US09393790B2
In the case of printing a test pattern with an inkjet print apparatus, two printing modes are prepared. In one printing mode, a preliminary ejection on the printing medium is performed during printing of a test pattern, and in the other printing mode, the preliminary ejection on the printing medium is not performed during printing of a test pattern. For a test pattern that is, if the test pattern is printed under the same condition as that for an actual image, convenient for a subsequent correction, the preliminary ejection on the printing medium is performed during printing of the test pattern. On the other hand, for a test pattern in which, if an irrelevant dot is printed within the pattern, inconvenience is taken into consideration in a subsequent correction, the preliminary ejection on the printing medium is not performed during printing of the test pattern.
US09393786B2
Provided is a liquid ejecting head including a fixing plate which includes a first surface and a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface, a plurality of head units which are fixed to the second surface such that the head units can eject liquid to the first surface side of the fixing plate, and a case member which includes a wall portion that is formed to surround the head units and fixed to the fixing plate and which has a plurality of protrusion portions formed in a part of the wall portion, which is the portion facing the fixing plate.
US09393784B2
A piezoelectric element includes a vibration plate that has a first region that is allowed to flexurally deform and a second region that is at an outer side of the first region and that is inhibited from flexurally deforming, a piezoelectric element main body in which a lower electrode layer, a piezoelectric material layer, and an upper electrode layer are stacked in that order on the first region of the vibration plate, and a common metal layer stacked on the upper electrode layer, with a common close adherence layer interposed therebetween. A portion of the piezoelectric element main body extends into the second region. In an extension-side region, that is, a region at a side of extension of the portion of the piezoelectric element into the second region, the common metal layer is formed continuously from a location that overlies the first region to a location that overlies the second region and the common close adherence layer extends beyond a location that overlies the common metal layer to an end portion of the upper electrode layer.
US09393779B2
A semiconductor device which is provided to correspond to each of a plurality of nozzles discharging a liquid and controls a plurality of drive elements causing a liquid to be discharged from each nozzle by an application of a drive signal includes a detection circuit which detects a residual vibration signal of the drive element, an output terminal which is provided to correspond to each of the plurality of drive elements, a discharge transistor which controls an application of the drive signal to the drive element through the output terminal, and a detection transistor which controls an application of the residual vibration signal to the detection circuit through the output terminal, in which the detection transistor is smaller than the discharge transistor in size, and the discharge transistor is disposed between the detection transistor and the output terminal.
US09393776B2
A screen printing apparatus includes: a barrier member which butts against a screen mask and a squeegee to prevent paste on the screen mask from escaping to an outside of a printing width of the board; and an urging mechanism which urges the barrier member toward the screen mask. The urging mechanism includes: a first magnetic member held by the squeegee head such that a first pole surface having a first magnetic pole is directed toward the barrier member; and a second magnetic member held by the barrier member such that a second pole surface having a second magnetic pole opposite to the first magnetic pole is directed toward the first magnetic member, whereby the urging mechanism urges the barrier member by an attracting magnetic force acting between the first pole surface and the second pole surface.
US09393774B2
A screen printing apparatus includes a print screen including a printed pattern through which an ink passes, a scraper that coats the ink on the print screen, a squeegee that makes contact with the print screen and pushes out the ink through the printed pattern. A control unit may control a transfer of the scraper. After the ink is coated on the print screen, a lower portion of the scraper is transferred to a direction, in which the squeegee is disposed, by the control unit and disposed on the squeegee. The apparatus helps avoid uneven distribution of that could result in undesirable “stains” on a substrate.
US09393772B2
A system for registering printing presses includes printing stations for printing color images on a web includes an imager acquiring images of a web common area. The acquired image includes a portion of a color image associated with a printing station and a portion of one other color image associated with an un-registered printing station and a processor, coupled with the imager. A portion of the color image is registered with a portion of the other color image according to two monochrome images, each corresponding to a color image printed on the common area and determined according to the location of each pixel of the acquired image in a color separation space, the location is determined according to the projected location on a color projection plane. The portion of the one color image is registered with the portion of the one other color image with a reference image.
US09393764B2
An automobile fuel tank includes an outer wall including a main body of a multiple-layered synthetic resin, in which the outer wall includes at least an outer body layer, an outer adhesive layer, a barrier layer, an inner adhesive layer, and an inner body layer. The outer body layer and the inner body layer include a high density polyethylene (HDPE) as a main ingredient. Each of the outer adhesive layer and the inner adhesive layer includes a synthetic resin having adhesiveness against both the high density polyethylene (HDPE) and the barrier layer. The barrier layer includes a synthetic resin.
US09393754B2
Reconditioning is performed such that the curvature of the arcuate surface of the crest on the upper corrugating roll is increased as compared before conditioning. Further, reconditioning is performed such that the curvature of the arcuate surface of the crest on the lower corrugating roll is increased as compared before conditioning. In this step, polishing is performed so as to maintain the maximum diameter of the crest on the upper corrugating roll as much as possible. Thereby, since the length of the inclined surface of the corrugating roll connecting between a crest and a trough of the upper and lower corrugating rolls and is reduced, the rate of the increase in the consumption of corrugated mediums of fluted corrugated mediums for double-faced corrugated cardboard sheets shaped by the upper and lower corrugating rolls and after reconditioning can be reduced.
US09393745B2
A load-bearing composite structure for connection to a support body or structure. The load-bearing structure includes a load-bearing element that is made up of continuous reinforcing fibers and a resin matrix. The load-bearing element has an attachment portion for connection to the support body. The load-bearing composite structure further includes a connection element that is formed using a molding material which is composed of discontinuous fibers and a resin matrix. The molding material is molded over the surface of the attachment portion of the load-bearing element.
US09393742B2
There is provided a fiber holding device, comprising: a bobbin supported to be rotatable about an axis and configured to hold a fiber wound thereon; a release member configured to apply a force to the fiber drawn from the bobbin in a direction from the axis of the bobbin toward outer periphery; a tension applying member configured to apply tension to the fiber drawn from the bobbin; and an extended section extended from the bobbin and arranged to integrally hold the release member and the tension applying member in a sequence of the release member and the tension applying member toward downstream in a drawing direction of the fiber.
US09393734B2
The present invention pertains to a UHMWPE film having a tensile strength of at least 2.0 GPa, a tensile energy to break of at least 30 J/g, an Mw of at least 500 000 gram/mole, and a Mw/Mn ratio of at most 6. The film may be manufactured via a process which comprises subjecting a starting UHMWPE with a weight average molecular weight of at least 500 000 gram/mole, an elastic shear modulus determined directly after melting at 160° C. of at most 0.9 MPa, and a Mw/Mn ratio of at most 6 to a compacting step and a stretching step under such conditions that at no point during the processing of the polymer its temperature is raised to a value above its melting point. The film may be used as starting material in any applications where high tensile strength and high energy to break are important. Suitable applications include ballistic applications, ropes, cables, nets, fabrics, and protective applications.
US09393730B2
An apparatus for shaping plastics material preforms into plastics material containers includes a plurality of shaping stations each having two blow mould parts which are movable with respect to each other and which can be moved between a closed and an opened state. In the closed state the shaping station form a cavity, inside which the plastics material pre-forms are shaped. The shaping stations have a stressing device which acts upon the preforms with a gaseous medium to expand them, and stretch bars which are capable of being inserted into the preforms to stretch them in the longitudinal direction. The shaping stations each have at least one drive device which drives a movement necessary for the shaping procedure, as well as a control device for controlling this drive device. The control device is arranged on the apparatus through a damping device.
US09393727B2
During the production of teat rubbers, in particular of teat rubbers containing a high percentage of silicone, pressure is applied when the teat rubber preforms are removed, the radial expansion of teat rubber areas being appropriately limited to a maximum value. Hence, the removal can be executed automatically and at a comparatively high temperature without irreversible damage being caused to the material. The removal process can be supported by an appropriate contact surface whose contour corresponds, at least partially, to the outer contour of the preform. Furthermore, an appropriate removal device is provided.
US09393723B2
Foam filling a cavity in a joint between insulated pipe lengths by wrapping a fiber reinforced plastic mold sheet around the cavity or applying a casing around the cavity, with a securing element supplied on the mold sheet to resist separating movements of the ends of the mold sheet or one or more flexible tensile members wrapped around the casing, to resist ballooning of the casing on expansion of a foam filling introduced into the mold or into the casing.
US09393719B2
A pneumatic tire has an outer surface with an arithmetical mean roughness Ra in the range of 0.1 μm to 0.6 μm when a reference length Lr is 20 μm, wherein the outer surface has an irregularity diameter in the range of 40-230 μm and an irregularity depth in the range of 3-22 μm. A method of manufacturing a tire vulcanization mold includes propelling spherical abrasive grains onto the surface of the mold under the condition that a propelling pressure is in the range of 0.1-0.6 MPa, so as to process the surface of the mold.
US09393717B2
In a processing plant for producing plastics material granulate, the start-up takes place in such a way that a screw machine is firstly driven by means of a drive device and then plastics material to be processed is fed by means of a metering device into the screw machine. At least one conveying position of the plastics material in the screw machine is determined by means of a control device by evaluating at least one measuring signal. Depending on the conveying position determined, a granulating device is activated and put into operation. The method according to the invention allows a direct start-up of the processing plant without the use of a start-up valve. This ensures an easy and safe start-up of the processing plant.
US09393703B2
An umbilical member attachment device including a first umbilical member-use first fastening part and second fastening part respectively fastening a first umbilical member to a first member and second member, and a second umbilical member-use first fastening part and second fastening part respectively fastening a second umbilical member to a first member and second member. These fastening parts are arranged offset in position from each other on a surface of the robot so that the first umbilical member and the second umbilical member do not cross, and at a reference posture, and so that a distance between the first umbilical member-use second fastening part and the second umbilical member-use second fastening part becomes broader than a distance between the first umbilical member-use first fastening part and the second umbilical member-use first fastening part.
US09393701B2
A magnetic device for gripping and clamping workpieces, in particular sheet-steel elements (L), comprises a supporting casing (2), slidably mounted within which is a magnet-holder member (4) carrying a main permanent magnet (M). The magnet-holder member (4) can be displaced between an advanced, operative, position, in which the main magnet (M) is designed to grip and clamp a workpiece (L), and a retracted, inoperative, position. The movement of the magnet-holder member (M) is controlled by shape-memory actuator means (A1, A2, B, E).
US09393700B2
A method for automatically positioning a casing includes: placing the casing onto a shelf with the opening of the casing facing toward a robot arm; controlling a distance between two clamping portions of a clamping device to be larger than a distance between two lateral flat surfaces of the casing, making the support portions located towards the opening and lower than the top inner surface of the casing; using the robot arm to move the support portions through the opening into the casing, making the support portions extend over a gravity center of the casing, and lifting the casing; moving the casing until the casing is stopped against the sucker, and moving the support portions with respect to the casing until the top lateral surface is stopped against the clamping device; and moving the two clamping portions toward each other to clamp the casing.
US09393699B1
Methods and systems for wireless control of robotic devices are described herein. As one example of implementing wireless control of a robot, a computing device may provide an alert, such as visual, audio, and/or vibration signals, when the device is capable of engaging in wireless communication with a robot. Prior to engaging the robot, the device may require some gesture of confirmation from the user, such as a passcode, predefined motion, or biometric input, prior to requesting for some amount of control of the robot. After engaging the robot via wireless communication (e.g., near field communication (NFC)), the device may receive control of the robot and enable the user to input control commands. Additionally, in some instances, the device may be configured to receive a subsequent gesture from the user that requests to relinquish control back to a control system of the robot.
US09393698B1
A self-assisting robot for assisting a paraplegic user is disclosed which comprises a platform having a plurality of wheels, a robotic arm, an inclination sensor, operable to measure the inclination angle formed between said platform and a road in front thereof, a saddle configured to be adjusted up and down to fit the height of a user, a controller panel connected to said saddle, a processor operable to control the operations of the self-assisting robot, and a kneeling seat connected to and move with the robotic arm.
US09393694B2
A system and method for robustly calibrating a vision system and a robot is provided. The system and method enables a plurality of cameras to be calibrated into a robot base coordinate system to enable a machine vision/robot control system to accurately identify the location of objects of interest within robot base coordinates.
US09393693B1
Methods and systems for determining and modeling admissible gripper forces are described. An example method may involve receiving data representative of a plurality of trajectories along which a robotic manipulator, while gripping one or more physical objects, previously moved the one or more objects without dropping the one or more objects. The method may also involve determining set of force vectors corresponding to the trajectories. The method may also involve determining a three-dimensional virtual model of the set, where boundaries of the model represent constraints on magnitudes of forces that are applied in a given direction to perform the trajectories. The method may then involve determining one or more subsequent trajectories that correspond to a subsequent set of force vectors that are within the boundaries of the model and along which the robotic manipulator can move a subsequent physical object at particular accelerations without dropping the subsequent object.
US09393691B2
An industrial robot system may enable a reduction in an installation/adjustment period, and an increase in a no-error continuous operation period. The system includes an action planning section for temporary halts, an error-inducing-task restraining section, a section for teaching task, an operation mastering section, a hand library, an optimum-task-operation generating section, a specific task library, an error-recovery-task teaching section, an error recovery library, a finger-eye-camera measurement section including an omnidirectional mirror, a three-dimensional recognition section, a controller, a manipulator, and a hand with a plurality of fingers.
US09393681B2
A transmission device, in particular for a hand-held power tool, includes a sliding member coupling that has at least three sliding members disposed about an axis of rotation. The transmission device also includes at least three spring elements that are configured to exert on the sliding members at least one force component that is directed radially outwards with respect to the axis of rotation. The spring elements are supported in each case by bearing devices of sliding members disposed contiguously about the axis of rotation.
US09393678B2
A head bolt tightening tool for a cone crusher head assembly includes a support which is able to support the head assembly non-rotatably on the support, and a reaction arm equipment which is fitted to the support and which is able to hold a head bolt tightening wrench non-rotatably relative to the support.
US09393676B2
A ratchet line wrench tool includes a generally open head member and a handle connected thereto. The head member has a generally C-shape with an open portion on one end and an inner hollow portion. The head member further includes a ratchet gear having a generally C-shape with an open portion on one end that corresponds to the open portion of the head member and a plurality of outer surface teeth along an outer surface of the ratchet gear. The head member further includes a ratchet pawl disposed within the head member and engaging with the outer surface teeth enabling coupled rotation of the ratchet gear. The ratchet line further includes a removable tool insert having an insert portion having outer surface teeth and being sized and configured to close the open portion of the ratchet gear.
US09393675B2
A bar clamp configured for engagement with a workpiece is provided. The bar clamp includes a pair of parallel elongated bars, each extending along a longitudinal axis. The bar clamp also includes a fixed connector and a movable connector extending along a transverse axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis for connecting the elongated bars together and maintaining a transverse separation therebetween. The bar clamp further includes an adjustment mechanism for adjusting a transverse separation between the elongated bars and for compressing the workpiece along the transverse axis, a positioning mechanism for adjusting a position of the movable connector along the longitudinal axes of the elongated bars, and a longitudinal compression mechanism connected to the fixed connector for compressing the workpiece along the longitudinal axis. A bar clamp assembly for engagement with a workpiece and including a plurality of spaced-apart bar clamps configured for receiving therebetween the workpiece is also provided.
US09393673B2
Provided are abrasive articles in which the make layer, abrasive particle layer, and size layer are coated onto a backing according to a coating pattern characterized by a pattern of discrete islands, or features, having an areal density ranging from about 30 features to about 300 features per square centimeter and an average feature diameter ranging from about 0.1 millimeters to about 1.5 millimeters. Optionally, the provided abrasive particles have an average abrasive particle size ranging from about 20 micrometers to about 250 micrometers and the average make layer thickness ranging from 33 percent to 100 percent of the average abrasive particle size. This coating pattern provides that all three components are generally in registration with each other, while also providing a pervasive uncoated area extending across the backing, thereby providing improved cut and finish performance while displaying a resistance to curl in wet environments.
US09393672B2
A blasting system having a pressure control circuit that automatically sets and balances pressures in the system to provide a more efficient blasting process. The pressure control circuits provide the ability and enable an operator to more easily and efficiently set the operating pressures of a wet abrasive blasting system, for example, for various blasting processes and easily obtain a consistent blast stream flow. Embodiments of the invention provide an accurate, simple, and intuitive control of the pressure supply system. In specific embodiments, the pressure control circuit controls both the supply pressure to an air driven water pump and the pressurized air supply to slurry mixer by setting only one of these pressures. In certain other embodiments of the pressure control circuit, both pressures may be set through operation of a single, multi-port selector valve.
US09393667B2
An angle grinder including at least one boost mode unit configured to provide a boost mode, and a switching-over unit configured to switch over between a conventional mode and the boost mode.
US09393658B2
A portable power tool includes a motor located in a motor housing of the tool and having a rotary output shaft, a working part arranged to be driven by the rotary output shaft, a dust collection container arranged to collect dust produced by the operation of the power tool on a workpiece during use, and a fan. The fan is arranged to be rotated about an axis by the motor to convey the dust to the dust collection container, the axis of rotation of the fan being non-coaxial with the rotary output shaft of the motor. A part of an exterior surface of the dust collection container is formed as a recess into which the motor housing at least partly extends, such that the dust collection container extends at least partly around the motor housing.
US09393654B2
An instant clamping mechanism includes a supporting member, a base seat, a clamping assembly and a handle assembly. The base seat is assembled to the supporting member and defines a sliding groove, the sliding groove includes a releasing end and a latching end, an axial distance within the base seat is defined from the latching end to the releasing end. The clamping assembly extends through the base seat and the supporting member and is partially exposed out from the supporting member. The handle assembly extends into the sliding groove and is partially exposed out from the base seat. The handle assembly is non-rotatably connected to the clamping assembly and is capable of sliding from the releasing end to the latching end to move the clamping assembly axially within the base seat, thereby clamping the workpiece on the supporting member.
US09393650B2
A method is provided for producing a support structure, preferably a support structure for a vehicle seat having at least one seat shell for the seat part and/or the backrest of the vehicle seat, having the following method steps of producing a metal semi-finished product and reshaping it into an essentially flat plate, detaching a plate part from the plate, and deforming the plate part, the production of the metal semi-finished product being performed by extrusion. The semi-finished product may be already formed into a flat plate by the extrusion or the extrusion is performed with production of a curved plate, which is subsequently reshaped into a flat plate.
US09393644B2
A metal cladding process utilizing a feed material (66) formed as a hollow sheath (68) containing a powdered core (70) including powdered metal and powdered flux material. The powdered metal and flux may have overlapping mesh size ranges. The sheath may be an extrudable subset of elements of a desired superalloy cladding material, with the powdered metal and powdered flux materials complementing the sheath to form the desired superalloy material when melted. The powdered metal may include an excess of titanium to compensate for a reaction of titanium with oxygen or carbon dioxide in a shielding gas. Heat for melting may be provided by an energy beam (64) or by utilizing the feed material as an electrode in a cold metal arc welding torch (54).
US09393633B2
A method and apparatus for making chip assemblies is disclosed that prevent or reduce the cracking and delamination of ultra low-k dielectrics in the back-end-of-line in Si chips that can occur during the chip assembly process. The method and apparatus apply pressure to the top and bottom surfaces of a substrate during the chip bonding process so that the bending and warping of the assembled modules are reduced. The reduced bending and warping prevent or reduce the cracking and delamination of ultra low-k dielectrics.
US09393630B2
A dual functional electric saw comprising a stationary base having a removable cover, an angle adjustable stand having a removable cover, a saw body, and a connection mechanism for fixing the saw body on the stationary base; wherein the angle adjustable stand comprises a chamber being capable of accommodating the saw body and the removable cover of the angle adjustable stand; the angle adjustable stand is surrounded and supported by the stationary base; the saw body comprises a motor and a saw blade; the connection mechanism comprises a saw supporting column which is capable of being positioned and fastened at both ends so that the height of the saw body can be adjusted to meet the requirements of a miter saw and a table saw, respectively.
US09393626B2
A cutting insert has a polygonal columnar shape and includes an upper surface, a lower surface, a side surface located between the upper surface and the lower surface, and a cutting edge formed at an intersection of the upper surface and the side surface. The upper surface includes a convex-shaped main part including a flat upper end surface, a first projection projecting from the main part to a corner part of the upper surface, a second projection projecting from the first projection toward the corner part, and a pair of third projections respectively projecting from the first projection toward a periphery of the upper surface that interpose at least a part of the second projection between the pair of third projections. A surface of the first projection is an inclined surface curved in a concave shape, and a surface of the second projection is a planar inclined surface.
US09393625B2
A high-torque connection refacing tool, including a shaft, a mandrel, a primary face plate, and a torque-stop face plate.
US09393619B2
Disclosing herein is a method for manufacturing nickel-titanium compositions. The method includes disposing a powdered composition in a mold; the powdered composition comprising nickel and titanium; the titanium being present in an amount of about 38 to about 42 wt % and the nickel being present in an amount of about 58 to about 62 wt %; sintering the powdered composition to produce a sintered preform; compacting the preform; machining the preform to form an article; heat treating the article; the annealing being conducted at a temperature of about 1650° F. to about 1900° F. at a pressure of about 3 Torr to about 5 Kg−f/cm2 for a time period of about 10 minutes to about 5 hours; and quenching the article.
US09393613B2
Method for manufacturing hollow ingot for retaining ring of large generator by electroslag remelting
A method for manufacturing hollow ingot for retaining ring of large generator by electroslag remelting, comprising the following steps: (1) preparing consumable electrode assemblies; (2) melting slag into molten slag; (3) inserting one consumable electrode assembly into an electroslag remelting hollow ingot mold; (4) switching on two transformers; (5) pouring the molten slag into the electroslag remelting hollow ingot mold; (6) forming a current circuit among a stub, the consumable electrode assembly and a water-cooled bottom plate; (7) forming a current circuit among the upper segment, the water-cooled bottom plate and the transformer; (8) regulating the output current and voltage of the two transformers; (9) starting a withdrawing device to withdraw; (10) exchanging the consumable electrode assembly; (11) inserting a subsequent consumable electrode assembly into the molten slag, and repeating steps (8) to (10) until withdrawing is completed.
US09393608B2
A hemming device (2) and a hemming method are provided in which the hemming device (2) has a hemming bed (14) for a workpiece (3) and multiple hemming robots (8, 9) with hemming tools (20). The hemming device (2) is designed to hem inner and outer lock seams (5, 6) on both sides of the workpiece (3). The hemming robots (8, 9) lie on different sides of the hemming bed (14), and the hemming bed (14) is further designed and arranged for accessing inner and outer lock seams (5, 6) on both sides of the workpiece (3) from front and rear sides (15, 16). For this purpose, the hemming bed can have a section (19) for a rearward access to an inner lock seam (5) and a bedding for inner and outer lock seams (5, 6).
US09393601B2
A wiping device including a resilient body having a wiping surface. A support member is convertible between a first shape defined by a first center line of the support member and a second shape defined by a second center line of the support member. The support member is disposed relative to the resilient body to enable the resilient body to take a first set of dimensions when the support member is in the first shape and a second set of dimensions when the support member is in the second shape. A method of using a wiping device is also included.
US09393597B2
A curved high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) transducer comprising a plurality of curved composite ceramic piezoelectric tiles having opposite convex and concave surfaces, each tile having electrodes on the surfaces electrically coupled to the composite ceramic piezoelectric material, and a plurality of acoustic transmission areas located on each tile and actuated through electrodes on the convex surface, the transmission areas and electrodes being acoustically separated from surrounding areas by cuts into the composite ceramic piezoelectric material, the plurality of tiles fitting together to form a substantially continuous curved composite piezoelectric surface which transmits HIFU acoustic energy.
US09393595B2
A method for fabricating an abrasive firm includes preparing a base film, coating the base film with a first paint which contains no abrasive grain but contains a binder resin, and drying the paint to form a first layer. The method further includes coating the first layer with a second paint which contains the abrasive grains and the binder resin, and drying the paint to form a second layer. The method further includes heating the first layer and the second layer for imidization.
US09393594B2
A system for painting a structure includes a motorized, wheeled vehicle that is movable along a surface and includes a frame and a lift structure coupled with the frame. The system also includes a support structure supported by the lift structure, and a table supported by the support structure. The table is translatable relative to the support structure. The system also includes a mount structure rotatably coupled with the table and a kit of parts that includes a spray head assembly configured for releasable attachment to the mount structure. The system further includes a paint reservoir and a pump, each being supported by one of the vehicle and the support structure.
US09393590B2
Small structures are formed by applying to a substrate a structural material and a layer of a sacrificial material having a lower surface energy than the structural material, to form an intermediate product. The substrate is then heated to a temperature at which the sacrificial material evaporates or sublimes and the structural material is mobilized. The sacrificial material is permitted to evaporate or sublime, an area of the substrate covered by the sacrificial material to diminish, and the structural material to agglomerate on the remaining sacrificial material to form a structure.
US09393586B2
A non-contact jetting dispenser, viscous fluid dispensing system and method. The system includes a viscous fluid dispenser for dispensing the viscous fluid. The system further includes a viscous fluid supply container adapted to hold the viscous fluid. A flow path is provided for the viscous fluid between the viscous fluid supply container and an outlet of the viscous fluid dispenser. An electronic flow meter device is used to produce electrical output signals proportional to the flow rate of the fluid flowing through the flow path. A control is operatively coupled to the electronic flow meter for continuously receiving and processing the electrical output signals and performing a responsive control function in a closed loop manner.
US09393585B2
An adhesive coating device is provided with an adhesive reservoir; two opposite adjustment rollers at bottom of the reservoir; a pattern roller between the adjustment rollers and having a pattern formed thereon; a resilient roller under the pattern roller; a roller member under the resilient roller; two pivotal, co-rotated links on a side of the reservoir and operatively connected to the adjustment rollers respectively; and a spring biased adjustment screw pivotably secured to an end of one link. Clockwise rotation of the adjustment screw rotates the links at different directions, thereby decreasing a gap between the pattern roller and each adjustment roller.
US09393583B2
A pump dispenser is arranged for dispensing solidous material under a manually-developed pressure, with the dispenser being capable of pumping and mechanically agitating the solidous material in a storage container. The resultant dispensed solidous fluid is provided with more consistent suspended solid concentrations with greater solid particle distribution homogeneity.
US09393582B2
A dispenser for delivering liquid to pasty masses has a pump unit, which has a restoring spring (25), and a discharge part (15) which forms a discharge tube (16), wherein the discharge tube (16) has a dispensing opening (17) which opens laterally to a dispenser longitudinal axis (A) extending in the pump direction, wherein furthermore a closure part (18) can be moved between a closed position and an open position in the discharge tube (16) in order to close the dispensing opening (17). An additional opening (20) is formed further up in the discharge part (15), which opening opens in the direction of the longitudinal axis (A) and is closed by a latching part (21).
US09393578B2
A water shower system has an overhead shower, a hand-held shower, a water distributing element connected to a source of water and also to the overhead shower and to the hand-held shower and having a valve located between the source of water and the overhead shower and the hand-held shower, and a switch located outside of the water distributing element and spaced from the water distributing element and the valve, operatable by a user and having a first position in which the valve provides a water supply to the hand-held shower so that water issues from the latter, and a second position in which the valve provides a water supply to the overhead shower so that water issues from the latter.
US09393567B2
A hydraulic separation system for use in a gyrational crusher to separate a socket of the crusher from a main shaft. The hydraulic separation system includes one or more hydraulic grooves formed at the interference contact area between the socket and the main shaft. Each hydraulic groove is fed with a supply of pressurized hydraulic fluid to aid in separation of the socket from the main shaft. An inner contact surface of the socket is tapered and engages a tapered outer surface of the main shaft. The mating tapered surfaces further aid in separation of the socket from the main shaft upon application of the pressurized hydraulic fluid.
US09393563B2
The present application relates to: a strip for lateral flow assay, comprising a support, a medium for development, a sample pad comprising a subpad, and an absorption pad; and a cartridge for lateral flow assay, comprising the same. According to the present application, the strip adopts a novel sample loading method, thereby obtaining reproducible results irrespective of the volume of an injected sample, and it is possible to readily change the amount of a sample, as necessary, thereby improving the reproducibility of measured results and convenience.
US09393558B2
A method of preparing a trihalide resin, where a trihalide ion solution is contacted with a styrene divinylbenzene polymer resin having polymer bonded -ER3+X− groups where E is N, P, or As, R is a hydrocarbon group and X is Cl, Br, or I. The trihalide ion can be Cl3−, Br3− or I3−. A trichloride resin and a method of preparing the trichloride resin, where a styrene divinylbenzene polymer resin having polymer bonded -ER3+Cl− groups is contacted with chlorine. The trichloride resin can be used as a solid equivalent of chlorine gas. Formation of the styrene divinylbenzene resin comprising -ER3+Cl− units can be used to scavenge chlorine from a gas or liquid to form the styrene divinylbenzene resin comprising -ER3+Cl3− units.
US09393557B2
The present disclosure provides a membrane having a first major surface and a second major surface and including one or more anionic exchange electrolyte polymers. The membranes can be useful for selectively mass transporting molecules and/or ions.
US09393553B2
An object of the invention is to provide a novel catalyst having high mechanical strength and capable of obtaining an unsaturated aldehyde or an unsaturated carboxylic acid in a high yield and a method for producing the same, and a method for producing an unsaturated aldehyde and/or an unsaturated carboxylic acid using the catalyst. By containing silane-treated glass fibers in a catalytic active component composed of molybdenum and bismuth as essential components, high mechanical strength is revealed, and it is possible to obtain an unsaturated aldehyde or an unsaturated carboxylic acid in a high yield.
US09393552B2
An egg-shell catalyst consisting of an active compound in the form of an alloy of nickel and one of iridium, rhodium and ruthenium, on a support comprising alumina, zirconia, magnesia, titania or combinations thereof. The catalyst is used in a process for the steam reforming of hydrocarbons.
US09393547B2
The present invention discloses an adsorbent material having the following formula: CuwZnxFeyAlz(OH)2(A)(y+z)/2·mH2O, wherein w+x+y+z=1; and 0.20≦w≦0.60; 0.20≦x≦0.60; 0.05≦y≦0.25; 0.05≦z≦0.25; 0.20≦(y+z)≦0.33; and 0.50≦m≦0.80; a process for producing the adsorbent material and its use for removing sulfur-containing matter from gaseous streams.
US09393542B2
Disclosed is a multi-stage plasma reactor system with hollow cathodes for cracking carbonaceous material with each stage comprising: hollow cathodes and hollow anodes cooled by recycling cooling medium or refrigerant; working gas inlet(s); inlet(s) of carbonaceous material and carrier gas as feedstock; reaction tubes in connection with the anode or cathode, in addition, the reactor system also comprises: at least one inlet(s) of quench medium located lower portion of last one of the reaction tubes; and at least one outlet(s) of quenched products and gases located on bottom or lower portion of last one of the reaction tubes, wherein chambers are formed between the first hollow cathode or the hollow cathode used as the reaction tube of any stage and the anode so as to generate plasma gas and/or electric arc therein, generated plasma gas jet fully contacts and efficiently mixes with the carbonaceous material and carrier gas as feedstock and/or volatiles caused by pyrolysis within or nearby highest temperature region of the chambers, and pyrolysis of the carbonaceous material and/or gas-phase reaction of volatiles are occurred. The present reactor system has excellent energy efficiency and higher cracked products yield.
US09393531B2
A connecting piece is provided for a static spray mixer for mixing and spraying at least two flowable components which has a tubular mixer housing having at least one mixing element as well as an atomizing sleeve, wherein connecting piece has an inlet region for cooperating with the distal end region of the mixer housing as well as an outlet region for cooperating with the atomizing sleeve, with the inlet region and the outlet region including a deflection angle (α) different from zero, and wherein the outlet region has at its end remote from the inlet region an end section whose outer contour is the same as that of the mixer housing so that the end section of the outlet region can cooperate with the atomizing sleeve in the same manner as the distal end region of the mixer housing can cooperate with the atomizing sleeve.
US09393528B2
A filtration membrane (4) including a porous base layer (8) arranged adjacent to a filtration layer (6) having pores (10) extending through the filtration layer (6) is provided. The filtration layer is electrically conductive and at least one compound (24, 26) is attached on the filtration layer (6), thereby providing a protective surface layer (40). The at least one compound (24, 26) is configured to be at least partially cleaved off of the filtration layer (6) by a predefined cleave-off process.
US09393513B2
An air filter unit has a pleated filter medium with a zigzag shape in which a fibrous filter medium has been folded multiple times. The coefficients of linear expansion of the space-supporting members provided in each of the multiple folded spaces of the pleated filter medium are equal to or greater than the coefficient of linear expansion of the metal filter frame of the filter unit. The linear expansion coefficients of first space-supporting members are smaller than the linear expansion coefficient of a second space-supporting member. The first space-supporting members are provided in side portion regions including both side portions positioned at outermost sides of the pleated filter medium in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The second space-supporting member is provided in a central portion region sandwiched between the side portion regions.
US09393502B1
The desalination system is a multi-stage flash desalination (MSF) system. Each stage has a P-shaped chamber having a flashing section extending vertically, a condensing section extending horizontally to overlay the flashing section of the next succeeding stage, and a demister (a device to separate liquid droplets entrained in vapor) separating the flashing section and the condensing section. One or more heat pipes extend between the condensing section of each stage and the flashing section of the next succeeding stage in order to transfer heat released by the condensing vapor in one section to the colder flashing section of the next succeeding chamber. The system includes a seawater-cooled condenser in the last stage to recover fresh water from the water vapor. The system may be modified by replacing or supplementing the condenser in the last stage with a thermal vapor compressor (TVC) to transfer vapor to the first stage.
US09393499B1
The present inventor recognized that children's interest in conventional water rockets can wane rapidly over time, particularly as children are drawn to other types of toys, such as video games. Accordingly, the present inventor devised, among other things, one or more exemplary water rocket systems or assemblies that include a removably mounted action figure. In some embodiments, the water rocket includes two hollow fuselage structures joined via a crossbar structure, with the action figure mounted to the crossbar structure.
US09393495B1
The disclosure relates to a system for automated generation and/or execution of an interactive content object having content related to a video game application. In some implementations, the interactive content object may comprise interactive digital content that may be distributed to and/or executed on one or more computer system gaming platforms and/or other interactive media devices. Interactive content objects may be configured such that they may be included in the video game application and/or executed by the video game application. Interactive content objects may also be configured as standalone products. Interactive content objects may be configured such that they may be remotely patched and/or updated without updating the video game application. In some implementations, the interactive content object may comprise one or more of an instruction manual, a strategy guidebook, a cheat book, a mini-game, episodic content, and/or other applications.
US09393490B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an apparatus, a method, and a computer program product for coordinating sensations of sound and gas flow based on audio signals. An apparatus comprises a controller circuit which is in communication with a gas blowing unit and a speaker. The controller circuit is operatively connected to an audio source of an entertainment device, and is configured to a) receive an audio input, b) amplify a portion of a peak that is above a pre-determined threshold, and c) send a signal that activates the gas blowing unit.A method and computer program product where a computer receives an audio input. The computer determines that the amplitude of a portion of the audio input exceeds a pre-determined threshold. In response, the computer amplifies the determined amplitude, and sets the speed for a fan based on the audio input.
US09393481B2
Flexible binding wedges are provided with flexion slots cut in a widthwise direction to allow flexibility when mounted to a sportsboard such as a snowboard. “T” inserts through the wedges provide a mount for boot bindings. Flex adjustment bushings may be inserted into the slots to adjust the flexibility of the wedge when mounted on a sportsboard, e.g., a snowboard. The flexible wedges may be mounted under a top surface of the sportsboard, or even on top of the finished upper surface of the sportsboard.
US09393477B2
A golfing aid system at least partially configured to be mounted on a golfer is provided. The system includes an optical system, an output configured to provide audio and/or visual information, a human wearable support, a first compass mounted on the wearable support, an optical system. The golfing aid system is configured to, when the wearable support is worn by the golfer, obtain a first compass heading from the first compass for a target location observable through the optical system, obtain a second compass heading when the golfer is in a golfing stance, determine, based on at least the first and second compass headings, whether a part of the body that supports the human wearable support is substantially in alignment with a direction, and provide feedback through the output, the feedback being configured to indicate whether or not the golfer is substantially aligned with the direction. Wherein the direction represents a substantially optimal alignment of a part of the body relative to the first compass heading to strike a golf ball along a path in alignment with the first compass heading.
US09393473B2
A head for a ball striking device includes a bracing member connected to an upper sole surface located on the sole of the body opposite the bottom sole surface. The bracing member includes a first end connected to a first point on the upper sole surface, a second end connected to a second point on the upper sole surface spaced from the first point, and a bridge portion extending between the first and second ends. The bridge portion extends upward from the upper sole surface and is spaced from the upper sole surface. The bridge portion may be formed by one or more trusses, and may define a generally triangular shape in one embodiment. The first and second ends may be connected to the upper sole surface using a variety of techniques, e.g., welding or other integral joining technique, integral forming, adhesive or other bonding material, or other technique.
US09393471B2
The invention provides a golf club head with a fully removable component that can withstand the stress of repeated hits. When assembled, the removable component is held in place by a fastening mechanism that includes structural elements that distribute the holding force across the component and tend to equalize the forces around the periphery where the component meets the body. The fastening mechanism may include a post that reaches across the open space within the hollow club head, pulling the removable component towards an opposed main club head body. Since a golf club of the present invention can be opened, it may include a mechanism on the inside for use by a golfer, such as an electronic device or an adjustment mechanism. The golf club may include a weight adjustment system that allows the club to be custom-fitted to a golfer.
US09393460B1
In some embodiments, techniques for a intelligent personal fitness device include determining an exercise equipment; determining an exercise associated with the exercise equipment; determining a parameter associated with the exercise equipment; detecting a number of repetitions of the exercise associated with the exercise equipment performed using the exercise equipment, wherein detecting the number of repetitions of the exercise associated with the exercise includes analyzing data from an accelerometer; calculating an activity score based at least in part on the exercise associated with the exercise equipment, the parameter associated with the exercise equipment, and the number of repetitions of the exercise; and providing the activity score.
US09393459B2
A removable locking shoulder stop assembly for use on a reformer exercise apparatus is disclosed that includes a flat rectangular lock plate fastenable to the platform adjacent the head rest on the carriage platform. The lock plate has a first locating member and a keyway spaced from the first locating member. An L-shaped shoulder stop bracket has a second locating member configured to mate with the first locating member of the lock plate. An elongated locking handle assembly is connected to the mounting portion of the bracket and spaced apart from the second locating member. The handle assembly aligns with the keyway when the first locating member is mated with the second locating member and is operable to clamp the shoulder stop bracket to the lock plate when the locating members are mated and the locking handle assembly is hand tightened against the mounting portion of the shoulder stop bracket.
US09393450B2
A method, system, and apparatus for the aerial delivery of fire suppressant comprising of an exterior shell with at least one input port, at least one output port, and at least one pocket. At least two skids affixed to the bottom of the exterior shell and a bladder is formed inside the exterior shell. A detonation cord affixed to the bladder and a detonation device are arranged in the at least one pocket and operably connected to the detonation cord configured to release a liquid contained in the bladder.
US09393441B2
A device for delivery of a radiopharmaceutical and delivery of a pharmaceutical agent are described. Various other components for delivery systems including tubing management systems, primer caps, diffusion chambers, radiation shields and syringe shields, needle handles, and other devices and methods are also described. Specifically, needle handles having a needle handle body attachable to a portion of a needle, and one or more wings or fins which are grasped by a user are described. The needle handle may be separated from the needle after insertion of the needle into a subject, and/or may provide access to a portion of tubing extending from the needle.
US09393428B2
An implantable antenna assembly includes a multilayer flexible printed circuit board comprising a first flexible substrate, second flexible substrate, and third flexible substrate. An inductor coil is formed by electrically conductive traces disposed on the first flexible substrate. A shield is formed by electrically conductive traces disposed on the second flexible substrate and third flexible substrate, the shield surrounding the inductor coil. A method for forming an implantable antenna assembly is also provided.
US09393424B2
A medical device system including a pacemaker implantable in an atrial chamber of a patient's heart is configured to sense near field atrial events from a cardiac signal received by a sensing module of the pacemaker and to sense far field ventricular events. The pacemaker is configured to establish an atrial lower rate interval to control a rate of delivery of atrial pacing pulses, determine a rate of the far field ventricular events sensed by the sensing module, determine an atrial event rate, compare the rate of the sensed far field ventricular events to the atrial event rate, and adjust the atrial lower rate interval in response to the comparison.
US09393419B2
An implantable neurostimulator-implemented method for managing tachyarrhythmias upon a patient's awakening from sleep through vagus nerve stimulation is provided. An implantable neurostimulator, including a pulse generator, is configured to deliver electrical therapeutic stimulation in a manner that results in creation and propagation (in both afferent and efferent directions) of action potentials within neuronal fibers comprising the cervical vagus nerve of a patient. Operating modes of the pulse generator are stored. An enhanced dose of the electrical therapeutic stimulation is parametrically defined and tuned to prevent initiation of or disrupt tachyarrhythmia upon the patient's awakening from a sleep state through at least one of continuously-cycling, intermittent and periodic ON-OFF cycles of electrical pulses. Other operating modes, including a maintenance dose and a restorative dose are defined. The patient's physiological state is monitored via at least one sensor to detect the patient's awakening, which activates the delivery of the enhanced dose.
US09393418B2
The present invention relates to methods for tuning treatment parameters in movement disorder therapy systems. The present invention further relates to a system for screening patients to determine if they are viable candidates for certain therapy modalities. The present invention still further provides methods of quantifying movement disorders for the treatment of patients who exhibit symptoms of such movement disorders including, but not limited to, Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonism, Dystonia, Chorea, and Huntington's disease, Ataxia, Tremor and Essential Tremor, Tourette Syndrome, and the like. The present invention yet further relates to methods of tuning a therapy device using objective quantified movement disorder symptom data acquired by a movement disorder diagnostic device to allow a clinician, technician or physician to determine the therapy setting or parameters to be provided to the subject via his or her therapy device.
US09393411B2
A method and system for bladder control are disclosed. In embodiments, a method for bladder control is provided that comprises coupling an electrode to an afferent nerve that is related to the bladder. Applying a plurality of pulse burst stimulations via the electrode causes voiding of urine from the bladder. In embodiments, the plurality of pulse burst stimulations to the afferent nerve reduces external urethral sphincter (EUS) contractions and evokes bladder contractions to expel urine from the subject. In embodiments, the plurality of pulse burst stimulations to the afferent nerve evokes bladder contractions alone to expel urine from the subject. In embodiments, a system for bladder control is provided that comprises an electrode for applying a pulse burst stimulus to an afferent nerve or dermatome to reduce reflex contractions and a signal generator for generating the pulse burst stimulus.
US09393402B2
An external defibrillator can include a tray and a plurality of electrode pads located within the tray. At least one of the plurality of electrode pads can include an electrode contact structure that can be applied to a patient, a wire electrically coupling the electrode contact structure to the external defibrillator, and a release liner adhered to the electrode contact structure of the electrode pad. A portion of the release liner can be affixed to a portion of the tray such that, when an end of the electrode pad is pulled, the electrode pad is removed from the release liner, the electrode pad is removed from the tray, and the release liner remains affixed to the tray.
US09393396B2
A method and composition for hyperthermally treating tumor cells in a patient under conditions that affect tumor stem cells and tumor cells.
US09393393B2
This invention is related to a phenol-quinone therapy that shrinks tumors and transforms cancer cells. The therapy include four phases. In phase 1: cleansing poisons from the body, autologous melting, purifying five fluids, enhancing macro circulation, strengthening spirit. In phase 2: tuning qi in the body, fiber melting, purifying five qi, scavenging free radicals, enhance oxygen and vitality. In phase 3: nourishing the body, vitality melting, purifying the mind, enhancing micro circulation, enhancing immunity. And in phase 4: nourishing the body and blood, phenol-quinone melting, oxidizing tumors, transforming cancer cells, regenerating new cells. This therapeutic treatment method has little side effect. By changing the in vivo condition, it inhibits cancer cell growth and proliferation, enhances circulation inside human body, expels toxins accumulated in the human body, shrinks tumors, and transforms cancer cells. It results in curing cancer without using medicine and gives the patient a chance to live.
US09393387B1
An intercostal-pump based fluid management system, as described herein, comprises an intercostal pump that is, generally, a resiliently flexible bulb having an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is attached to a first tube that extends from the intercostal pump to a first area of a patient's body, for example, the patient's pleural cavity. The outlet is connected to a second tube that extends from the intercostal pump to a second area of a patient's body, for example, the patient's peritoneal cavity. Upon operation of the intercostal pump, fluid is transferred from the first area of the patient's body to the second area. In use, the intercostal pump is placed between a first rib and a second rib in a patient. The intercostal pump operates by being successively compressed and decompressed between the first and second ribs as the patient breaths. As the patient inhales, the patient's rib cage expands and the intercostal pump is decompressed. As the patient exhales, the patient's rib cage contracts and the intercostal pump is compressed.
US09393386B2
An intravascular device can comprise a carrier and an expansion apparatus. The device can be used for intravascular treatment of atherosclerotic plaque. The carrier can be reversibly expandable and collapsible within a vessel and can have ribbon strips extending between opposite ends in a longitudinal direction of the carrier. The ribbon strips can each be formed with a plurality of elongated protrusions thereon. The expansion apparatus can be used to actuate the ribbon strips each with the plurality elongated protrusions to pierce a luminal surface of the plaque with lines or patterns of microperforations which act as serrations for forming cleavage lines or planes in the plaque.
US09393375B2
A ventilation interface may include the following elements: a cushion, shell, forehead support, supply tubes, an adapter or Y-connector and a nasal cannula, which may also include nasal inserts, and connectors. Each of the elements of the ventilation interface may also include ribs of wire, stiffener or other bendable material having a greater rigidity than the material composing the main body of each element. These bendable portions may be capable of retaining multiple desired bent shapes in multiple desired directions.
US09393373B2
A process and system are provided for transmitting monitoring states between respirators. The process includes the detection of and recording of monitoring states of a monitoring unit (5) of at least a first monitoring period (10) of a first respirator (2). There is an assignment of an identification to the monitoring states of the monitoring unit (5) of the at least first monitoring period (10) of the first respirator (2). There is a transmission of the monitoring states of the monitoring unit (5) of the at least first monitoring period (10) of the first respirator (2) to a second respirator (3). This is followed by a setting of the monitoring unit (5) of the second respirator (3) corresponding to the transmitted monitoring states of the monitoring unit (5) of the at least first monitoring period (10) of the first respirator (2). This is then followed by a repetition of steps for the monitoring states of the monitoring unit (5) of each additional monitoring period (10) of the first respirator (2).
US09393369B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention an automated injection device may be loaded with a standard type syringe and/or hypodermic needle. Optionally the syringe may be supplied loaded with medicine and/or covered with a sterile needle cover. The syringe may be loaded into the injector with in a sterile state with needle cover in place. Injector may include for example a fastener (for example an adhesive base). In some embodiments, the fastener may assist a user to hold injector steady on the skin of a patient for an extended period. For example, injector may be used to give injections of volume ranging between 0.5 and 3.0 ml over a time period ranging between 30 sec to 180 sec.
US09393367B2
The present disclosure relates, in part, to a kit including at least two prefilled syringes. The first prefilled syringe includes a dose of a hazardous agent in a first volume of a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable solvent.
US09393366B2
Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for receiving data from infusion pumps in a healthcare setting and displaying the data on a user device are provided. Centralized clinician views are provided to manage individual and multiple patient infusions. Embodiments provide near real-time graphical displays of infusion data to clinicians on separate user devices. In addition, near real-time graphical displays of patient physiologic data is displayed simultaneously to a clinician along with the infusion data.
US09393354B2
A mechanical wound therapy (MWT) system includes a connection for a vacuum source, which is routed through an airtight covering to a porous material positioned over the wound. The porous material may be a tubing network interspaced by a netting material constructed of biologically inert or bioabsorbable material. Alternatively, the porous material may be a layered unified dressing in which layers of mesh, netting or thin perforated film are separated and fixedly attached to functional elements of the dressing (e.g., irrigation tubing) or spacers. The vacuum and irrigation systems may be completely separated. An airtight sealing layer or foldable adhesive sealing layer may seal the dressing and facilitate sealing the dressing to the wound margins. Additional modular devices such as a wound approximating system, positive pressure bladders and adjuvant therapy modules as well as enhanced monitoring technology can be added to synergistically increase the capabilities of each dressing.
US09393350B2
The invention is directed to an ion plasma deposition (IPD) method adapted to coat polymer surfaces with highly adherent antimicrobial films. A controlled ion plasma deposition (IPD) process is used to coat a metal or polymer with a selected metal/metal oxide. Exposing the coated surface to ultraviolet light significantly improves the antimicrobial properties of the deposited coatings.
US09393344B2
One aspect of the present invention generally relates to methods of sealing a wound or tissue plane or filling a void splace. In a preferred embodiment, the wound is an ophthalmic, pleural or dural wound. In certain instances, the compositions used to seal the wound or tissue plane comprises a polyalkyleneimine. In a preferred embodiment, the polyalkyleneimine is polyethyleneimine. Treatment of the polyethyleneimine with a cross-linking reagent causes the polyethyleneimine polymers to polymerize forming a seal. In certain instances, the cross-linking reagent is a polyethylene glycol having reactive terminal groups. In certain instances, the reactive terminal groups are activated esters, such as N-hydroxy succinimide ester. In certain instances, the reactive terminal groups are isocyanates. In certain instances, the polyethyleneimine has a lysine, cysteine, isocysteine or other nucleophilic group attached to the periphery of the polymer. In certain instances, the polyethyleneimine is mixed with a second polymer, such as a polyethylene glycol containing nucleophilic groups. In certain instances, the compositions used to seal the wound or tissue plane are formed by reacting a polyalkyleneimine bearing electrophilic groups with a cross-linking reagent containing nucleophilic groups. In certain instances, the electrophilic groups on the polyalkyleneimine are activated esters, such as N-hydroxy succinimide ester. In certain instances, the compositions used to seal the wound or tissue plane are formed by reacting a polyalkyleneimine bearing photopolymerizable groups with ultraviolet or visibile light. Compositions used to seal the wound which contain PEI or a derivative of PEI are found to adhere tightly to the tissue. Other aspects of the present invention relate to methods of filling a void of a patient or adhering tissue. In certain instances, the methods use a polyalkyleneimine. In a preferred embodiment, the polyalkyleneimine is polyethyleneimine. Another aspect of the present invention relates to a polymeric composition formed by exposing a polyalkyleneimine to an activated polyalkylene glycol. In certain instances, the composition is attached to mammalian tissue.
US09393343B2
The present invention relates to a monofilament suture and a preparation method thereof, more specifically, to a novel monofilament suture wherein two polymers having identical inherent properties are spun to have a cross-sectional structure of conjugated filaments, and said cross-section has interfaces between the spun polymers. The interfaces form a discontinuous cross-section along the radial direction and are distributed continuously along the fiber axis direction, thereby offering improved knot security and applicability to a variety of medical materials, and a preparation method thereof.
US09393340B2
A biodegradable material is a chemically cross-linked product between a multivalent compound A having 3 or more functional groups X such as hydroxyl group; and a multivalent compound B having 3 or more functional groups Y such as carboxyl group wherein chemical cross-linkage(s) is/are formed by condensation reaction of the functional group(s) X and the functional group(s) Y; wherein (y+z)/(x+z) is 1.2 to 4.0 when MA>MB, and (x+z)/(y+z) is 1.2 to 4.0 when MA
US09393337B2
A volatile composition dispenser is configured to be used in a vehicle. The volatile composition dispenser comprises a housing and a fan positioned at least partially within the housing. The fan is configured to intermittently activate to move a volume of air. The volatile composition dispenser further comprises a controller in electrical communication with the fan and positioned within the housing, and a replaceable unit configured to be attached to the housing and positioned at least partially within the housing.
US09393335B2
A delivery device as disclosed herein includes an article, a cradle, and a reservoir. The cradle which supports the article includes a wicking protrusion and is adapted to engage with the article. The reservoir contains a volatile medium and is adapted to engage with the cradle. The volatile medium is in fluid communication with the wicking extension. The delivery device can include a wide variety of articles, including decorative articles, functional articles, and substance-containing articles such as fragrance diffusers, which benefit from their union with the porous emanator.
US09393334B2
Devices having one or more transfer elements (wick, emanator) formed from plant material derived from the stems of sola plants from the genus Aeschynomene L., family Fabaceae in air fresheners or evaporation devices for other actives (fragrances, insecticides, fungicides, pharmaceuticals). Methods of assembling a device having one or more transfer elements (wick, emanator) formed from plant material derived from the stems of sola plants from the genus Aeschynomene L., and for using the device to transfer or evaporate liquids containing active are also provided. The material when used in form of a wick or emanator shows excellent liquid transfer and of both aqueous and non-aqueous liquids and a low fractionation of a mixture of actives.
US09393323B2
An optimized coding sequence of human blood clotting factor eight (VIII) and a promoter may be used in vectors, such as rAAV, for introduction of factor VIII, and/or other blood clotting factors and transgenes. Exemplary of these factors and transgenes are alpha-1-antitrypsin, as well as those involved in the coagulation cascade, hepatocye biology, lysosomal storage, urea cycle disorders, and lipid storage diseases. Cells, vectors, proteins, and glycoproteins produced by cells transformed by the vectors and sequence, may be used in treatment.
US09393321B2
An antenna array is provided having multiple antenna elements mountable to the roof of a locomotive. Each of the antenna elements has a separate signal path of one or more conductive elements in a housing and shares a common hole or opening to outside the housing through which the signal path of each antenna element is extendable. The signal path of each antenna element then extends via a common access hole in the roof of the locomotive for enabling one or more of passage of signals to or from the antenna element. The access hole is below the array when the common hole is along the bottom of the housing, and elsewhere along the roof when the common hole is along a side of the housing. Two of the antenna arrays may be mounted in a parallel relationship spaced from each other along the locomotive roof and share the same or a different access hole in such roof.
US09393311B2
The invention is directed to an intravaginal drug delivery device comprising at least one pharmaceutically active substance, and a polyurethane copolymer, wherein the copolymer has the structure according to formula (I): The invention is further directed to administering one or more pharmaceutically active substances to a patient in need thereof.
US09393310B2
The present disclosure generally relates to nanoparticles having about 0.2 to about 35 weight percent of a therapeutic agent; and about 10 to about 99 weight percent of biocompatible polymer such as a diblock poly(lactic) acid-poly(ethylene)glycol. Other aspects of the invention include methods of making such nanoparticles.
US09393301B2
Compositions for cancer or infection treatment via immunopotentiation caused by inhibition of immunosuppressive signal induced by PD-1, PD-L1, or PD-L2 and therapies using them, immunopotentiative substrates included as the active ingredient, screening methods of the substrates for cancer or infection treatment, cell lines used for the screening methods, evaluation methods that selects the substrates for cancer treatment, and carcinoma cell transplanted mammals used for the evaluation methods.The compositions of the present invention that inhibits the function of PD-1, PD-L1 PD-L2 are useful for cancer or infection treatment.
US09393299B2
The present invention provides a composition comprising hepatitis B virus (HBV) component(s), and which may be either nucleic acid- or polypeptide-based as well as nucleic acid molecules and vectors encoding such HBV component(s). It also relates to infectious viral particles and host cells comprising such nucleic acid molecules or vectors. It also provides composition and kits of parts comprising such nucleic acid molecules, vectors, infectious viral particles or host cells and the therapeutic use thereof for preventing or treating HBV infections.
US09393286B2
Methods for preparing viral neuraminidase inhibitors including antiviral peptides by specifically chemically modifying disulfide bonds in precursor molecules. A method of inhibiting viral neuraminidases by administrating a viral neuraminidase inhibitor comprising an antiviral peptide prepared by the above methods and inhibiting the viral neuraminidase. Therapeutics for inhibiting viral neuraminidases, including effective amounts of viral neuraminidase inhibitors including antiviral peptides derived from selectively chemically modified disulfide bonds in precursor molecules, and present in a pharmaceutically acceptable carriers.
US09393284B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for treating acne and other conditions. In particular, the compositions and methods are useful for the treatment of sebum associated conditions.
US09393280B2
The invention provides formulations containing sanguinarine, chelerythrine or chelidonine or their salts or extracts containing them, mixed with suitable vehicles and/or excipients, for the treatment of common skin warts and verrucas, anal and vulvar warts and psoriatic plaques.
US09393272B2
Microcapsules are described that comprise (a) a liquid aqueous or hydrogel core; (b) a semipermeable membrane surrounding said core; (c) live animal cells (e.g., pancreatic cells) in the core; and (d) oxygen-generating particles in said core, said oxygen-generating particles included in said microcapsules in an amount sufficient to lengthen the duration of viability of said animal cells in said microcapsules. Compositions comprising such microcapsules and uses thereof, such as in treating diabetes, are also described.
US09393267B2
The present invention discloses methods and compositions comprising a biocompatible gel that is used in tissue repair and regeneration. Once the gel is administered to a tissue site in need of repair or regeneration, the cells migrate from the gel into the tissue and repair or regenerate the tissue.
US09393265B2
The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for topical or transdermal delivery and treatment of wounds and/or promoting wound healing. In some cases, the composition may include nitric oxide and/or peptides such as thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) and/or GnRH (gonadotropin-releasing hormone). The nitric oxide and/or peptide may be present within a first phase comprising a lecithin, such as phosphatidylcholine. In certain embodiments, the lecithin is present in liposomes, micelles, or other structures containing nitric oxide, peptides, or both. The composition can take the form of a gel, a cream, a lotion, an ointment, a solution, a solid “stick,” etc., that can be rubbed or sprayed onto the skin, e.g., wounded skin. Other aspects of the present invention are generally directed to methods of making or using such compositions, methods of promoting such compositions, kits including such compositions, or the like.
US09393264B2
The present invention generally relates to compositions and methods for topical or transdermal delivery for immune modulation. In some cases, the composition may include nitric oxide and/or peptides such as thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) and/or GnRH (gonadotropin-releasing hormone). The nitric oxide and/or peptide may be present within a first phase comprising a lecithin, such as phosphatidylcholine. In certain embodiments, the lecithin is present in liposomes, micelles, or other structures containing nitric oxide, peptides, or both. The composition can take the form of a gel, a cream, a lotion, an ointment, a solution, a solid “stick,” etc., that can be rubbed or sprayed onto the skin. Other aspects of the present invention are generally directed to methods of making or using such compositions, methods of promoting such compositions, kits including such compositions, or the like.
US09393263B2
Provided are injectable, hyaluronic acid-based dermal filler compositions including conjugated vitamin C derivatives. The compositions provide for extended release of active vitamin C into tissue, promoting collagenesis and other benefits to skin.
US09393256B2
This invention relates to combinations of therapeutic molecules useful for treating hepatitis C virus infection. The present invention relates to methods, uses, dosing regimens, and compositions.
US09393253B2
The present invention relates to an orally ingestible food or pet food composition or cosmetic composition containing glucosamine generated from plant materials through a drying process for the maintenance of joint health or prevention, alleviation and/or treatment of osteoarthritis, or the improvement of the skin quality and prevention or restoration of age-related alterations of skin. It also relates to the use of the composition in the manufacture of a nutritional product, a supplement, a treat, a medicament or a cosmetic product and methods for the maintenance of bone health, prevention, alleviation and/or treatment of osteoarthritis, improvement of the skin quality and prevention or restoration of age-related alterations of skin which comprises administering an effective amount of the composition.
US09393252B2
The present invention is directed to antiviral compositions that provide efficacy against non-envelope viruses such as noroviruses. The antiviral compositions comprise an alcohol and a synergistic combination of an aromatic carboxylic acid and an aromatic hydroxyamide. The composition may be used as a topical on human skin, as a hand sanitizer or as a hard surface cleaning composition.
US09393245B2
The present invention relates to chemical compounds of Formula (I) are as herein defined, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of use in the treatment of conditions or disorders mediated by TNF-α or by PDE4, including but not limited to rheumatoid arthritis.
US09393242B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods useful for the treatment of ear disorders, administered to a treated ear in the form of a foam or a mousse. Administering a medicament in such forms will increase the residence time of the medicament in the ear canal, provide relatively uniform distribution of the composition, and can increase the penetration of the active pharmaceutical ingredient in the affected area, may release active substances slowly, enhance treatment effectiveness, increase compliance and is more convenient to use than currently available ear medications. The administration in the form of a foam or a mousse may preferably be provided as a metered dose, of a volume suitable to fill the ear canal.
US09393235B2
The invention relates to pyridone amide compounds of formula I and I′ or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, useful as inhibitors of sodium channels: The invention also provides pharmaceutically acceptable compositions comprising the compounds of the invention and methods of using the compositions in the treatment of various disorders, including pain.
US09393232B2
Disclosed are substituted 5-(3,5-dimethylisoxazol-4-yl)indoline-2-one compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one such 4 substituted 5-(3,5-dimethylisoxazol-4-yl)indoline-2-one compound processes for the preparation thereof, and the use thereof for inhibiting BET family of bromodomains and for treating disorders mediated thereby, such as certain cancers.
US09393231B2
The invention provides a method of improving an antioxidant effect in a redox pathway that involves selenium in a subject, an in vitro method of inhibiting oxidation in a cell or tissue, and an in vitro method of promoting proliferation of a cell, by use of a selenium-containing compound of chemical formula 1:
US09393226B2
The present invention relates to use of osthole for manufacturing a composition for treating focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS). Particularly, the present invention discloses that osthole is effective in treating focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS), which can alleviate various symptoms and signs of FSGS, including proteinuria, renal fibrosis, glomerular epithelial hyperplasia lesion (EPHL), and macrophage/lymphocyte infiltration in the kidney, etc.
US09393224B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a drug that contains a compound for inhibiting neutral lipid accumulation in cardiovascular tissue or cells and has an excellent prophylactic or therapeutic effect on cardiovascular complications of diabetes. The present invention relates to a prophylactic and/or therapeutic agent for cardiovascular complications of diabetes, the agent containing a compound (preferably a medium-chain fatty acid and/or a medium-chain triglyceride) for inhibiting neutral lipid accumulation.
US09393221B2
Compounds and compositions for reducing intracellular lipid accumulation in a cell are described herein. These compounds are useful for the treatment and prevention of lipid/glycogen disorders, as well as for the treatment and prevention of obesity. A high throughput screen for identifying compounds that reduce intracellular lipid accumulation in cells is also provided.
US09393220B2
The present invention relates to co-crystals of tramadol and co-crystal formers selected from NSAIDs, processes for preparation of the same and their uses as medicaments or in pharmaceutical formulations, more particularly for the treatment of pain.
US09393211B2
A sustained release microsphere formulation with a high drug load may be formed by a continuous oil-in-water emulsion process by combining an organic dispersed phase with an aqueous continuous phase. The dispersed phase may include an encapsulating polymer, a primary solvent, such as dichloromethane, a pharmaceutically effective amount of an active agent having a solubility relative to the dispersed phase, and a co-solvent, such as benzyl alcohol, which is capable of increasing the solubility of the active agent relative to the dispersed phase. The continuous phase may include an aqueous solution of polyvinyl alcohol and water.
US09393207B2
Pharmaceutical compositions are provided which comprise effective amounts of analgesic to treat a subject, including to reduce or eliminate an adverse effect associated with the analgesic.
US09393206B2
In certain embodiments, the present invention is directed to a solid controlled release dosage form comprising: a core comprising a first portion of an opioid analgesic dispersed in a first matrix material; and a shell encasing the core and comprising a second portion of the opioid analgesic dispersed in a second matrix material; wherein the amount of opioid analgesic released from the dosage form is proportional within 20% to elapsed time from 8 to 24 hours, as measured by an in-vitro dissolution in a USP Apparatus 1 (basket) at 100 rpm in 900 ml simulated gastric fluid without enzymes (SGF) at 37 C.
US09393202B2
A stable crystalline micronized particulate of a glycopyrronium salt may be prepared by suspending the drug in a water-immiscible anti-solvent in which the drug has little or no solubility and micronizing the suspension. The resulting drug particles are physically stable with regard to agglomeration and/or aggregation on storage.
US09393197B2
An emulsion suitable for incorporation into wet wipes used to clean urine and fecal matter from the skin. The emulsion includes silicone oil and clay. Phase separation is prevented with an emulsification system that includes a gum blend and either a Gemini surfactant restrained to the oil phase or a glucoside-based emulsifier. The gum blend includes at least one gum and propylene glycol alginate.
US09393196B2
An essentially dry powdered preparation containing a calcium source for the prevention and treatment of calcium deficiency conditions in mammals, e.g. dairy cows, is enclosed in a substantially water soluble, dispersible or disintegrable casing mainly composed of a cellulose material such as e.g. paperboard, cardboard, millboard, or pasteboard, or a gelatinized starch material. The calcium source is preferably a mixture of calcium chloride and calcium propionate enclosed in a cylindrical paperboard or cardboard tube or a gelatinized starch shell closed at both ends, which is administered to an animal with a bolus or bullet gun. The administration is safe and clean and the powdered mixture is quickly released in the stomach or rumen without causing erosion, irritation or inflammation of the mucosa.
US09393195B2
Neo-cartilage constructs suitable for implantation into a joint cartilage lesion in situ and a method for repair and restoration of function of injured, traumatized, aged or diseased cartilage. The construct comprises at least chondrocytes incorporated into a support matrix processed according to the algorithm comprising variable hydrostatic or atmospheric pressure or non-pressure conditions, variable rate of perfusion, variable medium composition, variable temperature, variable cell density and variable time to which the chondrocytes are subjected.
US09393177B2
A syringe fill system is described, which is useful for filling syringes for dental anesthetic applications. The system incorporates capability for “push-pull”, “pull-push”, “push-push”, and “pull-pull” modes of operation, for loading syringes with compositions comprising multiple fluid components. A syringe fillable by such syringe fill systems is described, providing haptic and audible feedback to a user, to aid in administering precise amounts of therapeutic compositions. Also disclosed are cassette assemblies for use in such syringe fill systems. Such cassette assemblies may be formed of plastic and elastomeric materials of construction, as disposable or single-use components of the syringe fill system.
US09393176B2
Examples of infrared heating panels are described as having a non-linear power density profile along a length of the heating panel. The power density profile can include a first power density zone and a second power density zone, each zone corresponding to an area of the heating panel having a separate power density in response to a current flow. An infrared heating panel can include multiple heating elements arranged adjacently in a row and electrically connected together by at least two power buses extending perpendicularly across the heating elements. In one example, the first power density zone is located between a first power bus and an end of the heating elements. The second power density zone can be located between the first power bus and an opposite end of the heating elements. Infrared sauna systems and methods of generating heat for a sauna are also provided.
US09393171B2
A vibrating footboard having a base plate and an intermediate plate coupled to each other, by first vibration-damping elements, at least one eccentric mass electric motor coupled to the intermediate plate, and two groups of upper plates capable to support feet of a user coupled to the intermediate plate through second vibration-damping elements. The vibrating footboard allows the user to undergo a neuromuscular stimulation, for both therapy and athletic enhancement.
US09393168B2
The cantilevered stretcher has a transfer belt mechanism which includes two rollers mounted on the side having two flexible non endless belts, where ends of these two flexible non-endless belts attached to one roller and the other ends of these two flexible non-endless belts attached to second roller. Further one belt goes around the stretcher and the other belt goes around the plate below the stretcher. The arrangement of flexible non endless belts moving between the stretcher and plate in same directions, with upper flexible non endless belt going around the stretcher and lower belt going around the plate can be implemented in three and four roller systems. This mechanism can load the patient onto itself in a way that is efficient and easy to operate, thereby making the patient transfer process easier. Further this mechanism is conducive to sterilization, easier to maintain.
US09393164B2
An odor control layer for personal care products has a composition that has a PEG or PEG copolymer composition applied thereto. The layer can be placed in a personal care product, such as a diaper, training pant, absorbent under pant, adult incontinence product, or feminine hygiene product. Additional odor control layers may include silver nanoparticles and activated carbon compositions. In an alternative form, a single odor control layer includes the PEG composition and the activated carbon and/or silver nanoparticle compositions. A cleansing composition with PEG and possibly active carbon and silver nanoparticles may be combined with the personal care product to form a kit.
US09393163B2
A multilayered wound dressing which is two-dimensional and has a peripheral edge is provided that includes at least one hydrophobic antimicrobial layer, at least one absorbent layer which includes a water-containing hydrogel, and a covering layer. Starting from the edge of the wound dressing, at least one incision is formed, which partially separates the wound dressing.
US09393156B2
Some embodiments disclosed here provide for a method fragmenting a cataractous lens of a patient's eye using an ultra-short pulsed laser. The method can include determining, within a lens of a patient's eye, a high NA zone where a cone angle of a laser beam with a high numerical aperture is not shadowed by the iris, and a low NA zone radially closer to the iris where the cone angle of the laser beam with a low numerical aperture is not shadowed by the iris. Laser lens fragmentation is accomplished by delivering the laser beam with the high numerical aperture to the high NA zone, and the laser beam with the low numerical aperture to the low NA zone. This can result in a more effective fragmentation of a nucleus of the lens without exposing the retina to radiation above safety standards.
US09393150B2
A combination underbody and overbody blanket has first and second portions sandwiching a middle portion. The first portion may be shorter than the second portion. At least one air inlet is provided at the middle portion to allow air to be input into the blanket. The blanket is configured in the shape of a poncho, with the first portion covering the front torso of the patient and the second portion covering the back of the patient. A tearable seal is provided at the first portion that allows the first portion to be separated into two halves to expose the front upper torso of the patient and/or to facilitate the placement of the middle portion about the neck and onto the shoulders of the patient.
US09393145B2
An ankle brace having a flexible main body that is designed to surround a human leg from the ankle from the lower leg to the midfoot, and having a fixing belt that can be wound around the main body that is affixed, with the first end, to the lateral section of the main body adjacent to its top end, and, with the second end, to the medial section of the main body adjacent to its top end. The ankle brace makes it possible to easily adjust a certain degree of pronation and at the same time be comfortable to wear. One of the first and second end is fixedly or releasably connected to the main body in a fixed position relative to the main body, and that the other of the first and second end is releasably connected to the main body.
US09393134B2
The present invention involves laser machining polymer substrates to form a stent with laser parameters that minimize damage to the substrate in a surface region adjacent to the machined edge surface. The wavelength and pulse width are selected for this unique application and they can be controlled to minimize the surface modifications (such as voids, cracks which are induced by the laser-material interaction) which contribute to the variation in mechanical properties with distance from the edge surface, bulk mechanical properties, or a combination thereof.
US09393129B2
An interbody fusion device having an accordion-like structure, wherein the device in inserted into the disc space in its collapsed configuration and then expanded into its expanded configuration by compressing the accordion-like portion of the device. In some embodiments, a pre-formed tube with an accordion-like structure over a portion of its length is inserted in a relaxed (collapsed) configuration, giving the tube a minimum possible diameter. This tube has a cable running through it that is fixed to a distal end portion of the tube and extends past the proximal end portion of the tube to the outside of the patient. Once the tube is positioned on the rim of the endplate, the proximal end of the cable is pulled, thereby tensioning the cable and causing the accordion portion of the tube to become shorter in length but larger in diameter.
US09393117B2
A rotational correction system includes an implant having first and second sections, the implant having a rotatable permanent magnet disposed in a housing of the first section, the rotatable permanent magnet mechanically connected to a nut operatively coupled to the second section. A keyed portion is interposed between the nut and one or more non-linear grooves disposed on an inner surface of the housing. An external adjustment device having at least one rotatable magnet configured to rotate the rotatable permanent magnet of the implant is part of the system. Rotation of the rotatable permanent magnet of the implant in a first direction effectuates a clockwise change in the rotational orientation of the first section relative to the second section and rotation of the rotatable permanent magnet of the implant in a second direction effectuates a counter-clockwise change in the rotational orientation of the first section relative to the second section.
US09393116B2
A method of repairing and/or treating bone is provided. The method includes implanting at a repair site an osteoimplant having a coherent aggregate of entangled elongate bone particles mixed with a biocompatible fluid carrier, the osteoimplant being flexible and further being formed as a strip at least one end of which possesses a tab for facilitating combination with another implant.
US09393115B2
A delivery system for delivering an implantable stented device to a lumen of a patient, the delivery system including an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end, a driver mechanism positioned at the proximal end of the elongated body, an elongated threaded rod located axially distal to the driver mechanism, and a sheath including an elongated tubular portion having a hollow interior portion with a first diameter that is sized for compression and retention of the implantable stented device in a compressed configuration for delivery to a body lumen.
US09393112B2
A loading tool for withdrawing, crimping, and loading a stent-mounted valve into a delivery catheter, and for pushing the stent-mounted valve from the delivery catheter into a native heart valve orifice. The loading tool comprises at least one connector adapted for being removably connected to the stent of the stent-mounted valve. A crimping tool having a generally converging shape is adapted for use with the loading tool. Following connection of the loading tool to the stent-mounted valve, the loading tool operates to allow the stent-mounted valve to be drawn through the crimping tool, and loaded, in a crimped state, into a delivery catheter. Also disclosed is a kit of the various components for effecting the delivery of the stent-mounted valve and a method for withdrawing, crimping, and loading a stent-mounted valve from a storage container into a delivery catheter for the performance of a transcatheter valve implantation procedure.
US09393110B2
Embodiments of a radially collapsible and expandable prosthetic heart valve are disclosed. A valve frame can have a tapered profile when mounted on a delivery shaft, with an inflow end portion having a smaller diameter than an outflow end portion. The valve can comprise generally V-shaped leaflets, reducing material within the inflow end of the frame. An outer skirt can be secured to the outside of the inflow end portion of the frame, the outer skirt having longitudinal slack when the valve is expanded and lying flat against the frame when the valve is collapsed. A diagonally woven inner skirt can elongate axially with the frame. Side tabs of adjacent leaflets can extend through and be secured to window frame portions of the frame to form commissures. The window frame portions can be depressed radially inward relative to surrounding frame portions when the valve is crimped onto a delivery shaft.
US09393106B2
A soft prosthetic implant shell, such as a silicone breast implant shell, that has discrete fixation surfaces thereon for tissue adhesion. The fixation surfaces may be provided on the posterior face of the shell, as well as either on the periphery or at discrete areas on the anterior face. Band-shaped fixation surfaces may be provided on the anterior face of the shell to generally match the angle of pectoralis major or pectoralis minor muscle groups. The fixation surfaces may be roughened areas of the shell, or may be separate elements adhered to the shell.
US09393098B2
A description is given of a domed cap (100) for the enlargement of an atrophied bladder (200), in biocompatible and absorbable material including a textile (1) made with yarns or with monofilaments deriving from PGA fibers, characterized in that the textile (1) is supported by a star-shaped frame with domed profile, formed by a plurality of radial strips (3) manufactured by injection of a PGA/PLA copolymer, the cap (100) being suitable for growing thereon autologous fibrous capsule cells, generated by the process of tissue reconstruction, after its insertion inside the patient.
US09393094B2
The invention provides a two-part package and method of use for a pre-attached medical implant and delivery tool system. The package includes a wet compartment and a dry compartment and allows a pre-attached implant and delivery tool system to be at least partially stored immersed in a fluid in the wet compartment and at least partially stored in the dry compartment. In one embodiment the implant comprises a replacement heart valve, and the heart valve is stored inside the wet compartment while the heart valve delivery tool remains dry in the dry compartment.
US09393075B2
A surgical system is disclosed. The surgical system can include a tray and a vacuum-fitted cover covering at least a portion of the tray. The surgical system can comprise a tray and a drape at least partially vacuum-fitted to the tray. A surgical drape is also disclosed. The surgical drape can comprise a cover including an opening and an interior cavity defined by a flexible wall which is configured to receive a support surface. The surgical drape can further comprise a closable portion configured to close the opening and seal at least a portion of the support surface within the interior cavity. The surgical drape can further include a valve in fluid communication with the interior cavity, wherein the valve is configured to enable the suction of air from the interior cavity and draw the flexible wall inwardly to closely envelop at least a portion of the support surface.
US09393067B2
Methods and devices are disclosed for remodeling the tongue. One or more spaces or cavities are formed in the tongue using, for example, surgical or RF ablative techniques. The cavities can be closed or collapsed by inserting a tethered soft tissue anchor into the tongue and attaching the tethered portion of the soft tissue anchor to a bony structure such as the mandible or hyoid bone in order to exert a collapsing force on the one or more spaces or cavities. The insertion pathway of the tethered soft tissue anchor may pass adjacent to or even through one or more cavities. Also disclosed herein is a tongue remodeling system that includes means for creating a space in the tongue, and a tissue anchor configured to close the space. The tissue anchor may be tethered or expandable.
US09393056B2
The pedicle screw extension system may include a removable cannulated extension provided to a pedicle screw tulip head. The cannulated extension may permit percutaneous implantation of pedicle screws followed by rod placement that may be guided by slots running along the length of the extension. The cannulation may allow for passage and attachment of secondary instruments, such as for example: a screw driving device, a rod measuring device, and a set screw driving device. The screw extension may also include secondary device attachment features allowing the rod to be pushed down in a screw tulip head and for extension removal as needed.
US09393055B2
A percutaneous and minimally invasive instrument for inserting an interspinous process spacer into a patient is disclosed. The insertion instrument includes a first assembly connected to a handle assembly. The first assembly includes an inner shaft located inside an outer shaft and configured for relative translational motion with respect to the outer shaft. The relative translational motion causes one of the outer or inner shafts to move with respect to the other and thereby deflect at least one prong formed on one of the inner or outer shafts wherein such deflection causes engagement with a juxtapositioned interspinous spacer. The instrument further includes a driving tool configured for removable insertion into a proximal end of a passageway of the instrument.
US09393049B2
A polyaxial pedicle screw includes a housing, a bone screw member, and an anvil. The bone screw member includes a head and a threaded shaft extending from the head. The head is selectively securable within the housing. The anvil is positionable within the housing adjacent to the head of the bone screw member when the anvil and the head of the bone screw member are positioned within the housing. The anvil may define one or more grooves in an outer surface of the anvil. The groove defines a flap that is flexibly attached to the anvil to enable the anvil to flex an amount sufficient to maintain the head of the bone screw in constant contact with the anvil when the bone screw member is moved relative to the anvil. A rod reducer may be secured to the polyaxial pedicle screw to secure a spinal rod within the housing.
US09393039B2
The invention relates to an instrument for use in computer guided surgery. The instrument includes a shaft and a reference element adapter, wherein the reference element adapter is directly couplable to the shaft and rotatable about the shaft. A selectively operable mechanical retainer provides retention of the reference element adapter to an instrument shaft adapting interface of the instrument shaft. The instrument also includes a reference element orientating mechanism arranged at an interface between the instrument shaft adapting interface and the reference element adaptor. The reference element orienting mechanism is capable of fixing at least one angular position of the reference element. The instrument also includes a grip piece interface on the instrument shaft, and a grip piece is selectively couplable to the grip piece interface.
US09393035B2
In one illustrative embodiment, a thrombectomy device is disclosed. The thrombectomy device includes a treatment portion, comprising a reversibly-expandable framework configured to be deployed from within a microcatheter into a selected vasculature for removing thrombus or embolus. The thrombectomy device further includes a substantially tubular connection member disposed on a proximal end portion of the treatment portion configured to receive a terminal portion of a delivery member for positioning the treatment portion within the vasculature. The framework includes structural features for engaging the thrombus or embolus including one or more of: framework peaks and valleys along a long axis of the treatment portion or a plurality of strut members.
US09393032B2
A replacement device for resurfacing a joint surface of a femur and a method of making and installing such a device is provided. The custom replacement device is designed to substantially fit the trochlear groove surface, of an individual femur, thereby creating a “customized” replacement device for that individual femur and maintaining the original kinematics of the joint. The top surface is designed so as to maintain centrally directed tracking of the patella perpendicular to the plane established by the distal end of the femoral condyles and aligned with the center of the femoral head.
US09393029B2
A device for guiding a drilling tool to form an opening in a bone, includes a body extending from a distal end to a proximal end, the body including a lumen extending therethrough, the lumen being sized and shaped to slidably accommodate a guidewire therein and a plurality of arms extending proximally from the proximal end, the arms being disposed about the lumen with a gripping surface of each arm being spaced radially from an axis of the guide wire lumen by a distance corresponding to a thickness of a guidewire to be received therein, the gripping surfaces gripping the guidewire to maintain a portion thereof extending proximally of the lumen along the axis of the lumen.
US09393028B2
The present invention refers to a device for the resection of bones (1) for preparing the attachment of an endoprosthesis to the joints which consists of at least two joint elements cooperating with each other, comprising at least one tool guide (3, 4, 5, 7, 14) and at least one support (6, 9, 10, 15, 21) suitable for orienting the at least one tool guide (3, 4, 5, 7, 14), wherein, either in the immediate vicinity of the joint and/or across joints, the at least one support (15, 21) enables the at least one tool guide (3, 4, 5, 7, 14) to be oriented and positioned on a further joint element, or enables the at least one tool guide (3, 4, 5, 7, 14) to be oriented and positioned at the same joint element distally to the area to be treated and/or outside the surgical area. The at least one tool guide (3, 4, 5, 7, 14) and the at least one support are preferably immovably connected to each other so as to manufacture an individual single-use template. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such a device or template, an endoprosthesis suited for this purpose, a method for manufacturing such an endoprosthesis, and a surgical set consisting of said parts.
US09393014B2
A surgical stapling instrument including a handle assembly, an elongated body portion extending distally from the handle assembly, a head portion and an indicator. A firing trigger is movable between first and second positions. The head portion includes an anvil assembly and a shell assembly. The anvil assembly is movable in relation to the shell assembly between spaced and approximated positions. The indicator is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the handle assembly and is movable between a first position and a second position in response to movement of the anvil assembly towards its approximated position. The indicator is movable between the second position and a third position in response to firing of the instrument.
US09393009B2
An embodiment of the invention includes a surgical device for passing suture through soft tissue. The surgical device can include at least one elongate superelastic member having a thickness and having a first resting configuration that defines at least one curve having a first radius of curvature greater than or equal to 3 times the thickness of the superelastic member. The surgical device also can include a thermally formed opening in the superelastic member, the opening adapted to receive at least one strand of suture. Moreover, the surgical device can include a superelastic member adapted to be straightened into a second configuration having a second radius of curvature larger than the first radius of curvature.
US09393000B2
In accordance with various exemplary embodiments of the present teachings, a surgical device can include a first pair of articulably coupled links, a second pair of articulably coupled links, and a tension member coupled to the first pair of links and the second pair of links such that altering tension in the tension member exerts a force tending to articulate the first pair of links and the second pair of links so as to bend the first pair of links and the second pair of links. The surgical device can be configured such that the first pair of links has a lower resistance to bending than the second pair of links upon altering the tension in the tension member.
US09392998B2
An impact biopsy device is disclosed. The impact biopsy device may be configured to displace various cutting elements, such as an outer tubular member and cutting element and a cannula to sever a tissue sample from a patient. The impact biopsy device may comprise an actuation system configured to transfer displacement or force to the cutting elements by the impact of an element on another element.
US09392995B2
An ultrasound imaging system and method includes acquiring motion data for a region-of-interest (ROI). The system and method includes calculating a quality parameter based on the motion data, wherein the quality parameter represents an amount of unwanted motion in the ROI. The system and method includes performing an action based on the quality parameter.
US09392993B2
Method and related apparatuses are described for performing automated ultrasound mammography with reduced nipple shadow effects. The breast is compressed in a direction generally toward the chest wall of the patient with one side of a compressive member which is preferably a membrane. The breast is scanned with an ultrasonic transducer array positioned in acoustic communication with the other side of the membrane. Beamsteering is used. The signals from the beamsteered energy are combined to generate one or more compound images having a reduced nipple shadow effect. An acoustic couplant is preferably applied between the breast and the membrane. The images of the sub-nipple region are also preferably enhanced by making comparisons with reference areas of the breast in areas away from the nipple shadow effected area. The images are preferably displayed to a user, either automatically or upon receiving a preference from the user.
US09392992B2
High intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) is registered with imaging. The effects of transmission from a HIFU transducer, such as a rise in temperature, are detected by a separate imaging system. By using multiple transmissions, a plurality of locations of the transmissions from the HIFU transducer are determined within the imaging system coordinates. A transform relating the imaging system coordinates to the HIFU transducer coordinates is determined from the detected effects. The transform may be used to relate locations indicated in images of the imaging system with coordinates of the HIFU transducer for application of HIFU. The imaging system may not have to scan the HIFU transducer or fiducials and a fixed relationship may not be needed.
US09392986B2
Cone Beam Breast CT (CBBCT) is a three-dimensional breast imaging modality with high soft tissue contrast, high spatial resolution and no tissue overlap. CBBCT-based computer aided diagnosis (CBBCT-CAD) technology is a clinically useful tool for breast cancer detection and diagnosis that will help radiologists to make more efficient and accurate decisions. The CBBCT-CAD is able to: 1) use 3D algorithms for image artifact correction, mass and calcification detection and characterization, duct imaging and segmentation, vessel imaging and segmentation, and breast density measurement, 2) present composite information of the breast including mass and calcifications, duct structure, vascular structure and breast density to the radiologists to aid them in determining the probability of malignancy of a breast lesion.
US09392981B2
A gantry system is provided. The gantry system may be used for acquiring image data and reconstructing the image data into output images. Image detectors include a detector arm and detector head. Image detectors are attached to a gantry in a compact configuration such that the image detector head may extend into the bore of a stator. The system can be a Nuclear Medicine (NM) imaging system to acquire Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) image information.
US09392979B2
A multifunctional invasive cardiovascular diagnostic measurement host is disclosed that interfaces a variety of sensor devices, such as guide wire-mounted pressure sensors, flow sensors, temperature sensors, etc, and provides a multi-mode graphical user interface providing a plurality of displays in accordance with the various types of sensors and measurements rendered by the sensors.
US09392977B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for identifying when a subject is likely to be affected by a medical condition. For example, at least one processor may be configured to receive information reflective of an external soft tissue image of the subject. The processor may also be configured to perform an evaluation of the external soft tissue image information and to generate evaluation result information based, at least in part, on the evaluation. The processor may also be configured to predict a likelihood that the subject is affected by the medical condition based, at least in part, on the evaluation result information.
US09392975B2
According to embodiments, techniques for selecting a consistent part of a signal, including a photoplethysmograph (PPG) signal, are disclosed. A pulse oximetry system including a sensor or probe may be used to obtain a PPG signal from a subject. Signal peaks may be identified in the PPG signal. Characteristics of the signal peaks, including the amplitude levels of the signal peaks and/or the time-distance between the signal peaks may be used to determine if the PPG signal is consistent. In an embodiment, signal peaks are processed based on a consistency metric, and the processed signal peaks are compared to the consistency metric to determine if the PPG signal is consistent. If the PPG signal is determined to be consistent, the PPG signal may be further analyzed to determine an underlying signal parameter, including, for example, a patient respiration rate. If the PPG signal is determined to be inconsistent, the inconsistent portion of the signal may be removed from the overall signal or otherwise transformed.
US09392969B2
Methods, system and devices for monitoring a plurality of parameters associated with a closed loop control operation including continuously monitoring a physiological condition and automatic administration of a medication, detecting a signal level associated with the monitored physiological condition deviating from a predetermined threshold level, retrieving the medication level administered associated with a time period of the detected signal level, applying the retrieved medication level to the detected signal based on a predefined predictive model to generate a predictive signal, and comparing the detected signal to the predictive signal to determine whether a condition associated with the detected signal level is present are provided.
US09392964B2
A controller or processor(s) (1112) implements detection of respiratory related conditions, such as asynchrony, associated with use of a respiratory treatment apparatus (1102) or ventilator. Based on data derived from sensor signals associated with the respiratory treatment, the detector may evaluate a feature set of detection values to determine whether or not an asynchrony occurs in a breath of the patient's respiratory cycle such as by comparing the values against a set of thresholds. Different events may also be identified based on the particular feature set and threshold(s) involved in the detection processing. Automated determination of feature sets may also be implemented to design different asynchrony event classifiers. The methodologies may be implemented by computers or by respiratory treatment apparatus. The detection of such asynchrony events can then also serve as part of control logic for automated adjustments to the control parameters of the respiratory treatment generated by the respiratory treatment apparatus.
US09392963B2
To provide a breath pacing system and a corresponding method for pacing the respiratory activity of a subject that provide the possibility to adapt the output signal to the respiration characteristics of the subject automatically and effectively a breath pacing system (10) for pacing the respiratory activity of a subject and a respective method is proposed, comprising: an input unit (14) for generating or determining an input signal related to a respiration characteristic of a subject, a signal analyzing unit (16) provided to recognize a signal pattern within the input signal, and an output unit (12) for outputting output signals corresponding to a desired breathing sequence, wherein said output unit (12) is provided to be activated, upon a starting signal, to output a sequence of output signals comprising a signal pattern related to a previously recognized signal pattern.
US09392955B2
A system and method is disclosed for measuring muscle reflexes (e.g., a bulbocavernosus reflex) as a tool for identifying/diagnosing dysfunctions (e.g., spinal cord abnormalities, bladder voiding dysfunction, and sexual organ dysfunction) non-invasively by using mechanical stimulation. The system and method includes a probe having a predetermined patient contacting portion, wherein when the contacting portion is moved into contact with a particular area of the patient (e.g., the patient's genitals), the contact induces a muscle reflex. The probe detects the pressure resulting from the contacting portion being abruptly and forcibly brought into contact with the particular area. Such detection is used to electronically initiate capture of electrical responses from a plurality of electrodes placed on the patient's skin in proximity to the particular area. Such electrical responses are processed to determine characteristics of the patient's reflexes of one or more muscles adjacent to the electrodes.
US09392953B1
The present invention relates generally to a system and methods used for neurophysiologic monitoring, and more particularly to an algorithm capable of discerning between background activity (non-physiologic and physiologic) and evoked neurophysiologic activity.
US09392952B1
The invention provides systems and methods for monitoring the wellbeing of a fetus by the non-invasive detection and analysis of fetal cardiac electrical activity data.
US09392949B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward an asynchrony index that is related to data of a subject's heart. The asynchrony index includes intra-ventricular or inter-ventricular electrical asynchrony data. The intra-ventricular or inter-ventricular electrical asynchrony data can be specific to a certain subject, and indicative of a different conditions specific to that subject.
US09392942B2
Provided is a fluoroscopy apparatus including a light source that irradiates an observation target with reference light and excitation light; a fluorescence-image generating unit that captures fluorescence emitted from the observation target X irradiated with the excitation light to generate a fluorescence image; a reference-image generating unit that captures return light returning from the observation target irradiated with the reference light to generate a reference image; an image-combining unit that superimposes the fluorescence image on the reference image to generate a combined image; a determining unit that determines whether there is a position with a luminance at or below a predetermined threshold in the reference image; and a notifying unit that, if the determining unit determines that there is a position with a luminance at or below the predetermined threshold, provides notification thereof.
US09392941B2
Fitness monitoring methods, systems, and program products are disclosed. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for providing a new workout for an athlete utilizing a fitness monitoring service includes the steps of granting an athlete access to an account of the fitness monitoring service, maintaining a schedule of workouts for the athlete to complete in association with the account, receiving the new workout from a coach, adding the new workout to the schedule of workouts, and exchanging information related to the new workout with a portable fitness monitoring device.
US09392940B2
The invention relates to a portable medical device for assistance to heart patients carrying an implanted pacemaker, which includes at least one electric energy accumulator for power supply, at least one electronic card provided with a first wireless communication unit for the reception of data sent by the pacemaker, and a processing unit suited to process the data received from the pacemaker. The device further includes an external casing suited to be grasped by the patient in order to bring it to the pacemaker's transmission field and provided with at least one light signal for communicating the data processed by the processing unit at least partially to the patient.
US09392939B2
A method is provided for obtaining monitored information about an individual and provide the individual with feedback. A monitoring device with one or more sensors is used to measure or detect individual information selected from of at least one of, an individual's activities, behaviors and habit information, and an individual's health. The monitoring device has ID circuitry with an ID storage that contains a unique individual ID, a communication system which reads and transmits the unique individual ID from the ID storage, a power source and a pathway system. The monitoring device communicates with a telemetry system. The telemetry system has a database that includes base individual information selected from at least one of, individual physiological information, information that is indicative of the individual's activities, data indicative of one or more contextual parameters of the individual and information regarding a degree to which an individual has followed a routine.
US09392936B1
A system and method for using optical coherence tomography (OCT) to image both the vitreous and the retina in the eye. The image of both tissues may be created sequentially, simultaneously, or near-simultaneously from at least one OCT image.
US09392935B2
Methods are disclosed, for performing therapeutic or diagnostic procedures at a remote site. According to one embodiment, the methods include the use of a system including an introducer designed for transcervical insertion into the uterus. The introducer is constructed to include a fluid lumen, an instrument lumen, and a visualization lumen. The system may include a fluid source, which is coupled to the fluid lumen and is used to deliver a fluid to the uterus either for washing the uterus or for fluid distension of the uterus. The system additionally includes a tissue modifying device, such as a morcellator, and a distension device for distending the uterus and/or for maintaining the uterus in a distended state. The tissue modifying device and the distension device are alternately deliverable to the uterus through the instrument lumen. The system may further include a hysteroscope deliverable to the uterus through the visualization lumen.
US09392928B2
Dishwasher appliances configured to receive cleaning agent dispensers are provided. A dishwasher appliance includes a tub that defines a wash chamber for receipt of articles for washing, the tub comprising a plurality of sidewalls. The dishwasher appliance further includes a rack assembly arranged in the wash chamber, and a sump for collecting fluid from the wash chamber. The dishwasher appliance further includes a door movable between a closed position and an open position, the door including an inner wall further defining the wash chamber when the door is in the closed position. The dishwasher appliance further includes a dispenser mounting assembly disposed within the wash chamber, the dispenser mounting assembly configured to receive the cleaning agent dispenser.
US09392925B2
Provided is a motor drive device for a motor for a washing machine of a double-rotor/double-stator structure that can selectively rotate a pulsator and a dehydrator without having a separate clutch, and a motor control method thereof. The motor drive device includes: a motor controller that generates a drive signal according to a laundry control signal to thus control a motor for the washing machine to be driven: an inverter that generates three-phase alternating-current (AC) power under the control of the motor controller, and outputs the three-phase AC power to a first three-phase stator coil for rotating an outer rotor in the motor for the washing machine, and a second three-phase stator coil for rotating an inner rotor therein; and a rotor drive controller that is provided between the inverter and the second three-phase stator coil, to thus block or pass the three-phase AC power under the control of the motor controller and simultaneously change the direction of rotation of the inner rotor.
US09392923B1
A bifurcated duster is disclosed having a T shaped core and an annular split swivel for changing the cleaning angle of the bifurcated duster. The annular split swivel rides on an annular split swivel track that is joined to the T shaped core. A swivel adjuster engages with the annular split swivel to adjust and set the cleaning angle of the bifurcated duster. Duster covers with elongated bodies are configured to be retained on the T shaped core.
US09392921B2
There is provided a cleaner including an agitator, and a mounting portion on which the agitator is rotatably mounted. The agitator includes a brush assembly having brushes, a frame that includes a first opening into which the brush assembly is inserted, an installation space for receiving therein the brush assembly, and a second opening through which the brushes protrude, and first and second side caps that are connected to the frame and support the brush assembly.
US09392915B1
An air freshening toilet seat device dispenses air freshener through a toilet seat. The device includes a toilet seat and a channel extending through the toilet seat. A plurality of apertures extends through the toilet seat. Each of the apertures is in fluid communication with the channel. An air freshener is held in a reservoir. A pump is coupled to the toilet seat. The pump is in fluid communication with the channel and the reservoir wherein the air freshener is dispensable through the apertures when the pump is manipulated.
US09392912B2
A bathtub is provided of the walk-in type, wherein the bathtub includes an internal dam element that allows a user to segment the bathtub into a first and second compartment and operably utilize the bathtub as a sit-down tub or as a standing shower. An entry door provides access into the bathtub without requiring users to lift their legs during entry, while the dam element allows the user to fill the first compartment of the tub and prepare it for use before entering the bathtub interior. The second compartment remains empty as the first compartment fills with water, whereafter the user can enter the empty second compartment and remove the dam element after closing the entry door. The bathtub further comprises a first and second drain for independently draining the first and second compartments and allowing the user to exit the tub while the first compartment is still draining.
US09392910B2
The present invention relates to mounting of accessory parts to a main unit of a handheld kitchen appliance. In order to provide a facilitated way of operation, a handheld kitchen appliance interface (10) for releasably mounting of an accessory part to a main unit, comprising a body structure (12), an insertion opening (14), a locking device (16), and an activation device (18). The insertion opening is provided in the body structure for inserting an insert end of an accessory or of a main part of a handheld kitchen appliance. The locking device comprises at least one engagement element (20) moveably guided by the body structure and being movable between a first position (P1), in which the engagement element is provided to engage a locking element of an insert end of the accessory or the main part inserted into the opening to provide axial fixation of the insert end in relation to the body structure, and a second position (P2), in which the engagement element is provided to be disengaged to allow axial displacement of the insert end in relation to the body structure. The activation device comprises a button (24) for applying a manual release force. The locking device comprises at least one holding bracket (26) supported by the body structure in at least one fixation point (28) such that during an activation of the interface, the fixation point maintains stationary relative to the body structure. The at least one holding bracket comprises a bendable part (30) on which the engagement element is provided. Further, the manual release force causes a bending of the holding bracket resulting in a radially directed movement (32) of the at least one engagement element from the first to the second position.
US09392905B2
An outdoor grill adjustable vented chimney cap assembly having a tubular base member with vent openings and a cap member having a cover member and a tubular body with vent openings, the base member being adapted to be mounted onto the chimney of a grill, the cap member being mounted onto the base member whereby the cap member can be rotated relative to the base member such that base vent members can be adjusted to control the amount of hot gases escaping from the grill.
US09392900B2
An infusion extractor is provided including a plunger to be inserted into an infusing container containing the infusion mixture that has vertical inner walls oriented parallel to a vertical axis of the container. The plunger includes a first surface with a seal situated at an edge of the surface. The seal is adapted for sealing against the inner walls of the infusing container as the plunger moves within the container. The plunger also includes a second surface extending from the first surface and defining a second chamber. At least a portion of the extract flow openings are situated at a depth either above or below the first surface along the vertical axis.
US09392897B2
The present invention provides a garment hanger designed to maximize closet space. The device includes a garment hanger having a hook portion and a body portion connected by a retractable reel having a spring-biased spool with a cord wound thereon. The hook is substantially C-shaped and is designed to be hung on a closet rod or other means. The body portion is substantially triangular and designed to hang clothes thereon. The cord includes a proximal end permanently attached to the spring-biased spool and a distal end attached to the upper portion of the body portion. The retractable reel is configured to extend, retract, and latch the cord in a desired length. The retractable reel is also equipped with a spring-loaded pawl configured to engage and lock the spring-biased spool in a given state and prevent the spring-loaded spool from retracting the cord back onto the spool.
US09392888B2
A carton with an improved dispenser at one end of the carton which preserves the integrity of the carton when the carton is opened by permitting a bottom end flap attached to the bottom panel to remain in place and also a portion of each side end flap that is adjacent to the bottom end flap. This dispenser may also provide a safety net for the first container that is automatically dispensed when the carton is opened.
US09392881B1
Systems and apparatus relating to providing one or more combinations of motion, vibration, and sound to comfort babies or infants, particularly babies or infants who are crying, experiencing discomfort, or having sleeping difficulties.
US09392880B2
A collapsible crib is an infant bed that is particularly sized in order to facilitate transport and incorporates various features that permit it to be deployed and assembled with relative ease. The collapsible crib contains a canopy section and a crib section that are utilized to provide a partially enclosed sleeping area for an infant. The canopy section is detachably coupled to the crib section and provides shade to the interior portion where the infant would be positioned. The crib section is the padded enclosed sleeping area that is particularly constructed with features permitting it to be disassembled and reassembled with ease. The canopy section and the crib section contain features that permit them to transition between a collapsed state and an assembled state. Through the combination of these components the collapsible crib offers a safe and secure enclosed sleeping area for infants that can be easily transported.
US09392878B2
This invention provides a multi-functional supporting cushion, comprising: a plurality of pad portions, each of which having a circularly curved top end, the pad portions at the center being higher than those on both sides such that the top ends of the plurality of pad portions form a wave-shaped contour descending from the center toward both sides, a bolster being selectively formed from the plurality of pad portions or the plurality of pad portions being constricted from respective free ends of the two pad portions at both sides to make a circular loop. The supporting cushion allows a user's back, waist and neck to rest thereon or to be supported thereby. The supporting cushion is capable of supporting the user's head when serving as a neck cushion. It is put around the neck to protect the cervical vertebrae, support the nape of the neck and prevent the users head from falling aside. The supporting cushion is placed on the chair to provide comfortable support for the users waist and back when serving as a waist and back cushion.
US09392867B2
An oral care implement has a body made of a first material. The body has a handle, a head support, and a neck extending between the handle and the head support. The head support has a recess therein, and the recess has a bottom face and a side face. A head has a first head section and a second head section, and supports a plurality of contact elements. The first head section is disposed in the recess and attached thereto, and the second head section is attached to the first head section and unattached to the body.
US09392866B1
A preferably disposable item protector having a first and second layer, sealed peripheral edges, and an opening to provide access to the interior, formed of material substantially permeable to vapor and substantially impermeable to liquid and microbial contaminants. A method of producing such item protectors comprising the steps of folding a continuous strip of material, bonding the peripheral edges with adhesives, sonic bonding, heat bonding, or other techniques, and cutting the material proximate to the bonded edges to release the item protectors.
US09392863B2
Disclosed is a portable article carrier for carrying and securing portable articles such as mobile phones, cameras, radios, tools, and water bottles; where the device can be secured to a belt, strap, or harness that is optionally worn by a wearer. The portable article carrier can be assembled from a folded flexible strap member and a loop member. The loop member can be flexible, non-flexible, or elastic. The portable article carrier can be configured to present a seamless surface to the portable article in order to minimize surface damage or wear to the portable article.
US09392856B2
A hairnet has a fabric comprising an elongated fan edge and an elasticated edge portion extending from a first end to a second end of the elongated fan edge around a peripheral edge of the fabric. The fabric is drawn together at a line of binding proximate the elongated fan edge. The hairnet comprises a strip of material at least partially covering the elongated fan edge. A method of producing a hairnet free of a cinch point includes providing a hairnet precursor bunched at a cinch point, positioning the hairnet precursor on a mount to splay fabric adjacent the cinch point of the hairnet precursor so that fabric is spread out over the mount with first and second edges of the fabric extending from each side of the cinch point, binding the fabric around a perimeter portion of the cinch point and removing the cinch point along a cutting line.
US09392853B2
A smart phone carrying case that is capable of cleaning and disinfecting a smart phone touch screen every time the phone is removed from the case is disclosed. The smart phone carrying case includes a pocket, inside of which is a cleaning and disinfecting pad, and further includes a flap that supports a drying pad. The touch screen can be cleaned by wiping it across the cleaning and disinfecting pad when the smart phone is removed from the pocket of the carrying case. The touch screen may then be wiped across the drying pad on the flap before the smart phone is operated by the user.
US09392847B2
A method for manufacturing a slider for a slide fastener with an automatic stopper. A common part which includes a stopping pawl portion, a biasing portion and a cover portion and forms the automatic stopper is provided. At least two bodies selected from among a first body having a guide recess configured to guide metal teeth, a second body having a guide recess configured to guide resin teeth which are formed by injection molding, and a third body having a guide recess configured to guide teeth made of resin monofilaments are prepared. The common part is mounted on one of the bodies selected from the at least two bodies.
US09392846B2
A slide adjuster includes: an operating piece having an engagement pawl on one end thereof is provided to the inner side of a main body of a buckle, the engagement pawl of the buckle being capable of engaging with saw-toothed engagement grooves formed along an edge of a band; the operating piece is made pivotable by being supported by a connection shaft at the midpoint thereof; when the band is passed through the insertion space of the buckle, the band moves forward while the edge of the band contacts the engagement pawl of the operating piece and presses said one end of the operating piece upward; and the operating piece returns to the initial state thereof in reaction to contacting a control piece.
US09392840B2
A skate boot having an outer shell and an inner liner made of a first material. An outer surface of the inner liner is mounted to an inner surface of the outer shell, an inner surface of the inner liner being adapted to contact the player's foot or a sock covering the player's foot. An ankle portion of the inner liner has a medial upper inner region and a lateral upper inner region, and an overlay at least partially covers one of the medial and lateral upper inner regions of the ankle portion of the inner liner. The overlay is made of a second material having more abrasion resistance than the first material of the inner liner.
US09392838B2
A protective cover for an article of footwear can include a first portion covering the top and sides of the footwear and a second portion covering the back of the footwear. The first portion can include locations to receive at least part of a connecting mechanism, and the second portion of the cover can be connected to the first portion of the cover by the connecting mechanism.
US09392836B2
An interchangeable bootie system includes an article of footwear and a plurality of interchangeable booties. Each bootie includes a support system configured to provide targeted support to different regions of the foot. This allows a user to select a bootie that provides the desired type of support for an athletic activity. An interchangeable bootie system with midsole portions having different types of cushioning systems is also disclosed. This allows a user to select a bootie with the desired type of support and the desired type of cushioning for an athletic activity. An interchangeable bootie and midsole insert system is also disclosed. Each midsole insert fits inside a bootie and includes a cushioning system configured to provide targeted cushioning to different regions of the foot. This allows a user to select a desired type of cushioning for an athletic activity.
US09392835B2
An article of footwear with a knitted component including an upper and an integral knit ankle cuff is provided. The upper and the ankle cuff are formed as a one-piece knit element. The knit element forms a portion of an exterior surface of the upper and an opposite interior surface of the upper, with the interior surface forming a void for receiving a foot. The ankle cuff is formed of unitary knit construction with the upper as a one-piece knit element and extends above a throat area of the upper. The ankle cuff includes malleolus zones on medial and lateral sides to correspond with the ankle bones of a wearer. The knit component further incorporates features to assist with providing entry for a foot of a wear, providing comfort to a wearer, and to assist with orientation of the upper of the article of footwear when being worn.
US09392831B2
A non-rigid head guard assembly that provides protection against head collisions. The head guard is circular with a narrower section at the forehead and a wider section at the rear to protect the back of the head. The head guard, at the sections in contact with the temple area of the head and the back of the head, is reinforced with an additional layer of foam. The exterior of the assembly is made of breathable and moisture wicking fabric. The interior protective element consists of either a single layer of viscoelastic polyurethane foam or a dual layer viscoelastic polyurethane foam separated by a thin layer of semi-dry lubricant, which is a low friction material, for enhanced wear and corrosion protection.
US09392816B2
Apparatus for extracting pomegranate seeds from pomegranates including a pomegranate breaker operative for breaking open pomegranates generally without cutting pomegranate seeds at the interior of the pomegranates and a pomegranate seed extractor operative to engage broken open pomegranates for separating the pomegranate seeds from other parts of the pomegranates.
US09392812B2
The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 41-188 RZ, which may exhibit a combination of traits including resistance against downy mildew (Bremia lactucae) races Bl:1 to Bl:31 and Ca-I to Ca-VIII, currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri) biotype Nr:0, and to corky root rot (Sphingomonas suberifaciens), as well as having solid main veins and narrow base leaves. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 41-188 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 41-188 RZ.
US09392810B2
This invention relates to supplementation of the diets of domesticated animals (livestock and poultry) with iodine in an enhanced bioavailable manner, that is to say the iodine is more available to the animal than when using conventional sources of iodine, such as calcium iodate. The supplementary compound are alpha amino acid metal iodide complexes.
US09392809B2
An apparatus for producing frozen confectionery products is provided, the apparatus comprising: means for supplying a frozen confection to the inlets of a nozzle; the nozzle comprising a chamber and an extrusion plate, wherein the extrusion plate defines one or more apertures; the apertures having a width of from 1 to 5 mm and a length of at least 10 mm; means for moving the nozzle in the opposite direction to the direction of extrusion. A process for producing frozen confectionery products, the process comprising: supplying a frozen confection to a nozzle, the nozzle comprising a chamber and an extrusion plate, wherein the extrusion plate defines one or more apertures; wherein the apertures have a width of from 1 to 5 mm and a length of at least 10 mm; extruding the frozen confection from the chamber of the nozzle through the apertures of the extrusion plate; and simultaneously moving the nozzle in the opposite direction to the direction of extrusion; and stopping the flow of the frozen confection is also provided.
US09392808B2
A process for making an alcohol-containing frozen comestible substantially devoid of ice crystal agglomerations and/or ice crystal striations and/or trapped air and/or liquids is provided. The process includes substantially flash freezing an alcohol-containing liquid composition so as to produce a substantially single-phase solid alcohol-containing composition. The solid alcohol-containing composition, and/or pieces thereof, are then exposed to an environment having temperature of from about −15° C. to about −30° C. so as to soften the solid alcohol-containing compositions and/or meld the pieces thereof into a single mass. The temperature of the single mass is then reduced so as to harden the single mass. Also, a process for incorporating a frozen alcohol-containing liquid composition into a non-alcohol-containing fraction is provided. Alcohol-containing liquid compositions suitable for use in the process are also provided.
US09392804B2
Provided is a multi-purpose conservation apparatus. The multi-purpose conservation apparatus includes a storage case, a light source module disposed in the storage case and configured to selectively remove a harmful gas in the storage case, and a control unit configured to control intensity of radiation of the light source module according to internal environmental data of the storage case. Accordingly, the intensity of radiation of the light source module can be adjusted according to the internal environmental data of the storage case, efficiently adjusting a level of photocatalysis.
US09392803B2
The present invention discloses a system and a method to eliminate E. Coli bacteria from various food products. When DC current is applied to any pathogen that is gram negative, it overrides the internal governing electrostatic charge that controls and causes the hydrophilic nature of E. Coli to be activated and rushes in water instantaneously. This results in E. Coli blowing itself up. This is E. Coli's “Achilles heel”. Testing has shown when E. Coli is exposed to as little as 30 volts for approximately 30 seconds, 99.9% of ALL E. Coli were killed. 100% kill using 60 volts has been achieved through this invention.
US09392802B2
An apparatus for processing birds on a conveyor according to the invention includes a moveable engagement member (1,101,201,301) having a contacting surface (11,111,211,311) adapted for being brought into contact with the bird (2). The engagement member is connected to a carrier (30,130,230,330) at a primary axis (P), said carrier being rotatable about a stationary secondary axis (132,232,332) and the primary axis (P) being located on the carrier (30,130,230,330) at a distance from the secondary axis (132,232,332), so that said primary axis will rotate about the secondary axis when the carrier is rotated. The engagement member (1,101,201,301) is restrained between the primary axis and the contacting surface, so that the contacting surface is prevented from rotating about the secondary axis. The invention also relates to a method for processing birds on a conveyor, where, during a processing movement, the direction of movement of contacting surface is preferably substantially the same as the direction of the conveyor.
US09392800B2
A diagonal knock out system that is designed to remove mold food portions from a mold plate in a direction other than vertical.
US09392785B2
One subject of the present invention is the use, as solvents, of compounds of esteramide type. Another subject of the invention are particularly practical processes for preparing esteramides. Another subject of the invention are novel esteramides, which may in particular be used as solvents, for example in phytosanitary formulations.
US09392780B1
A sinker configured to be attached to fishing line and used during fishing to position a fishing hook at or in proximity to the bottom of the body of water. The sinker may include a main body that has a folded construction. The body may include one or more sets of paired cavities. Each of the cavities align together in the folded, closed orientation to form an enclosed space to hold one or more of a fish attractor or weight. The sinker may also include additional attachments that attach to the main body and are configured to receive additional weight and/or fish attractor. The sinker may also include an anchor configured to engage with the bottom of the fishing location, and may also include a stabilizer for additional stabilization.
US09392770B2
An improved leash device for pets that includes a tongue for insertion into a seat belt is described. The tongue may be designed to fit any vehicle safety belt buckle to allow a user to secure their pet to their vehicle for travel. The user may operate the device by moving a safety belt tongue from inside the housing of the leash device. When the tongue is moved outside the housing, it may be inserted into the buckle attached inside the vehicle to keep the pet safe during vehicle movement. The leash device may also include a retractable leash mechanism with a lock button for alternatively allowing or preventing the extension/retraction of the leash. A button hood may be provided to prevent accidental toggling of the lock button.
US09392765B2
A new lettuce variety designated ‘Celinet’ is described. ‘Celinet’ is a cutting lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
US09392757B2
A sun-tracking light distributor system for use in one of an open-ended system and a closed photo-bioreactor for a photosynthetic culture having an aqueous liquid is described. The system comprises: two light distribution walls made of a transparent material allowing sunlight to pass therethrough, the two light distribution walls creating an elongated channel with an interior space adapted to receive the sunlight and an exterior surface adapted to be partly immersed in the aqueous liquid in use; and a displacement system operatively connected to at least one of the two light distribution walls, the displacement system being adapted to change an orientation of the at least one of the two light distribution walls to track a solar position with respect to at least one axis.
US09392755B1
A plant watering and support device including an elongated tubular body having an open upper end, a lower end and a central portion of predetermined width located between the ends is disclosed. The open upper end and central tubular portion define a hollow cavity for receiving water added through said open upper end. In addition, the central tubular portion further defines a plurality of perforations in fluid communication with the hollow cavity and which extend through the tubular portion to allow water added to the device to exit the device through the perforations to water a plant. The device also includes at least one hollow extension section. A wide preferably heavy base is also provided for supporting the tubular body in an upright position and lowering the device's center of gravity to prevent the device from easily tipping over.
US09392754B1
A drive unit for an irrigation system comprising, a pair of vertical tower members, a base beam, a pair of drive wheels, a sensor, a hydraulic unit and a pair of connecting rods. A pair of drive wheels each is pivotally connected to the front end and the back end of the base beam. Each of the pair of drive wheels are operably connected to a gearbox and a motor. An electrically controlled hydraulic unit is coupled with the sensor and includes a pair of pistons for pulling or pushing the connecting rods. The sensor mounted on the pipeline detects the stress on the pipeline and activates the hydraulic unit. When a change in stress is detected in the pipeline of the irrigation system, the sensor triggers the hydraulic unit that pulls or pushes the connecting rods to turn the drive wheels and to reduce the stress on the span of the irrigation system.
US09392741B2
An agricultural metering device with a variable geometry meter roller is provided. The agricultural metering device includes a meter roller having a plurality of flutes. An aggregate cross sectional area of the flutes increases along a longitudinal axis of the meter roller.
US09398735B2
A computer cart has removable electrical connector management system which may be removed from the computer cart to install electrical connectors and then reinserted into the computer cart to facilitate wiring of the cart. A numbering system is implemented to uniquely identify corresponding electrical and physical characteristics of the cart to facilitate maintenance of computers stored within the cart.
US09398733B2
An electromagnetic shielding composite includes a polymer and a carbon nanotube film structure. The carbon nanotube structure includes a number of carbon nanotubes disposed in the polymer. The number of carbon nanotubes are parallel with each other.
US09398730B2
An electronic circuit device, including a combined optical transmission and cooling fluid conduit network. The network includes at least one cooling conduit having an optical transmission medium. The network is configured to convey a cooling fluid via the at least one cooling conduit and to convey an electromagnetic signal via the optical transmission medium. The network is in thermal communication with a first set of one or more components of the electronic circuit device and in signal communication with a second set of one or more components of the electronic circuit device. The first set and second set of components are at least partly overlapping. A method for conveying optical signal in such an electronic circuit device is also provided.
US09398729B2
A server cabinet includes a bottom wall, a top wall, two opposite side walls, two air inlet tubes each with a number of openings, a number of servers, a number of air distributing tubes received in the servers, a number of rotating members rotatably installed to the air inlet tubes, and a number of resilient members installed to the air inlet tubes. Each server defines a number of vents aligning with the corresponding openings of the air inlet tubes. Each air distributing tube communicates with the vents of the corresponding server. The air inlet tubes are attached to the side walls. Each air distributing tube defines a number of air outlets communicating with the corresponding server. Each rotating member includes a shielding plate. Each resilient member abuts against the corresponding shielding plate to cover the corresponding opening of the air inlet tubes.
US09398728B2
The present invention aims at providing a storage subsystem capable of improving a backend-side I/O processing performance and enabling a single semiconductor memory adapter to be replaced at a time. Therefore, the present invention provides one or more semiconductor memory adapter boards mounting semiconductor memories each having smaller capacity than SSDs attached detachably to a drive canister, a wide port connection established to access the semiconductor memories, the semiconductor memories used as a read cache area of HDDs, and further adopts a wind direction control structure for ensuring a cooling wind path to the HDDs when an adapter board is attached.
US09398727B2
A server assembly includes a first server and a second server sharing the cooling provided by one or more fans. The first server is stacked on the second server. The first server includes a first bottom plate having vents, a first side plate having first air inlets, and a first back plate having air outlets. The fans are mounted to the first server. The second server includes a second bottom plate, a second side plate having second air inlets, and a second back plate. The servers are configured to dissipate heat from the first server by air that enters the first server and is expelled out of the air outlets by the fans, and to dissipate heat from the second server by air that enters the second server, enters the first server from the vents, and is expelled out of the air outlets by the fans.
US09398714B1
A wearable electronics assembly includes one or more electronic modules coupled to a wearable electronics fabric. Each of the one or more electronic modules includes one or more metal foils, each metal foil electrically coupled at one end to an electrical connection point of the electrical module and at another end to an electrically conductive wire. The electrically conductive wire is stitched to the metal foil and to a fabric onto which the electronic module is attached. The electronic module can include one or more electronic components coupled to a printed circuit board. The metal foils can be formed from interconnects on the printed circuit board or the metal foils can be separate elements coupled to the printed circuit board.
US09398709B2
A portable electronic apparatus has a water-resistant structure in which a cover covers a surface of an opening formed in a casing of the portable electronic apparatus. The portable electronic apparatus includes a mounting unit that has an outer peripheral surface to which frame-shaped packing that encompasses the opening is attached, and is formed on any one among the casing and the cover; and a groove that is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the mounting unit, and holds the frame-shaped packing therein enabling a surface of the frame-shaped packing to be brought into pressure contact with any one among the casing and the cover to which the mounting is not formed. The mounting unit has a side and a corner, and is of a shape that encompasses the opening, and the groove has a shape at the corner different from that along the side.
US09398708B2
An opening and closing device includes a base plate rotatably supported by a stand to rotate between closed and open positions, a sliding plate slidably provided on the base plate to slide between first and second positions, an urging part to urge the sliding plate toward the second position, where the sliding plate projects from the base plate, a movement restriction mechanism including first and second members provided on one and the other, respectively, of the stand and the sliding plate, and configured to restrict the movements of the base plate and the sliding plate by the engagement of the first and second members when the base plate is at the closed position, and a moving and urging mechanism to move and urge the sliding plate toward the first position from the second position with the movement of the base plate from the open position to the closed position.
US09398704B2
A metal structure manufacture method for a multi-layer substrate comprises coating a photoresist layer on a first dielectric layer; proceeding a photolithography process to the photoresist layer to define a specific position for a first metal layer; removing the photoresist layer at the specific position; and forming the first metal layer at the specific position, wherein a base area of the first metal layer is larger than a top area thereof, and wherein the embedded base and the main body are formed in a same process and are monolithic formed. Said manufacturing method can be employed to manufacture a pad or a metal line of the flexible multi-layer substrate, and the manufactured metal structure cannot easily be delaminated or separated from the contacted dielectric layer.
US09398694B2
The present invention relates to the field of integrating electronic systems that operate at mm-wave and THz frequencies. A monolithic multichip package, a carrier structure for such a package as well as manufacturing methods for manufacturing such a package and such a carrier structure are proposed to obtain a package that fully shields different functions of the mm-wave/THz system. The package is poured into place by polymerizing photo sensitive monomers. It gradually grows around and above the MMICs (Monolithically Microwave Integrated Circuit) making connection to the MMICs but recessing the high frequency areas of the chip. The proposed approach leads to functional blocks that are electromagnetically completely shielded. These units can be combined and cascaded according to system needs.
US09398691B2
A printed circuit board includes: a substrate; a land that is disposed on a surface of the substrate, and includes a central portion and a plurality of extended portions, the central portion having the same shape and the same size as a land of a surface mount device, and the extended portions being up-and-down symmetry and right-and-left symmetry with respect to a straight line which passes through the center of the central portion; gaps that are disposed on the surface of the substrate, each of the gaps being disposed on a periphery of the central portion and between the extended portions; and a resist that is disposed on the surface of the substrate, and has an opening portion formed at a position corresponding to the central portion and the gaps.
US09398686B2
A tape package includes a base substrate including a signal transmitting area and a protruding area protruded from the signal transmitting area, an integrated circuit chip mounted on the base substrate, and a lead line disposed on the base substrate and including a first portion electrically connected with the integrated circuit chip, a second portion electrically connected with the first portion and extending in a first direction, and a third portion electrically connected with the second portion and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction.
US09398684B2
A substrate unit includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an adhesive layer in which conductive particles and an adhesive agent are mixed, and an inspection pattern. In the inspection pattern, one of a first inspection electrode and a second inspection electrode includes a plurality of bar electrodes arranged to extend in a first direction and a connection electrode that connects the bar electrode to the other adjacent bar electrode. The first inspection electrode is conducted with the second inspection electrode at a first portion that includes at least one of the bar electrodes, the first inspection electrode is conducted with the second inspection electrode at a second portion that is different from the first portion and includes at least one of the bar electrodes, and the first portion and the second portion are arranged at positions not overlapped with each other along the first direction.
US09398682B2
There is described an electronic assembly comprising a structure and a printed circuit board (PCB) connected to the structure to form a duct. The PCB has a first side arranged to receive one or more heat-generating components, and a second side. The PCB comprises one or more apertures formed therein. The electronic assembly further comprises airflow generating means arranged to generate an airflow along the duct and along the second side of the PCB such that air is forced through the one or more apertures. By forming a duct beneath a PCB and allowing air to be forced through apertures formed in the PCB, more efficient cooling of components on the PCB may be achieved. For example, the position of the apertures may be tailored such that specific components, or specific parts of components, may be exposed to airflow through the apertures.
US09398673B2
An ESD protection device is provided which experiences only small increases in discharge start voltage and discharge protection voltage and relatively free of scorching or peeling at the ends of the discharge electrodes thereof even if a discharge repeatedly occurs. The ESD protection device has an insulating substrate with a cavity, and in the cavity first and second discharge electrodes are so disposed that the ends thereof face each other with a gap therebetween. A first outer electrode is on the outer surface of the insulating substrate and electrically connected to the first discharge electrode, and a second outer electrode is on the outer surface of the insulating substrate and electrically connected to the second discharge electrode. The ends of the first and second discharge electrodes are thicker than any other portion of the first and second discharge electrodes.
US09398672B2
A lighting device includes: a DC converter including at least an inductor, a switching unit and a diode and being configured to output an energy accumulated in the inductor to a load via the diode by using an input from a DC power source when the switching unit is turned off; a load voltage detection unit connected to the load to detect a load voltage of the load; and an abnormality determining unit configured to determine an abnormality when the load voltage is equal to or less than a preset threshold voltage. The device further includes an output control unit configured to drive the switching unit so that oscillation of the switching unit is stopped or the output of the DC converter is decreased when the abnormality is determined.
US09398671B2
A control device including a first switch, a control unit and a second switch is provided. When the first switch is turned on, a power signal generated by a power supply is transmitted to a lighting load via the first switch. The brightness of the lighting load is gradually increased or reduced as time increases. When the first switch is turned on, the control unit executes a countdown according to a time value. Upon finishing the countdown, the control unit generates a trigger signal and simultaneously the brightness of the lighting load is at a set value. When receiving the trigger signal, the second switch stops transmitting the power signal from the first switch to the lighting load at first and then transmits the power signal from the first switch to the lighting load such that the brightness of the lighting load keeps at the set value.
US09398670B2
A remotely controlled holiday lighting and sound system provides a remotely controlled and decorated control module that integrates into a holiday symbol, such as a Christmas tree, to control a holiday themed lighting pattern and audio recording for a plurality of light strings and a speaker. The system provides a plurality of light strings having spaced apart lights connected together in series around the holiday symbol. The system further includes a speaker that integrates into the holiday symbol and emits a holiday themed audio recording that is consistent with the theme of the holiday symbol. A control module is associated with the light strings and the speaker for selective control of each. The control module is covered with a holiday themed ornamental member. A receiver in the control module uses Wi-Fi or Bluetooth protocol to receive command signals from a transmitter in a mobile communication device.
US09398668B2
This invention discloses an alternative communication and control path that can by-pass a primary communication and control line in the control luminaires of an illumination network luminaires. By creating the alternative back-up path, it is possible to still communicate and control network elements in cases when the primary communication and control path is unavailable or when direct control of individual or a plurality of luminaries is desired. In one aspect of the invention, this alternative path may provide for a direct interface for demand response utility programs for specialized control of the luminaires of the illumination network.
US09398664B2
An optoelectronic device includes a first semiconductor light source having a first light-emitting diode; a second semiconductor light source having a second light-emitting diode; and a resistance element having a temperature-dependent electrical resistance, wherein a first wavelength and/or a first intensity of light emitted by the first semiconductor light source have/has a first temperature dependence, and the second wavelength range and/or the second intensity of the fight emitted by the second semiconductor light source have/has a second temperature dependence different from the first temperature dependence, the resistance element and the first semiconductor light source form a series circuit, and the series circuit and the second semiconductor light source form a parallel circuit.
US09398658B2
A lighting module may include at least one light source, and an identification element that identifies the supply current required by the light source, wherein the identification element includes a first terminal and a second terminal for connection to an electronic converter.In particular, the identification element includes at least one shunt regulator configured for limiting the voltage across the first terminal and the second terminal to a maximum threshold voltage, wherein the maximum threshold voltage identifies the supply current required by the light source.
US09398655B2
A circuit for actuating semiconductor light-emitting elements, wherein the circuit is supplied by a rectified mains voltage, may include at least two series-connected segments, which each have one or more series-connected semiconductor light-emitting elements, wherein the semiconductor light-emitting elements in at least two of the segments are different, which results in different forward voltages of the segments, and in each case one driver for actuating a segment, wherein the driver has at least one electronic switch, by means of which the segment may be bypassed, wherein the circuit arrangement is designed to decide to bypass the segment assigned to the circuit arrangement, on the basis of an instantaneous value of the rectified mains voltage and on the basis of the bypass state of the adjacent segments.
US09398652B2
A control method for light color includes: turning on an external switch of a lighting device to send a color control signal to a light emitting unit that further emits a white light; turning off the external switch for a first interval and again turning it on; determining the first interval is shorter than a first predetermined period and sending multiple first color control signals to the light emitting unit to cause the light emitting unit to emit multiple different light colors Cn; when the light emitting unit emits a light color Ci, turning off the external switch for a second interval and again turning it on; determining the second interval is shorter than a second period, and sending a second color control signal to the light emitting unit to cause the light emitting unit to emit a color light corresponding to the light color Ci.
US09398651B2
A controller connected to a line voltage, includes an auto-transformer that provides a nominal line voltage at a first end terminal and a signaling voltage at a transformer tap. A first switch has a first switch terminal connected to the first end terminal of the auto-transformer, and a second switch terminal connected to an output node of the controller. A second switch has a first switch terminal connected to the transformer tap of the auto-transformer, and a second switch terminal connected to the output node. A switch controller is configured to output first and second switch signals responsive to a control signal, to control the first and second switches to insert signaling transitions onto the line voltage by selectively connecting the nominal line voltage at the first end terminal and the signaling voltage at the transformer tap to the output node.
US09398646B2
In order to provide a microwave heating device and a microwave heating control method which are capable of uniformly heating a to-be-heated object in a desired state, by employing plural feeding portions provided in a heating chamber on the basis of information about reflected electric power from the respective feeding portions; a control portion controls to supply microwave electric power from plural feeding portions to a heating chamber by operating a microwave generating portion at a heating frequency for heating a to-be-heated object, estimates a heating state for the to-be-heated object on the basis of per-unit-time increase/decrease change states of detected levels of detection signals detected by electric-power detection portions, and controls the heating frequency and the microwave electric power supplied from the feeding portions to the heating chamber.
US09398643B2
Provided is an induction heating method implemented in a device for heating a metal part, the device including magnetically coupled inductors. Oscillating circuits of the device have at least approximately the same resonance frequency, each inverter is controlled by a control unit to vary amplitude and phase of current passing through the corresponding inductor, the device also including a means for determining said current and an actual temperature profile of said part. The method includes: a) comparing said actual temperature profile with a reference temperature profile and calculating a reference power density profile; b) calculating target currents which the inverters must produce in order for the currents of the inductors to reach suitable target values; c) determining the currents passing through the inductors to compare said currents with said target values and determine correction current deviations, and sending correction instructions to said control units in accordance with said current deviations.
US09398638B2
A communication terminal is described including a transceiver, a plurality of subscriber identity modules, wherein the transceiver is configured to receive a signal for each of the subscriber identity modules, a determiner configured to determine, for each subscriber identity module, a rating of the received signal and a controller configured to select a subscriber identity module from the plurality of subscriber identity modules for a communication service based on the ratings and configured to control the transceiver to use the communication service by means of the selected subscriber identity module.
US09398630B2
At least one example embodiment discloses a method of controlling direct user equipment communications. The method includes receiving reports from a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, respectively, the first and second UEs communicating with a serving base station, determining at least one control channel and at least one data channel for a direct communication between the first UE and the second UE, allocating at least one resource block for the direct communication link between the first UE and the second UE based on the determining and transmitting a configuration message to the first UE and the second UE, the configuration message indicating the allocated resource block and permitting at least one of the first UE and the second UE to determine parameters of the direct communication link.
US09398623B2
A wireless access point superimposes establishment information used for establishing a wireless communication channel between a communication terminal and the own device on a sound signal, and emits a sound wave corresponding to the sound signal to a speaker. The communication terminal acquires the sound signal representing the sound wave detected by a microphone, and extracts the establishment information from the acquired sound signal. The communication terminal transmits the extracted establishment information to the wireless access point to establish the wireless communication channel between the communication terminal and the wireless access point, and conducts a communication through the established wireless communication channel.
US09398618B2
Collisions in wireless networks may be avoided by limiting competing transmissions at the same time or within a temporally proximate time range. A relay schedule may be transmitted with each frame in a transmission chain, the relay schedule containing transmission time information such that each participating node in the transmission chain has designated transmission times. The transmission times may be different such that transmissions are spaced out in an effective manner. A non-participant node may receive the transmission with the relay schedule and may delay transmissions during conflicting times based on the relay schedule.
US09398613B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for operating a Mobile Station (MS). A service flow is established with a Base Station (BS). Data is transmitted through the service flow to the BS at an access admission time. A first group control signal indicating a data communication interruption for the service flow is received from the BS at an access restriction time. Transmission of the data to the BS is ceased together with the ceasing of a data transmission from another MS of a group according to the first group control signal.
US09398607B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for scheduling in a wireless communication system. In the method, if frame configuration information is transmitted, the frame configuration information sets each sub-frame within a frame to either a default sub-frame or a variable sub-frame and transmits scheduling information which schedules the configured variable sub-frame; and if a signal based on the scheduling information from the configured variable sub-frame is transceived, the default sub-frame becomes a sub-frame for which the transmission direction is fixed, and the configured sub-frame is used as an uplink sub-frame or a downlink sub-frame according to the scheduling information.
US09398603B1
A method for transmitting one or more first wireless local area network (WLAN) packets and one or more first Bluetooth (BT) packets. The method includes: prior to transmission of the one or more first wireless local area network (WLAN) packets, predicting a first time at which the transmission of the one or more first wireless local area network (WLAN) packets is going to end, and predicting a second time at which reception of one or more second Bluetooth (BT) packets is going to start; and simultaneously transmitting the one or more first wireless local area network (WLAN) packets and the one or more first Bluetooth (BT) packets in response to the first time being predicted to occur prior to the second time.
US09398598B2
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for transmitting packets (including but not limited to MU-MIMO packets). An access point communicating wirelessly with a plurality of devices can determine that a first packet for a first device of the plurality of devices has a first transmission duration. The access point can determine that a second packet for a second device of the plurality of devices has a second transmission duration shorter than the first transmission duration. The access point can adjust, based on the determination, a transmission power or a modulation and coding scheme to transmit the second packet during a third transmission duration. The third transmission duration can be greater than the second transmission duration.
US09398595B2
A method in at least one radio network node for handling earner selection comprises measuring at least one of interference or load levels on at least two uplink carriers, said measurement being performed in at least one sector of each carrier, calculating an offset based on said measured Interference or said measured load levels on the at least two uplink carriers, said offset reflecting the interference or load difference between the uplink carriers, and signaling said offset to a communication device, thereby allowing said communication device to base its carrier selection for random access at least on said measured interference or load levels on said at least two uplink carriers.
US09398588B2
A method to control a lighting network having a plurality of light units, the method may be controlled by a lighting operator which may obtain information related to service availability for each of the light units; map the information related to service availability for each of the light units to form a service availability information map comprising attribute information of each of the light units; determine one or more of service policies, service schedules, and operational parameters for each of the plurality of light units for a service time period; and/or provide cellular communication service to one or more cellular stations in a service area of the light units in accordance with one or more of the determined service policies, service schedules, and operational parameters for the service time period.
US09398586B2
An example method for facilitating almost blank sub-frame (ABS) based orthogonal resource allocation in a wireless network environment is provided and includes receiving at a serving Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access Network (E-UTRAN) nodeB (eNB), ABS patterns from a plurality of neighboring eNBs in a orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing based network, each neighboring eNB transmitting a separate ABS pattern, setting a maximum duty cycle of physical downlink control channel in a frame to be transmitted by the serving eNB within its serving cell, and computing an optimal ABS pattern at the serving eNB subject to the maximum duty cycle and based on the ABS patterns received from the plurality of neighboring eNBs. In specific embodiments, computing the optimal ABS pattern includes identifying neighboring eNBs transmitting at each sub-frame of the frame, identifying sub-frames transmitted by a least number of neighboring eNBs, and selecting each identified sub-frame for configuring as an ABS.
US09398584B2
The disclosure provides a method of configuring sounding reference signal (SRS) for coordinated multi-point (CoMP) transmission. The method may include: determining for a CoMP UE in the cell set B a first SRS resource orthogonal with SRS resources configured for other UEs in the cell set A by exchanging information among cells within the cell set B; transmitting to the CoMP UE SRS configuration information describing the first SRS resource. The disclosure also provides apparatuses for configuring SRS of CoMP transmission.
US09398579B2
Systems, methods, and devices for transmitting data are described herein. In some aspects, a method comprises generating a first packet. The first packet may comprise a physical layer and a media access control (MAC) layer. The MAC layer may allocate a first station to a primary frequency channel and a second station to a secondary frequency channel. The method further comprises transmitting the first packet to the first station and the second station. The method further comprises transmitting a second packet to the first station using the primary frequency channel. The method further comprises transmitting a third packet to the second station using the secondary frequency channel.
US09398575B2
A communication terminal comprising a determiner configured to determine whether a communication service used by the communication terminal via a communication channel is of a predetermined class and to determine a channel quality of the communication channel to be indicated to a communication network based on whether the communication service is of the predetermined class and a transmitter configured to indicate the channel quality to the communication network.
US09398572B2
Technology for communicating enhanced physical downlink control channels (ePDCCHs) configured for inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) for a plurality of cells in a physical resource block (PRB) is disclosed. One method can include a node mapping a serving cell control channel element (CCE) in an serving cell ePDCCH in a PRB and a coordination cell CCE in a coordination cell ePDCCH in the PRB. The node can transmit the map of the serving cell CCE and the coordination cell CCE to a wireless device.
US09398571B2
A wireless device is described that may selectively include resource allocation information in a frame to be transmitted to one or more other wireless devices. The resource allocation may indicate channel/sub-channel assignment for each wireless device. The wireless devices may each utilize this received resource allocation information to determine the appropriate segment/sub-band of the transmission that is intended for their receipt/consumption. A first signaling field (e.g., HE-SIG-A) may indicate whether the resource allocation information is present in a second signaling field (e.g., HE-SIG-B) of the frame. For example, a single bit may be toggled to indicate the presence of the second signaling field and therefore the presence of the resource allocation information. Alternatively, multiple bits may be used to indicate the length of the second signaling field (e.g., a length of zero indicates the absence of the second signaling field and accordingly the absence of the resource allocation information).
US09398567B2
A communication method is performed by a Mobile Station (MS) in a mobile communication system including a plurality of Base Stations (BSs). The method includes receiving at least one reference signal through at least one receive beam in a direction of nearby BSs, determining at least one candidate BS for joint transmission/reception among the nearby BSs based on the received at least one reference signal, and transmitting information about the determined at least one candidate BS to a serving BS.
US09398563B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for broadcast signal transmission using a number of nodes in an unlicensed spectrum. A set of nodes may be identified for use in transmission of a broadcast signal, with a first subset of the nodes transmitting the broadcast signal to deliver first content during a first time period, and with a second subset of the nodes transmitting the broadcast signal to deliver second content during a second time period. The first subset of nodes is different than the second subset of nodes. The set of nodes may thus form a single frequency network (SFN) that performs partial SFN operation during the first and second time periods.
US09398555B2
Methods and apparatus are described for transmitting and receiving data by a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) over the control plane. The methods may receive data without the use of an Internet Protocol (IP) address. In an example method, a WTRU may enter an evolved packet system (EPS) mobility management (EMM)-registered control plane only (CPO) state after receiving an attach accepted message for CPO operation, and enter an EMM-deregistered state after receiving a detach message, a tracking area update (TAU) reject message or an attach reject message. In another method, a WTRU may switch between operational modes that use an IP address and a user plane to transmit and receive data, and the CPO mode.
US09398552B2
Techniques for transmitting synchronization signals to assist user equipments (UEs) perform cell searches are described. In one design, a base station for a cell may generate and transmit a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal, which may be used by the UEs for initial cell search at power up. The base station may also generate and transmit one or more beacon signals, which may be used by the UEs for neighbor cell search to detect for neighbor cells. The number of beacon signals to transmit and the set of subcarriers usable for each beacon signal may be determined based on the system bandwidth. Each beacon signal may be mapped to one subcarrier in the set of subcarriers in each beacon symbol period. This one subcarrier may be determined based on a beacon hopping pattern or a beacon code and may be dependent on a cell identifier (ID).
US09398544B2
Power adjustment in the user equipment (UE) includes adjusting the transmission power level for each of multiple transport blocks based on the spectral efficiency associated with the transport block. The UE receives a scheduled transport format parameter for each of multiple transport blocks to be transmitted. Based on those scheduled transport format parameters, the UE determines a transmit power level adjustment for each transport block. The UE will adjust the power according to the determined transmit power level adjustment and transmit each transport block using the adjusted power level.
US09398540B2
A method for optimizing uplink power control settings in a wireless network, the method comprising generating a first gene pool comprising a set of parent genes, wherein each parent gene comprises a set of first generation power control solutions for a set of base stations in the wireless network. The method may further include performing natural selection on the first gene pool to generate a second gene pool comprising selected ones of the set of parent genes, wherein the selected parent genes are chosen by probabilistically selecting some of the parent genes based on fitness values assigned to the parent genes. The method may further include evolving the second gene pool into a descendent gene, wherein the descendent gene comprises a set of local power control solutions for the set of base station in the wireless network.
US09398534B2
A radio communication system comprises a radio transmitter (2), and a radio receiver (12) configured to receive radio transmissions from the transmitter. The transmitter (2) uses a transmitter clock signal to transmit a succession of connection-event data packets (22a′, 22b′, 22c′) according to a predetermined schedule. The receiver (12) enters a sleep state between receiving successive connection-event data packets from the transmitter (2), in which it does not receive and process radio transmissions from the transmitter. It uses a receiver clock signal to determine when a predetermined number of receiver clock cycles has elapsed after receiving one of the connection-event data packets (22b′), and then enters a ready state. The predetermined number of receiver clock cycles is the number of receiver clock cycles (34a) that elapsed between the respective receipts of two of the connection-event data packets (22a′, 22b′) received by the receiver (12) minus a correction factor (38).
US09398530B2
A terminal device provided with an acquisition section for acquiring information on a network, a display section for displaying the information, and a control section for controlling to stop or suppress operation of a hardware section excluding at least the acquisition section. The operation of the hardware section can be stopped or suppressed while information is being acquired from the network, whereby power consumption can be suppressed by the amount of the operation stop or the operation suppression, and the battery life can be extended. Accordingly, an appropriate and suitable transition to a power-saving state can be made in accordance with a usage situation regardless of power-saving transition time, whereby unnecessary power consumption can be suppressed.
US09398519B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to reception of beacon frames. In one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed that includes a radio circuit. The radio circuit is configured to determine an estimated time period during which the radio circuit will receive a next beacon frame from a wireless access point associated with a wireless channel. The estimated time period is determined relative to a clock of the radio circuit. The radio circuit is further configured to begin monitoring the wireless channel for the next beacon frame during the estimated time period.
US09398507B2
The present invention discloses a method and a user equipment for processing frequency information. The method for processing frequency information includes: receiving a measurement control message sent from network device, where the measurement control message contains frequency information for inter-frequency measurement without compressed mode; and clearing stored frequency information for inter-frequency measurement without compressed mode if the type of frequency information for inter-frequency measurement without compressed mode that is contained in the measurement control message is different from the type of the stored frequency information for inter-frequency measurement without compressed mode. The technical solutions disclosed in the present invention avoid a problem of measurement failure when a UE performs measurement without compressed mode on an adjacent frequency.
US09398503B2
Various embodiments include systems, wireless modules, and methods for local IP access packet data network release. Handover data can be received at a target wireless module as part of a user equipment handover operation. The user equipment can include an active packet data network session associated with a source local home network. A determination that the target wireless module is not in the source local home network can be made based on the handover data. The target wireless module can trigger deactivation of the packet data network session in response to the determination that the target wireless module is not in the source local home network.
US09398502B2
The present invention discloses a method for measuring adjacent cells, and the method is used for measuring adjacent cells by using dormant idle sub-frames to receive specified data from a network side in an idle state, and adjacent cells are measured by using an idle window to receive the specified data from the network side in a connection state. The present invention realizes measurement of the TD-SCDMA adjacent cells in a WCDMA mode and measurement of the WCDMA adjacent cells in a TD-SCDMA mode; and further more achieves reselection and switching from WCDMA to TD-SCDMA adjacent cell and from the TD-SCDMA to WCDMA adjacent cell on this basis, meets a real-time requirement effectively, and has high practical value.
US09398498B2
Technology to provide P2P switching between HTTP based delivery of DASH formatted content to an MBMS download is disclosed. In an example, a host UE can include computer circuitry configured to: receive a session initiation protocol (SIP) termination message, from a service control function (SCF) module to terminate an SIP session for delivery of DASH based content to a mobile device; send a SIP acknowledgement message to the SCF to be forwarded to the mobile device; and establish a FLUTE protocol based MBMS download session between the mobile device and a BMSC.UPF module operating on the host mobile device for the MBMS download. Technology is also disclosed for P2P MBMS download via BMSC and file repair via an HTTP server using the switching.
US09398496B2
The present invention relates to a method for a terminal performing a handover in a wireless communication system, comprising a step of receiving from a first transmission point, information required for performing the handover to a second transmission point, wherein the information required for performing the handover includes information related to a system frame of the second transmission point.
US09398495B2
Apparatus for securely transmitting data between a mobile subscriber (1) having at least one transmission apparatus (2) and a stationary receiver (3), wherein the mobile subscriber (1) can change between a plurality of radio cells (Cell 1, Cell 2, Cell 3) and each radio cell (Cell 1, Cell 2, Cell 3) has at least one transmission apparatus (AP1, AP2, AP3), wherein the at least one transmission apparatus (AP1 to AP3) is also connected in a wired manner to at least one network (LAN A, LAN B), wherein the stationary receiver (3) is likewise connected in a wired manner to the at least one network (LAN A, LAN B), and both the wireless transmission between the mobile subscriber (1) and the transmission apparatus (AP1 to AP3) respectively associated with the latter and the wired data transmission between the transmission apparatus (AP1 to AP3) and the at least one associated network (LAN A, LAN B) are carried out redundantly, and the stationary receiver (3) is redundantly connected in a wired manner to the network (LAN A, LAN B).
US09398493B2
A method for operator controlled mobility for user equipment is described. The method includes assigning a set of radio access technologies from a plurality of radio access technologies to a user equipment. The set of radio access technologies is assigned based at least in part on a subscribed level of service corresponding to the user equipment. An indication of the assigned set of radio access technologies is signaled to the user equipment. The user equipment generates a measurement report for a subset of a neighbor cell list. The subset represents radio access technologies in the neighbor cell list that are also in the set of assigned radio access technologies. The measurement report is transmitted to the base station. Apparatus are also described.
US09398492B2
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing a PCRF with an integrated openflow controller. According to one system, a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) is configured to determine policies to apply to network sessions or users. An openflow controller is integrated with the PCRF and configured to provide instructions to telecommunications network elements in an openflow protocol to implement the policies.
US09398487B2
A system and method for management of a network link includes a switching device that includes a control unit and a port coupled to the control unit. The port couples the switching device to a partner switching device using a network link. The control unit is configured to receive a first packet over the network link from the partner switching device and determine whether the first packet includes a first traffic type state separation (TTSS) field. When the first packet includes the first TTSS field, the control unit is configured to determine a first network link state for the network link for a first traffic type and a second network link state for the network link for a second traffic type. Otherwise, the control unit is configured to determine a combined network link state for the network link that applies to both the first and the second traffic types.
US09398474B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for determining operating modes of a communications link for a user equipment (UE) in a communications system based on whether the UE is configured for network coded transmission control protocol (TCP-NC). The operating modes can include physical layer channel error recovery, modulation, channel selection, among others. For example, physical layer channel error recovery can be scaled-back, or disabled, when TCP-NC is available because it is a redundant error recovery scheme. Accordingly, power can be saved, higher spectral efficiency can be achieved, and the user experience can be improved while the TCP-NC protocol recovers any data loss due to channel, errors.
US09398473B2
Systems and methods for providing load based optimizations in communication networks are provided. A network device that provides network management and exchanges control messages with other network devices in the communication network can be modified to masquerade as a radio access transceiver to obtain radio access transceiver load information. The network device can be modified to include a radio-related interface and can communicate messages with the radio access transceivers to setup a radio access transceiver connection for exchange of load information. The radio access transceiver load information can then be used in the core network to provide optimizations for the loaded radio access transceivers. The optimizations can include modifying packet flows to decrease the bandwidth needed and switching one or more packet flows to another radio access transceiver.
US09398468B1
Cellular array implementations with multiple steerable spotlight beams irradiated from a common aperture are disclosed herein. Such an approach can easily be adapted to suit various geographical population densities and distributions. The array is capable of producing multiple 65-degree cellular coverage beams, which may be used for regular coverage or in MIMO (Multiple Input Multiple Output) mode. The array may also produce multiple steerable beams, or “spotlight” beams. These beams may be relatively narrow and may be steered electronically both in azimuth and elevation directions. By steering the beams in this way, the beams are able to provide cellular services at high-demand “hotspot” regions where high capacity service is required. The spotlight beams may also be used to fill voids or deficiencies caused by regular coverage beams.
US09398462B1
A mobile communication device. The device comprises a cellular radio transceiver, a processor, a memory, and a custom application launcher stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the custom application launcher periodically sends a message to an application server, wherein the message informs the application server that the custom application launcher is installed on the mobile communication device and, responsive to initiation of a process of removing the custom application launcher, sends a removal message to the application server, wherein the removal message informs the application server that the custom application launcher is being removed from the mobile communication device.
US09398453B2
An ad hoc service provider for a wireless network, a method for providing service from a mobile node, and a machine-readable medium are disclosed. An ad hoc service provider includes a processing system configured to support first and second wireless access protocols and to alter the ad hoc service provider's ability to provide service for a wireless network in response to a resource related event. A method includes sending a request that a mobile node be allowed to provide service as an ad hoc service provider, detecting a resource related event of the mobile node for a wireless network, and altering the mobile node's ability to provide service for the wireless network. A machine-readable medium includes instructions for detecting a resource related event of a mobile node, and altering the mobile node's ability to provide service as an ad hoc service provider for a wireless network based on the detection.
US09398449B2
A Secure Location Session Manager (SLSM) is an intelligent router for open mobile alliance (OMA) Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) Version 1.0 (and later) messages best implemented when multiple, geo-diverse SUPL servers are deployed in a distributed environment, such as an active-active redundant configuration within a wireless carrier's network. In a standalone option, the SLSM acts as a “middleman” for all SUPL positioning messages between a mobile device and a responsible SUPL server. In an embedded option, the SLSM resides within an existing server. The SLSM manages and stores session information for all pending and ongoing SUPL positioning sessions in internal tables for routing and load balancing purposes. The external interfaces of the SLSM consist of OMA ULP messages.
US09398443B2
A method of providing mode changes to wireless devices is provided. The method may include receiving a request from a wireless device to connect with a network device and sending a signal to the wireless device to enter a location defined mode.
US09398442B2
Techniques for supporting positioning for terminals in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, a message is prepared and transmitted with a message segment including a version of a protocol used to encode the message and a compatibility level associated with inter-operable protocol versions, wherein different compatibility levels indicate non-compatibility between protocol versions. In another aspect, a message is received with a message segment including a version of a protocol used to encode the message and a compatibility level associated with inter-operable protocol versions, wherein different compatibility levels indicate non-compatibility between protocol versions. The compatibility level included in the received message is compared to an internal compatibility level and a response message is prepared and transmitted with a message segment including the internal compatibility level.
US09398430B2
The present invention relates to a user interface method for controlling output of a reception signal sound of a smart device. The method of the present invention includes a step of executing the call-keeper application to select a call-keeper mode (including a mode name and a time for controlling output of the reception sound signal) for blocking output of the reception signal sound through a mode setting user interface. When the time for blocking output of the reception signal sound in a designated mode expires, communication is performed normally without controlling output of the reception signal sound according to classification.
US09398424B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for delivering messages to destination devices are provided. In embodiments, a message is associated with a destination identifier that identifies a destination to deliver the message. The message might be communicated to one or more destination devices via various paths depending on the destination identifier. In one embodiment, a message associated with a device destination identifier is delivered to a destination device via a direct component while a message associated with a geographical or categorical destination identifier is delivered to a destination device via a broadcast component. Upon delivery to a destination device, in instances where the message is associated with a categorical destination identifier, the device might discern whether to present the message based on whether the message is of interest to the device or a user associated therewith. The message can be presented via a short-message-service-based user interface.
US09398420B2
An information delivery system comprises a receiver component that receives information about the movement, velocity, acceleration, and/or locations over time of a user. A computation component using a predictive model generates a probability distribution relating to one or more of when the user will next be stopped, how long the user will be stopped, how long a pattern of motion, such as walking, driving in stop and go traffic, and smooth highway motion will last, based at least in part upon signals about motion over time. The system can further comprise an alerting component that determines when to provide the user with information based at least in part upon the probability distribution over some aspect of motion or cessation of motion, and optionally the content, or tagged or inferred urgency or importance, of a message or communication.
US09398411B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for setting a control zone configuration for members of a communication group. A dispatcher device establishes a geofence associated with a geographic area including one or more members of the communication group, determines the control zone configuration for members of the communication group within the geofence, and sends the control zone configuration to the one or more members of the communication group.
US09398409B2
Systems, device and techniques are disclosed for dynamically retrieving and monitoring geo-fence activity. A meta geo-fence may be identified based on a user device geolocation. The meta geo-fence having a radius that is dynamically generated to include previously defined geo-fences within or touching the meta geo-fence. User device geolocation may be monitored in relation to the defined geo-fences included in the radius of the meta geo-fence. A communication may be sent to the user device when the user device reports that the user device has entered or exited one of the previously defined geo-fences within or touching the radius of the meta geo-fence.
US09398404B2
A system and method for user interaction includes a network, a server connected to the network, an administrator device receiving information from a global positioning system and connected to the network, a user device receiving information from the global positioning system and connected to the network. The administrator, having the administrator device, defines a set of virtual geographic zones and sub-zones in which the user device is tracked, and saves the set of virtual geographic zones and sub-zones to an administrator account on the server. The user downloads a user application, sets-up a user account, and downloads the set of virtual geographic zones and sub-zones. As the user, having the user device, moves through the virtual geographic zones and sub-zones the location of the user device is determined and a set of administrator-defined actions are executed on the user device based on the location of the user device.
US09398402B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for tracking a large number of wireless terminals and for estimating the location of the terminals at each instant. Some embodiments of the present invention use a wide variety of factors to determine the order and frequency with which each wireless terminal is located. These factors include, but are not limited to, the history of the location of the wireless terminal, the time of day, and the weather.
US09398401B2
A device, method and system for hybrid-typed local wireless data communication are disclosed. The device for hybrid-typed local wireless data communication includes a communication unit which performs communication with one or more terminals through a plurality of local wireless data communication systems and transmits a hybrid-typed beacon signal to the one or more terminal; and a beacon control unit which includes a hybrid module supporting functions for the plurality of local wireless data communication systems, generates the hybrid-typed beacon signal at a preset period or a request through the hybrid module, and transmits the generated hybrid-typed beacon signal to the one or more terminals.
US09398391B2
A system and method are disclosed for effective and simple stereo widening over arbitrarily-configured speakers and its real-time implementation. According to one embodiment, the system includes five processing units: (1) elevation processing unit; (2) side signal or difference signal processing unit; (3) center signal processing unit; (4) binaural signal processing unit; and (5) stereo limiter (to prevent the clipping) unit. Any of the five processing units may be included or omitted depending on the application. In general, embodiments of the present invention provide effective and simple stereo widening schemes with good audio quality results, but without having substantial requirements on the speakers' positional configuration. For example, the proposed schemes can apply to both symmetric and non-symmetric stereo loudspeakers.
US09398386B2
The present invention proposes two alternative methods for remote fitting of one or two hearing devices (5, 5′), i.e. where a hearing device fitter (1) located in a first room (R1) provides remote support to a user (6) of the one or two hearing devices (5, 5′) located in a distant second room (R2) in order to adjust the one or two hearing devices (5, 5′) to the individual needs of the user (6). According to a first method a voice rendering signal processing is applied to the fitter's voice, thus achieving that the fitter's voice is perceived by the user (6) as if the user (6) were at a virtual user location (L) in the first room (R1) wearing the one or two hearing devices (5, 5′). The same is achieved according to a second, alternative method, wherein the fitter's voice is picked up by at least one or two microphones of one or two further hearing devices located at the virtual user location (L) at a first position (P1) and/or at a second position (P2).
US09398384B2
Embodiments presented herein are generally directed to a protective sleeve for an external component of a hearing prosthesis. The protective sleeve comprises a base plug configured to be inserted into a main body. The main body and base plug are each primarily formed from a substantially flexible material and each comprises one or more substantially rigid members. When the base plug is inserted into the main body the substantially rigid members operate to deform a portion of substantially flexible material forming part of the main body or base plug to seal the base plug to the main body.
US09398383B2
A battery assembly for powering a hearing device includes: a main part having at least a first surface and a second surface, the main part comprising a first electrode formed as an inductive coil; a first attachment member on at least a primary part of the first surface for attaching the main part to a hearing device housing of the hearing device; a second attachment member for attaching a direct current source to the main part; and an electronic circuit having a first input terminal and a second input terminal connectable to a first output terminal and a second output terminal, respectively, of the direct current source, wherein the electronic circuit is connected to the first electrode, and wherein the electronic circuit is configured for converting direct current from the direct current source to alternating current.
US09398380B2
Feedback whistling and external tonal signals are distinguished during feedback suppression. For that purpose an adaptation increment of an adaptive filter of a hearing apparatus for feedback reduction is controlled. A sound signal is picked up by a microphone and a microphone signal is output, from which an earpiece signal for an earpiece is generated. An adaptive filter reduces a feedback signal in the microphone signal. To this end an autocorrelation value of sampled values of the microphone signal, between which a time difference exists, is obtained, and the adaptation increment of the adaptive filter is controlled based on the autocorrelation value. A frequency of an output signal obtained on the basis of the microphone signal is shifted while creating the earpiece signal and the time difference for obtaining the autocorrelation value is controlled as a function of the shifting of the frequency of the microphone signal.
US09398375B2
In an electrodynamic electroacoustic transducer, a diaphragm assembly including a diaphragm and a voice coil is attached to a unit housing accurately and easily. A peripheral portion of the diaphragm curves upward while forming a downward convex portion toward an end portion side thereof. In an opening edge portion of the unit housing, a support base portion contacting the downward convex portion of the diaphragm is formed and a concave portion which a peripheral end portion of the diaphragm engages with is formed in an inside surface. In the diaphragm, the downward convex portion is supported by the support base portion of the unit housing in the peripheral portion thereof, so that the peripheral end portion engages with the concave portion of the unit housing in a state in which the peripheral end portion has upward elastic force.
US09398374B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an audio processing circuit for use in an audio device may perform non-linear acoustic echo cancellation by predicting a displacement associated with an audio speaker, wherein such prediction takes into account a nonlinear response of the audio speaker with a mathematical model that calculates the predicted displacement of the audio speaker as a function of a current signal associated with the audio speaker using a time-varying difference equation, wherein coefficients of the difference equation are based on a set of physical parameters of the audio speaker. From the predicted displacement, the processing circuit may calculate a predicted acoustic output of the audio speaker, which may be used to generate a reference signal to an acoustic echo canceller.
US09398372B2
The DJ controller 10 has a load operation member 82 that loads audio signals to each channel, a synchronization button 84 that realizes a beat synchronization function, and a channel fader 85 that reproduces the loaded audio signals by the fader start function corresponding to each channel.
US09398364B2
An earpiece with structure for positioning and retaining the earpiece and with structure for sealing against the entrance to the ear canal to provide passive noise attenuation. The positioning and retaining structure engages features of the lateral surface of the ear. The structure for sealing against the entrance to the ear canal includes a conical structure.
US09398363B2
[Problem] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a neckband-type earphone that can be worn for a long time without subjecting the wearer to discomfort of wearing a neckband-type earphone, and in which the extent of hazard to the wearer when worn is lowered and locations that break are reduced. [Solution] A neckband-type earphone provided with: earphone parts which are inserted into the pinnae of the wearer and which output an audio signal; ear holder parts which connect to the earphone parts and which abut the upper side of the pinnae of the wearer; holder bodies provided with the ear holder parts; earphone drivers provided with the holder bodies; and a neck band connecting the two earphone drivers; the holder bodies being provided with a cushion part at a portion that comes into contact with the head of the wearer in the vicinity of the pinnae.
US09398358B2
A speaker includes a hollow glass substrate and a plurality of vibration exciters. The glass substrate defines a hermetical receiving cavity. The vibration exciters are received in the receiving cavity, and are attached to the glass substrate to drive the glass substrate to vibrate, thus generating sound waves. The disclosure further relates a display having the speaker.
US09398349B2
A comment information generation device includes: a video input section, to which a video is input; an information input section, to which positional information is input to display a comment to track an object in the video; an initial trajectory acquisition section that acquires an initial trajectory that is a trajectory of the object corresponding to the positional information; a trajectory extending section that acquires an extended trajectory by acquiring a following trajectory that is a trajectory having a starting point after an ending point of the initial trajectory, collecting a first comment assigned in a vicinity of the initial trajectory and a second comment assigned in a vicinity of the following trajectory, and connecting the following trajectory to the initial trajectory on a basis of the first comment and the second comment; and an output section that outputs the extended trajectory as comment information.
US09398346B2
Methods and apparatus for dynamically adjusting capacity allocation; e.g., to a group of services in a multimedia distribution network. In one embodiment, bandwidth allocation is adjusted by predicting bandwidth utilization of the group of services based on historical bandwidth utilization information. Behavioral templates and statistical models may also be employed for the predictions. The invention provides more efficient use of available bandwidth compared to conventional bandwidth allocation schemes where the overall bandwidth for a group of services is set to a constant value that is not changed frequently. The present invention further provides a bandwidth allocation method in a switched distribution network. The bandwidth allocation method allocates bandwidth such that the bandwidth required by the number of services does not exceed the allocation, i.e., the total usage falls within the allocation.
US09398344B2
An image display apparatus, a mobile terminal and a method for operating the same are discussed. The method for operating the image display apparatus includes entering a wireless audio transmission mode, performing synchronization with a mobile terminal using a first wireless communication method, extracting audio data from multimedia data, and transmitting the extracted audio data to the mobile terminal using a second wireless communication method different from the first wireless communication method. By this configuration, it is possible to improve user convenience.
US09398339B2
An image display apparatus for receiving and processing a broadcast signal and a method for operating the same are disclosed. The method includes displaying a home screen including a plurality of card objects, displaying a broadcast image and a favorite channel object representing favorite channels in a broadcast card object representing a broadcast image among the plurality of card objects, and displaying a favorite channel list including favorite channel items on the display, upon selection of the favorite channel object.
US09398337B2
An embodiment provides a method for supporting video transmission and reception in a bitrate selection server of a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving a metadata request of a video from a terminal. The method also includes transmitting the received metadata request to a media server based on the request; receiving a metadata response from the media server. The method also includes storing the received video metadata and transmitting the received video metadata to the terminal. The method also includes requesting subscriber information of the terminal to a Policy and Changing Rules Function (PCRF) and receiving the subscriber information. The method also includes receiving a video segment request of the video from the terminal. The method also includes determining a bitrate of the video based on at least one of the video metadata and the subscriber information.
US09398328B2
Provided are a video display device and a method of controlling the same. The method includes: obtaining an uncompressed audio-visual (AV) content; playing the uncompressed AV content through the display unit; obtaining content information of the uncompressed AV content on the basis of a section of the uncompressed AV content; obtaining an enhanced service on the basis of the content information; and playing the enhanced service through the display unit.
US09398324B2
An operation method of an image display apparatus is discussed, which includes displaying a first dashboard including a live broadcast video and content information based on viewing history of a user on a display unit, displaying a portion of a second dashboard and a third dashboard including the content information based on the viewing history of the user at left and the right sides of the first dashboard or at upper and lower sides of the first dashboard, receiving an input to select the second dashboard or the third dashboard, displaying the entirety of one selected dashboard on an area on which the first dashboard was displayed based on the selection input, displaying a portion of a fourth dashboard on an area on which the selected dashboard was displayed, and displaying a portion of the live broadcast video on an area on which an unselected dashboard was displayed.
US09398319B2
A system, method, and apparatus for playback of multiple video elementary streams is presented herein. A host processor modifies the video elementary streams to allow a transport demultiplexer to distinguish among the plurality of the video elementary streams.
US09398297B2
Techniques related to integral image coding are described herein.
US09398296B2
A method and system for digital closed caption transport are provided. In one example, the method involves receiving closed caption data and a program feed having video content, embedding the closed caption data into a standard video syntax, and encoding the video content into the standard video syntax as a background, wherein the closed caption data and the video content are encoded into a closed caption program feed.
US09398289B2
Apparatuses and methods for converting an overlay area of a two-dimensional (2D) monoscopic image into a three-dimensional (3D) image are provided. A depth map representing a perspective based on an input monoscopic image is generated to provide depth values of the input monoscopic image. At least one overlay area and at least one background image included in the input monoscopic image are then detected, and a depth value of one or more or both of the overlay area and the background image are corrected to a desired value. A stereoscopic image is generated based on the corrected depth value, such that the resulting stereoscopic image prevents inconsistent viewing depths between an overlay area and the background image in order to prevent viewer fatigue.
US09398286B2
A multi-image capture device capturing images by means of circular motion controls the shift movement, along a semi-circular measuring rod, of a moving mechanism by a location control device. Furthermore, a rotary control device is used to control the positioning and image-capturing angle of a second image capture device fixed on the rotary mechanism. Thereby, a first image capture device and the second image capture device are of a co-circle configuration where the optical axis of the first image capture device and the second image capture device overlap to form a center of the co-circle. Such a configuration can broaden the visual range of the image capture device, and allows quick calibration of the image capture device according to positioning of shift movement and image-capturing angles.
US09398284B2
In one example, a video coder, such as a video encoder or a video decoder, is configured to code a value for a layer identifier in a slice header for a current slice in a current layer of multi-layer video data, and, when the value for the layer identifier is not equal to zero, code a first set of syntax elements in accordance with a base video coding standard, and code a second set of one or more syntax elements in accordance with an extension to the base video coding standard. The second set of syntax elements may include a syntax element representative of a position for an identifier of an inter-layer reference picture of a reference layer in a reference picture list, and the video coder may construct the reference picture list such that the identifier of the inter-layer reference picture is located in the determined position.
US09398274B2
A multivision device, which may minimize a screen split zone, and a lens bar attached to the same are disclosed. The multivision device comprises a plurality of display parts; a frame part disposed between two adjacent ones of the plurality of display parts; and a lens bar disposed above the frame part, wherein the lens bar includes a first surface, and a second surface which is located at an opposite side of the first surface and faces the frame part, the first surface includes a first area which is gradually close to the second surface towards a center of the lens bar from a side of the lens bar, and an air gap exists between the lens bar and the frame part.
US09398271B2
A network camera and an image capturing method using rotating prism are described. The network camera includes a lens module including lenses having incident paths different from each other, a prism reflecting light incident through the lens module, a prism driving module rotating the prism, and a controller controlling the prism through the prism driving module. The prism reflects lights incident through the incident paths different from each other by performing a rotation operation according to a control of the prism driving module.
US09398264B2
Described herein are methods and devices that employ a plurality of image sensors to capture a target image of a scene. As described, positioning at least one reflective or refractive surface near the plurality of image sensors enables the sensors to capture together an image of wider field of view and longer focal length than any sensor could capture individually by using the reflective or refractive surface to guide a portion of the image scene to each sensor. The different portions of the scene captured by the sensors may overlap, and may be aligned and cropped to generate the target image.
US09398263B2
A first device communicates with subscriber devices in an access network. A communication is sent from a subscriber device to the first device requesting that the subscriber device be permitted to join a multicast group associated with data for a desired content. After determining that the subscriber device is authorized to receive that content, the first device sends one or more multicast signaling communications to a second device. The multicast signaling communications instruct the second device to join the requested multicast group and provide an identifier associated with that multicast group. After joining the multicast group and receiving content data packets of that group, the second device encapsulates those received packets in frames according to an access network media access control (MAC) protocol and forwards the MAC frames to the subscriber device. The MAC frames include the identifier provided to the second device by the first device.
US09398259B2
In enhancing awareness of video conference participant expertise, a live transcript of a video conference with a plurality of video conference participants is created. The live transcript is analyzed during the video conference using an ontology system. In analyzing the live transcript, one or more topics being discussed during the video conference are identified using the live transcript and the ontology system. The one or more topics are mapped to expertise of one or more video conference participants using participant expertise information. A video of each video conference participant mapped to the one or more topics is displayed with one or more visual indicators assigned to the one or more topics.
US09398258B1
In one embodiment a system and method is described, the system and method including a first camera, which, when activated, captures a first video of a first field of view (FOV) a first display spatially associated with the first camera, the first display for displaying video received from a remote site when the first camera is activated, a second camera, which, when activated, captures a second video of a second FOV, a second display spatially associated with the second camera, the second display for displaying video received from the remote site when the second camera is activated, and a processor which controls the first camera, the second camera, the first display, the second display, and a triggering mechanism, wherein the triggering mechanism activates the first camera to capture video in the first FOV, identifies over time if a mode change occurs and upon identifying the mode change, deactivates the first camera and the first display and activates the second camera and the second display. Related apparatus, systems and methods are also described.
US09398245B2
In order to enable cables to be easily and correctly connected in a display device requiring a plurality of cables to be connected to source device, even if cables having the same appearance are used, the display device (100) is provided with one display panel (10) and a plurality of input terminals, and is able to be connected via a plurality of cables to source device (101), which outputs a video signal for a video to be displayed on the display panel (10). The display device (100) includes an on-screen display (OSD) processing portion. When a plurality of video signals, which show a test image having different colors in split display areas formed by splitting a display area of the display panel (10) so as to have the same number as the number of cables, are received from the source device (101) via the plurality of cables, an OSD image that prompts a user to switch the cables is displayed on the display panel (10) according to the received test image.
US09398236B2
An image capturing apparatus including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and a signal processing unit configured to process signals read out from the pixels. In a first mode, a charge accumulation is controlled by an electronic shutter. In a second mode, the charge accumulation is controlled by a mechanical shutter. The signal processing unit corrects image data obtained from the plurality of pixels based on a signal obtained by the charge accumulation in the second mode.
US09398226B2
A zoom magnification calculation device associates a plurality of delay times with a plurality of zoom magnifications. The zoom magnification calculation device inputs, from the image-capturing device, i) an instruction for capturing the image of the object with one of the plurality of zoom magnifications, ii) a first relative distance from the object to the transportation vehicle at a time, iii) a moving speed of the transportation vehicle. The zoom magnification calculation device calculates, based on the inputting of the instruction using i) one of the plurality of the delay times associated with the one of the plurality of the zoom magnifications, ii) the first relative distance, and iii) the moving speed, a second relative distance in which the transportation vehicle becomes closer to the object than the first relative distance, and calculates an adjusted zoom magnification corresponding to the second relative distance.
US09398220B2
The shake correction unit includes a shake detection unit that detects shake and a first optical correction unit and a second optical correction unit that optically perform shake correction using a shake signal output from the shake detection unit. This allows a sufficient shake-proof range to be secured and allows a stable shake-proof process to be performed under exposure even when a panning operation or large camera shake occurs under recording of a thru-image.
US09398216B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus including a display image generation section configured to generate display image data by performing a display projection process in a case where panorama image data to be a display target is judged to be a full circumference panorama image.
US09398215B2
Systems and methods to generate stereoscopic panoramas obtain images based on captured images. The obtained images may be processed and/or preprocessed, for example to compensate for perspective distortion caused by the non-ideal camera orientation during capturing, to reduce vertical parallax, to align adjacent images, and/or to reduce rotational and/or positional drift between adjacent images. The obtained images may be used for interpolating virtual in-between images on the fly to reduce visible artifacts in the resulting panorama. Obtained and/or interpolated images (or image fragments) may be stitched together to form a stereoscopic panorama.
US09398211B2
Systems and methods of conducting collaborative image capture may provide for transferring sensor data from a plurality of image capture devices to a designated master device, which may in turn determine rough alignment recommendations for the image capture devices. The image capture devices may receive the alignment recommendations and output them to a preview display for manual alignment and/or to an automated adjustment system for automated alignment. Additionally, the image capture devices may transfer preview image data to the master device, wherein fine alignment recommendations may be made based on the preview image data.
US09398209B2
A method of tracking faces in an image stream with a digital image acquisition device includes receiving images from an image stream including faces, calculating corresponding integral images, and applying different subsets of face detection rectangles to the integral images to provide sets of candidate regions. The different subsets include candidate face regions of different sizes and/or locations within the images. The different candidate face regions from different images of the image stream are each tracked.
US09398197B2
An apparatus and method for synchronizing audio-video captures first audio data, and sends the first audio data to a communication device. The first audio data includes first audio timestamps. The apparatus captures first video data, and sends the first video data to the communication device. The apparatus adjusts the first audio timestamps to adjust the first audio timestamps after receiving a DTMF message.
US09398193B2
An image processing apparatus includes an attribute image generation part that analyzes image data of an original image and generates image data of an attribute image for each pixel, the attribute image having a first attribute value, a compression image generation part that generates image data of a first compression image that includes a compression image of the first part image and image data of a second compression image, and a format part that generates, based on the image data of the attribute image, image data that shows the first attribute value for each pixel as selection data being used to select a pixel value of each pixel, and generates data in a multilayer data format that includes the selection data, the image data of the first compression image and the image data of the second compression image.
US09398191B2
An electronic document generation apparatus extracts a processing target area including a row area from a scanned image of an original document and detects the dimensions of the row area, the row area being an area of either a whole or partial range of a row of character string arranged in one direction in the scanned image. The apparatus determines an arrangement-direction character size on the basis of the dimensions of the row area, and sends out image data of the processing target area and an instruction to perform OCR processing on the processing target area to an external apparatus. The apparatus then receives a processing result of the OCR processing from the external apparatus, and arranges a character string of the processing result in the electronic document on the basis of the arrangement-direction character size to generate an electronic document.
US09398188B2
To provide a printing control system capable of efficiently utilizing a printer installed in an event hall or the like. A printing control system includes a printing management unit capable of generating a printing command for causing a printer to print an image received from a multifunctional portable terminal. The printing management unit is configured to exclude, when a creation date and time of the received image is out of a predetermined printable period, the received image from an item to be printed, or to exclude, when the number of received images is out of a predetermined printable number, at least a part of the received images, which exceeds the printable number, from an item to be printed.
US09398166B2
Examples of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for communicating paging area information. A radio access network (RAN) side device can determine a smaller area for group paging by using information of a group paging area provided by a services capability server (SCS) and cell coverage information. Therefore, when users are managed in groups, paging areas determined can be more accurate, and paging efficiency can be increased, waste of resources resulted from performing group paging in a too-large paging area can be avoided. The mechanism can prevent random access of a large number of users who have received the group paging from overloading the RAN and from impacting conventional human-to-human (H2H) users.
US09398160B2
The invention relates to a method for providing Voice over IP (VoIP) in a communication system with a number of terminals operating with VoIP, between which a transmission of voice data according to VoIP or a signalling is achieved, wherein the signalling is achieved using the Computer Supported Telecommunication Application (CSTA) interface standard. Telephone services can be controlled by a computer using the CSTA protocol. As for conventional application, H323 protocol and SIP are used for IP telephony processing of audio/video streams of a conversation. The invention is based on replacing H323 protocol and SIP by a CSTA protocol only when the latter is correspondingly extended.
US09398159B1
Responsive to detecting a call from a first user into a call system, a user identifier associated with the first user to can be added to respective user information stored in an e-meeting data structure associated with the call. A determination can be made as to whether the call system recognizes the user identifier associated with the first user and, responsive to determining the call system does not recognize the user identifier associated with the first user, a determination can be made as to whether the call system recognizes a voice of the first user. If the call system does not recognize the voice of the first user, a location of the first user can be identified by processing the user identifier. The location of the first user can be added to respective user information stored in the e-meeting data structure. An e-meeting can be generated for the call.
US09398155B2
A system related to connecting customers to agents of a business includes an inbound (INB) interactive voice response (IVR) computer, an outbound (OUTB) IVR, and a computer telephony interface (CTI) computer. The INB IVR computer receives an inbound call from a customer and determines that there is a delay in a call queue of a call center. The OUTB IVR places an agent outbound call (on behalf of the customer) to the INB IVR which is then placed into the queue of the call center in response to the customer selecting a call-back option. The CTI computer then monitors the call center, and sends a notification to the OUTB IVR processor in response to the agent outbound call connecting to the available agent. Responsive to the notification, the OUTB IVR computer places a customer outbound call to the customer to connect the customer to the available agent.
US09398153B2
An electronic device using an Internet Protocol (IP) telephony technology and a method and system for forwarding information between the electronic device and a call center system are provided. The method includes sending, by an electronic device, a telephony connection request to a call center system, generating, by a switch device, a response message including connection information of a web ARS server of the call center system in response to the telephony connection request, sending, by the switch device, the response message including the connection information to the electronic device, forming, by the electronic device, a data session with the web ARS server using the received connection information of the web ARS server, and providing the ARS of the display scheme using information received from the web ARS server.
US09398144B2
A mobile device operates in a standard mode of operation, or operates in a visually impaired (VI) mode of operation designed for visually impaired users and in which a display screen of the mobile device is turned off by default. The display screen may thus remain turned off in the VI mode even when conditions under which the display screen is turned on in the standard mode are satisfied. The display screen may further remain turned off in the VI mode even when conditions under which a touch-screen input interface of the mobile device is turned on in either of the standard and VI modes. The mobile device may be configured to automatically transition from the VI mode to the standard mode in response to detecting a gaze directed towards the display screen.
US09398136B2
An improved tethering system is described in which a handheld device can be used by a user to reach the same network that the handheld device also provides access to for a tethering machine. Specifically, as described herein, a handheld device provides a tethering machine with access to a remote network (e.g., the Internet) through a wireless network that the handheld device is communicatively coupled to. Not only is the handheld device able to support multiple data flows between the tethering machine and the remote network, but also, the handheld device is capable of being used by a user to “surf” or otherwise access the same remote network that the handheld device provides the tethering machine with access to. For example, if the remote network is the Internet and the handheld device is a “smart phone”, a user who is holding the smart phone can access the Internet concurrently with one or more applications on the tethering machine that are also access the Internet. Moreover, the smart phone is also capable of concurrently supporting other networked services that the smart phone is designed to provide such as voicemail services, messaging services, and telephony (cell phone) services.
US09398134B2
An electronic device includes a touch screen, a background light, and a proximity sensor. The electronic device sets a default value for an amount of electric power supplied to the proximity sensor and a rule for adjusting the amount of electric power supplied to the proximity sensor. When a calling function of the electronic device is started, the electronic device is enabled to supply the proximity sensor the amount of electric power having the default value, and determines if the proximity sensor detects an object near the touch screen with the amount of electric power having the default value. The electronic device increases or decreases the amount of electric power supplied to the proximity sensor according to the rule.
US09398124B2
A cellular phone charging case assembly includes a housing with a back wall and a perimeter wall. The perimeter wall extends away from the back wall and has a distal edge with respect to the back wall. A lip is attached to and is coextensive with the distal edge. The lip extends inwardly and is positioned over the back wall. The lip releasably retains a cellular phone within the housing between the lip and the back wall. A male plug is mounted within the housing and engages the cellular phone when the cellular phone is positioned within the housing. A plurality of photovoltaic cells is mounted on an outer surface of the back wall. The plurality of photovoltaic cells is in electrical communication with the male plug to supply electricity to the male plug when the plurality of photovoltaic cells generate electricity.
US09398122B2
A method for mapping a sequence in a wireless communication system includes determining one or more resource blocks to which the sequence will be mapped, and mapping a plurality of modulation symbols to a plurality of resource elements included in the resource blocks, wherein the resource elements are positioned in regions other than OFDM symbol regions indicated by a physical control format indicator channel (PCHICH).
US09398118B2
A communication controller apparatus couples a device comprising a device processor to a data bus. The communication controller comprises an input/output controller coupled to the bus to receive a plurality of types of data packets. The types of data packets comprise at least one type of data packets having a high priority determined by timing criticality. The input/output controller is operable to process data packets received via the bus before providing any of the received data packets to the device processor. The communication controller comprises a high priority data path comprising a high priority data packet queue a low priority data path to the device comprising a low priority data packet queue.
US09398114B2
An application management method includes at least the following steps: receiving auxiliary information associated with a plurality of applications installed on a user device; analyzing the auxiliary information based on a plurality of predetermined rules, and generating at least one analysis result for each of the applications; and automatically performing application management upon the applications installed on the user device according to analysis results of the applications.
US09398112B2
Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identify and return content if content corresponding to the URI is available in cache. If the content is not available in cache, the CDN can contact an origin server to obtain a result for the request using non-quantized location information. The origin server examines the non-quantized location information to determine whether to respond to the client request with content. The origin server examines the area corresponding to the quantized location information to determine whether the content should be cached at the CDN.
US09398109B2
Certain example embodiments relate to techniques for managing communication between a plurality of Open Services Gateway initiative (OSGi) environments. A system includes a messaging broker configured to receive a message from one of the OSGi environments, with the message including a call of a service provided by one of the other OSGi environments. The broker may be further configured to transfer the message to the other OSGi environment. The plural OSGi environments communicate only via the messaging broker.
US09398107B1
Methods and apparatus for aggregating and distributing contact information for a user with multiple user identifiers in a plurality of domains. In one embodiment a set of user identifiers corresponding to a first user includes a first user identifier corresponding to a first domain and a second user identifier corresponding to a second domain. A request is made using the first user identifier for contacts associated in the first domain with the first user identifier and a request is made using the second user identifier, for contacts associated in the second domain with the second user identifier. An aggregated contact list corresponding to the first user is generated from a first contact list received from the first domain and from a second contact list received from the second domain. In some embodiments the aggregated contact list and associated user presence information is distributed to the first and second domains.
US09398093B2
A control method of a storage apparatus including a control module and a storage element is provided. In the method, the control module provides a first and a second data transmission interface and a control interface, in which the control module respectively establishes data connections with a first and a second electronic device. Then, the control module transmits a first data between the first electronic device and the storage element via the first data transmission interface. In transmitting the first data between the first electronic device and the storage element via the first data transmission interface by the control module, when receiving a transmission request for a second data in the storage element from the second data transmission interface, the control module provides the second data transmission interface for transmitting the second data after the transmission of the first data has been completed.
US09398077B2
Providing a framework for developing, deploying and managing sophisticated mobile solutions, with a simple Web-like programming model that integrates with existing enterprise components. Mobile applications may consist of a data model definition, user interface templates, a client side controller, which includes scripts that define actions, and, on the server side, a collection of conduits, which describe how to mediate between the data model and the enterprise. In one embodiment, the occasionally-connected application server assumes that data used by mobile applications is persistently stored and managed by external systems. The occasionally-connected data model can be a METAdata description of the mobile application's anticipated usage of this data, and be optimized to enable the efficient traversal and synchronization of this data between occasionally connected devices and external systems.
US09398066B1
Systems, methods, and computer readable media are described for validating objects stored in a web cache. In one embodiment, a computing device caches objects received while accessing networked content over a network. The computing device generates a description of conditions associated with the caching of the objects. When the computing device accesses networked content via a second network, the computing device or a remote server connected thereto utilizes the description to determine whether an object in the cache is trusted or untrusted. The server manages a policy that defines rules for making the determination. The policy can be generated based on descriptions received from a plurality of devices.
US09398058B2
A scalable social network consultation communication system for teleconsultation private practice includes a social network, a social network processing system, video conferencing equipment coupled to the social network to allow a consultation requestor to communicate with a predetermined advisor, a store and forward infrastructure to receive a consultation request from a consultation requestor, wherein the consultation requestor selects and passes a consultation request to a predetermined advisor on the social network, and wherein the advisor resolves and returns the consultation resolution of the consultation request to the consultation requestor.
US09398057B2
System and method for group participation in a digital media presentation are provided that are capable of selecting digital media items for inclusion in the presentation from multiple participant's accounts thereby creating a group presentation in which digital media items of each participant are included in the presentation. Selections of digital media items for inclusion in the presentation can be made directly at the direction of the participations or inferentially according to a selection algorithm. Selections can be made during the presentation thereby allowing a participant to join the presentation after it has started and contribute digital media items to the presentation while it is running.
US09398046B2
An authentication scheme is provided for securely establishing an association with a second device over a wireless communication link. A cryptographic key exchange is performed between a first device and a second device, wherein cryptographic information for the first and second device is obtained. The first and second devices may independently generate a confirmation value based on the cryptographic information. Each device may obtain a confirmation image based on their respective confirmation values. A confirmation image is uniquely associated with a confirmation value so that no two confirmation values can be associated with the same confirmation image. The images for both the first and second devices are provided to an operator for authentication. If the confirmation images are identical, an association between the first and second devices may be confirmed by the operator. Comparing confirmation images may increase the reliability of operator authentication and is more efficient than comparing values.
US09398038B2
Described herein are methods, network devices and machine-readable storage media for detecting whether a message is a phishing attack based on the collective responses from one or more individuals who have received that message. The individuals may flag the message as a possible phishing attack, and/or may provide a numerical ranking indicating the likelihood that the message is a possible phishing attack. As responses from different individuals may have a different degree of reliability, each response from an individual may be weighted with a corresponding trustworthiness level of that individual, in an overall determination as to whether a message is a phishing attack. A trustworthiness level of an individual may indicate a degree to which the response of that individual can be trusted and/or relied upon, and may be determined by how well that individual recognized simulated phishing attacks.
US09398036B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for file acquisition for reputation evaluation. A reputation service may be configured to evaluate files and provide reputations of such files to clients (e.g., an indication as to whether a file is safe or malicious). If the reputation service receives a reputation request for a file that is unknown to the reputation service (e.g., a file not yet fully acquired by the reputation service), then the reputation service may identify a set of chunks into which the file can be partitioned. The reputation service may obtain chunks from various clients, such as a first chunk from a first client and a second chunk from a second client. Such chunks may be evaluated to assign a reputation to the file. In this way, the reputation service may retrieve portions of a file in a distributed manner for reputation evaluation.
US09398032B1
One embodiment relates to a computer-implemented method for detecting malicious scripts in web pages. A local engine and an application are executed at a client computer. The local engine intercepts an access by the application to a web page at a universal resource locator (URL) under a domain. The local engine determines scripts at the URL and scripts at other URLs under the domain. Using that information, the local engine determines if the scripts at the URL include one or more unique script(s). The local engine sends the unique script(s), if any, via a network to a script analyzer. The script analyzer may then perform emulation of the unique script(s) to detect malicious code therein. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
US09398028B1
In an embodiment, a dynamic analysis engine is configured to receive an identifier associated with a source for network traffic including at least one object having at least a prescribed probability of being associated with an exploit. Deployed within a detection cloud, the dynamic analysis engine comprises one or more virtual machines and monitoring logic. The virtual machines are adapted to virtually process the identifier by establishing a communication session with a server hosting a website accessible by the identifier. In communication with the virtual machines, the monitoring logic is adapted to detect anomalous behaviors by the virtual machines during the communication session with the server.
US09398025B2
A method for generating and check-controlling a network identity identification code in a network electronic identity is provided for the establishment of a unified network identity management and service ecosystem that effectively protects the network application security and identity information privacy of citizens. A server performs initialization and generates and distributes random numbers while receiving and auditing a request to generate a network identity identification code from a client. If the client passes the audit, encryption coding is performed and a network identity identification code is generated and sent to a network electronic identification card through the client. The network electronic identification card performs check processing of the network identity identification code, and feeds back a result to the server. The server stores the network identity identification code into a database, and informs the user.
US09398019B2
In a computer system operable at more than one privilege level, confidential code is securely customized to use secret data to establish a code protection domain without disclosing the secret data to a managing operating system. In operation, a security module executes at a higher privilege level than both the managing operating system and the confidential code. After the managing operating system loads the executable of the confidential code, the security module injects the secret data directly into an authorization instruction and a verification instruction included in the confidential code and then sets both the authorization instruction and the verification instruction as executable-only. As the confidential code executes at the assigned privilege level, the authorization instruction and the verification instruction use the secret data to distinguish between unauthorized and authorized execution of the confidential code.
US09398016B1
A native protection storage operating system (PSOS) process receives a request specifying an operation having security related implications for elements in the PSOS having a first set of components handling data transfer operations and a second set of components handling configuration operations. A security component stores an identifier of the requester and a security related information element locally within a storage location of the first or second set of components, and accesses, upon receiving the request, the security related information element and requester identifier to match other elements of the network impacted by the request, and performs a security condition specific check to determine whether or not the request is to be allowed or denied. The native process eliminates a need for caching, locking, and chain propagation of the security related information through the PSOS.
US09398009B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that authenticates a user. The system includes an authentication server that obtains an authentication request containing a user identifier for the user and matches the user identifier to a device identifier for an electronic device of the user. Next, the authentication server provides a notification of the authentication request to the electronic device. Upon receiving approval of the authentication request from the electronic device, the authentication server authenticates the user without requiring an additional authentication factor from the user.
US09397998B2
In embodiments of the present invention, improved capabilities are described for securely sharing computer data content between business entities as managed through an intermediate business entity, where the secure sharing process utilizes encryption provided by the intermediate business entity but where the encryption keys used in the encryption are at least in part managed through one of the business entities as customer managed keys.
US09397989B1
Disclosed are various embodiments that facilitate bootstrapping authentication of a user at a first device using a second device. The second device is authenticated for access to a user account via a first security credential. A second security credential is received by the second device. The second security credential is then sent to the first device. Subsequently, the second security credential is received from the first device, and the first device is authenticated for access to the user account.
US09397988B2
A security component may be associated with a network-enabled application. The security component may access a secure store, which may include customization information, which may include one or more graphical user interface customizations defined by a user, and one or more instances of card information. The card information may specify how to authenticate a user's credentials to access a relying party (e.g., web site). The security component may initiate the display of an embedded region of a window drawn by the network-enabled application. At least a part of the appearance of the embedded region of the window may be defined according to the customization information and not by the relying party. The embedded region may provide a user interface for determining user authentication credentials. The customization information and the one or more instances of card information may not be accessible to the relying party.
US09397987B1
Systems and methods are disclosed which facilitate managing interaction with instances corresponding to hosted services. Customers may implement services on a hosted computing environment. Further, the customer may allow limited interaction with the hosted service to a third party (e.g., in connection with a secondary service). For example, the third party may interact with a temporary copy of the hosted service. Thereafter, the customer may, given the consent of the third party, view details of the third party's interaction with the copy, and may be enabled to merge any alterations with the initial hosted service. In addition, a customer may monitor their own interactions with a hosted service or copies of a hosted service, and view details of the differences between multiple versions of the hosted service.
US09397985B1
A system and method configured for providing a cryptographic platform for exchanging information. One or more information transactions including encrypted information may be generated and/or provided to a distributed ledger. The one or more information transactions may include information intended for one or more parties. Information transactions intended for one or more parties may be identified. An information transaction may include one or more of a transaction identifier associated with one or more parties, an information payload, and/or other information. The information payload may include encrypted information. The encrypted information may be encrypted with one or more public keys associated with one or more parties. One or more information transactions may be retrieved from the distributed ledger. The encrypted information may be decrypted with one or more private keys that correspond to the public keys. Presentation of the encrypted information to one or more parties may be facilitated.
US09397983B2
A novel architecture for a data sharing system (DSS) is disclosed and seeks to ensure the privacy and security of users' personal information. In this type of network, a user's personally identifiable information is stored and transmitted in an encrypted form, with few exceptions. The only key with which that encrypted data can be decrypted, and thus viewed, remains in the sole possession of the user and the user's friends/contacts within the system. This arrangement ensures that a user's personally identifiable information cannot be examined by anyone other than the user or his friends/contacts. This arrangement also makes it more difficult for the web site or service hosting the DSS to exploit its users' personally identifiable information. Such a system facilitates the encryption, storage, exchange and decryption of personal, confidential and/or proprietary data.
US09397981B2
A document management (DM), data leak prevention (DLP) or similar application in a data processing system is instrumented with a document protection service provider interface (SPI). The service provider interface is used to call an external function, such as an encryption utility, that is used to facilitate secure document exchange between a sending entity and a receiving entity. The encryption utility may be configured for local download to and installation in the machine on which the SPI is invoked, but a preferred approach is to use the SPI to invoke an external encryption utility as a “service.” In such case, the external encryption utility is implemented by a service provider. When the calling program invokes the SPI, preferably the user is provided with a display panel. Using that panel, the end user provides a password that is used for encryption key generation, together with an indication of the desired encryption strength. The service provider uses the password to generate the encryption key. In one embodiment, the service provider provides the key to the service provider interface, which then uses the key to encrypt the document and to complete the file transfer operation. In the alternative, the service provider itself performs the document or file encryption. The service provider interface also preferably generates and sends an email or other message to the receiving entity that includes the key or a link to enable the receiving entity to retrieve the key. This approach obviates the sending and receiving entity having to install and manage matched or other special-purpose encryption utilities.
US09397978B1
A router may be configured to receive a request for a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) from a uniquely-identified client device coupled to the router; send the received URL to a first remote site over a computer network; receive, from the first remote site, a value to which the first remote site has associated the URL; determine whether the received value is sufficient to allow the uniquely-identified client device to access the URL; and allow the uniquely-identified client device to access the URL if the received value is determined to be sufficient and disallow access to the URL by the uniquely-identified client device if the received value is determined not to be sufficient.
US09397976B2
A method and system for autonomously tuning a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server are disclosed. The method comprises activating a tuning thread when defined conditions are met; and using this thread to initiate automatically a tuning procedure to tune an LDAP server cache, to tune a database buffer pool for the server, and to perform runtime tuning of parameters of the database. Tuning may be initiated upon reaching a specified time, or when the cache hit ratio of the server falls below a given threshold or on issuing the extended operation. The tuning procedure may include Basic or Advanced Tuning procedures and an Advanced Tuning procedure. The Basic Tuning procedure is comprised of static tuning of the server based on the number and size of entries in the database, and the Advanced Tuning Procedure is a real time procedure based on real client search patterns.
US09397975B2
An information sharing system includes a computer network formed of terminals and a server and allows information about a posted message to be shared among users. The system or a terminal acquires a question message input via the terminal together with positional information associated with the question message and causes the acquired question message to be accessible to the users. The system or terminal acquires an answer message input by a respondent via the terminal as an answer to the question message and causes the acquired answer message to be accessible to the users. The system or terminal acquires positional information of the respondent and restricts the respondent from inputting the answer message to the question message on the basis of question positional information that is the positional information associated with the question message and respondent positional information that is the acquired positional information of the respondent.
US09397967B2
A method, computer program product, and system for validating content included in an electronic communication is disclosed. A computer receives a new communication that includes content from an original communication. The computer determines if the content included in the new communication includes a change to the original communication. In response to determining that the content includes the change to the original communication, the computer generates a validation score of the new communication, such that the validation score is determined by an amount of match between the content of the new communication and the original communication, and the extent to which the change alters a purport of the original communication.
US09397964B2
A method, system, and apparatus for providing a self-destructing e-mail messages are described. An e-mail client application provides a user interface through which the sender of an e-mail message can enter the message and a time period for destruction of the message. Once the sender has provided this information, the e-mail client application sends a request to an e-mail server application to transmit the self-destructing e-mail message. The e-mail client application may also receive self-destructing e-mail messages. When a self-destructing e-mail message is received, the destruction date associated with the e-mail message is identified and the message is destroyed at the specified time. The e-mail client application can also limit the number and type of operations that may be performed on a self-destructing e-mail. An e-mail server application is also provided that receives requests from the e-mail client application to transmit self-destructing e-mail messages and perform other functions.
US09397961B1
A method of remapping allocated memory in a queue based switching element having first and second memory elements each allocated to a first port pair. An unallocated block of memory is identified in the first memory element as a candidate block, and an allocated block of memory is identified in the second memory element as a target block. Block information is copied from the target block to the candidate block, and the candidate block is maintained as unallocated. In response to a determination that read and write pointers are in a suitable position for a remapping operation, the candidate block is allocated and the target block is deallocated so that the second memory element becomes unallocated and available for reallocation to a second port pair.
US09397956B2
A communication system includes a plurality of forwarding nodes that process a received packet in accordance with a processing rule that determines a matching rule matching a packet and a process to be applied to a packet conforming with the matching rule; and a control apparatus that controls the forwarding nodes using control information. The control apparatus includes a tunnel establishing unit that determines forwarding path(s) for the respective control information for each of the forwarding nodes, and transmits to the forwarding nodes a tunnel establishing message including a processing rule for forwarding the control information to be set in the forwarding nodes in each of the forwarding paths. The respective forwarding nodes give and receive control information with regard to the control apparatus, by holding processing rules for forwarding the control information included in the tunnel establishing message.
US09397954B2
A system and method can support virtual machine live migration in a network. A plurality of hosts can be interconnected via the network. Each host contains one or more virtual machines. At least one virtual machine operates to perform a live migration from a first host to a second host. The virtual function, which is attached to a queue pair (QP), can be supported by a host channel adapter (HCA) on a host.
US09397946B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for forwarding traffic to clusters of nodes. A system can group nodes in a network fabric into a cluster of nodes, and generate respective hash buckets in the network fabric for the nodes, each respective hash bucket being generated based on a hash function applied to a subset of packet header fields. Next, the system receives a packet associated with a service provided by a node in the cluster, and assigns the packet to a hash bucket from the respective hash buckets based on a comparison of a hash value associated with the packet and hash values associated with the respective hash buckets. The system then selects a node in the cluster to service the packet, the node being selected based on the hash bucket assigned to the packet, the hash bucket being associated with the node.
US09397941B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a buffer memory, at least one ingress port, at least one egress port, at least one processor, and logic integrated with and/or executable by the at least one processor, the logic being configured to communicate with a software-defined network (SDN) controller, store one or more look-up tables in a first portion of the buffer memory, receive a packet using an ingress port, and determine an egress port for the packet. In another embodiment, a method for switching packets in a SDN includes storing one or more took-up tables in a first portion of a buffer memory of a SDN-capable switching device, receiving a packet using an ingress port of the switching device, and determining an egress port for the packet.
US09397939B2
There are provided a transparent performance enhancing proxy, a method for operating a transparent performance enhancing proxy between a source device and a destination device, and corresponding computer program product. The method includes preserving, without translation, packet header information of a header for a packet received from the source device to be forwarded to the destination device. The method further includes during a transmission control protocol connection setup phase for the packet, preserving transmission control protocol connection semantics. The method also includes during a transmission control protocol data transfer phase for the packet, running a transmission control protocol by masquerading as the source device to the destination device and masquerading as the destination device to the source device to transmit the packet to the destination device with the preserved packet header information.
US09397933B2
An approach provides micro-facilities for network recovery. An outage condition is detected, and is associated with one of a plurality of service provider facilities forming a service provider network. A router of the service provider network is determined to be capable of reaching the one service provider facility, wherein the provider router is resident within a customer facility. Bandwidth is allocated to one or more links for re-directing traffic over the provider router to the one service provider facility.
US09397929B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to forwarding multicast packets among disparate Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs). An embodiment receives a multicast packet matching registration criteria of one or more ports and forwards the multicast packet to the one or more ports, wherein the one or more ports are in a different VLAN than a port from which the multicast packet was received.
US09397927B2
Techniques for determining which resource access requests are handled locally at a remote computer, and which resource access requests are routed or “redirected” through a virtual private network. One or more routing or “redirection” rules are downloaded from a redirection rule server to a remote computer. When the node of the virtual private network running on the remote computer receives a resource access request, it compares the identified resource with the rules. Based upon how the identified resource matches one or more rules, the node will determine whether the resource access request is redirected through the virtual private network or handled locally (e.g., retrieved locally from another network). A single set of redirection rules can be distributed to and employed by a variety of different virtual private network communication techniques.
US09397925B2
A method and an apparatus for advertising border connection information of autonomous system are disclosed. Moreover, the method includes: establishing and maintaining, by a border node of the autonomous system, the border connection information of the autonomous system; flooding the border connection information within the autonomous system; and receiving, by nodes of the autonomous system, the border connection information. The method and the apparatus for advertising border connection information of autonomous system of embodiments of the present invention may adapt to dynamic change of network topology, and dynamically advertise the border connection information of the autonomous system within the system in time, so as to optimize networks and improve quality of service of the networks.
US09397922B1
An automated network testing platform may comprise a network testing server. The network testing server may receive a first input that characterizes a customer network for which a network test is to be performed. Further, the network testing server may receive a second input representative of the type of network test to be performed. Responsive to receiving the first and the second input the network testing server may identify a test point that is available to execute the network test. Upon identifying the available test point, the network testing server may reconfigure the available test point into the customer network. Further, the network testing server may instruct the reconfigured test point to execute the network test. Once the network test is completed, the network testing server may receive the test results from the reconfigured test point, analyze and interpret the test results, and present the test results to a user.
US09397921B2
A method for generating instructions for a monitoring facility. The method includes obtaining a signal from a data server, where the data server is monitored by the monitoring facility using a task, identifying a signal characteristic of the signal, and determining a first category for the signal based on the signal characteristic. The method further includes identifying a first signal processing tool for the signal based on the task and the first category and instructing the monitoring facility to perform the task by applying the first signal processing tool to the signal.
US09397915B2
Examples of methods, systems, and computer program products relating to supervising data in a wireless network are disclosed. At least part of a system may be located between a packet data network and a base station, and/or may be at least logically separate from the base station. The system may be capable of evaluating the service provided by the base station, and may be capable of determining whether or not any action should consequently be performed. Examples of an action may include an action which may not necessarily affect en-route data packets such as outputting a report, and/or an action which may affect en-route data packets such as delaying packets, not delaying packets, and/or stopping the delaying of packets. An action which affects data packets may or may not affect data packets uniformly. An action may or may not result in an improvement in quality of user experience.
US09397914B2
A network equipment communicates with customer premises equipment (CPE) through a primary path and a secondary path. The network equipment provides heartbeat packets for the CPE to obtain response times corresponding to the primary and secondary paths; then calculates time differences and capacity of the primary path or the secondary path; and at last switches a path to another path according to the time differences and the capacity of the primary path or the secondary path.
US09397905B1
A multi-tenant service container receives a container health check request and responsively identifies a list of expected tenants. The list of expected tenants may include all of the tenants hosted by the multi-tenant service container, all of the tenants hosted by the multi-tenant service container that are associated with a particular process or a list of tenants defined by the container health check request. The multi-tenant service container issues a tenant health status request to the tenants in the expected tenant list and responsively receives a tenant health status from the tenants. The received tenant health status is either a tenant healthy status or a tenant unhealthy status. The multi-tenant service container issues a container health status based on the tenant health statuses received from the tenants on the expected tenant list.
US09397901B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for classifying application traffic at a network traffic emulation device that emulates multiple application servers are disclosed. The method may include, at a network traffic emulation device, providing a plurality of different application flows for monitoring mixed application traffic received from different client applications via a device under test on the same transport layer port. For each of the different application flows that monitor the same transport layer port, parsing a payload of received packets associated with the same session in the mixed application traffic and identifying non-matching application flows based on whether a portion of each payload matches a signature associated with the application flow. The method further includes eliminating, as identification candidates, non-matching application flows from the application flows that monitor packets received on the same transport layer port until an application flow that identifies an application for the received packets associated with the same session remains.
US09397893B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for quality of experience for media transmissions. In an implementation, a method may include determining a first quality of experience metric associated with a media stream at a first network node. The first quality of experience metric may be transmitted with the media stream. The method may also include determining a second quality of experience metric associated with the media stream at a second network node. An updated quality of experience metric may be transmitted with the media stream. The updated quality of experience metric may be based upon, at least in part, the first quality of experience metric and the second quality of experience metric.
US09397890B2
A system and method are provided for maintaining a historical record of anonymized user profile data for mobile device users and serving historical requests. In one embodiment, a central system, which includes one or more servers, operates to obtain current locations and user profiles for users of mobile devices. The central system processes the current locations and the user profiles of the users over time to maintain a historical record of anonymized user profile data by location. By anonymizing the user data, privacy of the users of the mobile devices is maintained. The central system may then use the historical record of anonymized user profile data to respond to historical requests. The historical requests may be made by users of the mobile devices, subscribers, and/or third-party services.
US09397881B1
A failover system includes a plurality of configuration controllers and a plurality of switches. The switches include a site proxy, a failover module and a routing table. A first site proxy of a first switch is designated as the active proxy and controls failover in the event a switch fails or otherwise becomes unavailable. A second site proxy of a second switch is designated as the backup proxy and controls failover in the event the first switch fails or otherwise becomes unavailable. In the event a switch fails or otherwise becomes available, the active proxy interacts with the configuration controller and reassigns the extensions associated with the failed switch to a different switch of the plurality of switches. If a configuration controller fails or otherwise becomes unavailable, another configuration controller becomes active and establishes communication with the plurality of switches to maintain the operational status of the IP telephony system.
US09397878B2
In an embodiment, a client device running a particular OS or OS-version is provisioned with a rich communications suite (RCS) interface. The RCS interface mediates interactions between RCS client applications and RCS resources. The RCS interface interacts with the plurality of RCS client applications in a platform-independent manner using an RCS protocol, and the RCS interacts with the RCS resource in an OS-specific manner using an OS-specific RCS access protocol. The RCS interface translates application-originated RCS signaling that complies with the RCS protocol into the OS-specific RCS access protocol for delivery to the RCS resources, and the RCS interface likewise translates application-terminated signaling that complies with the OS-specific RCS access protocol into the RCS access protocol for delivery to one of the RCS client applications.
US09397869B2
Methods and apparatus for beamforming for femtocells, such as in LTE wireless networks, to provide inter-cell coordination and interference mitigation are disclosed. A macrocell user equipment (UE) may determine information regarding an interfering femtocell node, such as a home eNodeB (HeNB). The information may be sent directly or indirectly, such as by a backhaul communication link, to the HeNB. The HeNB may adjust an output based on the information. The information may include spatial channel information, which may be used for beamforming at the HeNB output so as to mitigate interference in the direction of the UE.
US09397868B1
This disclosure provides a split-path equalizer and a clock recovery circuit. More particularly, clock recovery operation is enhanced, particularly at high-signaling rates, by separately equalizing each of a data path and an edge path. In specific embodiments, the data path is equalized in a manner that maximizes signal-to-noise ratio and the edge path is equalized in a manner that emphasizes symmetric edge response for a single unit interval and zero edge response for other unit intervals (e.g., irrespective of peak voltage margin). Such equalization tightens edge grouping and thus enhances clock recovery, while at the same time optimizing data-path sampling. Techniques are also disclosed for addressing split-path equalization-induced skew.
US09397865B2
One embodiment of the present invention is a method in which a terminal receives a signal in a wireless communication system, comprising: a step of receiving a subframe; and a step of performing a channel estimation using either a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) or a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) depending on the information relating to a time-frequency resource to which the subframe pertains.
US09397862B2
A method and an apparatus for completing a circuit switched service call in an Internet Protocol network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a session request from a calling party to a called party, wherein the session request includes a service tag. The method determines a value of the service tag in the session request, and queries an tElephone NUmbering Mapping (ENUM) server for one or more Naming Authority Pointer (NAPTR) resource records associated with the called party. The method selects one of the one or more NAPTR resource records in accordance with the service tag, if the one or more NAPTR resource records associated with the called party are returned, and processes the session request using the one of the one or more NAPTR resource records that is selected.
US09397859B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for sideband control of a secured e-mail message. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for sideband control of a secured e-mail message is provided. The method includes receiving a secured form of a message from a sender in an e-mail client executing in memory by at least one processor of a computer. The method also includes rendering the secured form of the message comprehensible only subsequent to the establishment of a sideband channel of communication with the sender.
US09397854B2
A network access method, an interface device, and a mobile network access device are provided. The interface device may specifically include: a first network port, a first processor, and a first universal serial bus (USB) interface, where the first USB interface is connected to the mobile network access device; the first network port is connected to a wired wide area network; and the first processor includes a detection unit and an instruction unit, where the detection unit is configured to detect whether the wired wide area network is available and the instruction unit is configured to send, when the detection unit detects that the wired wide area network is available, first network access instruction information to the mobile network access device by using the first USB interface.
US09397851B2
Techniques for transmitting a packet from a source switch module to a destination switch module. Embodiments receive, at a first port of a first switch module, a packet that includes (i) path information specifying a route to the destination switch module, (ii) a set of load/store operations to be executed by the destination switch module and (iii) return path information specifying a route from the destination switch module to the source switch module. Upon determining that the first switch module is the destination switch module, the set of load/store operations are copied from the received packet into an execution buffer for automatic execution. Once the set of load/store operations are executed, embodiments transmit the packet to a second switch module using the first port on which the packet was received.
US09397850B2
The conference system (KS) can comprise at least one mobile terminal with a respective signaling apparatus which contains a sensor which detects motion by the signaling apparatus and outputs a corresponding motion signal. In addition, it can contain a motion signal processing apparatus which associates the motion signal from a gesture in nonverbal interhuman communication with a motion signal pattern and, as a result of an association having been made, produces an output signal with a corresponding piece of information about the type of detected gesture in the nonverbal interhuman communication. Furthermore, the conference system can include a transmission apparatus for supplying the output signal to a transmission channel which is respectively connected to a local area network. The network can include other network elements, such as a telephone for a moderator and a screen for conference control connected to it.
US09397838B1
In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include transmitting a certificate signing request to a certificate authority system, the certificate signing request comprising a public key, a unique identifier for a mobile device, and a unique identifier for a user associated with the mobile device, wherein the public key is associated with a credential management account that is maintained by a credential management system; receiving a digital certificate from the certificate authority system, the digital certificate comprising the public key and the unique identifier for the user; transmitting a request for a credential to a credential issuing organization system, the request for a credential comprising the digital certificate; receiving a token for a credential from the credential issuing organization system; transmitting a request to retrieve the credential to the credential management system, the request to retrieve the credential comprising the token and information identifying the credential management account; and receiving data encoding a portion of a badge representing the credential from the credential management system.
US09397833B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to processing streams of encrypted data received from multiple users. As the streams are processed, smaller partitions in the form of data chunks are created and subject to individual decryption. The data chunks are placed into sub-stream based on a master key associated with its owning entity. Prior to processing, the data chunks in each stream are decrypted, and advanced functions, including but not limited to de-duplication and compression, are individually applied to the data chunks, followed by aggregation of processed data chunks into data units and encryption of the individual data units including use of a master key from the data's owning entity. Individual encryption units are created by encrypting the data unit(s) with an encryption key, thereby limiting access to the data unit. Confidentiality of data is maintained, and the ability of storage systems to perform data reduction functions is supported.
US09397829B2
A method for registering first and second electronic keys, which are capable of controlling a communication subject, to a controller of the communication subject, wherein the first electronic key is to be initially registered, and the second electronic key is to be additionally registered, the method including: performing an additional key production process including storing, in the second electronic key, an additional encryption key generation code unique to the second electronic key and an additional encryption key that is used to verify the second electronic key; and performing a key additional registration process including obtaining the additional encryption key generation code from the second electronic key when identification information unique to the communication subject is stored in the second electronic key, generating the additional encryption key with an additional encryption key generation logic, and storing the additional encryption key in the controller.
US09397827B2
A common interface for managing cryptographic keys is provided. A request to manage a cryptographic key may be received in a first interface format, translated to a common interface format, and then executed remotely from the first interface. Return arguments may then be translated from the common interface format to a format compatible with the first interface and communicated securely to the first interface. The cryptographic keys may be used in connection with a secure data parser that secures data by randomly distributing data within a data set into two or more shares.
US09397825B2
A data object is encoded in a redundant code. The redundant code defines a decoding scheme for reconstructing the data object from a sub-set of the encoded data parts. At least the sub-set of the encoded data parts is encrypted using a homomorphic encryption scheme, which allows equivalents of the arithmetic operations of a reconstruction process to be performed on encrypted encoded data parts. The data parts are stored distributed over a plurality of source terminals of a communication network, for use by a target terminal of the communication network. Upon a retrieval command from the target terminal, an upload management module determines which source terminals are available and the upload management module determines causes a selected set of terminals to transmit the encrypted encoded data parts each via its own connection to the network to a decoder server. The decoder server performs homomorphic equivalent operations of arithmetic operations of the reconstruction process and downloads the results to the target terminal. In this way the target terminal does not need to perform the entire reconstruction, without requiring decryption outside the target terminal.
US09397817B2
Embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to mitigate or attenuate collisions of communications between wireless communications devices and access points by defining time slots for stations to communicate with the access point. Some embodiments may define time slots for stations to respond to an indication that the access point is buffering data for the station. Further embodiments may define time slots for stations to communicate with the access point whether there is data buffered for the station or not. And many embodiments may determine stations associated with communications collisions or likely to be associated with communications collisions and defines different time slots for the stations to communicate with the access point.
US09397813B2
In a method of adapting a control channel in a network node in a communication system, providing (S20) a control format indicator for the control channel, and dynamically determining and providing (S10) control channel redefinition information, which control channel redefinition information together with said control format indicator provides a redefined control channel. Subsequently the control channel is adapted (S30) based on said control format indicator and said control channel redefinition information to provide a redefined control channel for signaling to said at least one user equipment, Finally, scheduling (S40) user equipment in a sub frame based on the redefined control channel.
US09397805B2
Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication are disclosed herein. One aspect of the disclosure provides a method of receiving a transmission from two or more wireless communication devices. The method includes receiving a first preamble transmitted by a first wireless device; simultaneously receiving a second preamble transmitted by a second wireless device; receiving a first portion of the transmission in a first section of a bandwidth, the first portion transmitted by the first wireless device including a first data section; and simultaneously receiving a second portion of the transmission in a second section of the bandwidth, the second section of the bandwidth not overlapping with the first section of the bandwidth, the second portion transmitted by the second wireless device, the second portion including a second data section.
US09397802B2
The present disclosure includes systems and techniques relating to wireless devices. A described technique includes generating respective frequency segments of a composite signal which are contiguous in a frequency domain, each of the respective frequency segments being based on a segment bandwidth; applying respective cyclic shift delay (CSD) phase shifts to the respective frequency segments to produce respective output signals; and transmitting the composite signal by transmitting signals that are based on the respective output signals. The respective CSD phase shifts, including first and second CSD phase shifts, are equivalent to third CSD phase shifts that correspond to a contiguous non-composite signal having a single frequency segment. A bandwidth of the single frequency segment is at least twice the segment bandwidth. The respective CSD phase shifts are applied such that a device receiving the composite signal uses the third CSD phase shifts that correspond to the contiguous non-composite signal.
US09397798B2
A UE receives information indicating a specific downlink component carrier (DCC), a first PUCCH (PUCCH1), and a second PUCCH (PUCCH2). The UE transmits HARQ-CI (HARQ control information) in a subframe using i) the PUCCH1 and a PUCCH1 format, the PUCCH1 and the PUCCH1 format being used for the transmission of the HARQ-CI for a PDSCH transmission on a DCC different from the specific DCC, the PDSCH transmission being indicated by a detection of a PDCCH in a UE-specific search space and ii) the PUCCH2 and a PUCCH2 format, the PUCCH2 and the PUCCH2 format being used for the transmission of the HARQ-CI for a PDSCH transmission only on the specific DCC, the PDSCH transmission being indicated by a detection of a PDCCH in a common search space. The PUCCH1 format is used for transmitting HARQ-CI together with a scheduling request using the PUCCH1.
US09397792B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for implementing a link layer retry protocol utilizing implicit ACKnowledgements (ACKs). Peer link interfaces are configured to facilitate confirmed error-free delivery of link-layer packets through use of implicit ACKs, while also providing retransmission of packets for which errors are detected and guaranteeing the link control data is either successfully received or data transfer over the link is prevented. In conjunction with transmitting packets, reliable packets are copied into sequential slots in a replay buffer. Each link interface tracks the slot at which each reliable packet is buffered, and in response to detection of an error, a retry request is sent to the transmit-side to retransmit the errant packet. The previously buffered copy of the errant packet is retrieved from the replay buffer and retransmitted. Through use of a link roundtrip detection mechanism, absence of a retry request by the time a replay buffer has returned to the slot of a reliable packet (plus a predetermined number of additional transfer cycles, if applicable) provides an implicit ACK that the packet was received without error.
US09397788B1
A method for transferring data utilizing direct memory access. The method includes a computer processor establishing a networking connection, using a proxy, between at least a first computing entity and a second computing entity. The method further includes determining a shared memory space for the established networking connection between at least the first computing entity and the second computing entity. The method further includes allocating the shared memory space from heap memory. The method further includes transmitting data over the established networking connection between at least the first computing entity and the second computing entity utilizing a direct memory access protocol and the allocated shared memory space.
US09397785B1
In a method for generating data units for transmission via a wireless network, a first signal field that includes formatting information for a data unit is generated, and a CRC field for the first signal field is generated according to a generator polynomial. Further, a second signal field that includes formatting information for the data unit is generated, and a CRC field for the second signal field is generated according to the generator polynomial. Further, the data unit is generated to include i) the CRC for the second signal field and ii) a preamble having a) the first signal field, b) the CRC for the first signal field, and c) the second signal field.
US09397783B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and computer program products for providing forward error correction with low latency to live streams in networks are provided. One example method includes receiving source data at a first rate, outputting the source data at a rate less than the first rate, collecting the source data in a buffer, FEC decoding the source data, thereby generating decoded data; and outputting the decoded data at a rate equal to the first rate, either after collecting the source data in the buffer for a predetermined time duration or after collecting a predetermined amount of the source data in the buffer.
US09397782B2
Methods and systems are provided for preventing interference from simultaneous data transmissions in a remote control system. A controlled terminal is typically configured to receive control data from a controlling terminal and to transmit feedback data to a monitoring terminal. To prevent interference caused by the simultaneous transmissions of control data and feedback data. The controlling terminal can transmit the control data to the monitoring terminal, which then transmits the control data to the controlled terminal. Such transmission of the control data may be carried out in a way that does not interfere with the transmission of the feedback data.
US09397781B2
According to certain aspects, the present invention improves upon the conventional TCAM scheme by allowing a traditional TCM scheme to be used while in RCM mode. In a RCM mode according to embodiments of the invention, the system uses traditional TCM+SNR margin (i.e. SNRM) with a receiver controlled bit allocation table (BAT) and tone ordering table (TOT). In a TCAM mode according to embodiments of the invention, the system uses uncoded hierarchical modulation similar to the modulation originally proposed for TCAM. According to certain aspects, the transmitter in RCM mode in embodiments of the invention can determine when line conditions require a switch to TCAM mode, and signal the transition to the receiver. Likewise, when in a TCAM mode according to embodiments of the invention, the receiver can request to switch back to RCM via a SRA mechanism, for example.
US09397765B2
A reactive radio interferer includes a plurality of time synchronized transmitting/receiving lines, each of which is designed to alternately carry out-monitoring phases in order to receive the radio spectrum and interference phases in order to transmit an interference signal on the basis of the radio spectrum received in the monitoring phase. Testing of the reactive radio interferer is performed by having one of the transmitting/receiving lines transmit a test signal within a monitoring phase, the test signal being received and evaluated by at least one other transmitting/receiving line.
US09397763B2
A management data region including a plurality of pulse-like signals is included in a series of pulse-like signals output from the master station to the common data signal line, and different from a control/monitoring data region including data of a control data signal and data of a monitoring data signal. Further, when data corresponding to a signal level of an input part is larger than a lower limit threshold value and smaller than an upper limit threshold value, an abnormal state is determined to have occurred, a low sensitivity state of a signal of an input part is detected based on the determination result of the abnormal state, and a signal configuring data indicating the low sensitivity state is superimposed on the management data region.
US09397759B2
A system, in certain embodiments, includes a subsea acoustic frequency interrogation and data system. The subsea acoustic frequency interrogation and data system includes a master acoustic transceiver configured to broadcast an acoustic activation signal and an acoustic frequency interrogated data transmitter configured to generate power from the acoustic activation signal and activate a sensor configured to measure an operating parameter of subsea equipment.
US09397758B2
A communication element includes a high electron mobility transistor including a gate layer. A graphene layer is disposed on the gate layer. A communication system includes a signal source, a plasmonic transmitter, a first plasmonic antenna, a second plasmonic antenna, a plasmonic receiver and a signal detector. The signal source generates a transmitted signal. The plasmonic transmitter generates a first surface plasmonic polariton wave signal corresponding to the transmitted signal. The first plasmonic antenna generates an electromagnetic signal corresponding to the surface plasmon polariton wave signal. The second plasmonic antenna generates a second surface plasmon polariton wave signal corresponding to the electromagnetic signal. The plasmonic receiver generates a received signal corresponding to the second surface plasmon polariton wave signal. The signal detector detects the received signal.
US09397757B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a first semiconductor substrate and a second semiconductor substrate stacked on the package substrate, and an optical transceiver that generates and receives an optical signal travelling between the package substrate and the second semiconductor substrate using an infrared (IR) ray that passes through the first semiconductor substrate.
US09397751B2
A bidirectional data communications cable is disclosed. The cable includes first connector, second connector, and cable housing coupled to the first and second connectors. The first connector includes a controller configured to determine whether the first connector is connected to a data source or data sink. If connected to a data source, the controller configures a switch circuit to route a data signal from the data source to an optical modulator for modulating an optical signal for transmission from the first to the second connector via an optical fiber. If connected to a data sink, the controller configures the switch circuit to route a data signal from an optical demodulator to the data sink, the optical demodulator receiving an optical signal modulated with the data signal from the second connector via an optical fiber. The second connector is configured similar to the first connector. The cable housing encloses the optical fibers.
US09397749B2
A method and apparatus for performing an automatic power adjustment wherein a signal power level of an optical signal transmitted by an optical transceiver via an optical span to a far-end device is adjusted automatically in response to a determined span loss of the optical span to achieve a predetermined desired receive signal power level of the optical signal at the far-end device.
US09397745B2
A hybrid satellite-mesh network including a ground segment, a mobile segment and a satellite segment provides high bandwidth communication between mobile platforms and the Internet. The satellite segment is used only when mesh network communication links between mobile segment nodes and ground segment nodes are unavailable. Mobile segment nodes can function in either an access terminal mode or an access point mode to communicate with other mobile segment nodes according to a routing algorithm in a mesh portion of the network. Mobile segment nodes employ adaptive frequency reuse, link level date rate adaptation, link level power control and adaptive beam forming antennas.
US09397742B2
A method includes receiving a signal via a channel, determining a feedback information based on the received signal, and determining a quality indicator based on the feedback information, wherein the quality indicator indicates a quality of the received signal. The method further includes starting or resuming a transmission of the feedback information if the quality indicator fulfills a predetermined condition.
US09397741B1
Receive signals may be combined to form receive beam signals at multiple receive frequency channels. The receive beam signals may be partitioned by receive frequency channel into multiple groups of receive beam signals, each group corresponding to a different frequency spectrum and the multiple groups including a first group and a second group. The first and the second group of receive beam signals may be communicated to a first and a second switch, respectively. The first and the second group of receive beam signals may be switched by the first switch and the second switch, respectively, to generate a first and a second group of transmit beam signals. Transmit beam signals that include the first and the second group of transmit beam signals may be combined to form transmit signals to be transmitted using corresponding transmit antenna elements to form one or more transmit beams at multiple transmit frequency channels.
US09397739B2
A method operates to transmit a data signal by a transmission unit of a wireless multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) communication system. The communication system includes the transmission unit and a reception unit, the transmission unit having a plurality of transmission antennas and the reception unit having a plurality of reception antennas. The method includes performing a first transmission of a data signal, the first transmission including transmitting the data signal by each one of the plurality of transmission antennas, and performing a second transmission of the data signal at a time later than the first transmission, the second transmission including transmitting at least one spectrally modified signal variant of the data signal by at least one antenna of the plurality of transmission antennas.
US09397736B2
A user equipment (UE) may communicate channel state information in a wireless network. The UE may include transceiver circuitry to receive orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signals from an Enhanced node B (eNB). The UE may include processing circuitry to derive one or more principal eigen beams from the received OFDMA signals. The principal eigen beams may have a rank greater than or equal to one. The processing circuitry may derive quantized eigen beams from the principal eigen beams. The processing circuitry may select, in response to the quantized eigen beams, a subset of available antenna ports on the eNB for receiving from the eNB and transmitting to the eNB. The UE may communicate to the eNB a bit pattern of the quantized eigen beams and at least one of a wideband channel quality indicator (CQI) or a subband CQI conditioned on the quantized eigen beams.
US09397731B2
A communication device is described herein that has control (or at least partial control) over which virtual antenna(s) in one or more base stations to use for transmissions. In one embodiment, the mobile phone performs the following steps: (1) receives an antenna subset list (from the scheduling unit) which identifies a configuration of virtual antennas that is associated with the base station(s); (2) uses the antenna subset list to select which virtual antenna(s) in the configuration of virtual antennas to use for transmissions; and (3) sends an antenna selection signal (to the scheduling unit) which contains information that instructs/requests the base station(s)/scheduling unit to use the selected virtual antenna(s) for transmissions.
US09397723B2
Techniques for spread spectrum wireless over non-contiguous channels are described. In at least some embodiments, a set of channels is selected for wireless communication, with at least some of the channels being non-contiguous (e.g., non-adjacent) from one another. A spreading sequence is selected, such as based on attributes of a selected set of channels. Communication data that is to be transmitted over the set of channels is combined with the spreading sequence to generate a spread spectrum signal. The spread spectrum signal is then divided into multiple sub-signals for transmission over the set of channels.
US09397712B2
System and method embodiments are provided for transmitter receive band noise calibration in a wireless device. In an embodiment, a method in a wireless device for transmitter receive band noise calibration includes transmitting, by the wireless device, a signal; iteratively measuring, by the wireless device, a receive band noise caused by the transmitted signal, determining a corrected transmitter parameter for the transmitted signal, and transmitting a corrected signal using the corrected transmitter parameter until a reduced receive band noise is achieved; and setting a final transmitter parameter according to the corrected transmitter parameter corresponding to the reduced receive band noise.
US09397711B2
Exemplary embodiments are related to digital pre-distortion in envelope tracking systems. A device may include an amplitude modulation-to-phase modulation (AM-PM) distortion unit configured to generate an AM-PM distortion component in response to receipt of phase data of an input transmit signal. The device may also include a local oscillator (LO) path coupled to the distortion unit and configured to convey a local oscillator (LO) signal that varies based on the AM-PM distortion component.
US09397703B2
Some embodiments involve a method of detecting an error of a memory device. It is determined whether the detected error is a catastrophic error. If it is determined that the error is a catastrophic error, an error recovery process is bypassed. Some aspects involve a method of detecting an error of a memory device. It is determined whether a counter value is above a predetermined value. If it is determined that the counter value is above the predetermined value an error recovery process is bypassed and a redundant parity recovery process is performed.
US09397702B2
In staircase forward error correction coding, a stream of data symbols are mapped to data symbol positions in a sequence of two-dimensional symbol blocks Bi, i a positive integer. Each of the symbol blocks has data symbol positions and coding symbol positions. Coding symbols for the coding symbol positions in each symbol block Bi in the sequence are computed. The coding symbols are computed such that, for each symbol block Bi that has a preceding symbol block Bi−1 and a subsequent symbol block Bi+1 in the sequence, symbols at symbol positions along one dimension of the preceding symbol block Bi−1, concatenated with the data symbols and the coding symbols along the other dimension in the symbol block Bi, form a codeword of a FEC component code, and symbols at symbol positions along the one dimension of the symbol block Bi, concatenated with the data symbols and the coding symbols along the other dimension in the subsequent symbol block Bi+1, form a codeword of the FEC component code. Thus, each row in [Bi−1TBi] and each column in [ B i B i + 1 T ] for example, is a valid codeword.
US09397699B2
k information bits are encoded according to a code with which is associated a parity check matrix H that has n columns. The entire resulting codeword is stored in a storage medium. At least n′
US09397696B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a compression program that causes a computer to execute a process. The process includes: detecting a matched data that matches a processing target data with a longest length among pieces of data, the pieces of data being extracted from a data sequence that is a compression target; acquiring an appearance frequency of a code corresponding to character data contained in the matched data when a data length of the matched data is smaller than a predetermined length; acquiring an appearance frequency of a code corresponding to the matched data when the data length of the match data is equal to or larger than the predetermined length; and compressing the data sequence using a compression code generated based on the acquired appearance frequency of the code.
US09397692B1
A delta-sigma modulation analog-to-digital converter (ADC) may be constructed by combining a VCO used for a first order filter with a digital loop filter used for a second or higher order of the ADC. One such ADC would include an analog input node configured to receive an analog signal; a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) comprising a first input configured to receive the analog signal, wherein the voltage-controlled oscillator is configured to implement a first order noise-shaping function; a digital loop filter comprising a second input configured to receive an output of the voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO); and a digital output node configured to output a digital signal based on an output of the digital loop filter. The digital loop filter may be configured to implement at least a first order noise-shaping function, but may also implement higher order noise-shaping functions.
US09397684B1
An analog to digital converter (ADC) circuit includes an input stage for supplying an input signal to an ADC for conversion to a digital signal and a control unit of the ADC. The ADC circuit further includes an operational parameter setting device configured to receive an operational parameter setting signal indicative of an operating parameter for the input stage from the control unit. The operational parameter setting device is configured to set an operating parameter for the input stage based on the operational parameter setting signal.
US09397682B2
Circuits for generating voltage references are common in electronics. For example, these circuits are used in analog-to-digital converters, which convert an analog signal into its digital representation by comparing analog input signals against one or more voltage references provided by those circuits. In many applications, the speed and accuracy of such voltage references are very important. The speed of the voltage references is related to the physical properties of the devices in the circuit. The accuracy of the voltage reference is directly related to the circuit's ability to trim the full-scale voltage output. The present disclosure describes a fast and efficient reference buffer with a wide trim range which is particular suitable for submicron processes and high speed applications. The reference buffer comprises a plurality of diode-connected transistors, which can be selected to turn on or off using a controller to provide a wide trim range.
US09397658B2
A gate drive circuit drives a control terminal of a power transistor and comprises: a drive terminal for electrically coupling the control terminal, a first reference source, a first switch arranged between the first reference source and the control terminal, a switch control circuit and a measurement circuit. The first switch is switched-on to turn-off the power transistor. The switch control circuit switches-off the first switch during a transition period to a fully off-state. The measurement circuit outputs a control signal to the switch control circuit in response to a value of a voltage at the control terminal measured when a discharge current flowing to the drive terminal has been reduced to a predetermined threshold, for switching-on the first switch if the measured value is smaller than a threshold voltage.
US09397650B2
A gate driving apparatus is disclosed. The gate driving apparatus includes a first gate driving chip and N second gate driving chips, wherein N is positive integer. The first gate driving chip has a first input pin and a first current output pin. The first gate driving chip receives a reference electrical signal by the first input pin, and generates a reference current according to the reference electrical signal. The first current output pin is used for outputting the reference current. Each of the second gate driving chips has a current input pin for receiving the reference current and a second current output pin for outputting the reference current. The first gate driving chip and the second gate driving chips generate at least a first output signal and at least N second output signals according to the reference current.
US09397643B1
A linear triangular wave generator with stray effect compensation includes a linear triangular wave generating module, a negative impedance converting module, an impedance sensing module and a switch module. The linear triangular wave generator charges/discharges a physical capacitor by a first current source to generate a triangular wave signal, and generates a stray component due to a stray effect. The negative impedance converting module is electrically connected to the linear triangular wave generating module, and includes a negative matching impedance. The switching module is electrically connected to the negative impedance converting module and the impedance sensing module to allow the impedance sensing module to sense an impedance value of the negative matching impedance, so as to calibrate the negative matching impedance and compensate the stray effect to further generate a linear triangular wave signal.
US09397640B2
A latch circuit includes: first to Nth storage nodes where N is an even number equal to or more than four; and first to Nth pairs of transistors, each of which comprises a PMOS transistor and an NMOS transistor coupled in series with each other through a corresponding node among the first to Nth storage nodes. The PMOS transistor is coupled to one of the storage nodes included in previous one of the pairs of transistors at a gate of the PMOS transistor. The NMOS transistor is coupled to one of the storage nodes included in next one of the pairs of transistors at a gate of the NMOS transistor. The PMOS transistors of the first to Nth pairs of transistors are formed in a first active region. The NMOS transistors of the first to Nth pairs of transistors are formed in a second active region, separated from the first active region.
US09397637B2
A low-power voltage controlled oscillator is provided. The voltage controlled oscillator includes (2n+1) first circuit components (n is an integer of one or more). An output terminal of the first circuit component in a k-th stage (k is an integer of one or more and 2n or less) is connected to an input terminal of the first circuit component in a (k+1)-th stage. An output terminal of the first circuit component in a (2n+1)-th stage is connected to an input terminal of the first circuit component in a first stage. One of the first circuit components includes a second circuit component and a third circuit component whose input terminal is connected to an output terminal of the second circuit component. The third circuit component includes a first transistor and a second transistor whose source-drain resistance is controlled in accordance with a signal input to a gate through the first transistor.
US09397636B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor having a reference node coupled to an output node of the first transistor, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to couple a second reference node to a control terminal of the second transistor during a first mode of operation, couple a floating reference voltage between the control terminal of the second transistor and the reference terminal of the second transistor during a second mode of operation and during a third mode of operation, and couple a third reference node to the reference terminal of the second transistor during the third mode of operation. The second reference node is configured to have a voltage potential operable to turn-on the second transistor, and the floating reference voltage is operable to turn on the second transistor.
US09397634B2
In a filter, two parallel resonators that are adjacent to each other are connected, in parallel, to a first portion of the signal line that connects a pair of two adjacent series resonators, at least one parallel resonator is connected, in parallel, to a second portion of the signal line that connects a different pair of two adjacent series resonators, a first inductor is connected to one parallel resonator of said two parallel resonators in series, a second inductor is connected to one parallel resonator of said at least one parallel resonator in series, a third inductor is connected to said two parallel resonators and said at least one parallel resonator, the first and third inductors' total inductance is different from the second and third inductor's total inductance.
US09397633B2
A SAW device (1) comprises a substrate (3); SAW elements (10) on a first main surface (3a) of the substrate (3); first lines (intermediate lines (29) and output side lines (31)) that are disposed upon the first main face (3a) and connected to the SAW elements (10); an insulator (21) that is layered upon the first lines; second lines (a second ground line (33b) and a third ground line (33c)) that are layered upon the insulator (21) and configure three-dimensional wiring parts (39) with the first lines; and a cover (5) that seals the SAW elements (10) and the three-dimensional wiring parts (39). Wiring spaces (53), formed between the first main face (3a) and the cover (5), houses the three-dimensional wiring parts (39), without housing the SAW elements (10).
US09397621B2
A switch-mode RFPA driver includes first and second field-effect transistors (FETs) arranged in a totem-pole-like configuration. The switch-mode RFPA driver operates to generate a switch-mode RFPA drive signal having a generally square-wave-like waveform from an input RF signal having a generally sinusoidal-like waveform. To maximize high-frequency operation and avoid distorting the switch-mode RFPA drive signal, the switch-mode RFPA driver is designed so that its output can be connected directly to the input of the switch-mode RFPA to be driven, i.e., without using or requiring the use of an AC coupling capacitor. The first and second FETs of the switch-mode RFPA driver are designed and configured to limit and control the upper and lower magnitude levels of the switch-mode RFPA drive signal to levels suitable for switching the switch-mode RFPA directly, obviating any need for DC biasing at the input of the switch-mode RFPA.
US09397620B2
A high-frequency bandwidth amplifying circuit includes a forward channel and a backward channel. An input terminal of the forward channel and an external forward input terminal are connected; an output terminal of the forward channel and a forward output port are connected. An input terminal of the backward channel and an external backward input terminal are connected; an output terminal of the backward channel and a backward output port are connected. The high-frequency bandwidth amplifying circuit further includes a feedback network. The forward channel includes a first operational amplifier and a second operational amplifier. An input terminal of the first operational amplifier is connected to the external forward input terminal; an output terminal of the first operational amplifier is connected to an input terminal of the second operational amplifier; and an output terminal of the second operational amplifier is connected to the forward output port.
US09397616B2
An amplifier including a main amplifier circuit and at least one peaking amplifier circuit. The peaking amplifier circuit is selectively operable to operate in combination with the main amplifier circuit. The main amplifier circuit and the peaking amplifier circuit each include an active device operation as an inverse Class-F amplifier element. The main amplifier circuit and the peaking amplifier circuit also each include a combined matching and resonator network coupled with an output of the respective active device so the active device operates as an inverse Class-F device, and a combined matching and resonator network coupled with an input of the respective active device.
US09397613B2
A novel and useful RF oscillator suitable for use in applications requiring ultra-low voltage and power. The oscillator structure, employing alternating current source transistors, combines the benefits of low supply voltage operation of conventional NMOS cross-coupled oscillators together with high current efficiency of the complementary push-pull oscillators. In addition, the 1/f noise upconversion is also reduced. The oscillator can be incorporated within a wide range of circuit applications, including for example a conventional phase locked loop (PLL), all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL), wireline transceiver circuits and mobile devices.
US09397608B2
A racking system for holding solar panels and other similar panels in a fixed position and that can easily adjust to terrains which are not level and adapt to variations in solar panel size without different hardware and without significant manual effort is disclosed. Adjustable channels hold the panels in place and the entire assembly process can be completed without the need for bolts, screws, washers, and nuts.
US09397605B2
A system for mounting a solar panel(s) on a building, where the solar panel has an outer frame defining a lip. The system may include a plurality of panel mounting brackets each including a base to be positioned on the building, and a vertical extension having a proximal end coupled to the base and a distal end vertically spaced apart from the base, with the distal end defining a fastener channel therein. The system may also include a plurality of mounting clamps each including a bottom flange, and a top flange spaced apart from the bottom flange and partially overhanging the bottom flange and defining a slot therebetween to receive the lip. An end extension may couple respective ends of the bottom flange and top flange together, and a fastener channel connector may be coupled to the bottom flange and configured to be slidably received within the fastener channel.
US09397601B2
An on-vehicle power generation control unit includes current detecting unit; communication unit; holding unit; maximum current determining unit; and current control unit. The current detecting unit detects the excitation current at the field winding. The communication unit communicates with an external equipment to receive a first upper limit. The holding unit holds a second upper limit. The maximum current determining unit determines a maximum current to be the second upper limit when the first upper limit has not received by the communication unit or when the received first upper limit is more than or equal to the second upper limit. Further, the maximum current determining unit determines the maximum current value to be the first upper limit when the received first upper limit is less than the second upper limit. The current control unit controls the detected excitation current to be within the maximum current value.
US09397593B2
A ripple current that flows into a main-circuit capacitor is estimated based on a system impedance and output power to a motor, thereby making it possible to always perform ripple-current estimation and life estimation computation for the main-circuit capacitor online. Because data of the system impedance which largely affects the ripple-current estimation for the main-circuit capacitor is used, the capacitor ripple current can be estimated according to the magnitude of the system impedance. This enables highly-accurate life estimation computation of the main-circuit capacitor.
US09397581B2
A power conversion apparatus includes first, second, third, and fourth switching elements. In a first period, the second and third switching elements are switched ON, and first and fourth switching elements are alternately switched ON/OFF. In a second period, the first and fourth switching elements are switched ON, and the second and third switching elements are alternately switched ON/OFF. In a third period, the first and second switching elements are switched ON, and the third and fourth switching elements are switched OFF. The power conversion apparatus provides a release path for inductive energy accumulated in a reactor.
US09397580B1
Methods and systems for transforming electric power between two or more portals using multiple power modules. Any or all portals can be DC, single phase AC, or multi-phase AC. Individual power modules comprise a plurality of bi-directional conducting and blocking semiconductor switches, and an inductor and parallel capacitor (reactance). The switches alternately connect the reactance between said portals, such that energy is transferred into the inductor from one or more input portals and/or phases, then transferred out of the inductor to one or more output portals and/or phases, with said parallel capacitor facilitating “soft” turn-off, and with any excess inductor energy being returned to the input. Dual power modules can operate 90 degrees out of phase. This configuration allows use of the same I/O filter capacitors as with a single power module, while achieving twice the total power produced by the power converter, reducing ripple voltage and doubling ripple frequency.
US09397572B2
An apparatus controls a DC-DC converter that converts an input voltage to an output voltage. The DC-DC converter includes a switching element having a duty ratio controlled by the apparatus to regulate the output voltage, a first transformer, a second transformer and a capacitor. A terminal voltage applied between input and output terminals of the switching element varies depending on the duty ratio and the input voltage. The apparatus may be configured to: limit the duty ratio in response to the input voltage represented by a modulated signal; enable the DC-DC converter to continue to convert the input voltage to the output voltage when an abnormal condition of the modulated signal is determined; and limit the duty ratio of the switching element when the abnormal condition is determined. Main and sub switching elements of the switching element and the capacitor are disposed between the first and second transformers.
US09397566B2
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a first bridge to be coupled to a first load; a first Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) circuit to drive the first bridge; a second bridge to be coupled to a second load; and a second PWM circuit to drive the second bridge, wherein the first PWM circuit is controlled by a first digital word separate from a second digital word, wherein the second PWM circuit is controlled by the second digital, and wherein the second digital word is derived from the first digital word.
US09397565B2
The present document relates to multiphase DC-DC power converters. In particular, the present document relates to the compensation of the phase offset incurred in multiphase DC-DC power converters which are controlled based on coil current zero crossing. A control circuit for a multiphase power converter is described. The multiphase power converter comprises a first and a second constituent switched-mode power converter, wherein the first and second constituent power converters provide first and second phase currents, respectively. The first and second phase currents contribute to a joint load current of the multiphase power converter. The first and second constituent power converters comprise first and second half bridges with first and second high side switches and first and second low side switches, respectively.
US09397561B2
An analog open-loop self-oscillating boost converter is provided including: an output terminal for supplying an output voltage bus; an input terminal for receiving variable input power; a varactor positioned in series with the input terminal; and an oscillating network having an inductor, a resistor and a capacitor in a parallel orientation, the oscillating network connected to a semiconductor device and the varactor.
US09397559B2
The present disclosure includes circuits and methods for controlling the operation of a switching regulator. In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a circuit comprising a switching regulator with a current control loop comprising a capacitor configured to store a first voltage during a first phase and configured to boost a voltage produced by an output current through a low side switching device by the first voltage in a second phase. Circuitry compares the boosted voltage to a control voltage produced by a control current through a replica device corresponding to the low side switching device.
US09397542B2
The stator winding has winding assemblies that are disposed in a stator core so as to be stacked in three or more layers in a radial direction such that slot-housed portions line up in single columns in a slot depth direction inside slots, and radial widths of return portions of the winding assemblies that are mounted so as to be stacked in a radial direction are made sequentially narrower in order of return portions of a winding assembly that is positioned centrally, return portions of a winding assembly that is positioned on an inner circumferential side, and return portions of a winding assembly that is positioned on an outer circumferential side.
US09397540B2
A method for making a rotary electric machine comprises the steps of: preparing a core (18) having a plurality of pole expansions and a plurality of windings (100, 200, 300) made of electrically conductive material on the pole expansions, where at least a part of the windings (100, 200, 300) is made from a conductor wire having a free end (14) that can be connected electrically to a mains power supply; stably coupling to each other at least two free ends (14) of different windings (100, 200, 300) so as to connect them to a single power supply terminal; twisting the coupled ends (14) together to form a single electrical termination (5, 6, 7) twisted along a principal line of extension of the electrical termination (5, 6, 7).
US09397534B2
A device for damping vibrations with an energy recovery capability includes an input shaft rotatable about the input shaft longitudinal axis with an alternating rotational direction by a component that vibrates relative to the device. A freewheel device is connected to the input shaft on the drive side and at least indirectly to a generator on the output side, the generator being capable of converting the kinetic rotational energy into electric energy and transferring said energy to an energy storage element, and the freewheel device includes a first and a second freewheel, each being rotationally fixed to the input shaft on the drive side and arranged so as to lock in opposite directions of rotation. The second freewheel is connected to a reversing gear mechanism on the output side, and the reversing mechanism and the first freewheel are at least indirectly connected to the generator on the output side.
US09397531B2
A vibration imparting device for a concrete finishing tool uses a housing having a chamber surrounded by an inner surface of the housing. A vibrator with a support, a rotor with a shaft and weighted body, a motor, and a resilient link between the shaft and the motor is positioned within the housing chamber. The vibrator also includes a resilient band to separate the vibrator from the housing inner surface. First and second adaptors are employed for the housing to be placed between the handle and the terminus of a concrete finishing tool.
US09397530B2
A control device (28) includes: a housing (15); a control section including control-section connection terminals (5, 6, 7) and an electronic component (22); a heat sink (13); an external-connection connector (8) which includes connector connection terminals (9, 10, 11) to be electrically connected to the control-section connection terminals (5, 6, 7); and a cover (17). The connector connection terminals (9, 10, 11) and the control-section connection terminals (5, 6, 7) pass through a housing hole portion (16) covered with the cover (17) to be electrically connected to each other at respective distal end portions. Accordingly, in the control device having a different mounting direction of the external-connection connector or including a different type of the external-connection connector, the same housing, heat sink, and control section can be used so that manufacturing cost of the control device can be significantly reduced.
US09397527B2
A stator unit including a coil in which a distance between an m−1-th turn and an m-th turn is wider than each distance in a first turn to the m−1-th turn. The m+1-th turn is disposed between the m−1-th turn and the m-th turn. Further, in a cross-section perpendicular to a central axis and passing a tooth, an angle between a line segment connecting respective centers of the m+1-th turn and the m−1-th turn and a line segment connecting respective centers of the m+1-th turn and the m-th turn is about 120° or more. With this structure, bulging in a circumferential direction of the coil adjacent to an inner peripheral portion of the tooth can be suppressed and a clearance can be secured between adjacent coils such that the number of turns of the coil can be increased.
US09397524B2
A ballast circuit is disclosed for inductively providing power to a load. The ballast circuit includes an oscillator, a driver, a switching circuit, a resonant tank circuit and a current sensing circuit. The current sensing circuit provides a current feedback signal to the oscillator that is representative of the current in the resonant tank circuit. The current feedback signal drives the frequency of the ballast circuit causing the ballast circuit to seek resonance. The ballast circuit preferably includes a current limit circuit that is inductively coupled to the resonant tank circuit. The current limit circuit disables the ballast circuit when the current in the ballast circuit exceeds a predetermined threshold or falls outside a predetermined range.
US09397521B2
Methods and systems are provided for managing environmental conditions and energy usage associated with a site. One exemplary method of regulating an environment condition at a site involves a server receiving environmental measurement data from a monitoring system at the site via a network, determining an action for an electrical appliance at the site based at least in part on the environmental measurement data and one or more monitoring rules associated with the site, and providing an indication of the action to an actuator for the electrical appliance.
US09397520B2
A multi-output power supply comprises an input power port for receiving input power, a first output power port supplying a first voltage derived from the input power, a second output power port supplying a second voltage derived from the input power, and a shut-down circuit configured to shut down the first output power port, independently of the second output power port, if power drawn from the first output power port exceeds a first predetermined value.
US09397513B2
A compact battery charger for charging a battery comprising: a microprocessor; a set of terminals operatively coupled to said microprocessor and configured to electrically couple with an automotive battery; and an internal lithium ion battery, wherein the internal lithium ion battery is a lithium ion battery, wherein a single-ended primary-inductor converter may be configured to receive an input voltage of 5 VDC to 20 VDC and output a predetermined DC charge voltage to said internal lithium ion battery.
US09397507B2
A charge-balancing device for balancing charge of an electrical power-storage device that has several series-connected electrical storage elements two DC/DC converters with current limitation, each having an input for receiving a set value of output voltage from the converter, an input to be connected to the terminals of a respective storage element, and an output to be connected to an electric network having a voltage regulated at a level below a voltage at the terminals of the power-storage device, and a control module. The control module is configured to determine respective residual charges of the electrical storage elements connected to the inputs and to apply a higher set value of voltage to the converter connected to an electrical storage elements that has a highest residual charge.
US09397501B2
A method controls power generated by a photovoltaic array. The method estimates a voltage corresponding to a global maximum power point (MPP) of the power generated by the photovoltaic array to produce an estimated voltage; and tracks an output of the power based on the estimated voltage to determine the global MPP.
US09397498B2
Some embodiments teach an electrical device configured to emulate a high frequency electrical noise signal on an electrical power line. The electrical power line is coupled to one or more electrical outlets and the electrical device configured to be coupled to one or more electrical appliances. The electrical device can include: (a) a monitoring module configured to detect usage of electrical power from the electrical power line by a first one of the one or more electrical appliances; (b) an emitter module configured to generate an emulated high frequency electrical noise signal, the emulated high frequency electrical noise signal emulates electrical noise from a switch mode power supply; (c) a first electrical coupling mechanism configured to couple to a first one of the one or more electrical outlets; and (d) a second coupling mechanism configured to couple to the first one of the one or more electrical appliances. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09397493B2
In the present invention, a main switch circuit (13) is provided between an electric power line (PL), to which voltage outputted from a solar cell (11) is applied, and a battery module (12). A protection circuit (19) turns OFF the main switch circuit (13) to protect the battery module (12) from overcharging when the voltage (VBAT) of the battery module (12) is equal to or greater than an upper limit voltage. The voltage outputted from the solar cell (11) is set so as to be greater than the upper limit voltage to allow the battery module (12) to be charged to the upper limit voltage. When a charge ON command signal has been received, a control unit (18) turns ON only a sub-switch circuit (14) to introduce current from the solar cell (11) into a parallel circuit (15) and to suppress the voltage (VPL) of the power line (PL) to less than the upper limit voltage before turning ON the main switch circuit (13).
US09397484B2
A plurality of current sensors on a support is attached to bracket which is secured in an electric power distribution panel.
US09397478B2
A vertical cavity surface emitting laser includes: a substrate; a laminated body which is provided over the substrate; an electrode of which at least a portion is provided over the laminated body; and a pad which is connected to the electrode, wherein the laminated body includes a first mirror layer provided over the substrate, an active layer provided over the first mirror layer, and a second mirror layer provided over the active layer, in a plan view, the laminated body includes a first distortion imparting portion, a second distortion imparting portion, and a resonance portion which is provided between the first distortion imparting portion and the second distortion imparting portion and resonates light generated in the active layer, and in the plan view, the pad is provided in a position that is not overlapped with at least one of the first distortion imparting portion and the second distortion imparting portion.
US09397468B2
Optical systems employ a tunable source which includes a short cavity laser with a large free spectral range cavity, fast tuning response, and single transverse and longitudinal mode operation. Systems for optical spectroscopy with optimized scanning, a system for optical beam steering and a system for a tunable local oscillator are disclosed.
US09397456B2
An improved bus bar apparatus is usable in high temperature electrical terminations and is configured to provide sufficient heat dissipation such that when connected at one end with a 90° C. wire, the bus bar apparatus is at most only at 75° C. at another end thereof, which end can be connected with a lower temperature electrical component such as a circuit interrupter. The bus bars apparatus may include bus bars that extend directly between the high temperature wires and the low temperature electrical component, or the bus bar apparatus may additionally include wires that are electrically interposed between the low temperature region of the bus bars and the electrical component. Additional cooling could be provided by employing oversized wires. The bus bars may additionally include fins, fans, or supplementary heat sinks to enhance thermal convection of the bus bar. The bus bar apparatus additionally can be provided with its own enclosure to be usable in a retrofit situation.
US09397455B2
An assembly comprising a cable terminator comprising a wire guide, a cube shaped securing cap comprising an open end for installation over the wire guide, and pairs of piercing contacts for piercing respective conductors of the cable. When assembled, an outer end of each of the piercing contacts is exposed on an outer surface of a respective securing cap sidewall. The assembly also comprises a coupler connector comprising one of a modular (for example RJ-45 compatible) socket or a modular (for example RJ-45 compatible) plug, a rearward surface comprising a cable terminator receiving socket, wherein pairs of contacts are exposed along at least one side wall of the socket, and further wherein each of a plurality of the tines in the modular socket or the terminal contacts of the plug is interconnected with a respective one of the contacts. When the cable terminator is inserted into the cable terminator receiving socket, each of the piercing contacts comes into contact with a respective one of the contacts, thereby interconnecting each of the tines (or each of the terminal contacts) with a respective one of the conductors. A back-to-back connector is also disclosed.
US09397450B1
An electrical connector that includes a housing that has an interface side and a printed circuit board engagement side, and a port at said interface side. The port is adapted to receive a mating connector. The port includes a signal contact connected to an internal circuit board. The signal contact is configured to mate with a corresponding contact of the mating connector. The internal circuit board has at least one terminal with a tail end extending though the circuit board engagement side of said housing. A port light indicator is adjacent the port and has a light element facing outwardly and a terminal end. A spring element is received in the housing and has a contact end and an opposite press-fit end. The contact end is biased against the indicator terminal end and the press-fit end extends through the circuit board engagement side of the housing.
US09397448B2
A connector assembly according to embodiments of the present disclosure is advantageously configured to allow a sensor connector to straightforwardly and efficiently join with and detach from a patient cable connector. Further, embodiments of the connector assembly advantageously reduce un-shielded area in an electrical connection between a patient cable and a sensor connector. In addition, embodiments of the connector assembly advantageously increase the shielding of detector signals coming from the patient sensor to the monitor.
