US09396550B2
The invention relates to a method for updating and/or for initializing, in a system comprising an image sensor oriented towards the horizon such as a pair of binoculars coupled to a geographical north seeker incorporating a gyrometer, a value representative of the orientation of the image sensor with respect to north, in which the shift of two images arising from the digital image sensor is determined at a first instant and at a second instant that are distinct so as to construct an item of information representative of an angular movement, and in which this angular movement information is utilized to: update the value of orientation of the image sensor;—and/or to discriminate the movements of the image sensor with respect to the ground from the movements of the image sensor that are due to the rotation of the earth, in a process for initializing the value of orientation of the image sensor using a north seeker of gyroscopic or gyrometric type rigidly tied to the image sensor.
US09396539B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for face detection. A method may include selecting a face detection parameter subset from a plurality of face detection parameter subsets. Each face detection parameter subset may include a subset of face posture models from a set of face posture models and a subset of image patch scales from a set of image patch scales. The method may further include using the selected face detection parameter subset for performing face detection in an image. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided.
US09396538B2
Provided are an image processing system, an image processing method, and a program capable of restoring, ex post facto, an error in associating a person between cameras. This image processing system includes: an image input unit for receiving an input of pictures captured by a plurality of video cameras; a registration/correction command input unit capable of registering one or more moving objects appearing in the pictures input from the image input unit; and a moving image display unit for displaying, on a display device, the pictures input by the registration/correction command input unit. The registration/correction command input unit is capable of registering that the moving object appearing in the displayed pictures and the moving object registered by the first registration means are the same moving object, and correcting a correspondence relationship of a moving object by associating one moving object, which is in a correspondence relationship registered as the same moving object, with a moving object that is different from the other moving object, which is in the correspondence relationship registered as the same moving object.
US09396534B2
A medical image processing apparatus displaying at least one medical image obtained by imaging an object comprises: processing circuitry configured to detect a position of a characteristic local structure of a human body from the medical image, to determine check information indicating the local structure which should be checked; and to determine whether or not the local structure which should be checked indicated in the check information has been diagnostically read based on the position of the local structure detected from the medical image; and a display configured to display a determination result.
US09396531B2
An image/video may be analyzed to determine quality of its attributes, including local, global and pixel colorfulness, sharpness, and contrast to obtain an image quality measure. Invented quality may be obtained for captured images or videos and compared to a database or reference value of quality measures to identify quality of products, component anomalies, and product matches.
US09396522B2
Techniques for enhancing an image using pixel-specific processing. An image can be enhanced by updating selected pixels through patch aggregation. Respective patch values for patches of any size of the image are determined. Patch values provide update information for updating the respective pixels in the patch. Relevant patch values for the selected pixel are identified by identifying associated patches of the pixel. Information from the relevant patch values of the selected pixel may be obtained by averaging the relevant patch values or determining the maximum or minimum patch value. Using this information, pixel-specific processing may be performed to determine an updated pixel value for the selected pixel. Pixel-specific processes may be executed for each of the selected pixels. These pixel-specific processes can be executed in parallel. Therefore, through the execution of pixel-specific processes, which may be performed concurrently, an enhanced image may be determined.
US09396515B2
One embodiment sets forth a method for transforming 3-D images into 2-D rendered images using render target sample masks. A software application creates multiple render targets associated with a surface. For each render target, the software application also creates an associated render target sample mask configured to select one or more samples included in each pixel. Within the graphics pipeline, a pixel shader processes each pixel individually and outputs multiple render target-specific color values. For each render target, a ROP unit uses the associated render target sample mask to select covered samples included in the pixel. Subsequently, the ROP unit uses the render target-specific color value to update the selected samples in the render target, thereby achieving sample-level color granularity. Advantageously, by increasing the effective resolution using render target sample masks, the quality of the rendered image is improved without incurring the performance degradation associated with processing each sample individually.
US09396509B1
The present disclosure relates generally digital watermarking and data hiding. One claim recites: receiving data representing imagery; and then, using one or more processors: transforming the data into a multi-channel color space; determining an impact of adding a color channel watermark signal image to a color direction of the received data; determining a color space direction for watermark detection; determining weighting factors based on a determined impact; weighting the color channel watermark signal with signal embedding weighting factors to yield a modified color channel watermark signal; embedding the modified color channel watermark signal in the data representing imagery with consideration of the color direction. Of course, other claims and combination are provided as well.
US09396506B2
The invention relates to a secured identity document having an externally readable chip storing a cryptographic configuration of the chip, defining the cryptographic security levels supported by the chip, for establishing a secure communication with a controlling terminal, storing a private key of a cryptography key pair and adapted to cipher data based on the stored private key; a support to which the chip is fastened, the support having a machine optically readable area, the data encoded in this area including the cryptographic configuration of the chip for establishing a secure communication with a controlling terminal in non ciphered form and the cryptographic configuration of the chip ciphered based on said private key.
US09396503B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a request from a user device to add a user identifier to a queue and, in response, transmit a current position for the user identifier in the queue. The first user identifier is promoted to an improved position in the queue in response to receiving an indication of performance of an action associated with the first user identifier.
US09396502B2
When a user sees a content item presented by a social networking system, the user may select an option to save the content item. The saved content item may be reinserted in a newsfeed presented to the user, integrated into collections, archived, used for notifications to the user, or otherwise subsequently presented to the user. A plug-in may be used to save content items accessed through websites external to the social networking system. As privacy settings associated with a saved content item are modified, the modified privacy settings are applied to the saved content item, which may prevent the user saving the content item from subsequently viewing the saved content item.
US09396501B1
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing interaction between users in a social network. One method includes providing a user account having information that identifies a person associated with the user account. The method further includes receiving interactivity of the person on the user account. The received interactivity identifying endorsements made by the person utilizing the user account, and the endorsements made by the person are associated to a soft following metric. The method also includes identifying entities selected for following by the person of the user account. The selection for following triggered by direct action by the person on the user account to add an entity to one or more groups created at the user account. The selection for following being associated with a hard following metric that allows the entity having an entity account to post data to the user account of the user.
US09396500B2
Techniques to adaptively manage service requests within a multi-server system. In one embodiment, a service request and a service rule associated with the service request are received. Data about operating parameters of at least one server in a multi-server system are also received as part of a feedback loop. A response to the service request based on the service rule and the operating parameters is determined. Execution of the service request may be modified according to a tiered service rule based on the at least one server reaching a capacity threshold. The modification includes omitting an action in execution of the service request.
US09396497B2
A derivative trade order at a home marketplace is routed to an away market place having a better price for a counter position to the order where it is executed. The executed order triggers creation of a “balance derivative trade” at the home marketplace to balance at a home clearing house the away trade. The home clearing house uses the balance derivative trade to create derivative positions of the balance derivative trade and informs a balancing clearing entity which manages the balance derivative trade obligations. The balance derivative trade order account permits netting and reduced margin benefits for the trading participant. A dual derivative exercise operation allows balance derivative positions to be performed in one day to reduce overnight risk for the clearing entity.
US09396496B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a method includes receiving, in a proximity coupling system, holder consent to provide a human understandable indication of an account balance associated with a payment account; and providing a human understandable indication of the account balance associated with the payment account via an output device, in response at least in part to the consent; wherein receiving holder consent comprises receiving holder consent provided via a proximity payment device associated with the payment account. In accordance with some embodiments, a method includes storing account data and preference data in a proximity payment device, the preference data indicative of a preferred method to provide a human understandable indication of an account balance. In accordance with some embodiments, apparatus includes a proximity payment device, the proximity payment device including preference data, the preference data indicative of a preferred method to provide a human understandable indication of an account balance. In accordance with some embodiments, apparatus includes a proximity payment device wherein the proximity payment device generates data indicative of whether there is consent to provide a human understandable indication of an account balance based at least in part on whether a holder has actuated a switch.
US09396490B1
Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for brand response. One embodiment of a system for providing brand a review system configured to receive customer reviews from a plurality of web sites and provide for display on the web sites responses to the customer reviews inline with the customer reviews. The system can further include a brand response system configured to allow a user associated with a manufacturer to submit a response to a customer review of a product and provide the response to the review system.
US09396487B1
A system for adjusting a relevance weight value for a content item is described. The system comprises a content delivery module configured to deliver a plurality of content items to a device via a network. The content items are displayed on the device. A content storage module is configured to store a relevance weight value and a location in association with each content item. A location detection module is configured to determine a location of the wireless device. A user provides a feedback input for a content item. The relevance weight value associated with the location and the content item is adjusted according to the feedback input provided.
US09396466B2
Upon a user switching-on an appliance with an appliance SIM card of a home telecommunication network, the appliance attaches to the home telecommunication network. The user sets the appliance for association of the user with the appliance. The appliance requests a token to the home telecommunication network. The request includes an appliance identifier of the card. An Identity Linking Function server of the home telecommunication network generates the token, associates the token and the appliance identifier of the card, and provides the token. The user registers a user name and password. The appliance media site server creates a user account for the user with the user name and password. The user submits an identifier of the home telecommunication network, and the appliance media site server redirects the user towards the home telecommunication network with information for further return.
US09396464B2
A method of updating multi-media content at a digital download kiosk is described. The method comprises receiving a secure portable storage device into a portable device reader/writer in the kiosk; reading the secure portable storage device to ascertain if authorized multi-media content is stored thereon; uploading the multi-media content from the secure portable storage device to a data store accessible by the kiosk; and indicating when the multi-media content has been uploaded. The portable storage device may have been received by mail from a supplier, and the method may further comprise removing the portable storage device from the portable storage device reader/writer, and returning the removed portable storage device to the supplier by mail.
US09396456B1
A group communication system is disclosed. The group communication system integrates a number of electronic communication tools to meet various communications among registered users. The group communication system allows groups of users to be formed, where members of each of the groups can participate in various communications with other members. Communications within a group are considered private to all members in the group.
US09396450B2
A computerized apparatus, computer readable apparatus, network apparatus, and methods useful for causing provision of transport-related or delivery-related services. In one embodiment, the apparatus is a mobile user-operated apparatus having at least one input device enabled to receive user-specific input, and a wireless interface to interface with a receiver to cause transmission of one or more messages to an electronic network proxy for one or more third party service entities, the one or messages enabling the provision of the desired services to the user of the mobile apparatus.
US09396447B2
The disclosure relates to systems and methods for monitoring a headcount with RFID. Such a system can include a plurality or transponders, each transponder of the plurality of transponders associated with an offender. The system can include a plurality of radio frequency identification readers configured to transmit an interrogating signal to one or more transponders of the plurality of transponders and receive an identifying signal in response to the one or more transponders receiving the interrogating signal, the plurality of radio frequency identification readers associated with at least one programmable event, the at least one programmable event including a headcount. The system can include a server configured to receive data from the plurality of radio frequency identification readers through a network and determine if there is a discrepancy in the headcount.
US09396446B2
A system and method for modeling properties of data and events of a business application is presented. The system include a user interface frontend system that displays a user interface, and a user interface backend system that hosts a business application that generates the user interface for display in the user interface frontend system. The system further includes an enterprise service framework comprising one or more data processors that define one or more properties of data and/or events related to the business application, and model each of the one or more properties as a data field of the business application. A dynamic properties calculator includes one or more data processors that access a set of transformation logic representing data transformation rules for each of the data fields of the business application, and apply the transformation rules to the data fields that represent the one or more properties.
US09396444B2
Methods and apparatus for predicting network activity with forecasting model selection are disclosed. In one embodiment a network analytics forecasting model with a preferred model error measurement is selected from among a set of model error measurements for a set of network analytics forecasting models. The selecting includes, for each of a set of network analytics forecasting models, calculating a set of predicted network analytics metric values corresponding to individual ones of a set of actual network analytics metric values in a network analytics metrics data set, comparing individual ones of the set of predicted network analytics metric values to corresponding ones of the set of actual network analytics metric values, and generating a model error measurement reflecting the comparing. Future network analytics metric values are predicted using the network analytics forecasting model with the preferred model error measurement.
US09396438B2
A system and method is disclosed for a remote activity detection process using an analysis of data streams of an entity such as an end user and/or a customer. In an embodiment, the detection process uses the data stream analysis to evaluate an entity's potential involvement in an activity based on individual measures for the entity such as comparison of the entity's data stream to the entity's peers, comparison of the entity's data stream to historical information for the entity, and/or comparison of the entity's data stream to data streams for a known second entity involved in the activity. The detection process may also use other information available which may impact the data points in a data stream, such as premises attributes associated with an entity, demographic attributes for the entity, financial attributes for the entity, and system alerts.
US09396432B2
In order to improve the prediction accuracy of a service level agreement breach, an agreement breach prediction system includes: a probability distribution calculation unit that calculates a probability distribution of a measured value for each event; a probability calculation unit that calculates, for each event, a probability that applies to an SLA breach and a probability that does not applies to an SLA breach; an SLA distribution calculation unit that calculates a probability density of a measured value corresponding to the SLA breach; and a breach occurrence probability calculation unit that, when the event occurs, calculates a probability that the SLA breach occurs within the predefined time after the occurrence of the event, by using the respective probabilities corresponding to the event, and the respective probability densities corresponding to the measured values at the time of event occurrence.
US09396431B2
A neural network comprises a plurality of artificial neurons and a plurality of artificial synapses each input neuron being connected to each output neuron by way of an artificial synapse, the network being characterized in that each synapse consists of a first memristive device connected to a first input of an output neuron and of a second memristive device, mounted in opposition to said first device and connected to a second, complemented, input of said output neuron so that said output neuron integrates the difference between the currents originating from the first and second devices.
US09396425B1
Systems (100) and methods (400) for an object (1121) within an area (102). The methods involve: receiving, by a Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) tag (1141) coupled to the object, a Radio Frequency (“RF”) interrogator signal transmitted from an RFID reader (108); processing, by the RFID tag, the RF interrogator signal to determine if the RF interrogator signal applies thereto; and performing operations by the RFID tag to direct a person's attention directly to the object by activating at least one alerting mechanism (220) electrically and mechanically coupled to the RFID tag when the RF interrogator signal is determined to apply to the RFID tag. In some scenarios, the alerting is additionally or alternatively performed by a beacon (110).
US09396423B2
A quality management system for products including a multiplicity of barcoded quality indicators, a barcode indicator reader and a product type responsive indication interpreter, each of the barcoded quality indicators including a first barcode including at least one first colorable area, the first barcode being machine-readable before exceedance of the at least one time and temperature threshold, at least a second barcode including at least one second colorable area, the second barcode not being machine-readable before exceedance of the at least one time and temperature threshold, a coloring agent located at a first location on the indicator and a coloring agent pathway operative to allow the coloring agent to move, from the first location to the first and second colorable areas simultaneously thereby causing the first barcode to become unreadable and at the same time causing the second barcode to become machine-readable.
US09396416B2
A card connector has an inserted card module including electrode pads provided on one surface. The card connector includes a housing provided with connection terminals arranged so as to contact the electrode pads of the card module. The card connector includes a holding spring portion for holding a card module inserted into the card connector. The card connector includes an ejection mechanism able to change orientation between a first orientation and a second orientation. The ejection mechanism has the first orientation before a card module is inserted into the card connector, and the second orientation after a card module has been completely inserted into the card connector. The holding spring portion is displaceable when the ejection mechanism is in the first orientation, and non-displaceable when the ejection mechanism is in the second orientation.
US09396410B1
Techniques are provided for preserving angles at graph elbows as graph nodes are moved. A graph, which includes a first segment and a second segment that form an acute or obtuse angle at a vertex, is displayed. The first segment has a first end opposite the vertex at a first position; the second segment has a second end opposite the vertex at a second position. User input moves the second end from the second position to a third position. In response, the angle is automatically preserved by modifying a length of the first segment and a length of the second segment, without modifying the first position of the first end. Other techniques can replace two segments with a single segment if one of the segments becomes too short, or snap an elbow angle to a specified angle if moving the node causes the elbow angle to near the specified angle.
US09396407B2
An image recognition device for recognizing respective types of display objects appearing in an image is provided, the image recognition device comprising: a change object selecting unit configured to select a change object, a target whose recognition result is to be modified, from the display objects and to determine that a type of each determined object is a type of one of recognition candidates which has the highest degree of reliability, the determined objects being not the change object; a pair object selecting unit configured to select a pair object from the determined objects, the pair object making a pair with the change object; and a recognition processing unit configured to modify the recognition result of the change object and to identify the change object, on the basis of a pair information list that indicates an object type associated with a type of the pair object.
US09396397B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for object recognition and link integration in a composite video stream. One embodiment takes the form of a process that includes detecting an object of interest in a set of video frames. The process also includes tracking the movements of the detected object of interest across a subset of the video frames in the set of video frames. The process further includes generating a composite video stream from the video frames in the subset. The composite video stream shows the tracked movements of the detected object of interest without showing background data from the video frames in the subset. The process also includes outputting the generated composite video stream.
US09396393B2
Video sequence processing is described with various filtering rules applied to extract dominant features for content based video sequence identification. Active regions are determined in video frames of a video sequence. Video frames are selected in response to temporal statistical characteristics of the determined active regions. A two pass analysis is used to detect a set of initial interest points and interest regions in the selected video frames to reduce the effective area of images that are refined by complex filters that provide accurate region characterizations resistant to image distortion for identification of the video frames in the video sequence. Extracted features and descriptors are robust with respect to image scaling, aspect ratio change, rotation, camera viewpoint change, illumination and contrast change, video compression/decompression artifacts and noise. Compact, representative signatures are generated for video sequences to provide effective query video matching and retrieval in a large video database.
US09396391B2
Generation of a plurality of orthomosaic image layers for a geographical area, wherein the layers comprise different spatial resolutions and are radiometrically normalized to facilitate improved radiometric consistency when zooming relative to the geographic area. In applications that facilitate zooming with respect to a geographic area imaged by the orthomosaic layers, radiometric normalization of the orthomosaic image layers may reduce radiometric discontinuities when zooming in, zooming out, and/or panning a displayed portion that is output to the user. The orthomosaic layers may be generated based on one or more orthomosaic image layer or may be developed independently using a source images. In any regard, the radiometric normalization may include generating a normalization function based on image metadata that is calculated and may be independent of the spatial resolution of the image.
US09396389B2
A digital camera associated with a mobile processing apparatus is used to produce a file containing a 2D digitized image of a document having pre-formatted fields for user's check marks. The image is electronically matched to a digital template of the document for extracting digitized images of the pre-formatted fields, which are thereafter analyzed for presence therein of user-entered check marks.
US09396385B2
A method that integrates sensor data and video analysis to analyze object motion. Motion capture elements generate motion sensor data for objects of interest, and cameras generate video of these objects. Sensor data and video data are synchronized in time and aligned in space on a common coordinate system. Sensor fusion is used to generate motion metrics from the combined and integrated sensor data and video data. Integration of sensor data and video data supports robust detection of events, generation of video highlight reels or epic fail reels augmented with metrics that show interesting activity, and calculation of metrics that exceed the individual capabilities of either sensors or video analysis alone.
US09396379B2
The invention relates to a sensor for detection of properties and structures of an organic tissue and its surface, e.g., a fingerprint sensor comprising a chosen number of sensor electrodes at chosen positions for coupling to a finger tissue and its surface having a size less or comparable to the size of the structures, characteristics or properties of the finger tissue or surface, and a processing unit including electronic circuitry connected to said electrodes for detection of the voltage at, or the current flow in the electrodes, thereby providing for detection and collection of information of related capacitance, impedance, electromagnetic field, fingerprint, tissue aliveness or other biometric, physical, physiological, thermal or optical or characteristics or properties of the tissue or its surface positioned over the electrodes, the processing unit being mounted on one side of a substrate and the electrodes being embedded in said substrate, the substrate including through going first, second and third conductive paths between said sensor electrodes and said measurement circuitry. The substrate is made from a polymer material such as Polyimide, implemented as a rigid or a flexible multi layer build-up substrate, said first, second, and third conductive paths are constituted by through going substrate sections of a chosen size and material.
US09396376B1
A method for validating a quick response code includes steps or acts of: receiving a captured enhanced quick response code that included a static component and a dynamic component; validating the quick response code in the static component using the auxiliary data in the dynamic component; and returning a token when the quick response code is validated.
US09396370B2
A carrier compensation reader compensates a carrier signal. The carrier compensation reader transmits, via an antenna, a first carrier signal and obtains a second carrier signal based on the first carrier signal. The carrier compensation reader configures a compensation circuit to receive a receiver output signal based on the second carrier signal and generate a compensation signal based on the receiver output signal to compensate the second carrier signal. The carrier compensation reader obtains a carrier compensation signal summing the second carrier signal and the compensation signal.
US09396360B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for securing a performance state change of one or more processors. A disclosed method includes intercepting a request for a change of a performance state of the processor and determining whether to execute the request based on a security condition of the processor. The performance state of the processor includes at least one of an operating voltage and an operating frequency. A disclosed system includes an operating system module operative to transmit a request for a performance state change of at least one processing core. The system includes performance state control logic in communication with the operating system module and operative to receive the request and to change the performance state of the at least one processing core based on the request. The computing system further includes performance state security logic operative to intercept the request transmitted from the operating system module to the performance state control logic and to selectively transmit the request to the performance state control logic based on a security condition of the computing system.
US09396354B1
A method executed by a computer includes receiving an image from a client device. A facial recognition technique is executed against an individual face within the image to obtain a recognized face. Privacy rules are applied to the image, where the privacy rules are associated with privacy settings for a user associated with the recognized face. A privacy protected version of the image is distributed, where the privacy protected version of the image has an altered image feature.
US09396350B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for object-based commands with access control identifiers. In an embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a data storage device configured to store data as objects, each object including a tracking indicator to identify the object and a data field with a variable size to store user data. The data storage device may be further configured to receive a command including an operation directed to an object and an access control identifier used to determine whether to perform the operation. Commands may be directed towards put, get, or delete operations, among others.
US09396339B2
A router is placed between a protected computer and devices with which the computer communicates, including peripherals and other computers. The router includes a list of authorized devices that are permitted to send data to the protected computer, against which requests to send data are checked. The router also communicates with a remote authentication service to authenticate devices requesting such permission. The authentication service may be a cloud-based identity service.
US09396330B2
The present solution reduces denial of service (DoS) attacks against dynamically generated next secure (NSEC) records. A domain name system (DNS) proxy may prevent spoofed IP addresses by forcing clients to transmit DNS queries via transmission control protocol (TCP), by replying to a user datagram protocol (UDP) DNS request with a blank or predetermined resource record with a truncation bit set to indicate that the record is too large to fit within a single UDP packet payload. Under the DNS specification, the client must re-transmit the DNS request via TCP. Upon receipt of the retransmitted request via TCP, the DNS proxy may generate fictitious neighbor addresses and a signed NSEC record and transmit the record to the client. Accordingly, the DNS Proxy need not waste time and processor cycles generating and signing records for requests from spoofed IP addresses via UDP.
US09396322B2
A computer-implemented method for preventing password leakage into a non-password field includes detecting that a user of an electronic device has entered a character in a non-password field appearing on a display associated with the electronic device. The character is echoed to at least the display, and stored to provide a stored character string. The stored character string is compared to a set of valid entries for the non-password field, when length of the stored character string reaches a predetermined threshold value. An alert is transmitted when the stored character string fails to match at least a substring of an element of the set of valid entries for the non-password field.
US09396319B2
A method of criminal profiling and person identification that utilizes an online identity software-based solution which focuses on the cognitive/behavioral aspects of an individual who is attempting to gain or has gained unauthorized access to a computer system or portions of that system, who may be posing as an authorized user of that system. There is an emphasis on identifying the intruder's unique cognitive/behavioral biometric fingerprint while he is creating usable electronic evidence during his criminal behavior in cyberspace.
US09396316B1
A system and method for bypassing secondary user authentication based at least in part on the detection of a whitelisting deviation from a user pattern are disclosed. In one implementation, the system includes a pattern determination module, a fraudulent login identifier module, a whitelisting deviation detection module and a user authentication generation module. The pattern determination module determines a user pattern. The fraudulent login identifier module identifies a potentially fraudulent login and triggers a secondary authentication challenge. The whitelisting deviation detection module compares user information to the user pattern and determines based on the comparison whether a whitelisting deviation from the user pattern has occurred. The user authentication generation module generates and sends a secondary user authentication challenge responsive to the identification of a potentially fraudulent login by the fraudulent login identification module unless bypassed responsive to the determination that a whitelisting deviation has occurred.
US09396314B2
A method for changing the status, locked or unlocked, of a target machine including a security service and a session management module includes receiving, by the security service, a query corresponding to a request to change the status of the target machine, the query including at least one piece of identification information from a user of a source machine; from the security service, verifying if access rights to the target machine related to the user of the source machine allow a change in the status of the target machine by the user; if so, sending, from the security service, a status change message to the session management module of the target machine and proceeding to the status change made by the session management module.
US09396302B2
For global routing using a graphics processing unit (GPU), a method routes a net of node interconnections for a semiconductor design. In addition, the method decomposes the net into subnets. Each subnet has no shared paths. The method further identifies a congested region of the routed net that exceeds routing capacities. In addition, the method correlates the congested region with a plurality of first subnets with workloads within the congested region. The method routes the subnets in parallel using the GPU.
US09396301B1
Methods and systems for interconnecting circuit components with track patterns are disclosed. The method identifies a source pin on a first track and a destination pin on a second track and determines a third track in a different routing direction based on design rules governing track patterns. The method further determines a transition pattern for the interconnection between the source pin and the destination pin by using at least the third track. The method may use one or more dummy pins or ordering of pin connections in implementing the interconnection to satisfy certain design rules. The lengths of some wire segments of the interconnection may be further adjusted to satisfy certain design rules. Compaction may be performed to have two wire segments share the same track while the lengths or widths of one or both wire segments may be further modified to ensure design rule compliance.
US09396300B2
Packaging methods for semiconductor devices, packaged semiconductor devices, and design methods thereof are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of packaging a plurality of semiconductor devices includes providing a first die, and coupling second dies to the first die. An electrical connection is formed between the first die and each of the second dies. A portion of each of the electrical connections is disposed between the second dies.
US09396298B1
For linear array display, a method encodes a logic design as a linear array that includes a plurality of logic states. Each logic state includes one or more binary output variables, one or more binary input variables, one or more minterms of the one or more binary input variables, one or more maxterms of the one or more minterms, one or more present state values, and one or more next state values. The method displays the linear array as a combination map comprising a plurality of fields. Each field represents a corresponding logic state.
US09396293B2
A method for analyzing energy savings for a building is provided. The method includes receiving a historical energy usage and a weather data for a building, a set of operations parameters describing building operations and a set of building system parameters describing building systems. A baseline configuration is submitted to a first energy consumption simulation to determine a baseline energy usage profile. A calibrated configuration is determined from the baseline configuration and the historical energy usage. The calibrated configuration is submitted to a second energy consumption simulation to determine a calibrated energy usage profile. A hypothetical configuration is determined from the calibrated configuration and a set of energy improvement measures. The hypothetical configuration is submitted to a third energy consumption simulation to determine a hypothetical energy usage profile and report. The set of energy improvement measures are approved and implemented based on the hypothetical energy usage profile.
US09396292B2
Methods for product data management and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a geometric model including plurality of entities and receiving existing conditions corresponding to the geometric model. The method includes receiving an operation to be performed on a selected entity of the geometric model. The method includes propagating through the geometric model from the selected entity to other entities of the geometric model, according to the existing conditions, and adding the selected entities and the other entities to a variational system. The method includes performing a variational solve of the variational system according to the operation to produce modified entities and applying the modified entities to the geometric model to produce an edited geometric model.
US09396287B1
A system to collect and store in a special data structure arranged for rapid searching massive amounts of data. Performance metric data is one example. The performance metric data is recorded in time-series measurements, converted into unicode, and arranged into a special data structure having one directory for every day which stores all the metric data collected that day. The data structure at the server where analysis is done has a subdirectory for every resource type. Each subdirectory contains text files of performance metric data values measured for attributes in a group of attributes to which said text file is dedicated. Each attribute has its own section and the performance metric data values are recorded in time series as unicode hex numbers as a comma delimited list. Analysis of the performance metric data is done using regular expressions.
US09396285B1
An approach for tracking system changes to support data maintenance within a directory service environment. Log fields are added to a directory service database for applications that interface with a directory service environment based on predetermined fields to be tracked. The log fields are updated to register database schema fields and data associated with the applications to create a history of changes. An application's identity and data access to the directory service environment are monitored and the log fields are updated to create a history of usage. The directory service database history of usage and changes are analyzed to determine applications relationship dependencies and usage information. Associated maintenance actions are identified by detecting conditions in the directory service environment, based on predetermined maintenance criteria and maintenance is performed.
US09396273B2
A forensic system includes a result information receiving unit that receives result information which is a determination result of connection between a lawsuit and a document group including a predetermined number of documents, which is extracted from document data included in digital information, by a user, an element selection unit that calculates evaluation values of elements which commonly appear in the document group in each result information item from the characteristics of the elements and selects the elements on the basis of the evaluation values, a score calculation unit that calculates a score of each document in the document data from the selected elements included in each document of the document data and the evaluation values of the selected elements, and a recall ratio calculation unit that calculates a recall ratio related to the determination of the connection to the lawsuit on the basis of the score.
US09396268B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying answer boxes for presentation to a user. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of, while receiving an input entered in a search engine query input field by a first user, and before the first user has submitted the input as a search request, obtaining content for an answer box for the input and presenting the answer box to the first user. The answer box can be an answer box associated with a dominant query for the input, or can be an answer box identified from historical answer box data for the input.
US09396262B2
A method, computer-usable medium, and a computer system for searching for webpages are disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention provide a convenient and efficient mechanism for filtering results from a keyword search using semantic keys and semantic sub-keys, thereby enabling an increased number of irrelevant results to be filtered from a keyword search. The search query may be parsed to determine the focus of the query, where the focus may be used determine at least one semantic key for the search query. Each semantic key may be associated with at least one semantic sub-key, where the semantic keys and/or the semantic sub-keys may be used to filter the results of the keyword search. As such, broader keyword searches may be performed to include a larger number of relevant results, where the filtering mechanisms of the present invention may then filter an increased number of irrelevant results.
US09396261B2
A system is described for serving data matching content in a search engine marketing system. The system may include a processor, an interface and a memory. The memory may be operatively connected to the processor and may store a page, a content related to the page, a set of terms and a data. The interface may be operatively connected to the memory and the processor and may be used to communicate with a user. The processor may identify a page and a content, perform a semantic analysis on the content to generate a set of terms, match the set of terms to a data, add the data to the page, and the serve the page to a user via the interface.
US09396259B1
Disclosed are various embodiments of a system for rendering, in a first browser of a computer, a network page of an electronic commerce system. The system stores, in a first data store, a first capture of a rendering of the network page. The system transmits data associated with the first capture to another computer, where a second browser renders the network page based at least upon the data associated with the first capture. The system stores, in a second data store, a second capture of the network page.
US09396258B2
A system and method for recommending video programs to a user comprising determining a first video program that is of interest to a user and then determining a second video program to recommend to the user, the second video program being determined from a recommendation database assembled by analyzing access logs from one or more search engines or online video content providers.
US09396254B1
Provided are, among other things, systems, methods and techniques for generating a set of representative components from a set of documents, by selecting at least one component for initial inclusion within a representative component set. An additional component is then identified based on (1) frequency of occurrence of the additional component across the set of documents and (2) strength of negative correlation with the representative component set across the set of documents. The representative component set is supplemented with the additional component, and the identification and supplementing steps are repeated multiple times until a specified end condition is satisfied. The representative component set is output and/or the documents are processed based on the representative component set.
US09396251B1
Examples of techniques for detecting and tracking virtual containers are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes detecting a virtual container. The method further includes collecting virtual container data for the virtual container. The method also includes associating, by a processing device, the virtual container to at least one of a plurality of images. Additionally, the method includes building, by the processing device, a container event database based on the virtual container data and the association of the virtual container to the at least one of the plurality of images, so as to enable tracking of software in the plurality of images and in live virtual containers.
US09396250B2
There is provided a flow line detection process data distribution system which can distribute data detected from a mobile body to precisely perform flow line detection when flow line detection is realized by distribution processing. An area processing means 92 calculates for each combination which is a combination of unit areas used as constituent units of divided areas upon determination of the divided areas obtained by dividing the predetermined area and which is obtained by combining two different unit areas a degree of correlation which indicates a degree that sensor data related to an identical mobile body is detected, and determines the divided areas obtained by dividing the predetermined area based on the calculated degree of correlation. A data distribution means 93 classifies the sensor data stored in the data storage means 91 depending on in which divided area the sensor data is detected, and outputs the classified sensor data to different flow line detection process units.
US09396236B1
Methods for ranking users based on contextual factors are provided. An example method may include receiving an online question by an asking user. The method may further include identifying one or more topics of the received online question. The method may further include identifying a set of candidate answering users from a plurality of users based on an expertise level of each user of the plurality of users, wherein the expertise level is related to the identified one or more topics of the received online question. In addition, the method may include ranking the set of candidate answering users based on a commonality of one or more contextual factors between the asking user and the set of candidate answering users, wherein the one or more contextual factors are distinct from the identified one or more topics. Systems and computer-readable media for ranking users based on contextual factors are also described.
US09396235B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining whether to provide a factual answer to a user's query. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a set of query patterns associated with a particular fact. A subset of natural language query patterns can be identified from the set of query patterns. A likelihood that a query corresponding to at least one of the query patterns from the set of query patterns is a fact-seeking query can be determined based at least in part on comparing a first query count associated with the subset of natural language query patterns with a second query count associated with the set of query patterns. The likelihood can be provided as a signal for ranking search results.
US09396214B2
A method and system for providing a user interface for presenting images of clusters of an image search result is provided. The user interface system displays the search result in a cluster/view form using a cluster panel and a view panel. The cluster panel contains a cluster area for each cluster. The view panel may contain thumbnails of images of the search result in a list view or a mix view. When a user selects a cluster area from the cluster panel, the user interface system displays a list view of thumbnails for that cluster in the view panel. The user interface system may display a thumbnail list near a cluster area of the cluster panel. The thumbnail list contains mini-thumbnails of the images of the selected cluster. The user interface system may also display a detail view of an image in the view panel when a user selects an image.
US09396212B2
A system and method for presenting video asset information to a viewer to assist the view in selecting a video asset for viewing. The video assets can be available from a plurality of different video asset sources, such as VOD (video on demand), PVR (personal video recorders) and broadcast (including over the air, cable, and satellite). Images from the video assets are displayed in a uniform manner, along with information about the video assets. The information includes data in a metadata category. The view can select one of the video assets for viewing, but also can navigate using metadata categories such as genre, actors, director etc. This allows a much easier and natural navigating and selection process for viewers.
US09396208B2
A technique to enable the user of storage clouds to use of a plurality of storage clouds without the user of storage clouds being aware of which data is being entrusted to which storage cloud and without sacrificing safety or ease-of-use by selecting at least one storage cloud to store an entity file storable in a cloud-utilizing terminal from among a plurality of storage clouds connected via a network to the cloud-utilizing terminal. This technique includes referencing the attributes or context of an entity file, or the attributes of a virtual folder and each attribute of a plurality of storage clouds, in response to the creation or update of the entity file in the virtual folder in the cloud-utilizing terminal, and selecting at least one storage cloud from among a plurality of storage clouds for storing the entity file so as to satisfy predefined rules.
US09396200B2
The invention pertains to a method and information handling system (IHS) for analyzing snapshot operation data of one or more snapshot operations associated with at least one storage device and at least one host computer. An embodiment of a method of the present invention begins by locating the snapshot operation data. Next, configuration information is assembled from the snapshot operation data. Further, debug data associated with the one or more snapshot operations is stored. An analysis is performed including the snapshot operation data, the configuration information, and the stored debug data. Next, the method identifies one or more issues and one or more action plans for resolution based upon the analysis. Finally, the method provides a report to one or more users including the configuration information, the one or more identified issues, and the one or more action plans.
US09396196B2
Systems and methods are provided for aggregating a local media collection of a user with one or more shared media collections shared with the user to provide an aggregate media collection for the user. In general, media collection information of a plurality of shared media collections from a plurality of second client devices are obtained. Media collection information identifying media items from at least one of the plurality of shared media collections and a local media collection of a first user are processed. An aggregated media collection based on the processed media collection information is provided where the aggregated media collection comprises a primary list including a media item entry for each unique media item.
US09396195B1
The present invention discloses systems and methods for sharing video content within a user's social network. In particular, the members of the user's social network can act as both recipients and senders of shared video content. An exemplary method for sharing videos includes identifying a video to be shared, identifying one or more recipients, and causing a playlist for each recipient to be populated with the shared video.
US09396190B2
In certain implementations, a first data element set associated with a first attribute may be provided on a user interface. Individual first data elements of the first data element set may each represent a first value associated with the first attribute. A control element set may be provided on the user interface. Individual control elements of the control element set may each represent an attribute. A first touch-based input indicating an association of a first one of the individual control elements with a first one of the individual first data elements may be received. Responsive to the indicated association, a second data element set associated with a second attribute that is represented by the first one of the individual control elements may be provided on the user interface. Individual second data elements of the second data element set may each represent a second value associated with the second attribute and correspond to the first value represented by the first one of the first individual data elements.
US09396187B2
A search request received from a user is converted to a search request integer value using an operational portion of a chip in network equipment. The search request integer value is compared to representative data integer values that were previously converted from a dataset of search terms using the operational portion, the representative integer values being stored on the chip. If the comparing is successful, a signal is transmitted to a second database, the signal being used to determine a message to be transmitted to the user that corresponds to the representative data integer.
US09396185B2
A method for providing a contextual description of an object includes receiving a first object associated with a user. The first object has a first object type representing one of a place, an event, and a person and includes a first attribute associated with the respective place, event, or person. A second object is identified that has a second attribute related to the first attribute, and has a second object type representing one of a place, an event, and a person. According to an exemplary embodiment, a first pre-defined phrase template corresponding to the first object type is dynamically combined with a second pre-defined phrase template corresponding to the second object type to form a linguistic prompt related to the place, event, or person representing the first object. The linguistic prompt is then presented to the user to describe the place, event, or person representing the first object.
US09396181B1
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are recited herein for user-directed reporting. In the context of a method, context information is received, wherein the context information defines the data set from which a natural language text or a graph is to be derived. The method further includes generating a set of messages based on the context information. The method further includes generating, by a processor, a context-specific report based on the set of messages and the relationship between them, wherein the context-specific report is configured to linguistically or visually express at least of messages. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are provided.
US09396178B2
A system and method for automated dictionary population is provided to facilitate the entry of textual material in dictionaries for enhancing word prediction. The automated dictionary population system is useful in association with a mobile device including at least one dictionary which includes entries. The device receives a communication which is parsed and textual data extracted. The text is compared to the entries of the dictionaries to identify new words. Statistical information for the parsed words, including word usage frequency, recency, or likelihood of use, is generated. Profanities may be processed by identifying profanities, modifying the profanities, and asking the user to provide feedback. Phrases are identified by phrase markers. Lastly, the new words are stored in a supplementary word list as single words or by linking the words of the identified phrases to preserve any phrase relationships. Likewise, the statistical information may be stored.
US09396177B1
Systems and methods for document tracking using elastic graph-based hierarchical analysis are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include at least one computer processor identifying a sector for the document; the at least one computer processor retrieving a customization library for the document based on the sector; the at least one computer processor analyzing a structure of the document using the customization library, whereby a plurality of markers in first the document are identified; and the at least one computer processor generating an elastic graph for the document based on the plurality of markers.
US09396171B2
A system for representing and generating XML data is provided. The system includes one or more processors and a mapping module configured to execute upon the one or more processors. The mapping module is configured to map each sparsely-encoded XML element of a sparse representation of a document into a complete, valid XML document. The system also includes a defaulting module configured to execute upon the one or more processors. The defaulting module is configured to generate at least one XML element missing in the sparse representation, but required to generate the complete, valid XML document.
US09396169B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure can include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer program products for using color space encoded images to publish an entire book including text and images onto a single piece of paper, or onto few pieces of paper. In certain aspects, the present systems and methods allow users to perform data backup using color space encoded images. In other aspects, the present systems and methods allow users to self-publish desired content significantly cheaper by encoding the desired content using color space encoded images. In certain aspects, publishers or booksellers can include traditional books in combination with digital or electronic books distributed using color space encoded images. In other aspects, the present systems and methods allow users or administrators to compress and/or copy massive documents using color space encoded images.
US09396165B2
The present invention includes: receiving, from a terminal, display position information for specifying a display area 31 of content information displayed on a display unit among content information to be displayed on the display unit 23 of the terminal 20 (S5); receiving, from the terminal, operation position information related to an operation position operated on a screen of a display area by a user (S5); specifying a gaze area 34 of a display portion gazed by the user, based on operation position information (S6); extracting a feature element from the gaze area (S7); specifying an undisplay area of content information which is not yet displayed on the display unit, from display position information (S8); generating condensed information of content information included in the non-display area, based on the feature element (S9); and transmitting condensed information to the terminal (S10).
US09396162B2
Disclosed herein are methods, apparatuses, and techniques for estimating the state of a system. According to one implementation, a Massively Parallel Nested Factorization technique, or MPNF, is disclosed that runs efficiently on parallel computer architectures. Also disclosed is a procedure used to create and utilize MPNF ordering.
US09396151B2
Described are embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and systems for PCIe tunneling across a multi-protocol I/O interconnect of a computer apparatus. A method for PCIe tunneling across the multi-protocol I/O interconnect may include establishing a first communication path between ports of a switching fabric of a multi-protocol I/O interconnect of a computer apparatus in response to a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) device being connected to the computer apparatus, and establishing a second communication path between the switching fabric and a PCIe controller. The method may further include routing, by the multi-protocol I/O interconnect, PCIe protocol packets of the PCIe device from the PCIe device to the PCIe controller over the first and second communication paths. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09396147B1
A method and apparatus of performing a data transmission from an electronic device or a peripheral device of an electronic device to a peripheral device of a remote electronic device is disclosed. One example method of performing the data transmission may include transmitting data designated for the remote peripheral device to a local virtual device object. The data that is received by the local virtual device object is transmitted via at least one communication interface or peripheral device of the electronic device to at least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device. The data arriving at the least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device is received by a remote virtual device object and transmitted to the designated remote peripheral device.
US09396141B2
According to embodiments a memory system is connectable to a host which includes a host controller and a host memory including a first memory area and a second memory area. The memory system includes an interface unit, a non-volatile memory, and a controller unit. The interface unit receives a read command and a write command. The controller unit writes write-data to the non-volatile memory according to the write command. The controller unit determines whether read-data requested by the read command is in the first memory area. If the read-data is in the first memory area, the controller unit causes the host controller to copy the read-data from the first memory area to the second memory area. If the read-data is not in the first memory area, the controller unit reads the read-data from the non-volatile memory and causes the host controller to store the read-data in the second memory area.
US09396131B1
A system for dynamically utilizing data storage comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to determine whether a data storage criterion is satisfied; and, in the event that the data storage criterion is satisfied: determine a new archiving threshold based on a target data storage usage level; and set the archiving threshold. The memory is coupled to the processor and is configured to provide the processor with instructions.
US09396128B2
A system and method provide a unified cache in a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) device which can be dynamically allocated to one or more Logical Units (LUs). A cache balancer module of the SCSI device can allocate the entire unified cache to a single LU, or divide the unified cache among multiple LUs. The cache entries for each LU can be further classified based on Quality of Service (QoS) traffic classes within each LU thereby improving the QoS performance. The system provides a cache allocation table that maintains a unified cache allocation status for each LU.
US09396124B2
An apparatus is contemplated for storing and providing configuration data to an integrated circuit device, the apparatus has a fuse array and a plurality of cores. The fuse array is disposed on a die. The fuse array has a first plurality of semiconductor fuses and a second plurality of semiconductor fuses. The plurality of cores is disposed on the die, where each of the plurality of cores is coupled to the fuse array. The each of the plurality of cores includes array control, configured to access the first and second pluralities of fuses, and configured to process first states of the first plurality of semiconductor fuses and second states of the second plurality of semiconductor fuses according to contents of a configuration data register.
US09396122B2
Methods and systems for cache allocation schemes optimized for browsing applications. A memory controller includes a memory cache for reducing the number of requests that access off-chip memory. When an idle screen use case is detected, the frame buffer is allocated to the memory cache using a sequential allocation mode. Pixels are allocated to indexes of a given way in a sequential fashion, and then each way is accessed in a sequential fashion. When a given way is being accessed, the other ways of the memory cache are put into retention mode to reduce the leakage power.
US09396121B2
For performing efficient management of tracks in an asynchronous Peer-to-Peer Redundant Copy (PPRC) operation in a computing storage environment, a correct status of a sequential bit is determined by performing one of: (1) examining a primary cache, where if data being transferred pursuant to the PPRC operation in a primary track remains in the primary cache, the sequential bit setting found therein is used, and (2) an Out-Of-Sync (OOS) bitmap is examined to determine if the sequential bit is set.
US09396119B2
The present disclosure relates to a device for controlling the access to a cache structure comprising multiple cache sets during the execution of at least one computer program, the device comprising a module for generating seed values during the execution of the at least one computer program; a parametric hash function module for generating a cache set identifier to access the cache structure, the identifier being generated by combining a seed value generated by the module for generating seed values and predetermined bits of an address to access a main memory associated to the cache structure.
US09396118B2
Efficient dynamic randomizing address remapping for PCM caching to improve endurance and anti-attack
A method, including monitoring, by a remapping manager, a system state of a computing device for the occurrence of a predefined event, detecting, by the remapping manager, the occurrence of the predefined event, and initiating, by the remapping manager upon the detection of the predefined event, a remapping of first encoded addresses stored in tags, the first encoded addresses are associated with locations in main memory that are cached in a memory cache.
US09396115B2
In a multiprocessor data processing system having a distributed shared memory system, a memory transaction that is a rewind-only transaction (ROT) and that includes one or more transactional memory access instructions and a transactional abort instruction is executed. In response to execution of the one or more transactional memory access instructions, one or more memory accesses to the distributed shared memory system indicated by the one or more transactional memory access instructions are performed. In response to execution of the transactional abort instruction, execution results of the one or more transaction memory access instructions are discarded and control is passed to a fail handler.
US09396113B2
A processor having a streaming unit is disclosed. In one embodiment, a processor includes a streaming unit configured to load one or more input data streams from a memory coupled to the processor. The streaming unit includes an internal network having a plurality of queues configured to store streams of data. The streaming unit further includes a plurality of operations circuits configured to perform operations on the streams of data. The streaming unit is software programmable to operatively couple two or more of the plurality of operations circuits together via one or more of the plurality of queues. The operations circuits may perform operations on multiple streams of data, resulting in corresponding output streams of data.
US09396104B1
Accessing data of varying-sized quanta in non-volatile memory provides improved storage efficiency in some situations. For example, a Solid-State Disk (SSD) controller receives (e.g. uncompressed) data from a computing host (e.g. a disk write command), compresses the data, and stores the compressed data into non-volatile (e.g. flash) memory. In response to a subsequent request from the host (e.g. a disk read command), the SSD controller reads and uncompresses the compressed data from the memory. The compressed data is stored in the memory according to varying-sized quanta, due to, e.g., compression algorithm, operating mode, and compression effectiveness on various data. The SSD controller uncompresses the data in part by consulting an included map table to locate header(s) stored in the memory, parsing the header(s) to locate appropriate (compressed) data stored in the memory, and uncompressing the appropriate data from the memory to produce the uncompressed data.
US09396103B2
A method and system for storage address re-mapping is disclosed. The method includes allocating logical addresses in blocks of clusters and re-mapping logical addresses into storage address space, where short runs of data dispersed in logical address space are mapped in a contiguous manner into blocks in storage address space. Valid data is flushed from blocks having both valid and obsolete data to make new blocks available for receiving data when an available number of new blocks falls below a desired threshold. The system includes a host file system, processor executable instructions residing on a host separately from the host file system or residing on a flash memory device such as an embedded solid state disk, or a backend memory manager of the flash memory device that is configured to map data from a logical address space to complete blocks in storage address space in a contiguous manner.
US09396093B1
A method and system for testing and logging execution events of software delivered to a user. The user can launch and run the software product while having the support and a necessary input from the product developer. A software product is provided from a first remote server and executed on a user computer, while execution statistics are collected and analyzed by a second remote server. The software product is used in a virtual execution environment. The software product is executed on a Guest Operating System (GOS) also installed on the user computer. A hypervisor-level monitoring of tested software products and GOSs is implemented.
US09396092B1
Methods and systems for software testing with feedback acquisition are disclosed. Modified program code is generated based on programmatic analysis of original program code. The modified program code includes the original program code and a plurality of additional instructions. The additional instructions implement user interface prompts soliciting answers to user feedback questions. The modified program code is sent to one or more client devices for execution. User input responsive to the user interface prompts is then received from the one or more client devices.
US09396084B2
A device management apparatus connected to a plurality of devices via a network includes a collecting unit that receives usage data indicating a status of use of each of the devices from each of the devices and that stores the received usage data in a storage device, and a common data acquiring unit that acquires common data that is common to the devices from the usage data of each of the devices stored in the storage device.
US09396077B2
The present disclosure includes mapping redundant addresses in a multi-node system by receiving a first address and a first node ID, determining a first address type representing an address redundancy level for the first address, determining a first node ID type representing a node ID redundancy level for the first node ID, and determining a second address and a second node ID based on the first address type and the first node ID type.
US09396073B2
For restoring deduplicated data, a method maintains a chunk index on a client computing system coupled to a client data store. The chunk index tracks chunks within files remaining on the client data store after storage of the files to a deduplicated server data store coupled to a server computing system. The method determines whether a valid entry for a first chunk exists in the chunk index. In addition, the method retrieves the first chunk from the server data store responsive to determining the valid entry for the first chunk does not exist in the chunk index. The method further retrieves the first chunk from the client data store specified in the valid entry of the chunk index responsive to determining that the valid entry exists in the chunk index and the first chunk resides in a first file at a first offset.
US09396070B2
Systems and methods for external access detection and recovery in a subsystem of a system-on-a-chip (SoC) in a portable computing device (PCD) are presented. In operation, a subsystem of the SoC is operated in an internal mode independently of the SoC while the SoC is in a low power state, such as a non-functional or zero power state or mode. The subsystem comprises a processor in communication with a memory, a sensor, and a monitor module. The monitor module detects when the processor of the subsystem requests access to a component external to the subsystem. In response to this detected request, the SoC is caused to enter into a full power state or mode, and the subsystem is caused to exit the internal mode of operation.
US09396064B2
A memory system includes a memory having a plurality of address locations, each address location configured to store data and one or more error correction bits corresponding to the data. A secondary memory includes a plurality of entries, and each entry configured to store an address value of an address location of the memory and one or more error correction bits corresponding to the data stored at the address location of the memory. The error correction bits in the secondary memory can be used to correct errors in a subset of the memory having a different number of storage bits than the error correction bits in the memory.
US09396059B2
A computing system can include a platform firmware to monitor hardware errors and to notify an operating system when a corrective action is to be performed to address a hardware error. The computing system can also include an extended error log to describe a hardware error. The computing system can further include an action record to direct the operating system to perform the corrective action to address the hardware error.
US09396058B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for detecting errors within a system by using behavior profiles are presented. At a first time, user requests may be received and serviced. The serviced user requests may be logged. Based on the logged user requests, profiles may be determined. At a second time, user requests may be received and serviced. The serviced user requests may be logged. The logged serviced user requests may be compared to the profiles determined at a first time. For example, the determined profiles may include an error rate for serviced user requests. At the second time, an error rate for the logged serviced user requests may be compared to an error rate included the determined profiles. Serviced users requests may be flagged based on the comparison.
US09396054B2
In a computer storage system, crash dump files are secured without power fencing in a cluster of a plurality of nodes connected to a storage system. Upon an occurrence of a panic of a crashing node and prior to receiving a panic message of the crashing node by a surviving node loading, in the cluster, a capturing node to become active, prior to a totem token being declared lost by the surviving node, for capturing the crash dump files of the crashing node, while restricting the capturing node from gaining access to the storage system for preventing unsynchronized access to the storage system in order to prevent data corruption.
US09396048B2
A process for displaying—in a web browser of a user computer terminal—the rendering that is produced by an application designed to be executed independently by a computer operating system. This process includes a stage that consists in executing (E22, E23) within the browser a software module that triggers execution (E24, E25) of the application by the operating system of the terminal and implementing, during the execution of the application, stages that consist in: detecting (E28) at least one window that is generated by the application and that relates to the rendering generated by the application; and for each window that is detected in the preceding stage, rendering the window that is detected hierarchically depending on the software module, in such a way as to redirect (E28) the rendering produced by the application toward a window that is displayed in the browser.
US09396039B1
Methods and systems for load generation for scalable load testing are disclosed. A plurality of job descriptions are generated based on a load step description. The load step description specifies a total transaction frequency or a total number of concurrent connections for a load test of a service over a period of time. The job descriptions specify subdivisions of the total transaction frequency or the total number of concurrent connections and subdivisions of the period of time. The job descriptions are placed in a job queue. A plurality of worker hosts remove the job descriptions from the job queue and concurrently execute local jobs based on the job descriptions.
US09396036B2
A large-scale data processing system and method including a plurality of processes, wherein a master process assigns input data blocks to respective map processes and partitions of intermediate data are assigned to respective reduce processes. In each of the plurality of map processes an application-independent map program retrieves a sequence of input data blocks assigned thereto by the master process and applies an application-specific map function to each input data block in the sequence to produce the intermediate data and stores the intermediate data in high speed memory of the interconnected processors. Each of the plurality of reduce processes receives a respective partition of the intermediate data from the high speed memory of the interconnected processors while the map processes continue to process input data blocks an application-specific reduce function is applied to the respective partition of the intermediate data to produce output values.
US09396028B2
Scheduling workloads and making provision decisions of computer resources in a computing environment
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a computer-implemented method, computer program product, and system for workload scheduling and resource provisioning. In one embodiment, in accordance with the present invention, the computer implemented method includes the steps of scheduling a set of pending workloads for execution on computer resources in a computing environment; identifying a workload in the set of pending workloads that is scheduled to utilize hypothetic resources, wherein hypothetic resources are idle computer resources that are currently not available, but can be made available to execute workloads through provisioning actions; holding the identified workload from dispatch to hypothetic resources for a holding period, wherein the holding period is a customizable duration of time; provisioning the hypothetic resources corresponding to computer resource requirements of the identified workload; determining whether the provisioned hypothetic resources have become available during the holding period.
US09396021B2
A technique for operating a high performance computing cluster includes monitoring workloads of multiple processors. The high performance computing cluster includes multiple nodes that each include two or more of the multiple processors. Workload information for the multiple processors is periodically updated in respective local job tables maintained in each of the multiple nodes. Based on the workload information in the respective local job tables, one or more threads are periodically moved to a different one of the multiple processors.
US09396008B2
A system and method for automatically reconfiguring a computing environment comprises a consumption analysis server, a placement server, a deployment server in communication with a set of virtual machine monitors and a data warehouse in communication with a set of data collection agents, and a database. The consumption analysis server operates on measured resource utilization data in the data warehouse to yield a set of resource consumptions, available capacities and host and virtual machine configurations from the computing environment. The deployment server continuously monitors an event triggering condition and when the triggering condition is met, the placement server assigns a set of target virtual machines to a target set of hosts in a new placement and the deployment server implements the new placement through communication with the set of virtual machine monitors. The placement server right-sizes the virtual machines and the target set of hosts.
US09396007B2
Disclosed here are methods, systems, paradigms and structures for deleting shared resources from a cache in a multi-threaded system. The shared resources can be used by a plurality of requests belonging to multiple threads executing in the system. When requests, such as requests for executing script code, and work items, such as work items for deleting a shared resource, are created, a global sequence number is assigned to each of them. The sequence number indicates the order in which the requests and work items are created. A particular work item can be executed to delete the shared resource if there are no requests having a sequence number lesser than that of the particular work item executing in the system. However, if there is at least one request with a sequence number lesser than that of the particular work item executing, the work item is ignored until the request completes executing.
US09396006B2
A computer implemented method distributes a virtual machine image. A request for a virtual machine image is received. Responsive to receiving the request or the virtual machine image, the authenticity of a virtual machine image catalog associated with the virtual machine image is identified. Responsive to identifying that the virtual machine image catalog is authentic, a first digital signature to be sent with the virtual machine image is determined. Responsive to determining the signature, the virtual machine image and the signature is sent.
US09396005B2
A system computer storage medium for plug-in management and control is described. The system performs control on the plug-ins in system or application software by utilizing a plug-in list module and a plug-in function controlling module. The control includes activation and deactivation of the plug-ins, and enables reminding, receiving messages, etc. Plug-ins are managed in a uniform and standardized way in a program.
US09396001B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for providing a window management system for an embedded system. In one embodiment a method includes configuring an operating system of an embedded system based on a protocol provided between one or more application windows and a window manager, each application window associated with an application executed by the operating system, storing display content of the one or more application windows in a buffer, and compositing the one or more application windows in the buffer. The method may further include outputting data of the buffer for display of the one or more application windows based on the compositing, wherein an application programming interface is specified for the application to directly access graphics hardware of the embedded system.
US09395997B2
Sequential fetch requests from a set of fetch requests are combined into longer coalesced requests that match the width of a system memory interface in order to improve memory access efficiency for reading the data specified by the fetch requests. The fetch requests may be of different classes and each data class is coalesced separately, even when intervening fetch requests are of a different class. Data read from memory is ordered according to the order of the set of fetch requests to produce an instruction stream that includes the fetch requests for the different classes.
US09395996B2
Systems, methods and computer program product provide for pipelining out-of-order instructions. Embodiments comprise an instruction reservation station for short instructions of a short latency type and long instructions of a long latency type, an issue queue containing at least two short instructions of a short latency type, which are to be chained to match a latency of a long instruction of a long latency type, a register file, at least one execution pipeline for instructions of a short latency type and at least one execution pipeline for instructions of a long latency type; wherein results of the at least one execution pipeline for instructions of the short latency type are written to the register file, preserved in an auxiliary buffer, or forwarded to inputs of said execution pipelines. Data of the auxiliary buffer are written to the register file.
US09395995B2
A method, system, and computer program product for instruction fetching within a processor instruction unit, utilizing a loop buffer, one or more virtual loop buffers, and/or an instruction buffer. During instruction fetch, modified instruction buffers coupled to an instruction cache (I-cache) temporarily store instructions from a single branch, backwards short loop. The modified instruction buffers may be a loop buffer, one or more virtual loop buffers, and/or an instruction buffer. The instruction fetch within the instruction unit of a processor retrieves the instructions for the short loop from the modified buffers during the loop cycles of the single branch, backwards short loop, rather than from the instruction cache.
US09395994B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, a branch prediction unit for an embedded controller may be placed in association with the instruction fetch unit instead of the decode stage. In addition, the branch prediction unit may include no branch predictor. Also, the return address stack may be associated with the instruction decode stage and is structurally separate from the branch prediction unit. In some cases, this arrangement reduces the area of the branch prediction unit, as well as power consumption.
US09395986B2
A compiling apparatus detects a plurality of branch instructions, each of which specifies execution of branch processing on the basis of a result of a comparison operation between integers and indicates the same jump destination, in a first code. The compiling apparatus converts the plurality of branch instructions into an instruction group having fewer branch instructions than the plurality of branch instructions by using logical and arithmetic instructions. The compiling apparatus generates a second code using the converted instruction group when the number of cycles of processing based on the converted instruction group is smaller than that based on the plurality of branch instructions.
US09395979B1
A method is provided for managing software. The method comprises: when a first version of a software development file in a first software development zone is modified, placing a record of the file in a log of modified files; when an attempt is made to open a second version of the file in a second software development zone, comparing an identity of the second version of the file to the log of modified files; and when a match is detected between the identity of the second version of the file and a record of a file in the log of modified files, providing to a computer terminal associated with the second software development zone a notification that indicates that a modification has been made to a version of the file and further indicates an identity of a software developer associated with the first software development zone.
US09395978B2
A mobile phone based software processing method recording time information of installation of each software program in a mobile phone; updating the latest time information of the software; and when it is detected that the time information of certain software is idle for more than a preset time interval, determining that the software is long-term idle, arranging and displaying a list of long-term idle software being idle for more than a preset time interval, and updating or unloading the long-time idle software automatically according to requirements.
US09395977B2
Locating program code units stored on digital data storage includes defining a software module fragment by assigning a software module fragment label to selected program code units, creating a module fragment list defining a software module, said list comprising a set of said software module fragments, receiving a request to retrieve the program code units of a specified software module from the digital data storage, and converting, using a processor, the module fragment list of the specified module into a list of physical locations for resolving the locations of the corresponding program code units on the digital data storage using said labels.
US09395968B1
Methods, apparatus, computer systems, and computer-readable media for creating a firmware identification data structure in a memory device for identifying and validating a firmware are provided. According to one method, a signature, globally unique identifier, and data module category version identifiers are stored in data fields within the data structure. Major and minor version identifiers are modified as corresponding firmware program modules are modified. For validation, a memory device is searched for the signature identifying a firmware identification data structure. The firmware GUID and version identifiers stored within the data structure are used for firmware validation.
US09395958B2
A data binding system facilitates binding of a data component to a feature of a software component. Prior to the binding, a graphical indication of the software component and a graphical indication of the feature of the software component are displayed. In addition, an indication of an element of the data component is displayed in a display area approximately adjacent to the displayed software component. The data binding system receives a user input command to bind the data component to the feature of the software component. The user input command may include dragging the indication of an element of the data component from the data component display area to the feature of the software component and subsequently dropping it on the feature. As a result, the data binding system automatically generates script or code that provides executable instructions to bind the feature of the software component to the data component.
US09395957B2
A high level programming language provides an agile communication operator that generates a segmented computational space based on a resource map for distributing the computational space across compute nodes. The agile communication operator decomposes the computational space into segments, causes the segments to be assigned to compute nodes, and allows the user to centrally manage and automate movement of the segments between the compute nodes. The segment movement may be managed using either a full global-view representation or a local-global-view representation of the segments.
US09395955B2
A programming system and method configured to facilitate the programming of computer programs and interfacing therewith including a computing system. The computing system includes a processing module having a processor. The computing system includes a memory storage module having a memory device functionally coupled to the processor. The computing system includes a plurality of real-time collaborative computing modules stored in the memory device and functionally coupled to the processor, wherein each collaborative computing module includes a function and a plurality of state characteristics stored in memory. The computing system includes a plurality of connection strand modules stored in the memory storage module and functionally coupled to the processing module, wherein each is configured to functionally couple collaborative computing modules together and to automatically operate on a first subset of the plurality of state characteristics according to a first predefined rule set.
US09395950B2
An example method may include displaying, by a network device, an indication of a first audio content and an indication of a second audio content; receiving, by the network device, first input data indicating a request for the first audio content to be played by a group of one or more playback devices; causing, by the network device, the group of one or more playback devices to render the first audio content; receiving, by the network device, second input data indicating a request to audition the second audio content using the network device; and in response to the request to audition the second audio content, rendering, by the network device, the second audio content while the group of one or more playback devices is playing the first audio content. An example network device and an example non-transitory computer-readable medium related to the example method may also be disclosed herein.
US09395933B2
Storage nodes participating in the distributed storage system are divided into groups beforehand. A data replica creation unit operates so that a replica is created on each of the nodes participating in the distributed storage system on a hash ring. A unit that specifies an operating state of the system determines the number of data replicas for each group. The data replica creation unit traverses the hash ring and creates one or more replicas until it is determined that the number of replicas for each group is reached.
US09395928B2
A management system is coupled to a storage system group including a scale-out storage system (a virtual storage system). The management system has storage management information, which includes information denoting, for each storage system, whether or not a storage system is a component of a virtual storage system. The management system, based on the storage management information, determines whether or not a first storage system is a component of a virtual storage system, and in a case where the result of this determination is affirmative, identifies, based on the storage management information, a second storage system, which is a storage system other than the virtual storage system that includes the first storage system, and allows a user to perform a specific operation only with respect to this second storage system.
US09395927B2
The present disclosure includes methods, devices, and systems for outputting data particular quantization of data from memory devices and systems. Outputting data particular quantization of data can include enabling a particular one of a plurality of different quantizations of data. The particular one of the plurality of quantizations of data can then be output.
US09395909B2
When a horizontal-coordinate value or a vertical-coordinate value of a current touch point with reference to a point of origin defined at a touch-start point at which a drag operation on a touch screen starts is less than a threshold value, an X-direction movement amount reset unit or a Y-direction movement amount reset unit resets an amount of horizontal movement or an amount of vertical movement in the drag operation to zero. A scroll control unit scrolls the screen in accordance with the amount of horizontal movement and the amount of vertical movement as processed by the X-direction movement amount reset unit and the Y-direction movement amount reset unit.
US09395904B2
Techniques for providing play-by-play game information and stadium facility load information to in-stadium spectator devices and for using the provided information at the spectator devices.
US09395902B2
An electronic device may include a touch screen electronic display configured to offset and/or shift the contact locations of touch implements and/or displayed content based on one or more calculated parallax values. The parallax values may be associated with the viewing angle of an operator relative to the display of the electronic device. In various embodiments, the parallax value(s) may be calculated using three-dimensional location sensors, an angle of inclination of a touch implement, and/or one or more displayed calibration objects. Parallax values may be utilized to remap contact locations by a touch implement, shift and/or offset displayed content, and/or perform other transformations as described herein. A stereoscopically displayed content may be offset such that a default display plane is coplanar with a touch surface rather than a display surface. Contacts by a finger may be remapped using portions of the contact region and/or a centroid of the contact region.
US09395891B2
A method for providing a navigation tool of a user interface for an industrial control system. The control system is arranged with a plurality of process graphics including one or more software objects. The software objects are arranged in hierarchical groups each representing a process, part-process or an equipment, in which materials are moved and/or processed in a predetermined order. The navigation tool includes a graphic image or map showing the plurality of process graphics symbolically arranged as a plurality of nodes. Each node is spatially arranged at a given distance from the centre of the map according to a hierarchical relationship between the process graphics, and the map is displayed superimposed on top of the process graphic currently displayed on the workstation. A computer program and a workstation are also described. The node representing the currently open process graphic is shown by a visual indicator.
US09395888B2
In various embodiments, a card metaphor is established, in which each activity can be represented within an area of the screen referred to as a card. In various embodiments, any of several display modes are available for viewing, interacting with, manipulating, initiating, and dismissing cards. A persistent positional relationship can be established among cards, represented by a one-dimensional sequence. Newly opened cards are generally placed at the end of the sequence, although a new card that bears a relationship to an already open card may, in some embodiments, be placed adjacent to the already open card. In various embodiments, cards may be grouped, with such groups being represented as stacks of cards or by other visually distinctive means.
US09395885B1
Examples of methods, systems, apparatus, and machine-readable storage media are provided to facilitate access and control of a remote desktop of a remote machine by a web browser of a client device through a web server without installing proprietary plug-ins or protocols on the client device. A web server may translate user input requests from a web browser into input calls compatible with a remote desktop display protocol. The web server may receive remote desktop drawing commands from the remote machine and translate the remote desktop drawing commands into web browser drawing updates compatible with the web browser. A web server may communicate with the web browser and the remote machine via HTTP and a remote desktop display protocol, respectively.
US09395880B2
A mapping system provides a graphical editor, consisting of a visual channel editor and a node configuration panel, for graphically defining channels for processing messages. Within the visual channel editor, the user is able to create a graphical representation of a channel by interconnecting representations of a source node, mapping nodes, condition nodes, and destination nodes. When a node is selected in the visual channel editor, the node configuration panel displays user interface controls in which the user specifies parameters for the selected node. The mapping system automatically generates scripts for implementing the functionality defined by the user input. In this manner, a user need not have any knowledge of scripting to define mappings to apply to messages. The mapping system may be used to perform mappings of messages of virtually any type, but has specific applicability to mapping messages between Health Information Technology (HIT) systems.
US09395878B2
Methods and apparatus to manage zones of a playback system are disclosed. An example method includes displaying a plurality of zone icons, including a first zone icon and a second zone icon, each of the zone icons representing zone player(s) operable to play back multimedia content in a local area network, wherein the first and second zone icons are currently located in a first zone group region, and wherein the zone players associated with the first and second zone icons are members of a first zone group, the first zone group synchronously playing back a first multimedia content; receiving a first drag and drop input to select the second zone icon and drag the second zone icon from inside the first zone group region to outside the first zone region; and, based on the first drag and drop input, causing the zone player(s) associated with the second zone icon to be disassociated with the first zone group.
US09395873B2
Systems and methods for providing single click enterprise communication are provided. In exemplary embodiments, a profile is associated with each individual of an enterprise. A single click selection of a communication type from a plurality of communication types for a particular individual may then be received. The profile associated with the individual is then reviewed to determine one or more contact identifiers associated with the selected communication type. Using the determined contact identifiers a communication may be established with the individual.
US09395870B1
A message selection system may include a memory device to store a plurality of messages. Each message may prompt a user to provide a respective predetermined response. The message selection may further include a processor in communication with the memory device. The processor may determine at least one condition associated with a channel configured to transmit the plurality of messages to a user interface. The processor may further select, in response to the at least one condition associated with the channel, at least one of the plurality of messages to be transmitted to the user interface over the channel. A method and computer-readable medium may also be implemented in message selection.
US09395868B2
Computer-implemented methods for adjusting a display of multiple web page windows in a web browser are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving selections of visible portions of first and second web page windows oriented in an overlaid configuration with first and second touch inputs, and receiving a dragging motion of the touch inputs to alter the visible portion of at least one of the windows. When the dragging motion includes dragging the touch inputs away from one another, the visible portion of the first web page window is increased and the visible portion of the second web page window is decreased, and when the dragging motion includes dragging the touch inputs towards one another, the visible portion of the first web page window is decreased and the visible portion of the second web page window is increased. Systems, graphical user interfaces, and machine-readable media are also provided.
US09395867B2
A method and method for displaying an image via a graphical user interface on a touch-sensitive display of an electronic device includes detecting a predetermined relation between a selection tool and the image. The image is panned in response to movement of the selection tool along the touch-sensitive display. The image is zoomed on in response to depression of the touch-sensitive display. An optional cursor may be activated upon detection of a first tap of the selection tool on the touch-sensitive display.
US09395866B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for summoning a palette to a cursor location is presented. An application is run, the application having a work area in a Graphical User Interface (GUI). The application includes at least one palette associated therewith. A cursor can be operated within the work area. An input is provided causing one of the at least one palette to be presented at a location adjacent the cursor, and wherein the palette is maintained at the location.
US09395864B2
Animation for the expansion and collapse of content in a user interface may be provided. The user interface may be displayed by a computer and may contain a content surface for editing content. The content may include a top data row and data items in rows below the top data row on the content surface. The computer may then receive an input to expand/collapse the data items into the top data row. The computer may then animate a display of the data items expanding/collapsing into the top data row. Animation for the sorting of content in a user interface may also be provided. The user interface may be displayed by a computer and may contain a content surface for editing a plurality of rows containing content. The computer may then receive a request to sort the content. The computer may then animate a sort of the content.
US09395863B2
A touch panel and a display device are disclosed. Either a cell or a cell, which is formed by the intersections of silver fine wires which form either first electrodes or second electrodes, forms parallelogram shapes (preferably rhomboids), having opposite angles wherein intersection angles are obtuse angles and intersection angles are acute angles. The first electrodes and/or the second electrodes have an adhesive (OCA) deployed thereupon, which has a loss coefficient (tan δ) of 0.13 or more at 140° C. and 1 Hz, and a reserve elasticity of 8.9×104 Pa or less at 25° C. and 1 Hz.
US09395862B2
An electronic device includes an electromagnetic inductive type touch pen and a pen touch panel for recognizing the touch pen. The touch pen includes a hollow housing having a certain length, a coil body installed in the housing and including a coil wound a plurality of times and having a certain length, a magnetic body installed to be separated from the coil body with a certain interval and inducing the coil body to generate a certain resonance frequency, and a button unit installed to expose a part thereof to the outside of the housing and to be flowable and inducing a variance in the resonance frequency of the coil body by controlling an electric length of the coil wound around the coil body according to an operation of a user.
US09395860B2
A touch panel input device and an input detection method thereof are provided. A driving signal is controlled to include a plurality of time intervals in which the driving signal is applied to at least one of at least two driving signal electrodes simultaneously driven, and in which the driving signal is not applied to at least one of at least two driving signal electrodes simultaneously driven. A driving signal supplier causes that a combination of the driving signal electrode to which the driving signal is applied in one of the plurality of time intervals and the driving signal electrode to which the driving signal is not applied in the one of the plurality of time intervals is different from a combination of the driving signal electrode to which the driving signal is applied in the other of the plurality of time intervals and the driving signal electrode to which the driving signal is not applied in the other of the plurality of time intervals. At least one among the driving signals which are simultaneously applied to the driving signal electrode has a phase difference from the other driving signals.
US09395858B2
There is provided an operating method of a capacitive finger navigation device including the steps of: calculating a touch coordinate according to a predetermined position coordinate and associated detected variation of each of a plurality of detecting cells when the associated detected variations of the detecting cells exceed a threshold; mapping the touch coordinate to a touch position associated with a touch surface; entering a relative motion mode when the touch position is in a first area; and entering an absolute coordinate mode when the touch position is in a second area.
US09395857B2
A transparent capacitive touch panel comprising a transparent substrate, a transparent cover lens and a transparent adhesive layer is provided, wherein a first transparent electrode layer and a second transparent electrode layer are disposed on the transparent cover lens and the transparent substrate respectively. The transparent adhesive layer is used to bind the first transparent electrode layer and second transparent electrode layer in order to combine the transparent cover lens and the transparent substrate disposed in parallel. Thereby, the manufacturing process of the transparent capacitive touch panel is simplified, and the manufacturing cost of the same is lowered.
US09395854B2
Provided is a touch sensing panel including a substrate that includes a touch electrode formation area and an active area formed within the touch electrode formation area; a plurality of first conductive electrode serials that are arranged on the touch electrode formation area of the substrate in such a manner that the first conductive electrode serials are separated from one another along a first direction; a plurality of second conductive electrode serials that are arranged on the touch electrode formation area of the substrate in such a manner that the second conductive electrode serials are separated from one another along a second direction intersecting the first direction and that are electrically insulated from the first conductive electrode serials; and a plurality of sensing nodes that are positioned at crossings of the first conductive electrode serials and the second conductive electrode serials.
US09395847B2
Disclosed is an image sensor comprising: an image sensing unit array, for sensing an object and comprising a plurality of image sensing units arranged in a sensing matrix with M rows and N columns; an image data reading circuit, for reading and outputting image data caught by at least part of the image sensing units; and a control unit, for controlling numbers and locations of the image sensing units for each row or each column, from which the image data reading circuit reads the image data; for computing a read region that is in the image sensing unit array and corresponds to the object; and for controlling the image data reading circuit to read at least part of the image data of the column or the row. The part of the column or the row, which is read, comprises the read region.
US09395843B2
In an electronic device, a pressure correcting unit corrects press pressure of a contact object on a touch panel unit based on a parameter of a contact area of the contact object on the touch panel unit, to thereby calculate a corrected pressure parameter. A process control unit determines whether confirmation operation is performed based on the corrected pressure parameter and a threshold.
US09395838B2
An input device is equipped with a touch panel for detecting an input, a coordinates acquiring unit for detecting input coordinates which are coordinates of the input detected by the touch panel, and a pull manipulation judging unit which, when an input to an input detection surface which is a surface on which the touch panel is placed, makes effective the Z coordinate in the direction perpendicular to the input detection surface among the input coordinates detected by the coordinates acquiring unit.
US09395836B2
In one embodiment, a method includes arranging a touch sensor over a first side of a display. The touch sensor comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion comprising a plurality of electrodes. The second portion comprising a plurality of tracks and a first plurality of connection pads. The method further includes folding the touch sensor around the display such that the second portion of the touch sensor is situated on a second side of the display. The second side of the display different than the first side of the display. Also, the method includes electrically coupling the first plurality of connection pads to a second plurality of connection pads. The second plurality of connection pads configured to be electrically coupled to a controller.
US09395830B2
Disclosed is a wired electrode of touch screen panel for transmitting a touch signal sensed by a signal sensing pattern of touch screen panel to an external driving circuit, wherein the wired electrode formed on a substrate includes at least one curved portion, and a plurality of fine protrusions are formed on an inner surface of a groove of a resin layer on the substrate. The groove is filled with a conductive material to form the wired electrode.
US09395814B2
A control unit (120) recognizes information that is being displayed in, from among display areas (110-1-110-3) that display information, a first display area and displays relevant information that relates to the information that was recognized in a second display area other than the first display area.
US09395810B2
A system is provided for that includes sensor(s) configured to provide sensed input characteristic of a user, the user's environment or the user's interaction with their environment, and including from a 3D scanner, measurements of points on a surface of an object in the user's environment. A front-end system may receive and process the sensed input including the measurements to identify a known pattern that indicates a significance of the sensed input from which to identify operations of electronic resource(s). The front-end system may form and communicate an input to the electronic resource(s) to cause the resource(s) to perform the operations, including generation of a point cloud from the measurements, and transformation of the point cloud to a 3D model of the object. And the front-end system may receive an output including the 3D model from the resource(s), and communicate the output for display by a display device.
US09395809B2
An information processing apparatus which communicates with an external apparatus having a face authentication function, comprises a unit which acquires a type of the authentication function of the external apparatus from the external apparatus; a unit which receives image data held in the external apparatus and a face feature amount used by the external apparatus for the authentication function; and a unit which controls, in accordance with a result of comparing a type of a face authentication function of the information processing apparatus with the type of the authentication function of the external apparatus, whether to use the received face feature amount for the authentication function of the information processing apparatus, or to re-generate, from the received image data, a face feature amount corresponding to the type of the authentication function of the information processing apparatus.
US09395802B2
An apparatus includes a fuse array and a stores. The fuse array is programmed with compressed configuration data for a plurality of cores. The stores is coupled to the plurality of cores, and includes a plurality of sub-stores that each correspond to each of the plurality of cores, where one of the plurality of cores accesses the semiconductor fuse array upon power-up/reset to read and decompress the compressed configuration data, and to store a plurality of decompressed configuration data sets for one or more cache memories within the each of the plurality of cores in the plurality of sub-stores. Each of the plurality of cores has sleep logic. The sleep logic is configured to subsequently access a corresponding one of the each of the plurality of sub-stores to retrieve and employ the decompressed configuration data sets to initialize the one or more caches following a power gating event.
US09395798B2
A method is provided for energy management for a telematics unit of a telematics-equipped vehicle. The method includes: determining, by a processor, that a mobile device is co-located with the telematics unit while vehicle ignition of the vehicle is on, wherein the mobile device is registered as being associated with the telematics unit; determining, by the processor, that the vehicle ignition has been turned off; determining, by the processor, a location of the vehicle corresponding to where the vehicle ignition was turned off and determining, by the processor, a location of the mobile device; and implementing, by the processor, situation-specific energy management based on the determined location of the vehicle and the determined location of the mobile device.
US09395792B1
A method and apparatus of using sleep monitoring is described. The method comprises monitoring the user's state using a plurality of sensors in a sensor system and detecting when the user is falling asleep. The method further comprises turning off a wireless connection in the mobile device in response to the user falling asleep, such that the system does not synchronize between the mobile device and a display device while the user is asleep.
US09395778B2
Techniques for performing high-voltage charging of electronic devices are provided. A portable device can communicate with a power supply over a data communication line to determine if the power supply is capable of performing the high-voltage charging operation. If yes, the portable device instructs the power supply to provide a specific voltage.
US09395775B2
A system for managing changes in current demand, including one or more processors, a memory coupled to at least one of the processors, a clock generation circuit coupled to the memory and configured to output a clock, one or more functional blocks, a power supply, configured to output a plurality of voltage levels, and a power management unit. The power management unit may be configured to set the power supply output to a first voltage level and then detect indications of an impending change in current demand within the SoC. If an indication of an impending change in current demand is detected, then the power management unit may be configured to adjust the power supply output to a second voltage level. After determining the impending change in current demand has occurred, the power management unit may be configured to adjust the power supply output back to the first voltage level.
US09395774B2
Methods and apparatus relating to total platform power control are described. In one embodiment, power consumption by one or more processor cores of a processor and one or more components coupled to the processor are modified based on a total platform power consumption value. The platform, in turn, includes the processor and the one or more components. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US09395772B2
An internal component and external interface arrangement for a cylindrical compact computing system is described that includes at least a structural heat sink having triangular shape disposed within a cylindrical volume defined by a cylindrical housing. A computing engine having a generally triangular shape is described having internal components that include a graphics processing unit (GPU) board, a central processing unit (CPU) board, an input/output (I/O) interface board, an interconnect board, and a power supply unit (PSU).
US09395769B2
A hard disk drive tray has a casing, a lid, two pivotal arms, and a first lever. The casing has a bottom board, a side, an open end, a closed end, and a rail channel. The rail channel is defined through the bottom board. The lid is pivotally connected with the casing by the pivotal arms and has a resilient member. The resilient member is mounted on a side of the lid and abuts with the hard disk drive when the open end is closed by the lid. The first lever has a first end and a second end. The first end is pivotally connected with one of the pivotal arms. The second end of the first lever is provided with a pushing block that is mounted slidably through the rail channel.
US09395766B2
A plugging device includes a supporting frame having two opposite side plates disposed between front and rear ends thereof, at least one slide member adapted to be connected to one side of an electronic component and connected slidably to an inner surface of one of the side plates, and an operating member having at least one lever that includes a fulcrum portion connected pivotally to one of the side plates. When the operating member is pivoted rearwardly about the fulcrum portion, the slide member together with the electronic component is driven to slide relative to the supporting frame in a forward direction for plugging a plug electrical connector of the electronic component into a socket electrical connector.
US09395749B2
A display apparatus is provided. A frame is fixed and supported at the rear of a front panel forming the front portion of the display apparatus, and a separate bracket member is not mounted on the edges of the front panel. Thus, the front exterior of the display apparatus is neatly finished, and the display screen looks bigger than it actually is.
US09395741B2
Electric-power management system, an area controller transmits, to each of section controllers, information about a target voltage and information about the present voltage, each of the section controllers calculating a difference between the target voltage and the present voltage, received from the area controller, and calculating a power's demand-supply-adjustment request amount based on difference between the information about the voltages, each of facility-equipment controllers transmitting power-reception/power-release capable equipment information to each section controller, being information about a power-reception/power-release capable equipment in a facility into which the facility-equipment controller is installed, the section controller, based on the power-reception/power-release capable equipment information about the equipment, transmitting the equipment's demand-supply-adjustment request amount and the facility-equipment controller transmitting a control signal to the equipment based on the equipment's demand-supply-adjustment request amount received from the section controller to the facility-equipment controller in the facility.
US09395736B2
A system and a method for collecting appliance standby electricity-saving information use a plurality of device-standby power-saving controllers to respectively transmit power-saving messages from a plurality of remote user ends through a data transmission network to a server side for recording and statistics. The system includes a data transmission network, a power-saving information collection server, a server side network connection port, at least a user side network connection device, and at least a device-standby power-saving controller. Each device-standby power-saving controller is electrically connected between an electrical appliance and a power source. Eclectic power energy that is saved is clearly counted and recorded to serve as an integrated power saving encouragement mechanism, which effectively encourages people to use power economizers to put into action of energy saving and carbon reduction thereby indeed achieving the purposes of saving energy and reducing power consumption.
US09395734B2
A control circuit of a power converter includes: an error detection circuit, configured to operably generate an error signal according to a reference signal and a feedback signal when coupling with an external feedback node of an external feedback circuit; an output signal detecting circuit, positioned inside the control circuit, configured to operably receive and detect an output signal of the power converter to generate a representative signal; an on time deciding circuit, coupled with the output signal detecting circuit, configured to operably generate an on time signal according to the representative signal; and a control signal generating circuit, coupled with the error detection circuit and the on time deciding circuit, configured to operably control on time of one or more power switches of the power converter according to the error signal and the on time signal.
US09395728B2
A charge pump device is disclosed. The charge pump device includes a driving stage, for generating a driving signal corresponding to a driving capability; a charge pump circuit, for generating an output voltage according to the driving signal; a comparing circuit, comprising a first comparator for comparing the output voltage and a first reference voltage to generate a first comparing result; an overload detection circuit, for generating a detection result according to at least one of the first comparing result and the output voltage; and a driving capability control circuit, coupled between the overload detection circuit and the driving stage for controlling the driving capability corresponding to the driving signal according to the detection result.
US09395717B2
During grouping, articles (01) from an incoming article flow are grouped on a staging surface (02) and are transported away after completion of the grouping in order to make space for a new grouping. During grouping, the articles (01) are also detected by sensor with regard to their entry alignment and/or entry position in the article flow in order to subsequently bring them into a final alignment and final position corresponding to their arrangement in the grouping to be achieved. During grouping, the articles (01) located on the staging surface (02) are also detected by sensor. The method includes the steps: A. obtaining an actual alignment and an actual position (03) of the articles (01) located on the staging surface (02) with the aid of the sensor detection; B. recognizing mispositioned or fallen articles (05) by comparing the actual alignment and actual position (03) of the articles (01) with a desired alignment and a desired position in a desired state (04) of the articles (01) to be achieved in a grouping to be formed up to that point from the articles (01) that are located on the staging surface (02); and C. if it is recognized that one or a plurality of articles (05) are in a wrong position or alignment: issuing of a disruption message; and/or interrupting of the grouping; or automatic removing of the disruption by modifying the position and/or the alignment of the one or more articles (05), that are in a wrong position or alignment.
US09395716B2
A dispensing device for dispensing liquids, particularly liquid medications to people, contains a container which is filled with a liquid and which has an opening at one end for dispensing same. The dispensing device further has at least one pair of capacitive measuring electrodes which are arranged in an outer region of the container, particularly on the wall, opposite one another, for determining the permittivity of the respective medium in the intermediate region between the measuring electrodes. A shield is arranged around the container and surrounds the measurement electrodes in a sheath-like manner.
US09395714B2
In a system construction support tool, an allocating unit allocates one piece of template information selected from among a plurality of template information to each of a plurality of apparatuses to perform, concerning each of the apparatuses, tying by tag names among monitoring screen setting data, PLC project setting data, and tag server setting data.
US09395700B2
Electronic device, computer readable recording medium and date and time information obtaining method
An electronic device includes a clocking unit; a receiving unit; a reception control unit; and a date and time obtaining unit. The reception control unit makes the receiving unit receive first date and time information which is transmitted from a positioning satellite, the first date and time information indicating an elapsed time from a start of a week to an end of the week, and the reception control unit does not make the receiving unit receive second date and time information which is transmitted from the positioning satellite, the second date and time information indicating a week number. The date and time obtaining unit calculates an uncorrected date and time based on the first date and time information and a clocking unit week number which is a week number calculated from date and time counted by the clocking unit.
US09395699B2
A timing device that includes an anode layer, a cathode layer and an electrolyte attached to a base layer. The anode layer and the cathode layer are placed adjacent to one another along an axis of the timing device. Upon activation of the timing device the anode layer is depleted away from the cathode layer until the timing device is fully expired. Once the timing device is expired, a change is seen indicating that the timing device has expired. In some embodiments, a color change indicates that the timing device has expired. In some embodiments, as the timing device expires electronically readable information is uncovered.
US09395697B2
A method of calculating a transmission delay value for data transmitted from a first device to a second device across a communications link. The method involves calculating a plurality of measured values representing the transmission delay measured by the second device over time; detecting a minimum boundary of the measured values; and deriving the transmission delay value from the minimum boundary. The transmission delay value may be used to synchronize the clock signal of the second device to the clock signal of the first device.
US09395694B1
A timepiece with a rotary bezel includes a rotary bezel attached to a case body so as to be rotatable relative thereto and a spring member disposed between the case body and the rotary bezel. The rotary bezel includes clicking engagement sections and locking engagement sections provided along the direction in which the rotary bezel is rotated and is configured to be movable relative to the case body in a timepiece thickness direction, and the spring member includes an urging piece that urges the rotary bezel toward a timepiece front side.
US09395692B2
A hairspring material for a mechanical timepiece includes an alloy which contains 37.5 to 39.5% by mass of Ni, 9.2 to 9.9% by mass of Cr, 0.35 to 0.55% by mass of Ti, and 0.6 to 0.9% by mass of Be, based on the total amount of the alloy, and contains in the remainder Fe and unavoidable impurities, the alloy being an alloy containing, as the unavoidable impurities, C (carbon), Mn in an amount of more than 0% by mass but not more than 0.5% by mass and Al in an amount of more than 0% by mass but less than 0.03% by mass, the amount of the C (carbon) being limited to not more than 0.03% by mass. The hairspring material can provide a smaller variation in Young's modulus than that of conventional hairspring materials.
US09395690B2
A holographic display with an illumination device, an enlarging unit and a light modulator. The illumination device includes at least one light source and a light collimation unit, the light collimation unit collimates the light of the at least one light source and generates a light wave field of the light that is emitted by the light source with a specifiable angular spectrum of plane waves, the enlarging unit is disposed downstream of the light collimation unit, seen in the direction of light propagation, where the enlarging unit comprises includes a transmissive volume hologram realizing an anamorphic broadening of the light wave field due to a transmissive interaction of the light wave field with the volume hologram, and the light modulator is disposed upstream or downstream of the anamorphic enlarging unit, seen in the direction of light propagation.
US09395679B2
With a structure in which a coupling member includes a sphere providing a center of inclination (pivoting), a rotational force transmitted member has an opening have a diameter smaller than that of the sphere, and the coupling member is prevented from disengaging from rotational force transmitted member by contact of inner edge of the opening to the sphere, the inner edge of the opening may limit an inclinable (pivotable) angle range of the coupling member. In a state that a pin that is a shaft portion is inserted in a hole that is a through-hole provided in a coupling member, opposite end portions of the pin are supported by a driving side flange, which is a rotational force transmitted member. The coupling member, the driving side flange, and the pin are connected in this manner, and the pin contacts the inside of the hole without limiting the inclinable (pivotable) angle range, by which the coupling member is prevented from disengaging from the driving side flange.
US09395678B2
The waste toner container includes: a waste toner detection unit configured to detect a state in which a toner surface of waste toner at that position is displaced up to a ceiling portion or near the ceiling portion. The waste toner detection unit includes: a flexibility member installed so as to cover an opening portion formed in the ceiling portion or a side wall and is configured to be deformed by a direct or indirect push by the waste toner; and a movable member formed so as to contact the flexibility member from outside of the container and so as to be displaced by the direct or indirect push by the waste toner interposing the flexibility member such that displacement thereof is detected by a detection unit. The displacement of the movable member is limited by a regulating member.
US09395677B1
An image forming apparatus determines the amount of lubricant to be applied to an image bearing member on the basis of a history of toner image formation by image forming section, and in accordance with a result thus determined, adjusts the charging amount of a toner patch image formed by a toner patch image formation section.
US09395675B2
A cartridge drive gear assembly for holding a drum coupling includes a drive gear having an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface including inner projections which extend into the interior of the drive gear and includes at least two voids disposed on opposing sides of the inner projections, and at least one slot disposed in the inner surface
US09395671B1
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material, a transport unit that transports the recording material, using a driving member which rotates and plural rotating parts which are aligned in an axial direction of the driving member and are disposed in contact with the driving member so as to rotate by receiving a driving force from the driving member, a support member that is shared by the plural rotating parts and supports the plural rotating parts from a side opposite to a side where the driving member is disposed, and a biasing unit that biases the support member toward the driving member.
US09395670B2
An image forming apparatus includes a print mode setting circuit, an average printing amount identifying circuit, a parameter setting circuit, and an image processing circuit. The print mode setting circuit sets to normal print mode or ecological print mode whose toner usage is less than a toner usage of the normal print mode. The average printing amount identifying circuit identifies an average printing rate in a predetermined count of printed sheets or an average amount of toner consumption per sheet. The parameter setting circuit decreases a printing rate parameter value in the ecological print mode based on a ratio of a predetermined reference value to the identified average printing rate or the identified average amount of toner consumption. The image processing circuit multiplies tone values of a print image by the printing rate parameter value in the ecological print mode to reduce a printing rate of the print image.
US09395666B2
Provided is a member for electrophotography. The member for electrophotography includes: a substrate; an elastic layer containing a cured silicone rubber having a methyl group bonded to a silicon atom; and a fluorine resin release layer bonded to a surface of the elastic layer by an addition-curing-type silicone rubber adhesive. The elastic layer contains a titanium oxide particle having an anatase-type crystal structure.
US09395665B2
A heating device includes a belt member, plural heating elements, and plural resistance elements. The belt member is rotated. The plural heating elements are arranged in a width direction of the belt member and generate heat so as to heat the belt member. The plural resistance elements having positive temperature coefficients are each connected in series with a corresponding one of the plural heating elements. In the heating device, a temperature of the belt member is reduced by an increase in resistances of the plural resistance elements caused by an increase in temperatures of the plural resistance elements.
US09395663B1
A fixing device of an exemplary embodiment includes a fixing belt, an induced current generation section, an auxiliary heat generation section, a temperature detection section, and a control section. The fixing belt includes a conductive layer. The induced current generation section opposes the fixing belt in a thickness direction. The induced current generation section performs electromagnetic induction heating on the conductive layer. The auxiliary heat generation section opposes the induced current generation section with the fixing belt interposed therebetween. The temperature detection section detects a temperature of the auxiliary heat generation section. The control section reduces an output from the induced current generation section on the basis of a detection result from the temperature detection section.
US09395660B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form a cleaning toner image in a cleaning region on a cleaning sheet and a check toner image in a check region on the cleaning sheet. The image forming apparatus further includes a fixing device including a first rotator and a heater to heat the first rotator to a cleaning temperature that is lower than a fixing temperature to which the first rotator is heated in a print job and higher than a cold offset temperature at which toner adheres to the first rotator by cold offset. Each of the cleaning region and the check region has a length greater than a circumferential length of the first rotator. The cleaning region and the check region are disposed at a leading section and a trailing section of the cleaning sheet in a cleaning sheet conveyance direction, respectively.
US09395656B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carriers that carries toner images, a belt that is supported by a plurality of rollers including a support roller and an opposing roller, a transfer roller disposed opposed to the opposing roller via the belt, and a bending roller that bends the belt from outside toward inside and is disposed downstream from the opposing roller and upstream from support roller. The belt is stretched between the support roller and the bending roller in a first area. The plurality of image carriers contacts the belt in a second area other than the first area. A surface of the belt in the first area is parallel to that of the belt in the second area.
US09395655B2
An image forming apparatus includes a resistor in a sheet shape configured to ground a sensor member electrically; a first contact member configured to form a current path between the resistor and the sensor member; and a second contact member configured to form a current path between the resistor and an electrical ground portion. A first contact portion and a second contact portion are arranged so as not to overlap in a thickness direction of the resistor.
US09395649B1
An image forming apparatus includes: a developer container having a containing portion which contains developer and is rotated when a driving force is transmitted to the containing portion from an image forming apparatus body, a discharge portion that rotatably supports the containing portion and has a discharge port through which the developer is discharged, and a restricting member provided at the discharge portion and movable between a restricting position where the restricting member restricts rotation of the containing portion and a releasing position where the restricting member releases the restriction of rotation of the containing portion, the developer container being removably attached to the image forming apparatus body; and a releasing member that is supported on the image forming apparatus body and moves the restricting member to the releasing position when the developer container is attached to the image forming apparatus body.
US09395646B2
An image forming apparatus includes a toner container, a mounting portion, an elastic member, a displacement amount detection portion, a stored amount determination portion, and a cushioning member. The elastic member is configured to support the toner container by an elastic force thereof and contract and stretch in accordance with a weight of the toner container. The displacement amount detection portion is configured to detect a displacement amount of the toner container displaced in a gravitational direction when the weight of the toner container increases. The stored amount determination portion is configured to determine an amount of the toner stored in the toner container on the basis of a result of detection by the displacement amount detection portion. The cushioning member is configured to cushion vibration of the toner container in the gravitational direction which vibration occurs due to a change in the weight of the toner container.
US09395642B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of photosensitive drums, and a controller for executing, when an absolute value of a set point of a charged potential is not higher than a predetermined threshold, an operation in a first mode in which charging bias voltages and transfer bias voltages are applied to image regions of the drums, at a preset length of time before image exposures are carried out by the exposure members and thereafter, the image exposures are carried out by the exposure members, respectively, and for executing, when the absolute value of the set point of the charged potential is higher than the predetermined threshold, an operation in a second mode in which timings of starting applications of the transfer bias voltages to the transfer members are delayed as compared with those in the first mode, respectively.
US09395640B2
A liquid developer includes an insulating liquid and toner particles dispersed in the insulating liquid. The insulating liquid has a flash point not lower than 100° C. The toner particles contain a resin, and the resin contains 80 mass % or more of a first resin containing a component derived from a polyester resin. A solid content of the liquid developer corresponding to a portion of the liquid developer excluding the insulating liquid satisfies relation of G′(T0)/G′(T0+10)≧10 (50° C.≦T0≦70° C.), where G′(T0) represents a storage elastic modulus at a temperature T0 (° C.) and G′(T0+10) represents a storage elastic modulus at a temperature (T0+10) (° C.).
US09395638B2
The present invention relates to a liquid electrophotographic ink comprising a carrier liquid, a pigmented resin composite dispersed in the carrier liquid, and about 0.15 to about 10% (w/w) of an organic wax. The liquid electrophotographic ink is typically formulated for printing in a liquid electrophotographic printer.
US09395631B2
Multi-beam pattern generators employing yaw correction when writing upon large substrates, and associated methods are disclosed. A multi-beam pattern generator may include a spatial light modulator (SLM) with independently controllable mirrors to reflect light onto a substrate to write a pattern. The pattern may be written in writing cycles where the substrate is moved to writing cycle zone locations. The light is reflected by the SLM onto the substrate by mirrors of the SLM in active positions to write the pattern upon the substrate. By determining a location and yaw of the substrate with respect to the SLM in each writing cycle, some mirrors of the SLM may be digitally controlled to either inactive positions or the active positions to compensate for the yaw of the substrate. In this manner, the pattern written upon the substrate may be precisely written with compensation for yaw.
US09395623B2
Durable seamless replication tools are disclosed for replication of seamless relief patterns in desired media, for example in optical recording or data storage media. Methods of making such durable replication tools are disclosed, including preparing a recording substrate on the inner surface of a support cylinder, recording and developing a relief pattern in the substrate, creating a durable negative relief replica of the pattern, extracting the resulting durable tool sleeve from a processing cell, and mounting the tool sleeve on a mounting fixture. Apparatus are disclosed for fabricating such seamless replication tools, including systems for recording a desired relief pattern on a photosensitive layer on an inner surface of a support cylinder. Also disclosed are electrodeposition cells for forming a durable tool sleeve having a desired relief pattern. The replication tool relief features may have critical dimensions down to the micron and nanometer regime.
US09395620B2
A pellicle includes a first frame affixing a reticle, the first frame having a tapered locking groove, a second frame on the first frame, the second frame having a locking portion that is detachably combined with the tapered locking groove of the first frame, and a membrane affixed to the second frame.
US09395618B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor lithography system. The lithography system includes a projection optics component. The projection optics component includes a curved aperture. The lithography system includes a photo mask positioned over the projection optics component. The photo mask contains a plurality of elongate semiconductor patterns. The semiconductor patterns each point in a direction substantially perpendicular to the curved aperture of the projection optics component. The present disclosure also provides a method. The method includes receiving a design layout for a semiconductor device. The design layout contains a plurality of semiconductor patterns each oriented in a given direction. The method includes transforming the design layout into a mask layout. The semiconductor patterns in the mask layout are oriented in a plurality of different directions as a function of their respective location.
US09395617B2
A panoramic imager comprising a mirror and a multi-scale imaging system is presented. The multi-scale imaging system comprises an objective lens and a plurality of cameras that is arranged in a non-planar arrangement at the image field of the objective lens. The objective lens reduces a first aberration introduced by the mirror, and each camera further reduces any residual first aberration. As a result, panoramic imagers of the present invention can provide improved image quality and higher resolution than panoramic imagers of the prior art.
US09395615B2
A projection screen apparatus is disclosed for displaying an image projected by a projector. The projection screen apparatus includes a frame and a screen. The frame includes a plurality of side frame members and corner frame members.
US09395613B2
According to the present invention, there is provided an optical device comprising, a plurality of light sources each operable to provide a light beam; at least one beam combiner which is operable to combine the light beams from the plurality of light sources, to provide a combined light beam; a beam splitter, which is arranged to receive the combined light beam and to split the combined light beam into a primary light beam and a secondary light beam, wherein one or more characteristics of the secondary light beam are indicative of one or more characteristics of the primary light beam, wherein the beam splitter comprises a first surface through which the primary light beam is emitted from the beam splitter and a second surface through which the secondary light beam is emitted from the beam splitter; a mirror component which comprises a mirror, wherein the mirror component is arranged such that the mirror can reflect the primary light beam which is emitted through the first surface of the beam splitter and wherein the mirror can oscillate about at least one oscillation axis to scan the primary light beam; wherein the optical device further comprises a photodiode which is configured to receive the secondary light beam and to detect one or more characteristics of the secondary light beam, wherein the photodiode is configured to be offset from being parallel to at least one of the first surface or second surface of the a beam splitter, to reduce the amount of parasitic light which is directed to the mirror. There is further provided a corresponding method of projecting an image.
US09395604B1
A camera adjustment mechanism allows a user to adjust the orientation of a surveillance camera. The camera adjustment mechanism includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a first end, a second end, and a first wall that extends between and connects the first end and the second end. The first wall is sloped such that an inner diameter of the first end is greater than an inner diameter of the second end. The second portion includes a third end connected to the second end, a fourth end, a second wall extending between and connecting the third end and the fourth end, and a plurality of engagement openings extending circumferentially about the fourth end.
US09395598B2
A focal plane shutter includes: a board including an opening; a leading shutter and a trailing shutter opening and closing the opening; first and second biasing members respectively biasing the leading shutter and the trailing shutter to move away from the opening; a first actuator causing the leading shutter to move from a position to close the opening to a position to recede from the opening while the leading shutter is assisted by a biasing force of the first biasing member in an exposure operation; and a second actuator causing the trailing shutter to move from a position to recede from the opening to a position to close the opening against a biasing force of the second biasing member in the exposure operation, wherein drive torque of the first actuator is smaller than that of the second actuator.
US09395590B2
A thin film transistor substrate includes a source line and a gate line arranged to cross each other in a grid pattern, and a thin film transistor arranged at the intersection between the source line and the gate line. The source line is covered with an insulating film, and the insulating film is covered with a first alignment film. An opposite substrate includes a protrusion arranged so as to protrude toward the thin film transistor substrate. With the thin film transistor substrate and the opposite substrate arranged to face each other, the protrusion is arranged so as to cover the source line from above and to extend in a direction in which the source line extends. The protrusion has a conductive film arranged on an edge surface of the protrusion near the source line. The protrusion and the conductive film are covered with a second alignment film.
US09395587B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including an organic insulation film including a first contact hole penetrating to the switching element, an island-shaped relay electrode and a common electrode which are formed on the organic insulation film, an interlayer insulation film including a second contact hole at a position different from a position of the first contact hole, a pixel electrode which is formed on the interlayer insulation film and includes a slit which is opposed to the common electrode, and an alignment film covering the pixel electrode and the interlayer insulation film.
US09395577B2
A backlight assembly and an LCD using the same are provided. The backlight assembly comprises: a light source, a conductive copper layer, a dielectric layer, a metallic printed circuit board and a heat sink. The dielectric layer is attached to one side surface of the metallic printed circuit board. The conductive copper layer is mounted on the dielectric layer. The light source and the heat sink are respectively connected to the conductive copper layer. The light source utilizes the conductive copper layer to conduct electricity and to conduct the heat to the heat sink. The backlight assembly has the heat sink connecting to the light source through the conductive copper layer to shorten the heat dissipating path of the light source and to enhance the heat-dissipating efficiency of the light source. Moreover, for the narrow frame, the heat sink is directly welded to the bent metallic printed circuit board.
US09395567B2
A liquid crystal display device is provided that prevents the cracking of a display panel without an increase in size. The liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal display panel, a cover plate arranged to face a surface of the liquid crystal display panel on which an image is displayed, and a backlight arranged to face a back surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight includes a frame facing a peripheral part of the back surface of the liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel has a planar shape in which at least one corner part of a rectangle is cut away. The frame includes a columnar part which rises in a direction toward the cover plate and fits in an area where the at least one corner part is cut away.
US09395564B2
Embodiments of the invention disclose a LCD device and a method for repairing the same. The LCD device of the embodiment of the invention comprises a panel on which a plurality of data lines are disposed, the LCD device has at least one broken data line, one end of the broken data line is connected to a pre-charge circuit which causes output signals of the broken data line to have a pre-charge voltage waveform, the other end of the broken data line is connected to the pre-charge circuit via a long lead wire.
US09395557B2
A contact lens system, including a peripheral conjunctival cover portion including a shell curved and sized to substantially overly a conjunctiva of an eye. The conjunctival cover portion defines a full thickness central opening therethrough. The central opening is positioned within the conjunctival cover and sized to expose at least a portion of a cornea of the eye. The contact lens system further includes a central contact lens portion that is substantially equivalent in size to the central opening and positioned or positionable at the central opening.
US09395556B2
A method for treating a patient having a vestibular malady is provided. The method comprises (a) diagnosing the patient as having a vestibular malady; and (b) prescribing eyewear to the patient as a treatment of the vestibular malady, either alone or in conjunction with undertaking vestibular rehabilitation while wearing the eyewear. The eyewear (201) has a first lens (205) which extends over the field of vision of a first eye, wherein the first lens has first (207) and second (209) distinct optical regions. The eyewear imparts vision to the first eye which is characterized by a central vision having a first optical quality and a peripheral vision having a second optical quality.
US09395552B2
A blur correction device according to this disclosure includes: a movable frame which supports a correction optical system, the movable frame having a through hole formed along an optical axis; a base part which holds the movable frame; and a base frame which forms a space, where the movable frame moves, between the base frame and the base part; a guide shaft being disposed inside the through hole formed in the movable frame; a locking member which is movably supported by the guide shaft, the locking member being configured to move into the through hole formed in the movable frame to come into contact with a part of the movable frame for restricting movement of the movable frame in a direction intersecting the optical axis of the movable frame; and a drive unit which drives the locking member along the guide shaft.
US09395548B2
The invention provides a panel comprising a first light emitting area (1) for providing light of a first color and a second light emitting area (2) for providing light of a second color different from the first color, the first and second light emitting areas being separated from each other by a first spacing (3) along a first spacing axis (5) perpendicular to a normal of the panel, wherein the first spacing (3) is smaller than 5 micrometer. Preferably The Width (4) of the at least one of the light emitting areas is also smaller than 5 micrometer. As these spacings and/or dimensions approach the wavelength of light emitted by the light emitting areas, the boundaries between these areas become blurred or even the areas become indistinguishable from each other due to mixing. A Panel of the invention can be advantageously used in lighting and or display devices, in particular those that magnify the light emitting areas towards their users, such as autostereoscopic displays having lenticular lens arrangements.
US09395546B2
A stereoscopic image processing system, a stereoscopic image processing method and glasses are disclosed. The stereoscopic image processing system transmits a control value for controlling a prism diopter of glasses having a prismatic effect on light irradiated for displaying a left-view image and a right-view image, controls the prism diopter of the glasses based on the transmitted control value, and causes the prismatic effect on the light passing through the glasses.
US09395543B2
A see through display apparatus includes a see-through, head mounted display and sensors on the display which detect audible and visual data in a field of view of the apparatus. A processor cooperates with the display to provide information to a wearer of the device using a behavior-based real object mapping system. At least a global zone and an egocentric behavioral zone relative to the apparatus are established, and real objects assigned behaviors that are mapped to the respective zones occupied by the object. The behaviors assigned to the objects can be used by applications that provide services to the wearer, using the behaviors as the foundation for evaluation of the type of feedback to provide in the apparatus.
US09395536B2
In an optical deflector including a mirror, a frame, torsion bars, first and second piezoelectric actuators coupled to both of the torsion bars, and first and second coupling bars, each of the first and second piezoelectric actuators is divided into first, second and third areas in accordance with a polarization polarity distribution obtained by performing a simulation upon the optical deflector where piezoelectric portions with no slits are hypothetically provided in the first and second piezoelectric actuators while a predetermined rocking operation is performed upon the mirror. First piezoelectric portions are formed in the first and third areas of the first piezoelectric actuator, and second piezoelectric portions are formed in the first and third areas of said second piezoelectric actuator. A first drive voltage applied to the first piezoelectric portions is opposite in phase to a second drive voltage applied to the second piezoelectric portions.
US09395534B2
A multi-photon fluoroscopy microscope employs an electronically controlled diffraction mask to affect correcting phase adjustments in an incident waveform to allow a precise focus of the stimulating beam of light to a focal point within tissue having a varying and inhomogeneous index of refraction.
US09395533B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus including devices that include a layer of passivation material covering at least a portion of an exterior surface of a thin film component within a microelectomechanical device. The thin film component may include an electrically conductive layer that connects via an anchor to a conductive surface on a substrate. The disclosure further provides processes for providing a layer of passivation material on an exterior surface of a thin film component and for electrically connecting that thin film component to a conductive surface on a substrate.
US09395518B2
Provided is an imaging lens. The imaging lens includes a first lens having a positive (+) power, a second lens having a positive (+) power, a third lens having a negative (−) power, and a fourth lens having a positive (+) power. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, and the fourth lens are sequentially disposed from an object to transmit an image of light having a wavelength band of about 400 nm to about 1,000 nm. Thus, powers, distances, and Abbe's numbers of the first to fourth lenses may be controlled to photograph an image of visible light and infrared light.
US09395516B2
Provided is an imaging device (1) having: a front optical system (10) that transmits light from an object; a spectral filter array (20) that transmits light from the front optical system (10) via a plurality of spectral filters; a small lens array (30) that transmits the light from the plurality of spectral filters via a plurality of small lenses respectively, and forms a plurality of object images; a picture element (50) that captures the plurality of object images respectively; and an image processor (60) that determines two-dimensional spectral information on the object images based on image signals output from the picture element (50). The front optical system (10) is configured to transmit the light from the focused object to collimate the light into a parallel luminous flux.
US09395514B2
A space frame having a high torsional strength comprising a first square bipyramid and two planar structures extending outward from an apex of the first square bipyramid to form a “V” shape is disclosed. Some embodiments comprise a plurality of edge-sharing square bipyramids configured linearly, where the two planar structures contact apexes of all the square bipyramids. A plurality of bridging struts, apex struts, corner struts and optional internal bracing struts increase the strength and rigidity of the space frame. In an embodiment, the space frame supports a solar reflector, such as a parabolic solar reflector. Methods of fabricating and using the space frames are also disclosed.
US09395508B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to rack systems for housing computing devices. The rack may include shelves supported by flanges of a pair of corresponding inserts. The flanges may be spaced along the length of each of the inserts. The distance between the flanges may define the height of a shelf when placed in the rack. The pair of corresponding inserts may be placed along an inner sidewall of the rack by mating hooks of the inserts with corresponding slots of the inner sidewall and subsequently removed by demating the hooks and slots. For example, a pair of inserts with one distance between the flanges may be replaced by a pair of inserts with another distance between the flanges in order to increase the shelf height of the rack. By replacing the shelves and/or the inserts, a user may quickly and easily in order to reconfigure the rack.
US09395506B2
An enclosure for protect a cabling junction or transition point on a cell tower is described. In particular, the exemplary cell tower enclosure provides an interconnection platform for both optical and electrical conductors. The cell tower enclosure includes a cover and a base configured attachable to an open first end of the cover to provide an enclosed configuration. The base has a plurality of cable ports passing through the base to allow passage cables into and out of the enclosure. The enclosure also includes a cable management device. The cable management device has two longitudinal edges disposed between two rounded bend control portions oriented at each end of the cable management device and a plurality of optical fiber connector adapters secured along at least one of the longitudinal edges, wherein the cable management device is connected to the base by a support frame.
US09395498B2
An optical fiber connector includes a housing, two coupling lenses, a RJ45 plug, a holder, and two optical fibers. The housing defines a receiving cavity with a bottom surface and two through holes. The coupling lens is positioned on the bottom surface and covers the through holes. The RJ45 plug is received in the receiving cavity and defines a receiving recess. The holder is received in the receiving recess and defines two receiving through holes. The optical fibers are received in the receiving through holes and optically aligned with the coupling lenses.
US09395485B2
A method of manufacturing a glass preform is provided. The method including, vaporizing an alkali metal compound or an alkali earth metal compound and being brought the alkali metal compound or the alkali earth metal compound into contact with a hydroxyl group on a surface of porous silica glass and dehydrating the porous silica glass, and sintering the dehydrated porous silica glass and forming a transparent glass body.
US09395482B2
An illumination apparatus includes a light-emitting unit and an apparatus-holding section. The light-emitting unit includes a light guide plate with a center portion being opened, a light source that inputs light from a side of an inner wall of the light guide plate, and a reflective film formed on a side of an upper surface of the light guide plate to reflect light propagated in the light guide plate. The light-emitting unit outputs light from a light output surface in opposite to the upper surface of the light guide plate. The apparatus-holding section detachably holds an electronic apparatus, is capable of removing the electronic apparatus from a side of an output direction of light from the light output surface, and includes a center of a surface parallel to the light output surface, which is positioned inside a light output area of the light output surface.
US09395479B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for illumination devices. In one aspect, an illumination device having a longitudinal axis includes a light source and a light guide. The light guide has a peripheral edge, a transmissive illumination surface, a center portion, and an upper surface. The transmissive illumination surface is oriented perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and disposed between the center portion and the peripheral edge. The upper surface is oriented relative to the illumination surface to define an angle α therebetween. In some implementations, the angle α can be greater than 15 degrees, for example.
US09395477B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image, a receiving container configured to receive the display panel, a buffering member disposed between the display panel and the receiving container, the buffering member including a first buffering portion which contacts the receiving container, and a second buffering portion which contacts the display panel and includes a first portion and a second portion which are independently compressible.
US09395471B2
A display device includes a display panel including a display area for displaying an image and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, a polarizing plate positioned on the display panel and including a polarizing layer for polarizing light that passes through the polarizing layer, and a light shielding layer positioned between the display panel and the polarizing plate. The light shielding layer is formed at an edge of the display panel to correspond to the non-display area.
US09395460B2
The invention relates to continuously or near continuously acquiring seismic data where at least one pulse-type source is fired in a distinctive sequence to create a series of pulses and to create a continuous or near continuous rumble. In a preferred embodiment, a number of pulse-type seismic sources are arranged in an array and are fired in a distinctive loop of composite pulses where the returning wavefield is source separable based on the distinctive composite pulses. Firing the pulse-type sources creates an identifiable loop of identifiable composite pulses so that two or more marine seismic acquisition systems with pulse-type seismic sources can acquire seismic data concurrently, continuously or near continuously and the peak energy delivered into the water will be less, which will reduce the irritation of seismic data acquisition to marine life.
US09395455B2
Provided is a polyhedral-shaped radiation counter which measures a radiation level of a radioactive material, in which sensor modules configured to measure the radiation level are disposed at vertexes of a polyhedral shape, respectively, and the sensor modules are connected to each other by rod-shaped frame members disposed in edge positions of the polyhedral shape and face parts of the polyhedral shape form an open space.
US09395453B2
A radiation sensor includes a scintillation layer configured to emit photons upon interaction with ionizing radiation and a photodetector including in order a first electrode, a photosensitive layer, and a photon-transmissive second electrode disposed in proximity to the scintillation layer. The photosensitive layer is configured to generate electron-hole pairs upon interaction with a part of the photons. The radiation sensor includes pixel circuitry electrically connected to the first electrode and configured to measure an imaging signal indicative of the electron-hole pairs generated in the photosensitive layer and a planarization layer disposed on the pixel circuitry between the first electrode and the pixel circuitry such that the first electrode is above a plane including the pixel circuitry. A surface of at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode at least partially overlaps the pixel circuitry and has a surface inflection above features of the pixel circuitry.
US09395451B2
An apparatus can include a light emitting device and a light sensing device optically coupled to the light emitting device via a first layer and a second layer. In an embodiment, the first layer can have a first thickness and a first index of refraction with a value greater than 0 and the second layer can have a second thickness and a second index of refraction with a value less than 0. In a particular embodiment, the light emitting device can include a scintillator and the light sensing device can include a photosensor.
US09395450B2
A radiation imaging apparatus includes a reset control unit configured to perform reset scanning to sequentially discharge charges accumulated in pixels; an irradiation detection unit configured to detect a start of radiation irradiation based on charges discharged by the reset scanning; an imaging control unit configured to perform control to stop the reset scanning in accordance with detection of the start of irradiation and obtain an image signal by reading out charges accumulated in the pixels; a generation unit configured to generate image data based on the image signal except for an image signal from a pixel on which the reset scanning is performed during the radiation irradiation; and an output unit configured to output the image data to an external apparatus.
US09395445B2
A GNSS system operates intermittently and has adaptive activity and sleep time in order to reduce power consumption. The GNSS system provides an enhanced estimate of its position in the absence of GNSS signals of sufficient strength. The user's activity and behavior is modeled and used to improve performance, response time, and power consumption of the GNSS system. The user model is based, in part, on the received GNSS signals, a history of the user's positions, velocity, time, and inputs from other sensors disposed in the GNSS system, as well as data related to the network. During each activity time, the GNSS receiver performs either tracking, or acquisition followed by tracking The GNSS receiver supports both normal acquisition as well as low-power acquisition.
US09395436B2
Systems, methods, and devices for cooperative intrusion detection are described herein. For example, one or more embodiments include completing a radar scan with a network of outer perimeter radar nodes, detecting an intrusion event with the network of outer perimeter radar nodes, notifying at least one inner perimeter radar node in a network of inner perimeter radar nodes of the intrusion event, activating the at least one inner perimeter radar node from an idle mode in response to the notification of the intrusion event, and completing a radar scan with the at least one inner perimeter radar node upon activation.
US09395429B2
In a method and magnetic resonance apparatus for acquiring image data using a sequence in which k-space corresponding to the imaging area is scanned in a first region of k-space, which does not include the center of k-space, radially along spokes emanating from the center of k-space, with at least two phase coding gradients being completely ramped up before the excitation pulse, and in a second central region of k-space, which remains without the first region, in a Cartesian manner. For contrast increase, a pre-pulse is provided before a predetermined number of individual measurements. A portion of the measurement points of the second region of k-space, which portion is situated nearest the center of k-space, is scanned as central measurement points after the first administration of the pre-pulse immediately following a zero crossing of the contrast-relevant magnetization of one of at least two materials in the image.
US09395428B2
Partial/fractional polarization transfer for single-scan magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging
A method of measuring precessing magnetization includes providing a first site characterized by a first spin order and providing a second site. The method also includes transferring a portion of the first spin order from the first site to the second site. The second site is characterized by a second spin order orthogonal to the first spin order. The method further includes exposing a sample including the first site and the second site to a magnetic field, measuring a precessing magnetization of at least one of the first site or the second site, repeating the transferring a portion of the first spin order from the first site to the second site, and repeating the measuring of the precessing magnetization.
US09395427B2
A system for electromagnetic excitation of an object under examination during magnetic resonance tomography includes a radio frequency (RF) device for generating a radio-frequency signal and a plurality of antennas for emitting the radio-frequency signal. A signal connection exists between the output of the RF device and the plurality of antennas. A source impedance of the signal connection to the output of the RF device at a connection point of the plurality of antennas is significantly higher than the impedance of the plurality of antennas at the connection points, so that the plurality of antennas are fed in a current source feed mode if a radio-frequency signal is present.
US09395421B2
A circuit fault detection device includes: an interruption-signal generation unit that outputs an interruption signal for a drive circuit stopping driving of a drive target on a basis of the interruption signal; a pulse generation unit that includes an adjustment unit adjusting a time during which a pulse signal is in an OFF state and that generates the pulse signal; a signal synthesis unit that outputs a logical AND of the interruption signal and the pulse signal; a filter circuit that inputs, as an output, a signal obtained by delaying an output signal of the signal synthesis unit to the drive circuit; and a monitoring unit that determines whether a circuit fault has occurred on a basis of an output voltage of the filter circuit.
US09395417B2
A battery pack is disclosed. In one aspect, the battery pack includes a battery including at least one battery cell and a battery managing unit for controlling charging and discharging of the battery. The battery managing unit includes a measuring unit measuring at least one parameter of the battery per sampling period and generating measurement data. The battery managing unit also includes a control unit including a plurality of counters corresponding to a plurality of sections defined with respect to the parameter and configured to increment a counter corresponding to the section including the measurement data. The battery managing unit also includes a storage unit storing counter values of the counters in a predetermined address per logging period.
US09395412B2
A falling edge controller includes a controller having an inverted TCK (Test Clock) input, a TMS (Test Mode Select) input, a shift register control output, an update register control output, and a shift output; a shift register having a TDI (Test Data In) input, a shift register control input coupled to the shift register control output, address inputs, a select input, address and select outputs, and a TDO (Test Data Out) output; an update register having address and select inputs coupled to the address and select outputs, an update register control input coupled to the update register control output, address outputs coupled to the address inputs, and a select output coupled to the select input; and address circuitry having address inputs coupled to the address outputs, and having an enable output.
US09395411B2
In a method and a device for testing a test substrate under defined thermal conditions, a substrate that is to be tested is held by a temperature-controllable chuck and is set to a defined temperature; the test substrate is positioned relative to test probes by at least one positioning device; and the test probes make contact with the test substrate for testing purposes. At least one component of the positioning device that is present in the vicinity of the temperature-controlled test substrate is set to a temperature that is independent of the temperature of the test substrate by a temperature-controlling device, and this temperature is held constant.
US09395410B2
Integrated circuit comprising a sensing unit that includes a sensing circuit, two conductors and a magnetic storage element. The sensing circuit monitors a voltage drop across the element when a current is passed between the conductors with the element in between. The voltage drop is pre-calibrated to indicate a change in conductivity in the element that is caused by an external magnetic field. Advantageously, this indication is usable particularly for assessing a possible data corruption in a magnetic memory circuit in the integrated circuit, due to stray and external magnetic fields. Methods of using the sensing unit are also proposed.
US09395409B2
An burn-in socket electrically connecting an IC package to a PCB, has a base, a cover, a plurality of contacts and a block-shaped heat sink. The base defines a receiving space for the IC package. The cover is pin-jointed to one side by a pivot of the base and able to rotate around the pivot. A plurality of contacts are retained in the base and partially exposed in the receiving space. The heat sink is located above the IC package and against to the IC package so as to apply its gravity force to the IC package. A top face of the heat sink is below the top face of the cover.
US09395400B1
This disclosure is directed to a test fixture to test a robustness of a connection port of an electronic device, a cable connector coupled to the connection port, or both. The test fixture may enable repeatable testing using predetermined test parameters. The test fixture may secure the electronic device using a clamp. A pendulum may be mounted in the test fixture and rotatable to cause an impact of a weight against a cable connector coupled to the connection port of an electronic device. After the impact, the integrity and/or functionality of the cable connector, the connection port, or both may be inspected. In accordance with one or more embodiments, the test fixture may be under at least partial control of a controller. The controller may enable creation or control of test parameters, repeat testing, cycle testing, and/or inspection (e.g., determining whether the connection is maintained and/or functional, etc.).
US09395393B2
A current sensor includes semi-annular first and second magnetic cores, first and second sensors, and a differential output part. The first magnetic core is provided around a wire in which an electric current flows and includes a pair of first magnetic core parts each having a quarter annular shape. The first sensor is provided in the gap between the first magnetic core parts and detects a magnetic flux. The second magnetic core is provided around the wire and includes a pair of second magnetic core parts each having a quarter annular shape. The first and second magnetic cores form an annular magnetic core. The second sensor is provided in the gap between the second magnetic core parts and detects a magnetic flux. The differential output part outputs the differential output of the outputs of the first and second sensors.
US09395390B2
A probe for transporting a nondestructive inspection sensor through a tube, that employs wheels to reduce friction. The radial travel of the wheels are mechanically linked through a cam and axially reciprocal plunger arrangement that centers the probe at tube diameter transitions. Internal wire bending is minimized and a dynamic seal is provided to facilitate an insertion force at the probe and reduce or eliminate compressive load buckling of the flexible cable carried by the probe. Like the wheel arrangement, radial travel of the seal segments are mechanically linked to provide probe centering.
US09395388B2
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer readable media for dual resonance frequency enhanced electrostatic force microscopy. One method includes applying an alternating current (AC) bias and a direct current (DC) bias to an atomic force microscopy cantilever, wherein the AC bias has a frequency greater than a fundamental resonance frequency of the cantilever. The method further includes mechanically vibrating the cantilever at a frequency different from the frequency of the AC bias. The method further includes physically and electrostatically scanning a sample in the same pass using the cantilever while vibrating the cantilever and applying the AC and DC biases to the cantilever, and generating a topology image of the sample from the physical scanning and an electrostatic image of charged material under or on a surface of the sample from the electrostatic scanning.
US09395387B1
A scanning probe microscopes including an imaging device (optical microscope) which images the cantilever, a device is provided which estimates the resonance frequency of the cantilever from the cantilever image imaged by the imaging device, as a result of which, even when information on the cantilever is unknown, the cantilever is actually excited to perform measurement of resonance frequency within a specified frequency range centered on the estimated resonance frequency, thereby enabling measurement of resonance frequency within an appropriate frequency range and making it possible to avoid obtaining an incorrect resonance frequency and to eliminate the waste of performing resonance frequency measurements while changing the frequency range settings in trial-and-error fashion.
US09395383B2
The present invention relates detecting the rotation speed of tires for a vehicle. In the present invention, signals are received from a plurality of wheel speed sensors, a reverse gear sensor, and a brake sensor. Errors of the wheel speed sensors are estimated using the received signals, a signal having a corrected error is obtained using the estimated errors, linear interpolation. Accordingly, there is an advantage in that rotation speed of tires for a vehicle can be determined accurately.
US09395381B2
The invention relates to a rotatable device (1) for transporting reaction vessels in an automatic analysis apparatus, said device (1) comprising a circular base plate (16), and a number of holders (2) which are connected to the base plate (16), are preferably made of a plastic and comprise the receiving positions (4, 6) for the reaction vessels.
US09395378B2
An analyzer which analyzes an analyte by using the analyte and consumables, the analyzer comprising: an automatic reading device which reads a first product information related to a consumable via an identifier given to the consumable or a container containing the consumable; and a controller which permits an analysis operation when the first product information is suitable information read by the automatic reading device via the identifier, and prompts an operator to manually enter a second product information comprising information specifying the manufacturer or seller of the consumable when the automatic reading device cannot read the identifier or the information read via the identifier is not suitable as the first product information and permits the analysis operation and storage of the input second product information when the operator has entered the second product information.
US09395367B1
This disclosure is directed to methods for retrieving and using at least one lymphocyte. Additionally, cell receptor sequences identified with this strategy could be used for antibody development.
US09395366B2
The present invention provides a method of detecting dermatophyte, which does not require a complicated operation such as an enzyme treatment and a heat treatment.The present invention provides a method of detecting dermatophyte, including a step of extracting a dermatophyte component from a sample with a treatment liquid containing a non-ionic surfactant or a zwitterionic surfactant, and a kit for diagnosing dermatophyte infection, containing a treatment liquid comprising the above surfactant, and an antibody specifically recognizing a dermatophyte component, which are housed in separate containers.
US09395354B2
Human somatic cells obtained from individuals with a genetic heart condition are reprogrammed to become induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells), and differentiated into cardiomyocytes for use in analysis, screening programs, and the like.
US09395352B2
The present invention provides a device having at least one constriction that is sized to permit translocation of only a single copy of the molecule. The device has a pair of spaced apart sensing electrodes that border the constriction, which may be a nanopore. The first electrode is connected to a first affinity element and the second electrode is connected to a second affinity element. The first and second affinity elements are configured to temporarily form hydrogen bonds with first and second portions of the target molecule as the latter passes through the constriction.
US09395346B2
An egg identification system for determining viability of an avian egg is provided. Such a system includes an emitter assembly configured to emit electromagnetic radiation toward an egg. A detector assembly is axially aligned with the emitter assembly to detect electromagnetic radiation transmitted through the egg. The detector assembly is spaced-apart from the egg during operation thereof such that the detector assembly does not contact the egg. The detected electromagnetic radiation is used to generate an output signal. The output signal is processed to determine whether there exists a periodic variation or an aperiodic perturbation in an intensity of the electromagnetic radiation transmitted through the egg corresponding to action of a heart or embryo movement, wherein the existence of the periodic variation or aperiodic perturbation indicates that the egg is viable. An associated method is also provided.
US09395342B2
A mist-containing gas analysis device comprises a measuring instrument that measures a pressure, a temperature, a flow rate and water content of a combustion exhaust gas, a collection container, a sampling tube and a guide tube through which the combustion exhaust gas is suctioned by a suction blower, and is sampled and fed into a collection liquid in the collection container, an arithmetic and control device that controls the suction blower such that a suction velocity of the combustion exhaust gas being suctioned by the suction blower is within a predetermined ratio with respect to a combustion exhaust gas flow velocity which is calculated based on the measured values, liquid aliquot taking means for taking an aliquot of the liquid in the collection container, and a measuring device that measures a concentration of the measurement-target substance in the aliquot of the liquid taken by the liquid aliquot taking means.
US09395328B2
There is provided an apparatus for detecting sodium in a liquid. A concentration of a very small amount of sodium can be repeatedly and accurately measured by correcting baseline fluctuation and sodium concentration variation due to temperature variation on the basis of measured temperature and minimizing noise influence on the concentration measurement. According to the apparatus for detecting sodium in a liquid, the apparatus for detecting sodium in a liquid can accurately and repeatedly measure a concentration of a very small amount of sodium by minimizing noise and temperature variation effects on concentration measurements to ensure measurement accuracy of sodium concentration and the stability of a baseline as a measurement reference.
US09395323B2
An electrochemical gas sensor, particularly for the detection of ammonia and/or amines, with an ionic fluid as an electrolyte, wherein the ionic fluid contains at least one protic ammonium cation with at least one dissociable hydrogen atom, whereby the at least one protic ammonium cation reacts with the ammonia and/or amines to be measured via deprotonation. The present invention also relates to the use of such a gas sensor.
US09395321B2
A biosensor and a method for recognizing a liquid sample are provided, which can recognize whether a sample is introduced by recognizing an inside of a sample introduction channel through measurement of capacitance. The biosensor includes an upper plate and a lower plate facing each other, a middle plate interposed between the upper plate and the lower plate to form a sample introduction channel through a recess portion, a working electrode and an auxiliary electrode formed in the sample introduction channel, a sample recognition electrode formed on an outside of the sample introduction channel in a position that corresponds to the sample introduction channel, and a capacitance measurement portion electrically connected to any one of the working electrode and the auxiliary electrode and the sample recognition electrode.
US09395312B2
A first chromium mass concentration and a first reference mass concentration are extracted from a first test substance made by adding a predetermined amount of calcium to a predetermined amount of pellets; a reference value is calculated on the basis thereof. A second chromium mass concentration and a second reference mass concentration are extracted from a second test substance made by adding, to a predetermined amount of the substance contained in the molded part, an amount of calcium identical to the amount added to the pellets; a comparative value is calculated on the basis thereof. A screw can be determined to have wear whenever the comparative value is not less than a numerical value 60 times that of the reference value, whereas the screw can be determined not to have wear whenever the comparative value is less than a numerical value 60 times that of the reference value.
US09395303B2
Provided is a fluorescence detection device that is capable of accurately detecting the intensity of fluorescence from a sample, even when using a microarray in which a sample having a certain degree of thickness in a direction of irradiating the sample with excitation light is disposed. The fluorescence detection device (6) according to the invention detects fluorescence from a translucent sample (4) containing a fluorescent substance. The fluorescence detection device includes an excitation light irradiation unit (12) that irradiates the sample with excitation light, a detection unit (18) that detects fluorescence from the sample, and an irradiation angle adjustment unit (14) that adjusts an irradiation angle of the excitation light with respect to the sample in accordance with dimensions of the sample.
US09395302B2
Methods, devices, systems, and apparatuses are provided for the image analysis of measurement of biological samples.
US09395290B2
Systems, devices, and/or methods for use in detection of reinforcement metal corrosion within material, such as concrete, are described. The systems, devices, and/or methods may use a passive sensor located within the material and an interrogator located outside of the material that may be used to interrogate the passive sensor and to receive a signal from the passive sensor representative of corrosion potential of reinforcement metal.
US09395286B2
Trapping devices and methods are provided for capturing a medical analyte, in blood or another biological fluid. The device may include a structural substrate and a binding agent, such as an antibody, affixed to the structural substrate, wherein the binding agent is capable of binding or attaching with a medical analyte, such as a viral particle, and the device is configured for placement in a biological cavity or vessel (containing a biological fluid) in a patient. The trapping device, which may be in a twisted coil shape, is configured to trap at least some of the medical analyte, such a viral particle, present in the biological fluid. The method may include deploying a trapping device into the patient's blood vessel; after a period following the deployment, removing the trapping device from the biological cavity or blood vessel; and then analyzing the trapping device for the presence of the medical analyte.
US09395283B1
An in vitro method of making a homogenous cell block for use as a positive control for biomarkers in immunohistochemistry experiments, such slide scanning and image analysis. The homogenous cell block is produced using a three layered vertical apparatus to create an evenly distributed suspension of FFPE cells, wherein the cells are mixed with 3% agarose while still rotating within the apparatus's middle layer. The injection of the cell mixture into a mold creates a homogeneous cell block where each cell, or ratio of different types of cells, is evenly distributed. The cell mixture within the cell block may comprise: a mixture of the same type of cell with different genetic modifications; a mixture of the same type of cell with different protein or nucleic acids expression; and a mixture of different types of cells with different genetic backgrounds, and/or different expression level of genes and/or proteins.
US09395282B2
An isolator system includes first and second isolators respectively forming first and second workspaces hermetically sealed from ambient environment, and a pass box provided between the first and second isolators and forming a transport space enabled to communicate the first and second workspaces while maintaining hermeticity, wherein the pass box has a tray on which an article used in work is mounted, and a moving mechanism enabling movement of the tray toward directions to both sides of the first and second isolators, the tray has a first end on the first isolator side located in the first workspace when moved to the first isolator side, and a second end on the second isolator side located in the second workspace when moved to the second isolator side, and the first and second ends of the tray each has a grip bended downward from a mounting face of the tray.
US09395281B2
A parallel plate dimensional electrical mobility separator and laminar flow water condensation provide rapid, mobility-based particle sizing at concentrations typical of the remote atmosphere. Particles are separated spatially within the electrical mobility separator, enlarged through water condensation, and imaged onto a CCD array. The mobility separation distributes particles in accordance with their size. The condensation enlarges size-separated particles by water condensation while they are still within the gap of the mobility drift tube. Once enlarged the particles are illuminated by a laser. At a pre-selected frequency, typically 10 Hz, the position of all of the individual particles illuminated by the laser are captured by CCD camera. This instantly records the particle number concentration at each position. Because the position is directly related to the particle size (or mobility), the particle size spectra is derived from the images recorded by the CCD.
US09395279B2
A method for evaluation of cable aging degradation based on slice sampling is revealed. An insulation layer of a cable is aged or degraded from the outside in under influence of high temperature, liquid immersion, radiation exposure, or other factors. The present invention gets slices as samples of the cable by cutting from the outside in. Then related tests including dielectric withstand test, insulation resistance measurement, elongation test, etc. are carried out. Besides the state of cable aging degradation being of the slice being found out, different positions in the insulation layer such as an outer layer, a middle layer and an inner layer can also be evaluated.
US09395278B2
A method of analyzing a chemical composition of a specimen is described. The method can include providing a probe comprising an outer capillary tube and an inner capillary tube disposed co-axially within the outer capillary tube, where the inner and outer capillary tubes define a solvent capillary and a sampling capillary in fluid communication with one another at a distal end of the probe; contacting a target site on a surface of a specimen with a solvent in fluid communication with the probe; maintaining a plug volume proximate a solvent-specimen interface, wherein the plug volume is in fluid communication with the probe; draining plug sampling fluid from the plug volume through the sampling capillary; and analyzing a chemical composition of the plug sampling fluid with an analytical instrument. A system for performing the method is also described.
US09395266B2
An on-tool measurement system and a method for measuring optical system's wavefront (WF) aberrations are disclosed. The on-tool measurement system includes an optical setup comprising a moveable deflection element further comprising a highly transparent region. The deflection element includes a first surface configured to project a first image of at least one object onto a sensor and the highly transparent region includes a second surface configured to project a second image of the at least one object onto the sensor. The on-tool measurement system includes a sensor configured to capture the first and second images and a controller configured to measure differential displacements between the first and second images at each deflection element position and to calculate the optical setup local WF gradients that depend on the measured differential displacements.
US09395257B2
Real-time clock circuitry integrated in an electronic torque tool facilitates time-stamping of torque data acquired by the electronic torque tool. The time stamped torque data may be displayed on a display integrated in the electronic torque tool or may be communicated to an external device. The real-time clock circuitry may be adjusted based on information received from an external device or may be manually input to a keypad of the electronic torque tool. A calibration timer integrated in the electronic torque tool monitors time between calibrations of the tool and notifies a user upon expiration of a calibration interval. A secondary power source is coupled to the real-time clock circuitry to maintain power to the real-time clock circuitry during battery replacement.
US09395253B2
A temperature sensor uses a semiconductor device that has a known voltage drop characteristic that is proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT). A controllable current source is coupled to the semiconductor device and is operable to sequentially inject a bias current having a value I(bias) and fixed ratio N of I(bias) into the semiconductor device. A delta sigma analog to digital converter (ADC) has an input coupled to the semiconductor device. The delta sigma ADC is configured to sample and integrate a sequence of voltages pairs produced across the semiconductor device by repeatedly injecting an ordered sequence of selected bias currents into the semiconductor device. The ordered sequence of selected bias currents comprises M repetitions of (N×I(bias); I(bias)) and one repetition of (M×I(bias); M×N×I(bias)).
US09395251B2
A temperature sensitive body 102 used as a target of an optical temperature measurement, includes an inclusion 202 having an optical property related to an irradiated light varies with a change in temperature, and a light-transmissive outer shell member 200 enclosing the inclusion 202. When a temperature is measured, the inclusion 202 emits light when a light is radiated upon the inclusion 202. Since an optical property related to the irradiated light varies in accordance with a change in temperature, the temperature of the inclusion 202 can be detected by analyzing the outgoing light. A temperature of a location in which the temperature sensitive body is provided can be detected using the temperature of the inclusion 202.
US09395245B2
Aspects of a tandem dispersive range monochromator and data knitting for the monochromator are described herein. In one embodiment, the monochromator includes a tandem diffraction grating, a grating drive motor that rotates the tandem diffraction grating to provide, by diffraction of broadband light, first dispersed wavelengths of light and second dispersed wavelengths of light, a detector that detects a first reflection from the first dispersed wavelengths of light and a second reflection from the second dispersed wavelengths of light, and processing circuitry that knits together data values from the first reflection and data values from the second reflection to provide a spectrum of combined data values. By using a tandem diffraction grating having different dispersive surfaces, measurements of relatively high precision and quality may be taken throughout a wider spectral range, and the measurements may be knitted together to provide a spectrum of combined data values.
US09395228B2
A device for measuring the level of a liquid within a container, in particular the level of liquid gas, comprises a housing and a piezoelectric element adapted for generating vibrations when energized. A coupling pad is provided which is bonded to the piezoelectric element for transmitting the vibrations to a surface of the container. Further, a non-tilting element is provided which surrounds the coupling pad. A method for measuring the level of liquid within a container uses a piezoelectric element for generating vibrations which are transmitted into the shell of the container. An analyzing strategy is used which distinguishes between normal post-pulse oscillations of the piezoelectric element after a measurement was triggered, and extended post-pulse oscillations which are the result of echoed oscillations in the shell of the container.
US09395224B2
A Coriolis flowmeter (205) is provided. The Coriolis flowmeter (205) includes a flowmeter assembly (206) including one or more flowtubes (210), a driver (220) coupled to and configured to vibrate the flowmeter assembly (206), two or more pickoff sensors (230, 231) coupled to and configured to generate two or more vibration signals from the flowmeter assembly (206), and meter electronics (20) coupled to the driver (220) and the two or more pickoff sensors (230, 231), with the meter electronics (20) configured to provide a drive signal to the driver (220) and receive the resulting two or more vibration signals from the two or more pickoff sensors (230, 231), wherein the two or more pickoff sensors (230, 231) are affixed at two or more corresponding pickoff sensor locations that maximize a Coriolis vibration mode of the Coriolis flowmeter (205).
US09395223B2
Motion is induced in a conduit that contains a fluid. The motion is induced such that the conduit oscillates in a first mode of vibration and a second mode of vibration. The first mode of vibration has a corresponding first frequency of vibration and the second mode of vibration has a corresponding second frequency of vibration. At least one of the first frequency of vibration or the second frequency of vibration is determined. A phase difference between the motion of the conduit at a first point of the conduit and the motion of the conduit at a second point of the conduit is determined. A quantity based on the phase difference and the determined frequency is determined. The quantity includes a ratio between the first frequency during a zero-flow condition and the second frequency during the zero-flow condition. A property of the fluid is determined based on the quantity.
US09395222B2
A magnetization device for permeation of a multiphase fluid flowing through a measurement tube of a nuclear magnetic flow meter with a magnetic field which is homogenous at least in one plane, with a plurality of permanent magnets for generation of a magnetic field and with a carrier, the carrier having at least one magnet receiver, each magnet receiver accommodating at least one of the permanent magnets, the shape of the magnet receivers and of the permanent magnets allowing movement of the permanent magnets in the magnet receivers only in one direction and the permanent magnets being by the magnet receivers formed by hollow profiles. The hollow profile magnet receivers can be receiving tubes for the magnets that can be turned around their longitudinal axis or the profiles can have a rotatable adapter for the magnets so that a first shimming action can be achieved with the profiles.
US09395221B2
A magnetic flowmeter for measuring flow of a process fluid in a pipe includes a magnetic coil disposed adjacent to the pipe configured to apply a magnetic field to the process fluid. First and second electrodes are disposed within the pipe and electrically coupled to the process fluid and configured to sense an electromotive force (EMF) induced in the process fluid due to the applied magnetic field and flow of the process fluid. Input circuitry is coupled to the first and second electrodes and provides an output related to the sensed EMF. Diagnostic circuitry coupled to the input circuitry is configured to identify a saturation related condition and responsively provide a diagnostic output. In another embodiment, saturation prevention circuitry prevents saturation of the input circuitry.
US09395213B2
Provided is a readout integrated circuit including a sensor signal processing unit receiving sensor signals from a plurality of sensors and converting respectively the sensor signals into voltage signals, a signal converting unit respectively converting the voltage signals into digital signals, a digital signal processing unit outputting digital signals processed in response to the voltage signals and a switching control signal, a power supplying unit generating an internal voltage for operating the signal converting unit and the digital signal processing unit, and a reference sensing voltage for operating the sensor signal processing unit, and a switch unit operating in response to the switching control signal, wherein the switch unit includes switches respectively corresponding to the plurality of sensors and a current amount applied to each sensor is adjusted in response to operation times of the switches.
US09395212B2
A differential displacement sensor is disclosed that includes a pair of aligned stationary carbon nanostructures and a moveable carbon nanostructure. The moveable carbon nanostructure is configured to engage and move with respect to the pair of aligned stationary carbon nanostructures throughout a range of motion. Circuitry applies an excitation voltage across the pair of aligned stationary carbon nanostructures and the moveable carbon nanostructure to generate an output voltage proportional to a displacement of the moveable carbon nanostructure with respect to the pair of aligned stationary carbon nanostructures throughout the range of motion. Graphene sheets or carbon nanotubes may form the moveable carbon nanostructure or the pair of aligned stationary carbon nanostructures.
US09395211B2
A resolver includes a resolver rotor that is provided in an outer circumference of the motor shaft and rotates integrally with the motor shaft, a resolver stator that has a plurality of coils and surrounds an outer circumference of the resolver rotor such that a rotational angle detection gap is provided between the outer circumference of the resolver rotor and the resolver stator, a housing that houses the resolver rotor and the resolver stator and has an opening for extracting wires of the coils in an outer circumference side of the resolver stator, a wire harnessing member provided to extend from the resolver stator to an outer side of the housing through the opening and consolidates wires of a plurality of the coils, and a cover member that covers a gap between the opening and the wire harnessing member.
US09395210B2
An apparatus includes circuits, a field line configured to generate a magnetic field based on an input, a sensing module configured to determine a parameter of each circuit, and a magnetic field direction determination module configured to determine an angular orientation of the apparatus relative to an external magnetic field based on the parameter. Each circuit includes multiple magnetic tunnel junctions. Each magnetic tunnel junction includes a storage layer having a storage magnetization direction and a sense layer having a sense magnetization direction configured based on the magnetic field. Each magnetic tunnel junction is configured such that the sense magnetization direction and a resistance of the magnetic tunnel junction vary based on the external magnetic field. The parameter varies based on the resistances of the multiple magnetic tunnel junctions. The magnetic field direction determination module is implemented in at least one of a memory or a processing device.
US09395198B2
Enabling dynamic routing or mapping information, or combinations thereof, based on one or more user specified tasks may include determining one or more locations where one or more user specified tasks can be accomplished and dynamically determining at least one of routing and mapping information from current location of a user to said one or more locations.
US09395193B2
A process is provided that reduces the amount of data for a map tile that could not be displayed separately on the scale of that tile. The process generates an equivalent of the road data by rasterizing the vectors representing road segments lying within a tile and generating a connectivity mask that keeps track of which pixels are connected to which other pixels along the vectors. The process constructs an undirected graph. Each “on” pixel of the undirected graph represents a vertex and the vertices are connected by edges generated from the connectivity graph, but without a set direction. The process traces the undirected graph to generate chains of connected road segments and takes the chains and simplifies them in order to reduce the amount of data that must be stored and transmitted for the tile in order to produce all the visible roads of the tile at that scale.
US09395185B2
Various embodiments of a modular position sensing system and method for using the system are described. The system may be used to detect the position of one or more radiation blocking objects in a sensing region. The sensing region may overlie a surface such as a wall, whiteboard, display screen or a modular display screen. When used with a modular display screen, the system may include system modules dimensions to correspond to display modules used to form the modular display screen.
US09395180B2
A plurality of distance sensors are used to measure the surface shape map of objects in the presence of relative motions between the object and sensor in the measurement directions of the sensors. The method involves making multiple sequential measurements from a group of sensors while the object moves longitudinally relative to the sensors. The central idea of the invention is the observation that surface shape features appear in delayed sequence as the observed surface moves longitudinally relative to the sensor array, while any relative motions in the measurement directions appear simultaneously at all sensors. Mathematical procedures are used to identify the relative motions from within the measurements. These motions are then subtracted from the sensor reading to determine the surface shape map of the measured object. The invention can be applied to many different measurement types, including surface shape measurement of one- or multiple-sided generally flat objects, and surface shape measurement of more general three-dimensional objects.
US09395164B1
Methods of preparing propellant compositions for power loads and firearms that include providing pre-shaped particle sized starting material, shaped consistent with a desired final propellant product shape, and thereafter nitrating and stabilizing the pre-shaped starting material using boiling stabilization processes. The resulting nitrated propellants of the methods reliably exhibit complete stabilization, high nitrogen substitution, high shelf life and acceptable ballistic performance.
US09395160B2
A tethermast and frag wall includes a fabric device having a fill volume fillable with a fill material on a flexible or compliant mast system. The fill volume may be a chambered curtain. The tethermast and frag wall is self supporting, easily deployed, and may be used in connection with a structure or may be deployed stand-alone. A tether system for an air beam structure utilizing a flexible tethermast, an external frag wall or frag curtain, soft couplings, air beam slings, or combinations thereof to reduce the effects of pressure waves, such as blast waves, onto and into an air beam structure and any inhabitants.
US09395153B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide an improved firearm magazine holder including features such as a guide ramp configured to guide a firearm while inserting a magazine held by the magazine holder into the firearm; a guide ramp configured to help guide the firearm away from the magazine holder once a magazine is inserted into the firearm; a magazine spacer; a base wall; and a magnet configured to attach to the magazine by magnetic force.
US09395148B1
A recoil management system having a buffer element with an elongate buffer element body portion, a buffer element knob, and a buffer element cavity; a collar; a sleeve, wherein a sleeve recess is formed so as to accept at least a portion of the buffer element body portion therein; a buffer element recoil spring, wherein the buffer element recoil spring is positioned about at least a portion of the elongate buffer element body portion, between the collar and the sleeve; and a bumper, wherein a bumper extension portion extends from a first end of the bumper to a bumper shoulder, wherein the bumper extension portion is such that at least a portion of the bumper extension portion can be fitted at least partially within the sleeve aperture.
US09395147B2
An apparatus for interfering with locomotion of a target by conducting a current through a load that includes an ionizable path. The apparatus includes, according to various aspects of the present invention, detectors and a processing circuit that determines a status of an electrical connection with the load.
US09395142B2
A bow having a firing assembly that allows multiple projectiles in a clip to be selectively fired by a bow string, the bow having a bow string to produce the launching force to launch the projectiles along a projectile track, a firing assembly partially contained in the clip, the clip having an outer shell with a clip opening and a biased projectile follower to urge the projectiles toward the clip opening, the bow further including a receiver having a receiver opening to selectively operably receive the clip, the clip having a firing portion with at least one projection configured to support the bow string to fire the bow, the firing assembly further including a trigger assembly joined relative to the receiver and having a firing finger configured to urge the bow string off of the at least one projection and launch a projectile.
US09395136B1
A monocore baffle apparatus and related methods is disclosed. The monocore baffle apparatus includes a monocore frame having an interior section, wherein the interior section is positioned between a first end and a second end of the monocore frame. A shell is positioned about an exterior of the monocore frame. A plurality of tabs is connected to the monocore frame and extends into the interior section, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of tabs is flexibly connected to the monocore frame.
US09395135B2
A barrel assembly for use in a firearm that reduces the static bond due to propellant pressure between the cartridge case and the barrel chamber. The barrel assembly has a barrel with a rifled bore, and a chamber for receiving a cartridge therein. The barrel chamber having a throat portion adjacent the rifled bore, and the chamber also having a body portion for receiving the cartridge case therein. The cartridge comprising a cylindrical cartridge case, a bullet engaged within the cartridge case. The cartridge case contains a propellant producing a propellant pressure upon ignition of the propellant. A barrel sleeve configured to receive the barrel within and to positively engage the barrel. A recess is formed between the barrel and barrel sleeve, forming a propellant pressure interconnect passage. The barrel has supply ports passing from the chamber throat to the propellant pressure interconnect passage, and the release ports passing from the propellant pressure interconnect passage, and into the chamber body. Upon ignition of the propellant, the bullet is forced by propellant pressure out of the cartridge case and into the rifled bore of the barrel. The propellant pressure passes into the supply ports, into the propellant pressure interconnect passage, and into the release ports. The propellant pressure is then exerted upon the exterior of the cylindrical cartridge case. The static bond due to propellant pressure between the cartridge case and the barrel chamber is reduced and more energy is made available to cycle the firearm mechanism.
US09395130B2
Drop-in fixed magazines have a tubular body defining an elongated passage and having a lower end and an upper end, the body having an exterior surface that closely fits the profile of the magazine well, and the body including protrusions of the upper end extending laterally beyond the profile. The protrusions may engage a surface of the rifle to limit downward movement of the body within the magazine well. The rifle may have to be operationally disabled to enable the magazine to be installed into or removed from the magazine well. The rifle may include an upper receiver and a lower receiver, the lower receiver may have a top, and the upper receiver may have to be removed from lower receiver, thereby exposing the top of the lower receiver, in order to enable the magazine to be installed into or removed from the magazine well.
US09395124B2
An indoor device is provided. The indoor device may include a base to be fixed to an indoor wall; a fan disposed on the base that blows air; an orifice disposed upstream of the fan that guides air to the fan; a heat exchanger disposed upstream of the orifice that allows air to exchange heat with a refrigerant; and a magnet disposed at the fan and having magnetism.
US09395120B2
A magnetic pump in a pump well in a molten metal furnace with a long, relatively thin side wall that wraps around a significant fraction of the circumference of the pump, which facilitates creation of an eddy current based flow field in the molten material with better magnetic coupling, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of the pump. Breach of the well wall will not result in spillage of metal outside the furnace, and the well can be monitored for any such breach or other change so that the pump can be lifted out of the well to protect it from contact with the molten metal in the event of such a breach, or other appropriate action can be taken.
US09395119B2
This invention relates to a rotary furnace that is designed for the heat treatment of solids comprising at least one rotary tube (1) into which the solids are introduced and a heating means outside of the rotary tube that makes it possible to conduct the heat treatment, characterized in that the rotary tube comprises—on its inside surface, in contact with the feedstock to be treated—at least 1 heating blade (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38).The invention also relates to the use of this furnace for conducting the roasting of solid biomass.
US09395106B2
A system and method for cooling power electronics using heat sinks, and including a heat pump. The heat pump includes a main refrigerant circuit having a compressor, an indoor heat exchanger, and an outdoor heat exchanger, and a reversing valve. A biflow expansion valve is configured to receive condensed liquid refrigerant and to expand the refrigerant. A cooling circuit in fluid communication with the main refrigerant line includes an expansion device configured to receive a portion of condensed liquid refrigerant from the main refrigerant circuit and to expand the portion of condensed liquid refrigerant. A heat sink is configured to receive the expanded portion of refrigerant from the expansion device. Power electronics are coupled to the heat sink such that the portion of expanded refrigerant from the expansion device passes through the heat sink and cools the power electronics.
US09395102B2
Embodiments provide systems and methods for improving in-line water heaters. Certain embodiments find particular use on board aircraft, other air travel vehicles (such as helicopters or aerospace vehicles), or any other vehicles that experience varying temperatures. The in-line water heaters described are self-regulating and use a temperature dependent resistance element to detect water temperature instead of a temperature sensor.
US09395101B2
A pressure clamp adapter for mounting a thermistor on an existing thermostat control support bracket secured to a hot water tank spud is described. It comprises a thermistor bracket having a rear wall with opposed transverse projecting connecting arm formations extending from an outer surface of the rear wall. A cavity is formed from the rear surface of the rear wall to form a housing shaped to receive a thermistor therein. A passage communicates with the cavity. Each of the connecting arm formations is adapted for removable attachment to a pair of upwardly projecting legs of the thermostat control support bracket.
US09395097B2
An energy recovery ventilator unit. The unit comprises a cabinet housing a primary intake zone, a supply zone, a return zone, an exhaust zone and an enthalpy-exchange zone. The primary intake zone and the exhaust zone are both on one side of the enthalpy exchange zone. The supply zone and the return zone are both on an opposite side of the enthalpy exchange zone. The unit also comprises first and second blowers. The first blower is located in the primary intake zone and configured to push outside air into the primary intake zone and straight through the enthalpy exchange zone into the supply zone. The second blower is located in the return zone and configured to push return air into the return zone and straight through the enthalpy exchange zone into the exhaust zone.
US09395085B2
In a communicating structure between combustors that generates combustion gas inside pipe pieces and a turbine portion that generates a rotational driving force by making the combustion gas sequentially pass through a turbine stage formed of turbine stator vanes and turbine rotor blades, at least some of the first-stage turbine stator vanes closest to the combustor among the turbine stator vanes are disposed downstream of sidewalls of one pipe piece and another pipe piece that are adjacent to each other, and the distance from leading edges of the first-stage turbine stator vanes disposed downstream of the sidewalls of the pipe pieces to end portions of the sidewalls closer to the turbine portion is equal to or less than a spacing between an internal surface of the sidewall of the one pipe piece and an internal surface of the sidewall of the other pipe piece.
US09395078B2
A cooking sensor system that includes a burner assembly; and a vibration sensor assembly configured to generate a vibration signal that corresponds to vibrations of cookware situated on the burner assembly. The cooking sensor system also includes a processor to receive the vibration signal and determine at least one of a boiling condition and a boil-dry condition for a liquid contained within the cookware, wherein the determination is based at least in part on the vibration signal. The cooking sensor system further includes an indicator element coupled to the processor to indicate the at least one of a boiling condition and a boil-dry condition. The cooking sensor system may also include a control element coupled to the processor to operate the burner assembly based at least in part on the at least one of a boiling condition and a boil-dry condition.
US09395077B2
A flashlight with integrated spray repellent is provided that provides a more effective and efficient means of self-defense and safety. The flashlight comprises a main body, a flashlight head on a distal end and a spray enclosure on a distal end. A spray repellent device is housed within the proximal end of the main body and the spray enclosure, the spray repellent device further comprising a spray head and a spray canister containing a repellent substance. The spray enclosure has two opposing openings: a spray trigger opening for accessing the spray trigger and a spray nozzle opening for expelling the repellent substance. In an alternate embodiment, the flashlight features a curved flashlight head such that the light and the spray face the same direction and can be used simultaneously.
US09395068B2
Provided is a flexible LED light source panel including: a flexible LED module in which a plurality of LEDs is disposed in an array form on a flexible circuit board; a protective sheet stacked on the flexible LED module and diffusing light from the LEDs; a heat conduction sheet disposed under the flexible LED module; a heat radiation sheet disposed under the heat conduction sheet, made of fireproof fiber, and coated with a carbon nano tube molecule having a grid or vertical structure; and a light source guide having a quadrilateral shape.
US09395066B2
An adjustable beam illuminator may provide a beam of light with an output cone angle that is adjustable (e.g., continuously adjustable) from small output angles (substantially collimated beam, “spot” mode) to larger output angles providing “flood” illumination. The illuminator may emit infrared light, for example.
US09395063B2
An LED lighting source having a surface light source characteristic and an icicle type diffusion unit corresponding to the surface light source are integrally formed through coupling therebetween to provide a shield type structure having waterproof and dustproof functions. Also, the LED lighting engine may improve lighting efficiency and reduce manufacturing costs when compared to an existing lighting device, and may also be applied in various ways. Also, the LED lighting engine may satisfy quality and pricing standards for LED lighting which are the main variables visible to the eyes of a user. In addition, the LED lighting engine may be simply replaced with conventional LED lighting in a one-on-one ratio (size) which greatly influences market competitiveness. Also, the LED lighting engine may be simply and freely adjusted in terms of light uniformity and light diffusion angle.
US09395057B2
Lighting devices include multiple heatsink elements arranged to dissipate heat generated by the multiple solid state emitters, with non-rigid coupling between heatsink elements. At least a portion of each heatsink element is preferably exposed to an ambient environment. Each heatsink element may include a switching element, may be addressable, and may receive wired or wireless control signals. A modular solid state lighting unit includes a heatsink and at least one solid state light emitter, with at least one flexible element secured to the heatsink element and to multiple electrical couplings. Flexible rope lights and two-dimensional arrays of emitters are provided.
US09395053B2
An LED light bulb includes a holder for electrically connecting with a power source, an LED mounted on the holder, an envelope mounted on the holder and covering the LED, and a light dispersing plate attached to an inner surface of the envelope. The light dispersing plate is made of a transparent material with a plurality of irregular air bubbles therein. Light generated by the LED and radiating to the envelope is refracted, reflected and scattered by the bulbs before the light emits out of the LED light bulb.
US09395044B2
A wall hanger includes a fastening member, a linking member including a top wall, a lateral wall, and a bottom wall, and a sleeving member. A first connecting portion is at the fastening member. A second connecting portion is at the top wall to connect with the first connecting portion. The lateral wall is extending vertically toward a first direction distant from the top wall and has first teeth. The bottom wall is extending toward the first direction from the lateral wall and is parallel to the top wall. The sleeving member includes a base member, a supporting wall standing on the base member, and an abutting wall extending from the supporting wall and parallel to the base member. A groove is defined by the base member, the supporting wall, and the abutting wall. The top surface of the abutting wall has second teeth.
US09395037B2
A secure enclosure for a tablet display device includes a tablet display device holder defining a cavity for receiving a tablet display device and a flexible stalk having first and second ends. The first end of the stalk is fixed to the tablet display device holder and the second end is adapted to be mounted to a surface. The flexible stalk comprises a flex hose having a first end and a second end, and an end fitting fixed around the first end of the flex hose at the first end of the flexible stalk.
US09395029B2
An inflatable apparatus, for use in supporting a device such as a sex toy, the inflatable apparatus comprising: an inflatable portion which serves as a main structural element of the apparatus; a holding portion which extends into the inflatable portion, and which defines a holding aperture bounded by a holding surface, the holding surface being adapted for frictional engagement with a device inserted into the holding aperture, wherein the holding portion is adjustable such that such frictional engagement can be adjusted.
US09395015B2
Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods of preventing rotational stress on the top shaft of valve actuators. Certain methods and apparatuses include a bifurcated top shaft. Other apparatuses and methods include a method of preventing rotational stress at the distal end on the top shaft of an actuator.
US09395014B2
Example pilot-control stage for a proportionally controlled high-pressure hydraulic valves are disclosed. An example pilot-control stage includes a housing of a hydraulic valve, the housing comprising a piston chamber, a guide piston disposed within the piston chamber to move in an axial direction along the piston chamber, the guide piston having an aperture and a tappet, a compensating piston extending into the aperture, where the compensating piston moves in an axial direction along the aperture to define a compensating chamber, a bore fluidly coupling the hydraulic valve to the compensating chamber, an electromagnetic coil at least partially surrounding the piston chamber, and high-pressure seals between the compensating piston and the control piston, and between the tappet and the housing, where the control piston acts as an electromagnetic armature and current applied to the coil moves the guide piston and the tappet, and where the high-pressure seals isolate the piston chamber from the high-pressure areas.
US09395013B2
An electromagnetic proportional 2-way flow control valve (1) has a valve housing (2) in which a control piston (3) is guided to be displaced axially. The control piston (3) actuates at least one fluid-conducting connection (4) between a fluid inlet (5) and an outflow opening (6). An armature (8) can be actuated by a proportional magnet and acts on the control piston (3). A pressure detecting piston (9) serves as the actuator part on the control piston (3). The fluid inlet (5) is connected in a fluid-conducting manner by a pressure detecting channel (11) to a pressure detecting chamber (12) such that the fluid pressure prevailing in the pressure detecting chamber (12) loads the pressure detecting piston (9) and the control piston (3) with a force (F) in the direction of relief of the armature.
US09395008B2
A second piece nests within a first piece and has a circumferential groove. A vent penetrates the first piece and matches the circumferential groove when the second piece is nested within the first piece. An o-ring is modified to allow equal pressure on either side of the o-ring.
US09395005B2
A compact two-way cartridge valve with combined flanged cover includes combined flanged covers, miniaturized pilot control assemblies and main stage of seated poppet valve, or combined flanged covers and main stage of seated poppet valve, or combined covers and miniaturized pilot assemblies and main stage of seated poppet valve. The present invention can overall realign all the two-way cartridge valve products currently on the market, and innovate new series of MINISO compact two-way cartridge valves in the specifications of 10 mm, 16 mm, 25 mm, 32 mm, and will change the quo-status of hydraulic drive and control system, that is the two-way cartridge valves currently are mainly used for large power or flow situations, and can make two-way cartridge valves applied for medium and small power or flow situations, which are the majority of the market in the hydraulic drive and control system.
US09394998B2
A shaft seal assembly includes a metal case having a wall extending cylindrically about a central axis with an annular leg extending radially inwardly from the wall toward the central axis. An elastomeric material is bonded to the leg and a primary seal lip is operably attached to the elastomeric material. The primary seal lip separates an oil side of the assembly from an air side of the seal assembly. The elastomer material has an annular groove formed on the air side of the primary seal lip. The assembly further includes an auxiliary lip subassembly including an annular metal washer with at least one auxiliary lip fixed thereto as a one-piece subassembly. The annular metal washer has an annular outer periphery snappingly received within the annular groove.
US09394988B2
A ring seal for a machine component is provided. The ring seal includes a main body. The main body includes an inner surface defining an inner periphery. The main body also includes an outer surface defining an outer periphery. The ring seal also includes a tab having a height and a width. The tab extends from the main body. The tab is configured to contact at least one of a first interfacing surface and a second interfacing surface of the machine component to provide sealing therebetween.
US09394976B2
A hydraulically ratcheted tensioner is provided. The tensioner includes a tensioner housing and a plunger including a groove is located partially in a piston chamber in the tensioner housing. The plunger is pressurizable by hydraulic fluid. A ratchet device includes a ratchet housing and a piston having an angled end. A spring biases the piston such that the angled end is forced against a ratchet pin that extends radially through a hole in the ratchet housing and the tensioner housing. The ratchet pin is biased against the piston by a ratchet spring. In a first, non-pressurized state, the ratchet pin engages the groove. In a second, pressurized state, the pressurized hydraulic fluid forces the piston against the spring such that the angled end disengages the ratchet pin and the ratchet spring moves the ratchet pin to a position disengaged from the groove, and the hydraulic fluid pressurizes the plunger.
US09394969B2
A hand-held tool gear mechanism unit includes a drive gearwheel, an output gearwheel, and a connecting unit. The output gearwheel has a rotational axis spaced apart radially from a rotational axis of the drive gearwheel. The connecting unit is configured to transmit a rotational movement from the drive gearwheel to the output gearwheel substantially without a step-up transmission ratio. The connecting unit is configured to couple the drive gearwheel and the output gearwheel such that they can be moved relative to one another about a pivot axis.
US09394964B2
A fluid-filled vibration damping device including a second orifice passage and a third orifice passage tuned to a lower frequency than the second orifice passage, and an actuator including an output portion facing openings of the second and third orifice passages on a side of an equilibrium chamber via a flexible film. The flexible film obstructs the openings of the second and third orifice passages when the output portion comes into contact against a partition member so that the third orifice passage is blocked while the second orifice passage is substantially placed in communication owing to a center recess of the output portion permitting deformation of the flexible film. Meanwhile, the flexible film is separated from the openings of the second and third orifice passages when the output portion is separated from the partition member so that the two orifice passages are placed in communication.
US09394957B2
A connecting of spring ends of a strand of springs, wherein it is provided that the winding diameter of the end windings is reduced, at least in the area of each of the two ends, and the pitch of the end windings is increased in the area of each of the two ends relative to the pitch in the spring body, and that the two ends overlap in contact with one another over a section and are finally connected to one another.
US09394937B2
The invention generally relates to two-bladed turbine nacelles and associated teetering hinges. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a hinge assembly encompassing a hub and two double elastomeric teeter bearings. In some aspects, the bearings are self-contained elements that can be preloaded in a controlled manner prior to their incorporation into the larger assembly.
US09394929B2
In order to avoid cavitation in a boom cylinder head end at the beginning of a dig cycle, fluid from an alternate source is supplied to the head end before or in addition to fluid supplied by the main boom-up hydraulic circuit. In one embodiment, an electronic hydraulic valve, related sensors, and control system determines the beginning of a dig operation and uses fluid at an intermediate pressure to rapidly provide fluid to a boom head end cylinder to prevent voiding or cavitation before fluid under high pressure from the main pump can be brought to the cylinder. An on/off fluid switch is activated early in a dig operation to address low pressure at the boom cylinder head end and provide an alternate path for fluid into the cylinder in reaction to the boom being lifted by a motion of the stick and bucket in contact with the work surface.
US09394919B1
Devices, apparatus, systems and methods of hanging ceiling fans and safely making electrical connections between the motor and the mount bracket. The invention allows for the bulky, heavy ceiling fan motor to be left safely on the ground while the wiring from the ceiling box to the mount bracket is done. When the ceiling fan motor is securely hung in the mounting bracket, male and female electrical connectors between the motor and the mounting bracket can be safely interlocked to one another creating a much safer installation over conventional installation techniques.
US09394916B2
A system, in certain embodiments, includes a centrifugal compressor diffuser that includes an elliptical plate including multiple vane receptacles disposed about an axis of the plate and multiple detachable vanes attached to the plate. Each vane receptacle includes a first two dimensional (2D) projection along a plane of the elliptical plate and each detachable vane includes a second two dimensional (2D) projection along a base portion of the vane, where each detachable vane is disposed in a respective vane receptacle with the first and second 2D projections blocking movement of the detachable vane in at least a first axial direction relative to the elliptical plate. In certain embodiments, the first and second 2D projections may include a first tab to fit in a recess between a pair of second tabs, respectively, or vice versa. However, in other embodiments, the first and second 2D projections may include alternative mating surfaces.
US09394909B2
A submersible pump housing with seal bleed ports is provided. In an implementation, a pump housing for electric submersible pumps (ESPs), such as a centrifugal ESP, has end seals that are located inside or further inboard toward the high thrust pressure generated by the pump, than the threaded ends of the pump housing. The inboard seals contain and seal off the pump pressure and spare the threaded regions that are more pressure-vulnerable from the pump's high pressure interior, thereby increasing the pressure rating of the entire housing. Leak ports or bleed ports are provided further outboard of the end seals to relieve fluid seeping from inside the submersible pump housing past each end seal. A plate may be added to direct small amounts of fluid escaping from the end seals away from the wellbore casing in which an ESP is situated.
US09394908B2
A pressurized water reactor (PWR) includes a vertical cylindrical pressure vessel having a lower portion containing a nuclear reactor core and a vessel head defining an internal pressurizer. A reactor coolant pump (RCP) mounted on the vessel head includes an impeller inside the pressure vessel, a pump motor outside the pressure vessel, and a vertical drive shaft connecting the motor and impeller. The drive shaft does not pass through the internal pressurizer. A central riser may be disposed concentrically inside the pressure vessel, and the RCP impels primary coolant downward into a downcomer annulus between the central ser and the pressure vessel. A steam generator may be disposed in the downcomer annulus and spaced apart from with the impeller by an outlet plenum, A manway may access the outlet plenum so tube plugging can be performed on the steam generator via access through the manway without removing the RCP.
US09394907B2
A motor-driven compressor includes an electric motor including a stator and a rotor, wherein the stator includes a stator core and a coil end projecting from the stator core, a rotation shaft, a compression unit, a motor driving circuit, a housing accommodating the compression unit, the electric motor, and the motor driving circuit sequentially arranged in an axial direction of the rotation shaft, a conductor configured to electrically connect the motor driving circuit to the electric motor, a lead extending from the coil end, a connection terminal electrically connecting the conductor to the lead, and a cluster block accommodating the connection terminal. The cluster block is arranged in the housing. The cluster block is coupled to the stator with at least part of the cluster block located inward from the coil end in a radial direction of the rotation shaft.
US09394906B2
Provided is a highly reliable oil free screw compressor including a first sensor for detecting a temperature of lubrication oil, second sensors for detecting temperatures of intake air, and a cooling fan controller having a storage portion storing therein a set temperature of lubrication oil and a set temperature of intake air, and a computing portion for computing a control signal for increasing the speed of the cooling fan if a detected value of a temperature of the lubrication oil, delivered from the first sensor, becomes higher than the set value of lubrication oil stored in the storage portion, and computing a control signal for increasing the speed of the cooling fan if a detected value of a temperature of the intake air, delivered from the second sensor, becomes higher than the set temperature of the intake air, stored in the storage portion.
US09394895B2
A multi-range on-site full-automatic pressure calibration instrument includes a housing, a power switch, a plurality of interfaces, a display, a keyboard, a gas pressure generation unit, a power supply unit, a pressure detection unit and a gas pressure control unit. The gas pressure generation unit is a gas pressurizing pump communicated with atmosphere. A pressure output port of the pressure control unit is in parallel connection with pressure connectors used for installation of a plurality of pressure standard devices with different ranges and a calibrated gauge. The pressure control unit is in signal connection with the pressure standard device. The power supply unit can supply power by batteries. The calibration instrument does not need to be externally connected with a gas cylinder or an alternating current power supply and can automatically generate a gas pressure and generate an accurate standard pressure.
US09394893B2
A controllable hydraulic oscillating slide machine includes an inner rotor arranged in a housing and having cylindrical recesses. A bearing is formed in the housing, in which a co-rotating outer rotor is mounted eccentrically to the inner rotor, the outer rotor having several pivotably suspended slide drivers that engage into the recesses of the inner rotor for rotationally driving the outer rotor by way of the inner rotor and form modifiable chambers. The slide drivers may each be coupled to a piston that is guided in a respective associated recess. A pressure level different from that in the chambers between the inner and the outer rotor may be set in the chambers delimited by the recesses and the associated pistons so that two different pressure levels may be generated and two different consumers can be supplied using the oscillating slide machine.
US09394890B2
A reciprocating-piston pump with plain bearing traversed by flow. The reciprocating-piston pump is driven by an electromagnet to have a bearing of the piston in a cylinder, which bearing is protected against local overheating and from which bearing decomposition and reaction products and any wear products generated are discharged. For this purpose, elongate helical depressions are provided in one of two bearing surfaces in a bearing gap between the piston and the cylinder, which depressions are traversed entirely or partially by a flow of the liquid which is delivered by the piston acting in interaction with other components of the reciprocating-piston pump for the delivery rate of the reciprocating-piston pump. Reciprocating-piston pumps of the described type can be used as dosing pumps and as delivery pumps in fuel-operated standstill heaters, auxiliary heaters and exhaust-gas purification systems in vehicles.
US09394885B2
An energy storage system uses energy produced by a primary energy generation assembly beyond a peak primary use production limit to increase potential energy in a secondary energy generation assembly for later use to supplement energy produced by the primary energy generation assembly during periods of less than peak energy production by the primary energy generation assembly. The system includes a primary energy generation assembly having a peak primary use production limit and a peak total production limit. The peak total production limit is greater than the peak primary use production limit. A secondary energy generation assembly utilizes gravitational transfer of a weighting material from an elevated position to a lowered position to produce electrical energy. The secondary energy generation assembly is selectively actuatable such that energy generated by the secondary energy generation assembly supplements energy produced by the primary energy generation assembly.
US09394883B2
A wind power electricity generating system and its generation method, comprising a circuit frame, towers that support the circuit frame, a plurality of rails attached to the circuit frame, a plurality of interconnected trolleys, each trolley is connected with a blade whose blade rotation angle is adjustable, a plurality of generators, a plurality of positioning devices capable of sending and receiving signals deployed on the circuit frame, and devices for sending and receiving signals for adjusting a rotation angle of the blades being deployed at each trolley. Current collectors are deployed at the trolley.
US09394882B2
Structural preform layers of multiple rigid unidirectional strength elements or rods are constructed and arranged for use in fabricating load-bearing support structures and reinforcements of wind turbine blades. Individual preform layers include multiple elongate unidirectional strength elements or rods arranged in a single layer along a longitudinal axis of the preform layer. Each preform layer includes one or more fibrous carrier layers to which the multiple strength elements or rods are joined and arranged in the single layer. Each strength element or rod is longitudinally oriented and adjacent to other elements or rods. Individual strength elements or rods include a mass of substantially straight unidirectional structural fibers embedded within a matrix resin such that the elements or rods have a substantially uniform distribution of fibers and high degree of fiber collimation. The relative straightness of the fibers and fiber collimation provide strength elements or rods and the preform layers with high rigidity and significant compression strength.
US09394877B2
Method for maneuvering a buoyant body of a wave power converter having a mechanical-electric, mechanical-hydraulic or piezo-electric energy converter which is arranged in the sea under the buoyant body, the buoyant body and wave power converter being connected by a wire, and which buoyant body is provided with at least one ballast tank for controlling the buoyancy of the buoyant body, where the method includes, by means of measuring equipment acquiring information regarding wire tension, filling level/pressure in the ballast tank and stroke of the energy converter, and controlling the buoyancy of the buoyant body by supplying/discharging water/air to/from the ballast tank while at the same time adjusting the tension of the wire by operating a winch arranged in the buoyant body. The invention also relates to a wave power plant for executing the method.
US09394872B2
A method of controlling the stopping and starting of an engine is disclosed in which, during an engine shut-down period, if a signal indicative of a request for restarting the engine is generated, the engine 1000 is restarted if the engine speed (N) is within a predefined speed range and the absolute pressure (MAP) in a manifold of the engine is below a predefined limit MAPlim.
US09394868B2
A valve assembly of an injection valve may include a valve body having a cavity forming an inner guide surface and having a fluid inlet portion and a fluid outlet portion, a valve needle in the cavity that controls a fluid flow through the fluid outlet portion, the valve needle having an upper end facing the fluid inlet portion and an inner recess extending from the upper end and enabling a fluid flow inside the valve needle. A guide element in the cavity is mechanically coupled to the upper end of the valve needle and extends radially to the inner guide surface of the valve body and guides the upper end of the valve needle inside the valve body. The guide element forms a one-piece extension of the valve needle with an inner recess hydraulically coupled to the fluid inlet portion and the inner recess of the valve needle.
US09394859B2
A two-wheeled vehicle includes a frame having a front frame portion, a mid-frame portion, and a rear frame portion. The mid-frame portion is coupled to the rear frame portion and the front frame portion. The vehicle further includes a plurality of ground-engaging members for supporting the frame. The engine includes an air deflector to assist in cooling a rear cylinder of a V-twin engine. An accessory windshield is also shown which may be coupled to the handlebars and front forks of the vehicle. Also, a rear accessory attachment is shown mountable to the rear fender.
US09394858B2
Methods and systems are provided for adjusting a charge air cooler fan or charge air cooler coolant pump and an engine cooling fan and/or vehicle grille shutters based on a target manifold charge air temperature. In one example, the grille shutter position and/or engine cooling fan speed may be adjusted based on a difference between a target manifold charge air temperature and a temperature of the charge air cooler cooling medium. Further, the charge air cooler fan speed or charge air cooler coolant pump speed may be adjusted based on a difference between a charge air cooler inlet charge air temperature and the target manifold charge air temperature.
US09394849B2
An electronically controlled fuel injection valve can control the time to inject fuel and the amount of fuel to be injected in response to a control signal independently from the operating condition of an engine unlike a traditional mechanical fuel injection valve. The electronically controlled fuel injection valve employs a control method for fuel injection that increases the force of lifting up a cutoff needle of an injection controller by delivering high-pressure fuel to a lower pressure chamber via a control needle, thereby rapidly controlling fuel injection, has a simple structure making it easy to assemble, replace and precisely machine parts, and has a simple flow path structure which facilitates fabrication.
US09394846B2
Methods and systems are provided for addressing cylinder pre-ignition. Each cylinder of an engine may be operated in either a split injection mode or a single injection mode based on the pre-ignition history of the cylinder. The timing and number of injections in the split injection mode is adjusted based on the pre-ignition count of the cylinder.
US09394843B2
Various systems and methods are described for reducing engine oil dilution in a boosted engine. One method comprises, when engine oil dilution is higher than a first threshold and engine oil temperature is below a temperature threshold, adjusting a position of an air induction system (AIS) throttle, generating a vacuum, and providing the vacuum to a crankcase of the boosted engine to enhance fuel evaporation from engine oil. The providing of vacuum may be discontinued when engine oil dilution is lower than the first threshold and/or when engine oil temperature rises above the temperature threshold.
US09394841B1
A system and attendant structural assembly operative to establish a coordinated mixture of gaseous and distillate fuels for an engine including an electronic control unit (ECU) operative to monitor predetermined engine data determinative of engine fuel requirements and structured to regulate ratios of the gaseous and distillate fuel of an operative fuel mixture for the engine. The system and assembly includes at least one mixing assembly comprising an integrated throttle body and air gas mixer directly connected to one another, wherein the throttle body is disposed in fluid communication with a pressurized gaseous fuel supply and the air gas mixer is disposed in fluid communication with a flow of intake air to a combustion section of the engine. In use, the throttle body is structured to direct a variable gaseous fuel flow directly to the air gas mixer for dispensing into the intake air flow to the combustion section.
US09394838B2
An internal combustion engine is configured to operate in a homogeneous-charge compression-ignition combustion mode. A method for operating the internal combustion engine includes determining a desired effective charge dilution for a cylinder charge for a cylinder firing event. A desired air/fuel ratio, a desired intake air mass and a desired intake oxygen are determined to achieve the desired effective charge dilution for a combustion event. The desired air/fuel ratio is adjusted based upon a difference between the desired intake oxygen and the actual intake oxygen, and engine operation is controlled to achieve the adjusted desired air/fuel ratio.
US09394835B2
An engine method, comprising turning off a second cylinder group in response to engine load falling below a first threshold, the second cylinder group including a first outer most cylinder and its immediately adjacent cylinder and turning on the second cylinder group in response to engine load raising above a second threshold and operating a first cylinder group constantly throughout engine operation; the first cylinder group including a second outer most cylinder and its immediately adjacent cylinder. By this method, engine efficiency may increase during partial load operating conditions from low engine loads.
US09394834B2
A system is disclosed herein for a four-stroke internal combustion engine, the system comprising: at least two cylinders; a fuel direct injection device; a variable valve timing system; an engine controller to control spark ignition and valve timing according to load; wherein, below a lower load threshold, a first cylinder is deactivated, an injection of fuel takes place into a combustion chamber of the first cylinder and an outlet valve of the first cylinder is open during a compression stroke. Fuel injected into the deactivated cylinders may enter the exhaust tract through the open outlet valves and serve as a reducing agent therein.
US09394832B2
An aeronautical engine including a fuel pumping device including a high pressure fuel pump including an inlet connected to a low pressure fuel conduit and an outlet connected to a main circuit for feeding high pressure fuel, an electric device starting the engine, and a device cooling the electric starting device connected to the pumping device to ensure cooling by circulation of fuel. The cooling device is supplied with fuel by a pump that includes an inlet connected to the pumping device, upstream from the high pressure pump, and that is driven by an electric motor independently of the high pressure pump.
US09394831B2
An example arrangement for driving a turbomachine includes an input shaft that is configured to rotate a rotor of the turbomachine through a hydraulic log and gear differential rotatable coupled to the input shaft. A motor-generator is rotatably coupled to the differential. The motor-generator has a motor mode of operation and a generator mode of operation. The motor-generator is configured to drive the input shaft through the hydraulic log and differential when the motor-generator is in the motor mode of operation. The input shaft is configured to drive the motor-generator through the hydraulic log and differential when the motor-generator is in the generator mode of operation.
US09394829B2
A system and method for aligning a gas turbine engine. The system and method includes installing an alignment mount, determining whether the gas turbine engine is aligned and/or in a sufficiently aligned condition, and modifying a vertical position of the gas turbine engine at the alignment mount in response. The alignment mount includes an engine attachment, a ground attachment, and an expansion member configured to allow the engine attachment and the ground attachment to move relative to each other and maintain a load path therebetween.
US09394826B1
The present invention is an industrial gas turbine engine with a circulating fluidized bed cooling system to provide cooling to certain parts of the engine such as a transition duct or a stator vane. The circulating fluidized bed cooling system can be used to cool a stator vane, a casing, or any stationary part of the engine. A circulating fluidized bed cooling system uses very fine particles that pass along with a cooling fluid such as cooling air and provide for a much higher heat transfer coefficient than does turbulent flow cooling air because of the particles. The fine particles produce conduction cooling from the hot surface to the particles that are then carried along in the circulating fluid flow to another location where the heat picked up by the particles is then transferred out from the particles.
US09394820B2
A previous-stage oxidation catalyst device, a Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF) device, a turbine of a turbocharger, a previous-stage NOx selective reduction catalyst device, and a subsequent-stage NOx selective reduction catalyst device in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine in this order from an exhaust port side. An ammonia-based solution feeder is on an inlet side or outlet side of the DPF device. The previous-stage NOx selective reduction catalyst device is a rare earth composite oxide catalyst, and the subsequent-stage NOx selective reduction catalyst device is a zeolite catalyst. The NOx removal rate is improved in wide ranges from low to high temperatures and to high flow rates, and the temperature of the DPF device is kept high to increase the time and frequency of continuous regeneration, thereby reducing the frequency of forced regeneration and an amount of discharge of CO2 during the forced regeneration.
US09394811B1
A magnet holding bracket has an rectangular body for holding a rectangular magnet as defined by the Magnet Patent. A mounting tab on one end of the rectangular body includes an aperture sized and physically disposed for insertion of an oil pan drain plug from a non-ferrous oil pan. The drain plug tightens against the mounting tab and holds the rectangular magnet in justaposition to the non-ferrous oil pan such that the rectangular magnet can engage ferrous particles circulating within the oil pooling in the non-ferrous oil pan.
US09394800B2
Various embodiments include a turbomachine including a swirl-inhibiting seal. In various particular embodiments, a turbomachine includes: a rotor section having sets of axially disposed blades; a diaphragm section at least partially surrounding the rotor section, the diaphragm section including a set of nozzles positioned between adjacent sets of axially disposed blades, wherein the set of nozzles includes at least one nozzle having: a base section coupled to the diaphragm section; a blade coupled to the base section; and a radial tip section coupled to a radial end of the blade, the radial tip section including an axially extending flange having a slot extending therethrough for controlling fluid flow within the turbomachine.
US09394790B2
A rotary internal combustion engine includes an outer housing and an inner housing defining an enclosure therebetween, and first and second side housings disposed on opposite sides of the outer housing. At least one of the outer and inner housings is rotatable relative to the other and at least two barriers are disposed in the enclosure and divide the enclosure into a combustion chamber and an exhaust chamber. At least one barrier is rotatable relative to at least one other barrier and at least one barrier comprises a retractable barrier mounted along a pivot axis and is pivotable between an extended position and a retracted position. An intake port, exhaust port, and ignition source are also provided. The rotary internal combustion engine further includes an intake opening formed in one of the side housings. The intake opening is intermittently fluidly communicating with the combustion chamber through the intake port.
US09394789B2
A vibrator has a hollow body with two end walls, a first piston slidably housed within the body, a first chamber defined therein and communicating with an inlet and bounded by a first active surface of the first piston, and a second chamber bounded by a second active surface of the piston, larger than and opposite the first active surface. The first piston slidingly houses a switch unit having at least one second piston and controlled by a fluid switch circuit having an inlet portion formed in the first piston and communicating with the first chamber. An outlet portion is formed in the first piston and communicates with the outlet. A switch portion, which is defined by the switch unit, communicates with the second chamber, and connects the second chamber to the inlet portion and to the outlet portion alternately as a function of the switch unit's axial position.
US09394787B2
A cutter bit includes a wear resistant element replaceably mounted to a front surface immediately below the cutting surface of the cutter bit. The body of the cutter bit is generally formed of a hardened steel, the cutting surface can be a diamond composition fixed in a step in the upper end of the cutter bit and the wear resistant element is preferably formed of a carbide composition or a sintered diamond composition. The wear resistant element can be coupled to a front end of a stem passing through an opening in the cutter bit immediately below the cutting surface.
US09394778B2
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to apparatus, systems, and methods of fracturing a geological structure including the application of kinetic energy (e.g., from high velocity frack fluid) to a subterranean structure. In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to apparatus, systems, and methods for delivery of high velocity fluid to a well using a down hole valve and/or throttling system. The present disclosure relates to apparatus, systems, and methods of generating pressure using accumulators (e.g., high pressure accumulators) at the surface of a well.
US09394771B2
A renewable energy, single well, primarily self-flow, geothermal heat/power production system that acquires naturally occurring sub-surface geothermal heat to heat water and/or produce mechanical/electrical power using a heat exchangers or a turbine/generator. The sub-surface structures defining a working fluid flow path may be insulated, such as with vacuum insulation, to increase system efficiency and ensure a substantially self-generating working fluid flow.
US09394765B2
A gravel packing apparatus has first and second joints each including a sand control screen assembly having a filter medium positioned exteriorly of a base pipe and a slurry delivery subassembly positioned exteriorly of the sand control screen assembly. Each slurry delivery subassembly includes a transport tube extending longitudinally along at least a portion of the sand control screen assembly. A jumper tube extends between and is sealably coupled to the transport tube of the first joint and the transport tube of the second joint. A first locking assembly is positioned between the jumper tube and the transport tube of the first joint and a second locking assembly is positioned between the jumper tube and the transport tube of the second joint.
US09394762B2
The present invention generally relates to an isolation valve with debris control. In one aspect, an isolation valve for use as part of a casing string is provided. The isolation valve includes a housing having a bore and a valve cavity. The isolation valve further includes a valve member movable between a first position in which the valve member obstructs the bore of the housing and a second position in which the valve member is disposed in the valve cavity. Further, the isolation valve includes a flow tube configured to allow movement of the valve member between the first and second positions. Additionally, the isolation valve includes an engagement assembly adapted to engage the flow tube to substantially prevent debris from entering the valve cavity when the valve member is in the second position. In another aspect, a method of operating an isolation valve in a wellbore is provided.
US09394756B2
Sensor assemblies are deployed in a borehole for a well, such as an oil well or other hydrocarbon recovery well. The sensor assemblies are coupled to a casing string (e.g., the exterior of the casing), and may detect RFID tags or other properties of material (e.g., fluids) in an annulus surrounding the casing string. Limited battery power for the sensor assemblies and for assemblies for communicating sensed data may be a concern, and the sensor assemblies and communication assemblies may therefore operate in different modes of varying power consumption. In certain modes, sensing operations are curtailed (or expanded) depending on particular requirements. In one case, sensor operation is expanded during active portions of a cementing operation, and curtailed prior to and thereafter. Different triggering events may cause the sensor assembly to operate in different modes at different sensing frequencies.
US09394743B2
A roll shade system is disclosed. The roll shade system includes a motor configured to remain stationary during operation of the motor, a support shaft supporting the motor wherein the support shaft is configured to remain stationary during operation of the motor, and a roll shade tube configured to be rotatable about the motor and the support shaft during operation of the motor. The roll shade system further includes stationary components including a wiring connector, an input wiring system, a bearing, an antenna, a coaxial cable, a motor controller, a counterbalance spring. The roll shade system also includes rotatable components including a bearing housing and one or more O-rings.
US09394742B2
An example of a vertically operating door includes a flexible panel comprising two pliable sheets of material with a plurality of pads or mats of thermal insulation between the two sheets. In some examples, a plurality of horizontally elongate baffles made of pliable strips of material are installed between the two sheets. The baffles effectively divide one large interior volume between the sheets into more manageable smaller volumes or chambers. The baffles restrict the air between the sheets from being forced to the bottom of the panel as the panel ascends and bends across an overhead roller. Without the baffles and smaller chambers, the panel sheets in the area near the bottom of the panel would tend to bulge outward as the door opens.
US09394737B2
The invention relates to a method for opening a movable panel of a motor vehicle, including the following steps: Step A (1)—the presence of at least one body part of a person is detected by a capacitive or non-capacitive sensor; Step B (2)—the person is authenticated as being authorized to unlock the vehicle by an authentication means; Step C (5)—a virtual switch is produced by projecting a light pattern onto the ground on which the motor vehicle is standing; and Step D (6)—the person positions his/her foot so as to obscure the virtual switch in a predetermined manner; Step E (7)—if the foot is not positioned in the predetermined manner, a signal is sent to restart step D, or if the foot is positioned in the predetermined manner, a control means opens the movable panel.
US09394731B2
A door lock system for a debris tank is disclosed. The system includes a door, a threaded bolt projecting from the door, and a rotary actuator coupled to a head of the threaded bolt for rotating the threaded bolt. In addition, the system includes a cross member spanning the inside of the tank and a nut secured to the cross member, where the threaded bolt and nut are positioned to engage the door to pull and secure the door over an open end of the debris tank by rotating the threaded bolt into the nut using the rotary actuator. A hinge assembly is associated with the door to mount the door to a periphery of the open end of the debris tank for swinging movement of the door between an open and a closed position.
US09394727B2
A security device for protecting a merchandise item that includes a housing, a first cable, a second cable, a spool, a locking mechanism and a crossover device that is in the housing and is rotatable about a vertical axis. The locking mechanism locks the spool so that it is not rotatable about the vertical axis. The cable crossover device is placed on a side of a merchandise item opposite the housing. The crossover device in is formed with a crossover body and a latch. The crossover body has the first cable slidably attached to it. The latch is configured to be locked to the crossover body. The second cable slidably is attached to the latch. The latch is configured to be partially released from the crossover body when it unlocked.
US09394725B2
Electronic lock with radiofrequency identification, for metal doors; of the type that consist of electronic means with a chip (C2) and an antenna (a2) that control means (3) that allow/do not allow the movement of a knob/button (4) of the lock for its opening/closing; and of the type that use a card or similar (for example, a wrist band or a key ring) (1) for opening/closing that consists of electronic means with a chip (C1) and an antenna (a1). It places concentrically to the knob/button (4) a plate-antenna (8) that is structured in a first sheet (81) supporting a passive amplifier antenna and a second sheet (82) supporting a ferrite that acts as an anti-interferences filter. It may have a non-metallic shield (9) that set into the metal walls (7) where the lock is located, contains inside it the aforementioned plate-antenna (8).
US09394723B1
Pin tumbler locks are provided that include features for detecting tampering. Tampering may be detected in a number of different ways. As an example, abnormal movement of one or more of the driver pins in a pin tumbler lock can be an indication of tampering. In addition, one or more sensors can be included at the end of a keyway that detect picking or bumping beyond the length of normal key insertion. A mechanical actuator can be used for detection.
US09394720B2
A fastening mechanism for temporary structures with a frame with one or more attachment points disposed therein, a rope, a cover configured with one or more sleeves through which the rope may be inserted, one or more fasteners for securing the rope to the attachment points, and a pass-through loop pre-configured in the rope, such that a further loop can be formed by passing a section of the rope through the pass-through loop.
US09394715B2
The present subject matter is directed to a lattice tower covering and/or assembly for a wind turbine. The lattice tower assembly includes a plurality of structural members connected together to define an open lattice tower. The structural members include a plurality of supports and a plurality of inner and outer cross-support members. The inner and outer cross-support members are connected between the supports so as to define one or more openings. The lattice tower assembly also includes a tower covering having one or more panel elements retained in position between the supports. Further, the panel elements are configured with an exterior side of the outer cross-support members so as to cover at least a portion of one or more of the openings. In addition, the lattice tower covering includes a surface area defined by the plurality of supports and the one or more panel elements.
US09394712B2
A seismic connection device for connecting a panel to a beam includes a dissipating element with a longitudinal axis fixed to the beam only in correspondence of its longitudinal ends, a sliding connector slidingly mounted on the dissipating element in such manner to slide along the longitudinal axis of the dissipating element, a fixed connector fixed to the panel, a tensioning element disposed between the fixed connector and the sliding connector to allow for a linear displacement of the fixed connector towards the sliding connector. The panel is adapted to move with respect to the beam in the direction of the longitudinal axis.
US09394710B2
A flow diverting weir device includes a mounting member having a length thereof sized to fit under a compression and without use of fasteners into a skimmer opening of a swimming pool skimmer, and an arm having one end thereof fastened to the mounting member, the arm movable between a coiled position and an uncoiled position, wherein the arm extends outwardly from the skimmer opening in the uncoiled position. Arm may be manufactured form a flexible material and have an arcuate cross-section in a plane normal to a length thereof.
US09394707B2
In one aspect of the invention, a boom apparatus used for a concrete pump vehicle includes multiple booms, where the multiple booms comprise a first boom hinge-connected to a turntable of the concrete pump vehicle and a second boom hinge-connected to the first boom. When the boom apparatus is in a folded state, the first boom extends towards a cab of the concrete pump vehicle, and the second boom is further placed above the first boom. The invention also provides a concrete pump vehicle having the boom apparatus.
US09394705B2
Movable centring for platforms in ports which comprises a mobile structure (1) with various formworks (2) and is supported on piles (3). The support of the mobile structure (1) on the piles (3) is carried out by means of, at least, two supporting devices (5), wherein each supporting device (5) comprises one front supporting beam (6d), which comprises at least two coupling pieces (18), one rear supporting beam (6t) which comprises at least two coupling pieces (18) and a lattice (7), beneath each supporting beam (6d, 6t). The two supporting beams (6d, 6t) are joined together by means of the at least two coupling pieces (18), thus leaving the supporting device (5) fixed to the pile (3) by means of this union, and joining each supporting beam (6d, 6t) to the mobile structure (1) by means of, at least, two vertical latching bars (8).
US09394702B2
A recoiling energy absorbing system is interpositioned between an outer shell that is exposed to percussive impact and a foundation. An energy absorbing layer with friction lugs is positioned inside the outer shell. The energy absorbing layer includes one or more energy absorbing modules with optional veins and drain holes. At least some of the modules are provided with one or more energy absorbing units that extend from an upper basal layer. At least some of the energy absorbing units are provided with a flexible wall that extends from the upper basal layer. The energy absorbing units at least partially absorb energy generated by an impacting object due to the flexible wall bending inwardly or outwardly and recoiling nondestructively after single or multiple impacts to its undeflected configuration.
US09394700B1
A floor tile for a data center floor is provided that includes a first tile module having a main surface including a first side wall portion and a second side wall portion extending from opposite edges of the main surface, the first side wall portion and second side wall portion each including at least one recess for receiving cabling; and a second tile module having a main further surface adapted to form a removable lid of the first tile module. A data center floor including such a floor tile and a data center including such a data center floor are also provided.
US09394691B2
A floor panel for a floor of a passenger cabin of a mobile platform is provided, which comprises a base body with an integrated cable channel and a cover element covering the cable channel. The base body is realized in the form of a sandwich component including two honeycomb structures, between which the cable channel is arranged. The cover element is firmly attached to the base body, thereby creating a self-supporting floor panel. Since the cover element is firmly attached to the base body, the thickness and weight of the base body may be reduced.
US09394689B2
A tiltable flat roof structure includes vertical columns and horizontally oriented hollow beams. Each hollow beam has a downwardly facing opening in a mounting area with the upper end of a column positioned therein. Holes are defined in the upper end of each column oriented in a regular pattern. Arcuate slots are defined in the mounting area of each beam with each of the slots having a length equal to an amount of relative rotation between the beam and the column. The slots are oriented in a regular pattern matching the regular pattern of the mounting holes so that the holes are aligned with the slots throughout the amount of relative rotation. Nuts are affixed to the inner surface of each of the columns in alignment with each of the holes and bolts are inserted through the holes and matching slots to fixedly orient the beams relative to the columns.
US09394685B2
An acoustic absorption material may comprise an outer layer and a first layer of batting material proximate to the outer layer. A first layer of room temperature vulcanized silicone (RTV) may be proximate to the batting material. A second layer of batting material may be proximate to the first layer of RTV opposite the first layer of batting material.
US09394683B1
An attractive and functional device that is easily mounted to the downspout of a home or building to adjust to fit most any size or angle downspout, this product would obstruct birds and other pests from nesting and building in and around downspouts to eliminate the mess and potential damage these nests can cause, preserving the exterior of the home, and eliminating the need for additional maintenance and costly repairs due to debris, blockage and water damage.
US09394682B2
A device is described for anchoring and inner wythe in a cavity wall to an outer wythe in order to secure and maintain the position of the inner wythe relative to the outer wythe, the device including a masonry reinforcement retained within the mortar joint of the inner wythe and a plurality of spaced apart brackets attached to the masonry reinforcement, the brackets being formed from a piece of rod stock with terminal end, where at least one eye formed as a turn of the rod stock is disposed between the terminal ends.
US09394681B2
The invention relates to an anchor rail arrangement with a concrete body which has two end faces which extend at an angle to one another and meet at an outer edge, and with two anchor rails which are embedded in the concrete body, wherein the two anchor rails each have a rail body with a longitudinal slot, wherein the longitudinal slot of the first rail body emerges on the first end face and the longitudinal slot of the second rail body emerges on the second end face on the concrete body, and wherein the two longitudinal slots extend in a common rail plane, wherein the first anchor rail has a plurality of first anchor bodies arranged on the first rail body, namely a first anchor body closest to the edge and at least one further first anchor body, and wherein the second anchor rail has a plurality of second anchor bodies arranged on the second rail body, namely a second anchor body closest to the edge and at least one further second anchor body. According to the invention, the first anchor body closest to the edge is a headless anchor bar and the second anchor body closest to the edge likewise is a headless anchor bar.
US09394680B2
A connection utilizing a joist hanger to hang a generally horizontal joist or beam from a wood structural support member such as a top plate or header in cooperation with a first plurality of fasteners such as screws and one or more generally vertical drywall panels.
US09394665B2
Improvements in and relating to installing posts Disclosed is an apparatus for securing and aligning an attached post in a pile, the apparatus comprising: a top plate for attaching to an upper surface of the pile, the top plate having an aperture through which passes the post; a plurality of adjusters, each connected to a first end of a linkage rod, which is connected at its opposite end to an associated pile engaging member, such that operation of each adjuster causes the associated pile engaging member to engage with an interior wall of the pile.
US09394663B2
A ground anchor has an anchor body with a ground insertion end and a surface end that remains accessible from above the ground surface when the body is inserted into the ground. Arms are pivotally connected to the anchor body and have an installation position, a ready position, and a deployed position. A first actuator moves the arms from the installation position to the ready position. In the ready position, an upward force applied to the anchor body causes the deployment profile to engage the ground material, the ground material causing the one or more arms to move to the deployed position in which the one or more arms extend outward from the anchor body and into the ground material.
US09394661B2
A maintainable soil drain and methods for using the maintainable soil drain for draining liquid away from structures, such as Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) walls and earth slopes, are disclosed. According to an aspect, a maintainable soil drain includes a drainage pipe having multiple holes defined therein. The maintainable soil drain also includes a removable drain. Further, the maintainable soil drain includes an interior geotextile wrapping that substantially surrounds the removable drain.
US09394657B2
In one embodiment, a safety trailer has semi-tractor hitches at both ends and a safety wall that is fixed to one side of the trailer. That side, however, can be changed to the right or left side of the road, depending on the end to which the truck attaches. A caboose can be attached at the end of the trailer opposite the tractor to provide additional lighting and impact protection. Optionally, the trailer can be equipped with overhead protection, lighting, ventilation, onboard hydraulics, compressors, generators and other equipment, as well as related fuel, water, storage and restroom facilities and other amenities.
US09394655B1
A manually operated, lightweight and portable three-wheel device that includes an airless piston pump paint-spraying system for the striping of parking lots and other paved surfaces. The device may also feature a laser-line system to ensure accurate striping, while eliminating the need for snapping chalk lines.
US09394647B2
Provided is an adhesive composition for organic fiber cords which does not contain resorcinol and formaldehyde and has a good adhesive property and is good for the environment, particularly for the work environment, and a rubber reinforcing material, a tire and a bonding method using the same. Also provided is an adhesive composition for organic fiber cords which contains (blocked) isocyanate compound and/or amine-based curing agent (A), epoxy compound (B), rubber latex (C), and a rubber reinforcing material, a tire and a bonding method using the same. The ratio of the mass of the (blocked) isocyanate compound and/or amine curing agent (A) a to the mass of the epoxy compound (B) b (the mass of (blocked) isocyanate compound and/or amine curing agent/the mass of epoxy compound), a/b is preferably not smaller than 0.1 and not larger than 30.
US09394638B2
A non-woven fabric which is excellent in thermal resistance, mechanical strength, and thermal dimensional stability for applications exposed to high temperature circumstance and has an extremely large surface area and exhibit an excellent filter performance is obtained. The non-woven fabric is composed of polyimide fibers which are obtained by polycondensation of at least an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid and an aromatic diamine having a benzoxazole structure and have a fiber diameter in the range of 0.001 μm to 1 μm. The non-woven fabric is obtained by the steps of preparing a polyamic acid by polycondensation of an aromatic tetracarboxylic acid and an aromatic diamine having a benzoxazole structure, and electro-spinning the polyamic acid to form a polyimide precursor non-woven fabric; and imidizing a polyimide precursor fiber bundle.
US09394635B2
A weft feeder device for threads, in particular for weaving looms, of the type comprising a main body (1) within which there is housed an electric motor for the driving of a rotary shaft (2), the rotary shaft (2) driving into rotation, with its middle portion, a rotor (3), and a drum (T) rotatably mounted on the end portion of said rotary shaft (2) and kept fixed by magnetic means (6, 7), and wherein there are furthermore provided pairs of optical emitting/receiving sensors (E, R) are respectively arranged on the drum (T) and on an extension of the main body (I) of the weft feeder device which extends laterally to the lateral surface of the drum (T), said pairs of sensors (E, R) being apt to detect the presence/absence of a thread passing therebetween. The outer surface of said drum (T) consists of multiple independent sectors (4), and said emitting sensors (E) and the relative feeding and control circuit are embedded in the thickness of one (4s) of said sectors (4), arranged opposite said extension (10) of the main body (1) of the weft feeder device.
US09394631B2
A core-sheath composite fiber includes a core component including an easily alkaline elutable polyester with a main repeating unit constructed of ethylene terephthalate containing 2.0 to 5.5 mol % of an isophthalic acid component containing a metal sulfonate group relative to a total acid component and 3.0 to 6.0 mol % of an adipic acid component relative to the total acid component, and a sheath component including a polyamide.
US09394615B2
To manufacture a ceramic coated article, at least one surface of a conductive article is roughened to a roughness of approximately 100 micro-inches (μin) to approximately 300 μin. The conductive article may then be heated and coated with a ceramic coating comprising a yttrium containing oxide to a thickness of approximately 10-40 mil.
US09394613B2
A process for coating an article includes the steps of contacting an article with a first solution to produce a coated article, the first solution includes a solvent and at least one non-conductive material comprising at least one oxide of a metal; contacting with a second solution the coated article having at least one surface with a non-conductive material layer, the second solution includes a solvent and at least one conductive material comprising at least one of the foregoing: graphite, metals, conductive ceramics, semi-conductive ceramics, intermetallic compounds, and mixtures thereof; and drying the coated article having at least one surface with a non-conductive material layer having the at least one conductive material in contact with at least one surface of the non-conductive material layer and the at least one surface of the article.
US09394612B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an implant, in particular an intraluminal endoprosthesis, with a body containing metallic material, preferably iron. The method includes the following steps to control degradation of the implant: (i) providing the body of the implant; and (ii) tribochemically treating at least part of the body surface by means of beam particles. An implant produced in this way is also described.
US09394601B2
Provided is a hard film formed on a surface of a base material, the hard film being comprised of a nano multi-layered structure formed by stacking a thin layer A, a thin layer B a thin layer C in order of thin layers A-B-A-C from the base material or being comprised of a structure formed by repeatedly stacking the nano multi-layered structure at least twice, wherein the thin layer A is comprised of Ti1-xAlxN (0.3≦x≦0.7); the thin layer B is comprised of Al1-yCryN (0.3≦y≦0.7); and the thin layer C is comprised of MeN (where Me is any one of Nb, V, and Cr).
US09394600B2
A deposition mask assembly includes: a mask in which a deposition pattern is formed and a mask frame fixed to an edge of the mask, an opening being formed at a center of the mask frame. A first surface of the edge of the mask and a first surface of the mask frame adjacent to the opening which face each other are welded to each other.
US09394592B2
The invention relates to hard-metal body comprising a hard-metal, the hard-metal comprising tungsten carbide grains and metal binder comprising cobalt having a concentration of tungsten dissolved therein, the body comprising a surface region adjacent a surface and a core region remote from the surface, the surface region and the core region being contiguous with each other; the mean binder fraction of the core region being greater than that of the surface region; the mean carbon concentration within the binder being higher in the surface region than in the core region; to tools comprising same and methods of making same.
US09394591B2
A nickel-chromium-molybdenum-copper alloy resistant to 70% sulfuric acid at 93° C. and 50% sodium hydroxide at 121° C. for acid and alkali neutralization in the field of waste management; the alloy contains, in weight percent, 27 to 33 chromium, 4.9 to 7.8 molybdenum, greater than 3.1 but no more than 6.0 copper, up to 3.0 iron, 0.3 to 1.0 manganese, 0.1 to 0.5 aluminum, 0.1 to 0.8 silicon, 0.01 to 0.11 carbon, up to 0.13 nitrogen, up to 0.05 magnesium, up to 0.05 rare earth elements, with a balance of nickel and impurities.
US09394588B2
A terminal includes a connector portion electrically connectable to an external terminal, a tubular crimp portion formed integrally or separate from the connector portion and crimps with a wire, and a transition portion coupling the two. The tubular crimp portion of a copper or copper alloy metal base material or a metal member having the same is a tubular member closed on transition portion side and reduces in diameter towards the transition portion side such that a conductor-end portion of the electric wire is un-exposed. The tubular crimp portion has a belt-shaped weld portion along a longitudinal direction of the tubular crimp portion. A circumferential direction of the tubular crimp portion matches the RD-direction of the base material. A sum of area ratios R1, R2 and R3 in a rolling plane of the base material, of Cube-, RDW-, and Goss-oriented crystal grains, respectively, is greater than or equal to 15%.
US09394587B2
The invention discloses a method for recovering uranium from an acidic leach solution or leach pulp in salt water using an amino-phosphorus resin, wherein the liquid phase of the leach solution or leach pulp contains greater than 3 g/L chloride ion in solution. The resin may comprise a functional group comprising an amino phosphonic group, an amino-phosphinic group, an amino phosphoric functional group and/or a combination thereof. According to the invention the leach solution or leach pulp may be generated by in-situ leaching, vat leaching, heap leaching and/or agitated leaching at ambient, elevated temperature and/or elevated pressure conditions in saline or hyper-saline water.
US09394586B2
The coal ash can be sorted into groups of substantially unburned carbon and substantially burned carbon. The substantially unburned carbon or the substantially burned carbon can be magnetically treated to cause separation into a substantially magnetic portion and a substantially non-magnetic portion. The substantially magnetic portion or the substantially non-magnetic portion can be filtered into a substantially course portion and a substantially fine portion. The substantially coarse portion or the substantially fine portion can be treated with a mineral acid to form an aqueous mineral acid solution. The aqueous mineral acid solution can be extracted to form an organic solution that includes the rare earth salts. The organic solution can be mixed with water to form an aqueous solution that includes the rare earth salts. The rare earth salts can be separated from the aqueous solution.
US09394575B2
The present invention relates to a lactobacillus mutant, a nucleotide sequence for lactobacillus mutant, and primers for nucleotide sequence of lactobacillus mutant. The lactobacillus mutant is Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei NTU 101 having the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO 1, and deposited with Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen and Zellkulturen GmbH (DSMZ, Germany) on Nov. 18, 2013, wherein the accession number of Lactobacillus paracasei subsp. paracasei NTU 101 is DSM 28047. Moreover, a nucleotide sequence for NTU 101 and the primers for the nucleotide sequence are also proposed for facilitating the person skilled in Lactobacillus filed capable of carrying out the strain identification of the NTU 101 according to the present invention. Moreover, the person skilled in Lactobacillus filed can also rapidly complete the strain identification of the NTU 101 by using DNA molecular marker technology, without culturing any isolated Lactobacillus strain or live Lactobacillus bacteria.
US09394569B2
Methods and kits for diagnosing cancer or a pre-malignant lesion by determining the presence and/or level of circulating CD24 of a subject are provided. Also provided are methods and kits for determining if a subject is predisposed to gastrointestinal cancer by the determining the presence or absence, in a homozygous or heterozygous form of cancer associated genotype(s) in the CD24 and/or APC nucleic acid sequences. Also provided are methods and kits for monitoring efficacy of cancer therapy by determining the presence and/or level of circulating CD24 of a subject.
US09394565B2
Fragmentation-based methods and systems, particularly mass spectrometry based methods and systems, for the analysis of sequence variations including haplotypes are provided. Also provided are methods for obtaining a specific allele from a nucleic acid mixture, such as genomic DNA.
US09394560B2
Disclosed is a method of culturing E. coli cells for high density, comprising a cell growth step and an expression induction step by which a maximum of cell mass can be obtained with the concomitant maximum expression of a recombinant protein. E. coli transformed to produce a recombinant protein of interest can be grown at a high concentration using the culturing method of the present invention. Therefore, the method increases the productivity of cells as well as the production yield of the recombinant protein, and can be widely applied to the effective production of recombinant proteins.
US09394558B2
Methods for purification and extraction of GM1 ganglioside from cells derived from sheep afflicted with GM1 gangliosidosis or from cells derived from human patients with GM1 gangliosidosis as stable and renewable sources of GM1.
US09394557B2
The present teachings provide novel methods for amplifying short nucleic acids. In some embodiments, the present teachings provide novel methods for linearly amplifying a collection of micro RNAs by using temperature cycling during a reverse transcription reaction. The cycling can comprise at least 20 cycles of an annealing temperature segment of 10° C.-30° C., and a denaturation temperature segment of 35° C.-60° C. In some embodiments, the temperature cycled reaction can comprise an osmolyte.
US09394556B2
The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having glucuronyl esterase activity, catalytic domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides or catalytic domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides or catalytic domains.
US09394550B2
Provided are compositions containing alkyl esters derived from triglyceride oils produced from genetically engineered microalgae. Specific embodiments relate to esters derived from oils with high C10-C12 fatty acid profile. Compositions comprising the esters include cleaning products, completion fluids, work-over fluids, drilling fluids, metal working fluids, lubricants, paints, and inks.
US09394548B2
Wheat bran culture mix is used to inoculate organic waste and produce an inoculated waste material, where the wheat bran culture mix includes soil derived microbes. The inoculated waste material is shredded to produce shredded inoculated waste material which is fermented the shredded inoculated waste material for at least 7 days. Contents from the fermenter are then transferred into a dewatering device to produce dewatered contents which are then separated into soluble and suspended products.
US09394542B2
The present invention relates to antisense oligonucleotides that modulate the expression of and/or function of Discs large homolog (DLG), in particular, by targeting natural antisense polynucleotides of Discs large homolog (DLG). The invention also relates to the identification of these antisense oligonucleotides and their use in treating diseases and disorder associated with the expression of DLG.
US09394541B2
The present invention provides vectors, including a novel attenuated strain of Salmonella, for efficient gene transfer into an animal, e.g. a mammalian host.
US09394540B2
The invention relates to iRNA agents, which preferably include a monomer in which the ribose moiety has been replaced by a moiety other than ribose. The inclusion of such a monomer can allow for modulation of a property of the iRNA agent into which it is incorporated, e.g., by using the non-ribose moiety as a point to which a ligand or other entity, e.g., a lipophilic moiety. e.g., cholesterol, is directly, or indirectly, tethered. The invention also relates to methods of making and using such modified iRNA agents.
US09394528B2
The present invention relates to 25 hitherto undescribed genes of B. licheniformis and gene products derived therefrom and all sufficiently homologous nucleic acids and proteins thereof. They occur in five different metabolic pathways for the formation of odorous substances. The metabolic pathways in question are for the synthesis of: 1) isovalerian acid (as part of the catabolism of leucine), 2) 2-methylbutyric acid and/or isobutyric acid (as part of the catabolism of valine and/or isoleucine), 3) butanol and/or butyric acid (as part of the metabolism of butyric acid), 4) propyl acid (as part of the metabolism of propionate) and/or 5) cadaverine and/or putrescine (as parts of the catabolism of lysine and/or arginine). The identification of these genes allows biotechnological production methods to be developed that are improved to the extent that, to assist these nucleic acids, the formation of the odorous substances synthesized via these metabolic pathways can be reduced by deactivating the corresponding genes in the micro-organism used for the biotechnological production. In addition, these gene products are thus available for preparing reactions or for methods according to their respective biochemical properties.
US09394527B2
The present invention relates to nucleic acid fragments encoding amino acid sequences for organic acid biosynthetic enzymes in plants, and the use thereof for the modification of, for example, organic acid biosynthesis and secretion in plants. In particularly preferred embodiments, the invention relates to the combinatorial expression of citrate synthase (CS) and/or malate dehydrogenase (MDH) and/or phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (PEPC) in plants to modify, for example, organic acid synthesis and secretion.
US09394523B2
A method of generating pluripotent stem cells is described. The method comprises: (a) expanding human pancreatic beta cells; and subsequently (b) generating induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from the human pancreatic beta cells. Methods of redifferentiating the iPS cells into particular cell types are also disclosed. Uses of the cell populations are also described.
US09394522B2
Provided are improved methods using Glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) inhibitors by which endodermal cells, notably endodermal cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPS), such as but not limited to hiPS-cells and hES-cells may be differentiated into hepatocyte like cells. The specific modulation of wingless integration gene (WNT)-signalling pathway and use of GSK3 inhibitors achieve direct differentiation and maturation of hepatocytes derived from human pluripotent stem (hPS) cells. GSK-3 inhibitors, when added to the growth medium at certain developmental stages, leads to more mature and functional features for the hepatocyte like cells as well as more pure and homogenous populations of hepatocyte like cells. Provided are also hepatocyte like cells obtained by these methods as well as compositions comprising them.
US09394516B2
An object of the present invention to provide an agent for promoting the self-renewal of the neural stem cells and a method of using the same. ECF-L contained in a culture supernatant of endothelial progenitor cells derived from bone marrow has an effect of promoting the self-renewal of neural stem cells. Accordingly, ECF-L can be used as an ingredient of an agent for promoting the self-renewal of the neural stem cells, a pharmaceutical composition for growing the neural stem cells, and a pharmaceutical composition for treating a disease associated with neural dysfunction.
US09394512B2
The method of growing the basidiomycete mycelium includes inoculating a substrate that promotes the growth and differentiation of basidiomycete mycelium without supporting the production of a basidiocarp with a vegetative mycelium and thereafter incubating the inoculated substrate in a first incubation period at controlled temperature, humidity, light and carbon dioxide levels followed by a finishing incubation period.
US09394506B2
Compositions and methods for cleaning hard surfaces are disclosed herein. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to cleaning compositions that can be used in automotive applications for removing organic soils that accumulate on automotive surfaces without causing surface paint damage.
US09394504B1
A stovetop extraction apparatus and method for rendering infused lipids for ingestion in the home including a base compartment, an insertable portion seatable into the base compartment, and an upper compartment having an internal chamber disposed in open communication with a column projecting into the upper compartment, wherein lipids and water dispositional interior to the base compartment are heatable upon a stovetop, said lipids thereby conveyable, by action of saturated steam producible interior to the base compartment, across substrate disposed in the insertable portion, into the internal chamber, up the column, and thereby collectable in the upper compartment separate from the substrate, whereby substrates dispositional interior to the insertable portion are subject to extraction of lipophilic substances therefrom and infused lipids are thereby rendered collectable in the upper compartment for use in subsequent culinary or medicinal preparations.
US09394496B2
A process and apparatus for recovering cycle oil from FCC CSO is described. By feeding the additional cycle oil to a hydrocracking unit additional diesel, naphtha and petrochemical feedstock may be obtained. The additional cycle oil is obtained by vacuum separation of the CSO. The described process and apparatus can provide additional recovery for a refiner.
US09394492B2
Petrochemical processes, including reforming processes are described herein. The reforming processes generally include introducing an input stream to a reforming unit having a reforming catalyst disposed therein, wherein the input stream includes a naphtha having an N+2A value of from about 65 to about 85 and contacting the input stream with the reforming catalyst and hydrogen to form an output stream.
US09394483B2
Disclosed herein is a flame retardant composition comprising 20 to 80 weight percent of a polycarbonate; 1 to 20 weight percent of a laser activatable additive; the laser activatable additive being operative to plate the flame retardant composition upon being activated by a laser; and 1 to 20 weight percent of a phosphazene compound; where all weight percents are based on the total weight of the flame retardant composition. Disclosed herein too is a method comprising blending 20 to 80 weight percent of a polycarbonate; 1 to 20 weight percent of a laser activatable additive; the laser activatable additive being operative to plate the flame retardant composition upon being activated by a laser; and 1 to 20 weight percent of a phosphazene compound to produce a flame retardant composition; where all weight percents are based on the total weight of the flame retardant composition; and extruding the flame retardant composition.
US09394481B2
A new method to control the iridescence color of solid nanocrystalline cellulose (NCC) films by ultrasound and high-shear (mechanical) energy input to the NCC suspension prior to film formation is provided. As the energy input to the NCC suspension increases, the resulting film color shifts from the ultraviolet region towards the infrared region of the electromagnetic spectrum; this wavelength shift lies in the opposite direction to that caused by the addition of electrolytes to NCC suspensions prior to film formation. No additives are required to achieve the changes in color; color changes can also be effected by mixing two suspensions exposed to different levels of sonication.
US09394478B2
Provided is a novel CaS-based phosphor with which chemical reactions can be inhibited even if said CaS-based phosphor is heated with a heterogeneous material. This phosphor includes: a crystalline parent material represented by the composition formula Ca1-xSrxS.yZnO (in the formula, 0≦x<1, 0
US09394475B2
A multicomponent material can be used to treat subterranean formations. The multicomponent material can be a cocrystal that includes a breaker cocrystallized with another molecule for modifying a solubility profile of the breaker. Cocrystallazing the breaker with another molecule provides control over the rate at which the breaker dissolves in a treating fluid so the breaker will dissolve and become active at an optimum time or under optimum conditions.
US09394473B2
Methods for servicing subterranean wells are disclosed. Particularly, the use of a fiber-laden fluid to separate and prevent the commingling of two stationary process fluids after placement in the borehole of a subterranean well, or in a tubular body installed in a subterranean well. The fiber-laden fluids prevent the cement plug from descending through drilling fluid to the bottom of the well. It obviates the need for mechanical devices such as packers, or special adjustment of the process fluids' rheological properties.
US09394461B2
Radiation curable composition for preparing a hybrid sol-gel layer on a surface of a substrate, wherein said composition comprises at least one radically radiation curable material; at least one non-reactive organofunctional silane; at least one reactive organofunctional silane; at least one cationic photoinitiator; and at least one radical photoinitiator.Method for preparing a hybrid sol-gel layer on a surface of a substrate using said composition and hybrid sol-gel layer so prepared.Substrate comprising at least one surface coated with said hybrid sol-gel layer.
US09394460B1
The present invention relates to storage stable film forming latex particles that crosslink under ambient conditions during or after drying. Monomers for the formation of the crosslinkable moieties in the latex particles include diacetone acrylamide (DAAM) or the likes and methacrylamide (MAM) or the likes with or without styrene. A paint composition comprising the storage stable latex particles that may include a small amount or crosslinking agent such as adipic acid dihydrazide (ADH) in the aqueous phase is also described.
US09394450B2
A plastically deformable sealing mass for the use in sealing a leak in a container in which oil, oil-containing or chemical liquid is stored, includes a solvent, and a hydrophobing agent which is received in the solvent. The solvent may be organic solvent, water, oil, or a silicon compound. The hydrophobing agent can be stearate, oleate, silane, siloxane, or silicon.
US09394449B2
These luminescent carbon particles have a carbon core and an external polymeric coating containing at least one luminophore.
US09394448B2
A novel chromate-free multi-layer coating system composed of a lithium-doped potassium silicate binder based basecoat composition that is sealed with an aluminum phosphate-based top coat composition is described. The multi-layer coating system exhibits superior corrosion and heat oxidation resistance which can replace traditional chromate-containing coating systems.
US09394446B2
The present invention relates to a method for recovering Ru complex dye from a used dye solution containing a polypyridine Ru complex as a Ru complex, the used dye solution having been discharged from a step of manufacturing a dye-sensitized solar cell, the method including the steps of: (a): filtering the used dye solution to separate and remove solid content. (b): bringing a separating solvent including an ether-based solvent indicated by a chemical formula CxH(2x+1)—O—CyH(2y+1) (x=1 to 4 and y=1 to 4, with the proviso that x+y≧4) or an alkane-based solvent indicated by a chemical formula CxH(2x+2) (x=5 to 7) into contact with the used dye solution to separate the Ru complex dye.
US09394442B2
Methods, compositions, and systems are provided for a hybrid thermoplastic gel or sealant. The methods comprise providing (a) a styrenic block copolymer, (b) a Si-vinyl polymer, (c) heat, and optionally (d) an initiator, and reacting the styrenic block copolymer, Si-vinyl polymer, and optional initiator in the presence of the heat to form the hybrid thermoplastic gel. The gel composition may comprise 5-70 wt. % of a styrenic block copolymer, 60-95 wt. % of a Si-vinyl polymer, and 0-10 wt. % of an initiator. A closure or interconnect system may comprise a housing, a cable, and a hybrid thermoplastic gel made by reacting a styrenic block copolymer and a Si-vinyl polymer in the presence of heat.
US09394440B2
Disclosed is a sprayable nonwoven fiber weed barrier comprising an aqueous solution of nonwoven fibers and polymer binder. The aqueous solution can be directly sprayed onto the soil to suppress weed penetration through the soil. The sprayable nonwoven fiber weed barrier has a pore structure that allows water to penetrate into the soil, but curbs the growth of weeds.
US09394438B2
A resin composition includes (A) an epoxy resin; (B) a benzoxazine (BZ) resin; (C) a styrene maleic anhydride (SMA) copolymer; and (D) a polyester. The resin composition includes specific ingredients of a polyester and is characterized by specific proportions thereof so as to achieve a low delta Tg value of copper clad laminates manufactured in accordance with the resin composition and attain a low dielectric constant, a low dielectric dissipation factor, high heat resistance, and high fire retardation of the copper clad laminates and printed circuit boards manufactured in accordance with the resin composition.
US09394436B2
A method of preparing a flexible, substantially tack free gasket by forming a liquid composition which is a radiation polymerizable admixture of a free radical polymerizable urethane(meth)acrylate monomer, free radical polymerizable urethane(meth)acrylate oligomer, or combinations thereof; a free radical polymerizable diluent; a free radical polymerization photoinitiator; a wax; a thixotropic agent; and optionally an adhesion promoter and a colorant. The composition is distributed onto a substrate and then exposed to actinic radiation to cure the liquid composition into a flexible, substantially tack free gasket having a Shore A hardness of from about A20 to about A80.
US09394418B2
The sol-gel templating with the infusion of gas bubbles provides a process for synthesizing polymeric or gel materials while being templated with slow bubbling of various gases into the reacting media upon the polymerization or gelation stage. The process uses a source of gas, which is delivered at a desired rate and pressure via at least one inert tube directly into the reacting solution while the gel is being formed by sol-gel process. The tube(s) have a diameter selected to produce bubbles that result in the desired pore size and the number and placement of the tubes is selected to produce the desired pore structure and surface area in the gel template. The gel may be any gel capable of being formed by sol-gel process. The gas may be selected from carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen, helium, argon, oxygen, hydrogen, propane, ethane, propylene, ethylene, air, and n-butane and other inert gases.
US09394413B2
A resin particle having: a resin mother particle; and silica particles external added onto the surface of the resin mother particle, wherein a primary particles of the silica particles which have a volume average particle diameter of from 100 nm to 500 nm, a particle size distribution index of from 1.40 to 1.80 and an average circularity of from 0.5 to 0.85 has a regression line expressed by the following expression (1) with respect to the circularity and the volume average particle diameter (nm): Circularity=α×(Volume average particle diameter)/1000+β (1) wherein α is from −2.5 to −0.9, and β is from 0.8 to 1.2.
US09394412B2
A composite cured silicone powder comprising: (A) a cured silicone powder having an average particle size of 0.1 to 500 μm, (B) an inorganic fine powder coated on the surface of said cured silicone powder and (C) a monohydric or polyhydric alcohol with a boiling point of at least 150° C. coating on the surface of component (A) and/or component (B). The composite cured silicone powder that has an excellent flowability, hydrophilicity, and dispersibility. And, this invention also relates to a production method of the composite, which is characterized by mixing components (A) to (C) under the condition of mechanical shearing.
US09394400B2
The invention relates to a polyester resin for toner, the polyester resin containing a monomer unit derived from isosorbide and a monomer unit derived from 1,2-propanediol, in which the proportion of the monomer unit derived from isosorbide is from 2 to 11% by mass with respect to the total mass of the polyester resin, and a glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polyester resin for toner is from 56 to 70° C. According to the invention, it is possible to provide a polyester resin for toner from which toner excellent in storage stability, fixing property, hot offset resistance and image stability in the case of using isosorbide is obtained, and a method for producing the polyester resin for toner. In addition, the toner obtained from the polyester resin for toner of the invention is excellent in storage stability, fixing property, hot offset resistance and image stability in the case of using isosorbide.
US09394399B2
The present invention relates to hardeners for epoxy resins, which contain secondary amino groups having pyridinyl groups. They harden surprisingly quickly together with epoxy resins even under cold and humid conditions and without producing blushing to give films with a high degree of hardness, the highest degrees of hardness being obtained with a surprisingly low amount of hardener required. They are especially suitable for low-emission coatings with high resistance requirements.
US09394395B2
An unsaturated polycarbonate diol (A) comprising terminal hydroxyl groups, at least one repeating unit of formula (Ia) and at least one repeating unit selected from units of formula (Ib) and units of formula (II), wherein R1a is selected from the group consisting of C2-C20 acyclic alkylene group, C2-C20 ether group and C3-C20 ester group, R1b represents and C2-C20 acyclic alkenylene group, and R2 represents a C2-C20 acyclic alkenylene group; the unsaturated polycarbonate diol (A) comprising at least one unsaturated carbon-carbon bond; and processes of preparing such an unsaturated polycarbonate diol (A):
US09394390B2
A polyolefin is functionalized with two, three, or more terminal coumarin groups. When irradiated with longer wavelength ultraviolet light (e.g., 365 nanometers), the coumarin groups cyclodimerize to form a chain-extended or crosslinked polyolefin. The cyclodimerization can be reversed by irradiation with shorter wavelength ultraviolet light (e.g., 254 nanometers). When the crosslinked polyolefin is used to form a barrier layer in a light emitting diode or a photovoltaic device, scratches in the barrier layer cleave the cyclodimer groups and can be “healed” by irradiation to reduce or remove the scratches.
US09394383B2
The disclosure includes a polymerization process and an olefin polymerization system. A polymerization product is produced, a vapor phase is recovered from the polymerization product, the vapor phase is fractionated in a first column to yield a fraction stream, and the fraction stream is fractionated in a second column. A first stream of the second column, which comprises a diluent, can be recycled to a first polymerization reactor. A second stream of the second column, which comprises olefin monomer, diluent, and hydrogen, can be recycled to a second polymerization reactor. Comonomer may be recycled from the first column to the first polymerization reactor, the second polymerization reactor, or both.
US09394374B2
The invention relates to linkers suitable for use in antigen-binding proteins, certain antigen binding proteins and methods of making such proteins and uses thereof.
US09394373B2
Genetically modified mice are provided that express human λ variable (hVλ) sequences, including mice that express hVλ sequences from an endogenous mouse λ light chain locus, mice that express hVλ sequences from an endogenous mouse κ light chain locus, and mice that express hVλ sequences from a transgene or an episome wherein the hVλ sequence is linked to a mouse constant sequence. Mice are provided that are a source of somatically mutated human λ variable sequences useful for making antigen-binding proteins. Compositions and methods for making antigen-binding proteins that comprise human λ variable sequences, including human antibodies, are provided.
US09394367B2
An antibody or antigen binding fragment thereof that specifically binds to an epitope in a SEMA domain of c-Met protein, and pharmaceutical compositions, methods, kits, nucleic acids, and cells related thereto.
US09394361B2
The invention relates to antibody molecules having specificity for antigenic determinants of human IL-13, therapeutic uses of the antibody molecules and methods for producing antibody molecules.
US09394354B2
The invention relates to compounds of Formula I, wherein L1, L2, and L3 are defined in the specification, useful for the synthesis of novel conjugates and immunogens derived from paliperidone. The invention also relates to conjugates of a paliperidone hapten and a protein.
US09394349B2
Novel compositions of recombinant human CC10 protein have been generated by chemically modifying the pure protein in vitro. Several new synthetic preparations containing isoforms of chemically modified CC10 have been generated by processes that utilize reactive oxygen species and reactive nitrogen species. These preparations contain novel isoforms of CC10 which have been characterized with enhanced or altered biological properties compared to the unmodified protein. Preparations containing novel isoforms may be used as standards to identify and characterize naturally occurring isoforms of native CC10 protein from blood or urine and ultimately to measure new CC10-based biomarkers to assess patient disease status. These preparations may also be used to treat respiratory, autoimmune, inflammatory, and other medical conditions that are not effectively treated with the unmodified protein.
US09394345B2
Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The insecticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing lepidopteran, coleopteran, dipteran, fungal, hemipteran, and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.
US09394339B2
Stabilization of water-containing solutions or lyophilizates of proteins and peptide against non-enzymatic deamidation degradation reactions at asparaginyl or glutaminyl residues is achieved using organic anions, such as saccharin, benzenesulfonic acid, gentisic acid or N-acetyltryptophan which have a pKa within the range of 0.5 to 3.5.
US09394331B2
Disclosed herein are 2′-spiro-nucleosides and derivatives thereof useful for treating a subject infected by hepatitis C virus or dengue virus.
US09394330B2
The present application relates to solid state forms, for example, crystalline forms of 2′-C-methyluridine-5′-(O-phenyl-N—(S)-1-(isopropoxycarbonyl)ethyl)thiophosphoramidate, pharmaceutical compositions that can include one or more solid forms of 2′-C-methyluridine-5′-(O-phenyl-N—(S)-1-(isopropoxycarbonyl)ethyl)thiophosphoramidate, and methods of treating or ameliorating diseases and/or conditions with one or more solid forms of 2′-C-methyluridine-5′-(O-phenyl-N—(S)-1-(isopropoxycarbonyl)ethyl)thiophosphoramidate. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating diseases and/or conditions with one or more solid forms of 2′-C-methyluridine-5′-(O-phenyl-N—(S)-1-(isopropoxycarbonyl)ethyl)thiophosphoramidate in combination with one or more other agents.
US09394326B2
The present invention provides oligomeric metal complexes having more than one metal center and methods of using such complexes. The provided metal complexes are useful in the copolymerization of carbon dioxide and epoxides.
US09394325B2
A transition metal-containing compound having a tridentate chiral ligand bound to iron, cobalt, or nickel. The tridentate ligands are bound to the metal via nitrogen, phosphorus, and/or arsenic atoms. The tridentate ligand has a chiral group bound at least one of the nitrogen, phosphorus, and arsenic atoms, and a blocking group may be bound to another one of the nitrogen, phosphorus, and arsenic atoms. The transition metal-containing compound is useful for the catalyzing the asymmetric hydrogenation of olefins.
US09394319B2
A compound comprising a boron subphthalocyanine moiety, a plurality of solubilizing substituents positioned on peripheral cyclic groups of the boron subphthalocyanine moiety and an axial substituent positioned on the boron atom of the boron subphthalocyanine moiety. The plurality of solubilizing substituents comprise an oxygen or sulfur containing functional group and a substituted or unsubstituted, linear, branched or cyclic, aliphatic or aromatic terminal hydrocarbyl group that is 8 or more carbon atoms in length, the hydrocarbyl group optionally containing one or more heteroatoms. The axial substituent is selected from the group consisting of halogen, alkyloxy, haloalkyloxy, ester, carbonyl substituted alkyl, carbonyl substituted haloalkyl, alkylaryloxy, haloalkylaryloxy, alkyl sulfonyl, haloalkyl sulfonyl, alkylaryl sulfonyl and haloalkylaryl sulfonyl. The compound is not one of the following compounds: a) Phenoxytrispentadecylphenoxyboronsubphthalocyanine, b) Chlorotrispentadecylphenoxyboronsubphthalocyanine, or c) 3-Pentadecylphenoxytrispentadecylphenoxyboronsubphthalocyanine. Processes for making the compound are also taught.
US09394317B2
The present invention provides compounds of the formula I, wherein X is a bond or CH2; Q is CH2 or O; L is selected from the group consisting of —OCH2— and —CH2O—; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Compounds of the invention are autotaxin inhibitors.
US09394308B2
This disclosure describes novel compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for inhibiting the TRPA1 ion channel and/or medical conditions related to TRPA1, such as pain and respiratory conditions.
US09394307B2
Compounds are provided that act as potent antagonists of the CCR2 receptor. The compounds are generally aryl sulfonamide derivatives and are useful in pharmaceutical compositions, methods for the treatment of CCR2-mediated diseases and as controls in assays for the identification of CCR2 antagonists.
US09394298B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a pyrroloquinoline quinone tetraalkali salt needing no special reagent, having a high solubility in a solvent, being capable of providing a high-concentration pyrroloquinoline quinone aqueous solution, being hardly changed in color even if being concurrently used with ascorbic acid, and being of a high quality and a high purity; a crystal of a pyrroloquinoline quinone tetrasodium salt; a composition; and a simple method for producing the pyrroloquinoline quinone tetraalkali salt.The pyrroloquinoline quinone tetraalkali salt is represented by the formula (1): wherein M is each independently one selected from the group consisting of Li, K, Na, Rb and Cs.
US09394296B2
The present invention features tryptoline derivatives and related compounds having kinase inhibitory activity. The compounds of the invention, alone or in combination with other pharmaceutically active agents, can be used for treating or preventing various medical conditions, such as cancers, inflammatory disorders, or autoimmune disorders.
US09394295B2
The present invention is related to novel compounds of formula (I) that inhibit the activity of the FabI enzyme which are therefore useful in the treatment of bacterial infections. It further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and chemical processes for preparing these compounds.
US09394288B2
The invention relates to the compounds of formula I or its pharmaceutical acceptable salts, as well as polymorphs, solvates, enantiomers, stereoisomers and hydrates thereof. The pharmaceutical compositions comprising an effective amount of compounds of formula I, and methods for the treatment of asthma and allergy may be formulated for oral, buccal, rectal, topical, transdermal, transmucosal, intravenous, parenteral administration, syrup, or injection. Such compositions may be used to treatment of respiratory diseases, respiratory disorders, COPD, bronchitis, brain injury, inflammation, inflammatory skin diseases, asthma, allergic reactions, infections due to acute allergy, bronchospasm, respiratory distress, acute asthma, leukotrienes over activity, 5-LO enzyme activity and cancer.
US09394287B2
The present invention includes compounds useful as modulators of TRPM8, such as compounds of Formula (I) and the subgenus and species thereof; personal products containing those compounds; and the use of those compounds and the personal products, particularly the use of increasing or inducing chemesthetic sensations, such as cooling or cold sensations.
US09394284B2
The present invention provides a compound, that is a 1-[(2-{[(alkyl or aryl)methyl]oxy}halo or haloalkyl substituted-phenyl)alkyl]-5-hydrocarbyl or substituted hydrocarbyl-1H-pyrazole carboxylic acid or alkylenylcarboxylic acid or a hydrocarbyl or substituted hydrocarbyl sulfonamide of said carboxylic acid or said alkylenylcarboxylic acid, provided however said compound is not a 3-carboxylic acid, a sulfonamide thereof, or a 3-methylenylcarboxylic acid. The compound may be represented by the following formula Wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, X, W, X and Y are as defined in the specification. The compounds may be administered to treat DP1, FP, EP1, TP and/or EP4 receptor mediated diseases or conditions.
US09394283B2
Provided herein is N-((4,6-dimethyl-2-oxo-1,2-dihydropyridin-3-yl)methyl)-5-(ethyl(tetrahydro-2H-pyran-4-yl)amino)-4-methyl-4′-(morpholinomethyl)-[1,1′-biphenyl]-3-carboxamide hydrobromide. Also provided herein is a particular polymorph form of this compound.
US09394282B2
The instant invention provides compounds of formula I which are JAK inhibitors, and as such are useful for the treatment of JAK-mediated diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, COPD and cancer.
US09394279B2
Compounds effective in inhibiting replication of Hepatitis C virus (“HCV”) are described. This invention also relates to processes of making such compounds, compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to treat HCV infection.
US09394277B2
The present invention provides compounds and compositions thereof which are useful as inhibitors of Bruton's tyrosine kinase and which exhibit desirable characteristics for the same.
US09394275B2
This invention relates to a compound of formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Such compounds possess both muscarinic receptor antagonist and β2 adrenergic receptor agonist activities. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, processes and intermediates for preparing such compounds, and methods of using such compounds as bronchodilating agents to treat pulmonary disorders.
US09394263B2
There are provided compounds of the formula wherein: V, W, X, Y, Z, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are described herein. The compounds are useful for the treatment of proliferative diseases, including cancer.
US09394259B2
An auto-rebound switching apparatus has: a body provided with a water-separating apparatus, an upper cover rotatably arranged on the rear side of the body, a passive disc rotatably arranged between the rear side of the body and the upper cover, a clutch mechanism comprising a bi-directional ratchet gear and a bi-directional pawl matching the ratchet gear, the ratchet gear being rotatably arranged on the rear side of the body and transmissively connected to the water-separating apparatus, thus allowing the ratchet gear, when rotating, to drive the water-separating apparatus into motion to allow switching, the bi-directional pawl, the upper cover, and the passive disc being interconnected, allowing the upper cover to rotate relative to the passive disc thus driving the bi-directional pawl to move between a forward rotation position, a reverse rotation position, and a detached position, and a rebound apparatus.
US09394254B2
This invention provides a family of compounds that inhibit Class II fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase (FBA), which is implicated in the pathogenic activity of a broad range of bacterial and parasitic agents. The compounds were identified by empirical testing, and provide a basis for further derivatization and optimization of 8-hydroxyquinoline-2-carboxylic acid and related compounds. Crystal structure shows that the compounds don't bind directly to the catalytic site of the enzyme, and so are not defined simply as substrate analogs. Instead, they create a pocket by induced fit, resulting a powerful and specific inhibitory effect on FBA activity.
US09394253B2
The invention relates to protein binding inhibitor compounds and methods of identifying and using them. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treating cell proliferative disorders, especially cancer.
US09394250B2
The present invention provides compounds of the general formula (I), their salts and N-oxides, and solvates and prodrugs thereof (wherein the substituents are as defined in the description). The compounds of the general formula (I) are inhibitors of factor XIa, and are useful in the prevention of and/or therapy for thromboembolic diseases.
US09394249B2
IAP binding molecules and compositions including these are disclosed. The IAP binding molecules interact with IAPs (inhibitor of apoptosis proteins) in cells and may be used to modify apoptosis in cells treated with such molecules. Embodiments of these compounds have a Kd of less than 0.1 micromolar. Methods of using these IAP binding molecules for therapeutic, diagnostic, and assay purposed are also disclosed.
US09394244B2
Disclosed are functional polyallophanate oligomers comprising ethylenically unsaturated groups and polymer stabilizer groups selected from hindered amine light stabilizers, ultraviolet light absorbers, antioxidants and dihydrocarbylhydroxylamines. The ethylenically unsaturated groups and the polymer stabilizer groups are bound to the polyallophanate oligomers through allophanate and/or carbamate groups. The polyallophanate oligomers are useful in curable coatings, inks and varnishes. The present polyallophanate oligomers are derived from a) organic polyisocyanates, b) compounds containing at least one isocyanate reactive group and at least one ethylenically unsaturated group and c) polymer stabilizers containing at least one isocyanate reactive group.
US09394242B2
Disclosed is a method for preparing a dinitrile compound. The method includes reacting an alcohol compound with a nitrile compound having a terminal carbon-carbon unsaturated bond under anhydrous conditions. A potassium alkoxide having 1 to 5 carbon atoms is used as a catalyst in the course of the reaction. According to the method, a high-purity dinitrile compound can be prepared in a simple manner within a short reaction time indicating high productivity.
US09394235B2
An object of the present invention is to efficiently produce an optically active bicyclic compound. The optically active bicyclic compound is efficiently produced using an enzyme.
US09394222B2
The invention relates to a process for producing methacrylic acid, comprising: converting a C3-oxygenate into propanoic acid, wherein said C3-oxygenate is a compound selected from the group consisting of 1-propanol, monopropylene glycol, monohydroxyacetone, 2-hydroxypropanal, glycerol and dihydroxyacetone; and reacting the propanoic acid with formaldehyde or a precursor of formaldehyde into methacrylic acid. Said C3-oxygenate preferably contains 2 oxygen atoms, and most preferably it is monopropylene glycol.
US09394218B2
A multistage tubular reaction system and method for preparing methylol derivatives of an aldehyde includes a tubular reaction system with a plurality of successive reactor stages provided with a formaldehyde containing feed stream. The system includes multiple feed ports for the staged addition of C2 or higher condensible aldehyde and/or base to the formaldehyde containing stream at a plurality of successive feed points to provide a production stream, which is progressively provided with additional reactants as the production stream advances through the successive reaction stages. Advantages include better temperature control and reduced byproduct formation.
