supporting plate. The first or second supporting plate includes a fitted hole fitting with a positioning boss of the optical scanning device. The first and second supporting plates respectively include first engaged parts and second engaged parts. The position fixing member is attached to the supporting base by engaging one of the first engaged parts and one of the second engaged parts with the engaging parts. The position fixing member changes a plane position of the fitted hole by engaging positions of the engaging parts with the first and second engaged parts and changes a height of the fitted hole by inverting.
US09310752B2
A roller is rotatably provided in an arm that is swingable relative to a main body of an apparatus, and is connected to a tension spring using a wire of a roller shaft. A roller guide portion that guides the roller is provided in a sheet feeding cassette. The roller is guided along a guiding member of the roller guide portion in accordance with insertion of the sheet feeding cassette into the main body of the apparatus. When the roller is guided along the guiding member, an elastic force of the tension spring is accumulated. The sheet feeding cassette is pulled to a mounting position when the roller is guided along the guiding member. The sheet feeding cassette is pushed out also when the roller is guided along the guiding member.
US09310749B2
An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes an image carrying member capable of carrying an image, a paper conveying unit, a foreign matter detection unit, and a toner layer forming unit. The paper conveying unit conveys a paper to the image carrying member. The foreign matter detection unit detects a foreign matter projecting from the end portion of the paper. The toner layer forming unit forms a toner layer on the surface of the image carrying member in response to a position of the foreign matter detected by the foreign matter detection unit.
US09310748B2
A cleaning blade is arranged to contact a surface of an image carrier to remove a developer on the surface of the image carrier. The cleaning blade is made of an elastic body in which a loss elastic modulus at a temperature of 100° C. and a frequency of 10 Hz is set within a range of 3.0×104 Pa to 2.61×105 Pa (inclusive).
US09310743B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image bearing members, replaceable development units, replaceable toner replenishing members, toner supply units, and a control unit. The development units are each provided for a corresponding one of the plurality of image bearing members. The toner replenishing members are each provided for a corresponding one of the development units. The toner supply units are arranged between the respective toner replenishing members and the development units. The control unit causes the image forming apparatus to execute a toner supply unit cleaning mode to convey a last-used toner inside the toner supply unit into the development unit which is last used and to be replaced to empty the toner supply unit, when replacement of the development unit and the corresponding toner replenishing member is designated to use a toner of a type different from the last-used toner.
US09310738B2
A first developer image is overprinted on a second developer image printed on a medium. A user inputs, through an inputting section, a magnification ratio or a reduction ratio of at least one of the first developer image and the second developer material image that should be printed. The magnification and the reduction ratios are applied vertically and horizontally substantially. A data parser performs parsing of print data. A magnification/reduction section produces the first image and the second image from the print data based on a result of the parsing. The first image is subjected to a variable magnification process. An image forming section transfers and fixes the first developer material image onto the medium after the variable magnification process, and then transfers and fixes the second developer material image on the medium so that the first and second developer material images are placed one over the other.
US09310736B1
In a state in which a swing lever has been driven to a first swing position by a driving mechanism, a compression coil spring has a natural length and a tension coil spring has a first predetermined length longer than a natural length, so that press-contact force between both the rollers becomes first press-contact force. On the other hand, in a state in which the swing lever has been driven to a second swing position by the driving mechanism, the compression coil spring has a second predetermined length shorter than the natural length and the tension coil spring has the natural length, so that the press-contact force between both the rollers becomes second press-contact force.
US09310735B2
A fixing device includes a fixing rotator formed into a loop and rotatable in a predetermined direction of rotation and a pressure rotator disposed outside the loop formed by the fixing rotator and pressed against the fixing rotator to form a fixing nip therebetween through which a recording medium bearing a toner image is conveyed. A stay is disposed opposite the pressure rotator via the fixing rotator. A heater is disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator to heat the fixing rotator. A pressurization member is pressed against the heater via the fixing rotator. A housing is interposed between the stay and the heater. A temperature detector is mounted on the housing to detect a temperature of the heater.
US09310732B2
The fixing device includes a fixing member heated from inside; and a pressing member forming a fixing nip with the fixing member. A toner image transferred on a sheet is heated and pressed so as to be fixed on the sheet at the fixing nip through which the sheet is nipped and conveyed. The fixing member includes, on an inner circumferential surface thereof, a heat absorbing layer containing heat-conductive fillers oriented in a direction intersecting with a conveying direction of the sheet.
US09310725B2
An image heating apparatus for heating an image formed on a sheet includes an endless belt; a roller contactable with the endless belt to form a nip for nipping and feeding the sheet; a heater provided inside the endless belt; a guiding member, provided inside the endless belt, for guiding rotation of the endless belt; a reinforcing member, provided between the endless belt and the heater in a radial direction of the heater, for reinforcing the guiding member, the reinforcing member being provided with an opening to permit radiant light from the heater to reach the endless belt; a protecting member, provided between the heater and the reinforcing member in the radial direction so as to oppose the endless belt through the opening, thus preventing contact between the endless belt and the heater.
US09310724B2
An image heating unit is detachably mountable to an image forming apparatus. The image heating unit includes: first and second rotatable members configured to feed a recording material in an image heating process; a casing enclosing the first and second rotatable member and provided with an opening configured to permit passage of the recording material; a movable member movable relative to the opening between a first position taken when the image heating process is carried out and a second position in which a jam clearance operation is operable through the opening and in which a test finger is prevented from entering through the opening into the casing; and a locking mechanism configured to lock the movable member at the second position.
US09310721B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image forming sections that form a toner image on a medium to be fed using a developer containing toner and non-volatile oil, and a heating unit that is arranged on a downstream side of an image forming section, which is arranged on an upstream side in a feeding direction of the medium, and on an upstream side of an image forming section, which is arranged on a downstream side in the feeding direction, among the plurality of image forming sections, wherein the heating unit heats the toner on the medium to a melting temperature of the toner or higher.
US09310719B2
A developer container includes a housing, a sealing member, and a winder mechanism. The housing includes a storage space and an opening. The sealing member is attached to the housing and sealing the opening. The winder mechanism winds up the sealing member while peeling the sealing member from the housing. The winder mechanism includes an interrupting member operable to interrupt transmission of a torque of a drive transmission mechanism owing to a tension of the sealing member caused by peeling a fold side of the sealing member that includes a first end from the housing.
US09310714B2
An image forming apparatus includes a driving device, a transfer body, a toner detector, an error notification device, and a controller. The toner detector detects, at a preparation running and while the driving device drives a latent image bearer, one of a toner adhesion amount at a background portion of the latent image bearer and a toner adhesion amount at a background corresponding region of a transfer body. The error notification device notifies a user of an error with the toner adhesion being equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value. The driving device stops only a developer bearer after driving both the latent image bearer and the developer bearer at the preparation running, but before a trailing edge of a detection target region of one of the background portion of the latent image bearer and the background corresponding region advances to an opposite position to the toner detector.
US09310709B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a charging member; a transfer member; a setting portion for setting a positive-side discharge start voltage when a positive-side voltage relative to a reference potential is applied to the transfer member after a voltage is applied to the charging member so that a surface of the image bearing member is charged to the reference potential by the charging member and for setting a negative-side discharge start voltage when a negative-side voltage relative to the reference potential is applied to the transfer member after the voltage is applied; a calculating portion for calculating a correction amount for correcting a light portion surface potential, of the image bearing member, calculated by the calculating portion on the basis of the positive-side and negative-side discharge start voltages; and a correcting portion for correcting the light portion surface potential by using the correction amount.
US09310708B2
An optical scanning device includes a light source emitting light to form an image by optical scanning; and a control section generating a control signal, which is for turning on and off the light source, based on an image signal. Further, the control section generates a pulse signal having a predetermined time width when the image signal indicates that the light source is to be turned off.
US09310707B2
An image forming apparatus includes a latent image bearer, an electric charging member to electrically charge the latent image bearer uniformly while forming an electric charging nip therebetween by contacting the latent image bearer. A value obtained by dividing a moment of inertia of area of the latent image bearer by the cube of length thereof ranges from about 0.000058 [mm] or more to about 0.000145 [mm] or less. A width of the electric charging nip in a direction of rotation at longitudinal ends of the latent image bearer is larger than that at a longitudinal center thereof. A difference between the width of the electric charging nip in the direction of rotation at the longitudinal ends of the latent image bearer and that at the longitudinal center thereof is larger than an amount of deformation of the latent image bearer generated during rotation at the longitudinal center thereof.
US09310705B2
A color image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form misregistration detection patterns, a transfer member on which the misregistration detection patterns are transferred, a plurality of detection units configured to detect the misregistration detection patterns transferred onto the transfer member, a calculation unit which calculates misregistration values from detection results detected by the plurality of detection units, and a control unit which controls an image forming condition by the image forming unit based on the misregistration values. The image forming unit forms first and second marks at different positions in a direction perpendicular to a moving direction of the transfer member as the misregistration detection patterns, and the calculation unit calculates the misregistration values based on detection results of the first and second marks.
US09310697B2
Provided is a digital exposure device. The digital exposure device includes a stage mounted with a substrate on which a pattern is formed, a first light source, a first head, and a digital micro-mirror device control unit. The stage is configured to move in a scan direction. The first light source is configured to provide a first light. The first head is spaced apart from the stage in a first direction and is configured to receive the first light, to generate at least one spot beam by modulating the first light, and to project the at least one spot beam onto the substrate. The digital micro-mirror device control unit is configured to control an energy of the at least one spot beam generated from the first head to be inversely proportional to a size of the at least spot beam generated from the first head.
US09310683B2
A polymer for use in resist compositions is obtained from a monomer having formula (1) wherein R1 is methyl, ethyl, propyl, vinyl or ethynyl, the circle designates C3-C12 cycloalkyl, a combination wherein R1 is ethyl and the circle is cyclohexyl being excluded, R2 is H or C1-C4 alkyl, and m is 1 to 4.
US09310675B2
Embodiments of EUV photomasks and methods for forming a EUV photomask are provided. The method comprises providing a substrate, a reflective layer, a capping layer, a hard mask layer, and forming an opening therein. An absorber layer is then filled in the opening and over the top surface of the hard mask layer. A planarized process is provided to remove the absorber layer above the top surface of the hard mask layer and form an absorber in the opening, wherein the absorber has a top portion wider than a bottom portion.
US09310673B2
To provide a pellicle having a an adhesive, wherein adhesive residue is decreased at the time of peeling the pellicle from a mask after lithographic exposure and outgassing from the adhesive is suppressed The pellicle according to the present invention is a pellicle comprising a pellicle frame, a tensioned pellicle film placed on one end surface of the pellicle frame and an adhesive applied to the other end surface thereof, in which the adhesive contains a (meth)acrylic alkyl ester copolymer and a silane compound, and the (meth)acrylic alkyl ester copolymer is a copolymer of a (meth)acrylic alkyl ester having an alkyl group of 4 to 14 carbon atoms and a monomer having a functional group reactive to at least either one of an isocyanate group or an epoxy group.
US09310660B2
An organic compound represented by Formula [1] showing high transparency in the visible light region is provided.In Formula [1], A1 to A6 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent, n is an integer of 1 to 4, and the B's each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a substituent represented by Formula [2], provided that at least one B represents a substituent represented by Formula [2]. In Formula [2], R2 represents a substituent.
US09310657B2
Gate-driving circuitry of a thin film transistor array panel is formed on the same plane as a display area of the transistor array panel. The gate-driving circuitry includes driving circuitry and signal lines having apertures. Thus, a sufficient amount of light, even though illuminated from the thin film transistor array panel side, can reach a photosetting sealant overlapping at least in part the gate-driving circuitry. The thin film transistor array panel and the counter panel are put together air-tight and moisture-tight. Consequently, the gate-driving circuitry can avoid corrosion by moisture introduced from outside. Gate-driving circuitry malfunctions can also be reduced.
US09310654B2
A liquid crystal device is provided which includes: a first substrate and a second substrate that are disposed to face each other; a liquid crystal layer that is sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; a first electrode that is provided on the liquid crystal layer side of the first substrate; an insulating layer that is provided on the liquid crystal layer side of the first electrode; and a second electrode that is provided on the liquid crystal layer side of the insulating layer, in which the first substrate has formed thereon a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines which intersect each other; sub-pixels are formed at regions surrounded by the data lines and the scan lines; the second electrode has a plurality of linear electrodes that is disposed with a gap therebetween; each of the plurality of linear electrodes extends in a long-axis direction of the sub-pixels and has at least one bent portion; the bent portion has such a shape that both sides thereof are inclined in opposite directions with respect to the long-axis direction of the sub-pixels; and the data lines or the scan lines are bent in an extending direction of the linear electrodes having the bent portion.
US09310649B2
An alignment method of an alignment film is provided, including: providing a substrate and manufacturing an alignment film on the substrate; implementing laser engraving to the alignment film to form a plurality of micro trenches which are directionally consistent on the alignment film; cleaning the substrate and the alignment film to remove the powders generated by laser engraving; and implementing a following liquid crystal cell process. The method is easy to handle and is capable of preventing the non-uniform rubbing issue existing in the alignment method according to prior art to raise the stability of the alignment and promote the effect of the alignment.
US09310644B2
A liquid crystal display, a LED backlight source and the driving method thereof are disclosed. The LED backlight source includes a DC voltage input for inputting DC voltage, a boost circuit for increasing the voltage of the DC input and outputting the boosted DC voltage, a LED strip and a constant current driving circuit. The LED strip includes a plurality of serially connected LEDs and a first resistor (R1). The power consumption of the first MOS is reduced when the LEDs are driven. As such, the power consumption of the constant current driving circuit is reduced, so does the temperature. In this way, the energy conversion efficiency of the driving circuit of the LED backlight source is enhanced, and components within the constant current driving circuit are prevented from being burned out.
US09310643B2
A liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) device includes a semiconductor substrate, a metal-oxide semiconductor (MOS) device layer overlying the semiconductor substrate, a planarized interlayer dielectric layer overlying the MOS device layer, a plurality of recessed regions formed within a portion of the interlayer dielectric layer, a metal layer filling each of the recessed regions to form a plurality of respective electrode plates corresponding to each of the recessed regions. The LCOS device further includes a protective layer overlying a surface of each of the plurality of electrode plates, a liquid crystal film overlying the protective layer, and a mirror finish formed on each of the surface of the electrode plates for reflecting light. The mirror finish is substantially free from dishes and scratches from a chemical mechanical polishing process.
US09310639B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel comprising an array substrate, an opposite substrate and a backlight module, wherein the liquid crystal display panel includes a light-filtering layer arranged between the backlight module and the array substrate, and the light-filtering layer includes a plurality of light-filtering sub-units corresponding to sub-pixels on the array substrate in a one-to-one manner, every three of the light-filtering sub-units form one light-filtering unit, in which the three light-filtering sub-units are capable of filtering out red, green and blue lights emitted by the backlight module respectively. The brightness of the complementary color light obtained after any one of red light, green light and blue light is filtered out from white light is larger than that of light of a single color, and thus the liquid crystal display panel provided by the present invention has relatively high light transmittance.
US09310638B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes an anti-reflection film. The anti-reflection film includes a base film, a retardation coating layer disposed on a first side of the base film so as to delay a phase of transmitted light, and a polarizer coating layer disposed on a second side of the base film so as to allow a polarization component of the transmitted light in a specific direction to pass through, wherein the retardation coating layer and the polarizer coating layer are formed by applying a liquid crystal on the base film.
US09310630B2
A tunable photonic crystal device comprising: alternating layers of a first material and a second material, the alternating layers comprising a responsive material, the responsive material being responsive to an external stimulus, the alternating layers having a periodic difference in refractive indices giving rise to a first reflected wavelength; wherein, in response to the external stimulus, a change in the responsive material results in a reflected wavelength of the device shifting from the first reflected wavelength to a second reflected wavelength.
US09310628B2
The present invention provides for an optical assembly using two ultra-thin optical pieces/parts defining the outer bound of the assembly with a solid or liquid core and methods of forming said assembly. In particular, the present in invention discloses the handling and arrangements of said ultra-thin optical pieces to prevent deformation and loss of optical quality of said ultra-thin optical pieces. The ultra-thin optical pieces can be from 25-200 microns and their structural integrity can be preserved through uninterrupted support throughout the encapsulation of one or more fluids, e.g., a saline solution and an oil solution, which can be used to form a liquid meniscus lens. In some embodiments, interlocking features included in the ultra-thin optical parts can be included in order to help create the seal and/or provide structural support to the liquid lens assembly. In another embodiment, the supporting pieces to the ultra-thin optical components have an interlocking or centering mechanism, to aid in the assembly and sealing of said optical assembly.
US09310597B2
A method for correcting the parcentricity in zoom systems. The positional difference in the image between at least two different zoom positions is detected in order to explicitly or implicitly determine the position in the image which remains stationary during zooming. The travel lengths of a means for positioning the object in the object plane required for correcting the zoom-dependent parcentricity error are calculated and provided as control variable for the appropriate positioning of the means for positioning the object in the object plane, such that the target position appears stationary in the image after or during zooming.
US09310591B2
The present invention relates generally to a head-mounted projection display, and more particularly, but not exclusively to a polarized head-mounted projection display including a light engine and a compact, high-performance projection lens for use with reflective microdisplays.
US09310588B2
The invention discloses a six-piece optical lens for capturing image and a six-piece optical module for capturing image. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis comprises a first lens element having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a second lens element having a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface; a third lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fourth lens element with refractive power; a fifth lens element having a convex image-side surface; and a sixth lens element having a concave image-side; and at least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the six lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can reduce the sensitivity for use in compact cameras with camera functionalities.
US09310586B2
An imaging lens includes first to fifth lens elements arranged from an object side to an image side in the given order. Through designs of surfaces of the lens elements and relevant optical parameters, a short system length of the imaging lens may be achieved while maintaining good optical performance.
US09310582B2
Provided is an image pickup lens that despite being small is favorably corrected for aberrations and has a five element configuration that is wide angle and has a bright F-number also provided is an image pickup device and a portable terminal using the image pickup lens. The image surface side of the fifth lens has an aspherical shape, has an inflection point at a position other than a position that intersects with the light axis, and satisfies the following formulae: −5.0<(r1+r2)/(r1−r2)≦−1.0 (1); 0.90
US09310579B2
An aerials splicebox for optic fiber cables is provided which includes: a base, the peripheral wall which is provided with bottom windows and top windows and an external flange articulating a cover provided with a surrounding flange; a belt to be fitted on said flanges, when situated against each other; a ring-shaped handle having a closed end, hinged in the first end of the belt and a bipartite opposing end which is moveable between an inoperative position and an operating position which is situated against the base and aligned with the top windows; a fastener mounted on a belt in order to press the ring-shaped handle against the base; and a sealing element fixed against the peripheral wall of the base and provided with through openings for optic cable, aligned with the respective bottom windows of the base.
US09310570B2
The invention relates to a fiber-optic connection arrangement, with the connection arrangement (21) comprising a fiber-optic adapter (2), with the fiber-optic adapter (2) having a first connecting device (38) for a first connecting plug (11) and a second connecting device (6) for a second connecting plug (17), with the first and the second connecting devices (38, 6) being different, with the fiber-optic adapter (2) having at least one first adapter-side attachment means, with the first adapter-side attachment means being in the form of an external thread (8) with a first adapter-side nominal diameter, wherein the connection arrangement (21) furthermore comprises an adapter sleeve (26), with the adapter sleeve (26) having a first end section (27) with a first opening (28), and a second end section (29) with a second opening (30), with the first end section (27) having a first sleeve-side attachment means, with the first sleeve-side attachment means being in the form of a first internal thread (36), with the first internal thread (36) having a first sleeve-side nominal diameter, with the first sleeve-side nominal diameter corresponding to the first adapter-side nominal diameter, with the adapter sleeve (26) being screwed onto the adapter-side external thread (8) such that at least the second connecting device (6) is arranged in an internal volume (47) in the adapter sleeve (26). The invention also relates to an adapter sleeve (26).
US09310564B2
A tunable multiport optical filter includes various types of arrays of optical ports. The tunable filter also includes a light dispersion element (e.g., a grating) and a reflective beam steering element (e.g., a tilting mirror). An optical signal exits an optical (input) port, is dispersed by the light dispersion element, reflects off the reflective beam steering element back to the light dispersion element, and on to another optical (output) port. The reflective beam steering element can be steered such that a wavelength portion of the dispersed optical signal can be coupled to the optical output port. For example, the input optical signal may be a wavelength division multiplexed signal carrying multiple channels on different wavelengths, and the tunable multiport optical filter directs one of the channels to the output optical port. Additionally, the tunable filter may be incorporated into a device acting as a wavelength reference.
US09310562B2
In an optical device, a ring resonator, having a resonance wavelength, optically couples an optical signal that includes a wavelength from an input optical waveguide to an output optical waveguide. A monitoring mechanism in the optical device, which is optically coupled to the output optical waveguide, monitors an output optical signal on the output optical waveguide. For example, the monitoring mechanism may dither a temperature of the ring resonator at a frequency using a heater, and the output optical signal may be monitored by determining amplitude and phase information of the output optical signal at the frequency and twice the frequency. Moreover, control logic in the optical device adjusts the resonance wavelength based on the monitored output optical signal, where the adjustment is made without monitoring an input optical signal on the input optical waveguide.
US09310557B2
A heating device for heating an optical fiber reinforcing member includes fiber holders to hold optical fibers covered with the reinforcing member at a fusion-spliced portion, a heater to heat the reinforcing member, a power supply unit to apply a voltage to the heater, and a controller to control the application of a voltage from the power supply unit to the heater. The controller includes a detecting unit that detects a parameter for determining the amount of heat generation of the heater, a storage unit that stores a plurality of heating conditions that vary depending on the parameter value, and a condition instruction unit that selects any of the plurality of heating conditions in accordance with the parameter value detected by the detecting unit and instructs the power supply unit to apply a voltage to the heater on the basis of the selected heating condition.
US09310543B2
A method for producing a mold for a patterned alignment film for three-dimensional display includes: forming a first layer composed of a metal material or an inorganic material; forming a fine linear three-dimensional structure in a surface of the first layer in an approximately constant direction;F forming a second layer, composed of a metal material or an inorganic material, on the surface of the first layer after the first three-dimensional structure forming step; a second three-dimensional structure forming step of forming a fine linear three-dimensional structure in a surface of the second layer in an approximately constant direction which differs by 90° from that in the first three-dimensional structure forming step; a resist forming step of forming a resist in a parallel stripe pattern on the surface of the second layer after the second three-dimensional structure forming step.
US09310541B2
An optical power-limiting passive (self-adaptive) device and method for limiting optical power transmission in lenses and windows, using layers of different photochromic compositions that exploit the full solar ultraviolet (UV) and short visible light spectrum. While a typical single photochromic material is activated by a UV band of wavelengths, e.g. 340 to 380 nm, adding a layer of photochromic material that is activated by an additional band of wavelengths, e.g., 380 to 420 nm, allows the efficient use of a wider band of solar UV and short visible light, e.g., 340 to 420 nm, thus enhancing the photochromic response to solar light.
US09310534B2
An apparatus for providing a reflector wrap on a highway cable barrier. The device solves a limitation currently found with the cable system—visibility. The cable barrier reflector wrap is comprised of a support structure to support a reflective object, the structure having an open end and a slit or aperture longitudinal to the structure; a reflective surface structure; and a manner to secure the reflective surface structure to the support structure whereby the cable barrier reflective device is connected to items including a cable barrier system, sign posts, fences and other barrier structures to improve and enhance the reflectivity and improve the visibility of the items.
US09310529B2
The invention provides a retardation film, a method for producing the same and a display apparatus comprising the same. The retardation film comprises a phase retardation layer and a cured material layer formed by curing a curable material applied on the phase retardation layer, wherein the cured material layer is disposed on the light-emitting side of the phase retardation layer. In the retardation film of this invention, since the cured material layer is formed by curing the curable material applied on the phase retardation layer, the laminating equipment can be omitted and the equipment investment can thus be decreased, thereby lowering the production cost.
US09310526B2
An anti-reflection film is provided having excellent optical property, excellent excoriation resistance, and antistatic function at low production costs. The anti-reflection film includes a localized layer and a low refractive index layer that are stacked in this order on at least one surface of a transparent substrate. The localized layer is stacked with an intermediate layer, a hard coat layer, an antistatic layer containing a conductive material, and a leveling layer containing a leveling material in this order, which are localized, at least from the side of the transparent substrate. The leveling material contains at least a fluorocompound or a compound which has a siloxane bond.
US09310525B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an antireflection film and an optical device having excellent antireflection characteristics against a light beam having a wide wavelength range at a wide range of an incident angle, and also having practically sufficient durability. To achieve the above object, the present invention adopts an antireflection film having an optical two-layer structure composed of an intermediate layer provided on a base material and a low refractive index layer provided on a surface of the intermediate layer, wherein the low refractive index layer is a layer obtained by binding hollow silica by a binder, a refractive index n(1) thereof is between 1.15 and 1.24 inclusive, and a refractive index n(2) of the intermediate layer satisfies a relation in the expression (1) below assuming a refractive index of the base material n(sub). n(1)×√{square root over (n(sub))}×0.930≦n(2)≦n(1)×√{square root over (n(sub))}×0.985 (1).
US09310521B2
The invention relates to a spectacle lens semi-finished or finished product with a front surface, a rear surface, a cylinder rim surface, a front edge surface with a front surface transition to the front surface and a front cylinder rim surface transition to the cylinder rim surface and/or a rear edge surface with a rear surface transition to the rear surface and a rear cylinder rim surface transition to the cylinder rim surface. The front surface transition is formed as a rounding and/or the rear surface transition is formed as a rounding.
US09310517B2
A method and system for determining the accuracy of a mesoscale weather model comprising at least one processor having at least one input for inputting a preexisting weather model and initial weather data comprising surface level and upper air temperatures and wind conditions, and actually measured surface level and the upper-air level weather conditions; the at least one processor operating to use the mesoscale weather model to generate output data comprising forecasted temperatures, wind conditions, and predicted weather conditions; the at least one processor operating to compare the output data to actually measured data obtained when same or similar initial weather data were present and subsequent resulting temperatures, wind conditions and weather conditions were measured; and the at least one processor operating to generate an accuracy rating reflecting the deviation of temperature, wind conditions and weather conditions predicted by the mesoscale weather model as compared to those actually measured.
US09310514B2
Determining elemental content of an earth formation. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including: irradiating a portion of a formation that surrounds a borehole; counting gammas to obtain a spectrum of counted gammas; finding a solution to a system of equations based on the spectrum of counted gammas, which system of equations has a plurality of solutions, the solution being indicative of a plurality of weight percentages for a respective plurality of elements within the formation; determining whether the solution meets a predetermined constraint; repeating the finding and determining until a solution is found that is determined to meet the predetermined constraint; and producing an indication of the elemental content of the formation using the solution that meets the predetermined constraint.
US09310507B2
A device rotates at least one static magnetic field about an axis, producing a rotating magnetic dipole field, and is movable in relation to the surface of the ground. The field is periodically sensed using a receiver to produce a receiver output responsive to the field. A positional relationship between the receiver and the device is monitored using the output. In one aspect, changing the positional relationship, by moving the device nearer to a boring tool which supports the receiver, causes an increase in accuracy of depth determination. In another aspect, determination of an actual overhead position of the boring tool, and its application, are described. Use of a plurality of measurements over at least one-half revolution of each magnet is disclosed. Establishing a surface radial direction toward a boring tool and resolution of multi-valued parameters is described. Calibration techniques, as well as a three transmitter configuration are also described.
US09310504B2
Systems and methods for detecting swell noise in geophysical data are disclosed. In particular, the systems and methods receive seismic data as input and iteratively generate a signal mask from the seismic data. The seismic data can be generated by hydrophones or geophones. The signal mask can be used to identify traces in the seismic data that are contaminated with swell noise and identify frequencies of the contaminated traces that are contaminated with swell noise.
US09310503B2
This invention discloses methods of processing data using a computer to separate out geophysical exploration response at receivers corresponding to one source among many sources by determining at least one spatio-temporal variant directional propagation attribute of the responses at receivers corresponding to the one source and by decomposition or filtering process using the determined attribute.
US09310499B2
Method for seismic prospecting using counter-rotating (207-208) eccentric-mass (201, 202) vibrator (CREMV) technology adapted as vibrator sources for seismic prospecting to produce controlled sweeps, as in the manner used in modern seismic prospecting, but with large forces at low frequencies, e.g. forces >275 kN at frequencies between 1 and 5 Hz. This is achieved by adapting the CREMV to enable rotational frequency and the eccentricity (205, 206) of the masses relative to their rotation axes (203-204) to be varied independently and simultaneously, and by designing the CREMV such that the radius of rotation of the center of mass of each rotating mass is on the order of 50 cm or more. The low frequency data obtained from such a seismic source enables improved detection and resolution of subsurface structures and better determination of subsurface properties.
US09310497B2
A sampling unit that samples a sample gas includes an intake pipe that takes in a sample gas, and a mist/dust elimination unit that eliminates mist produced when steam in a sample gas condenses in the intake pipe and dust, creates a drain including dust, and separates the drain from the sample gas; mist wets fibers loaded therein in a stacked manner so that a water film produced on the surface of the fibers collects dust, and the water film grows to water drops and become drains so that the dust is exhausted and eliminated.
US09310491B2
A radiation detector may include a housing, and a scintillator body carried within the housing and including a proximal portion defining a proximal end, a distal portion defining a distal end, and a medial portion between the proximal portion and the distal portion. The scintillator body may have a constant diameter along the proximal portion, and a decreasing diameter along the distal portion from the medial portion to the distal end. The radiation detector may further include a photodetector coupled to the distal end of the scintillator body.
US09310488B2
An apparatus and method for generating a depth image are provided. The apparatus includes an optical modulator, an optical sensor, and a depth image processor. The optical modulator optically modulates light which is reflected from an object to which light modulated using a first pseudorandom (PN) sequence is irradiated. The optical modulator optically modulates the reflected light using second PN-sequences, where each of the second PN-sequences has a same PN sequence as the first PN-sequence, but the second PN-sequences have N different time shifts. The optical sensor senses the optically modulated reflective light. The depth image processor samples N intensity images from the optically modulated reflective light sensed by the optical sensor and generates a depth image of the object using the sampled N intensity images.
US09310482B2
Methods and apparatus enable a robotic system to detect and determine the location, orientation, surface contours, and features of an object that are not otherwise accurately known in order to allow the robotic system to accurately place a pulse/echo layer thickness-gauge ultrasonic transducer gauge onto the surface of the object. The robotic system uses one or more distance measurement sensors to determine the position, orientation, local contour, and other features of the surface in relation to the robot. Another method calibrates an inaccurate distance sensor. Yet another method maintains overall system functionality in a system with multiple distance sensors in the event that one or more of the distance sensors fails. The robotic system may also determine when maintenance is required.
US09310480B2
A digital radar receiver generates the input signal which is a stream of complex numbers. The input signal is rearranged and sorted by measurement volumes, resulting in Doppler data vectors. Doppler data vectors are filtered using a number of different digital filters. The output Doppler data vectors of the filters together with the original Doppler data vector are the candidate signals. Each candidate signal is analyzed using several criteria in order to find the one signal which is most likely to be caused by precipitation and has the ground clutter removed by the filtering. The selected signal is then used to calculate the meteorological products. The selected signal is also used to derive a velocity value or velocity distribution while taking into account the effects of the filtering performed earlier.
US09310474B2
A portal ultrasound imaging apparatus having an adjustable hinge assembly, which includes a key having a narrower end and an end wider in the circumferential direction of the hinge assembly. The key is movable in a slot in an axial direction of the hinge assembly to a locked position, where the side surfaces of the key presses against the walls of the slot to eliminate circumferential gaps between the key and the slot. When at the locked position in the slot, the key can be pushed towards the opposite of the axial direction to an unlocked position where an angular lock of the hinge assembly is released, allowing the hinge assembly to be adjusted to a desired angular coupling. The key can then be pushed in the axial direction back to the locked position in the slot to prevent change in the coupling angle of the hinge assembly.
US09310473B2
Disclosed in an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus for appropriately evaluating the image quality of a elastic image with high reliability and accuracy, the ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus including: a probe (12) that transmits and receives ultrasonic waves to and from an object; an elasticity information calculating unit (32) that calculates elasticity information on the basis of the ultrasonic waves received by the probe (12); an elastic image constructing unit (34) that generates an elastic image on the basis of the elasticity information; an image display device (display) (26) that displays the elastic image; and an elastic image evaluating unit (40) that detects the fluctuation cycles in the elasticity information, finds the fluctuation patterns in the elasticity information for each predetermined section in the fluctuation cycles, and evaluates the stability of the elastic image on the basis of the fluctuation patterns.
US09310465B2
Certain embodiments herein are directed to reducing variations in received signal strength indicator (RSSI) measurements that may be received by a wireless device over a network, such as a WiFi network including one or more access points. A signal sent from an access point may be received by a user device, where channel estimation results associated with the received signal may be analyzed to determine a more accurate location of the user device. The received signal may be converted to at least one of the time domain and the frequency domain, in which signal components associated with the received signal may be identified based on a determination that the signal components may be associated with multipath fading or other types of interference. Such identified signal components, whether in the frequency domain or the time domain) may be excluded from a determination of a signal strength measurement that may in turn be used to identify the location of the user device.
US09310459B2
Automatically tracking and photographing celestial objects and a celestial-object auto-tracking photographing apparatus, in which the burden on the CPU can be reduced by eliminating unnecessary arithmetic processes and can clearly photograph an object(s) so as to appear stationary without using an equatorial, and without using an actuator, which must be precisely controlled. The method includes moving relative to a photographic apparatus due to diurnal motion, to photograph a trimming area that has been electronically trimmed from a part of an imaging area of an image sensor, moving while the celestial object is photographed, including obtaining movement information of an image on the imaging area; setting movement data for the trimming area based on the obtained movement information of the image; and carrying out a photographing operation while moving the trimming area based on the movement data of the set trimming area at each trimming area, upon being moved.
US09310458B2
A method for calculating a spacing between antenna elements of an interferometer array antenna includes setting an azimuth of an instantaneous field of view and a distance between phase differences, and obtaining the number of phase difference lines and phase difference vectors with respect to the phase differences of the signals output in a phase comparator of a direction finder, performing a modular arithmetic for the phase difference vectors to obtain phase difference matrixes, obtaining a transformation matrix for linearly transforming the phase difference matrixes and performing the linear transformation using the transformation matrix, calculating a distance between the phase differences on a new axis generated by the linear transformation, and calculating an antenna spacing as an array spacing of the array antenna, the antenna spacing meeting that the distance between the phase differences is greater than a desired distance between phase differences.
US09310455B2
A probe system for registering a differential input signal has a first input network, which is supplied with a first component of the differential input signal in order to generate a first intermediate signal, and a second input network which is supplied with a second component of the differential input signal in order to generate a second intermediate signal. A differential amplifier for the amplification of the difference between the intermediate signals is arranged in the signal flow direction downstream of the input networks. At least one compensation network is used to compensate the influence of the input networks and is arranged at the output end of the differential amplifier or in a feedback path connecting an output to an input of the differential amplifier.
US09310453B2
An MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) apparatus includes a main scan executing unit for executing a main scan, an image reconstruction unit for reconstructing image data based on MR signals acquired in the main scan, a calibration scan setting unit, a calibration scan executing unit, and a condition determining unit. The calibration scan setting unit calculates a condition of a calibration scan for determining an imaging condition of the main scan or a condition of correction processing of the image data, based on a type of an RF coil device and an imaging part. The calibration scan executing unit executes the calibration scan based on the condition of the calibration scan. The condition determining unit determines the imaging condition of the main scan or the condition of the correction processing, based on an execution result of the calibration scan.
US09310443B2
A voltage detection apparatus includes a plurality of voltage detection units, each of which detects cell voltages of plural cells in each of blocks in a battery module. Each of blocks includes the plural cells connected in series. The plurality of voltage detection units are respectively supplied with power via power supply lines connected to the blocks. The plurality of voltage detection units are respectively provided with a plurality of current increase units for increasing dark currents so that the dark currents flowing through the power supply lines respectively become a same target value.
US09310435B2
Scan flip-flop and associated method are provided. The scan flip-flop includes a data input terminal, a scan input terminal, a flip-flop circuit, a first transistor and a plurality of second transistors. A gate of the first transistor is coupled to the scan input terminal, gates of the second transistors are commonly coupled to an enabling signal, drains and sources of the first transistor and the second transistors are serially coupled to the flip-flop circuit, so as to increase a delay between the scan input terminal and the flip-flop circuit.
US09310425B2
A method of reliability testing of a semiconductor device is described. The embodiment, includes providing a capacitor including an insulating layer interposing two conductive layers. A plurality of voltages are provided to the capacitor including providing a first voltage and a second voltage greater than the first voltage. A leakage associated with the capacitor is measured while applying the second voltage. In an embodiment, the leakage measured while applying the second voltage indicates that a failure of the insulating layer of the capacitor has occurred. In an embodiment, the capacitor is an inter-digitated metal-oxide-metal (MOM) capacitor. The reliability testing may be correlated to TDDB test results. The reliability testing may be performed at a wafer-level.
US09310422B2
A test system for testing a device under test (DUT) is provided. The test system may include a DUT receiving structure configured to receive the DUT during testing and a DUT retention structure that is configured to press the DUT against the DUT receiving structure so that DUT cannot inadvertently shift around during testing. The DUT retention structure may include a pressure sensor operable to detect an amount of pressure that is applied to the DUT. The DUT retention structure may be raised and lowered vertically using a manually-controlled or a computer-controlled positioner. The positioner may be adjusted using a coarse tuning knob and a fine tuning knob. The positioner may be calibrated such that the DUT retention structure applies a sufficient amount of pressure on the DUT during production testing.
US09310420B2
An example embodiment includes a continuity testing method of a pixel in a liquid crystal on silicon integrated circuit. The method includes writing a first voltage to a pixel. The pixel is isolated and a wire that is selectively coupled to the pixel is discharged. The method also includes enabling a sensing amplifier configured to sense voltage on the wire. The pixel is electrically coupled to the wire and a resultant voltage on the wire is sensed.
US09310415B2
A test system for plug-in connectors, especially for plug-in connectors in an airplane. A transmitting device which is designed for sending out a test signal to the plug-in connectors to be tested, and comprising at least one receiving device for each plug-in connector to be tested which is electrically coupled with the respective plug-in connector and which is designed for receiving the transmitted test signal and outputting an acknowledgement signal in response to receiving the transmitted test signal. Furthermore, the present invention creates an aircraft or a spacecraft and a method.
US09310414B2
According to one embodiment, in an electronic apparatus, a first pair of electrodes has a first electrode and a second electrode. A second pair of electrodes is disposed in parallel with the first pair, and has a third electrode and a fourth electrode. A third pair of electrodes is disposed between the first pair and the second pair in parallel with the first pair and the second pair, and has a fifth electrode and a sixth electrode. A first wire electrically connects the first electrode and the second electrode. A second wire electrically connects the third electrode and the fourth electrode. A third wire electrically connects the fifth electrode and the sixth electrode. A gel covers the first wire, the second wire, and the third wire. A first detection unit detects a break status of the first wire or the second wire.
US09310405B2
A method for identifying an electronic apparatus is provided. The method is adapted for a monitor apparatus in a power system, and includes the following steps of adaptively updating a power signature database related to at least one electronic apparatus; adaptively updating a line resistance database related to the monitor apparatus; detecting whether at least one power signature event occurs; calculating a system impedance of the at least one power signature event when the at least one power signature event occurs; and identifying at least one unknown electronic apparatus resulting the at least one power signature event according to the system impedance, the power signature database and the line resistance database.
US09310398B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a current sensor package for sensing a current flowing in a primary conductor of a substrate. The current sensor package includes a magnetic field sensor, a calibration current provider and a controller. The calibration current provider is configured to provide a calibration current for a calibration conductor of the substrate, wherein the calibration conductor and the primary conductor are arranged in a defined spatial relation to each other on the substrate. The magnetic field sensor element is configured to sense a magnetic field of the primary current flowing in the primary conductor in order to provide a primary sensor signal and to sense a magnetic field of the calibration current flowing through the calibration conductor to provide a calibration sensor signal. The controller is configured to receive the primary sensor signal and the calibration sensor signal, and to calibrate the primary sensor signal based on the calibration sensor signal and the defined spatial relation between the primary conductor and the calibration conductor.
US09310395B2
Provided is probe member for a pogo pin used for testing a semiconductor device, at least a portion of the probe member being inserted into a cylindrical body and supported by an elastic member and an upper end of the probe member contacting a terminal of the semiconductor device.
US09310385B2
A reagent for measuring platelets comprising Nile Blue hydrogensulfate, or Nile Blue and an acid, a reagent kit for measuring platelets comprising the reagent for measuring platelets, and a method for measuring platelets using the reagent or reagent kit.
US09310382B2
The present disclosure relates to detection of the presence or absence of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in a sample by the detection of one or more antigens that are enriched in CSF compared to their levels in other bodily fluids. The devices and methods are suitable for the detection of the presence or absence of cerebrospinal fluid in samples of mixed bodily fluids from a wide variety of human populations crossing ethnicity, age, gender, health status and genetic variability.
US09310379B2
This invention relates to crystals of whole antibodies and fragments thereof, and formulations and compositions comprising such crystals. More particularly, methods are provided for the crystallization of high concentrations of whole antibodies, and fragments thereof, in large batches, and for the preparation of stabilized whole antibody crystals for use alone, or in dry or slurry formulations or compositions. This invention also relates to methods for stabilization, storage and delivery of biologically active whole antibody crystals. The present invention further relates to methods using whole antibody crystals, antibody fragment crystals, or compositions or formulations comprising such crystals for biomedical applications, including biological delivery to humans and animals. More particularly, whole antibody crystals or antibody fragment crystals, or crystal compositions or formulations thereof, are used as a carrier-free delivery system which can slowly release active whole antibodies or fragments thereof, to a subject, where and when they are needed.
US09310371B2
The present invention relates to a method for diagnosing, evaluating the prognosis of a cancer patient and evaluating the aggressiveness of a cancer. The methods comprise detecting the phosphorylation status of a Scribble protein, a fragment or variant thereof, wherein the phosphorylation status is indicative of cancer, prognosis and the aggressiveness of a cancer. In one embodiment the cancer is breast cancer.
US09310368B1
High affinity monoclonal antibodies against Stx2 and hybridomas that produce such antibodies are described. The antibodies may be used in a kit for detecting Stx2 and variants thereof in a sample as well as neutralization of Shiga toxin in vivo.
US09310363B2
An aptamer-based solid-state electrochemical biosensor for label-free detection of Salmonella enterica serovars utilizing immobilized aptamers. The device is realized by forming a matrix array of parallel capacitors, thus allowing the realization of low-cost, portable, fully integrated devices. Protein-aptamer binding modulates the threshold voltage of a circuit, changing the impedance (capacitance) of the circuit. This circuit is further characterized by an electrode coded with a p-Si substrate, enhancing the affinity between the Salmonella outer membrane proteins (OMPs) and the aptamer. An aptamer embedded detection plate is configured within a testing lid device that fits a standard, commercially available polymer specimen jar. A sample is mixed with broth for incubation and cultivation of any present Salmonella bacteria to obtain acceptable concentration of the pathogen for testing. The information obtained can then be transmitted by wireless network.
US09310342B2
A liquid chromatography apparatus is provided with a sample preparation unit, a column that separates components of a sample, an eluent supplier that includes a feeder for supplying eluents to the column, a flow path directional valve capable of introducing fixed amounts of the sample and the eluents to the column, an analyzer for analyzing a test solution composed of the sample components separated by the column and one of the eluents, and a controller, wherein the eluent supplier supplies the eluents to the flow path directional valve in an unmixed state. As a result of employing this configuration, analysis time is shortened and eluent consumption is reduced.
US09310337B2
Provided is a non-destructive inspection device for pressure containers using leakage-flux measurement, including: a coil winding mount disposed at one side on an outside of the pressure container to magnetize the pressure container; a sensor support provided with a plurality of magnetic field sensing sensors arranged at the other side on the outside of the pressure container; a yoke magnetizing the pressure container to generate a magnetic flux in a direction vertical to a direction of the magnetic flux generated by the coil winding mount; an endoscope attached with at least one magnetic field sensing sensor, and the like.
US09310331B2
An NOx detection apparatus does not always perform correction processing, but it determines whether to perform the correction processing on the basis of the result of a determination of whether a first Nox concentration is higher than a predetermined specific concentration. The first NOx concentration NOxpo calculated from a second pumping current Ip2 which changes with the actual NOx concentration. Therefore, the NOx detection apparatus can determine whether to correct the first NOx concentration NOxpo in accordance with the actual NOx concentration. Accordingly, the NOx detection apparatus can suppress a decrease in gas detection accuracy even in the case where the gas detection value based on the sensor output involves an error in a specific concentration range (concentration range of 90 ppm or higher).
US09310330B2
Described is an electrochemical flow cell (1) for analyzing fluid samples including a first member (100) including a first working surface (101), the first working surface (101) including a sample outlet (102), and a second member (200) including a second working surface (201), the second working surface (201) including a working electrode (202). The first and second member (100, 200) being connectable to each other to create a chamber (2) in between the first (101) and second working surface (201). The first working surface (101) being opposite and spaced apart from the second working surface (201) and the sample outlet (102) being directed at the working electrode (202). The electrochemical flow cell (1) includes an adjustment element for stepless adjustment of a distance (d) between the first working surface (101) and the second working surface (201).
US09310318B2
To detect a bridge defect between lines of a line pattern formed on a sample at pitches narrower than the wavelength of inspection light, a defect inspection device is configured to comprise: a light source which emits laser; a vertical illumination unit which applies the laser to the sample from a vertical direction via an objective lens by converting the laser into linearly polarized light by using a polarization conversion unit in a state polarized in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the line pattern; an oblique illumination unit which applies the laser to the sample from an oblique direction; a detection optical unit including an optical filter which selectively transmits a scattered light component from the defect by converting the polarization state of the reflected/scattered light; and a signal processing unit which detects the defect on the sample by processing a detection signal.
US09310316B2
Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable media, and systems for selecting one or more parameters for a defect detection method are provided. One method includes selecting one or more parameters of a defect detection method using an optimization function and information for a set of classified defects, which includes defects of interest and nuisance defects, such that the one or more parameters satisfy an objective for the defect detection method.
US09310312B2
An apparatus and a method for automatic inspection of through-holes of a component is provided. The proposed apparatus includes an imaging module, an image processing module and an analysis module. The imaging module generates a thermographic image of the component by passing a medium through the through-holes and capturing infra-red radiation emitted from the component while the medium is flowing through the through-holes. The image processing module fits the thermographic image on a digital image obtained from geometrical data of the component. The image processing module is further masks the fitted thermographic image using a digital image mask to extract regions corresponding to through-holes in the thermographic image. The digital image mask is computed based on a determination of positions of through-holes on the digital image. The analysis module evaluates the masked thermographic image to determine an irregularity or blockage in one or more of the through-holes.
US09310311B2
A time validation indicator is disclosed comprising at least a receiving layer and an activating layer. The receiving layer comprises at least one or more masking colorants and one or more deactivators that cause and maintain the one or more masking colorants in an initial colored state. The activating layer comprises at least one or more migratory activators that migrate into the receiving layer upon at least a portion of the receiving layer being placed in contact with at least a portion of the activating layer to initiate a predetermined time period. The migration of the one or more migratory activators into the receiving layer causes at least a portion of the one or more masking colorants to advance to a final colorless state resulting in a visual color change of the receiving layer that indicates the predetermined time period has elapsed. Also disclosed are methods for creating and using the inventive time validation indicator.
US09310306B2
An apparatus for use in sensing applications includes a substrate and a plurality of clusters arranged in an aperiodic configuration on the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of clusters is formed of a plurality of Raman-active material nano-particles, and wherein each of the Raman-active material nano-particles is positioned in a substantially ordered configuration with respect to each other in each of the respective plurality of clusters.
US09310298B2
The invention features devices and methods for collecting and measuring light from external light sources. In general, the devices of the invention feature a light diffusing element, e.g., as a component of a light collector, connected by a light conducting conduit, e.g., a fiber optic cable, to a light measuring device, e.g., a spectrometer. This light diffusing element allows, e.g., for substantially uniform light diffusion across its surface and thus accurate measurements, while permitting the total footprint of the device to remain relatively small and portable. This light diffusing element also allows flexibility in scaling of the device to permit use in a wide range of applications.
US09310295B2
Aspects of a laser-type gas analyzer can include a mid-infrared light reception signal processing and computing unit that calculates a gas concentration of the first gas to be measured on the basis of a mid-infrared light reception signal, a near-infrared light reception signal processing and computing unit that detects, at respective times, the gas concentration of the second gas to be measured, water concentration in a space, and alight amount decrement due to dust, on the basis of near-infrared light reception signal. Also included can be a gas concentration correcting unit that corrects the gas concentrations of the first and second gases to be measured using the water concentration and the light amount decrement.
US09310286B2
An apparatus for classifying a liquid patient sample includes at least one sample container having a quantity of a sample that is aggressively acted upon so as to create a flow field. A measurement mechanism includes at least one low angle light emitter aligned with a measurement window of the at least one sample container and a detector oppositely disposed relative to the measurement window. Measurement of the scattered light detects particle characteristics of a moving flow field from the sample to determine, for example, the amount of agglutination of the sample so as to perform blood typing or other classifications without spatial separation.
US09310281B2
An automated sample tube blotting system having one or more rotating grippers, a supply of absorbent material, a transporter, and an absorbent material removal mechanism. Each rotating gripper has a respective holder configured to selectively mate with a respective interface on a tube strip, and the one or more rotating grippers are rotatable between a first position in which the tube strip is upright and a second position in which the tube strip is inverted. The transporter is configured to move the rotating gripper in a lateral direction from a starting location to a location above the absorbent material, and in a vertical direction towards and away from the absorbent material.
US09310279B2
A generator set system for use with a refrigerated shipping container, the generator set system including a prime mover, a generator coupled to the prime mover, a generator set controller, and a generator set telematics unit. The generator set telematics unit determines a geographical location of the generator set, and the generator set controller performs pre-trip inspections on the generator set prior to the generator set leaving a pre-defined geographical area.
US09310276B2
The device comprises first means for determining a pressure value relative to the pressure at the outlet of a precooler of an air bleed system and second means for calculating the air bleed level using this pressure value, said first means comprising means for calculating a first pressure value at the outlet of the precooler, using the pressure measured by a sensor, means for receiving a pressure measured by a second sensor, which represents a second pressure value at the outlet of the precooler and means for selecting one of said first and second pressure values, which is then transmitted to said second means for calculating said air bleed level.
US09310274B2
Systems and methods for calculating a relative temperature of a fiber-optic cable using bi-directional analysis traces with an optical time-domain reflectometer (“OTDR”). Analysis of bi-directional traces along a length of fiber-optic cable yields a scaled local backscatter coefficient of the fiber. Accordingly, an initial set of measurement data is collected at a first time interval and a base scaled local backscatter along a fiber is calculated. A subsequent set of measurement data is collected at a second time interval and a subsequent scaled local backscatter along the fiber is calculated. The exemplary systems and methods described herein determines a change in scaled local backscatter as a function of a difference between the base scaled local backscatter and at least the subsequent scaled local scaled local backscatter along the fiber, and then determines a relative temperature variation of the fiber as a function of the change in scaled local backscatter.
US09310252B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for automated object classification using temperature profiles. An object in an environment (such as an exemplary data center) is classified by obtaining a surface temperature profile of the object; and classifying the object as a particular type of equipment based on the obtained surface temperature profile. The surface temperature profile of the object can be compared to a plurality of predefined characteristic surface temperature profiles each associated with a given type of equipment.
US09310251B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for automated object classification using temperature profiles. An object in an environment (such as an exemplary data center) is classified by obtaining a surface temperature profile of the object; and classifying the object as a particular type of equipment based on the obtained surface temperature profile. The surface temperature profile of the object can be compared to a plurality of predefined characteristic surface temperature profiles each associated with a given type of equipment.
US09310249B2
The invention relates to a spectrophotometer for the automated optical characterization of solar collector tubes and to a method for the operation thereof, that measures the coefficient of transmission of the glass tube and of reflection of the metal tube. The device includes all the necessary components for taking said measurement, such as the optical bench supporting the tube, the standard or framework, and the optical modules for the device, a main module that generates the light bundles, a measuring module that measures the coefficient of transmission of the outer glass tube and the coefficient of reflection of the inner metal tube, a mechanical system of tube rotation, an electronic system of data acquisition and processing, an external computer for controlling the device and processing the data measured, and a system of communication between the device and the computer.
US09310241B2
Device for weighing flat objects in motion comprising a conveyor (12) with drive rollers (22A, 22B) for conveying the flat objects along a transport path (14), a weighing plate (16) facing said transport path and comprising a set of free rollers (160) for receiving the flat objects, and a weighing sensor (18) attached to the weighing plate for measuring the weight of the flat objects during their passage between the conveyor and the weighing plate, wherein the weighing sensor is arranged above the transport path and the conveyor is adapted to move vertically in order to press the flat objects in motion against the weighing plate.
US09310239B2
A powder metering apparatus (1) having a metering chamber (2) which defines a powder metering volume (3) and can be emptied through an outlet opening (11), wherein, in order to draw in powder (9) from a powder supply line (10) through a diaphragm (5) which bounds the metering chamber (2), a negative pressure (8) can be applied to the metering chamber (2). The diaphragm (5) is arranged such that the latter can be adjusted relative to the outlet opening (11) in order to set the powder metering volume (3) and/or to empty the metering chamber (2).
US09310232B2
The invention relates to a method for calibrating sensors, in particular RFID sensors, within an enclosure such as, e.g., a sterilization chamber. It furthermore relates to a sensor calibrated by the method of the invention, a disposable device including such a sensor, as well as a treatment device.
US09310226B2
A position detection apparatus includes a signal output configured to output a plurality of signals, the position detection apparatus detecting a relative position of a position detection target from a reference position on the basis of the plurality of signals, a relative position detection unit configured to detect the relative position of the position detection target from the reference position on the basis of the plurality of signals, an absolute position detection unit configured to detect an absolute position of the position detection target on the basis of the plurality of signals; and a reference position setting unit configured to set the absolute position detected by the absolute position detection unit as the reference position.
US09310223B2
An apparatus includes circuits, a field line configured to generate a magnetic field based on an input, a sensing module configured to determine a parameter of each circuit, and a magnetic field direction determination module configured to determine an angular orientation of the apparatus relative to an external magnetic field based on the parameter. Each circuit includes multiple magnetic tunnel junctions. Each magnetic tunnel junction includes a storage layer having a storage magnetization direction and a sense layer having a sense magnetization direction configured based on the magnetic field. Each magnetic tunnel junction is configured such that the sense magnetization direction and a resistance of the magnetic tunnel junction vary based on the external magnetic field. The parameter varies based on the resistances of the multiple magnetic tunnel junctions. The magnetic field direction determination module is implemented in at least one of a memory or a processing device.
US09310221B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a distributed system architecture for unmanned air vehicles. One of the methods includes receiving selections of configuration information to provide to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), with the selections of configuration information being associated with respective components included in the UAV. The configuration information associated with a first component is determined to be valid from selections of configuration information associated with the first component. The configuration information associated with the first component is provided for storage in the UAV in response to receiving a user action.
US09310219B2
In a system that uses tile-based road network rendering for displaying map information to a user, a tile is rendered for display by rendering a front tile (20) with an appropriate texture to depict, e.g., the “ground” and a see-through shape (22) representing a feature that is below the ground level, and rendering a rear tile (21) that has drawn on it an image region (23) representing the intended below ground level feature, surrounded by a color or texture (24) that represents a border for that feature, to appear behind and slightly offset relative to the front tile (20), such that the image region (23) and its corresponding border (24) on the rear tile (21) can be seen through the see-through shape (22) in the front tile (20). In this way, a more visually appealing depiction of the below ground level feature can be achieved.
US09310214B1
A system and method adjusts road segment boundaries based on information received from devices that travel a road system for purposes other than road segment definition.
US09310213B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for obtaining updated navigation information are presented. A first computing device can receive routing information from a second computing device, where the routing information is indicative of a route determined by the second computing device to a destination. Subsequently, navigation instructions can be provided at the first computing device based upon the routing information received from the second computing device. The first computing device then can receive, from the second computing device, a change to the routing information. Thereafter, and responsive to receiving the change to the routing information, the first computing device can provide modified navigation instructions.
US09310209B2
Provided is a terminal including: an information extraction unit that extracts location information which is designated as a destination point; a display unit to which a graphic image for receiving a control command for displaying a source of the location information, and the extracted location information are output together; and a controller that controls the display unit in such a manner that a guide screen for guiding a path to the destination point that is selected by a user from among the pieces of location information.
US09310198B2
Target land area is three-dimensionally located using an optical sensor and a radar sensor in satellites. The positions of the satellites are measured and images are captured when the sensors point toward land areas. The aiming direction of the optical sensor for each area is measured. The distance between each area and the radar sensor pointing thereto is measured. Images of land areas captured by the sensors and covering common areas are matched. The distance between the target area selected from the common areas and the optical sensor is accurately determined on the basis of the positions of the sensors, the distance between the target area and the radar sensor, and the aiming direction of the optical sensor, which are associated with the images covering the target area.
US09310190B2
In related art, consideration is not given to that a spatial distribution of scattered light changes in various direction such as forward/backward/sideways according to a difference in micro roughness. Particularly, although a step-terrace structure appearing on an epitaxial growth wafer produces anisotropy in the scattered light distribution, consideration is not given to this point in the related art. The invention includes a process in which light is illuminated to a sample surface, plural detection optical systems mutually different in directions of optical axes detect a spatial distribution of scattered light, and a spatial frequency spectrum of the sample surface is calculated.
US09310182B2
A system and method for spectral filtering of a k-clock signal in a swept-source Optical Coherence Tomography (“OCT”) system to remove artifacts in the k-clock signal. The system synchronizes sampling of the k-clock and interference signals generated from scanning a sample. Using a filtered k-clock signal, the system resamples an interference dataset of the interference signals. The system then performs Fourier transform based processing upon the resampled interference dataset to yield axial depth images of the sample. The system preferably performs the reconstruction, resampling, and associated Fourier-Domain signal processing in software via a Field Programmable Gate Array (“FPGA”) of a rendering system.
US09310168B2
In the structure for providing protection for the human body from ballistic projectiles which includes one or more ballistic resistant panels overlying at least a portion of the body, wherein the improvement comprising one or more electronic devices integrated into at least one of the ballistic resistant panels.
US09310167B1
A semiconductor laser produces infrared radiation suitable for jamming a heat seeking missile, wherein a wavelength of the radiation is in a range of 2-5 microns, and the laser has a semiconductor lasing medium of Pb1-xSexPb1-xSnxSe or Ga0.84In0.16As0.14Sb0.86. These materials can be doped to provide a p/n junction, wherein the laser is excitable by electric current passing through the p/n junction. The third one of these materials can be constructed also as a uniform undoped slab which is excitable optically. Cooling of the lasing medium is accomplished by use of a lithium heat sink thermally coupled to the lasing medium by a diamond thermal diffuser which conducts heat from the relatively small region of the laser to spread out the thermal energy along a relatively large surface of the heat sink. Modulation circuitry is connected to the excitation apparatus to provide a pulse train of the radiation.
US09310165B2
A remote controlled projectile sighting and launching system (RCPSLS) is disclosed. In some embodiments, such a system can be compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and can automatically facilitate moving targets, unmanned operation of a projectile launching device and automatic friendly-fire over-ride. In some embodiments, such a system can include network-linked components such as a plurality of auto-adjusting aiming units (AAAU), gimbaled robotic apparatuses (GRA), trigger activation devices (TAD), and transport vehicles (TRV). In some implementations, a plurality of shooters and/or command centers that are able to view and operate a plurality of AAAUs, TADs, GRAs, and TRVs from a remote location(s). The system can be configured to be capable of discerning friendly confirmed target coordinates (CTC) from enemy CTC and is able to launch a plurality of preselected projectiles (PP) from a plurality of preselected projectile launching devices (PPLD).
US09310161B2
An adjustable grip extender for a firearm, comprising: a) an elevating mechanism, including a moveable portion on top and a fixed portion on bottom with respect to the adjustable grip, wherein both portions are pivotally connected in such a way that said moveable portion can be moved angularly with respect to said fixed portion, wherein the bottom surface of said adjustable grip extender is attached to the handle of the firearm in a position that allows a user's trigger finger to rest on said moveable portion for positioning the distal portion of said finger directly in front of the trigger of said firearm and substantially perpendicular to said trigger; and b) an adjustable mechanism for setting the elevating degree of said moveable portion in a fixed position, by changing the relative angular position between said moveable portion and said fixed portion.
US09310158B2
An archery compound bow cam cover and sling device is disclosed. The cam cover and sling device can include two cam covers operable to at least partially cover cams of a compound bow. The cam cover and sling device can also include two limb tensioning members coupled to respective cam covers, operable to extend along limbs of the compound bow, and configured to couple with the compound bow at limb ends opposite the cams. The cam cover and sling device can further include a central tensioning member coupled to the two cam covers and operable to extend between the cams, wherein the central tensioning member is configured to increase tension in the limb tensioning members to secure the cam covers about the cams. In addition, the cam cover and sling device can also include a sling coupled to the two cam covers to support, and facilitate carrying, the compound bow.
US09310152B1
Disclosed is a muzzle brake for a firearm having a barrel with a muzzle and a bore extending along a longitudinal axis. The muzzle brake includes a body with an axial passageway substantially axially aligned with the bore. A high pressure chamber in the body receives combustion gases from the muzzle and includes at least one outlet port for venting a first portion of the combustion gases in the high pressure chamber. A second chamber in the body, forward of the high pressure chamber, receives at least a second portion of the combustion gases from the high pressure chamber. The second chamber has two opposing side openings in the body and includes a rear wall and a rearwardly-facing front wall upon which the second portion of the combustion gases impinge. The front wall has two rearwardly curved surfaces transverse to the axial passageway that form an apex transverse to the longitudinal axis. The muzzle brake may also include a cupped concavity in at least one of the rearwardly curved surfaces of the forward wall.
US09310151B2
An insertion tube (1) for firing sub-caliber ammunition bodies (20) using a high caliber weapon (10) is inserted into the loading chamber (11) of the weapon (10). The tube wall (2) of the insertion tube (1) has penetrating recesses (3) for compensating pressure differences between the inside of the insertion tube (1) and the loading chamber (11). A weapon includes an insertion tube (1) which can be inserted into the loading chamber (11) of the weapon (10) for firing a sub-caliber ammunition body (20), the insertion tube (1) being designed in the above-described manner.
US09310146B2
An upper receiver assembly for an AR style rifle is provided. The upper receiver assembly includes an upper receiver body with a channel formed in a side of the body. Further, the assembly includes a bolt carrier operatively coupled within the upper receiver body. A bolt is coupled within the bolt carrier, wherein a cam pin is coupled to the bolt and extends through an aperture of the bolt carrier. The assembly also includes a side charger having a charging handle that extends through the channel of the upper receiver body. The side charger also includes a bolt carrier engagement member. The bolt carrier engagement member engages the bolt carrier and moves the cam pin in response to pulling the charging handle toward the butt stock of the weapon. This results in charging the rifle.
US09310135B1
A heat exchanger is provided by assembling a plurality of individual plates having opposed faces, wherein flow channels are machined through those opposed faces, and the plates are interconnected with intervening shim plates. End plates are connected to an assembly of such plates and intermediate plates, to form a preform, which is then machined to a desired cross section. The resulting structure has a plurality of passages therethrough in one direction, and a second plurality of passages therethrough in a second direction, the passages fluidly isolated from one another. The resulting structure is configurable to a specific geometry of a flow passage, and enables heat exchange between fluids passing through the different flow channels.
US09310119B2
A cooling system (1), especially for cryopreserving biological samples (2), comprises a cooling chamber (100) delimited by a bottom area (110), side walls (120), and a top area (130), and a cooling device (200) for cooling the cooling chamber (100) using liquid nitrogen (220). At least one of the side walls (120) includes at least one predetermined wall element (125) which is a portion of at least one of the side walls and can be moved relative to the associated side wall (120) in such a way that a wall opening can be formed in said side wall (120). Methods for operating the cooling system (1) in case of an emergency are also described.
US09310118B2
The present invention provides improved thermally insulative containers (e.g., ice chests, coolers, lunch boxes, etc.) that include one or more isolation compartment(s) that may be isolated from a storage compartment holding ice or other cooling agent(s). The isolation compartment may be used to store items that are to be kept dry and at a higher temperature than food, beverages, and other items that are typically kept in the storage compartment. In some examples, the one or more isolation compartment(s) may include thermal vents between the compartments for varying the temperature between the one or more isolation compartment(s) and the storage compartment.
US09310113B2
A drinking dispenser has a warm water container; a hot water container coupled to the warm water container; a water supplying apparatus separately coupled to the warm water container and the hot water container; and a thermoelectric heat pump apparatus, configured with a pump that is arranged coupling to the water container and a thermoelectric module in respective coupled to the water container and the pump.
US09310112B2
A thermoelectric system and method provides distributed localized heating, cooling, or both heating and cooling. The thermoelectric system includes a plurality of thermoelectric assemblies. Each thermoelectric assembly comprises a plurality of thermoelectric elements, and each thermoelectric assembly is in thermal communication with a first working fluid and in thermal communication with a region corresponding to the thermoelectric assembly. Each thermoelectric assembly is selectively operable either to heat the region corresponding to the thermoelectric assembly by transferring heat from the first working fluid to the region corresponding to the thermoelectric assembly or to cool the region corresponding to the thermoelectric assembly by transferring heat from the region corresponding to the thermoelectric assembly to the first working fluid. Each thermoelectric assembly is operable independently from operation of other thermoelectric assemblies of the plurality of thermoelectric assemblies.
US09310111B2
A thermoelectric refrigeration system includes a heat exchanger that includes a cold side heat sink and a hot side heat sink. The thermoelectric refrigeration system also includes a heat exchange loop coupled to one of the cold side heat sink and the hot side heat sink, the heat exchange loop operating according to thermosiphon principles to provide passive two-phase transport of a working fluid through the heat exchange loop. The thermoelectric refrigeration system also includes thermal insulation that thermally insulates the heat exchanger from a cooling chamber of the thermoelectric refrigeration system or an environment that is external to the thermoelectric refrigeration system.
US09310110B2
A thermoelectric drinking apparatus has a feeding pipe, a cooling-gain circulating loop, a heating-gain circulating loop, an outlet pipe, and a thermoelectric heat pump. The thermoelectric heat pump has a cooling unit attached to the cold side of a thermoelectric chip, which has a cooling channel in its interior, and a heating unit attached to the hot side of the thermoelectric chip and provided with a heating channel in its interior. The feeding pipe conducts fluid into the cooling channel and the heating channel respectively. The cooling-gain and heating-gain circulating loop respectively cause fluids in the cooling channel and heating channel to create circular flows, such that the cold side and hot side of the thermoelectric chip respectively cool and heat the fluids via the cooling channel and heating channel. The outlet pipe discharges the cooled and/or heated fluids respectively from the cooling-gain circulating loop and heating-gain circulating loop.
US09310101B2
A set of heat pipes for solar collectors is provided. The set includes a plurality of heat pipes, each heat pipe being suitable for being laid out in a respective solar collector, and including a heat pipe fluid, a first sheet and a second sheet locally merged with each other and delimiting a reservoir. The reservoir containing the heat pipe fluid extends over a hot part for evaporating the heat pipe fluid and a cold part for condensing the heat pipe fluid, and is formed by an interstice between the two sheets. The reservoirs of at least two heat pipes are delimited by a same first sheet and a same second sheet.
US09310098B2
A system for controlling a water heater that operates according to a voltage supply includes a temperature sensor, mounted on at least one of a temperature and pressure (T&P) valve of the water heater and a hot water line of the water heater, that generates a temperature signal corresponding to a first temperature of the at least one of the T&P valve and the hot water line. A control module mounted on the water heater includes a switching module that receives the voltage supply and outputs the voltage supply to the water heater. The voltage supply passes at least one of through and adjacent to the control module. The control module determines a second temperature of water within the water heater based on the temperature signal and selectively actuates the switching module to turn on and turn off the voltage supply to the water heater based on the second temperature.
US09310076B2
The invention relates to a fluid composite, a device for producing the fluid composite, and a system for producing an aerated fluid composite therewith, and more specifically a fluid composite made of a fuel and its oxidant for burning as part of different systems such as fuel burners or combustion chambers and the like. The invention also relates to an emulsion, an apparatus for producing an emulsion, a system for producing an emulsion with the apparatus for producing the emulsion, a method for producing a dynamic preparation with the emulsion, and more specifically to a new type of a stable liquid/liquid emulsion in the field of colloidal chemistry, such as a water/fuel or fuel/fuel emulsion for all spheres of industry.
US09310064B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for making a light segment by forming a sealed body having an interior chamber; creating a boiling enhancement surface positioned in a predetermined location on the interior chamber; filling the interior chamber with a liquid portion and thermally coupled to the liquid portion at all orientations of the light blade; and boiling the liquid portion with a light source located on the predetermined location on an exterior portion of the sealed body.
US09310056B2
A light fixture assembly for providing a light source when conducting vehicle repair in a dark environment includes a housing that may be positioned on a vehicle. A lid is coupled to the housing. The lid closes the housing. A first light emitter is coupled to the housing. The first light emitter emits light when the lid is open so a work area is illuminated. A second light emitter is coupled to the housing. The second light emitter emits light when the lid is closed so an observer is notified of a hazard.
US09310054B2
A dual fluorescent wheel with two disk-shaped carrier elements which are interconnected by wing-type cooling ribs is disclosed. When the dual fluorescent wheel rotates, air flows in through an axial opening in one of the carrier elements, the air flows radially through the interspace between the carrier elements or the wing-type cooling ribs and flows out at the edge. This airflow improves the dissipation of heat which is produced when an excitation laser irradiates the annular fluorescent strips located on the two exterior faces.
US09310048B2
An illumination unit, can include first and second reflectors, and at least one light source module disposed between the first and second reflectors, wherein the second reflector includes at least one inclined surface including at least one inflection point, and at least one first flat surface disposed close to the at least one light source module and being parallel to the first reflector.
US09310046B2
A light emitting module includes a surface emitting panel and an optical member located at the light emitting surface side of the surface emitting panel. The surface emitting panel has a light emitting region and a non-light emitting region. The optical member has a reflector in the region corresponding to the light emitting region. The reflector has a reflectivity distribution in which the average reflectance per unit area varies. According to this configuration, light emitted from the surface emitting panel and guided by the optical member is reflected by the reflector and emitted in front of the non-light emitting region. By this way, a region in front of the non-light emitting region is difficult to be dark, thus allowing the light emission area to be increased. Further, where a number of light emitting modules are arranged in a matrix as a lighting device, a uniform illumination surface is provided.
US09310045B2
Various aspects of a light emitting apparatus include a substrate having at least one angled portion. Some aspects of the light emitting apparatus include at least one light emitting device arranged on the substrate. Some aspects of the light emitting apparatus include a plurality of conductors arranged on the substrate. In some aspects of the light emitting apparatus, the conductors are electrically coupled to the at least one light emitting device.
US09310044B2
A motor vehicle taillight (10) has at least a rear position light function, a turn signal light function, and a brake light function. The rear position light function and the turn signal light function are formed by a common first optical waveguide (15) and by first LED light sources (16, 17) that inject light into the first optical waveguide (15). The brake light function is formed by at least two second optical waveguides (23) and by second LED light sources (24) that inject light into the optical waveguides (23). The second optical waveguides (23) border the first optical waveguide (15) on at least two sides.
US09310042B2
A vehicle headlamp includes a lamp outer case 4, a holding plate 12, a lamp unit 6, and an optical axis adjustment mechanism 16. The lamp outer case 4 includes a lamp housing 2 formed with an opening on at least one side thereof and a cover 3 covers the opening of the lamp housing 2. The holding plate 12 is pivotable in at least one of an up-down direction and a right-left direction. The lamp unit 6 is attached to the holding plate 12 and includes a light source 10b. The optical axis adjustment mechanism 16 is disposed below the lamp unit 6 and adjusts an optical axis direction of the lamp unit 6.
US09310041B2
An illumination device for producing a light strip along a predetermined distance includes light sources and light conductors, wherein light of a first one of the light sources is distributable along a first section of the distance by a first one of the light conductors up to an end region of the first light conductor, wherein light of a second one of the light sources is distributable along a second section of the distance by a second one of the light conductors up to an end region of the second light conductor, and wherein the end region of the first light conductor and the end region of the second light conductor are arranged adjacent one another along the distance.
US09310038B2
A solid state lighting fixture with an integrated driver circuit. A housing has a base end and an open end through which light is emitted from the fixture. The reflective interior surface of the fixture and the base define an optical chamber. At least one, and often multiple, light sources are mounted at the fixture base along with the circuitry necessary to drive and/or control the light sources. The drive circuit and the light sources are both located in the optical chamber. A reflective cone fits within the optical chamber such that it covers most of the drive circuit and other components at the base of fixture that might absorb light. The reflective cone is shaped to define a hole that is aligned with the light sources so that light may be emitted through the hole toward the open end of the fixture.
US09310034B2
A light emitting device (1) for illuminating a backlight device is provided. The device comprises an array (2) of light sources and at least one reflector (3a, 3b) arranged along an edge of the array (2) of light sources. The array is arranged with alternating first (4a, 5a) and second (4b, 5b) light sources, the first light sources (4a, 5a) emitting light of a first colour (G) and the second light sources (4b, 5b) emitting light of a second colour (P). The combined intensity of at least one light source (4a, 4b) arranged adjacent to the at least one reflector (3a, 3b) and its virtual image in the reflector is about 80-120% of the average intensity of the light sources (5a, 5b) of the same colour which are not arranged adjacent to the at least one reflector. The present invention further provides an edge lit or direct lit backlight device comprising such a light emitting device, the at least one reflector being at least one inner wall of the backlight device arranged along an edge of said array of light sources. A method of operating a light emitting device for illuminating a backlight device is also provided.
US09310021B2
A retention and rotation assembly includes a first support having a first bore that extends along an axis AA. A lug is received in the first bore and is rotatable relative to the first support about the axis AA. The assembly includes a second support having a second bore. An inside surface of the second bore is engageable with an outside surface of the lug, the second support is fixed relative to the lug about the axis AA when second support is engaged with the lug. A locking element extends through a bore in the lug and into at least a portion of the second support. A rotation of the locking element in a first direction about the axis AA increases a friction between the lug and the first support thereby inhibiting rotation of the lug relative to the first support about the axis AA.
US09310018B2
The disclosed invention relates to a bag rack for the multi-purpose of holding and dispensing disposable plastic bags as well as holding open reusable bags in a variety of configurations and positions. The multi-purpose bag comprises first and second bag support arm assemblies each of which comprises a pair of resiliently arms of different lengths and degree of flexibility for frictionally engaging reusable bag handles.
US09310015B2
In some implementations, an injectable flange gasket includes a plate having two parallel surfaces, each of the two parallel surfaces having an perimeter, the plate also having an outer edge between the perimeters of the parallel surfaces, the outer edge being about perpendicular to the two parallel surfaces, at least one groove in only one of the two parallel surfaces, the groove being continuous and the plate also having a hole that extends from a wall of the groove and through the outer edge of the plate.
US09310014B2
A method for restoring a degraded pipeline, the method comprising: removing a degraded part of an inner flow pipe of a pipeline leaving a space between two spaced-apart sections of the inner flow pipe; positioning a new pipe in the space; connecting the new pipe to the two spaced-apart sections of the inner flow pipe thereby re-establishing a flow channel through the inner flow pipe; the new pipe having a core pipe with a first strengthening wrap thereon, a second strengthening wrap around the first strengthening wrap, and a protective outer wrap on the second strengthening wrap.
US09310013B2
A cable fastening device comprising at least one connecting piece for fastening a cable to a fastening surface, and at least one binding lug protruding out of the outer surface of the connecting piece, by intermediation of which binding lug one or several cables are fastened to the fastening device, wherein the fastening device comprises a vibration attenuating material layer arranged in between the connecting piece and the fastening surface for the fastening device.
US09310007B2
A hollow coupling for joining together two pipe ends and having a center, two coupling ends, and an inner profile. The inner profile can include a serrated section having a plurality of threads extending radially around the inner diameter of the coupling, a curved section proximate the serrated section and defining a recess for the deposition of debris and other material during installation of a pipe into the coupling, a smooth section adjacent an end of the coupling and having a diameter slightly less than the outside diameter of a pipe to be inserted into the coupling, and a transition section between the curved section and the smooth section, the transition section having a smooth, rounded profile that minimizes stress concentrations.
US09309999B2
Fluid line and method of making fluid line that includes an inner contour structured with wave peaks and wave troughs. Each wave peak has a front flank and a rear flank, and the front flanks are structured with an inclination angle, relative to a longitudinal axis, shallower than an inclination angle of the rear flanks.
US09309993B2
There are disclosed embodiments for an anti-ligature flush valve cover. For example, a one-piece flush valve cover is mounted to a solid surface using internal brackets to completely cover a toilet flush valve. A portion of the bracket is recessed from parts that contact the interior of the cover, so that a connector inserted into an opening on the bracket surface contacts the opening spaced away from the interior of the flush valve cover. The cover has a bottom edge that does not extend beyond the edges of the toilet fixture. Structure for a push button assembly for flushing the toilet is also disclosed.
US09309989B1
A flow control device includes a float that moves vertically in response to changes in water level, a valve body that moves between extended and retracted positions, and a mechanism interconnecting the float and the valve body wherein changes of position of the float in response to changes in water level changes the position of the valve body. The valve body is placed adjacent a discharge pipe to change the effective intake area of the discharge pipe with changes in water level.
US09309985B2
A high-frequency on-off valve includes a valve chamber communicating with an input flow path, output orifices opening into the valve chamber, a plate-shaped valve member disposed within the valve chamber such that the valve member is movable into and out of contact with output valve seats surrounding the output orifices, and an electromagnetic operating section that opens and closes the valve member. The high-frequency on-off valve opens and closes the plurality of output orifices by bringing the valve member into and out of contact with the output valve seats by utilizing an effect of an electromagnetic attraction force produced by the electromagnetic operating section and an effect of fluid pressure within the valve chamber. The valve has the plurality of output orifices that are long-hole-shaped.
US09309978B2
A valve member for a poppet valve is provided. The valve member may include a valve stem, a valve head, a face formed on the valve head, a sealing surface disposed between the face and the perimeter of the valve head, a tapered socket, and a bevel. The valve stem may include an outside surface defining a stem diameter. The valve head may include a maximum diameter greater than the stem diameter. The face may be formed on the valve head opposite the valve stem. The sealing surface may include a transition ring disposed between the perimeter of the face and the maximum diameter of the valve head. The tapered socket may be disposed in an end of the valve stem, defining an opening with a socket perimeter sized to receive a spring therein.
US09309970B2
The present invention provides a CVT including a transmission mechanism and a planetary gear mechanism which includes a plurality of rotation elements. The transmission mechanism can differentially operate in a predetermined operation mode. The CVT includes a vehicle speed specifying unit for specifying a vehicle speed based on a rotation speed of a rotation member. The unit specifies the vehicle speed from the rotation speed when the rotation speed exceeds a threshold, and specifies the vehicle speed based on a target driving force, a running resistance and a weight of the vehicle when the rotation speed is not more than the threshold.
US09309968B2
Shift arrangement for a motor vehicle gearbox. The shift arrangement has a shift element which can be connected or is connected to a shift member. The shift arrangement has a hydraulic actuator by means of which the shift element can be moved in a first shifting direction and in an opposing second shifting direction. The hydraulic actuator comprises a double-acting hydraulic cylinder which has a first cylinder port and a second cylinder port. The shift arrangement has a hydraulic circuit which has a pump and is connected to the first and second cylinder ports. The pump is connected to an electric motor as a pump drive and is embodied as a bidirectional rotational pump which has a first pump port which is directly connected to the first cylinder port, and which has a second pump port which is directly connected to the second cylinder port. The shift element can be moved by changing the rotational speed and/or the direction of rotation of the electric motor.
US09309967B2
A gear shift mechanism in which operability of an operation pedals for steplessly changing gears in both forward and reverse direction, and a vehicle with the gearshift mechanism. This gearshift mechanism includes a gearshift shaft to which a pedal boss is fitted that is located on the base end side of a pedal arm of a forward pedal, an intermediate link that is connected to a pedal boss that is located on the base end side of a pedal arm of a reverse pedal via a connection member, and a link shaft to which a link boss of the intermediate link is fitted. the pedal boss of the forward pedal is fixed to the gearshift shaft and the pedal boss is unable to rotate relatively to the gearshift shaft, which a pedal boss located on the right side of the pedal boss is able to rotate relatively to the gearshift shaft.
