US09346491B1
A deck plate assembly is provided for mounting between the first and second frame members of a truck. The assembly includes a horizontally disposed deck plate which is positioned between the first and second frames. Structure is provided for securing the deck plate to the first and second frame members.
US09346466B2
A method performs traffic-flow-conditioned adaptation of stopping processes to a synthetically modulated speed profile along a route traveled along by a vehicle. A route is selected on the basis of map data stored in a data record. The route is divided into route segments and a synthetically modulated speed profile is generated for each route segment. While the driver is travelling along at least part of the selected route, the method senses how often and for how long the vehicle stops in the route segments. The synthetically modulated speed profile is adapted for at least one route segment according to the detected stopping processes.
US09346458B2
A process in which a crank angle predicted stop position is calculated based on a target engine rotation speed reduction rate that is calculated in advance, a crank angle integration target value is calculated based on the crank angle predicted stop position, the target engine rotation speed reduction rate is recalculated based on the crank angle integration target value and an actual crank angle, a target crank angle is calculated based on the crank angle integration target value and the target engine rotation speed reduction rate, a crank deviation angle is calculated based on the target crank angle and the actual crank angle, a crank angle feedback torque of the motor is calculated based on the crank angle deviation angle, and a torque instruction value of the motor is calculated by adding the basic torque of the motor and the crank angle feedback torque when the engine is stopped.
US09346446B2
An apparatus for initializing an electromechanical brake (EMB) may include: a solenoid valve for transmitting oil pressure generated through a manipulation force for a brake pedal; a piston unit for pressurizing a brake disk through at least one of the oil pressure transmitted through the solenoid valve and power generated by a motor; and an electronic control unit for controlling at least one of the oil pressure transmitted through the solenoid valve and the power transmitted by the motor to control advance and retreat of pistons included in the piston unit and adjust a braking force of the brake, wherein when the brake system is initialized, the electronic control unit retreats and depressurizes the pistons when a vehicle is in a parking brake state, and advances and pressurizes the pistons in case where the vehicle is not in a parking brake state.
US09346441B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for sensor self-diagnostics using multiple signal paths. In an embodiment, the sensors are magnetic field sensors, and the systems and/or methods are configured to meet or exceed relevant safety or other industry standards, such as SIL standards. For example, a monolithic integrated circuit sensor system implemented on a single semiconductor ship can include a first sensor device having a first signal path for a first sensor signal on a semiconductor chip; and a second sensor device having a second signal path for a second sensor signal on the semiconductor chip, the second signal path distinct from the first signal path, wherein a comparison of the first signal path signal and the second signal path signal provides a sensor system self-test.
US09346431B1
A structure for installing a side airbag includes: an airbag module; an airbag deployment guide path which is in communication with the outside of the vehicle seat from the accommodating space; first and second covers which surround the outside of the vehicle seat, and have one end inserted into the airbag deployment guide path; a connecting tether which has one end that is positioned at a tip portion in the airbag deployment guide path and connected with one end of each of the first and second covers, and the other end that is positioned in the accommodating space at an outer periphery of the airbag module; and a reinforcing fabric which has one end connected with the other end of the connecting tether, and the other end fixed to the airbag module.
US09346426B2
A robot bumper including a bumper body having a forward surface and a top surface angling away from the forward surface. The bumper body conforms to a shape of a received robot chassis. The robot bumper also includes a force absorbing layer disposed on the bumper body, a membrane switch layer comprising a plurality of electrical contacts arranged along the top surface of the bumper body, and a force transmission layer disposed between the force absorbing layer and the membrane switch layer. The force transmission layer includes a plurality of force transmitting elements configured to transmit force to the membrane switch layer.
US09346424B2
A bumper assembly includes a beam and a rigid device. The beam is at least partially spaced from a vehicle fascia. The rigid device is disposed on the beam in a space defined between the fascia and the beam. The rigid device is configured to transmit and at least partially absorb a force applied to the fascia and limit damage to a rear of the vehicle. The exemplary bumper assembly may further include at least one crush can disposed on the beam. The rigid device is generally aligned with the crush can but on opposing surfaces of the beam.
US09346419B2
A sign plate 1 includes a plate-shaped metal plate 2 having a a slot 23 which penetrates from the front surface 21 toward the back surface 22, an RFID inlay 3 arranged on the front surface 21 of the metal plate 2 so as to straddle the slot 23, and a retroreflective sheeting 4 arranged on the front surface 21 of the metal plate 2 and having a mirror reflective region 41 and a non-mirror reflective region 42. In a plan view of the retroreflective sheeting 4, the mirror reflective region 41 includes a plurality of mirror reflective regions which are formed as independent regions by being divided by the non-mirror reflective region 42, the slot 23 region overlaps the mirror reflective region 41 and the non-mirror reflective region 42, and the overlapping mirror reflective region 41 does not straddle the slot 23.
US09346412B2
A bicycle carrier apparatus for a vehicle may include guide rails disposed at a lower portion of a bumper back beam while being symmetrical to each other and extendely formed in front and rear directions, a carrier part provided with a panel part and side portions extending from both sides of the panel part to the guide rails to slidably move along the guide rails, a first driving part installed at a front end portion of the carrier part and connected to the guide rails to move the carrier part in the front and rear directions along the guide rails, an expansion support part installed between the side portions of the carrier part to be expandably deployed laterally and support a loaded bicycle, and a second driving part installed at the carrier part to be connected to the expansion support part and expandably deploy the expansion support part.
US09346411B1
A hitch mounted rack system having a lower base unit that includes a hitch beam and a hitch beam vertical support extending from the hitch beam; a cantilevered upper base unit that includes a support beam and a support beam vertical support extending from the support beam, and wherein the support beam vertical support is at least partially received within the hitch beam vertical support; a center-point adjustable sleeve that is adjusted in relation to the hitch beam vertical support and the support beam vertical support; and one or more crossbar assemblies positioned along the support beam.
US09346398B2
A vehicle turn signal canceling system with means to recognize that a quantified turn has been made in order to deactivate the signaling condition. The system includes a microcontroller and an inertia sensor which measures the lateral or side force created when the vehicle turns left or right. The automatic function cancels the turn based on the side force as follows: at the time the turn signal is activated, the system records the referenced lateral or side force (the “reference point”); second, when the side force exceeds the reference point, plus a pre-determined side force, the unit accumulates exceedance time; and third, when the exceedance time reaches a pre-determined period of time, the turn signal status is then changed to “cancel” and the signaling condition is deactivated.
US09346391B2
A modular shelving assembly for use in a vehicle, including a cargo space at least partially defined by a floor and a side wall of the vehicle, includes at least two interconnected upright assemblies. Each of the upright assemblies includes a first panel, a second panel, and a coupler member unitizing the first and second panels. The modular shelving assembly further includes a rail secured to one of the floor and the side wall to which at least one of the interconnected upright assemblies is anchored.
US09346385B2
A vehicle seating assembly includes a seating surface. A plurality of polymeric mats each include a memory metal encased therein, a first side operably coupled with an underlying support structure, and a second side proximate the seating surface. An electrical source is operably coupled to the memory metal in each polymeric mat and is configured to supply energy to the plurality of memory metals in each polymeric mat. A controller is in communication with the plurality of polymeric mats and is configured to deliver a predetermined electrical input to the memory metal of each polymeric mat. The predetermined electrical input manipulates each polymeric mat to a deformed state, which operates a cushion between a multitude of comfort positions. An air bladder is disposed below the plurality of polymeric mats. The air bladder is operable between an inflated condition and a deflated condition.
US09346378B2
An infant care device includes a casing, a latch member, a driving member and a first resilient member. The casing has an insertion space permitting an insertion portion of a mounting seat to be inserted thereinto. The latch member is mounted movably to the casing. The first resilient member biases the latch member to engage the insertion portion so as to prevent relative movement between the infant care device and the insertion portion. The driving member is mounted to the casing, and is able to be pushed to move a cam portion thereof to disengage the latch member from the insertion portion against the biasing action of the first resilient member, so as to permit the relative movement between the infant care device and the insertion portion.
US09346374B2
A latching device (1) for vehicles capable of engaging with and disengaging from a rod-like portion (P1) to lock and unlock the latching device (1) includes: a casing (2) at least partly formed by a first member made of a first material and having an insertion groove (2A) for allowing the rod-like portion to be inserted thereinto; and a second member (latch (30) or reinforcement plate (20)) made of a second material and configured to contact the rod-like portion (P1). The second material has a higher specific gravity and a higher modulus of elasticity than the first material. For example, the first material is resin, whereas the second material is metal.
US09346373B2
In one or more embodiments, a vehicle seatback stabilization device includes a seatback stabilization portion to be connected to a seatback, and a vehicle body connection portion including an aperture to receive a connector of a vehicle body load-bearing structure. The seatback stabilization portion may include first and second stabilization panels positioned with an angle relative to each other. The vehicle body connection portion may extend away from the second stabilization panel such that the second stabilization panel is positioned between the first stabilization panel and the vehicle body connection portion.
US09346364B2
A method for emergency driving is carried out in a hybrid vehicle which includes an engine, a first motor connected to the engine through an engine clutch, and a second motor directly connected to the engine so that power transmission is possible, where a DC-link is charged with a counter electromotive force of the first and second motors, generated by driving energy of the vehicle or power of the engine when a main relay is off during driving of the vehicle. The DC-link of which voltage control is performed is used as a power source for the emergency driving of the vehicle. In the emergency driving of the vehicle using the DC-link as the power source, the engine clutch between the engine and the first motor is separated, and the vehicle is then driven by a driving force of the first motor.
US09346351B2
A valve device includes a first passage opened by a first valve member, a second passage opened by a second valve member, and a specific chamber in which an asymmetrical state is caused. When the second valve member is open, escape fluid flows through the specific chamber just before flowing into a second passage and collides a collision part located in the specific chamber. The escape fluid flowing in the specific chamber collides the collision part and is divided into two divided flows, and the two divided flows are joined again at downstream of the collision part. In the asymmetrical state, a difference is caused in a pressure loss between the two divided flows. By the asymmetrical state, a pressure loss as an entire of the specific chamber decreases, and frequency in using a valve mechanism can be reduced. Therefore, the valve mechanism can be used longer without omitting the specific chamber.
US09346346B2
Electric vehicles usually inherit a chassis of a pressed steel construction from a conventional vehicle design. This imposes a substantial weight penalty on the vehicle. We disclose a chassis element for a vehicle, formed of an outer skin material, an inner core material enveloped by the outer skin material, and at least one array of aligned fibres, and comprising a restraint for an electrical battery adapted to locate the battery over the at least one array. There can be multiple arrays of aligned fibres, preferably disposed at a transverse angle relative to each other of less than 90°. We particularly prefer three arrays of aligned fibres, which can be disposed relative to each other at an angle of 60°. The fibres can be disposed within the skin material. The restraint ideally comprises an upstanding wall which will serve to confine the batteries in the event of a collision or other sudden movement, but will allow them to be replaced easily for maintenance purposes or to replace an exhausted set of batteries with a charged set. Alternatively, the restraint can comprise an attachment point for the battery. The core material is preferably less dense than the skin material, thereby allowing the composite element to have a light weight and a high rigidity. The application also relates to a vehicle comprising a chassis, an electric motor, a chassis element as set out above, and electrical connections from the battery to the motor, wherein the chassis element is attached to the chassis via removable fixings extending through the fixing points of the chassis element into corresponding fixing points on the chassis.
US09346344B2
A tonneau cover and a method of attachment are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a self-energizing clamp can be used to retain a tonneau cover onto a side wall of a truck bed, or other vehicle bed. In some embodiments, the clamp can be rotated between a usage position and a storage position in order to prevent the clamp from incidental movement or harm while accessing the truck bed.
US09346340B2
An impact bar includes a U-shaped portion formed by a vertical face portion and upper-and-lower lateral face portions at its front end. The impact bar further includes upper-and-lower outer face portions. A pair of first joint portions which are formed so as to extend upward and downward from respective front ends of the upper-and-lower lateral face portions are joined to a lateral face portion of a door inner panel. A pair of second joint portions which are formed so as to extend forward from respective front ends of the upper-and-lower outer face portions are joined to a longitudinal face portion of the door inner panel.
US09346339B2
[PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED]To provide a vehicle door, in which the arrangement of the reinforcing bracket is not limited, and the strength of the joined portion between the door frame and the door panel can be improved. The vehicle door has a portion of a door frame that forms a window opening inserted into the inside of a door panel. The door frame is provided with a stepped portion which separates a surface area on the frame forming portion side and a surface area on the insertion portion side from each other; the surface area on the insertion portion side that is continuous with the stepped portion is formed as an inner-panel facing surface facing the inner panel; the inner-panel facing surface is shifted in a direction away from the inner panel by the stepped portion; and the reinforcing bracket is made to overlap the shifted inner-panel facing surface therealong.
US09346338B2
A secondary loop air conditioning system for a vehicle that includes a condenser and an integrated assembly is disclosed. The condenser has a first condenser header spaced from a second condenser header, a condenser core extending between the first and second condenser headers, and a refrigerant inlet operatively engaging the first condenser header. The integrated assembly includes a chiller mounted to the first condenser header and having a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet configured to be in fluid communication with a secondary loop of the air conditioning system, and an expansion device in fluid communication with the condenser and mounted adjacent to the chiller for directing refrigerant into the chiller, and a refrigerant outlet. Also, a receiver/dryer area may be located in one of the condenser and the integrated assembly.
US09346335B2
Embodiments of a suspension for a vehicle is provided. The suspension includes, for example, a frame and a locking assembly. The locking assembly inhibits tipping of a frame of the vehicle when tipping of the frame is detected.
US09346331B2
A pneumatic connector is provided. The pneumatic connector includes: a body having two ends; a first connecting structure at one end of the body; a second connecting structure at the other end of the body, wherein the first and second connecting structures are substantially in line with each other; and a third connecting structure located in between the first and second connecting structures at an angle that is not in line with the first and second connecting structures, wherein the first second and third connecting structures are fluidly connected to an interior of the body, wherein the first, second and third connecting structures are adapted to permit substantially leak free connections between pneumatic components. A method of creating an accessory connection for a bead seater is provided.
US09346327B2
A pneumatic tire is disclosed. In one sidewall part, a sidewall rubber is formed by a black rubber over the whole circumference in a tire circumferential direction. In the other sidewall part, a different color rubber part for indicating marks on a tire outer surface is provided. The different color rubber part is divided into several sections in the circumferential direction, and the different color rubber part and the black rubber part are alternately and adjacently arranged in the circumferential direction. Side surfaces at both sides in the circumferential direction of the different color rubber part are formed into inclined surface shapes in a direction such that the side surfaces approach each other toward a tire inner surface side, thereby a size in the circumferential direction of the different color rubber part is decreased toward the tire inner surface side.
US09346322B2
A pneumatic tire has a tread portion that includes a shoulder main groove and a plurality of shoulder lateral grooves. The shoulder main groove is disposed in the nearest side of a tread edge on the tread portion and extends continuously in a circumferential direction of the tire. The shoulder lateral grooves each extend from the shoulder main groove to the tread edge to form a plurality of shoulder blocks. The shoulder lateral grooves have a first portion extending from the shoulder main groove axially outside the tire and including at angle of not less than 70 degrees and less than 90 degrees with respect to a circumferential direction of the tire, and the second portion extending from the first portion axially outside the tire and inclining in a reverse direction of the first portion at angle of from 40 to 70 degrees with respect to the circumferential direction.
US09346320B2
A tire includes a carcass, a belt structure, and a tread band. The belt structure includes at least two belt plies and at least one belt layer radially external to the belt plies. The at least one belt layer extends at least for an axial width of the at least two belt plies and includes at least one first elongated element and at least one second elongated element. The elongated elements form turns substantially oriented in a circumferential direction of the tire. The turns are alternately disposed along an axial development of the at least one belt layer. The at least one first elongated element is a hybrid cord including at least one high-elastic-modulus filament and at least one low-elastic-modulus filament that are twisted together. An elastic modulus of the at least one second elongated element is lower than an elastic modulus of the at least one first elongated element.
US09346319B2
Embodiments of the present invention comprise a composite rim used in spoked wheels, such as bicycle wheels, having molded-in spoke holes along with a method of fabricating the composite rim. Advantageously, the present invention dramatically improves the bearing and loading strength of prior art composite rims, which drill the spoke holes therein after fabrication of the rim hoop.
US09346308B2
A booklet processing mechanism is described that includes a booklet guide and clamp system that is configured to act as the guide during entry and exit of the booklet into and from the mechanism, as well as clamp and hold the booklet in its proper position during a processing operation, for example by a laser or during vision verification. The booklet guide and clamp system is moveable between a first position for guiding an upper, free edge of an opened booklet and a second position where the upper, free edge is clamped against a backing plate. At the second, clamping position, the mechanism is out of the way so that it does not interfere with the processing operation. Because the guiding and clamping functions are combined into one mechanism, only one actuator and one sensor are needed for the guiding and clamping functions.
US09346301B2
A method for controlling a digital printing system to print digital image data for an image region onto a continuous web of print media. An image region database stores data characterizing a plurality of reference image regions, each reference image region having one or more associated system control parameters that are appropriate for use in printing the reference image region. The system control parameters can include parameters related to correcting color registration errors. The image region to be printed is compared with the reference image regions in the image region database, and a similar reference image region is selected. The image region is printed using the system control parameters associated with the selected similar reference image region.
US09346300B2
An inkjet printer records an image on a recording medium by ejecting ink onto the recording medium from a recording head mounted on a carriage. A housing suction fan is arranged on a rear surface of the housing for sucking a gas from an outside into an inside of the housing. A carriage suction fan is arranged on the rear surface of the housing opposite to the housing suction fan for sucking into the carriage the gas sucked by the housing suction fan. A rear surface exhaust fan and a side surface exhaust fan are arranged on the rear surface and a side surface, respectively, of the housing for exhausting the gas inside the housing to the outside. The gas sucked by the housing suction fan is sucked into the carriage by the carriage suction fan and flows into the housing without being sucked by the carriage suction fan.
US09346286B1
A printing-driving control device and a method for a thermal transfer overprinter includes pre-drive shaft is connected to two bearings through their inner bores and is fixed to pre-drive support base. Pre-drive support base is connected to pre-drive carriage through pre-drive support shaft. Print spindle is fixed to spindle mounting block and is also connected to pre-drive carriage and print-head assembly through inner bores. Print pressure strut is installed through one inner bore of pre-drive carriage. Pre-drive fixing block is fixed to pre-drive carriage. As pre-drive support base moves to the right along arc on support plate, it rotates anticlockwise around pre-drive support shaft due to resistance of arc. Thus, print-head assembly stretches out and print-head moves down to print. After printing, print-head moves up to its home position. The invention has a simpler and smaller mechanical construction which is more energy-efficient, cost-effective, convenient and practical. The invention is particularly suitable for the thermal transfer overprinter in flexible package coding, and can be applied to all occasions.
US09346279B2
In a liquid cartridge, a liquid storing section defines a liquid storing chamber storing liquid, and a channel section defines a channel in fluid communication with the liquid storing chamber. A field forming section forms a field that changes depending on a position of a movable member that is movable in the channel. A power-source potential is inputted to a power-source terminal, and a ground potential is inputted to a ground terminal. A sensor is electrically connected with the power-source terminal and the ground terminal, and generates a potential based on the position of the movable member by being disposed in the field formed by the field forming section. An output terminal outputs the potential generated by the sensor. The sensor generates the potential higher than a ground potential regardless of the position of the movable member.
US09346271B2
A liquid ejecting head includes a fixing plate which includes a bottom surface which is fixed onto the nozzle surface of each of a plurality of head units which are provided to line up in a state in which a first gap is formed along a first direction, and a first side surface which extends from an edge of the bottom surface which is positioned closer to an outside in the first direction than the lined-up head units to the head unit side. The fixing plate includes a second gap which is formed between the first side surface and the head units which are positioned at ends in the first direction among the head units. The liquid ejecting head also includes a second outer circumferential mold which fills at least a portion of the first gap, and a third outer circumferential mold which fills at least a portion of the second gap. The third outer circumferential mold fills the second gap at a position which is distanced further from the bottom surface than the second outer circumferential mold in a direction which is perpendicular to the bottom surface, and a hardness of the third outer circumferential mold is higher than a hardness of the second outer circumferential mold.
US09346263B2
Upon driving a driver to perform an ejection drive of each of ink chambers subjected to the ejection drive, a controller drives the driver to supply a drive signal having a corrected waveform which increases an ejection amount and an ejection speed of ink compared with those of a normal waveform, when a correction condition is satisfied. The correction condition includes that at least one of the ink chambers arranged next to the ink chamber subjected to the ejection drive is not subjected to the ejection drive in an immediately preceding time slot, and that both the ink chambers arranged next to the ink chamber subjected to the ejection drive in a same group are subjected to the ejection drive.
US09346254B2
A process for producing a polymer coated metal substrate metal strip substrate provided with a polymer coating.
US09346251B2
A protective film product for a portable electronic device includes a protective film, one or more adhesive layers formed on a surface of the protective film, a backing layer disposed on one of the adhesive layers, and a cap sheet disposed on an opposite surface of the protective film. Micro air pockets are formed in gaps between a surface of the cap sheet and the protective film.
US09346249B2
First and second bodies of fastener material 4 and 5 advance in a first direction which is an advancing direction, the advancing direction being changed into a second direction. A pair of turn over bars 12 and 13 are spaced from each other, the first and second bodies of fastener material 4 and 5 advancing in the first direction to be engaged with the turn over bars 12 and 13. The first and second bodies of fastener material 4 and 5 are then inserted between and turned over by the turn over bars 12 and 13 with the advancing direction being changed into the second direction.
US09346247B2
A method of producing a stretch film includes at least: extruding a first random copolymer polypropylene (RCPP) resin from a first extruder at a first temperature to at least one primary channel inside of a feedblock; extruding a second RCPP resin from a second extruder at a second temperature to at least one secondary channel, wherein said second temperature is greater than said first temperature; combining the first RCPP resin and the second RCPP resin to create a layered stream using a combining adapter disposed in communication with the feedblock; passing said layered stream from the combining adapter to a die; and passing the layered stream through said die to a casting unit. A multi-layered stretch film includes at least one nanolayer section, the nanolayer section comprising alternating substantially adjacent layers of a first random copolymer polypropylene (RCPP) resin and a second RCPP resin.
US09346245B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a laminate composite toilet lid and seat and a method of manufacturing thereof. The toilet lid includes a core structural layer having a shape and size associated with the toilet lid. The toilet lid also includes a first decorative graphic layer disposed on a first surface of the core structural layer. The toilet lid further includes a plurality of exterior layers disposed on exterior surfaces of the core structural layer and the first decorative graphic layer, the exterior layers configured to envelop the toilet lid.
US09346243B2
The present invention relates to non-combustible composite panels, comprising two outer layers (24) and a core (10, 16). Moreover, the invention provides a method for manufacturing of non-combustible composite panels. The amount of organic ingredients within the core, is reduced insofar as to allow for a heat of combustion adequate to reach non-flammability, while providing sufficient flexibility for the composite panel. Magnesium hydroxide is implemented within the core to obtain extraordinary flame retardation. In order to manufacture the inventive composite panels a continuous press (34) is utilized replacing extruders (14) known by the state of the art.
US09346241B2
An assembly comprising a first composite fiber reinforced part that is joined to a second part by a clinch joint. The first part includes a first layer of resin that is reinforced with fibers and a second layer of resin that is devoid of fibers and applied to one side of the first layer of fiber reinforced resin. The second part contacts the first layer of the first part. The first part and second part are joined by a clinch joint including a pressed out portion that is pressed into a clinching portion. The second layer of resin contains the fibers in the first part. An alternative assembly has fiber-free intended clinch joint forming areas that extend through the first part. A method is provided in which a first part including a first layer of resin reinforced with fibers is molded with a second layer of resin on one side of the first layer is joined by a clinch joint to a second part.
US09346231B1
A waste compactor to compact waste for disposal in a waste container includes a compaction chamber for receiving waste to be compacted and a closure assembly configured to seal a first opening during a compaction mode. There is a ram assembly in the compaction chamber and an actuator to move the ram assembly from a retracted position toward an extended position which compacts the waste against the closure assembly. There is a plurality of apertures in an internal surface of the compaction chamber where liquid and residual solid waste exit through the apertures during the compaction mode. There is a collection system to collect liquid and residual solid waste, which includes a filter unit. The filter unit has a first end and a second end, the second end includes an opening in communication with the compaction chamber. And, there is an evaporation system to evaporate the liquid.
US09346217B2
A three-dimensional printing apparatus including a swing tank containing a liquid formation material, a swing mechanism, an elevating platform, a light source and a control unit is provided. The swing tank includes a pivot side and a swing side adapted to be swung about the pivot side. The swing mechanism includes a cam and a driving motor. The cam leans against the swing side for swinging the same. The elevating platform and the light source are respectively disposed above and below the swing tank. The control unit controls the elevating platform to immerge into the liquid formation material. The light source cures the liquid formation material between the elevating platform and the bottom of the swing tank. The control unit then controls the swing mechanism to swing the swing side, so the cured liquid formation material is separated from the bottom and located on the elevating platform.
US09346216B2
A protective wrap material enclosing a stack of cut sheets of paper is folded so that overlapping flaps of the wrap material cover opposite ends of the stack. The overlapping flaps are secured and sealed together only at selected areas that comprise a minor portion of the overlapped flaps, wherein the sealed areas have sufficient burst strength to avoid inadvertent opening of the wrap but at the same time are relatively easy to separate when it is desired to open the wrap to gain access to the cut sheets of paper. In a preferred embodiment the wrap material is heat sealable, and a modified heat plate for applying heat only to the selected areas has a grooved front surface defining heat focusing bars that concentrate heat sufficient to fuse the wrap material only in the selected areas.
US09346212B2
Disclosed is a mold hanger for supporting a bottle mold in a blow molding station, the mold hanger comprising a piston and piston sleeve fully contained within the mold hanger configured to push a moveable insert into the mold. Also disclosed is a method of retrofitting an original rotatable blow molding module having multiple existing blow molding stations, each existing mold hanger defining an existing outer envelope. The disclosed method may include providing an improved mold hanger substantially contained within the respective existing outer envelope and including low-profile drive mechanisms configured opposably to drive moveable inserts into the mold. Further disclosed is a method of manufacturing a blow molded bottle with a deep pinch grip, the method including providing within a mold hanger a drive mechanism to drive a moveable insert into the mold. A bottle made by such methods is also disclosed.
US09346208B2
A mixing/extruding apparatus having a mixer/extruder provided with a diverter, an electric motor for driving this mixer/extruder, and a power supply device for supplying a drive power to this electric motor, and the power supply device includes a start-up power supply portion for supplying a drive power with which the electric motor is rotated at low speed with a smaller output than an output generated upon the normal operation to the electric motor, an operation power supply portion for supplying a drive power with which the electric motor is rotated at high speed with the output generated upon the normal operation to the electric motor, and a power supply switching device for switching the drive power from the start-up power supply portion to be supplied to the electric motor to the drive power from the operation power supply portion.
US09346205B2
A substrate having a plurality of protrusion members on its surface is molded by a molding system comprising first and second molds cooperating to apply a clamping force onto the substrate for molding, and a middle plate located between the first and second molds such that the substrate is clamped between the middle plate and the first mold during molding. A plurality of molding cavities is located on the second mold and through-holes formed in the middle plate correspond to positions of the molding cavities, such that each through-hole is sized and configured for inserting a protrusion member of the substrate to enable each protrusion member to be in communication with a molding cavity of the second mold. Molding compound is molded onto the protrusion members by the molding cavities during molding.
US09346193B2
A negative mold for casting a component such as a blade of a wind turbine is described The negative mold includes a support structure and a plurality of foam blocks, which are mounted to the support structure in such a manner, that a common surface contour of the plurality of foam blocks defines an outer surface of the component, which is to be casted. Each foam block of the plurality of foam blocks is taken from a predetermined number of different types of foam blocks, each type of foam block is defined by a predetermined foam block size and foam block shape. A method for producing such a negative mold is also described.
US09346190B2
The invention relates to a device for processing material by mixing and/or plasticating, comprising at least two conical screws (2, 3) which are arranged next to each other in a common screw casing (1) and the flights of which engage with one another and are driven to rotate in the same direction of rotation about the respective screw axis (4, 5) by at least one motor, with the material that is to be processed being fed to the screws (2, 3) through at least one feed opening (6) in the screw casing (1) which is arranged in the feed zone (E) of one end face of the screws (2, 3), and with the material that has been processed by the screws (2, 3) leaving the screw casing (1) through at least one outlet opening (7) in the screw casing (1) that is arranged in the discharge zone (A) of the other end face of the screws (2, 3). In order to provide advantageous plasticating conditions it is proposed that the ratio of the numerical values of the screw outside diameter (c, d) to the profile overlap, i.e. to the overlapping area of the two screws (2, 3), both in the feed zone (E) and in the discharge zone (A) is in the range of between one to one and one to two.
US09346188B2
A method and apparatus are used to simultaneously slice a multiplicity of slices from a workpiece. The workpiece is held with a feed device so as to position an axis of the workpiece parallel to axes of wire guide rolls of a wire saw and is moved from above through a web of the wire saw. A slurry is supplied as abrasive to wire sections of the web while the wire sections are moved relative to the workpiece. The relative movement guides the wire sections from an entry side to an exit side through the workpiece. A coolant is sprayed from the side and below through nozzles into slicing gaps in the workpiece. The nozzles are arranged below the web parallel to the axes of the wire guide rolls. The coolant is sprayed into the slicing gaps through a nozzle situated opposite the entry side of the respective wire section.
US09346187B2
A method of manufacturing a silicon carbide substrate includes the steps of preparing an ingot of single crystal silicon carbide and obtaining a substrate by cutting the ingot. Then, in the step of obtaining a substrate, cutting proceeds in a direction α in which an angle β formed with respect to a <11-20> direction or a <1-100> direction of the ingot is 15°±5° in an orthogonal projection on a {0001} plane.
US09346184B2
A system of safety devices is disclosed for use in connection with powered cutting tools, including but not limited to table saws, miter saws, jointers, shapers and routers. The devices include a right hand push device adapted to slide along the fence of a table saw, shaper, router or jointer, a dual bearing hold down device to secure a work piece in at least three directions and adapted for use with a table saw, shaper, router or jointer, an anti-kickback device to secure a work piece after a cut is made and while cutting continues and adapted for use with a table saw, shaper, router or jointer, a left hand hold down device for securing a work piece on the side of a cutting blade opposite that of a fence and adapted for use with a table saw, shaper, router or jointer, and a hold down device adapted for use with miter saws. Each of the devices, alone and in combination, protect the operator of the power tools from serious injury from the cutting tool and from work piece kickback.
US09346182B2
Each pair of bearing units for each of magnet and anvil rollers are movable in a vertical direction. Each of large diameter portions of the anvil roller is supported by a pair of support rollers. Each of large diameter portions of the magnet roller is pressed against the corresponding large diameter portion of the anvil roller by a pair of press rollers. Each stopper is moved between a first position in which it projects into a clearance between vertically opposed bearing units and a second position in which it retracts from the first position. When the stoppers are located at the first position, the opposed large diameter portions of the magnet and anvil rollers separate from each other, and when the stoppers are located at the second position, the opposed large diameter portions of the magnet and anvil rollers contact with each other.
US09346180B2
An appliance for personal care, such as skin, dental or hair treatment, comprising a dispensing structure (30) for automatically dispensing a fluid. The dispensing structure (30) includes a fluid reservoir (10), a discharge opening (11) and a fluid drive structure (9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20) for driving the fluid to be dispensed from the reservoir (10) and to and out of said discharge opening (11) in accordance with a dispensing rate/time profile (Sx). The fluid drive structure (9, 12, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20) is arranged for spurting at least once during said dispensing operation for squirting an additional quantity of the fluid to and out of the discharge opening (11) in addition to the fluid being dispensed in accordance with said dispensing rate/time profile (Sx).
US09346179B2
An electric hair cutting apparatus having a motor for rotating a shaft, which, rotates an eccentric about the axis of the shaft, but not about the central axis of the eccentric, A cylindrical bearing is positioned around the eccentric. A drive tip is provided with a follower end which is shaped and positioned to engage with the bearing surrounding the eccentric. As the eccentric rotates, the bearing alternately pushes on left and right arms of the follower end of the drive tip, causing the drive tip to oscillate back and forth about a pivot point, The angle of the bearing with respect to the eccentric allows for generally continuous contact between the arms of the follower end of the drive tip with the bearing, even throughout the pivoting of the drive tip.
US09346171B2
A substrate transport apparatus including a first substrate holder and a second substrate holder capable of respectively holding substrates includes a first drive arm which has first and second end portions, and is rotatable with rotation of a first drive shaft, a second drive arm which has a third end portion spaced apart from the first end portion by a first distance, and a fourth end portion spaced apart from the second end portion by a second distance, and is rotatable with rotation of a second drive shaft coaxial with the first drive shaft, two first driven arms coupled to the first substrate holder, and two second driven arms coupled to the second substrate holder.
US09346166B2
An article take-out apparatus including: a 3D measuring device measuring surface positions of a plurality of articles stored in bulk in a 3D space so as to acquire position information of a plurality of 3D points; a connected set processing unit determining connected sets made by connecting 3D points which are close to each other, from the plurality of 3D points acquired by the 3D measuring device; an article identifying unit identifying positions and postures of the articles, based on position information of 3D points belonging to the connected sets; a hand position and posture processing unit determining positions and postures of the hand capable of taking out the identified articles; and a robot control unit controlling a robot to move the hand to the positions and postures determined by the hand position and posture processing unit and take out the articles.
US09346165B1
Robotic devices with multi-degree of freedom (DOF) load cells for shear beam sensing are described. An example robotic device includes actuators coupled through joints to form a robotic manipulator, and a load cell provided proximal to a joint for detecting a force applied to the robotic manipulator and a torque experienced about the joint. The device also includes a controller programmable to determine a location of the force along the robotic manipulator based on values of the force and the torque output from the load cell, receive information indicating parameters of the robotic manipulator and of a load being experienced by the robotic device, and based on one of the force applied to the robotic manipulator or the torque experienced about the joint being above a threshold expected amount due to the load being experienced, determine that the robotic manipulator is experiencing an unexpected shear load at the location.
US09346164B1
A robotic device may receive task information defining (i) a nominal trajectory for an end-effector coupled to a manipulator of the robotic device, and (ii) forces to be exerted by the end-effector along the nominal trajectory; determining, based on the task information, a modified trajectory that is offset from the nominal trajectory; determining, based on the modified trajectory and the forces, torques to be applied to the manipulator over time; causing the torques to be applied to the manipulator so as to cause the end-effector to follow the modified trajectory and substantially exert the forces along the modified trajectory; receiving force feedback information from a sensor coupled to the robotic device indicating respective forces being experienced by the end-effector at respective points along the modified trajectory; and adjusting the torques to be applied to the manipulator based on the force feedback information.
US09346163B2
A robot having joints includes a position information acquiring section that acquires time series information about a robot position, speed information, or acceleration information, a dynamics parameter switching section that switches a gravity term component and an inertia force term component of a motion equation separately between dynamics parameters including dynamics parameter of the robot gripping no object and dynamics parameter including the object gripped by the robot which robot arm gripping the object, and a desired torque calculation section that outputs a desired robot joint torque value as a desired joint torque based on the motion equation after the dynamics parameter switching section switches the dynamics parameters and the time series information about the robot position, the speed information, or the acceleration information acquired by the position information acquiring section. The robot controls an operation of the robot based on an output from the desired torque calculation section.
US09346147B2
An orifice assembly for a liquid jet cutting system includes a generally cylindrical base, an orifice member, and an orifice cap. The base includes a conduit that extends through a central axis from a top surface to a bottom surface of the base. The base also includes a pedestal that defines a protrusion from the top surface, the pedestal having a planar top region substantially parallel to the planar bottom region of the base. The orifice member sits on the planar top region of the pedestal. The orifice member defines an intermediate conduit therethrough, the intermediate conduit in fluid communication with the base conduit. The orifice cap defines an upper conduit therethrough, the upper conduit in fluid communication with the intermediate conduit of the orifice member. The orifice cap is configured to secure the orifice member to the pedestal.
US09346122B1
Laser processing systems for processing one or more materials or combination of materials with composite laser energy and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In several embodiments, for example, a laser processing system includes one or more laser sources that provide a first plurality of first laser beams and preconditioning optics that combine the first laser beams into a first composite beam. The system also includes recomposition optics that separate the first composite beam into second plurality of second laser beams and combine the second laser beams into a second composite beam. The system further includes beam modification optics that modify wave fronts of one or more of the individual second laser beams such that the second composite beam has one or more beam characteristics that are modified relative to corresponding beam characteristics of the first composite beam. For example, the second laser beams of the second composite beam can focus at a common focusing plane.
US09346112B2
In a method for producing toothed sections on workpieces, a toothed section is firstly produced by means of a first tool in the region of a first end face of a workpiece to be toothed. The produced toothed section is reworked on the peripheral face by means of at least one second tool in the region of the first end face, while the toothed section is further produced. If the toothed section is also produced in the region of the second end face by means of the first tool, the reworking in the region of the first end face is already completed, so the toothed section can also be reworked in the region of the second end face. Short cycle times are thereby achieved with a low machine-related outlay.
US09346109B2
An unequal helix-angle end mill includes a cutting part and a handle part. The cutting part is provided with a plurality of flutes, each spirally extending from the bottom end to the handle part. The face of each flute facing the cutting rotation direction is a rake face, wherein the rake face and an outer peripheral face of the cutting part are intersected to form an outer peripheral blade, and the helix-angle of at least one of the peripheral blades is different from those of the other peripheral blades. A face joined with the peripheral blade among the outer peripheral face of the cutting part is a rear face. The width B of the edge flap of each peripheral blade is equal on a plane orthogonal to a rotating axis of the end mill. The unequal helix-angle end mill has high strength, and enhances the cutting depth and durability.
US09346104B2
A cutting insert includes an upper surface, a side surface having a front clearance surface, and an end cutting edge along an intersection of the upper and the front clearance surfaces. The upper surface includes an end rake surface inclined downward as departing from the end cutting edge, a pair of front protrusions that is located apart from the end cutting edge and are less apart from each other as departing from the end cutting edge, a rear protrusion further apart from the end cutting edge than the pair of front protrusions, and a pair of intermediate protrusions located between the front protrusions and the rear protrusion. Top portions of the pair of intermediate protrusions are respectively located between the front protrusions and the rear protrusion, and are higher than top portions of the front protrusions and a top portion of the rear protrusion.
US09346091B2
A safety device for a machine, in which machine a first machine part having a leading edge performs a working movement towards a second machine part, comprises a plurality of optical safety barriers and an evaluation unit. The optical safety barriers move in the working movement simultaneously with the first machine part in such a manner that the safety barriers move in advance of the leading edge at various spaced dispositions. The optical safety barriers span a protective field that has a two-dimensional cross section. The evaluation unit is designed for generating a stop signal to stop the first machine part in dependence upon the optical safety barriers. Towards the end of the working movement, the optical safety barriers are held substantially stationary in the region of the second machine part. The optical safety barriers are deactivated one following the other before they are interrupted by the first machine part.
US09346090B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for depositing a metal coil (200) on two stationary support points (110-1; 110-2). In order to be able to deposit even metal coils that have high internal residual stress in a stable manner on the two support points, according to the invention, a third support point (140) is pivoted against the outer circumference of the metal coil (200) if needed).
US09346083B2
A mail sortation system that can process mail, either letter or flat, from random order to delivery point sequence (DPS) order, in a single sortation pass. The system has a first sortation assembly comprising a plurality of individual open-topped receptacles into which mail is received, each receptacle having a trap door for selectively dumping its contents. A second sortation assembly comprises a linearly-translating conveyor positioned beneath the first sortation assembly, and an open topped bin travels along the conveyor to gather mail from the first assembly in a DPS sequence. A third sortation assembly comprises a linearly-translating conveyor arranged parallel to and directly beneath the second sortation assembly, and a plurality of mail bins mounted atop for receiving DPS-sorted batches from the second assembly.
US09346076B1
A fine-line applicator device creates an air-tight seal on a container of a substance, while preventing clogging in an applicator tip. The device includes a first cap, a nozzle protruding from the cap, a second cap engaging the nozzle, a hollow-bore needle protruding from the second cap, an end cap engaging the second cap, and an elongated member protruding from the end cap, such that the elongated member can be inserted into the hollow-bore needle. When the device is in a closed position, the elongated member occupies the interior chamber of the hollow-bore needle while the end cap engages the second cap to form a substantially air-tight seal, and when the end cap is removed from the second cap, the elongated member vacates the interior chamber of the hollow-bore needle to allow flow of a substance from the container through the needle.
US09346070B2
An atomizer, painting machine, paint cabin, and method of operating an atomizer are disclosed. The atomizer includes a first paint inlet for a first paint system, and at least one additional second paint inlet for a second paint system. Each of the paint inlets are separated from each other, so that the atomizer may optionally apply one of the two different paint systems.
US09346060B2
Provided is an air purification device, wherein a main body comprises air inlets at two sides. An air extractor at an air outlet draws in air; when entering, the air firstly passes through a negative high voltage wire to carry on a negative charge and be sterilized, and then is mixed with nanoscale water mist sprayed out from a spray pipe and enters a dust collection board; the water mist is electrolyzed from water in a water supply tank by an electrolyzer to generate alkaline water, which is supplied to a water storage tank and atomized by an ultrasonic atomizer prior to being ionized into nanoscale water mist by nano-electrodes so as to be sprayed out; and when air flows through a water mist stream, charged contaminative gases are mixed with the water mist, are separated from the air stream under the action of inertia and an attractive force from the electric field of the dust collection board, and collide with droplets to be captured, intercepted and collected, and when PM 2.5 and other dusts in the air are wetted by the droplets to condense into larger particles, gravity settling is realized, with particles with a certain weight falling into a waste water tank to be discharged out, and separated clean air is released out.
US09346055B2
The present invention generally relates to methods and apparatuses for amplifying nucleic acid sequences using immobilized DNA polymerase. More particularly, it relates to methods and apparatuses useful for amplifying target nucleic acid sequences by forming a plurality of reaction regions in which polymerase chain reaction (PCR) can occur, positioning immobilized DNA polymerase in a specific reaction region, and circulating DNA through the reaction regions. The present invention provides those methods and apparatuses that allow simple separation and recovery of the DNA polymerase after the amplification, that can be operated not only with thermostable DNA polymerases but also with non-thermostable DNA polymerases, and that are simpler in their designs and processes so that they can be readily integrated into complex devices such as Lab-on-a-chip.
US09346051B2
A microchip including a fluid circuit composed of a space formed inside is provided. The space includes a first space, a second space, and a space connecting portion connecting the first space and the second space, and the space connecting portion has a structure portion restraining liquid moving between the first space and the second space from moving due to wettability with respect to the space connecting portion surface.
US09346049B2
A system for measuring asphaltene content of crude oil, includes a microfluidic chip, the microfluidic chip having a crude oil sample inlet port, a solvent port, a mixer and reactor section in fluid communication with the crude oil sample inlet port and the solvent port, and a filter in fluid communication with the mixer and reactor section, the filter having an inlet side and an outlet side, a waste port in fluid communication with the inlet side of the filter, and a product port in fluid communication with the outlet side of the filter. The system further includes an optical cell in fluid communication with the product port.
US09346046B2
The present invention provides sintered porous plastic plugs for use in filtered serological pipettes which facilitate manufacture or assembly of the filtered serological pipettes. In one embodiment, a sintered porous plastic plug of the present invention comprises plastic and a cylindrical body, a first end and a second end, the first end having a cross-sectional area less than the cross-sectional area of the cylindrical body, and the second end having a cross-sectional area less than the cross-sectional area of the cylindrical body.
US09346044B2
A copper-based catalyst precursor capable of achieving a high conversion ratio and high selectivity in the isomerization reaction of a β,γ-unsaturated alcohol portion and a method for producing the same and to provide a hydrogenation method in which the copper-based catalyst precursor is used are provided. Specifically, a copper-based catalyst precursor obtained by calcining a mixture containing copper, iron, aluminum, and calcium silicate in which an atomic ratio of iron and aluminum to copper [(Fe+Al)/Cu] is in a range of 1.71 to 2.5, an atomic ratio of aluminum to iron [Al/Fe] is in a range of 0.001 to 3.3, and calcium silicate is contained in a range of 15% by mass to 65% by mass at a temperature in a range of 500° C. to 1,000° C. and a hydrogenation method in which the copper-based catalyst precursor is used are provided.
US09346036B2
An oxide catalyst for use in an oxidation reaction of an olefin and/or an alcohol, the oxide catalyst comprising: the oxide catalyst contains molybdenum, bismuth, iron, cobalt, and cerium; an atomic ratio a of bismuth to 12 atoms of molybdenum is 2≦a≦6, an atomic ratio b of iron to 12 atoms of molybdenum is 2.5
US09346029B2
This invention provides the use of a polymer comprising a hyperbranched polyether polyol such as hyperbranched polyglycerol as a serum albumin substitute. Also provided are high molecular weight hyperbranched polyglycerol polymers suitable for a variety of medical and non-medical uses including methods for making such high molecular weight polymers.
US09346019B2
The present invention relates to a diesel particle filter which has a coating active in oxidation catalysis and which is characterized in that said diesel particle filter comprises a material zone which removes platinum traces contained in the exhaust-gas flow, and to the use of said diesel particle filter in the purification of exhaust gases of diesel engines.
US09346011B2
A hollow fiber carbon molecular sieve membrane, a process for preparing the hollow fiber carbon molecular sieve membrane, and a process for effecting separation of an olefin from a gaseous mixture that comprises the olefin in admixture with its corresponding paraffin and optionally one or more gaseous components selected from hydrogen, an olefin other than the olefin and a paraffin other than the corresponding paraffin. The process and membrane may also be used to effect separation of the olefin(s) from remaining feedstream components subsequent to an olefin-paraffin separation.
US09346004B2
A filter arrangement includes a media construction comprising a corrugated sheet secured to a flat sheet rolled into a coiled construction. A frame and a first seal member are provided. The frame secures the first seal member to the coiled construction. The first seal member is preferably oriented to form a radial seal with a housing. A second seal member is secured to the outer annular surface of the coiled construction. The second seal member includes a gasket extension having first and second opposite ends; an attachment portion; and a protrusion extending from the attachment portion. The second seal member is preferably oriented to form an axial seal with a housing. Air cleaners preferably utilizing filter arrangements as described herein operably installed within housings. Methods of installing, filtering, assembling, and servicing preferably include arrangements as described herein.
US09345996B2
Described herein are filter assemblies for removing high molecular weight organic components from liquefied petroleum gas, as well as methods for removing high molecular weight components from liquefied petroleum gases. The filter assemblies include an upstream carbon-containing filter media pack and a downstream filter media pack.
US09345988B2
Apparatus and processes for continuous distillative separation of a mixture comprising one or more alkanolamine(s) are described. The separation is performed in one or more dividing wall column(s) and the alkanolamine or the alkanolamines is/are withdrawn as a side draw stream or side draw streams (side fraction(s)).
US09345980B2
A toy vehicle track section connector has a main body with opposing planar first and second surfaces defined by a central portion, first and second outer portions, and first and second end portions joining the central, first and second portions together. Two smaller posts and a third larger post project from the first surface at positions along the longitudinal centerline and on opposite sides of the transverse centerline of the connector. A plurality of ribs project outwardly from the second surface along the first and second outer sections and first and second end portions and form a frame sized to be received in a channel provided on the bottom side of each track section. A hole and cutout are provided at each end of each track section to receive either smaller post and half the larger post, respectively.
US09345978B1
A toy figure assembly including a footing assembly in combination with a dual action actuator employing first and second working surfaces accessible through underside openings of the footing assembly for driving action movements of the toy figure by both a user's fingers and a piston driven controller secured to the footing. Further alternative embodiments with various alternative mechanism appendage couplings with the torso assembly through the footing gears, bracket or channel elements facilitate driven for movements in relation to the torso assembly moved relative to the footing assembly. Battling action game play may be expanded with the controller to battle virtual robots, allowing users to play various interactive computer based games.
US09345977B2
A figure includes a frame having a body portion and at least two appendages extending from and fixed relative to the body portion. The body portion has an aperture positioned therein. The figure also includes a casing, a motor coupled to the casing, and a crank rotatably coupled to the motor. The crank has a crank pin that is spaced from a center of the crank and engages the aperture of the frame. When the motor is activated, the crank moves the casing relative to the frame while the frame remains substantially stationary.
US09345975B2
A swinging chair having a base seating portion composed of bungee cords and a suspension system that permits the base seating portion to hang or otherwise be suspended so it dually functions as a swing.
US09345963B2
A setting change image is displayed on an LCD of a terminal device while an in-play user is playing a game while viewing a game image displayed on a monitor. A user different from the in-play user can change various settings of the game without hindering the progress of the game performed by the in-play user, by operating the terminal device while viewing the setting change image displayed on the LCD, such as increasing the number of participants in the game, and changing difficulty level of the game.
US09345962B2
An image is displayed on a portable display apparatus that outputs at least body state data based on an attitude and/or a motion of the portable display apparatus body and touch position data based on a touch position on a touch panel provided in the portable display apparatus. On the basis of the body state data and the touch position data, an attitude and/or a position of a first virtual camera for generating an image of a virtual world is controlled. A first image representing the virtual world viewed from the first virtual camera is displayed on the portable display apparatus.
US09345958B2
A view frustum, based on a virtual viewpoint, a gaze-point, and a view-angle, is formed in a virtual space in which objects including a player character and an obstacle are arranged. The gaze-point is set to be in a front area of the player character. The virtual viewpoint is set to be at a position separated from the player character by a certain distance in a rear area of the player character. Whether or not a line segment from the gaze-point to the virtual viewpoint crosses the obstacle is determined. The virtual viewpoint is reset to be at a position of a crossing coordinate nearest to the gaze-point. Such coordinate is from among crossing coordinates at which the line segment crosses the obstacle when the line segment crosses the obstacle to increase the view-angle from a preset reference angle.
US09345947B2
A gym is provided having multiple, private booths for members to perform exercises. The member typically moves from booth to booth to perform different exercises. Preferably, an automatically generated workout program, based upon member input and fitness and test results, guides the member from booth to booth and provides a workout regimen that can be automatically changed from day to day, based on feedback, to accommodate the member's changing abilities.
US09345943B2
Disclosed is a golf coach box, including a batting box and an arch swing plane sliding rail. One end of the swing plane sliding rail is rotatably fixed to the batting box and the other end thereof is connected via a telescopic connecting mechanism to the batting box. The beneficial effect of the present application as compared with the prior art is: the batting box is additionally provided with the swing plane sliding rail, used to simulate a swing plane during batting, thereby having a function of guiding a user to swing correctly during a batting process.
US09345932B2
A multi-piece golf ball includes a core composed of a center, an envelope layer and at least one cover. The center is formed from a composition containing at least one resin component and a basic metal salt of a fatty acid. The resin component is selected from a binary copolymer composed of an olefin and an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid, an ionomer resin consisting of a metal ion-neutralized product of a binary copolymer composed of an olefin and an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid, a ternary copolymer composed of an olefin, an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid and an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester, and an ionomer resin consisting of a metal ion-neutralized product of a ternary copolymer composed of an olefin, an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid and an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester. The envelope layer is formed from a composition containing a thermoplastic resin and/or a thermoplastic elastomer as a resin component.
US09345930B2
Tracking and monitoring athletic activity offers individuals with additional motivation to continue such behavior. An individual may track his or her athletic activity by completing goals. These goals may be represented by real-world objects such as food items, landmarks, buildings, statues, other physical structures, toys and the like. Each object may correspond to an athletic activity goal and require an amount of athletic activity to complete the goal. For example, a donut goal object may correspond to an athletic activity goal of burning 350 calories. The user may progress from goal object to goal object. Goal objects may increase in difficulty (e.g., amount of athletic activity required) and might only be available for selection upon completing an immediately previous goal object, a number of goal objects, an amount of athletic activity and the like.
US09345929B2
A disclosed device provides a trajectory detection and feedback system. The system is capable of detecting one or more moving objects in free flight, analyzing a trajectory of each object and providing immediate feedback information to a human that has launched the object into flight, and/or one or more observers in the area. In a particular embodiment, a non-intrusive machine vision system that remotely detects trajectories of moving objects may be used to evaluate trajectory parameters for a basketball shot at a basketball hoop by a player. The feedback information, such as a trajectory entry angle into the basketball hoop and/or an entry velocity into the hoop for the shot, may be output to the player in an auditory format using a sound projection device. The system may be operable to be set-up and to operate in a substantially autonomous manner.
US09345925B2
A floor-stretching exercise mat with movement guiding function includes a base board plural guiding mats and a cushion mat. The base board is reconfigurable between a folded and an unfolded configuration and includes plural plates pivoted to one another by pivot connecting members. The plates each include a chamber and plural pivot portion. The pivot connecting members are each pivotally connected between every two plates and include a connecting portion to be pivotally connected to a corresponding one of the pivot portions. The guiding mats are disposed in the chamber and each includes plural display modules which are capable of producing light by contact pressure. The cushion mat is laid on the base board which is in an unfolded configuration to cover the guiding mats and includes plural light-passing apertures aligned with the display modules. The base board is foldable for easy storage and transportation.
US09345923B2
A weightlifting weight support assembly includes a weight rack with a pair of vertical upright beams. Each of the vertical upright beams includes a plurality of bores disposed vertically along the front of the beams. The assembly further includes an elongated cross member and a lever arm selectively rotatably attached to at least one of the ends of the elongated cross member. There is also provided a first and second cross member support subassembly.
US09345906B2
A device for delivery of a radiopharmaceutical and delivery of a pharmaceutical agent are described. Various other components for delivery systems including tubing management systems, primer caps, diffusion chambers, radiation shields and syringe shields, needle handles, and other devices and methods are also described. Specifically, needle handles having a needle handle body attachable to a portion of a needle, and one or more wings or fins which are grasped by a user are described. The needle handle may be separated from the needle after insertion of the needle into a subject, and/or may provide access to a portion of tubing extending from the needle.
US09345905B2
The present document describes compounds of Formula I, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same as well as methods of treating diseases such as a cancer, neurological disease, neurodegenerative disorder, stroke, traumatic brain injury, parasitic infection, inflammation or an autoimmune disease with said compounds.
US09345902B2
Methods and systems (10, 54, 72) are provided for administering phototherapy to an injured tissue in a living subject by delivering visible or infrared biostimulatory energy to bone marrow at a dose sufficient to cause mesenchymal stem cells to appear in the injured tissue. The energy may be coherent light and can be administered transcutaneously, subcutaneously, or via an intramedullary probe (74). The technique is useful for treating many types of tissue injury, including ischemic cardiac and renal conditions.
US09345899B2
The implantable cardiac treatment system of the present invention is capable of choosing the most appropriate electrode vector to sense within a particular patient. In certain embodiments, the implantable cardiac treatment system determines the most appropriate electrode vector for continuous sensing based on which electrode vector results in the greatest signal amplitude, or some other useful metric such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The electrode vector possessing the highest quality as measured using the metric is then set as the default electrode vector for sensing. Additionally, in certain embodiments of the present invention, a next alternative electrode vector is selected based on being generally orthogonal to the default electrode vector. In yet other embodiments of the present invention, the next alternative electrode vector is selected based on possessing the next highest quality metric after the default electrode vector. In some embodiments, if analysis of the default vector is ambiguous, the next alternative electrode vector is analyzed to reduce ambiguity.
US09345888B2
An implantable medical device configured to be compatible with the environment inside an MRI machine. The implantable medical device includes a housing constructed of an electrically conductive material and pulse generation circuitry within the housing for generating electrical voltage pulses. The implantable medical device further includes a first conductor that is configured to transmit the electrical voltage pulses from the pulse generation circuitry to a patient's cardiac tissue and a second conductor that is configured to provide an electrically conductive path from the patient's cardiac tissue back to the pulse generation circuitry. The implantable medical device further includes a selectively interruptible electrically conductive path connecting the pulse generation circuitry with the housing.
US09345878B2
A method for determining a change in position of a neurostimulation lead relative to a stimulation target tissue of a patient is provided. The method comprises implanting a first proximity sensor on a surface of the patient, implanting a second proximity sensor on the surface of the patient, measuring a change in a distance between the first and second proximity sensors, and inferring the change in position of the lead relative to the stimulation target tissue from the measured change in distance. The method further comprises inferring an increase in a distance between the lead and the stimulation target tissue when the distance between the first and second proximity sensors increases. The method also comprises conveying electrical stimulation energy to therapeutically stimulate the stimulation target tissue, and modulating a stimulation parameter in response to the measured change in distance.
US09345871B2
An injection site for tubular medical connectors, includes a perforable body inserted in a seat of a connector delimited by an annular wall having a retention edge turned in against the outer end of the perforable body. The outer end is formed with a peripheral annular step and with an exposed portion with reduced cross section projecting axially. The peripheral step is defined by an annular groove having a shape complementary to that of the turned-in retention edge of the connector, and the portion with reduced cross section of the perforable body connects up to the groove through an annular surface projecting radially above at least part of the turned-in retention edge and resting against it.
US09345855B2
A catheter grip and catheter assembly are provided. The catheter grip includes a body portion adapted to extend circumferentially around a catheter shaft of the catheter assembly to facilitate gripping of the catheter shaft by a user. The catheter grip also includes a head portion through which the catheter shaft can be fed and a biasing mechanism. The biasing mechanism biases the body portion and the head portion away from one another.
US09345854B2
A distal tip protector, protection shield, or packaging insert to protect the distal segment of a guidewire projecting from a guidewire carrier.
US09345848B2
The present invention relates to an inhaler which is appropriate for delivery of medicament in dry powder form used in respiratory diseases, particularly in asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In addition, the present invention relates to an inhaler which includes a blister package appropriate for carrying the medicament in dry powder form and used to realize an effective inhalation.
US09345839B2
A dose control mechanism for a syringe includes a plunger having a coarse pitch screw on its exterior surface, a housing having a corresponding coarse pitch guide along the interior surface of the housing, a screw having a fine pitch screw which interfaces with a fine pitch nut of an adapter, wherein the plunger has an internal annular space within which screw at least partially resides. An accurate dose drug delivery syringe includes such a dose control mechanism, a barrel, a plunger seal, and a barrel adapter assembly having a barrel tip and a needle. The syringe may be a fill-at-time-of-use syringe, a pre-filled syringe, or a safety syringe having integrated needle retraction or needle sheathing safety features, or a combination thereof. Methods of assembly, manufacturing, and operation are similarly disclosed.
US09345827B2
Prior to each treatment session for an individual patient, a machine controller in a dialysis machine obtains from a logic device a set of current control settings of the machine-related parameters to be applied in the treatment session. In generating the control settings, the logic device obtains a set of therapeutic targets comprising a target value that represents part of a desired status of the patient after the treatment session, in terms of one or more physiological parameters for the patient. The logic device also obtains status data that represents the current status of the patient prior to the treatment session, and computes the set of current control settings of the machine-related parameters, as a function of the set of therapeutic targets and the status data and at least partly based on a predictive model, which estimates the physiological response of the patient to the machine-related parameters during the treatment session.
US09345825B2
The invention relates to a dialysis device (1) having a dialysate circuit comprising a first dialyzer (3) and a second dialyzer (5) wherein the first dialyzer (3) is connectable to a blood circulation of a patient via a blood feed line (11) and a recirculation (13), an effluent for a retentate flow (Qeffluent) from the dialysate circuit to the second dialyzer (5) is provided and a permetate stream (Qout) of the second dialyzer (5) in the dialysate circuit is passed to the first dialyzer (3), the second dialyzer (5) comprising a filter membrane having a cut-off value of at least 500 Da and the first dialyzer (3) comprising a filter membrane having a cut-off value exceeding that of the second dialyzer (5).
US09345819B2
A marker alloy foreign implant made of a biodegradable metallic material and having the composition MgxYbyMz wherein x is equal to 10-60 atomic percent; y is equal to 40-90 atomic percent; z is equal to 0-10 atomic percent; M is one or more element selected from the group consisting of Ag, Zn, Au, Ga, Pd, Pt, Al, Sn, Ca, Nd, Ba, Si, and Ge; and wherein x, y, and z, together, and including contaminants caused by production, result in 100 atomic percent.
US09345798B2
A sterilization system consisting of a mobile emitter, a sensing subsystem and a data logging subsystem is described. The emitter has one or more UV emitting lamps or devices. The sensing system comprises at least one remote UV sensor and at least one door sensor. The door sensor comprises a safety shut off door detector and may contain an emergency stop detector and arming detector to protect people from being exposed to UV energy. The system has a remote control for starting, stopping and setting system parameters which include but are not limited to: treatment time, dosage, room size, room number, unit number, floor, facility name, operator name, operator identification number, password, default dosage values, dosage, and patient identification number. The number of treatments per unit of time can be maximized because of the use of incident light measurement.
US09345796B2
An apparatus for disinfecting furniture, having a main member including an inner surface configured for receiving the furniture. The main member includes a plurality of apertures disposed along the inner surface. The apparatus has at least one temperature controller and at least one air source to the controller for heated blowing air. The apertures are in communication with at least the air source, and UV light from the light source and air from the air source can at least partially pass through the inner surface.
US09345792B2
A formulation for stabilizing a radiopharmaceutical. The formulation includes a radiopharmaceutical (or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof), a gas which has oxygen, a stabilizer, and a solvent.
US09345786B2
Disclosed herein are maytansinoid drug linker derivatives which can be linked to a antigen binding unit (Abu), and maytansinoid drugs linked with an antigen binding unit (Drug-Linker-Antigen binding Unit: D-L-Abu), for targeted delivery to disease tissues. D-L-Abu, D-L-Abu derivatives, and methods relating to the use of such drug conjugates to treat antigen positive cells in cancers and immunological disorders are provided.
US09345783B2
The present invention relates to therapeutic conjugates with improved ability to target various diseased cells containing a targeting moiety (such as an antibody or antibody fragment), a linker and a therapeutic moiety, and further relates to processes for making and using the conjugates.
US09345772B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide levothyroxine solutions that consist of from about 0.001% w/v to about 0.01% w/v of a levothyroxine; at least 70% w/w of a glycerol; less than 30% w/w of a water; and from about 0.01% w/w to about 1.5% w/w of an ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). Such levothyroxine solutions are characterized by exhibiting levothyroxine storage stability.
US09345764B2
The present application provides compositions and methods useful for treating and diagnosing diseases and disorders associated with moesin activation.
US09345762B2
A wind powered craft carrying a generally vertical mast which is rotatable about its vertical axis, having a sail carried by the mast with its bottom edge attached in proximity to the bottom of the mast and extending to an attachment point in proximity to the top of the mast. A generally horseshoe-shaped member having an open end is and extending around said mast. The mast being rotatable within the horseshoe-shaped member. A bearing supported stationary member at the top of the mast is carried by the mast while allowing the mast to rotate. A support stay runs from the horseshoe-shaped member to the bearing supported member to support the horseshoe-shaped member. Additional stays are attached to the horseshoe-shaped member and splayed to attach to opposed sides of the hull of the watercraft. The sail is reefed around the mast through the open end of the horseshoe-shaped member.
US09345760B2
The present invention provides bivalent oral vaccines against infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV) and infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAV). Yeast cells comprise an expression vector comprising (i) a polynucleotide sequence encoding a VP2 capsid protein of IPNV and (ii) a polynucleotide sequence encoding one or more antigenic epitopes of hemaglutinin of ISAV. The yeast cells express sub-viral particles (SVP) comprising a VP2 capsid protein of IPNV and one or more antigenic epitopes of hemaglutinin of ISAV. The yeast cells and SVP may be administered in an effective amount to increase the amount of antibodies against IPNV and ISAV in the fish, preferably Salmonidae. The yeast cells and SVP may be in the form of fish food for administering to the fish orally.
US09345756B2
A vaccine composition for birds comprising as an active ingredient a structure containing O-antigen derived from Gram-negative bacteria, provided that said structure does not contain a whole cell, and a process for preparing the same are provided. By using a structure containing O-antigen (e.g. lipopolysaccharide) derived from Gram-negative bacteria as an active ingredient in accordance with the present invention, alleviation of inoculation reaction and reduction in an amount of injection are attained as compared to the conventional whole-cells vaccine to thereby allow for the increase in the number of other antigens to be mixed therewith.
US09345753B2
Compositions and methods for prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease utilize a combination of amyloid-beta protein or a fragment thereof and a heat shock protein or a fragment thereof.
US09345742B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I) and in particular medicaments comprising at least one compound of the formula (I) for use in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of physiological and/or pathophysiological states in the triggering of which cathepsin D is involved, in particular for use in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of arthrosis, traumatic cartilage injuries, arthritis, pain, allodynia or hyperalgesia.
US09345731B2
A herbal extract composition from Lythraceae and Lauraceae family plants and its usage as insulin resistance reducer, syndrome X normalization, pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes treatments, particularly as activator in insulin signal pathway, as modulator in glucose transport system, as modulator in adiponectin secretion, and as suppressor in insulin resistance. Representative from Lythraceae family has been selected Lagerstroemia speciosa, and representative from Lauraceae family has been selected Cinnamomum burmannii. Such herbal extract composition work synergistically to strengthen pharmacological effect produced by each extract if they act alone.
US09345726B2
The present invention provides compositions comprising CD117+ cells and methods for using the same in allograft. In some aspects of the invention, methods are provided for prolonging allograft survival in a subject by administering CD117+ cells.
US09345724B2
Provided herein are pharmaceutically acceptable sodium thiosulfate and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided herein are methods for determining the total non-purgeable organic carbon in a sodium thiosulfate-containing sample. Further provided herein are methods for producing pharmaceutically acceptable sodium thiosulfate. Still further provided herein are methods of treatment comprising the administration of pharmaceutically acceptable sodium thiosulfate.
US09345721B2
A treatment for autism in which an effective amount of lactulose is administered in order to bind excess ammonia in the gastrointestinal tract, the bloodstream, and the nervous system in order to prevent or reverse ammonia poisoning caused by the administration of certain antibiotics. Lactulose molecules in the colon are fermented by certain bacteria. The fermentation process lowers the colonic pH, and ammonia, in the form of ammonium ions, is used by the bacteria for amino acid and protein synthesis. This lowers the serum ammonia levels and reduces neurotoxicity.
US09345719B2
The present invention relates to a novel fused pyrimidine derivative having an inhibitory activity for tyrosine kinases, and a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating cancers, tumors, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, or immunologically mediated diseases comprising same as an active ingredient.
US09345714B2
Aqueous suspension formulations containing dexamethasone and ciprofloxacin are disclosed for the treatment of middle ear infections in human patients having an open tympanic membrane.
US09345701B1
Abuse-resistant, controlled release opioid tablets are a combination containing an opioid antagonist such as naloxone at a level above that needed to suppress the euphoric effect of the opioid, if the combination were crushed to break the controlled release properties causing the opioid and opioid antagonist to be released as a immediate release product as a single dose. The controlled release nature of the table prevents the accumulation of orally effective amounts of opioid antagonist when taken normally. The opioid antagonist is contained in a controlled-release matrix and released, over time, with the opioid.
US09345700B2
The present invention relates to a compositions for and methods of cancer treatment in which compounds of Formula I or Formula II. In some aspects, the treatment of B-cell Lymphoma or other hematopoietic cancers is encompassed. In other aspects, the invention provides methods for treating particular types of hematopoietic cancers, such as B-cell lymphoma, using a combination of one or more compounds of Formula I or Formula II. Combination therapy with, for example, a class of therapeutics known as 26S proteasome inhibitors, for example, Bortezomib, are also included. In another aspect the present invention relates to autoimmune treatment with compounds of Formula I or Formula II. In another aspect, this invention relates to methods for identifying compounds, for example, compounds of the BH3 mimic class, that have unique in vitro properties that predict in vivo efficacy against B-cell lymphoma tumors and other cancers as well as autoimmune disease.
US09345698B2
There is provided pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of pain e.g. short-term pain, which compositions comprise a mixture comprising: (a) microparticles of alfentanil, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which microparticles are presented on the surfaces of larger carrier particles; (b) a water-soluble weak base; and (c) a compound which is a weak acid, which acid is presented in intimate mixture with the microparticles of alfentanil or salt thereof. The composition may further comprise a disintegrant. The acid is preferably citric acid.
US09345693B2
The present invention provides compounds that function as modulators of aldehyde dehydrogenase activity; and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds. The present invention provides therapeutic methods involving administering a subject compound, or a subject pharmaceutical composition.
US09345691B2
Compositions and methods are provided, comprising at least one beta-lactam compound selected from the group consisting of cefuroxime, a penicillin, ceftriaxone, clavulanic acid, 6-aminopenicillanic acid (6-APA) and tazobactam, for enhancing T cell mediated immune responses in a subject, such as anti-tumor and anti-viral immune responses.
US09345686B2
Disclosed is a drug delivery system from which a macrocyclic lactone can be released with a desirable zero order release profile. The system is based on the use of thermoplastic polymers, and particularly of polyethylene vinyl acetate copolymers (EVA). The drug delivery system of the invention comprises a solid non-porous reservoir in which the macrocyclic lactone is contained, preferably in a concentration well above the saturation concentration, and a non-porous skin covering the reservoir not initially loaded with the drug. The system is preferably in the form of a rod, wherein the core and the skin are concentric, and the end surfaces of the rod are not skin-covered.
US09345685B2
The present invention relates to compositions comprising a combination of PKC activators and PKC inhibitors and methods to modulate α-secretase activity; improve or enhance cognitive ability; and or reduce neurodegeneration in individuals suffering from diseases that impair cognitive ability, particularly Alzheimer's Disease. The invention also relates to methods for improving or enhancing cognitive ability. The present invention also provides methods for increasing the generation of non-amyloidogenic soluble APP (sAPP) comprising the activation of protein kinase C (PKC) in the brain and inhibiting PKC in peripheral tissues. Macrocyclic lactones (i.e. bryostatin class and neristatin class) are preferred PKC activators and Vitamin E is a preferred PKC inhibitor for use in the inventive composition.
US09345683B2
The present invention relates to a stable oral pharmaceutical composition with improved solubility and bioavailability; comprising a taxoid, a solubilizer, a stabilizing agent, a surfactant(s), a solvent(s), and an oil wherein the concentration of taxoid is in the range of 0.1 to 10%.
US09345681B2
The present invention provides an agent for preventing the increase in a body weight (or for decreasing a body weight) or an anti-obesity agent each comprising at least one component selected from the group consisting of EPA and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters and derivatives thereof as an active ingredient for obesity in which the increase in the formation of hepatic lipid or the occurrence of fatty liver is mild, preferably the increase in the formation of hepatic lipid or the occurrence of fatty liver is not observed.
US09345674B2
The present invention relates to a composition for the treatment of skin and ear infections in humans and animals such as dogs, cats and horses. In particular, the present invention relates to a topical composition comprising acetic acid, an antibacterial and/or an anti-fungal, and preferably also an anti-inflammatory. More specifically, the composition of the present invention is a bandage, bedding, clothing, conditioner, cream, drape, dressing, film, foam, gauze, gel, lotion, mousse, otic solution, pad, patch, serum, shampoo, solution, spray, or wipe for treatment or prevention of skin infections, wherein the composition comprises about 0.1-10% acetic acid, about 0.1-10% boric acid, about 0.01-20% azole, and optionally about 0.01-20% corticosteroid.
US09345658B2
Method for coloring hair wherein a first and a second hair coloring composition are applied to the hair, wherein the concentration of the oxidative dye precursors and the concentration of the alkalizing agents and the concentration of the oxidizing agents comprised in the second hair coloring composition is lower than in the first hair coloring composition.
US09345656B2
The present invention relates to acrylic emulsion polymers as well as to their use in hair care preparations such as in particular in hair styling preparations.
US09345653B2
One subject of the invention is a meia-phenylenediamine compound having formula (I) below, the addition salts thereof with an acid and the solvates thereof: in which: • R represents a hydrogen or halogen atom; a C1-C4 alkyl group; a carboxyl group or a (C1-C4)alkoxycarbonyl group, • R1 represents a C1-C10(hydroxy)alkyl group, optionally interrupted with one or more non-adjacent oxygen atoms or non-adjacent NR′ substituents, substituted by a cationic CAT group, • R2 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-C4(hydroxy)alkyl group, • R1 and R2 may form, together with the atom that bears them, a cationic heterocycle with 5 to 8 members, • R′ represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-C4(hydroxy)alkyl group; • An″ represents an anion or a mixture of anions which are organic or inorganic and cosmetically acceptable.
US09345641B2
A drug mixing system including at least one receptacle port adaptor adapted to be inserted into a port of a fluid receptacle, at least one syringe adaptor adapted to be attached to a syringe and to the at least one receptacle port adaptor and at least one vial adaptor adapted for connection to a vial containing a drug and adapted for connection to the at least one syringe adaptor, the system being characterized in that at least one of the receptacle port adaptor, the at least one syringe adaptor and the at least one vial adaptor being vented to the atmosphere in a manner which prevents release to the atmosphere of possibly harmful contents of the vial in a liquid, solid or gaseous form.
US09345634B2
A hand rehabilitation device includes a base having an arm support. A first actuator is mounted to the base and includes a first output end. A second actuator is connected to the first output end of the first actuator and includes a second output end. A handle is connected to the second output end. One of the first and second output ends rotates about an axis. The other of the first and second output ends reciprocates in a direction.
US09345619B2
Described herein is a method of implanting a glaucoma drainage device in an eye having a vitreous chamber and a drainage site. The glaucoma drainage device comprises a tube including a lumen extending from an inlet end to an outlet end, and includes a control element that regulates the amount of fluid flow through the glaucoma drainage device. The method comprises implanting the glaucoma drainage device into pars plana tissue from the vitreous chamber, such that the device extends between the vitreous chamber and the drainage site.
US09345617B2
The eye dropper positioning and guiding apparatus includes a resilient guiding device having a selectively compressible member having a first opening adapted to receive an eye drop applicator and a second opening adapted to position an eye within an area of the second opening to receive a fluid from the eye drop applicator. The selectively compressible member is adapted for selective linear and nonlinear movement in relation to the eye positioned within the area of the second opening. The eye dropper positioning and guiding apparatus can also include a support base and a resilient guiding device including a selectively expandable member having a plurality of concentric loops having an outermost loop and an innermost loop, adapted for selective linear and nonlinear movement, or a support base and a resilient guiding device including a plurality of concentric, interconnected rings adapted for selective linear and nonlinear movement in relation to an eye.
US09345615B2
An inflatable convective pad for warming a person during surgery has two ends, two sides, and at least two openings, each located in an area of the pad between the two ends and between a respective side and the center of the pad. The openings, which may be in the form of slits, allow the threading of a sheet or the person's arms through the pad to restrain the arms during surgery.
US09345613B2
The invention relates to a regulatable intraoral mandibular advancement device that can be used to prevent snoring and sleep apnoea. Said device comprises two splints connected by a central screw (1) inserted into a sheath (2) comprising an upper ring (3), said sheath being used as a guiding housing (4) for an upper bar (5) of an upper plate (6), and the lower part of the sheath comprising a longitudinal groove (8) enabling the course of an inner mobile threaded (10) ring (9) that is displaced by the screw (1), and on which a lower displacement ring (11) is arranged, open or closed, said ring being provided with a perpendicular hole (12) with elipsoidal conicity, in which the lower bar (13) fixed to the lower maxillary plate (14) is inserted. Said screw (1) is locked to the sheath (2) on its rear part.
US09345606B2
A shoulder orthosis is utilized to effect relative movement between bones in a body of a patient. The orthosis includes a base section which is connected with a trunk of a patient's body, an upper arm section which is connected with an upper portion of an arm of the patient, and a lower arm section which is connected with a lower portion of the arm of a patient. An interconnection between the base section and upper arm section of the orthosis is disposed beneath an axilla between the trunk and arm of the patient. A main drive assembly is operable to rotate the lower arm section of the orthosis relative to the upper arm section of the orthosis to pivot a humerus bone in the upper arm of the patient relative to a scapula bone in a shoulder of the patient. A secondary drive assembly is operable to move the lower arm section and upper arm section relative to the base section of the orthosis to move the upper arm of the patient into alignment with the shoulder of the patient.
US09345603B1
A delivery device can include a number of different features including, one or more of, but not limited to, the following. Shuttle and trigger retraction of an outer sheath. Arcuate movement of a trigger. An interlock device to prevent actuation of the trigger. An interlock device that can adjust the position of the outer sheath and the inner shaft. A retraction override switch and lock.
US09345600B2
A gradually self-expanding stent is provided with a first region of stent cells. A restraining material is attached to the first region and restrains the first region from expanding to the expanded configuration. Over time the restraining material releases the first region to allow the first region to expand to the expanded diameter. The first region is located longitudinally between two second regions. The second regions expand at a faster rate than the first region.
US09345596B2
A method of a forming a hollow, drug-eluting nitinol stent includes shaping a composite wire into a stent pattern, wherein the composite wire comprises an inner member, a nitinol intermediate member, and an outer member. After the composite wire is shaped into the stent pattern, the composite wire is heat treated to set the nitinol intermediate member in the stent pattern. After heat treatment, the composite wire is processed to remove the outer member and the inner member without adversely affecting the intermediate member. Openings may be provided through the intermediate member and the lumen of the intermediate member may be filled with a substance to be eluted through the openings.
US09345593B2
The mounting plate system is for use with a prosthetic socket, the socket having at least one aperture in a distal end thereof and in fluid communication with an interior portion of the socket which receives a residual limb. The mounting plate system includes a mounting plate having a top face to interface with the socket, and a bottom face for attachment to lower portions of a prosthetic limb. An opening in the mounting plate extends from the top face to the bottom face thereof, and a valve housing is positioned in the opening and has a channel therein for fluid communication with the interior portion of the socket via the at least one aperture. A one-way expulsion valve is secured between the valve housing and the socket adjacent the aperture and for regulating fluid communication between the interior portion of the socket and the channel in the valve housing. A vacuum reservoir seal plate is also provided.
US09345589B2
Implants and procedures for joint fusion make use of implants comprising cortical bone. The implants have lamellae that are generally aligned. In some embodiments, the implants can have indicia that indicate the alignment of the lamellae within the joint. In some embodiments, the implants comprise a plurality of implant elements, with the implant elements oriented so that the lamellae of the elements are aligned with each other. The implants can be inserted into a joint with the lamellae aligned across the joint to resist compression or deforming forces of the joint and to provide for improved implant strength. In some embodiments, the implants can be inserted into a joint over a pin and/or through a cannula to help guide the implant to the implant site within the joint. In some embodiments, the implants can be desirably formed from bone plugs harvested from long bones.
US09345575B2
Disclosed is a penile prosthetic including a cylinder and a resorbable suture-engaging component attached to an exterior surface of the cylinder. The suture-engaging component is attachable to a suture to allow a surgeon to pull the cylinder in a distal direction into the penis. During the healing time after the surgery, the resorbable suture-engaging component is resorbed into the tissue of the penis.
US09345573B2
A device for loading a prosthesis onto a delivery system includes a first housing having a central bore. One or more actuators on the first housing may be actuated radially inward to selectively compress a discrete portion of the prosthesis disposed in the central bore.
US09345569B2
Devices and methods for handling and depositing corneal implants onto corneal tissue. Devices and methods for packaging and storing corneal implants.
US09345562B2
A method and system are provided for manufacturing a physical dental model. A virtual model is provided representative of at least a portion of the intra-oral cavity including at least one dental implant implanted therein, and the virtual model includes a virtual portion representative of each dental implant. The virtual spatial disposition of each such virtual portion is determined with respect to the virtual model, corresponding to a real spatial disposition of the respective implant with respect to the intra oral cavity. A physical model is then manufactured based on the virtual model, the physical model including a physical analog corresponding to each implant at a respective physical spatial disposition with respect to the physical model corresponding to the respective virtual spatial disposition of the respective virtual portion with respect to the first virtual model as already determined. In some embodiments, a jig is provided configured for maintaining a desired physical spatial disposition between the physical analog and a cavity of the physical dental model at least until the physical analog is affixed in the cavity.
US09345561B2
A fineable dental blank assembly. The assembly can include a blank and a support coupled to the blank to facilitate machining of the blank. The blank can be adapted to be machined to form at least a portion of dental appliance, and can be formed of at least one of a glass, a glass-ceramic, a porcelain, and a ceramic. The support can be formed of at least one of a high melting point metal (or metal alloy) and a ceramic, wherein the blank and the support are separately formed. The assembly can further include a bonding composition positioned between the blank and the support. Other means for coupling the blank and the support can include a direct bond and/or mechanical inter-engagement. The assembly can be configured to withstand temperatures necessary to fire at least a portion of the assembly in a downstream firing process.
US09345558B2
An orthodontic bracket for coupling an archwire with a tooth includes a bracket body configured to be mounted to the tooth and a clip. A clip slot extends through the bracket body transversely to the archwire slot. Upon deflection of the clip, it contacts the bracket body at locations that were not in contact before the deflection. The clip may also have various forms and include various structures that cooperate with the body when the clip is deflected to restrict or stop the deflection. The orthodontic bracket may include a securing mechanism that is configured to secure the resilient ligating clip in the closed position. A method of manufacturing a shaped unsintered body for use in manufacturing an orthodontic bracket is provided. A portion of the sinterable particles may be removed using a stream of energy to yield a plurality of posts which are then deformed.
US09345554B1
Systems for removing dental prosthetics and restorations effectively and efficiently without damaging the dental prosthetic or restoration and with minimal discomfort to a patient is disclosed. The system features central holder designed for receiving and securely supporting a single or plurality of support arms in a spaced apart arrangement, whereby each support arm is capable of supporting an adjustable and pivoting attachment designed to adhesively engage and remove a dental prosthetic and restoration with the application of force. The system also features a plurality of independent attachments that can be used to adhesively engage and effectively remove a dental prosthetic and restoration with the application of force.
US09345549B2
Systems and methods of improving vision using an ophthalmological laser system are provided. A predetermined pattern characterized by a plurality of positions along a plurality of spatially distributed iris tissues of an eye of a patient is obtained. A laser illumination light beam is aligned in accordance with one or more of the plurality of positions along the plurality of spatially distributed iris tissues. The laser illumination light beam is delivered in the predetermined pattern to the plurality of spatially distributed iris tissues of the patient. At least a subset of the spatially distributed iris tissues is cauterized by the delivery of the laser illumination light beam in the predetermined pattern, thereby resulting in a permanent decrease in diameter of the pupil of the eye.
US09345544B2
Devices, systems, and methods for avoiding collisions between manipulator arms using a null-space are provided. In one aspect, the system calculates an avoidance movement using a relationship between reference geometries of the multiple manipulators to maintain separation between reference geometries. In certain embodiments, the system determines a relative state between adjacent reference geometries, determines an avoidance vector between reference geometries, and calculates an avoidance movement of one or more manipulators within a null-space of the Jacobian based on the relative state and avoidance vector. The joints may be driven according to the calculated avoidance movement while maintaining a desired state of the end effector or a remote center location about which an instrument shaft pivots and may be concurrently driven according to an end effector displacing movement within a null-perpendicular-space of the Jacobian so as to effect a desired movement of the end effector or remote center.
US09345540B2
A catheter including a proximal end and a distal end. An expandable element coupled to the distal end is included, the expandable element including a proximal portion and a distal portion, the expandable element defining an exterior surface. A first plurality of electrodes coupled to the exterior surface of the distal portion of the expandable element are included, each of the first plurality of electrodes being selectively operable to transmit unipolar radiofrequency energy. A second plurality of electrodes coupled to the exterior surface of the proximal portion of the expandable element are included, each of the second plurality of electrodes being selectively operable to transmit bipolar radiofrequency energy.
US09345529B2
A method and system for cryotreatment of target tissue using a cryotreatment catheter through which a mapping catheter may be freely movable, even during activation of the cryotreatment element. The cryotreatment system may include a cryotreatment catheter, a mapping catheter slidably disposed within a lumen of the cryotreatment catheter, and one or more heating elements. The one or more heating elements may be disposed on the mapping catheter or within the lumen of the cryotreatment catheter. Activation of the one or more heating elements prevents the freezing of, or thaws, fluid within the lumen of the cryotreatment device when one or more cryotreatment elements are activated. The lack of frozen fluid within the lumen allows the mapping catheter to freely move within the cryotreatment catheter during a cryotreatment procedure, so that the mapping catheter may be positioned proximate the treatment site after initiation of cryotreatment.
US09345516B2
A polyaxial bone anchoring device includes an anchoring element having a shaft and a head, a receiving part having a first end and a second end, a bore extending from the first end towards the second end, a seat for receiving the head, and at least one threaded through hole transverse to the bore, a pressure element to exert pressure onto the head, such that the head is pivotable and can be locked at an angle relative to the receiving part, the pressure element having at least one hole configured to at least partially align with the through hole, and at least one set screw threadable into the through hole to engage the pressure element at the hole such that a force is exerted by the pressure element onto the head that maintains the head at an adjustable angular position relative to the receiving part by friction.
US09345514B2
An implantable orthopedic device. The device includes: a proximal anchor, configured to be implanted inside a first metatarsal; the anchor having a collar larger than the opening in a metatarsal in which the proximal anchor is implanted; the collar preventing cable to bone contact; a distal anchor, configured to be implanted inside a second metatarsal, adjacent to the first metatarsal; the distal anchor having a male thread, a nut threadable onto the male thread of the distal anchor, and a cord mechanically interconnecting the proximal and distal anchors. A shock absorber includes an elongate housing threadedly positioned within the anchor; the shock absorber accommodates a cord holder mechanically connected to the housing via a damping member, the cord holder is freely rotatable within the housing to prevent the cord from twist kinking when the housing is rotated to adjust a tension force.
US09345512B2
A circumcision instrument used to perform a circumcision procedure. The circumcision instrument generally includes a housing having a chamber configured to receive a glans penis and an outer surface configured to be enveloped by a prepuce. An annular groove is disposed in the outer surface. A conductive ring is located at the bottom of the annular groove. A clamp has a pair of jaws that are moveable from an open position to a closed position surrounding the prepuce. In the closed position the jaws are disposed at least partially within the annular groove. A conductive inner cutting edge is located on the jaws. The clamp and the housing are connectable to a source of diathermy energy such that diathermy energy can flow between the inner cutting edge and the conductive ring, thereby cutting the prepuce.
US09345511B2
Described here are devices and methods for performing atherectomies. Generally, the atherectomy devices may include a handle, a cutter assembly, and a catheter or catheter assembly therebetween. The cutter assembly may include a cutter housing and a cutter having a first cutting element and a second cutting element, each of which may be rotated relative to the atherectomy device to cut occlusive material.
US09345506B2
An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes a transducer assembly having a distal engagement member and configured to supply ultrasonic energy. A waveguide defines a longitudinal axis and has a proximal engagement member configured to threadingly engage the distal engagement member. The waveguide is configured to transmit the ultrasonic energy therealong to a distal end thereof for treating tissue. A torque member is coupled to the transducer assembly and is disposed about the longitudinal axis. The torque member is selectively rotatable about the longitudinal axis and relative to the waveguide to threadingly engage the transducer assembly and the waveguide to one another. The torque member includes a plurality of fingers pivotably coupled thereto and movable between a closed position and an open position. In the open position, each finger extends substantially perpendicularly from the longitudinal axis to define a moment arm that facilitates the engagement of the transducer assembly and the waveguide.
US09345505B2
An ultrasonic transmitting unit includes a first vibrating section and second vibrating section vibrating at the same predetermined frequency with respect to each other. The ultrasonic transmitting unit includes a relay portion transmitting the ultrasonic vibration toward a first transmitting direction from the first vibrating section to the second vibrating section and positioned at a position corresponding to one of an antinode position of the vibration in the first vibrating section and different from an antinode position and a node position of the vibration in the second vibrating section, and a non-contact vibrating portion extending in a second vibrating section from the relay portion toward a second transmitting direction without contact with the first vibrating section.
US09345500B2
A manually actuated function hose instrument has a hose-shaped function part and a wire-shaped function part extending in the latter, wherein the two function parts are axially movable relative to each other in order to exert a useful function at a distal section remote from a proximal end section. An associated operating device, which has two operating parts, is arranged at the proximal end section of the function parts. A fixing part is provided which serves for the external fixing of the operating device and with which the second operating part is coupled in an axially relatively movable manner, and/or the second operating part is connected non-releasably to the proximal end section of the hose-shaped function part and contains an operating ring with a circumferential finger recess as operating area.
US09345485B2
An implantable flow connector for fluidically coupling a source tissue-enclosed body space with a destination element, comprising: a conduit having a lumen terminating at an orifice at a first end of the conduit implantable in the source body space through an opening formed in a tissue wall of the source body space, and a second end of the conduit implantable in the destination element through an opening in a surface of the destination element; and a circumferential flange, radially extending from the conduit proximate the conduit first end, configured to be implanted in the source body space adjacent an opening in the tissue wall of the source body space such that the conduit extends through the opening, the flange comprising one or more circumferentially adjacent sections at least one of which has a rigidity that decreases in a radially-increasing direction.
US09345480B2
A surgical kit is disclosed. The kit comprises a surgical instrument, a loading unit, and a plurality of cartridge members. The surgical instrument includes a handle assembly, and an elongated portion extending distally from the handle assembly and defining a longitudinal axis. The loading unit is configured for selective engagement with a distal portion of the elongated portion. The loading unit including an anvil assembly and a cartridge channel. Each cartridge member includes a plurality of retention slots with at least some of the slots including fasteners therein. Each cartridge member is configured for selective mechanical engagement with the cartridge channel, and includes a longitudinal length and a working length. The working length is the longitudinal distance along retention slots having fasteners therein. The longitudinal length of each cartridge member is substantially the same, and the working length of at least two of the plurality of cartridge members is different.
US09345479B2
A surgical stapling apparatus is provided including a cartridge assembly defining a tissue contacting surface; an anvil assembly defining a tissue contacting surface; and a surgical buttress releasably secured to at least one of the tissue contacting surface of the cartridge assembly and the tissue contacting surface of the anvil assembly by at least one anchor. A loading unit is provided including a surgical buttress releasably secured to an anvil assembly and/or a staple cartridge secured thereto by at least one anchor, and a drive assembly including a knife blade, wherein movement of the drive assembly from a proximal position to a distal position results in the knife blade cutting the at least one anchor and freeing each surgical buttress from the anvil assembly and/or cartridge assembly.
US09345478B2
An exemplary surgical method of treating tissue within the body of a patient, may include providing an endocutter having a knife, a staple holder along which the knife is slidable, feeder belts located on each side of the knife, staples having a first size, those staples integral with and breakable from at least one feeder belt, and staples having a second size different from the first size, those staples integral with and breakable from at least one feeder belt; engaging tissue of the patient with the staple holder; deploying at least two staples having a first size; disengaging tissue of the patient from the staple holder; once again engaging tissue of the patient with the same staple holder; and deploying at least two staples having a second size.
US09345472B2
In a general aspect, a medical device includes a receiving arm configured to be coupled to at least a portion of an implant, and a clamping arm having a proximal end coupled to the receiving arm and having a track at a distal end of the clamping arm. The medical device also includes a sliding component including a needle and configured to slidably move along the track of the clamping arm.
US09345471B2
Methods and constructs for soft tissue to bone repairs employing tensionable knotless anchors, without knot tying. The tensionable knotless anchors may be used by themselves or in combination with additional constructs (which may have a similar or different configuration, i.e., modified according to the specific repair) and with the flexible strands provided through tissue, around tissue, or through and around tissue to be repaired or fixated.
US09345470B2
Apparatus and methods are provided, including a plurality of anchoring elements, each of the anchoring elements being an elongate element that is curved to define an opening. A housing holds each of the anchoring elements. A mandrel is reversibly disposable through the openings defined by the anchoring elements. The anchoring elements are configured such that, in response to removal of the mandrel from the openings, ends of the anchoring elements automatically move outwardly, and diameters of the openings decrease, due to elastic loading of the anchoring elements. Other embodiments are also described.
US09345468B2
A surgical filament snare assembly including an anchor capable of being fixated in bone and having a filament engagement feature. A first filament has a noose with first and second noose limbs connected, preferably slidably connected, to the filament engagement feature of the anchor. The first and second noose limbs emerge from the anchor as first and second free filament limbs which are capable of being passed through tissue to be repaired and then passable through the noose. The noose, such as one or more half-hitches, is capable of receiving the free filament limbs and strangulating them when tension is applied to at least one of the free filament limbs and the noose to enable incremental tensioning of the tissue after the anchor is fixated. Preferably, the snare assembly further includes a flexible sleeve joining at least some portion of the first and second free filament limbs to facilitate passing of the free filament limbs at least through the tissue as a single unit.
US09345466B2
A suture thread having: a thread-shaped main body with spikes and a stopper cylinder having a diameter enlarged with respect to the main body is described.
US09345457B2
A biopsy device includes a cutter defining a cutter lumen and a tissue sample holder for collecting tissue samples. In one example, the tissue sample holder includes a rotatable manifold, and has a plurality of chambers that are each configured to separately hold tissue samples. A tissue sample holder rotation mechanism is operable to rotate the manifold to successively align each of the chambers with the cutter lumen. A controller in communication with the rotation mechanism is configured to rotate the manifold to a presentation position to present a collected tissue sample within a chamber to a user (e.g., at an angular position approximately 90 degrees from the cutter lumen). The controller is further configured to rotate the manifold align the next, empty chamber with the cutter lumen in response to a user input instructing the biopsy device to obtain another tissue sample.
US09345456B2
An improved needle assembly is provided. A distal portion of the needle can be formed of a first material which does not interfere with MRI imaging of a tissue receiving port disposed in the distal needle portion. A proximal needle portion can be formed of a second, different material. The proximal needle portion can provide strength and stiffness.
US09345452B2
An ultrasound observation system includes: an ultrasound transducer that transmits ultrasound to a subject and receives ultrasound from the subject and generates an ultrasound signal; a displacement measurement circuit for elasticity image generation that measures a displacement of the subject based on the ultrasound signal; an elasticity modulus calculation circuit that calculates an elasticity modulus of the subject based on the measured displacement; a first automatic pressurization mechanism that generates a pressurization displacement in the subject; a signal waveform analysis circuit that analyzes a periodic motion based on a waveform of a signal that is based on a spontaneous displacement of the subject; and a pressurization mechanism control circuit that controls the first automatic pressurization mechanism so as to generate a pressurization displacement that reduces an influence of the spontaneous displacement of the subject at a time that an elasticity modulus is calculated based on the signal waveform analysis result.
US09345434B2
A physiological signal measurement apparatus is capable of automatically adjusting a measure position and suitable for installed on a support element to measure a physiological signal of a user. The physiological signal measurement apparatus includes a movable element, a physiological signal sensing element, a pressure sensing unit and a microcontroller unit. The movable element has a first pressure. The user exerts a second pressure on the physiological signal sensing element, and exerts a third pressure on the support element. The pressure sensing unit senses the first pressure, the second pressure and the third pressure to generate a first pressure signal, a second pressure signal and a third pressure signal. The microcontroller unit receives the physiological signals and the pressure signals, and controls the movable element by the pressure signals and the physiological signals, in order to increase the quality of signal measurement.
US09345431B2
A method and an optical system for evaluating the spatial distribution of the concentrations of components in tissue are disclosed. The novel detecting probe included in the optical system comprises plural optical fiber sets, each optical fiber set respectively comprises at least one source optical fiber and at least one detector optical fiber, the source optical fiber connects with the multi-wavelength light source, the source optical fiber delivers light from the multi-wavelength light source onto a tested tissue; and the angle between one optical fiber set and another optical fiber set is greater than 0° and less than and not equal to 180°. Through the optical system of the present invention, the spatial distribution of the concentrations of components such as water, hemoglobin, melanin, lipid, and collagen in the tested tissue can be derived by an equation (I) defined in the present specification.
US09345427B2
It is known in the art to use an apparatus to enhance the visual appearance of the veins and arteries in a patient to facilitate insertion of needles into those veins and arteries. This application discloses a number of inventions that add additional data collection and presentation capabilities to a handheld vein enhancement apparatus and a set of processes for the collection of blood and the delivery of IV medicines that use the handheld device to mediate the process.
US09345406B2
Described herein are methods for producing and identifying characteristic (“crescent shaped”) regions indicative of an atherectomy plaque within a vessel, and systems and devices adapted to take advantage of this characteristic region.
US09345401B2
In one aspect, there is provided an embodiment of a calibration system for use with a vision tester having a display. In this particular embodiment, the calibration system comprises a calibration stand and a reflective surface. The calibration stand is configured to hold the vision tester. The reflective surface is coupled to the calibration stand and is oriented substantially parallel to the display. The calibration stand is configured to hold the display of the vision tester at a fixed distance from the reflective surface.
US09345398B2
A drive assembly for driving an imaging catheter has a rotatable fiber and a rotatable drive shaft. The drive assembly includes a fiber optic rotating junction and a motor configured to rotate the rotatable portion of the fiber optic rotating junction. In some embodiments, the drive assembly includes a sensor configured to detect a rotational position of the fiber optic rotating junction and a processor configured to obtain the detected rotational position and stop the motor only when the fiber optic rotating junction is in a predetermined rotational position. In some embodiments, the motor includes a hollow shaft through which at least a portion of the fiber optic rotating junction extends.
US09345397B2
A sensing system for implant surgery includes an insertion device for moving an implant into a narrow cavity in a patient's body. A sensor measures the distance from an end of the insertion device to anatomic surfaces at a distance from the end of the insertion device. An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system integrates the sensor and produces OCT images, which can be quantified to distance measurements. The system is particularly useful for cochlear implant surgery.
US09345396B2
A scanning endoscope system has a light guide portion that guides an illuminating light, a drive portion capable of causing the light guide portion to swing so that an irradiation position of the illuminating light draws a locus corresponding to a predetermined scanning pattern, a light detecting portion that receives a return light of the illuminating light and outputs a signal, a control portion that drives the drive portion to perform scan so that the irradiation position of the illuminating light becomes a locus in a spiral shape, and an image generating portion that generates an image of an object based on a signal outputted from the light detecting portion in a predetermined timing, wherein the control portion further performs control for driving the drive portion so that the irradiation position of the illuminating light circles on a same circumference in the predetermined timing.
US09345389B2
A system and method for intra-operatively providing anatomical guidance in a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure is disclosed. In embodiments, the system includes multiple light sources configured to emit different frequencies, multiple electronic imaging devices to detect various frequencies of reflected, emitted, or scattered light. The system and method incorporate an optical probe is integral to an endoscopic device or a therapeutic laser system, optically coupled to a light source; a display for displaying at least one visual representation of data; and a controller programmed to generate at least one real-time integrated visual representation of an area of interest and to display the real-time visual representation on the display for guidance during the diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.
US09345383B2
The disclosed tape cleaner comprises an adhesive tape roller, a support roller inserted in the adhesive tape roller and supporting the adhesive tape roller, an upper cover having both sides connected to both sides of the support roller and partially covering the outer circumferential surface of the adhesive tape roller, a rotary cover having both sides connected to both sides of the support roller, partially covering the outer circumferential surface of the adhesive tape roller, on the inside of the upper cover, and rotatable by 360° in both directions about the longitudinal direction of the support roller, and a handle connected with the upper cover. Both the adhesive tape roller and the support roller rotate about the longitudinal direction of the support roller, and the adhesive tape roller, the support roller, the upper cover and the rotary cover are all attachable and detachable.
US09345380B1
A mop device composed of a handle, a mop head configured to connect to the handle and a mop strand bundle connected to the mop head. The mop strand bundle is composed of a plurality of strand members disposed in parallel relation to one another and connected to one another in at least one location. The mop strand bundle also includes a head band. The head band is positioned at a location between first and second ends of the mop strands other than medial between the first and second ends of the strand bundle. The mop head engages the mop strand bundle at a location defined by the head band.
US09345373B2
A cleaning system comprises a power plant, a regenerative blower having a power input shaft, a suction port, and a discharge port, an interface assembly configured for transmitting power from the power plant to the regenerative blower, a pump configured for generating pressurized water, and a heat exchanger system configured for heating the pressurized water.
US09345372B2
Vacuum cleaner filters, in particular replaceable vacuum cleaner filters suitable for both dry and wet/dry type vacuum cleaners are disclosed, as well as systems incorporating the use of such filters and methods for their use. The filters include a plurality of adjacently positioned pleats arranged in a closed circumferential, cylindrically-shaped path, a top end cap having a central orifice capable of constricting a post on a vacuum filter cage, and optionally a molded end ring oppositely-spaced from the top end cap for engagement with the motor housing of a vacuum cleaner.
US09345371B2
A vacuum cleaner having base and handle assemblies. The base has a bottom face, left and right side regions, an opening between the left and right side regions, and a resiliently-deformable crossbeam extending across the opening. The handle is at least partially in the opening and pivotally mounted to the base. The handle is rotatable, relative to the base, between upright and reclined positions. A protrusion extends from the handle and rotates through an arc that intersects the crossbeam. The protrusion contacts one side of the crossbeam when the handle is upright, and is on another side of and spaced from the crossbeam when the handle is reclined. The protrusion deforms the crossbeam when the protrusion is moved past the crossbeam. The cleaner also has a suction inlet on the base, a suction source, a dirt collector, and air passages connecting the suction inlet, suction source and dirt collector.
US09345367B2
A paper toweling dispenser includes an electric motor driven toweling support roller, a handle for rotating the toweling support roller and a one-way clutch including a stabilized pawl, which allows the handle to rotate the toweling support roller only in a single direction of rotation transporting toweling on the toweling support roller to an exit opening of the dispenser when the electric motor does not drive the toweling support roller.
US09345365B1
An apparatus is provided having a diverter member attachable to a shower water supply pipe for passing warm water along first and second paths, and a distributor coupled to the diverter member for receiving water via conduit(s) along the first path, in which the distributor is retained in a water dispersion member to enable positioning of the distributor over at least over the shoulders of the person. The distributor has holes to distribute water onto the upper body of the person, via the dispersion member. The diverter member can be coupled to a handheld showerhead to provide water along a second path to the showerhead to enable showering of the person while the water is continuously being provided along the first path via the distributor via the openings to maintain the person in a warmed state. Flow of water may be controllable separately along the first and second paths.
US09345358B2
An electric steamer includes a cover (1), at least one steamer (2), a juice accumulating plate (3) and a base (4) which are overlapped sequentially from top to bottom. A water storage pool (41) and a control circuit are arranged in the base (4). A pressure sensor (7) is also mounted in the base (4). A steam inlet pipe (72) of the pressure sensor (7) is connected with the juice accumulating plate (3) and a signal output terminal of the pressure sensor (7) is connected with the control circuit through a wire. A steam delivering device (8) is provided between the steam inlet pipe (72) and the juice accumulating plate (3). An upper end of a steam channel (81) is connected with the juice accumulating plate (3). A method for controlling the electric steamer is further provided.
US09345357B1
A privacy screen includes a flexible panel having a hem formed peripherally about the panel. The hem includes a plurality of pockets. Each pocket accommodates a respective magnet. The magnets releasably adhere to a metallic door or frame surrounding a window or wall opening to be covered. This holds the panel over the window or wall opening to prevent viewing therethrough.
US09345354B2
Provided are systems, methods and techniques for displaying merchandise. One such system includes a support structure, a receptacle physically connected to the support structure and having a plurality of openings around its periphery, and a plurality of merchandise assemblies. Each merchandise assembly, in turn, includes an item of merchandise and an attachment device fastened to the item of merchandise. The attachment device has a vertically oriented insertion member that is tapered from top to bottom and is removably inserted into one of the plurality of openings in the receptacle.
US09345352B2
A food handling device for use in eating a foodstuff, includes a holder and a movable member supported by the holder for movement along a longitudinal direction relative to the holder by a user. The movable member engages the foodstuff. Multiple food handling devices may be mounted on a serving platter of a food service assembly.
US09345351B2
In one embodiment there is provided a bottle holding a first substance, a tube holding a second substance and a cup holding a third substance. The tube is configured to rest within the bottle and the tube includes an annular flange coving the opening into the bottle. The flange includes a slot to allow the first and second substances to be poured together. The cup is further configured to be secured to the bottle.
US09345350B2
The invention relates to a cup made of foldable flat material with at least one desired fold line (22) along which a convex cup wall (24) can be pushed in to give a concave, dimensionally-stable form.
US09345344B1
A display stand holder, particularly for nail polishes, includes a central storage housing for containing an article therein and a first peripheral storage compartment surrounding the central storage housing having an outer translucent wall to permit visual inspection of an article stored therein and the display stand holder is rotatable.
US09345341B2
A display case for exhibiting objects is described. The display case has a support base for a display plane and for at least a first shell exhibiting at least a crystal delimiting wall, at least a first linear guide for the support of the first shell, the first linear guide exhibiting a part of fixed guide solidly constrained to the base and a part of mobile guide solidly constrained to the first shell, the part of fixed guide exhibiting at least a first rail for one or more first support bearings solidly constrained to the part of mobile guide, the part of mobile guide exhibiting a rail for one or more second support bearings solidly constrained to the part of fixed guide. The display plane being associated to the part of fixed guide by means of one or more third bearings for the support of the display plane.
US09345338B1
A portable, folding table that is particularly suited for changing a child's diaper is provided. The table includes a left panel, a middle panel, and a right panel and has an extended position in which the panels are substantially co-planar and a collapsed position in which the left and right panels fold between about 90 and about 180 degrees relative to the middle panel. The table optionally includes a handle attached to the front or rear side of the middle panel, legs attached to the left and right panels, and motors to move the panels between the extended and collapsed positions. Optionally, the left or right panel includes a bottom flange that serves as a leg and further serves to hide the other panels when the table is in the collapsed position.
US09345332B2
A dual functional chair with a dividable seat may be used in a sitting and kneeling-sitting configuration. The seat includes a front part (1) that is convertible into a knee rest. The front part is operatively connected rotationally and slidably or rotationally only, to a movable front arm of a base of the seat, rotating on the axis of a rotational mechanism (3). The seat includes a rear part (4) having a variable angle of inclination, operatively connected via a rotational mechanism (5) to a rear arm (6) of the base of the seat.
US09345331B2
A symmetrical sofa stretcher rail for compact assembly of a furniture item is provided. Embodiments of the invention include a symmetrical sofa stretcher rail with two ends that are mirror images of each other, which can thus be coupled to a seat box frame and installed inside a sofa frame with either end of the sofa stretcher rail coupling to either the front or rear of the sofa frame. In embodiments, the sofa stretcher rail may be pre-assembled as part of a seat box frame, and pivoted between a position parallel to the seat box frame and a position perpendicular to the seat box frame. Embodiments of the sofa stretcher rail include a curved central body, interior pivot tabs, fastening plates, and exterior mounting plates, having a plurality of attachment points for fastening the sofa stretcher rail to a sofa frame coupled to the seat box frame.
US09345330B2
A chair or other piece of furniture can include a built-up frame including at least a portion of a premade plastic chair, such as an off-the-shelf plastic lawn or deck chair. The frame can have a seat and a backrest shaped to accommodate a person. Cushioning material can be installed over the frame. A cover can be installed over the cushioning material. Another kind of frame including plastic can be used instead of the built-up frame. The cover can be affixed to the frame or can be a removable slip cover. The cover can include sports jersey material and can be made from stock unstitched jersey pieces. A drawer, plush ornament, recess, or sports equipment can be provided at a lower supporting portion of the chair. Feet made of sports equipment can be attached to the bottom of the frame. A backrest opening can receive a piece of sports equipment.
US09345328B2
A method for assembling a chair component assembly includes providing a back support component adapted to support a portion of a seated user, providing a lumbar support assembly adapted to support the lumbar area of a seated user, providing a cover having an aesthetic outer surface and including a first pocket defining a first interior space therein, and a flap member having a first side edge attached to the first pocket and a second side edge, positioning the lumbar support assembly proximate the first pocket, folding the flap over the lumbar support assembly, and securing the second side edge of the flap to form a second pocket defining a second interior space within which the lumbar support assembly is located.
US09345326B2
Refrigerator shelves are disclosed. An example refrigerator shelf includes a substantially planar member, trim along a first edge of the planar member, and a bent continuous wire support rod. The bent rod having a first portion extending along and beneath the trim, a second portion perpendicular to the first portion and extending from the first edge to a point between the first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge, and a third portion extending from the point and extending substantially perpendicularly from a plane defined by the first and second portions.
US09345322B1
A gun mount concealable under a garment including a hanger with a hook attached to a longitudinal member defining a central channel for receiving opposing threaded ends of a mount loop. One mount loop end passes through the trigger assembly and engages a washer and nut on the opposing side of the gun mount via the central channel and the other mount loop end is positioned within the central channel. The mount may be placed in a closet among a user's wardrobe, affording secure storage to personal firearms in the event of an emergency while concealing the presence of the guns to unauthorized users.
US09345312B1
A connector apparatus having a base and a clip is used to attach a mobile device to an article of clothing. The base may include a front surface, a rear surface, and an outer edge. The rear surface is attachable to an object, such as a mobile device. The clip is pivotally attached to the outer edge of the base and includes an inner edge forming an inner opening in between. The clip includes a gate having an open position where the inner opening in exposed, and a closed position where the inner opening is enclosed.
US09345308B2
A device for matching the skin shade of a person with the shade of a cosmetic composition includes a tape having a plurality of transparent and opaque portions. The opaque portions have different shades and unique shapes that are coded to so that each portion can be matched to a cosmetic composition of a particular shape by the shape of the portion. When the tape is attached to or at least placed adjacent to the body portion of a person, the opaque portion having a shade that is close to the shade of the skin of the respective body portion becomes substantially invisible.
US09345299B2
A portable electronic device equipped with a protective cover is provided. The portable electronic device includes a protective cover that is equipped with a reflector having a light reflection characteristic, a proximity sensor that is equipped with a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit, and that is configured to generate a sensing signal based on an amount of light that the light receiving unit receives in response to light emitted from the light emitting unit, and a controller that is provided with the sensing signal generated from the proximity sensor and that is configured to determine whether the protective cover is open or closed.
US09345294B2
The invention relates to a decorative part (1, 3, 5) including several stones (2) and a device (7, 7′, 47, 47′) for securing the stones (2) in relation to each other. According to the invention, the securing device (7, 7′, 47, 47′) includes a single electrodeposited base (9, 9′, 49, 49′) whose shape matches one part of the stones, thus allowing all the stones (2) to be attached in relation to each other without any stress, and the girdles (6) of the stones (2) are mounted edge-to-edge in relation to each other so that the single base is concealed. The invention also relates to the method for manufacturing a part (1, 3, 5) of this type.
US09345285B2
The present invention relates to shoe, in particular a sports shoe. The shoe includes a sole plate having in a forefoot area a plurality of leaf spring elements, wherein the sole plate and the plurality of leaf spring elements are manufactured as a single piece. Each of the plurality of leaf spring elements has one free end not connected with the sole plate.
US09345279B2
A linked waist support for a waist belt is provided. The waist belt is formed by two strip-like woven fabrics which are connected by a fastening strap, and includes a first end link unit and a second link unit at two ends thereof. The linked waist support is disposed between and partially overlapped by the first end link unit and the second end link unit. The linked waist support comprises a base plate, a first side link unit disposed on the base plate and correspondingly linked to the first end link unit via a first linking cable, and a second side link unit disposed adjacently to the first side link unit on the base plate and correspondingly linked to the second end link unit via a second linking cable. Thus, without unfastening the waist belt, tightening force of the waist belt can be adjusted and changed with ease.
US09345269B2
An electronic cigarette, including a cigarette holder assembly, an atomization assembly, a glass container for accommodating smoke oil, and a gas flow regulator. The cigarette holder assembly includes a mouthpiece, a first sealing ring, a seat for supporting the mouthpiece, a fixed screw, and a pole. The atomization assembly includes a pair of heating wires, a glass casing, a second sealing ring, a third sealing ring, oil-guiding cotton, a limit cover, an insulating ring, and a fixed ring. The glass container includes a first sealing gasket and a second sealing gasket which are respectively disposed at both ends of the glass container. The gas flow regulator includes a control ring, a steel ball, a spring, and a rotary button. The first sealing ring of the cigarette holder assembly is sleeved on the mouthpiece, and the mouthpiece is fixed on the seat via the fixed screw.
US09345268B2
A method of modifying the moisture content of fuel elements used in making smoking articles. The method may include overwrapped fuel elements, smoking article components, and/or assembled smoking articles being subjected to drying by flowed ambient air. Unheated air is flowed over the fuel components to adjust and maintain a desired moisture content of the fuel components to a level that permits cutting of the fuel components without chipping or cracking. After the fuel components are cut into individual or two-up fuel elements and combined with smoking article components that may include up to an entire filtered or unfiltered smoking article, they may have more ambient air flowed over them to further reduce the moisture content to a desired level.
US09345261B2
The invention relates to a device (1) for the treatment by a pulsed electric field of a product intended to circulate through this device, comprising first and second electrodes (4, 6) forming parallel plates between which a treatment zone (2), is defined, and also comprising a pulse generator (22) electrically connected to at least said first electrode (4) so as to be able to apply a pulsed electric field in the treatment zone (2), the device also comprising a product inlet conduit (26) into the treatment zone and a product outlet conduit (30).According to the invention, the first electrode (4) is electrically connected to the pulse generator (22) through either of the two conduits (26, 30), arranged in contact with this first electrode.
US09345249B2
Donor milk has become a standard of care for feeding preterm infants, particularly those with gestational ages of 34 weeks or less, whose mothers are not lactating or not producing sufficient milk quantities. However, prior to distribution, donor milk is required to undergo pasteurization, typically using the Holder method, which is believed to destroy immune proteins in the milk and denature many other proteins. Donor milk has been found to contain concentrations of chemokines, cytokines, and growth factors, evidencing the value of donor milk over formula. In light of the findings, donor milk is supplemented with chemokines, cytokines, and growth factors that are found to be lower in the donor milk as compared to mother's own milk.
US09345244B2
The present invention relates to novel non-steroidal brassinosteroid mimetic derivatives, to processes and intermediates for preparing them, to plant growth regulator compositions comprising them and to methods of using them for controlling the growth of plants and/or promoting the germination of seeds.
US09345229B2
Farmers utilize a rack to provide limited access to a bale to feeding livestock. A rack for feeding a bale to animals is provided including at least one rotating weight-activated rail containing the bale within the rack. The rotating weight-activated rail includes at least one arm projecting downward under the bale. A weight of the bale acting upon the arm projecting downward under the bale causes the rotating weight-activated rail to rotate against the bale and contain the bale while the livestock is feeding.
US09345224B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01051076. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01051076. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01051076 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01051076 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09345208B2
A system for converting flue gas into useable bio-oil based compounds using algae comprises a grow tank enclosing multiple processing cells wherein each cell incorporates light emitting columns and a moveable grate to stir the algae and nutrients, and a flue gas distribution system configured to cool the flue gas, mix the gas with water, adjust the pH of the water, add nutrients—including a lipid trigger—to the water, and distribute the water to the processing cells through bubblers.
US09345189B2
A sensor and sensor mount assembly are described. The sensor may include a sensor body, window, and frame. When the sensor is mounted to a seed delivery system, an alignment tab or recess on the sensor or the delivery system may mate with an alignment recess or tab included on the other of the sensor and the delivery system. The sensor frame may include a side flange proximate the sensor window, which may seat in a recess on the delivery system when the sensor is mounted to the delivery system. A mounting tab or groove on one of the sensor or the delivery system may be oriented at an oblique angle with respect to a seed path, and may seat in an obliquely angled mounting groove or tab included on the other of the sensor or the delivery system, in order to mount the sensor to the delivery system.
US09351436B2
Presented herein are stud bump bonding techniques for electrically connecting an elongate conductor, such as a wire or pin, to a bonding pad. A plurality of stud bumps are bonded to a surface of a bonding pad and an elongate electrical conductor is positioned in proximity to the plurality of stud bumps. The elongate conductor is bonded to one or more of the stud bumps.
US09351429B2
A fluid level control system includes: a first immersion cooling tank having a first volume of immersion cooling liquid and an inlet/outlet pipe extending from a base wall of the tank by which immersion cooling liquid can flow into and out of the first immersion cooling tank; at least one second volume of cooling liquid held within a liquid containing unit having a corresponding inlet/outlet pipe; and a pipe distribution system that physically connects the second volume of immersion cooling liquid to the first volume of immersion cooling liquid via respective inlet/outlet pipes and which enables fluid equilibrium to be maintained between the first volume of liquid and the second volume of liquid via gravitational equilibrium and/or passive level control such that a first volume level of the first volume of immersion cooling liquid remains substantially equal to a second volume level of the second volume of immersion cooling liquid.
US09351419B2
There is disclosed an interactive whiteboard system including a display surface (102) and a projector (108), wherein a support structure includes a support arm (110) which extends away from the plane of the interactive surface to support a projector head of the projector in a position in front of the display surface, wherein there is further provided a safety member (212) for connecting the support arm to the support structure, the safety member being arranged such that in an overload condition of the support arm, the support arm pivots relative to the support structure in a controlled manner until a predetermined stop point is reached.
US09351414B1
An enclosure for a television distribution component and method for assembling the same includes a mounting plate, a plurality of extensions extending from the mounting plate and a housing receiving the electrical component. The housing has a plurality of openings aligned with the extensions. The housing having a cover wall generally parallel to the mounting plate and a plurality of side walls, said cover wall includes a first plurality of openings aligned with the plurality of extensions, a first side wall of the plurality of side walls includes a plurality of openings for electrically connecting to the electrical component.
US09351410B2
An electronic component built-in multi-layer wiring board that is configured by collectively stacking a plurality of printed wiring boards therein by thermal compression bonding and that has a plurality of electronic components built in thereto, wherein the electronic components include a first electronic component and a second electronic component having a thickness which is greater than that of the first electronic component, the first electronic component is built in to an embedding-dedicated board set to a thickness which is 80% to 125% of the thickness of the second electronic component, and the embedding-dedicated board and the second electronic component are then mounted on the printed wiring board and thereby built in to the electronic component built-in multi-layer wiring board, and the embedding-dedicated board is formed by an identical material to that of the printed wiring board.
US09351408B2
A substrate for use in a PCB or PWB board having a coreless buildup layer and at least one metal and at least one dielectric layer. The coreless buildup dielectric layers can consist of at least partially cured thermoset resin and thermoplastic resin. The substrate may also contain land grid array (LGA) packaging.
US09351404B2
An electronic device comprising a laminate comprising pluralities of insulator layers each provided with conductor patterns, and an amplifier-constituting semiconductor device mounted to a mounting electrode formed on an upper surface of the laminate, a first ground electrode being formed on an insulator layer near an upper surface of the laminate; a second ground electrode being formed on an insulator layer near a lower surface of the laminate; the first ground electrode being connected to the mounting electrode through pluralities of via-holes; conductor patterns constituting the first circuit block being disposed in a region below the amplifier-constituting semiconductor device between the first ground electrode and the second ground electrode; and at least part of a conductor pattern for a line connecting the first circuit block to the amplifier-constituting semiconductor device being disposed on an insulator layer sandwiched by the mounting electrode and the first ground electrode.
US09351397B2
A resin composition forms a roughened surface with low roughness on an insulating layer regardless of roughening conditions when used as an insulating layer of a printed wiring board, and is excellent in adhesion between the insulating layer and a plated conductor layer, and also has low thermal expansion coefficient (linear expansion coefficient) and high glass transition temperature and is also excellent in moist heat resistance. The resin composition includes an epoxy compound, a cyanate ester compound and an inorganic filler, wherein the cyanate ester compound is at least selected from a naphthol aralkyl type cyanate ester compound, an aromatic hydrocarbon formaldehyde type cyanate ester compound, a biphenyl aralkyl type cyanate ester compound and a novolak type cyanate ester compound; and the content of the epoxy compound is 60 to 75% by weight based on the total amount of the epoxy compound and the cyanate ester compound.
US09351393B2
An interconnect substrate comprising a laminated body, including an electric conductor and an insulator, over which an electronic element is disposed, wherein the laminated body includes a first layer having at least one first conductor separated in an island shape, a first connecting member which is buried in the laminated body in order to electrically connect the electronic element and the first conductor, a second layer having a third conductor which is provided opposite to at least a partial region of the first conductor, a second conductor which is provided opposite to at least one of the first conductor and the third conductor with a layer of the insulator interposed therebetween, and a second connecting member, buried in the laminated body, which electrically connects the second conductor and the first conductor or the third conductor.
US09351391B2
The present invention relates to an RF system (1) able to generate a voltage for accelerating charged particles in a synchrocyclotron, the RF system (1) including a resonant cavity (2) comprising a conducting enclosure (5) within which are placed a conducting pillar (3) of which a first end is linked to an accelerating electrode (4) able to accelerate the charged particles, a rotary variable capacitor (10) coupled between a second end opposite from the first end of the pillar (3) and the conducting enclosure (5), the said capacitor (10) comprising fixed electrodes (11) and a rotor (13) comprising mobile electrodes (12), the fixed electrodes (11) and the mobile electrodes (12) forming a variable capacitance able to vary a resonant frequency of the resonant cavity (2) in a cyclic manner over time, an exterior layer of the rotor (13) having a conductivity of greater than 20,000,000 S/m at 300 K. At least one part of the exterior surface (15) of the rotor (13) is a surface possessing a normal total emissivity of greater than 0.5 and less than 1, thereby allowing better cooling of the rotor and/or making it possible to dispense with a system for cooling the rotor by conduction and/or by convection.
US09351386B2
A polarity control unit includes a flag storage unit that stores any one of a first polarity pattern by which a positive direct-current voltage is applied to discharge needles in a first group and a negative direct-current voltage is applied to discharge needles in a second group and a second polarity pattern by which a negative direct-current voltage is applied to the discharge needles in the first group and a positive direct-current voltage is applied to the discharge needles in the second group, a flag update unit that rewrites one flag stored in the flag storage unit to another flag when a power switch is turned on from its off state or is turned off from its on state, and a command unit that commands a polarity pattern corresponding to the flag stored in the flag storage unit to be output from the polarity output unit.
US09351383B2
A string set of series-connected incandescent bulbs in which the bulbs are individually provided with a voltage responsive shunt which is inoperative during normal operation of the string set when connected to a source of operating potential and which becomes operative only in response to an increase in the voltage thereacross which exceeds its rating, and in which the remaining bulbs of the circuit continue to receive rated current therethrough and rated voltage thereacross and further continue to be illuminated even though other bulbs in the string are either inoperative or are missing from their respective sockets. The string includes a split bridge AC to DC converter which provides pulsating DC current to the shunted, series-connected incandescent bulbs.
US09351382B2
In various embodiments, a device is provided. The device includes a substrate having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The substrate includes a plurality of driver circuits at the first side of the substrate. Each of the plurality of driver circuits is configured to drive a current from the first side of the substrate to the second side of the substrate. The device further includes at least one load interface at the second side of the substrate. The at least one load interface is configured to couple the current from the plurality of the driver circuits to a plurality of loads at the second side of the substrate.
US09351377B2
The present invention relates to a dimming control device and method, and a dimming control device according to an embodiment of the present invention may control the ON/OFF of a lamp depending on whether a power pad is touched, and control the brightness of the lamp depending on whether dimming pads are touched. Thus, a user may control brightness step by step and may conveniently manipulate each step of brightness.
US09351372B2
This lighting device comprises a light-emitting unit, a reception unit for receiving information from an adjacent lighting device, and a control unit for letting the light-emitting unit emit light according to the information received by the reception unit.
US09351364B2
An LED driver IC for driving external strings of LEDs comprises a prefix register and a data register connected in series with each other and with the prefix and data registers in other driver ICs. The prefix and data registers of the driver ICs are connected in a daisy chain arrangement with an interface IC. The interface IC loads data identifying a functional latch into the prefix register and data defining a functional condition into the data register of each driver IC. The data in the data register is then transferred to the functional latch to control the functional condition within the LED driver IC.
US09351363B1
An LED lighting device includes first and second luminescent units, first and second current controllers, a line voltage sensing unit and a mode control unit. The first current controller with a first current setting is selectively coupled to the first luminescent unit according to a sensing voltage associated a range of the rectified AC voltage. The second current controller with a second current setting is coupled in series to the second luminescent unit. The line voltage sensing unit is configured to detect the sensing voltage. The mode control unit is configured to operate the LED lighting device in a first driving mode when detecting that the rectified AC voltage is within a first AC range and operate the LED lighting device in a second driving mode when detecting that the rectified AC voltage is within a second AC range.
US09351353B2
A power management system for a lighting circuit may include a grid shifting controller that includes a processor and a connection to an external power source. The power management system may also include a communication interface associated with the grid shifting controller. The grid shifting controller may be configured to provide control information to a processor of at least one grid shifting electrical fixture over the communication interface, the control information being configured to direct the at least one grid shifting electrical fixture on the use of power from the external power source and an energy storage device associated with the at least one grid shifting electrical fixture.
US09351342B2
An inverter for converting electrical power from a DC voltage generator is disclosed. The inverter includes a moisture sensor inside a housing of the inverter, and a control unit for controlling the inverter connected to the moisture sensor for receiving a moisture value from the moisture sensor. The inverter also includes a heating element connected to the control unit. The control unit is configured to control the inverter based on the moisture value such that, in the case where a limit value for the moisture is exceeded, the voltage at an input of the converter unit lies below an arc-avoiding voltage value and electrical power is fed to the heating element. Furthermore, a method for operating an inverter of this type is disclosed.
US09351330B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of Bluetooth communication. For example, an apparatus may include a wireless communication unit to receive at a first Bluetooth device an indication message from a second Bluetooth device, the indication message including a state indication to indicate a non-movement state or a movement state of the second Bluetooth device, the wireless communication unit to transmit to the second Bluetooth device an update message including at least one value to indicate a rate of exchanging messages between the first and second Bluetooth devices, the rate being based on the state indication.
US09351325B2
A policy control method for a converged network comprises: in a roaming scenario, after learning that a user equipment (UE) accesses a mobile network through a wireless local area network (WLAN) access, a visited policy and charging rules function (V-PCRF) establishing a subsession serving WLAN Offload when establishing an S9 session to a home policy and charging rules function (H-PCRF), and carrying a WLAN Offload instruction. With the present document, the WLAN offload data can be distinguished from data routed back to an EPC network in the roaming scenario, thereby delivering policy control for the WLAN offload data.
US09351323B2
A method of registering an electric device in a wireless control system includes: A. Input a device code of an electric device and a user code, and save them in an interpreter; B. Transmit the device code and the user code to a server; and C. Establish a connection between the device code and the user code in the server. With the connection between the device code and the user code the wireless control system may identify each registered electric device and the user who owns the electric device.
US09351315B2
Provided are a resource scheduling method and device; the method comprises: scheduling resource according to the transmission demands; and configuring a frame structure with a non-fixed frame length matching the scheduled resource. The method according to the present invention prevents wastage of wireless resources caused by competition conflict or random back-off, and can better adapt to the demands of different kinds of data services with varied features in the future.
US09351314B2
Embodiments for providing for dissemination of packets in a network performing distributed beamforming are generally described herein. In some embodiments, distributing packets from nodes in a squad local area network using a first waveform to beamforming nodes, providing scheduling to a long link interface for delivering a stream of packets free of scheduling conflict and distributing a copy of the packets from a long link interface based on the provided scheduling and using a second waveform, the first waveform being different from the second waveform.
US09351298B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a service data scheduling method and related devices. The method includes: receiving a service attribute message; obtaining a user priority of a UE according to the service attribute message and attribute information of each service corresponding to service data of the UE that is cached locally; granting authorization to the UE according to user priority of the UE; granting authorization to each service of the UE according to the authorization granted to the UE and the service priority of the service of the UE; and sending authorization information of the each service corresponding to the service data of the UE that is cached in the base station controller to the base station controller. When the service data of the same user is cached in the base station and the base station controller in a distributed way, service data scheduling for a user is implemented.
US09351289B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for uplink transmission/reception of at least one slot in a sub-frame comprising two slots. A base station transmits information which controls the slot performing the uplink transmission among the two slots, to user equipment, and the user equipment performs uplink transmission from the slot directed by the information. When the user equipment transmits ACK/NACK information, the ACK/NACK information is transmitted from the first slot of the user equipment if the CCE associated with the first slot is the CCE included in the PDCCH of the user equipment, and the ACK/NACK information is transmitted from the second slot if the CCE is the CCE associated with the second slot.
US09351279B2
A radio communication apparatus specifies a radio resource area in which a radio communication apparatus searches for a control signal, on the basis of information about the use of a plurality of frequency bands. Then, the radio communication apparatus transmits a control signal addressed to the radio communication apparatus in the specified radio resource area. The radio communication apparatus calculates the specified radio resource area on the basis of the information about the use of the plurality of frequency bands. Then, the radio communication apparatus searches signals in the calculated radio resource area, out of signals received from the radio communication apparatus, and thereby detects the control signal addressed to the radio communication apparatus.
US09351278B1
A determination may be made that a region of the RAN is serving more than a threshold extent of WCDs configured for machine-to-machine communication. The region of the RAN may include a set of one or more wireless coverage areas, and each wireless coverage area in the set of wireless coverage areas may include at least one paging channel. The paging channel parameters of each wireless coverage area in the set of wireless coverage areas may be modified to increase a rate at which the RAN successfully pages WCDs via the set of wireless coverage areas.
US09351274B2
Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a device, mobility management node and/or a serving gateway, and corresponding methods there, for providing application, service or priority based paging. According to some of the example embodiments, the decision whether or not to issue or accept a paging request may be made based on a priority, application or service (or type of service) associated with the paging request.
US09351272B2
This disclosure provides a method, a Back-end-server (102, 400, 506) and a system (500) for protection of location information of a UE. The Back-end-server can receive (104, 202, 302) a request message from an operator interface (504) requesting location information of the UE. Based on probability criteria or blocking factors, it is determined (110, 208, 306-310) whether location information may be transferred to the operator interface. One advantage is that a quantitative security for the privacy of subscribers is provided, with which the privacy of the subscribers is not disclosed.
US09351269B2
A method and system for processing service continuity are provided in the disclosure. The method comprises: a slave ATCF determines that a master ATCF is unavailable; the slave ATCF sends an allocated STN-SR to an SCC AS; the SCC AS sends an ATU-STI and a C-MSISDN to the slave ATCF according to the STN-SR; and the slave ATCF continues a service according to the STN-SR, the ATU-STI, and the C-MSISDN. Therefore, a problem in related art that how to recover a service as soon as possible when an exception occurs in the master ATCF is solved, so that an effect of rapidly continuing the service is achieved when an exception occurs in the master ATCF and there is no registration information of the UE.
US09351256B2
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal and control method thereof capable of managing power consumption. The mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a battery unit configured to supply power to an electronic element mounted on a terminal body, a measurement unit configured to measure a battery remaining amount for the battery unit, and a controller configured to set a battery assigned amount for the battery unit to a designated contact address, and implement a limited mode according to a result of comparing the battery remaining amount with the battery to assigned amount, and limit a function based on information on the contact addresses other than the designated contact address when the limited mode is implemented.
US09351253B2
A low-power roaming mechanism is described. This low-power roaming mechanism is used by a portable electronic device when the portable electronic device enters a stand-by mode (sleep mode). During this stand-by mode, the portable electronic device allows a wireless interface to look for surrounding wireless networks with a configurable quota. This quota is allotted for roaming based on the usage or communication pattern of the portable electronic device. Once the allotted quota is completely used, the portable electronic device is blocked from performing roaming operations to prevent the portable electronic device from draining the battery.
US09351250B2
Methods and apparatuses for wireless communications are disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus for wireless communications includes a receiver configured to wirelessly receive a message comprising a time for the apparatus to wake up and instructions to execute an action in response to receiving a paging frame from a wireless communication device. The receiver is further configured to receive the paging frame from the wireless communication device. The apparatus further includes a processor configured to execute the action in response to receiving the paging frame. In one implementation, receiving the paging frame comprises comparing an address of the paging frame with an address of the apparatus. The action may include one or more of sending a power save poll frame, waiting for packet reception, receiving the beacon, and receiving the delivery traffic indication message beacon.
US09351245B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for regulating transmit power and a wireless routing device, which relate to the field of wireless communications technologies, and can adjust transmit power according to a current work category of a wireless routing device in a wireless local area network, thereby ensuring transmission strength of a radio wave or saving electrical energy, and improving user experience. The method in the present invention includes: determining, by a wireless routing device, a data type of to-be-transmitted data; when the data type of the to-be-transmitted data is uplink data, selecting, by the wireless routing device, first transmit power to send the to-be-transmitted data on a preset channel Channel; and when the data type of the to-be-transmitted data is downlink data, selecting, by the wireless routing device, second transmit power to send the to-be-transmitted data on the preset channel Channel.
US09351243B2
Wireless communication network terminal operation is disclosed. The network comprises wireless network nodes having first and second downlink transmission modes. The first mode involves normal operation of a particular network node and is applicable when a number of active terminals in a cell associated with the particular network node is greater than a first mode threshold value. The second mode involves restricted downlink transmission of the particular network node and is applicable when the number of active terminals in the cell associated with the particular network node is not greater than a second mode threshold value. A cell identity is detected for a cell associated with a wireless network node of the wireless communication system. A current downlink transmission mode of the node is detected as the first or second downlink transmission mode, and an operation of the terminal is adapted based on the detected current downlink transmission mode.
US09351221B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided to reduce coexistence interference that may occur following a S1 handover. The method, apparatus and computer program product may provide the target access point with information regarding one or more frequencies to be avoided so as to reduce instances of coexistence interference that might otherwise occur following a SI handover.
US09351220B2
Method and apparatus for measurement reporting in carrier aggregation wireless communication systems
When detecting occurrence of an event for transmitting a measurement report of a radio condition of a cell at a frequency set for a base station apparatus, to the base station apparatus (3) communicating with a terminal apparatus (2), the terminal apparatus (2) in a wireless communication system (1) creates a measurement report including information indicating radio conditions of cells at a frequency at which the event occurred and at another different frequency. The base station apparatus (3) controls whether or not to perform handover of the terminal apparatus (2) to another cell, on the basis of the measurement report transmitted from the terminal apparatus (2). Thereby, there is provided a wireless communication system in which a base station apparatus and the terminal apparatus are communicable with each other using multiple frequencies, the wireless communication system being capable of shortening time required for handover.
US09351217B2
A wireless network system includes abase station of a first network and a user equipment camping on the first network. The user equipment receives an indicator, a probability value within a predetermined range, and at least one RAN rule from the base station. When the indicator is set to a specific value, the user equipment generates a random value within the predetermined range. When the at least one RAN rule is satisfied and a probability condition associated with the random value and the probability value is fulfilled, the user equipment steers traffic from the first network to a second network or from the second network to the first network.
US09351214B2
When camping on a serving cell which is not barred from cell selection/reselection, a user equipment is configured to evaluate whether a cell reselection procedure should be performed based on first cell reselection criterion. If the serving cell is barred from cell selection/reselection by the network when the user equipment is currently camping on the serving cell, the user equipment is configured to evaluate whether the cell reselection procedure should be performed based on a second cell reselection criteria. The judging conditions of the second cell reselection criterion are less strict than the judging conditions of the first cell reselection criterion.
US09351211B2
A Radio Network Controller (RNC) and method in a non-Long Term Evolution (non-LTE) radio access network for controlling a Release with Redirection (RwR) procedure in which a User Equipment (UE) operating in the non-LTE radio access network is released and redirected to an LTE radio access network. When the RNC detects that the UE has been inactive for a defined period of time, and the UE is capable of operating in the LTE radio access network, the RNC determines whether the UE will have adequate signal quality to operate in the LTE radio access network. If so, the RNC performs the RwR procedure to release the UE from the non-LTE radio access network and redirect the UE to the LTE radio access network. If not, the RNC performs a normal release procedure.
US09351208B2
The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies and discloses a multi-site cell communication method, a base station controller, a base station, and a communication system thereof to increase cell capacity of a base station based on a multi-site cell technology. A multi-site cell communication method includes: when the terminals that respectively access different subsites occupy different logical channels, handing over terminals, which access different subsites respectively, to a same logical channel. A multi-site cell communication method includes: using a same logical channel to modulate and send downlink data to terminals that access different subsites respectively; and/or receiving and demodulating uplink data that is sent through the same logical channel by the terminals that access different subsites respectively.
US09351194B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for indicating and responding to various congestion levels in a communication system, such as a wireless communication network. A congestion level in the network is determined, and a percentage of data packets to be transmitted to an endpoint, such as user equipment or another network endpoint serving the user, are marked to indicate the congestion level. The endpoint determines the congestion level at the network from the percentage of received data packets that are marked and may initiate an appropriate response behavior in response to the determined congestion level.
US09351189B2
A method for reporting minimization of drive tests measurement data is disclosed. The network assigns a preamble dedicated to the reporting of the logged MDT measurement data. The UE in the idle mode may therefore report the logged MDT measurement data in the appropriate situation. The UEs perform the first random access procedure with the network to obtain the uplink resource and a dedicate indicator for performing the second random access procedure. The UEs perform the second random access procedure for transmitting the request message. The network transmits the response message with a scheduling plan according to the request message(s). The UE transmits the logged MDT measurement data according to the scheduling plan.
US09351188B2
A wireless base station device includes a broadcast signal transmission unit that transmits a broadcast signal to a cell; a measurement signal communication unit that transmits to a mobile terminal device existing in the cell a measurement instruction signal and receives a measurement report signal from the mobile terminal device; a failure detection processing unit that detects a failure of a first cell with respect to a transmission function from the wireless base station to the first cell according to whether a measurement report signal including a measurement report of a wireless quality for a second cell measured by a mobile terminal device existing in a coverage area of the first cell is received or not; and an alarm signal transmission unit that transmits an alarm signal to notify a failure monitoring device of an occurrence of the failure of the first cell.
US09351187B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining power provided by network terminals (103) to a common network node (101). The method comprises the steps of measuring (S201) power received per time unit from each individual network terminal, determining (S202) channel power loss per time unit of each individual network terminal and determining (S203) power provided per time unit by each individual network terminal by adding, to the power received per time unit from said each individual network terminal, the corresponding channel power loss per time unit. Further, the method comprises the steps of measuring (S204) power consumption per time unit of the network node caused by each individual network terminal and determining (S205) net power per time unit provided by each individual network terminal by taking into account the network node power consumption per time unit caused by said each individual network terminal and the power provided per time unit by said each individual network terminal.
US09351186B2
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for frequency selective channel modeling. One exemplary system includes a network equipment test device including at least one processor. The network equipment test device includes the UE emulator implemented by the at least one processor and configured to emulate a plurality of UEs that attach to and communicate with a device under test. The system further includes a frequency selective channel modeler configured to receive resource scheduling information for the UEs from the device under test, to determine channel performance categories for the UEs using the resource scheduling information and to determine values for channel quality parameters using the channel performance categories assigned to the resource blocks, which represent selected frequencies in the total channel bandwidth. The emulated UEs communicate the channel quality parameters to the device under test based on the frequency allocated for a given UE in the channel bandwidth.
US09351182B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, initiating first and second groups of communication sessions according to testing criteria where the first group of communication sessions is established via a local area wireless access technology utilizing the distributed antenna system and the second group of communication sessions is established via the second radio access technology utilizing the distributed antenna system, and measuring performance data for the first and second groups of communication sessions according to the testing criteria. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09351181B2
Systems for monitoring and managing devices within a monitored system are described. The system can include a gateway device that is connected to the monitored system and configured to determine whether or not it remains connected to the monitored system. The gateway device is coupled to a network and can function to collect data about the monitored and manage devices within the monitored system and send the collected data over the network. The gateway device can also function to manage a managed device within the monitored system by controlling the functioning of the managed device. The gateway device can generate instructions for managing the managed device or receive instructions for managing the managed device over the network.
US09351176B2
A method and apparatus for tracking amplitude and phase of a received low frequency signal comprising a walking pilot signal is disclosed, wherein the pilot signal changes in frequency a number of times according to a sequence that repeats. The design includes initializing a FIFO buffer and summing estimated channel power over the sequence to determine an initial total power. The design also includes, for a new received symbol, determining an updated power estimate for the new received symbol, placing the updated power estimate in the FIFO buffer, and removing a least current value from the FIFO buffer, and estimating amplitude of the signal using a sum of all updated power estimates in the FIFO buffer divided by the initial total power. The design may further include determining a delta phase value using maximum ratio combining scaled with a scaling factor.
US09351168B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication system comprising a plurality of antennas, a plurality of base stations, each base station being adapted to connect to one or more of the antennas over an available spectrum, and a wireless switching module. The wireless switching module is adapted to allocate one or more portions of the available spectrum to each antenna dependent on a compatibility constraint on the antennas, and assign each antenna for connection to a base station.
US09351167B1
Technologies for mobile device security are disclosed. A described technique includes launching a monitoring application that has a priority receiver attribute for a Short Message Service (SMS); receiving, within the monitoring application, a message from the SMS, the message being distributed to other applications on the mobile device; parsing the message to extract an originating address and message data; storing, in a data structure controlled by the monitoring application, the originating address and the message data; after a predetermined time interval, using the originating address and the message data stored in the data structure to determine whether the message has been stored in a non-priority client SMS database residing on the mobile device; and if the message has not been stored in the client SMS database, determining whether one or more applications other than the monitoring application that have the priority receiver attribute are associated with malicious activity.
US09351164B2
A processing device of an NFC device receives a request, initiated by a first application loaded in a memory of the NFC device, to modify one or more parameters of an NFC routing table of an NFC router of the NFC device. The NFC routing table has parameters indicating the devices to which NFC messages are to be routed. The processing device retrieves a first identifier associated with the application and transmits the first identifier to the NFC router. The NFC router, based on the first identifier, verifies whether or not the application is authorized to modify the routing table.
US09351163B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes establishing a network connection to a central security system in a central network, receiving a message from the central security system, activating a grace window based on the message, and determining whether the grace window has expired. The method further includes deleting, when the grace window expires, one or more objects from the mobile device based on a sanitization policy. In specific embodiments, the network connection is terminated before the grace window expires, and the grace window expires unless the mobile device establishes another network connection with the central security system. In further embodiments, the method includes receiving the sanitization policy from the central security system. The sanitization policy identifies the one or more objects to be deleted from the mobile device when the grace window expires.
US09351148B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media for providing dynamic steering of roaming in a telecommunications network are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for providing dynamic steering of roaming in a telecommunications network includes a method for providing dynamic steering of roaming in a telecommunications network. The method includes, at a mobile telecommunications device, the device being associated with a subscriber of a first network carrier, receiving, from a source other than an operator of the first network carrier, information identifying a second network carrier that is different from the first network carrier. Based on the received information, the device either makes a change to a preferred roaming network carrier for the device by setting the second network carrier as a preferred roaming network carrier for the device, or connects to the second network carrier, where the second network carrier is not a preferred roaming network carrier for the device, and without changing the preferred roaming network carrier for the device.
US09351145B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate Mobile IP home agent (HA) discovery in a wireless communication system. Discovery of a HA for Mobile IP can be conducted as described herein for a mobile terminal located on a network wherein movement of the terminal is managed by a network-based mobility protocol. For example, various aspects described herein can be utilized for discovery of a HA located in a 3GPP network from 3GPP and/or non-3GPP access. Further, various aspects described herein can be utilized to discover a gateway acting as mobility anchor for a network mobility protocol utilized by the network. As additionally described herein, HA discovery can be conducted in connection with DNS query formation and communication, network attach and/or re-attach procedures, Neighbor Discovery signaling, and/or other procedures.
US09351140B2
Systems and methods for providing special handling for certain types of communications are provided. More particularly, a normally secured access point can permit emergency communications to be transmitted in connection with unauthorized communication devices. Supplemental communications, for example to websites included in a predefined list by a communication device, can also be permitted once an emergency communication by that communication device has been allowed. Accordingly, emergency communications can be supported, while continuing to limit access with respect to non-emergency communications.
US09351135B2
The present invention discloses a trigger message sending method, device and system, which relate to the field of communications technologies and can resolve a problem that a Machine Type Communications-Inter Working Function MTC-IWF device and a short message service-service center SMS-SC repeatedly send a trigger Trigger message to a user equipment UE. The method includes: receiving, by the MTC-IWF device, a delivery report sent by the SMS-SC, where the delivery report is sent to the MTC-IWF device by the SMS-SC after the SMS-SC fails to send the trigger message to the UE; and waiting, by the MTC-IWF device according to the delivery report, for the SMS-SC to resend the trigger message, or resending, by the MTC-IWF device, the trigger message according to the delivery report. The present invention is mainly used in a process of sending a trigger message.
US09351134B2
A system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method that enables short message service (SMS) text messaging to be integrated into existing applications is presented. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include receiving a request from a client application to transmit a message to a recipient device. The method may further include validating the request to ensure that the telephone number is valid and that the message conforms to a predefined messaging standard. In response to successfully validating the request, the method causes transmission of the message to the recipient device.
US09351119B2
Example methods, apparatuses, or articles of manufacture are disclosed herein that may be utilized, in whole or in part, to facilitate or support one or more operations or techniques for detecting location changes and monitoring assistance data via scanning for use in or with a mobile device. Briefly, in accordance with at least one implementation, a method may include obtaining, at a mobile device, a rough estimate of a location of the mobile device; identifying a plurality of transmitters within a signal acquisition range of the roughly estimated location; transmitting probe requests addressed to at least some of the transmitters; and selectively initiating a passive scan at a receiver of the mobile device if a number of responses to the probe requests received from the transmitters is less than a threshold number.
US09351115B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for reminding a user based on a set position by using a mobile terminal. The method mainly includes detecting, by a mobile terminal of a user by using a wireless network, that a distance between the mobile terminal and a set position is greater than a set value and reminding, by the mobile terminal, the user of a set event according to a set reminding manner. The present disclosure can make full use of a wireless local area network (WLAN) function or a wireless communication function of a mobile terminal to determine, without any additional hardware, a position of a user by using a WLAN or a positioning system, thereby implementing a function of reminding the user.
US09351113B1
The present disclosure provides example methods operable by computing device. An example method may include querying a location of a computing device with a first frequency. The method may also include accumulating data on the computing device over a time period. The data may include respective locations of the computing device during the time period with respect to the time of day and at increments based on the first frequency. The method may also include determining a model of the location of the computing device with respect to the time of day based on the accumulated data. The method may also include comparing the current location of the computing device to the model. If the current location of the computing device is consistent with the model, the method may also include querying the location of the computing device with a second frequency.
US09351106B2
A system for providing locality information to a user is disclosed. The system comprises at least one magnetic field beacon. Each beacon comprises means for generating a magnetic field encoded with information associated with the beacon. A communication device is provided that comprises means for detecting the encoded magnetic field emitted by the beacon and means for extracting the information encoded in the detected magnetic field.
US09351099B2
The present invention provides a scheduling method in a wireless personal area network (WPAN) system and a device therefor. Specifically, a method for allocating a guaranteed time slot (GTS) in a WPNA system comprises the steps of: receiving a GTS request command for requesting periodic GTS allocation from a device; and transmitting a beacon frame which includes periodic GTS allocation information to the device, wherein a GTS allocation interval is determined by GTS interval information included in the GTS request command, and an allocated periodic GTS expires if data or an acknowledgement (ACK) frame is not transmitted from the device within a section determined by the GTS allocation interval.
US09351092B2
There is provided an audio processing device including an estimation unit configured to estimate a user's representative perceived position of a stereoscopic image from a difference between a left-eye image and a right-eye image of the stereoscopic image displayed on a display device, and an audio controller configured to control audio output of an audio output device in accordance with the representative perceived position estimated by the estimation unit.
US09351075B2
There is provided a body-sensitive vibration headphone for suppressing resonance that occurs when a vibrator that generates body-sensitive vibration vibrates. The body-sensitive vibration headphone includes electroacoustic transducer (50) that converts an input signal into an acoustic wave, housing (20) that accommodates electroacoustic transducer (50), vibrator (31) that converts the input signal into vibration, and ear pad (40) attached to housing (20). Vibrator (31) is attached to ear pad (40), and a structure between vibrator (31) and ear pad (40) is formed such that conduction of the vibration from the vibrator (31) is impeded.
US09351074B2
An audio system includes plural speakers including a planar speaker configured to emit a plane wave on the basis of a received audio signal, and a controller configured to supply audio signals to the plural speakers respectively, and to set signal levels of audio signals to be supplied to the planar speaker and at least one speaker, other than the planar speaker, of the plural speakers in accordance with a control signal specifying a perceived distance of sound to be heard by a listener.
US09351073B1
Systems and methods in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure overcome one or more deficiencies in conventional approaches to stereo playback. In particular, various embodiments attempt to cancel or reduce the sound distortion and/or noise from “crosstalk signals” such that stereo effect can be maintained and/or enhanced. In some embodiments, the various embodiments attempt to reduce and/or compensate for the loss of low frequency (bass) sound signals. Moreover, a listener's position, such as his/her head position, can be tracked such that the enhanced stereo playback can be maintained if the listener changes position.
US09351072B2
A method and audio signal processor for detecting feedback in an electrical amplification system divides a frequency spectrum into a plurality of frequency bands, classifies a tone present in an incoming audio signal into one of the plurality of frequency bands based on a frequency of the tone, selects a threshold value based on the frequency band into which the tone is classified, and disqualifies the tone from potentially being feedback if an amplitude of the tone is greater than an amplitude of a harmonic of the tone by less than the threshold value. The tone is deemed to be potentially feedback if the amplitude of the tone is greater than an amplitude of a plurality of harmonics of the tone by at least the threshold value.
US09351065B2
The present invention discloses a loudspeaker enclosure system having detachable wireless headphones, including: a loudspeaker enclosure and wireless headphones, where the loudspeaker enclosure and the wireless headphones may be used separately; also, the wireless headphones are arranged with a first connector, and the loudspeaker enclosure is arranged with a second connector. The first connector and the second connector may be fit into an electrical plug connection to use the wireless headphones and the loudspeaker enclosure in combination, so that the wireless headphones receive wireless audio signals and output the wireless audio signals to the loudspeaker enclosure to enable the loudspeaker enclosure to play music. The present invention can receive wireless audio signals and play music anywhere with the wireless headphones, and can also share music with others by playing music with the loudspeaker enclosure when necessary.
US09351064B2
A wireless communications headset system for double hearing protection systems that eliminates the problems associated with typical wireless communications systems. The system employs a magnetic-field coupled wireless link from a loop transmitter to a magnetic field receiver. Current through the transmitter wire loops generates magnetic flux which passes through a communications earplug. The earplug has a receiver for converting the magnetic flux to electrical voltage, and this voltage is used to drive a speaker within the earplug. The transmitter can be easily installed into aviation headsets. The loop transmitter has an open center sized so that it fits around the pinna of the human ear enabling a close position to the communications earplug. This close position is advantageous if an efficient system is desired.
US09351060B2
A modular speaker system, comprising an exoskeleton, configured to mechanically support and quick attach and release at least one functional panel and an electrical interface provided within the exoskeleton, configured to mate with a corresponding electrical connector of the functional panel. An optional endoskeleton is provided to support internal components. The system preferably provides a digital electronic controller, and the electrical interface is a digital data and power bus, with multiplexed communications between the elements of the system. The elements of the system preferably include at least one speaker, and other audiovisual and communications components. Multiple modules may be interconnected, communicating through the electrical interface. A base module may be provided to provide power and typical control, user and audiovisual interface connectors.
US09351047B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having a controller to collect one or more user-generated comments from each of a plurality of computing devices, detect a correlation in the one or more user-generated comments collected from the plurality of computing devices, and establish a social network between the plurality of computing devices according to the detected correlation. The one or more user-generated comments can be temporally associated with media content presented at the plurality of computing devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09351046B2
A computer-implemented method that includes receiving a request to generate an interface within a software application that is configured to play back one or more media files; for a first media file, generating an image representing a frame of the first media file; and causing the image to be displayed within the interface on a display device, where the image is configured to detect an event that causes a media player to be loaded into the software application behind the image.
US09351036B2
A channel receiving apparatus includes: a first modulating device converts a first channel into a first predetermined frequency according to a first oscillating signal and a second oscillating signal; and a second modulating device converts a second channel into a second predetermined frequency according to a third oscillating signal and a fourth oscillating signal; wherein the first oscillating signal has a first frequency, the second oscillating signal has a second frequency, the third oscillating signal has a third frequency, and the fourth oscillating signal has a fourth frequency, when the third frequency is substantially equal to the first frequency, the third oscillating signal is arranged to be shifted by a predetermined frequency range to have a fifth frequency different from the first frequency, and when the second frequency is substantially equal to the first frequency, the second frequency and the first frequency are shifted by the predetermined frequency range.
US09351035B2
It is presented a hybrid media receiver capable of receiving broadcast media content using a first broadcast media network and a second broadcast media network, wherein the first broadcast media network complies with Internet Protocol Television, IPTV. The hybrid media receiver comprises: a content type receiver arranged to receive a first content type identifier and a second content type identifier, corresponding to the first broadcast media network and the second broadcast media network, respectively; and a channel data obtainer arranged to obtain, using the first content type identifier, a first list of scheduled media channels available to the hybrid media receiver over the first broadcast media network; and to obtain, using the second content type identifier, a second list of scheduled media channels available to the hybrid media receiver over the second broadcast media network. A corresponding middleware server, methods, computer programs and computer program products are also presented.
US09351034B2
An apparatus, method and data structure for generating at least one table in a broadcast environment, are provided. The apparatus includes a generator to generate an event information table (EIT) and an extended text table (ETT). The ETT has program guide information for an n-hour span and has a transmission interval. The ETT has a transmission interval and program description information according to the EIT. The transmission interval of the EIT is shorter than the transmission interval of the ETT.
US09351033B2
A media guidance application is provided by which users can view program listings associated with programming that the user may access using other user equipment devices. The media guidance application, implemented on, for example, a remote system, may determine through communications with television equipment whether or not the television equipment is authorized to provide a particular package of television programming to be viewed by the user. For example, an online program guide application may determine whether or not television equipment allows a user to view particular channels and, based on that determination, proceed to determine what packages of programming the user subscribes to. A customized program guide may then be displayed based on what programming the user subscribes to on various systems.
US09351032B2
A method for presenting advertisements for commercial products in video productions, whereby the commercial product is placed in the video production as an element of the video production. A viewer is enabled to interact with the video production to select the product. Information is then displayed about the selected product; and the viewer is enabled to purchase the selected product.
US09351027B2
Segmentation messages indicative of locations of upcoming events, such as the start and end of programs and program portions, and/or rights related to the programs and program portions, are used by cable systems and the like to store programs and program portions for later retrieval and transmission to customers on request. Storage, retrieval and management of programming is thereby facilitated. Methods and systems are disclosed.
US09351013B2
Methods and apparatus are presented herein to perform selective and/or scalable complexity control of the video codec, so that the amount of processing resources consumed by a video codec may be increased or reduced. Based on the configurable thresholds set within complexity control algorithms, the nonpredictive and the predictive coding sections of the video codec may be selectively implemented. The configurable thresholds are used to determine whether a desired amount of spatial information, such as texture information or motion information, is present within a video frame.
US09351009B2
A method for video coding is described. Signaling of a maximum number of sub-layers for inter-layer prediction is obtained. A sub-layer non-reference picture is also obtained. It is determined whether a value of a temporal identifier of the sub-layer non-reference picture is greater than the maximum number of sub-layers for inter-layer prediction minus 1. The sub-layer non-reference picture is marked as “unused for reference” if the value of the temporal identifier of the sub-layer non-reference picture is greater than the maximum number of sub-layers for inter-layer prediction minus 1. In some cases a sub-layer non-reference picture is also obtained. It is determined whether a value of a temporal identifier of the sub-layer non-reference picture is greater than the maximum number of sub-layers for inter-layer prediction. The sub-layer non-reference picture is marked as “unused for reference” if the value of the temporal identifier of the sub-layer non-reference picture is greater than the maximum number of sub-layers for inter-layer prediction.
US09351005B2
A device performs a decoding process as part of a bitstream conformance test. As part of the decoding process, the device performs a bitstream extraction process to extract, from a bitstream, an operation point representation of an operation point defined by a target set of layer identifiers and a target highest temporal identifier. The target set of layer identifiers contains values of layer identifier syntax elements present in the operation point representation, the target set of layer identifiers being a subset of values of layer identifier syntax elements of the bitstream. The target highest temporal identifier is equal to a greatest temporal identifier present in the operation point representation, the target highest temporal identifier being less than or equal to a greatest temporal identifier present in the bitstream. The device decodes network abstraction layer (NAL) units of the operation point representation.
US09351000B2
A method of decoding video, the method including receiving and parsing a bitstream which includes encoded video; extracting encoded image data relating to a current picture, which image data is assigned to at least one maximum coding unit, information relating to a coded depth and an encoding mode for each of the at least one maximum coding unit, and filter coefficient information for performing loop filtering on the current picture, from the bitstream; decoding the encoded image data in units of the at least one maximum coding unit, based on the information relating to the coded depth and the encoding mode for each of the at least one maximum coding unit; and performing deblocking on the decoded image data relating to the current picture, and performing loop filtering on the deblocked data, based on continuous one-dimensional (1D) filtering.
US09350996B2
A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for encoding and decoding transform unit coefficients is disclosed. In one embodiment, the encoding of the transform unit coefficients is performed by determining if all of the coefficients of a portion of the transform unit disposed on a portion of a scan pattern are zero, setting a flag associated with the portion of the transform unit to a first value if at least one of the coefficients of the portion of the transform unit coefficients disposed on the portion of the scan pattern are non-zero, and setting the flag associated with the portion of the transform unit coefficients to a second value if all of the coefficients of the portion of the transform unit coefficients disposed in the portion of the scan pattern are zero.
US09350986B2
A dual-port testing apparatus is provided for testing a cable network at two test points. The testing may comprise demodulation of a same data packet at the test points, decoding the data packet, performing spectral analysis of the signal, etc. Testing results may be correlated with one another, both visually and by using pre-defined test metrics comprising a weighted sum of demodulation and decoding parameters such as modulation extinction ratio and a codeword error.
US09350972B2
The present technology relates to an encoding device and encoding method, and a decoding device and a decoding method whereby the data amount of encoded data of images of multiple viewpoints can be reduced. A low-resolution reference image generating unit performs, in the event of encoding a color image of a viewpoint B having lower resolution than the resolution of a color image of a viewpoint A, different from the viewpoint A, resolution reduction processing to reduce resolution on the image of the viewpoint A so that the resolution of the color image of the viewpoint A agrees with the resolution of the color image of the viewpoint B. An inter prediction unit generates a prediction image of the color image of the viewpoint B with reference to the color image of the viewpoint A after resolution reduction processing. A computing unit and so forth encode the color image of the viewpoint B using the prediction image. The present technology may be applied to a 3D-image encoding device, for example.
US09350968B1
An enhanced digital video recording device is provided to enhance digital video recording performance, features and user experience. The recording device has a processor and a storage unit, where the storage unit has multiple computer memory units, such as SSDs, HDDs, and video transcoder for transcoding video data in a data stream. The video transcoder interacts with a controller of the storage module to differentiate between video data packets and non-video data packets of the data stream based on one or more determination criteria. Responsive to data stream being video data stream, the video transcoder transcodes the data packets of the data stream. Responsive to the data packets being encrypted, the video transcoder obtains and/or generates encryption keys and decrypts the data packets. The video transcoder also periodically provides feedback data generated from transcoding process to enhance the transcoding operations.
US09350958B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus, including a plurality of pixels, and an A/D conversion unit configured to convert a pixel signal of an analog signal into a digital signal, wherein the A/D conversion unit comprises a comparator, a sampling unit, a counter, and an output unit configured to output the digital signal based on a count result of the counter and a sampling result of the sampling unit, and the sampling unit comprises first and second latch units configured to latch an output from the comparator in response to first and second clock signals, respectively, and a third latch unit configured to latch an output from the first latch unit in response to an output of the second latch unit.
US09350956B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus allow for capturing the results of drug tests using mobile devices. One or more implementations include apparatus that interface a mobile computing device with a drug test, while ensuring that an imaging device of the mobile computing device is optically aligned with a test display areas of the drug test. One or more additional implementations include a method for analyzing drug testing results. The method includes receiving and analyzing drug testing data, which includes an identification of a type drug testing apparatus being used at a remote testing device, and an image that visually represents a portion of a drug test. The method also includes analyzing the test results of the drug test based on the identification of the type drug testing apparatus.
US09350955B2
Some embodiments include a method of operating a computing device for performing solar shading analysis. The method can include: receiving a multimedia message from a mobile device, the multimedia message including a photograph of an image of sky reflected off of a reflective dome attached to an apparatus platform; identifying an unobstructed sky area and an obstructed sky area in the photograph; computing a shading percentage based on relative portions of the unobstructed sky area and the obstructed sky area; and generating a solar analysis report including the shading percentage, in response to receiving the multimedia message.
US09350946B2
An information processing method and apparatus for video communication are provided. The method includes identifying each participant in current video communication, and allocating a unique participant identity and a role identifier; acquiring initialization information of the current video communication, and collecting information of a current video communication process; obtaining, by means of search according to an association relationship between a role identifier of a participant in the current video communication and a preset policy, the preset policy corresponding to the participant in the current video communication; summarizing the initialization information and the information of the current video communication process by using the preset policy, to obtain evaluation information of the current video communication. In the foregoing manner, initialization information of video communication and information of a video communication process are made full use of, which can effectively improve a video communication effect.
US09350935B2
In response to an input of a recording instruction, a recorder is controlled to record on a recording medium moving image data of a predetermined time length before the recording instruction is input among the moving image data temporarily stored in a memory, and in response to that a predetermined condition is determined to be satisfied before the recording instruction is input, the recording unit is controlled not to record on the recording medium the moving image data stored in the memory before the predetermined condition is determined to be satisfied.
US09350934B2
A system and method for time-shifted viewing of broadcast television programs is disclosed. Simultaneous recording and playback are provided by using buffer storage as the source and destination of compressed or uncompressed digital video/audio programs. Full VCR-like control is provided for all playback within the buffer storage. Playback and control of recorded programs may be initiated by the user at any time after initiation of the broadcast program with simultaneous continuous recording of the ongoing live broadcast. Larger archival storage and removable is also provided for storing and building a library of programs. Viewer playback control data may be stored as part of the program or used as edit points prior to archival. Numerous options are provided for features such as continuous automatic recording in a circular buffer fashion, program archival, editing, Internet interfaces, multiple-channel recording and more.
US09350928B2
Imaging systems may be provided with stacked-chip image sensors. A stacked-chip image sensor may include a vertical chip stack that includes an array of image pixels and processing circuitry. The image pixel array may be coupled to the processing circuitry through an array of vertical metal interconnects. The image pixel array may be partitioned into image pixel sub-arrays configured to capture image data at a capture frame rate. The processing circuitry may compress image data associated with each image pixel sub-array in parallel and may output the compressed image data to off-chip image processing circuitry at an output frame rate that is less than the capture frame rate. The processing circuitry may determine respective compression block sizes for each image pixel sub-array with which to compress the associated image data and may determine respective output frame rates for image data from each image pixel sub-array.
US09350924B2
Digital imagery is composed or composited within a smartphone or other portable electronic device to merge foreground and background subject matter acquired simultaneously with different cameras or acquired at different times with the same camera. A processor stores the digital imagery along with information derived or used by an operation to differentiate the foreground subject matter from the background scene, which may be a digital matting operation, and/or may involve finding an edge or an outline of the foreground subject matter. The foreground subject matter and the background scene may be stored as different graphical layers in the memory. A user control such as a touchscreen may enable a user to select and resize or reposition the foreground subject matter on a background scene of a separately acquired image. The digital imagery may constitute a still image or a sequence of images representative of motion video.
US09350920B2
An image generating method of an image generating apparatus is provided. The method includes displaying a live view image on a screen of an image generating apparatus, comparing a shutter speed with a frame rate of the live view image when there is a command to image a still image during the displaying of the live view image, adding current frame data of the live view image to next frame data of the live view image to generate added next frame data when the shutter speed is smaller than the frame rate of the live view image, and reading out the added next frame data of the live view image to generate the still image.
US09350918B1
Approaches are described for managing an image displayed on a computing device. An image of an object is displayed on an interface of the device. An activation movement performed by a user (such as a forward and backward motion) can cause the device to enable an image view control mode (such as a zoom control mode) that can be used to adjust a portion of the image being displayed on the interface. The activation movement can also be used to set a detection range, where a movement of the device within the range can cause the device to adjust the displayed image based on the image view control mode. Thereafter, in response to a motion being detected (such as moving the device towards the object), the device can adjust a portion of the image being displayed on the interface, such as displaying a “zoomed in” portion of the image.
US09350916B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media to improve image stabilization operations and other image processing operations are described. A novel combination of interleaved image capture and image processing operations, e.g., image registration operations, may be employed on a bracketed capture of still images. Such techniques may result in improved camera performance and processing efficiency, as well as decreased shot-to-shot time intervals. In another embodiment, an image fusion portion of an image post-processing pipeline may also be performed in an interleaved fashion, such that each image in the sequence of obtained bracketed images may be incrementally added to an output composite image after it has been aligned with the preceding image or images from the sequence.
US09350910B2
An operation device includes an operation unit, a command generation unit configured to generate an operation command for an imaging device provided in the operation unit, a wireless communication unit configured to transmit the operation command to the imaging device, and receive image data transmitted from the imaging device, based on a QoS representing a priority of transmission/reception, and a QoS setting unit configured to set a QoS of a priority command to a value which is higher than a QoS of the image data when the operation command generated by the command generation unit is the priority command having a higher transmission priority than the image data received by the wireless communication unit.
US09350900B2
An information processing apparatus to execute an application includes first and second authentication units, first and second storage units, a request unit, and an application execution unit. The first authentication unit authenticates a user of the information processing apparatus. The first storage unit stores first certification information relating to the authentication of a user. The request unit requests a second authentication unit to perform authentication required to execute the application using the first certification information when the application is executed based on an instruction from the user authenticated by the first authentication unit. The application execution unit executes the application when the authentication performed by the second authentication unit based on the request by the request unit has succeeded. The second storage unit stores second certification information relating to the second authentication unit authentication required to execute the application after associating the second certification information with the first certification information.
US09350887B2
A sheet conveying device, including: a base; a conveyor for conveying a sheet; a supporter configured to be movable between a first position and a second position; a pair of regulators provided so as to protrude from respective widthwise opposite ends of the supporter and configured to regulate a position, in a widthwise direction, of the sheet supported by the supporter; a pair of engaged portions each constituted by one of a recess and a hole formed in a corresponding one of the regulators; and a pair of engaging portions protruding from the base so as to correspond to the pair of engaged portions, the engaging portions being configured to engage with the engaged portions when the supporter is located at the first position and to disengage from the engaged portions when the supporter is located at a position that is shifted from the first position toward the second position.
US09350886B2
A control apparatus includes a receiving unit, a display unit, a storing unit, and a notification unit. The receiving unit receives a job. The display unit displays the job received by the receiving unit. The storing unit stores attribute information of a sheet held in a sheet holding unit. The notification unit performs, after the receiving unit has received a job and in response to change in attribute information, stored in the storing unit, of the sheet held in the sheet holding unit specified by the job, notification of the change in the attribute information of the sheet held in the sheet holding unit in an identifiable manner, in association with the job displayed on the display unit.
US09350883B2
An apparatus includes a compression unit configured to compress an image, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the image before the compression is color or monochromatic based on a data size of the image after the compression.
US09350874B2
A method of transmitting speech and digital data via an analog speech channel within a single frequency band, wherein an analog speech signal is transmitted via the speech channel and a stream of digital data is encoded by an encoding device to a sequence of blocks of symbols taken from a predetermined set of symbols. The transmission of the analog speech signal is periodically blanked during predetermined spaced time intervals, and the blocks of symbols are transmitted during the time intervals. In each time interval a plurality of signals are transmitted via a corresponding plurality of spaced predetermined carrier frequencies. A receiver receives the analog speech signal and the signals transmitted during the time intervals. The signals are demodulated to recover the individual symbols and the respective block of symbols transmitted during the time interval groups, and the digital data is recovered by decoding recovered blocks of symbols.
US09350871B2
Delivery of alarm system event data and audio over hybrid networks is described. In one embodiment, delivering alarm system event data includes detecting an alarm event and communicating alarm event data to a message processing gateway, evaluating service parameters of the alarm system and conditions of the alarm event data, forwarding the alarm event data and a voice channel code to a telecommunications switch, and opening a voice channel between the telecommunications switch and a central alarm monitoring station. In other aspects, delivering alarm system event data and connecting a voice channel further includes determining whether the voice channel remains open, forwarding a routing code to the alarm system, opening a voice channel between the alarm system and the telecommunications switch, and bridging the voice channel between the telecommunications switch and the central alarm monitoring station and the voice channel between the alarm system and the telecommunications switch.
US09350867B2
System and method for enhanced interaction processing in a contact center that includes dynamically determining customer segmentation. A processor detects a pending interaction with a customer. The processor retrieves, in response to detecting the pending interaction, identification of a first customer segment to which the customer belongs. The first customer segment is associated with a first objective of the contact center. The processor predicts an outcome of the pending interaction, and identifies a second customer segment based on the predicted outcome. The processor re-associates the customer to a second customer segment, where the second customer segment is associated with a second objective of the contact center different from the first business objective. The processor handles the pending interaction according to the second objective instead of the first objective.
US09350825B2
A mechanism is provided for optimizing network communications. A first data transfer request is received via a first application level socket connection in an originating computing device. Prior to opening a kernel level socket connection to a destination computing device, a determination is made as to whether a second data transfer request has been received via a second application level socket connection in the originating computing device, the second data transfer request identifying a destination computing device that is the same as the destination computing device as the first data transfer request. Responsive to identifying the second data transfer request, the first data transfer request and the second data transfer request are coalesced into a third data transfer request stored in a single kernel level socket buffer of the originating computing device. The third data transfer request is then sent to the destination computing device via a single TCP/IP stack.
US09350822B2
In some embodiments, a request for a content object may be received as a data packet. Upon determining that the content object is not cached, an element of the data packet may be modified and the modified data packet may be forwarded toward a content provider of the content object.
US09350817B2
In one embodiment, a method includes recording a sequence of online activities of a first user. The online activities include online consumption of online content by the first user. The method includes constructing a path based on the sequence of online activities of the first user. The path includes a sequence of online activity points that each correspond to one of the online activities in the sequence of online activities of the first user, and the path enables a second user to experience personally for themselves at least an approximation of the sequence of online activities of the first user. The method includes communicating the path for traversal of a portion of the path by the second user.
US09350791B2
A system and method of operating resources within a distributed computing environment. The resources include a platform server and intermediate servers where each of the intermediate servers connects and maintains a persistent connection to the platform server a number of edge servers. The method includes injecting state identifier information into service requests from a given edge server to the intermediate server and transmitting the service request to the platform server. The method includes receiving a response message from the platform server where the message includes the state identifier. The method includes using the state identifier to route the message to the given edge server.
US09350787B2
A first application is executed on a cloud computing system for a first period of time. User input signals associated with execution of the first application during the first period of time are recorded. A second application is generated to correspond to a portion of the first application as executed during a second period of time within the first period of time. The second application is defined by program instructions of the first application executed during the second period of time. A miniapp is generated to include the second application and the user input signals recorded during execution of the first application during the second period of time.
US09350780B2
A particular method includes receiving, at a media server, a request for a first rendition of a stream. The method also includes generating a portion of the first rendition. Generating the portion of the first rendition includes determining whether one or more first overlay images are enabled and inserting the one or more first overlay images into one or more frames of the portion of the first rendition conditioned on the one or more first overlay images being enabled. The method further includes sending the portion of the first rendition to a computing device.
US09350775B2
Server-based collaboration is initiated by an email. When the user creates the email message with attachments, a collaboration website is provisioned. The collaboration website allows collaborations on the attached documents by the recipients of the message. The ease of collaboration with email and the advantages of the collaboration server are thus both available to the user.
US09350774B2
Devices and methods for automatic sharing of digital multimedia include, in one embodiment, obtaining factor data affecting a decision on whether or not to enter a digital multimedia sharing mode for an event or meeting; entering the digital multimedia sharing mode based on identifying calendar entry data for the event or meeting stored in a calendar database that satisfies the factor data; storing digital photograph data produced by a camera module while in the sharing mode in a digital multimedia container designated to store digital multimedia for the event or meeting; obtaining participant data for the event or meeting from the calendar entry data; and automatically making the digital photograph data available to the one or more participants based on the participant data.
US09350773B2
Networking systems and methods for efficiently facilitating interactions between subscribers using customized action cards are disclosed. A networking system can comprise a communication unit, a customization unit, and an action unit. The communication unit can transmit data embodying communications between a server and a plurality of client computers operated by subscribers of the networking system. The customization unit can enable a current user to categorize other subscribers and to select action indicators associated with an action card template for each subscriber category. The selected action indicators can vary across subscriber categories, resulting in a different action card template for each category. Action cards of other subscribers are displayed to the current user based on their applicable action card templates. When the current user requests performance of an interaction by selecting a first action indicator from a displayed first action card, the action unit can facilitate the requested interaction.
US09350772B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing access to common services in a communication session. According to certain embodiments, a request to initiate a communication session is received. The communication can include a plurality of endpoints. An inventory of available services can be determined for each of the plurality of endpoints. At least one service that is commonly available to at least a subset of endpoints can be identified from the inventories of available services. Access can be provided to the at least one common service to the subset of endpoints during the communication session.
US09350770B2
Performing a real-time application on a mobile device, involving communication of audio/video packets with a remote device. The mobile device may initially communicate the audio/video packets on a first communication channel with the remote device. During the real-time communication, the mobile device may determine if no packets have been received by the mobile device from the remote device for a first threshold period of time. If no packets have been received by the mobile device from the remote device for the first threshold period of time, the mobile device may establish a second communication channel for transmission of the audio/video packets with the remote device. In response to using the second communication channel, the mobile device may modify a resolution or bit rate of the audio/video packets transmitted to the remote device.
US09350769B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media for session initiation protocol (SIP) device-level call/session/service management are disclosed. According to one aspect, a system for SIP device-level management includes a SIP service node that makes available to a user the unique device identifier of a SIP device, where the SIP device is one of multiple devices that register using the same SIP identity, and that allows the user to use the unique device identifier to manage calls, sessions, or services on a SIP device-level basis, which may include performing screening, routing, or logging operations. In one embodiment, the SIP service node is configured to receive SIP device-level management rules for managing SIP calls, sessions, or services on a SIP device-level basis and to use the rules to manage calls, sessions, or services on a SIP device-level basis.
US09350766B2
A border gateway (2) and a SIP Application Server (8) in an IMS network (3), which both are configured to connect a private branch exchange (1) to the IMS network using the SIP Connect. The connecting comprises the border gateway detecting, based on an address contained in a received SIP register message, that the SIP register message is received from a private branch exchange. Then, the border gateway forwards the received message to the SIP Application Server as a SIP connect-message from a private branch exchange, and the SIP Application server stores a binding server between an IP address of the private branch exchange and the received address associated with the private branch exchange, e.g. by dynamically updating an eDNS (6).
US09350765B2
A method for speeding up data downloads across the Internet utilizing a proxy server to receive client requests for downloading remote data files and then establishing multiple concurrent sessions from the proxy server which balance the download of the remote data in multiple segments across two or more available wide-area network (WAN) links.
US09350763B1
Conventional messages sent by sources such as applications executing on a computing device can be intercepted by a message converter module, or other such component, and converted to raw data, binary data, or another appropriate format that is able to be sent using a websocket connection. A websocket connection can provide greater efficiencies in at least some situations, and the intercepting of a message independent of, and transparent to, an application or other such component or module enables the websocket connections to be implemented without knowledge of the connections or conversion by applications at either endpoint.
US09350760B2
A method is provided for implementing a mandatory access control model in operating systems which natively use a discretionary access control scheme. A method for implementing mandatory access control in a system comprising a plurality of computers, the system comprising a plurality of information assets, stored as files on the plurality of computers, and a network communicatively connecting the plurality of computers, wherein each of the plurality of computers includes an operating system that uses a discretionary access control policy, and wherein each of a subset of the plurality of computers includes a software agent component operable to perform the steps of intercepting a request for a file operation on a file from a user of one of the plurality of computers including the software agent, determining whether the file is protected, if the file is protected, altering ownership of the file from the user to another owner, and providing access to the file based on a mandatory access control policy.
US09350759B1
Disclosed are methods and systems of a network security appliance to imitate a wireless access point of a local area network through coordination of multiple radios. In one aspect, a network security appliance includes (1) at least one supporting radio and (2) a communication radio. The at least one supporting radio determines if an access point is available in a local area network through a sniffing algorithm, determines if a client device is visible in the local area network, and injects at least one data packet into the client device based on either a command from an operator of the network security appliance and/or an automatic algorithm determined based on a set of preferences. The communication radio wirelessly imitates the access point of the local area network such that the client device is connected to a wide area network through the communication radio that is wirelessly imitating the access point.
US09350758B1
An improved system and method of measuring and evaluating a distributed denial of services (DDOS) attack includes arranging for a DDoS attack by engaging a network provider offering malicious services to attack a honeypot computerized device. The honeypot includes a packet sniffer used to measure the values of parameters of the DDoS attack useful in determining the method of attack, the origin and extent of the attack, in calculating methods for early determination that a DDoS attack is occurring, and methods of countering this type of DDoS attack before it occurs.
US09350753B2
In one aspect, the disclosure provides: A method comprising: inviting a distributed plurality of researchers to participate in one or more computer vulnerability research projects directed to identifying computer vulnerabilities of one or more networks and/or computers that are owned or operated by a third party; assessing reputation and skills of one or more of the researchers, and accepting a subset of the researchers who have a positive reputation and sufficient skills to perform the investigations of the computer vulnerabilities; assigning a particular computer vulnerability research project, relating to a particular network under test, to a particular researcher from among the subset of the researchers; using a computer that is logically interposed between the particular researcher and the particular network under test, monitoring communications between the particular researcher and the particular network under test, wherein the communications relate to attempting to identify a candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test; validating a report of the candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test that is received from the particular researcher; determining and providing an award to the particular researcher in response to successfully validating the report of the candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test that is received from the particular researcher.
US09350752B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for receiving actual vulnerability information from at least one first data storage that is generated utilizing potential vulnerability information from at least one second data storage. The actual vulnerability information is generated utilizing the potential vulnerability information. Further, the actual vulnerability information from the at least one first data storage is capable of identifying the plurality of actual vulnerabilities to which the plurality of networked computers are actually vulnerable. In use, an action may be caused to be automatically completed in connection with at least one of the networked devices.
US09350745B2
Disclosed is a method and system of managing user security permissions for access to resources accessible over a communications network, to participate in a designated task or conversation relating to the resources. The method and system include: assembling resources relating to the designated task or conversation into a collection and allocating security permissions for users to access said resources in the collection over the network based on whether the users are active or passive participants in the task or the conversation. Active participants have been invited to participate in the task or the conversation and passive participants have not been invited to participate in the task or the conversation, and security permissions allocated for each of the users to access said resources in the collection to the providers of the resources are communicated, such that the providers set the security permissions for each of the users to access the resources.
US09350744B2
A method for applying a security policy to an application session, includes recognizing the application session between a network and an application via a security gateway; determining by the security gateway a user identity of the application session using information about the application session; obtaining by the security gateway the security policy comprising network parameters mapped to the user identity; and applying the security policy to the application session by the security gateway. The user identity may be a network user identity or an application user identity recognized from packets of the application session. The security policy may comprise a network traffic policy mapped and/or a document access policy mapped to the user identity, where the network traffic policy is applied to the application session. The security gateway may further generate a security report concerning the application of the security policy to the application session.
US09350738B2
Systems and methods are described for enabling users to model security resources and user access keys as resources in a template language. The template can be used to create and update a stack of resources that will provide a network-accessible service. The security resources and access keys can be referred to in the template during both stack creation process and the stack update process. The security resources can include users, groups and policies. Additionally, users can refer to access keys in the template as dynamic parameters without any need to refer to the access keys in plaintext. The system securely stores access keys within the system and allows for templates to refer to them once defined. These key references can then be passed within a template to resources that need them as well as passing them on securely to resources like server instances through the use of the user-data field.
US09350728B2
A method and system for generating and authorizing a dynamic password, which relate to the field of identity authentication. The method comprises: a token receiving a command for generating a dynamic password, and generating a first dynamic factor according to a first timer; acquiring current data from a first data set according to a first offset pointer, and generating a first dynamic password according to the first dynamic factor and the current data; a server receiving a second dynamic password input by a user, and obtaining a second dynamic factor according to a second timer; obtaining an authentication window according to the second dynamic factor and an authentication window value; and according to the dynamic factor in the authentication window and the data in a second data set, calculating to generate a group of dynamic passwords, and verifying whether there is a dynamic password consistent with the second dynamic password in the group of dynamic passwords or not. With the above-mentioned solution, the problem that a time-type token cannot be generated a plurality of times within a short time is solved, and that the situation where the event-type token causes desynchronization with the server because of continuous generation of dynamic passwords is avoided.
US09350717B1
A method and apparatus for location authentication of the user are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, the location of the user is authenticated if one or more conditions for geographic proximity associated with two or more devices of the user are satisfied. Upon the location of the user being authenticated, the user may be granted access to a service.
US09350712B2
A packet analysis apparatus and method and a VPN server, which secure evidence against a situation in which a hacker disguises a packet as a normal packet to make an attack using a VPN server as a router. The packet analysis apparatus includes a packet classification unit for gathering and classifying packets which are used between a host and the VPN server and plaintext packets which are used between the VPN server and a target. A first comparative analysis unit compares contents of an encapsulated IP datagram of each encrypted VPN packet, obtained by decrypting the encrypted VPN packet, with contents of a plaintext IP datagram included in each plaintext packet and present for a target to which the host desires to transfer the encrypted VPN packet. A second comparative analysis unit compares lengths of the encapsulated IP datagram and the plaintext IP datagram with each other.
US09350709B2
Techniques are presented herein for optimizing secure communications in a network. A router in a virtual private network determines whether or not it has successfully registered with a key server that provides cryptographic keys for routers in the virtual private network. The router stores state information that is indicative of whether or not the router has successfully registered with the key server.
US09350708B2
A system and method for providing authenticated access to an initiating terminal in relation to the services provided by a terminating terminal via a communications network are disclosed. In one aspect, a global server comprises a communications module, which receives and processes a key exchange initiation message from the initiating terminal so as to establish an encrypted communications channel with the terminating terminal. The communications module, responsive to a received key exchange initiation message, performs an encrypted communication establishment process in respect of the received key exchange initiation message. The encrypted communication establishment process comprises authenticating the initiating terminal, and in the event that the initiating terminal is successfully authenticated, transmitting keying data corresponding to the received key exchange initiation message to the terminating terminal. The keying data is identified on the basis of data associated with the initiating terminal.
US09350696B2
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing a program that configures first and second managed forwarding elements to perform logical L2 switching and L3 routing is described. The program generates a first set of flow entries for configuring the first managed forwarding element to perform (1) a first logical L2 processing for a first logical L2 domain, (2) a logical L3 processing, (3) a network address translation (NAT) processing on packets to be sent to the second managed forwarding element, and (4) a logical ingress L2 processing for a second logical L2 domain on the packets. The program generates a second set of flow entries for configuring the second managed forwarding element to perform a logical egress L2 processing for the second logical L2 domain on the packets.
US09350691B2
An information processing system 1 includes an acquiring unit 20 that acquires business-operation information in response to a request from a mobile terminal 10, a storage unit 30 that stores plural preset text messages, a selection unit 40 that selects a preset text message corresponding to the business-operation information acquired by the acquiring unit 20 from among the plural preset text messages, a determining unit 50 that determines a message destination corresponding to the business-operation information acquired by the acquiring unit 20, and a transmitting unit 60 that transmits the preset text message selected by the selection unit 40 to the message destination determined by the determining unit 50.
US09350688B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a method of controlling float-out messages, a system for controlling float-out messages, an instant messaging client for controlling float-out messages, and a computer program product for controlling float-out messages. A method of controlling float-out messages is provided. The method includes in the event that there is a float-out message that is ready to be sent to a recipient, determining a current status of the recipient of the float-out message, in the event that the current status of the recipient is online, determining whether the float-out message should be sent to the recipient, including determining whether an identifier value of the recipient has reached a threshold value, the identifier value being used to indicate whether the recipient is deemed to be currently in a state of fatigue or a level of fatigue the recipient is deemed to be in, in the event that the identifier value has not reached the threshold value, pushing the float-out message to the recipient to be made available for float out by the recipient, and updating the identifier value.
US09350680B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch. The switch comprises one or more ports and a link management module. The link management module operates a first aggregate link group as an active aggregate link group of a protected virtual link aggregation. This protected virtual link aggregation operates as a single logical channel. An aggregate link group comprises a plurality of logically aggregated links. The first aggregate link group, which represents the logical channel, comprises at least a first port of the one or more ports of the switch. The link management module also operates a second aggregate link group of the protected virtual link aggregation as a standby for the first aggregate link group. The second aggregate link group comprises at least a second port of the one or more ports of the switch. Forwarding is enabled via the first port and disabled via the second port.
US09350678B2
According to embodiments of the disclosure, methods, apparatuses, and computer products for controller based network resource management are disclosed. The method may include receiving a flow at a network controller, determining a flow parameter for the flow, and determining, via the network controller, an idle timeout for a flow rule, corresponding to the flow based on the flow parameter. Determining a previous idle timeout for the flow in response to determining that the flow has been received before, and determining an activity factor for the flow rule in response to the previous idle timeout being greater than or equal to the second value. The apparatus may be a network controller including a processor, and a memory configured to receive a flow, determine a flow parameter for the flow, and determine an idle timeout for the flow rule based on the flow parameter.
US09350677B2
According to embodiments of the disclosure, methods, apparatuses, and computer products for controller based network resource management are disclosed. The method may include receiving a flow at a network controller, determining a flow parameter for the flow, and determining, via the network controller, an idle timeout for a flow rule, corresponding to the flow based on the flow parameter. Determining a previous idle timeout for the flow in response to determining that the flow has been received before, and determining an activity factor for the flow rule in response to the previous idle timeout being greater than or equal to the second value. The apparatus may be a network controller including a processor, and a memory configured to receive a flow, determine a flow parameter for the flow, and determine an idle timeout for the flow rule based on the flow parameter.
US09350676B2
Methods and apparatus for wireless communication include receiving, at a compressor component, a data packet flow and determining information associated with the data packet flow from one or more data packets associated with the data packet flow. The determined information includes source or destination information corresponding to the one or more data packets of the data packet flow. Further, the methods and apparatus include classifying the data packet flow as a compressible or an uncompressed data packet flow based on the determined information, and compressing or skipping compressing of the one or more data packets associated with the data packet flow based on the classification of the data packet flow. Additionally, the methods and apparatus include transmitting the one or more compressed or uncompressed data packets depending on the classification of the data packet flow.
US09350674B2
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates bandwidth-profile enforcement. During operation, the system indicates a packet's compliance with a bandwidth profile based at least on available high-compliance tokens and medium-compliance tokens. The system further converts, within different classes of service (CoSs), an overflow high-compliance token to a medium-compliance token, in a top-down or bottom-up fashion with respect to different CoS priorities.
US09350666B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems configure a first set of ports of a first host device and a second set of ports to be included within a first link aggregation group (LAG). The first and second host devices further configure, respectively, a first synchronization port that does not share a common LAG with the second host device and a second synchronization port that does not share a common LAG with the first host device. The first host device receives a first packet destined for a virtual machine running on the second host device, the first packet including source and destination information. The first host device determines from the source or destination information that the first packet is destined for a virtual machine running on another host device. In response, the first host device forwards the packet via the first synchronization port to the second host device.
US09350662B2
The disclosure generally relates to offloading communication from a network infrastructure to direct peer-to-peer communication. In particular, a server may receive peer-to-peer status information over the network infrastructure from at least two client devices that intend to communicate, wherein the peer-to-peer status information may include at least coarse or precise location information associated with the client devices. The server may then instruct the client devices to communicate over a direct peer-to-peer connection that bypasses the network infrastructure in response to determining that the location information received from the client devices and other conditions permit offloading the communication from the network infrastructure. For example, the server may determine whether the communication can be offloaded based at least in part on whether an estimated distance between the client devices falls within a maximum range associated with one or more peer-to-peer interfaces supported on one or more of the client devices.
US09350642B2
A system and method of preferred embodiments include at a signaling gateway of a first region, receiving a communication invitation of a first endpoint from a communication provider; signaling the communication invitation to a communication-processing server in a second region; in response to communication processing of the communication-processing server, dynamically directing signaling and media of the communication according to processing instructions and resources available in at least the first and two regions; wherein dynamically directing signaling and media communication of the communication comprises selectively routing media communication exclusively through communication resources of the first region if resources are available in the first region or selectively routing media communication between the first endpoint, the gateway, and at least the communication-processing server if media resources are not in the first region.
US09350641B2
An IP fast reroute scheme offering full protection is disclosed for reducing the number of address lookups associated with a message packet. The IP fast reroute scheme offering full protection includes a router configured to forward the arriving packet to a next-hop neighbor node according to one of a first pointer and a second pointer associated to a destination node in a forwarding information table stored in a forwarding information memory storage; the first pointer is directed to a first next-hop neighbor node which is on the shortest path from the network node to the destination node; and the second pointer is directed to a second next-hop neighbor node different from the first next-hop neighbor node, the second next-hop neighbor node on a candidate cycle containing both the network node and the destination node having the greatest overlap with a sink tree rooted at the destination node. The IP fast reroute scheme offering full protection is particularly useful for providing full protection against single link and node failures with a simple method requiring no packet modifications.
US09350632B2
Techniques for detection and handling of virtual appliance failures. In one aspect, a method is implemented on a host platform on which a hypervisor (aka Virtual Machine Manager) and a plurality of virtual machines (VMs) are running, the plurality of VMs collectively hosting a plurality of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and/or Network Function Virtualization (NFV) appliances that are communicatively coupled via a virtual network. A software-based entity running on the host platform is configured to monitor the plurality of virtual network appliances to detect failures of the virtual network appliances. In response to detection of a virtual network appliance failure, messages containing configuration information are implemented to reconfigure packet flows to bypass the virtual network appliance that has failed.
US09350627B2
Embodiments provide a method for upgrading resources in a system including normalizing a collected dataset, scattering data from the normalized dataset, obtaining a plurality of clusters based on the scattered data, discarding one or more clusters from the plurality of clusters with less than a percentage of a total number of observations, in each cluster, performing clusterwise regression and obtaining linear sub-clusters in a defined number, reducing one or more sub-clusters including applying a refinement procedure, removing one or more sub-clusters that fit to outliers and merging pairs of clusters that fit an equivalent model, updating one or more clusters with the reduced sub-clusters, removing one or more globular clusters, reducing a number of clusters with the refinement procedure, and de-normalizing one or more results.
US09350622B2
A network topology is displayed in a graphical user interface on a display of a computer. The network topology includes graphical representations of multiple network devices, of internal interfaces within the multiple network devices, and of network connections between the multiple network devices. A record of a network flow within a particular network device of the multiple network devices is acquired in real time upon transmission of the network flow within the particular network device. A graphical representation of a transmission path of the network flow within the particular network device is rendered in real time on the display based on the record of the network flow.
US09350618B2
A method of mapping a network path in which a geographic path of cables of a network between a geographic location of a network component and a geographic location of a terminal network element is estimated electronically using walking directions data from a geodata services provider. A geographically accurate street map is populated with the geographic location of the network component, the geographic location of the terminal network element, and the estimated geographic path. The map is capable of being displayed with the use of geospatial software. A signal processing electronic device for populating a display of an interactive graphical user interface with network path mapping information and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform the above referenced operations are also provided.
US09350612B2
A method, a network device, and a system for synchronization between network devices are provided. The method includes: establishing, by a first network device, an inband synchronization channel to a second network device in a MPLS-TP network, where the inband synchronization channel is a channel on a data plane, and the first network device and the second network device are included in a same backup group; sending, a first synchronization packet to the second network device through the inband synchronization channel, where the first synchronization packet carries synchronization information of the first network device, and the synchronization information of the first network device includes configuration information or status information of the first network device. The present disclosure can implement synchronization between network devices on an MPLS-TP network that does not have a control plane.
US09350608B2
A method and system for securing a VXLAN environment, including configuring a default network policy, associated with interfaces of the network device, for dropping all VXLAN frames including a VXLAN attribute; obtaining, by the network device, registered VTEP identifiers; determining, using the registered VTEP identifiers, that an interface of the network device is operatively connected to a registered VTEP associated with a registered VTEP identifier; disassociating the default network policy from the interface based on the determination; receiving, at the interface, a frame; performing a first verification that the frame is a VXLAN frame by examining the frame to determine that the frame includes the VXLAN attribute; performing a second verification to determine that the VXLAN frame includes a registered VTEP identifier; allowing, based on the first verification and the second verification, the network device to process the VXLAN frame; and processing the VXLAN frame.
US09350607B2
Mechanisms are provided for configuring a data flow between a source device and a destination device in a network. The mechanisms receive, from a network control application, a request to establish a network configuration corresponding to a data flow between the source device and the destination device. The request comprises a fine grained header field tuple for defining the data flow. The mechanisms allocate, from a shadow address pool, a shadow address to be mapped to the fine grained header field tuple. The shadow address pool comprises addresses not being used by devices coupled to the network. The mechanisms configure a network infrastructure of the network to route data packets of the data flow from the source device to the destination device based on the shadow address.
US09350600B2
Provided is a responding apparatus that performs a network response in the standby mode and is not required much time for transitioning to the standby mode. The responding apparatus receives information request data from a network and transmits response data corresponding to the information request data to network, in the normal mode and standby mode. A normal mode response data making part makes response data in the normal mode. A recursive response request part recursively transmits information request data that requires information of other response data to the normal mode response data making part in the normal mode. An information storing part accumulates the information of the other response data corresponding to the information request data. A standby mode response data making part makes response data from information accumulated by information storing part in the standby mode.
US09350591B2
Methods for down converting a modulated carrier signal to a demodulated baseband signal are described herein. The method requires that a first portion of energy is transferred from the modulated carrier signal, and stored at a first storage device when a first switch is on. At least some of the energy stored in the first storage device is discharged when the first switch is off. The method further comprises transferring a second portion of energy from the modulated carrier signal, storing at a second storage device the second portion of transferred energy when a second switch is on, and discharging at least some of the energy stored in the second storage device when the second switch is off. A down-converted in-phase baseband signal portion is generated from the energy accumulated in the first storage device while both the charging and the discharging occurs, and a down-converted inverted in-phase baseband signal portion is generated from the energy accumulated in the second storage device while both the charging and the discharging occurs, and the two portions are combined with a first differential amplifier circuit to form a down-converted differential in-phase baseband signal.
US09350589B2
Aspects of a wireless apparatus and a method for handling a modulated signal include a frequency generator that produces a clock signal, a first synchronization circuit that generates a first sync enable signal based on an even edge of the clock signal, a second synchronization circuit that generates a second sync enable signal based on an even edge of the clock signal, a first divider having a first initial operating condition that generates a first IQ path based on the first sync enable signal, and a second divider having a second initial operating condition that generates a second IQ path based on the second sync enable signal, wherein the first and second operating conditions are not equal when initially powered.
US09350573B2
An apparatus, method and system for reducing discontinuities between waveforms in a communication system. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor and memory including computer program code. The memory and the computer program code are configured, with the processor, to determine an amplitude and set of derivatives at an end point of a first symbol waveform, and determine an amplitude and set of derivatives at a beginning point of a second symbol waveform. The memory and the computer program code are configured, with the processor, to insert a guard period waveform having an amplitude and set of derivatives at a first end to substantially match the amplitude and set of derivatives at the end point of the first symbol waveform and an amplitude and set of derivatives at a second end that substantially matches the amplitude and set of derivatives at the beginning point of the second symbol waveform.
US09350569B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and an apparatus for reconstructing data. The method includes: acquiring a self-correlation function of a root raised cosine filter coefficient and a fading factor of each antenna of channel estimation; constructing an L-dimension matrix of the self-correlation function according to the antenna; processing a result of superposing the L-dimension matrix of the self-correlation function and the fading factor of each antenna to obtain an estimate value of an actual fading factor of the each antenna; and reconstructing received data according to the estimate value of the actual fading factor to obtain reconstructed data used for cancellation. In the embodiments of the present invention, a process of performing interference cancellation for data reconstruction is closer to an actual sending process and closer to an originally sent signal, thereby improving cancellation efficiency and reducing interference.
US09350566B2
A method of handling traffic flows across a network. The method includes issuing a request for establishing a communication pathway end to end over a network, the communication pathway including a radio communication channel and a packet communication channel, the request identifying at least one traffic flow with an associated flow treatment attribute, reporting an available flow treatment across the network, modifying the request to take into account the available flow by modifying at least one of the at least one traffic flow and the associated flow treatment attribute, and establishing the communication pathway based on the modified request.
US09350562B2
An energy source management control system based on cloud computing may include a field controller, an energy consumption parameter collector and a cloud computing management control platform. The field controller may control each energy consumption device according to user defined parameters and send the user defined parameters to the cloud computing management control platform. The energy consumption parameter collector may collect parameters related to energy consumption of each energy consumption device and send the collected parameters to the cloud computing management control platform. The cloud computing management control platform may adjust a field control mode of the field controller according to the collected parameters related to energy consumption of each energy consumption device and the user defined parameters.
US09350561B1
Embodiments are directed towards visualizing the flow of resources in an allocation model. A visualization model may be selected based on an underlying allocation model. The visualization model may include visualization model items. Allocation model items in the allocation model may be mapped to the visualization model items included in the visualization model. If a visualization model item is selected, the source visualization model items that provide resources to the selected visualization model item may be determined. And, the target visualization model items that receive resources from the selected visualization model item may be determined. Input flow lines that start from the source visualization model items and end at the selected visualization model item may be generated and displayed. And, output flow lines that start from the selected visualization model item and end at the target visualization model items may be generated and displayed.
US09350559B2
Systems and techniques for service discovery and media sharing are described. For example, a described technique includes identifying, at a first device, a streaming service; receiving a request to establish communication with a second device, the first device and the second device being on different first networks, the first networks being different local multicast networks; and providing, in response to the request, service information to the second device to cause the second device to internally publish multicast domain name system (mDNS) information regarding the streaming service such that the streaming service is (i) discoverable by the second device via a mDNS query and (ii) accessible through a second network that interconnects the first networks.
US09350549B2
Making a target file impractical to be retrieved comprises decrypting a directory manager file using a first directory manager file key. The directory manager file includes an encryption key for a segment that is used when reconstructing a target file. The directory manager file is modified by deleting a reference to the target file. The reference includes a file encryption key. Retrieving the target file is made impractical by the deletion of the reference to the target file in the directory manager file. The modified directory manager file is encrypted using a second directory manager file key.
US09350541B2
A measurement to obtain an RTT to a receiving apparatus is performed by a relay apparatus that is disposed between a WAN and a home network and connects these two networks. That an RTT value is equal to or less than the threshold value is set as a content distribution condition from a transmitting apparatus, so that the same use environment as a system using current DLNA and DTCP-IP can be realized for content use in the home network. Thereby, unjust distribution of content is prevented while an authentication and key exchange procedure performed via an external network is allowed.
US09350533B2
An approach is provided for enabling a web browser to decrypt and to display encrypted information based on entropy calculations of the information. The decryption manager determines at least one entropy value for at least one element of at least one webpage. The decryption manager causes, at least in part, a decryption of the at least one element to generate at least one decrypted element based, at least in part, on a comparison of the at least one entropy value against one or more entropy threshold values.
US09350531B2
A communication device allows control of a device to be controlled such as a display device based on reference timing acquired from reception data without delay and with low power consumption. A method for generating a control signal for controlling the device to be controlled, shutter glasses, and a communication system having the corresponding features are also disclosed. The communication device includes a timing signal identifying part which identifies whether or not a predetermined reference signal pattern exist in data incoming intermittently, and a control signal generating part which generates a control signal for the device to be controlled when the existence of the predetermined signal pattern is identified by the timing signal identification part, and a controller which performs the control of the communication device.
US09350530B1
One embodiment relates to an integrated circuit including multiple PMA modules, a plurality of multiple-purpose PLLs, multiple reference clock signal inputs, and a programmable clock network. Each PMA module includes multiple CDR circuits, receives multiple serial data signals, and outputs data from those signals in parallel form. The programmable clock network allows the reference clock signals to be selectively shared by the PMA modules and the multiple-purpose PLLs. Another embodiment relates to a method of providing clock signals for multiple purposes in an integrated circuit. Clock signals are generated by a plurality of multiple-purpose PLLs and are selectively distributed to PMA modules arranged at a side of the integrated circuit and to logic circuitry arranged in a core section of the integrated circuit. The clock signals are used by circuitry in the PMA modules for supporting a plurality of data communications channels. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed.
US09350523B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining interference at a receiver of a wireless mobile device based on an updated indication of receiver performance at a receiver frequency. A wireless interference pattern is determined based on wireless emitters operating at a number of emitter frequencies. Distances are determined between the wireless mobile device and at least some of the wireless emitters, and an interference source is identified based on both of the wireless interference pattern and the distances. After determining the interference source, one of the emitter frequency, the receive frequency, or a combination thereof, is reassigned to a new frequency. The frequency reassignment is based on the interference pattern and separation distances and results in a modification to the interference pattern. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09350522B2
The present invention relates to transmitting and receiving of control information in a system supporting carrier aggregation. A search space for control information is configured in such a way that at least two search spaces determined by respective component carriers are on a first slot of a subframe and a further search space determined by a further component carrier is on a second slot, wherein at least one candidate of search spaces in the first slot is mapped in a same resource block pair with at least one candidate of a search space in the second slot.
US09350506B2
A method of wireless communication includes receiving overlapping information triggering aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) transmission. The method also includes processing the overlapping information in accordance with the received triggering information. The overlapping information can be consistent configuration information for the aperiodic SRS transmission, in which case the processing includes transmitting an aperiodic SRS in accordance with the configuration information. When the overlapping information has dissimilar configurations for the aperiodic SRS transmission, the processing includes treating the overlapping information as an error event. The overlapping information can be a trigger received in an uplink grant and a trigger received in a downlink grant. The wireless system can be a multicarrier system including multiple component carriers.
US09350501B2
A base station which uses either one of a plurality of component carriers individually or uses an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of the above-mentioned plurality of component carriers to carry out radio communications with a mobile terminal corresponding to the above-mentioned component carrier and also carry out radio communications with a mobile terminal corresponding to the above-mentioned aggregate carrier is provided. The base station notifies a bandwidth of an aggregate carrier which is an aggregate of all of the above-mentioned component carriers, as a bandwidth which the above-mentioned base station uses, to the mobile terminal corresponding to the above-mentioned aggregate carrier. As a result, while an improvement in the transmission rate is provided according to the aggregate carrier, the base station can also support an operation of a mobile terminal corresponding to a component carrier.
US09350500B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving streaming data using multiple paths, in which the streaming data is smoothly reproduced without being interrupted, and more particularly, to an apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving streaming data using multiple paths, in which exchange of the streaming data is performed in real-time using the multiple paths regardless of obstacles. The method for transmitting streaming data using multiple paths includes managing and maintaining a path list including sequence information about a transmission path capable of transmitting data, framing the streaming data, and transmitting the framed streaming data via the transmission path according to the sequence information.
US09350498B2
There is provided a method performed by a User Equipment, UE, for encoding Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request, HARQ, Acknowledgements, ACK/NACK, in a multi-antenna wireless communications system. The method comprises the step (S1) of bundling, also referred to as co-representing, a HARQ-ACK/NACK to be sent in response for a transport block of information with a HARQ-ACK/NACK to be sent in response for another transport block of information, when more than two transport blocks of information are used. The method also comprises the step (S2) of encoding the bundled HARQ-ACK/NACK information.
US09350494B2
The description relates to addressing the downtime of a message service. One example can include determining that an error occurred during a message send process. A decision can be made whether the error is a suspicious error or a non-suspicious error. In an instance where the error is a suspicious error, any resend attempts can be limited to a number of times defined by a crash count threshold.
US09350475B2
A method of wireless communication includes receiving physical layer signaling from a serving eNodeB in a wireless network. Interference estimation, interference cancellation and/or spatial equalization of user equipment is controlled in accordance with the received signaling.
US09350474B2
A digital audio routing system providing a process and system for managing multi-channel audio signals and a plurality of language signals, and decoding the signals into serial sound data to create a program serial data and a plurality of language serial data. The program serial data and the plurality of language serial data are aligned, and the program serial data is separated. The plurality of language serial data are separated to create a plurality of language channels. At least one language channel is mixed with at least one serial data to generate a language channel mix. The levels of each program serial data and language channel mix are adjusted to generate a final output mix. The final output mix is encoded to adhere to the AES-3id standard to create an output signal, and the output signal is then transmitted.
US09350472B2
An apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals comprises an encoder for encoding service data corresponding to each of a plurality of transmission unit, where each of a plurality of transmission unit carries at least one service component, a frame builder for building at least one signal frame including the encoded service data, a phase distortion unit for performing a phase distortion on data in the built at least one signal frame, a modulator for modulating data in the built at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals including the modulated data.
US09350471B1
Methods and systems for transmitting and receiving large objects via digital radio broadcast involve retrieving an object and an object description; assigning a unique identifier to the object; segmenting the object into a plurality of fragments; generating at least one long message having selected ones of the fragments and a long header including the unique identifier and the object description; generating at least one short message having selected ones of the fragments and a short header including the unique identifier; and communicating the at least the long message or the short message to a digital radio broadcast transmitter. In accordance with certain embodiments, reassembly of the object can begin with either a long message or a short message.
US09350463B2
The present invention discloses an electronic device using pulse density modulation for communication, comprising: a pulse density modulation interface; a first circuit to output a clock signal and a data signal through the pulse density modulation interface; and a second circuit to receive the clock and data signals and thereby determine whether the level change times of the data signal reach a predetermined threshold while the clock signal remains unchanged, so as to verify whether the clock and data signals satisfy a start protocol. In an embodiment of the present invention, the above-mentioned predetermined threshold is equal to or more than three.
US09350454B2
Multi-laser transmitter optical subassembly (TOSA). In one example embodiment, a method of fabricating a multi-laser TOSA includes various acts. First, first and second optical signals are transmitted from first and second lasers, respectively. Next, the angle of a first collimating lens is actively adjusted to cause the second optical signal to be aligned with the first optical signal as the first optical signal passes through a first filter and as the second optical signal is reflected by the first filter such that the first and second optical signals are aligned and combined.
US09350450B2
System and method embodiments are provided for bit loading for optical Discrete Multi-Tone Transmission (DMT). In an embodiment, a method for bit loading for optical DMT transmission or reception includes receiving, at a processor, a bit data stream, wherein the bit data stream comprises a plurality of subcarriers; assigning, with the processor, a code rate to each of a plurality of forward error correction (FEC) encoders/decoders according to a mapping of a signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) to a code rate for each of the subcarriers or subcarrier groups, wherein each FEC encoder/decoder corresponds to a respective one of the subcarriers or a respective subcarrier group; and assigning, with the processor, a modulation format to each subcarrier or each subcarrier group according to a mapping of an SNR for each subcarrier or subcarrier group to a bit number for a corresponding subcarrier or subcarrier group.
US09350446B2
A method (10) of selecting an optical signal power for an optical signal carrying traffic encoded on the optical signal in a modulation format. The optical signal is for transmission across an optical path in an optical communications system. The method (10) comprises: a. providing a probe optical signal at a probe signal power (12). The probe optical signal carries test traffic encoded on the probe optical signal in said modulation format (14). b. transmitting the probe optical signal across the optical path (16); and c. receiving the probe optical signal at an end of the optical path (18) and measuring an indicator of the quality of the received probe optical signal (20). The method comprises implementing steps a. to c. for each of a plurality of different probe signal powers (22, 26). The method further comprises selecting an indicator value corresponding to a quality above a threshold quality (24) and selecting an optical signal power substantially the same as the respective probe signal power as the optical signal power for the optical signal (28).
US09350442B2
A method for performing communications in a wireless communication network includes receiving mobility information about at least one moving mobile station in a mobility server of the wireless communications network, using the mobility information from the mobility server for calculating antenna weights to be applied to antenna elements of an antenna array for steering a beam generated by the antenna array to the moving mobile station preferably using space-division multiple access, SDMA. Embodiments also relate to a base station, to a mobile station, and to a wireless communication network.
US09350434B2
A method for a channel sounding in a wireless local area network. A station receives a 20 MHz null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame and at least one duplicate 20 MHz NDPA frame. The at least one duplicate 20 MHz NDPA frame is a duplicate of the 20 MHz NDPA frame. The station also receives a null data packet (NDP) following the 20 MHz NDPA frame and the at least one duplicate 20 MHz NDPA frame. The bandwidth over which the 20 MHz NDPA frame and the at least one duplicate 20 MHz NDPA frame are transmitted is the same as a bandwidth over which the NDP is transmitted. The station transmits a report frame for the channel sounding. The 20 MHz NDPA frame and the at least one duplicate 20 MHz NDPA frame comprise bandwidth information indicating the bandwidth over which the frames are transmitted.
US09350430B2
Multi-user null data packet (MU-NDP) sounding within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Within communication systems including multiple wireless communication devices (e.g., one or more APs, STAs, etc.), channel sounding of the selected communication links between the various wireless communication devices is performed. A MU-NDP announcement frame is transmitted to and received by various wireless communication devices indicating which of those wireless communication devices (e.g., one, some, or all) are being sounded. Then, respective NDP sounding frames are transmitted via the communication links corresponding to those wireless communication devices (e.g., one, some, or all) are being sounded, and sounding feedback signals are subsequently sent back to the original transmitting wireless communication device. In some instances, after transmission of the MU-NDP announcement frame, a clear to send (CTS) is sent from at least one of the wireless communication devices thereby precipitating the transmission of the NDP sounding frames.
US09350429B2
The present invention provides a signal transmission method for a multiple-user multiple-input multiple-output system, includes: in a signal sending time slot, sending a signal to user terminals through each antenna via preset subcarriers in a signal sending time slot; sending a first public information signal to the user terminals through each antenna via the preset subcarriers in a public information sending time slot. According to the technical solution provided by the present invention, the problem that signal transmission delay of a multiple-user multiple-input multiple-output system where a channel changes rapidly is too long is solved.
US09350425B1
A memorial data system is disclosed for providing information regarding an individual. The memorial data system comprises a marker for identifying the individual. A transponder circuit is coupled to the marker. A data is stored within the transponder circuit. A mobile electrical device transmits an electromagnetic field in close proximity to the transponder circuit. The transponder circuit receives the electromagnetic field for powering the transponder circuit. The transponder circuit transmits the data to the mobile electronic device. The mobile electronic device utilizes the data to access an electronic file on a network. The electronic file includes information regarding the individual.
US09350421B2
A single-ended data transmission system transmits a signal having a signal voltage that is referenced to a power supply voltage and that swings above and below the power supply voltage. The power supply voltage is coupled to a power supply rail that also serves as a signal return path. The signal voltage is derived from two signal supply voltages generated by a pair of charge pumps that draw substantially same amount of current from a power supply.
US09350420B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining values of downstream power back-off parameters are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving cable loss data of a cable configured to deliver a digital subscriber line (DSL) signal; identifying a cable model that characterizes a cable loss value at a frequency over a length of the cable; and determining a set of downstream power back-off (DPBO) parameter values of the cable model based on a product of a pseudo-inverse of a frequency matrix including a plurality of different frequencies and a vector of the cable loss data that includes a plurality of cable loss values with respect to the plurality of different frequencies of the pseudo-inverse of the frequency matrix.
US09350417B2
To improve the operation and the effect of ICIC by appropriately limiting resources of a reference signal. An SRS generating unit (154) generates an SRS as a reference signal based on SRS information transmitted from a reception unit (156), and a transmission unit (155) transmits the SRS based on the SRS information transmitted from the reception unit (156). At this time, by using information that represents an SRS drop resource as a transmission drop resource set in advance, the transmission of the SRS from the transmission unit (155) is dropped in a resource in which an SRS transmission resource used for transmitting the SRS is an SRS drop resource.
US09350415B2
Process of a finger assignment in a rake receiver for a wireless communication device comprising the following steps: —detection (21) of a pilot (CPICH) and the comparison of its energy according to a first threshold value; —detection (22), on the basis of said first threshold value, of a first significant path; —assignment (23) of said first significant path to a first finger of the rake receiver; —determination (24) of an observation window; —application (25) of a second threshold value, distinct and lower than said first value, for the detection of secondary paths; —rake fingers assignment to secondary paths detected.
US09350402B1
An adaptive phased-array processing solution, referred to as the Wideband Beamformer System (WBS), demonstrates an improvement in the range and quality of air link surveillance downlink wireless cell radio signals. The WBS applies wideband frequency-domain adaptive beamforming to preprocess the dense RF signal environment, minimizing co-channel interference (CCI) from each signal, and then reconstructing a “clean” version of the signal for input to the existing surveillance receiver(s).
US09350399B1
A method and apparatus are provided for reducing aliasing in a direct conversion (or zero-IF) radio receiver having high and low frequency paths. According to an implementation, a non-transitory machine-readable memory stores aliasing correlation response data that associates a measured non-aliased signal in a high frequency path and a measured aliased residual of the signal in a low frequency path. A compensator is in communication with the memory to apply aliasing compensation to received signals based on the stored aliasing correlation response data. In an example implementation, the low and high frequency paths are independently optimized for low and high frequency performance, respectively, and have transfer functions that overlap with one another to create a calibration zone used to calibrate the first and second transfer functions.
US09350391B1
In some embodiments of the present invention, a data storage device includes a controller and a memory. The data storage device further includes an LDPC encoder and decoder, with the decoder implementing a dynamic precision-rescaling technique for improving performance. In one embodiment, the technique works by rescaling the binary representations of the input log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) and messages upon activation of decoder-state-based triggers. Various triggering functions are introduced, e.g., checking if the number of output LLRs smaller than a certain limit crosses a threshold, checking if the weight of a syndrome crosses a threshold, etc. This technique offers an improvement in the performance of the decoder.
US09350384B2
According to embodiments of the present invention, machines, systems, methods and computer program products for hierarchical compression of data are presented comprising creating a compression hierarchy of compression nodes, wherein each compression node is associated with a compression operation to produce compressed data. An output of any of the compression nodes may be compressed by another compression node or the same compression node. A path of one or more compression nodes is determined through said compression hierarchy based upon compression statistics to compress data, and the data is compressed by the compression nodes of the path. Various computational techniques are presented herein for manipulating the compression hierarchy to defer or reduce computation during query evaluation.
US09350373B1
An analog-to-digital conversion that converts an input signal to an output signal by using multiple analog-to-digital converting circuits. A first analog-to-digital converting circuit generates a first signal based on the input signal and further outputs a feature signal of a first quantization error of the first analog-to-digital converting circuit. A second analog-to-digital converting circuit generates a second signal based on the input signal and the feature signal. The output combiner combines the first signal and the second signal to generate the output signal and thereby to reduce a quantization error factor in the output signal that is due to the first quantization error.
US09350365B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods having a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) in a digital phase-locked loop (PLL) and a control loop. The DCO can generate an output signal having a frequency based on a value of a digital information. The control loop can adjust a value of a supply voltage of the DCO based on the value the digital information. Additional apparatuses and methods are described.
US09350363B2
According to one embodiment, a voltage-controlled oscillation (VCO) circuit includes a current source, an oscillation core unit, an amplitude detection unit, a current control unit, a low pass filter, and a switch. The current source supplies a bias current to the oscillation core unit in accordance with a current control signal. The oscillation core unit oscillates according to the bias current and outputs an oscillation signal. The amplitude detection unit outputs a detection voltage according to an amplitude of the oscillation signal. The current control unit outputs a control signal so that the detection voltage is equal to a reference voltage. The low pass filter generates the current control signal by filtering the control signal, and then supplies the current control signal to the current source. The switch is connected in parallel with the low pass filter.
US09350362B2
A system includes a first phase-locked loop (PLL) circuit, a slew rate limiter and a second PLL. The first PLL is configured to receive an input signal, generate a first output identifying a frequency associated with the input signal, and generate a second output identifying phase information associated with the input signal. The slew rate limiter is configured to receive the first output from the first PLL, determine whether the frequency of the first output is changing at greater than a predetermined rate, and generate a first signal indicating whether the frequency is changing at greater than the predetermined rate. The second PLL is configured to receive the first signal from the slew rate limiter, receive the second output from the first PLL, and generate an output signal identifying an angle or phase information based on the first signal and the second output.
US09350359B2
A circuit includes a magnetic logic unit including input terminals, output terminals, a field line, and magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). The field line electrically connects a first and a second input terminal, and is configured to generate a magnetic field based on an input to at least one of the first and the second input terminal. The input is based on an analog input to the circuit. Each MTJ is electrically connected to a first output terminal and a second output terminal, and is configured such that an output of at least one of the first and the second output terminal varies in response to a combined resistance of the MTJs. The resistance of each of the MTJs varies based on the magnetic field. The circuit is configured to generate an analog output based on the output of at least one of the first and the second output terminal.
US09350353B2
A method and apparatus are provided for equalizing an output of a level shifter so as to obtain a symmetrical transition. In one implementation, a transition equalizing inverter includes: an NMOS for establishing a high-to-low transition for an equalized signal in response to a low-to-high transition of an asymmetrical signal; a delay circuit for outputting a delayed signal in response to the asymmetrical signal; and a PMOS for establishing a low-to-high transition for the equalized signal in response to a high-to-low transition of the delayed signal, wherein a delay introduced by the delay circuit offsets a timing mismatch between a low-to-high transition and a high-to-low transition of the asymmetrical signal. In an embodiment, the delay circuit comprises a transmission gate. A corresponding method is also provided.
US09350348B1
A power management circuit for integrated circuits operating systems where the power supply may be marginal includes a supply voltage characterization circuit and a clock synthesis circuit. The supply voltage characterization circuit determines the strength of the supply voltage applied to the IC and provides information to the synthesis circuit that is used to adjust the clock frequency of the IC to insure the IC does not draw too much current and force the IC into reset. A counter is used to determine the time between when the supply voltage reaches a first level and a second higher level, the time being representative of the slope of the supply voltage. Knowledge of the characteristics of a portion of the circuit under certain operating or benchmark conditions may be used to adjust the characterization.
US09350345B2
An input device, a display device and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The input device includes a substrate with a main surface. First and second detection electrodes, first and second connecting electrodes, first and second insulating layer are disposed on the main surface. The first and second detection electrodes are aligned in first and second directions, respectively. The first connecting electrodes each connect two of the neighboring first detection electrodes. The second connecting electrodes each connect two of the neighboring second detection electrodes. The first insulating layer is located on the first connecting electrode. The second insulating layer is disposed between the main surface of the substrate, and at least one of the first and second detection electrodes and the first connecting electrodes. The second insulating layer separates the main surface from the at least one of the first and second detection electrodes and the first connecting electrodes.
US09350344B2
A test pattern membrane test method uses a test pattern membrane to test the capacitive sensors of a device. The device is placed in the test fixture. The capacitive sensors are read without the test pattern membrane, storing as a set of baseline measurements. The test pattern membrane is placed on the unit to be tested. The test pattern membrane has a plurality of conductive areas on a non-conductive substrate. The conductive areas are arranged in a pattern that corresponds to the pattern of capacitive sensors. The sensors are read again to obtain a set of stimulated measurements. Differences for each of the sensors are determined between the sensor readings with and without the test pattern membrane in place. This difference is compared to a threshold. A sensor is considered to be functioning properly if the difference value is greater than the sensor's threshold value.
US09350342B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a circuit includes a first normally-on transistor having a drain coupled to a first switching output node, a normally-off transistor having a drain coupled to a source of the first normally-on transistor, a driver circuit configured to receive a switching signal, the driver circuit having an output coupled to a gate of the first normally-on transistor, and a second normally-on transistor having a drain terminal coupled to a supply node, a gate terminal coupled to the output of the driver circuit, and a source terminal configured to provide an auxiliary voltage.
US09350337B2
The disclosure provides a clamp circuit and a method for clamping voltage. The clamp circuit includes: a first switch control unit, connected with the high-potential terminal of the first stage output of a comparator and configured to clamp the voltage of the high-potential terminal to VGate1 when the voltage of the high-potential terminal is lower than a first pre-set value V1, and a second switch control unit, connected to the low-potential terminal of the first stage output of the comparator and configured to clamp the voltage of the low-potential terminal to VGate2 when the voltage of the low-potential terminal is higher than a second pre-set value V2, wherein the voltages of the first stage output of the comparator are between VGND and VCC. By the disclosure, the output voltage swings of the first stage of the comparator are limited, and thereby the processing speed of the comparator is improved.
US09350336B2
An integrated circuit including a plurality of internal clock generator circuits from which an internal clock is selected based on an external time reference. A number of cycles of internal clock signals from each of the internal clock generator circuits, or from at least one of those circuits where a frequency relationship is known, is counted relative to a system clock signal based on the external time reference. The lowest frequency internal clock signal providing at least a minimum number of cycles within the system clock period, the minimum number assuring completion of a function within a time constraint, is selected as the internal clock. Robust performance over a wide range of fabrication process parameters and operating conditions is assured.
US09350330B2
A physical unclonable function is provided 100, comprising a plurality of bus-keepers 110, each bus-keeper of the plurality of bus-keepers 110 being configured to settle into one of at least two different stable states upon power-up, the particular stable state into which a particular bus-keeper of the plurality of bus-keepers settles being dependent at least in part upon the at least partially random physical characteristics of the particular bus-keeper, and a reading circuit 120 for reading the plurality of stable states into which the plurality of bus-keepers settled after a power-up, the plurality of bus-keepers being read-only.
US09350329B2
An electronic system may include a first circuit driven by a first power voltage signal and a first ground voltage signal, and a second circuit driven by a second power voltage signal and a second ground voltage signal. The electronic system may also include a stabilizer coupled between a first ground terminal and a second ground terminal and suitable for blocking a current flowing from the second ground terminal toward the first ground terminal.
US09350325B2
A CMOS D-type flip flop (D-FF) exhibits reduced power consumption by selectively disabling certain charging/discharging operations at specific circuit elements to minimize the capacitance of the circuit's internal nodes using a partial signaling technique. A clock inverter module may be used to provide a partial inverse clock signal that is the complement of a clock signal when a non-clock dependent input to the clock inverter module has a first value and to provide a fixed signal when the non-clock dependent signal has a second value. One or more MOSFETs controlled by the partial inverse clock signal do not charge or discharge when the non-clock dependent signal has the second value.
US09350318B2
A method for manufacturing an electronic device is provided, in which a base and a lid as a cover body are bonded together while forming an interior space between the base and the lid. The method includes: a step of preparing the lid including a groove communicating the interior space with the outside, the groove being in a back surface of the lid; a step of accommodating a gyro element as an electronic component in the interior space; a first bonding step of bonding the base and the lid together by seam welding at an area for bonding except for a portion corresponding to the groove; and a second bonding step of bonding the base and the lid by welding using a laser beam at a portion of the area for bonding, the portion including an end of the groove on the outside side, to thereby close the groove.
US09350297B2
The present disclosure discloses an active mixer capable of improving linearity while giving consideration to both gain and noise reduction, including: a voltage-to-current converting circuit operable to generate a conversion signal according to an input signal; a switching circuit operable to carry out a switching action according to a clock signal and thereby electrically connect the voltage-to-current converting circuit with a load circuit; the load circuit operable to provide an output signal for a first and a second output nodes according to the conversion signal through the switching action; a first supplement current source, coupled to a first node between the switching circuit and the first output node, operable to supply a first supplemental current to the switching circuit; and a second supplement current source, coupled to a second node between the switching circuit and the second output node, operable to supply a second supplemental current to the switching circuit.
US09350277B2
A method for estimating a voltage of an input terminal of an inverter includes checking three-phase currents flowing from an inverter to a motor. A voltage of an input terminal of the inverter is calculated based on a plurality of design parameters, the three-phase currents, and PWM duties for determining switching operations of a plurality of switching elements of the inverter.
US09350265B2
An AC tied inverter connectable to an AC source, the AC tied inverter including a DC to DC current fed push-pull converter operable to generate a current waveform from a DC voltage source, the current waveform being substantially synchronized to the AC source, the push-pull converter including a transformer including a first side connectable to a battery and a second side connectable to the AC source, wherein each of the two primary sides is connected to ground via a switching transistor; and respective voltage clamps are connected between the respective primary side of the transformer and the respective switching transistor, the voltage clamp commutating the current from the respective primary side of the transformer when the switching transistor is turned off.
US09350263B2
Embodiments provide an apparatus for controlling conversion between an alternating current and a direct current, including a rectifier circuit, a detection circuit, and a logic circuit, where the detection circuit includes a voltage divider module, a first comparator module, and a second comparator module.
US09350259B2
An apparatus comprises a power converter circuit and a control circuit. The power converter circuit includes a primary circuit side and a secondary circuit side. The primary circuit side includes a plurality of primary switches, and the secondary circuit side includes a plurality of synchronous rectifiers and an inductor. The control circuit is configured to operate the synchronous rectifiers synchronously with the primary switches when inductor current at the inductor is greater than or equal to a reference inductor current, and operate the synchronous rectifiers in a bidirectional mode when the inductor current is less than the reference inductor current, wherein energy is delivered from the primary side to the secondary side and from the secondary side to the primary side during the bidirectional mode.
US09350255B2
A circuit of a full-bridge configuration using four semiconductor switch elements is used as a circuit on the primary side of a transformer in a DC-DC conversion device. With this configuration, it is possible to increase the turn ratio of a primary winding and a secondary winding of the transformer and thus increase a voltage generated in the primary winding, and to decrease a current flowing through the primary winding of the transformer and thus decrease breaking currents of the semiconductor switch elements.
US09350254B2
A Low Forward Voltage Rectifier (LFVR) includes a bipolar transistor, a parallel diode, and a base current injection circuit disposed in an easy-to-employ two-terminal package. In one example, the transistor is a Reverse Bipolar Junction Transistor (RBJT), the diode is a distributed diode, and the base current injection circuit is a current transformer. Under forward bias conditions (when the voltage from the first package terminal to the second package terminal is positive), the LFVR conducts current at a rated current level with a low forward voltage drop (for example, approximately 0.1 volts). In reverse bias conditions, the LFVR blocks current flow. Using the LFVR in place of a conventional silicon diode rectifier in the secondary of a flyback converter reduces average power dissipation and increases power supply efficiency.
US09350251B2
A power conversion apparatus and an over power protection method thereof are provided. A number of times a sensing voltage exceeding a reference voltage is counted, so as to determine whether to disable a power switch in the power conversion apparatus according to the number of times the sensing voltage exceeding the reference voltage, in which the sensing voltage corresponds to a current flowing through the power switch on a resistor.
US09350237B2
A control circuit includes an auxiliary pin for receiving an auxiliary voltage of an auxiliary winding of a power converter; a first detection unit for detecting a first time point when the auxiliary voltage begins resonance, and outputting a first detection signal according to the first time point; a second detection unit for detecting a second time point when the auxiliary voltage reaches a predetermined voltage, and outputting a second detection signal according to the second time point; a delay time controller for obtaining a delay time according to a output time difference between the first detection signal and the second detection signal, and outputting a driving signal with delay of the delay time when receiving the second detection signal; and a gate control signal generator for generating a gate control signal to a power switch of the power converter according to the driving signal of the delay time controller.
US09350234B2
A voltage regulator including a first, second, and third capacitances, first switches, and second switches. A first terminal of the first capacitance is connected to a first output. The first output is at a first output voltage. A first terminal of the second capacitance is connected to a second output. The second output is at a second output voltage. The first switches connect a first terminal of the third capacitance to a voltage supply, the first output, or the second output. The second switches connect a second terminal of the third capacitance to a reference terminal, the first output, or the second output. The first and second switches are controlled, based on the first output voltage and the second output voltage, to: adjust voltages across the first, second, and third capacitances; maintain the first output at a first predetermined voltage; and maintain the second output at a second predetermined voltage.
US09350230B2
A transformer steps down an input AC power, and supplies the AC power to a converter. The primary voltage of the transformer detected by a voltage detector is supplied to a converter controller and a frequency detector via a BPF. The converter controller controls the converter such that a power factor is equal to or greater than a predetermined value based on the primary voltage, and the converter converts the AC power into DC power. The frequency detector detects the frequency of the primary voltage based on an interval between time points at which the primary voltage via the BPF exceeds a threshold. A filter adjuster calculates a filter characteristic with the detected frequency as a center frequency of the BPF, and adjusts the BPF based on the filter characteristic.
US09350223B2
A power generator 100 includes a housing 20 and a power generating unit 10 disposed in the housing 20. The power generating unit 10 is constituted of a magnet assembly 30 having a permanent magnet 31, a coil 40 disposed so as to surround the permanent magnet 31, a coil holding portion 50 holding the coil 40 and a pair of an upper leaf spring 60U and a lower leaf spring 60L disposed in the housing 20 so as to be opposed to each other through at least one of the magnet assembly 30, the coil 40 and the coil holding portion 50.
US09350218B2
A press-fitting structure has a press-fitting face of a rotor yoke formed from a laminated steel sheet is press fitted onto a face to be press-fitted of a rotor shaft, fitting is carried out with plastic deformation while the first projection of a press-fitting face of a rotor yoke, on which a first projection and a first recess extending in substantially the press-fitting direction are formed in turn, and the second projection of the face to be press-fitted of the rotor shaft, on which a second projection and a second recess extending in the direction intersecting the press-fitting direction are formed in turn, are in contact with each other. Since in a state in which press fitting is completed, the amount of plastic deformation of the second projection of the rotor shaft is larger than the amount of plastic deformation of the first projection of the rotor yoke.
US09350216B2
Absolute multi-turn position sensing integrated within the structure of a hybrid stepper motor implemented by sharing the magnetic structure of the motor with the sensing means. An alternating magnetic field is obtained from a single magnet within the stepper motor rotor by use of alternating flux paths directed to large Barkhausen jump effect sensing elements. Pulses generated from the large Barkhausen sensing are decoded electronically and stored in a non-volatile memory to absolutely locate the motor position within a fraction of 1 electrical cycle of the motor over an arbitrary range. This coarse position sensing can optionally be extended by use of a higher resolution absolute within-electrical-cycle sensing means to provide integrated high resolution position sensing over an arbitrary number of revolutions.
US09350215B2
A method and a structure are provided for mounting a sensor substrate of a brushless motor. Insulating members are formed on a stator core on which radially arranged pole teeth are provided on an inner peripheral surface side of the stator core with a predetermined space, a stator coil is wound around the pole teeth via the insulating members, stopper walls are provided to the pole teeth of the insulating member on a leading edge thereof, pedestal parts are formed on the stopper walls on an inner periphery surface side thereof, a sensor substrate to which a position detection element which detects the position of a permanent magnet provided to a rotor is arranged on the pedestal parts, locking portions for locking the sensor substrate are provided to some of the pedestal parts, and thereby the coming off of the sensor substrate in an axial direction is prevented.
US09350203B2
Provided is a rare earth sintered magnet 10 comprising a group of main phase grains 2 each composed of an R-T-B-based rare earth magnet comprising a core 4 and a shell 6 covering the core 4, wherein a thickness of the shell 6 is 500 nm or less, R includes a light rare earth element and a heavy rare earth element, and a Zr compound 8 is present in a grain boundary phase 7 of the group of main phase grains 2 and/or the shell 6. Also provided are a motor comprising the rare earth sintered magnet 10 and an automobile comprising the motor.
US09350196B2
A non-contact charging apparatus configured to, vary the inductance and the capacitance of the matching unit for matching the impedance of the power supply system that supplies alternate current power and the impedance of the power transmitting/receiving system including a power transmitting unit and a power receiving apparatus according to the variable information.
US09350190B2
In accordance with one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises a power supply section configured to be connectable to an AC power supply, a battery, a remaining battery level detection section configured to detect the remaining battery level, a first threshold value setting section configured to set a charge level lower than a full charge of the battery, a second threshold value setting section configured to set a charge level lower than the first threshold value, and a charging condition setting section configured to output an instruction on charging of the battery such that the remaining battery level changes back and forth between the first threshold value and the second threshold value.
US09350189B2
A battery pack for starting an engine having an idle stop & go (ISG) system in which the engine is repeatedly stopped and restarted to conserve fuel. This battery pack includes: a rechargeable battery; a first ISG current control unit having a variable resistor electrically connected to the rechargeable battery; and a battery management system (BMS) electrically connected to the rechargeable battery and the first ISG current control unit, said BMS sets a resistance value of the variable resistor according to a current mode of the ISG system.
US09350188B2
Electronic device comprising: processing unit including accepting part accepting processing request from external device and executing process specified by request; secondary battery connected with external power source; and power-source device transitioning to operating state when request is accepted in waiting state, and transitioning to waiting state when processing unit completes executing process, wherein, in waiting state, power supply from external power source to processing unit is stopped and secondary battery supplies power to accepting part, and in operating state, power is supplied from external power source to processing unit. Power-source device includes controller executing first charge control operation to cause external power source to charge secondary battery when, in operating state, voltage of secondary battery is not higher than threshold, and end executing first charge control operation when transitioning to waiting state, controller updating threshold in response to increase in number of times first charge control operation is executed.
US09350183B2
A mobile terminal is provided that includes a body to be mountable to a first charging apparatus, a current generator to generate an induction current by using a current of the first charging apparatus, and a wireless charger between the current generator and the battery to charge the battery by converting the induction current into a direct current. The mobile terminal may also include a connection port to be electrically connected to the battery and being connectable to a power supply terminal of a second charging apparatus, and a power charging controller to disconnect an electrically connected status between the wireless charger and the battery when the power supply terminal is electrically connected to the connection port.
US09350167B2
The present invention provides an electronic device, a power supply control chip and a power supply control method. The electronic device includes: at least one element (10); a rechargeable battery (12); an adapter socket (14); a first processing circuit (16) having a first operation state and a second operation state; a power supply judgment parameter acquisition module (18) configured to acquire a power supply judgment parameter; and a control module (20) configured to control the first processing circuit to operate in the first or second operation state based on the power supply judgment parameter. In the first operation state, the first processing circuit (16) is configured to convert a first electrical signal output from a adapter into a second electrical signal and charge the rechargeable battery (12) with the second electrical signal. In the second operation state, the first processing circuit (16) is configured to convert a third electrical signal output from the rechargeable battery (12) into a fourth electrical signal and supply power to the at least one element (10) with the fourth electrical signal. With the electronic device, the power supply control chip and the power supply control method according to the present invention, utilization of the rechargeable battery (12) can be improved.
US09350161B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to an under-voltage lockout circuit, and a switching control circuit and a power supply including the same. The under-voltage lockout circuit according to an embodiment of the invention includes a first under-voltage lockout circuit comparing a driving voltage with a first reference voltage and a second under-voltage lockout circuit generating an under-voltage lockout signal based on a result of the comparison between the driving voltage and the second reference voltage. The first under-voltage lockout circuit stops operation of the second under-voltage lockout circuit when the driving voltage is lower than the first reference voltage and operates the second under-voltage lockout circuit when the driving voltage is higher than the first reference voltage. Power consumption of the first under-voltage lockout circuit is limited by a first current that generates the first reference voltage.
US09350158B2
An over-current protection circuit and a pulse width modulator having the same are provided. The pulse width module includes a high-side switch, a low-side switch, and a driving module. The driving module controls the high-side switch and the low-side switch according to a set signal and a reset signal periodically to adjust an inductive current flowing through the high-side switch and the low-side switch. When inductive current is the overcurrent during the minimum on time of the high-side switch, the over-current protection circuit turns off the high-side switch in a predefined time to decrease the inductive current continuously, so that the average current of the inductive current does not become too high to damage the pulse width module.
US09350156B2
Disclosed is a power supply control apparatus of an electric load that includes an upstream side switching element and a downstream side switching element and detects various abnormality states of a load wiring by a small number of detection signals. The power supply control apparatus includes a control circuit unit that gives a power supply command signal to the upstream switching element connected in series with the electric load and gives a conduction command signal to the downstream switching element, open-circuits the upstream and downstream switching elements by a synthetic overcurrent determination storage circuit that is operated in response to an overcurrent detecting circuit, monitors a value of one variable divided voltage generated by the voltage monitoring circuit for the electric load, and identifies and stores a wiring abnormality such as a negative line supply fault, a positive line ground fault, and a load short circuit abnormality.
US09350135B2
The present disclosure proposes a flow guide device for a discharge cavity having a symmetrical configuration and including two pairs of electrodes; the flow guide device comprises two rotors which correspond to one pair of the two pairs of electrodes, respectively, installed positions of which are symmetrical about a symmetrical plane of the discharge cavity and is beneath the electrodes, a rotational axis of which is parallel to an axial direction of the electrodes which is parallel to a base plane of the discharge cavity, and the two rotors have opposite rotation directions and identical rotation speeds. The flow guide device further comprises a spoiler plate and a flow guide plate so that the discharge gas flow passes through the discharge cavity in a manner of high speed and uniform cycling when flowing through the discharge region. Thus, the discharge quality is guaranteed so as to improve the energy and reliability of the laser.
US09350134B2
A laser oscillator which can keep distributions of pressure of a laser medium inside of a plurality of discharge tubes constant while making the laser medium circulate without stagnating. The laser oscillator is comprised of a first discharge tube, second discharge tube, first light guide, laser medium flow path, and blower. A flow resistance of a laser medium flow path between the blower and the first discharge tube and a flow resistance of the laser medium flow path between the blower and second discharge tube are the same as each other. A flow resistance of the laser medium flow path between the blower and a first end of the first light guide and a flow resistance of the laser medium flow path between the blower and a second end of the first light guide differ from each other.
US09350133B2
A method of controlling a laser apparatus may include: exchanging a gain medium in a chamber configured to output a laser beam by exciting the gain medium; first measuring, after the exchanging, pulse energy of a laser beam which is oscillated in the chamber under a specific gas pressure and a specific charge voltage; calculating an approximate expression indicating a relationship between the pulse energy of the laser beam and the gas pressure in the chamber and the charge voltage, or a table representing a correlationship between the pulse energy, the gas pressure and the charge voltage, based on the specific pressure, the specific charge voltage and the pulse energy in the first measuring; storing the approximate expression or the table; second measuring, after the first measuring, pulse energy Er of a laser beam oscillated in the chamber; calculating pulse energy Eec which is supposed to be obtained directly after the exchanging under the gas pressure and the charge voltage in the second measuring based on the approximate expression or the table; calculating a reduction amount ΔEd of pulse energy based on the pulse energy Eec and the pulse energy Er using ΔEd=Eec−Er; and calculating a partial gas exchange amount Q for partial gas exchange in the chamber based on the reduction amount ΔEd of pulse energy.
US09350130B2
Devices and methods of use for brush holder assemblies are disclosed. Brush holder assemblies including a mounting block and a brush holder are disclosed. Also illustrated is a brush holder assembly including a first portion in sliding engagement with a second portion. In some embodiments the brush holder includes a channel, such that at least a portion of the mounting block is disposed within the channel of the brush holder.
US09350118B2
A charging port locking device is provided with an engagement member provided in a charging connector, for regulating the removal of the charging connector by engagement with an engagement part provided in a charging port, a restriction member provided in a vehicle, for restricting the disengagement of the engagement member, and a lock actuator for driving the restriction member. By virtue of the charging port locking device, the unintentional disconnection of the charging connector from the charging port can be avoided during charging in a state in which the charging port and the charging connector are connected.
US09350114B2
A network connector structure includes a connector body and a locking structure. The connector body encloses a conduction wire. The locking structure is attachable to the connector body and includes a withdrawal prevention section and a coupling section. When the network connector structure is inserted into a socket, the withdrawal prevention section of the locking structure is received in the socket in such a way that an engagement face of the engagement section engages and abuts a projection block of the socket to prevent the network connector structure from being withdrawn from the socket. The coupling section detachably mounts the locking structure to the connector body so as to allow for easy replacement.
US09350112B2
An improved electrical plug uses a wire receiver for connecting to electrical lines. These receivers include a hook received by a cavity, the hook having an arm for moving the hook and pressing the electrical line against an electrical contact A locking and unlocking mechanism secures a plug cover to an electrical contact holder, the cover having a number of passages and slopes for locking and unlocking the cover from the contact holder. A space adjuster mechanism is provided to fasten against a cable containing the electrical lines. A number of concentrically and uniformly arranged petals slide against each other and tighten about the cable, locking it in place.
US09350109B2
An electric wire with terminal includes: a waterproof seal sleeve that is attached to a tip of a conductor part of a covered electric wire from which a covering section is removed; an inner terminal that is compressed in an area containing a boundary between the conductor part and the covering section of the covered electric wire; and an outer terminal which includes an electric connection section connected to a mating terminal, a compression section having a front part, a center part and a rear part, and an interconnecting section that connects the electric connection section with the compression section. The front part of the compression section compresses the waterproof seal sleeve, the center part of the compression section compresses the conductor part, and the rear part of the compression section compresses a front part of the inner terminal.
US09350108B2
A connector has a housing with a first face of the housing. The housing supports a plurality of wafers, each wafer supporting a plurality of terminals and including grooves, the grooves aligned with the terminals supported by the wafer. The housing may be positioned in a cage that includes receptacles on a front face of the cage.
US09350107B2
The present invention relates to a control unit for a vehicle, in particular for an ABS device and/or an ESP device, comprising a housing part (2) which is produced from plastic and has an opening (21), and a motor contact (5) which produces an electrical contact between the control unit and a motor and which is arranged in the opening (21), wherein the motor contact (5) is a separate component and comprises at least one electric contact (6) and a base body (7) produced from plastic, wherein the motor contact (5) is arranged in the opening (21) in such a manner that the motor contact (5) partially protrudes from the housing part (2), and wherein the motor contact (5) is fastened to the housing part (2) by means of a connecting structure (8) between the base body (7) of the motor contact and the housing (2). Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for producing a control unit for a vehicle, comprising the following steps: separately producing a housing part (2) and a motor contact (5), wherein the motor contact (5) has at least one electric contact (6) and a base body (7) produced from plastic, and fitting the motor contact (5) into an opening (21), which is formed in the housing part (2), in such a manner that a connecting structure between the base body (7) and the housing part (2) is produced, wherein the connecting structure is an ultrasound welding connection, an adhesive bonding connection and/or a latching connection.
US09350105B2
Provided is a surface-mount type electric connecting terminal which is disposed between opposing conductive objects and is configured to electrically connecting the objects while easily adjusting pressing force and recovery force. The electric connecting terminal includes a cylindrical fixed member which is made from a metallic material; a cylindrical movable member which is slidably inserted in the fixed member and is made from a metallic material; and an electrical conductive spring which is accommodated in the fixed member and whose one end contacts with the bottom of the fixed member and the other end contacts with the bottom of the movable member for thereby allowing the movable member to elastically slide against the fixed member.
US09350100B2
[Problem(s)]A board to board connector is disclosed to provide desirable electrical connection between contacts.[Means to Solve the Problem(s)]A board to board connector according to the present invention comprises a male connector 10 and a female connector 20. The male connector 10 comprises a pair of male contacts 100A, 100B and the female connector 20 comprises a pair of female contacts 200A, 200B. The male contacts 100A, 100B comprise protruding portions 109A, 109B which are elastically deformable, and the female contacts 200A, 200B comprise contact portions 208A, 208B which contact the protruding portion 109A, 109B. The contact portion 208B comprises a first inclined surface 201 A which inclines in a direction perpendicular to another direction in which the protruding portion moves and a second inclined surface 210B.
US09350099B2
A connector including a conductive casing, a terminal, a first insulation structure and a conductive structure is provided. The conductive casing has an inner wall. The terminal includes a first section and a second section. The first section is disposed in the conductive casing, and the first section and the inner wall have a gap therebetween. The second section is located outside the conductive casing. The first insulation structure is disposed between the first section and the inner wall. The conductive structure is electrically connected to the conductive casing and has an inclined plane. The inclined plane is aligned to the second section, the second section and the inclined plane have a gap therebetween, and the inclined plane is parallel to a extending direction of the second section. In addition, a printed circuit board module having the connector is also provided.
US09350089B2
By forming a bus bar-swaging part at a terminal, forming a bus bar-crimping part at a bus bar, and providing a crimping posture-retaining part that retains the crimping posture of the bus bar-crimping part when crimping the bus bar-swaging part to the bus bar-crimping part, the present invention provides a connection structure capable of preventing defective crimping caused by the change in the posture of the bus bar-crimping part to thereby enhance the reliability on connection.
US09350088B2
A swaging structure for metallic members includes a metallic plate having a hole portion, and a disc-shaped conductive member which is fitted in the hole portion and fixed to the metallic plate by swaging a circumference of the hole portion. The metallic plate includes a groove portion provided in at least one surface side of the metallic plate about the hole portion of the metallic plate, and the conductive member includes a vertical flange provided on an outer circumference of the conductive member and protruding from the at least one surface side. The conductive member is fitted in the hole portion of the metallic plate, and when the conductive member is swaged onto the metallic plate, the vertical flange of the conductive member is deformed, and the groove portion of the metallic plate is filled with the deformed vertical flange.
US09350087B2
A method for the production of a multi-polar shielded electric interface, particularly a plug-in connection, such as a plug, a socket, a Y-part, a T-part, or the like comprising at least one cable (2) connected thereto with a shielding (1), the interface comprising electric contacts (4) and with the cable (2) with the electric contacts (4) comprising conductors (3) to be connected and a shielding (1) surrounding the conductors (3), to be guided from the cable (2) to the interface, wherein to form a shielding element (6) the shielding (1) of the cable (2) and at least an area adjacent to the shielding (1) around the electric contacts (4) is coated by injection molding with an electrically conductive composite material, with the shielding element (6) being distanced from the electric contacts (4) or an isolating body (5) being embedded. An interface is produced accordingly.
US09350086B2
A high gain antenna for direction finding in the Ka-band. The antenna consists of a lens antenna fed by two micro strip patch antennas. The printed patch antennas are fed by a 180 degree hybrid coupler having four ports, with two ports connected to the feeds of the patch antennas and the other two ports connected to the receiver/exciter. The hybrid sums the signals from the patches and subtracts the signals from the patches to form sum and difference channels. By comparing the sum and difference channels, a user can determine whether the signal entered through the main beam. For example, if the sum signal is greater than the difference signal, the signal is in the main beam. If not, the signal came from another angle.
US09350083B2
Systems and methods for providing a Portable Satellite Communication (“PSC”) antenna. The PSC antenna (100) comprises: a Parabolic Segmented Antenna (“PSA”) reflector (102) with a plurality of identical and interchangeable panels (106) that can be stowed in a nested stacked arrangement; a plurality of interchangeable feedhorn assemblies (104) that can be coupled to a center hub (110) via a quick-connect mechanism (112); an adjustment mechanism (2512, 2602, 2604) for adjusting an angular orientation of the feedhorn assemblies relative to the center hub; a transceiver (202) that can be coupled to a convex side of the PSA reflector; a base panel (120) which is coupled to a tripod positioning structure (118) such that reflector wind moment loads can be transferred through a base panel to the tripod positioning structure; and a tripod positioning structure with folding legs (3102, 3104) and hard stops (3306) against which the folding legs can be preloaded.
US09350082B2
A dual-band monopole coupling antenna is disclosed, which comprises: a first radiation part, configured with a frame and an extension section while being disposed on a surface of a substrate; a second radiation part, disposed on the surface of the substrate at a position neighboring to the first radiation part for enabling a coupling effect between the two, allowing the second radiation part to be used as an extension of the first radiation part, and thus adjusting the operation frequency, impedance and impedance matching accordingly; a signal ground section, disposed coupling to the second radiation part; a signal feed-in section, disposed on the surface at a position neighboring to the signal ground section while coupling to the first radiation part; a ground, disposed coupling to the second radiation part; and a dielectric layer, disposed at an non-conductive area arranged between the first radiation part and the second radiation part.
US09350068B2
An electronic device has antennas formed from cavity antenna structures. The electronic device may have a metal housing. The metal housing may have an upper housing in which a component such as a display is mounted and a lower housing in which a component such as a keyboard is mounted. Hinges may be used to mount the upper housing to the lower housing for rotation about a rotational axis. Cavity antennas may be formed in a clutch barrel region located between the hinges and running along the rotational axis. A flexible printed circuit may be formed between the cavity antennas. Each cavity antenna may have a first end that is adjacent to one of the hinges and a second end that is adjacent to the flexible printed circuit. Cavity walls for the cavity antennas may be formed from metal housing structures such as metal portions of the lower housing.
US09350067B2
Provided is a satellite communication antenna, including a signal transmitting/receiving section for receiving signals from a satellite and transmitting the signals to the satellite; a driving section for rotating the signal transmitting/receiving section so that the signal transmitting/receiving section tracks the satellite; a main post, provided in a longitudinal direction, for supporting the driving section; and a vibration absorption section, provided to a circumference of the main post, for preventing vibrations or impacts from transferring into the signal transmitting/receiving section, thereby to attenuate vibrations or impacts acting on the signal transmitting/receiving section in up and down direction.
US09350066B2
This antenna unit comprises an antenna having a radiating front surface, a back surface and a lateral outline having at least one electric field reinforcing region. It is characterized in that it further comprises a device protecting the antenna from lightning, having an internal surface at least partially capping the lateral outline of said antenna by being in electrical contact with said lateral outline, said internal surface covering the or each electric field reinforcing region, said protecting device having a curved external surface opposite said internal surface.
US09350065B2
A method for manufacturing a resonance tube includes: mixing powder materials, to form homogeneous powder particles, where the powder materials comprise iron powder with a weight proportion of 50% to 90%, at least one of copper powder and steel powder with a weight proportion of 1% to 30%, and an auxiliary material with a weight proportion of 1% to 20%; pressing and molding the powder particles, to form a resonance tube roughcast; sintering the resonance tube roughcast in a protective atmosphere, to form a resonance tube semi-finished product; and electroplating the resonance tube semi-finished product, to form the resonance tube. In the method, the resonance tube, and the filter according to embodiments of the present invention, the resonance tube is manufactured by using multiple powder materials.
US09350064B2
A power division and recombination network with internal signal adjustment (“PDRN”) is described. The PDRN may include a means for dividing an input power signal having a first amplitude value into eight intermediate power signals, where each intermediate power signal has an intermediate amplitude value equal to approximately one-eighth the first amplitude value. The PDRN may also include a means for processing the intermediate power signals and a means for combining the intermediate power signal into a single output power signal.
US09350053B2
The invention relates to an energy storage device (1) for generating an n-phase supply voltage for an electric machine (2), wherein n≧1, with n energy supply branches which are connected in parallel and which can each be connected to one of n phase conductors (2a, 2b, 2c), wherein each of the energy supply branches has a large number of energy storage modules (1a, 1b) which are connected in series and which each comprise: an energy storage cell module (5, 7) which has at least one energy storage cell (5a, 7a) and a coupling device (3), which is designed to connect the energy storage cell module (5, 7) selectively into the respective energy supply branch or to bridge said energy storage cell module, wherein in each case at least one of the energy storage modules (1b) also has in each case one heating element (8) for the at least one energy storage cell (7a); and a heating device (9), which is connected to the heating elements (8) and which is designed to actuate the heating elements (8) for heating the energy storage cells (7a) in the groups of energy storage modules (1b).
US09350048B2
An electrolyte for a lithium rechargeable battery, a lithium rechargeable battery including the same, and a method of manufacturing lithium rechargeable battery, the electrolyte including a first additive, a second additive, a lithium salt; and a non-aqueous organic solvent.
US09350040B2
Methods of and factories for thin-film battery manufacturing are described. A method includes operations for fabricating a thin-film battery. A factory includes one or more tool sets for fabricating a thin-film battery.
US09350036B2
In one aspect of the present invention, a method of fabricating a composite membrane includes: forming a first polymer solution from a first polymer and a second polymer solution from a second polymer, respectively, where the first polymer includes a charged polymer and the second polymer includes an uncharged polymer; electrospinning, separately and simultaneously, the first and second polymer solutions to form a dual fiber mat with first polymer fibers and second polymer fibers; and processing the dual fiber mat by softening and flowing one of the first or second polymer fibers to fill in the void space between the other of the first and second polymer fibers so as to form the composite membrane. In some embodiments, the composite membrane may be a proton exchange membrane (PEM) or an anion exchange membrane (AEM).
US09350029B2
A fuel cell stack has an asymmetrical triangular inlet buffer. An inlet connection channel connects a coolant supply passage on the upper side and the inlet buffer, and an inlet connection channel connects a coolant supply passage on the lower side and the inlet buffer. The number of flow grooves in the inlet connection channel is different from the number of flow grooves in the inlet connection channel.
US09350028B2
A membrane electrode assembly includes a proton exchange membrane, a first electrode and a second electrode. The proton exchange membrane has two opposite surfaces, a first surface and a second surface. The first electrode is located adjacent to the first surface of the proton exchange membrane, and the first electrode includes a first diffusion layer and a first catalyst layer. The second electrode is located adjacent to the second surface of the proton exchange membrane, and the second electrode includes a second diffusion layer and a second catalyst layer. At least one of the first diffusion layer and the second diffusion layer includes a carbon nanotube structure. A fuel cell using the membrane electrode assembly is also provided.
