US09376196B2
In an apparatus for controlling operation of an outboard motor having an internal combustion engine and a transmission being selectively changeable in gear position to establish speeds including at least a first speed and a second speed and transmitting power of the engine to the propeller with a gear ratio determined by established speed, it is determined whether acceleration is instructed to the engine when the second speed is established and operation of the engine is controlled to increase a fuel amount to be supplied to the engine when detected engine speed is greater than a predetermined speed, thereby improving the performance immediately after acceleration is started.
US09376183B2
A dog flotation device with safety flag includes a flotation vest having a central panel adapted to cover the back of a dog, and a safety flag including a flag staff having a lower end connected with the flotation vest and an upper end remote from the lower end. The safety flag includes a motion-activated light connected to the upper end of the flag staff and a flag attached to the flag staff below the motion-activated light. One or more buoyant elements are incorporated into the flotation vest for providing buoyancy to the dog flotation device. The motion-activated light includes an LED light, a power source, a motion detector for detecting movement of the motion-activated light, and a circuit for activating said LED light in response to the detection of motion by the motion detector.
US09376180B2
Embodiments generally to raft assembly components and methods. Specific aspects provide a tape configuration that can assist positioning of raft tubes with respect to one another, as well as positioning a life raft floor with respect to one or more of the raft tubes. The tape configuration may have a base and an extending T-shaped flange.
US09376179B2
A watercraft floating port lift system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the lift system may include a platform frame, one or more floating ports coupled to the platform frame, and a lift mechanism. The lift system may be operatively coupled to and capable of lifting the one or more floating ports, platform frame, and any watercraft that may be positioned thereon out of a body of water and maintain the watercraft, ports, and platform frame above the water for an extended storage period. The lift system may also be capable of subsequently lowering the watercraft, one or more floating ports, and platform frame back to the body of water in a controlled manner, thereby enabling a user to launch and subsequently recover a watercraft from the body of water.
US09376176B1
A stand up paddleboard is provided. The paddleboard includes a base portion having an upper facing surface configured for being stood upon by a user and a downward facing generally flat planar surface and a support selectively engageable with the base portion and defining one or more pivot points for pivoting an oar about the pivot point during rowing. The paddleboard has a first configuration in which the support is not engaged with the base portion and second configuration in which the support is engaged with the base portion and extends in a generally upwardly direction from the upper facing surface of the base portion.
US09376162B2
A bicycle frame assembly having a number of rotatable members configured to absorb shocks and impacts associated with operation of the bicycle. The assembly includes a frame constructed to support a rider and a chain stay having a rearward end that extends toward a wheel hub and a forward end that is pivotably connected to the frame. An absorber is pivotably connected to the forward end of the chain stay and extends to a rocker arm that is pivotably connected to the frame. A seat stay is pivotably connected to a rearward end of the rocker arm and extends to the rearward end of the chain stay. The rearward ends of the seat stay and the chain stay are pivotably connected to rotate about a common axis.
US09376160B2
An axle assembly for a bicycle is disclosed. The axle assembly is configured to be installed at a mounting structure on the bicycle to mount a rotating hub of a wheel on the bicycle. The axle is secured to the mounting structure by a bolt; the bolt is nested in a retainer secured to the mounting structure. The axle has at least one non-circular section engaging a corresponding non-circular section of the mounting structure. The retainer is installed in a threaded section of the mounting structure. At initial installation of the axle assembly the retainer and the bolt of the axle assembly are installed on the mounting structure; subsequent installation and removal of the wheel/hub is accomplished by installation and removal of the axle performed by rotation of the bolt (using a tool or a tool-free feature) nested in the retainer. The axle assembly can be installed in the front fork (such as a front suspension fork) or the rear frame of the bicycle or other wheeled vehicle. The axle assembly comprises one or more of the inventive concepts and features shown and described in the specification and FIGURES.
US09376159B2
A direction restricting device, for the inner and outer tubes of a bicycle seat post, includes at least one axial groove arranged on the wall of one of the tubes, and a direction restricting element fastened to the other tube at the position relative to the axial groove wall. The direction restricting element may be inserted into the axial groove and at least includes an elastic slider provided with an axial opening in the middle. The direction restricting element may be inserted into the axial groove to enable the axial outer walls of the direction restricting element to engage with the axial inner walls of the axial groove to eliminate the interspace between the slider and the axial groove to prevent deflection and wobbling and to reinforce the steadiness of both tubes when the inner and outer tubes rotate relative to each other.
US09376158B1
A portable conveyance has a deck, a front drive wheel proximately disposed to a first end of the deck and a rear drive wheel attached proximate to a second end of the deck. A guide roller assembly attached proximate to the rear drive wheel. The guide roller assembly has a first rotational axis and the rear drive wheel rotates about a second rotational axis different from the first rotational axis and parallel to the first rotational axis, such that the guide roller assembly is not in contact with a substantially flat surface when the first and rear drive wheels are in contact with the substantially flat surface, and the guide roller assembly is in rotational contact with the surface when the deck is lifted into a towing position.
US09376150B2
The present invention relates to an automatic vacuum cleaner. According to an aspect of the present invention, the automatic vacuum cleaner includes a first movement part and a second movement part capable of together moving along an inclined cleaning surface, a movement unit provided in at least one of the first movement part and the second movement part, a cleaning member provided in at least one of the first movement part and the second movement part, and a detection unit which detects states of the cleaning surface, wherein movement speeds of the first movement part and the second movement part are varied according to the states of the cleaning surface.
US09376149B2
A track pad of an articulating track system for a machine is disclosed. The track pad includes a ground engaging portion and a body portion. The ground engaging portion includes a ground engaging surface that engages the ground during operation of the machine. The body portion extends from the ground engaging portion in a direction opposite the ground engaging surface. The body portion includes a roller engaging surface distal to the ground engaging surface. The roller engaging surface is a convex surface that matches the curvature of a roller surface for a roller of the machine.
US09376145B2
A vehicle hood panel has an outer panel and an inner panel joined to each other. The inner panel has a joining point surface joined to the outer panel by mastic. The inner panel has a plurality of beads surrounded by the joining point surface. Each bead is extended in a vehicle right-left direction. A bottom of the bead is communicated with the joining point surface by vertical walls. In at least one of front and vertical walls, an upper edge thereof is curved so that in plan view, a radius of curvature at a center portion in the vehicle right-left direction is smaller than a radius of curvature at each end in the vehicle right-left direction.
US09376138B2
The rack shaft supporting apparatus includes a support yoke, a plug, a torsion spring or a spiral spring and a guide bush. A plug cam portion of the plug includes three plug cam surfaces. A yoke cam portion of the support yoke includes three yoke cam surfaces having a shape corresponding to that of the plug cam surfaces. The yoke cam surface contacts to the plug cam surface. The torsion spring or the spiral spring imparts force rotating the yoke cam portion against the plug cam portion to the support yoke. The guide bush includes a bush body and an arm portion. The bush body is fixed to the housing. The arm portion supports a side portion of the rack shaft.
US09376135B2
A steering device includes a steering column capable of a telescopic adjustment, a support bracket provided with an insertion hole, a movable tooth member fitted into the insertion hole with play in an axial direction, and a stationary tooth member arranged so as to face the movable tooth member. The movable tooth member has a first tooth, and is elastically displaceable to both sides in the axial direction from a predetermined neutral position. The stationary tooth member with a second tooth engageable with the first tooth is moved in a lateral direction to be brought into contact with the movable tooth member and to be separated therefrom. As a result, the second tooth is allowed to engage with the first tooth, and engagement between the first tooth and the second tooth is released.
US09376130B1
A self-jacking, mobile power tool stand has an extended or erect position and a collapsed position. The geometry of various components of the stand facilitates self-erection of the stand to the raised position and the jacking of a pair of wheels off the floor so as to minimize vibrations from the power tool during operations. Conversely, when in the closed position, the stand can be used to transport the power tool in the manner of a conventional two-wheeled handtruck.
US09376127B2
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.
US09376124B2
A railway tank car including a protective structure for the top of its cargo tank and surrounding both a valve group mounting nozzle and a pressure-relief safety valve nozzle, to protect the associated valves against damage resulting from the car being overturned, particularly while the railcar is moving along a railway. The protective structure includes protective housings including upstanding walls of metal plate construction surrounding the nozzles yet not attached directly to the nozzles, so that the protective housings afford convenient access to the valves associated with the nozzles.
US09376123B2
A system includes a vehicle control system, a friction modification unit, and a friction management module. The vehicle control system is configured to obtain a trip plan for the vehicle. The trip plan is based on one or more characteristics of a trip of the vehicle along a route in a transportation network, characteristics of the vehicle, or characteristics of the route along which the vehicle travels. The trip plan designates one or more tractive operations or braking operations. The friction modification unit is configured to modify a friction characteristic of a surface of the route as the vehicle travels on the route. The friction management module is configured to direct the friction modification unit to modify the friction characteristic of the surface of the route based on the trip plan.
US09376118B2
A method and system monitor a plurality of operating parameters for a tire over time during usage of the tire as the tire is exposed to actual operating conditions. The system and method may also determine a tire health parameter for the tire that provides an indication of the condition of the tire based upon the data collected for the tire over time during usage of the tire. The plurality of operating parameters includes, in the least, a temperature associated with the tire during usage of the tire and a duration of usage of the tire.
US09376116B1
A vibration control system is disclosed for a machine having a powertrain secured by a mounting system. The control system may include a first sensor, a second sensor, a vibration inducing device, and a controller. The first sensor may be configured to generate a first signal indicative of a parameter of a work cycle of the machine, and the second sensor may be configured to generate a second signal indicative of vibrations induced by the powertrain. The controller may be in communication with the first sensor, the second sensor, and the vibration inducing device. The controller may be configured to classify a current operation of the machine as one of a plurality of predetermined segments of a work cycle based on the first signal, to predict a vibration profile that will be generated by the machine during a future segment of the work cycle, to tune a listening window based on the vibration profile, and to generate a command wave directed to the vibration inducing device to generate canceling vibrations during the future segments based on the second signal received within the listening window.
US09376108B2
A method and system of providing steering in cruise control, in low friction conditions, at low speed and in low range. Speed of individual vehicle wheels is repeatedly and automatically adjusted to ensure that the actual rate of turn of the vehicle approaches the theoretical rate of turn as demanded by the vehicle driver.
US09376096B2
An apparatus for controlling a hydraulically-actuated brake of an aircraft includes a brake control unit. The brake control unit is configured to receive a brake signal from an operator of the aircraft. A pump is in fluidic communication with a reservoir for holding hydraulic fluid and the brake for supplying the hydraulic fluid from the reservoir to the brake. An electric motor is in communication with the brake control unit and coupled to the pump to control pressure of the hydraulic fluid supplied by the pump in accordance with the brake signal.
US09376095B2
A vehicle control method includes iteratively modifying a level of braking of the vehicle until it is determined that the vehicle has substantially lost traction with respect to the road surface, then determining the coefficient of friction between the road surface and the tire based on the level of braking at the time the vehicle substantially lost fraction. In one embodiment, previous ABS or other vehicle control events are used as a basis for estimating an initial level of braking to be applied during the friction measurement procedure. Such a deterministic maneuver can also function as a collision warning to the driver of the vehicle.
US09376094B2
A pedal bracket is fixed to a dash panel on an interior side of a vehicle room. A brake arm is oscillatably supported by the pedal bracket and has a brake pedal pad at its one end. A coupling arm is supported by the pedal bracket and couples a push rod and the brake arm together. A rotating arm is supported by the coupling arm in a rotatable state. One end of the rotating arm contacts with a fixed bracket and thereby rotates the rotating arm when the pedal bracket is displaced in a vehicle rearward direction. The rotation causes contact of another end of the rotating arm with the push rod to induce curving of the push rod.
US09376087B2
A front module (7) of a motor vehicle has vehicle front-side air guiding element (1) for a vehicle radiator, and has a foam crash element (6) that is positioned in front of the air guiding element (1) on the front side. The air guiding element (1) is fastened to the foam crash element (6) at least in a part region. The front module ensures particularly satisfactory dimensional and positional stabilization of the air guiding element (1).
US09376086B2
An airbag module having a first shell (10) forming a first gas chamber (GI), a first inflator for the first gas chamber (GI), an adaptive influencing device for influencing the ventilation or shape of the first gas chamber (GI), and an actuation unit (40) for the influencing device. The actuation device (40) has a second shell (44) forming a second gas chamber (G2), and a gas source. The state of the influencing device changing upon actuating the gas source. A tensioning element having a first end (62) is coupled to the adaptive influencing device or forms the device, and a second end (64) is coupled to the second shell (44) when the second gas chamber (G2) is not filled and is decoupled from the second shell (44) when the second gas chamber (G2) is filled.
US09376083B2
A far-side airbag apparatus includes an airbag and an inflator that discharges inflation gas for deploying and inflating the airbag. The airbag is fixed to the seat frame of the backrest of a vehicle seat and is deployed and inflated on the side corresponding to the center of the passenger compartment. The far-side airbag apparatus is configured such that, when the inflator discharges inflation gas, the forward deployment and inflation of the airbag is promoted more than the upward deployment and inflation of the airbag.
US09376078B1
An inertia locking system for a seat of a vehicle includes a base member that is fixed to a seat structure and a Double D shaped shaft that rotates with a cam to allow the seat back to be adjusted. A movable inertia locking bracket has an opening including a circular portion and a slot portion. The Double D shaped shaft is disposed in the opening of the inertia locking bracket and includes flat opposite surfaces that prevent rotation of the Double D shaped shaft relative to the inertia bracket when the Double D shaped shaft is disposed in the slot portion of the opening. Acceleration causes the inertia locking bracket to slide forward such that the Double D shaped shaft is disposed in the elongate slot portion to prevent rotation of the Double D shaped shaft and prevent release of the seat back mechanism.
US09376071B2
A vehicle data setting system is provided with auxiliary connection terminals as standard equipment in addition to connection terminals normally used. When an output setting instruction is inputted to the vehicle data setting system from a failure diagnosis tool, output data to be outputted from the connection terminals are changed to desired data by control of a CPU.
US09376069B2
At the end portion of a wire harness that is connected through a through hole of a casing, a shielding shell is fixed to the casing and covers a connector for a harness attached to the end portion of the wire harness. A grommet covers the outside of the shielding shell. The grommet includes a main portion and a band-fastened portion, and a skirt portion extends from the band-fastened portion. A bundling band fastens the outer circumferential surface of the connecting portion via the band-fastened portion, and the skirt portion is brought into intimate contact with the outer circumferential surface of a step portion that is continuous with the connecting portion. Sealing lips that receive fastening force by the bundling band and come into intimate contact with the outer circumferential surface of the connecting portion in a squeezed state are formed on the inner circumferential surface of the band-fastened portion.
US09376068B2
A paddle switch system comprises a housing, a paddle having a pivot member pivotally disposed in the housing for operating an electrical switch within the housing in response to a force on the paddle, a cover coupled to the housing wherein the housing and the cover partially enclose the paddle, and a vibration reduction mechanism disposed in the housing proximate the pivot member of the paddle. The electrical switch comprises a dome switch and the paddle is disposed in the housing to partially preload the dome switch.
US09376067B2
A main trim panel has a trim surface, a plurality of first attachment parts and a recessed surface that is spaced apart from the trim surface. The recessed surface defines a flange that includes a first tether attachment part and a plurality of attachment parts. A sub-trim panel has a second tether attachment part and a plurality of fastener parts fixed to the attachment parts of the flange. A tether has a first end attached to the first tether attachment part and a second end attached to the second tether attachment part, such that with the sub-trim panel installed to the main trim panel, the sub-trim panel the covers and conceals the flange, the first tether attachment part and the tether, and with the sub-trim panel un-installed from the main trim panel the tether limits movement of the sub-trim panel relative to the main trim panel.
US09376065B2
An anchor for releasably securing a bicycle through-axle, that is installed in a wheelless front fork of a bicycle, to a load carrier. The anchor is made up of an anchor body having a through-axle receiving space for receiving a bicycle through-axle therein. The anchor additionally has a movable wedge located within the anchor body and transitionable between a receiving configuration in which an interior of the receiving space is expanded for insertably receiving a bicycle through-axle therein, and a secured configuration in which the movable wedge is in lateral abutting engagement with a bicycle through-axle received within the interior of the receiving space.
US09376054B2
Lighting device for emission of light through a windshield of a vehicle consisting of at least one lighting unit intended to be temporarily mounted on the inside of a windshield with at least one fastening device. The lighting unit consists of at least one reflector, one lamp and at least one seal between the lighting unit and the windshield. The lighting unit is powered by electric energy and the lamp's on and off switch is controlled by at least one sensor designed to detect turned on high-beams which wirelessly sends control signals to the lighting unit. The lighting device consists of a function with which the light's illumination can be adjusted and with which the light can be completely or partially blocked.
US09376052B2
A method for estimating a roadway course in a roadway section ahead of a vehicle in the direction of travel is provided. The method includes recognizing at least one reflective or self-luminous object in an image of the roadway section. The method also includes ascertaining a position of the at least one object based on the image of the roadway section. The method also includes estimating the roadway course using the ascertained position of the at least one object.
US09376045B2
In a vehicle seat structured such that stress is applied to a frame member of an upright seat back on a virtual diagonal line that connects one side of an upper portion of the seat back with another side of a lower portion of the seat back in response to tension received from a band member, the frame member is formed by a first member being connected to a second member, and one member from among the first member and the second member crosses the virtual diagonal line. The one member is more rigid than the other member that is different from the one member, and the other member is lighter than the one member.
US09376036B2
A disc recliner for a seat assembly includes a guide plate and a tooth plate rotatably coupled to the guide plate. A rotatable shaft moves a pawl between a first position engaging the tooth plate to prevent pivotal movement of the seat back and a second position disengaged with the tooth plate to allow pivotal movement of the seat back. A leaf spring extends between a first end secured to the guide plate and a second end having a convex curve portion engaging a lobe on the shaft. The spring biases the shaft in a first direction to maintain the pawl in the first position. Rotation of the shaft in a second direction moves the pawl from the first position to the second position as the lobe pushes against and rides along the convex curve portion of the spring, thereby controlling an actuation effort of the disc recliner.
US09376035B2
Disclosed are a seat angle regulator and a seat. The seat angle regulator comprises an inner toothed plate with an inner toothed ring, an outer toothed plate with an outer toothed ring, a wedge block, an eccentric wheel, and a drive component, wherein the inner toothed plate is engaged with the gears of the outer toothed plate, a shaft shoulder is formed in the middle of the inner toothed plate, and the eccentric wheel is sheathed on the outer circumferential face of the shaft shoulder. The drive component comprises a drive cam and a rotating shaft, with one end of the rotating shaft fixedly connected with the middle of the drive cam and the other end penetrating through the eccentric wheel and the shaft shoulder in succession and fixed on the outer end face of the inner toothed plate axially via a locating connector.
US09376031B2
Methods, systems, and vehicles are provided that provide for thermal conditioning of a vehicle rechargeable energy storage system (RESS). A thermal conditioning system is coupled to the RESS, and is configured to thermally condition the RESS. A control system is coupled to the thermal conditioning system, and is configured to estimate a state of charge for the RESS and provide instructions for the thermal conditioning system to thermally conditioning the RESS based on the state of charge.
US09376030B2
A charger configured to charge a battery, is provided with a controller configured to control charging of the battery and a communication interface interposed between the controller and an accounting system. The controller waits for an input of a signal from the accounting system via the communication interface. The controller starts to control the charging of the battery under the condition that a signal is inputted from the accounting system via the communication interface.
US09376019B2
A control device for a display is embodied for determining display data for at least one display element. The display is arranged in a vehicle and is embodied for visually signaling the specific display element as a function of the display data determined by the control device for that specific display element. A method for operating the control device includes the following steps: an estimated updating time period (t_est) for updating the display data for the display element is determined for the specific display element. The specific updating of the display data for the display element is controlled as a function of the estimated updating time period (t_est) and a pre-specified image rate.
US09376014B2
A control system includes a transfer. The transfer is disposed in a power transmission path between the driving power source and primary driving wheels and distributes dynamic power of the driving power source to the secondary drive wheels. A driving power transmission shaft transmits the dynamic power of the driving power source distributed by the transfer to the secondary drive wheels. A clutch mechanism is disposed in a power transmission path between the transfer and the driving power transmission shaft. A electronic control unit engages at least one of a first and second clutches and then engages the clutch mechanism on the basis of a steering state at the time of switching from a two-wheel-drive traveling state in which the clutch mechanism and the first and second clutches are disengaged to a four-wheel-drive traveling state in which the clutch mechanism and the first and second clutches are engaged.
US09376013B2
A composite fuel tank support includes a strap 20 having a U-shape 22, 24, 26. The U-shape 22, 24, 26 includes a base portion 22, a first leg 24, and a second leg 26. An anchor 32 extends transversely from each of the legs 24, 26 and parallel to the base portion 22. The strap 20 defines a plurality of layers 34, 36 including a fortification layer 34 and a shield layer 36. The fortification layer 34 includes basalt and a plurality of reinforcement fibers interweaved together. Each of the anchors 32 defines a bore 44 disposed on a center axis A extending through the layers 34, 36. A compression limiter 54 is disposed in the bore 44. A cover 60 is disposed over each of the anchors 32. Each of the covers 60 defines a void 62 disposed concentric to the bore 44 with the compression limiter 54 disposed in the void 62. The shield layer 36 defines an anti-slip surface 70 having a plurality of projections 72 for engaging the fuel tank 28.
US09376007B2
A power transmission system of a hybrid electric vehicle includes an input shaft, a first planetary gear set having a first rotation element, a second rotation element directly connected to the input shaft, and a third rotation element directly connected to a first motor/generator, a second planetary gear set having a fourth rotation element directly connected to the first rotation element and a second motor/generator, a fifth rotation element, and a sixth rotation element selectively connected to the second rotation element, an output gear connected to the fifth rotation element, a first clutch selectively connecting the engine with the input shaft, a second clutch selectively connecting the second rotation element with the sixth rotation element, a first brake interposed between the third rotation element and a transmission housing, and a second brake interposed between the sixth rotation element and the transmission housing.
US09375994B2
A vehicle engine warm-up apparatus includes a vehicle engine, a heating system, a coolant temperature sensor, a coolant heater and a controller. The vehicle engine has a coolant passage defined therein. The heating system provides heat to a passenger compartment of a vehicle using heat transferred from the vehicle engine to coolant flowing through the coolant passage. The coolant temperature sensor measures a temperature of the coolant flowing through the coolant passage. The coolant heater is configured to heat the coolant flowing through the coolant passage of the vehicle engine. The controller is configured to operate the coolant heater with the vehicle engine running to increase a rate of heating of the coolant to more rapidly make heat available to the heating system in response to determining that the coolant temperature is below a first temperature threshold.
US09375992B2
A torsion beam axle device for a vehicle may include: a pair of trailing arm members having wheels coupled thereto and rotatably coupled to a vehicle body; and a torsion beam member having both ends coupled to the trailing arm member, and bent in a shape protruding toward a rear side of the vehicle body.
US09375979B2
When removing a wheel cover from a wheel, force in an inner peripheral direction is applied to one end portion of an engaging member. The engaging member pivots (including elastically deforms) about the other end portion, such that an engaging protruding portion pivots and comes away from an engagable protruding portion. As a result, a center attaching portion is able to be removed from an ornament receiving hole, thus enabling the wheel cover to be removed from the wheel.
US09375976B1
A wheel includes a rim having an outer radius, R1, extending from a center point of the wheel to an outer edge of the rim, and a hub having an outer radius, R2, extending from the center point of the wheel to an outer edge of the hub. The hub is positioned coaxially with the rim and has a plurality of circumferentially positioned and equiangularly spaced bolt holes for attachment of the wheel to the vehicle. The wheel further includes a plurality of equiangularly spaced, Y-shaped spokes having a trunk portion contacting the hub, two limb portions each contacting the rim, and a branch point at which the trunk portion and limb portions converge. The spokes extend radially outward from the hub to the rim. The bolt holes are interspaced between the trunk portions. A distance between the center point of the wheel and the branch point is D1.
US09375970B2
An image forming apparatus is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes a detecting unit which detects the number of manuscript sheets; a calculating unit which calculates the anticipated number of sheets of recording media based on the detected number of sheets; a determining unit which determines whether the anticipated number of sheets calculated exceeds the predetermined number of sheets; and a bookbinding unit which binds multiple recording media, wherein the calculating unit calculates the anticipated number of sheets, further including a cover arranged on the outside of the multiple recording media which are stacked in an overlapping manner, and wherein the bookbinding unit binds multiple recording media without arranging the cover on the outside of the multiple recording media when an image is not formed on the cover if the determining unit determines that the anticipated number of sheets exceeds the predetermined number of sheets.
US09375964B2
A method for compensating failed printing nozzles in inkjet printing machines using a control computer, includes printing a test form for a material combination, evaluating the print and creating a look-up table having compensation probabilities for local surface density, detecting a failed nozzle, reading the size of the intended droplet to be compensated at the failed nozzle, calculating local surface density at the failed nozzle, reading a compensation probability from the table with the calculated local surface density, calculating a pseudo-random number for adjacent pixels right and left of the pixel to be compensated, increasing the droplet size for adjacent pixels if the pseudo-random number therefor is lower than the compensation probability from the table, calculating adjacent droplet sizes for all intended droplets at the failed nozzle and using the changed droplet sizes in printing data. The print job is carried out with changed printing data.
US09375951B2
An inkjet recording device is provided. Two rails are each provided on left and right sides of a printer head, and three LED modules are provided on inner rows In and one LED module is provided on outer rows of the rails. These LED modules can move on the rails in a sub scanning direction. At a position, the LED modules become adjacent in a main scanning direction, whereby a total quantity of light becomes “200”. At other positions, the quantity of light is “100”. In this invention, providing the LED modules movably on the outer rows enables to configure a curing section at an arbitrary position, so that a required quantity of light can be obtained, whereby the printing speed does is not decreased; and further, the number of the LED modules can be suppressed, and cost for an ultraviolet lamps of a carriage can be reduced.
US09375948B2
A recording apparatus includes a support member that supports a recording medium, a heating device that heats the recording medium on the support member, a recording head that ejects fluid onto the recording medium on the support member and that is positioned between the support member and the heating device, a blower that has a blowing port from which gas is blown, and a carriage that moves and has the recording head mounted thereon. The carriage has an enclosing structure inside which at least part of the gas blown from the blowing port is taken and inside which a gas layer in which the gas flows is formed between the recording head and the heating device.
US09375946B2
Disclosed is a method for creating a mark desired properties on an anodized specimen and the mark itself. The method includes providing a laser marking system having a controllable laser pulse parameters, determining the laser pulse parameters associated with the desired properties and directing the laser marking system to mark the article using the selected laser pulse parameters. Laser marks so made have optical density that ranges from transparent to opaque, white color, texture indistinguishable from the surrounding article and durable, substantially intact anodization. The anodization may also be dyed and optionally bleached to create other colors.
US09375943B2
An apparatus including a control cylinder rotatably supported for thermal conduction to a sheet. The sheet conveys ink deposited on a first side. The sheet is held against a peripheral arch of the control cylinder as it rotates with the first side of the sheet directly engaging and wrapping around the control cylinder along the peripheral arch. The apparatus also includes a thermal control element for heating and/or cooling the control cylinder. The apparatus also includes a pressure roll for spreading the ink. The pressure roll with the control cylinder forms a spreader nip, which is selectively changeable between a closed and open position. In the closed position the pressure roll is biased toward the control cylinder for applying pressure to the ink on the sheet. The pressure roll is spaced further away from the control cylinder in the open position relative to the closed position.
US09375920B2
Provided is a liquid ejection head that makes it possible to achieve both of the stability of bonding and the shortening of a bonding time when bonding an electrical wiring substrate where thick leads applied with large current and thin leads applied with small current are mixed and a printing element substrate. For this purpose, the electrical wiring substrate includes wiring lines having different widths, and each of the wiring lines of the electric wiring substrate and a connecting terminal of the printing element substrate are connected by inner leads whose number corresponds to width of the wiring line.
US09375909B2
The present invention relates to a vacuum lamination machine suitable for all generations and an operation method thereof. The vacuum lamination machine suitable for all generations includes a stage on which a transfer device, a positioning device, an adhesive application device, a turn-over device, and at least one vacuum lamination device are arranged. The stage has a size that is sufficiently large for all sizes of substrate. The transfer device includes a fork that is adjustable for spacing distance to suit for substrate sizes. The turn-over device includes sufficiently densely arranged vacuum suction pins to suit for substrate sizes. The positioning device includes a size identification system that identifies a rough location of a substrate on the stage and a mark position identification system that carries out precise alignment of the substrate. The vacuum lamination machine supports substrate pairs of various sizes and improves flexibility of use.
US09375904B2
Multi-layer composite materials comprising a layer of cellulosic material, optionally at least one bonding layer and a polyurethane layer with capillaries passing through the entire thickness of the polyurethane layer; a corresponding method of production; and use thereof such as in packaging and decorative materials. An object of the multi-layer composite materials is the processing of cellulosic substrates such that they have an appealing visual appearance and pleasant haptics and are impervious to fingerprints, sweat marks and moisture.
US09375894B2
An article of manufacture according to one embodiment includes a plurality of plies in a stacked configuration, where each ply includes a plurality of tape winds having edges. A distance between the edges of adjacent tape winds in the same ply is about constant along a length of the wind. Each tape wind comprises elongated fibers and a matrix, axes of the fibers being oriented about parallel to a longitudinal axis of the tape wind. Additional systems, methods and articles of manufacture are also presented.
US09375891B2
A compactor and to an apparatus for manufacturing compressed scrap. The apparatus for manufacturing scrap compactors includes a core having a through-hole formed in a scrap compactor (S), thereby improving the melting behavior of the scrap compactor via the through-hole (h), and also has the effect of preventing the deliberate misrepresentation of the weight of the contents of the scrap compactor carried out by inserting heavy substances into the scrap compactor instead of scrap.
US09375884B2
An apparatus for thermal management of a composite plies and adhesive applied to a repair area on a composite structure uses a combination of an optical scanner and projection system, coded photogrammetric targets, a coded two-dimensional thermocouple array and a coded heat blanket that all communicate with a computerized control system that develops spatial relationships between the composite structure being repaired, the repair area of the composite structure, the thermocouples used to monitor the temperatures in the repair area and the heat blanket used to heat the repair area. The optical scanner and projection system projects identifications of the thermocouples and the real time temperatures of the thermocouples at the positions of the thermocouples over the repair area on the composite structure.
US09375883B2
In a method for reconditioning data carriers having a plastic part, a reconditioning fluid is applied in a liquid phase to the data carrier, wherein the reconditioning fluid includes at least one solvent and at least one plasticizer, wherein the solvent is selected in such a way that it is substantially inert compared to the data carrier, wherein a non-volatile plasticizer is selected and the concentration of the plasticizer in the reconditioning fluid is selected such that the gradient of the change in volume of the data carrier owing to the replacement of plasticizer with the reconditioning fluid is positive.
US09375877B2
A method for manufacturing a polyimide-metal laminate including forming a polyimide film, in which at least surfaces of both sides of the film are formed by thermally fusion-bondable polyimide layers (a), and thermal compression-bonding metal layers on both sides of the polyimide film; in which forming the polyimide film includes reacting a tetracarboxylic dianhydride component with a diamine component containing a diamine compound represented by general formula (1) to give a solution of a polyamic acid (a), forming a self-supporting film from the solution of the polyamic acid (a) and imidizing the self-supporting film by heating at a maximum heating temperature of 440° C. or lower to form the polyimide layer (a); in which R1 represents hydrogen or alkyl or aryl having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; and R2 represents hydrogen or alkyl or aryl having 1 to 12 carbon atoms.
US09375876B2
Various embodiments of methods for coating stents are described herein. Applying a composition including polymer component and solvent to a stent substrate followed by exposing the polymer component to a temperature equal to or greater than a Tg of the polymer component is disclosed. Repeating the applying and exposing one or more times to form a coating with the result that the solvent content of the coating after the final exposing step is at a level suitable for a finished stent is further disclosed.
US09375868B2
A connector member according to this disclosure includes: a hollow pipe-shaped portion molded by injection molding of a synthetic resin; two ring-shaped seal grooves disposed at an outer peripheral surface of the pipe-shaped portion; and a ring-shaped gate mark formed at a region close to a pipe end with respect to the seal groove, the ring-shaped gate mark being formed at an inner peripheral surface side of the pipe-shaped portion.
US09375866B2
A foamed article is made by infusing the article of thermoplastic elastomer with a supercritical fluid, then removing the article from the supercritical fluid and either (i) immersing the article in a heated fluid or (ii) irradiating the article with infrared or microwave radiation.
US09375857B2
A cutting system includes a cutting assembly and an anvil. The cutting assembly includes an ultrasonic cutting tool having a stylus with a tip and an actuator to move the tip along a path. The path is oriented in a transverse manner relative to movement of a backed ply material. The anvil includes a rigid base for securing the anvil to the cutting assembly and a surface coinciding with the path. The system is configured to drive the tip into the surface and draw the tip along the path to generate a groove disposed upon the surface. The groove being in cooperative alignment with the tip.
US09375856B2
A shaving device (1, 21) comprises a handle (2) provided with a reservoir (6) for holding a fluid, a treatment device (4, 24) provided with at least one shaver element (5), which treatment device (4, 24) is pivotable with respect to the handle (2), and a fluid channel (7) extending from the reservoir (6) to an outlet opening (8, 28) at least near the treatment device (4, 24). At least a part of the fluid channel (7) is elastically deformable from a closed position, in which the passage through the fluid channel (7) is closed off, to an opened position, in which the passage through the fluid channel (7) is opened by pivoting the handle (2) with respect to the treatment device (4, 24) from a rest position to an activated position, and vice versa.
US09375848B2
A prosthetic finger, comprising: a first axis of movement comprising a moving magnet; a second axis of movement comprising a moving coil, wherein the second axis is generally orthogonal to the first axis; and a third axis of movement comprising a moving magnet, wherein the third axis of movement is generally oriented in the same direction as the first axis of movement.
US09375841B1
In examples, robotic devices with ambient indications of joint status are provided. An example robotic device includes one or more actuators coupled through one or more joints to form a robotic manipulator, and an indicator co-located in proximity to the one or more joints to provide visual feedback on the robotic manipulator at the one or more joints and about the one or more joints. The visual feedback may include information indicative of an operating status of the one or more joints including an indication of an amount of torque that the one or more joints is experiencing. The robotic device also includes a controller programmable to control the indicator co-located proximal to the one or more joints to provide the visual feedback indicative of the operating status of the one or more joints.
US09375829B2
A tool head includes a connecting component, a driving component, and a spacer. The connecting component includes a receiving end defining a tight-fit section and a non tight-fit section. The driving component is insertably fitted in the receiving end of the connecting component, and includes a body defining first and second engaging sections. The second engaging section is received in the non tight-fit section. The spacer includes first and second tight-fit edges, with the first engaging section tightly fit in the tight-fit section by the spacer, with the first tight-fit edge tightly abutting against a wall delimiting the tight-fit section, and with the second tight-fit edge tightly abutting against a wall delimiting the first engaging section, respectively.
US09375826B2
An abrasive article including a substrate made of a wire, abrasive particles affixed to the substrate, the abrasive particles having a first coating layer overlying the abrasive particles, and a second coating layer different than the first coating layer overlying the first coating layer. The abrasive article further including a bonding layer overlying the substrate and abrasive particles.
US09375823B2
CMP pads having novel groove configurations are described. For example, described herein are CMP pads comprising primary grooves, secondary grooves, a groove pattern center, and an optional terminal groove. The CMP pads may be made from polyurethane or poly (urethane-urea), and the grooves produced therein may be made by a method from the group consisting of molding, laser writing, water jet cutting, 3-D printing, thermoforming, vacuum forming, micro-contact printing, hot stamping, and mixtures thereof.
US09375821B2
A novel polishing pad is described. The polishing pad includes a base plate, a main polishing body, a plurality of metal bottom portions, a positive electrode conductive wire and a negative electrode conductive wire. The main polishing body made from a non-conductive material and disposed on the base plate includes a plurality of cavities thereon. The metal bottom portions are disposed in the cavities with each of the cavities having one of the metal bottom portions therein. The positive electrode conductive wire electrically is connected to a positive electrode of a power supply. The negative electrode conductive wire electrically is connected to a negative electrode of the power supply. The positive electrode conductive wire and the negative electrode conductive wire alternatively pass through the base plate and connect to the metal bottom portions respectively.
US09375818B2
A manufacturing method, including: given a predetermined finished part geometry, providing a sacrificial structure preform that simultaneously contains the finished part geometry, minimizes material that must be removed from the sacrificial structure preform to achieve the finished part geometry during machining, and has a sufficient stiffness to resist a machining force that will be applied during machining without allowing the finished part geometry to be compromised; and machining the sacrificial structure preform to achieve the finished part geometry. The manufacturing method also includes preliminarily estimating a stiffness of the finished part geometry and the machining force that will be applied during machining.
US09375815B2
Device for tensioning a threaded rod comprising an actuator able to exert an axial tensile force on the threaded rod with respect to a structure to be tensioned, the said tension device comprising a cylinder, a piston, a tubular skirt in contact with the cylinder and a surface of the said structure to be tensioned, and a tie for transmitting the axial tensile force of the actuator towards an end of the threaded rod. The tie and the tubular skirt each comprise at least two semicylindrical parts each having two substantially planar axial surfaces, the two axial surfaces of one semicylindrical part being joined radially respectively with one of the two axial surfaces of the other semicylindrical part, so as to form a part of revolution.
US09375813B2
It is possible to improve the workability and the stress corrosion resistance by easily performing a repairing operation in a nozzle repairing method and a nuclear reactor vessel. The repairing method includes: removing a first connection portion ((trepanned portion) 208) with respect to an in-core instrument tube (204) in a groove-welding portion (206); removing the in-core instrument tube (204) from a lower mirror (66); leaving and grooving a second connection portion ((existing welding portion) 211) with respect to the lower mirror (66) in the groove-welding portion (206); inserting a new in-core instrument tube (204A) into an attachment hole (203); and groove-welding (so as to form a new groove-welding portion (213)) the inner side of the lower mirror (66) so as to fix the new in-core instrument tube (204A).
US09375796B2
A recip saw blade has a blade body and a cutting edge extending along the blade body and defined by a repeating pattern of two consecutive teeth. Each of the two consecutive teeth includes a primary clearance surface defining a relatively steep primary clearance angle, a secondary clearance surface defining a relatively shallow secondary clearance angle, a tip, a rake face located on the opposite side of the tip relative to the primary clearance surface, a gullet defining a depth, a first gullet radius located on an opposite side of the gullet relative to the rake face, and a second gullet radius located between the gullet and the rake face, wherein the depth of the gullet is greater than the second gullet radius.
US09375794B2
A table insert for a circular saw includes a stationary panel and a movable panel. The stationary panel is fixed on a worktable of the circular saw and partially covers a trough of the worktable, and the movable panel is pivotally connected to the stationary panel and is pivotally movable relative to the stationary panel between a first position and a second position. When the movable panel is located in the first position, the movable panel partially covers the trough to enable the cutting operation to be performed. When the movable panel is located in the second position, the trough is partially uncovered for conveniently allowing a user to remove saw dust from the trough or to take out small workpieces that fall into the trough.
US09375790B2
A continuous flow reactor for nanoparticle synthesis comprises a modular system including a plurality of interconnected tubular components for fluid flow therethrough including a first tubular inlet and a second tubular inlet connected to a three-way junction comprising a tubular mixer. A continuous flow method for nanoparticle synthesis comprises flowing a growth solution and a reaction-initiating solution into a mixing portion of a flow reactor to form a mixed solution; flowing the mixed solution through a holding portion of the flow reactor for a predetermined residence time to form a reacted solution comprising nanoparticles; and continuously removing the reacted solution from the flow reactor so as to achieve a throughput of nanoparticles of at least about 0.5 mg/min.
US09375787B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a leadthrough for an optical conductor (V3) in a housing part, comprising the following steps: a) producing granules composed of metal powder and, if appropriate binder, b) providing a mold having a mold space, c) injecting or compressing the granules into the mold in order to produce a molding, d) sintering the molding, e) introducing a passage opening into the molding prior to sintering, f) inserting a tube (V2) into the passage opening prior to sintering, and g) leading the optical conductor through the tube after sintering.
US09375782B2
One embodiment includes a method to regenerate a component (10). The method includes additively manufacturing a component (10) to have voids greater than 0 percent but less than approximately 15 percent in a near finished shape. The component (10) is encased in a shell mold (22). The shell mold (22) is cured. The encased component (10) is placed in a furnace and the component (10) is melted. The component (10) is solidified in the shell mold (22). The shell mold (22) is removed from the solidified component (10).
US09375778B2
A method according to the invention for producing forged parts with a prescribed end contour comprises the following steps: pre-forging of a blank in order to obtain a forged part and subsequent reshaping of the forged part in a die, wherein one or a plurality of tools are inserted into the forged part during the reshaping and, in the process, the material of the forged part is displaced in a manner such that the specified end contour is obtained.
US09375775B2
A hydromechanical forming tool is disclosed that may include electro-hydraulic forming chambers in which a stored charge circuit may be discharged through electrodes to improve the level of detail that may be formed in a blank. The hydromechanical forming tool may include a liquid chamber at the entrance to the draw chamber to reduce friction, as the blank is drawn into the draw chamber. The draw chamber may have a movable bottom wall that is moved in tandem with the punch to reduce the amount of liquid in the draw chamber and reduce the need to pump liquid into and out of the draw chamber during a hydromechanical forming tool cycle.
US09375774B1
A machine may include a plurality of stations for converting a portion of flat sheet metal stock into a cylindrical container body having an open end and an oppositely disposed closed end. The machine may include a first station adapted to blank and draw a portion of flat sheet metal stock into a cup, a second station adapted to reverse draw the cup into an elongated cylinder; and a third station adapted to reverse draw and iron the elongated cylinder into the cylindrical container body.
US09375755B2
Flip-flow screens having crossbars which extend transversely to the screening direction, carry a screen liner and are mounted alternately fixedly and movably with respect to a screen frame, where the screen liner is mounted on liner carriers which are curved upward in their lateral edge regions. In order to improve lateral sealing, provision is made for all the liner carriers to be fastened, preferably screwed, by their end regions to the screen frame. The lateral edge regions are preferably curved by 80-90°, and the liner carriers of the movable crossmembers may have in their curved portion a cross section which is tapered in relation to the rectilinear portion and/or which may consist of a softer material.
US09375751B2
A method for manufacturing an inorganic-nano structure composite, a method for manufacturing a cabon nanotube composite by using the same, and a carbon nanotube composite manufactured by the same are provided. The method for manufacturing the inorganic-nano structure composite comprises a step of doping pentavalent elements on the nanostructure; and a step of growing the inorganic material from the doping points of the pentavalent elements by dipping the nanostructure on which the pentavalent elements are doped into a precursor solution of the inorganic material, and according to the present invention the pentavalent elements such as nitrogen are doped on the nanostructure and is utilized as the crystallization point of the inorganic material, instead of forming the separate coating layer to the organic-based nanostructure, or binding the binding group to the surface.
US09375748B2
An underlayer is formed to cover the upper surface of a substrate and a guide pattern is formed on the underlayer. A DSA film constituted by two types of polymers is formed in a region on the underlayer where the guide pattern is not formed. Thermal processing is performed while a solvent is supplied to the DSA film on the substrate. Thus, a microphase separation of the DSA film occurs. As a result, patterns made of the one polymer and patterns made of another polymer are formed. Exposure processing and development processing are performed in this order on the DSA film after the microphase separation such that the patterns made of another polymer are removed.
US09375746B2
Paint booths for applying paint to an object, as well as methods for degrading coating operations associated with a paint booth, are disclosed. Paint booth may generally include one or more robot rails positioned parallel to the path of the conveyor, and one or more robots positioned on at least one of the rails. Robots may be configured to simultaneously apply a first paint layer to the interior and exterior surfaces of the object. Paint booths may further include one or more additional robots positioned on at least one of the rails and configured to simultaneously apply a second paint layer to the interior and exterior surfaces of the object.
US09375744B2
A temporary supporting fixture for use during painting of a vehicle hood. The fixture has a first elongated beam with a first length and includes at least two adjustable length hook members extending from an engagement side for releasable attachment to the hood. A second elongated beam having a second length greater than the first length is also provided and includes at least two hook elements extending from the engagement side of the fixture and configured for releasable attachment to the hood. The second elongated beam further includes at least two adjustable extensions protruding from the engagement side of the fixture and configured for engagement with a surface of the hood. The second beam further includes an at least generally tangential projection configured to engage a striker of the hood. At least two struts extend between the first and second elongated beams. An extension beam including an adjustable length hook member configured for releasable attachment to the hood extends from the first elongated beam in a direction away from the second elongated beam.
US09375741B2
A multi-part sterilant system (12) comprising: a first part (4) comprising a first reagent in a carrier medium in a first container (6); a second part (8)comprising a second reagent in a carrier medium in a second container (10); wherein the first reagent and the second reagent will react to provide a sterilizing composition when the first part (4) is mixed with the second part (8); a pump head (2) having a peristaltic pump member (22); the first container (6) having a first-part dispensing tube (16) extending from its interior and disposed through the pump head (2); the second container (10) having a second-part dispensing tube (18) extending from its interior and disposed through the pump head (2); wherein the peristaltic pump member (22) when actuated acts on both the first-part dispensing tube (16) and the second-part dispensing tube (18) so as simultaneously to pump substantially equal volumes of the first part (4) and the second part (8).
US09375740B2
A dispenser pump button is designed so as to have a structure in which, when the button body is pressed, a nozzle which is normally positioned within the button body moves forward so as to be exposed to the outside from the button body and enable contents to be discharged, in order to prevent a cap from being contaminated.
US09375737B1
An apparatus for removing accumulated snow and/or ice from the undercarriage of a motor vehicle before it is parked in an indoor garage or parking lot includes a piping network with multiple jet/spray nozzles installed on the undercarriage and configured to direct nozzle sprays of pressurized heated antifreeze solution and nozzle jets of pressurized heated air to the perimeter areas of the undercarriage, including the wheel-wells, where snow/ice accumulation is most prevalent. Along with the network of nozzles, the undercarriage snow/ice removal apparatus includes a conductive and/or radiative heating grid covering the undercarriage perimeter areas to which the nozzle sprays and nozzle jets are directed. The undercarriage de-icing apparatus also includes multiple capacitive undercarriage icing sensors distributed throughout the de-icing areas.
US09375717B2
A multi-functional pair of crushing plates capable of self-trimming is disclosed. The pair of crushing plates includes a fixed jaw plate (5) and a movable jaw plate (4). The fixed jaw plate (5) and the movable jaw plate (4) both have base boards (11). The base board (11) has a plurality of tooth peaks (12) and tooth troughs (13). The tooth peaks (12) and the tooth troughs (13) on the fixed jaw plate (5) and the movable jaw plate (4) are arranged oppositely and intersectedly. The tooth troughs (13) have holes (14) perforated through the base boards (11). The holes (14) are arranged in columns along a direction of a length of the tooth peak (12) on the base board (11) opposite to the holes (14).
US09375715B2
A pressure relief tool including a stem connected to a plunger assembly, a plunger rod slidably retained in the plunger assembly and the stem, a stem connector for connecting the stem to a test cell vent opening, a handle operably connected to the plunger rod, and a vent tube extending from said plunger assembly, the vent tube fluidly connected to an annular opening within the stem. A method of opening a blockage and venting pressure from a high temperature high pressure test cell includes attaching a pressure relief tool of the present invention to the test cell vent opening; advancing the plunger rod through the vent opening, puncturing the blockage in the test cell to allow fluid flow to the vent opening, and allowing fluid to exit the test cell through the annular opening in the stem and the vent tube.
US09375714B2
A device and method for extending the useful life of a liquid in a container used in an automated clinical analyzer. The liquid comprises a material subject to deterioration, the subject material capable of deteriorating as the result of reaction with a contaminant in a gas present in the atmospheric air surrounding the container. Atmospheric air surrounding the container that displaces the liquid consumed from a container is routed through a gas scrubber insert in order to remove or at least reduce the quantity of at least one contaminant present in that air. The gas scrubber insert is positioned between the liquid in the container and the atmospheric air surrounding the container.
US09375713B2
A liquid feeding system for a microchip performs: a first liquid feeding step in which a sample liquid in a sample liquid containing section is fed in the direction to a primary containing section via a reaction field; a second liquid feeding step in which, after the first liquid feeding step, the sample liquid is fed from the primary containing section in the direction to the reaction field; and a third liquid feeding step in which, after the second liquid feeding step, the feedings of the sample liquid from and to the reaction field and the primary containing section a rear side gas-liquid boundary face of the sample liquid in the first liquid feeding step and the front side and rear side gas-liquid boundary faces of the sample liquid in the second and third liquid feeding steps do not pass through the reaction field.
US09375711B2
“Click-assembly” methods of assembling a sensor for sensing biologically-active molecules by measuring impedance changes, are disclosed, comprising supporting a bio-sensor on a carrier, the bio-sensor comprising an electronic component having at least one micro-electrode and at least one electrical contact, functionalizing the bio-sensor by physically or chemically coupling a bio-receptor molecule to each of the at least one micro-electrode, and subsequently assembling the bio-sensor with a micro-fluidic unit by means of a clamp which clamps the bio-sensor with the micro-fluidic unit, such that in use a fluid introduced into the micro-fluidic unit is able to contact the bio-receptor and is isolated from the electrical contact. The clamp may be a spring, and the method may avoid a requirement for sealing by chemical or thermal means and thereby avoid damaging the bio-receptor.Sensors which can be assembled according to such methods are also disclosed.
US09375709B2
This invention relates to a catalyst system for selective oligomerization of ethylene, which includes (i) a chromium compound; (ii) a ligand having a P—C—C—P backbone structure; and (iii) an activator, thus preparing 1-hexene and/or 1-octene with high activity and selectivity.
US09375701B2
Compositions with sodium carboxymethylcellulose and hydroxyethyl cellulose are provided for environmentally safe disposal of water-based latex and acrylic formulations. Improved methods for environmentally safe disposal of water-based latex and acrylic formulations are provided as well.
US09375689B2
A machine for the treatment of food mixtures with an improved performance includes a container or cylinder for collecting a food mixture, integral with a frame structure and equipped with an upper lid, for closing the container and hinged to the frame, so as to be in a closed or open position on an upper opening of the container, in the container there being a rotating shaft, which is coaxial to the container and which supports in rotation scraping and mixing blades at the bottom and sides of the inner and bottom walls of the container, a blender being positioned in an opening of the lid. Particularly, the blender can be positioned so to be freely removable.
US09375686B2
An improved apparatus and system for on-demand carbonated water production includes at least one carbonating unit having a volume with a inlet in communication with sources of carbonating gas and noncarbonated water, and an outlet for discharging carbonated water. An agitator is housed within the volume of the carbonating unit. A controller and variable speed actuator are operably connected to the agitator. The controller can have a rate of operation for the agitator corresponding to a selected level of carbonation for an agitation interval. The agitation intervals can be fixed or varied to discharge carbonated water at different selected levels of carbonation. The controller can vary the rate of operation for the agitator based, at least in part, on user-independent operating parameters. The controller can increase or decrease in the rate of operation and/or the agitation interval of the agitator to discharge a higher or lower level of carbonation, respectively.
US09375685B2
A composite fluid separation membrane includes a separation layer on a porous support layer where the separation layer comprises a cross-linked polysiloxane copolyether.
US09375681B2
The present invention relates to a method for the catalytic removal of carbon dioxide and NOx from waste gases in a reactor charged with activated carbon catalyst. The method comprises the following steps: a. saturating the catalyst with water b. saturating or partially saturating the waste gases with water, c. introducing the waste gases into the reactor, d. catalytically converting NOx into NO2− and, in parallel with this, catalytically converting CO2 into carbon and O2 on the same catalyst, e. washing out the activated carbon catalyst with water and discharging the carbon as a solid and NO2− dissolved in water or in the base.
US09375676B2
A recovery apparatus of carbon dioxide includes: an absorption column contacting a carbon dioxide-containing gas into contact with an absorbing liquid and allowing the absorbing liquid to absorb carbon dioxide; a regeneration column for regenerating the absorbing liquid to release carbon dioxide; a circulation system which circulates the absorbing liquid to flow from the absorption column and return to the absorption column through the regeneration column; and a steam supply system which generates steam available for a heat source that regenerates the absorbing liquid, using the absorbing liquid that returns to the absorption column and/or the absorbing liquid in the absorption column, and supplies the steam to the regeneration column. High temperature steam is generated from the absorbing liquid and is provided to the regeneration column to use as a heat source for regenerating the absorbing liquid.
US09375673B2
A CO2 separation unit for recovering CO2 from a CO2-containing gas by using a solid CO2 capturing material, in which the amount of used steam is decreased: the unit comprising a capturing material container, a first pipeline for allowing the CO2-containing gas to flow therethrough into the capturing material container, a second pipeline for allowing a gas from which CO2 has been removed to be discharged therethrough, a third pipeline for introducing a steam-containing gas to the inside of the capturing material container, a fourth pipeline for allowing a desorbed CO2-containing gas to be discharged therethrough, wherein the unit further includes a compressor for compressing steam, a fifth pipeline for connecting the capturing material container with a suction port of the compressor, and a sixth pipeline for connecting a discharge port of the compressor with the third pipeline.
US09375672B2
Air treatment modules, systems and methods for removing contaminants from indoor air are provided. Device embodiments may include one or more air inlets, one or more air outlets and a plurality of inserts which each include at least one adsorbent material. The inserts may be arranged separate from each other to form a plurality of substantially parallel air flow paths between the one or more air inlets and one or more air outlets. The adsorbent material may be arranged for regeneration within the air treatment module using thermal swing desorption and/or pressure swing desorption. Related systems, methods and articles of manufacture are also described.
US09375668B2
A method and apparatus are provided for detecting a temperature of a cabin within an airplane. The method includes the steps of providing a temperature sensor, enclosing the temperature sensor within an enclosure, coupling an inlet of the enclosure to the cabin of the airplane and an outlet to an air conditioning air return of the airplane and disposing a filter over the inlet.In another aspect, the apparatus includes a mounting plate having a center aperture, a curved profile in a first direction to conform to a vertical curve on a spacer between adjacent overhead luggage bins of an aircraft and a width in a second direction that fits between doors of the overhead luggage bins, a U-shaped bezel that engages the mounting plate, the bezel defining a pair of notches between the bezel and mounting plate along opposing inside edges of a pair of upright arms of the U-shaped bezel and a filter cartridge with a pair of opposing flanges that engages the notches and a filter media over a central portion that covers the aperture in the mounting plate.
US09375654B1
An apparatus and method are disclosed for controlling the thickness of a flowing algae film. The algae film flow may be gravity-induced or the result of an alternative force. The algae is deposited on an upper end of a flow surface where a relatively thick layer of the film forms. The algae film flows over a fluid dispersal region where the surface area is expanding, which results in thinning of the film thickness. The fluid then flows over an active region where the surface area is designed to control the fluid film thickness. While in the active region, the algae film may absorb carbon dioxide, while releasing water vapor. Hydrogen gas may be captured from the process, as well.
US09375647B2
A ridable kart having a front portion rotatably coupled to a rear portion. The front portion includes an inner surface that is adjacent to an outer cover portion and the two surfaces move relative to one another. The outer cover portion includes window portions or openings through which a portion of the inner surface is visible. The inner surface includes a visual feature that is visible through the window portions and the visual features moves relative to the window portions when the front portion rotates relative to the rear portion.
US09375646B2
A wind tunnel may comprise: a flight chamber; a plurality of diffusers; a plurality of expanding corners, wherein the plurality of expanding corners comprises a first expanding corner and a second expanding corner; and a return, the return configured to have disposed therein a fan operatively coupled with a motor.
US09375643B2
A computer implemented method of presenting pre-show content to movie theater audiences includes receiving requests from an exhibitor, each request identifying a feature presentation, a feature presentation start time, and the length of a pre-show session preceding the feature presentation. At least one multiplayer game for each pre-show session is selected automatically based on at least one of an audience maturity rating of the feature presentation, a genre of the feature presentation, and the availability of other players attending at least one other feature presentation hosted by the same exhibitor at the same or a different location, and/or a different exhibitor at a different location. Optionally, the list of selected games is presented to one or more audiences for voting. Where a game to be played by members of different audiences is scheduled for the same time slot, a single instantiation of the game is presented to the multiple audiences.
US09375631B2
A ski pole locking device may include a pole ring comprising a first moveable arm and a second moveable arm, wherein the first moveable arm comprises a catching mechanism, wherein the second moveable arm comprises a catching mechanism cavity, wherein the pole ring comprises a closed configuration and an open configuration, wherein the closed configuration comprises the catching mechanism engaged with the catching mechanism cavity, wherein the open configuration comprises the catching mechanism separated from the catching mechanism cavity; and a lock ring comprising a closed ring configuration. The ski pole locking device may be engaged on a ski pole while the pole ring is in the closed configuration around the ski pole. Once locked on the ski pole the locking device cannot be removed.
US09375621B2
An apparatus including a computing device to receive signals indicating movement of a physical ball relative to a strike zone during a pitch, retrieve a batting characteristic of a simulated batter corresponding to the indicated movement of the physical ball relative to the strike zone during the pitch, and output a simulated pitch result for the pitch based on the retrieved batting characteristic of the simulated batter for the indicated movement.
US09375617B2
A golf club head may include a body member having a ball striking face, a crown, a toe, a heel, a sole, a back, and a hosel region located at the intersection of the ball striking face, the heel, the crown and the sole. The crown may have a relatively round rear-side edge profile, as viewed from above. The sole may have a relatively square rear-side edge profile, as viewed from below. The rear-side edge of the sole may extend rearwardly beyond the rear-side edge of the crown along at least a portion of the back, as viewed from above. Further, the heel may have an airfoil-like surface in the forward portion of the heel. A golf club including the golf club head is also provided.
US09375615B2
Disclosed herein is a golf putter including a putter head, a neck formed on a radial line of curvature of a central point of the putter head, spaced apart from an upper surface of a toe of the putter head, and integrally connected to a heel of the putter head, and a hosel formed at the neck to insert a putter shaft and configured such that a lower end extension line of the putter shaft is directed toward the central point of the putter head while being inclined toward a golfer's body with respect to a vertical line. An end line of the neck is located on a swing line, an upper surface of the neck is formed with a neck indication portion, and the putter head is formed with a putter head indication portion.
US09375613B2
Multi-layered golf ball core sub-assemblies and the resulting golf balls are provided. The core structure includes an inner core (center) comprising a foam composition, preferably foamed polyurethane. The intermediate and outer core layers are preferably formed from non-foamed thermoset compositions such as polybutadiene rubber. The core layers have different hardness and specific gravity levels. The core structure and resulting ball have relatively good resiliency.
US09375610B1
A swim fin includes a blade, a retaining arrangement on the blade for removably securing a person's foot to the blade, and at least one propulsion increasing shell mounted on an upper surface of the blade, each shell having a hollowed out portion to increase a surface area of propulsion of the swim fin.
US09375606B1
An exercise apparatus may provide a novel linkage assembly suitable for linking circular motion to relatively more complex, generally elliptical motion. Left and right rocker links may be rotatably mounted on a frame rotatable about a first axis. Left and right cranks may be mounted on the frame rotatable about a second axis. Left and right force receiving members may be movably connected between respective rocker links and cranks in such a manner that the force receiving members move through variable paths of motion that may change as a function of user applied force.
US09375602B2
An exercise dumbbell includes a handle member and weights positioned at opposite ends of the handle member. An additional weight forms a box about the handle member and the end weights. At least one weight selector is movably mounted on the handle member to selectively engage the end weights. At least one connector is movably mounted on the box weight to selectively engage the handle member. A circuit includes at least one sensor that generates a signal that represents how much force is required to lift the handle member and any weights secured thereto, and a display that displays the force. At least one latch prevents movement of the selector and/or the connector when the handle member is removed from a support base for the weights and the handle member.
US09375601B2
The problems of efficiency and safety when exercising the pectoral muscles are solved in at least one aspect while maintaining low-complexity and portability by a free weight barbell with translating hand grips, with the grips having an integral weight application loading surface that moves with the grip. Provided is an exercise lifting bar having at least two hand grips, an integral loading surface for holding optional plate weights coupled to each hand grip, the paired or coupled grips and loading surfaces thereby defining a member; the members further being substantially cylindrical, collinear, and operable to translate relative to one another. Also included is a translation limiter to limit the motion between the members.
US09375598B1
An upper extremity rehabilitation device includes: a base, a rotary shaft unit, a rotation drive unit, a brake unit, a linear move unit, a hand gripping assembly, a first and a second connecting rods. The rotary shaft unit is pivoted to the base. The rotation drive unit is disposed on the base and includes a drive portion connected to the first shaft portion. The brake unit includes an outer pipe disposed on the rotary shaft, and an inner pipe movably disposed in the outer pipe. The linear move unit includes a linear seat pivoted to the second shaft portion, and a linear platform movably disposed on the linear seat. The hand gripping assembly is disposed on the linear platform. The first connecting rod is pivoted to the brake unit. The second connecting rod is pivoted to the first connecting rod and the linear seat.
US09375593B2
An Aerosol Fire Extinguisher with Trigger Sprayer that can be easily held in one hand. The extinguishing agent is under pressure in an aerosol can and can only be released by pulling the tab of the trigger sprayer. The Trigger Sprayer Unit cannot be sprayed until the tab is pulled. The Can is a cylindrical canister housing and has a Dip Tube that goes to the bottom of the can to the Fire Extinguishing Agent. There is Propellant in the can that pushes the Fire Extinguishing Agent up through the Dip Tube. Pulling the tab of the Sprayer Unit allows the Trigger to be pressed and be moved so the Trigger Pivoting Member of the Trigger Sprayer Unit is able to press down on the stem of the Mounting Cup of the Can which then allows the Propellant in the Can to force the Fire Extinguishing Agent through the Dip Tube up through the Chamber Hole into the Direction Chamber with pressure out the Nozzle toward the fire. The user then holds down the trigger and sprays the fire with the Fire Extinguishing Agent until the fire is out.
US09375592B2
A device for injecting a fluid into a mechanical system that may undergo heating, comprising at least one body containing a thermally triggered charge generating combustion gas, ignition of the charge being able to be triggered under the action of an ignition command and/or under the effect of a heat contribution, from a heating area of the body toward the charge, a reservoir containing the fluid, means for fastening the device to the mechanical system, the fastening means adapted to put the reservoir in fluid communication with the mechanical system, and means for delivering pressurized fluid outside the reservoir through the action, directly or through intermediate means, of the combustion gases. Within the device, the fastening means comprise at least one injection sleeve provided with an outer thread coated with an anti-loosening adhesive film. The invention also relates to a mechanical system equipped with at least one such device.
US09375591B2
A firefighting device has a rigid sleeve and an inner bladder within the sleeve. The bladder is rupturable with a pair of bladder straps attached to the bladder which is pulled upon by a pair of lid straps attached to a lid when the firefighting device is released from a forward moving aircraft. Additionally, the sleeve may have a pair of sleeve straps which are connected to a lower half of the sleeve and the lid straps to facilitate rotation of the device when the device is released from the forward moving aircraft.
US09375588B2
In order to decrease collateral heating of ribs and tissue surrounding the ribs in a patient during high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy, shielding material may be positioned on or adjacent to an external surface of the patient and aligned with ribs to be protected using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The MRI system may be used to image the shielding material and the ribs to be protected, and an error of alignment between the ribs to be protected and the shielding material may be determined based on the images. The shielding or masking material may be repositioned based on the determined error of alignment, images of the shielding material and the ribs to be protected may be reacquired, and the error of alignment may be redetermined based on the reacquired images until the shielding material is aligned with the ribs to be protected.
US09375583B2
Medical system lead adapters distribute stimulation signals from a port of a medical device to both a primary medical lead and a secondary medical lead. The lead adapters provide for the selectable bridging of secondary lead contacts to thereby provide for customized stimulation patterns. The lead adapters may include a primary lead connector, a secondary lead connector, and a pin connector. A pin is selected to provide a particular stimulation pattern for the secondary lead and is inserted into the pin connector to thereby bridge together contacts of the pin connector that are also connected to contacts of the secondary lead connector.
US09375578B2
A method and apparatus is provided for determining whether a current atrial-ventricular (AV) delay during cardiac pacing is appropriate for proper mechanical coupling of the atrium and ventricle. If proper mechanical coupling is determined to not exist, an additional atrial contraction is induced within the same ventricular cycle to maintain atrial-ventricular mechanical coupling.
US09375577B2
A rules engine acquires sensor data from sensors applied to the heart and determines whether an electrical waveform should be applied to the heart and, if so, the type of electrical waveform. A multi-phase cardiac stimulus generator generates waveforms in response to the rules engine. The electrical waveform is applied to one or more electrodes implanted in or on the heart.
US09375567B2
The present disclosure involves a charging system for charging an implanted medical system. The charging device includes a replenishable power supply. The charging device includes a coil assembly electrically coupled to the power supply. The coil assembly includes a primary coil and a plurality of sense coils positioned proximate to the primary coil. The charging device includes electrical circuitry operable to: measure an electrical parameter of the coil assembly; and determine a position of the coil assembly relative to a position of the implanted medical device based on the measured electrical parameter. The charging device includes a visual communications interface operable to: receive an input from the electrical circuitry; and visually display on a screen the position of the coil assembly relative to the position of the implanted medical device based on the input received from the electrical circuitry.
US09375562B2
The present invention inter-alia relates to an apparatus comprising a diaphragm valve, wherein a diaphragm of said diaphragm valve is made from a substantially rigid material, having at least partially an flexible cross-sectional shape.
US09375557B2
A hand-held remote for a medical fluid injector includes a syringe and a conduit which may be coupled to a pressure transducer on a control circuit of the injector. Movement of a plunger within a syringe body on the syringe creates a pressure which is sensed by the pressure transducer and the control circuit responds to the sensed pressure by causing fluid to be ejected from, or drawn into, a syringe mounted to the injector. The pressure developed by the remote provides tactile feedback to an operator for improved control over injections.
US09375554B2
According to various embodiments, a balloon inflating device may be provided. The balloon inflating device may include a balloon, a first substance within the balloon, a second substance within the balloon capable of having a reaction with the first substance to generate a gas within the balloon to inflate the balloon; and an electrical activator configured to activate the reaction between the first and second substances thus inflating the balloon. According to various embodiments, a method for inflating a balloon may be provided. The method for inflating a balloon may include providing a first substance within the balloon, providing a second substance within the balloon; and activating a reaction between the first and second substances electrically to generate a gas within the balloon to inflate the balloon.
US09375548B2
Provided are systems and methods for humidifying gas to be provided to a patient utilizing heating of an aerosolized mist. A humidification unit (201a) is provided a patient circuit (209) that provides gas to a patient. The humidification unit includes a liquid chamber (303) that receives liquid from a liquid source (203), a nebulizer (305) that nebulizes liquid from the liquid chamber, an aerosol chamber (307) that receives aerosolized liquid from the nebulizer, and a heat source (309a) that converts the aerosolized liquid into a vapor that humidifies gas in the patient circuit.
US09375546B2
A personal airway humidification and oxygen-enrichment apparatus includes at least two membranes adapted to produce a conditioned gas. At least a first of the membranes is adapted to produce a first gas and at least a second of the membranes is adapted to produce a second gas having an oxygen content higher than the first gas. The conditioned gas includes the first gas, the second gas, or a combination thereof from the membranes. The membranes are adapted to produce the first gas and the second gas so that the conditioned gas contains gaseous water to about 100 percent saturation. The apparatus includes means for delivering water to the membranes, means for delivering an initial gas to the membranes, and a delivery hose adapted to receive the conditioned gas from one or more of the membranes and deliver the conditioned gas to a delivery device.
US09375544B2
A mask assembly is provided for delivering gas to a patient that includes a mask body and a breathing circuit interface. The mask body includes an opening for reception of the gas and includes a seal structure for sealingly engaging with the face of the patient and surrounding at least the nose and mouth of the patient. The breathing circuit interface includes a first portion rotatably connected with the mask body and a second portion that is constructed and arranged to releasably connect with a conduit for delivering the gas to the patient through the opening.
US09375541B2
A saliva collector comprises a reservoir, a bubble barrier, and a membrane, where the bubble barrier and membrane are arranged in tandem on a flow path from an inlet to an outlet on the reservoir. Air aspirated from a patient's oral cavity enters the reservoir through the inlet, passes through the bubble barrier to remove foam and bubbles, passes through the membrane to remove entrained liquid saliva, and passes out through the outlet.
US09375536B2
The present invention provides for an injection device including a syringe with a proximal end, a distal end, a needle extending from the distal end, and a plunger inserted into the proximal end. A guard is slidable on the syringe, has a proximal end, a distal end, and is biased from a first position wherein the needle is exposed towards a second position wherein the guard covers the needle. The injection device includes first and second sets of cooperating detents for retaining the guard and syringe in the first and second positions, respectively. A latch member extends proximally from the guard that is engageable by the plunger as the plunger is depressed to release the first set of cooperating detents. Upon release, a spring element biases the guard towards the second position until the second set of cooperating detents engage and secure the guard in the second position.
US09375532B2
Described is an injection device for administering a dose of a medicament comprising a case having a proximal end and a distal end, a carrier adapted to accommodate a syringe, and a trigger button. In a first state, the trigger button is coupled to the case and/or the carrier and abuts the distal end of the case. In an intermediate state, the case moves proximally relative to the carrier and the trigger button, and the trigger button engages the carrier. In a second state, the trigger button and the carrier move proximally relative to the case, and the trigger button disengages the carrier and engages the case.
US09375526B2
This disclosure relates to vial spiking assemblies and related methods. In certain aspects, the vial spiking assemblies include a vial adapter having a base, a spike extending from a central region of the base, and a sidewall extending from the base and surrounding the spike. The base and the sidewalls partially, define a cavity that is configured to receive at least a portion of the vial. The assemblies also include a spike cover that is removably attached to the spike and that includes a material configured to indicate when the material is contacted with liquid.
US09375520B2
A medical waste fluid collection and disposal system includes a medical waste fluid collection cart including first and second fluid collection canisters. A valve assembly selectively communicates with the canisters and a valve drive system controls the valve assembly. A liquid level sensor is positioned within each of the canisters. A cart processor communicates with the liquid level sensors and the valve drive system. A cart drain line communicates with the valve assembly and a receptacle, a cart flushing line communicates with the valve assembly and the receptacle and a cart data line and a cart power line communicate with the cart processor and the cart receptacle. A station includes a drain pump that communicates with a drainage system and a station drain line, a flushing pump that communicates with a source of washing liquid and a station flushing line and a station processor in communication with the drain and flushing pumps. A station data line communicates with the station processor. A coupler communicates with the station drain line, flushing line and the station data line and a station power line. The station coupler removably engages the cart receptacle so operation of the cart and station components can be coordinated by the processors for drainage and flushing of the cart canisters.
US09375519B2
Bioerodable poly(etheresteramides) and matrices formed therefrom, such as medical device coatings, are described. The matrices show desirable erosion properties desirable for therapeutic use. The matrices can include a bioactive agent which can be used to treat medical conditions.
US09375502B2
An air freshener comprises a flexible strand formed of polymer and having a solid consistency. The strand is elongated and has a length greater than a diameter. The strand is flexible to bend under a weight of the strand. A desired fragrant material, different from the polymer, has a desired fragrance and is interspersed within the polymer of the strand. The strand can be coupled to and carried by the carrier. The carrier can be rigid. A talisman can be coupled to and carried by the carrier.
US09375496B2
Compounds having a structure of Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, tautomer or stereoisomer thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, X1, X2, X3 and X4 are as defined herein, and wherein the compound comprises at least one F, Cl, Br, I or 123I moiety, are provided. Uses of such compounds for imaging diagnostics in cancer and therapeutics methods for treatment of subjects in need thereof, including prostate cancer as well as methods and intermediates for preparing such compounds are also provided.
US09375495B2
The present invention relates to an MRI contrast agent that includes zinc-containing water-soluble metal oxide nanoparticles and has an improved contrast effect. The zinc-containing water-soluble metal oxide nanoparticles are characterized by addition of zinc to a matrix comprising the metal oxide nanoparticles or by substitution of metal in the matrix, resulting in the improved contrast effect of MRI. In addition, the zinc-containing metal oxide nanoparticles of the present invention include the MRI contrast agent t having hybrid structures of “zinc-containing metal oxide nanoparticle—biologically/chemically active material” in which the nanoparticle is conjugated with a bioactive material such as proteins, antibodies, and chemical materials.
US09375466B2
This invention relates to a novel target for production of immune and non-immune based therapeutics and for disease diagnosis. More particularly, the invention provides therapeutic antibodies against VSIG1, ILDR1, LOC253012, AI216611, C1ORF32 or FXYD3 antigens, which are predicted co-stimulatory family members and which are differentially expressed in cancers including, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, and colon cancer, and diagnostic and therapeutic usages. The use of these antibodies for modulating B7 costimulation and related therapies such as the treatment of autoimmunity are also provided. This invention further relates to the discovery of extracellular domains of VSIG1 and its variants, FXYD3 and its variants, ILDR1 and its variants, LOC253012 and its variants, AI216611 and its variants, and C1ORF32 and its variants awhich are suitable targets for immunotherapy, cancer therapy, and drug development.
US09375463B2
Provided are supplemental compositions for a nutraceutical formulation and methods for administering the same to a user for inducing or maintaining sleep as well as for alleviating pain to improve sleep using a formulation of ingredients comprising of extract of ashwagandha, extract of lavender, extract of valerian, extract of hops, melatonin, magnesium, vitamin B12, and zinc, and/or devil's claw, bromelain and boswellia.
US09375461B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising a combination of at least one proteolytic enzyme, such as subtilisin, and at least one lipolytic enzyme, for use in preventing triglyceride synthesis, advantageously by degrading 2-monoacylglycerol in the intestine. The invention also has as an object such a composition for use as a drug, cosmetic agent, medical device, dietary composition, dietary supplement or nutraceutical, notably for use in preventing or treating obesity, atherosclerosis, type 2 diabetes or for use in preventing or reducing excess weight.
US09375457B2
This invention is in the field of pharmaceuticals, health supplements and chemical industries. In particular, this invention relates a herbal composition that compensates the Aβ increasing effects of existing treatment, and on the regulatory processing of amyloid-β protein precursor (APP), therefore presenting a significantly more potent treatment for neurodegenerative diseases that does not associate with any β-amyloid increasing effect.
US09375449B2
A composition containing a plurality of water-soluble nanoclusters ranging from 2 nm to 500 nm in diameter. Each of the nanoclusters contains one or more metal cations, one or more anions, and one or more water-soluble ligands. Also disclosed is a method of using the composition for treating various disorders such as anemia, heartburn, and diabetes.
US09375431B2
The present invention provides 2,4-disubstituted pyrimidine compounds useful as kinase inhibitors, pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US09375425B2
The invention also relates to a composition comprising an antibody antagonist to c-Met and an aminoheteroaryl compound, particularly as a medicament. The present invention also comprises a pharmaceutical composition comprising said anti c-Met antibody and said aminoheteroaryl compound as combination products for simultaneous, separate or sequential use. The invention relates to the use of the composition of the invention for the treatment of cancer in a mammal.
US09375420B2
The present invention is directed to a drug depot useful for reducing, preventing or treating an infection in a patient in need of such treatment. The drug depot includes a polymer and a therapeutically effective amount of a local anesthetic or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The drug depot is administered at a site to reduce, prevent or treat an infection. The drug depot is capable of releasing (i) a bolus dose of the local anesthetic or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof at the site and (ii) a sustained release dose of an effective amount of the local anesthetic or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof over a period of at least 4 days at the site.
US09375409B2
Psoriasis is a common, chronic, inflammatory skin disorder. This invention provides the use of a compound of formula (I) R—CO—X (Wherein R is a C16-24 unsaturated hydrocarbon group optionally interrupted α, β, γ, or δ to the carbonyl group by a heteroatom or group of heteroatoms selected from S, O, N, SO, SO2 said hydrocarbon group comprising at least 5 non-conjugated double bonds; and X is an electron withdrawing group) in the manufacture of a medicament for the treatment of psoriasis.
US09375406B2
A method of mobilizing cells expressing the type 4 CXC chemokine receptor into the peripheral circulation by contacting them with an effective amount of a compound of formula (I) shown below (each variable in the formula being defined in the Specification): The method can be used to treat cancer and myocardial infarction.
US09375405B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a calcium receptor-active compound and at least one pharmaceutically acceptable excipient, wherein the composition has a controlled dissolution profile. The present invention further relates to a method of manufacturing the pharmaceutical composition, as well as a method of treating a disease using the pharmaceutical composition.
US09375399B2
Microneedle devices are spray coated by nozzles which jet dispense dots onto the individual needles of a microneedle device from a spray nozzle which is angled with respect to the plane of the microneedle device. An angle of between 70° and 45° is preferred and can be achieved by providing the microneedle devices on a support which is inclined at 20° to 45° to the horizontal and using a spray nozzle with a vertical axis.
US09375398B2
The invention provides compositions for stimulating the formation of one or more extracellular matrix components that contain a lipoaminoacid derivative of the tripeptide carnosine such as N-Octanoyl Carnosine. Also provided are compositions containing N-Octanoyl Carnosine in combination with selected tripeptide and/or tetrapeptides as well as pharmaceutical and/or cosmetic compositions containing such compositions. The invention further provides methods of using the compositions and compositions of the invention to treat, alleviate, and/or ameliorate a symptom, condition, disorder, or disease of the skin or mucosa, wherein the symptom, condition, disorder, or disease is associated with changes in extracellular matrix components.
US09375393B2
Composition comprising a non-nitrogenous zinc salt and a particular cationic surfactant The present invention relates to a cosmetic composition comprising, in a cosmetically acceptable medium, at least one particular zinc salt and at least one cationic surfactant chosen from particular quaternary ammonium salts, in a specific weight ratio. Another subject of the invention relates to a process for treating keratin fibers, using such a composition, and to the use of such a composition, preferably in the form of a leave-on care product, for conditioning keratin fibers and protecting their artificial color from fading.
US09375387B2
The present invention relates to a stable emulsion, ready for use, of fat-soluble vitamins or carotenoids, a process for the preparation thereof, and the use thereof as addition to animal feeds, human foods and dietary supplements, and cosmetic and pharmaceutical compositions.
US09375386B2
An identifier for a medicament reservoir is provided, wherein the identifier comprises a malleable sheet of material. The sheet of material comprises a top surface and a bottom surface. The bottom surface may be used to apply the identifier to a surface of the medicament reservoir. A first three-dimensional feature is attached to the sheet of material. The three-dimensional feature may be representative of a medicament contained in the reservoir and may further comprise an alignment feature. In addition, the three-dimensional feature may be coded for a particular drug delivery device. Such drug delivery devices could comprise pen type drug delivery devices.
US09375383B1
A medicine box including a casing with a mouth, and a box cover. One or more sides of the mouth are set with resilient snaps and one or more sides of the box cover have conjunction holes. One side of the box cover has a medicine hole, the medicine hole is blocked by the cover when in a sealed position. To remove medicine from the casing, the resilient snap is pressed to separate from the conjunction hole. The box cover can then freely slide up and down the mouth to expose the medicine hole and remove medicine from the medicine box. After taking out the medicine, the box cover may slide downward to buckle the resilient snap into the conjunction hole, firmly fixing the box cover on the mouth.
US09375376B2
A wheelchair bed insert device facilitates transfer of a person from a bed to a wheelchair. The device includes a bed frame having an open space extending into a lateral side of the bed frame. A mattress has a slot therein aligning with the open space of the bed frame when the mattress is positioned on the bed frame. A chair frame is positionable in the open space. A chair pad is coupled to the chair frame occupying the slot in the mattress when the chair frame is positioned in the open space of the bed frame. Chair wheels are coupled to the chair frame wherein the wheels facilitate transport of a person seated on the chair pad.
US09375371B2
A wheelchair leg-rest adapter is configured to attach to a wheelchair using mounting features functionally compatible with those of a leg rest suitable for the wheelchair, and having mounting features functionally compatible with those of a wheelchair suitable for the leg rest. The leg-rest mounting features are pivotally connected to the structure comprising the wheelchair mounting features, so that a leg rest attached to the former can rotate relative to a wheelchair attached to the latter. The adapter further comprises an adjustment mechanism to move an effective pivot point between the leg-rest and wheelchair mounting features at least in a vertical direction, to bring the pivot point near the knee of a user of the wheelchair.
US09375367B2
An absorbent article includes front and rear portions and a fastener for connecting side edges of the front and rear portions. The fastener includes a grasping element attached to an outer surface of the fastener to provide for grasping by the wearer or caregiver. The grasping element may be formed of flexible material and may have a variety of configurations, including a tube, a flange, a tunnel or a pocket.
US09375366B1
A feminine hygiene product disposal pouch having an inner compartment and at least one partitioning barrier, such as a partitioning wall, defining a pair of chambers. A first chamber is adapted for housing an unused feminine hygiene product, and a second chamber houses a disposal container for discarding a plurality of feminine hygiene products and materials, including the pouch itself. In an example embodiment, at least one chamber is expandable for hygienically disposing of the feminine hygiene materials therein. The chambers can share a common sealed edge, such as a heated seal, for enabling simultaneous access to each of the compartments. In another example embodiment, the pouch includes a partitioning seam for defining the chambers such that the outer wall can be operably removed from each chamber in succession for accessing the contents therein.
US09375365B2
Provided is an absorbent article capable of suppressing leakage in the widthwise direction from an absorbent article (1) of a bodily fluid (31) which has seeped from an absorbent body (4) as a result of the application of pressure to the absorbent article (1). The present invention is an absorbent article (1) having a lengthwise direction (Y-direction) and a widthwise direction (X-direction), and provided with a liquid-permeable top sheet (2) provided on the skin-side, a liquid-impermeable backsheet (3) provided on the garment-side, and a liquid-holding absorbent body (4) provided between the top sheet (2) and the backsheet (3) and including edges extending in the lengthwise direction on both sides in the widthwise direction, wherein: at least areas outside both edges of the absorbent body (4) in the widthwise direction thereof include a plurality of first channels (21) and a plurality of second channels (22) for channeling bodily fluid (31) which has seeped from the absorbent article (4); the plurality of first channels (21) extend in the lengthwise direction and are arranged in the widthwise direction; and the plurality of second channels (22) connect adjacent first channels (21).
US09375364B2
An absorbent article includes: an absorbent article body part having a first leak preventer and an absorber; a second leak preventer arranged above the absorber having an enclosed space formed in bag form on a lower side by sealing a periphery part save a front end part to the absorbent article body part; a skin contact sheet arranged between front and rear parts of the absorbent article body part, contacts a wearer's skin and is spaced apart from the absorber at parts other than front and rear end parts; and a urine/feces separation member, wherein a front or middle part couples to a corresponding crotch part of the skin contact sheet, a rear part extends, on a lower side of the second leak preventer, up to at least the front end part of the second leak preventer, and right and left side parts couple to the absorbent article body part.
US09375361B2
The present disclosure is directed, in part, to an absorbent article comprising a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and a core disposed at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent article comprises a belt portion extending from the chassis. The belt portion comprises a first substrate, a second substrate joined to the first substrate, and a plurality of elongate elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate the first substrate and the second substrate. The belt portion comprises a texture zone having a texture ratio of greater than about 5.
US09375360B2
To facilitate a continuous tight fit of a diaper to a wearer, a disposable diaper having one waist opening and a pair of leg openings is provided with: a front-side section; a back-side section; a crotch section; and a pair of extensible or stretchable leg sheets. Longitudinal peripheral edge regions and inner lateral edge regions of the leg sheets are respectively joined, on one side of the crotch section, to lower edge regions of the front-side section and back-side section and lateral edge regions of the crotch section. The leg sheets each have notches facing inward from the outer lateral edges thereof. The pair of leg openings are defined by joining outer lateral edge regions of the leg sheets adjacent to front-side starting ends of the notches, and outer lateral edge regions of the leg sheets adjacent to back-side starting ends of the notches.
US09375354B2
The apparatuses and methods herein may be configured to transport articles in the form of continuous lengths of substrates having thicknesses that varies along a machine direction and/or cross direction. The conveyance apparatuses may be configured to include a first carrier and second carrier, wherein each carrier includes an endless belt positioned adjacent to the other so as to define a nip region between the endless belts, the nip region extending in a machine direction and a cross direction. The carriers may also include compliant rollers in rolling contact with the endless belts. Each compliant roller may be elastomeric and adapted to provide a reaction force normal to the endless belt along the machine and/or cross direction of the nip region. As such, the compliant rollers help maintain and hold the endless belts in contact with both relatively thin and thick areas of the substrate advancing through the nip region.
US09375351B2
A steerable laser probe may include a handle having a handle distal end and a handle proximal end, an actuation control of the handle, a flexible housing tube having a flexible housing tube distal end and a flexible housing tube proximal end, an optic fiber disposed within an inner portion of the handle and the flexible housing tube, and a cable disposed within the flexible housing tube and the actuation control. A rotation of the actuation control may be configured to gradually curve the flexible housing tube and the optic fiber. A rotation of the actuation control may be configured to gradually straighten the flexible housing tube and the optic fiber.
US09375348B2
A microfluidic pump for implantation proximate an eye of a patient is provided herein. The pump includes a first substrate portion and a second substrate portion adjacent the first and a chamber that has a bottom surface and a top surface provided by the first and second substrate portions. A gas is produced within the chamber so that it displaces fluid from the chamber. The pump also includes an inlet channel and an outlet channel coupled to the chamber, the inlet channel being separated from the chamber by a first gap and the outlet channel separated from the chamber by a second gap. The gaps inhibit the gas from moving out of the chamber. Other microfluidic pumps and intraocular devices are also disclosed.
US09375342B2
Devices and processes used to treat ankle equinus. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a brace and the corresponding method of use to treat equinus by stretching the Gastrocnemius muscle.
US09375335B2
Catheter for delivery of a medical device such as a stent or filter includes an inner tubular member and an outer tubular member movable relative to the inner tubular member. The outer tubular member is disposed at the distal end of the inner tubular member. The inner tubular member includes a fluid lumen defined therein, the fluid lumen having a fluid flow port directed to the exterior surface of the inner tubular member. A pressure chamber is defined by the inner tubular member, the outer tubular member, a proximal seal and a distal seal, and is in fluid communication with the fluid flow port, wherein fluid introduced through the fluid flow port and into the pressure chamber applies a force on the proximal seal to move the outer tubular member in a proximal direction allowing the medical device constrained by the outer tubular member to be released.
US09375332B2
Devices for palliating gastrointestinal strictures using rapid exchange type enteral stent placement catheters. The catheter may include an inner member and an outer member, with the two members being slidable with respect to one another. In various device embodiments, a ramp for directing a guidewire out from within the catheter is provided using portions of the outer member or a shaped mandrel. The inner member may take a number of forms, including a tubular distal portion, a skived or integrally attached elongate midsection, and a proximal portion. A mandrel can be used in a portion proximal of the guidewire ramp, with the mandrel taking one of several disclosed forms.
US09375329B2
A stent configured to closely contact tissue in vivo by being deformed when set indwelling in vivo. The stent has a plurality of axially arranged annular members, with axially adjacent annular members being interconnected by at least one link part; and a metallic wavy-linear annular member positioned at each end of the stent. The plurality of axially arranged annular members include a plurality of linear components, the linear components including a plurality of metallic linear components and a plurality of biodegradable material-made linear components. The at least one link part is defined by one of the metallic linear components. After a predetermined period of time when the stent is left indwelling in vivo and biodegradation of the biodegradable material-made linear components proceeds, the plurality of metallic linear components and the at least one link part remain intact such that a unitary metallic structure is maintained in vivo.
US09375326B2
Composite prosthesis with external polymeric support structure and methods of manufacturing the same
A prosthesis including a support structure for enhancing kink and/or crush resistance. The support structure is connected to an outer surface of the prosthesis and includes at least two components, one of which has a lower melting point than the other. The component with the lower melting point is used to connect the support structure to the outer surface of the prosthesis.
US09375325B2
The invention relates to an assist arm intended to be fitted on an exoskeleton, having a mounting plate (2) carrying a drive member (20), a shoulder segment (4) articulated on the mounting plate, an arm segment (6) having a proximal end articulated on the shoulder segment, a forearm segment (8) having a proximal end articulated on a distal end of the arm segment, an actuating cable (27) driven by the drive member and forming two strands (27a, 27b) which extend parallel to the first axis in order to pass through the first articulation and to wind around a receiving pulley (30) which is mounted in a rotating manner about the second axis and which rotates as one with the arm, and connecting means (31, 32, 33) coupled between the shoulder segment and the forearm second segment and arranged such that a flexion of the arm segment causes a concomitant flexion of the forearm segment.
US09375319B2
There is disclosed a prosthetic thumb assembly. In an embodiment, the assembly includes a distal phalanges. The assembly includes a proximal phalanges having an operable connection with the distal phalanges. The assembly includes a thumb strap ring having an operable connection with the distal phalanges. The assembly includes a proximal phalanges yoke having an operable connection with the thumb strap ring. The assembly includes an anchoring portion having an operable connection with the thumb strap ring. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09375315B2
A mold adapted to be introduced into a joint of a human patient for resurfacing at least one carrying contacting surface of said joint is provided. The mold is adapted to receive material for resurfacing at least one carrying contacting surface of said joint. The mold is further adapted to be resorbed by the human body or melt after having served its purpose. Further, a method of treating hip joint osteoarthritis in a human patient by providing an artificial hip joint surface using a mold is provided. The method comprises the steps of: said mold being placed inside of said hip joint, said mold being injected with a fluid adapted to harden, said fluid hardening inside of said hip joint, said mold being resorbed by the human body, and said hardened fluid serving as artificial hip joint surface.
US09375306B2
A patch (1) for the replacement of a portion of bladder wall, following partial cystectomy, comprises a textile (2) derived from a PGA yarn and provided with a star-shaped support frame, flexible and harmonic, formed by a plurality of radial strips (3) manufactured by injection of a PGA/PLA copolymer, the patch (1) being suitable for making autologous fibrous capsule cells, generated by the process of tissue reconstruction, grow thereon after its insertion inside the patient.
US09375304B2
An implantable lumen filter is described. The filter may include a body formed from an elongate member. The body may include loops encircling an axis extending along the length of the body. The body may be sized to be implanted into a body lumen. The body may be capable of transitioning from a collapsed state to a deployed state. The filter may include a first group of a plurality of members positioned around at least one loop of said body. At least a portion of the plurality of members may be oriented towards the axis. The plurality of members may be arranged to capture and/or lyse particulates of a selected size and/or to inhibit the particulates from passing through the body. Methods to of making, deploying, and retrieving the same are described.
US09375302B2
Systems for providing support to body tissue to alleviate incontinence are disclosed that comprise an elongated incontinence sling having a central support portion adapted to be positioned to support any one of the urethra or anus and first and second sling end portions extending from the central support portion through body tissue and a tension adjustment mechanism acting on or within one or both of the sling end portions. The sling tension adjustment mechanism comprises one or more of a sling tensioning suture or band, a tensioning device coupled to a suture or band free end, a tissue anchor coupled to one or more of a suture free end and a sling end, a mesh fold, a suture tube, and a sling sheath in various combinations.
US09375300B2
The present disclosure includes computing device related, systems, and methods for identifying force placed on a tooth are described herein. One method includes receiving initial orthodontic data (IOD) including teeth data; creating a virtual set of teeth from the IOD; receiving dental appliance information including at least one of dental appliance material properties and characteristics; virtually placing a dental appliance, formed from the dental appliance information, onto the virtual set of teeth; and determining one or more forces applied to the teeth based on information from the IOD and dental appliance information.
US09375299B2
An apparatus and system for performing dental hygiene having a motorized cleaning device which includes a water intake component and an oppositely positioned water exit component; a power component operatively connected to the motorized cleaning device; a floss component attached to the water exit component; a reservoir component operatively connected to the motorized cleaning device; and an aqueduct component attached to the reservoir component, wherein the aqueduct component traverses the motorized cleaning device, wherein the aqueduct component is positioned to direct pressurized water onto the floss component, and wherein the aqueduct component includes a first end attached to the reservoir component; and a second end that contacts the water intake component of the motorized cleaning device.
US09375296B2
A procedure for fabricating an individual abutment for a dental prosthesis for an implant anchored in an area of the jaw with an implant attachment running on the abutment side, using a working model molded by the jaw area equipped with the implant. The sulcus area of the gum uncovered above the implant and shaped by a sulcus-former extending from the implant attachment is reproduced in the working model. The abutment has a sulcus section running within the sulcus area and an adjoining head section to admit a part of a dental prosthesis. The sulcus area of the working model having an auxiliary implant attachment corresponding to the implant attachment is measured, and a sulcus section model determined with a circumferential surface and a de-facto sulcus line limiting it on the implant side.
US09375293B2
A method for virtual orthodontic treatment is provided in which a virtual set of orthodontic components is associated, in a virtual space, with a first virtual three-dimensional image of teeth, and then by a set of rules which define the effect of the set of components' teeth, the effect of the virtual treatment can be computed. This virtual treatment can be used to predict the results of a real-life orthodontic treatment as to design such a treatment.
US09375286B2
The present invention concerns a pelvic fastener for lumbar traction of physical therapy device and head fastener for cervical traction, which supports a pelvis in a comfortable and firm manner, maintains a predetermined level of traction intensity without being detached or slid down, maximizes a treatment effect by concentrating a traction force on the lumbar and preventing power dispersion, is intended for patient treatment or correction by means of cervical traction, and does not pressurize a patient's head or function in an unstable manner. For a traction therapy device comprising a bed plate (2) disposed at an upper portion of a frame (1) such that the bed plate (2) may move backwards and forwards and a pelvic bed (3) attached to an upper portion of the bed plate (2) to support the lumbar, the pelvic support structure of the present invention comprises: brackets (10) connected by means of shafts (H1) to both front sides of the bed plate (2) in a rotatable manner; pelvic supporters (20) connected by means of shafts (H2) to upper portions of the brackets (10) in a rotatable manner and having a curved shape to surround a pelvis; pelvic cushions (30) disposed at inner surfaces of the pelvic supporters (20) to come into tight contact with the pelvis; and female and male buckles (40 and 50) connected to upper portions of the pelvic supporters (20) and the pelvic cushions (30) by means of bands (41 and 51), the female and male buckles (40 and 50) being one-touch detachable type.
US09375279B2
A method of adjusting an ablation field radiating into tissue includes the initial steps of providing an energy applicator and providing one or more microwave field-detecting needle assemblies. Each microwave field-detecting needle assembly includes one or more rectifier elements capable of detecting microwave field intensity via rectification. The method includes the steps of positioning the energy applicator and the one or more microwave field-detecting needle assemblies in tissue, transmitting energy from an energy source through the energy applicator to generate an ablation field radiating about at least a portion of the energy applicator into tissue, and adjusting the ablation field radiating about at least the portion of the energy applicator into tissue based on at least one electrical signal transmitted by the one or more microwave field-detecting needle assemblies.
US09375273B2
A microwave ablation system includes a generator operable to output energy and an ablation probe coupled to the generator that delivers the energy to a tissue region. The ablation system also includes a controller operable to control the generator and at least one sensor coupled to the ablation probe and the controller that detects an operating parameter of the ablation probe. The controller performs a system check by ramping up an energy output of the generator from a low energy level to a high energy level and monitors an output from the sensor at predetermined intervals of time during the system check to determine an abnormal state. The controller controls the generator to cease the energy output when the controller determines an abnormal state.
US09375268B2
A surgical instrument, such as an endoscopic or laparoscopic instrument, includes an ablation device. The ablation device includes an elongate relatively flexible member having a proximal end and a distal end, the flexible member includes at least a first working channel. A first and second electrode extends from a working channel at the distal end of the flexible member. The first and second electrodes are adapted to be endoscopically located in a tissue treatment region. The first and second electrodes are adapted to couple to an electrical waveform generator to receive an irreversible electroporation electrical waveform sufficient to ablate tissue located between the first and second electrodes. The waveform parameters of the irreversible electroporation electrical waveform are determined based on image information received from the tissue treatment region.
US09375265B2
A surgical instrument includes an end effector including first and second jaw members movable relative to one another between a first, spaced-apart position and a second position proximate tissue. In the second position, the jaw members cooperate to grasp tissue therebetween. A first optical fiber is disposed within the first jaw member and is configured to provide a first signal, and a second optical fiber is disposed within the first jaw member and is configured to provide a second signal. A controller is coupled to the first and second fibers and is configured to determine the temperature and the strain of the first jaw member as a function of the first and second signals, respectively.
US09375259B2
The surgical instrument for sealing and/or cutting tissue includes a handle assembly and an end effector assembly operatively connected to the handle assembly. The end effector assembly includes first and second jaw members each including a jaw housing and an electrically conductive surface defining a plurality of bores and an adhesive applicator assembly disposed in one of the jaw members. The electrically conductive surfaces are configured to effect a tissue seal. The adhesive applicator assembly includes a platform defining a reservoir therein and a plurality of needles in communication with the reservoir. The platform is movable between a neutral position in which the plurality of needles are disposed within the jaw housing and an actuated position in which the plurality of needles extend through the respective plurality of bores defined in the electrically conductive surface.
US09375252B2
An ablation system is provided. The ablation system includes an ablation device having a handle assembly and an electrode assembly. The handle assembly includes a housing configured for operable engagement by a user. The electrode assembly includes a tubular electrode having an open proximal end and a closed distal end. The tubular electrode is movable relative to the housing to adjust an insertable length of the electrode assembly.
US09375247B2
A system and method that improves and automates the measurement of power generated by an electrosurgical generator. An active load device is coupled to the generator output and is configured to simulate the change in tissue characteristics, such as an impedance change, that occurs when such tissue undergoes electrosurgical treatment. The active load faithfully simulates the change in tissue characteristics caused by a particular mode of electrosurgical energy delivery, such as without limitation, changes caused in response to a cutting mode, a coagulation mode, a blending mode, a sealing mode, and the like. Tests are conducted in accordance with test profiles containing target impedance and power values of the test scenario. A plurality of profiles may be stored for testing under various simulated operating conditions.
US09375235B2
Embodiments include a method of performing a medical procedure in a patient. The method includes creating an incision in an abdominal wall of the patient, inserting a flexible guide tube into the incision, and advancing a flexible instrument through the guide tube. The method also includes positioning a distal tip of the guide tube adjacent to a gastroesophageal junction and passing the instrument through an esophageal hiatus.
US09375228B2
A laparoscopic tool includes a base having a bore that receives the proximal end of an elongate outer tube having a lumen in axial alignment with the bore. An elongate inner rod is slideably mounted in the lumen and the bore. A clamp is detachably secured to a distal end of the elongate inner rod. A handle controlled by a user advances and retracts the inner rod. A nitinol clamp is connected to the distal end of the inner rod and an electrically conductive suture thread holds the clamp to the inner rod. A wedge block positioned at the proximal end of the inner rod has a slit that releasably engages the suture thread so that the suture thread is pulled until it is taut and wedged into the slit. The clamp closes when heated by an electrical current flowing through the suture thread and opens when the current stops.
US09375223B2
The present invention provides methods and devices for treating endovascular disease. Vibrational energy is delivered to change compliance and increase permeability at the treatment area. To improve clinical outcomes, one or more therapeutic drugs may be delivered to the treatment area.
US09375218B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods are described for closing the base of a left atrial appendage or other tissue structure. A tissue closure device comprises a pair of legs having compliant surfaces for engaging against opposite sides of the tissue structure. A plurality of axially spaced-apart tissue-penetrating fasteners are delivered from one leg to the other to pierce the intervening tissue and hold the closure device in place on the tissue structure.
US09375215B2
A self-expanding stent-graft provided in a diametrically compacted state for implantation and retained preferably by a constraining sheath, useful for the temporary or permanent repair of injured, partially or entirely transected body conduits including blood vessels. It may be used under direct visualization to quickly stop or substantially reduce loss of blood from such damaged vessels and to quickly re-establish perfusion distal to the injury site. The device would typically be implanted under emergency room conditions but also be used in field situations by trained medical technicians. After an end of the device is inserted into a blood vessel through the injury access, deployment preferably initiates from the device end in a direction moving toward the middle of the length of the device by directionally releasing the constraining sheath. In a preferred embodiment, the two opposing ends of the device are individually deployable from the compacted, small diameter intended for insertion into a vessel, to the larger diameter at which they fit interferably into a portion of the vessel.
US09375214B2
Apparatus for sealing a puncture communicating with a blood vessel includes a bioabsorbable sealing member secured to one end of a filament or other retaining member. The sealing member is delivered through the puncture into the vessel, and refracted against the wall of the vessel to provide temporary hemostasis. The sealing member is rapidly absorbed after exposure within the vessel, e.g., to an aqueous or heated physiological environment (e.g., exposure to blood or body temperature), immediately or shortly after completing a medical procedure via the puncture, e.g., within the time period that the patient is ambulatory. Optionally, extravascular sealing material is delivered into the puncture proximal to the sealing member. The retaining member and/or extravascular material may be bioabsorbable, being absorbed at a slower rate than the sealing member. Alternatively, the filament is removed from the puncture after hemostasis is established.
US09375208B2
A wound closure device for positioning within a wound gap defined between at least two tissue segments has an effect of drawing the at least two tissue segments to a state of proximity that closes the wound gap. The wound closure device includes a tubular collapsible member having an expanded configuration and a collapsed configuration. The wound closure device further includes tissue engaging structure for attaching the tissue segments to the tubular collapsible member.
US09375202B2
A device, system and method for cytology acquisition which may be performed with a swallowable in vivo device, specifically with a swallowable endoscopy capsule. The swallowable capsule may comprise a rotatable drum, a brush attached onto the drum for brushing against a tissue and acquiring cytology, and a porthole through which the brush may be in contact with the tissue.
US09375200B2
Rather than using a coaxial cable, a twisted pair of wires is provided for each element-to-beamformer connection. Differential mode signals are transmitted between the transducer element and the respective channel. A multi-layer element is used for operation with the differential mode signals. In catheters or other probes, coaxial cables are not used. Using differential mode signals over twisted pairs allows reduction or rejection of common mode cross-talk and/or interference.
US09375199B2
Disclosed herein are an ultrasonic imaging apparatus and an image display method thereof. The ultrasonic imaging apparatus includes an ultrasonic probe configured to transmit ultrasonic signals toward an object and to receive ultrasonic signals reflected by the object, a beamformer configured to perform beamforming based on the ultrasonic signals received by the ultrasonic probe, and an image processor configured to generate an ultrasonic image of an examined region within the object based on the beamforming, to extract characteristic information which relates to the examined region from the generated ultrasonic image, and to judge whether or not the examined region coincides with a target region based on the extracted characteristic information, thus facilitating a determination as to with which region within the object the examined region corresponds based on various pieces of the characteristic information of the examined region extracted via analysis of the ultrasonic image.
US09375198B2
Electrosurgical systems generally include at least one energy-delivery device for delivering energy to tissue when inserted or embedded within tissue. The energy-delivery device can be a tissue ablation device, such as an ablation probe, needle, etc. for ablating tissue as commonly known in the art. The electrosurgical systems include at least one structure and/or operational characteristic for enhancing ultrasonic visibility of the energy-delivery devices within tissue during ultrasonography.
US09375197B2
Systems and methods for time-delay inverted beamforming are provided. One method includes sampling, substantially uniformly in time, a set of continuous-time element signals to form a set of sampled element signals and mapping, for each sampled element signal, one or more samples substantially equally spaced in time to one or more samples non-equally spaced in time corresponding to the respective contribution of each element signal to a continuous-time beamsum signal. The method also includes forming a beamsum signal sampled substantially uniformly in time from the non-uniformly spaced, mapped samples corresponding to each sampled element signal.
US09375195B2
A method and system for real-time ultrasound guided prostate needle biopsy based on a biomechanical model of the prostate from 3D planning image data, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, is disclosed. The prostate is segmented in the 3D ultrasound image. A reference patient-specific biomechanical model of the prostate extracted from planning image data is fused to a boundary of the segmented prostate in the 3D ultrasound image, resulting in a fused 3D biomechanical prostate model. In response to movement of an ultrasound probe to a new location, a current 2D ultrasound image is received. The fused 3D biomechanical prostate model is deformed based on the current 2D ultrasound image to match a current deformation of the prostate due to the movement of the ultrasound probe to the new location.
US09375180B2
A pressure transducer mounting device may include a support member and a pressure transducer holder. In use, the support member may attach to a support surface, such as a housing of a power injection device, while the pressure transducer holder is moveably connected to the support member. The pressure transducer holder may expand open to receive one of a plurality of different sized pressure transducers and bias closed to hold a received one of the plurality of different sized pressure transducers. In addition, the pressure transducer holder may move relative to the support member to one of a plurality of different vertically elevated positions. The pressure transducer mounting device may accommodate different pressure transducers, providing a universal mounting device that can adapt to different medical provider preferences and different pressure transducer sourcing options.
US09375178B2
One embodiment of a system described herein can include an axis guide for placement over a patient's right and left ASIS and at least two guides attachable to the axis guide to provide a through hole that is perpendicular to the axis guide. The system can further include at least two probes that can fit through the through holes and extend beyond an end of the axis guide by a predetermined distance, as well as at least two bone engaging pins that fit through the through holes. When the guides are assembled to the axis guide and the probes are assembled to the guides, the axis guide can be placed so that the probes contact the patient's pelvis and the probes can be replaced by the pins to mount the pins to the patient's pelvis in a known orientation.
US09375177B2
The present invention relates to a health monitoring device for measuring blood or tissue indicators and a strip cassette. The device comprises a body having first and second openings, a piercing means being connected to the body and having a piercing head, the piercing means being arranged to extend from the first opening and cockable and releasable for piercing the skin with the piercing head, and a space into which a number of sensor strips can be arranged so that the strips can be brought out from the body one at a time. The device further comprises a shutter that is functionally connected to the body and has a first position arranged to tightly close the first and second openings, and a second position for allowing one sensor strip to be pushed from the first opening into sampling position and for exposing the first and second openings.
US09375175B2
A lancing mechanism is adapted to move between a resting, cocking and a puncture position. The lancing mechanism comprises a lancet holder adapted to receive a lancet, a shaft attached to the lancet holder, at least one drive spring and at least one damping spring. The drive spring surrounds at least a portion of the shaft and drives the lancing mechanism from the cocking position to the puncture position. The damping spring moves the lancing mechanism from the puncture position to the resting position. The drive spring is located at least partially within the damping spring.
US09375174B2
An apparatus and a method for measuring a property of a blood sample is shown. The apparatus comprises of a housing having an aperture; a shaft mounted inside the housing; a testing member rotatably mounted on the shaft; an actuating member coupled to the housing and configured to exert a force against the testing member; and a lancet for eliciting a blood sample fixedly coupled to and protruding substantially radially from the testing member and configured to co-rotate with the testing member. The apparatus is further configured such that the lancet is aligned with the aperture in the housing when the testing member is in a first position. The testing member is configured, in the presence of a force exerted against the testing member by the actuator member, to translate to a second position in which the lancet is in a skin penetrating position.
US09375172B2
A sensing apparatus for detecting light of first and second fluorescent wavelength bands has a light source to generate an excitation wavelength to a first collimator element. A dichroic multiplexer has a first coated surface oblique to the optical axis and treated to transmit the excitation wavelength and to reflect the second fluorescent wavelength band and a second coated surface treated to transmit the excitation wavelength and the second fluorescent wavelength band and to reflect the first fluorescent wavelength band. A focusing element focuses the excitation light toward a light guide and directs collimated light of the first and second fluorescent wavelength bands from the light guide to the dichroic multiplexer. A first detector element is in the path of reflected light of the first fluorescent wavelength band and a second detector element is in the path of reflected light of the second fluorescent wavelength band.
US09375170B2
A noninvasive analyzer apparatus and method of use thereof is described using a plurality of sample illumination zones optically coupled to at least two optically stacked two-dimensional optical filter arrays. Sectioned pixels and/or zones of a detector array are optionally filtered for different light throughput and/or are passed through various pathlengths using the stacked two-dimensional optical filter arrays. Resulting pathlength resolved/wavelength controlled groups of spectra are subsequently analyzed to determine an analyte property.
US09375162B2
A noise-suppressing electrocardiograph (ECG) adapter having a first end, a second end, and a noise-suppression element is presented, together with an ECG noise-suppressing system and related methods. In an embodiment, the noise-suppressing ECG adapter includes a housing having at least one first connector disposed at a first end of the housing adapted to electrically couple with an ECG lead set, and at least one second connector adapted for coupling to an input of an ECG device. The adapter includes a noise suppression element. The noise suppression element includes a ferromagnetic element having an opening defined therein. In an embodiment the noise suppression element is internal to the adapter. In another embodiment, the noise suppression element is tethered externally to the adapter and configured to clamp around at least a portion of an ECG leadwire.
US09375152B2
Heart sound detection systems and methods can use updated heart sound expectation window functions to detect heart sounds. In an example, an initial heart sound expectation window function that describes a heart sound timing can be a function of a physiologic variable such as heart rate, intrinsic vs. non-intrinsic beat, respiration rate, index of circadian timing, or posture. The function can include at least one characteristic parameter that describes a value of the heart sound timing at a specified value of the physiologic variable. In an example, information about a patient heart sound can be detected and used to update a characteristic parameter of an initial heart sound expectation window function, and an updated heart sound expectation window function can be provided using the updated characteristic parameter.
US09375145B2
Systems and methods are described for controlling acquisition of sensor information, including: one or more condition sensors, one or more physiological sensors, and a computing device including a processor programmed to query the condition sensors to initiate measurement of one or more conditions of an individual relative to the one or more physiological sensors; receive a set of condition sensor values from the condition sensors; assign a predictive value to the set of condition sensors values; query at least one of the one or more physiological sensors to measure one or more physiological parameters of the individual if the assigned predictive value of the set of condition sensor values meets or exceeds a minimum predictive value threshold; and re-query at least one of the one or more condition sensors if the assigned predictive value of the set of condition sensors fails to meet or exceed the minimum predictive value threshold.
US09375144B2
Medical monitoring devices may be able to read a wireless tag and determine an identity of a patient wearing the tag based on the information read from the tag. The tag may be an RFID tag, a barcode, etc. The tag may itself include identifying information for the patient, or the tag may include an identifier that allows the patient information to be retrieved from a remote storage device via a network. The medical monitoring device may also be able to retrieve configuration information using the identifier. The configuration information may include settings for the medical monitoring devices and/or may include destinations for physiological data measured by the medical monitoring devices. Destinations may organize data based on the patient and may use the patient identifiers transmitted by the medical monitoring devices to associate data from separate medical monitoring devices attached to the same patient.
US09375143B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a biological sensor, an extraction module, a state detector, and a transmission controller. The biological sensor generates first biological data. The extraction module extracts one or more first features from the first biological data. The state detector detects a communication state between a communication module and a server. The transmission controller transmits at least one of the first biological data and the one or more first features to the server, based on the detected communication state.
US09375131B2
A cleaning apparatus configured for removing debris or lint from clothing by agitating lint and then rolling it off. The cleaning apparatus includes a handle with a first end and a second end, a cleaning roll support extending from the handle second end and terminating at a distal end, an agitator arm extending from the handle second end parallel to the cleaning roll support and terminating at a distal end and an end cap rotatably connected to the agitator arm distal end. The end cap is configured to be rotatable between an open position away from the cleaning roll support and a closed position in which the end cap engages with the distal end of the cleaning roll support.
US09375125B2
A household appliance for treating an item according to at least one automatic cycle of operation includes multiple antennas for transmitting and receiving data with an external network. The multiple antennas can be coupled with a radio also located within the appliance.
US09375120B2
A dust collector for a cleaner is provided, including: a dust container, a cyclone separator and a dust container top cover. The dust container defines an air inlet in a bottom wall thereof. The cyclone separator is disposed in the dust container and defines a cyclone separator inlet communicated with the air inlet and a cyclone separator outlet. The dust container top cover covers the dust container and defines an air outlet communicated with the cyclone separator outlet.
US09375112B2
The present invention provides a method of delivering a beverage including the steps of at least partially filling an extraction chamber with roasted ground coffee, passing an aqueous medium through the extraction chamber to form the beverage and discharging the beverage from the extraction chamber; wherein the roasted ground coffee has a dry Helos particle size distribution D50 of less than or equal to 200 microns; wherein the aqueous medium has a temperature of ° C. to 40° C.; and wherein the flow rate of the aqueous medium through the extraction chamber is 0.5 to 5 mls−1.
US09375110B2
The invention relates to coupling at least two window coverings and, provides apparatus for coupling a first and second window covering in substantially coaxial alignment comprising the combination of a bracket and a bearing insert, where: the bracket comprises at least one first portion adapted for fixing the bracket to a structure and a second portion comprising a combination of one or more generally C-shaped apertures; the bearing insert comprises a generally annular assembly with first and second side portions secured together by a hub portion, the hub portion having an outer surface configured as a truncated circle, wherein the truncated circle configuration of the hub portion is adapted to allow passage of the bearing insert into the C-shaped aperture and prevent passage out of the C-shaped aperture upon rotation of the bearing insert in the C-shaped aperture.
US09375108B2
A device for oral application of a substance, comprising an inner tube surrounding a first volume an outer tube surrounding a second volume, the second volume comprising a cavity section adjoining an inlet opening of the outer tube being adapted for containing the substance, a separation area arranged in the second volume, the separation area adjoining the cavity section and the first volume, and a selective connecting passage between the cavity section and a pressure compensation space to selectively enable a flow of the substance from the cavity section though the first volume. A kit-of-parts, comprises the inventive device a predefined amount of a substance being contained in a receptacle or the cavity section, and instructions for the use of the substance. Methods for filling the inventive device as well as to a method for oral application using the inventive device are provided.
US09375105B2
A headband includes an inside surface and an outside surface, at least two cushions, wherein the cushions are removably attachable to the outside surface of the headband, wherein the cushion is slidably adjustable along the headband, and a second band, wherein the second band has first and second ends, wherein the first and second ends of the second band are attached to the inside or outside surface
US09375101B2
A travel case that converts from a palletable shipping container into one or more display cabinet(s) and/or table(s). In some embodiments, the container includes first and second dual-box units each having two open-faced boxes connected to one another along an edge of each by a first hinge. One box of each unit includes a bottom pallet portion to allow the apparatus to be lifted and carried by a forklift. In some embodiments, the first unit unfolds from a stacked configuration where its first box is stacked upon its second box to a dual-table configuration where the first box is side-by-side the second box, and wherein the height of the second box including the bottom pallet portion is substantially equal to the height of the first box. In some embodiments, a second unit connects to the first unit to enclose the inner volumes of the first and second box.
US09375100B2
A merchandising system that improves the merchandising of product by limiting the number and the frequency with which product can be removed from, for example, a merchandising shelf. The merchandising system may include a base configured to support product and a housing configured to engage the base. The housing may comprise a top wall, a first side wall, a second side wall, and a front retaining wall. The merchandise system may be configured to hold a number of products, such as cans (for example, baby formula cans) in the merchandise system that would be accessible to the customer one at a time out of the front of the merchandise system. The front of each merchandise system may include its own individual security window attached to the merchandise system that allows the customer to remove one can at a time.
US09375090B2
A chair comprises a seat, a back, a pivotal connection between the back and the seat, a pair of arms, each in a pivotal connection with the seat and the back, plurality of legs, a rotational connection between the seat, the back and the pair of arms relative to the plurality of legs and a pivotal connection between one end of each leg and the seat.
US09375083B2
A lockable ejection device for a movable furniture part includes an ejection element acting on the movable furniture part in an opening direction, a housing, and a locking element arranged in or on the housing. At least in the closing direction of the movable furniture part, the path of the ejection element in the opening direction can be blocked by the locking element. Both when excess pressure is applied to the movable furniture part from a closed position in the closing direction and when the movable furniture part is pulled from the closed position in the opening direction, the ejection element can be released by the locking element. Both when excess pressure is applied to the movable furniture part and when the movable furniture part is being pulled, the ejection element can be unlocked by a movement of the locking element relative to the housing.
US09375081B2
Wall-mounted cabinet comprising a body (1) on each side of which is arranged a linear actuator (4). The linear actuator comprises a spindle (6) with a spindle nut, where the spindle is driven by a reversible electric motor via a transmission. The spindle nut is attached directly or indirectly to the side of the body (1), such that the body is lowered or raised in dependency of the direction of the revolution of the motor. The construction has the advantage that the internal of the body is completely clean for mechanical parts which lowers and raises the body. Moreover, the actuators only take up minimum space on the outer side of the body.
US09375071B1
A clamshell case includes a case bottom, at least one modular intermediate layer, and a lid. The intermediate layer has a coupling slot in an upper back thereof and a pivot block at a lower back thereof. The pivot block is held in a pivot slot of the case bottom, and the intermediate layer is pivotally fitted over the case bottom through at least one pivot or a pivot portion. The lid has a pivot block held in the coupling slot of the intermediate layer and is pivotally fitted over the intermediate layer through at least one pivot or a pivot portion. The costs to manufacture the clamshell case, which is assembled with a specific number of modular intermediate layers stacked on one another as required, can be reduced, because pivot blocks in all modular intermediate layers are of equal height and identical axial position.
US09375064B1
Multiple mirror panels are stowed for transport within an interior of a transport case and at a point of use are mounted on a support structure which is erected on the transport case to form a partial or complete full-length mirror at the point of use.
US09375061B2
A 2-in-1 handbag with an adjustable compartment system for providing a foundation handbag, an insulated secondary inner handbag with an adjustable compartment system to create separate compartments for storage and organization of items such as wallet, cosmetics, baby items, clothing, shoes, toiletry and/or food within the handbag system. The 2-in-1 handbag with an adjustable compartment system generally includes a foundation handbag, insulated secondary inner handbag with an adjustable compartment system.
US09375060B1
A collapsible umbrella with enhanced strength and storage capability is worn by a user. The umbrella includes a base frame having a pair of generally vertical telescoping members coupled to a foldable support member able to rest on a shoulder of the user, an upper frame coupled to the base frame and having a pair of elongated members, each elongated member detachably coupled to one of the pair of telescoping members, a water-resistant cover member coupled to the pair of elongated members, a support skeleton having a plurality of strut members coupled to the cover member, each strut member oriented generally parallel to other members of the plurality of strut members, and a plurality of tension cables connecting the base frame to both the upper frame and the water-resistant member.
US09375044B2
A head-protector is described herein having a shell that is dimensioned to fit on the head of a user. The shell is formed with an opening to expose the face of the user. A locking mechanism attaches a lens to the shell and allows the lens to be pivoted between an operational position in which the lens covers the opening of the shell and a stowed position. Vents are established between an edge of the lens and the shell to establish an airflow over the inside surface of the lens to reduce fogging when the head-protector is subjected to an outside airflow such as wind. The vents can include a first vent that extends across the forehead of the user between the edge of the lens and the shell and a second vent that extends across the chin of the user between the edge of the lens and the shell.
US09375043B1
The present invention relates to a headwear grip system configured to substantially increase friction to a user's hand while gripping the headwear and increased friction to a surface the headwear may rest on. The system has a headwear configured to rest on a wearer's head, a grip surface that has an upper grip surface and a lower grip surface where the upper grip surface attaches to the headwear.
US09375038B1
A glove has a palm side and a back side joined at a side edge to form a glove body. The palm side and the back side are constructed from a stretch material. Panels attach to the stretch material on the palm side to form finger parts, palm parts and a back part. The panels are separated from each other by the stretch material to allow relative movement. Elastic bands attached to the panels on the back side adjust the fit. A thumb part has a gusset of the stretch material. Grip surfaces have an embossed texture with indentations.
US09375029B2
The invention relates to food supplements comprising silica a quaternary ammonium compound or a group Ia hydroxide and an organic acid, and to those comprising a group Ia silicon salt and an organic acid, to methods of making such supplements and to foods containing them.
US09375025B2
A canola germplasm confers on a canola seed the traits of high protein content and low fiber content, wherein the canola plant produces a seed having, on average, at least 68% oleic acid (C18:1) and less than 3% linolenic acid (C18:3). The canola seed traits may also include at least 45% crude protein and not more than 18% acid detergent fiber content on an oil-free, dry matter basis. Certain embodiments further comprise one or more traits selected from the group consisting of reduced polyphenolic content and increased phosphorous content. In particular embodiments, the invention concerns canola plants comprising such germplasm and plant commodity products (e.g., seeds) produced therefrom. Canola plants comprising a germplasm of the invention may exhibit favorable seed composition characteristics that make them particularly valuable as a source for canola meal.
US09375015B2
The present invention provides a stabilized water dispersible granule biocontrol composition comprising at least one non-toxigenic strain of Aspergillus, at least one water-soluble filler and at least one anionic surfactant.
US09375012B2
The present invention relates to a method of controlling weeds at a locus, said method comprising application to the locus of a weed controlling amount of a herbicidal composition comprising a compound of Formula (I), or an agronomically acceptable salt of said compounds wherein X, R1, R2, R4 and R5 are as defined herein. The invention further relates novel herbicidal compounds, to herbicidal compositions comprising said compounds and to their use for controlling weeds, in particular in crops of useful plants.
US09375005B2
The present invention relates to novel 1-methyl-3-dihalogenomethyl-5-halogenopyrazole(thio)indanyl carboxamides, to processes for preparing these compounds, to compositions comprising these compounds, and to the use thereof as biologically active compounds, especially for control of harmful microorganisms in crop protection and in the protection of materials.
US09375004B2
The present invention relates to novel 5-halogenopyrazole(thio)carboxamides, their process of preparation, their use as fungicide active agents, particularly in the form of fungicide compositions, and methods for the control of phytopathogenic fungi, notably of plants, using these compounds or compositions.
US09375003B2
A composition comprising a carboxamide compound represented by following formula (I), wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 represents a methyl group, a difluoromethyl group or a trifluoromethyl group, and one or more azole compounds selected from group (A) consisting of propiconazole, prothioconazole, triadimenol, prochloraz, penconazole, tebuconazole, flusilazole, diniconazole, bromuconazole, epoxiconazole, difenoconazole, cyproconazole, metconazole, triflumizole, tetraconazole, myclobutanil, fenbuconazole, hexaconazole, fluquinconazole, triticonazole, bitertanol, imazalil, ipconazole, simeconazole, hymexazol, etridiazole and flutriafol.
US09375000B2
Arylpyrrolidines of Formula (I): wherein each substituent is as defined in the specification, and use thereof as pesticides and animal parasite-controlling agents.
US09374997B2
Pest controlling compositions exhibiting enhanced pesticidal activity levels are disclosed. In one embodiment, a composition includes at least one pesticide, at least one transition metal salt and least one proteinaceous material. In this embodiment, the composition exhibits enhanced pesticidal activity levels compared to a composition dissimilar only in not having the at least one transition metal salt and the at least one proteinaceous material.
US09374979B2
A milking box comprises a stall portion and a backplane positioned in the stall portion. The backplane moves toward the rear of the stall portion in response to pressure applied to a contact surface of the backplane. The backplane moves toward the front of stall portion in response to pressure removed from the contact surface. A robotic attacher extends from the rear of the stall portion and between the hind legs of a dairy livestock located in the stall portion. A controller determines the position of the backplane relative to the rear of the stall portion. The controller determines an x-offset based at least in part upon the position of the backplane relative to the rear of the stall portion, wherein the x-offset increases as the dairy livestock moves toward the front of the stall and the x-offset decreases as the dairy livestock moves toward the rear of the stall. The controller further communicates a signal to move the robotic attacher in an x-direction, the amount of movement determined at least in part according to the x-offset.
US09374973B2
An endophyte or endophyte culture of N. lolii species is described that, in combination with a host grass does not cause typical symptoms of ryegrass toxicosis in grazing animals and also contains levels of compounds from the class of janthitrems epoxides to individually or in combination protect the host grass from pests or abiotic stresses or both. Uses and methods are also described to produce and characterize the combination as well as alternative uses for compounds from the class of janthitrem epoxide compounds.
US09374972B1
A novel maize variety designated PH18RP and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH18RP with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH18RP through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH18RP or a locus conversion of PH18RP with another maize variety.
US09374971B1
A novel soybean variety, designated XBP24006 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XBP24006, cells from soybean variety XBP24006, plants of soybean XBP24006, and plant parts of soybean variety XBP24006. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XBP24006 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XBP24006, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XBP24006, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XBP24006. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XBP24006 are further provided.
US09374970B1
A novel soybean variety, designated XB16D14 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB16D14, cells from soybean variety XB16D14, plants of soybean XB16D14, and plant parts of soybean variety XB16D14. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB16D14 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB16D14, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB16D14, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB16D14. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB16D14 are further provided.
US09374963B1
A novel maize variety designated X05F858 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X05F858 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X05F858 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X05F858, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X05F858. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X05F858.
US09374962B2
The invention provides seed and plants of sweet corn hybrid SV9014SB and the parent lines thereof. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of sweet corn hybrid SV9014SB and the parent lines thereof, and to methods for producing a sweet corn plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another sweet corn plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the parts of such plants.
US09374956B2
The invention provides seed and plants of tomato line FIRXM12-4124. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of tomato line FIRXM12-4124, and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another tomato plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of such plants, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US09374949B2
An irrigation system that includes a plurality of interconnected spans that are supported by tower structures. Each tower structure includes a drive assembly with a drive controller controlling its speed, and a heat dissipation assembly mounted to the applicant conduit carrying an applicant, such as irrigation water. The heat dissipation assembly provides cooling via conductive heat transfer to remove heat generated by the drive controller during operation.
US09380728B1
Systems and methods providing for packaging of scalable machines are discussed herein. Some embodiments may include a configurable drawer-based computing system that includes a frame configured to hold drawer modules that may each be slidably inserted into or pulled out from the frame. The system may provide power, networking, and cooling to the drawer modules, even while a drawer module has been pulled out for purposes such as system maintenance. Each drawer module may include printed circuit board assemblies and other components. The system may provide for configurability in the mounting of the drawer modules such that slidable modules that differ in function and/or size may be combined with minimal wasted space within the frame.
US09380722B2
A computing assembly comprises an enclosure body having opposite first and second planar surfaces, one or more storage bays operably coupled with the enclosure body (where the one or more storage bays pivot relative to the enclosure body to protrude outward from the first planar surface of the enclosure body), one or more computing node devices at least partially disposed within the enclosure body (where the one or more computing node devices include one or more circuits) and one or more memory devices disposed within the one or more storage bays.
US09380721B2
The disclosure relates to an apparatus including a multi-part housing to be assembled around two lines and conducting a power current generated by a solar module, and an electric circuitry arranged within the housing. The apparatus further includes connection devices for connecting the electric circuitry to the two lines such that at least one component of the electric circuitry is connected in parallel to the solar module. The connection devices include insulation displacement terminals which electrically contact the two lines, and at least one cutting blade made of an electrically insulating material cutting through at least one of the two lines in assembling the multi-part housing.
US09380710B2
Printed circuit boards for communications connectors are provided that include a dielectric substrate formed of a first insulative material having a first dielectric constant. First and second pairs of input terminals and first and second pairs of output terminals are provided on the dielectric substrate. A first differential transmission line electrically connect the first pair of input terminals to the first pair of output terminals, and a second differential transmission line electrically connect the second pair of input terminals to the second pair of output terminals. The dielectric substrate includes an opening that is positioned between the conductive paths of the first differential transmission line, the opening containing a second insulative material having a second dielectric constant.
US09380707B2
A method of manufacturing a wiring substrate includes: preparing a laminated plate of a metal layer and an insulating layer; adhering the laminated plate to a first support body facing the metal layer; and forming a first wiring layer with vias extending through the insulating layer and first pads exposed from a first surface of the insulating layer. The method also includes: separating a multilayer structure including the metal, insulating, and first wiring layer from the first support body; adhering the multilayer structure to a second support body facing the first wiring layer; removing the metal layer; forming a plurality of second wiring layers including second pads connected to the vias and exposed from a second surface of the insulating layer opposite the first surface; and separating the insulating, the first wiring, and the plurality of second wiring layers from the second support body, to obtain the wiring substrate.
US09380704B2
A through-hole stub AC termination circuit including a resistor and a capacitor, is connected to an open end of a stub of a through-hole provided in a circuit board.
US09380700B2
A printed circuit board includes a laminate substrate. The laminate substrate includes catalytic material that resists metal plating except where a surface of the catalytic material is ablated. Metal traces are formed within in trace channels within the laminate substrate. The channels extend below the surface of the catalytic material.
US09380697B2
An electronic device includes: electronic elements; expandable and contractible conductors each disposed between two of the electronic elements adjacent to each other; a seal which covers the electronic elements and the conductors except principal surfaces of the electronic elements and first surfaces of the conductors, the principal surfaces of the electronic elements and the first surfaces of the conductors being present on a same plane on which surfaces of the seal are present; and leading electrode films each of which is attached in a film-like form to three surfaces which are the surface of the seal positioned between one of the electronic elements and one of the conductors, the first surface of the conductor, and part of the principal surface of the electronic element, to electrically connect the electronic element and the conductor through the leading electrode film.
US09380696B2
A flexible printed circuit board having a copper foil character with good visibility and without copper foil pattern peeling. The flexible printed circuit board has a base material having optical transparency, a wiring pattern formed on one surface of the base material; a first opaque cover lay film covering a surface of the wiring pattern, a character formed on the other surface of the base material; and a second opaque cover lay film covering a surface of the character. The first opaque cover lay film has an opening portion is formed therein, and the character is formed so as to be visually recognizable through the opening portion.
US09380690B2
A technique for indirectly measuring the degree of alignment of a beam in an electron-optical system including aligning means, focusing means and deflection means. To carry out the measurements, a simple sensor may be used, even a single-element sensor, provided it has a well-defined spatial extent. When practiced in connection with an X-ray source which is operable to produce an X-ray target, further, a technique for determining and controlling a width of an electron-beam at its intersection point with the target.
US09380686B2
A polarity-reversal control circuit gives a polarity-reversal order so that the polarity of an inverter is inverted each time the polarity-reversal timing notified by a signal is recognized. The number of times of consecutive appearances of a normal polarity-reversal interval period, in which an interval of adjoining polarity-reversal timings is equal to or less than an upper limit of a polarity-reversal interval desirable for a discharge lamp, is counted, and if the unusual polarity-reversal interval period, in which an interval of the adjoining polarity-reversal timing is longer than the upper limit of a polarity-reversal interval, appears, Npm is memorized as the maximum of the number of times of consecutive appearances and after that, when the polarity-reversals signal in which the number of times of consecutive appearances becomes equal to Npm is received, it is regarded as a start of an unusual polarity-reversal interval period, and additional polarity-reversal order is given.
US09380685B2
A device provides a bypass path for leakage current of a neutral-less controller in a lighting control system for selectively supplying line voltage to a load. The device includes a dummy load, a voltage sensor, a bypass switch, a switch controller and a delay timer. The voltage sensor senses line voltage at an output of the neutral-less controller. The bypass switch selectively connects the dummy load in parallel with the lighting load. The switch controller activates the bypass switch to connect the dummy load in parallel with the lighting load when the line voltage is low, providing a bypass path for the leakage current, and deactivates the bypass switch after a delay period to disconnect the dummy load from being in parallel with the lighting load when the line voltage is high. The delay timer implements the delay period in response to the line voltage transitioning from low to high.
US09380679B2
The present invention relates to a luminaire (100) comprising a plurality of controllable light sources (106), a touch sensitive member (108) configured to detect a position of a point of touch of a user touching the touch sensitive member (108) and to output sets of positioning information indicative of the point of touch, and a control unit configured to receive positioning information from the touch sensitive (108) member, to determine a touch pattern based on a plurality of received sets of positioning information, to select one of a plurality of predetermined illumination patterns corresponding to the determined touch pattern, and to control the plurality of controllable light sources (106) according to the selected illumination pattern. By means of the invention there is provided a user interface for controlling the luminaire (100) to emit different illumination patterns depending on which areas and for which duration of time the user touches the touch sensitive member (108) of the luminaire (100).
US09380674B2
An electronic ballast may include: a rectifier; a first unit including a first cascade of LEDs and a first storage capacitor connected in parallel with the first cascade; a second unit including at least a second cascade of LEDs and a second storage capacitor connected in parallel with the second cascade; wherein the second unit includes a diode coupled in series with the parallel circuit including the second cascade; wherein the electronic ballast includes: a current controller with an actual value input and a setpoint value input, a setpoint value presetting apparatus for the current through the cascades, wherein the setpoint value presetting apparatus is designed to provide a setpoint value at the setpoint value input which is proportional to the voltage at the output of the rectifier; a first actuating element; wherein the controller includes a drive output coupled to the first actuating element and a second actuating element.
US09380669B2
An LED-based lighting apparatus comprises a rectified AC voltage source having a rectified output connected to a storage capacitor through a switching device, a plurality of LED segments controlled by a linear driving circuit and at least one charging path connected between the LED segments and the storage capacitor. One or more controllable linear LED driving units may be connected in parallel with the storage capacitor to provide balance between reducing flicker and increasing power factor of the lighting apparatus.
US09380665B2
Apparatus and associated methods involve operation of an LED light engine in which a relative intensities of selected wavelengths shift as a function of electrical excitation. In an illustrative example, current may be selectively and automatically diverted substantially away from at least one of a number of LEDs arranged in a series circuit until the current or its associated periodic excitation voltage reaches a predetermined threshold level. The diversion current may be smoothly reduced in transition as the excitation current or voltage rises substantially above the predetermined threshold level. A color temperature of the light output may be substantially changed as a predetermined function of the excitation voltage. For example, some embodiments may substantially increase or decrease a color temperature output by a solid state light engine in response to dimming the AC voltage excitation (e.g., by phase-cutting or amplitude modulation).
US09380661B2
An LED lamp according to one aspect of the present invention including: a first LED array including first LED elements connected in series; a second LED array that includes second LED elements connected in series and emits light having an emission color different from an emission color of the first LED array; a FET switch that is provided between the two LED arrays and switches between a first current path to the first LED array and a second current path to the second LED array; a constant power output circuit that outputs the same power value to a current path through which current flows before the switching and a current path through which current flows after the switching, wherein a total forward voltage of the first LED array is different from a total forward voltage of the second LED array.
US09380657B2
The purpose of the invention is to obtain, with a simple circuit configuration, an LED illumination device having an LED column driven by a pulsating voltage, capable of lighting with little flicker, and also having lighting control capability. The LED illumination device (400) comprises: an LED column (210) including a plurality of LEDs (211) connected in series; a rectifier (460) receiving an AC power supply (202) and outputting a pulsating voltage to the LED column (210); a current limit circuit (420) connected to the LED column (210) in series and having resistor elements (424 to 426); and a control circuit (250) for controlling the current flowing through the LED column (210) by controlling the resistor elements (424 to 426) and thereby controlling the lighting of the LED column (210).
US09380656B2
The present invention relates to a power control unit (40; 60) for controlling electrical power provided to a load (12), in particular an LED unit (12) comprising one or more LEDs, said driver device comprising a converter unit (10) having an input terminal (42) for receiving an input voltage (V10) from an external power supply (22) and having an output terminal (44) for providing an output voltage (V14) to power the load (12), wherein the converter unit (10) comprises a switching device (14) for transforming the input voltage (V10) to the output voltage (V14), a control unit (20) for controlling the switching device (14), signal means (46; 62) connected to the output terminal (44) for applying a voltage or current signal to the output terminal (44), wherein the control unit (20) is connected to the signal means (46; 62) and adapted to control the signal means (46; 62).
US09380644B2
An access point is to provide a wireless beacon packet via a wireless communication. The wireless beacon packet is to include an event notification in response to an indication of a need for the event notification.
US09380643B2
Improving uplink behavior for a user equipment (UE) having a radio capable of communicating using at least a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second RAT. The UE may be configured to use the radio for both the first RAT and the second RAT. The UE may receive a first uplink grant corresponding to the first RAT. Prior to completing a process corresponding to the first uplink grant for the first RAT, the UE may communicate using the second RAT. After communicating using the second RAT, the UE may transmit an uplink request for the first RAT instead of completing the process corresponding to the first uplink grant.
US09380641B2
A mobile station is disclosed for processing differing radio standards such as GSM/GPRS/EDGE and TD-SCDMA. The mobile station includes a channel decoding unit and a coding unit. The signals of both radio standards are processed both with the coding unit and with the channel decoding unit. The coding unit and the channel decoding unit are arranged in the baseband chip of the mobile station. The TD-SCDMA-specific algorithms can be generated by means of a coprocessor that is electrically connected to the baseband chip or integrated in the baseband chip.
US09380639B2
Self-Organized Network (SON) architectures for heterogeneous networks are disclosed. In some embodiments, various SON architectures for heterogeneous networks are provided that can evolve with such networks while the core functional modules of the SON solution can remain the same. In some embodiments, techniques for implementing SON architectures for heterogeneous networks includes providing a base station that includes performing a pre-operation self-configuration; and performing an operation self-optimization.
US09380635B2
A method and system that mitigates data session degradation over a radio link connection with an end server by allocating resources at a wireless communication device based on real-time radio frequency (RF) channel conditions. A performance tracking and resource allocation (PTRA) logic monitors radio access bearer (RAB) configuration and radio link quality for communication links between the WCD and the end server. The PTRA logic sets a maximum transmission unit (MTU) size parameter to a pre-established size associated with the measured radio link quality. In response to detecting a change in the RAB configuration, the PTRA logic performs a real-time round trip time (RTT) measurement utilizing individual RTTs associated with packet segments transmitted at a lower protocol layer. In addition, the PTRA logic modifies at least one of a transmission control protocol (TCP) receive window (RWIN) and a TCP transmit window (TWIN) using the real-time RTT measurements and RAB configuration.
US09380634B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of tearing down a Protocol Adaptation Layer (PAL) session. For example, an apparatus may include a first PAL communication unit to control a PAL connection, over a PAL, between a first device and a second device, the first PAL communication unit is to control the PAL connection during a session with a second PAL communication unit over a communication link, wherein the first PAL communication unit is to tear down the session according to a tear down procedure.
US09380631B2
A system and method for state synchronization between a base station and a mobile station in a mobile communication system. A count value indicative of a state change of the base station is received. The received current count value is compared with a previous count value previously received and stored. If the current count value is different from the previous count value, the mobile station performs a network entry procedure with the base station.
US09380629B2
A message generating arrangement determines whether a first communication terminal of a communication system can participate, by means of packet-switching network elements of the communication system, in a communication link in which a second communication terminal of the communication system is participating by means of circuit-switching network elements of the communication system, and generates a message on the basis of the result of the determination.
US09380628B2
Methods and apparatus for performing wireless communication in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) configured for multi-radio access technology (RAT) operation are disclosed. A method includes the WTRU wirelessly communicating information on a first operating frequency according to a first RAT. The WTRU also wirelessly communicates information on a second operating frequency according to a second RAT.
US09380623B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More particularly, disclosed are a network-initiated control method and an apparatus for providing a proximity service (ProSe). A method for supporting ProSe between a plurality of terminals at a network node of a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a step of acquiring base ProSe information from one or more of the plurality of terminals or from one or more of other network nodes; a step of allowing the network node to detect whether ProSe is enabled between the plurality of terminals based on the acquired base ProSe information; and a step of transmitting information indicating whether ProSe is allowed or not to one or more of the plurality of terminals.
US09380609B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. The apparatus initiates a call attempt in an internet protocol multimedia subsystem (IMS) based on a dialed number, the dialed number including an emergency number. The apparatus receives a session initiation protocol (SIP) message in response to the call attempt. The apparatus determines in response to the SIP message whether to retry the call attempt as a normal call in a circuit-switched (CS) domain for an operator or as an emergency call in the CS domain for the operator. In an aspect, the determining is based at least in part on either an indication in the SIP message or on a characteristic of the operator.
US09380604B1
A wireless transceiver apparatus configured to support wireless communications with transceiver nodes on a wireless local area network (WLAN). The wireless transceiver apparatus includes: transmit and receive path components and an opportunistic link controller. The opportunistic link controller includes: a carrier sensor module, a dominant link identifier module, and a concurrent link selector module. The carrier sensor module senses availability of the selected communication channel. The dominant link identifier module is responsive to a determination of carrier unavailability by the carrier sensor module and configured to identify carrier unavailability arising from a remote link on a neighboring WLAN. The concurrent link selector module is responsive to the identification of carrier unavailability arising from the remote link and configured to transmit a concurrent communication link to a corresponding one of the transceiver nodes on the associated WLAN which avoids interference with the remote link.
US09380590B2
An interference problem for UE retransmissions at the end of a Sequence Frame Number pattern, in a system wherein a macro base station (12) employs Almost Blank Subframes (ABS) to avoid interference with a micro base station (16), is avoided by first recognizing that an ABS pattern will reset at the end of a SFN period. In some embodiments, in response to this recognition, the micro base station (16) may command (108) a UE to alter a transmission to the micro base station (12), to improve the probability of accurate reception—such as by increasing its transmit power during the relevant time slots, or utilizing a more robust data correction encoding scheme. In other embodiments, in response to recognizing the change in the ABS pattern, the macro base station (12) may schedule (208) other UE to a PRB where they cause lower interference, or may avoid scheduling macro cell UEs in the same time slot.
US09380583B1
A method of adjusting the coverage of a small cell for efficient use of cell resources in which the position of user equipment (UE) in the small cell is estimated using timing advance information of the UE, and the coverage is adjusted in consideration of a load state of the cell and a channel state of the UE.
US09380581B2
Disclosed are an apparatus for Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) allocation and a method for CSI-RS transmission using the same in a wireless communication system. A CSI-RS for each antenna port is allocated to REs or subcarriers on a basis of a symbol or symbol axis in a subframe or Resource Block (RB), and is allocated in such a manner that a distance between neighboring CSI-RS allocation REs or subcarriers may be 3 REs or subcarriers. Accordingly, in the range of following CSI-RS transmission overhead, CSI-RSs are allocated to a time-frequency resource domain in such a manner so as to have perfect orthogonality or quasi-orthogonality according to cells or cell groups. Then, the CSI-RSs, which have been allocated to the time-frequency resource domain, are transmitted.
US09380574B2
A wireless communication base station apparatus that allows the number of times of blind decodings at a mobile station to be reduced without increasing the overhead caused by notifying information. In this apparatus, a CCE allocation part allocates allocation information allocated to a PDCCH received from modulation parts to a particular one of a plurality of search spaces that is corresponding to a CCE aggregation size of the PDCCH. A placement part then places the allocation information in one of downstream line resources, reserved for the PDCCH, that is corresponding to the CCE of the particular search space to which the allocation information has been allocated. A radio transmission part then transmits an OFDM symbol, in which the allocation information has been placed, to the mobile station from an antenna.
US09380564B2
To suppress concentration of channel quality information requests and reports in a case of discontinuously transmitting reference signals at specific resources in a time domain, and thereby preventing degradation in throughput. A transmission apparatus transmits an instruction of CSI request distributed for each reception apparatus in a subframe concurrently with or earlier than a reference signal CSI-RS to each of reception apparatuses. Each of the reception apparatuses detects the CSI request from the transmission apparatus and calculates CSI from a channel estimation value of CSI-RS received thereafter. Then, the reception apparatus identifies CSI report subframe of the own apparatus from CSI report interval information of a given time interval notified in advance, the subframe in which the CSI request is detected and transmission timing of CSI-RS, and transmits a feedback signal including CSI report value by using PUSCH at the timing of the CSI report subframe.
US09380560B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a paging indicator channel frame are provided in the present invention, wherein, the method includes: a base station, according to values of various Paging indicators (PIs) in the paging indicator channel frame, deciding to transmit the paging indicator channel frame or a BitsGroup corresponding to the paging indicator in the paging indicator channel frame at a first power or a second power, wherein, the second power is less than the first power. The apparatus includes a paging indicator value analyzing unit and a paging indicator channel frame transmitting unit. The invention reduces the power overhead of the base station, reduces the power consumption of the base station, and enhances the pilot channel quality of the cell primary common pilot channel.
US09380557B2
A method for selecting an out of service (OOS) scan mode for a wireless communication device is provided. The method can include the wireless communication device detecting occurrence of an OOS condition; setting a displacement threshold in response to the OOS condition; determining a displacement magnitude indicative of a distance traveled by the wireless communication device during the OOS condition; determining whether the displacement magnitude exceeds the displacement threshold; using a first scan mode to scan for network coverage in an instance in which it is determined that the displacement magnitude exceeds the displacement threshold; and using a second scan mode to scan for network coverage in an instance in which it is determined that the displacement magnitude does not exceed the displacement threshold. The first scan mode can have a greater scan frequency than the second scan mode.
US09380554B2
The invention relates to a radio network controller (RNC) for receiving a LOCATION_REPORTING_CONTROL message and analyzing a value of a request type information element received in the LOCATION_REPORTING_CONTROL message. The RNC directly determines requested location information for a user equipment (UE) if the request information element indicates sending location information as a direct response to the LOCATION_REPORTING_CONTROL message or the RNC determines the requested location information if the UE changes the service area if the request information element indicates sending location information at a change of service area by the UE. The RNC then sends a LOCATION_REPORT message comprising the location information and the request type information element to at least one control node.
US09380547B2
Provided are a base station, a terminal, a band allocation method, and a downlink data communication method in which a mapping method for synchronization signals and report signals is implemented with high resource usage efficiency when a first system in which an independent single communication is allocated to a unit band co-exists with a second system in which a plurality of unit bands can be allocated to a single communication. In a base station, an OFDM signal generation unit maps primary synchronization channel (P-SCH), secondary synchronization channel (S-SCH), primary broadcast channel (P-BCH), and dynamic broadcast channel (D-BCH), which can be decoded by both an LTE terminal and an LTE+ terminal, to some of a plurality of unit bands. The OFDM signal generation unit also maps D-BCH+, which can be decoded only by an LTE+ terminal, to all of the plurality of unit bands to produce a multiplexed transmission signal.
US09380545B2
A system and method are disclosed for synchronizing edge devices on a network, wherein the network has limited bandwidth and does not support a practical carrier sense mechanism. The edge devices transmit, using a slotted protocol, to a server located at a central data aggregation point. The server also controls a Central Transmitter, which sends messages to the edge devices to assign transmission slots and provide timing information to the edge devices to ensure that transmissions sent by devices sharing the same communication channel do not collide.
US09380544B2
It is presented a method for controlling multiple input multiple output, MIMO, pilot channel boosting. The method is performed in a user equipment, UE, capable of MIMO transmissions using a primary and a secondary stream. The method comprising the steps of: determining a rank used for uplink transmissions from the UE; and determining a boosting parameter affecting power boosting of an Enhanced Dedicated Physical Control Channel, E-DPCCH, and a Secondary Dedicated Physical Control Channel, S-DPCCH, based on the rank. A corresponding UE, base station and associated method are also presented.
US09380543B2
An apparatus is capable of transmitting a signal through a Random Access Channel in a wireless communication system. The method of transmitting a signal through a random access channel includes estimating a reverse channel status using a signal received through a forward link, determining whether to transmit a signal through a random access channel in consideration of the reverse channel status, and transmitting a signal through the random access channel when it is determined to transmit a signal through the random access channel.
US09380542B2
A method and communication unit for power control in a wireless broadcast communication system that includes a plurality of communication cells, with broadcast content being routed from a base station to at least one wireless communication unit via at least one relay node (RN). The method includes, at the base station: broadcasting the broadcast content from the base station to at least one RN; receiving from the at least one RN an indication of signal quality of the broadcast content as received at the at least one RN; and adjusting a transmit power level of a broadcast transmission of broadcast content in response to the indication.
US09380541B1
Embodiments described herein provide a method and apparatus for determining a maximum transmitter power for a mobile device. First, a maximum specific absorption rate (SAR) value is determined. Then, a maximum transmitter power based on the maximum SAR value is determined. The maximum SAR value may be determined using any or all of the following methods: using a composite worst-case SAR map, determining a usage position of the mobile device, and a running average of transmitter power. A further embodiment provides an apparatus for managing transmitter power. The apparatus includes a modem that is in communication with a transmitter; a processor in communication with the modem; and a memory in communication with the processor.
US09380540B1
A method comprising for adjusting a power level in a key fob includes transmitting a first output signal at a first power setting. A feedback signal is received via a feedback mechanism that indicates a first power level of the first output signal. The first output level is compared to a threshold level. A second output signal at a second power setting greater than the first power setting is transmitted if the first output power level is below the threshold.
US09380522B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to the field of wireless communications, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for cell search in a sensor system, used for solving the problem in the prior art that an operation time delay is long in cell selection and cell residence. The method of the embodiments of the present application comprises: a terminal determining different types of frequency points in frequency points supported by the sensor system, the frequency points of the sensor system being divided, in a diminishing sequence of priorities, into a first type of authorization frequency point, a first type of non-authorization frequency point, a second type of authorization frequency point and a second type of non-authorization frequency point; and performing, in a diminishing sequence of priorities, cell search and cell residence on the frequency points supported by the sensor system. With the present application, a suitable cell can be selected fast and accurately to perform residence, thereby reducing the operation time delay in cell selection and cell residence after a terminal is started, and improving user experience.
US09380517B2
Techniques are provided for determining, for at least one wireless access point in a wireless network, a number of first-time associations created with one or more wireless client devices in the wireless network. Based upon the determined number of first-time associations created, the number of discovery frames to be sent by the at least one wireless access point may be adjusted.
US09380504B2
The present invention discloses a method, a user equipment, and a base station for changing an access cell. According to the method, the user equipment, and the base station in the embodiments of the present invention, when the UE leaves the coverage of the first radio network and the UE is in the dual-camped state, the first cell of the first radio network that the UE currently accesses is changed to the second cell of the second radio network that the UE currently accesses, so as to avoid a cell change failure caused by an incorrect target cell during cell reselection or handover, thereby accurately changing an access cell, reducing network delay, and improving user experience.
US09380503B2
A method and apparatus for handover in a wireless communication system. A handover indication can be received from a source base station (120) that is connected with a mobile station (110). The handover indication can include a random access channel preamble. The random access channel preamble can include a temporary mobile equipment identifier. The random access channel preamble can be received from the mobile station. A timing advance message can be sent in response to receiving random access channel preamble. The timing advance message can be addressed by the random access channel preamble and a source base station identifier. The connection with the mobile station can be switched from the source base station to a target base station (130).
US09380499B2
An apparatus and method for supporting a cooperative handover in a broadband wireless communication system. A method for operating a mobile station (MS) for a cooperative handover in a broadband wireless communication system includes determining a handover to a target BS and omitting a CID update process of the MS during the handover process to the target BS, wherein the CID of the MS is shared beforehand between a serving BS and the target BS.
US09380493B2
Systems and methods for compiling lists of prospective access points for offloading cellular data traffic for a vehicle, and for selecting an access point to establish a non-cellular wireless Internet connection. Vehicular data mobile access involves properties and characteristics different from those of portable user data devices, and thus exhibit different criteria for cellular data offloading. Embodiments of the invention provide vehicle metrics to be used in conjunction with data requirement metrics in compiling the access lists and making the optimum selections based on the vehicle's predicted route. A predictive look-ahead is also provided, for use when predictive routing information is not available or is unreliable.
US09380491B2
There is provided an interference mitigation or frequency channel collision mitigation scheme usable for a short range communication network where a network element of a cellular network is used as a coordinator or controller for the collision mitigation. Communication information regarding a communication in the short range communication network and concerning a frequency selection for a communication are processed so as to determine collision mitigation data for reducing interference in the communication in the short range communication network. The collision mitigation data regarding the communication in the short range communication network are sent to a communication network element such as a UE acting as a master node of the short range communication network.
US09380471B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of determining a Time of Arrival (ToA) of a wireless communication signal. For example, a method may include receiving a signal over a wireless communication channel, detecting a symbol boundary of a symbol of the signal, and determining a ToA of the signal based on the symbol boundary and a channel estimation of the wireless communication channel.
US09380466B2
Among other things, a communication system comprising remote units and a controller is described. The remote units exchange radio frequency (RF) signals with mobile devices. At least some of the RF signals comprise information destined for, or originating from, a mobile device. The controller comprises one or more modems and is connected to an external network. At least one of the modems is a baseband modem and is configured to pass first data corresponding to the information. The controller is separated from the remote units by an intermediate network over which second data corresponding to the information is carried in frames between the controller and the remote units. The second data comprises baseband data and at least some of the baseband data is compressed in a frequency domain. The remote units and the controller are configured to compress the baseband data for transmission over the intermediate network.
US09380457B2
Method and system of secured direct link set-up (DLS) for wireless networks. In accordance with aspects of the method, techniques are disclosed for setting up computationally secure direct links between stations in a wireless network in a manner that is computationally secure.
US09380456B1
Embodiments disclosed herein provide a system, method, and computer program product for dynamically switching virtual devices in a virtual mobile device platform. The virtual devices may use any desired operating system or operating system version. In some embodiments, a launch application installed on a secondary virtual device is defined for opening a file of a given file type. Upon a request to open a file of the given file type, the secondary virtual device is launched, and a connection is established with a client device. A client device can connect to a secondary virtual device by using a primary virtual device as a proxy, or by using a bypass channel connection.
US09380453B2
Provided is a mobile terminal and a method of controlling the same. The mobile terminal includes a body and a display provided on a front side of the body. An input device is provided on a back side of the body. The input device may be exposed through a back surface of the body and may have a plurality of buttons. A storage device may be provided to store a mapping between a prescribed pattern of inputs associated with the input device and prescribed commands for a plurality of functions. A controller may detect an input at the input device, determine a prescribed pattern associated with the input at the input device, retrieve from the storage device a command for a function associated with the prescribed pattern of the input, and process the retrieved command for the function associated with the input.
US09380450B2
A mechanism to handle Public Service Identities identifying services in a network when a given Public Service Identity (PSI) belongs to a range of Public Service Identities defined as a ‘Wildcard PSI’ range. An enhanced Home Subscriber Server, serving entity, and routing entity, all co-operating to carry out the invention by handling an identifier of the ‘Wildcard PSI’ range, which includes the given Public Service Identity, the ‘Wildcard PSI’ range being associated with a common service profile to be applied for services identified by those Public Service Identities belonging to the ‘Wildcard PSI’ range.
US09380438B2
A method and device are provided for forwarding an incoming call according to a remaining battery capacity. The method includes determining that the remaining battery capacity is below a threshold; providing an indication that the remaining battery capacity is below the threshold and that a call forwarding function may be set; receiving an input from a user to select a contact number; and sending, to an adjacent base station, a request for call forwarding an incoming call to the selected contact number.
US09380432B2
A digital broadcast receiver and a control method thereof are disclosed. The control method of the digital broadcast receiver includes receiving a broadcast signal into which mobile service data and main service data are multiplexed, extracting TPC signaling information and FIC signaling information from a data group in the received mobile service data, acquiring a program table defining a mapping relation between each of all ensembles transmitted at a physical frequency and at least one virtual channel corresponding to the ensemble, using the extracted FIC signaling information, and detecting IP address information required for channel tuning to the at least one virtual channel corresponding to the ensemble, using the acquired program table.
US09380426B2
A distance between a host communication device and a mobile target communication device at multiple times over a time period based on a received signal emitted by the mobile target communication device. An amount of time that the distance between the host communication device and the mobile target communication device is within a distance threshold is also determined. A determination is further made whether the amount of time the distance between the host communication device and the mobile target communication device is within the distance threshold is less than a predetermined amount of time. If the amount of time that the distance between the host communication device and the mobile target communication device is within the distance threshold is less than the predetermined amount of time, transmission of a notification to a third party is initiated via a gateway.
US09380424B2
According to an embodiment, a method of estimating a distance to a wireless access point in an indoor environment using a signal propagation model begins with the receipt of a first received signal strength value based on a signal received at a first device from a wireless access point in the indoor environment. Based on a predetermined characteristic of the indoor environment, an estimate is made that the received signal originated from a first distance from the first device. A signal propagation characteristic is estimated based on the first signal strength and the estimated first distance and a plurality of signal samples are received from a plurality of devices. Finally, a signal propagation model for the indoor environment is created based on the signal propagation characteristic and the signal samples, and a distance to any wireless access point in the indoor environment is estimated based on the signal propagation model.
US09380413B1
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for dynamically forming the content of a message to a user based on a perceived emotion state of the user. During operation, the system determines a geo-location of a user. Next, the system analyzes a news feed associated with the geo-location of the user to determine a perceived emotion state of the user. The system then forms a content for a message to the user based on the perceived emotional state of the user. Finally, the system delivers the message.
US09380412B2
Methods and systems for tracking the locations of wireless communication terminals such as mobile phones. A location system monitors communication conducted between a wireless communication terminal and a wireless communication network. The monitoring system may monitor the communication by intercepting one or more of the interfaces or links between network elements. The location system decodes the monitored communication, and identifies an interaction between the terminal and a server that provides the terminal with a location-based service. The identification may be performed, for example, by detecting a data pattern that is indicative of the Application Programming Interface (API) of the location-based service. The monitoring system then finds location data in the decoded communication between the terminal and the server. The monitoring system extracts this location data and uses it to track the location of the terminal.
US09380408B2
The present invention relates to an application driving service system and method which is capable of solving unnecessary application redundant driving in a terminal in a procedure of providing a service using a beacon device, for example, a Bluetooth-based information providing service, a driving policy providing apparatus applied thereto, and a method for operating the apparatus.
US09380407B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided information processing apparatus, including: a first communication module configured to perform a communication under a first communication scheme which corresponds to a proximity wireless communication requiring no authentication; a second communication module configured to perform a communication under a second communication scheme which has a communicable distance longer than that of the proximity wireless communication; and a communication controller configured to perform a control, after the first communication module has started a data transmission with another information processing apparatus under the first communication scheme, so as to change-over the first communication scheme to the second communication scheme and then perform the data transmission.
US09380399B2
An interface for balancing speaker sound for use in consumer electronics and professional sound reinforcement field features a wireless speaker array. Optimization is accomplished by assigning the correct audio channel to each wireless speaker by a “chime” sound with multiple frequency components, and optimizing the sound of the speaker array by providing a wireless transmitter device with precise positions of each item for subsequent optimization of relative gain and delay for each speaker relative to the sweet spot.
US09380393B2
A capacitance sensor has a substrate, a vibration electrode plate formed over an upper side of the substrate, a back plate formed over the upper side of the substrate to cover the vibration electrode plate, and a fixed electrode plate arranged on the back plate facing the vibration electrode plate. At least one of the vibration electrode plate and the fixed electrode plate is divided into a plurality of regions. A sensing unit configured by the vibration electrode plate and the fixed electrode plate is formed in each of the divided regions. The plurality of sensing units output a plurality of signals having different sensitivities. At least some sensing units of the sensing units have vibration electrode plates having areas different from the areas of the vibration electrode plates in the other sensing units.
US09380387B2
A speaker is disclosed that can be positioned as either a right or left front surround or a right or left rear surround in any surround sound system. The speaker includes a housing including a first driver, a second driver, a third driver, and a fourth driver. A high pass filter is connected with the first and third drivers and the first and third drivers are wired having opposite polarities from one another such that the first driver is out of phase with the third driver by 180 degrees. A low pass filter is connected with a lattice filter, wherein the low pass filter is configured to shift a phase of an input signal −90 degrees and the lattice filter is configured to shift the phase by adding +45 degrees thereby forming a −45 degree phase shift. An output of the lattice filter is connected with the second and fourth drivers.
US09380379B1
Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses for the transmission of audio information from a bone-conduction headset to a user. The bone-conduction headset may be mounted on a glasses-style support structure. The bone-conduction transducer may be mounted near where the glasses-style support structure approach a wearer's ears. In one embodiment, an apparatus has a bone-conduction transducer with a diaphragm configured to vibrate based on a magnetic field. The magnetic field being based off an applied electric field. The apparatus may also have an anvil coupled to the diaphragm. The anvil may be configured to conduct the vibration from the bone-conduction transducer. Additionally, the anvil may be anvil may include at least one component configured to change properties to enable the bone-conduction headset to couple to the head of a user with greater than a threshold amount of force.
US09380365B2
An acoustic generator according to one embodiment includes an exciter, a vibrating portion, a frame, and a lead. The exciter receives an input of an electrical signal and is caused to vibrate. The exciter is mounted on the vibrating portion, and the vibrating portion is caused to vibrate by the vibration of the exciter. The frame is provided on an external circumferential portion of the vibrating portion, and supports the vibrating portion substantially flat. The lead is connected to the exciter, and inputs an electrical signal to the exciter. The frame includes a terminal serving as a connection point to the lead.
US09380363B2
A network node, which is designed for switching of time-division multiplex signals; contains a number of line cards (LCI-LCn), a switch fabric (SF) interconnecting the line cards (LCI-LCn), and a control system (CS). The switching fabric (SF) is a cell based switch with one or more switch modules (SET-SEn) adapted to switch cells of a predefined cell format on the basis of addresses contained in cell headers of the cells. The line cards (LCI-LCn) have segmentation and reassembly devices (SARI-SARn) for segmenting input time-division multiplex signals into cells of the preformed cell format and adding address information to each cell and for reassembling cells received from said switch fabric (SF) into output time-division multiplex signals. The control system (CS) is connected to a switched port of the switch fabric (SF) and exchanges with the line cards (LCI-LCn) control and/or Operation, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) messages over the switch fabric (SF) using cells of the preformed cell format.
US09380357B2
An universal network interface device base module including an access module, a modem module electrically connected to the access module, a dividing structure placed between the access module and modem module, and a base plate, wherein the access module, modem module and dividing structure are mounted on the base plate.
US09380355B2
Cell phones and other devices are used to complement enjoyment of television or other video media, through use of corresponding software applications (“widgets”). A great variety of related features and arrangements are particularly detailed.
US09380343B2
A device receives, from a media client, information associated with an event. The device identifies a user profile, associated with the event, including a tracking list which identifies one or more tracked series and a last watched list which identifies one or more last watched episodes associated with one or more watched series. The device determines a next available episode, associated with one of the one or more tracked series, based on the user profile, the information received from the media client, and content metadata which includes information associated with one or more available episodes associated with one or more available series. The device sends a suggestion identifying the next available episode to the media client for presentation to a user associated with the media client.
US09380326B1
A processing service provides content publishers and other such users with automated content processing (e.g., transcoding or other). The content publisher is enabled to provide content (e.g., media files) to an input location for applying various processing to the content. Upon determining that the content has been placed into the input store, the processing service may select an appropriate workflow to be applied to the content and execute the workflow. The workflow may be selected based on various attributes of the content, the publisher, or the input store, such as the file name, embedded metadata, file size, time of day and the like. The workflow can process the content and store the resulting content into an output store or provide the content to various viewer devices. The workflow may also be customizable by the content publisher via an API or other such interface.
US09380324B2
Systems and methods are provided for a content distribution system, packaged as executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer readable medium. The system includes a cross-platform video player, implemented as machine executable instructions executable on a host computer having any of a plurality of different operating environments and a video comprising a plurality of video frames. The system further includes a library of content items associated with the video. The library of content items includes a plurality of content items and metadata relating each of the content items to associated spatial locations in at least one frame of the video. Each of the cross-platform video player, the video, and the library of content items are packaged as a single cross-platform executable file.
US09380317B2
A device decodes, from a scalable nesting supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message in an encoded video bitstream, a plurality of syntax elements that identify a plurality of operation points to which a nested SEI message encapsulated by the scalable nesting SEI message applies. Furthermore, the device uses one or more syntax elements of the nested SEI message to perform an operation regarding any of the operation points to which the nested SEI message applies.
US09380312B2
A block input component of a video encoding pipeline may, for a block of pixels in a video frame, compute gradients in multiple directions, and may accumulate counts of the computed gradients in one or more histograms. The block input component may analyze the histogram(s) to compute block-level statistics and determine whether a dominant gradient direction exists in the block, indicating the likelihood that it represents an image containing text. If text is likely, various encoding parameter values may be selected to improve the quality of encoding for the block (e.g., by lowering a quantization parameter value). The computed statistics or selected encoding parameter values may be passed to other stages of the pipeline, and used to bias or control selection of a prediction mode, an encoding mode, or a motion vector. Frame-level or slice-level parameter values may be generated from gradient histograms of multiple blocks.
US09380291B2
The disclosure relates an information display method which comprises when editing information, a sending end marks, with a 3D display label, a content required by a user or a content designated by a system, encodes the information and sends the encoded information; a receiving end receives the information, parses the information to obtain the content with the 3D display label, pre-processes the obtained content to obtain a 3D view, and display the 3D view in 3D mode. Through the technical solution of the disclosure, the 3D display content is marked and the 3D display processing manner is performed, so that some contents in the information can be effectively displayed with a 3D effect with respect to other contents, thereby achieving the enhancement effect, raising concern of the user, and effectively improving the user experience when the user views the information.
US09380289B2
A video parameter set (VPS) is associated with one or more coded video sequences (CVSs). The VPS includes a VPS extension for a video coding extension. The VPS extension includes a syntax element that indicates whether a video coding tool associated with the video coding extension is enabled for a set of applicable layers of a bitstream. When the syntax element indicates that the coding tool is enabled for the applicable layers, at least a portion of the video data that is associated with the CVSs and that is associated with the applicable layers is coded using the coding tool. When the syntax element indicates that the coding tool is not enabled for the applicable layers, the video data that is associated with the CVSs and that is associated with the applicable layers is not coded using the coding tool.
US09380280B2
A reproducing device is provided. The reproducing device includes: a driver configured to load a recording medium in response to the recording medium being attached, wherein the recording medium records video data and additional information encoded according to a High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) method; a data processor configured to process the video data; a controller configured to provide a service corresponding to the additional information. The service includes at least one of a trick play service, an interested region enlargement service, and an object adjusting service.
US09380277B2
The present technique relates to an imaging device that can reduce color mixing that occurs between an on-chip lens and a photodiode, and a method of manufacturing the imaging device.The imaging device includes a first unit pixel including a photodiode unit that receives light, a first color filter that faces at least part of the photodiode unit, and a second color filter that faces the first color filter, the first color filter and the second color filter being located at a distance from each other. The present technique can be applied to imaging devices or imaging apparatuses.
US09380272B2
An apparatus comprises a server in communication with a camera located on a customer premises. The server is adapted to transmit Internet Protocol formatted video, containing a surveillance portion from the camera and an advertisement portion, to a customer premises device. A method for sending the Internet Protocol formatted video is also disclosed.
US09380270B1
An augmented reality environment allows interaction between virtual and real objects. Wavelength modulated light with a known spectral signature available within the augmented reality environment is used to generate spectral reflectance data for objects within the environment. This reflectance data is used to determine whether objects or portions thereof are skin.
US09380268B2
Embodiments are described for provision of video conferencing with reflector MCUs, transcoder MCUs, and/or combinations thereof. In some embodiments, a protocol connector module of a video conference system receives information on multi-data stream composition capabilities of a client application for a participant endpoint device of a video conference, session state information is received for creation of a composite of received video conference data streams for presentation at the client application, and instructions are selectively sent for handling media processing for each of the received video conference data stream from other participant devices based on the received multi-data stream composition capabilities information of the client application.
US09380266B2
An endpoint optimizes bandwidth by initiating a peer-to-peer conference with a plurality of remote devices, generating a first quality list comprising a first device of the plurality of remote devices from which to receive a first data stream at a first quality level, transmit a request to the first device to receive the first data stream at the first quality level, determining that a second device of the plurality of remote devices is not a member of the first quality list, and in response to determining that the second device of the plurality of remote devices is not a member of the first quality list, transmitting a request to the second device to receive a second data stream at a second quality level.
US09380249B2
A power conservation circuit for a hand-held motion-sensing device and a method for conserving power on such devices are provided. The present disclosure provides for sensing the movement of device by a sensor and outputting a sense signal in response to the movement, processing the sense signal output of the sensor by a processing circuit, selectively enabling and disabling power to the processing circuit (404) by a power management circuit and providing a signal by a motion detect circuit to the power management circuit for enabling power to the processing circuit based on the sense signal from the sensor. The motion detect circuit differentiates the sense signal from the sensor and provides a power enable signal to the power management circuit if the differentiated sense signal exceeds a signal threshold.
US09380247B2
A focus detection apparatus comprises a plurality of sensor groups, each comprising a plurality of sensors, each including a photoelectric converter and a storage portion, and controls part of the sensor groups according to a first accumulation method, in which charge generated by a photoelectric converter is accumulated in itself, and to a second accumulation method, in which charge generated by a photoelectric converter is accumulated in a storage portion. A sensor group corresponding to a selected focus detection area is controlled according to the first accumulation method, and a sensor group adjacent to the sensor group controlled according to the first accumulation method is controlled according to the second accumulation method. A monitor unit monitors a signal level of the charge stored in the storage portion corresponding to the photoelectric converter controlled according to the second accumulation method.
US09380228B2
A high dynamic range imager system is provided that includes an imager having a pixel array, and memory in communication with the pixel array, the memory comprising a plurality of memory cells, wherein the number of memory cells is approximately the number of whole row-times of exposures between the first conditional reset and row readout.
US09380225B2
Systems and methods for receiving infrared data with a camera designed to detect images based on visible light are provided. A system can include a camera and image processing circuitry electrically coupled to the camera. The image processing circuitry can determine whether each image detected by the camera includes an infrared signal with encoded data. If the image processing circuitry determines that an image includes an infrared signal with encoded data, the circuitry may route at least a portion of the image (e.g., the infrared signal) to circuitry operative to decode the encoded data. If the image processing circuitry determines that an image does not include an infrared signal with encoded data, the circuitry may route the image to a display or storage. Images routed to the display or storage can then be used as individual pictures or frames in a video because those images do not include any effects of infrared light communications.
US09380222B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting an image for inventory monitoring is provided herein. During operation, a camera may take a series of images of a particular area to be monitored. Each image will be broken into a plurality of regions and a determination will be made if a region is at least partially blocked. Those regions deemed unblocked will be utilized to generate a composite image. The camera continues acquiring images, using unblocked regions until a complete composite image is formed without obstructions. The composite image will then be transmitted and used for inventory monitoring.
US09380215B2
In an implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a digital signal from an image acquisition sensor, the digital signal encoded with an initial resolution. A video image is constructed from the digital signal to display on a micro display of an optical system, an initial linear dimension of the video image smaller than a linear dimension of an active area of the micro display. A display of the video image is initiated on the micro display using monochrome sub-pixels configured to act as independent pixels for display of the video image. A magnification request is received for the video image on the micro display, and the video image is adjusted on the micro display by increasing a linear dimension of the video image on the micro display by combining groups of monochrome sub-pixels to collectively represent a single pixel of the video image at the initial resolution.
US09380213B2
Image composition apparatuses and methods are provided. The image composition method includes the steps of receiving a plurality of images having at least partial common scene, performing analysis on the plurality of images to determine at least one image feature of the plurality of images, determining at least two sub-regions by comparing the image feature between the plurality of images, determining at least two portions selected from at least two source images among the plurality of images, the at least two portions comprising the at least two sub-regions, generating a composite image by combining the at least two portions, and providing the composite image to a user.
US09380209B2
A method for image photographing in an apparatus having a camera, according to the present disclosure is provided. The method includes identifying a face area by focusing on a subject in an automatic shot mode, automatically and continuously shooting the subject if the identified face area is directed to the front toward the camera, setting a best photo by generating and displaying thumbnails of the continuously shot images of the subject, and by displaying an identifier on a thumbnail of at least one image satisfying a predetermined condition, and by displaying an identifier on a thumbnail of image satisfying a predetermined condition, and storing the at least one image satisfying the predetermined condition if storing of images is requested.
US09380194B2
Systems and methods for providing illumination for a video call in a low-lighting environment. The light source may be a hardware component integrated on the front of a mobile device. The light source may be implemented as one or more lit spaces on the device's screen. The intensity of the light from the light source may be based on ambient light levels measured by one or more sensors on the device. When the mobile device receives an incoming video call, the sensors may detect the level of ambient light and activate the light source to illuminate the face of the call recipient if he or she answers the incoming video call. The device may include an interface to allow the user to configure and adjust the intensity, coloring, and lighting pattern of the light during the video call.
US09380187B2
A facsimile apparatus includes a data acquisition section, a facsimile transmission candidate image storage section, a destination receiving section, a facsimile communication section, a print setting information management section, and a facsimile transmission image generating section. The facsimile communication section is configured to transmit and receive, to and from a destination facsimile apparatus, information necessary for facsimile communication including a facsimile transmission candidate image and print setting information. The print setting information management section is configured to store the print setting information received from the destination by the facsimile communication section. The facsimile transmission image generating section is configured to manipulate the facsimile transmission candidate image to meet the printing condition indicated by the print setting information on the destination stored in the print setting information management section, thus generating a facsimile transmission image subject to a facsimile transmission to the destination.
US09380175B2
An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with an external apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive E mail transmitted from the external apparatus, a printing unit configured to print the E mail received by the reception unit, a setting unit configured to set a reception function of the Email valid or invalid, and a control unit configured, in a case where it is determined that a factor for shifting a power state of the image forming apparatus to an OFF-state has been detected, to set the power state of the image forming apparatus to the OFF-state if the reception function of the E mail is set invalid by the setting unit, and not to set the power state of the image forming apparatus to the OFF-state if the reception function of the E mail is set valid by the setting unit.
US09380174B2
Methods, systems and processor-readable media for converting a mobile rendering job to a secure rendering job. A secure rendering module can be configured in association with a print path with respect to a mobile telecommunications device. A rendering job from the mobile telecommunications device configured with a mobile multifunction device user interface can be received by the secure rendering module. The document context (e.g., metadata) as well as the context of the MFD context (e.g., MFD location and activity) can be checked in order to determine a confidentiality of the rendering job. The rendering job can be securely transmitted to the MFD based on the confidentiality. An email notification with respect to the release of the secure rendering job can be sent to a user.
US09380170B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for creating cellular network performance indicators by correlating business data of subscribers with a geographic position. In use, one or more subscriber measurement reports associated with an authenticated cellular network subscriber identifier are received. Additionally, the one or more subscriber measurement reports are geo-location tagged with a geographic position estimate. Further, business data associated with the authenticated cellular network subscriber identifier is received. Moreover, the received business data is associated with the one or more corresponding subscriber measurement reports, based on the authenticated cellular network subscriber identifier, such that the business data is associated with the geographic position estimate to create one or more performance indicators.
US09380166B2
Methods and arrangements for constructing ringback tones. A contemplated method includes: obtaining data pertaining to a first user of a communication medium from one or more communication channels comprising at least one channel selected from the group consisting of: an enterprise system, a personal social network, personal information derived from the communication medium, a contacts list, an instant messaging system, a professional social network, and a personal blog; and when a second user attempts communication with the first user via the communication medium: dynamically and automatically constructing a status update based on the obtained data; and using the constructed status update as a ringback tone. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
US09380163B2
A system for routing an interaction has a queue for staging the interaction, a router running a routing strategy for routing the interaction, and a number of object models maintained for a number of agents, the object models defining one or more agent skills, the values of the object models dynamically affected by real-time bio-metrics of the agents obtained through ongoing monitoring of voice and input actions of the agents. The routing strategy routes the interaction based on comparison of the dynamically-affected skill values of the agents, as evidenced in the object models.
US09380155B1
Systems, methods and apparatus for generating, distributing, and using speech recognition models. A shared speech processing facility is used to support speech recognition for a wide variety of devices with limited capabilities including business computer systems, personal data assistants, etc., which are coupled to the speech processing facility via a communications channel, e.g., the Internet. Devices with audio capture capability record and transmit to the speech processing facility, via the Internet, digitized speech and receive speech processing services, e.g., speech recognition model generation and/or speech recognition services, in response. The Internet is used to return speech recognition models and/or information identifying recognized words or phrases. The speech processing facility can be used to provide speech recognition capabilities to devices without such capabilities and/or to augment a device's speech processing capability. Voice dialing, telephone control and/or other services are provided by the speech processing facility in response to speech recognition results.
US09380149B2
A portable terminal device includes a display section, a display control section, an operation detection section, and an execution processing section. The display section detects an operation position and displays various objects. The display control function arranges the various objects on the screen of the display section and outputs information of an operation performed on a predetermined region. The operation detection section detects the operation performed on the predetermined region. The execution processing section executes predetermined processing according to the result of detection by the operation detection section. Accordingly, privacy of information containing a password can be enhanced.
US09380148B2
The present document discloses a screen unlocking method, device and terminal. The method includes: acquiring a position of a lighted touch screen point on a terminal screen in a screen locking state, generating and displaying an unlocking interface corresponding to the position, wherein shortcut icons of a plurality of applications which are generated simultaneously with the unlocking interface are displayed on the unlocking interface; and in response to an unlocking request input on the unlocking interface, executing an unlocking operation; or in response to an application request corresponding to the shortcut icon input on the unlocking interface, running an application corresponding to the shortcut icon. Through the present document, the user's experience in the unlocking operation can be enhanced, meanwhile, in the unlocking process, the corresponding application can be entered, which provides the user's operation with convenience, thus achieves an effect of improving the user's experience in the unlocking operation.
US09380143B2
A keyboard deactivation module includes a processor configured to generate an on-screen keyboard control signal, a CAN bus interface configured to connect to a CAN bus of a vehicle, and obtain vehicle speed information indicating a current speed of the vehicle from the vehicle via the CAN bus, and a Bluetooth radio configured to transmit the on-screen keyboard control signal to a target electronic device. An on-screen keyboard of the target electronic device is enabled in response to receiving the on-screen keyboard control signal while the vehicle speed information indicates that the current speed of the vehicle is below a specified threshold, and the on-screen keyboard of the target electronic device is disabled in response to receiving the on-screen keyboard control signal while the vehicle speed information indicates that the current speed of the vehicle is above a specified threshold. The keyboard deactivation module is mounted in the vehicle.
US09380142B2
A method to provide an interface for launching applications is described. The method includes receiving information indicative of a record stored in an electronic device application. The method also includes determining whether the record is associated with a software application command. In response to determining that the record is associated with a software application command, the software application command is activated. Apparatus and computer readable media are also described.
US09380136B2
A method and apparatus for encoding channel quality indicator (CQI) and precoding control information (PCI) bits are disclosed. Each of the input bits, such as CQI bits and/or PCI bits, has a particular significance. The input bits are encoded with a linear block coding. The input bits are provided with an unequal error protection based on the significance of each input bit. The input bits may be duplicated based on the significance of each input bit and equal protection coding may be performed. A generator matrix for the encoding may be generated by elementary operation of conventional basis sequences to provide more protection to a most significant bit (MSB).
US09380126B2
According to embodiments of the invention, a method, a computer readable storage medium, and a computer system for data collection and distribution are provided. The method may include receiving an electronic request for data from a data provider, wherein the request includes one or more characteristics of the client device. The method may also include identifying, as a function of the characteristics of the client device, a data set to be returned to the client in fulfillment of the request. The method may also include determining whether a cache of the data collector contains data sufficient to create the data set. The method may also include collecting, in response to determining that the cache does not contain data sufficient to create the data set, data from the data provider that is sufficient to create the data set. The method may also include providing the data set to the client device.
US09380125B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for buffering application data from one or more application servers to be transmitted to a mobile device at a suitable opportunity. The application data may be buffered at the application servers, or at a delivery control server. An opportunity to transmit the application data may arise in accordance with detected user activity at the mobile device, or predicted imminent user activity at the mobile device, indicating that the user may wish to receive the application data.
US09380121B2
To provide a technique to estimate a location relating to a user who has not filled in information about the location in a profile field in social media such as a microblog.A method for estimating association between a user in social media and a location includes the steps of acquiring a first content posted to the social media by a first user associated with a first location, determining regional localization of the first content on the basis of the first location, acquiring a second content posted to the social media by a second user not associated with a location, determining the degree of a relationship between the first content and the second content, and associating the first location with the second user on the basis of the localization and the degree of the relationship.
US09380120B2
Techniques are described for providing location-based information and functionality to people and computing devices in various ways. In at least some situations, the techniques include enabling multiple people in a common geographic area to interact in various ways, such as via devices capable of communications (e.g., cellular telephones, computing devices with wired and/or wireless communications capabilities, etc.), while in other situations at least some users who are remote from a particular geographic area may be allowed to intercommunicate with one or more other users or other entities in or related to that geographic area. In addition, the techniques include enabling the creation and maintenance of location-based virtual groups of users (also referred to as “clouds”), such as for users of mobile and/or fixed-location devices. Such clouds may enable various types of interactions between group members, and may be temporary and/or mobile.
US09380116B2
A method for protecting personal information in a home network is provided, in which a controlled device receives a subscribe request for a service of the controlled device, from a control point, and accepts the subscribe request. The controlled device receives information about the control point from the control point, and performs event delivery to the control point according to a policy that is set based on the information about the control point, when an event occurs in the controlled device.
US09380101B2
The invention relates to a method of managing a plurality of multimedia sessions involving user terminals connected to an access point of an IP network including at least one collection node when at least one audiovisual first session is in progress during which a first user terminal receives an audiovisual content encoded in the form of a plurality of SVC audiovisual streams via a link between said access point and said at least one collection node. The method of the invention receives a change request relating to a second session that is one of said plurality of sessions, recovers information relating to a context of said plurality of sessions, evaluates a new distribution of resources between said first session in progress and the second session, decides to accept or reject the change request as a function of the result of said evaluation and sends a message containing its decision. In the event of a positive decision, it commands adaptation of the transfer of the audiovisual content effected on said link during the first session by modifying a plurality of audiovisual streams to be transmitted.
US09380099B2
Systems and methods for synchronizing the playback of OTT or other time sensitive content on multiple playback devices is disclosed. The systems and methods include receiving time information based on a network time source in the playback devices. The playback clock in each playback device is set based upon the time information. Stream initiation information derived using the time information from the network time source is received by each of the playback device from the media provider. The playback devices use the stream initiation information to adjust the presentation time stamps of the frames of the media content in the stream.
US09380097B2
A computer-implemented method, apparatus and computer program product for overcoming data loss in streaming video in IP networks. The method comprising: receiving by a computing device associated with a server transmitting video, one or more notifications from a client, each notification related to a missing packet or a corrupted frame, wherein the packet or the frame are to be received by the client; determining a situation based upon the notifications; and subject to the situation being a first situation, transmitting to the client an indication that the client is to transmit to the server notifications of a first type, and subject to the situation being a second situation, transmitting to the client an indication that the client is to transmit to the server notifications of a first type and of a second type.
US09380090B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for mitigating interference in wireless networks. Various embodiments may include signaling of control channel information associated with an interfering cell and utilization of the control channel information to mitigate interference. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US09380088B2
The system and method for streaming media to a viewer and managing the media comprises an enhanced service routing processor (ESRP), a real time switch management system (RTSMS), a name routing processor (NRP), and a managed media switch (MMS). The RTSMS has a reservation system. The ESRP receives media from an owner, manages the media according to media rules and order rules defined by the owner, and distributes the media to one or more switches, such as the MMS, according to the media rules and the order rules. The RTSMS is configured to receive the media rules and to receive a viewer's media request via the reservation server. The reservation system of the RTSMS processes the media request according to the media rules and builds a reservation for the requested media. The RTSMS generates the reservation to the viewer and to the NRP. The NRP receives the reservation data from the viewer and from the RTSMS. The NRP processes the reservation data and locates an MMS that can stream the media to the viewer. The NRP transmits the IP address of the MMS to the viewer and transmits the reservation data to the MMS. The viewer initiates a session or connection with the MMS using the reservation number. If the reservation data from the viewer matches the reservation data from the NRP, the MMS streams the media to the viewer.
US09380083B2
The embodiments described herein recite a telephone communication system used for handling information such as messages, typically voice mail messages, and, more particularly, is directed to a system that provides distributed session initiation protocol (SIP) silos. Distributed SIP silos (DSS) is a Communications Application Platform (CAP) feature that maintains the site's call capacity even when a signaling server fails. DSS uses multiple non-redundant signaling servers to provide SIP signaling for the same set of media ports. Because there are multiple signaling servers providing signaling for the same set of ports, the failure of one signaling server only terminates the calls it was actively processing and once those calls have been cleaned up, all the available (non-suspended) ports in the configuration are available to the remaining signaling servers.
US09380081B1
A system and method establishes bidirectional contact through firewall devices. A method includes establishing a first connection between a first device and a second device and storing a connection record on the second device. When the second device receives a request to connect with the first device, it identifies and searches for the connection record corresponding to the first device. When the second device finds the connection, the second device sends a request to establish a second connection from the second device to the first device. Upon receiving the request to establish a second connection, the first device verifies the request to establish the second connection and the lifetime of the first connection. Upon verification, the first device establishes the second connection between the first computing device and the second device.
US09380068B2
A computer system deploys monitoring agents that monitor the status and health of the computing resources. An analysis engine aggregates and analyzes event information from monitoring agents in order to support self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization, and self-protection for managing the computer resources. If the analysis engine determines that a computing resource for a software application is approaching a critical status, the analysis engine may issue a command to that computing resource in accordance with a selected policy based on a detected event pattern. The command may indicate how the computing resource should change its behavior in order to minimize downtime for the software application as supported by that computing resource. The computer system may also support a distributed approach with a plurality of servers interacting with a central engine to manage the computer resources located at the servers.
US09380067B2
An IPS detection processing method, a network security device and a system are disclosed. The method includes: determining, by a network security device, whether an internal network device is a client or a server; if the internal network device is the client, simplifying an IPS signature rule base to obtain an IPS signature rule base corresponding to the client, or if the internal network device is the server, simplifying the IPS signature rule base to obtain an IPS signature rule base corresponding to the server; generating a state machine according to a signature rule in the IPS signature rule base obtained through simplifying processing; and performing IPS detection on flowing-through traffic by applying the state machine. In embodiments of the present invention, the network security device performs IPS detection by adopting the state machine with a redundant state removed, thereby improving IPS detection efficiency.
US09380062B2
Techniques for sharing virtual machine (VM) resources are provided. A relative location for a resource within a VM is created; the relative location dynamically resolves to a particular physical location when a principal requests access to the resource at runtime. The principal is located outside an environment associated with the VM. Authentication and access restrictions are dynamically enforced against the requests made by the principal before a connection is permitted between the principal and the resource (the resource located within the environment of the VM).
US09380042B2
The invention relates to a method for releasing a network device of a network system that comprises at least the one network device and at least one server. At least one second identifier that is assigned to a mobile computing device is stored in a database of the server. The method has the steps of detecting a first identifier, which is installed on the network device to be released, using the mobile computing device; transmitting the detected first identifier and a second identifier, which is assigned to the detecting mobile computing device, from the mobile computing device to the server; comparing the transmitted second identifier with the at least one second identifier stored in the database; and releasing the network device by means of the server if the result of the check is positive.
US09380038B2
A bootstrap authentication framework may automatically provide stored authentication credentials to an application server on behalf of an application. The bootstrap authentication framework may receive an access request from a protocol handler to access the authentication credentials stored in a subscriber identity module (SIM) of the electronic device. The access request may be initiated by an application that uses the authentication credentials to access a network service on an application server. In turn, the bootstrap authentication framework may provide the authentication credentials to the protocol handler when a digital signature associated with the protocol handler indicates that the protocol handler is allowed to access the authentication credentials.
US09380037B2
The present invention discloses methods for trusted protocols for a non-secure computing-environment. Methods include the steps of: upon request for determining that an untrusted computing resource is trustworthy, vouching for the untrusted resource as trustworthy by a trusted computing resource upon satisfying at least one criterion of: the trusted resource was directly involved in setting up and/or activating the untrusted resource; and/or has access to a database of identifying credentials and/or information which allow the trusted resource to verify that the untrusted resource is trustworthy; and concealing at least one secret that needs to be present on any computing resource, wherein at least one secret is concealed differently on each computing resource; and transmitting at least one secret from any computing resource to any other computing resource in a way that changes the step of concealing at least one secret without any computing resource knowing at least one secret.
US09380032B2
A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module dividing data into a plurality of data segments, encoding a data segment using a dispersed storage error encoding function to produce a set of encoded data slices, and generating slice names for each encoded data slice to produce a plurality of slice names. When a subset of encoded data slices of the set of encoded data slices is to be encrypted, the method continues with the DS processing module generating a master key, selecting a portion of the slice names for the subset of encoded data slices to produce a subset of selected slice name portions, generating a subset of encryption keys, encrypting the subset of encoded data slices using the subset of encryption keys to produce a subset of encrypted encoded data slices, and outputting the subset of encrypted encoded data slices to a dispersed storage network (DSN).
US09380031B1
Private anonymous electronic messaging between a message originator and a message recipient within an organization encourages open communication which can provide information to the organization that might otherwise be secreted from the organization, and can allow the message originator to obtain desired help (e.g., counseling). By profiling of the message originator based on current and previous electronic messaging within the system as well as external organizational information (e.g., behavioral or financial information), the system can assess concerns yet act as a gateway to protect the message originator's true identity through escalating levels of concern unless a genuine concern about the health, well-being, and/or safety of the message originator, others, or the organization is indicated, in which case the system can reveal the true identity of the message originator as appropriate.
US09380028B2
Data messages having secure data location addresses other than a predefined set are handled by a user terminal (14) in the normal way by setting up a secure tunnel (181) to a server specified in the data message (16). As this would prevent any proxy server from performing any processing on the content of the data message, messages that require the proxy to perform process on the data messages are processed separately. Data messages (251) incorporating secure media access locators identifying a predefined set of known media servers are identified by a message processing function (41, 410, 44) and passed to a proxy server over a connection between the user terminal and the proxy which does not tunnel past the proxy server, such that the proxy server may generate a redirected media access locator for return to the user terminal (14).
US09380019B2
Command performance may be monitored. In a monitoring transaction, a product may be selected from a plurality of products in one group of a plurality of groups of products. Execution performance of a command by the selected product may be monitored. The monitored execution performance may be provided for determining compliance with a service level agreement for the product based on the monitored executed performance.
US09380017B2
Disclosed is a technology for providing information to users of a chat information system. The chat information system may receive an information request from a user. The information request may be processed to determine its subject area and forwarded to information sources or external communication services, such as social networks, forums, and the like. Answers received from the information sources and external communication services may be validated and selected based on user feedbacks and ratings. The selected answers may be then delivered to the users of the chat information system. After receiving the answers, the user may evaluate them to be further stored for future use by the chat information system.
US09380004B2
A control component of a computing environment initiates sending of request(s) over a network of the computing environment by an activated virtual adapter. The activated virtual adapter is hosted on a physical adapter of a host system coupled to the network, and is for use by a guest, hosted by the host system, in performing data input and output. The request(s) retrieve access control information from the network indicative of access control(s) enforced in controlling access by the activated virtual adapter to network component(s). The initiating provides indication(s) to the physical adapter, absent involvement of the guest, that the request(s) be sent by the virtual adapter. Based on the initiating, the control component obtains the access control information from the physical adapter, and determines, based on that information, the access control(s) being enforced by the network in controlling access by the activated virtual adapter to the network component(s).
US09379996B2
A method and system virtualizes bandwidth. The system may include multiple communication interfaces to communicate across a hybrid network containing multiple networks of different types, technologies, protocols, topologies, or other network characteristics. The system may aggregate the bandwidth of the multiple communication interfaces into an aggregated virtualized bandwidth. When a bandwidth request is received, the system may determine a bandwidth allocation across the aggregated virtualized bandwidth. The system may also determine a communication resource allocation for the bandwidth allocation, which may assign any number of the communication interfaces. The system may then communicate application data across the allocated bandwidth.
US09379995B2
A system and method for performing a resource allocation diagnosis on a distributed computer system includes obtaining a target resource allocation and a snapshot of the distributed computer system, where the snapshot includes configurations and resource usage information of at least some components of the distributed computer system, and generating a resource allocation recommendation based on the target resource allocation and the snapshot by iteratively traversing a resource hierarchy in the distributed computer system. The resource allocation recommendation specifies at least one resource configuration action or at least one capacity expansion action for the distributed computer system to meet the target resource allocation.
US09379993B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for a network control application. Duplicate packets are simultaneously communicated across dedicated network communications paths. A receiving network access device detects a lagging network communications path. Packets received from the network communications path which is not lagging is communicated to a destination address while the duplicate is discarded.
US09379982B1
In general, techniques are described for load balancing, with a service node, packet flows using stateless load balancing that adapts to server failure to provide flow affinity to initially selected servers for the duration of respective flows. In one example, service node device applies stateless load balancing to packet flows to distribute the flows among a plurality of servers. The service node determines a failure of a failed server and then receives an initial packet of a packet flow from the packet flows and forwards the initial packet to an active server. The service node generates a mapping of the packet flow to the active server, determines a recovery of the failed server, receives a subsequent packet of the packet flow, and forwards the subsequent packet of the packet flow to the active server based at least on the mapping of the packet flow to the active server.
US09379980B1
Methods and systems for AXI ID compression are disclosed. Bus transaction data and an M-bit ID associated with the bus transaction data are transmitted by a master device via a bus to an ID mapper. The ID mapper is used to select, based on the M-bit ID, an N-bit ID from a plurality of N-bit IDs, where N may be less than M. The N-bit ID is associated with the bus transaction data. The bus transaction data and the N-bit ID associated with the bus transaction data are transmitted via the bus to a slave device.
US09379967B2
A communication system 100 has a communication path configured by connecting a starting-point device to an end-point device so as to be capable of communicating via at least one relay-point device. The communication system 1000 includes: a communication path determined band acquiring part 1001 that, for each of sections between communication devices adjacent to each other in the communication path, acquires a section available band, and acquires the smallest value between the section available band and a communication path request band that is a communication band requested for the communication path, as a communication path determined band; a band reserving part 1002 that reserves the acquired communication path determined band in the communication path; and a communication traffic controller 1003 that transmits communication traffic satisfying a traffic flow condition so that the communication traffic passes through the communication path where the communication path is reserved.
US09379964B2
A network node used to discover a topology-transparent zone (TTZ). In one example embodiment, the network node may obtain a TTZ identifier (ID) that is uniquely associated with the TTZ. Additionally, the network node may identify a link connected to a second network node that is also assigned the TTZ ID. In response to the command to initiate discovering the TTZ, the network node may generate a router information (RI) link-state advertisement (LSA) that comprises the TTZ ID and may distribute the RI LSA to the second network node using the link. In another example embodiment, the network node may not be configured as a TTZ edge node and may receive an RI LSA comprising the TTZ ID. The network node may store at least a portion of the information within the RI LSA and may flood the RI LSA using a plurality of links.
US09379961B2
Switches within a telecommunications network exchange so-called available bandwidth messages, each of which advertises how much bandwidth remains unassigned on a respective link. The network is of a type in which circuits are provisioned with various predefined numbers of time slots (equivalent to bandwidth). The sending of an available bandwidth message for a given link is triggered by a change in the number of time slots available on that link if that change results in a change in the number of circuit bandwidths that can be accommodated by that link for a newly provisioned circuit.
US09379959B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for verifying the functionality of network paths may include (1) constructing, at a source node within a network, a test packet that uniquely identifies a network path whose functionality is unverified, (2) sending the test packet to a target node within the network via the network path in an attempt to verify the functionality of the network path, (3) receiving, back from the target node, the test packet sent to the target node via the network path, and then (4) verifying, at the source node, the functionality of the network path based at least in part on the test packet received back from the target node. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09379958B1
A method and system are provided for profiling data packets as they flow along a datapath in a device under test to locate and debug problems with the datapath or the individual nodes constituting the datapath to thereby expedite formal verification of a device under test and resolve any problems found.
US09379935B2
A device may receive a packet, determine whether the received packet is encapsulated with a first header associated with a cached routing service, and determine whether the received packet is to be provided with the cached routing service when the received packet is not encapsulated with the first header associated with the cached routing service. In response to determining that the received packet is to be provided with the cached routing service, the device may encapsulate the received packet with a second header associated with the cached routing service, send the encapsulated packet toward a destination of the packet, and store the encapsulated packet in a buffer in a memory.
US09379932B1
This disclosure generally relates to systems and methods that facilitate employing a server based content recording component for recording content remotely for a client content video recording device that has limited storage and limited number of content streams to which it can access concurrently, while satisfying content rules for broadcast and re-transmission.
US09379929B2
A circuit for performing a residual side band calibration is described. The circuit generally includes a phase imbalance detection circuit. The phase imbalance detection circuit may include a limiter. The phase imbalance detection circuit may be independent of gain imbalance. The circuit may also include a phase imbalance correction circuit. The phase imbalance detection circuit may control coupling between an inphase path and a quadrature path.
US09379927B2
In a representative embodiment, an electronic transmitter comprises a signal source configured to provide an input signal comprising a plurality of frequency components; and a plurality of transducers each configured to receive the input signal and each configured to resonate substantially at one frequency of a subset of the plurality of frequency components. An electronic receiver, an acoustic transmitter and an acoustic receiver are also described.
US09379923B2
A method for operating a PLC system including at least one PLC modem device, in which interferences on transmission signals of the PLC system and/or on a transmission spectrum of the PLC system are detected, the interferences are caused by influences of an impedance modulating device connected to a mains used by the PLC system for communication, and, in a case such interferences are detected, frequencies on which the impedance modulating device causes interferences are selected to be notched from power line communication and/or time periods when the impedance modulating device is in a switching mode are selected to be avoided for transmitting PLC signals. A PLC modem device and a PLC system can implement the method.
US09379920B1
In a receiver, a decision feedback equalizer (“DFE”) receives an analog input signal. The DFE includes a subtraction block for subtracting weighted postcursor decisions from an analog input signal to provide an analog output signal. A postcursor decision block coupled to the DFE compares the analog output signal against positive and negative values of a postcursor coefficient to provide first and second possible decisions for selecting a current postcursor-based decision therebetween responsive to a previous postcursor-based decision. A precursor cancellation block receives the analog output signal, the previous postcursor-based decision and the current postcursor-based decision for providing a digital output signal for a previous sample of the analog input signal.
US09379915B2
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for notification of alarms in security systems. An alarm is detected by an alarm controller, and an alarm message is sent to notify of the alarm. The alarm message identifies a unique network address assigned to the alarm controller. The alarm controller then receives a Voice-over Internet Protocol call to the unique network address to verify the alarm.
US09379913B2
Systems and methods for transporting data between two endpoints over an encoded channel are disclosed. Data transmission units (data units) from the source network are received at an encoding component logically located between the endpoints. These first data units are subdivided into second data units and are transmitted to the destination network over the transport network. Also transmitted are encoded or extra second data units that allow the original first data units to be recreated even if some of the second data units are lost. These encoded second data units may be merely copies of the second data units transmitted, parity second data units, or second data units which have been encoded using erasure correcting coding. At the receiving endpoint, the second data units are received and are used to recreate the original first data units.
US09379911B2
A message storage device 114 configured to store users' messages electronically. The message storage device 114 is configured to interact with a user's electronic device 100,101,104,105,108,110,113 for transmitting a message to and/or receiving a message from the storage device in a manner dependent on the functionality of the user's electronic device 100,101,104,105,108,110,113. Also described is a moving image message processor in which an input moving image message stream including at least one first key frame is processed to include second key frames at a predefined time interval apart. Also described is a message storage device 114 including a controller configured to control movement of encoded video messages to and from a store and a processor depending on at least one predefined condition.
US09379909B2
Methods, systems, and mobile devices for managing mobile calls to or from an enterprise-associated mobile device. The system and mobile device are configured to ensure all calls over a public land mobile network are routed through an enterprise communications system. The mobile device is prevented from directly calling remote parties through the public land mobile network and the public land mobile network forwards all calls addressed to the mobile device to the enterprise communications system. The enterprise communication system responds to a request to connect the mobile device and the remote party by establishing a first call with the mobile device, establishing a second call with the remote party, and bridging the two calls to connect the mobile device to the remote party.
US09379906B2
Techniques and a network edge device are provided herein to extend local area networks (LANs) and storage area networks (SANs) beyond a data center while converging the associated local area network and storage area network host layers. A packet is received at a device in a network. It is determined if the packet is routed to a local or remote storage area network or local area network. In response to determining that the packet routed to a remote storage area network, storage area network extension services are performed with respect to the packet in order to extend the storage area network on behalf of a remote location. In response to determining that the packet is routed to a local local area network traffic, local area network extension services are performed with respect to the packet in order to extend the local area network on behalf of the remote location.
US09379899B2
A method for multicast routing may include receiving, at a router of a receiving multicast domain, a data packet from a forwarding multicast domain. The method may further include configuring the router to operate as if a multicast forwarding information base entry is directly connected, and configuring the router with a reverse path forwarding override with source discovery such that a path used by multicast traffic is different from a path used for unicast traffic.
US09379897B1
A method for maintaining a list of authorized signatories is provided. The method may include displaying a hierarchal list of signatories with at least one entitlement authorization. The method may further include receiving, from the client, a modification to the at least one entitlement authorization. The method may extract, from one or more client documents, a signature of a signatory with entitlement authorization. The method may receive a command to hover, on a Graphical User Interface (“GUI”), over the signatory. In response to the hovering, the may display, preferably on a hierarchal display, in response to the hovering, a copy of the signature of the signatory, a hierarchal list of signatories with current entitlement authorization, and a listing of documents signed by each of the signatories.
US09379892B2
A system and method for securing processing devices includes a police bridge disposed in one or more data busses between a central processing and input/output peripherals, components or components. The police bridge is suitably disposed between northbridge logic and southbridge logic. Alternatively, or in addition to such placement, a police bridge is suitably place between southbridge logic and super I/O logic. A police bridge is suitably a system-on-chip or fixed or programmable hardware. The police bridge monitors or controls its associated bus to determine whether acceptable data, with an associated certificate in other embodiments, is being communicated and signaling is generated accordingly.
US09379891B2
Provided are identifier (ID)-based encryption and decryption methods and apparatuses for the methods. The ID-based encryption method includes having, at a transmitting terminal, a transmitting-side private key corresponding to a transmitting-side ID issued by a key issuing server, generating, at the transmitting terminal, a session key using the transmitting-side ID, a receiving-side ID, and the transmitting-side private key, extracting, at the transmitting terminal, a secret key from at least a part of the session key, and encrypting, at the transmitting terminal, a message using a previously set encryption algorithm and the secret key.
US09379889B2
A method for key management is disclosed, wherein in adding a new device to a device group, the device group including a plurality of devices, wherein each device in the device group possesses device keys of all other devices in the device group for encryption of messages, except its own device key and wherein the device group includes a group manager device that possesses all device keys of the devices in the device group, the method includes, establishing a secure connection between the new device and the group manager device in the device group; sending, by the group manager device in the device group, the device keys of all devices in the device group to the new device; generating and distributing, a device key of the new device to all other devices in the device group. This approach is also generalized to k-resilient schemes.
US09379887B2
Application of a ZUC cryptographic functions in wireless communication includes receiving a data stream at the wireless communication apparatus and applying the ZUC cryptographic function to the data stream. The ZUC cryptographic function includes generating at least one multi-byte pseudo-random number that provides an index to one of a plurality of substitution boxes. Each of the substitution boxes is further based on one or more normative substitution boxes. The ZUC cryptographic function further includes retrieving a value from each of the substitution boxes using each byte of the multi-byte pseudo-random number, assembling the retrieved values into at least one substituted values, and generating at least one key value based on the substituted values, wherein the key value is used in applying the ZUC cryptographic function to the data stream. The method also includes processing the data stream after application of the ZUC cryptographic function.
US09379884B2
A symbol clock recovery circuit comprising an ADC, a controllable inverter and a timing detector. A timing detector input terminal is configured to receive an ADC output signal from an ADC output terminal; a timing detector output terminal is configured to provide a digital output signal; and a first timing detector feedback terminal is configured to provide a first feedback signal to the inverter control terminal. The timing detector is configured to determine an error signal associated with the received ADC output signal, and set the first feedback signal in accordance with the error signal.
US09379881B1
A phase interpolator circuit that includes an interpolator suitable for generating synthesized clocks through synthesizing two multi-phase clocks; and an interpolation code generator suitable for generating an interpolation code for controlling the interpolator in response to a shift request. The interpolation code generator generates the interpolation code so that a (K+1)-th multi-phase clock is output as the synthesized clock when a phase of the synthesized clock is to be changed from a phase between K-th and (K+1)-th multi-phase clocks to a phase between (K+1)-th and (K+2)-th multi-phase clocks in response to a multi-shift-up request.
US09379878B1
Systems and methods for high speed communications are described herein. In certain aspects, the systems and methods include innovative transceiver architectures and techniques for re-timing, multiplexing, de-multiplexing and transmitting data. The systems and methods can be used to achieve reliable high-speed point-to-point communication between different electronic devices, computing devices, storage devices and peripheral devices.
US09379877B2
A transmission device uses transmission delay time of reciprocation with the terminal and time information of the transmission device to create a correction value of time information of the terminal and transmits it to the terminal. The terminal includes expected arrival time information based on the time information of the terminal and the correction value received from the transmission device in a frame transmitted to the transmission device. The transmission device compares reception time of the frame with the expected arrival time information in the frame. If they match, the time information of the terminal synchronizes with the time information of the transmission device. If they do not match, the transmission device transmits a new correction value to the terminal. The terminal transmits a frame including expected arrival time information using the new correction value to the transmission device.
US09379876B2
A mobile station apparatus, that communicates with a base station apparatus, includes a reception unit that receives a physical downlink shared channel and information indicating radio resources for transmission of a physical uplink shared channel associated with contention based procedure and a transmission unit that transmits Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) information in response to the physical downlink shared channel and the physical uplink shared channel. The transmission unit also transmits, in case that transmissions of the HARQ information and the physical uplink shared channel happen in a single subframe, either both of the HARQ information and the physical uplink shared channel or the physical uplink shared channel without the HARQ information in the single subframe on the basis of a configuration.
US09379872B2
It would be to provide a method which will work with future versions of LTE-A, be backwards compatible and alleviate interference to signals for basic system operation. The method includes generating one or more Reference Signals associated with the one or more Channel Quality Indicators, and includes mapping the one or more Channel Quality Indicator-Reference Signals to the last symbol of the second slot of the one or more subframes.
US09379871B2
A method and apparatus for signaling the release of a persistent resource in long term evolution (LTE) are disclosed. An indication of the release of a downlink (DL) persistent resource is received by a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) from an evolved Node-B (eNB) via a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). A positive acknowledgement (ACK) is transmitted by the WTRU which denotes that the indication has been received. The PDCCH or a medium access control (MAC) CE may be used by the eNB to signal the indication. At least one bit may be added to contents of the PDCCH to signal whether the PDCCH is for DL persistent or dynamic resource allocation. The DL persistent resource is then released and an indication that the DL persistent resource has been released is transmitted.
US09379865B2
A method of generating reference signals by a base station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method including a sequence of a first reference signal using a cell identifier of the base station, transmitting, to a first user equipment (UE), a message including mode information indicating a first mode for a coordinated multi-point (CoMP) operation and a predetermined identifier being different from the cell identifier of the base station and generating a sequence of a second reference signal for the first UE using the predetermined identifier instead of the cell identifier of the base station.
US09379855B2
Certain embodiments generally relate to equipment under test measurements and reports, such as, but not limited to methods and apparatuses for a remote modular test system. For example, the method may include determining a test strategy (TS) file based on input from cloud-based equipment under test questionnaire and a cloud-based standards library. The method may also include reading the TS via a system controller. The method may further include configuring test hardware, for example, analyzers and power meters via a test RF system interface based on the read TS. The method may also include sequentially executing the TS based on the configuring. The method may further include generating a test document comprising result data. The method may also include uploading and processing the generated test document in the cloud. The method may further include grouping and compiling the generated test document in a predetermined layout.
US09379847B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for transmitting and receiving in a communication system. Input information is encoded by using a first parity check matrix to generate a codeword. Additional parity bits are generated by using a second parity check matrix which is related with the first parity check matrix. The codeword is transmitted by using a first resource. The additional parity bits are transmitted by using a second resource which is different from the first resource.
US09379845B2
A transmission device for rigorously protecting important information when information is transferred via a best-effort network. In this transmission device, a quality control information retention unit (203) holds quality control information set by a user. A recovery strength instruction unit (204) sets redundant code strength on the basis of transmission quality information from a reception device (104) and the quality control information held by means of the quality control information retention unit (203). Redundant encoding units (205, 206) generate, on the basis of the redundant code strength outputted from the recovery strength instruction unit (204), redundant code packets by means of an FEC for the packets outputted from encoding units (201, 202).
US09379837B2
A wireless communication device includes communication interface configured to receive and transmit signals and a processor configured to generate and process such signals. The communication interface of the wireless communication device is configured to receive a first signal from a first other wireless communication device, and the processor of the wireless communication device is configured to process the first signal to determine one or more concurrent transmission parameters. The processor of the wireless communication device is configured to generate the second signal based on the one or more concurrent transmission parameters and direct the communication interface to transmit the second signal to a second other wireless communication device during receipt of the first signal from the first other wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may be configured to make such concurrent transmissions based on one or more considerations such as the power level of the first signal.
US09379834B2
A time space coherence interferometer (TSCI) system is provided. In one embodiment of the present invention the TSCI system includes an interferometer in communication with an RF source and a receiver. The interferometer includes a first switch, a second switch, a transmit element, a receive element and a sequencer circuit, wherein the sequencer circuit is configured to alternate the first and second switches between first and second configurations. In a first configuration, the signal from the RF source is provided to the transmit element, where it is communicated to the receive element via a signal path, and provided to the receiver. In the second configuration, the signal from the RF source is provided to the receiver via a reference path. The switching sequence results in a complex ratio of the signal path signal to the reference path signal (e.g., an S21 transmission ratio) being provided to the receiver.
US09379821B2
The invention provides a solution for the full integration of a coherent receiver on Indium Phosphide (InP) or other material that has a number of advantages over current coherent receiver design. PIN waveguides can be reverse biased and forward biased to modify the mode effective index so as to realize an integrated polarization beam splitting function and the 90 degree optical hybrid. The fabrication tolerance is therefore greatly increased; resulting in much reduced complexity and cost for the final receiver.
US09379820B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device. The method includes: mixing a multi-carrier optical signal with a local optical signal having the same center frequency as that of the multi-carrier optical signal; performing photoelectric conversion and analog-to-digital conversion on an optical signal obtained through the mixing to obtain a digital signal; performing FFT on the digital signal to obtain a frequency domain signal; grouping the frequency domain signal according to each frequency band corresponding to its respective carrier in the multi-carrier optical signal, and performing IFFT on each frequency domain signal group to obtain a corresponding time domain signal for each carrier; and performing data restoration on each time domain signal corresponding to its respective carrier to obtain data carried on each carrier. The solutions of the present invention only require one set of coherent reception device, and have low cost and low power consumption.
US09379818B2
A scheme is described for remote control of the output power of a transmitter in a smart SFP (or SFP+, or XFP) duplex (or BiDi, or SWBiDi) transceiver in a communication system using an operating system with OAM and PP functions, an OAM, PP & Payload Processor, a transceiver, an optical power meter (optional), a BERT, and an optical link in the field.
US09379817B2
Disclosed are optical transceiver modules for use with electronic devices. In one embodiment, an optical transceiver module has a circuit board assembly for receiving and transmitting optical signals with a connector shell that is attached to the circuit board so that the circuit board is disposed outside the shell. The optical transceiver module also includes a faceplate that may have one or more attachment features for securing the faceplate and/or optical transceiver module to a device. By arranging the circuit board outside the shell of the optical transceiver module the footprint of the module is greatly reduced, thereby providing an advantageous arrangement for fitting into electronic devices having a relatively thin profile. Further, the optical transceiver module may optionally include one or more electrical contacts.
US09379814B2
There is provided a light detection system which is capable of determining in light embedded codes by detecting light in a scene which is illuminated by an illumination system (110) comprising one or more light sources (111,112,113) each providing a light contribution (I111, I112, I113) comprising an embedded code (ID#1, ID#2, ID#3) emitted as a temporal sequence of modulations in a characteristics of the light emitted. The light detection system comprises light detection means (220), which are arranged for acquiring at least one image of the scene, where the image is acquired a plurality of temporal shifted line instances. Each line of the acquired image comprises an instance of the temporal sequence of modulations of the first embedded code. The light detection system further comprises means (230) for determining embedded codes from the spatial pattern of modulations.
US09379811B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for optimizing performance of an optical module. The optical module includes: an optical receiver, configured to receive an optical signal from an optical network, convert the optical signal into a first electrical signal, and process the first electrical signal according to a set control parameter for performance optimization, so as to obtain a second electrical signal; a connector, configured to send the second electrical signal obtained by the optical receiver to a host connected to the optical module, so that the host obtains bit error information according to the second electrical signal, and configured to receive the bit error information delivered by the host; and a processor, configured to adjust, according to the bit error information of the connector, the control parameter for performance optimization of the optical receiver.
US09379809B2
A method and a device for realizing an optical channel data unit (ODU) shared protection ring (SPRing) are disclosed by the present invention. The method includes: first, receive an ODUj, wherein the ODUj carries an ODUi; then, perform de-multiplexing processing to obtain the ODUi from the ODUj; next, multiplex the ODUi to an optical channel data unit k (ODUk); meanwhile, keep monitoring the ODUk; and when the monitoring result that is obtained through monitoring the ODUk indicates that a failure has occurred, perform a switching on the ODUi; wherein i, j, k are integers equal to or larger than 0, k is larger than j, j is larger than i, and i, j, k are used to indicate different rates of respective optical channel data unit (ODU) signals.
US09379808B2
An endpoint device may be operable to transmit and receive data wirelessly via a medium to which access is time-division multiplexed into a plurality of repeating windows. A first window of the plurality of repeating windows may be time-division multiplexed into a plurality of timeslots utilized for transmitting beacon signals. A second window of the plurality of repeating windows may be time-division multiplexed into a plurality of timeslots utilized for transmitting alarm signals. The endpoint may be assigned one of the first timeslots and, when an alarm condition is present, select one of the second timeslots for transmitting an alarm signal based on the assigned first timeslot, and based on a hash function. The endpoint may then transmit an alarm signal during the second timeslot. The endpoint may be operable to synchronize its local clock by listening to beacons transmitted by other endpoints.
US09379802B2
A diversity receiver switch includes at least one second stage switch configured to communicate with a transceiver. The diversity receiver switch may also include at least one first stage switch coupled between a diversity receiver antenna and the second stage switch(es). The first stage switch(es) may be configured to handle a different amount of power than the second stage switch(es). The diversity receiver switch may include a bank of second stage switches configured to communicate with a transceiver. A first stage switch may be configured to handle more power than each switch in the bank of second stage switches. Alternatively, the diversity receiver switch include a bank of first stage switches coupled between the diversity receiver antenna and a second stage switch. The second stage switch may be configured to handle more power than each of the first stage switches.
US09379799B2
A base station (102), comprising a first antenna (111) for transmitting a first pilot signal; a second antenna (112) for transmitting a second a pilot signal; a third antenna (113) for transmitting a third pilot signal; and a fourth antenna (114) for transmitting a fourth pilot signal. The base station is configured to transmit pilot signal power information for indicating power values to a user equipment (104), UE, receiving the pilot signal power information. The pilot signal power information comprises: a first power value corresponding to the first pilot signal, a second power value corresponding to the second pilot signal, a third power value corresponding to the third pilot signal, and a fourth power value providing information regarding at least two demodulation pilot signals.
US09379791B2
Multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication systems and methods for chip to chip and intrachip communication are disclosed. In one aspect, MIMO techniques that have been applied to wireless communication systems are applied to interchip and intrachip communication systems. In particular, a transfer function is applied at the transmitter, and a reverse transfer function is applied at the receiver. The transfer function dynamically changes based on channel conditions to cancel or otherwise mitigate electromagnetic interference (EMI) and crosstalk conditions. In an exemplary aspect, a sum of power levels across the channels may have a maximum. To abide by such power level constraint, the transfer function may be optimized to reduce interference while remaining within the power level constraint.
US09379789B2
Dynamic adjustment of antenna selection period at a wireless communication device or user equipment having two or more antennas. The described approaches consider an antenna selection performance metric. The antenna selection performance metric may include both measurement overhead (capacity loss due to measurements) and antenna switching capacity gain (gain in capacity through switching antenna subsets). The antenna selection performance metric may further include an estimate of UE speed or an antenna selection change rate. The antenna selection period may be adjusted by increasing or decreasing the antenna selection period based on the antenna selection performance metric. Antenna selection may be enabled or disabled based on the antenna selection performance metric.
US09379788B2
A communications terminal may include: a plurality of antennas; and a selection circuit configured to select at least one antenna of the plurality of antennas as a transmit antenna for a transmission to a radio communications network, wherein a selection of the transmit antenna may be based on a selection criterion.
US09379785B2
A near field RFID system includes an RFID reader and an RFID tag. The RFID reader includes a transmit path and a receive path, wherein the transmit path includes: an encoding section coupled to convert data into encoded data; a digital to analog conversion module coupled to convert the encoded data into an analog encoded signal; a power amplifier coupled to amplify the analog encoded signal; and a plurality of coils coupled to generate a plurality of electromagnetic fields from the analog encoded signal. The RFID tag that includes: a coil coupled to generate a current and a recovered signal from at least one of the plurality of electromagnetic fields; a power recovery circuit coupled to generate a voltage from the current; and a data processing section coupled to process the recovered signal, wherein the data processing section is powered via the voltage.
US09379772B2
Transceiver self-diagnostics for electromagnetic interference (EMI) degradation in balanced channels
Transceiver self-diagnostics for electromagnetic interference (EMI) degradation in balanced channels. Selective operation of transmitting a common mode signal from a communication link implemented for supporting differential signaling, and appropriate processing of any detected signal energy, such as that corresponding to differential signal energy, provides a measure of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) corresponding to the communication link. Comparison of detected differential signal energy to one or more thresholds may provide indication of whether or not the communication link is balanced or unbalanced, a degree or margin with which the communication link is compliant in accordance with EMC in accordance with one or more protocols, standards, or recommended practices. Multiple successive measurements of detected differential signal energy may be used to determine a trend of performance, such as whether or not the communication link is trending toward imbalance, failure, or noncompliance.
US09379768B2
A communications device may include a wireless receiver, and a processor coupled to the wireless receiver. The processor may be configured to receive a spread OFDM signal having narrowband interference associated with the same, the spread OFDM signal having subcarriers with data distributed among the subcarriers. The processor may be configured to excise the narrowband interference from the spread OFDM signal, and despread the spread OFDM signal after excising and based upon the excising to recover the data.
US09379761B2
An impedance measurement system (IMS) is provided that comprises an RSSI chain (RSSI), a limiter RSSI chain (LIMRSSI) and a limiter chain (LIM). The RSSI chain and the limiter RSSI chain are connected to a subtraction circuit (SC) and the limiter RSSI chain and the limiter chain are connected to a phase detector (PD). Further, a mobile communication device is provided that comprises the impedance measurement system in an adaptive impedance control system.
US09379758B2
A wireless communication apparatus, includes: a second circuit board; a wireless communication processing circuit accommodated in the second circuit board; a first signal line that connects a first ground potential portion of the first circuit board with a first antenna feed point of the wireless communication processing circuit, wherein the first signal line and the first ground potential portion are configured to operate as a first antenna; a second signal line that connects the first circuit board with the second circuit board and is configured to convey a baseband signal; and a circuit element that is connected to the second signal line and is configured to block RF signals that are sent and received by the wireless communication processing circuit.
US09379756B2
Communication apparatus (22) includes an interface (41) to a plurality of wireless modems (42) and bonding circuitry (39), which is configured to receive multiple virtual identities in the apparatus, to load respective ones of the received virtual identities into one or more of the wireless modems, and to communicate over the air by simultaneously transmitting or receiving a data stream over at least the two or more of the wireless modems. Systems and methods for such communication are provided, as well.
US09379750B2
Systems and methods are disclosed which relate to mitigating the detrimental effects of interference to electronic devices from mobile telephones utilizing any form of time-domain multiplexing technology. A wireless transmitter inside the mobile telephone broadcasts a warning transmission which can be received by affected devices. Once the warning transmission is received by an affected device, the device activates a blanking circuit comprising an actuator and a switch or switches. The switches open for the duration of the interference so that the user does not receive undesired output such as: noise through a speaker, noise through a microphone, or other interference with electrical signals.
US09379741B2
Memory depth optimization in communications systems with ensemble PHY layer requirements. Memory depth, for one or more modules in a communication device, is managed based on a limited amount of provisioned hardware. For example, each of a number of various modules within a communication device is configurable to operate at various memory depths. Considered together, various sets or profiles of operational parameters (e.g., associated with particular settings for each of the various modules within the communication device), may be employed to configure the communication device to operate in accordance with one of a variety of operational modes. For example, in a first operational mode, latency may be minimized (e.g., using shorted codewords, shorter interleaver depth, etc.), whereas in a second operational mode, a higher latency may be tolerated but with an expectation of much lower error rates (e.g., achieved using more powerful ECC, longer interleaver depth, etc.).
US09379721B2
An electronic device has a capacitive arrangement for controlling a frequency characteristic. The capacitive arrangement has varactor banks having a number of parallel coupled varactors and a control input for switching the respective varactors on or off. A main varactor bank has N varactors and a series varactor bank has A varactors, the main varactor bank being connected in series with the series varactor bank. A shunt varactor bank of B varactors may be coupled to a ground reference and connected between the main varactor bank and the series varactor bank. When a varactor is switched in the main varactor bank, it provides an equivalent capacitance step size (or frequency step) smaller than size of a capacitance step when switching a single varactor on or off. According to the number of varactors selected in the shunt varactor, B, this frequency step can be made programmable. By the arrangement of unitary varactors a very small step size is achieved for providing a high resolution of frequency of a digitally controlled oscillator.
US09379720B1
Clock data recovery can be accomplished using a phase path circuit that is configured to receive a data signal and a clock signal. A phase detection circuit detects phase differences between the data signal and a plurality of clock signals and generates a phase adjustment signal based upon a majority voting of the detected phase differences. Speculative calculation circuits generate speculative phase selection signals. Selection circuits select, in response to the phase adjustment signal, from speculative phase selection signals to provide outputs of the phase path circuit.
US09379717B2
Described is an apparatus to lower power of a charge pump. The apparatus comprises: a first delay unit to receive a reference clock, the first delay unit to provide a delayed reference clock to a first sequential unit; a second delay unit to receive a feedback clock, the second delay unit to provide a delayed feedback clock to a second sequential unit; a first logic unit to receive the reference and feedback clocks, the logic unit to perform a logical OR operation on the received reference and feedback clocks, and to generate a trigger signal for a third sequential unit; and a second logic unit to receive outputs of first and second sequential units, and to generate an output coupled to the third sequential unit.
US09379709B2
A circuit may include an input terminal configured to receive an input signal with a first voltage swing and an output terminal. The circuit may also include a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a control circuit. The control circuit may be coupled to the input terminal, a gate terminal of the first transistor, and a gate terminal of the second transistor. The control circuit may be configured to adjust voltages provided to the gate terminals based on the input signal such that the first transistor conducts in response to the input signal being at a first logical level and the second transistor conducts in response to the input signal being at a second logical level to generate an output signal output on the output terminal. The second voltage swing of the output signal may be different from the first voltage swing of the input signal.
US09379708B2
A driver circuit for driving a switch includes a high output impedance driver circuit portion having a high impedance output node coupled to the control terminal of the transistor and a low output impedance driver circuit portion having a low impedance output node also coupled to the control terminal of the transistor. The slew rate of the control signal is established by at least one of the high impedance driver circuit portion and the low impedance driver circuit portion.
US09379705B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes at least one unit cell. The at least one unit cell includes a first bit circuit configured to process a first bit signal, a second bit circuit configured to process a second bit signal, a first well spaced apart from boundaries of the at least one unit cell and biased to a first voltage, and a second well biased to a second voltage that is different from the first voltage. Each of the first and second bit circuits includes at least one transistor from among a plurality of transistors disposed in the first well.
US09379703B2
A flexible touch panel comprises a base material sheet; a first axis detection electrode, which is provided on the base material sheet and is patterned concerning a first axis; an insulative layer, which is provided on the first axis detection electrode; a second axis detection electrode, which is provided on the insulative layer and is patterned concerning a second axis that is perpendicular to the first axis; a first routing circuit, which electrically connects the first axis detection electrode to an external part; and a second routing circuit, which electrically connects the second axis detection electrode to an external part.
US09379697B2
This disclosure provides a gate driver circuit in a display. The gate driver circuit includes shift registers configured for receiving clock and start signals and generating a gate signal to drive a row of the pixels, arranged at intersections of the gate lines and the data lines on a panel, each register comprising: a control unit having a clock input, a first voltage input, a second voltage input, and a first output; and a first output unit having a first pull-down TFT electrically connected to one of the first outputs and a gate-driving terminal configured for providing the gate signal; wherein one of the clock signals at the clock input is provided to the first output unit; and a first control signal's period at the first output is longer than the clock signal's period at the clock input and shorter than the period of a frame.
US09379694B2
A pass-gate has a passageway between an input node and an output node. The pass-gate selectively opens or closes the passageway for a signal at the input node under control of a voltage. The pass-gate has a field-effect transistor with a gate electrode and a current channel. The current channel is arranged between the input node and the output node. The gate electrode receives the voltage. The pass-gate is configured so as to have the voltage at the control electrode substantially follow the signal at the input node when the passageway is open to the signal.
US09379687B1
A systolic FIR filter circuit includes a plurality of multipliers, a plurality of sample pre-adders, each respective one of the sample pre-adders connected to a sample input of a respective multiplier, and an output cascade adder chain including a respective output adder connected to a respective multiplier. The output cascade adder chain includes a selectable number of delays between adjacent output adders. An input sample chain has a first leg and a second leg. Each respective one of the sample pre-adders receives a respective input from the first leg and a respective input from the second leg. The input sample chain has, between adjacent sample points in at least one of the legs, a selectable number of sample delays related to the selectable number of output delays. Connections of inputs from the input sample chain to the sample pre-adders are adjusted to account for the selectable number.
US09379683B2
Methods and systems are provided for volume interactions for connected playback devices. In one example, a playback device applies a state variable update associated with a playback device in a plurality of playback devices, the state variable update indicating a limited volume range associated with the playback device. The playback device receives data indicating a group volume adjustment for the plurality of playback devices. The playback device determines that applying the group volume adjustment to the playback device would not result in the playback volume of the playback device exceeding the volume limitation of the playback device. Based on the determination that applying the group volume adjustment to the playback device would not result in the playback volume of the playback device exceeding the volume limitation of the playback device, the playback device adjusts the playback volume of the playback device according to the group volume adjustment.
US09379681B2
An audio power amplifier arrangement includes an audio power amplification integrated circuit having two loudspeaker outputs. A rectifier circuit includes a first diode having a cathode connected to one of the two loudspeaker outputs and an anode connected to a rectifier output node. A second diode has an anode connected to the one loudspeaker output. A first resistor has a first end connected to a cathode of the second diode and a second end connected to the rectifier output node. A capacitor has a first end connected to the rectifier output node and a second end connected to electrical ground. A second resistor has a first end connected to the rectifier output node and a second end connected to electrical ground.
US09379679B2
A self-oscillation frequency varying element for varying the self-oscillation frequency of a self-oscillation loop of a self-oscillating class-D amplifier is placed in the self-oscillation loop. Frequency comparison, cycle comparison, or phase comparison is performed between a self-oscillation signal of the self-oscillating class-D amplifier or a signal corresponding to the self-oscillation signal and a reference frequency signal having a prescribed reference frequency. Alternatively, information corresponding to a frequency or a cycle of a self-oscillation signal of the self-oscillating class-D amplifier or a signal corresponding to the self-oscillation signal is compared with information corresponding to a prescribed reference frequency or reference cycle. The self-oscillation frequency varying element is controlled in accordance with a result of the comparison, whereby the frequency of the self-oscillation signal or the signal corresponding to the self-oscillation signal is caused to follow the frequency of the reference frequency signal.
US09379678B2
A directional coupler utilizes an inductive element of a power amplifier and a coupled conductive element. The inductive element of the power amplifier is a functioning element within the power amplifier and at least part of the inductive element of the power amplifier is disposed in a multi-layer substrate. At least part of the coupled conductive element is disposed in the multi-layer substrate. The coupled conductive element is configured to be inductively coupled to the inductive element of the power amplifier such that the coupled conductive element carries a first RF signal that is representative of a second RF signal within the inductive element of the power amplifier.
US09379674B2
A transimpedance pre-amplifier (TIA) with an improved bandwidth. In the TIA, a feedback circuit is added to a regulated cascode structure to be connected in parallel, so that an input resistance value is reduced and a bandwidth is easily broadened. Alternatively, an inductor is added to the regulated cascode structure, so that an input capacitance is reduced and bandwidth is easily broadened.
US09379673B2
A device includes a main two-stage low noise amplifier (LNA) configured to amplify a carrier aggregation (CA) communication signal, the main two-stage LNA comprising a first LNA stage and a second LNA stage, an output of the first LNA stage having a first stage second order intermodulation product, the second LNA stage comprising a phase-inverter configured to phase-invert the output of the first LNA stage to generate a second stage phase-inverted output, and an auxiliary LNA stage coupled to the main two-stage LNA, the auxiliary LNA stage configured to cancel the first stage second order intermodulation product.
US09379667B2
A switch mode power supply converter and a parallel amplifier are disclosed. The switch mode power supply converter is coupled to a modulated power supply output and the parallel amplifier has a parallel amplifier output coupled to the modulated power supply output. Further, the parallel amplifier has a group of output stages, such that each output stage is directly coupled to the parallel amplifier output and each output stage receives a separate supply voltage.
US09379662B2
A system using temperature tracking for a controlled oscillator (CO) is provided. The system includes at least one coarse tuning capacitor circuit including a plurality of selectable coarse tuning capacitors operable in at least three modes of operation, thereby allowing switching between each coarse capacitor of the plurality of selectable coarse capacitors when a selected coarse tuning capacitor has reached one of its high tuning range and low tuning range.
US09379654B2
A method of estimating inductances and flux linkages of an electrical machine supplied with drive currents via current regulators. Drive current values are measured and fed back to the regulators for closed-loop control. The method includes providing one current regulator with an alternating current value either for a direct axis current reference i*d or for a quadrature axis current reference i*q of the machine current vector, while providing another current regulator with a predetermined direct current value for the remaining one of the two current references i*d and i*q. After a predetermined time, a varying signal is superimposed onto an output signal generated by the current regulator in response to the AC value. Finally, a contribution signal, which corresponds to the contribution of the superimposed varying signal to the drive currents, is determined, and the machine inductances and flux linkages are estimated on the basis of the contribution signal.
US09379645B2
A method and apparatus generates kinetic and electrical energy using sound waves and is believed to be particularly useful in high efficiency motors and electrical generators. In particular, the method and apparatus uses sound waves as a catalyst to convert ambient heat energy into kinetic and/or electrical energy. In one embodiment, sound waves at particular frequencies are propagated across one side of a plate or other barrier element, causing flow of fluid (e.g. air) across the surface of the plate which, in turn, causes a reduction in the ambient fluid (air) pressure near the surface of the plate. The difference in fluid pressure on opposite sides of the plate results in net positive thrust on the plate, thereby causing movement of the plate. This movement can be harnessed using, for example, a windmill type of rotor and stator arrangement to generate useful kinetic and electrical energy.
US09379643B2
An electrosurgical generator may reduce unintended tissue damage by improving regulation of output power. The electrosurgical generator may control the power during a cycle, and react to a change in power if arcing occurs. Voltage sources, especially, demonstrate the tendency to have large, uncontrolled power excursions during normal electrosurgical use. The magnitude of the power excursions may be dependent on various factors. An exemplary electrosurgical generator control scheme reduces or minimizes the thermal spread by accurately supplying the specified power within a few cycles. Additionally, fast and accurate regulation provided by the constant voltage mode reduces or minimizes unintentional tissue charring. Thus, reduced thermal spread and charring should result in better surgical outcomes by reducing scarring and decreasing healing times. An electrosurgical generator controller may be configured to control both a DC-DC buck converter and a DC-AC boost inverter based in part on electrical parameters of the electrosurgical generator.
US09379639B2
A method of configuring an installed energy harvesting device to comply with a local grid connection standard is provided. The method identifies a local grid connection standard for an energy harvesting device that has been installed in a physical installation. The method then configures the energy harvesting device to apply the identified grid connection standard. To identify the local gird connection standard, the method determines a physical location for the installation of the energy harvesting device. The method then identifies the local grid connection standard based on the determined physical location.
US09379638B2
A semiconductor device comprising a rectifier circuit, wherein the rectifier circuit includes first and second input wires to which AC signals whose phases are inverted from each other are transmitted; a first transistor of a first conductive type which has a first power wire connected with a first transistor terminal and a gate connected with the first input wire; a second transistor of the first conductive type which has the first power wire connected with a first transistor terminal, and a gate connected with the second input wire; a third transistor of a second conductive type which has a second power wire connected with a first transistor terminal, a second transistor terminal connected with a second transistor terminal of the first transistor and a gate connected with the first input capacitor; and a fourth transistor of the second conductive type which has the second power wire connected with a first transistor terminal.
US09379617B2
A control device is configured to, when the direct current output voltage of a resonant DC-DC converter is of a value that exceeds the maximum value that can be output in a fixed frequency control region, there is a switch from fixed frequency control to frequency modulation control. Because of this, conduction loss and turn-off loss caused by backflow current among semiconductor switching elements of the resonant DC-DC converter are reduced, power conversion efficiency is improved, and the range of voltage that can be output by the resonant DC-DC converter is expanded.
US09379614B2
A computer server rack for mechanically supporting and electrically powering computer servers is provided. The rack includes DC-to-DC conversion circuits which are configured to convert a relatively high DC facility voltage (e.g. 380 volts DC provided throughout a data center on busways and/or appropriate wiring) to DC voltage useable directly by a computer server (e.g. 12 volts DC). The conversion circuits are highly efficient and convert substantially all of power input to the circuits at the input voltage and input DC current to a high DC output current at a lower output voltage. The conversion circuits are distributed among the computer servers in an electrically parallel arrangement to provide a predetermined level of redundancy, to permit replacement of the circuits without disrupting power to the servers in the rack, to reduce variations in the voltage supplied to the servers along rack bus bars or power conductors as a result of the current flowing and the impedance of the bus bars or conductors distances between conversion circuits and servers distributed within the rack, and to increase the internal server volume dedicated to the servers.
US09379606B2
The switching frequency of a switch mode PFM power converter is compared with a predetermined frequency range that contains the operating frequency of a nearby clocked sub-system. In response to the switching frequency coming into the range, a parameter of the power converter is changed from an original value, so as to cause the switching frequency to go out of the range.
US09379604B2
Radio frequency (RF) switching circuitry includes support circuitry for maintaining one or more RF switching elements in either an ON or OFF state. The support circuitry includes a negative charge pump adapted to quickly generate a negative voltage during a “boost” mode of operation, and maintain the negative voltage during a normal mode of operation. The negative charge pump includes an oscillator adapted to generate a high frequency oscillating signal for driving the charge pump during the boost mode of operation and a low frequency oscillating signal for driving the charge pump during the normal mode of operation. By generating the high frequency oscillating signal only during a boost mode of operation, spurious noise coupled to the RF switch circuitry is minimized during a normal mode of operation.
US09379599B2
The tubular linear motor includes an armature having a coil and a magnetic exciter having a permanent magnet provided to face the coil. The armature has a yoke that blocks a magnetic flux, teeth that partition a slot for storing the coil, and the coil that is arranged to extend over the teeth from an inner side of the slot toward the magnetic exciter while a mechanical gap is reserved between the magnetic exciter and the coil. The magnetic exciter has a plurality of permanent magnets by interposing a soft magnetic body.
US09379583B2
A magnet assembly is disclosed. The magnet assembly includes a base element and a magnet attached to a first surface of the base element. A second surface of the base element opposite to the first surface of the base element includes a contour, which is adapted to engage with a complementary contour of a support structure of a rotor arrangement. It is further described a method for engaging a magnet assembly to a support structure of a rotor arrangement, a rotor arrangement for an electromechanical transducer, an electromechanical transducer and a wind turbine.
US09379580B2
An apparatus including a plurality of transformers each having a primary winding and a secondary winding where the secondary windings are connected in series, a battery, a plurality of switches, each coupled to one of the plurality of transformers, the switches intermittently closes to complete a circuit between the battery and the primary winding of the one transformer and a processor that individually activates the respective switches of the plurality of transformers in a predetermined order to generate an alternating current voltage across an output of the series connected secondary windings.
US09379568B2
A method and apparatus for controlling charge of a low-voltage battery are provided. The method includes assigning, by a controller, a preset voltage for the low-voltage battery based on an operating mode of a vehicle and a charge state of a high-voltage battery. In addition, the controller compares the preset voltage with a present charge voltage of the low-voltage battery and increases the present charge voltage with a first slope until the present charge voltage becomes equal to the preset voltage when the preset voltage is greater than the present charge voltage. The operating mode comprises drive modes that include a first drive mode and a second drive mode, a fuel cell stop mode, and an emergency mode. The first drive mode is divided into a plurality of stages based on the charge state of the high-voltage battery.
US09379565B2
A battery pack, a method of charging the same, and a vehicle including the same. The battery pack includes: a battery cell for storing electric power; and a Battery Management System (BMS) for controlling charging or discharging the battery cell, wherein, in order to charge the battery cell, the BMS increases a charge current in a first period of time, decreases the charge current in a second period of time, and increases the charge current again in a third period of time.
US09379564B2
A charging control method for controlling a charge operation to a storage unit E2 of a vehicle, using a charging cable CC that is connected to a charging inlet E1 of the vehicle and supplies power to the storage unit E2 from an external power supply BP provided outside the vehicle, the method has detecting connection of the charging cable CC to the charging inlet E1, detecting a command signal of a disconnection command unit C22 of the charging cable CC, pausing the charge operation to the storage unit E2 while maintaining a closed state of relay switches C42, E5, E6 of a vehicle side power supply line for only a predetermined time when detecting the command signal of the disconnection command unit C22 which indicates the disconnection in a state where the charging cable CC is connected to the charging inlet E1, and restarting the charge operation to the storage unit E2 when detecting a command signal of the disconnection command unit C22 which indicates cancel of the disconnection during the predetermined time.
US09379555B2
A system includes an adaptive power source, a wireless power transmitter, and a wireless power receiver. The adaptive power source supplies a supply voltage across a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector onto the wireless power transmitter that thereby transmits energy to the wireless power receiver. The wireless power transmitter has a USB plug that is inserted into a USB port of the adaptive power source. The wireless power transmitter sends a power control command to the adaptive power source across the USB connector. The power control command determines the supply voltage to be supplied to the wireless power transmitter. If the wireless power receiver determines the power level should be adjusted, then the wireless power receiver sends a wireless control communication to the wireless power transmitter. The wireless power transmitter reads the wireless control communication and sends a power control command to set the supply voltage to a desired level.
US09379554B2
A current output circuit for a two-wire transmitter includes a first current source circuit configured to output a first current controlled by a control voltage generated based on a physical quantity, a second current source circuit configured to output a second current controlled by the first current, a first shunt voltage source circuit configured to generate an internal power source of the two-wire transmitter from the second current, a third current source circuit configured to generate a third current controlled by a reference voltage, and a second shunt voltage source circuit configured to generate a power source of the second current source circuit by the third current. The current output circuit is configured to output a predetermined current controlled by the control voltage based on the first current, the second current and the third current to an external circuit through two transmission lines.
US09379546B2
Systems and methods for performing vector control of grid-connected power electronic converters using a neural network are described herein. Optionally, the grid-connected power electronic converters can be used in renewable and electric power system applications. In order to improve performance and stability under disturbance conditions, integrals of error signals can be introduced as inputs to the neural network. Alternatively or additionally, grid disturbance voltage can be introduced to an output of a trained neural network.
US09379530B2
A flexible grommet with a grommet spreader mounting and alignment feature is provided. The grommet is configured to attach an object to a support structure. A body of the grommet defines an opening configured to clamp around the object. The opening defines a plurality of channels configured to facilitate mounting of the grommet onto the spreader. The channels may also be configured to correctly orient a mating feature of the grommet relative to the spreader.
US09379523B2
A Group III nitride semiconductor device comprises: a Group III nitride semiconductor layer having a primary surface, inclined with respect to a c-plane of the Group III nitride semiconductor at an angle in a range of 50 degrees or more and 80 degrees or less, of a Group III nitride semiconductor; a p-type Group III nitride semiconductor laminate including first to third p-type Group III nitride semiconductor layers, the first to third p-type Group III nitride semiconductor layers being provided on the primary surface of the Group III nitride semiconductor layer, the first and third p-type Group III nitride semiconductor layers sandwiching the second p-type Group III nitride semiconductor layer such that the second p-type Group III nitride semiconductor layer incorporates strain; and an electrode provided on the p-type Group III nitride semiconductor laminate. The electrode is in contact with the first p-type Group III nitride semiconductor layer.
US09379518B2
The present disclosure provides a packaging structure and a method of packaging an tunable laser device, and an tunable laser device. The packaging structure of the tunable laser device may include a TO tube base and a TO tube cap, wherein a first thermal sink is disposed on the TO tube base, a semiconductor laser chip is disposed on a vertical side of the first thermal sink, an aspheric lens is disposed on the TO tube cap, and the semiconductor laser chip is disposed on a central axis of the aspheric lens; and wherein the vertical side of the first thermal sink is a side of the first thermal sink perpendicular to the TO tube base. The tunable laser device according to the present disclosure may be applicable to communication over an optical fiber.
US09379513B2
A Raman amplifier comprisinga gain control unit adapted to control a pump power of an optical pump signal in response to at least one monitored optical feedback signal reflected back from a transmission line fiber connected to said pumped Raman amplifier.
US09379506B2
A method for electrically connecting a strand of an electrical conductor to a contact element. The strand includes a plurality of single wires. The method includes dividing the strand into at least a first part including a first group of the single wires and a second part including a second group of the single wires, welding the first group of the single wires to a first contact surface of the contact element, and welding the second group of the single wires to the first group of the single wires or to a second contact surface of the contact element, the second contact surface being opposite to the first contact surface.
US09379505B2
A method of manufacturing a lead frame includes, firstly, forming a metal plate which has a frame portion, a pad portion for mounting semiconductor elements, and lead portions. After that, the lead portions are etched to form a support end, a connecting terminal and a jointing end of each lead portion. Then a receiving portion for receiving the semiconductor elements is formed, wherein the receiving portion is collectively defined by the connecting terminals, the support ends and the pad portion. After that, step portions are formed on the lead portions and the pad portion by half-etching. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package which includes the lead frame is also provided.
US09379499B2
A connector comprising: a first insulator substrate; a first contact configured by arranging a plurality of contact pins including contact pins for differential signals as an array, on a top surface of the first insulator substrate; a second insulator substrate; a second contact configured by arranging a plurality of contact pins including contact pins for differential signals as an array in the same direction as the array direction of the first contact, on an undersurface of the second insulator substrate; and a metal plate sandwiched by an undersurface of the first insulator substrate and a top surface of the second insulator substrate; and one or more holes are formed in an area on the metal plate, the area being sandwiched by the contact pins for differential signals of the first and second contacts facing each other.
US09379491B2
An electrical connecting device is provided, which includes a plate part fixed a first structure, and a leg extending from the plate part. When the first structure is mounted on a second structure, the leg is electrically connected to a housing part provided in the second structure.
US09379490B2
A plug for an electrical plug-type connector includes a plurality of plug contacts, which are electrically connected or connectable to a corresponding number of connecting elements, for example insulation displacement contacts, clamping contacts or possibly also soldered joints, each for connecting one electrical cable core. Per plug contact, one conductor is formed as a conductor track which is grown three-dimensionally on the surface of a plug body in the form of a cast plastics part and adheres there, and which both forms the plug contact and electrically connects the plug contact to the connecting element.
US09379484B2
A latch is provided for latching a connector to a device. The latch includes a body having an actuator and a latch pin. The latch pin is movable between a latched position and an unlatched position. The latch pin is configured to latch the connector to the device when the latch pin is in the latched position. The actuator extends from the latch. The actuator is configured such that movement of the actuator moves latch pin between latched position and the unlatched position. The actuator and the latch pin are integrally fabricated from a same sheet of material as a continuous structure such that the body is a single, unitary body.
US09379481B2
A service cover (50) to be mounted to close a rear end opening (25) provided on a housing main body (21) of a waterproof connector (10) includes a fitting (52) which is fittable into the rear end opening (52), an annular seal ring (80) that provides watertightness between the rear end opening (25) and the fitting (52) and a fitting recess (54) that is recessed on an outer periphery surface of the fitting (52) and into which the seal ring (80) is to be fit. The fitting recess (54) is formed by mounting a front member (70) with a larger cross-section than a cross-sectionally small portion (58) constituting a front end part of the fitting (52) on the cross-sectionally small portion (58).
US09379479B2
A connection terminal includes: a terminal connection portion to be connected with a mating terminal; a wire connection portion including a pair of crimping pieces crimped to an exposed conductor and insulation sheath of a wire; an anticorrosion material provided to cover the exposed conductor and insulation sheath exposed on an outside of the wire connection portion and cover a gap provided in a portion where edges of the respective crimping pieces face and come into contact with each other; and an anticorrosion material holding portion provided in the portion where the edges of the respective crimping pieces face and come into contact with each other.
US09379463B2
In an assembly including an adapter and a smart card, the outer dimensions of the adapter are compliant with the 3FF microcircuit card format, the format further defining the positioning and minimum dimensions of contact areas; the smart card includes a plurality of contact surfaces, the dimensions of which are greater than those defined by the 3FF format for the contact areas, the outer dimensions of the card being smaller than those of the 3FF format; and the adapter includes a recess, the outline of which is defined by a plurality of arms that surround the recess, the recess being shaped so as to receive the smart card so the contact areas of the adapter fit inside the contact surfaces of the smart card, each of the contact areas being off-center relative to each of the contact surfaces, so each arm has a width of 700 micrometers, ensuring mechanical stability.
