US09354993B2
A method of reducing downtime in a node environment is disclosed. The method includes identifying an originating system board of a plurality of system boards that requires service where the originating system board includes a node operating on a processor. The method further includes identifying a target system board of the plurality of system boards where the target system board includes a target processor. The method further includes transferring operation of the node to the target processor before the originating system board is serviced, and operating the node on the target processor.
US09354990B2
Various examples of techniques for identifying a corrupt data lane and using a spare data lane are described herein. Some examples include a method of coordinating spare lane usage between link partners. One such example comprises analyzing data from a link partner to identify a corrupt lane, and communicating the corrupt lane to the link partner, wherein the communication does not require sideband communication channel. In some embodiments, communicating the corrupt lane to the link partner comprises identifying a transmit lane corresponding to the corrupt lane, transmitting a set of data intended for a corresponding transmit lane using a spare data lane, and transmitting bad data to the link partner using the corresponding transmit lane.
US09354986B2
Providing a computer program product, system, and method for setting copy permissions for target data in a copy relationship. Source data is copied from a first storage to a first data copy in a second storage. A request is received to copy requested data from the first data copy to a second data copy. The second copy operation is performed to copy the requested first data copy form the second storage to a second data copy in response to determining that the requested first data copy is not in the state that does not permit the copying. The request is denied in response to determining that the requested first data copy is in the state that does not permit copying.
US09354985B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data processing device and a data processing method. In the data processing device and the data processing method provided by the embodiments of the present invention, first data in a memory is written into a first non-volatile storage unit in a log file form, and a log file of the first data written into the first non-volatile storage unit is written into a second non-volatile storage unit. Because a data write speed of the first non-volatile storage unit is higher than a data write speed of the second non-volatile storage unit, fast backup of the data in the memory can be achieved, and when the data in the memory is lost in an abnormal situation, security of the data in the memory can be ensured.
US09354981B2
A memory module stores working data that includes data units. A storage system stores recovery data that includes sets of one or more data units. Transferring data units between the memory module and the storage system includes: maintaining an order among the data units included in the working data, the order defining a first contiguous portion and a second contiguous portion; and, for each of multiple time intervals, identifying any data units accessed from the working data during the time interval, and adding to the recovery data a set of two or more data units including: one or more data units from the first contiguous portion including any accessed data units, and one or more data units from the second contiguous portion including at least one data unit that has been previously added to the recovery data.
US09354975B2
An improved technique involves assigning a different generator matrix to each data stripe of the redundant disk array such that all of the different generator matrices represent the same code. For example, when a k×n generator matrix G represents a linear code C, k being the block length and n the code length, then for any invertible k×k matrix P, the matrix G′=PG is also a generator that represents C. When C is a systematic code, then G consists of a k×k identity matrix representing payload data concatenated with a k×(n−k) parity matrix representing parity data. Certain matrices P represent row operations on G, meaning that the matrix G′ may have the columns of the identity matrix in G to different locations in G′.
US09354974B2
A method includes issuing write commands to DS storage units regarding encoded data slices. A write command causes a storage unit to store an encoded data slice, but not allow access to the stored encoded data slices. The method includes receiving write acknowledgements from at least some of DS storage units to produce received write acknowledgements. The method includes, when a write threshold number of the received write acknowledgements have been received within a given time frame, issuing commit commands to the DS storage units. A commit command causes the storage unit to allow access to the stored encoded data slice. The method includes, when the write threshold number of the received write acknowledgements have not been received within the given time frame, issuing rollback commands to the DS units. A rollback command causes the storage unit to continue to not allow access to the stored encoded data slice.
US09354963B2
Technologies are generally described to provide a passive monitoring system employing a logging schema to track usage data in order to analyze performance and reliability of a service. The logging schema may be configured to track user requests as each request is received and processed at individual subsystems of the collaborative service. A logging entry may be created at a data store of the service, where the logging entry includes a subsystem name, an operation performed by the subsystem to fulfill the request, and start and end times of the operation. The logging schema may also detect errors fulfilling the requests, and may classify detected errors into a bucket, where each bucket denotes a failure scenario. Reliability of the service may be calculated based on analysis of the buckets to compute error rates. Reports may be generated to enable continuous monitoring of a performance and reliability of the system.
US09354955B1
A method for managing garbage collection of memory locations in an DSD having a plurality of dies each having a plurality of memory blocks includes: selecting a physical region of memory to be garbage collected, the selected physical region being a subset of a block management region; and garbage collecting the selected physical region. The garbage collecting includes: determining one or more journals corresponding to the selected physical region, the journal comprising transaction entries indicating what logical data are written to memory locations in the selected physical region; determining whether the memory locations within the physical region contain valid data based on a comparison of information in the journal and a mapping table; and if valid data exists, copying valid data into memory locations in memory regions other than the selected physical region of memory. The selected physical region of memory is erased when the block management region is erased.
US09354953B2
Disclosed is a computer system for system integration, wherein chip selection for a specific system is performance and reliability optimized and, thereby cost optimized. In the system, a memory stores a chip-level performance specification and a chip-level reliability specifications, each defined for a specific integrated circuit chip that is to be incorporated into a specific system. The memory also stores an inventory that references manufactured instances of the specific integrated circuit chip sorted into bins, which are associated with different performance process windows and which are assigned different reliability levels. A processor uses the inventory to select an instance of the specific integrated circuit chip from one of the bins for actual incorporation into the specific system and does so such that the chip-level performance specification and the chip-level reliability specification are met. Also disclosed are a method and a computer program product that can similarly perform system integration.
US09354946B2
The invention which relates to a method for coupling a CAD system to a database and planning system for interchanging data between both systems is based on the problem of specifying a method for coupling CAD systems to different database and planning systems, which method reduces the outlay in the event of changes and adaptations to different systems. According to the present invention, the problem is solved by virtue of the fact that the conversion between the communication protocols takes place in two substeps in such a manner that the data are converted from the first communication protocol into a third communication protocol in a CAD abstraction layer and are then converted from this third communication protocol into the second communication protocol in a useful layer or vice versa.
US09354939B2
A decision system for providing customized application build options to users of a cloud computing environment. The decision system can receive user usage history data and determine a customized set of application resources based on the usage history data. Information about the customized set of application resources can then be supplied to the user.
US09354937B2
A computer-implemented system and method facilitate dynamically allocating server resources. The system and method include determining a current queue distribution, referencing historical information associated with execution of at least one task, and predicting, based on the current queue distribution and the historical information, a total number of tasks of various task types that are to be executed during the time period in the future. Based on this prediction, a resource manager determines a number of servers that should be instantiated for use during the time period in the future.
US09354936B2
The present invention relates to a method, system, and apparatus for coordinating distributed electronic discovery processing. The method may comprise the steps of receiving electronic discovery data comprising a plurality of electronic files, determining, with at least one processor, a plurality of discrete tasks for processing the electronic discovery data, determining, with at least one processor, a coordinated distribution of the plurality of discrete tasks to a plurality of computers, and assigning at least a portion of the plurality of discrete tasks to the plurality of computers based on the coordinated distribution such that at least one discrete task is assigned to each computer at any given time or during any given time period. A system and apparatus configured to perform the method is also disclosed.
US09354932B2
Dynamically allocated thread storage in a computing device is disclosed. The dynamically allocated thread storage is configured to work with a process including two or more threads. Each thread includes a statically allocated thread-local slot configured to store a table. Each table is configured to include a table slot corresponding with a dynamically allocated thread-local value. A dynamically allocated thread-local instance corresponds with the table slot.
US09354921B2
A source virtual machine (VM) hosted on a source server is migrated to a destination VM on a destination server without first powering down the source VM. After optional pre-copying of the source VM's memory to the destination VM, the source VM is suspended and its non-memory state is transferred to the destination VM; the destination VM is then resumed from the transferred state. In one embodiment, the source VM memory is either paged into the destination VM on demand, or is transferred asynchronously by pre-copying and write-protecting the source VM memory, and then later transferring only the modified pages after the destination VM is resumed. In one embodiment, the source and destination servers share common storage, in which the source VM's virtual disk is stored; this avoids the need to transfer the virtual disk contents.
US09354915B2
Exemplary embodiments of the invention provide a technique to validate physical cabling and logical path before provisioning volume. In accordance with an aspect, a computer comprises a memory storing software and a processor executing the software. The software is operable to: identify first server port and second server port forming redundant ports of a server and first storage port and second storage port forming redundant ports of a storage system; and check whether a redundant relationship is formed by at least one of (i) a physical connection between the first server port and the first storage port and a physical connection between the second server port and the second storage port, or (ii) a logical connection between the first server port and the first storage port and a logical connection between the second server port and the second storage port.
US09354905B2
Each switch blade receives, from a CPU server serving as a migration destination to which a VM to be migrated is migrated, a setting request of port profile information corresponding to the VM. Then, each switch blade determines whether a VSI ID included in the received setting request is stored in a storage unit that stores therein the VSI ID identifying the VM. Subsequently, each switch blade executes processing according to the setting request when determining that the received VSI ID is stored in the storage unit. Furthermore, when determining that the received VSI ID is not stored in the storage unit, each switch blade forwards the setting request to an external switch that is an upper-level data relay device connected to the CPU server serving as the migration destination through the corresponding switch blade.
US09354901B2
The invention relates to a method for converting generic application instructions stored on a server to a client specific application for a client device, wherein the server and the client device are arranged in a client-server network. The method comprises selecting a suitable plug-in based on a rating system and using the selected rendering plug-in to convert generic application instructions to a client specific application. By means of the invention it is provided a flexible solution for introducing new client devices to the client-server network, since any discrepancies between different types of client devices may be resolved by the rendering plug-in.
US09354898B1
A method that includes coupling a first device to a client device using a universal serial bus (USB) link, and detecting, by the first device, a USB operating system (OS) descriptor request made by the client device. The method further includes reporting, by the first device, a mass storage interface to the client device in response to a detected USB OS descriptor request, and using the mass storage interface to install, in the client device, a device driver associated with the first device.
US09354894B2
A pluggable cloud enablement boot device (PCEBD) is a bootable device that includes all information needed to automatically provision hardware and software to create a computing solution that meets customer requirements. This allows for quickly deploying a computing solution in a manner that eliminates many manual steps that are typically performed today. The PCEBD uses firmware to verify a given platform has sufficient resources to deploy the PCEBD. The computing solution, once provisioned and running, can be modified, and these modifications may be reflected in the definition of the PCEBD. In addition, a computing solution may include multiple resources provisioned from multiple PCEBDs, which can be packaged into a PCEBD that will include other PCEBDs. The result is a way to deploy computing solutions that is much more efficient than the manual methods used in the prior art.
US09354885B1
Processing of an instruction fetch from an instruction cache is provided, which includes: determining whether the next instruction fetch is in a same cache line of the instruction cache as a last instruction fetch; and based, at least in part, on determining that the next instruction fetch is in the same cache line, suppressing for the next instruction fetch one or more instruction cache-related directory accesses, and forcing for the next instruction an address match signal for the same cache line. The suppressing may include generating a known-to-hit signal where the next fetch is in the same cache line, and the last fetch is not a branch instruction, and issuing an instruction cache hit where a cache line segment of the same cache line having the next instruction has a valid validity bit, the valid validity bit having been retrieved and maintained based on a most-recent, instruction cache-directory-accessed fetch.
US09354872B2
A computer memory device and a method of storing data are provided. The computer memory device includes a parallel memory interface configured to be operatively coupled to a system memory controller, to receive data and commands including logical addresses from the system memory controller, and to transmit data to the system memory controller. The parallel memory interface is configured to respond to the commands from the storage device driver of a computer processing unit. The computer memory device further includes an address translation circuit configured to receive the logical addresses from the parallel memory interface and to translate the received logical addresses to corresponding physical addresses. The computer memory device further includes a non-volatile memory operatively coupled to the parallel memory interface and the address translation circuit. The non-volatile memory is configured to receive the physical addresses and the data and to store the data at memory locations of the non-volatile memory corresponding to the physical addresses.
US09354871B2
An incident associated with a software logistic tool occurs. At a host agent a notification for the incident is received. The host agent is associated with a corresponding host where the software logistic tool is running. The notification for the incident is pushed to a customer operation cockpit operating at a customer system landscape via a push channel for communication from the software logistic tool to the customer operation cockpit. The notification for the incident is received at the customer operation cockpit for a customer support user to analyze.
US09354868B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for exchanging console data in a messaging system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for exchanging console data in a messaging system includes receiving a message in a messaging client executing in memory by at least one processor of a computer. The method further includes selecting in the message in the messaging client a portion of console data for a version of source code. For instance, the console data can be a selection of source code or an error message for a selection of source code. Finally, in response to the selection of the portion of console data, corresponding meta-data for the message can be extracted and a version of source code for the console data can be determined from the meta-data. Finally, the version of the source code can be loaded in an IDE executing in the memory by the at least one processor of the computer.
US09354863B2
A sub-process is performed on a first computing platform to create a portable initialized object. The portable initialized object is communicated to a second computing platform. The second computing platform uses the portable initialized object to replace performing the sub-process.
US09354856B2
Disclosed are a software installation method and device. The software installation method comprises: dividing all the files of a to-be-installed software into core files and non-core files, wherein the core files are files used to achieve an active trigger function, and the non-core files are files used to achieve a passive trigger function; generating an installation sub-package of the core files and an installation sub-package of the non-core files; upon installing the to-be-installed software, using the installation sub-package of the core file to install the core files and run the core files, so that the active trigger function of the to-be-installed software operates normally. By means of the present application, the time for users to wait for software installation is shortened, and the user experience is improved.
US09354852B2
The dependencies of an application are identified by intercepting application programming interface calls made by an application. A determination is then made at the runtime of the application as to whether the dependencies of the application are present. If the dependencies are not present, a client device upon which the application is executing is configured such that the dependencies are present and are made available only to the authorized application. If the dependencies are present and the application is authorized to interact with the dependencies, the application is permitted to execute.
US09354829B2
The printing device 3 includes a print control unit 37 which, if an authentication print job data is received at a timing when transition from a ready mode to a sleep mode is about to occur, causes the printing device 3 to transit to the sleep mode and, and if a normal print job data is received at the timing, causes a printing engine unit 35 to print the normal print job data before transiting to the sleep mode.
US09354828B2
A client terminal transmits a request to a printing apparatus for a registration web page for registering, in a print server, a printing apparatus used in a print service provided by the print server. The printing apparatus collects configuration information of the printing apparatus in response to reception of the request, and creates link information which contains the collected configuration information and is used to access the print server. The printing apparatus then generates a registration web page containing the created link information, and transmits it to the client terminal. The print server receives the configuration information of the printing apparatus transmitted from the client terminal via the registration web page transmitted to the client terminal. The print server creates printing apparatus information which associates the configuration information with user information of the user of the client terminal, and manages it in a storage medium.
US09354814B2
Managing data returns to a host in response to read commands, an operation monitor of a solid-state drive (SSD) manages counters used to hold metrics that characterize the estimated time to complete a read operation on a corresponding flash die. A timer generates a periodic event which decrements the counters over time. The value stored in each counter is generated for flash operations submitted to the corresponding die and is, generally, based on the operational history and the physical location of the operation. Whenever a read command is scheduled for submission to a particular die, the time estimate for that particular read operation is retrieved and, based on this information, the optimum order in which to return data to the host is determined. This order is used to schedule and program data transfers to the host so that a minimum number of read commands get blocked by other read commands.
US09354812B1
Various embodiments of methods and systems for dynamically managing the capacity utilization of a memory component in a system on a chip (“SoC”) are disclosed. Memory utilization is optimized in certain embodiments through dynamic compression and decompression within a memory subsystem. Based on parameters of the SoC that are indicative of a quality of service (“QoS”) level, a memory controller may determine that the format of the data in a write request should be converted and stored in a relinked memory address. Subsequently, a primary memory address associated with the data may be released for storage of different data. Similarly, embodiments may return data requested in a write request in a format different than that which was requested.
US09354811B2
In some embodiments, a multifunction device with a touch screen display and a plurality of applications concurrently displays a first plurality of application launch icons in a first area of the touch screen display, detects a first input by a user, and in response to detecting the first input by the user, displays a search input area on the touch screen display. In some embodiments, the device receives search input from the user, performs a search using the search input, and displays a plurality of search results from the search. In some embodiments, the device detects user selection of a first search result in the plurality of search results, and displays information corresponding to the first search result in the corresponding first application. In some embodiments, in response input from the user, the device returns to the search results and repeats this process for one or more applications.
US09354810B2
A letter input system and method using a touch pad are provided to improve the function of inputting letters with an operation system within a vehicle. The system includes a touch pad that receives a writing from a user and a controller that recognizes a letter from the writing based on a transmission signal from the touch pad and outputs the recognized letter in a setting image on a display unit. The display unit displays the recognized letters in a predetermined section on the setting image based on a transmission signal from the controller.
US09354808B2
A display control device including a display control unit that displays a decoration image on a display unit, the decoration image being different from images used for operation, a detection unit that detects a user's touch operation made on the display unit, and a processing unit that executes a process associated with the touch operation involving a predetermined trajectory. When the touch operation involving the predetermined trajectory is detected while the decoration image is displayed, the display control unit displays a feedback image that is made up of the decoration image and indicates that the touch operation involving the predetermined trajectory has been detected.
US09354804B2
Systems and methods for anticipation of touch events in a computing device are provided. The computing device may include a multi-touch sensitive display including a sensor configured to sense a position and/or movement of a hand. A graphical user interface (GUI) may be displayed, having a state including a plurality of possible touch inputs. The computing device may further include a touch event prediction module configured to compute one or more anticipated touch inputs based on the sensed hand position and/or movement, and the state of the GUI with the plurality of possible user inputs. The computing device may further include a preprocessing module configured to preprocess data for each anticipated touch input, and upon the detection of an actual touch input received from the user that matches one of the anticipated touch inputs, displaying the preprocessed data for the actual touch input on the GUI.
US09354803B2
Movement of a user's point of contact with a touch-sensitive display is determined. In response to the movement, a list of information items on the touch-sensitive display is scrolled. The list of information items may include a sequence of information item subsets corresponding to a sequence of index items. While scrolling through respective information subsets, an index symbol is displayed in conjunction with each respective information item subset.
US09354801B2
According to the invention, an image and an object indicating a candidate area, to be processed, in the image are displayed on a display screen. Whether a position designated by a user in the display screen on which the displaying is executed, is outside the object is determined. In a case where it is determined that the position is outside the object, an object moves to an area, in the display screen, corresponding to the position designated by a user. The area to which the object area is moved is decided as a candidate to be processed.
US09354798B2
A control method causes a processor of an information apparatus to display an operation icon for causing an operation screen for an electric shutter device to be displayed. An operation screen is displayed which includes a shutter image representing a shutter of the electric shutter device when selection of the operation icon is sensed. When a swipe operation is sensed, a movement control command for moving the shutter in a swipe direction is outputted, and the shutter represented in the shutter image is moved in accordance with a swipe amount of the swipe operation. When stop information is received and the shutter represented in the shutter image is varied into a closed state, the shutter represented in the shutter image is retuned in a second direction opposite to a first direction which is a moving direction of the shutter represented in the shutter image.
US09354797B2
The present invention discloses a progress adjustment method and an electronic device, the progress adjustment method is applied to an electronic device including a display unit on which data contents corresponding to first data are output in a chronological order, the method comprising displaying a progress bar corresponding to the first data on the display unit, and unit progress of the progress bar being a first unit progress; when obtaining a first input operation, controlling switching of the data contents of the first data with the first unit progress according to the first input operation; obtaining a second sliding operation; and generating a first sub progress bar based on a current progress unit that includes a progress identifier on the progress bar according to the second sliding operation; unit progress of the first sub progress bar being a second unit progress.
US09354796B2
Various embodiments generally relate to user interface elements informative of referral incentives. In some embodiments, contact information may be obtained for contacts associated with a user of a content management system. Various amounts of additional storage space available to the user upon acceptance of referral requests sent by or on behalf of the user to the contacts may be determined. One or more graphic indicator of various types may be displayed to the user indicating one or more of: amounts of additional storage space obtainable through successful new referrals, the user's current storage space, and the relative sizes of the user's current storage space and the amounts of additional storage space.
US09354789B2
Organizing information around a specific spatial domain facilitates managing objects presented in visualization layers of the spatial domain. A first portion of a first program for organizing and mapping information around a specific spatial domain is executed by a first virtual system that is created in a program execution environment operable on a network server. In response to the first virtual system invoking a continuation, a second virtual system is created to execute a second portion of the first program. Invoking the continuation in the program execution environment facilitates each of the first and second virtual systems providing only the capabilities necessary to execute their respective portion of the first program. Optionally, executing the first program includes interpreting the first program with a second program.
US09354787B2
A portable media player communicates with a host computer for enabling a user of the player to manage media distribution using the control software of the host computer. The host computer can send a GUI that is displayed on the otherwise “dumb” player, and the user can view the GUI and press a single button to command the control software to download a media title to the player. The host computer can periodically poll the player to determine its status.
US09354786B2
A mobile device enables refined selections of displayed virtual objects by responding to a user's tapping actions on the sides of the device. The device can move the object by a small increment in a direction opposite the tapped surface, as though the tapping were gently nudging the object away from that surface. For example, if the user taps on the right side of the device, then the device can responsively move a currently selected object leftward by one pixel. Conversely, if the user taps on the left side of the device, then the device can responsively move the currently selected object rightward by one pixel. Similar movements of similar magnitude and in expected directions can be achieved by tapping the top or bottom of the device. Thus, a currently selected object can be moved in a more refined and precise manner than might be possible using a touchscreen alone.
US09354778B2
The present disclosure generally concerns sensor-equipped consumer electronic devices, such as smartphones and tablet computers. One implementation is directed toward a smartphone configured to operate in an image discovery mode. Results from the image discovery mode may be displayed on a smartphones display screen. The smartphone may concurrently operate an audio discovery mode. Results from the audio discovery mode are added to a discovery history, but are not displayed on the smartphone's display screen while operating in the image discovery mode. Of course, many other combinations and implementations are provided as well.
US09354770B2
In displaying path information, in a case where the path information cannot be displayed in a display area, and thus information of an intermediate hierarchy of the path information is displayed in an abbreviated manner, it becomes ambiguous that a folder of a deepest level of a hierarchy specifically belongs to which folder. It is determined whether or not the path information fits in the display area, in a case where the path information does not fit in the display area, the path information in the display area is displayed in reverse hierarchical order so that information of the deepest hierarchy is displayed at a head of the path information.
US09354765B2
Text input mode selection method is implemented in a device with a plurality of keys. If an input mode switching key is activated by a first operation matching a first input pattern, options of the key is provided in a default arrangement. If the key is activated by a second operation matching a second input pattern, options of the key is provided in an altered arrangement. Activation of the key according to a selected option activates one of a plurality of character input methods associated with the selected option. Each of the character input methods is associated with a virtual keyboard layout.
US09354760B2
According to one embodiment, a touch sensor has a first edge and a second edge approximately perpendicular to the first edge. The touch sensor includes a first plurality of electrodes approximately parallel to the first edge, and a second plurality of electrodes. Each of the second plurality of electrodes has a spine that is approximately parallel to the second edge and a plurality of conductive elements that are approximately parallel to the first edge and in physical contact with the spine. At least one electrode of the second plurality of electrodes is adjacent to the second edge. The spine of the one electrode of the second plurality of electrodes that is adjacent to the second edge has a width that is greater than a width of the spine of at least one of the other electrodes of the second plurality of electrodes.
US09354757B2
A touch sensor system includes a driver which drives on the basis of code sequences which are orthogonal to one another and include +1 or −1 and each of which has a length N. A decoding section estimates on the basis of a first inner product operation of the outputs and the code sequences a first capacitance value and on the basis of a second inner product operation of the outputs and the code sequences a second capacitance value. A touch panel has a two-dimensional region including a hand placing region and a remainder region and processing sections.
US09354752B2
A sensor apparatus and an information processing apparatus having excellent operability are provided. A sensor apparatus includes a touch panel, a casing, and a pressure-sensitive sensor. The touch panel includes an input operation surface and detects a position at which an operator comes into contact with the input operation surface directly or indirectly. The casing accommodates the touch panel. The pressure-sensitive sensor includes a first electrode fixed to the touch panel, a second electrode fixed to the casing, and an elastic body arranged between the touch panel and the casing and elastically supporting the touch panel with respect to the casing. The pressure-sensitive sensor detects a pressing force input to the input operation surface, as a change of a capacitance between the first and second electrodes.
US09354750B2
A multi-display system that uses back lights and light guides of an electronically addressable display to provide position-unique signals that both uniquely identify positions on a given display, but also uniquely identify displays within a multi-display system.
US09354744B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium having instructions to receive a touch event originating from a touch panel; compare a timing of the touch event and a timing of a display refresh event; determine whether to adjust a time during which a next scan of the touch panel occurs based on a comparison of the timing of the touch event and the timing of the display refresh event; calculate a time value that indicates when the next scan occurs based on a determination to adjust the time; and adjust the time during which the next scan occurs based on the time value.
US09354738B2
A touch panel assembly includes a touch panel and a flexible circuit board. The touch panel includes a sensing array having sensing units, first connection lines, second connection lines, at least one input element, and pads. The first and second connection lines are outside the sensing array and electrically connected to the sensing units respectively. The input element is outside the sensing array and close to a side of the touch panel. The pads are in a bonding region of the touch panel and electrically connected to the first and second connection lines respectively. The bonding region is close to the side of the touch panel and is arranged along with the input element in parallel to the side of the touch panel. The flexible circuit board has a connecting portion extended and attached to the bonding region. Terminals of the connecting portion are electrically connected to the pads respectively.
US09354730B2
A tactile sensation providing apparatus capable of providing a tactile sensation to a user at timing maintaining an operation feeling of the user, even when a light pressure load is applied, is provided. The tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a touch sensor configured to detect a touch input, a load detection unit configured to detect a pressure load on a touch face of the touch sensor, a tactile sensation providing unit configured to vibrate the touch face, and a control unit configured to adjust a standard for providing a tactile sensation and, when the pressure load detected by the load detection unit satisfies the standard, to control drive of the tactile sensation providing unit such that the tactile sensation is provided to an object pressing the touch face.
US09354727B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving real-time sensor data from a number of sensors of different sensor types on a computing device. The real-time sensor data corresponds to a transition in a physical state of the computing device caused by a user of the computing device. The method also includes correlating the real-time sensor data from the number of sensors of different sensor types on the computing device; determining based on the correlation an intended imminent use of the computing device by the user; and automatically initiating based on the determination a pre-determined function of the computing device.
US09354722B2
A method, device, system, or article of manufacture is provided for low-power management of multiple sensor chip architecture. In one embodiment, a method comprises, at a computing device that includes a first processor, a second processor and a third processor, receiving, by the first processor operating at a first clock rate, first sensor data from a first sensor operating at a first data rate; determining, by the first processor, a movement of the computing device using the first sensor data; in response to determining the movement of the computing device, performing, by the first processor, a first motion state algorithm to determine whether a modality of the computing device is a first motion state; and, in response to determining that the modality of the computing device is not the first motion state, changing, by the first processor, at least one of the first processor to operate at a second clock rate sufficient to perform a second motion state algorithm and changing the first sensor to operate at a second data rate sufficient to perform the second motion state algorithm, wherein the second motion state algorithm is used to determine whether the modality of the computing device is a second motion state.
US09354720B1
In an example, an isometric input device configured to control a user interface indicator of an electronic device includes a plurality of sensor electrodes, a control member, a conductive support substrate, and a compliant member. The plurality of sensor electrodes is disposed on a sensor substrate. The control member is mechanically coupled to the sensor substrate over at least a portion of the plurality of sensor electrodes. The compliant member is disposed between the sensor substrate and the conductive support substrate. The compliant member defines a gap between the sensor substrate and the conductive support substrate.
US09354719B2
An optical navigation device is provided for detecting movement of a pointer, such as a finger, in three dimensions. A sensor obtains images of the pointer which have been illuminated by an illumination source, and an image scaling module determines the difference in size between images acquired by the image sensor to determine the difference in height of the pointer between images.
US09354715B2
The characters on an on-screen keyboard are dynamically rearranged to facilitate text entry based on context. Specifically, a home position is established among a plurality of characters displayed on the screen. A user's selection of one of the characters is received by the system, and then the characters are rearranged with respect to the home position in response to the user's selection. The rearranging may be based on the next statistically most likely characters to be selected based on what characters the user has already entered. Statistical analysis of a word list may be applied to the text already entered by the user and then the characters displayed on the keyboard are reordered to place the most likely desired character under or near the cursor. The other characters may be arranged in order of probability of selection from the home or starting position for the cursor.
US09354711B2
A method, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and apparatus for localizing a region of interest using a dynamic hand gesture are disclosed. For example, the method captures the ego-centric video containing the dynamic hand gesture, analyzes a frame of the ego-centric video to detect pixels that correspond to a fingertip using a hand segmentation algorithm, analyzes temporally one or more frames of the ego-centric video to compute a path of the fingertip in the dynamic hand gesture, localizes the region of interest based on the path of the fingertip in the dynamic hand gesture and performs an action based on an object in the region of interest.
US09354706B2
An example of an information processing apparatus calculates a first position using imaging information based on an image captured by an imaging device. The information processing apparatus calculates a second position using a detection result of a sensor. The information processing apparatus repeatedly determines whether or not a predetermined condition is satisfied, the predetermined condition including a condition regarding a relationship between the first position and the second position. A designated position on a predetermined plane is calculated using the first position and/or the second position. In a satisfaction period after the predetermined condition has been satisfied, the information processing apparatus calculates the designated position by making an influence of the second position relatively great as compared to an unsatisfaction period before the predetermined condition is satisfied.
US09354696B2
An embodiment may include circuitry to determine whether to issue at least one credit to at least one sender of at least one packet. The credit(s) may be to grant permission to the at least one sender to issue the at least one packet to at least one receiver of the at least one packet. The determination of whether to issue the credit(s) may be based, at least in part, upon whether a time in which the at least one receiver is in a relatively lower power state prior to issuance of the credit(s) is at least sufficient to provide at least a predetermined amount of reduction in power consumption. The relatively lower power state may be relative to a relatively higher power state of the at least one receiver that prevails at the issuance of the credit(s). Additionally or alternatively, the circuitry may be to receive such credit(s).
US09354692B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor having multiple domains including at least a core domain and a non-core domain that is transparent to an operating system (OS). The non-core domain can be controlled by a driver. In turn, the processor further includes a memory interconnect to interconnect the core domain and the non-core domain to a memory coupled to the processor. Still further, a power controller, which may be within the processor, can control a frequency of the memory interconnect based on memory boundedness of a workload being executed on the non-core domain. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09354689B2
In one embodiment, a multicore processor includes cores that can independently execute instructions, each at an independent voltage and frequency. The processor may include a power controller having logic to prevent a first core from execution at a requested turbo mode frequency if the first core has a stall rate greater than a first stall threshold, and concurrently allow a second core to execute at a requested turbo mode frequency if the second core has a stall rate less than a second stall threshold. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09354688B2
An image forming apparatus monitors sleep-cancelling events, and when a sleep-cancelling event occurs, stores an identifier and a sleep-cancellation time of the event. If a start time of a sleep mode is reached when (i) the apparatus is in a standby mode and (ii) one or more sleep-cancelling events specifying sleep-cancellation times later than the start time have been stored, the apparatus calculates power consumption required to maintain the standby mode for a period from the start time to the earliest sleep-cancellation time, as a power-saving amount savable during the period. Also, a recovery power amount required for recovery from the sleep mode to the standby mode is calculated on the assumption that the sleep mode is started at the start time and is cancelled at the earliest sleep-cancellation time. Switching to the sleep mode is performed only when the power-saving amount is greater than the recovery power amount.
US09354679B2
Particular embodiments described herein can offer a method that includes receiving a signal indicating whether at least one device is in a low power mode, determining that the at least one device is in a first thermally benign state based, at least in part, on the signal, and performing a first operation associated with a reduced thermal remediation power consumption.
US09354678B2
A system and method for controlling airflow in a computer system enclosure are described herein. A computer system includes an enclosure and an airflow controller. The enclosure is configured to contain a plurality of compute nodes. The airflow controller configured to control a flow of air provided to each of the plurality of compute nodes. The airflow controller is configured to receive unsolicited requests for airflow from each of the plurality of compute nodes. The airflow controller is further configured to control airflow provided to a given compute node based on the unsolicited airflow requests received from a subset of the compute nodes, including the given node. The subset of the compute nodes is assigned to a same airflow zone by the airflow controller.
US09354659B2
Disclosed is a touch window. The touch window includes: a substrate; a sensing electrode on the substrate; and a reflection protective layer on the sensing electrode, wherein a reflectance of the reflection protective layer is higher than 0% and equal to or less than 20%.
US09354651B2
Aspects of the present invention provide a tool for simulating a motion control system that simulates performance and energy for a given configuration. The simulation analysis considers a motion profile and one or more corresponding performance parameters, and the resulting configuration provides hardware elements, such as drives and motors, and settings of those elements. The simulation allows optimization for energy efficiency, as opposed to only speed or accuracy.
US09354647B2
A current generating circuit includes a reference voltage generating unit, a clock signal generating unit, a reference current generating unit, and a current mirror unit. The reference voltage generating unit generates a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage. The clock signal generating unit generates clock signals. The reference current generating unit generates a reference current corresponding to a selection signal based on the first reference voltage. The current mirror unit supplies a first current and a second current based on the reference current. A capacitor charges voltage based on the second current. A selection signal generating unit counts clock signals during a period in which a voltage charged in the capacitor is less than the second reference voltage, and outputs the selection signal based on the counted result.
US09354643B2
A dimmer is provided that includes an MCU, a first power switch, and a pair of second power switches. The MCU is coupled to and configured to control the first power switch and the pair of second power switches, wherein the MCU is configured to activate the first power switch to conduct current to a load during a first continuous period of time. The MCU is also configured to alternately activate the pair of second power switches to conduct current to the load during a second continuous period of time. The MCU is configured to deactivate the pair of second power switches during the entire first period of time, and the MCU is configured to deactivate the first power switch during the entire first period of time. The first and second continuous periods do not overlap in time.
US09354638B2
A double port regulator assembly includes a first fluid port and a second fluid port. A fixed valve seat assembly is disposed proximate the first fluid port and a floating valve seat assembly is disposed proximate the second fluid port. A first valve plug cooperates with the fixed valve seat assembly to open and close the first fluid port and a second valve lug cooperates with the floating valve seat assembly to open and close the second fluid port. The floating valve seat assembly includes a floating valve seat that is movable with respect to the fixed valve seat.
US09354637B2
The disclosure describes systems and methods relating generally to filtration. Even more particularly, this disclosure relates to controlling the operation of a pump using filter information. A removable filter can include an electronically readable tag storing filter information. The filter information can be read by a tag reader and rules applied to the filter information to determine whether or how to operate a pump.
US09354625B2
A mechanism is provided for effectively detecting an abnormality occurring in a control system and isolating the control system in which abnormality is acknowledged. The mechanism receives, from one or more control systems in the plurality of control systems, respective abnormality notifications for respective counter control systems to be monitored by the plurality of control systems. The mechanism adds up abnormality notifications transmitted from respective monitoring sections of the plurality of control systems so as to evaluate the reputation of a control system suspected to have an abnormality. The mechanism causes a protected area for operating the control system suspected to have an abnormality to restrict outbound traffic from at least the inside of the protected area, when an indication is identified that the control system is abnormal according to criteria from a result of the evaluation.
US09354615B2
A device for generating signal by detecting facial movement and operating method thereof is provided, which includes: an image capture unit, and a processing unit. The image capture unit for obtaining an image series. The processing unit receives the images series from the image capture unit, wherein the processing unit includes an image background removal module, an image extracting module, and a comparator, wherein the image background removing module processes each of the image series respectively to obtain a facial image, wherein the feature location module determines a location of a pair of nostrils in the facial image, defines a mouth searching frame, and acquires a data of mouth movements through the mouth searching frame, wherein the comparator compares the data of mouth movements with predetermined facial information, and generates a designated signal according to the comparison result.
US09354614B2
A display module for a timepiece, including a dial, on a lower face of which is secured a digital information display device, a solar cell, and a plate. The solar cell is accommodated in the plate such that the solar cell is underneath and at a small distance from the dial. The assembly formed by the dial and the digital information display device is disposed atop the solar cell.
US09354604B2
Provided are an optically addressable spatial light modulator (OASLM) divided into a plurality of segments, and an apparatus and method for displaying a holographic three-dimensional (3D) image using the OASLM. The holographic 3D image display apparatus includes a first light source which emits a write beam, an electric addressable spatial light modulator (EASLM) which modulates the write beam emitted from the first light source according to hologram information regarding a 3D image, a second light source which emits a read beam, an OASLM which receives the write beam modulated by the EASLM and modulates the read beam emitted from the second light source according to hologram information included in the modulated write beam, a scanning optical unit which projects the write beam modulated by the EASLM onto the OASLM, and a Fourier lens which focuses the read beam modulated by the OASLM onto a predetermined space to form the 3D image.
US09354603B2
A card 1 includes: a card substrate 10; a transparent hologram layer 20 on a part of the substrate 10; and a surface layer 30 comprising a print layer 40 on the substrate 10 and the layer 20, is formed by a transparent material, and is printed with a color similar to the upper surface of the substrate 10. When a card surface 1a is viewed from the normal line, the layer 40 has the same color shading compared to the upper surface of the substrate 10, at the edge portion 22 of the layer 20. The layer 40 includes a gradation portion 43 wherein the color is gradually lighter from an outer edge portion 43a at the inner side of the edge portion 22 of the layer 20 toward the inner portion, a window portion 44 is formed at an image 21 portion of the layer 20.
US09354596B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly, a developing cartridge, and a drum supporting frame detachably mountable to the main assembly while supporting the developing cartridge. The main assembly includes a door for opening and closing the main assembly, and a main assembly coupling engageable with a development coupling in interrelation with a closing operation of the door to transmit a driving force to the development coupling.
US09354590B2
An image forming apparatus includes a cassette provided drawably into/out of an apparatus body and storing recording media, a waste toner container being provided drawably into/out of the apparatus body along a pull-out direction of the cassette, a cover member movable between a close position where an opening portion enabling the waste toner container to be drawable into/pulled out of the apparatus body is closed and an open position where the opening portion is opened, and a moving portion. The moving portion engages with the cover member located at the open position and moves the cover member from the open position to the close position along with an insertion of the cassette into the apparatus body.
US09354586B2
The present invention provides a communication connector arranged on an image-forming apparatus body to provide communications with an information storage device including a guide portion and installed on a detachable device. The connector includes a body terminal which, when the detachable device is attached to the apparatus body, contacts a contact terminal of the information storage device, and a body projection extending in a moving direction of the detachable device and having a slope at its distal end. The body terminal is arranged on the body projection and configured not to project further than the slope, to be exposed to outside from a portion other than the slope, and to contact the contact terminal inside the guide portion when the body projection is inserted thereinto. An inclination angle θ of an end portion of the slope is not smaller than an inclination angle θ1 of the slope.
US09354580B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body including an opening, an image forming unit, a storage portion, a moving unit, and a control unit. The control unit switches between a first state and a second state, the first state being a state where the moving unit is prohibited from moving and exposing a first sheet when information about a second user different from a first user who has instructed to print a first sheet is received, and the second state being a state where the moving unit is permitted to move and expose the first sheet if information about the second user is received.
US09354579B2
An image forming apparatus capable of suppressing the productivity of image formation from being lowered due to discharge of surplus tabbed sheets in a double-sided printing job in which output sheet bundles are produced by inserting tabbed sheets into each bundle of double-sided printed recording sheets. In a case that output sheet bundles are each produced by setting tabbed sheet bundles each comprised of five tabbed sheets to the image forming apparatus, by inserting one tabbed sheet subsequently to double-sided image formation on five recording sheets, and by performing double-sided image formation on other five recording sheets, four surplus tabbed sheets are discharged subsequently to feeding of the tabbed sheet, instead of discharging the four surplus tabbed sheets after completion of image formation on a second surface of a tenth recording sheet.
US09354577B2
A controller for an image forming apparatus includes a difference calculating portion for calculating a difference between a consumption value depending on an amount of the toner consumed every predetermined unit and a reference value; and a difference integrating portion. When an integrated value of the difference is larger than a predetermined threshold, the controller executes an operation in a forced consumption mode so that the toner is consumed in an amount corresponding to a predetermined value obtained by multiplying the predetermined threshold by a coefficient of less than 1. When the operation is executed, the integrating portion sets, at a reset value, a value obtained by subtracting the predetermined value from the integrated value at that time. After the operation is executed, the controller executes the operation every time when an integrated value obtained by integrating the reset value and the difference is larger than the predetermined threshold.
US09354571B2
The present invention relates to an electrophotographic member having electroconductivity for suppressing peeling offset and also having a high cracking resistance. The electrophotographic member has an endless belt shape, and includes a cylindrical or columnar substrate, a rubber elastic layer that covers a periphery of the substrate, and a fluororesin tube that covers a periphery of the rubber elastic layer, wherein the fluororesin tube is crystalline-orientated in a substantially axial direction of the substrate and includes a fluororesin and carbon black dispersed in the fluororesin, and a primary average particle diameter of the carbon black is 50 nm or more and 100 nm or less.
US09354569B2
A fuser assembly for an imaging device which transfers heat from overheated portions of the fuser assembly to portions having lesser temperatures. The fuser assembly includes a heating member; a backup roll disposed proximate to the heating member for forming a fuser nip; a heat transfer device in contact with the backup roll such that rotation of the backup roll rotates the heat transfer device for transferring heat from one location to another location on the backup roll; and a positioning mechanism for moving the heat transfer device between a first position in which the heat transfer device is engaged with and contacts the backup roll, and a second position in which the heat transfer device is disengaged and spaced apart from the backup roll, the positioning mechanism pivots the heat transfer device about a pivot axis when moving between the first and second positions.
US09354555B2
It is enabled to prevent packing of toner and supply toner stably. A toner supplying device has a toner cartridge attached to an upper part thereof a storage tank in which toner supplied from the toner cartridge is stored temporarily and discharges the toner from a toner discharge port provided in a lower end of the storage tank. A conveyance screw for discharging the toner from the toner discharge port is provided inside the storage tank and the storage tank has a shaft support hole for supporting a shaft of the conveyance screw that coincides with a rotational center axis of the conveyance screw. The shaft support hole is formed as along hole in which the shaft is able to be displaced in one direction or a direction opposite to the one direction.
US09354553B2
Developer accommodating container, process cartridge and electrophotographic image forming apparatus
A developer accommodating container for accommodating a developer includes: a flexible container provided with an opening for permitting discharge of the developer; a sealing member for sealing the opening in a state in which the sealing member is bonded to a periphery of the opening, wherein the sealing member is capable of exposing the opening by being removed by pulling; and a reinforcing portion, provided at least as a part of the periphery of the opening, for decreasing a degree of deformation of the opening.
US09354549B1
A developer supply container, the developer supply container includes a developer accommodating chamber; a rotatable feeding portion; a developer discharging chamber including a discharge opening; a driving force receiving portion for receiving a rotational force for rotating the feeding portion; an pump capable of changing an inside volume of the accommodating chamber in a longitudinal direction of the container to apply a pressure to the discharge opening; a driving force converter for converting the rotational force into a feeding driving force for feeding the developer by an operation of the pump in a longitudinal direction of the container; and wherein an expansion and contraction stroke of the pump provided by the converter in a initial predetermined number of rotations in a initial stage is different from that in a subsequent stage after the initial stage.
US09354539B1
A holding module includes a photoreceptor configured to hold an electrostatic latent image on a surface thereof, a charging electrode that extends in a width direction of the photoreceptor and is configured to charge the surface of the photoreceptor, the charging electrode including a base portion and a discharging portion disposed between the base portion and the photoreceptor and from which electricity is discharged towards the photoreceptor, and a holding unit that holds the charging electrode and deforms the charging electrode, such that a distance between the discharging portion and the surface of the photoreceptor is different along the width direction of the photoreceptor.
US09354537B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium; a width detector that detects positions of side edges of the recording medium in a width direction, which is orthogonal to a conveying direction in which the recording medium is conveyed, at multiple detection positions along the conveying direction; a shape calculator that calculates angles between the conveying direction and straight lines each connecting the positions of the same side edge detected at the multiple detection positions and calculates a shape of the recording medium based on the angles; and a correction unit that corrects image data of the image to be formed by the image forming unit based on the calculated shape of the recording medium.
US09354535B2
To provide a toner for electrostatic charge image development which allows obtainment of excellent low temperature fixability and a document off-set resistance sufficiently and also inhibition of an excessive increase in glossiness of a formed fixed image, and a method for manufacturing the same.The toner for electrostatic charge image development includes toner particles containing a binder resin, a colorant, and a releasing agent, in which the binder resin contains at least an amorphous resin and an urethane modified crystalline resin including a crystalline polymer segment and an urethane polymer segment bound to each other, the urethane modified crystalline resin being non-compatible with the amorphous resin, and the amount of ionic dissociating group of the urethane modified crystalline resin is 5 to 20 mgKOH/g.
US09354534B2
An electrostatic latent image developing toner includes toner particles. Each toner particle includes a toner core containing a binder resin, a shell layer coating a surface of the toner core, and particulates having a higher hardness than the shell layer. Each shell layer contains a thermosetting resin, and the particulates are present within the shell layer. Preferably, the content of the particulates having a higher hardness than the shell layer is 0.1% by mass or more and 5.0% by mass or less with respect to a total amount of the toner particles.
US09354528B2
A method of manufacturing a substrate holder for use in a lithographic apparatus, the method including providing a main body having a surface and a plurality of burls projecting from the surface and having end surfaces to support a substrate, providing a carrier surface adjacent the main body surface, and forming a conductive layer on at least part of the main body surface and an integral part on at least part of the carrier surface.
US09354518B2
The present invention provides a silicone composition that includes an epoxy-functional organopolysiloxane resin and an epoxy-functional organosiloxane oligomer, and a method of preparing optical waveguides using the silicon composition. The present invention also provides a cured silicon composition, and an optical waveguide that includes the cured silicon composition.
US09354517B2
A resist composition includes: a solvent; and a resin in the solvent, the resin being prepared by the hydrolysis and condensation of an alkoxy group-containing compound that contains an alkoxy group bound to a silicon atom or a germanium atom in the presence of an acid or an alkali, wherein a portion of the resist composition irradiated with an energy radiation is insoluble in a developing solution.
US09354504B1
A system for controlling a camera rig to capture a stereographic image having a single signal generator which integrally processes encoder signals created from a plurality of motors, in which a single signal counter processes signals generated from the integrated signal generator, without the need for signal counters provided in the respective motors.
US09354485B2
The present invention relates to frequency rulers. At least one embodiment includes a mode locked pump source operated at pulse repetition rate, and a pump output having a pump carrier envelope offset frequency. A nonlinear optical system outputs a frequency ruler spectrum comprising individual frequency modes. The frequency modes may be characterized by a frequency spacing which is an integer multiple of the repetition rate and by distinct ruler carrier envelope offset frequencies which exhibit at least one discontinuity across the frequency output. The ruler carrier envelope offset frequencies are substantially locked to the carrier envelope offset frequency of the pump laser. One preferred embodiment includes a frequency doubled, doubly resonant, non-degenerate OPO (DNOPO), a supercontinuum generation (SC) stage and at least one reference laser arranged downstream from a Tm fiber-based pump source. A plurality of beat signals generated therefrom provide for stabilization of the system.
US09354480B2
An array substrate includes a unit pixel group having first and second sub-pixel rows. The array substrate includes a plurality of gate lines extending along a first direction and adjacent to each other on a base substrate, a plurality of gate electrodes electrically coupled to the gate lines, a plurality of semiconductor patterns overlapping the gate electrodes, a plurality of data lines extending along a second direction and electrically coupled to first portions of the semiconductor patterns, a plurality of drain electrode patterns electrically coupled to second portions of the semiconductor patterns, and a plurality of pixel electrodes electrically coupled to the drain electrodes. The second portion of the semiconductor pattern spaced from the first portion thereof. The gate lines and the data lines are bent. Sub-pixels in the first sub-pixel row have opening areas that are different in size than that of sub-pixels in the second sub-pixel row.
US09354478B2
Disclosed is a display substrate, including: a substrate; gate lines and data lines arranged in a crisscrossed pattern on the substrate; pixel units surrounded by the gate lines and the data lines, each of which includes a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode; a color filter layer disposed on the substrate and including at least one color region, a vertical projection of the pixel electrode within one of the pixel units on the substrate being within a vertical projection of one color region of the color filter layer on the substrate; and a black matrix disposed over the gate lines, the data lines and the thin film transistors, a vertical projection of all of the gate lines, the data lines and the thin film transistors on the substrate being within a vertical projection of the black matrix on the substrate.
US09354476B2
A window panel includes a first rigid part including a rigid material, a second rigid part including the rigid material, and a base substrate interposed between the first and second rigid parts and including a folding part configured to be folded by an external force. The folding part includes a first area and a second area, which are alternately arranged on a plane surface of the base substrate substantially perpendicular to a thickness direction of the base substrate. The first area includes the rigid material, and at least a portion of the second area includes a soft material. Thus, the rigidity of the window panel is maintained by the rigid material and the flexibility of the window panel is improved by the soft material.
US09354474B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides an array substrate comprising a plurality of pixel units, each of the pixel units including a thin film transistor and a insulating layer, wherein a first pixel electrode and a first common electrode are disposed on an upper surface of the insulating layer, a second common electrode aligned to the first common electrode and a second pixel electrode aligned to the first common electrode are disposed on a lower surface of the insulating layer.
US09354469B2
The present invention discloses a transflective liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device comprising the same. Each pixel unit of the transflective liquid crystal display panel comprises a transmission region and a reflection region. The transflective liquid crystal display panel further comprises a conductive polarizing film layer having a first polarizing direction in the reflection region and a second polarizing direction in the transmission region.
US09354466B2
The present disclosure provides a transparent liquid crystal display panel and a transparent liquid crystal display. The transparent liquid crystal display panel includes a backlight module, a color filter substrate and a TFT array substrate which are cell-assembled. Liquid crystal is filled between the color filter substrate and the TFT array substrate. Each pixel unit of the color filter substrate includes a sub-pixel unit and a transparent pixel unit. A region on the TFT array substrate that corresponds to the transparent pixel unit is transparent. A region between the color filter substrate and the TFT array substrate that corresponds to the transparent pixel unit is provided with a transparent resin spacer. A region in the backlight module that corresponds to the transparent pixel unit is a transparent region.
US09354464B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a display panel, a light source module configured to provide light to the display panel, a receiving container receiving the light source module therein, and an adhesion member disposed between the display panel and the receiving container to couple the display panel to the receiving container. The adhesion member includes a base layer with a hollow pocket therein and an adhesion layer disposed on both surface of the base layer. When the display panel is deformed, the adhesion member conforms thereto. Thus, light-leakage of the display panel may be prevented and light characteristics of the liquid crystal display apparatus may be improved.
US09354463B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a polarizing plate, and a patterned retarder. The display panel includes a first substrate including a signal line and a pixel. A second substrate faces the first substrate. An image display device is disposed between the first and second substrates. The first substrate is disposed in a position to which external light is incident. The polarizing plate is disposed above the first substrate of the display panel. The patterned retarder is disposed between the polarizing plate and the signal line. The patterned retarder retards the external light such that the external light reflected by the signal line does not pass through the polarizing plate.
US09354455B2
A method and device for calculating design parameters of a design of a progressive spectacle lens on the basis of a predetermined design polygon. The design parameters are calculated by specifying a point within the design polygon, in which the specified point defines the progressive spectacle lens design, and then determining a value of each design parameter at the specified point by an interpolation of at least part of the predetermined values at the corner points and, optionally, of at least part of the predetermined values of the design parameter at the at least one additional point.
US09354451B2
The present invention relates to an image display device using a diffractive lens. An image display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a display panel displaying an image, and a diffractive lens for the image of the display panel to be recognized as a two-dimensional (2D) image or a three-dimensional (3D) image, wherein the diffractive lens modifies a path of light by using an optical principle of a Fresnel zone plate.
US09354447B2
A head mounted information system comprises a frame configured to be worn by a user, a sensor unit coupled to the frame, and a processor unit coupled to the frame. The processor unit is connected to receive signals from the sensor unit. The sensor unit comprises a gyroscope configured to produce angular velocity signals representing a head angular velocity about a generally horizontal axis oriented generally perpendicular to a direction the user is facing when the user is wearing the frame. The processor unit is configured to detect a jump by the user based on the angular velocity signals received from the sensor unit and generate a jump output signal indicting one or more jump parameters. A display unit may also be coupled to the frame to display the jump parameters to the user.
US09354441B2
A method for adapting the parameters of a controller for micromechanical actuators, including the following steps: applying on the micromechanical actuator a test signal which has a step, detecting a test signal response of the micromechanical actuator to the test signal, identifying an absolute position of at least one mode in the detected test signal response, and adapting at least one of the parameters of the controller based on the identified absolute position of the at least one mode. Moreover, a corresponding device is described.
US09354437B2
An object-finder-mounting apparatus comprises: a base for mounting the object-finder-mounting apparatus to an optical instrument; an object-finder-holder assembly coupled to the base and comprising one or more object-finder holders for removably holding an object finder; a projection plate moveably coupled to the base and/or the object-finder-holder assembly for movement between first and second positions; and a shadow-casting member. The object-finder-mounting apparatus is convertible between first and second working modes. In the first working mode, the projection plate is moved to the first position which permits use of the object finder held by the object-finder holders to locate objects. In the second working mode, the object finder is removed from the object-finder holders and the projection plate is moved to the second position. In the second working mode, the shadow-casting member casts a shadow onto the projection plate when the optical instrument is directed toward a luminous object.
US09354435B2
Provided is a protection device including a cover member that is disposed on a stage of a microscope main unit, which is provided with a shutter that can block the entry of laser light into an objective lens from a total-reflection illumination optical system, so as to cover a specimen, and that can be opened and closed; and an open/close sensor that detects open and closed states of the cover member and that outputs a drive signal that causes the shutter to block the laser light when the cover member is detected to be in the open state, wherein the cover member has an opening at, in the closed state, a position away from a track along an optical path of the laser light that has been focused by the total-reflection illumination optical system and that has passed through the specimen.
US09354433B2
An image measuring apparatus includes: an imaging device of a rolling shutter type configured to image a work; a position control system configured to output a focusing position as information representing a position in a direction of a focusing axis by controlling an in-focus position of the imaging device; and a computing device configured to calculate, from image information acquired from the imaging device, contrast information corresponding to the image information, wherein the computing device divides an acquired image into a plurality of regions and corrects the contrast information corresponding to the image information based on a position of and the contrast information corresponding to each of the regions.
US09354430B2
A zoom lens including, from an object: a front group having negative power; and a rear group having positive power, the rear group including, from the object, a positive lens, a negative lens having a concave surface facing the object, a cemented positive lens constructed by a negative lens and a positive lens, and a cemented lens constructed by a positive lens and a negative lens, the rear group further including a focusing group disposed to the object side of the positive lens La for focusing from infinity to a close object by moving from the object side to an image side, a distance between the front group and the rear group being varied thereby zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, and given condition being satisfied, thereby providing a downsized zoom lens having wide angle of view and excellent optical performance with fewer lenses.
US09354412B2
Optical interconnect fabrics and optical switches are disclosed. In one aspect, an optical interconnect fabric comprises one or more bundles of optical broadcast buses. Each optical broadcast bus is optically coupled at one end to a node and configured to transmit optical signals generated by the node. The optical fabric also includes a number of optical tap arrays distributed along each bundle of optical broadcast buses. Each optical tap array is configured to divert a portion of the optical power associated with the optical signals carried by a bundle of optical broadcast buses to one of the nodes.
US09354409B2
An optical receptacle has a first optical surface which receives incidence of light from a light emitting element, a reflecting surface which reflects the light along a substrate, a light separating section which separates light reflected at the reflecting surface into monitor light and signal light, a second optical surface which emits the monitor light toward a light receiving element, and a third optical surface which emits the signal light toward an optical fiber. The light separating section has a plurality of splitting transmissive surfaces which are vertical surfaces with respect to the optical axis of the light reflected at the reflecting surface and a plurality of splitting reflecting surfaces which are inclining surfaces with respect to the optical axis of the light reflected at the reflecting surface. The splitting transmissive surfaces and the splitting reflecting surfaces are alternately disposed in a first direction and in a second direction.
US09354405B2
A retention member (100) includes a seat (1), a locking member (2) and a protecting member (22) assembled on the seat (1), the locking member (2) can rotate to be released and has a body portion (20), the protecting member (22) has an enwrapping portion (220) locating on an outer side of the body portion (20) of the locking member (2), a pair of retention portions (221) extending from opposite ends of the enwrapping portion (220), the retention portions (221) are initially resisted by the seat (1) to limit the rotation of the protecting member (22) and the locking member (2), the retention portions (221) also can be raised to break away from the resisting of the seat (1) and the locking member (2) then can be rotated to be released.
US09354404B2
Embodiments include a high bandwidth optical connection system suitable for interconnecting servers, for example within a rack of a datacenter. An edge mount optical connector assembly includes an edge-mount housing providing topside socket contacts proximate to a first end of the housing and a port at a second end to receive an optical plug connector. A socket latch cantilevered from an anchor point on the housing includes a latching face to contact a keeper face disposed on the housing and a spring load application surface between the anchor point and the latching face to apply a spring force against the electrical contacts for retention of a removable optical transceiver module. An optical plug connector includes a front housing joined to a rear housing with a plug lens spring loaded within the housing and with alignment features comprising two flat alignment surfaces orthogonally oriented relative to each other.
US09354382B2
A backlight assembly includes a light source unit configured to generate light, a lower receiving container having a bottom portion and a side wall and being configured to receive the light source unit, the lower receiving container shaped to cover a lower surface of the light source unit and a mold frame formed directly on the lower receiving container and having a cut portion, the cut portion having a first end portion and a second end portion, the first end portion and the second end portion spaced apart from each other and facing each other with a gap therebetween.
US09354378B2
An illuminating device includes a light source which outputs light, a light guide member having an incident surface on which the light from the light source is incident, an output surface through which the light is output from the light guide member, and a light deflection surface on which light deflection elements are formed such that the light is guided toward the output surface, and an isotropic light diffusion member positioned over the output surface of the light guide member. The light guide member has the incident surface extended in an X direction and includes a unit lens formed on the output surface and extended in a Y direction orthogonal to the X direction. A light-deflection element density D representing a number of the light deflection elements per unit area increases as the light deflection elements are positioned farther away from the incident surface.
US09354376B2
An illuminable component having a two-dimensionally extending decorative element which has at least one translucent region and at least one non-translucent region. A lighting source serves to illuminate the at least one translucent region. A light-filtering layer is arranged between the decorative element and the lighting source, the layer being integrally attached to a rear side of the decorative element by injection molding. A structure is provided that completely absorbs and/or scatters light when the lighting source is transported to the specified edge. As a result, leakage light at an edge of the component can be reliably avoided.
US09354356B2
A polymer film that has an in-plane retardation Re(λ) and a thickness-direction retardation Rth(λ) satisfying formula (i) and (ii), and that further has a surface energy of at least one surface is from 50 mN/m to 80 mN/m: 0≦Re(630)≦10, and |Rth(630)|≦25; (i) and |Re(400)−Re(700)|≦10, and |Rth(400)−Rth(700)|≦35. (ii) in the formulae, Re(λ) and Rth(λ) are measurement values at the wavelength of λ nm, and an optically-compensatory film, an optical material such as a polarizer and a liquid-crystal display device using the polymer film.
US09354346B2
An acoustic source for generating an acoustic beam includes a housing; a plurality of spaced apart piezo-electric layers disposed within the housing; and a non-linear medium filling between the plurality of layers. Each of the plurality of piezoelectric layers is configured to generate an acoustic wave. The non-linear medium and the plurality of piezo-electric material layers have a matching impedance so as to enhance a transmission of the acoustic wave generated by each of plurality of layers through the remaining plurality of layers.
US09354341B2
Propagation of wavefields are simulated along paths in a survey environment, where the simulated propagation includes an influence of a reflection at an interface that causes ghost data in measured survey data. Deghosting of the measured survey data is performed using the simulated wavefields.
US09354334B2
A detector assembly includes a cap assembly configured to close an end of a detector housing that is configured to contain a sensor therein, the cap assembly has a radially expandable member configured to expand radially within the detector housing and lock the position of the cap assembly relative to the detector housing.
US09354326B2
A radiographic imaging detector has photoimaging pixels disposed in an array, control electronics for controlling operation of the array to capture radiographic images, and a voltage source for powering the array of photoimaging pixels and the control electronics. A housing with multiple parts encloses at least the array and the control electronics and provides a seating for the voltage source. A first part has a first mating surface, a second part has a second mating surface. The first and second mating surfaces are disposed adjacent to each other and define a gap therebetween with a hydrophobic material deposited along at least one of the first and second mating surfaces.
US09354314B2
An underwater detection system is provided that can effectively use a discrimination result. A fish detector of the system is configured to implement a discrimination function including a fish species discrimination function; however, a fish detector and a sonar of the system do not comprise such a discriminator including a fish species discriminator. The fish detector transmits various discrimination results such as fish species discrimination, etc., through an onboard LAN to the fish detector or the sonar. The fish detector and the sonar superimpose various received discrimination results on the detection result of the device itself and display them on a display.
US09354313B2
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus including oscillation elements configured to transmit toward and receive from a region of a subject, a receiving delay setting unit configured to divide the oscillation elements into oscillation element groups and set a common delay to oscillation elements included in each of the oscillation element groups in accordance with an imaging condition, an adding unit configured to add received signals transmitted from the oscillation elements in accordance with the delay set by the received delay setting unit, and an image generating unit configured to generate image data in accordance with received signal added by adding unit.
US09354304B2
In a method for cyclically measuring distances (d) and relative velocities (v) of objects using an FMCW radar sensor, the frequency (f) of a transmitted signal of the radar sensor is periodically modulated, each period (P) including at least two differing modulation patterns, a relationship between distance (d) and velocity (v) of the object being derived from a signal received for a single modulation pattern, and the signals received for multiple modulation patterns being adjusted to one another in order to determine one value each for the distance and the velocity per each measuring cycle. For the adjustment between a signal obtained for a modulation pattern in the instantaneous measuring cycle and the signal(s) obtained for other modulation patterns, the signals from at least one previous measuring cycle are utilized.
US09354301B2
A method and apparatus for ultrasound diagnosis that reduces interference and restores missed signals, is provided. The method of ultrasound diagnosis includes operations of receiving a Doppler signal having at least one gap; respectively obtaining model parameter sets of first and second Doppler signals by using Doppler signal periods before and after a start of the at least one gap; synthesizing first and second Doppler information by respectively using the model parameter sets of the first and second Doppler signals; and generating Doppler information for the at least one gap by cross-fading the synthesized first and second Doppler information. The apparatus includes a transformer for transforming received I and Q signals into stereo audio signals using a Hilbert transform; and a source separator which removes interference from the stereo audio signals by performing source separation on the stereo audio signals.
US09354292B2
Systems and methods of transmitting location data based on wireless communication activity can include a location transmitting device having a sensor communicatively coupled to a low-power transmitter. The transmitter (e.g., a Bluetooth™ transmitter) can transmit location data from which an electronic device can derive its location. The sensor can be a sensor configured to detect wireless data transmissions (e.g., cellular data transmissions). In one example, the transmitter can transmit location data in response to the sensor detecting data transmissions of an electronic device. The transmitter can remain in an idle, standby, or otherwise low-power state until the sensor detects data transmissions of an electronic device. In response, the transmitter can transmit data which can be received by the electronic device. The electronic device can then derive the electronic device's location from the data transmitted by the transmitter.
US09354277B2
A system and method for estimating parameters of a rechargeable energy storage system during a plug-in charge mode include reading a first measured voltage and a measured current from the rechargeable energy storage system while charging the rechargeable energy storage system during a plug-in charge mode, interrupting the charge to stop current flow to the rechargeable energy storage system for a predetermined period of time, reading a second measured voltage during the charge interrupt, calculating a resistance based on the first measured voltage, the second measured voltage and the measured current, calculating an open circuit voltage of the rechargeable energy storage system based on the resistance, the second measured voltage, the measured current and determining the state-of-charge for the rechargeable energy storage system using the open circuit voltage.
US09354274B2
A circuit test system including a circuit test apparatus and a circuit to be tested is provided. The circuit test apparatus provides a first clock signal. The circuit to be tested includes a plurality of input/output pads and at least one clock pad. At least two input/output pads of the input/output pads are connected to each other to form a test loop during a test mode. The clock pad receives the first clock signal. The circuit to be tested multiplies a frequency of the first clock signal to generate a second clock signal, and the test loop of the circuit to be tested is tested based on the second clock signal during the test mode. The frequency of the second clock signal is higher than that of the first clock signal. Furthermore, a circuit test method of the foregoing circuit test system is also provided.
US09354273B2
An examples includes a substrate, including a conductive trace and a layer disposed on top of the conductive trace, the layer defining at least one cavity extending to the conductive trace and an electrical probe disposed in the cavity, with solder coupling the electrical probe to the conductive trace. The electrical probe can include a high yield strength wire core including a refractory metal and a thin oxidation protection layer concentrically disposed around high yield strength wire core and providing an outside surface of the electrical probe, the thin oxidation protection layer including predominantly one or more materials selected from gold, platinum, ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium, chromium, and combinations thereof, wherein the solder fills the cavity and is coupled to the electrical probe inside the cavity, disposed between the electrical probe and the layer.
US09354263B2
A capacitive measuring device for a hand-held device, particularly an electric hand-held device for the detection of an approach to the hand-held device, has a switching device, wherein the ground of the capacitive measuring device is galvanically connectable with an electrically conductive structure of the hand-held device by a switching device, and wherein the capacitive measuring device has a ground electrode structure with at least one ground electrode that can be arranged on the hand-held device, wherein the ground of the capacitive hand-held device is galvanically connectable with the at least one ground electrode by the switching device.
US09354257B2
Systems, methods and devices for use in measuring current through a conductor are provided. One example current device includes a first sensor configured to measure a first magnetic flux provided from a conductor and to generate a first signal proportional to the first magnetic flux, and a second sensor configured to measure a second magnetic flux provided from the conductor and to generate a second signal proportional to the second magnetic flux. The second sensor is spaced apart from the first sensor by a predetermined distance. The current device further includes a processor configured to determine, based on the first signal, the second signal and the predetermined distance, a radius between the conductor and at least one of the first sensor and the second sensor.
US09354248B2
A method for measuring vibration characteristic of a cantilever is proposed in this disclosure. The method includes: measuring vibration amplitude V of a cantilever installed in a scanning probe microscope when vibration with a resonant frequency f1 (Hz) is applied to the cantilever; obtaining a time Th (second) when the vibration amplitude V is equal to or more than 0.90 of a stationary amplitude V0; and calculating a Q value by using the following Expression: Q value=f1×Th.
US09354246B2
A MEMS resonant accelerometer is disclosed, having: a proof mass coupled to a first anchoring region via a first elastic element so as to be free to move along a sensing axis in response to an external acceleration; and a first resonant element mechanically coupled to the proof mass through the first elastic element so as to be subject to a first axial stress when the proof mass moves along the sensing axis and thus to a first variation of a resonant frequency. The MEMS resonant accelerometer is further provided with a second resonant element mechanically coupled to the proof mass through a second elastic element so as to be subject to a second axial stress when the proof mass moves along the sensing axis, substantially opposite to the first axial stress, and thus to a second variation of a resonant frequency, opposite to the first variation.
US09354231B1
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, reactive self-indicating adsorbent materials, methods, and systems. A system may comprise, for example, a reactive self indicating adsorbent material, wherein the reactive self indicating adsorbent material comprises at least one super paramagnetic particle and a semi permeable support, wherein the at least one super paramagnetic particle is configured such that at least one magnetic property of the at least one super paramagnetic particle changes upon contact with an adsorbate; and/or at least one detector configured and arranged to detect the at least one magnetic property. In some embodiments, a method for assessing the performance and/or remaining life of an adsorbent material may comprise (a) contacting a fluid comprising an adsorbate with the adsorbent material under conditions that permit the adsorbate to contact the at least one super paramagnetic particle, wherein a change in a magnetic property of the at least one super paramagnetic particle occurs upon contact with the adsorbate; (b) detecting the magnetic property of the at least one super paramagnetic particle; and/or (c) comparing the detected magnetic property to a reference to produce an assessment of the performance and/or remaining life of the adsorbent material.
US09354222B2
Biological metabolites LysoPC (18:0), LysoPC (20:3), fatty acid (16:1), fatty acid (18:0), fatty acid (18:1), fatty acid (18:2) and fatty acid (22:6) according to the present disclosure allow for simple and accurate diagnosis of a cardiovascular disease since their level in the blood of a subject increases or decreases if the subject has a cardiovascular disease such as myocardial infarction or angina. In addition, whereas the existing biomarkers can diagnose only whether myocardial infarction occurs or not, the biological metabolites according to the present disclosure can diagnose not only myocardial infarction but also unstable angina occurring prior to the onset of myocardial infarction stage by stage.
US09354221B2
Various embodiments of the invention include a system having: at least one computing device at least one computing device configured to monitor a lubrication oil by performing actions including: determining an initial ideal remaining life for the lubrication oil; determining a temperature-based remaining life for the lubrication oil based upon a temperature measurement of the lubrication oil; calculating a contamination factor of the lubrication oil based upon a contamination sample of the lubrication oil; determining an updated ideal life remaining for the lubrication oil based upon the contamination factor, the initial ideal remaining life, and the temperature-based remaining life; and determining an actual life remaining for the lubrication oil based upon the updated ideal life remaining and a life loss factor.
US09354218B2
An apparatus for the characterization of respirable aerosols, including: a burn chamber configured to selectively contain a sample that is selectively heated to generate an aerosol; a heating assembly disposed within the burn chamber adjacent to the sample; and a sampling segment coupled to the burn chamber and configured to collect the aerosol such that it may be analyzed. The apparatus also includes an optional sight window disposed in a wall of the burn chamber such that the sample may be viewed during heating. Optionally, the sample includes one of a Lanthanide, an Actinide, and a Transition metal.
US09354200B1
The present invention provides devices and methods for identification and/or quantitation of particles through detection of fluorescence labeled particles in an apparatus for differential charged particle mobility analysis and fluorescence detection.
US09354198B2
A calibration method for blood glucose of blood sample comprises the following steps: applying a first voltage to a blood sample to obtain an original level of blood glucose of the blood sample; applying a second voltage to a blood sample to obtain a hematocrit index of the blood sample; and processing the hematocrit index and calibrating the original level of blood glucose of the blood sample. The absolute value of the first voltage is lower than 1 volt and is not equal to 0 volt. The absolute value of the second voltage is higher than or equal to 1 volt. A sensing current corresponding to the original blood level and the hematocrit index corresponding to blood sample are obtained by applying at least two-stage voltages in the specific range to the blood sample, thereby calibrating the original blood glucose according to the hematocrit index.
US09354194B2
An analyte meter with a test strip port that detects an orientation of a test strip inserted therein. A control circuit of the test meter is configured to apply a first predetermined analyte measurement signal to a test strip electrode in response to detecting a first orientation of the test strip, and a second predetermined analyte measurement signal to the same, or a different, electrode in response to detecting a second orientation of the test strip.
US09354187B2
An apparatus and method for computed tomography image processing is provided. The apparatus includes: an X-ray detection unit that detects an X-ray beam having passed through a subject and outputs an energy value thereof; a line integral calculation unit that calculates line integral values of attenuation coefficients representing attenuation of the energy value of the X-ray beam having passed through the subject and been detected, based on the energy value; an image processing unit that reconstructs a tomogram based on the line integral values; and an image output unit that outputs the tomogram. The apparatus and method for computed tomography image processing can calculate line integral values of attenuation coefficients constituting an integrand of an X-ray projection function using the mean value theorem for integrals in order to restore an image of a subject from an X-ray beam detected in computed tomography image processing.
US09354185B2
Imaging methods, apparatus and systems are provided for using different irradiation frequencies to generate a composite three-dimensional image. One exemplary method for imaging a semiconductor device involves irradiating the semiconductor device with a first frequency of electromagnetic radiation, obtaining a first radiation response from the semiconductor device in response to the first frequency of electromagnetic radiation, irradiating the semiconductor device with a second frequency of electromagnetic radiation, obtaining a second radiation response from the semiconductor device in response to the second frequency of electromagnetic radiation, and generating a composite image of the semiconductor device based at least in part on the first radiation response and the second radiation response.
US09354184B2
An imaging apparatus includes a sensor including a plurality of pixels arranged in a two-dimensional pattern, a sample-hold unit configured to sample and hold a signal obtained from each pixel, and a reading unit configured to perform scanning in such a way as to perform a plurality of non-destructive reading operations for pixels of one row and as to read pixels of the next row, and to subsequently perform scanning in a row direction and a column direction to read the signal having been sampled and held by the sample-hold unit, an A/D conversion unit configured to perform analog/digital conversion processing on the signal read by the reading unit, an averaging processing unit configured to perform averaging processing on the signal converted by the A/D conversion unit, for each pixel, and a digital binning unit configured to perform binning processing using the signal processed by the averaging processing unit.
US09354178B2
Systems and methods for analyzing samples in containers are provided, where an emitter emits radiation at a first location on the container, with a portion of the radiation passing through the container and into the sample, some of the radiation is reflected within the container, a detector receives a transmission Raman signal including Raman radiation from multiple portions of the sample, and a comparator compares the transmission Raman signal with the radiation emitted by the emitter.
US09354168B2
The invention relates to a method for determining a liquid in a closed container using THz radiation, in which a first and a second measurement are carried out, wherein the THz radiation is emitted in the direction of the liquid for measuring properties of the liquid, and a portion of the THz radiation coming from the direction of the liquid is detected. In the proposed method, the closed container contains, in addition to the liquid, a gas, wherein a wall of the container is transmissive for THz radiation and wherein the detected portion of the THz radiation in the first measurement is reflected at a boundary surface between the wall and the gas or a pocket containing the gas, and the second measurement is reflected at a boundary surface between the wall and the liquid. The first measurement thus serves as a reference measurement for capturing disturbing losses in the THz beam path and for determining influences of the wall on a measurement result for the second measurement. The invention further relates to an arrangement suitable for carrying out this method.
US09354164B2
There is provided an optical system, including: an extracting section, the refractive index of the extracting section being approximately the same as the refractive index of an observed object, the extracting section being optically coupled with the observed object to thereby extract a terahertz electromagnetic wave generated from the observed object; and an ellipsoidal reflector surface having a first focal point and a second focal point, the observed object being to be arranged on the first focal point, a photoconductive device being on the second focal point, the photoconductive device being configured to detect the terahertz electromagnetic wave extracted by the extracting section, the ellipsoidal reflector surface guiding the extracted terahertz electromagnetic wave to the photoconductive device.
US09354161B2
Disclosed is a sample analyzing method comprising: flowing a measurement specimen prepared by mixing a sample and reagent through a flow cell; irradiating particles in the measurement specimen flowing through the flow cell with linearly polarized light and thereby producing scattered light; detecting a change of polarization condition of the scattered light produced by the particles; and discriminating erythrocytes from crystals in the measurement specimen based on the change of polarization condition.
US09354156B2
The method, device, and system relate to particle analysis, and in particular, to a microfluidic device designed for trapping particles for analysis. Particles include beads and cells.
US09354150B2
A test apparatus for a flexible device includes a rotational driving unit, a first support, and a second support. The rotational driving unit is configured to generate a rotational force. The first support is coupled to the rotational driving unit, and is configured to rotate in response to the rotational force and support a first portion of the flexible device. The second support is disposed adjacent to the first support and is configured to support a second portion of the flexible device.
US09354149B2
A method for load relieving a test object, wherein a load is applied by a multiplicity of hydraulic devices positioned side by side each introducing a partial load into the test object such that the test object has a minimum deflection in an area close to its fixation and a maximum deflection in an area far away from the fixation, wherein the load is reduced sequentially from the maximum deflection to the minimum deflection. A test rig is provided that enables an autonomous and non-synchronical load relief of a test object based on pressure difference. A test rig is provided that enables an autonomous and non-synchronical load relief of a test object based on a delay time and a control system for such test rigs.
US09354143B2
A device for the automated isolation and transfer of at least one microscopic sample from a sample carrier to a collecting system for subsequent automatic analysis is provided. The device comprises a selection unit for selecting at least one sample located on the sample carrier, a controllable isolation unit for the automated isolation of the at least one selected sample, a controllable transfer unit, which has carrier means for the defined receiving and deposition of the at least one selected isolated sample, for an automated and defined transfer of the at least one selected isolated sample from the sample carrier to the collecting system, and a control unit, which has a data link to the selection unit, the isolation unit and the transfer unit, for an automated isolation and transfer operation.
US09354136B1
A method and system for determination of multiple shrapnel hits on a gridless target surface utilizes multiple radio frequency or acoustic emission transducers on the target surface to detect energy waves created by the impact of shrapnel on the surface that occur at the point of initial contact and after the initial impact. Data regarding the detection, timing, and location of multiple impact events is acquired and transmitted to a remote processing location where the data is processed to determine the timing and location of all the shrapnel hits and derive final lethality information.
US09354134B2
An In-Situ Load System for calibrating and validating aerodynamic properties of scaled aircraft in ground-based aerospace testing applications includes an assembly having upper and lower components that are pivotably interconnected. A test weight can be connected to the lower component to apply a known force to a force balance. The orientation of the force balance can be varied, and the measured forces from the force balance can be compared to applied loads at various orientations to thereby develop calibration factors.
US09354133B2
The present invention provides a self-heated pressure sensor assembly and method of utilizing the same. The self-heated pressure sensor assembly regulates and maintains the temperature of the pressure sensor, regardless of the external temperature environment, without an external heater as in prior art embodiments. Exemplary embodiments of the pressure sensor assembly incorporate a resistance heater that is built into the sensing chip of the pressure sensor assembly. The pressure sensor assembly also utilizes the resistance of the pressure sensing elements to monitor the temperature of the assembly, which works alongside the resistance heater to maintain a stable temperature within the pressure sensor assembly.
US09354130B2
A measuring device for steering wheel torque includes a magnetic sensor to measure a rotational torque of the steering wheel. The measuring device for steering wheel torque has the advantages of high measuring precision, non-contact, high reliability and low cost.
US09354129B2
The present invention involves device for measuring the drive torque and/or the driving power delivered on a hub shell by a freewheel body connected to the hub shell by a freewheel mechanism, the device including at least one deformation and/or stress sensor on or integrated to at least one ratchet of said mechanism and a drive torque and/or driving power determination circuit, connected to the sensor.
US09354127B2
Disclosed is a device for measuring a temperature distribution of a fuel cell includes: a base member formed to come into contact with at least a portion of a fuel cell and having at least one accommodating portion; a heat transfer tube accommodated in the accommodating portion; and a thermocouple inserted into a hollow of the heat transfer tube and measuring a temperature of heat transmitted through the heat transfer tube.
US09354111B2
A wafer level optical device, system, and method are described that include a substrate, an electronic device disposed on the substrate, an illumination source disposed on the electronic device, an enclosure disposed on the substrate, where the enclosure includes at least one optical surface and covers the electronic device and the illumination source, and at least one solder ball disposed on a side of the substrate distal from the electronic device. In implementations, a process for using the wafer level optical device and lens-integrated package system that employ the techniques of the present disclosure includes receiving a substrate, placing an electronic device on the substrate, placing an illumination source on the electronic device, and placing an enclosure on the substrate, where the enclosure covers the electronic device and the illumination source, and the enclosure and a wall structure form a first compartment and a second compartment.
US09354108B2
The electronic balance has a load detector for supporting a scale pan and outputting the load value of a load placed on the scale pan. A weight change calculating program calculates changes in the weight of a sample to be measured based on sample load measurement values ouput from the load detector when the sample is placed on the scale pan at two different points in time and load-free measurement values output from the load detector in the load-free state before and after the respective sample load measurements values are output. Also, minute changes in the weight of a light-weight sample are measured accurately since the load-free weight is measured before and after sample measurements even if the sensitivity or zero drift changes due to changes in the environment conditions, and the sample weight is further corrected using measurements of the load of a reference weight.
US09354088B2
A rotation angle measurement device includes: relative angle detection means including a reference support whose rotation is regulated in a fixed range in an arbitrary direction of a rotation axis, and a driving rotating body which is coupled to the reference support and is axially supported so as to be all-round rotatable with respect to the reference support, the relative angle detection means which detects a relative rotation angle of the rotating body with respect to the reference support; and non-contact angle detection means which detects a rotation angle of the reference support with reference to a position that does not contact with the rotating body and the reference support. This provides improved accuracy in indexing the rotation angle of a rotating moving shaft and easy installation onto the rotating moving shaft.
US09354087B2
An optical encoder is disclosed. Specifically, a three-channel encoder is disclosed which utilizes a single track for all three channels. An index channel is provided on the same optical track as the first and second channels which are used to determine incremental angular position. Thus, a more compact and simple three-channel encoder is provided.
US09354086B2
The invention relates to a fiber optic measuring apparatus and a related method which includes a number of sensors which are integrated in a cable and detect a mechanical load, a temperature and/or corrosive gases, characterized in that the sensors are supplied with light from a source and the sensors form a fiber optic network.
US09354083B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methodology subject matters for providing communications to battery powered metrology devices within an Advanced Metering System (AMS). The battery powered metrology devices may be associated with AC supplied devices that are configured with mailboxes for their associated battery powered devices. The battery powered metrology devices may include such as water and gas meters collocated with electricity meters. Communications between the battery powered devices and their associated mailbox containing electricity meters may be by way of direct wired or radio frequency connections for providing reliable message transport between communications system coupled components in an Advanced Metering System.
US09354077B2
A system and method are disclosed that permits a user to interactively and graphically design a company route to be traveled by a vehicle such as an airplane. Alternatively or additionally, a system and method are disclosed that permits a user to interactively and graphically conduct a virtual travel through, such a virtual fly through, a company route to be traveled by a vehicle such as an airplane.
US09354075B2
A vehicle and a method of controlling the vehicle using voice guidance is provided. The vehicle includes a body that defines an appearance of the vehicle and a vehicle sensor that is configured to sense various driving-related situations of the vehicle. A driving guide system is then configured to analyze vehicle driving data including vehicle sensing information received form the vehicle sensor and driving-related information and prioritize the vehicle driving data. In addition, the driving guide system is configured to generate driving guide information in a scenario format based on a priority and output the driving guide information by voice guidance.
US09354073B2
A navigation system is configured to generate a sequence of driving instructions for directing a driver of a vehicle from a current location to a final destination. The navigation system is configured to capture sensor data that reflects the field of view of the driver and to identify objects in that field of view. The navigation system then customizes the driving instructions to reference specific objects, thereby generating context-specific driving instructions. The navigation system is also configured to identify particular objects upon which the driver is focused, and to generate context-specific driving instructions relative to such objects of focus. The navigation system may also provide correction information to the driver upon determining that the driver has incorrectly focused on a different object than an object referenced in a context-specific driving instruction.
US09354068B2
Dynamically downloading map data to a wireless communications device is achieved by determining a map data density for an area of interest and then dynamically downloading and optionally also dynamically displaying the map data for the area of interest based on the map data density. For areas of interest with low map data density, this technology has the effect of downloading more map data so that the map is displayed with more detail than would conventionally be obtained. Conversely, for areas of interest with excessively high map data density, dynamic downloading and display can reduce the onscreen map density for a less crowded map.
US09354061B2
A rotation sensor system is presented. The system includes a rotating frame configured to be mounted on a gimbal and configured to be driven for controlled rocking motion about a predetermined axis of the frame, and a proof mass assembly mounted on the rotating frame. The proof mass assembly includes one or more proof mass elements, each mounted to be driven into controlled movement with respect to the predetermined axis along a certain path, such that a distance of each proof mass element from the axis corresponding to a direction of the rocking motion of the frame, thereby affecting a moment of inertia of the rotating frame.
US09354060B2
A vibrating element includes first and second pairs of vibrating arms extending in opposite directions from a base. A pair of first suspension arms extends from the base via first connecting parts and are connected to a fixed portion attached to a container for the vibrating element so that the base, the pair of first suspension arms and the fixed portion surround the pair of first vibrating arms. A pair of second suspension arms extends from the base via second connecting parts and are connected to the fixed portion so that the pair of second suspension arms is located outside of the pair of first vibrating arms and the pair of first suspension arms.
US09354057B2
An electronic rod reader and field notebook is disclosed. In one embodiment, the electronic rod reader and field notebook comprises an image capture device for capturing an image through the eyepiece of an auto-level. The electronic rod reader and field notebook further comprises logic implemented by a processor of the electronic rod reader for automatically recognizing a crosshair viewed through the eyepiece of the auto-level, for automatically comparing the crosshair against a scale of a standard grade rod viewed through the eyepiece of the auto-level, and for automatically determining an elevation of the standard grade rod based upon the comparing. The electronic rod reader and field notebook further comprises a non-transitory computer readable data storage medium coupled with the processor for storing the elevation as a first reading.
US09354054B2
The invention provides a surveying system, which comprises an electronic level and staff devices belonging to either one of two or more groups, wherein the staff device has staffs with bar codes corresponding to groups, to which a staff belongs, and mobile station devices installed on the staffs, wherein the mobile station device has a mobile station display unit to display working data and a mobile station communication unit for performing wireless communication to and from the electronic level, wherein the electronic level has an image pickup unit for acquiring images within a range of working, a control device for extracting staff images from the images, for identifying as to which group the bar code pattern of the extracted staff image belongs and for determining three-dimensional position of the staff based on the staff image, and a main communication unit for transmitting the three-dimensional position obtained to the mobile station device, and wherein the mobile station device displays the relation between the three-dimensional position of the staff as received and the working data on the mobile station display unit.
US09354052B2
A shared-aperture EO imaging and ranging sensor is implemented by time multiplexing an optical imaging channel and an optical ranging channel. The optical ranging channel is allocated the “unused portion” of each frame; that portion of the frame that is reserved from electronics processing of the imaging channel. The electronics processing of ranging channel is performed during the integration period of the next frame. This allows ranging to be provided without sacrificing the performance of the imaging channel. Ranging may be provided using either “coded aperture” or “wavefront coding”.
US09354045B1
A method of image-based positioning is provided. The method comprises: (A) providing an image-capturing device integrated with an object; (B) providing a pattern-generating device configured to generate a set of patterns; (C) locating the pattern-generating device in a field of view (FOV) of the image-capturing device and capturing an image of the pattern-generating device; (D) generating at least one set of pattern data by using the captured image of the pattern-generating device; and (E) processing each set of generated pattern data by using in order to generate an altitude and/or angular coordinates of the object.
US09354042B2
A coordinate measuring system includes a probe provided with first to ninth infrared LEDs, and an image capture apparatus and calculation controller detecting the position of the probe. The probe includes a distance obtainer acquiring distance data for a distance from the probe to the image capture apparatus; and an illumination controller controlling an illumination time of the first to ninth infrared LEDs based on the distance represented by the distance data.
US09354041B2
Coordinate measuring apparatus includes a probe having an optical system emitting light along a plane at a workpiece, an image capture apparatus having image capture elements arranged on an image capture plane and capturing an image of the workpiece from a position different from that of the predetermined plane, and a controller controlling the emitting optical system. The controller determines whether the image capture elements arranged in an image capture region on the image capture plane detect light incident on the workpiece due to the light from the emitting optical system, turns on the light emitted from the emitting optical system when the image capture elements arranged within the image capture region detect the incident light, and blinks the light emitted from the emitting optical system at a predetermined periodicity when the image capture elements arranged within the image capture region do not detect the incident light.
US09354040B2
A system for lateral scanning of a sample using optical coherence tomography is presented. The low coherence interferometry system includes a first multiplexing unit and a second multiplexing unit. The first multiplexing unit is configured to receive a first beam of radiation and includes a first plurality of optical delay elements configured to introduce a group delay to the first beam of radiation based on an optical path traversed by the first beam of radiation among a first plurality of optical waveguides. The second multiplexing unit is configured to receive a second beam of radiation. The second multiplexing unit includes a second plurality of optical modulating elements configured to differentiate the second beam of radiation among a second plurality of optical waveguides to produce one or more output radiation beams. The second plurality of optical waveguides is configured to guide the one or more output radiation beams towards a sample.
US09354039B2
A programmable photonic integrated circuit implements arbitrary linear optics transformations in the spatial mode basis with high fidelity. Under a realistic fabrication model, we analyze programmed implementations of the CNOT gate, CPHASE gate, iterative phase estimation algorithm, state preparation, and quantum random walks. We find that programmability dramatically improves device tolerance to fabrication imperfections and enables a single device to implement a broad range of both quantum and classical linear optics experiments. Our results suggest that existing fabrication processes are sufficient to build such a device in the silicon photonics platform.
US09354038B2
In an embodiment, a computer 16, which generates tomographic images based on spectral interference signals detected by a light detector 15 from overlaid reference light emitted by a swept-source type light source 2 of a SS-OCT, split, and then reflected by a fixed reference mirror 8 on one hand and object light reflected by an object to be measured 6 on the other, is caused to function to apply rough correction using a first correction means and then apply detailed correction using a second correction means, to stabilize the phases of the SS-OCT. The phases can be stabilized by eliminating, without adding any expensive, complex hardware, the jitter between the wavelength scanning of a light source of SS-OCT and the timing of collecting the scan data with the light detector as spectral interference signals.
US09354028B2
The invention relates to a method for determining the roll angle of a guidable and substantially or partially roll-stable projectile comprising control system, radio-based positioning receiver and sensor for measuring roll angular velocity, in which the following steps are included: actuation of the actuators of the projectile by the control system, included in the projectile, for maneuvering of the projectile; estimation of a first signal, the projectile control force, on the basis of the control system included in the projectile; measurement of a second signal, the velocity of the projectile relative to the ground-fixed coordinate system, with the radio-based positioning receiver mounted in the projectile; measurement of a third signal, the rotational velocity, with the sensor for roll angular velocity mounted in the projectile; calculation of a roll angle on the basis of the first, second and third signals, estimated projectile control force, measured projectile velocity, and measured rotational velocity, by summation of the absolute angle change with weighting of an angle evaluation. The invention additionally relates to a GNC system for a guidable projectile comprising control system, radio-based positioning system, and a sensor for measuring roll angular velocity.
US09354020B1
A projectile launcher includes a housing including a launching section. The launching section includes a first spring and a second spring, a piston coupled with the first and second springs, and a charger that compresses each of the first and second springs against the piston within the launching section. The projectile launcher further includes hollow barrel that extends to a front end of the projectile launcher, a projectile loading area configured to receive and load a projectile in position with a firing end of the piston and the barrel, and a trigger. Compression of the first and second springs by the charger is released in response to actuation of the trigger, where release of the compression of the first and second springs forces movement of the piston toward the projectile loading area so as to launch a projectile loaded within the projectile loading area through the barrel and from the projectile launcher.
US09354016B2
Embodiments include a compact compound bow. In various embodiments, the compact compound bow includes a first riser plate and a second riser plate. The bow can further include a first limb and a second limb, the first limb and second limb can be coupled to the first riser plate and the second riser plate. The bow can further include a re-locatable handle configured to be coupled to at least one of the first riser plate or the second riser plate in a first position and coupled to at least one of the first riser plate or the second riser plate in a second position. The re-locatable handle can be rotated 180 degrees from the first position to the second position. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US09354010B1
A system for locking a firing mechanism of a firearm in response to blood-alcohol content can include a breathalyzer system and a lock system. The breathalyzer system can be configured to connect to a firearm and include an input port for receiving fluid and a processing module for analyzing blood-alcohol content of the fluid. The lock system can be configured to connect to the firearm and be operably connected to the breathalyzer system for receiving a signal from the breathalyzer system so as to disable a firing mechanism of the firearm in response to the blood-alcohol content of the fluid being sensed to be above a threshold.
US09354008B1
A magazine loading device comprises an ammunition delivery interface, a shuttle or escapement, an orientation gate, a staging gate, a plunger, and a magazine receiver. The ammunition may be supplied to the ammunition delivery interface in a number of ways, including utilization of a hopper. The ammunition may be guided into an opening in the shuttle or escapement, which may then transfer the ammunition to an orientation gate. The geometry of the orientation gate is such that the ammunition will always drop through the orientation gate with the projectile down, which in this case is the desired orientation for loading into the magazine. A plunger may then push the ammunition into the magazine.
US09354006B2
An dual magazine assembly that has many novel features desirable by modern military and law enforcement professionals that consists of two magazine adaptors that replace the standard bottom magazine plates of a firearm. These adaptors once mated with identical magazine housings can then be quickly attached to each other in order to shorten the magazine reloading time by rotating the spent primary magazine towards the bottom and inserting the secondary magazine thus doubling the capacity and allowing for faster firing of rounds from the secondary magazine.
US09354000B2
A heat-exchange device comprises a first heat exchanger defining an upper end and a lower end. A second heat exchanger defines an upper end connected to the upper end of the first heat exchanger and a lower end spaced apart from the lower end of the first heat exchanger in a substantially longitudinal direction such that a predetermined angle between the first heat exchanger and second heat exchanger is between about 0 and 180°. A wind-guide member is disposed between the first heat exchanger and second heat exchanger for guiding wind toward the first heat exchanger and second heat exchanger.
US09353999B2
Electronics modules and cooling apparatuses having branching microchannels for liquid cooling by jet impingement and fluid flow are disclosed. In one embodiment, a cooling apparatus includes a heat receiving surface and an array of branching microchannel cells. Each branching microchannel cell includes an inlet manifold fluidly coupled to the heat receiving surface and a branching microchannel manifold fluidly coupled to the inlet manifold. The branching microchannel manifold includes a plurality of fins that orthogonally extend from the heat receiving surface such that the plurality of fins define a plurality of branching microchannels that is normal with respect to the heat receiving surface. The cooling apparatus further includes an outlet manifold fluidly coupled to the plurality of branching microchannels. The coolant fluid flows through the plurality of branching microchannels in a direction normal to the heat receiving surface.
US09353996B2
A pressure difference driven heat spreader includes a chamber defined in a main body; a vaporizing section arranged in the chamber and including a plurality of first flow-guiding members spaced from one another to define first flow passages therebetween, the first flow passages each having at least one free end communicating with a free zone; a condensing section arranged in the chamber opposite to the vaporizing section and including a plurality of second flow-guiding members spaced from one another to define second flow passages therebetween; and an interconnecting section arranged between the vaporizing and condensing sections and having first and second communicating holes for communicating the vaporizing section with the condensing section. The condensing section functions as a low-pressure end, so that a pressure gradient is produced in the pressure difference driven heat spreader to drive steam-water circulation therein, and no wick structure is needed for driving the working fluid.
US09353994B1
A system for large-scale, distributed remediation of particulate air pollution using cooling towers is described herein. The system consists of a generator section which captures, redirects, and accelerates exhaust air from a cooling tower, a venturi inlet and nozzle, and at least one air scrubber stage.
US09353987B2
A refrigerator includes: a refrigerator main body having a cooling chamber; a cooling chamber door for opening and closing the cooling chamber; a shelf assembly provided within the cooling chamber such that a height thereof is adjustable; and a basket provided in any one of the refrigerator main body and the cooling chamber door such that a height thereof is adjustable. A space of the refrigerator main body or the cooling chamber door can be utilized to facilitate receiving and keeping food items.
US09353985B2
A refrigerator includes a door rotatably coupled to the body to open and close the body. The refrigerator includes a front side panel comprising a through-hole, a handle coupled to the front side panel to open and close the door, a handle fixing unit coupled to the front side panel while passing through the through-hole, to fix the handle to the door. The refrigerator also includes a reinforcing unit including a coupling hole to which the handle fixing unit is coupled The reinforcing unit is fixed to a rear surface of the front side panel to reinforce the handle fixing unit. The refrigerator also includes a guide part protruding from the rear surface of the front side panel to guide a position of the reinforcing unit such that the coupling hole matches the through-hole. The reinforcing unit is provided with a guide groove into which the guide part is inserted.
US09353972B2
An apparatus, system, and method of collecting solar energy having a variable position for optimizing sunlight collection and for use in a heating and/or cooling system. The system includes a solar collector apparatus, a collector support frame assembly, a sun position tracking apparatus, a fluid transfer pump, a fluid storage tank, an insulated pipe for connecting the fluid pump to the storage tank and the solar collector, a differential temperature controller, and a safety override relay controller.
US09353969B2
A water tank may include an inner tank and a condenser. The condenser may have a liquid inlet tube, a liquid outlet tube, first and second condensing tubes wound around respectively an outer wall of an upper and lower part of the inner tank, first ends of the first and second condensing tubes being in fluid communication with the second end of the liquid inlet tube, and a third condensing tube wound around an outer wall of a bottom part of the inner tank beneath the lower part. A first end of the third condensing tube may be in fluid communication with second ends of the first and second condensing tubes respectively. A second end of the third condensing tube may be in fluid communication with a first end of the liquid outlet tube. A heat pump water heater comprising the water tank may be further provided.
US09353956B2
Technologies for use with a hot water recirculation system containing a hot water source, a flow sensor downstream from the source, a booster pump downstream from the sensor, and a plumbing fixture downstream from the pump are provided. The technologies enable a controller to couple to the sensor and the pump, and operate in a calibration mode and a control mode. Such operations can increase energy efficiency of the pump and increase operational longevity of the pump.
US09353949B2
A flow conditioning device (30, 50, 70, 100, 150) for a can annular gas turbine engine, including a plurality of flow elements (32, 34, 52, 54, 72, 74, 102) disposed in a compressed air flow path (42, 60, 80, 114, 122) leading to a combustor (12), configured such that relative adjustment of at least one flow directing element (32, 52, 72, 110) with respect to an adjacent flow directing element (34, 54, 74, 112, 120) during operation of the gas turbine engine is effective to adjust a level of choking of the compressed air flow path (42, 60, 80, 114, 122).
US09353948B2
A combustor and a method for reducing a temperature gradient of a combustor component are provided. The combustor includes a coating applied to at least a portion thereof with the coating serving to alter the emissivity of the at least a portion to which it is applied. The method includes applying a coating on at least one of a combustor liner and a flow sleeve, wherein the coating alters the emissivity exhibited where applied.
US09353938B2
An illuminated wind indicator including a wind chime assembly with a moveable pendulum assembly. The pendulum assembly includes a suspension member to support moveable suspension of the pendulum assembly proximate the wind chime assembly and further includes a component configuration of components including power and control circuitry, at least one solar panel, at least one light source and a striker, wherein each of the components has a distance relationship to the suspension member, where the power and control circuitry, the at least one solar panel and the at least one light source is electrically connected to form an illumination circuit that is separate and spaced apart from the wind chime assembly.
US09353936B2
A locking pin for a mount for receiving a T-rail includes a bolt for engagement with the mount, a plurality of facets defined on the bolt, and a locking leaf spring having a first end fixed to the mount and a second distal end with a planar lip. A movable and lockable handle for a portable light includes a hand grip, a pair of arms and a pair of hinges. A locking flange in the hinge securely captures the arm in a folded configuration. The arm is moved out from behind the locking flange and rotated to a fully deployed configuration and held by a detent flange. The handle is attached to the mount provided with the locking pin.
US09353927B2
A lighting apparatus according to an embodiment includes an optical unit and a body. The Optical unit includes a light emitting module that has a light emitting element, a reflector that controls distribution of light from the light emitting module, and a unit supporting member that supports the light emitting module and the reflector. A plurality of optical units are mounted to the apparatus body such that each optical unit is detachable. And the body includes an irradiating portion that has an opening through which the optical units irradiate light.
US09353926B2
An optical film includes a substrate, a plurality of first prism structures, and a plurality of second prism structures. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite thereto. The first prism structures are disposed on the first surface. Each of the first prism structures has plurality sets of first optical surfaces. The first optical surfaces belonging to the same set have the same absolute value of slope, and the first optical surfaces belonging to different sets have different absolute values of slopes, respectively. The second prism structures are disposed on the second surface. Each of the second prism structures has plurality sets of second optical surfaces. The second optical surfaces belonging to the same set have the same absolute value of slope, and the second optical surfaces belonging to different sets have different absolute values of slopes, respectively.
US09353924B2
A light fixture is disclosed. The light fixture can include a first light module and a second light module, each having at least one coupling feature, a power source, and at least one electrical receiver providing access to the power source. The light fixture can also include at least one first bracket having a first portion and a second portion, where the first portion mechanically couples to the at least one first coupling feature of the first light module, and where the second portion mechanically couples to the at least one second coupling feature of the second light module.
US09353922B2
A light fixture has a housing with a bottom plate at least partially defining an opening. A light source is disposed within the housing. A reflector is disposed such that light emitted from the light source is received by the reflector and reflected. The reflector has a direct reflection surface disposed within the housing for receiving light emitted from the light source and reflecting (a) a first portion of light directly out of the opening and (b) a second portion of light. An indirect reflection surface for receiving the second portion of light from the direct reflection surface and reflecting the second portion of light, wherein the at least a portion of the indirect reflection surface is disposed on an exterior of the bottom plate.
US09353918B2
Light source systems and methods of operating the light source systems are disclosed. A light source system may include a combination of two lighting modules in communication with each other. The lighting modules can operate in concert, in parallel, or as master or slave. A printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) of the light source system includes electrical circuitry to drive a set of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The PCBA can include a communication interface for communication amongst the lighting modules. The PCBA can also include an optical sensor to provide color spectrum feedback to a controller module for self calibration. A master PCBA can receive sensor feedbacks, such as thermal and optical feedbacks from a slave PCBA. The sensor feedbacks can then be used to tune a color spectrum of a slave lighting module including calibrating the slave lighting module.
US09353915B2
A lighting device may be provided to include a heat sink which includes a receiving recess and a top surface including a hole; a light source module which includes a substrate disposed on the heat sink, a light emitting device disposed on the substrate and a pad disposed on the substrate; a power supplier which is disposed in the receiving recess of the heat sink and includes a projection outputting a power signal for driving the light source module; and a connector which is coupled to the hole of the heat sink, includes a contacting part electrically connected to the pad of the light source module, and is electrically connected to the projection of the power supplier.
US09353904B2
A rotatable stand comprising a front body and a rear body. The front body has a containment slot, a connecting portion and a stopping portion, the rear body has an engaging portion, a positioning column and a hollow portion. The stopping portion of the front body further has a first positioning slot and a second positioning slot. By engaging the connecting portion of the front body and the engaging portion of the rear body, the positioning column of the rear body is capable of being rotated between the first positioning slot and the second positioning slot.
US09353902B2
A self propelled propulsion device suitable for pushing, pulling or articulating other tools or equipment around bends within a pipe. The device comprises a first part and a second part, the first part being coupled to the second part by articulating means. The device also comprises a hydraulic system and a control unit. The hydraulic system is operable to returnably separate the first and second part of the device from each other. The hydraulic system further comprises a plurality of pipeline engaging means positioned along an exterior surface of the device which are operable by the hydraulic system to be engagable with the interior surface of the pipeline. The control unit is in communication with the hydraulic system to control the movement of the pipeline engaging means and the first and second parts such that the device is moveable within the pipeline.
US09353891B1
A garden hose guide including a base having a semicircular top half and a bottom half, a spiral stake having a bottom end and a top end, a torsion member medially disposed within the base, and a circular aperture continuously disposed from a right portion to a left portion of the top half of the base. The torsion member has an upper end, a lower end, a right end region, and a left end region. Each of the right end region and the left end region is disposed outside of the base. The aperture is configured to slidably engage an exterior surface of a garden hose.
US09353887B2
A micro-trench filling system and method of filling a trench holding a conduit is provided. The micro-trench filling system includes a trench formed into a covering surface, a conduit disposed in the bottom of the trench, a structural filler disposed on the conduit in the bottom of the trench, the structural filler made of a mesh material and having a plurality of openings; and a flowable filler poured into the trench and over the structural filler and surrounding the conduit. The flowable filler flows through the plurality of openings of the structural filler creating a bond between the flowable filler and structural filler, the flowable filler cures after a predetermined amount of time, and the structural filler and the flowable filler hold the conduit in place.
US09353885B1
The foot-operated, portable faucet includes a faucet spout that extends vertically from a housing. The housing includes at least one mounting bracket thereon such that said housing is adapted to be secured to a ground surface. The housing includes a female garden hose connection that is in fluid communication with a water valve. The water valve is also in fluid communication with the faucet spout. The water valve is controlled via a foot pedal that is pivotably engaged with respect to a side surface of the housing. When in use, the foot pedal is depressed in order for the water valve to open fluid communication from the female garden hose connection to the water spout. An alternative embodiment may include an auxiliary male garden hose connection. Other embodiments may utilize a faucet spout of varying heights that extend upwardly from the housing.
US09353883B2
A liquid pressure control valve includes at least one O-ring seal mounted, in a first sealing position, on a sealing section of a first component thereof to seal a junction between that first component and a second component which junction controls a bleed passage between. The first component is threadingly engaged within the second component. The valve includes a chamber intended to contain liquid up to a required pressure during operation of the valve. The valve includes at least one annular impingement element mounted about a reduced diameter section, relative to the sealing section, of the first component and adjacent thereto with the impingement element. The impingement element includes a bore that tapers away from the O-ring seal, whereby with a pressure in excess of the required pressure acting on the O-ring it will be compressed at least partly into the bore of the impingement element and away from the O ring's first sealing position to take up a second non-sealing position and, with release of the excess pressure, return to its first sealing position.
US09353877B2
A safety device for a gas distribution system includes a valve body, an upper casing attached to the valve body, the upper casing housing at least one spring. Further, the at least one spring is attached to a movable diaphragm that is exposed to gas system pressure. The valve body also includes a release element mounted within the valve body. The release element releasing a relatch plug when the device is activated to move a safety disc into contact with a valve seat to stop fluid from flowing when an overpressure or an underpressure condition is sensed.
US09353867B2
A mechanical seal for sealing faces includes a fluid circulation groove including an inlet section where a fluid comes in from a high pressure fluid side, an outlet section where the fluid goes out to the high pressure fluid side, and a communication section that provides communication between the inlet section and the outlet section is provided in one of sealing faces of a pair of sliding parts that slide on each other. The fluid circulation groove is isolated from a low pressure fluid side by a land section R. At least a sectional area of the groove in the inlet section or the outlet section is set to be different from a sectional area of the groove in the communication section in such a manner that pressure of the fluid flowing through the fluid circulation groove is lowered in the communication section.
US09353847B2
A torque vectoring device (4-18) for two half-axles of a vehicle drive axle, provided with a conventional differential (20-27), through which drive torque is supplied from a propulsion motor, is connected on one hand to one of the half-axles (1), on the other hand to the cage (24) of the differential (20-27). An electric motor (15) of the torque vectoring device is connected via a differential transmission in the form of a planetary gearing (10) to said one of the half-axles (1) and the cage (24). The arrangement is such that the electric motor stands still, when the rotational speed of the half-axle (1) and the cage (24) is the same.
US09353837B2
An electric linear motion actuator includes: a rotary shaft to be driven by an electric motor; a plurality of planetary rollers kept in rolling contact with a cylindrical surface formed on an outer periphery of the rotary shaft; a carrier which retains the planetary rollers such that the planetary rollers are rotatable about axes thereof while revolving around the rotary shaft, and of which axial movement is restricted; and an outer ring member surrounding the planetary rollers and supported so as to be slidable in an axial direction. Helical ribs are formed on an inner periphery of the outer ring member; and circumferential grooves are formed on an outer periphery of each of the planetary rollers so as to be engaged with the helical ribs. A rotation of the rotary shaft is thus converted to a linear motion of the outer ring member.
US09353836B2
A modular system of driving devices that each includes a rotary drive assembly and a spindle drive assembly. The modular system includes at least two rotary drive assemblies and at least two spindle drive assemblies which are formed with coupling elements which are compatible with one another. The rotary drive of the driving device is received in a housing tube which is closed at its end remote from the spindle drive by a base piece. The base piece and the housing tube are manufactured from plastics material and are connected to one another by cohesive bonding.
US09353834B2
A transmission includes a drive shaft, an output shaft, a housing, three planetary gear sets, six shift elements, comprising a first brake, a second brake along with a first clutch, a second clutch, a third clutch and a fourth clutch. The shift elements are selectively actuated, by which nine forward gears and one reverse gear are realized. The drive shaft and the output shaft are arranged in a manner axially offset to each other, and the drive shaft is connectable through the first clutch to the second brake and through the second clutch to the sun gear of the second planetary gear set and to the sun gear of the third planetary gear set, whereas the sun gear of the second planetary gear set and the sun gear of the third planetary gear set are also connected to each other.
US09353826B2
The invention relates to a damper bearing (10) for supporting a chassis component on a motor vehicle body, including a first bearing element (12) for attachment to the motor vehicle body, a second bearing element (14) for attachment to the chassis component, and a damping element (16) which is active between the first and the second bearing elements (12, 14) and which is made of a shock-absorbing material. The invention is characterized in that a coupling element (18) is arranged between the first and the second bearing elements (12, 14), with the second bearing element (14) interacting via the coupling element with at least one active spring element (20) which is arranged on the coupling element (18) and effective in series with the damping element (16).
US09353823B2
A device (1) for checking the state of charge of a gas spring (100), comprises: a supporting structure (2) equipped with connecting means (3) adapted to be reversibly connected to a gas spring (100); a plunger (4) slidably received, at least partly, in the supporting structure and having a first end (4b) adapted to interact, in conditions of use, with a charging valve of a gas spring, the plunger having a second end which has an abutment surface (4d); pushing means (6) operating on the abutment surface (4d) of the plunger (4) to apply a measured thrust on the plunger (4) such as to induce the displacement thereof; a position indicator (5) operatively associated with the plunger (4) and configured to represent the position of the plunger relative to a reference element (7). Also described is a method for checking the state of charge of a gas spring (100).
US09353822B2
A tubular shock absorber including a tubular case protruding from a side of a main body portion of the shock absorber. A piston (5) with a piston rod (6) coupled thereto is inserted in a cylinder sealingly containing oil, and a damping force is generated by controlling a flow of the oil generated by movement of the piston with use of a damping force generation mechanism (25). The damping force generation mechanism is contained in a cylindrical case (26) protruding from a side of an outer tube (3), and the damping force generation mechanism is fixed by threadably attaching a nut member (34) to a male screw portion (50) of the case. An O-ring is disposed between an outer circumferential surface of the case and an inner circumferential surface of the nut member to seal an uncoated male screw portion from the outside.
US09353817B2
An isolation system includes a platform, a plurality of isolators for the platform electronically switchable between a soft mode of isolation resulting in a first natural frequency and a stiff mode of isolation resulting in a second natural frequency, and a controller responsive to a signal representing the frequency of a machine on the platform and configured to switch the isolator to the stiff mode of operation when the frequency of the machine approaches or reaches, the first natural frequency to avoid resonance magnification, and otherwise switch the isolation to the soft mode of operation.
US09353816B2
Method of making a carbon-carbon composite brake disc or pad by: needling a plurality of layers of fibrous fabric segments to one another to form a brake disc or pad preform; carbonizing the fibrous preform to provide a carbon fiber brake disc or pad preform having a fiber volume fraction in the range 17% to 30% in the brake disc or pad preform; densifying the resulting carbonized needled fibrous fabric preform with pitch (isotropic or anisotropic) or with pitch and CVD/CVI; carbonizing the resulting pitch-infiltrated carbon fiber disk to carbonize the pitch therein; heat-treating the resulting pitch-densified carbon brake disc or pad; and subjecting the carbon brake disc or pad to a final cycle of CVD/CVI processing in order to produce a carbon-carbon composite brake disc or pad having a density of at least 1.70 g/cc and having a uniform through-thickness density. Benefits over conventional processing are obtained by increasing the needling rate used to manufacture the preform and reducing the amount of fiber used in the preform. In addition, the use of pitch in combination with CVI/CVD to densify the carbon fiber preform enables higher final densities to be achieved. This carbon-carbon composite manufacturing method also benefits from lowered manufacturing cycle time.
US09353809B2
One embodiment provides a vehicle disc brake, including a caliper body, a caliper bracket, a pair of friction pads and pad retainers. Lengths of a part of reacting claws of the caliper body are set so that distal end portions thereof are disposed further radially outwards in a radial direction of a disc brake rotor than inward pieces of retainer portions of pad retainers. And, distal end portions of the inward pieces are brought into abutment with lug pieces of the friction pads in a position which lies further inwards of the caliper body than circumferential end faces of these reacting claws.
US09353802B2
A wedge clutch, including: an inner hub; an outer race; and a conical outer race: including a first portion aligned with the outer race in a radial direction orthogonal to an axis of rotation for the wedge clutch and in an axial direction, and a second portion aligned with the outer race in an axial direction parallel to the axis. The conical outer race is axially displaceable with respect to the outer race to bring the first and second portions into contact with the outer race to non-rotatably connect the inner hub and the outer race and to separate the first and second portions from the outer race to enable relative rotation of the inner hub and the outer race. The wedge clutch includes a wedge plate radially located between the inner hub and the conical outer race and engaged with the inner hub and the conical outer race.
US09353800B2
An overload protection device in combination with a prime mover and gearbox transmission supplies torque through a gearbox transmission to a load. An input shaft with is driven by the prime mover and rotates therewith. An external spline on the input shaft mates with an input gear having an internal spline. Upon overload of the gearbox transmission, the input shaft fractures an annular groove in the input shaft. A bushing prevents travel of the portion of the input shaft which is driven by the prime mover and which continues to spin after the fracture.
US09353799B2
A boot for joints, such as constant velocity joints, has a first attachment region and a fold region with a plurality of folds with peaks and roots and a transition area adjacent to the last fold arranged near said first attachment region. The transition area includes a connecting root between said last fold in the transition part, wherein at least part of said transition part is inclined towards said first attachment region, and wherein said transition part, in a cross-sectional view in a direction of a main axis of the boot, has a convex or an essentially planar shape.
US09353788B1
In an embodiment, a bearing apparatus includes a first bearing assembly including a plurality of first superhard bearing elements. The bearing apparatus further includes a second bearing assembly including a plurality of second superhard bearing elements generally opposing and bearing against the plurality of first superhard bearing elements of the first bearing assembly during operation. A support ring carries the plurality of second superhard bearing elements that are distributed circumferentially about an axis. More than one of the plurality of second superhard bearing elements includes an outer convex peripheral surface that is substantially cylindrical and exhibits a convex curvature, and a cutout at least partially defined by a concave peripheral surface that is substantially cylindrical and curved to generally correspond to the convex curvature of the outer convex peripheral surface. The cutout receives an adjacent one of the plurality of superhard bearing elements.
US09353781B2
A slew drive with clamp including a slew drive having a housing, a worm shaft having a worm thread carried within the housing for rotational movement, a torque tube having an outer diameter and a central socket extending therethrough, the torque tube carried by the housing for rotational movement perpendicularly to the worm shaft and worm thread, and coupling means for rotatably engaging the torque tube with the worm threads. A transverse support member is received in the socket and extends substantially perpendicularly therefrom. A clamp is carried within the socket movable between a clamped and an unclamped position for clamping the transverse member fixedly within the socket.
US09353778B2
A screw connection, in particular for machine construction, special machine construction and plant construction, comprises a first element with an external thread and a first head part, and comprises a second element with an internal thread and a second head part. When the first element is screwed fully into the second element, a surface between the first head part and the second head part is formed as a smooth circular cylinder which is suitable in particular for pinning. In this way, a particularly simple screw connection is created which simultaneously serves for pinning and which is versatile.
US09353774B2
A fluid is supplied and discharged to and from a cylinder. A body portion is fixed to a fixed-side structure, and the cylinder is provided integrally with the body portion. A piston defines a cylinder chamber inside the cylinder and slides on an inner wall of the cylinder. A rod is provided integrally with the piston and is displaced so as to extend from and contract into the cylinder. A link member is installed parallel to the axial direction of the cylinder or installed so as to extend obliquely to a direction parallel to the axial direction of the cylinder, and a first end of the link member is pivotably connected to a movable-side structure. A connecting member is fixed to the rod, and a second end of the link member is pivotably connected to the connecting member.
US09353773B2
The mounting arrangement is applied to a compressor which comprises: a piston having a cylindrical tubular body; and an actuating means connected to the piston to drive the latter in a reciprocating movement. The suction muffler comprises two tubular inserts, longitudinally disposed in the interior of the piston and having spaced apart open adjacent ends, and closed opposite ends respectively affixed to the top wall of the piston and to the actuating means, and defining, in the interior of the piston, a muffling chamber (C) and an annular passage medianly opened to the muffling chamber (C) and communicating an open rear end of the piston with a suction valve provided in a top wall of said piston.
US09353772B2
A hydraulic control apparatus includes: a plurality of spools incorporated into a valve main body; a cap provided on the valve main body; pilot chambers provided in the cap to correspond to the respective spools; a maximum pressure introduction passage to which a maximum pressure of the pilot chambers is led; connecting passages connecting the maximum pressure introduction passage to the respective pilot chambers; and selection valves provided in the connecting passages. The maximum pressure of the respective pilot chambers is selected by the selection valve and led to the maximum pressure introduction passage. The maximum pressure introduction passage is provided in the cap on an opposite side of the pilot chambers to a side on which the valve main body is provided.
US09353771B2
A multiple-stage valve system (200) including a pilot fluid supply (209) and a process fluid supply (222) is provided. The multiple-stage valve system includes a first pilot valve (201) including a first port (206) in fluid communication with the pilot fluid supply and a second port (207) selectively in fluid communication with the first port. The multiple-stage valve system also comprises a second pilot valve (202). The second pilot valve can include a first port (213) in fluid communication with the process fluid supply and a second port (214) selectively in fluid communication with the first port. The second pilot valve also includes a first pressure-actuated biasing member (217) in fluid communication with the process fluid supply and a second pressure-actuated biasing member (218) in fluid communication with the second port of the first pilot valve. The multiple-stage valve system also comprises a main control valve (203). The main control valve can include a first port (220) in fluid communication with the process fluid supply and a second port (221) selectively in fluid communication with the first port. The main control valve can also include a first pressure-actuated biasing member (225) in fluid communication with the process fluid supply and a second pressure-actuated biasing (226) member in fluid communication with the second port of the second pilot valve.
US09353764B2
A fan propeller comprises blades (14), each of which has a general profile of the aircraft wing type, with a leading edge (28) and a trailing edge (30), a neutral axis (32) and a span (36) between the leading edge (28) and the trailing edge (30). According to one embodiment, the blade (14) has, on at least part of its length, a profile shaped such that the neutral axis (32) makes possible a point of contraflexure (34), and has two opposite concavities, i.e. a positive concavity (C1) between the leading edge (28) and the point of contraflexure (34), and a negative concavity (C2) between the point of contraflexure (34) and the trailing edge (30). Application to motor vehicles.
US09353759B2
A turbocharger bypass system and method for minimizing the occurrence of oil seepage from the bearing housing into the compressor housing as a result of a pressure differential across the bearing housing and the compressor housing. A bypass system with a pressure dependent check valve is connected to the inlet air passage of a turbocharged engine. When the pressure in the inlet air passage drops to below atmosphere or a predetermined level of depression, the check valve opens to allow a flow of atmospheric air into the inlet air passage, thus minimizing or eliminating the pressure differential generated as a result of a vacuum in the inlet air passage during motoring conditions, or when an exhaust valve downstream of the turbocharger is closed, such as during engine braking. The bypass system is applicable to both single stage and dual stage turbocharged internal combustion engines.
US09353758B2
The invention relates to a fan module, in particular for air conditioners in vehicles, comprising an electric motor and a fan rotor, wherein the electric motor and the fan rotor are arranged on a rotor shaft and are connected to each other by a drive connection, and wherein the electric motor is designed to drive the fan rotor via a drive connection, wherein the drive connection has a positive connection to a driver and a mating driver piece, wherein the driver on the electric motor and the mating driver piece on the fan rotor are arranged spaced apart radially with respect to the rotor shaft, wherein the driver is formed and designed in the direction of rotation of the fan rotor to actuate the mating driver piece in order to transmit a force from the electric motor to the fan rotor.
US09353751B2
A suction chamber and the oil injection port are linked, under a certain range of revolution angle, via a suction working chamber formed in the radially outer side by a orbiting scroll outer curve and a fixed scroll inner curve under a certain range of revolution angle. An opening of the oil injection port is provided on a bottom surface between teeth of the fixed scroll so that the suction working chamber formed, in a radially inner side, by a orbiting scroll inner curve and a fixed scroll outer curve and the suction chamber are positioned not to be linked with the oil injection port.
US09353749B2
An orbiting plate scroll of a scroll pump includes an orbiting plate having a first side and a second side, an orbiting scroll blade projecting in an axial direction from the first side of the orbiting plate, and a flexure whose compliance is in the axial direction. The flexure is coupled to the orbiting plate at the second side of the orbiting plate, and couples the orbiting plate and orbiting scroll blade to bearings that allow for free rotation of the orbiting plate scroll about a longitudinal axis, while constraining motion of the orbiting plate scroll in the remaining degrees of freedom.
US09353739B2
A multi-pressure compressor that includes a roll-cage frame, first and second compressor assemblies mounted in the roll-cage frame, a tank coupler, which is in fluid communication with the second compressor and is configured to be coupled to an auxiliary tank that is rated for an internal pressure in excess of 2500 psi, a bracket that is coupled to the roll-cage frame and configured to receive the auxiliary tank therein, and at least one controller for operating the first and second compressor assemblies.
US09353737B2
A reciprocating motor and reciprocating compressor having a reciprocating motor are provided. Making of the reciprocating motor is made easier, and therefore, manufacturing costs are reduced by configuring the stator such that an inner stator positioned inside a mover and an outer stator positioned outside of the mover are integrally formed, or by making inner and outer circumferential surfaces of the stator have a same curvature. Magnetic leakage is prevented as no gap is formed between the inner and outer stators, thereby improving performance of the reciprocating motor. The use of magnets may be reduced by omitting magnets between stator blocks, and therefore, manufacturing costs may be reduced, when compared to efficiency of the reciprocating motor.
US09353729B2
An aerodynamic hub assembly for a wind turbine is disclosed. The hub assembly may include a hub extension, a rotor blade having a blade root and a blade tip, and a hub airfoil section mounted at least partially over the hub extension. The hub airfoil section may be fixed relative to the rotor blade or may be configured to rotate about a common pitch axis with the rotor blade. The hub extension may be connected to and extend radially from a center of the hub assembly. Further, the hub assembly may include a pitch bearing having an inner race and an outer race, wherein the pitch bearing may be coupled between the hub extension and the blade root. Additionally, the hub assembly may also include an aerodynamically-shaped spinner, wherein the spinner may house at least a portion of a root structure extending radially from the center of the hub assembly.
US09353723B2
The present invention relates to an ignition system (T) for a combustion engine, the internal combustion engine comprising a control system, the ignition system (T) further comprising a power source (30), at least one ignition coil (10, 11, 12) having at least one primary coil (L2, L4, L6) and one secondary coil (L3, L5, L7) for a spark plug (13, 14, 15) and a measurement device (50) for at least one of the parameters spark current, ion current, ignition voltage and primary voltage, said measurement device (50) being adapted to provide measurement signals to said control system for regulating the ignition system (T), the ignition system (T) also comprising means for transforming up voltage and storing energy, and a plurality of switches (S1-S7), said control system being adapted to control said switches (S1-S7), by means of said measuring signal(s), for the supply of adaptive spark energy and/or to control the polarity of the spark.
US09353721B2
A work implement has an internal combustion engine that drives a tool of the work implement via a clutch. The clutch has at least one driving element which is operatively connected to the internal combustion engine and at least one output element which is operatively connected to the tool. The internal combustion engine has a starting device with a starting position and an operating position. To avoid unintentional rotation of the output element when starting the internal combustion engine, the work implement has a blocking device with a detent pawl. In an actuated position, the detent pawl projects into the movement path of the output element, limiting the rotation of the output element. In an unactuated position, the detent pawl releases the output element. The starting device has an actuating device which, in the starting position, keeps the detent pawl in the actuated position.
US09353708B2
Methods and systems are provided for monitoring a fuel vapor recovery system including a fuel tank isolation valve coupled between a fuel tank and a canister. During selected conditions, the valve is modulated and pressure pulsations in the fuel vapor recovery system are monitored. Valve degradation is identified based on correlations between the valve modulation and the resultant pressure pulsations.
US09353698B2
A method for regulating a fuel injection system of an internal combustion engine includes outputting from a control unit an instruction to start an injection process of fuel through an injection valve, wherein during a determination of a time of the outputting of the instruction to start the injection process, the control unit takes into account delays caused by the mechanical system of the injection valve. Furthermore, during the determination of the time of the outputting of the instruction to start the injection process, the control unit also takes into account a correction value which describes the fuel pressure in the injector feed line.
US09353693B2
A vehicle control device includes an engine that is a power source of a vehicle, an electrical storage device, a starting device connected to the electrical storage device and configured to consume electrical power to start the engine, and a power steering device connected to the electrical storage device and configured to consume electrical power to generate an assist torque, wherein an engine stop control of causing the engine to be in a stopped state is executable during travelling of the vehicle, and the engine stop control is prohibited in at least one of time of turning of the vehicle, time of steering of the vehicle during travelling, and time of generating an assist torque during travelling.
US09353691B2
A fuel routing system of a gas turbine engine includes a primary fuel circuit in communication with a fuel source and a fuel distribution manifold. Also included is a secondary fuel circuit extending from the primary fuel circuit to a plurality of fuel nozzles configured to direct fuel to a plurality of combustor chambers. Further included is a main fuel flow control valve disposed in the primary fuel circuit for restricting a fuel flow to the fuel distribution manifold upon removal of an electrical load operably coupled to the gas turbine engine. Yet further included is a plurality of check valves disposed between the secondary fuel circuit and the primary fuel circuit for restricting the fuel flow between the secondary fuel circuit and the primary fuel circuit.
US09353689B2
In a fuel supply device of a gas turbine engine of the present invention, a fuel divider 66 includes a fuel entrance E1 into which the fuel supplied from a collecting fuel passage 63 is introduced; a pilot port 76 connected to the pilot fuel passage 64; a main port 77 connected to the main fuel passage 65; a pilot port needle valve element 101 which adjusts an opening degree of the pilot port 76; a main port needle valve element 102 which opens and closes the main port 77; and a drive element 100 which is actuated according to the fuel pressure at the fuel inlet E1 to drive the pilot port needle valve element 101 and the main port needle valve element 102.
US09353687B1
A gas turbine engine with a closed-loop liquid metal cooling fluid system for cooling stator vanes within the turbine, in which the stator vanes are made of a metallic material that will not react with the liquid metal cooling fluid. The stator vane may be made from a typical metal material such as ferrous metal alloys, nickel alloys or cobalt (Co) alloys, and an insert or liner made of molybdenum or tantalum may be placed inside to protect the outer vane material from reacting with a liquid metal such as bismuth, lead (Pb), indium, or alloy mixtures of thereof. In the case where the liquid coolant is bismuth, the liquid bismuth must be purged from the cooling system before the fluid cools and solidifies so the solidified bismuth does not expand and break the vanes.
US09353679B2
The internal combustion engine includes at least one compression chamber, formed by a housing and therein compressor rotary pistons rotating on a shaft with compressor sealing strips, on which optionally movable toggle sealing strips are arranged. The compression chamber is in gas connection with at least one ignition chamber and this ignition chamber is in gas connection with at least one expansion chamber. This chamber is formed by the housing and by an expansion rotary piston rotating in this chamber on a shaft. An at least one flywheel rotating in the housing on a shaft provided for the power transfer together with the compressor rotary piston forms a compression chamber and together with the expansion rotary piston forms an expansion chamber. The ignition chamber is equipped with a device for igniting a compressed gas mixture.
US09353676B2
An actuating device for bi-directionally adjusting an actuator may include an actuator drive and a coupling device drive-connected to the actuator drive and the actuator. The coupling device may include a first coupling member, a second coupling member and a joint connecting the first coupling member and the second coupling member to each other in an articulated manner. The joint may have a housing which is fixedly connected to the first coupling member. The housing may define a bearing chamber having a first bearing face facing away from the first coupling member. The joint may include a bearing shell fixedly connected to a shaft of the second coupling member. The bearing shell may be arranged in the bearing chamber and have a first counter bearing face facing the first coupling member. The bearing shell may have a second counter bearing face facing away from the first coupling member.
US09353672B2
An exemplary cooling system includes, among other things, a first pump to supply coolant to a cylinder head or cylinder block of an engine, a second pump to supply coolant to a cylinder block or cylinder head of the engine. A control unit governs the first pump and second pump. Fluid return channels recirculate coolant to the pumps. The first and second pumps are arranged to backflow coolant through the engine.
US09353668B2
A regeneration device burns particulate matter trapped in a filter in an exhaust gas purifying device to execute regeneration treatment of the filter. The regeneration device performs a determination whether or not the regeneration treatment is executed using a first estimated trapping quantity (H1) estimated based upon a differential pressure (ΔP=P1−P2) as a difference between pressure (P1) in an inlet side and pressure (P2) in an outlet side of the filter and a second estimated trapping quantity (H2) estimated based upon a rotational speed (N) of an engine, a fuel injection quantity (F) and an exhaust gas temperature (GT). In this case, the determination whether or not the regeneration treatment is executed is performed using only the second estimated trapping quantity (H2) when the engine is in a predetermined low rotational condition.
US09353657B2
The disclosure concern air cleaners. Preferred air cleaners are shown which include a housing and a removable and replacement primary filter cartridge. Optional and advantageous features are shown. An optional mechanical interlock, operated with a non-threaded, movement of the cartridge, is provided between the primary filter cartridge and the housing. The preferred primary filter cartridge is conical in shape. A preferred optional safety or secondary filter cartridge is shown. Preferred methods of assembly and use are provided.
US09353656B2
A plate heat exchanger may include a plurality of trough-shaped heat exchanger plates stacked one on top of each other. Each plate may define a plurality of openings configured to receive a first fluid and a second fluid separated from the first fluid. An upper cover plate may have crossed embossed recesses aligned with and arranged on the openings of the heat exchanger plate in a sealed manner.
US09353651B2
A motorcycle having an internal combustion engine includes a cylinder arrangement in the form of a VR cylinder arrangement having rows of cylinders which are arranged in an offset manner and are nested into each other. The crank drive acts crosswise onto a crankshaft and a common cylinder head is provided. The inlet channels in the cylinder head are arranged in an identical manner for all of the cylinders. Alternatively, the inlet channels of the one row of cylinders are disposed adjacent to one of two or three camshafts and the inlet channels of the other row of cylinders are disposed on the other side of the camshaft.
US09353648B2
An aircraft nacelle comprising a lip extended by an inner conduit forming an air intake, a front frame delimiting with said lip an annular channel wherein hot air circulates, as well as a panel for acoustic treatment comprising, from outside inwardly, an acoustic resistive layer, at least one honeycomb structure, and a reflective layer, as well as ducts for channeling hot air with each one inlet communicating with the annular channel and one outlet communicating with the inner conduit, wherein the panel for acoustic treatment comprises, upstream from the ducts, an annular channel which extends over at least a portion of the nacelle circumference, at least one conduit providing communication between said annular channel and the upstream annular channel, and a plurality of ducts that open into said downstream annular channel, the panel for acoustic treatment being connected to the front frame in regard to the annular channel.
US09353645B1
A product for a turbocharger assembly is disclosed. A turbine wheel assembly may be adapted to rotate when exposed to a flow of gas. A vane ring may be disposed in the turbine wheel assembly. A plurality of vanes may be mounted to the vane ring. The flow of gas may meet the plurality of vanes at an angle of incidence. The plurality of vanes may be adjustable to selectively change the angle of incidence. The vane ring may have at least one slot adapted to direct a thermal deformation of the vane ring in a selected direction when exposed to the flow of gas.
US09353638B2
A wall structure for restricting a hot-gas path in a gas turbine or in a combustion chamber including a first wall segment having a first face, and a second wall segment having a second face. Each wall segment disposed adjacent to each other so as to define an inside of the wall segments and an outside of the wall segments. The first and second faces being disposed so as to form a gap leading from the inside to the outside. Each of the faces having a receiving groove. The wall structure further including a sealing element having a thickness and disposed in the receiving grooves so as to bridge the gap. The first face having a recess and the second wall segment having a projection that extends from the second face and protrudes into the recess in the first face. The projection has a tapered cross section.
US09353634B2
A turbine blade cooled by an automatically variable internal flow of cooling fluid. The blade includes orifices situated under the blade root via which the cooling fluid penetrates, and an adjustment plate including holes situated in register with the orifices, the adjustment plate having a coefficient of expansion that is different from the coefficient of expansion of the blade root.
US09353627B2
A blade for a wind turbine comprising a blade root portion, the blade root portion defining an annular mounting surface for coupling to a hub or extender of the wind turbine and comprising a plurality of first holes provided with an internal bushing, wherein at least one first internal bushing comprises at least one first securing member, and at least one second internal bushing comprises at least one second securing member, the first and second bushings being located in or near substantially opposite positions of the annular mounting surface, and wherein said first and second securing members are adapted to receive connecting means for connecting the first securing member with the second securing member.
US09353625B2
A device for cleaning oxidized or corroded components (26), especially gas turbine components which are exposed to hot gases, in the presence of a halogenous gas, includes a cleaning retort which is designed in the shape of a boiler or cylinder and into which, indirectly or directly, leads a feed line which is connected via a flow control unit to a gas reservoir which stores the halogenous gas, and in which a device for gas distribution is integrated. The flow control unit has a gas volume control valve (5), a heat exchanger unit (9), and also a gas volume measuring unit (6) in sequence along the throughflow direction of the halogenous gas which flows through the feed line. Furthermore, a gas distribution in the retort directs the halogenous gas directly to the components which are to be cleaned.
US09353607B2
The present invention relates to a downhole inflow control system for controlling an inflow of fluid into a casing from outside the casing, such as from a reservoir or an intermediate casing. The downhole inflow control system comprises a casing having an axial extension and a wall having a wall thickness (t), an inflow control valve having a housing, an axial extension in an axial direction along the housing, and a spring element moving in relation to the housing, thereby controlling the inflow of fluid through the valve from an inlet of the housing to an outlet of the housing.
US09353602B2
A riser weak link in a riser connects a floating installation or vessel to a hydrocarbon well on the seabed. The weak link includes a first riser part in the form of an upper housing for connecting to a riser upper section; a second riser part in the form of a lower housing for connecting to a riser lower section, wherein one riser part is arranged to extend into the other riser part; and connection devices for releasably connecting the upper and lower housings. The weak link includes a first connection device arranged to fail if a tensile force on the first and second riser parts exceeds a first threshold force, and that the weak link includes a second connection device arranged to fail if a compressive force on the first and second riser parts exceeds a second threshold force.
US09353601B2
The cable handling apparatus includes a trolley beam, where the trolley beam is adapted to allow a cable trolley to slide thereon and an articulating arm. The articulating arm is hingedly coupled to the trolley beam, and the articulating arm is hingedly coupled to a piece of wellsite equipment. The articulating arm is repositionable between a retracted position and an extended position.
US09353595B2
Systems and methods for quick access and control of a blown-out well or well that is flowing uncontrollably into the environment. Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a re-entry of the casing of the blown-out well below the mud line and the inoperable blowout preventer. The present invention also provides a method to re-enter a production, or injection well, either subsea below the mud line or above the mud line for surface facility applications. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a miniature wellbore is created from the outer casing through the various smaller casing strings into the final wellbore to protect the structural integrity of the well. Once the casing is safely penetrated, coil tubing and or kill weight fluid can be introduced to stop the uncontrolled flow of reservoir fluid. The well can then be sealed with cement and abandoned as normal practice dictates.
US09353593B1
A handler holds a blowout preventer (BOP) assembly (partially or fully assembled) for transport and then erects it from a transport position to a vertical position for deployment. In the transport position the BOP assembly generally rests in a horizontal position. During deployment of the BOP assembly by the handler, the handler is capable of moving the BOP assembly to a vertical position, elevating it, and moving it outward, away from the base of the handler and toward a wellhead, so that the BOP assembly may be connected to a coiled tubing injector, work may be performed underneath the BOP assembly before connection to a well head, and the BOP assembly may be placed on top of a well head for connection to the well head.
US09353590B2
A subterranean debris catcher swirls the incoming debris laden stream by putting grooves or spiral projections on the inside of the inlet pipe. The solids come out of openings in the side of the inlet pipe or the solids can exit near the top either directly into the enclosed solids holding volume as the liquid exits straight out or the solids can be discharged out the end of the inlet pipe into the bigger open space defined by the housing. In the latter case the inside housing wall can have a screen or vanes that slow down the solid particles as the fluid continues to a housing exit and eventually to an exit screen before being discharged to either go to the surface or recirculate back along the outside of the tool to the inlet pipe while picking up additional debris.
US09353586B2
According to one aspect, a digital display unit includes a microcontroller to process digital information received from one or more sensors, a display, and a switch in electrical communication with the microcontroller so that the microcontroller displays an output on the display that is specific to a type of sensor. The type of sensor may be selected from a position sensor, a pressure sensor, and a stroke counter. The digital display unit may be part of a choke control panel. The microcontroller and the display may be disposed in an enclosure, and an electrical power source may be disposed in the enclosure to supply electrical power to the microcontroller and the one or more sensors. A digital hydraulic choke position sensor assembly and a digital pressure sensor assembly are also described, one or both of which may be used in a system for drilling an oil or gas well.
US09353585B2
A method for blending a well treatment fluid at a well site is disclosed. A first centrifugal pump for pumping a first component of the well treatment fluid into a pipe and a first valve for controlling the flow of the first component are provided. Similarly, a second centrifugal pump for pumping a second component of the well treatment fluid into the pipe and a second valve for controlling the flow of the second component are provided. The pumps and the valves are controlled so as to control the ratio of the first component to the second component. A sampling device is provided for analyzing a fluid flowing in the pipe. The sampling device includes a sampling container; a soft seal that opens and closes the sampling container; and a valve spindle. The valve spindle moves the soft seal between the first position and the second position.
US09353579B2
A buoyancy compensating element for connection to a flexible pipe and method of producing a buoyancy compensating element are disclosed. The buoyancy compensating element includes a first body portion and a further body portion, wherein the first and further body portion are configured to be connectable to each other and in use to encompass a portion of flexible pipe.
US09353576B2
A hammer bit is herein described with tapered lateral sides and a modified face section. The tapered lateral sides taper inward towards a rear portion of the hammer bit. The modified face section includes a gauge portion and a larger angled or heel portion. The hammer bit provides improved penetration and directional control for drilling into the earth.
US09353570B2
A cordless retractable shade including an operating system for the shade that varies a biasing force of a spring to counterbalance the shade. The bottom rail of a retractable shade can be raised or lowered, and due to the operating system remains in any selected position of the covering between fully extended and fully retracted, without the use of operating cords. The system includes a method of negating and reversing the spring bias effect at a strategic position whereby the flexible vanes of the shade can be adjusted between open and closed.
US09353569B1
According to one embodiment, a flood vent includes a frame, a door, and at least one connector. The frame forms a fluid passageway through an opening in a structure. Furthermore, the frame extends into the opening in the structure in a first direction. The door is pivotally mounted to the frame in the fluid passageway, and allows a fluid to flow through the fluid passageway. The at least one connector is positioned between an outer perimeter of the frame and an inner perimeter of the opening. Furthermore, each of the at least one connector is configured to apply pressure to the inner perimeter of the opening in a second direction that is at least generally orthogonal to the first direction.
US09353568B2
Movable partition systems include an elongated, fixed drive member extending along a track, a partition that is automatically and manually movable along the track, and a motor carried by the movable partition configured to drive a rotatable drive member that is engagable with the elongated, fixed drive member. The rotatable drive member may be engaged with, and disengaged from, the fixed drive member. Methods of moving a partition along a track include actuating a motor carried by a movable partition to drive rotation of a drive member while the drive member is engaged with an elongated, fixed drive member, and manually moving the partition along the track while the rotatable drive member is disengaged from the fixed drive member. Methods of installing a movable partition system include configuring a rotatable drive member to be capable of engagement with, and disengagement from, an elongated, fixed drive member.
US09353560B2
In one example an electronic device comprises a controller, a chassis comprising a first section and a second section, and a hinge assembly to connect the first section of the chassis to the second section of the chassis comprising a shaft rotatable about a first axis, a brake selectively engageable with a portion of the shaft, and an electroactive polymer (EAP) actuator coupled to the brake, wherein the EAP actuator selectively engages the brake with a portion of the shaft in response to a signal from the controller. Other examples may be described.
US09353555B2
A method of preparing a finished panel and latch combination, wherein the panel and latch mounting combination are seamless and attractive.
US09353544B2
A column base fitting 42 includes a bottom plate 42c having an approximately square plate shape and a support base 42f inside from the peripheral part of an upper surface 42d of the bottom plate 42c. A first bolt insertion holes 42a is formed in each four corner portions of the bottom plate 42c and a second bolt insertion hole 42b is formed at two positions closer to the center part than the first bolt insertion hole 42a, in the length direction of each four sides of the bottom plate 42c. A corner built-up portion 42r is formed at both ends in the length direction of the side surface 42h of the support base 42f, having a shape protruding outward in the perpendicular direction from the side surface 42h and filling the corner portion between the side surface 42h and an upper surface of the bottom plate 42c.
US09353542B2
A method, for cleaning a pool with N vertical walls using a robot, comprising adjusting the robot against the vertical wall of rank n=1. The robot advances along the vertical wall of rank n until the vertical wall of rank n+1 is detected. The robot retracts over a release distance in order to be released from the vertical wall of rank n+1. The robot makes a rotation on itself in order to be adjusted against the vertical wall of rank n+1. Checking whether n is equal to N, in the negative case, the cleaning method continues with an incrementation step where “n” is incremented by “1”, and—then looping onto the advancement step. In the positive case, the cleaning method continues with a finishing step where the robot advances along the vertical wall of rank “1” until the vertical wall of rank “2” is detected.
US09353522B2
A ceiling system in one embodiment includes an overhead support grid comprised of a plurality of intersecting grid support members and a ceiling tile mountable to the grid. Retaining clips support the ceiling tile from the grid which may be concealed from view. The retaining clips each include a cavity that receives a grid support member and a pair of resilient mounting elements configured to locking! y engage a support member. The mounting elements are laterally movable in response to inserting the support member into the cavity of the retaining clip. In one embodiment, the movable elements include locking tabs which create a snap-fit interlock with the grid support, member for securing the ceiling tile to the grid.
US09353497B2
An offshore support system comprises an offshore structure having a platform supported by one or more legs. The system further comprises a mat structure having a mat, and a clamp configured engage at least one leg of the offshore structure. The clamp is movable into and out of engagement with the leg to connect and release the mat to and from the offshore structure.
US09353492B1
A mechanized broom-type sweeper vehicle (10) includes a conveyer (14) having two laterally extending pintle-like stub shafts (14-5) with the conveyor (14) received in a cradle (20) that includes split pillow blocks that each receive a respective one of the stub shafts (14-5). The conveyor (14) can be readily lifted from the vehicle (10) by removing structures superposed above the conveyor (14), disconnecting various mechanical and electrical connection removing the cap portion of each pillow-block, and thereafter lifting the conveyor (14) from the vehicle with an overhead crane. In a similar manner, a repaired or replacement conveyor (14) can be lowered via a crane into the cradle (20) with the stub shafts received within the pillow blocks and the caps reinstalled. The use of a top-side removal and a top-side installation technique reduces the time (and associated costs) for the removal and replacement of a conveyor (14) to as little as four hours or less.
US09353480B2
Sterilizable and printable, wet-laid non-woven substrate exhibiting high-strength and temperature resistance above 140° C., providing sufficient airflow to relieve pressure in a package formed from the substrate during sterilization, providing a significant barrier to penetration by bacteria and debris, and which is sealable to itself and to thermoplastic films, comprises blends of nanofibrillated lyocell fibers, microfibers, fibers having a flat, rectangular cross-section and binder fibers.
US09353479B2
An improved conveyor product containment device comprised of a main body having a top, a bottom and two elongate sides and an independent and changeable variable height front seal face having a top, a bottom and two elongate sides. The main body and the independent and changeable front seal face are secured using conventional means and in a relation that creates a open seal area below the main body. The main body has a multitude of recessed seal water nozzles that deliver the seal water to the bottom inside lower edge of the independent and changeable front seal face or the top of the conveyor. An embodiment has a tee channel and attached support tube opposite the recessed nozzles and front seal face.
US09353477B2
Provided herein are isolated laccase enzymes and nucleic acids encoding them. Also provided are mediators for laccase reactions. Also provided herein are methods for using laccases to oxidize lignins and other phenolic and aromatic compounds, such as for bio-bleaching and decolorization of wood pulp under high temperature and pH conditions to facilitate a substantial reduction in use of bleaching chemicals, as well as for treatment of fibers.
US09353476B2
A method for recycling waste material including waste paper comprises the steps of introducing the waste material into a pressure vessel, re-pulping the waste paper in the pressure vessel at an elevated processing temperature and pressure to form a treated waste material including substantially re-pulped waste paper, thereafter introducing cooling water into the pressure vessel so as to cool the treated waste material in the pressure vessel to a discharge temperature below the elevated processing temperature and reduce odor emitted by the treated waste material, and thereafter discharging the treated waste material from the pressure vessel. The recovered paper pulp fraction is suitable as a feedstock in the manufacture of a variety of paper products including paper tissue and paper towel products.
US09353474B2
A laundry dryer is provided which is capable of removing and/or preventing wrinkles of laundry. The laundry dryer includes a drum in which laundry is held, a hot air heater that heats air to supply hot air to the drum, and a water heating part that heats water by using the heats generated at the hot air heater to generate steam.
US09353464B2
A device for compacting a fiber composite on a spinning machine includes consecutive drafting arrangement roller pairs. A compaction unit is pivotably mounted on the machine frame downstream of the delivery roller pairs with a pivot axis parallel to the rotational axes of the delivery roller pair, and includes a support with a suction drum rotatably supported on the support. At the end of a suction zone of the drum, a nip roller is fastened to the support to form a nip line. The support is spring-loaded to form a drive connection between the lower roller of the delivery roller pair and the suction drum, wherein the suction drum is moved against the lower roller. Guide means fix the compaction unit in position as mounted on the machine frame, and the spring element is mounted on the free end of the pressure lever.
US09353449B2
The NbON film of the present invention is a NbON film in which a photocurrent is generated by light irradiation. The NbON film of the present invention is desirably a single-phase film. The hydrogen generation device (600) of the present invention includes: an optical semiconductor electrode (620) including a conductor (621) and the NbON film (622) of the present invention disposed on the conductor (621); a counter electrode (630) connected electrically to the conductor (621); a water-containing electrolyte (640) disposed in contact with a surface of the NbON film (622) and a surface of the counter electrode (630); and a container (610) containing the optical semiconductor electrode (620), the counter electrode (630), and the electrolyte (640). In this device, hydrogen is generated by irradiating the NbON film (622) with light.
US09353448B2
An electrolytic electrode includes an electrode surface layer formed by a high-temperature heat treatment under a low oxygen partial pressure of 100 Pa or less and includes a valve metal oxide film, the electrode surface layer having, just beneath, a layer which includes a valve metal and a noble metal excluding silver and the noble metal is precipitated and dispersed in a crystal grain boundary of the valve metal, wherein a crystal of the valve metal in a range of down to 30 μm in a vertical depth direction from the electrode surface is a crystal grain being elongated in a vertical cross-section from the electrode surface and a content of the noble metal in a range of down to 10 μm in the vertical depth direction from the electrode surface is 5 at % or less.
US09353446B2
In some embodiments, an ICCP system includes an AC-DC rectifier receiving AC power from an AC power source and providing a DC output having a constant voltage or a constant current, a cathode connection electrically coupling the AC-DC rectifier to a structure to be protected by the ICCP system, current-emitting anodes arranged in parallel and receiving the DC output from the AC-DC rectifier, and a controller communicating with the AC-DC rectifier to set a maximum value for the constant voltage or constant current of the DC output. In other embodiments, an ICCP system includes a converter assembly including an AC-DC rectifier and a rectifier chassis enclosing and environmentally sealing the AC-DC rectifier. The ICCP system also includes an environmentally-sealed controller communicating with the AC-DC rectifier and an environmentally-protected Input-Output connection assembly. Junctions electrically connect the converter assembly, the environmentally-sealed controller, and the environmentally-protected connection assembly.
US09353442B2
Provided is an apparatus for forming a silicon-containing thin film, the apparatus including a controller which is configured to control a process gas supplying mechanism, a heating device, and an exhauster to perform: forming a first seed layer on a base by adsorbing at least silicon included in an aminosilane-based gas on the base, using the aminosilane-based gas; forming a second seed layer on the first seed layer by depositing at least silicon included in a higher-order silane-based gas having an order that is equal to or higher than disilane, using the higher-order silane-based gas having an order that is equal to or higher than the disilane, wherein the first seed layer and the second seed layer form a dual seed layer; and forming the silicon-containing thin film on the dual seed layer.
US09353427B2
This invention provides an Ni-based alloy, which is particularly used for standard casting and is provided with properties such as strength at high temperatures, corrosion resistivity, and oxidation resistivity in a more balanced manner, compared with existing materials. The Ni-based alloy comprises Cr, Co, Al, Ti, Ta, W, Mo, Nb, C, B, and unavoidable impurities, with the balance consisting of Ni. Composition of the alloy is represented by mass: 13.1% to 15.0% Cr, 1.0% to 15.0% Co, 2.3% to 3.3% Al, 4.55% to 6.0% Ti, 3.05% to 4.0% Ta, 4.35% to 4.9% W, 0.1% to 2.0% Mo, 0.05% to 0.5% Nb, less than 0.05% Zr, 0.05% to 0.2% C, and 0.01% to 0.03% B.
US09353416B2
It is intended to provide a system of predicting the postoperative prognosis in a patient with breast cancer from the viewpoint of gene expression based on the data obtained by genome-wide and comprehensive analysis on gene expression in breast cancer. Expression of human genes is comprehensively analyzed by using a DNA microarray and gene expression functions in various breast cancer conditions are compared, thereby establishing a system of predicting the postoperative prognosis of breast cancer.
US09353412B2
This disclosure provides a method of determining a sequence of nucleotides for a nucleic acid template. The method can include the steps of contacting the nucleic acid template with a conformationally labeled polymerase and at least four different nucleotide species under conditions wherein the conformationally labeled polymerase catalyzes sequential addition of the nucleotide species to form a nucleic acid complement of the nucleic acid template, wherein the sequential addition of each different nucleotide species produces a conformational signal change from the conformationally labeled polymerase and wherein the rate or time duration for the conformational signal change is distinguishable for each different nucleotide species; detecting a series of changes in the signal from the conformationally labeled polymerase under the conditions; and determining the rates or time durations for the changes in the signal, thereby determining the sequence of nucleotides for the nucleic acid template.
US09353408B2
Provided herein are dynamic flux nucleic acid sequence amplification methods. The dynamic flux nucleic acid sequence amplification methods described herein are capable of amplifying nucleic acid sequences within a narrow temperature range. In some aspects, the disclosure provides for real-time dynamic flux nucleic acid sequence amplification methods.
US09353406B2
Reagents and methods are provided for detecting the presence of a target polynucleotide in a sample are disclosed. In one aspect, a method for producing a labeled amplification product by amplifying a target nucleic acid sequence to produce an amplification product comprising the target sequence, a first probe-binding sequence 5′ to the target sequence, and a second probe-binding sequence 3′ to the target sequence, thereby producing an amplification product; and hybridizing a first detection probe to the amplification product, the first detection probe comprising a first segment that hybridizes to the first probe-binding sequence and a second segment that hybridizes to the second probe-binding sequence, thereby producing a labeled amplification product is disclosed.
US09353403B2
Disclosed are mutant DNA polymerases having increased 3′-mismatch discrimination relative to a corresponding, unmodified polymerase. The mutant polymerases are useful in a variety of disclosed primer extension methods. Also disclosed are related compositions, including recombinant nucleic acids, vectors, and host cells, which are useful, e.g., for production of the mutant DNA polymerases.
US09353399B2
Disclosed is a compound which is a two-photon absorbing fluorescent substance, a production method for the compound, a fluorescence sensor and molecular probe able to sense various substrates or enzyme activity or the like using the same, and a method of sensing enzyme activity or the like using the same. The disclosed compound can be used as a fluorescence sensor, and can be used in the study and treatment of diseases in which MAO enzymes are involved such as mood disorders using MAO enzyme activity and inhibitor screening.
US09353384B2
Organic-inorganic nanoflowers, methods of synthesis, and uses of the nanoflowers are described. It has been found that organic-inorganic nanoflowers can be grown in the presence of a solid substrate containing copper without the requirement for added copper ion. The method includes exposing bacteria to a solid substrate containing copper in the presence of an aqueous solution that contains phosphate ions. The aqueous solution can additionally contain chloride ions, similar to that of a phosphate-buffered saline composition. The solid substrate can be an alloy of copper and tin, and the substrate can have phosphorus incorporated into it.
US09353377B2
Mesocotyl meristem explants that contain multiple primary meristems are transformed via particle bombardment or Agrobacterium-mediated methods. Regeneration is through an organogenesis pathway that allows for secondary multiple bud formation. This method allows for the genotype independent transformation of varieties of wheat.
US09353375B2
Provided herein are improved compositions and methods for the increased production of isoprene. Also provided herein are improved compositions and methods for the increased production of heterologous polypeptides capable of biological activity.
US09353366B2
Disclosed herein are polypeptides which exhibit asparaginase activity and little to no glutaminase activity. The polypeptides have sequences which correspond to W. succinogenes asparaginase, but have an amino acid residue other than proline at amino acid position 121. The polypeptides exhibit higher kinetic rates of asparaginase activity to glutaminase activity as compared to W. succinogenes asparaginase and Elspar®, an E. coli asparaginase.
US09353363B2
The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having cellulolytic activity or hemicellulolytic activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
US09353360B2
The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having xylanase activity and isolated polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
US09353359B2
An isolated polypeptide is disclosed comprising an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 2773-5544 and 11089-11094, wherein the polypeptide has antimicrobial activity. Uses thereof for treating microbial infections are also disclosed.
US09353357B2
The invention relates to a recombinant DNA molecule encoding a polypeptide having phytase activity and increased temperature stability and increased proteolytic stability of the enzyme activity. The DNA sequence has been obtained by variation of the mature wild-type E. coli phytase sequence with defined amino acid positions being modified in comparison to the wild-type sequence or with the sequences having N- and/or C-terminal extensions, respectively. The invention further relates to a method for expressing the recombinant phytase as well as its use in the food and animal feed technologies.
US09353351B2
This invention provides a multipolar cell including three or more centrosomes dispersed therein and a multipolar spindle formed so as to extend from the three or more respective centrosomes. The multipolar cell production method provided by the present invention supplies cultured eukaryotic cells with a synthetic peptide as a multipolarity-inducing peptide, with the synthetic peptide having an amino acid sequence selected from SEQ ID NO: 1 to SEQ ID NO: 10 or an amino acid sequence formed by substituting, deleting and/or adding one, two or three amino acid residues in/from/to the selected amino acid sequence. As the eukaryotic cells, cultured tumor cells are used.
US09353350B2
This invention provides a multipolar cell including three or more centrosomes dispersed therein and a multipolar spindle formed so as to extend from the three or more respective centrosomes. The multipolar cell production method provided by the present invention supplies cultured eukaryotic cells with a synthetic peptide as a multipolarity-inducing peptide, with the synthetic peptide having an amino acid sequence selected from SEQ ID NO: 1 to SEQ ID NO: 12 or an amino acid sequence formed by substituting, deleting and/or adding one, two or three amino acid residues in/from/to the selected amino acid sequence.
US09353349B2
Cells incorporating a synthetic molecule construct of the structure F—S1-S2-L where: F—S1 is an aminoalkylglycoside where F is a mono-, di-, tri- or oligo-saccharide and S1 is 2-aminoethyl, 3-aminopropyl, 4-aminobutyl, or 5-aminopentyl; S2 is —CO(CH2)2CO—, —CO(CH2)3CO—, —CO(CH2)4CO— or —CO(CH2)5CO—; and L is phosphatidylethanolamine.
US09353348B2
The problem is to provide a method for inexpensively and simply preserving an enzyme of a microbial biomass obtained by culturing and improve the enzyme activity during preservation. Provided is a method for preserving nitrile hydratase, characterized in that microbes having nitrile hydratase activity are cultured while being protected from light, and the resulting biomass is crushed using a high-pressure homogenizer and preserved while being protected from light.
US09353344B2
Biomass feedstocks (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) are processed to produce useful products, such as fuels. For example, systems are described that can use feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials and/or starchy materials, to produce a product or intermediate, e.g., energy, a food, a fuel, or a material.
US09353342B2
A number of novel improved microfluidic configurations and systems and methods of manufacture and operation for a microfluidic invasion assay system.
US09353341B2
An improved flavoring composition and process for brewing malt beverages is disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, the flavoring composition is formed from a high solids percent, room temperature stable, partially aqueous composition of a potassium salt of iso-α-acids. Such composition may be added to the wort kettle or else used as a post-fermentation additive, preferably after dilution with demineralized water. In another embodiment, the flavoring composition comprises a mixture containing reduced (rho-) iso-α-acids in alkali metal salts form, β-acids and hop oil. This latter composition is useful as a substitute for normal kettle extract, hops or hop pellets, allowing easy preparation of beer that resists formation of unpleasant, “skunky” flavors but has otherwise similar flavor and physical properties.
US09353336B2
The invention relates to compositions, methods of use, and methods of manufacture for an intercalated bleach compound and compositions thereof. The intercalated bleach compound has the formula Mx(OCl)y(O)m(OH)n where M is an alkaline earth metal such as magnesium, calcium or mixture thereof. The values of x and y independently equal any number greater than or equal to 1 (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.), and m and n independently equal any number greater than or equal to 0 (e.g., 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.), but m and n are not both 0. In addition, the molar ratio of the alkaline earth metal (e.g., magnesium or calcium) to hypochlorite is at least 3:1. In other words, x is ≧3y. The compounds exhibit excellent stability, little or no chlorine bleach odor, exhibit excellent pH buffering characteristics, and less reactivity with organic materials as compared to alternative chlorine bleach products.
US09353330B2
A trunk piston lubricating oil composition of TBN 20 to 60 comprising (A) a high saturates low sulphur oil of lubricating viscosity in a major amount; (B) an overbased metal hydroxybenzoate detergent additive; (C) a polyisobutene succinic anhydride additive (1-7 mass %); and (D) a meta-linear pentadecyl phenol additive (10.1 to 10 mass %), the weight ratio of (D) to (C) being less than 1 and the combined treat rate of (B), (C) and (D) being 5 to 30%. The composition is useful to improve asphaltene dispersancy when lubricating a medium-speed compression-ignited marine engine fueled by a heavy fuel oil.
US09353328B2
The present invention provides a lubricating oil composition for an internal combustion engine used mainly to drive a generator and to improve the fuel economy thereof. The composition comprises (A) a base oil being a hydrocarbon base oil having a ratio (CA/CB) of the proportion of the component of 24 or fewer carbon atoms (CA) and the proportion of the component of 25 or more carbon atoms (CB) in the carbon number distribution obtained by gas chromatography distillation of 2.0 or higher, the composition having a ratio (Vs/Vk) of the 80° C. high-temperature high-shear (HTHS) viscosity (Vk) and the 150° C. HTHS viscosity (Vs) of 0.35 or higher and a 100° C. kinematic viscosity of 2.5 mm2/s or higher and 5.2 mm2/s or lower.
US09353325B2
The invention provides a process for comminuting coal or other fuel solids in a shear field, and for optionally coating the solids with catalysts for combustion, liquefaction, and or gasification during the milling process. The process further provides for control of water content in the solids may be controlled before, during and after the milling in order to obtain micronized solids with fine hydration layers. The output fuel solids from the process can burn at low temperatures, avoiding emissions of nitrogen oxides, and they also have improved properties for surfactant-free suspension in either water or oil media, as well as for liquefaction and gasification.
US09353323B2
A method of converting carbon containing compounds such as coal, methane or other hydrocarbons into a liquid hydrocarbon fuel utilizes a high pressure, high temperature reactor which operates upon a blend of a carbon compound including CO2 and a carbon source, a catalyst, and steam. Microwave power is directed into the reactor. The catalyst, preferably magnetite, will act as a heating media for the microwave power and the temperature of the reactor will rise to a level to efficiently convert the carbon and steam into hydrogen and carbon monoxide.
US09353321B2
A method and assembly for producing substantially tar free product gas from gasification of carbonaceous material. The assembly preferably includes a first stage gasifier to produce char-ash and tar laden product gas and a second stage gasifier which has a char-ash heating zone, at least one cyclone, and at least one standpipe for the purpose of allowing selective delivery of char-ash to the char-ash heating zone. A char-ash heating zone that utilizes oxidation of char-ash is preferred and this results in the heat required to convert tar, additional yield of product gas, and an oxidized, activated carbon surface to facilitate tar conversion in the riser, thereby reducing the temperature required to achieve the desired tar conversion. Alternatively, external heat is supplied to the heating zone.
US09353310B2
An amorphous luminous material, which is substantially composed of only rare earth complex compounds, wherein the compounds are two or more kinds of rare earth complexes, and rare earth metal ions, which are center ions of the two or more kinds of rare earth complexes, are different ions.
US09353304B2
A thermal interface material comprises a polymeric elastomer material, a thermally conductive filler, and a coupling agent, along with other optional components. In one exemplary heat transfer material, a coupling agent having the formula: where Y is either a cyclic structure or Y is represented by Formula II: where: a=1 or 2 b=2 or 3 R1 contains at least one of a neoalkoxy group, an ether group, or a C2-C30 straight or branched alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, aryl, or alkaryl group R′2 and R″2 are independently selected from Hydrogen, a neoalkoxy group, an ether group, and a C2-C30 straight or branched alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, aryl, or alkaryl group X=Group four transition metal; and where a=1, R3 contains at least one of a neoalkoxy group, an ether group, or a C2-C30 straight or branched alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, aryl, or alkaryl group; or where a=2, the two R3 groups independently contain at least one of a neoalkoxy group, an ether group, or a C2-C30 straight or branched alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, aralkyl, aryl, or alkaryl groups or the two R3 groups together form an alkyldiolato group and, if Y is a cyclic structure, X is a member of the cyclic structure and the cyclic structure also contains a pyrophosphate group such as Formula II shown above.
US09353291B1
An inkjet printhead includes a front face having a polymer coating, the polymer coating including an oleophobic grafted polymer having a crosslinked fluoroelastomer and a perfluorinated fluorosilicone grafted to the crosslinked fluoroelastomer. The polymer coating has an ink contact angle of at least about 45 degrees and an ink slide angle of less than about 35 degrees.
US09353276B2
Disclosed herein is an ink composition, including: a color material; water; and a polymer particle, in which the polymer particle has a core-shell structure including a core polymer and a shell polymer, in which the polymer particle has an average particle diameter of 10 nm to 80 nm, in which the core polymer has a glass transition temperature of lower than 60° C. and the shell polymer has a glass transition temperature of higher than or equal to 60° C., and in which the core polymer includes an aromatic monomer having at least a vinyl group as a constitutional unit.
US09353275B2
An ink can be substantially invisible under most lighting conditions, and only visible when excited by UV energy having a wavelength specific to the colorant. The ink can include a liquid vehicle and a fluorescent colorant. The fluorescent colorant can have an average particle size of less than about 200 nm. Such ink can be configured as an ink-jet ink.
US09353270B2
This surface-treated metal includes a metal, and a coated material on a surface of the metal, in which an outermost layer is a photocatalytic film that contains particles showing photocatalytic activity and an organic-inorganic composite resin, a volume ratio of the particles to the film is in a range from 0.5 to 50 vol %, the resin contains a siloxane bond and at least one group selected from the group consisting of an aryl group, a carboxyl group, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, and an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, the coated material has concaves on a surface thereof on the outermost layer side, an area of the outermost layer is 50% to 98% of an area of a surface of the metal, and a surface area of the outermost layer is 101% to 5000% of the area of the surface of the metal.
US09353266B2
A process for manufacturing titanium dioxide pigment is provided. The process comprises preparing an aqueous slurry of titanium dioxide particles. The process further includes deagglomerating the aqueous slurry of titanium dioxide particles using ultrasonication.
US09353263B2
A thermoplastic composition for use in a fine pitch electrical connector is provided. The thermoplastic composition contains a liquid crystalline polymer and a plurality of fibers. The volume average length of the fibers in the thermoplastic composition is selectively controlled according to the present invention so that it is within a certain range, such as from about 80 to about 250 micrometers. The fibers also have a narrow length distribution. That is, at least about 70% by volume of the fibers have a length within a certain range. Through the use of a liquid crystalline polymer and fibers of a certain weight average length and narrow length distribution, the present inventors have discovered that the resulting thermoplastic composition is able to achieve a desirable combination of strength and flowability, which enables it to be uniquely suited for the walls of a fine pitch connector.
US09353262B2
The disclosure of the present application provides compositions and methods of compounding polyamides comprising the steps of forming a polyamide mixture, comprising a polyamide with an olefin maleic anhydride copolymer, and compounding the polyamide mixture at its processing temperature. Compounded polyamides derived from recycled nylon and other recycled polyamides and methods for preparing the compounded polyamides are described.
US09353258B2
Compositions of biobased polymer blends of polymers of polybutylene succinate (PBS) or polybutylene-adipate-terephthalate (PBAT) and a polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer are described. In certain embodiments, the copolymer is a multiphase copolymer blend having one phase a glass transition temperature of about −5° C. to about −50° C. Methods of making the compositions of the invention are also described. The invention also includes articles, films and laminates comprising the compositions.
US09353257B2
A photo-primer composition B is described that includes a specific iodonium salt combined with a hydrogen donor that is a Guerbet alcohol that can also be used as a solvent. The primer system can be used for solving odor problems, particularly after the polymerization/cross-linking of traditional iodonium salts.
US09353252B2
Polymer composition comprising a propylene copolymer and a styrenic based elastomer.
US09353251B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a thermoplastic resin composition having excellent rigidity and impact strength and a method for producing the same. The thermoplastic resin composition is obtained by mixing a polyolefin resin (such as a polypropylene resin), a polyamide resin (such as nylon 11 resin), and a compatibilizer (such as maleic anhydride-modified EPR, maleic anhydride-modified EBR). The thermoplastic resin composition is characterized in having a resin phase separate structure as observed under an electron microscope, wherein the resin phase separate structure consists of a continuous phase and a disperse phase which is dispersed in the continuous phase, there is a microdisperse phase in the disperse phase, and the average diameter of the microdisperse phase is 5 to 1,200 nm.
US09353240B2
This present invention relates to the carbon nanotubes as composites with materials such as elastomers, thermosets and thermoplastics. A further feature of this invention relates to the development of a concentrate of carbon nanotubes with an elastomer wherein the concentrate can be further diluted with an elastomer and other polymers and fillers using conventional melt mixing equipment.
US09353239B2
A rubber wet masterbatch obtained, using at least a carbon black, a dispersing solvent, and a latex solution of a rubber as raw materials, the carbon black being a carbon black having an iodine adsorption number of 41 mg/g or less, and the rubber wet masterbatch being obtained through the following process: a process in which at the time of dispersing the carbon black into the dispersing solvent, at least one portion of the rubber latex solution is added to the carbon-black-dispersed solvent to produce a slurry solution comprising the carbon black to which rubber latex particles adhere, subsequently the slurry solution is mixed with the rest of the rubber latex solution, and next the mixture is solidified and dried.
US09353233B2
Disclosed herein are polyisocyanurate and/or polyurethane foams containing non-porous silica particles derived from mesoporous cellular foams, wherein the polyisocyanurate and/or polyurethane foams have enhanced heat and/or fire resistance. Processes for making such foams and methods of using them are also disclosed.
US09353230B2
A resin pellet of the present invention includes a resin base material and a plurality of microparticles embedded in the resin base material. The resin pellet is covered with the plurality of microparticles on the surface of the resin base material. According to the present invention, it is possible to prevent detachment of the microparticles to be applied on the resin base material and to effectively suppress blocking of resin pellets.
US09353224B2
A composition including a plurality of oligomers including at least one selected from a repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 1, a repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 2, and a combination thereof; and at least one selected from a repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 3, a repeating unit represented by Chemical Formula 3A, and a combination thereof; wherein at least a part of the plurality of oligomers includes at least one terminal end having an amino group, and wherein at least a part of the plurality of oligomers including at least one terminal end having an amino group is a diamine having a pKa value of equal to or less than 3 at 25° C.: wherein the variables in Chemical Formulae 1, 2, 3, and 3A are described in the specification.
US09353222B2
A composition including a diamine compound and a dianhydride compound, wherein the diamine compound includes a first diamine compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, wherein, in Chemical Formula 1, T1 to T8 and L1 to L8 are the same as defined in the detailed description.
US09353220B2
A process for making polyarylethers provides a reaction mixture that includes a dipolar aprotic solvent for polyarylether and polyarylether forming reactants, and reacts the polyarylether-forming reactants, with removing of water with nitrogen in the absence of azeotrope forming cosolvent and optionally replacing removed amounts with dipolar aprotic solvent. The process can further include directly wet spinning the reactor solution without recovery of the polymer from the dipolar aprotic solvent through a spinneret to form hollow fibers or flat sheets suitable for membranes.
US09353213B2
This invention relates to the new functional norbornanyl ester derivative and/or polymer compositions which are easily obtainable by reacting the Diels-Alder adduct of appropriate dienes and dienophiles with carboxylic acids. In particular, this invention relates to a new process for making cyclic chemical raw materials suitable for production coating, ink, adhesive, plasticizer, thermoplastic or thermosetting plastic and functional polymers.
US09353212B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball polyurethane composition excellent in resilience. Another object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball excellent in a shot feeling and resilience. The present invention provides a golf ball polyurethane composition comprising, as a resin component, a polyurethane elastomer including a polyisocyanate with one alicyclic hydrocarbon structure having 3 or more carbon atoms as a constituting component, and having a storage modulus E′ (Pa) and a loss modulus E″ (Pa) satisfying a following expression; log(E′/E″2)≧−6.53 when measured in a tensile mode using a dynamic viscoelasticity measuring apparatus.
US09353197B2
A catalyst component for olefin polymerization is disclosed, which comprises at least one diol ester type electron donor compound (a) and at least one diether type electron donor compound (b) among others, wherein the molar ratio of a to b is 0.55-50. A preparation method of the catalyst component, a catalyst comprising the catalyst component, and an olefin polymerization method using the catalyst which can especially be used for preparation of polypropylenes of low ash contents are also disclosed.
US09353195B2
An emulsifier for emulsion polymerization includes a compound represented by the following general: X=H, —(CH2)a—SO3M, —(CH2)b—COOM, —PO3M2, —P(B)O2M, or —CO—CH2—CH(SO3M)-COOM Y= Z=
US09353191B2
The present invention provides a method of producing a polymer hydrogel comprising the steps of: (1) preparing an aqueous solution of a water soluble polysaccharide derivative and a polycarboxylic acid; (2) optionally agitating the solution, for example, by stirring; (3) isolating a polysaccharide derivative/polycarboxylic acid composite from the solution; and (4) heating the polysaccharide derivative/polycarboxylic acid composite at a temperature of at least about 80° C., thereby cross-linking the polysaccharide with the polycarboxylic acid. The invention also provides polymer hydrogels produced by the methods of the invention.
US09353188B2
Disclosed herein are novel compositions and methods for the inhibition of Plexin B2-mediated Angiogenin activity. Such compositions and methods are useful, for example, for the treatment of cancer, the treatment of wet AMD and the inhibition of angiogenesis. Also disclosed herein are methods of determining whether a test agent is a modulator of Plexin B2 activity.
US09353183B2
The present invention provides methods for identifying candidate compounds for limiting development of and/or treating diabetes, and methods for limiting development of and/or treating diabetes.
US09353182B2
Novel modulators, including antibodies and derivatives thereof, and methods of using such modulators to treat proliferative disorders are provided.
US09353177B2
Anti-VEGF antibodies and variants thereof, including those having high affinity for binding to VEGF, are disclosed. Also provided are methods of using phage display technology with naïve libraries to generate and select the anti-VEGF antibodies with desired binding and other biological activities. Further contemplated are uses of the antibodies in research, diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
US09353176B2
Methods are disclosed for treating osteoarthritis in a human subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an anti-human NGF antibody, or antigen-binding fragment thereof, wherein at least one symptom associated with osteoarthritis is prevented, ameliorated or improved.
US09353165B2
Described herein are methods for purifying recombinant, cell culture derived alpha1-protease inhibitor and removing a colored species that co-purifies with the recA1PI protein. Also described are methods for reducing the iron in cell culture derived alpha1-protease inhibitor.
US09353161B2
The present invention relates to a new streptavidin muteins. This mutein is binds both streptavidin binding peptide tagged and biotin or biotinylated molecules, and does so in a reversible fashion. As such, it is stable enough to allow reuse, and producible with reasonable production yield via secretion in a soluble functional state without the requirement of refolding via the tedious and expensive denaturation and renaturation processes.
US09353159B2
An isolated polynucleotide encoding an influenza multi-epitope polypeptide, wherein the multi-epitope polypeptide comprises multiple copies of a plurality of influenza virus peptide epitopes wherein the polypeptide is B(X1ZX2Z . . . Xm)nB or B(X1)nZ(X2)nZ . . . (Xm)nB; wherein B is an optional sequence of 1-4 amino acid residues; n is at each occurrence independently an integer of 2-50; m is an integer of 3-15; each of X1, X2 . . . Xm is an influenza peptide epitope of 4-24 amino acid residues; and Z at each occurrence is a bond or a spacer of 1-4 amino acid residues.
US09353152B2
The present invention relates to process for identifying a compound which induces the mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) in proliferating cells, wherein said process comprises contacting a cell or cell extract with a compound, determining whether the compound binds to adenine nucleotide translocator (ANT), and determining whether the compound selectively induces the MPT in proliferating cells.
US09353150B2
The present application provides, among other things, a compound of Formula I-a and/or I-b, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein the variables are defined in the specification. The compounds of the invention are useful for treating various diseases including cancer.
US09353145B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of 17-substituted steroids and, more particularly, to an improved method of synthesizing abiraterone or derivatives thereof in high yield and purity by means of a key 3-formate intermediate.
US09353140B2
The invention relates to the synthesis of a second-generation camptothecin glucuronide prodrug (BQC-G) of a potent anticancer camptothecin derivative 5,6-dihydro-4H-benzo[de]quinoline-camptothecin (BQC). BQC-G was over 4000 times more water soluble than BQC, displayed good stability in human plasma and was an excellent substrate for enzymatic hydrolysis by bacterial and human β-glucuronidases. BQC-G was about 30 times less toxic than BQC, but was as toxic as BQC after hydrolysis of the glucuronide moiety by β-glucuronidase. In the presence of human serum albumin, BQC-G displayed lower cytotoxicity (IC50=1080 nM) but could be activated by β-glucuronidase to display potent activity (IC50=13.3 nM).
US09353139B2
The invention relates to new metal complexes having N-aminoamidinate ligands, more particularly metal complexes having N,N′-bis(dimethylamino)acetamidinate, N,N′-bis(dimethylamino)formamidinate, N-dimethylaminoacetamidinate or N-dimethylamino-N′-isopropyl-acetamidinate ligands as well as to their preparation and use. The metal complexes are characterized by a five-membered chelate ring. The metal complexes are formed with the metals from the main groups of the PTE, but also with transition-group elements such as tantalum (Ta), iron (Fe), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), copper (Cu) or zinc (Zn), and also with precious metals such as palladium (Pd).The complexes of the invention find use as precursors for the preparation of functional layers by means of gas-phase thin-film processes such as CVD, MO-CVD and ALD. Additionally they may be used as catalysts for olefin hydroamination and for olefin polymerization.
US09353135B2
One of the purposes of the present invention is to provide a compound which is a polymerizable monomer having a specific number of silicon atoms and a specific number of fluorine atoms and to provide a method for preparing the compound. The present invention provides a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein m is an integer of from 2 to 10, n is an integer of from 1 to 3, R1 is, independently of each other, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and R2 is, independently of each other, an alkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a fluoroalkylene group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, R3 is an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R4, R5 and R6 are, independently of each other, a hydrogen atom or a methyl group.
US09353131B2
Described are methods of forming protected boronic acids that provide in a manner that is straightforward, scalable, and cost-effective a wide variety of building blocks, such as building blocks containing complex and/or pharmaceutically important structures, and/or provide simple or complex protected organoboronic acid building blocks. A first method includes reacting an imino-di-carboxylic acid and an organoboronate salt. A second method includes reacting a N-substituted morpholine dione and an organoboronic acid.
US09353127B2
The present invention is directed to methods of preparing a conjugate of a cell-binding agent and a drug (such as a cytotoxic compound). The methods comprise the use of an imine reactive compound to enable efficient conjugations of cytotoxic compounds with cell binding agents.
US09353122B2
Described herein are compounds of Formula (I) or Formula (VI), pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also provided are particles (e.g., nanoparticles) comprising compounds of Formula (I) or Formula (VI) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof that are mucus penetrating. Methods of using the compounds or pharmaceutical compositions thereof for treating diseases are also provided.
US09353114B2
Provided is a process for the preparation of linagliptin of Formula I, comprising deprotecting a compound of Formula II wherein R1 and R2 together with the nitrogen to which they are attached form a phthalimido group, wherein the aromatic ring of the phthalimido group is substituted with one or more R3 substituents selected from the group consisting of halogen, alkyi, nitro and amino; or R1 is H and R2 is selected from the group consisting of trialkylsilyl, 2-trialkylsilylethoxycarbamates, acetyl, trihaloacetyl, 9-fluorenylmethoxycarbonyl, trityl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, diphenylphosphine and sulfonylethoxycarbonyl.
US09353111B2
Disclosed are carboxamide compounds, as well as pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use. One embodiment is a compound having the structure in which R1, R2, R3, R4, D, J, Z, T, p, q, w and x are as described herein. In certain embodiments, a compound disclosed herein activates the AMPK pathway, and can be used to treat metabolism-related disorders and conditions.
US09353106B2
The invention provides novel quinolinone-carboxamide 5-HT4 receptor agonist compounds. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, methods of using such compounds to treat diseases associated with 5-HT4 receptor activity, and processes and intermediates useful for preparing such compounds.
US09353099B2
Described herein are compounds and pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, which modulate the activity of store-operated calcium (SOC) channels. Also described herein are methods of using such SOC channel modulators, alone and in combination with other compounds, for treating diseases or conditions that would benefit from inhibition of SOC channel activity.
US09353095B2
The present invention relates to a novel crystalline form A of 1,5-dimethyl-6-thioxo-3-(2,2,7-trifluoro-3-oxo-4-(prop-2-ynyl)-3,4-dihydro-2H-benzo[b][1,4]oxazin-6-yl)-1,3,5-triazinane-2,4-dione. The invention also relates to a process for the production of this crystalline form and formulations for plant protection which contains the novel crystalline form of 1,5-dimethyl-6-thioxo-3-(2,2,7-trifluoro-3-oxo-4-(prop-2-ynyl)-3,4-dihydro-2H-benzo[b][1,4]oxazin-6-yl)-1,3,5-triazinane-2,4-dione.
US09353091B2
This invention relates to: (a) compounds and salts thereof that, inter alia, inhibit HCV; (b) intermediates useful for the preparation of such compounds and salts; (c) compositions comprising such compounds and salts; (d) methods for preparing such intermediates, compounds, salts, and compositions; (e) methods of use of such compounds, salts, and compositions; and (f) kits comprising such compounds, salts, and compositions.
US09353090B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, B, V, W, X, Y, Z and m are as defined herein. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of using these compounds in the treatment of various diseases and disorders, processes for preparing these compounds and intermediates useful in these processes.
US09353084B2
The present invention is directed to novel inhibitors of the BACE1 enzyme. Separate aspects of the invention are directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds and uses of the compounds to treat disorders for which the reduction of Aβ deposits is beneficial such as Alzheimer's disease.
US09353081B2
The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, R12, A1, A2 A3 and n are as described herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds. The compounds of the present invention are useful as inhibitors of aldosterone synthase. The compounds may be used, for example, in the treatment or prophylaxis of chronic kidney disease, congestive heart failure, hypertension, primary aldosteronism and Cushing syndrome.
US09353071B2
An industrially preferred process for producing an isothiazole compound, particularly 3,4-dichloro-5-cyanoisothiazole, provides a safer industrial production process by avoiding the simultaneous use of an aprotic polar solvent such as N,N-dimethylformamide and chlorine. In addition, a production process which is economically preferred because an aprotic polar solvent, which is highly likely to become a part of waste, is not used.A process for producing an isothiazole compound represented by a general formula (3), wherein R is a cyano group or the like; and X is a chlorine atom or the like, which comprises heating a nitrile compound represented by a general formula (1), wherein R is as defined above, and sulfur, and then carrying out a reaction between the nitrile compound represented by the general formula (1), the sulfur and a halogen represented by a general formula (2), wherein X is as defined above.
US09353070B2
The present invention relates to carbamat-benzoxazinones of formula (I), wherein the variables are defined according to the description, as well as to a process for manufacturing carbamat-benzoxazinones of formula (I), and to the use of carbamat-benzoxazinones of formula (I) in manufacturing benzoxazinones of formula (X).
US09353063B2
Compounds are disclosed that are useful for treating ophthalmic conditions caused by or related to production of toxic visual cycle products that accumulate in the eye, such as dry adult macular degeneration, as well as conditions caused by or related to the misfolding of mutant opsin proteins and/or the mis-localization of opsin proteins. Compositions of these compounds alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents are also described, along with therapeutic methods of using such compounds and/or compositions. Methods of synthesizing such agents are also disclosed.
US09353060B2
4,6-Dibromo-3-hydroxypicolinate esters are prepared from furan-2-yl aminoacetates in one chemical step by use of a bromination-rearrangement reaction.
US09353048B2
The present invention provides compounds having the structure represented by general formula I, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereofagonist, preparation methods therefor and a use thereof in the preparation of a medicine for the treatment of nervous system diseases. The compounds or pharmaceutical compositions thereof can be used as the KCNQ potassium channel agonist for treating nervous system diseases. Compared to retigabine, a compound in the prior art, the compound of the present invention have the same or better therapeutic effect, are easier for synthesis and storage, and less prone to oxidate deterioration.
US09353047B2
The invention relates to a method for improving the bioavailability of pharmaceutical substances and for allowing the pharmaceutical substances to permeate the blood-brain barrier, the pharmaceutical substances having at least one or more amidine, guanidine, N-hydroxyamidine (amidoxime) or N-hydroxyguanidine functions. The invention also relates to medicaments containing the correspondingly modified pharmaceutical substances.
US09353042B2
A process for producing at least one acetate from acetic acid and at least one alcohol by employing multiple cycles of reacting acetic acid to produce a reaction product including at least one acetate, unreacted acetic acid, unreacted alcohol, and water, followed by drying the reaction product to remove water therefrom. Such process provides for improved yields of acetate.
US09353032B2
A method for preparing neopentyl glycol by addition of isobutyraldehyde and formaldehyde in the presence of a tertiary alkylamine as catalyst to give hydroxypivalaldehyde with subsequent hydrogenation at a temperature of 80 to 140° C. and at a pressure of 2 to 18 MPa in the liquid phase, is characterized in that the hydrogenation is carried out in the presence of a copper chromite catalyst comprising the activators barium and manganese.
US09353030B2
Disclosed is a one step process for making of 1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene. More specifically, the present invention provides a process for making hexafluoro-2-butene, continuously, from 2-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropronene using Fe2O3/NiO impregnated carbon catalyst at 600° to 650° C.
US09353028B2
The present invention relates to a hydrofluorinating process which comprises reacting a fluoroolefin with hydrogen fluoride in the liquid phase in the presence of a hydrofluorination catalyst in the reaction zone of a reactor, said reactor comprised of a reactor body having a length to diameter ratio of about 2:1 or greater; a stirred reaction zone containing said hydrofluorination catalyst, which may be prepared in situ, at least one inlet for supplying said hydrogen fluoride and fluoroolefin to the reaction zone and at least one outlet for recovering said fluoroalkane, said stirrer disposed in the reaction zone and comprising a plurality of blades fixedly attached to shaft drivable by a motor, said blades extending from about the bottom of the reaction zone to about the top of the reaction zone and said shaft extending on a longitudinal axis from the bottom of the reactor to the top of the reactor, said stirrer being rotated at a speed sufficient to promote a swirling of the liquid to effect the occurrence of hydrofluorination reaction and minimize overfluorination. The present invention also relates to said hydrofluorination reactor.
US09353026B2
The concentration of hydrogen sulfide in a hydrocarbon can be mitigated by intruding therein a zinc carboxylate oxo complex composition prepared by reacting particulate zinc oxide with a mixture of two or more carboxylic acids wherein the zinc carboxylate oxo complex composition is soluble in hydrocarbons. Useful acids useful include acetic acid, oleic acid, isobutyric acid, lineoleic acid, cekanoic acid, and neodecanoic acid.
US09353020B2
A dust suppressing aggregate includes a core particle and a dust suppressing agent. The dust suppressing agent comprises polycarbodiimide and is disposed about the core particle for suppressing dusting of the core particle. A method of forming the dust suppressing aggregate includes the steps of reacting isocyanates in the presence of a catalyst to form the polycarbodiimide and encapsulating the core particle with the polycarbodiimide to form the dust suppressing agent. A system for producing the dust suppressing aggregate includes the core particle, the isocyanates, and the catalyst.
US09353019B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to seeds coated with a coating comprising (a) a water-swellable polymer; (b) one or more controlled-release fertilizers; (c) bone meal substantially free of protein; and (d) optionally one or more fungicides.
US09353014B2
A process for sintering silicon carbide is provided which includes the steps of providing a silicon carbide powder of silicon carbide granules; purifying the silicon carbide powder; subjecting the purified silicon carbide powder to a gel-casting process; removing the gel-cast part from the mold; drying the gel-cast part; obtaining a dried cast ceramic part (a green body) which is capable of green machining into a final desired shape; firing the green body in an oven at temperatures ranging from about 100° C. to about 1900° C. to remove or burn out any polymer remaining in the ceramic; and sintering the green body at temperatures ranging from about 1600° C. to less than about 2200° C.
US09353013B2
A SiC ceramic material includes a bundle of SiC continuous fibers in a porous SiC ceramic matrix, has thermal insulation properties, a high level of strength and a high degree of toughness. A SiC ceramic structure is made of the SiC ceramic material. It is produced by preparing a pressure-sintered compact using a slurry prepared by mixing SiC powder and carbon powder in a liquid and by gasifying and releasing the carbon powder. The SiC ceramic structure can be produced by heating a reaction preparation containing a bundle of SiC continuous fibers and Si powder to a temperature equal to or higher than the melting point of silicon causing a reaction of the carbon component and Si powder and thereby obtaining a reaction-sintered compact, and by gasifying and releasing the carbon component from the reaction-sintered compact. The SiC ceramic can be produced by a chemical vapor deposition method.
US09353012B2
Ceramic materials comprising charge-compensating dopants and related methods. In some embodiments, the materials may comprise dopants such as Y2O3, Gd2O3, Nb2O5, and/or Ta2O5. Some embodiments may comprise a molar concentration of Y2O3 and/or Gd2O3 that is at least approximately equal to the molar concentration of Nb2O5 and/or Ta2O5. Certain embodiments and implementations may comprise particular, unique concentrations or concentration ranges of various compounds/materials in order to improve performance for use of such ceramic materials as biomedical implants.
US09353010B2
Embodiments of apparatus, systems, and methods relating to biomedical implants and other devices made up of unique and improved alumina-zirconia ceramic materials. In an example of a method according to an implementation of the invention, a slurry is prepared, compressed, and fired to obtain a fired ceramic piece comprising at least aluminum oxide, zirconium dioxide, yttrium oxide, cerium oxide, strontium oxide, magnesium oxide, titanium dioxide, and calcium oxide. Some embodiments and implementations may comprise selected concentrations of one or more such compounds to yield certain preferred results.
US09353002B2
Cement material, curable in the presence of water and including a hydraulic binder composition, which contains a mixture of hydraulic binders and a mixture of sulphate sources, wherein the hydraulic binder mixture includes: at least one hydraulic binder containing an alite-type mineralogical phase and at least one hydraulic binder containing an aluminate-type mineralogical phase, mainly consisting of ye'elimite (C4A3$) or a mixture of ye'elimite and calcium monoaluminate (CA), the mixture of sulphate sources containing at least one sulphate source with a solubility of <4 g·L−1, and at least one sulphate source with a solubility >4 g·L−1, the cement material optionally including mineral additions, fine granulates, large granulates and additives. The curable cement material is useful as a material capable of setting in cold weather, in particular a concrete, a mortar, a grout, a coating or a cement paste to be used at a temperature of −10° C. to +5° C.
US09352998B2
An insulating layer forming material and an insulating layer forming paste capable of forming an insulating layer on a metallic substrate without the filler and glass reacting or warpage occurring even when repeatedly fired at 850° C. or higher are provided. The insulating layer forming material containing a lead-free glass composition and an α-quartz filler contains 17.0-40.0 wt. % of the α-quartz filler and 60.0-83.0 wt. % of the lead-free glass composition. The α-quartz filler has an average particle diameter (D50) of 1.0-3.5 μm and a specific surface area of 2.5-6.5 m2/g. The lead-free glass composition includes no B2O3 and comprises a composition, in mol %, of 40.0-60.0% SiO2, 0.5-10.0% Al2O3, 20.0-45.0% MgO+CaO+SrO+BaO, 5.0-23.0% ZnO, and 0-10.0% Li2O+Na2O+K2O.
US09352997B2
In a melt molding method of germanium, the germanium which is brought into a molten state is sealed in molding dies in an inert gas atmosphere. The molding dies are temperature-controlled from the outside. While gradually cooling the molding dies at a portion or a plurality of portions thereof up to the whole, the germanium is gradually solidified from a side of the portion or sides of the plurality of portions up to the whole. An external ambient temperature of the molding dies is controlled to decrease gradually while ensuring a temperature below a germanium melting point temperature but higher than an inner temperature of the molding die which is cooled. After solidification of the germanium is completed, cooling of the molding dies is continued, and the external ambient temperature is decreased to mold the germanium.
US09352996B2
An optical fiber preform, and method for fabricating, having a first core, a second core spaced from the first core and first and second regions, the first region having an outer perimeter having a first substantially straight length and the second region having an outer perimeter having a second substantially straight length facing the first straight length. One of the regions can comprise the first core and the other comprises the second core. The preform can be drawn with rotation to provide a fiber wherein a first core of the fiber is multimode at a selected wavelength of operation and a second core of the fiber is spaced from and winds around the first core and has a selected longitudinal pitch. The second core of the fiber can couple to a higher order mode of the first core and increase the attenuation thereof relative to the fundamental mode of the first core.
US09352995B2
Provided is an apparatus for producing a sheet glass, including: a forming device that forms a glass ribbon by allowing molten glass continuously supplied onto molten metal in a bath to flow on the molten metal; a rotary roll disposed in an outer vicinity of the bath and configured to draw the glass ribbon obliquely upward from the molten metal; and a supporting device supporting the rotary roll from below.
US09352992B2
Provided is a microbial flora activator which can prevent the re-bonding of a dispersed oil, fat or the like and can activate microorganisms in an activated sludge treatment system; and a method for treating wastewater containing an oil, a fat or the like using the microbial flora activator.
US09352990B2
A reactor and control method for maximizing nitrogen removal and minimizing aeration requirements through control of transient anoxia and aerobic SRT, repression of NOB, and control of dynamic DO concentrations or aeration interval by keeping the reactor NH4 and NOx concentrations approximately equal. Controls are provided for maximizing the potential for TIN removal through nitrification, limited nitritation, nitritation, denitrification, limited denitritation, denitritation making use of 1) real time measurement of ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, 2) operational DO and the proper use of DO setpoints, and 3) proper implementation of transient anoxia within a wide range of reactor configurations and operating conditions.
US09352989B2
An apparatus and a method for an ozone-based treatment of polluted water are disclosed. The apparatus and the method generally comprise three stages. The first stage is an ozone treatment stage wherein the polluted water is treated with ozone gas. The second stage is a gas-liquid separation stage wherein excess non-dissolved gases, from the ozone treatment stage, are removed from the water whereby the water exiting the gas-liquid separation stage is substantially saturated with dissolved gases and substantially free of non-dissolved gases. The last stage is a membrane filtration stage wherein the gas-saturated water generally undergoes micro-filtration or ultra-filtration. Microbubbles formed during this final stage generally prevent the accumulation of particles and pollutants on the surface of the membranes and/or inside the openings or pores thereof; thereby acting as a self-cleaning mechanism for the membrane filter.
US09352983B2
A capture unit for use with an antimicrobial application unit may include an upstream filter and a downstream filter. The upstream filter may be positioned to receive effluent from the application unit and to filter solid components from the effluent. The resultant upstream effluent filtrate may then be passed downstream to the downstream filter. The downstream filter may be used to filter an antimicrobial component from the upstream effluent filtrate and the resultant downstream effluent filtrate may be suitable for disposal as wastewater discharge. The antimicrobial is preferably a quaternary ammonium compound, is more preferably an alkylpyridinium chloride, and is most preferably cetylpyridinium chloride.
US09352972B2
A device for recovering SiCl4 slurry and method for the same, comprising a paddle dryer for receiving SiCl4 slurry containing chlorosilane; a first spray scrubber for receiving exhaust gas from the paddle dryer; a condenser for condensing and recovering the purifying exhaust gas from the first spray scrubber and discharging supersaturated vapor that after condensation and separation; a defogging separator for removing liquid droplets from supersaturated vapor which is cooled by the condenser; a hydrolysis tank for receiving and hydrolyzing a paste-like slurry from the paddle dryer and vapor from the defogging separator to produce mixture and exhaust gas; a drum pressure filter for receiving neutralization products from a neutralization stirring tank.
US09352969B2
A process for manufacturing silicon-based nanoparticles by electrochemical etching of a substrate, wherein the substrate is a metallurgical-grade or upgraded metallurgical-grade silicon, the substrate including an impurity content greater than 0.01%.
US09352951B2
A console for a fuel delivery management system, including a processor, a touch-sensitive display, a plurality of ports configured to facilitate communications with a plurality of lines, tanks, containments, sensors and pumps, and a memory including a plurality of instructions which when executed by the processor cause the console to generate a home screen on the display, the home screen having a quick jump menu icon which when activated by a user, causes the processor to generate a navigation window on the home screen, the navigation window including a plurality of function icons, each corresponding to a function screen, wherein activation of one of the plurality of function icons causes the processor to generate a function screen including a graphic indication of a parameter of one of the plurality of lines, tanks, containments, sensors and pumps.
US09352946B2
A lid opener is provided. The lid opener includes a solid body piece having a first end, the solid body piece being adapted to flex. The solid body piece can further include an annulus defined in the first end, with the annulus defining a gradually diminishing diameter from the first end. The annulus is configured to be inserted over and functionally engage a lid of a container to facilitate the removal of the lid from the container.
US09352945B2
The present invention in one or more embodiments provides a jack tool including a first shaft including a first tail with a first protrusion connected to a first spring, and a second shaft including a second head with a second aperture to detachably receive the first protrusion of the first shaft upon a force on the first spring translated from a force of different direction on the first protrusion.
US09352938B2
A lifting lug is disclosed for use with a low profile heater basket. The lifting lug can include a corner portion including first and second legs. The first and second legs are coupled to each other at respective first ends. The first and second legs can be oriented at an angle with respect to each other. The angle can be from 82.5-degrees to 97.5-degrees. The lifting lug can further include a hook engaging portion having first and second ends connected to respective second ends of the first and second legs. The hook engaging portion has a cylindrical cross-sectional shape. Further, an outer surface of the hook engaging portion is recessed from a bottom surface of a plane formed by bottom surfaces of the first and second legs. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US09352936B2
A method determines a force which acts via a drive wheel, which is fastened on a motor shaft of an electric motor or on an output shaft of a geared motor, on a component, which is coupled to the drive wheel directly in form-fitting and/or force-fitting manner. The electric motor is coupled electrically to a power amplifier, which is coupled to a power-supply unit via a connecting circuit. The force is determined using a voltage and a current which are determined in the connecting circuit. An apparatus implements the method.
US09352932B2
The present invention is a speed control for a cable retractor. The cable retractor with which the speed control is used comprises a pulley that engages a cable that may be extended and retracted. A friction element configured to adjustably contact the cable adjacent to the pulley is attached to a movable linkage. The movement of the linkage is constrained to move along a predetermined path such that movement of the linkage along the path alters the distance between the friction element and the pulley. In one or more embodiments a cantilevered spring is attached to the linkage. An adjustable control, for example a thumbscrew, is configured to move the spring in relation to the linkage in a manner that alters the position of the friction element with respect to the cable and/or the pressure exerted by the friction element on the cable.
US09352928B2
A thin film dispenser has a body, a moving assembly, a resilient positioning element, a dispensing unit and a push button. The body has an opening, a sliding channel and two sets of positioning recesses. The moving assembly is connected to the dispensing unit. The resilient positioning element is connected to the moving assembly and has a positioning segment selectively engaging one of the two sets of positioning recesses. The dispensing unit has a dispensing head corresponding to the opening of the body. The push button is mounted slidably in the sliding channel of the body, is connected to the moving assembly and selectively pushes against the positioning segment of the resilient positioning element to disengage from a corresponding set of positioning recesses to enable the moving assembly to move relative to the body.
US09352921B2
A winder for winding a web to produce a rolled product is provided. Included in one exemplary embodiment is a plurality of independent winding modules. The winding modules may be configured to wind the web to form a rolled product by center winding, surface winding, and/or combinations of center and surface winding. In accordance with the present disclosure, at least one tail sealing apparatus is present in the system. The tail sealing apparatus includes an applicator device that transfers adhesive to a web being wound prior to completion of the roll. In one embodiment, the applicator device remains in contact with the wound roll during the completion of the winding cycle in order to have an ironing effect on the finished roll.
US09352911B2
An idler roller (1) for a belt conveyor and an idler roller assembly (41). The idler roller (1) comprises an elongate static shaft (3), a rotatable drum (5) mounted about and substantially surrounding the static shaft (3) and at least one bearing (7, 9) intermediate the shaft (3) and the rotatable drum (5). The idler roller (1) further comprises a load cell mounted on the static shaft internal the rotatable drum (5). The static shaft comprises a load cell section that is weakened relative to the remainder of the shaft.
US09352907B2
Width adjustment device (1), for being used in connection with adjusting the width of conveyor belts of the type made up from a large number of substantially identical belt modules (2,2′), where each module along leading and trailing edges in the intended travelling direction is provided with eye parts separated by openings (17), such that an eye part on one module may be fitted in an opening (17) on an adjacent module, and where the eye parts are provided with an aperture laterally, such that when a conveyor belt is assembled from a plurality of belt modules (2,2′), a connection pin (16) may be inserted laterally through the openings in overlapping eye parts, thereby hingely connecting adjacent belt modules, where the width adjustment device (1) is detachably arranged on each belt module (2,2′) along one or both sides of the conveyor belt, and where a device on one module (2) at least partly overlaps with the device arranged on the upstream and/or downstream module (2′).
US09352906B2
Provided is a rubber-reinforcing steel cord that has superior productivity and is advantageous in reducing weight and improving bending resistance, as well as a conveyor belt that uses the rubber-reinforcing steel cord. A rubber-reinforcing steel cord 1 having a 1+6+(6+6) structure formed by twisting individual steel wires 2, 3, 4a, and 4b once in the same direction, a twist multiple of at least 9 and not greater than 14, and an outer diameter of not greater than 4 mm is used by being embedded in a rubber product.
US09352904B1
A trashcan assembly has a trashcan container, a removable trashcan liner engagement member and a holder for the trashcan linear engagement member. The removable trashcan liner engagement member can be placed to loop around the holder and to be aligned with the exterior surface of the peripheral wall of the trashcan container.
US09352902B2
The present invention is concerned with a novel freight container with improved characteristics. The container has a first portion and a second portion. The container is adapted to assume a first configuration in which the container has a maximum volume and a third configuration in which said container has a minimum volume. In the first configuration, the second portion is extended away from said first portion; side walls of said first and second portions are extending vertically in normal use; and at least some of said side walls are foldable. In the second configuration said side walls are folded in such a way to allow top walls of the first and second portions and bottom walls of the first and second portions be brought towards and adjacent each other whereby the minimum volume of the container is achieved.
US09352901B2
Systems and methods for isolating a bottom open end of a drinking straw from objects, such as fruit, leaves, seeds, etc., located within a beverage container. A sieve is disclosed that has outer dimensions that substantially match inner dimensions of a bottom portion of a drinking glass. The sieve includes a top platform having a drinking straw opening and a plurality of filter openings sized to permit liquid to pass therethrough while preventing passage by objects. The bottom open end of the drinking straw is positionable within a cavity of the sieve that is isolated from the objects, such that a user may consume the beverage through the drinking straw without the objects obstructing the drinking straw.
US09352893B2
The present invention discloses a self-venting package (6) for packing a food preparation and warming it up comprising at least one flexible film forming a first wall comprising a sealant layer (9) and a support layer (10), said flexible film being sealed by a peripheral seal (4) onto a second wall or on itself, thereby forming a main enclosure confining the food preparation; a rupturable seal (3) isolating a venting hole (1) from said main enclosure, said rupturable seal being arranged for opening, in use, a path to the venting hole upon internal pressure increase in said main enclosure, characterized in that a specific region (5) of the rupturable seal is weakened by means of a welded area with a reduced sealant layer thickness, said welded area guiding, in use, the rupture of said rupturable seal to the venting hole.
US09352890B2
A carton for containing at least one article. The carton includes a plurality of panels at least partially forming an interior of the carton. The plurality of panels include a top panel. The carton includes an article protection flap foldably connected to at least one panel of the plurality of panels. The article protection flap is moveable between a first position that is substantially parallel to the top panel and a second position wherein the article protection flap is folded relative to the top panel. The at least one access feature in the top panel is for positioning the article protection flap from the first position to the second position.
US09352886B2
A container has features to indicate tampering and to discourage reuse as a deterrent to use with counterfeit goods. A lid hinged to a thermoformed thermoplastic base defines a product compartment. A line of weakened material surrounds a retention tab within a base upper wall. The tab is secured to a lid upper wall such as by a weld. The retention tab is secured to the lid through an opening in an enclosure element such as a card of thermoformed sheet. When the lid is separated from the base the retention tab is detached from the base along the weakened line of material and retained by the secured connection to the lid with the enclosure element retained by the retention tab to the lid upper wall. The retention tab interferes with the removal of the enclosure element from the lid and its reuse with counterfeit goods.
US09352878B2
A card holder for holding a transaction card, such as a gift card, in an upright presentation position upon opening the front and back covers of the holder.
US09352871B2
A device for cutting a strapping off of a cuboid bale includes at least one cutter bar that can be moved toward the bale, wherein the bale is guided along the cutter bar by a conveying apparatus and the cutter bar is arranged on a side of the bale that is directed perpendicularly to a conveying direction. Efficient cutting of all strapping is made possible by arranging at least two cutter bars on adjoining sides of the bale and by guiding the cutter bars in a traversing device in the conveying direction during the contact with the bales.
US09352859B2
A device for feeding charges of non-homogeneous infusion material to a packaging machine includes a metering device for the charges and transfer system for the charges which is positioned downstream of the metering device and which feeds the charges to the packaging machine. The transfer system includes a charge adjustment system equipped with a drum which is rotatable about its own axis A and at least one roller which is rotatable about its own axis B and which is located upstream of the drum. The drum includes a chamber for receiving the charge from the roller. During adjustment of the charge, the chamber is variable between a maximum value coinciding with the receiving step and a minimum value when the charge has been adjusted.
US09352858B2
A methodology for initial orbit determination of an object about an astronomical body searches a grid of possible boundary values on the range-to-object over the observation interval to find the grid point and corresponding initial orbit that best fits all of the more than three (N) angles-only observations according to an error metric. The search is conducted by solving a boundary-value problem for different grid points. The state vector is propagated to determine estimated observation directions for the remaining N−2 observations. The grid point (and initial orbit) that best fit all of the observations is selected. For efficiency, the search may start with a broad but coarse initial grid and increase the resolution of the grid as the search converges to a solution.
US09352852B2
The present disclosure provides an airplane ground deicing installation that minimizes the impact of deicing operations on the airport during icing conditions. The installation does not require alteration of a normal taxi pattern and can be performed as quickly as the average separation time between take-offs. The installation allows modification of its shape to adapt to the contour of almost all types of commercial passengers airplanes operating from major airports, and simultaneously deices large surfaces of the airplane. Deicing and anti-icing fluids are applied to airplane surfaces from nozzles positioned in close proximity to the airplane's surface. Speed and adaptability to different types of airplanes, combined with a design that allows rapid relocation of the installation, are key features that make it possible to place the installation on the taxiway, close to the head of the runway it serves, such that the taxi pattern and the separation in between takeoffs are not altered as compared to the normal operations of the airport.
US09352846B2
An apparatus comprising a refueling controller. The refueling controller is configured to receive a number of operator commands for moving a refueling boom on a tanker aircraft in a desired direction. The number of operator commands defines at least one of an azimuth movement and an elevation movement of the refueling boom during flight of the tanker aircraft. The refueling controller is further configured to generate a number of intermediate commands for moving the refueling boom in the desired direction as defined by the number of operator commands. The number of intermediate commands defines at least one of a roll movement and a pitch movement such that the refueling boom moves in the desired direction.
US09352844B2
An aircraft nacelle includes a first subassembly consisting of a pipe (112) channeling an airflow in the direction of an engine having a covering or panel (118) for acoustic treatment, including, from the inside to the outside, a reflecting layer (120), at least one cellular structure (122), and at least one acoustically resistive structure (124) forming the aerodynamic surface of the pipe (112), as well as a second subassembly consisting of a lip (116) and a front frame (126), characterized in that it includes at least one connection element (134) which is separate from the two subassemblies and connected to a portion of the pipe (112) and to a portion of the lip forming an extension of the portion of the pipe at different points so as to be capable of enabling a relative movement between the two subassemblies.
US09352843B2
A gas turbine engine has a core engine incorporating a core engine turbine. A fan rotor is driven by a fan rotor turbine. The fan rotor turbine is in the path of gases downstream from the core engine turbine. A bypass door is moveable from a closed position at which the gases from the core engine turbine pass over the fan rotor turbine, and moveable to a bypass position at which the gases are directed away from the fan rotor turbine. An aircraft is also disclosed.
US09352840B2
A tray table for use with a passenger seat of a transportation vehicle is provided. The tray table may be moveable between a deployed position and a stowed position relative to a seat. The tray table may include a storage compartment for storing belongings of a passenger. A lid may be provided for covering an opening of the storage compartment. A portion of the lid may be transparent such that contents of the storage compartment may be readily viewed by a passenger when the tray table is in the deployed position. A portion of a storage compartment bottom may be transparent such that contents of the storage compartment may be readily viewed by a passenger when the tray table is in the stowed position. The tray table may have any number of storage compartments and a single lid or multiple lids may be used to cover the storage compartment openings.
US09352833B2
Technologies are generally described for controlling a flight path of a UAV based image capture system for solid modeling. Upon determining an initial movement path based on an estimate of a structure to be modeled, images of the structure to be modeled may be captured and surface hypotheses formed for unobserved surfaces based on the captured images. A normal vector and a viewing cone may be computed for each hypothesized surface. A set of desired locations may be determined based on the viewing cones for the entire structure to be modeled and a least impact path for the UAV determined based on the desired locations and desired flight parameters.
US09352829B2
An aircraft component has an exterior surface and a protective nanocoating carried by the exterior surface. An aircraft has an engine, a fuselage, and a component having an exterior surface and a protective nano coating carried by the exterior surface. A method of protecting an aircraft component includes selecting at least one harmful environmental component and applying a protective nanocoating to the aircraft component, wherein the protective nanocoating is configured to protect the aircraft component from the selected harmful environmental component.
US09352819B2
An example can include a pod detachably coupled to a hull. At least one thrust generator can be fixed to the pod. A power source can be mounted to the pod and slideable fore and aft. A power source actuator can be coupled between the pod and the power source to translate the location of the power source with respect to the pod. A sensor can be coupled to the pod to detect a pitch of the hull and provide a pitch signal. A controller can be coupled to one or more of the power source, the power source actuator, the first and second thrust generators and the sensor. The controller can maintain a pitch of the hull by translating the power source within the pod in association with the pitch signal.
US09352818B2
An outboard trolling marine motor assembly, conversion kit and method for converting a string trimmer into an outboard motor assembly. The assembly and kit featuring a propeller, a clamp assembly, a spacer and a mounting bracket. The propeller having a plurality of blades radially extending from a centrally located hub featuring a substantially centered non-circular recess. The propeller and spacer suitable for being mounted to a non-cylindrical prop-shaft. The clamp having a U-bolt with spaced apart threaded ends, fasteners and a block with a semi-circular slot and a plurality of apertures for receiving the ends of the U-bolt. Slot and U-bolt forming a substantially annular interior region. The mounting bracket having a pivotable body and at least one adjustable clamp for securing the motor assembly to a portion of a watercraft.
US09352816B1
An oar rowing device that may be configured to accommodate a canoe, rowboat, rowing skull or any similar watercraft using an oar rowing device. This oar rowing device blade is equipped with one or more multi-blade propeller housing each having a multi-blade propeller. Each propeller housing with a multi-blade propeller is open on both sides of the oar rowing blade. This oar rowing blade may also be equipped with cone shaped orifice housings through the oar rowing blade each having a center rotating cone shape with inner ribs and grooves. The pulling stroke of the oar rowing device generates the kinetic energy to put into motion the multi-blade propeller and the inner rotating cone shape orifice device.
US09352811B2
A sensor accommodation container, attached to a cap member of a pneumatic fender and installed inside a fender bag, includes a container body attached to a through hole penetrating the cap member so as to be able to move and protrude out of the fender bag and held at a predetermined protruded position, a lid for closing the through hole, a first seal member for sealing a gap between the container body and the through hole, a communication hole for communicating inside and outside of the container body when the container body has been installed inside the fender bag and a second seal member for shutting off the communication between the inside and the outside of the fender bag via the communication hole when the container body has been held at a predetermined protruded position.
US09352810B2
The inventive skate technology comprises a wakeboard or other type of floatation board, particularly, but not solely, designed for use behind a watercraft and which has a longitudinal arc that curves from the lowest points upward at the tip and tail but is reversed in at least one section of the board.
US09352809B2
A semi-submersible vessel for offshore operations is suitable to be operated in icy waters and in ice-free waters. The vessel includes an operating deck, at least one lower hull, an essentially vertical connecting structure between the at least one lower hull and the operating deck, and a ballast system. The connecting structure has a water portion and an icebreaking portion arranged on top of each other. The vessel is configured to have an icebreaking draft for icy waters, and a water draft for ice-free waters in which the waterline is substantially level with the water portion. The icebreaking portion has a closed tapered contour. During the water draft, the collective area of the water portion of the connecting structure intersecting the water surface is smaller than the collective area of the icebreaking portion of the connecting structure intersecting the water surface during the icebreaking draft.
US09352800B2
A hybrid vehicle is provided in which a hybrid type power unit is mounted to a vehicle body frame, the power unit having an engine with an engine body of which part is formed by a crankcase rotatably supporting a crankshaft, a transmission for changing speed of driving force transmitted from the crankshaft, and an electric motor capable of transmitting the driving force to the transmission, wherein the electric motor (9) is mounted to a lower portion at a front face of the engine body (11A). Thus, it is possible to prevent the position of the center of gravity from becoming higher according to the disposition of the electric motor, and to carry out sufficient cooling of the electric motor by utilizing traveling wind.
US09352795B2
A motorcycle footrest mount includes a support arm that is length adjustable and pivotally adjustable. The mount attaches to a motorcycle structure and includes a helical ramp. One end of the support arm is pivotably mounted to the helical ramp and is spring biased against the mount in a first, home position. The other end of the support arm is mounted to a footrest. The support arm is able to pivotally move downward along the helical ramp upon application of force by a motorcycle operator's legs and feet on the footrest, and to return to the home position when the operator removes his or her feet from the footrest by virtue of the spring biasing.
US09352794B2
A method for assembling motor vehicles in which a drive train, chassis and floor module are pre-assembled and then connected to a shell of the motor vehicle. The floor module is pre-assembled in a first pre-assembly process and the drive train and the chassis are pre-assembled in a second pre-assembly process. The floor module, the drive train and the chassis are combined and then connected to the shell of the motor vehicle.
US09352793B2
A slide shoe installs on an undercarriage frame assembly of an excavating machine to prevent contact by the lugs of track links when the track buckles. The slide shoe is connected at a top surface to a mounting bar extending between side plates of the frame assembly. The slide shoe may include a front bottom beveled surface extending forward from a bottom surface to a front surface and a rear bottom beveled surface extending rearward from the bottom surface, with the beveled surfaces oriented at upward angles with respect to a line parallel to the bottom surface. A rear upper beveled surface extends rearward from the top surface and is oriented at a downward angle with respect to a line parallel to the top surface and intersects the rear bottom beveled surface at a rear tip of the slide shoe.
US09352781B2
A motor vehicle, in particular a utility vehicle (UV), with a vehicle frame and/or a sub-frame (2; 2a) that has contact surfaces (10; 10a) extending transversely and/or longitudinally relative to the driving direction (F) and are connection surfaces to other structural units (6; 7; 8; 12). The structural units are connected by connecting elements (11) that pass through the contact surfaces (10; 10a). The connecting elements each define an axis (13) and are aligned such that the axes of the connecting elements extend through the contact surface (10; 10a) at an angle different from 90°.
US09352780B2
A driver assistance device for a motor vehicle includes a control unit that is designed for delivering control signals for carrying out an autonomous parking maneuver to a drive and/or steering system of the motor vehicle. The driver assistance system is configured to abort a parking maneuver in progress when an abort command is received. A detection device for detecting an electrostatic field is connected to the control unit in order to generate the abort command.
US09352757B2
A railcar bogie includes: a cross beam configured to support a carbody of a railcar; a pair of front and rear axles between which the cross beam is located and which are respectively arranged in front of and behind the cross beam in a railcar longitudinal direction so as to extend in a railcar width direction; bearings respectively provided at both railcar width direction sides of the axles and configured to rotatably support the axles; axle box main bodies configured to respectively accommodate the bearings; plate springs extending in the railcar longitudinal direction to respectively support both railcar width direction end portions of the cross beam, both longitudinal direction end portions of the plate springs being respectively arranged above the axle box main bodies to be respectively supported by the axle box main bodies.
US09352752B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate switching between autonomous and manual driving modes. In order to do so, the vehicle's computer may conduct a series of environmental, system, and driver checks to identify certain conditions. The computer may correct some of these conditions and also provide a driver with a checklist of tasks for completion. Once the tasks have been completed and the conditions are changed, the computer may allow the driver to switch from the manual to the autonomous driving mode. The computer may also make a determination, under certain conditions, that it would be detrimental to the driver's safety or comfort to make a switch from the autonomous driving mode to the manual driving mode.
US09352751B2
A method and a system for determining an information transfer rate between a driver and a vehicle, where the information transfer rate is calculated using driver information measured directly from the driver and vehicle information measured directly from the vehicle. The method also includes retrieving a baseline information transfer rate for maintaining control of the vehicle from a baseline information transfer rate database. A driver safety factor is calculated using the information transfer rate and the baseline information transfer rate.
US09352748B2
A system to optimize performance of a powered system, the system including a data device configured to provide current information about current operating conditions of the powered system and/or prior information about the powered system, a controller configured to control operation of the powered system, and a processor configured to provide at least one control command to the controller for use in operating the powered system and/or user information with at least one recommended command to a user to control the powered system, wherein the at least one control command and/or user information are based at least in part on the current information and/or the prior information. A system and computer software code, stored on a computer readable media and executable with a processor, are also disclosed.
US09352744B2
A vehicle includes a powertrain having an electric machine configured to selectively apply regenerative torque to cause deceleration in response to braking demand; the powertrain further including a torque converter configured to decouple the electric machine from wheels of the vehicle. The vehicle is also provided with a controller programmed to, during a regenerative braking event, receive a signal defining a regenerative torque limit, and in response to a fault condition associated with the regenerative torque limit, generate a replacement regenerative torque limit based upon a torque converter open speed to decrease roughness during transitions into and out of regenerative braking.
US09352740B2
A vehicle energy-management device is used for a vehicle that is equipped with a plurality of vehicle apparatuses driven by different energy sources. The vehicle energy-management device includes a travel route calculator that calculates a travel route of the vehicle, a travel route divider that divides the travel route into a plurality of sections, a control plan preparing unit that prepares, for each of the plurality of sections, a control plan for the plurality of vehicle apparatuses, and a vehicle apparatus controller that controls the plurality of vehicle apparatuses according to the control plan. The travel route divider determines a length of each of the sections such that a resolution is higher for a section closer to the vehicle and divides the travel route.
US09352738B2
A powertrain architecture includes an engine and a transmission coupled through a launch device that is configured to be selectively mechanically coupled to the engine and to the transmission. A ring gear is positioned at least partially around the launch device. An engine lock up clutch mechanically couples the engine to the ring gear. A turbine lock up clutch mechanically couples the launch device to the ring gear. Ancillary devices are provided to receive power from or transmit power to the ring gear. The engine lock up clutch and the turbine lock up clutch selectively engage the ring gear to power at least one ancillary device.
US09352732B2
An anti-blocking system for a vehicle having an electromotive vehicle drive unit includes one or more driving motors. During a braking process, the braking effect of the driving motors operating as a generator is limited in such a way that brake slip on at least one driving wheel is limited to a predefined threshold value. The rotational speed of each driving motor is regulated by a controllable converter associated therewith, the ABS control device constantly transmitting, to each converter, a mandatory minimum braking rotational speed for the driving motor associated with the respective converter in order to limit brake slip.
US09352724B2
A wiper device is provided that suppresses plastic deformation of a blade rubber of a wiper blade without wasting power of a battery installed to a vehicle. A wiper device is equipped with wiper blades that wipe a vehicle front glass, a wiper motor that swings the wiper blades in alternating between an upper turn position and a lower turn position by accompanied rotation of the output shaft, and a control unit that controls the wiper motor. In a case of the vehicle ignition switch being ON or OFF, the control unit controls the wiper motor such that from a stopped position where the wiper blades are located, the wiper blades are swung in a specific range of between a first stopping position and a second stopping position, and then stopped.
US09352720B2
The present invention relates to an airbag for a vehicle, including: an inflator; an airbag cushion which is deployed by high-pressure gas flowing into the airbag cushion from the inflator, and has a vent hole for discharging the flowing high-pressure gas to the outside; a vent cover which is disposed in the airbag cushion so as to close the vent hole; and a pocket which is disposed in the airbag cushion, connected with the vent cover, and moved after the airbag cushion is initially deployed, so as to allow the vent hole to be closed by the vent cover.
US09352718B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a base fabric for airbags with excellent deployment speed, internal pressure retention and workability, and an airbag using the same. The inventive base fabric for airbags has resin arranged in at least one surface of the cloth which comprises synthetic fibers, and is characterized in that the amount of resin adhered is from 10 to 50 g/m2 and, further, the weaving thread's filaments is exposed on the resin surface, and the weaving thread's filaments exposure rate is from 1 to 25%.
US09352716B2
An automobile air bag mounting structure includes a chute defining an opening with a first wall extending from the opening, a cover fully sealing the opening, and a hinge member extending integrally between the first wall and a portion of the cover. The hinge member extends from the first housing wall and to the cover in a direction toward the opening with at least one segment therebetween extending away from the opening.
US09352706B2
An assembly includes a base component secured to vehicle frame components and a first body component having an inside surface abutting the base component. The assembly further includes a first fastening member securing the first body component to the base component. The first fastening member has a first flange portion engaging the outside surface of the first body component and a first shaft portion engaging the base component. The assembly also includes a second body component abutting the first flange portion of the first fastening member opposite the first body component and a second fastening member securing the second body component to the first body and base components. The second fastening member has a second flange portion engaging the second body component and a second shaft portion engaging the first shaft portion of the first fastening member.
US09352698B2
A universal mounting system for mounting an accessory in a pickup truck bed. The system includes a main support member having an upper end and a lower end, wherein the upper end is engageable with the upper horizontal portion of the sidewall of the pickup truck bed and the lower end is engageable with the floor of the pickup truck bed. The main support member includes a transverse channel. The universal mounting system further includes a cantilever member extending through at least a portion of the transverse channel of the main support member. The cantilever member has a mounting system defining a pivot axis. A swivel plate is connectable to the accessory and includes a mounting system pivotally engaging the mounting system of the cantilever member to define a pivotal connection along the pivot axis therebetween to permit the accessory to pivot about the pivot axis.
US09352692B2
A vehicle mirror and camera mounting system includes a windshield attachment member configured to adhesively attach at a vehicle windshield and a camera mounting bracket configured to attach at the windshield attachment member. The camera mounting bracket is an injection molded bracket that is formed by injection molding a thermoplastic reinforced polyamide polymeric molding resin. With the windshield attachment member adhesively attached at the in-cabin surface of the windshield, the camera mounting bracket, with a camera module attached thereat, is attached at the windshield attachment member. The camera mounting bracket includes a mirror attachment portion for attaching an interior rearview mirror assembly. The mirror mount includes an attaching portion that is configured to insert at least partially into a socket of the mirror attachment portion of the camera mounting bracket to attach the interior rearview mirror assembly at the camera mounting bracket.
US09352688B2
A vehicle comprises electric motor, generator of simulated engine sounds, decider of whether or not to generate simulated engine sounds and controller of the level of simulated engine sounds. The controller smoothly increases level of simulated engine sounds upon decision of sound generation on detection of pedestrian, crosswalk, narrow road, or road with no sidewalk. The decider is responsive to vehicle navigation system, or ETC, or camera of EDR. EDR records the decision as circumstantial evidence. The decision may be optionally possible, but is forcibly made upon necessity. Simulated engine sounds can be greater than, or equal to, or less than real engine sounds. The controller makes a soft peak of simulated engine sound upon brake or accelerator operated. Balance of simulated engine sounds among front, rear, right and left of vehicle is changeable in response to shift lever or blinker lever operation. The decision is visually indicated inside vehicle.
US09352679B2
A kiosk for selling frozen confections such as shaved ice or ice cream is provided with a liquid-topping dispenser assembly having liquid-dispensing faucets which are operable by a customer outside the kiosk to dispense liquid toppings onto the frozen confections. The dispenser assembly may be configured to allow people to operate faucets from both sides of the dispenser assembly. The dispenser assembly extends outwardly of the kiosk in a dispensing orientation and is movable to a stored orientation. The dispenser assembly may also be movable between several dispensing positions. The kiosk may be stationary or mobile. The kiosk may be provided with more than one dispenser assembly and may use a dispenser assembly mounted on a trailer.
US09352674B2
A seat that includes a seat bottom and seat back, an endbay assembly positioned to one side of the seat bottom, and an armrest positioned within the endbay assembly and selectively moveable between an upper position for use as an armrest and a lower position level with an upper seating surface of the seat bottom for allowing ingress and egress to the seat.
US09352667B2
In a fitting system for a vehicle seat having at least one fitting by which a rest can be pivoted relative to a seat part from at least one use position to a non-use position, the fitting has a first fitting part with a toothed rim, a second fitting part, having at least one moving bolt which locks the fitting in the use position by interacting with the toothed rim, a prestressed eccentric which moves the bolt radially outward to interact with the toothed rim, and a control cam which moves the bolt radially inward in the event of rotation in the opening direction, to terminate interaction with the toothed rim. The control cam can be rotated in the closing direction in a manner uncoupled from the eccentric, to lock the fitting in the non-use position by interaction between the one bolt and the toothed rim.
US09352665B2
Electromechanical systems using magnetic fields to induce eddy currents and generate lift are described. Magnet configurations which can be employed in the systems are illustrated. The magnet configuration can be used to generate lift and/or thrust. Arrangements of hover engines, which can employ the magnet configurations, are described. Further, vehicles, which employ the hover engines and associated hover engines are described.
US09352664B2
A charging control method and system for an environmentally friendly vehicle are provided and promote the enhancement of charging efficiency by improving a power control method of a power factor correction (PFC) converter while a battery is being charged through an on board charger (OBC) in vehicle. The method sensing, by a voltage detector, a battery voltage during charging and calculating, by a controller, a target value to maintain an output voltage of the PFC converter. The target value is calculated from the sensed battery voltage and the maximum available duty value of the DC-DC converter. The output voltage of the PFC converter is maintained, based on the calculated target value.
US09352658B2
The invention relates to systems and methods for charging a vehicle. A vehicle and charging station can be designed such that an electric or hybrid vehicle can operate in a fashion similar to a conventional vehicle by being opportunity charged throughout a known route.
US09352657B2
An electrical and/or hybrid motor vehicle device includes a charging device for the charging of an accumulator device. The charging device includes a first charging unit with a connector element for the charging of the accumulator device, which is provided for energy transfer by means of contacts. The charging device also includes a second charging unit with an energy transfer unit for the charging of the accumulator device, which is provided for a contactless energy transfer. The charging device has a charging electronic system, which is provided at least in part as an integral construction with the first and second charging units.
US09352656B2
A vehicle having at least one electric machine capable of propelling the vehicle is provided. An oil circulation path is provided that circulates oil through the electric machines. A controller commands the electric machines to fulfill torque demands. The controller utilizes the oil temperature in the oil circulation path in order to control the commanded torque output by the electric machines. In the event of a failure or fault in the oil temperature sensors, the controller estimates the oil temperature from the temperature of coils within the electric machine. The estimated oil temperature is utilized instead of the sensed oil temperature to control the torque outputs to maintain torque demands.
US09352640B2
The invention relates to a vehicle roof (1) with a roof opening (3) which is closable by a roof element (4), and a side outer panel (7) which, in an erected open position of the roof element (4), covers a lateral gap between the roof element (4) and a side wall frame (5). According to the invention, the side outer panel (7) is mounted pivotably in the longitudinal direction (x) of the vehicle.
US09352639B2
A door system for a service vehicle. The door system comprises a door frame that includes a plurality of elongated frame members, an interior panel coupled to the door frame, and a plurality of connectors for coupling the interior panel to the door frame. Additionally, each of the frame members comprises an attachment flange having a longitudinal groove and a series of longitudinally spaced insert openings. The insert openings extend entirely through the attachment flange and open into the longitudinal groove. As such, the connectors extend through the insert openings to secure the interior panel to the door frame.
US09352634B2
A composite heat exchanger includes a first heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between feed air and a refrigerant, and a second heat exchanger configured to exchange heat between the feed air and engine coolant. The composite heat exchanger is integrated so as to enable heat transfer between discharge refrigerant flowing through the first heat exchanger and the coolant flowing through the second heat exchanger. Furthermore, the composite heat exchanger is configured to change an amount of the heat exchanged among the feed air, the discharge refrigerant and the coolant in the composite heat exchanger by changing at least one of a volume of the feed air, a refrigerant discharge capacity of the compression mechanism, and an inflow amount of the heat medium.
US09352629B2
A spring including a composite structure including reinforcement fibers in a matrix. The composite structure further includes at least one Bragg cell and at least one optical fiber connected to the Bragg cell.
US09352620B2
A motorcycle tire for running on rough terrain has a block pattern that includes major groups arranged circumferentially of the tire at intervals, and minor groups arranged between the major groups. The major group consists of four blocks arranged axially of the tire and each connected to the next with a tie bar, wherein each is defined as having the centroid of its top surface within a tread center region having a developed width of 60% of a developed tread width, and angles (θ1a) of straight lines drawn between axially adjacent centroids are not more than 10 degrees with respect to the tire axial direction. The minor group consists of two or three blocks connected with a tie bar, and angles of straight lines drawn between axially adjacent centroids of top surfaces of the blocks are 15 to 80 degrees with respect to the tire axial direction.
US09352616B2
In a tire according to the present invention, the shape of the outermost reinforcing layer in the tire radial direction is optimized.
US09352608B2
An electric pencil sharpener includes a cutter carrier, and first and second cutter members mounted on the cutter carrier and having long and short blade portions. The rear end of the short blade portion is disposed forwardly of the rear end of the long blade portion. A shaving space includes a rear region disposed between the rear ends of the long and short blade portions. The rear region allows extension of a tip portion of a pencil thereinto for pushing a switch actuation unit so as to deactivate a motor when the tip portion of the pencil has been sharpened to extend a predetermined length into the rear region.
US09352600B2
A tape cassette includes a cassette case, a tape roll housed in the cassette case, an arm portion that guides a tape, and a long hole extending in a left-right direction of the cassette case and formed straddling a center position of the cassette case in the left-right direction, wherein a first distance (a length of the long hole in the left-right direction) is larger than a second distance (a length from an end portion of the tape cassette in an opposite direction to a feed direction of the tape fed in the arm portion, to an end portion of the long hole in the opposite direction), and a center of gravity of the tape cassette is located in a specific area whose both end positions in the left-right direction are the same as those of the long hole, and which extends in a front-rear direction.
US09352596B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a first transport roller, and a second transport roller which transports a medium; and a liquid ejecting head which includes a plurality of nozzle openings, and ejects liquid toward the medium which is transported, a pressure generation unit which causes a change in pressure in liquid in a flow path, and a wiring board of which one face is arranged so as to face a direction in which the liquid is ejected, and is electrically connected to the pressure generation unit, in which the wiring board is arranged between the first transport roller and the second transport roller, and is arranged at a position at which the wiring board does not overlap with the first transport roller and the second transport roller and the first transport roller or the second transport roller is arranged at a position at which the roller overlaps with the liquid ejecting head.
US09352594B1
Articles each having a reference mark located around a respective extension axis, are loaded on piece-holder assemblies distributed around a central axis of a rotatable drum, and each including a pair of spindles operable in rotation by a same motor, each around a respective longitudinal axis. The drum rotates about said central axis to transfer said piece-holder assembly to a printing station, where a printing pattern is formed on a side surface of each article driven in rotation by the respective spindle. Before transferring to the printing station, at least one of the articles is oriented around the respective spindle, to place the reference marks of the articles along a same angular orientation around the respective extension axes.
US09352590B2
A sheet feeder, including: a sheet supply roller configured to supply a sheet to a sheet feeding path; a sheet feed roller configured to feed the sheet supplied to the sheet feeding path by the sheet supply roller to a downstream side in a sheet feeding direction in which the sheet is fed; a discharge roller configured to discharge the sheet fed by the feed roller to a downstream side in the sheet feeding direction; a drive motor configured to drive a first shaft for rotating the feed roller; a first transmitting mechanism configured to transmit a rotary motion of the first shaft to a second shaft for rotating the discharge roller; and a second transmitting mechanism configured to transmit a rotary motion of the second shaft to a third shaft for rotating the sheet supply roller.
US09352586B2
Method for printing patterns onto three-dimensional articles mounted respectively on rotary receiving elements, including a step of generating, for each receiving element, a set of several digital images for respectively printing parts of a same pattern onto an article mounted on the receiving element, a step of printing successively parts of a same pattern onto a same article respectively from the digital images of the set associated with the receiving element for the article, the digital images of a same set having a same length, and a step of printing simultaneously several parts of distinct patterns respectively onto several articles, each simultaneous printing of a part of a pattern onto an article being performed from a digital image of the set associated with the receiving element for the article.
US09352566B2
An ink ejection device comprises: an ink supply section including a plurality of ink chambers respectively containing the plural kinds of inks; and a head section having plural groups of nozzles and ejecting the plural kinds of inks to be supplied from the ink supply section. The head section includes a plurality of supply ports which are aligned in the scanning direction and through which the plural kinds of inks are supplied. The ink supply section includes: a plurality of connection passages respectively connecting the plurality of supply ports to the ink chambers containing the inks to be supplied respectively to the supply ports; and a plurality of air discharge passages connected respectively to the plurality of ink chambers. Then, the plurality of ink chambers are aligned in the conveying direction.
US09352565B2
A liquid jet head includes an actuator substrate having an alternating array of ejection grooves and non-ejection grooves which penetrate from an upper surface to a lower surface of the actuator substrate and are longer in a substrate surface direction than in a depth direction. A cover plate attached to the actuator substrate covers upper surface openings of the grooves, and a nozzle plate attached to the actuator substrate covers lower surface openings of the grooves. The grooves are formed in such a manner that configurations of the lower surface openings of the ejection grooves and the non-ejection grooves are different.
US09352563B2
A liquid ejecting head is disclosed. The liquid ejecting head includes a liquid inlet which is provided on one surface of the liquid ejecting head and to which a liquid maintaining portion that maintains liquid is connected, a recessed portion in which the liquid inlet is provided on an inner side and which is open to the one surface, a groove portion which is continuously provided across a vicinity of the recessed portion on an outer side of the recessed portion, and open to the one surface, and a communication path which communicates with a side surface where the groove portion and the one surface intersect with each other, or with a surface opposite to the one surface.
US09352560B2
In one example, a printhead structure includes: a first layer; an array of openings in the first layer to form printing fluid ejection chambers; a second layer on the first layer; an array of orifices through the second layer, each orifice located adjacent to one of the openings in the first layer; a groove in the first layer spanning substantially a full length of the array of openings; and multiple holes through the second layer to the groove in the first layer.
US09352553B1
Provided is a printing apparatus including a positioning unit that positions a print object, a printing unit that prints a predetermined print image on the print object after elapse of a predetermined standby time since the print object is positioned by the positioning unit, and a controller that adjusts the standby time depending on quality of the print image printed on the print object by the printing unit, and controls the printing unit so as to print the print image on a subsequent print object after the elapse of the adjusted standby time.
US09352550B2
By providing a rotating body which supports three-dimensional recording media on a support surface in a direction which intersects with a gravity direction and which has a rotating shaft in the direction which intersects with the support surface, and a recording head which carries out recording onto recording media by discharging ink in a direction which intersects with the rotating shaft, recording is carried out with high quality with respect to the recording media while firmly supporting the three-dimensional recording media.
US09352545B2
A printing/coating method includes the steps of transferring highly reactive ink/varnish which cures with a low light energy onto a transfer object, and irradiating the transfer object, onto which the highly reactive ink/varnish is transferred, with light in the wavelength range, in which no ozone is generated, to cure the highly reactive ink/varnish on the transfer object. A printing/coating apparatus is also disclosed.
US09352540B2
The invention relates to a device for tensioning the fabric of a device for restoring a removable panel, characterized in that it comprises at least one structure, a thermal chamber arranged inside said structure and able to heat said flexible fabric, an internal frame elastically secured to said thermal chamber, and at least one actuator secured to the structure and able to move the thermal chamber so that, on the one hand, the thermal chamber is moved between a “fabric at rest” position and a “fabric stretched” position and, on the other hand, to move the internal frame between a “fabric at rest” position and an intermediate position located between said “fabric at rest” and “fabric stretched” positions, the flexible fabric resting on part of the thermal chamber and being held by its peripheral edge between the internal frame and the structure. The invention also proposes a method for coating a removable panel that uses the tensioning device.
US09352539B2
A carrier belt for fabricating a device or component such as an anisotropic conductive film. The carrier belt includes a substrate having a sacrificial image enhancing layer. Microcavities are formed in the carrier by laser ablation through the image enhancing layer. After the image enhancement layer is removed, a plurality of conductive particles are distributed into an array of microcavities formed by laser ablation on a surface of a carrier belt and transferred to an adhesive layer. The image enhancing layer enables one to form microcavities with a fine pitch and spacing and partitions having a high aspect ratio.
US09352538B1
A method of manufacturing a composite material structure, such as a strut, includes providing a rigid, elongate, substantially tubular member and coupling a first end fitting to a first axial end of the substantially tubular member. The first end fitting has an undulated outer surface with one or more alternating, annular crests and grooves that extend longitudinally along the first end fitting. The method includes rolling a sheet of pre-impregnated composite fiber around the substantially tubular member one or more times such that the sheet covers the substantially tubular element and extends at least partially over the undulations of the first end fitting. The method includes curing the pre-impregnated composite fibers in the rolled sheet.
US09352534B2
A ceramic plate structure includes a first transmittance-enhancing film layer disposed between a substrate and a first binding film layer, a conductive film layer disposed between the first binding film layer and a second binding film layer, and a second transmittance-enhancing film layer disposed between the second binding film layer and a ceramic layer. The ceramic layer renders the ceramic plate structure satisfactory in terms of transmittance gain, thermal conductivity coefficient, electrical insulation, rigidity, resistance to wear and tear, and resistance to wind erosion of the ceramic plate structure. The ceramic plate structure is suitable for use with touch panels to therefore enhance the cost-effectiveness of the manufacturing process of touch panels by cutting its material costs, reducing its power consumption, and shortening its production cycle. Accordingly, the anticipated benefits and objectives of the ceramic plate structure are attained.
US09352530B2
A structure for use in industrial fabrics such as paper machine clothing and engineered fabrics. The structure is a bicomponent extruded elastomeric netting or mesh having a high degree of both compressibility under an applied normal load and excellent recovery (resiliency or spring back) upon removal of that load.
US09352515B2
Method to make an arm in a composite material for articulated or telescopic modular structures for the distribution of concrete, which comprises a first step in which one or more layers of fiber (16, 25) are distributed on the external surface (17) of a male-type mold (11) having a cross section defined by at least a substantially flat wall. The section of the male mold (11) reduces, in at least one of its sizes, passing from one of its ends to the other. The fibers (16) may or may not be pre-impregnated with a resinous matrix. The method also comprises a second step in which the male mold (11) is ejected from the product thus obtained, a possible heat treatment being provided, for example in autoclave, before the extraction of the product.
US09352514B2
An apparatus for use in formation of a composite structure about a mandrel. A generally flexible pneumatic tool and a generally rigid insert are inserted end to end in a cavity of the mandrel. A first end of the insert is positioned in the cavity, adjacent the pneumatic tool, and defines an interface therebetween. The retainer is connected to the insert proximate the first end of the insert. The retainer has an end that extends outwardly from the first end of the insert across the interface and over a portion of the end of the pneumatic tool. The uppermost surfaces of the insert, retainer, and pneumatic tool are generally flush with one another and facilitate a smooth surface being formed over such uppermost surfaces as the composite material is wound about the mandrel in the formation of the composite structure.
US09352509B1
A tool for removing a coating from at least one of a surface and a fastener head that is generally flush with the surface is provided. The tool includes a first scraper configured to abrasively engage the coating on at least one of the surface and the fastener head and a second scraper sized to abrasively engage the coating in a recess in the fastener head. The first scraper is rotatable relative to the fastener head and the second scraper is rotatable within the recess. The first scraper and the second scraper are translatable relative to each other.
US09352508B2
There is provided a thermally shrinkable polyester film where the opening ability along the perforation is very good. A thermally shrinkable polyester film comprising polyester resin in which ethylene terephthalate is a main constituting component and not less than 13 molar % of one or more monomer component(s) which can become non-crystalline component is/are contained in the total polyester resin components, wherein the film has specific thermally shrinking characteristics and specific mechanical characteristics after thermal shrinking treatment.
US09352503B2
According to embodiments, there is provided a method (300) of controlling a first melt accumulator (121). The first melt accumulator (121) is part of an injection unit (100), the injection unit (100) including an extruder (102) for preparing molding material and a second melt accumulator (123). The first melt accumulator (121) and the second melt accumulator (123) are configured to sequentially receive molding material from the extruder (102). The extruder (102) is being operable to produce molding material in at least near continuous manner, both the first melt accumulator (121) and the second melt accumulator (123) being associated with a respective shot size set-point. The method comprises detecting (310) an indication of an out-of-boundary condition associated with operation the first melt accumulator (121); responsive to said detecting (310), controlling (320) the first melt accumulator (121) to continue accepting molding material beyond its respective shot size set-point.
US09352496B2
A utility vehicle is equipped with a R.O.P.S. enclosing a passenger space, a cargo bed disposed behind the passenger space, and a screen disposed between the passenger space and the cargo bed. The screen is divided into an upper screen and a lower screen.
US09352492B2
An injection blow molding (IBM) system and method for forming a plurality of parisons and molded articles. The IBM system includes an injection station having upper and lower die sets and a plurality of upper and lower mold half blocks each attached to a respective die set. Each of the upper mold half blocks has a corresponding lower mold half block with which it cooperatively defines one or more cavities for forming the exterior shape of the body of one or more of the parisons. The individual, independent attachment of the mold half blocks to the die sets allows easy individual replacement of faulty or worn mold blocks. Further, such an independent attachment configuration also permits the mold half blocks of each die set to be spaced from one another, so as to reduce thermal expansion problems and ease dimensional tolerances required for the width of the mold half blocks.
US09352488B2
A caulking tube assembly is provided having a cap and an auger component. The auger component has an auger engagement head portion and a helical or spiral portion. The helical portion is compressible and sized to be fitted in a tube for holding caulk. The auger engagement head has a hexagonal shaft housing sized to receive a mixing shaft therein. A dye or tint color formula is added to caulk disposed in the tube and the mixing shaft engages the auger component mixing the caulk and dye or tint color formula to produce tinted caulk. The caulk is colored to satisfy the requirements of virtually any application and dispensed from a caulking gun. In another preferred embodiment there is a caulking tube assembly with having a closed cap and a mixing component. The mixing component has a shaft engagement portion and a shaftless auger portion.
US09352478B2
A slicer with which the thickness of sliced food can be varied includes a movable receiving part that receives sliding food and is subjected to downward pressure from the food, the movable receiving part not moving downward due to the pressure even if a means for securing the receiving part in place is not separately provided. An adjustment member for moving a vertically mobile first receiving part is mounted in a frame of the slicer so as to be forwardly and rearwardly movable. A means for moving the adjustment member is a worm that is provided on a drive shaft. A deflection mechanism is present between the adjustment member and the first receiving part which converts the forward and rearward motion of the adjustment member into vertical motion of the first receiving part.
