US09418154B2
A method and apparatus for push-model based index updating. In one embodiment of the method, a first transaction generated for modifying or inserting a first data object into a memory. A first message is generated in response to generating the first transaction, wherein the first message comprises information related to an identifier of the first data object, wherein the first message comprises information that indicates that the first data object was or will be modified or inserted into the memory, and wherein the first message comprises a copy of some or all of the data contents of the first data object; transmitting the first message to a computer system that implements a search engine.
US09418151B2
Generally discussed herein are systems and methods for lexically enriching structured and semi-structured data. In one or more embodiments, a method can include receiving a code, lexicalizing the code, lexically combining the lexicalized code with a lexical descriptor, and sending the lexical combination to a keyword database.
US09418146B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for optimizing a clustered virtual computing environment. In exemplary embodiments, performance attributes are identified for a set of operating devices within the clustered virtual computing environment. Historical data of the identified performance attributes is obtained to create a historical data repository. A rulebase is developed using the historical data repository and input from user. A combined correlation pattern repository is generated using a first correlation pattern, a second correlation pattern and a scale-time invariant weight fraction.
US09418143B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for speech recognition. One of the methods includes receiving a base language model for speech recognition including a first word sequence having a base probability value; receiving a voice search query associated with a query context; determining that a customized language model is to be used when the query context satisfies one or more criteria associated with the customized language model; obtaining the customized language model, the customized language model including the first word sequence having an adjusted probability value being the base probability value adjusted according to the query context; and converting the voice search query to a text search query based on one or more probabilities, each of the probabilities corresponding to a word sequence in a group of one or more word sequences, the group including the first word sequence having the adjusted probability value.
US09418142B2
The disclosure includes a system and method for detecting communities in a weighted graph. The community detection module includes a tagset data aggregator, a counts statistics engine, a weighted graph generator, a coherence engine, a community detector and a tag recommendation engine. The tagset data aggregator receives tagset data. The counts statistics engine determines counts statistics for the tagset data. The weighted graph generator generates and denoises weighted tag occurrence graph based on the counts statistics. The coherence engine determines importance score for all tags and coherence score for all tagsets in the tagset data. The community detector determines maximally coherent communities in the weighted tag co-occurrence graph. The tag recommendation engine recommends tags in real time using the maximally coherent communities.
US09418135B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a database system and methods for storing and replicating data of a primary database. A method for replicating data item may include receiving replication data from a primary database system and replicating the one or more data items of the primary database system in accordance with the replication data. The replication data may include a transaction log including information on transactions processed by the primary database system and database lock data relating to at least one lock on the one or more data items of the primary database system in order to support simultaneous queries to the primary and replication database systems. The method may also include rolling-back the replication data in the at least one replication database system based on the information on transactions processed by the primary database system and the database lock data.
US09418130B2
Steady state data distribution is provided between a client application, a leader machine, and a plurality of replica machines. The distribution comprises the leader machine receiving an operation request from the client application, the leader machine sending the prepare message to each of the plurality of replica machines, the replica machines recording in their logs information on the operation, the replica machines sending acknowledgement messages to the leader machine, and the leader machine sending commit command messages to the replica machines. A new quorum of the replica machines is created by using log information. Replica machines that become part of the new quorum are updated in an efficient manner.
US09418125B2
A mechanism for dynamically configuring searchable fields of interest within an enterprise-wide search center is provided. Such functionality is provided through the creation and maintaining of an abstraction layer that represents the searchable fields of interest, which are gathered from the total available fields from enterprise-wide searchable objects. The abstraction layer is defined through the use of a field mappings file that relates searchable fields of interest in searchable objects with fields within a search index accessible to the search center. The field mappings file can provide the defined relationships between searchable object fields and search index fields at runtime of a user session, thus avoiding a rigid configuration at the time of search center initialization. Through such runtime modification of the abstraction layer, costly downtime due to revision of a configuration of the search center can be avoided and a dynamic flexibility in the presentation of the fields in the searchable objects can be provided without a need for modification of the searchable objects themselves.
US09418124B2
A time-aware union operator is disclosed for consistent integration of time-aware data, wherein the time-aware union produces a time-aware consistent integrated view of underlying sources according to specified key constraints and policies. The implementation of time-aware union is idempotent, commutative, and associative, thus making it suitable for data integration, and it produces the same integrated outcome, modulo representation of time, regardless of the order in which sources are integrated.
US09418123B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a method for recommending target object information, a system for recommending target object information, a client for recommending target object information, a server for recommending target object information, and a computer program product for recommending target object information. A method for recommending target object information is provided. The method includes receiving a target object informational recommendation request including information pertaining to a plurality of short-listed objects selected, determining historical selection information on the plurality of short-listed objects, the historical selection information including a historical count, a selection count, or both, and sending the part or all of the short-listed object historical selection information to a client.
US09418122B2
A method and apparatus for dynamically adjusting the user interface of a search engine in order to effectively communicate the improved relevancy achieved through real-time implicit re-ranking of search results is described. Real-time implicit re-ranking occurs without delay after every user action as the search is being conducted, so finding methods of immediately altering the search page without disrupting the user experience is important. Graphical icons next to search results are employed to enable generating and removing re-ranked results, referred to as “recommended” search results. Clusters based on the real-time user model are also displayed to facilitate query reformulations. Sponsored links are selected using the real-time user model along with a combination of RPC and CTR information and are displayed in a manner similar to the organic results, or used to replace the initial sponsored links altogether.
US09418114B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for providing content. A query is received. Search results are identified that are responsive to the query. A content item is identified for presentation along with the search results. It is determined, based on one or more criteria, when the content item is to be augmented. When it is determined that the content item is to be augmented and after identifying the search results, the content item is augmented based at least in part on an entry in the search result. An augmented content item is created. The augmented content item is provided.
US09418113B2
Techniques for managing value-based windows on relations are provided. In some examples, an input relation is generated. The input relation is a bounded set of data records related to an application. A continuous query that identifies the input relation may be received. Additionally, a configurable window operator associated with processing the input relation may be identified. Then, the continuous query may be executed based at least in part on the configurable window operator to generate an output relation. Further, in some instances, the data records of the output relation may be provided based at least in part on execution of the continuous query.
US09418104B1
A computer-implemented method for processing query information includes receiving data representative of a search query from a user search session. The method also includes identifying a plurality of search results based upon the search query. Each search result is associated with a plurality of user characteristics and data that represents requestor behavior relative to previously submitted queries associated with the respective search result. The method also includes ordering the plurality of user characteristics based upon the data that represents requestor behavior relative to previously submitted queries and the respective search result. The method also includes adjusting the ordered plurality of user characteristics based upon at least one predefined compatibility associated with the user characteristics. The method also includes ranking the search results based upon the adjusted plurality of user characteristics.
US09418103B2
A method includes receiving a search query and identifying an entity record in an entity data store using the search query. The entity data store includes a plurality of entity records. Each of the entity records includes an entity name, an entity type, and entity information. The entity type indicates a category in which the entity name and the entity information belongs. The method further includes generating a reformulated query by inserting one or more terms from the identified entity record into the search query. Additionally, the method includes performing a search for software applications using the reformulated query and generating a list of software applications identified during the search.
US09418102B2
A pair search word, which is obtained by forming a pair of a preceding search word and a subsequent search word in the search times, is generated in accordance with an order of the search times, from search words in which intervals between the search times associated with the identical user specifying information are within a predetermined time, with reference to a search word memory means which stores the search words. A first appearance count of a pair search word among generated pair search words is calculated, a second appearance count of a reverse order pair search word obtained by reversing an order of a search time of the specific pair search word is calculated, and, when a magnitude relationship between the first appearance count and the second appearance account satisfies predetermined conditions, the preceding search word and the subsequent search word are stored as a thesaurus.
US09418101B2
Provided are techniques for generating a relational query. Information is collected from a query specification and a model for an On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) query having at least a first expression and a second expression. The collected information is used to generate a relational query to retrieve report data to be used to satisfy the first expression and the second expression.
US09418099B2
A data improvement system, including an initial database, a verification database, and a processing device in communication with the initial database and the verification database. The processing device receives data from the initial database and the verification database, and determines verification data based thereon. A track data improvement system and a track database improvement system are also disclosed.
US09418082B2
A method, system, and computer program product for interfacing an R language client with a separate database engine environment. The method commences by interpreting an R language code fragment to identify and select R language constructs and transforming the R language constructs into queries or other database language constructs to execute within the database engine environment. The method further implements techniques for transmitting marshalled results (resulting from the execution of the database language constructs) back to the R client environment. In some situations, the marshalled results include an XML schema or DTD or another metadata description of the structure of the results. User conveniences in the form of transparent database query construction, and transparent exploitation of parallelism is achieved by determining the computation resource requirements of executable language constructs, and mapping the execution to one (or more) of, a local R client, a database engine, or a remote execution engine.
US09418079B2
A computer-implemented method and computing system for comparing, on a computing device, data concerning a first image within a social network to data concerning a plurality of images within the social network. A subset of similar images is identified, chosen from the plurality of images, based, at least in part, upon the comparison. At least a portion of the subset is presented to a computing device associated with a user.
US09418076B2
A system and method are provided, for example, for determining interests from location data, by receiving location data from a mobile device, using the location data to determine a uniform resource locator associated with a point of interest, determining classification data associated with the uniform resource locator, and updating an interest graph associated with the mobile device using the classification data. The updated interest graph may also be subsequently used and the classification data may be used to provide information to the mobile device in real-time, such as recommendations or suggestions.
US09418071B2
A method and system for automatically detecting a coupling of a storage device to one or more computing systems. The method automatically identifies a configuration specific to the computing system and accesses the configuration specific to the computing system. The method automatically identifies a plurality of files residing on the computing system corresponding to the configuration and automatically aggregates the plurality of files to the storage device.
US09418065B2
Changes to a collection of documents are tracked by generating content information for the collection of documents identifying initial content within the collection of documents and assigning an indicator a value indicating absence of changes to the collection of documents. A change to the collection of documents is detected and the value of the indicator is adjusted in accordance with the detected change to indicate an amount of the initial content within the modified collection of documents.
US09418064B1
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for processing queries, comprising receiving a query, determining a query classification for the query, assigning the query to a resource queue based on the determined query classification, and placing the query in the assigned resource queue. In some embodiments, the resource queue is divided into a plurality of slots, and the query is placed in a slot. The resource queue may be associated with a resource queue memory allocation, and each of the plurality of slots is associated with a slot memory allocation.
US09418060B1
Techniques for obtaining and utilizing a sample translation of a work and evaluating a translator are described herein. The techniques may include obtaining a translation a portion of a work from a translator of a specified level of experience. The translation may be sent to a reader and feedback may be received from the reader regarding the translation. A determination may be made as to whether to proceed with obtaining a complete translation of the work based on the feedback. In some instances, the translator may be evaluated based on the feedback.
US09418050B1
This disclosure describes systems and methods that enable attribution information to be obtained and associated with digital items, also referred as representations, as well as enable supplemental information to be associated with the representations. In some implementations, a user may request to use a representation and the system may determine that attribution information is to be obtained from a rights holder and/or provider of the representation. When the attribution information is obtained it is associated with the representation that is available for use by the user.
US09418041B2
Systems and method for reading data samples in reverse group order are described herein according to various embodiments of the present disclosure. In one embodiment, a method for reading data samples in a memory is provided, wherein the data samples correspond to an operand of a vector operation, the data samples are grouped into a plurality of different groups, and the different groups are spaced apart by a plurality of addresses in the memory. The method comprises reading the groups of data samples in reverse group order, and, for each group, reading the data samples in the group in forward order.
US09418039B2
The invention relates to a device for monitoring the integrity and soundness of a mechanical structure, such as an aircraft. The device comprises a control unit, a radio frequency transmission means, and an electric battery. The control unit recovers data from a set of digital and/or analog sensors. The radio frequency transmission means enables the control unit to transmit the data received from the sensors to a man/machine interface. The electric battery powers the device and is rechargeable. The device further comprises a module for recovering electromagnetic energy capable of converting the recovered electromagnetic energy into electric power so as to recharge the battery and/or directly power the device.
US09418036B2
The present invention provides a data terminal with a connection structure of a universal serial bus (USB) interface. The structure includes: a USB interface, a guide rail element, an elastic element, and a limit element; a protrusion is disposed on at least one side of the USB interface; the guide rail element includes two vertical faces disposed opposite each other; the USB interface is located in an accommodating space formed by the two vertical faces; a guide rail is disposed on each vertical face in a hollow manner; the protrusion on the USB interface extends out of the accommodating space from the guide rail; and in the two vertical faces, a connection terminal is disposed on an outer side of at least a first vertical face.
US09418033B2
A method of triggering a desired operating mode in a universal serial bus (USB)-compatible client device is provided. A USB-compatible client device detects that it has been coupled to a USB-compatible host device via a USB bus. The USB-compatible client device attempts to pull a data line of the USB bus high. The USB-compatible client device then ascertains that the data line remains pulled low, thereby indicating that the USB-compatible client device should enter a first mode of operation. The USB-compatible client device operates according to the first mode of operation.
US09418032B2
Methods and apparatus for providing device detection and operational mode negotiation entirely over extant high-speed data bus pins or terminals. In one exemplary embodiment, methods and apparatus are disclosed enabling detection, negotiation and serial/video data transfer over USB 2.0 data interface pins in order to consolidate pin count on the interface and associated connector. Existing USB detection mechanisms are also leveraged to the maximum extent so as to eliminate the need for additional detection protocols. This approach allows for smaller connector and parent device form factor, while still maintaining all of the functional capabilities required for that interface. The breadth of USB-capable devices supported by such an interface is also markedly improved over prior art techniques.
US09418031B2
An exemplary method includes a media content asset recovery system 1) detecting a migration of a user account from being associated with a first DVR system to being associated with a second DVR system, 2) identifying, in response to the detecting, a media content asset included within a library of one or more media content assets stored by the first DVR system at a time associated with the migration, 3) selecting, in accordance with a source selection heuristic, a media content source other than the first DVR system and that is configured to distribute the media content asset, and 4) directing the second DVR system to acquire the media content asset from the selected media content source for storage by the second DVR system.
US09418029B2
A memory controller converts controller output signals output from a controller into memory input signals according to the operation specifications of memory chips to operate, and outputs the resultant to the memory chips through a common bus. The memory controller also receives memory output signals output from the memory chips through the common bus, and converts the received signals into controller input signals receivable to the controller. This allows the single memory controller to access the plurality of types of memory chips. As a result, the memory controller can be reduced in chip size, lowering the cost of the memory system.
US09418028B2
A resistive memory apparatus includes a plurality of bit lines, a plurality of local bit lines, and a plurality of global bit lines. The plurality of bit lines is electrically coupled to a plurality of memory cells. The plurality of local bit lines are extended in a row direction, and electrically coupled to one or more of the plurality of bit lines. The plurality of global bit lines are extended in the column direction, and electrically coupled to one or more of the plurality of local bit lines.
US09418026B2
In one implementation, a processor is provided that includes logic to enable a transition from a zeroize state to a clear state. In another implementation, a processor is provided that includes logic to enable a testing secure state, the testing state to enable a testing function; logic to enable a clear state, the clear state to enable a non-secure processing function and to disable a security function; logic to enable a transition from a testing secure state to a clear state; and logic to enable a full secure state, the full secure state to enable the processing function. In another implementation, a processor is provided that includes logic to disable a transition from a clear state to a secure state.
US09418022B2
According to one embodiment, a storage system includes a host device, 2 storing medium. The secure storing medium includes: a memory provided with a protected first storing region which stores secret information sent from the host device, and a second storing region which stores encoded contents; and a controller which carries out authentication processing for accessing the first storing region. The host device and the secure storing medium produce a bus key which is shared only by the host device and the secure storing medium by authentication processing, and which is used for encoding processing when information of the first storing region is sent and received between the host device and the secure storing medium. The host device has the capability to request the secure storing medium to send a status.
US09418017B2
Solid state storage devices and methods for populating a hot memory block look-up table (HBLT) are disclosed. In one such method, an indication to an accessed page table or memory map of a non-volatile memory block is stored in the HBLT. If the page table or memory map is already present in the HBLT, the priority location of the page table or memory map is increased to the next priority location. If the page table or memory map is not already stored in the HBLT, the page table or memory map is stored in the HBLT at some priority location, such as the mid-point, and the priority location is incremented with each subsequent access to that page table or memory map.
US09418016B2
A method and apparatus to reduce unnecessary write backs of cached data to a main memory and to optimize the usage of a cache memory tag directory. In one embodiment of the invention, the power consumption of a processor can be saved by eliminating write backs of cache memory lines that has information that has reached its end-of-life. In one embodiment of the invention, when a processing unit is required to clear one or more cache memory lines, it uses a write-zero command to clear the one or more cache memory lines. The processing unit does not perform a write operation to move or pass data values of zero to the one or more cache memory lines. By doing so, it reduces the power consumption of the processing unit.
US09418005B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer program product for managing garbage collection. Monitoring is performed for a garbage collection state in a virtual machine. Responsive to detecting the garbage collection state, a priority for a set of garbage collection threads is increased.
US09418003B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for conditionally performing garbage collection. These mechanisms and methods for conditionally performing garbage collection include identifying a predetermined portion of memory within a system, comparing one or more aspects of the predetermined portion of memory to a threshold, and conditionally performing garbage collection on the predetermined portion of memory, based on the comparison.
US09418000B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods to implement dynamic memory management in nonvolatile memory devices are described. In one example, a controller comprises logic to monitor at least one performance parameter of a nonvolatile memory, determine when the at least one performance parameter passes a threshold which indicates a degradation in performance for the nonvolatile memory, and in response to the at least one performance parameter passing the threshold, to modify at least one operational attribute of the nonvolatile memory. Other examples are also disclosed and claimed.
US09417985B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for distributing analysis tasks and attribution tasks. One of the methods includes receiving data representing a plurality of snapshots of a code base, wherein each snapshot comprises source code files, wherein one or more snapshots have a parent snapshot in the code base according to a revision graph of snapshots in the code base. An attribution set is generated from the plurality of snapshots, the attribution set having a target set of attributable snapshots to be attributed and a support set of all parent snapshots of all snapshots in the target set. An attribution task is distributed for the attribution set to a particular worker node of a plurality of worker nodes.
US09417983B2
An electrical circuit for driving a bus is described that includes at least one branch coupled to at least one signal line at a termination of the bus and a transmit data input configured to receive data that the electrical circuit drives across the bus. The electrical circuit also includes a current detection unit coupled to the at least one branch, which is configured to detect a current through the at least one branch. The electrical circuit also includes an over-current determination unit coupled to both the current detection unit and the transmit data input. The over-current determination unit is configured to determine an over-current condition at the at least one branch based on the current at the at least one branch and the data at the transmit data input.
US09417973B2
An apparatus and a method for fault recovery are provided. The fault recovery apparatus includes a log manager configured to record system resource allocation information about a thread. The fault recovery apparatus further includes a recovery manager configured to create a recovery thread that substitutes for a target thread where a fault has occurred. The fault recovery apparatus further includes a resource manager configured to map a system resource that the target thread has used to the recovery thread based on referencing to the system resource allocation information.
US09417969B2
Each of plural multimedia files desired to be backed up are transformed into vector representations and divided into segments, and the segments are sent to respective participating computers in a network as a means of backing up the files. The multimedia files can be recovered and may be reconstituted with less than 100% of the segments with minimal deleterious noticeability upon subsequent display of the content in the files.
US09417963B2
Enabling efficient recovery from multiple failures together with one latent error in a storage array
The present invention provides a method and apparatus of managing a storage array. The method comprises: striping the storage array to form a plurality of stripes; selecting F storage chunks from each stripe as local parity chunks, and selecting another L storage chunks from the storage array as global parity chunks; performing (F+L) fault tolerant erasure coding on all data chunks in a stripe to generate (F+L) groups of parity data, and storing F groups of parity data therein into the F local parity chunks; performing cross-stripe operation on another L groups of parity data to generate L groups of global parity data, and storing them into the L global parity chunks, respectively. The apparatus corresponds to the method. With the invention, a plurality of errors in the storage array can be detected and/or recovered to improve fault tolerance and space utilization of the storage array.
US09417949B1
In an approach for identifying an incident requiring action, a processor receives a plurality of notifications from a plurality of sensors, wherein each notification is related to a problem identified by a sensor of the plurality of sensors. A processor determines an event type corresponding to each of the plurality of notifications based on a type of sensor from which a respective notification originates. A processor creates a group of notifications based on a location from which each respective notification originated and a time period during which each respective notification originated. A processor calculates a weight for each notification of the group based on the corresponding event type, wherein the weight indicates a likelihood to cause other notifications. A processor issues an incident report that includes a maintenance ticket, wherein the maintenance ticket identifies a notification within the group of a higher weight than other notifications of the group.
US09417948B2
A method for data storage includes receiving in a memory device data for storage in a group of memory cells. The data is stored in the group by performing a Program and Verify (P&V) process, which applies to the memory cells in the group a sequence of programming pulses and compares respective analog values of the memory cells in the group to respective verification thresholds. Immediately following successful completion of the P&V process, a mismatch between the stored data and the received data is detected in the memory device. An error in storage of the data is reported responsively to the mismatch.
US09417947B1
A system and method for robust storage of error event information is provided. Binary image information is stored in a compressed data structure in a read only portion of memory. In the event of an error condition, state information is written to a file in a series of carriage return delineated lines.
US09417939B2
Systems, methods, and software are provided for dynamically escalating service conditions associated with data center failures. In one implementation, a monitoring system detects a service condition. The service condition may be indicative of a failure of at least one service element within a data center monitored by the monitoring system. The monitoring system determines whether or not the service condition qualifies for escalation based at least in part on an access condition associated with the data center. The access condition may be identified by at least another monitoring system that is located in a geographic region distinct from that of the first monitoring system. Upon determining that the service condition qualifies for escalation, the monitoring system escalates the service condition to an escalated condition and initiates an escalated response.
US09417936B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to regulation of receipt, rate or volume, and processing of messages, such as order, mass quote or other trade related messages by available trading system resources to minimize congestion, maximize efficient use, minimize unfair monopolization and ensure fair access to/allocation thereof. The disclosed embodiments may act as a governor limiting the maximum rate of message submission to the rate at which the submitted messages can be processed. In particular, the number of concurrent, i.e. received/accepted but not yet completed/processed/responded to, messages may be limited. As long as the limit is not exceeded, i.e. the rate of completion/processing meets or exceeds the receipt rate, no interruption may be imposed. However, once the limit is reached, subsequently received messages may be buffered or otherwise dropped. In this way, the limit may define the extent to which incoming messages may consume the concurrent processing capacity, or allocated portion thereof.
US09417926B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, computer readable media, and compute environments for establishing a schedule for processing a job in a distributed compute environment. The method embodiment comprises converting a topology of a compute environment to a plurality of endpoint-to-endpoint paths, based on the plurality of endpoint-to-endpoint paths, mapping each replica resource of a plurality of resources to one or more endpoints where each respective resource is available, iteratively identifying schedule costs associated with a relationship between endpoints and resources, and committing a selected schedule cost from the identified schedule costs for processing a job in the compute environment.
US09417925B2
A sensor and processing system dynamically partitions functionality between various remote sensor nodes and a processing subsystem based on available communication capabilities. Redundant functionality is located at the processing subsystem and each of the various remote sensor nodes, and each sensor node coordinates with the processing subsystem to determine the location (e.g., at the processing subsystem or at the sensor node) at which a particular functionality is executed.
US09417924B2
The present invention relates to a method, apparatus, and computer program product for scheduling in job execution. According to embodiments of the present invention, there is provided a method for scheduling a plurality of job slots shared by one or more pre-processors and one or more post-processors in job execution, wherein the data generated by the pre-processor(s) will be fed to the post-processor(s) for processing. The method comprises: determining an overall data generation speed of the pre-processor(s); determining an overall data consumption speed of the post-processor(s); and scheduling allocation of at least one of the job slots between the pre-processor(s) and the post-processor(s) based on the overall data generation speed and the overall data consumption speed. Corresponding apparatus is disclosed as well.
US09417920B2
A method includes, in one implementation, receiving a first set of instructions of a first thread, receiving a second set of instructions of a second thread, and allocating queues to the instructions from the first and second sets. During a time when the first and second threads are simultaneously being processed, changeable number of queues can be allocated to the first thread based on factors such as the first and/or second thread's requirements or priorities, while maintaining a minimum specified number of queues that are allocated to the first and/or second thread. When needed, one thread may be stalled so that at least the minimum number of queues remains reserved for another thread while attempting to satisfy thread-priority requests or queue-requirement requests.
US09417917B1
Methods and apparatus for equitable resource allocation for storage object deletions are disclosed. A storage medium stores program instructions that when executed on a processor implement a deletion task dispatcher of a multi-tenant storage service. The dispatcher identifies one or more deletion job objects that each comprise an indication of a respective set of storage objects that are candidates for scheduled deletion from the storage service. The dispatcher determines a set of resources to be used for deletion operations corresponding to a particular deletion job object, based at least in part on the number of distinct clients whose storage objects are indicated in the job object, and assigned the set of resource to initiate the deletion operations corresponding to the particular job object.
US09417914B2
A scheduler in a process of a computer system allows an external execution context to execute on a processing resource allocated to the scheduler. The scheduler provides control of the processing resource to the external execution context. The scheduler registers for a notification of an exit event associated with the external execution context. In response to receiving the notification that the exit event has occurred, the scheduler regains control of the processing resource and causes a task associated with an execution context controlled by the scheduler to be executed by the processing resource.
US09417907B1
Embodiments are directed towards managing an impact of a plurality of system and/or maintenance tasks distributed across a plurality of nodes. At least one initiator node may provide at least one disk request to at least one disk on at least one participant node. Each disk on each participant node with a workload, such as request wait time, above a maximum threshold and/or below a minimum threshold may be determined. If a disk is determined to have a workload above a maximum threshold and/or below a minimum threshold, then an impact of respective tasks on initiator nodes that provided requests to the determined disks may be reduced and/or increased, respectively. In some embodiments, an initiator node may reduce or increase an impact of a task by reducing or increasing a number of threads executing on that initiator node for that task.
US09417906B2
In a distributed computing system, a processing device executing a caveat enabled transaction manager registers one or more transaction participants with the transaction manager. To register a transaction participant, the caveat enabled transaction manager records an address of the transaction participant. The caveat enabled transaction manager additionally determines whether the transaction participant is associated with any transaction caveats. If the transaction participant is associated with a transaction caveat, the caveat enabled transaction manager records the transaction caveat.
US09417903B2
Integrated computing systems with independently managed infrastructures including compute nodes and storage nodes form a cluster. Storage resource agents manage storage resources in the cluster. The resource agents identify storage requirements associated with allocation sets for resource consumers dispatched in the cluster, communicate with each other to locate inter-system storage resources that primarily satisfy locality criteria associated with resource consumer workloads, secondarily satisfy allocation set activity criteria associated with the allocation sets, and allocate the storage resources to the resource consumers to satisfy the storage requirements. The storage resource agents may base storage assignments on data placement information from a priority map. Data may be later relocated to alternate storage resources in satisfaction of cluster-wide storage policies, priority determinations, and data access rate determinations.
US09417902B1
Functionality is disclosed herein for managing resource bursting and other operational characteristics of software executing on a virtual machine instance. The mechanism disclosed herein may receive a request to initialize a virtual machine instance. The request might include a virtual machine instance type and a weight value. The virtual machine instance may be instantiated by establishing a virtual machine of the virtual machine instance type and associating the weight value therewith. The utilization of resources by the virtual machine instance may be monitored and the weight value may be adjusted based upon the monitoring. The adjusted weight value might also be utilized when instantiating new virtual machine instances for the same user and/or customer of a service provider network.
US09417901B2
Provided are a method, apparatus, and system for providing a multi-tenant cloud service, which can guarantee quality of service (QOS) in units of flows and virtual machines (VMs). A dynamic virtual flow switch includes a switch flow agent configured to receive and store virtual machine QOS information about each of a plurality of virtual machines operating in a plurality of computer servers and flow QOS information about a flow generated by the virtual machine from a virtual flow controller and a flow processing unit configured to receive the flow generated by the virtual machine and determine a QOS priority of the flow based on the stored virtual machine QOS information of the virtual machine and flow QOS information of the flow.
US09417900B2
The disclosure herein describes a system, which provides network configuration to a respective network adapter of a large number of cloned virtual machines. During operation, the system stores one or more network identifiers assignable to a network adapter of a cloned virtual machine in a pool of virtual machines cloned from a parent virtual machine. A respective network identifier corresponds to a respective network configuration. The system then determines whether a network identifier for a network adapter of a cloned virtual machine is available. If so, the system assigns the network identifier to the network adapter in response to the network identifier being available, thereby associating the network adapter with the corresponding network configuration.
US09417895B2
A cloned instance of an application is executed in a computing environment. The cloned instance and a first instance of the application execute concurrently and access shared data. In some examples, testing of the cloned instance includes interacting with the cloned instance to cause a result without interacting with the first instance, and monitoring the result.
US09417891B2
Methods, computer-readable storage medium, and systems described herein facilitate provisioning a virtual desktop infrastructure having virtual shared storage. A provisioning manager receives a desktop pool type and provisions virtual shared storage among a cluster of hosts. The provisioning manager configures the virtual shared storage based on the desktop pool type and provisions at least one virtual machine to each host in the cluster of hosts. The provisioning manager optimizes the virtual shared storage by receiving a storage performance benchmark from each host and performing an optimization on the cluster of hosts if the storage performance benchmark results do not meet a threshold within a pre-defined tolerance.
US09417889B2
Methods and systems for n-way cloning and synchronization of a user desktop image are provided. Example embodiments provide a Cloning and Synchronization System (“CSS”) which binds a server stored CVD object representing the user's desktop image to one or more endpoint devices. Each endpoint device receives a clone of the CVD object that comprises one or more layers of the server CVD depending upon the suitability of the endpoint device hardware and operating system to the server stored desktop. The cloned CVDs in the endpoint devices are then kept synchronized by synchronization operations. In one embodiment, the CSS allows only one endpoint device to act as a master device and push up changes to the server CVD. These changes are then pushed down to the other devices using different synchronization methods dependent upon the layer.
US09417885B2
A computer system and a control method thereof are described. The computer system includes a first memory, a second memory, and a control module. The first memory is configured to store a Basic Input Output System (BIOS) program. The second memory includes a first memory block and a second memory block. The control module, when a scan function is initiated, is configured to execute the BIOS program to generate a first restart program, wherein the control module is configured to store the first restart program into the first memory block and scan the second memory block, and stop using an abnormal cell in the second memory block.
US09417876B2
Embodiments relate to thread context restoration. One aspect is a multithreading computer system including a configuration with a core configurable between a single thread (ST) mode and a multithreading (MT) mode. The ST mode addresses a primary thread and the MT mode addresses the primary thread and one or more secondary threads on shared resources of the core. A multithreading facility is configured to control utilization of the configuration to perform a method including disabling one or more secondary threads based on switching from MT mode to ST mode. A thread context of secondary threads is made unavailable to programs. Based on a last-set program-specified maximum thread-id indicating MT, the thread context is obtained by a) executing a set MT instruction to resume the MT mode, and b) based on being in the resumed MT mode, accessing the thread context.
US09417873B2
An apparatus and method are described for executing both latency-optimized execution logic and throughput-optimized execution logic on a processing device. For example, a processor according to one embodiment comprises: latency-optimized execution logic to execute a first type of program code; throughput-optimized execution logic to execute a second type of program code, wherein the first type of program code and the second type of program code are designed for the same instruction set architecture; logic to identify the first type of program code and the second type of program code within a process and to distribute the first type of program code for execution on the latency-optimized execution logic and the second type of program code for execution on the throughput-optimized execution logic.
US09417869B2
A system for visualizing a congruency of versions of an application across phases of a release pipeline includes a selecting engine to select a phase from a number of phases; a representing engine to represent, via a user interface (UI), a congruency for a number of versions of an application compared against a target version of the application across the phases of a release pipeline, the congruency for the number of versions of the application represented with identifiers; a differentiating engine to differentiate a latest-deployed version of the application against a planned version of the application in a particular environment; and a comparing engine to compare, based on a selection, properties of the versions of the application.
US09417867B2
A method for s identifying program files within one or more programs that will likely require update to implement a proposed programming task is disclosed. A processor identifies a previous programming task that matches the proposed programming task. The processor also identifies a set of program files that were updated to implement the previous programming task. The processor then displays the set of program files or existing versions of the set of program files as program files that will likely require update for the proposed programming task.
US09417857B2
Techniques are described for unifying static and dynamic compiler optimizations in source code bases. In an embodiment, a first compiler compiles source code of a target function to generate ahead-of-time (AOT) compiled machine code. A second compiler compiles the source code to generate an intermediate representation (IR) of the target function. In response to determining that the target function should be just-in-time (JIT) compiled, the AOT-compiled machine code for the target function is linked to the IR of the target function. During runtime, a physical processor executes AOT-compiled machine code of an executable program. When the target function is encountered for the first time, a JIT compiler is invoked. The JIT compiler generates JIT-compiled machine code for the target function. The physical processor executes the JIT-compiled machine code in place of the AOT-compiled machine code for the target function.
US09417855B2
A micro-architecture may provide a hardware and software co-designed dynamic binary translation. The micro-architecture may invoke a method to perform a dynamic binary translation. The method may comprise executing original software code compiled targeting a first instruction set, using processor hardware to detect a hot spot in the software code and passing control to a binary translation translator, determining a hot spot region for translation, generating the translated code using a second instruction set, placing the translated code in a translation cache, executing the translated code from the translated cache, and transitioning back to the original software code after the translated code finishes execution.
US09417843B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to performing extended multiplies without a carry flag. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a multiply unit configured to perform multiplications of operands having a particular width. In this embodiment, the apparatus also includes multiple storage elements configured to store operands for the multiply unit. In this embodiment, each of the storage elements is configured to provide a portion of a stored operand that is less than an entirety of the stored operand in response to a control signal from the apparatus. In one embodiment, the apparatus is configured to perform a multiplication of given first and second operands having a width greater than the particular width by performing a sequence of multiply operations using the multiply unit, using portions of the stored operands and without using a carry flag between any of the sequence of multiply operations.
US09417841B2
Disclosure is related to a reconfigurable sorter and a method of sorting using the sorter. The reconfigurable sorting method is adapted to the sorter essentially consisting of multiple serially-connected comparison units. The each comparison unit includes two registers. The sorter is particularly a reconfigurable device according to the number of sorted numerals. According to the exemplary embodiment, an input mode is initiated firstly. Initial values are set to the registers. The numerals are sequentially inputted to the registers. At the input mode, the values in the registers may be shifted if necessary and mutually compared in every comparison unit. The values in the registers of every comparison unit may be swapped based on the comparison. At output mode, the numerals are outputted sequentially. The values in the registers are shifted and swapped until all numerals are completely outputted. The output appears the sorted numerals with low timing latency.
US09417835B2
A system and method for generating a virtual gamespace for display to multiple players via respective web browsers is disclosed. A virtual gamespace, including a two-dimensional landscape, is generated and divided according to a number of devices participating in a game. The divided portions are provided to the devices for display so that the landscape is viewable when each divided portion is displayed on a respective one of the devices and the devices are collectively viewed together. A server receives control information for a game token from a device, determines one of the divided portions of the 2-D landscape for display of the game token based on the control information, and transmits the control information to the device responsible for displaying the determined portion of the 2-D landscape, and the game token is rendered in connection with the determined portion according to the control information.
US09417833B2
The present application discloses methods and devices for data transfer and particularly data transfer between mobile terminals and a display device. The display device may connect to a uniquely identified server based on a device identifier corresponding to the display device. In addition, the display device may connect to the server through a default connection setup embedded in the device identifier. Mobile terminals may be searched and identified by terminal identifiers so that the display device may establish communication channels with the mobile terminals. After adding the mobile terminals to the contact lists of the display device, different display regions of the display device may be designated to the mobile terminals so that the regions may display the digital contents sent from the mobile terminals to the display device. In addition, the regions may be further selected to display the digital contents in more detail.
US09417832B2
Systems and methods are disclosed method for dynamic mobile printing based on scheduled events. One method includes receiving, from a device associated with a user, an identifier associated with the user and a print request, the print request including one or more print items to be printed; accessing, by a server, a calendar of the user based on the received identifier associated with the user; determining, by the server, whether an event of the calendar is scheduled for a time of interest; locating, by the server, a printer near a location of the event when the event is scheduled for the time of interest; and transmitting, by the server, the one or more print items to the printer near the location of the event.
US09417826B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a controller. The memory stores first information therein. The controller is configured to obtain from an external apparatus second information about a status of the information processing apparatus. The second information is held in the external apparatus. The controller then determines based on the second information whether the first information should be deleted from the memory in accordance with the second information.
US09417822B1
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for the automatic management of volumes, such as creation, migration, and rebuilding for redundant array of independent disks (RAID). The automated management is triggered upon the installation of a new drive in a network attached storage (NAS) device and proceeds according to a user-specified setting. The management is automatic in that user intervention would not be required or requested and would be triggered transparently upon the insertion of a new drive into the NAS device. The embodiments may be employed in other types of multi-drive devices, such as direct attached storage devices, storage area networks, external drives. In addition, the embodiments may be employed with different types of storage media, such as solid-state drives, hybrid drives, etc., in addition to hard disk drives.
US09417820B2
A hybrid drive and associated methods provide low-overhead storage of a hibernation file in the hybrid hard disk drive. During operation, the hybrid drive allocates a portion of solid-state memory in the drive that is large enough to accommodate a hibernation file associated with a host device of the hybrid drive. In addition to the erased memory blocks that are normally present during operation of the hybrid drive, the portion of solid-state memory allocated for accommodating the hibernation file may include over-provisioned memory blocks, blocks used to store a previous hibernation file that has been trimmed, and/or non-dirty blocks.
US09417815B1
A method and apparatus for capturing a snapshot of storage volumes of a data capture group are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a request to create a data capture group may be received and processed. The data capture group may have one or more storage volumes. Upon defining the data capture group, a snapshot of the storage volumes of the data capture group may be taken.
US09417814B1
To provide enhanced operation of data storage devices and systems, various systems, apparatuses, methods, and software are provided herein. In a first example, a data storage device is provided that includes storage media comprising a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) storage region. The data storage device also includes a storage control system configured to receive write operations and responsively store write data in a first storage region prior to transferring into the SMR storage region. The storage control system is configured to determine a reporting pace for transferring the write operations from the first storage region into the SMR storage region, the reporting pace establishing a target performance that is tempered from storage of the write data into the first storage region. The storage control system is configured to report completion of the write operations over a host interface at the reporting pace.
US09417810B1
A data storage system including a plurality of storage devices, each of the storage devices in the plurality of storage devices comprising a plurality of logical block addresses (“LBAs”) and configured to be in a first operating mode or a second operating mode, wherein the second operating mode comprises a reduced power mode relative to the first operating mode, and a bridge configured to be connected to the plurality of storage devices and a host configured to transmit a host command to access an LBA. The bridge is configured to receive the host command to access the LBA, determine a storage device in the plurality of storage devices where the LBA is located, and indicate only to the storage device where the LBA is located, that the storage device where the LBA is located should transition from the second operating mode to the first operating mode.
US09417808B2
For efficient track destage in secondary storage in a more effective manner, for temporal bits employed with sequential bits for controlling the timing for destaging the track in a primary storage, if a first bit has at least one of a lower amount of holes and a hotter data heat metric, it is moved to the lower speed cache level. If the first bit has a hotter data heat and greater than a predetermined number of holes, the first bit is discarded.
US09417805B2
A memory controller is provided that includes a host system interface that receives requests from applications and sends read or write commands to a disk for data retrieval. A threadlet core provides threadlets to the host system interface that enable the host system interface to use a logical bit address that can be sent to a memory device for execution without having to read and write entire blocks to and from the memory device.
US09417802B1
A method may include link training a plurality of back-side lanes coupling a plurality of memory chips of a memory module to a plurality of data buffers of the memory module. The method may also include link training a plurality of front-side lanes coupling the plurality of data buffers to a memory controller. The method may further include determining after link training of the back-side and front-side lanes whether signal integrity of data communicated over the front-side lanes exceeds one or more thresholds. The method may additionally include responsive to determining that the signal integrity of data communicated over one or more of the front-side lanes fails to exceed the one or more thresholds, modifying timing of data communicated over one or more of the back-side and front-side lanes in order to improve signal integrity of the one or more of the front-side lanes failing to exceed the thresholds.
US09417799B2
A memory system includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory having blocks, the block being data erasing unit; and a controller configured to execute; an update processing for; writing superseding data in a block, the superseding data being treated as valid data; and invalidating superseded data having the same logical address as the superseding data, the superseded data being treated as invalid data; and a compaction processing for; retrieving blocks having invalid data using a management table, the management table managing blocks in a linked list format for each number of valid data included in the block; selecting a compaction source block having at least one valid data from the retrieved blocks; copying a plurality of valid data included in the compaction source blocks into a compaction target block; invalidating the plurality of valid data in the compaction source blocks; and releasing the compaction source blocks in which all data are invalidated.
US09417797B2
An adaptive channel tracking algorithm performed by a flash memory system obtains disparity metrics and derivative metrics and uses a combination of the disparity and derivative metrics to estimate an optimal read reference voltage. The estimation of the optimal read reference voltage does not rely on assumptions about the underlying cell voltage distributions and results in a good estimate of the read reference voltage even if the standard deviations of the cell voltage distributions are different. In addition, the algorithm is relatively simple and less computationally intensive to perform than the known tracking algorithms.
US09417794B2
A composite memory device that includes different types of non-volatile memory devices, which have different performance characteristics, is described. This composite memory device may receive requests, a given one of which includes a command, a logical address for at least a block of data associated with the command, and a hint associated with the command. For the given request, the composite memory device executes the command on the block of data at the logical address in at least one of the types of non-volatile memory devices. Furthermore, the composite memory device conditionally executes the hint based on one or more criteria, such as: available memory in the types of non-volatile memory devices, traffic through an interface circuit in the composite memory device, operational states of the types of non-volatile memory devices, a target performance characteristic of the composite memory device, and an environmental condition of the composite memory device.
US09417793B2
According to one general aspect, a computer-implemented method for managing global keyboard shortcuts is described. The method determines a web application or a browser extension accessible for execution by a browser of a client device. A user interface including available shortcut actions for the web application or the browser extension is provided, and a designation of a keyboard shortcut for an action from the available shortcut actions is received via the user interface. An association is created between the designated keyboard shortcut, the action, and a user account. The designated keyboard shortcut, the action, and the association may be stored on a server, and the designated keyboard shortcut, the action, and the association may be synced based on the user account.
US09417789B2
A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes a memory configured to set at least one touch gesture having a specific function assigned thereto, a memory configured to store at least one touch gesture to which a specific function is assigned, a touchscreen having a screen configured to receive the at least one touch gesture, and a controller configured to control the touchscreen to display a trajectory line of the received at least one touch gesture on the screen such that the trajectory line can be discriminated from other information displayed on the screen, to search the memory for the function assigned to the received at least one touch gesture, and to execute the function assigned to the received at least one touch gesture.
US09417782B2
A portable terminal including a touch-sensitive first input device and a touch-sensitive second input device that receive input when contact is made thereto, the portable terminal comprising: a first execution unit configured to execute processing that is in accordance with input received by the first input device; a second execution unit configured to execute processing that is in accordance with input received by the second input device; and a control unit that controls whether or not to inhibit the execution of the second processing by the second execution unit according to which position on the first input device is contacted.
US09417779B2
Utilizing a scrollbar handle for both zooming and panning a display comprising items in a user interface may be accomplished by monitoring an input device's interaction with the scrollbar handle. If the scroll handle is dragged in a direction away from an orientation of the scroll handle in the scrollbar, a display area zoom function can be activated. The zoom function allows a viewbox, comprising content, to be rescaled as a function of the distance the scroll handle is dragged. A displaybox can be created that distinguishes an area of the viewbox from the remainder of the display, which corresponds to content in the viewbox that would be displayed in normal zoom if the scroll handle were released at that location. Further, upon detecting that the scroll handle is released, the display area can zoom to a view of the content inside the distinguished area.
US09417777B2
A map data server may provide metadata about available indoor map data that accompanies map data for drawing a base map. For example, map data may include vector data for drawing a footprint of a building, and the metadata may include information about the physical properties of the building (e.g., an indication of how many floors the building has and if detailed map data is available for the indicated floors, etc.). A mapping application running on the client can use this metadata to display an interface that allows a user to select floors or otherwise interact with the floor data. Further, the metadata accompanying map data can include a bounding box, or a bounding polygon, for one or more floors. The mapping application can use these bounding shapes to properly reposition the viewport as map data for a new floor is being loaded, for example.
US09417766B2
The present invention relates to a beverage preparation machine, comprising a memory for storing icons, said icons being divided into at least two menu level groups, whereby each icon indicates a selectable menu function of the machine. The machine further comprises a display for displaying: in a first operation mode a first group of icons adjacent a main portion of the display; and in a second operation mode one group of icons as currently selectable icons on said main portion of the display. A touch pad is adapted to accept a touch operation for switching between the first and second operation mode.
US09417763B2
The techniques disclosed herein use a compass, MEMS accelerometer, GPS module, and MEMS gyrometer to infer a frame of reference for a hand-held device. This can provide a true Frenet frame, i.e., X- and Y-vectors for the display, and also a Z-vector that points perpendicularly to the display. In fact, with various inertial clues from accelerometer, gyrometer, and other instruments that report their states in real time, it is possible to track the Frenet frame of the device in real time to provide a continuous 3D frame-of-reference. Once this continuous frame of reference is known, the position of a user's eyes may either be inferred or calculated directly by using a device's front-facing camera. With the position of the user's eyes and a continuous 3D frame-of-reference for the display, more realistic virtual 3D depictions of the objects on the device's display may be created and interacted with by the user.
US09417760B2
Techniques for automatically completing a partially completed UI design created by a user are described. A UI query including attributes of UI components in the partially completed UI design is created. Example designs with similar UI components are identified. UI components of one such design example are displayed to automatically complete the partially completed UI design (also called an “auto-complete suggestion”). The user can systematically navigate the design examples and accept auto-completed suggestions to include into the partially complete UI design.
US09417758B2
A system for dynamically playing information using conventional feeds and ad-hoc feeds to produce “playable” content includes a device that executes a player engine, the player engine collecting, combining and sequencing items to play based on selection criteria and device context, of text, image, video content by parsing selective tags, patterns, text, identifiers and resource types of interest on resources such as web pages to produce playable content, storing the playable contents results from parsing in a queue of playable feed items, selecting items from the queue to produce an ad-hoc feed and playing the ad-hoc feed.
US09417756B2
Among other things, a method includes displaying, in a user interface of a video editing application, an interface enabling a user of the video editing application to mark ranges in video clips presented in the user interface, the ranges of the video clips each representing a portion of video content of each respective clip, and at least some of the ranges of the video clips being displayed as marked simultaneously, receiving, from the user, a selection of multiple marked ranges of video clips, and establishing a relationship between the selected multiple ranges of the video clips.
US09417750B2
A method can include determining multiple sensed positions of an object path in a touch sense region; generating at least a first predicted position from the sensed positions; and filtering a sense position, including associating the sense position with the object path if it is within a first proximity to at least the first predicted position, and not associating the sense position with the object path if it is outside of at least the first proximity from the first predicted position.
US09417746B2
On a resin substrate (2) there are laminated, in the stated order, a conductive layer in which a bridge electrode (3b) and leads are formed, a first interlayer insulating layer (4), and an electrode layer that allows through visible light forming a unit electrode (5XU) of a drive electrode line (5X) and a unit electrode (5YU) of a sensing electrode line (5Y). It is accordingly possible to realize a touch panel substrate (1) capable of minimizing any increases in thickness, decreases in transmittance, complexity of terminal portions, and deterioration in optical characteristics.
US09417742B2
An apparatus including: an array of capacitive sensor electrodes including a plurality of distinct capacitive sensor electrodes distributed in two orthogonal directions over a sensing area; and a plurality of conductive traces each of which is operatively connected to one of the first plurality of distinct capacitive sensor electrodes, wherein at least some of the conductive traces are routed over the sensing area and are opaque metal traces.
US09417737B2
A touch panel capable of detecting a pen and a finger, capable of corresponding to multi-touch, capable of detecting pressing force, and capable of reducing the use amount of a transparent electrode as much as possible. The touch panel has a piezoelectric sheet of poly-L-lactic acid having a predetermined stretching axial direction, electrodes that are opposed to each other and formed on the piezoelectric sheet do not cover the entire surface of the piezoelectric sheet and are formed so that they are discretely distributed in plural positions. The piezoelectric sheet is brought into the condition that tension is imparted in directions not coincident with the stretching axial direction.
US09417729B2
An apparatus of one embodiment includes a sensor and a controller. The sensor has first and second electrodes separated by an insulator. The controller includes measurement circuitry, a processor, and a memory comprising logic. The logic is operable to disconnect the second electrode from the measurement circuitry, induce a current on the second electrode by applying voltage to the first electrode, apply charge to the second electrode, connect the second electrode to the measurement circuitry after applying the charge to the second electrode, and determine a capacitance value associated with the second electrode.
US09417722B2
The present invention discloses a touch panel, having a light transmission touch sensing region and a peripheral region adjacent to at least one side of the light transmission touch sensing region. The touch panel includes a substrate, a patterned decoration frame, a decoration layer, and at least one touch sensing element. The patterned decoration frame is disposed on a surface of the substrate and in the peripheral region. The decoration layer is disposed on the patterned decoration frame, and the touch sensing element is disposed in the light transmission touch sensing region.
US09417720B2
A keyboard-mouse-video (KVM) system. The system includes a KVM switch having a first controller; a ROC unit having a second controller; and a cable which connects the ROC unit to the KVM switch, the cable having four pairs of wires. The first controller is configured to transmit and the second controller is configured to receive an Ethernet signal using a first pair of wires. The second controller is configured to transmit and the first controller is configured to receive a serial signal using a second pair of wires.
US09417713B2
An image-capturing device configured for an optical pointing apparatus includes a plurality of image-sensing units arranged adjacently. The plurality of image-sensing units are configured to sense images of a surface and generate sensing signals that are used for evaluating the velocity of the optical pointing apparatus. The image-capturing device is configured to use different image-sensing units arranged differently to sense the surface according to the velocity of the optical pointing apparatus. When the optical pointing apparatus moves at a first velocity, the image-capturing device uses the image-sensing units configured to occupy a smaller area to sense the surface. When the optical pointing apparatus moves at a second velocity, the image-capturing device uses the image-sensing units configured to occupy a larger area to sense the surface. The first velocity is lower than the second velocity.
US09417705B2
A motion detection device includes: an acceleration detection unit, a separating unit, a gravity axis determination unit, and a motion detection unit. The acceleration detection unit detects acceleration components of each axis of a three-dimensional rectangular coordinate system of acceleration acting on the acceleration detection unit and outputs sets of acceleration component data. The separating unit separates the outputted sets of acceleration component data into stationary components and motion components. The gravity axis determination unit determines an axis whose separated stationary component is the largest to be a gravity axis. The motion detection unit detects, if an axis corresponding to a largest motion component showing a largest value of the separated motion components is an axis other than the determined gravity axis, a motion axis of the acceleration detection unit on the basis of the largest motion component.
US09417696B2
An electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display, and a plurality of piezoelectric patch transducers disposed beneath the display. A controller is configured to switch each of the transducers between a tactile feedback mode to provide tactile feedback via the touch-sensitive display, and an object detection mode to provide acoustic detection of a contactless position of an object relative to the device. The object is free of contact with the device at the contactless object position. Using the same transducers to provide tactile feedback and object detection provides these features without additional costs associated with adding further components. A microphone of the device can receive ultrasonic signals, emitted from the transducers and via associated acoustic ports, and the device can process the received signals to determine a contactless three-dimensional gesture that is performed, for example above the display.
US09417683B2
Disclosed is a display unit driving device which has a reduced power consumption rate. The display unit displays an image in response to a video data signal which is constituted by a plurality of frames each including a data scanning period and a blanking period. The driving device stops power supply to a data driver for a predetermined power stop period within the blanking period. The data driver applies pixel drive voltages respectively corresponding to luminance levels of each pixel based on the video data signal to multiple data lines of the display device in each horizontal scanning cycle within the data scanning period.
US09417679B2
Various computing devices and methods of managing the power consumption thereby are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of managing power consumption of a computing device that has a battery is provided. The method includes cycling the computing device between a connected standby active state and a connected standby idle state. The duration of the connected standby idle state is set based at least in part on a charge level of the battery.
US09417671B2
A system can include a housing that includes a first opening and a second opening; a baffle disposed in the housing wherein the baffle defines within the housing a first plenum in fluid communication with the first opening and a second plenum in fluid communication with the second opening; a first processor disposed in the first plenum; and a second processor disposed in the second plenum. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
US09417669B2
A case includes a housing, a cover and a switch module with a secure mechanism. The case has an accommodation portion. The cover is disposed on the case to have a cover position. The cover covers the accommodation portion. The switch module including a pressing switch and a switch-changing element is located in the accommodation portion and connected to the housing. The switch-changing includes a first pivot part, a pressing part, and a stop part. The first pivot part pivots the housing. The pressing part and the stop part jut from the first pivot part along different radial directions. The switch-changing element has a test position and a non-test position for rotating relative to the housing. When the switch-changing element locates at the test position, a position of the position of the stop part overlaps the cover position.
US09417667B2
Touchscreen controllers and associated electronic devices are described which prevent eavesdropping of touchscreen activity. In one aspect, the present disclosure describes a touchscreen controller that includes a touch input interface for connecting to a touch-sensitive overlay of a touchscreen display and a touch output interface. The touch output interface provides an output in dependence on touch input received via the touch input interface. The touchscreen controller further includes an orientation sensor control output interface for connecting to one or more orientation sensors and an embedded processor coupled with the touch input interface, the touch output interface and the orientation sensor control output interface. The embedded processor is configured to generate an interrupt output signal for output on the orientation sensor control output interface. The interrupt output signal is configured to deactivate the orientation sensor for at least a period of time when the touch-sensitive overlay is activated with touch input.
US09417655B2
Generating a clock signal includes: at a root node of a clock distribution network, receiving a first clock signal; at a first leaf node of the clock distribution network, detecting a reference event and generating a synchronizing signal based on the detection of the reference event; passing the synchronizing signal along a synchronizing signal path from the first leaf node to the root node via one or more clocked storage cells, each storage cell being clocked from a corresponding point within the clock distribution network; at the root node, generating a second clock signal from the first clock signal synchronized to the synchronizing signal received at the root node, and distributing the second clock signal to the leaf nodes of the clock distribution network, the generating of the second clock signal resulting in the second clock signal received at the first leaf node being synchronized to the detected reference event.
US09417651B2
A work apparatus has a drive motor for driving a work tool and has a control unit for the drive motor. The operating device includes an actuating element actuated by a user. The actuating element is mounted in a movable manner in a housing and can be adjusted in an actuating direction between a zero position and a maximum position. An intermediate stop acts between the zero position and the maximum position. The position of the intermediate stop is settable via a setting element. After the intermediate stop has been reached, the actuating element can be actuated further as far as the maximum position. The operating force (F) for further actuating the actuating element increases when the intermediate stop is reached. Provision is made for the operating force (F) to drop again upon further actuation of the actuating element after the intermediate stop has been overcome.
US09417649B2
As taught herein, a floating current source outputs a load biasing current from a source terminal into an external load which may have a variable resistance, and sinks the load biasing current from the load into a sink terminal. Advantageously, the floating current source includes a single-transistor current sink having a bias control that sets the magnitude of the load biasing current desired, and further includes a single-transistor current source that self-biases from the float voltage developed on the external load to an operating point at which the single-transistor current source sources the desired magnitude of load biasing current. One or more AC shunts within the self-biasing network prevent any AC fluctuations present or impressed on the source terminal of the floating current source from changing the operating point of the single-transistor current source, thereby imparting a high effective impedance to the single-transistor current source.
US09417644B2
There are provided an apparatus for and a method of controlling a power supply system. The apparatus for controlling a power supply system includes an offset correction circuit equally dividing an input voltage into n (n is a natural number larger than 2) and outputting n divided voltages, and a control unit using an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) to detect the n divided voltages output from the offset correction circuit, and determining a difference in levels between a value of the detected n divided voltages and a value calculated by dividing the input voltage by n, as an offset correction value.
US09417642B2
The present invention discloses a bootstrap DC-DC converter. The bootstrap DC-DC converter includes a lower gate driver, for generating a lower gate control signal according to a control signal; a lower gate, for turning on and turning off according to a lower gate control signal; and a bootstrap voltage maintaining circuit, for generating the control signal, such that the lower gate turns on at least a minimum off time each time.
US09417634B2
The present invention relates generally to flow regulation in aircraft systems. More particularly, the present invention relates to a flow regulator 100 and a high-lift system 200 for an aircraft incorporating such a flow regulator 100. The flow regulator 100 comprises a fluid input port 102 for receiving a pressurized fluid, a fluid output port 104 for providing fluid having a regulated flow rate, and a regulator valve 106 connected in fluid communication between the fluid input port 102 and the fluid output port 104. The regulator valve 106 is operable to provide regulated fluid at a substantially constant output flow rate to the fluid output port 104. The flow regulator 100 also includes a flow switching mechanism 108 for switching the substantially constant output flow of the flow regulated fluid provided by the regulator valve 106 between a first flow rate and a second flow rate, the first flow rate being less than the second flow rate.
US09417606B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a main assembly; an image bearing member; a transfer member cooperative with the image bearing member to form a transfer portion; a voltage source for applying a voltage to the transfer member; a heater for heating the sheet having a transferred toner image; a detector for detecting a value relating to an amount of water vapor in the main assembly; and a control unit for executing a moisture removing control for reducing an amount of water vapor produced in the main assembly, by heating the sheet by the heater on the basis of the amount of change, caused by passage of the sheet in an image forming operation, of the value detected by the detector.
US09417600B1
A replaceable unit for an electrophotographic image forming device according to one embodiment includes a housing having a top, a bottom, a front, and a rear positioned between a first side and a second side of the housing. The housing has a reservoir for storing toner. A rotatable shaft is positioned within the reservoir and has an axis of rotation. A magnet in the reservoir is movable in response to rotation of the shaft. A projection is positioned on an exterior of the top of the housing. The projection is aligned with a point in a path of movement of the magnet in the reservoir. The projection has a front surface that is unobstructed to contact and push a housing in the image forming device supporting a magnetic sensor to an operating position of the magnetic sensor during insertion of the replaceable unit into the image forming device.
US09417596B2
A drum unit includes a photosensitive drum, a side plate, a cleaning unit, and a waste-toner conveyor unit. The photosensitive drum has a first drum body and a second drum body, each having a photosensitive layer and a supported portion extending from one end of the drum body in a first direction along a rotational axis of the photosensitive drum. The side plate supports the supported portions. The cleaning unit has cleaners and conveyors corresponding to the drum bodies so as to remove waste toner from the photosensitive drums and convey the waste toner removed by the cleaners in the first direction. The waste-toner conveyor unit has a collecting conveyor configured to convey the waste toner conveyed by the individual conveyors. The collecting conveyor is disposed between the side plate and the drum bodies. The collecting conveyor is disposed below the first conveyor.
US09417595B2
An image forming apparatus transfers a toner image formed on an image carrier having a moving surface onto a transfer object, and includes: a cleaning member that performs a removal operation on residues remaining on the image carrier after transfer of the toner image; and a brush member that has bristles including original yarns with uneven surfaces formed by microparticles adhering to and coating the original yarns, and comes into contact with the image carrier, on a downstream side relative to the cleaning member in a movement direction of the surface of the image carrier, to remove part of the residues that remains unremoved on the image carrier even after the removal operation performed by the cleaning member.
US09417588B2
An image forming apparatus has a developing unit, a fixing unit, a receiving unit, a paper setting unit, and a control unit. The fixing unit conveys paper on which a visible image is formed by the developing unit between a heating roller and a pressurizing roller to fix the visible image to the paper. The receiving unit receives a demand for smoothing-out of wrinkles of the paper. The paper setting unit sets paper to be subjected to smoothing-out of wrinkles. When the receiving unit receives the demand for smoothing-out of wrinkles, the control unit performs control so that the developing unit is not operated and the paper to be subjected to smoothing-out of wrinkles set in the paper setting unit is conveyed to the fixing unit.
US09417587B2
A belt unit includes a roller, a belt, a first guide, a second guide and a regulating portion. The first guide is provided on a surface of the roller. The first guide is in a form of one of a convex shape and a concave shape. The belt is looped taut around the rollers, and has a second guide in a form of one of a concave shape and a convex shape. The first guide and the second guide are engaged with each other with an engagement depth in the radial direction. The regulating portion confronts the outer belt surface and provides a gap between the regulating portion and the outer belt surface, the gap being smaller than the engagement depth.
US09417583B2
In absence of a paper feed source matching paper information specified in settings that are input by a user for a job to be executed, permission information associated with the user may not permit use of a manual feed tray as a substitute paper feed source. Upon completion of the job executed in response to selection of a forced execution key, a forced execution determination section determines whether or not an execution number exceeds a predetermined threshold. The execution number indicates how many times a job has been executed in response to selection of the forced execution key. When the execution number exceeds the threshold, a permission information updating section updates the permission information associated with the user so as to permit use of the manual feed tray as the substitute paper feed source.
US09417582B1
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section and a controller. The image forming section transfers a toner image to a transfer target and includes plural developing units. The plural developing units include a first developing unit and at least one second developing unit. The plural developing units each include an image holding body and a developing roller. The image holding body has an outer circumferential surface and is rotated. The controller controls the image forming section so that, when a low-area-coverage portion and a high-area-coverage portion are disposed adjacent to each other and are formed by the first developing unit, a correction toner image is superposed on a boundary portion, where the low-area-coverage portion and the high-area-coverage portion are adjacent to each other, by the at least one second developing unit.
US09417579B2
When an edge effect or sweeping occurs in a developing material, pixels, among a plurality of pixels that configure image data, will arise in which a developing material consumption amount rises beyond an original consumption amount. A CPU corrects the developing material consumption amount for the pixels, among the plurality of pixels that configure the image data, in which the developing material consumption amount will rise beyond the original consumption amount.
US09417578B1
An object of the present invention is intended to provide an image forming apparatus and an image forming method through which an effect of granting flavor to a printing object is excellent. In accordance with an embodiment, an image forming apparatus comprises a developing device and a fixing device. A toner is housed in the developing device. The fixing device includes a fixing roller and a pressure roller. The toner contains binder resin and a microcapsule in which perfume is encapsulated. A glass transition temperature of the toner is below 60 degrees centigrade. A nip part is formed by the fixing roller and the pressure roller. A pressure applied to an image receiving medium passing through the nip part is below 0.19 N/mm2.
US09417566B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first toner image forming unit including a rotatable photosensitive drum and a charger and configured to form a first toner image on the drum, the charger being supplied with a DC voltage to charge; a movable intermediary transfer member supplied with a transferring current for transferring the first image from the drum onto the transfer member, the transfer member carrying a second toner image at a position upstream of the transfer portion; and a switching portion for switching a mode from a first mode in which a maximum toner deposition amount of the second image fed to the transfer portion and a transfer current supplied to the transfer member are set at respective standard levels to a second mode in which the toner deposition amount and the transferring current are set at respective predetermined levels which are different from the standard levels.
US09417565B2
A conveyor system includes a first conveyor belt entrained about a separation roller and a support roller disposed upstream from the separation roller, a second conveyor belt entrained about a first roller disposed at an uppermost stream in a transport direction of a sheet-type medium and a second roller disposed downstream therefrom, a belt alignment device to tilt a rotary shaft of the separation roller to restrict a range of belt mistracking of the first conveyor belt in a width direction thereof within a predetermined range, and a restriction member to restrict an amount of inclination of the rotary shaft such that a hypothetical extended plane, which is a hypothetical extension of the outer circumferential surface of the first conveyor belt between the separation roller and the support roller to a downstream side in the transport direction, does not contact a rotational center axis of the first roller.
US09417559B2
An image forming apparatus includes a developing unit configured to develop using toner an electrostatic latent image formed on a photosensitive member, a mounting unit to which a container is mounted, the container including a containing unit configured to contain toner and a pump unit, and performing a supplying operation for supplying toner by expansion and contraction of the pump unit, a driving unit configured to rotationally drive the container to cause the container to perform the supplying operation, and a controller configured to control a rotational speed of the container based on a time for which the supplying operation has been performed.
US09417554B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus that performs smoothing in conversion of pseudo high resolution without using a large translation table. A smoothing process part performs smoothing based on a density of a peripheral pixel that adjoins a target pixel on edge. When a density change between both sides of the target pixel in a sub scanning direction is larger than a density change between both sides of the target pixel in a main scanning direction, a density of a plurality of pixels after conversion of pseudo high resolution of a sub scanning direction corresponding to the target pixel is mutually changed. Also, when a density change between both sides of target pixel in the sub scanning direction is not larger than a density change between both sides of the target pixel in the main scanning direction, the density set to the same.
US09417550B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a body housing, a protruding housing, a light diffusing portion, a light source, a light guide path, and a control unit. The image forming section performs image formation on a sheet. The body housing is formed by a box body with a top surface, and contains the image forming section. The protruding housing is located on the top surface, and has a top portion protruding upwardly above the top surface. The light diffusing portion is located in or near the top portion of the protruding housing. The light source is located inside the body housing or the protruding housing, and emits light. The light guide path guides light emitted by the light source to the light diffusing portion. The control unit controls illumination of the light source based on the information related to the image formation.
US09417544B2
A low energy consumption monochrome toner includes a surface additive package having a high charging silica compound, an aerating silica compound, a colloidal silica compound, a polymeric spacer, and a crosslinked spacer. The low energy consumption monochrome toner is suitable for high speed printing in SCD systems while decreasing minimum fusing temperature, maintaining excellent hot offset and storage, and exhibiting a matte finish.
US09417543B2
A toner includes toner particles each including a core and a shell layer disposed over a surface thereof. The shell layers contain a unit derived from a thermoplastic resin and a unit derived from a monomer or prepolymer of a thermosetting resin. Young's moduli of the shell layers and the cores, as measured using an SPM while raising cantilever temperature thereof, satisfy conditions: X2/X1 is at least 2.0 and no greater than 5.0; and Y2/Y1 is at least 4.0 and no greater than 7.0. X1 denotes a proportion of change of the Young's modulus of the shell layers and X2 denotes a proportion of change of the Young's modulus of the cores from 30° C. to 50° C. Y1 denotes a proportion of change of the Young's modulus of the shell layers and Y2 denotes a proportion of change of the Young's modulus of the cores from 50° C. to 70° C.
US09417540B2
Provided is a toner obtained by melting and kneading a binder resin containing a polyester resin A and a polyester resin B, a colorant, and a wax, in which in the resin A, the content of a polyhydric alcohol unit derived from an aromatic diol, the content of a polyhydric alcohol unit derived from an oxyalkylene ether of a novolac type phenol resin, and the content of a polyvalent carboxylic acid unit derived from an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid, which contains a straight-chain hydrocarbon having 4 or more to 16 or less carbon atoms as a main chain and has carboxyl groups at both of its terminals, fall within specific ranges, and in the resin B, the content of a polyhydric alcohol unit derived from an aromatic diol and the content of a polyvalent carboxylic acid unit derived from an aromatic dicarboxylic acid or a derivative thereof fall within specific ranges.
US09417536B2
An exposure apparatus is provided. It comprises: a substrate stage on which a holding region is provided to hold a substrate to be exposed, the holding region being provided with a support portion thereon for supporting the substrate to be exposed; a supporter configured to support a mask; a light source system configured to provide an exposure light which is illuminated on the substrate to be exposed via the mask to reproduce a pattern of the mask onto the substrate, wherein the support portion has a height which decreases gradually from an outer periphery of the holding region to a center of the holding region, such that an exposure distance is constant at all of positions on the holding region. With the above structure, the graph dimension may be kept uniform on the substrate even if the mask becomes bent.
US09417535B2
A lithographic apparatus includes a first table to support a substrate; a second table, not being configured to support a substrate, including a sensor unit to sense a property of a patterned beam of radiation from a projection system, the second table to move under the projection system when the first table is moved out from under the projection system during a substrate exchange, the first and second tables being independently movable from each other; and a liquid supply system to supply a liquid to a space between the projection system and the substrate, the first table, and/or the second table, wherein the second table is configured to provide a confining surface at a bottom of a liquid confinement structure when the first table is removed from under the projection system so as to prevent the liquid from leaking out into the remainder of the lithographic apparatus.
US09417533B2
A lithographic reticle is illuminated to transfer a pattern to a substrate, inducing distortions due to heating. The distortions are calculated using reference marks in a peripheral portion of the reticle and measuring changes in their relative positions over time. A plurality of cells are defined for which a system of equations can be solved to calculate a dilation of each cell. In an embodiment, each equation relates positions of pairs of marks to dilations of the cells along a line (s, s1, s2) connecting each pair. Local positional deviations can be calculated for a position by combining calculated dilations for cells between at least one measured peripheral mark and the position. Corrections can be applied in accordance with the result of the calculation. Energy may be applied to the patterning device (for example by thermal input or mechanical actuators) to modify a distribution of the local positional deviations.
US09417524B1
A negative-working, infrared radiation-sensitive lithographic printing plate precursor is prepared to contain an infrared radiation-sensitive imageable layer that is disposed on the hydrophilic surface of a substrate. This imageable layer contains sufficient free radical chemistry for infrared sensitivity and imaging to polymerize the exposed regions. This chemistry is dispersed within a primary polymeric binder comprising polyalkylenes oxide segments and optional pendant cyano groups and is present in the form of particles, and a secondary crosslinked hydrophobic binder to provide improved ink receptivity, rapid development, and run length especially with aged precursors. Exposed precursors can be developed on-press while forming the first printed impressions.
US09417522B2
The present invention provides a photosensitive resin composition comprising: an alkali-soluble resin (A); a compound having at least one ethylenically unsaturated double bond per molecule (B); a photo radical polymerization initiator having a keto oxime ester structure (C); and a compound represented by the Formula (1) or (2) below (D); wherein the content of the photo radical polymerization initiator (C) is 0.5 to 5 times the content of the compound (D), and the content of the photo radical polymerization initiator (C) with respect to 100 parts by mass of the compound (B) is 3 to 20 parts by mass. In Formula (1), the six R1s each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an electron-donating group, and n represents 0 or 1. In Formula (2), the six R2s each independently represent a hydrogen atom or an electron-donating group, and m represents 0 or 1. By use of the photosensitive resin composition of the present invention, formation of a resist pattern having excellent resolution is possible even without using an oxygen inhibition layer. By the method for producing a resist pattern of the present invention, formation of a resist pattern having excellent resolution is possible even without using an oxygen inhibition layer.
US09417521B2
A method of forming a metal pattern is disclosed. In the method, a metal layer is formed on a base substrate. A photoresist composition is coated on the metal layer to form a coating layer. The photoresist composition includes a binder resin, a photo-sensitizer and a mixed solvent including a first solvent, a second solvent having a higher volatility than the first solvent, and a third solvent having a higher volatility than the second solvent. The coating layer is exposed to light. The coating layer is partially removed to form a photoresist pattern. The metal layer is patterned by using the photoresist pattern as a mask.
US09417516B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a display apparatus, the method including forming an amorphous silicon layer on a substrate; changing amorphous silicon in the amorphous silicon layer into crystalline silicon by irradiating the amorphous silicon with a laser beam emitted through a phase shift mask; and forming a display device, the phase shift mask including a base substrate; a barrier layer on the base substrate and including a plurality of transmissive portions which are spaced apart from each other in a first direction; and phase shift portions which alternately fill the plurality of transmissive portions in the first direction.
US09417504B2
The magnification of the variable magnification finder is switchable, and the finder includes a positive lens group, a negative lens group, and an eyepiece lens group in this order from an object side in a high magnification state. The positive lens group is retracted from an optical path of the variable magnification finder to the outside of the optical path and the negative lens group moves toward the object side when magnification is changed from the high magnification state to a low magnification state. The following conditional formula is satisfied when the focal length of the negative lens group is fN: −15 mm
US09417493B2
An array substrate of a liquid crystal display, comprising: a substrate; a first electrode disposed on the substrate; a second electrode located above and electrically insulated from the first electrode; and an orientation film disposed on the second electrode, wherein the array substrate further comprising: at least one shunt electrode connected to at least one of first electrodes to divert residual charges left over a surface of a liquid crystal molecule, and the shunt electrode is located at a side of the orientation film not contacting the liquid crystal molecule.
US09417490B2
A liquid crystal display device in which smear error is suppressed and transmittance is uniform is provided. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a plurality of pixels and uses comb-teeth-shaped transparent conductive films 110 as common wirings, the common wirings include mesh-shaped common metal wirings 101v and 101h extending in a vertical direction and a horizontal direction and the comb-teeth-shaped transparent conductive films 110 are connected between adjacent pixels.
US09417487B2
A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a first subpixel electrode configured to have a first voltage applied thereto; a second subpixel electrode configured to have a second voltage applied thereto; a third subpixel electrode configured to have a third voltage applied thereto; an insulating layer between the first subpixel electrode and the second subpixel electrode or between the second subpixel electrode and the third subpixel electrode; and a common electrode configured to have a common voltage applied thereto, wherein the second subpixel electrode and the third subpixel electrode overlap each other with the insulating layer positioned therebetween, the first subpixel electrode and the third subpixel electrode are disposed at opposing sides of the gate line, and the first voltage and the third voltage are different.
US09417482B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device having excellent display quality, with reduced string-like defects that occur in display pixels. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention includes multiple spacers between a pair of substrates, wherein the spacers are arranged such that an inter-spacer distance between adjacent spacers in a longitudinal direction is different from an inter-spacer distance between adjacent spacers in a transverse direction, and an angle formed between a line connecting the spacers with a shorter inter-spacer distance and an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules at a voltage lower than a threshold voltage in the liquid crystal layer is 20° or smaller.
US09417475B2
A display device having a novel structure that can improve reliability is provided. It lowers reliability to form a structure by using a photomask, such as a color filter on a rear side of a substrate. With this display device, a transistor and the color filter is provided over a first substrate, a touch sensor is provided on a first surface of a second substrate, and the structure is not provided on a second surface of the second substrate. Consequently, the display device with the touch sensor can perform high reliability.
US09417474B2
A manufacturing method of a liquid crystal display includes: providing a thin film transistor on a substrate; providing a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; providing a microcavity layer including a liquid crystal material on the pixel electrode; providing a supporting member layer on the microcavity layer; patterning the supporting member layer to form a plurality of recess portions therein; and providing a plurality of touch signal lines for transmitting a touch signal in the plurality of recess portions.
US09417472B2
A method of manufacturing a colorless transparent polyimide film having reinforced glass fabric for flexible displays, suitable for use in increasing optical transmittance of a polyimide substrate having reinforced glass fabric for flexible displays. This method enables the glass fabric and the colorless transparent polyimide film to be matched in refractive index when the glass fabric is reinforced in the colorless transparent polyimide film to enhance thermal and mechanical properties of a substrate for flexible displays, thus satisfying high optical transparency and optical transmittance of 85% or more, required of a substrate for flexible displays, and thereby the colorless transparent polyimide film having reinforced glass fabric can be used as a substrate for flexible displays.
US09417470B2
In a driver for a smectic-A composition liquid crystal panel, the driver forms a resonant circuit operable to oscillate at resonant frequency for ordering the smectic-A liquid crystal composition of the panel.
US09417464B2
The present invention discloses a translating multifocal contact lens including one or both of multiple Optic Zones and a lower-lid contact surface, and method steps and apparatus for implementing the same. In preferred embodiments, a translating multifocal lens may be Free-formed comprising a lower-lid contact surface capable of limiting the amount of translation of a lens across a surface of an eye when an eye changes from one Optic Zone to another.
US09417461B2
An optical lens (10), in particular for use as a spectacle lens, comprises a first lens element (18) and at least one second lens element (20), wherein the first lens element (18) and the second lens element (20) at least partly act together in an achromatic fashion. The second lens element (20) is configured as at least one lens segment (26) that is only arranged in a margin region (28) of the first lens element (18). Furthermore, a method for producing the optical lens (10) is described.
US09417460B2
Computer eyewear for reducing the effects of Computer Vision Syndrome (CVS). In one embodiment, the eyewear comprises a frame and two lenses. In some embodiments, the frame and lenses have a wrap-around design to reduce air flow in the vicinity of the eyes. The lenses can have optical power in the range of approximately +0.5 to +2.5 diopters for reducing accommodation demands on a user's eyes when using a computer. The lenses can also include prismatic power for reducing convergence demand on a user's eyes when sitting at a computer. The lenses can also include a partially transmissive mirror coating, tinting, and anti-reflective coatings. In one embodiment, a partially transmissive mirror coating or tinting spectrally filters light to remove spectral peaks in fluorescent or incandescent lighting.
US09417459B2
Hair securement devices are included on eyeglasses to help resist slippage off the head of a person wearing their eyeglasses on top of their head, when not is use. The hair securement devices are located on the inwardly facing surface of the lower inner frame of the glasses, in a place where they do not touch the face of the wearer when they are in place on the wearer. The hair securement devices may be a toothed device, or may be a suitable type of protrusion that will stick into the hair of the wearer, and resist slippage. Furthermore, methods of making the eyeglass with an integral hair securement device are disclosed, as are methods of making a separate hair securement device to be adhered to a pair of eyeglasses. A method of using the device is also disclosed.
US09417454B2
An autostereoscopic display device uses an electroluminescent display. A set of pixels is provided beneath lenticular lenses, with a plurality of pixels across the lens width direction. The pixels across the lens width direction are arranged with at least two different heights over the substrate. This enables the pixels to define a non-planar array, and they can follow the area to which light is focused by the lenticular lenses.
US09417450B2
The present invention provides a projection system (10), preferably for a head-up display e.g. on board a vehicle, comprising a laser source (1), a diffuser (3) and telecentric optics (2) disposed between the laser and the diffuser so that the telecentric optics outputs parallel rays to the diffuser, the diffused light being thus independent from the incidence angle; each pixel of the projected image has the same brightness, regardless of the angle or of the position from which it is viewed.
US09417438B2
A photographing lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has refractive power. The third lens element with refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The fourth lens element with refractive power has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being both aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface thereof are aspheric, and the image-side surface of the fifth lens element has at least one convex shape in an off-axial region thereof. The photographing lens system has a total of five lens elements with refractive power.
US09417435B2
An optical image capturing lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The fourth lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface. The fifth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein the fifth lens element has at least one inflection point formed on at least one surface thereof. Both of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the fourth and fifth lens elements are aspheric. The optical image capturing lens assembly has a total of five lens elements with refractive power.
US09417423B2
The fixing structure of the micro projector includes a base, a plurality of abutting members and a plurality of fixing components. The base has an assembling plane. The abutting members are respectively disposed on the assembling plane. Each abutting member has an abutting wall, and each optical lens is abutted against each corresponding abutting wall. The fixing components are respectively disposed on the assembling plane and correspond to the abutting walls respectively, and each fixing component fixes each corresponding optical lens on each corresponding abutting wall. Based on this, there is no need to apply adhesives for fixing the optical lens. Additionally, upon assembling the optical lens, since no adhesives are applied it is not necessary to adjust the angle of the optical lens thereby improving the convenience of assembly and reducing the assembly time.
US09417422B2
A rigid adaptor ring for coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) mismatched optical device components is disclosed. In one embodiment, either side of the rigid adaptor ring includes one or more mounting pads that are configured to interface between the CTE mismatched optical device components.
US09417420B2
A fanout kit or assembly for holding furcation tubes may comprise a multifiber inlet screw on strain relief, a fanout housing, a plurality of furcation tubes, and a plurality of furcation assemblies for holding the plurality of furcation tubes. The fanout housing may have a fanout cover, a fanout base, a multifiber retention block for receiving the multifiber inlet screw on strain relief, and a furcation block for receiving the plurality of furcation tubes and the plurality of furcation assemblies.
US09417419B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses that facilitate installation of a communications cable, e.g., an optical fiber cable, are disclosed. The system may include a communications cable and an adhesive for securing the cable to a surface. The method may include the use of an adhesive to secure the communications cable to a surface. The apparatus may include a pathway to avoid over-bending of the communications cable, which may otherwise result in transmission loss and compromise the performance of the cable.
US09417415B2
An optical interposer that includes a glass substrate having one or more optical vias extending through the glass substrate. A first optical polymer may be bonded to the substrate and to interior surfaces of the one or more optical vias. Implementations include one or more optical via cores comprising a second optical polymer that has a greater refractive index than the first optical polymer. The one or more optical via cores may be at least partially surrounded by the first optical polymer. Embodiments include encapsulated optical waveguides in communication with the optical vias and/or via cores. Example implementations include layers of electrical insulation, electrical traces, and electrical vias. A method of manufacture includes forming the optical vias by laser ablation. Certain embodiments may include chemically etching the inside of the vias to improve surface roughness.
US09417414B2
An optical connector is disclosed. The optical connector includes a cable having formed therein an optical waveguide, a plug having the cable connected thereto, and a connector housing configured to mount thereon the plug. The cable is provided with a cable-side guide portion. The plug is provided with a plug housing which has a plug-side guide portion and is attached to the cable. The connector housing is provided with a connector-side guide portion. The plug-side guide portion is configured to be engaged with the cable-side guide portion to achieve a positioning of the cable and the plug housing and be engaged with the connector-side guide portion to achieve a positioning of the connector housing and the plug.
US09417411B2
Described herein are photonic systems and devices including a optical interface unit disposed on a bottom side of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) to receive light from an emitter of the PIC. A top side of the PIC includes a flip-chip interface for electrically coupling the PIC to an organic substrate via the top side. An alignment feature corresponding to the emitter is formed with the emitter to be offset by a predetermined distance value; because the emitter and the alignment feature are formed using a shared processing operation, the offset (i.e., predetermined distance value) may be precise and consistent across similarly produced PICs. The PIC comprises a processing feature to image the alignment feature from the bottom side (e.g., a hole). A heat spreader layer surrounds the optical interface unit and is disposed on the bottom side of the PIC to spread heat from the PIC.
US09417410B2
A system for grating couplers incorporating perturbed waveguides is disclosed and may include, in a semiconductor photonics die, communicating optical signals into and/or out of said semiconductor die utilizing a grating coupler on the semiconductor photonics die, where the grating coupler includes perturbed waveguides as scattering elements, and the perturbed waveguides comprise rows of continuous waveguides defined by non-discrete scatterers. The perturbed waveguides may include a variable width along a length of the perturbed waveguides. The grating coupler may include a single polarization grating coupler comprising perturbed waveguides and a non-perturbed grating, or a polarization splitting grating coupler including two sets of rows of perturbed waveguides at a non-zero angle from each other. The polarization splitting grating coupler may include discrete scatterers at an intersection of the two sets of rows of perturbed waveguides and/or may include non-linear rows of discrete shapes at an intersection of the perturbed waveguides.
US09417409B2
A unitary fiber optic ferrule reflects light off an interior lens and through the fiber optic ferrule. Optical fibers can be easily secured in the unitary fiber optic ferrule. An adapter to secure the unitary fiber optic ferrule to a optical component assembly is also presented. The adapter provides a sealing function for the lenses and to provide routing for optical fibers from other assemblies of unitary fiber optic ferrules and adapters.
US09417398B2
The invention relates to methods and devices for shaping plastic optical fibers (POFs), more specifically for optically modifying and yet more specifically for rapidly joining two portions of the plastic optical fibers to create a new optical connection.The plastic optical fibers may be heated under controlled conditions, to soften them and lens, sensor or patterns may be imprinted on portions of the fiber. Methods are provide to optical joints, and combined physical and optical joints.
US09417390B2
A modulatable source is to generate a signal. A multi-mode fiber is to propagate the signal. The fiber is associated with a fiber d*NA, corresponding to a product of a fiber diameter (d) and a fiber numerical aperture (NA), substantially between 1 micron radian and 4 micron radian. A receiver is to receive the propagated signal.
US09417388B2
A spot-size-converting optical waveguide includes a core portion. A first core portion of the core portion has a first straight portion and a first tapered portion. The first straight portion extends in a direction, having width and height that are approximately constant in the direction, and the first tapered portion is continuous with the first straight portion and decreases in width and height toward a termination portion. A second core portion of the core portion has a straight-portion-coating portion, a tapered-portion-coating portion, and a second tapered portion, the straight-portion-coating portion covers the first straight portion, the tapered-portion-coating portion covers the first tapered portion continuously with the straight-portion-coating portion and decreases in width and height along the first tapered portion's shape, and the second tapered portion increases in width and height toward the direction. A refractive index of the second core portion is lower than that of the first core portion.
US09417380B2
A light emitting device array includes a substrate including a first region and a second region that is inclined with respect to the first region, a first light emitting device package arranged on the first region, and a second light emitting device package that is arranged on the second region and is inclined with respect to the first light emitting device package at an inclination angle between 90° and 160°.
US09417379B2
A liquid crystal display device (10) is provided with the following: an LED (17); a liquid crystal panel (11); a light guide plate (16) disposed so as to overlap the liquid crystal panel (11); an optical member (15) disposed between the liquid crystal panel (11) and the light guide plate (16); a holding member (HM) having a frame (13) and a chassis (14) for holding in a sandwiched manner the liquid crystal panel (11), the optical member (15) and the light guide plate (16); a first object of positioning determination unit (33) disposed at the edge of the light guide plate (16); a positioning determination unit (31) disposed on the frame (13) and for determining the position of the light guide plate (16) in a direction following the plate surface by causing uneven engagement of the light guide plate with respect to the first object of positioning determination unit (33); and a light-shielding sheet (35) for blocking direct incidence of light from the first object of positioning determination unit (33) on the liquid crystal panel (11) by covering at least a portion of a gap (C1) formed between the positioning determination unit (31) and the first object of positioning determination unit (33) and by being provided between the light guide plate (16) and the liquid crystal panel (11).
US09417359B2
The invention relates to a seismic node (100), comprising at least one seismic sensor with associated electronics, a primary oscillator (106) for timing sensor signals, a reference oscillator (104), a memory, a power source, a switch (102) for turning the reference oscillator on and off, and a processor (112) for digitizing sensor signals and storing them in the memory, calibrating a frequency of the primary oscillator (106) based on the frequency of the reference oscillator (104), and turning the reference oscillator on and off.
US09417357B2
A method for predicting hydrocarbon recovery in a subterranean formation may include generating pre-heating data associated with fracturing in a sample from the subterranean formation, heating the sample with RF power to cause additional fracturing in the sample, and generating post-heating data associated with additional fracturing in the sample after heating with RF power. The method may also include detecting change between the pre-heating data and post-heating data, and predicting hydrocarbon recovery from the subterranean formation based upon the detected change.
US09417355B2
Composition-matched downhole tools and methods for using such tools are provided. One such method includes emitting neutrons using a neutron source in the downhole tool to generate formation gamma rays in a surrounding formation. At the same time, however, some of the neutrons may interact with different parts of the downhole tool to form tool gamma rays. The gamma ray spectra of at least some of the formation gamma rays and the tool gamma rays may be detected using a gamma ray detector. The tool gamma rays from the different parts of the tool may have a substantially similar spectral shape. As such, a processor may be used to analyze the spectra of the tool gamma rays using a single tool background standard, thereby simplifying the analysis and improving the precision of the results.
US09417351B2
A seismic survey system records seismic signals during a marine seismic survey. The system includes first and second clusters, each including a set of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs); each cluster being associated with a corresponding first or second unmanned surface vehicle (USV); and a central control unit located on a floating platform and configured to control the first and second USVs. The first USV follows its own path and the first cluster follows the first USV independent of the second USV or the second cluster.
US09417349B1
Picking a fault in seismic data samples is described. In one example, a minimum spanning tree is used. In another example, input seismic attribute data is determined based on the seismic data samples. Seeds are selected that represent locations in the seismic volume using the attribute data. A principle grid is generated using the seeds. A fault is picked in the seismic volume by applying a least costs process, for example a minimum spanning tree, to the principle grid. The fault is then interpolated to generate a fault surface of the seismic volume.
US09417342B1
A nuclide decay discriminator system and method is disclosed. The system utilizes a digital computing device (DCD) to capture radiation counts from a radiation detection device (RDD) such as a photon detector via the use of one or more integrated analog-to-digital converters (ADC). The radiation count information is then processed using a recursive procedure in the DCD that determines the desired nuclide to be evaluated and then defines the possible nuclide decay transition states. For each possible nuclide decay state, a recursive permutation of possible state transitions from this nuclide state is determined using a state permutation engine (SPE). Combinations of these state transition branches are linked to form state transition chains each having individual probabilities associated with the overall state transition chain. These state transition chain probabilities are applied to the RDD ADC data to form observed RDD radiation data radiation count probabilities and displayed in real-time.
US09417336B2
A radiation image converting panel includes a flexible support, a photostimulable phosphor layer provided on the main surface of the support and made of a plurality of columnar crystals, a first protective film provided on the photostimulable phosphor layer, and a second protective film provided on the first protective film, the photostimulable phosphor layer is composed of a photostimulable phosphor including Eu-doped CsBr, the first protective film is provided so as to cover the upper surface and side surface of the photostimulable phosphor layer and fill a gap of the plurality of columnar crystals in the photostimulable phosphor layer, the pencil hardness of the second protective film is not more than the pencil hardness of the first protective film, and the radiation image converting panel has a flexibility of up to a bending radius of 15 mm.
US09417335B2
A logging while drilling (LWD) tool can include a shock mounted sensor package with thermal isolation. For example, a LWD tool can include a pressure housing surrounding a cavity. A sensor package that includes at least one end connection can be coupled within the cavity. The LWD tool can also include a support structure coupled to the pressure housing and supporting the end connection of the sensor package. The support structure is configured to provide damping along at least one of the axial, radial, and azimuthal axes. The end connection is configured to inhibit thermal conductivity between the support structure and the sensor package.
US09417331B2
Described are a method and apparatus for determining based on motion data when an individual wearing a dosimeter is active. Also described are a method and apparatus for determining based on motion data whether an individual was wearing a dosimeter when the dosimeter was exposed to radiation. Also described are a method and apparatus for determining based on motion data whether a dosimeter was in a particular location when the dosimeter was exposed to radiation. Also described are a method and apparatus for determining based on motion data where on the body of an individual the individual was wearing a dosimeter when the dosimeter was exposed to radiation. Also described are a method and apparatus for determining based on motion data the probability that an individual is wearing a dosimeter that is assigned to the individual.
US09417329B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for initiating at least one process in a vehicle are provided. The apparatus determines an approximate position of the vehicle. In addition, the apparatus determines a shortest time period based on the determined approximate position in which one or more registered drivers of the vehicle is in proximity to the vehicle. Furthermore, the apparatus determines whether to initiate the at least one process within the vehicle based on the determined time period.
US09417321B2
Various systems and methods for monitoring the level of a feed material layer in a metallurgical furnace are described. At least one non-contact sensor is used to sense a distance between the feed layer and a reference position. A process controller linked to the sensor provides a control signal based upon the sensed distance. The control signal may be used to control various factors in the operation of the metallurgical furnace.
US09417318B2
Methods and systems for configuring a leaky wave antenna (LWA) utilizing micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) are disclosed and may include configuring a resonant frequency of one or more LWAs in a wireless device utilizing MEMS actuation. RF signals may be communicated using the LWAs. The LWAs may be integrated in metal layers in a chip, an integrated circuit package, and/or a printed circuit board in the wireless device. The LWAs may include microstrip waveguides where a cavity height of the LWAs may be dependent on a spacing between conductive lines in the microstrip waveguides. The LWAs may be configured to transmit the wireless signals at a desired angle. The integrated circuit package may be affixed to a printed circuit board and an integrated circuit may be flip-chip-bonded to the integrated circuit package. An air gap may be integrated adjacent to one or more of the metal layers for the MEMS actuation.
US09417317B2
A device is provided that includes a housing and a first motor. The first motor rotates about a first axis. A second motor is coupled to rotate the housing, the second motor rotating about a second axis. A device frame of reference is defined by the first and second axis. A mirror is rotated about the first axis by the first motor. A first and second angle measuring devices measure a first and second angle of rotation. A 3D time-of-flight camera is arranged within the housing coaxially with the first axis. The camera acquires an image of an object reflected from the mirror. A processor determines at least one first 3D coordinate of at least one point on the object, the first 3D coordinate based at least in part on the image acquired by the camera, the first angle of rotation, and the second angle of rotation.
US09417308B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to methods and apparatuses for ensuring the integrity of probe card assemblies and verifying that probe cards are ready for testing. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a stage that allows stable and precise movement of a sensor. The stage includes a first support, a second support, and a sensor carrier. A plurality of lifting devices is coupled to the second support and the sensor carrier, providing a more stable and precise movement for the sensor carrier. Methods for identifying objects other than the probes disposed on a surface of a probe card and to determine whether the probe card is ready for use are disclosed.
US09417307B2
Methods, apparatus and systems are provided for determining the performance of one or more receiver coils of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine, or a hybrid-MRI machine, employing a substantially uniform 3D phantom and constructing a composite 3D image of the phantom from signals received by a plurality of receiver coils of the MRI or hybrid-MRI machine.
US09417305B2
A method and an apparatus for reconstruction of magnetic resonance imaging are provided. The method includes collecting data in each initial channel and filling the data in an initial K-space, the data including data in a calibration data area and data in an undersampled area; constructing a target virtual space, and mapping initial K-space data to the target virtual space; constructing, in the target virtual space, a target optimized virtual space by retaining channel data having a high signal-to-noise ratio; filling out the undersampled area in the target optimized virtual space, and acquiring complete data in the target optimized virtual space; converting the complete data in the target optimized virtual space to an image domain to obtain an image. The method advantageously increases the signal-to-noise ratio of the channel data and significantly improves the image quality.
US09417302B2
A therapeutic apparatus for treating a subject comprising: a first heating means adapted for heating a first region of the subject, a first control means for controlling the power directed into the first region by the first heating means such that the power stays below a threshold value, a particle heating means adapted for heating magnetic nanoparticles within a second region of the subject using a time varying magnetic field, wherein the first region comprises the second region.
US09417294B2
A current sensor device. The current sensor device includes a strain distribution converter; an optical fiber coupled with the strain distribution converter; and a magnetostrictive material associated with the strain distribution converter such that a change in shape of the magnetostrictive material causes a change in length of the optical fiber.
US09417290B1
The present invention provides impulse-response-based algorithms for high-speed characterization of electrochemical systems (e.g., batteries) with good accuracy. In some variations, a method for dynamic characterization of an electrochemical system comprises selecting an electrochemical system to be characterized; sensing the measured current to or from said electrochemical system; sensing the measured voltage across said electrochemical system; sensing or calculating the time derivatives of the measured current and voltage; and calculating an impulse response using a recursive or matrix-based algorithm (as disclosed herein), wherein said impulse response characterizes said electrochemical system within a selected sampling window. The algorithms are robust, incorporating noise-reduction techniques, and are suitable for real applications under various operating conditions. These algorithms, and the apparatus and systems to implement them, are able to accept various exciting signals to provide dynamic characterization of various states of the electrochemical system.
US09417287B2
Operating a scan chain of a test circuit of an integrated circuit to have either a single fanout or multiple fanout to a compressor. The test circuit receives a fanout control signal for configuring the fanout of the scan chain. If the fanout control signal indicates configuring of the scan chain with a single fanout, the output of the scan chain is sent to one input of a compressor. If the fanout control signal indicates configuring of the scan chain with multiple fanout, the output of the scan chain is sent to multiple inputs of the compressor.
US09417258B2
A non-ferrous shaft includes multiple non-integral ferrous tooth components, thereby allowing a sensor to detect the shaft speed.
US09417254B2
This analysis apparatus includes a plurality of a plurality of measurement units of mutually identical types generating measurement data by measuring the specimens, a transporter transporting the specimens to the respective ones of the plurality of measurement units, a display, common to the plurality of measurement units, displaying the analytical results generated by analyzing the measurement data and a transmitter transmitting the analytical results to a host computer.
US09417251B2
Methods and systems for screening compositions comprising non-anticoagulant sulfated polysaccharides
Aspects of the invention include methods for identifying one or more NASP (non-anticoagulant sulfated polysaccharide) compositions that are suitable for treating a subject having a blood coagulation disorder. In practicing methods according to certain embodiments, NASP compositions are evaluated by determining the coagulation activity and chemical makeup of the NASP composition and the molecular structure of the NASP. Systems for practicing methods of the invention as well as compositions suitable for treating a subject having a blood coagulation disorder are also described.
US09417234B2
Sensors for target entities having functionalized thereon, at least one aptamer specific to the target entity, and methods of making and using the same are described for use in glycated protein monitoring and/or biomarkers.
US09417233B2
Magnetic beads that include polyvalent ligands comprising various carbohydrates are described. Methods for fabricating such magnetic beads are also provided as well as methods of their use to capture and enrich pathogen cell population for subsequent culture, lysis and identification.
US09417228B2
A method of predicting viscosity behavior of a thermosetting resin is provided that is capable of predicting viscosity behavior of a thermosetting resin and void generation in the underfill is suppressed while good solder connection is obtained. The method includes: measuring a reaction rate and measuring viscosity behavior to measure a calorimetry peak and viscosity behavior of the thermosetting resin with three or more rates of temperature increase respectively; fitting a reaction rate to fit measurement data with each rate of temperature increase obtained by the measuring a reaction rate to a Kamal model formula to obtain fitting curves; fitting viscosity behavior to fit parameters in the Kamal model formula and the measurement data for each rate of temperature increase obtained by the measuring viscosity behavior to a Castro-Macosko model formula to obtain fitting curves; and calculating virtual viscosity behavior to calculate virtual viscosity behavior of the thermosetting resin at the arbitrary rate of temperature increase by simulation based on each fitting curve for each rate of temperature increase obtained by the fitting viscosity behavior.
US09417225B2
A test system for equipment using fuel, including a closed supply circuit of the equipment configured to supply contaminated fuel to the equipment is provided. The circuit includes at least one tank including fuel, and a pollution module including on or more vats including fuel contaminated by solid contaminants. The module is configured to introduce contaminated fuel to a section of the supply circuit in which the fuel extracted from the tank circulates towards the equipment. The module also includes an agitating tool configured to take contaminated fuel from the vat and return it to the vat, so as to agitate the contaminated fuel in the vat.
US09417224B1
A system and method using a native mobile application for gardening is disclosed herein. An image of a plant or plant disease is uploaded and sent to a site for identification and advise from an expert or expert database. A response is provided to the gardener, along with helpful information.
US09417223B2
A system and method are disclosed including an automatic sensor excitation voltage adjustment feature, a multi-range concentration feature, and a single calibration feature. The automatic sensor excitation voltage adjustment feature may include a transmitter having an associated microprocessor that provides an initial voltage to an associated sensor. The sensor may include a microprocessor, and as the voltage changes a correction signal may be relayed from the sensor microprocessor to the transmitter microprocessor. The correction signal may be used by the transmitter microprocessor to adjust the voltage applied to the sensor. The multi-range concentration sensor feature may include an amplifier associated with the sensor/microprocessor to create gain settings used to optimize sensor resolution by changing a gain value associated with the sensor. This, in turn, enables a single sensor to be used for a variety of different concentration ranges, as desired by a user. The single calibration feature enables a sensor to be calibrated at a single gas concentration value, and thereafter be used for a variety of different concentration range applications. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09417221B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for calculating a food additive. A first method includes identifying chemical compounds of an averse food ingredient, identifying chemical compounds of a flavorful food ingredient and calculating a set of chemical compounds for the food additive such that an olfactory perception of a mixture of the averse food ingredient, the flavorful food ingredient and the food additive is the same as an olfactory perception of only the flavorful food ingredient. A first device includes a database storing information identifying chemical compounds of an averse food ingredient and identifying chemical compounds of a flavorful food ingredient, and a processor for calculating a food additive such that an olfactory perception of flavors of a mixture of the averse food ingredient, the flavorful food ingredient and the food additive is the same as an olfactory perception of only the flavorful food ingredient.
US09417213B1
A method and apparatus comprises a transducer and an array of transducers. The transducer is associated with an object. The transducer has an elongate shape. The array of transducers is associated with the object. The array of transducers is substantially parallel to the transducer.
US09417208B2
A method for operating a sensor for biomolecules or charged ions, the sensor comprising a first field effect transistor (FET) and a second FET, wherein the first FET and the second FET comprise a shared node includes placing an electrolyte containing the biomolecules or charged ions on a sensing surface of the sensor, the electrolyte comprising a gate of the second FET; applying an inversion voltage to a gate of the first FET; making a first electrical connection to an unshared node of the first FET; making a second electrical connection to unshared node of the second FET; determining a change in a drain current flowing between the unshared node of the first FET and the unshared node of the second FET; and determining an amount of biomolecules or charged ions contained in the electrolyte based on the determined change in the drain current.
US09417206B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for pesticide detection in aqueous solution was provided, wherein an electrochemical biosensor, a container for mixing and an electrical signal analyzer were used, and the biosensor is disposable.
US09417197B2
A method of measuring a thickness of a Fe—Zn alloy phase included in the Fe—Zn alloy coating of the galvannealed steel sheet includes: an X-ray irradiation process of irradiating the galvannealed steel sheet with the incident X-rays; and an X-ray detection process of detecting the diffracted X-rays obtained in the X-ray irradiation process, derived from a Γ·Γ1 phase, a δ1 phase, and a ζ phase included in the Fe—Zn alloy coating with a crystal lattice spacing d of 1.5 Å or higher.
US09417195B2
In order to realize a compact and lightweight X-ray diffraction apparatus not requiring a goniometer, an apparatus for X-ray diffraction includes a first X-ray irradiating unit and a second X-ray irradiating unit that irradiate shaped X-rays on a same region of the surface of the sample from respective directions; an X-ray detecting unit that detects a first diffracted X-ray emanated from the region of the sample where the X-ray is irradiated by the first X-ray irradiating unit and a second diffracted X-ray emanated from the region of the sample where the X-ray is irradiated from the second X-ray irradiating unit; and an X-ray diffraction signal processing unit that processes a signal acquired by detecting the first diffracted X-ray and the second diffracted X-ray emanated from the same region of the sample with the X-ray detecting unit.
US09417194B2
Use of a reference detector to characterize an X-ray emission focal spot is disclosed. In certain embodiments, the reference detector may contain one or more openings or apertures that may be used to acquire localized X-ray intensity information used to derive the focal spot characteristics. In certain embodiments, the reference detector is on the source-side of the imaged volume.
US09417191B2
An optical reticle inspection tool is used during an inspection to obtain, for each local area, an average of multiple reflected intensity values corresponding to light reflected from a plurality of sub-areas of each local area of the reticle. The optical reticle inspection tool is also used during the inspection to obtain, for each local area, an average of multiple transmitted intensity values corresponding to light transmitted through the sub-areas of each local area of the reticle. A combined intensity map is generated by combining, for each local area, the average of multiple reflected intensity values and the average of multiple transmitted intensity values such that a reticle pattern of the reticle is cancelled from the combined intensity map if the reticle has not degraded and such that the reticle pattern of the reticle is not cancelled out of the combined intensity map if the reticle has degraded.
US09417187B2
The invention relates to a method for determining the gloss of a colour standard comprising the following steps: A) experimentally determining reflection spectra R(exp) of the colour standard, comprising a first reflection spectrum and a second reflection spectrum, with an integrating sphere colour measurement instrument, wherein said first reflection spectrum is obtained at (A1) d/8°—geometry with the specular component included, and said second reflection spectrum is obtained at (A2) d/8°—geometry with the specular component excluded, and B) converting reflection spectra data of the experimentally determined reflection spectra R(exp) of the colour standard to gloss values by: B1) acquiring the difference reflection spectrum ΔR of the experimentally determined reflection spectrum R(exp) with the specular component included (A1) and the reflection spectrum R(exp) with the specular component excluded (A2), and B2) determining the gloss values corresponding to said difference reflection spectrum ΔR with the assistance of previously prepared calibration curves, representing the functional relationship between the difference reflection spectrum ΔR and the gloss values measured at one or more gloss angles.
US09417180B2
In an optical measuring method, a reflected light from a structure on a substrate is detected by a measuring tool to obtain a raw spectrum. The raw spectrum in a wavelength range having spectrum sensitivity to process variation is analyzed to determine a process variation of an actual process performed on the substrate. The raw spectrum is corrected according to a spectrum offset for the measuring tool which is determined based on the process variation.
US09417166B2
A method and devices for rapid cooling of small biological samples by plunging them in a cryogenic liquid, such as liquid nitrogen, or contacting them with a cryogenic metal surface, reduce or eliminate the cold gas layer that forms above the liquid cryogens or cryogenic surfaces, producing an abrupt transition from ambient (e.g., room) temperature to the cryogen temperature as the sample enters the liquid or contacts the surface. To reduce or eliminate the effects of the cold gas layer, a flow of warm dry gas can be directed along the plunge path, for example. By removing this cold gas layer, cooling times for a 10 micron sample (the size of single cells and the smallest protein crystals now used protein crystallography) will decrease to ˜0.001 s.
US09417162B2
The invention allows for the collection of formation gases by placement of an agitating pipe directly in the drilling fluid flow line; the pipe's opening cut at an angle so gas in the top half of the drilling fluid flow line will be collected and also analyzed, along with the gas agitated from the drilling fluid. An expansion chamber is disclosed which encourages the drilling fluid flow line to release the gas held within it, so sample testing of the gases is more accurate than it would be in the prior art.
US09417160B2
According to one aspect, data identifying a component is received, wherein the component is part of a system associated with a wellhead. A location at which the component is positioned relative to one or more other components is identified. The useful remaining operational life of the component is predicted based on at least an operational parameter specific to the location, and the operational history of the component or one or more components equivalent thereto. According to another aspect, a model representing at least a portion of a proposed system associated with a wellhead is generated, the model comprising a plurality of objects, each of which has a proposed location and represents an existing component. The useful remaining operational life for each object is predicted based on an operational parameter at the corresponding proposed location, and data associated with the respective operational history of the existing component.
US09417158B2
The electronic unit includes an inflation valve adapted to be secured to a wheel rim and including an abutment head against the rim, extending in the continuation of which are a rigid tube, an electronic module mounted in a slidable manner along the tube, and elements for the relative locking in translation of the module along the tube, defining at least two positions of relative locking, each adapted to correspond to a preselected thickness of the rim intended to be equipped with the unit. The module and abutment head include two complementary front faces adapted in order to come into correspondence at a predetermined minimum distance from each other that is identical for all the preselected widths of rims intended to be equipped with the unit. Optical tracking devices are provided to permit verification of whether the distance separating the two complementary front faces corresponds to the predetermined minimum distance.
US09417154B2
A method for performing a dynamic load test on a bridge includes providing a vehicle with an imaging device coupled to the vehicle and moving the vehicle across the bridge. While moving the vehicle across the bridge, a series of images is obtained using the imaging device. A position of the vehicle on the bridge is determined as a function of time using the series of images, and a response of the bridge is determined as a function of time as the vehicle crosses the bridge. The position of the vehicle on the bridge is associated with the response of the bridge.
US09417152B2
A portable, hand-held combination smoke machine and nitrogen generator having particular application for supplying a mixture of smoke and inert, non-combustible nitrogen gas to a closed fluid system (e.g., the evaporative or air brake system of a motor vehicle) so that the presence and location of a leak can be detected. The nitrogen generator is preferably a compact, commercially-available nitrogen generating membrane tube that is sized to be grasped and lifted in the hand of a user. The smoke machine has a smoke generator device that is adapted to produce smoke and is coupled to the nitrogen generating membrane tube so that a supply of nitrogen gas is delivered from the tube to the smoke generator device at which to be mixed with smoke. The nitrogen gas carries the smoke outwardly from the smoke generator device of the smoke machine to the system being tested for leaks.
US09417146B2
Apparatus, systems, and fabrication methods are provided for sensing devices. An exemplary sensing device includes a first sensing arrangement to measure a first property and provide one or more measured values for the first property, a second sensing arrangement to measure a second property, a storage element coupled to the second sensing arrangement to maintain a stored value for the second property measured by the second sensing arrangement, and a control system coupled to the first sensing arrangement and the storage element to determine one or more calibrated measurement values for the first property using the one or more measured values for the first property from the first sensing arrangement and the stored value for the second property.
US09417145B2
A technique to assess or analyze cap removal or opening torque or rotational position is provided. In at least one form, a high speed, on-line machine vision system measures or determines the rotational position of a cap on a bottle, measures or determines the rotational position of the finish or neck of the same bottle, and then optionally uses such positional information to predict the opening or removal torque that will be required for a consumer to remove the bottle cap from the bottle.
US09417138B2
A low pressure temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of a substrate during semiconductor device manufacturing is generally described. Various embodiments describe a gas chamber having an opening disposed within a dielectric plate of a platen with a seal disposed around the opening in the gas chamber such that the opening in the gas chamber may be sealed against the substrate. Furthermore, a temperature sensor and a spring are disposed in the gas chamber, the spring biased to place the temperature sensor in contact with the substrate. Additionally, a gas source configured to pressurize the gas chamber with a low pressure gas in order to increase thermal conductivity between the substrate and the temperature sensor is provided.
US09417136B2
The present invention relates to a method for calculating a thermal protection factor, wherein the method comprises the steps of: applying heat to a first area coated with a thermal protection material, and a second area not coated with the thermal protection material; measuring the respective saturation temperatures of the first area and second area; calculating a first energy by dividing the energy corresponding to the heat applied to the first area by the saturation temperature of the first area; calculating a second energy by dividing the energy corresponding to the heat applied to the second area by the saturation temperature of the second area; and calculating the thermal protection factor of a thermal protection material by dividing the first energy by the second energy or dividing the difference between the first energy and the second energy by the first energy.
US09417132B2
A multispectral imaging color measurement system, comprising a dark room, a sample platform and an imaging device for capturing said object being measured; a controllable illumination device, a filter wheel unit, an imaging signal processing unit and an electronic control unit. A method for processing imaging signals of the multispectral imaging color measurement is also proposed. The multispectral imaging color measurement system and the method for processing imaging signals thereof can overcome the inaccuracy of traditional digital imaging systems and the limits of spectrophotometer systems and provide users in the textile industry with highly accurate color measurement and evaluation.
US09417123B2
A value of a current corresponding to a relationship between an illumination intensity instruction value and illumination intensity is calculated based on a previously obtained relationship between a current flowing through a light emitting device and the illumination intensity. A calibration table including the illumination intensity instruction value, the calculated value of the current, and the illumination intensity is created. A required illumination intensity is calculated based on exposure time per frame during autofocusing. An illumination intensity instruction value corresponding to the required illumination intensity is calculated using the calibration table. The calculated illumination intensity instruction value is set using the calibration table such that brightness of a measured image remains consistent even when a frame rate is changed.
US09417120B2
A method of quantifying growing plants in an area is disclosed wherein the area is scanned with an active light sensor which provides a data signal when a plant is present that is distinct from the data signal provided when a plant is not present. The data signal is analyzed to determine at least plant population densities, the spacing of plants, the number of emerged plants versus planted seeds, the size of the area that has unproductive plants or an estimate economic and/or yield loss. Overlapping sample areas can be used to improve the accurate quantification of plants.
US09417111B2
A sensor for a fill level measuring device for determining the fill level in a container by determining the delay time of high-frequency signals, comprising a main reflector having an edge region and an inner region, a sub reflector, which is connected to the edge region of the main reflector via a radome, an inner space, which is encompassed by the radome and the main reflector, and a hollow waveguide which is connected to the main reflector and has a front end, which is oriented toward the sub reflector for coupling electromagnetic waves in and/or out, wherein the radome and the sub reflector are embodied as integral or unitary in formation.
US09417087B1
An interactive vehicle navigation system for previewing turns for a user using animations that show realistic, three-dimensional views of the locale of turns. The previews show a user how the locale of the turns will appear as the instructions are followed. A vantage of the preview is adjusted to promote clear views of the locale. User controls enable a driver to view previews at times that are safe and convenient for the driver and are located in positions that promote driver convenience and safety.
US09417075B2
An active suspension system for a vehicle including elements for developing and executing a trajectory plan responsive to the path on which the vehicle is traveling. The system may include a location system for locating the vehicle, and a system for retrieving a road profile corresponding to the vehicle location.
US09417070B1
A method and system for continuously re-planning a vehicle's path, in the face of stationary and moving obstacles, dynamically calculates a new path in real time which is both efficient and maintains minimum safety clearances relative to obstacles. Repulsion signals emanating from obstacles and propagating through delineated sections of a grid representing a geographic space are summed along with values representing the relative distance of the sections from the vehicle origin and vehicle destination. The grid sections having optimal values according to a predetermined criteria represent an efficient and safe travel path between the vehicle origin and destination.
US09417068B2
An n-NV-based gyroscope is provided that includes a diamond structure implanted with a plurality of NV centers, whose nuclear spins form a spin gyroscope. A number of radio-frequency (rf) coils and microwave (μw) co-planar waveguides are fabricated on the diamond structure to provide a sensitive and stable three-axis gyroscope in the solid state while achieving gyroscopic sensitivity by exploiting the coherence time of the 14N nuclear spin associated with the NV centers in the diamond structure combined with the efficient optical polarization and measurement of electronic spin.
US09417058B1
In a method and system for detecting a position of a sheet of light in an image, two parameters are used, namely the width of the widest peak to be detected and the intensity difference of the least-contrasted peak to be detected. From these two parameters, a size S, a distance D, and a threshold T are determined. A region of interest (ROI) is determined based on the intensity profile associated with a line of pixels of the image, distance D and threshold T. A derivative filter of size S is applied to the intensity profile to produce a slope of the intensity profile. In the determined ROI, one or more zero-crossings in the slope of the intensity profile are detected. From the detected zero-crossings, a zero-crossing is selected and the position of the selected zero-crossing is returned as the detected position of the sheet of light for the line of pixels.
US09417051B2
A frequency swept laser source for TEFD-OCT imaging includes an integrated clock subsystem on the optical bench with the laser source. The clock subsystem generates frequency clock signals as the optical signal is tuned over the scan band. Preferably the laser source further includes a cavity extender in its optical cavity between a tunable filter and gain medium to increase an optical distance between the tunable filter and the gain medium in order to control the location of laser intensity pattern noise. The laser also includes a fiber stub that allows for control over the cavity length while also controlling birefringence in the cavity.
US09417050B2
A laser interferometer and a method for operating a laser interferometer perform a differential position measurement by laser interferometry of two elements while offering a rotational degree of freedom to one of the elements using a reflecting sphere as a mirror for the laser beam. The laser interferometer and method do not require the object to be aligned with the rotation axis, but instead can track the object in off-centered geometries. This is achieved by employing the pointing of the reflected beam from the sphere as a feedback signal to realign the interferometer which then has a constant beam pointing to the center of the sphere in all cases. The laser interferometer and method keep the direction of the measurement constant. The laser interferometer and method are suitable for homodyne and heterodyne types of laser interferometer technology.
US09417048B2
A capacitive sensor device and a method of manufacture are provided. The capacitive sensor device includes at least one sensor tip that includes an electrode positioned at a first end of the sensor tip, and a stem member coupled to the electrode and extending toward a second end of the sensor tip. The device also includes a coaxial cable including a center conductor, the center conductor coupled to the sensor tip at the second end, and an insulation layer supporting the sensor tip between the first and second ends. The insulation layer includes a metallization on a portion surrounding the second end of the sensor tip. The device further includes a casing surrounding a portion of the coaxial cable, the metallization, and the coupling of the center conductor and the sensor tip, wherein a braze joint is formed between the casing and the metallization to form a hollow, hermetic cavity.
US09417046B2
A tape measure includes a housing arranged to substantially enclose an internal cavity, the housing defining a tape port, and a tape positioned partially within the housing, the tape including an end portion that extends through the tape port and out of the housing. A hook is coupled to the end portion and a finger guard assembly is coupled to the housing and spaced apart from the tape port. The end portion extends through an aperture in the finger guard assembly and is movable between a retracted position in which the hook abuts the finger guard assembly and an extended position in which the hook is spaced apart from the finger guard assembly.
US09417044B1
An explosives storage system including a container having an opening extending from a top end of the container along a center axis of the container, a sidewall formed between an outer perimeter of the container and an inner perimeter of the opening, and a base portion formed at a bottom end of the container to enclose a bottom of the opening, the bottom of the opening having a hemispherical shape.
US09417034B1
An optic mount for a firearm allows a user to switch between a primary optic and a secondary optic, facilitating rapid target acquisition when a user switches between close quarter engagement and long range engagement. The base of the optic mount is securable to a firearm. A primary optic platform can be pivoted and linearly translated with respect to the base. The primary optic platform is spring biased toward the front of the base. An actuator mechanism rotates a secondary optic platform on the base from a spring-biased first orientation to a second orientation. When in the first position, the primary optic platform engages the actuator mechanism, causing the secondary optic platform to be rotated to the second orientation. When in the second position, the primary optic platform does not engage the actuator mechanism, allowing the secondary optic platform to rotate to the first orientation.
US09417027B2
An archery bow system apparatus and related methods for reducing bow torque, comprising: an outer bow grip; an inner bow handle enclosed by the outer bow grip; wherein: when the bow system is in an undrawn state, the outer bow grip is prevented from rotating relative to the inner bow handle; and when the bow system is drawn into in a drawn state, the outer bow grip is enabled to rotate over a limited angular range relative to the inner bow handle.
US09417021B2
A firearm suppressor (1) has a suppressor housing (10) defining the outer surface of the suppressor (1), a mounting member (2) for fastening/detaching the suppressor (1) with a barrel (70) of the firearm (7) and having an aperture (20) for a projectile (8) and propellant gases of the firearm (7) to enter the suppressor (1), an interior arranged to form a number of compartments (30), which are separated by conical baffles (3) having an aperture (32) for the projectile to pass through, an exit aperture (60) for the projectile (8) and the propellant gases to exit the suppressor (1), the compartments (30) formed by the conical baffles (3) are different in volume so that in the order of advancing projectile path (PP) the largest compartment (30) is followed by number of smaller compartments (30).
US09417015B2
A backing plate for joining a heat removal device to a heat source. The backing plate can include a planar plate region having a first face and a second face opposite the first face. The backing plate can also include at least one boss projecting from the first face and having an opening therein for receiving a fastener.
US09417010B2
An apparatus for condensing steam is described including at least two chambers with a first chamber operated as co-current flow condensing chamber and a second chamber operated as counter-current flow condensing chamber with the co-current flow condensing chamber including a cooling liquid distribution system with a plurality of channels arranged above a plurality of film carriers having flat surface areas to carry films of cooling liquid.
US09417008B2
A production method for natural gas according to the invention includes a step of adiabatically compressing a raw natural gas containing helium gas, a step of separating the helium gas from the raw natural gas by passing the adiabatically-compressed raw natural gas through a separation membrane unit, a step of conveying the raw natural gas from which the helium gas has been separated to a terminal through a pipe line, and a step of pressing the helium gas separated from the raw natural gas into an underground storage formation.
US09417004B2
A refrigerator includes a main body, a storage room defined in the main body, and a cooling device configured to cool the storage room. The refrigerator also includes a door rotatably connected to the main body and configured to open and close the storage room. The refrigerator also includes a door storage mounted to the door and having a side storage portion that is accessible when the door is open to an acute opening angle. In addition, the refrigerator includes a door locking mechanism configured to selectively lock the door at the acute opening angle at which the side storage portion is exposed between the main body and the door.
US09416974B2
The present application provides a combustor. The combustor may include an air flow path with a flow of air therein. A flow obstruction may be positioned within the air flow path and cause a wake or a recirculation zone downstream thereof. A number of fuel injectors may be positioned downstream of the flow obstruction. The fuel injectors may inject a flow of fuel into the air flow path such that the flows of fuel and air in the wake or the recirculation zone do not exceed a flammability limit.
US09416959B2
There is set forth herein one or more feature for providing illuminated golf. The one or more feature can comprise e.g., a golf cup apparatus having a light source bank, a golf flag apparatus having a light source bank, a wearable apparatus having a light source bank, an illumination providing golf ball and an apparatus for charging a golf ball having a light source bank.
US09416952B2
Embodiments of a lighting apparatus with a light source using one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) to generate light. In one embodiment, the lighting apparatus comprises a light diffusing assembly that generates an optical intensity profile consistent with incandescent lamps. The light diffusing assembly comprises an envelope and a reflector element having frusto-conical member and an aperture element disposed therein. The lighting apparatus can also comprise a heat dissipating assembly with a plurality of heat dissipating elements disposed radially about the envelope. In one example, the heat dissipating elements are spaced apart from the envelope to promote convective heat dissipation.
US09416949B2
A system for adjusting a position of a lighting element is disclosed. The system comprises a first bracket and a second bracket, where the second bracket is coupled to a lighting element. The second bracket is movable relative to the first bracket. The first bracket may be fixed in place. The second bracket may be movable in both longitudinal and radial directions relative to the first bracket.
US09416944B2
A reflective color display has at least a color pixel disposed to receive ambient light for front lighting and has a light source optically coupled to the color pixel to provide back light for backlighting. The color pixel has a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel has a first luminescent layer with a luminescent material for converting a portion of the ambient light spectrum into light of a first color. An unpatterned mirror is disposed under the luminescent layer of the first sub-pixel and extends through the first and second sub-pixels. The unpatterned mirror reflects at least light of the first color while transmitting the back light to the first luminescent layer for conversion by the first luminescent material into light of the first color.
US09416940B2
An embodiment of an illumination device comprising a broad band artificial light source and a non-liquid chromatic diffuser transparent to visible light comprising a dispersion of elements of nanometrical dimensions of a first material with of certain refractive index in a second material with different refractive index, wherein the light is scattered producing a separation and different distribution between cold and hot components of the light originally produced by the source, according to a scattering process in “Rayleigh” regime. The device allows illumination effects similar to those of natural outdoor environments to be reproduced in indoor environments.
US09416934B2
Disclosed is a light source module for a vehicle. The light source module includes an LED light source, a PCB that controls supply of current to the LED light source, a patterned film disposed on the PCB and provided with an optical pattern which enables a stereoscopic light-emission image of a desired pattern to be formed when light from the LED light source is emitted thereto, and optical resin that is disposed on the patterned film and uniformly transmits the light from the LED light source to the entire range of the patterned film. The light source module improves visibility of the LED light source and makes a lamp using the light source module look luxurious by using a hidden effect of a deposited film even when the LED light source is not turned on.
US09416929B2
A flashlight headlamp is described. The flashlight headlamp has a rotary illuminating head around the main shaft capable of forming a right angle upon illumination.
US09416924B2
In a mounting area, a plurality of light-emitting elements are two-dimensionally mounted, and light-emitting elements are connected in series in each of light-emitting element blocks. The light-emitting element blocks) are connected in parallel by wires. The light-emitting element blocks located in a middle portion each include only blue light-emitting elements. On the other hand, the light-emitting elements located above the light-emitting element blocks and the light-emitting element blocks located below the light-emitting element blocks include one or more light-emitting element blocks each including not only blue light-emitting elements but also one or more red light-emitting elements.
US09416920B2
Provided herein is a shallow-liquid strainer apparatus with an intake assembly that can be adjusted to keep the inlet opening completely submerged beneath the surface of the liquid to avoid letting the surrounding atmosphere into the device where it can cause inefficient flow. The intake assembly can comprise a sliding door on tracks designed to cover all or a portion of the inlet. The apparatus can be connected to a pump. The wall of the device on which the inlet is located and the inlet itself can be angled toward the back wall to facilitate submerging of the inlet. The device can comprise a strainer attached to the inlet for removing undesirable elements from the liquid. A ramp can be provided near the inlet to allow the liquid to flow upward toward the outlet. Methods of making the device are also provided.
US09416910B2
In order to connect a connection piece (10), which is, for example, a pipe coupling or a mounting or a fitting, to a thermally insulated conduit pipe (1), a clamping sleeve (9) with an internal thread (8) is screwed in between the internal pipe (2) of the conduit pipe and the insulation layer (3) of the conduit pipe. A connection body (11) with a plug sleeve (13) is arranged in the internal pipe beforehand. The clamping sleeve (9) acts indirectly on the connection piece (10) by way of a retaining ring (14) in order to press the connection piece against the end face (5) of the internal pipe (2). In this way, the distance between the insulation layer (3) and the casing (4) of the conduit pipe is dispensed with and inaccuracies when cutting the conduit pipe to length can be compensated.
US09416909B2
An accumulator (100) includes: a housing (110) having an injection opening (112b) into which pressure gas is injected. A gas plug (150) seals the pressure gas in the housing (110). The housing (110) includes: a concave portion to which the gas plug (150) is fitted, and to which the gas plug (150) is welded with the welding portion (151) being melted on its bottom surface (110a). An inclined surface (110c) that extends from an edge portion of the concave portion toward an outside of the housing (110) such that a distance from a center of the injection opening (112b) increases, and the gas plug (150) includes a flange (152) which makes contact with the inclined surface (110c).
US09416906B2
Natural gas is produced when LNG that is contained in an insulated LNG cargo tank(s) of a non-self-propelled LNG carrier (i.e., a barge) evaporates as a result of heat leakage through the walls of the insulated cargo tank(s). The natural gas is transferred from the barge to a tugboat or a towboat that is equipped with natural gas burning engines through a flexible gas transfer assembly so that the tugboat is powered by the natural gas fuel. The pressure in the cargo tank(s) on the barge is, therefore, effectively managed to prevent or substantially reduce the buildup of pressure within the LNG cargo tank(s). The LNG can then be contained within the LNG cargo tank(s) for an appropriate period of time and can be delivered at an appropriate and acceptable equilibrium pressure and temperature.
US09416900B2
An inlet/outlet pipe reinforcing device for a compressor. The device includes a body unit having a first body configured to support an outer periphery of the inlet/outlet pipe and a second body having a shape corresponding to that of the first body. A hinge shaft is fixedly mounted at one longitudinal side of the body unit so as to extend in a longitudinal direction of the body unit to cause the first body and the second body to be pivotally rotated with respect to each other. A flange of the device includes a first extension part and a second expanded part.
US09416895B2
Attachment plates and systems for pipe support interfaces are disclosed. According to one embodiment, system for pipe-support interface, having a pipe, a pipe support, and a low-friction surface between the pipe and pipe support, includes an improvement comprising a plate in an interface between the low-friction surface and the pipe support, the plate constructed of a corrosion resistant material, the plate having a recessed area for receiving the low-friction surface.
US09416893B2
There is provided a fluid controller actuator which does not require a plurality of bolts for fixing an inner side spring presser to a casing, in which a configuration is simple and a biasing force of an biasing member can be adjusted from the outside after the assembly. An inner side spring presser includes a shaft portion and a cylinder portion provided at a lower edge portion of the shaft portion, and presses an upper side peripheral edge portion of a through hole of a biasing member by a lower end of the cylinder portion. The shaft portion penetrates an outer side spring presser and extends upwardly. An adjustment screw which positions the inner side spring presser as a lower end abuts against an upper surface of the shaft portion of the inner side spring presser, is screwed to a top wall of a casing.
US09416892B2
An electromagnetic valve includes a pressing member fixed farther towards an electromagnetic movable section side than a valve chamber in a nozzle. The pressing member is fixed to a plunger farther towards the side where the plunger is pressed by the pressing member than a position where the pressing member is fixed to the nozzle. Thus, a magnetic circuit defined by magnetic flux that is generated from a magnet is prevented from being located at a portion not related to an attractive force between a core and the plunger such that it is possible to effectively utilize the magnetic flux as an attractive force between the core and the plunger.
US09416891B2
In an electromagnetic actuator for a solenoid valve, the electromagnetic actuator has a magnetic coil and a first electrical connector adapted to receive a control signal which determines a switching position of the electromagnetic actuator. The electromagnetic actuator further has a second electrical connector which is provided directly on the electromagnetic actuator and is separate with respect to the first electrical connector. The magnetic coil and the first electrical connector are coupled by an electrical connection which is interrupted at the second electrical connector. Further proposed are a valve terminal having at least one solenoid valve, and a module arrangement.
US09416890B2
A flow control valve (1) and a method for assembling a flow control valve (1) are disclosed. The flow control valve (1) comprises a first housing part (2) and a second housing part (3) attached directly to each other, in such a manner that the first housing part (2) and the second housing part (3) form a substantially closed housing. The first housing part (2) defines a first flow section (4), a second flow section (5), a connecting port (6) fluidly interconnecting the first flow section (4) and the second flow section (5), and a valve seat (7) arranged at the connecting port (6). The flow control valve (1) further comprises a frame part (9) arranged in an interior part of the housing formed by the first housing part (2) and the second housing part (3), the frame part (9) having mounted thereon a valve element (10, 13) arranged movably relative to the valve seat (7), a moving mechanism, e.g. including a spindle (12), for moving the valve element (10, 13), and an actuating mechanism, e.g. a stepper motor (14), for operating the moving mechanism. The frame part (9) is attached directly to the first housing part (2) or to the second housing part (3). The frame part (9) along with the components mounted thereon can be mounted on the first (2) or second (3) housing part during the assembly of the flow control valve (1). The final assembly step thereby only includes attaching the first (2) and second (3) housing parts to each other. This makes the assembly process easy, thereby reducing the risk of errors.
US09416887B2
A positive displacement pump fluid end with multiple fluid chambers and each fluid chamber comprising a valve body, valve seal, seat, spring, and external guide. External top male stem guide is integral to the fluid end discharge cover or the suction valve spring retainer. Female guide is internal and integral with the valve body. When the valve opens hydrodynamic forces and moments align the valve to prevent rotation. An embodiment features tapered male and female guide members to further assist in correct alignment of the valve with the seat. Various additional embodiments assist in venting any trapped fluids between the male and female portions of the guide.
US09416886B2
A poppet valve for a hydraulic coupling member has an internal, spring-loaded check valve (which may be a ball check valve) in fluid communication with a bleed passage. The check valve may be configured as a pressure-relief valve which bleeds off excess hydraulic fluid pressure within the coupling member to a preselected value. A poppet valve according to the invention may be used in female coupling members and/or male coupling members. Certain embodiments of the invention may be retrofitted to coupling members of the prior art.
US09416883B2
The present invention relates to a valve device (10) comprising a substrate (12) and an elastic membrane (13), the membrane being joined at least around a valve area to the substrate. The substrate comprises a first channel (16) and a second channel (17), both ending in the valve area, the first channel having in the valve area a first channel end surface (19) and the second channel having in the valve area a second channel end surface (21), wherein the area of the first channel end surface is substantially larger than the area of the second channel end surface.
US09416879B2
An aseptic double seat valve has a housing, which has connections for two pipe conduits. A first valve seat and a second valve seat are arranged spaced apart from one another in the direction of a longitudinal axis in the housing between the connections for the two pipe conduits. A first closing body interacts in a sealing manner with the first valve seat, and a second closing body interacts in a sealing manner with the second valve seat. A first elongate valve stem, which is of hollow design is connected to the first closing body, and a second elongate valve stem, which extends through the interior of the first valve stem, is connected to the second closing body. A diaphragm, which has a radially inner opening, serves to seal off a gap present between the first valve stem and the second valve stem. An outer rim of the diaphragm is fixed in a sealing manner on the second closing body, and the inner rim of the diaphragm is fixed in a sealing manner on the first valve stem.
US09416875B2
An apparatus for returning a transmission to a primary mode is provided. The apparatus includes a shift lever that is configured to shift a transmission and a motor that is configured to provide driving force to move the shift lever. In addition, a selecting unit receives the driving force from the motor and moves the shift lever in a selecting direction. A shifting unit receives the driving force from the selecting unit and moves the shift lever in a shifting direction. The shift lever is further configured to be moved to a first position by the selecting unit and to a second position by the shifting unit.
US09416864B2
The invention relates to a basic drive (1), which, by means of few manual actions, can be coupled securely and with an exact fit to desired modules (2) one or more times by means of a quick-acting closure (8, 8a), and which has different technical functions, ranging from the lifting functions by means of a spindle lift module (16), gas spring (60), electromagnetic locking mechanism (27), turning module (38), controller (14) and sensor module (54), through to the basic drive (1), to which a solar cell enclosure (42) may be attached.
US09416860B2
A vibration damping device which can improve a vibration damping performance of a damper having a chamber holding a rolling member. The vibration damping device is applied to a power transmission unit having an input side rotary member that transmits a power to an elastic member and an output rotary member that is rotated by the power transmitted from the elastic member. In order to damp vibrations of the output rotary member, the vibration damping device is comprised of a holding chamber rotated integrally with the input side rotary member and a rolling member held in the holding chamber in a manner to rotate in a same direction as the output side rotary member while being allowed to rotate relatively therewith.
US09416856B2
A ball screw device includes a cylinder that surrounds the outer periphery of a ball nut. Accommodation holes are formed in the ball nut at a rolling start position and a rolling end position in ball rolling paths. An outer periphery turning groove is formed in an outer peripheral face of the ball nut, and the outer periphery turning groove and an inner peripheral face of the cylinder constitute a turning rolling path. The turning rolling path and connection passages formed in deflectors constitute a circulation path through which balls are returned from the rolling end position to the rolling start position.
US09416854B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for a device for producing compressed air that allows for the expeditious adjustment of a drive belt that includes a base having a substantially triangular shape with at least a first side having a top portion and a bottom portion, a second side having a top portion and a bottom portion, and a third side having a top portion and a bottom portion. The first side, second side, and third side collectively form a cavity therein. A motor is disposed within the cavity of the base and engaged to the first side of the base. A first compressor is slidingly engaged to the second side of the base and a second compressor is slidingly engaged to the third side of the base.
US09416852B2
An automatic transmission for a vehicle includes a housing, three single pinion type planetary gear mechanisms being supported by the housing, an input shaft supported by the housing and connected to a first carrier, an output shaft connected to a third carrier, a brake, a first clutch selectively connecting the first carrier and a second sun gear, a second clutch, a third clutch, a fourth clutch, and a switching clutch. The switching clutch selectively switches positions to a position where a third ring gear is fixed to the housing, a position where a second carrier is fixed to the housing, or a position where the third ring gear and the second carrier are released relative to the housing. The first clutch connects the first carrier and the second sun gear, and the switching clutch fixes the second carrier to the housing when establishing a reverse speed.
US09416851B2
An automatic transmission includes first to third planetary gear mechanisms; a second sun gear, a second carrier, and a second ring gear in a velocity diagram being defined as a first element, a second element, and a third element, respectively, in a case where a single pinion type planetary gear mechanism is applied as the second planetary gear mechanism; and the second carrier, the second ring gear, and the second sun gear in a velocity diagram being defined as the first element, the second element, and the third element, respectively, in a case where a double pinion type planetary gear mechanism is applied as the second planetary gear mechanism. A first brake fixes a first sun gear to a housing, a second clutch connects the first sun gear and the third element, and a fourth clutch connects the second element and a third carrier when a reverse speed is established.
US09416849B2
Disclosed is a backlash reduction mechanism that can stably control the position of a vehicle, using a backlash reduction unit for reducing backlash of a reduction gear in a vehicle capable of actively controlling roll, and an actuator of a vehicle equipped with the backlash reduction mechanism. Further, the present invention provides a torsion damper capable of stably controlling the position of a vehicle capable of controlling roll, and an actuator of a vehicle equipped with the torsion damper. Further, the present invention provides a coaxial-aligning part that compensates for left-right inclination through stabilizers by generating a torsional force in a vehicle capable of actively controlling roll, and an actuator of a vehicle equipped with the coaxially-aligning part.
US09416830B2
An actuator-driven brake having a multi-pad, may include a torque member, a spindle that may be operated by a driving force from an actuator, a disc pressing assembly that may be pivotally coupled to the torque member and includes an outside lever and an inside lever, wherein each one end of the outside lever and the inside lever may be connected to the spindle and wherein the outside lever and the inside lever simultaneously press both sides of a brake disc by coming closer to each other when the spindle rotates, and a brake pad assembly that includes an outside pad attached to an inner side of the outside lever and an inside pad attached to an inner side of the inside lever.
US09416821B2
A cage for a rolling bearing having a film, formed on a surface thereof, which wears little over a long period of time from an initial stage of sliding contact between the film and rolling elements as well as other members and does not peel off the surface of a base material of the cage or dissolve in lubricating oil containing a sulfur-based additive and a rolling bearing having the cage. A cage (2) retains needle rollers (3) which are rolling elements of a needle rolling bearing (1). Of an entire outer surface of the cage (2), a tin alloy film consisting of tin and a metal other than the tin is formed on at least a sliding-contact surface of the cage (2) to be subjected to sliding contact with the needle rollers (3) and a sliding-contact surface thereof to be subjected to sliding contact with other members.
US09416817B2
The invention relates to an assembly providing a crankshaft having a shaft section that is rotationally supported by a rolling element bearing having an outer ring that is radially divided into two ring halves. To reduce friction and accommodate misalignment, the invention proposes that the bearing which supports the shaft section is a toroidal roller bearing.
US09416806B2
A latching device for insertion into a tube provides two large flat buttons one on each side to lock the tube relative to an outer tube or to two parallel plates. A tubular housing with open ends slides into the tube between the side walls of the tube with the ends of the housing substantially butting inside surfaces of the side walls. The buttons are mounted on respective slide members mounted in the housing spring biased apart so that the buttons can be depressed. One or two set screws acting as stop members can be inserted after the housing is moved to the required location in the tube to prevent depression of the buttons to a position inward of the inner surface of the tube so that the housing is held in place.
US09416804B2
An object holding device featuring multiple tabbed diaphragms in embodiments of the invention solves the lack of a previously existing elegant solution to store cleaning rags, cleaning implements and other flexible objects. The preferred embodiment of the present invention features a housing containing multiple tabbed diaphragms, which in the aggregate, when used as intended by the inventor, apply enough force to an object to hold an object within the tabbed diaphragms. Said embodiment also enables its user to easily remove objects from the plurality of tabbed diaphragms without causing damage to either the object or the tabbed diaphragms.
US09416799B2
To achieve flow demands for high flow services, a hydraulic system shares a flow between a hydraulic transformer and one or more hydraulic pumps. The hydraulic transformer is in selective fluid communication with the pumps and actuates a first load. A second load is driven by an actuator in selective fluid communication with the pumps and the hydraulic transformer. The hydraulic system includes a controller to reduce dynamic responses in the system by causing flow sharing between the hydraulic transformer and a directional flow control valve.
US09416798B2
A composite valve is used in a hydraulic circuit. The composite valve is interposed between a stack valve and a hydraulic power supplier and between the stack valve and a multifunction valve coupled to a hydraulic device. The composite valve includes: stop valves opening/closing communication between the hydraulic power supplier and the stack valve and stop valves opening/closing communication between the stack valve and the multifunction valve; and bypass circuits respectively including stop valves opening/closing communication between the hydraulic power supplier and the multifunction valve, the bypass circuits provided closer to the hydraulic power supplier than the stop valves. This structure makes it possible to simultaneously perform various functions: repair, checking, and/or maintenance on the stack valve; flushing; and repair, checking, maintenance, and/or a trial run of the hydraulic device. The composite valve has uniform circuit configurations, which facilitates production of the valve.
US09416797B2
The invention discloses a system and method for controlling a wellbore. The method comprises the steps of: providing a capping stack comprising a number of releasable modules, each module having a size and weight within predetermined limits, wherein said modules include at least one ram type blow out preventer module, and wherein said modules include a connector module for connecting the capping stack to an attachment point of the wellbore; transporting said modules by cargo airplane to a location near the wellbore; interconnecting the modules to provide the capping stack; and connecting the capping stack to the attachment point of the wellbore.
US09416789B2
A closure device for monitoring leakage of a process fluid through a bore of a compressor casing is provided. The closure device may include a body configured to be detachably coupled with the compressor casing about the bore of the compressor. The body may define a fluid passage and a plurality of grooves. The plurality of grooves may be defined about an outer circumferential surface of the body and may be axially spaced from one another. The closure device may also include a plurality of seals at least partially disposed in respective grooves of the plurality of grooves. The plurality of seals may be configured to engage an inner surface of the compressor casing such that adjacent seals of the plurality of seals at least partially define an annular gap therebetween fluidly coupled with the fluid passage and configured to contain the leakage of the process fluid.
US09416788B2
A turbo compressor includes a case; compression stages which are disposed in a plural number in a rotatable manner with respect to the case via a sliding part; an oil tank in which a lubricant oil to be supplied to the sliding part is stored; a pressure equalization pipe which communicates the oil tank with the vicinity of the inlet of the compression stage; and a check valve which allows only the movement of the fluid from the oil tank side to the compression stage side in the pressure equalization pipe.
US09416785B2
A fan motor includes a base member including a bottom plate portion, a bearing support portion, and a screw receiving portion. The bottom plate portion extends in directions perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a central axis below a circuit board. The bearing support portion extends upward from the bottom plate portion and has a cylindrical or substantially cylindrical shape. The screw receiving portion is arranged to project upward from the bottom plate portion on a radially outer side of the bearing support portion. At least a portion of the screw receiving portion is arranged in a hole portion defined in the circuit board.
US09416782B2
An oil pump has a pump body, an outer rotor, and an inner rotor. The pump body includes a rotor chamber, an inlet port and an outlet port formed in the rotor chamber, an inlet passage communicating with the inlet port, an outlet passage communicating with the outlet port, a relief valve, a relief chamber formed on a discharge side of the relief valve, and an oil return passage formed from the relief chamber to the inlet passage. The outer rotor is supported by the inner circumferential support wall of the rotor chamber. The oil return passage is formed in the inner circumferential support wall as a groove-like recess and opens along an outer circumferential surface of the outer rotor.
US09416780B2
A method for use in producing a stator for a progressing cavity apparatus which includes the use of electroforming to produce the stator tube. A stator tube for a progressing cavity apparatus which is produced using electroforming and a stator for a progressing cavity apparatus which includes a stator tube produced using electroforming.
US09416773B2
A power distribution system for a wind turbine having a base and a nacelle, the wind turbine being coupled to a power grid. The system can include a main power circuit, the main power circuit including a generator, a main power transformer, and a first current interrupter. The system can further include an auxiliary circuit, the auxiliary circuit including a second current interrupter, an auxiliary transformer, and at least one auxiliary component, and a junction coupled to the main power circuit, the auxiliary circuit, and the power grid.
US09416768B2
The present invention relates to an airfoil shaped body with a leading edge and a trailing edge extending along the longitudinal extension of the body and defining a profile chord, the airfoil shaped body comprising an airfoil shaped facing that forms the outer surface of the airfoil shaped body and surrounds an internal volume of the body, a distance member that is connected to the facing inside the body and extends from the facing and into the internal volume of the body, and at least one reinforcing member that operates in tension for reinforcing the facing against inward deflections and that is connected to the facing inside the internal volume of the body at the same side of the profile chord as the connection of the distance member to the facing and to the distance member at a distance from the facing.
US09416763B2
An after-treatment apparatus for exhaust gas in a combustion chamber includes a discharge device with an electrode exposed to the combustion chamber and installed in at least one of members constituting the combustion chamber, an antenna installed in at least one of the members constituting the combustion chamber so as to radiate electromagnetic waves into the combustion chamber, an electromagnetic wave transmission line installed in at least one of the members constituting the combustion chamber and with one end connected to the antenna and the other end covered with an insulator or dielectric and extending to a portion, in at least one of the members constituting the combustion chamber, distant from the combustion chamber, and an electromagnetic wave generator for feeding electromagnetic waves to the electromagnetic wave transmission line. The after-treatment apparatus is configured such that discharge is generated with the electrode of the discharge device and the electromagnetic waves fed from the electromagnetic wave generator through the electromagnetic wave transmission line are radiated from the antenna, while the exhaust gas remains in the combustion chamber after the exhaust gas is produced during the explosion stroke.
US09416754B2
The invention relates to a module (100) for supplying gas to a motor vehicle, comprising a double dispenser (108), a charge air cooler (107), and an intake box (119) connecting said double dispenser (108) to said cooler (107), the double dispenser (108) comprising a first outlet (136) intended to lead into the intake box (119) and a second outlet intended to lead toward the outside of said module (100).
US09416753B2
Delay tools, systems and methods for achieving a selection of alternative delay times, a tool of which including a body, a drill bit operable relative to the body and a knob operably connected to the drill bit, and operably disposed relative to the body for engagement of the body with a rocket motor bulkhead and the drill both relative to a delay to provide for achieving a selection of alternative delay times.
US09416751B2
A system to provide differential movement between a first surface, a second surface and a fixed surface includes a first surface movable between a first position and a second position; a second surface movable with the first surface and further movable beyond the first surface; a shaft connected to the second surface to move the second surface; and a drive unit connected to the fixed surface to drive the shaft to move the second surface relative to the first surface and to allow the shaft to move through the drive unit when the second surface is being moved by the first surface.
US09416748B2
A method of controlling a fuel injector is provided. Engine speed is monitored. Engine torque output is monitored. It is determined if the engine speed is within one of a plurality of predefined engine speed ranges. It is determined if the engine torque output is within one of a plurality of predefined engine torque output ranges. One of a plurality of injector coking factors is assigned based on the determined predefined engine speed range and the determined predefined engine torque output range. A total injector coking factor is calculated based upon total operating time within each of the plurality of injector coking factors. A duration of a fuel injection is increased based upon the calculated total injector coking factor.
US09416742B2
A method for improving starting of an engine that may be repeatedly stopped and started is presented. In one embodiment, the method controls a transition from split fuel injection timing during an engine start to single event fuel injection during idle speed or engine torque control modes. The method better manages vehicle launch performance when the engine is restarted while coupled to an automatic transmission that is in gear.
US09416740B2
Methods and systems are provided for estimating water storage in a charge air cooler (CAC). In one example, an amount of water accumulating in the CAC may be based on an output of an oxygen sensor positioned downstream of the CAC, ambient humidity, and EGR flow while EGR is flowing. Additionally, engine actuators may be adjusted to purge condensate from the CAC and/or reduce condensate formation based on the amount of water inside the CAC.
US09416733B2
A sealing device for passing a connecting rod of a system for controlling a pitch of fan blades of a turboprop through a partition. The device includes a tube for fastening to the partition that is to be sealed, and a frustoconical sheath through which the connecting rod is to pass, the sheath configured to slide axially inside the tube and including, at its wider end, a sealing mechanism co-operating with the tube, and, at its narrower end, a leaktight fastener fastening to a corresponding end of the connecting rod.
US09416729B2
An engine has an oil tank mounted to an engine wall with clevis ears formed on both the oil tank and a mount bracket. A link connects the mount bracket clevis ears to the oil tank clevis ears. The link has a spherical bearing which is mounted in the oil tank clevis ears. This provides a connection allowing movement between the link and the oil tank clevis ears. The link is a yoke having arms positioned outwardly of the mount bracket clevis ears securing the oil tank to the mount bracket.
US09416717B2
A muffler comprises an outer shell, an outlet pipe, and a restraining mechanism. A restraining mechanism restrains a height of spout of a liquid that flows inside the outlet pipe through a designated vent hole, the designated vent hole is at least one vent hole facing against a bottom surface of the outer shell among the at least one vent hole that the outlet pipe comprises.
US09416710B2
A metering arrangement (3, 30) is proposed for a liquid exhaust-gas aftertreatment medium for the aftertreatment of the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine which has an exhaust-gas system, in particular for a urea/water solution, having a delivery pump (7) and a metering module (13), wherein the delivery pump (7) is connected to a suction line (23) for sucking the exhaust-gas aftertreatment medium out of a tank (1), wherein the delivery pump (7) and the metering module (13) are connected to one another via a pressure line (25), and the exhaust-gas aftertreatment medium can be fed via the metering module (13) to the exhaust-gas system, wherein a recirculation pump (8) is arranged parallel to the delivery pump (7), wherein the recirculation pump (8) is connected on the suction side to the metering module (13). Furthermore, a corresponding method for metering is proposed.
US09416705B2
This burner has: a flame stabilizer formed in a tubular shape; a fuel supply unit that supplies fuel within the flame stabilizer; an air supply passage that includes a heater unit for heating air and that supplies air heated by the heater unit into the flame stabilizer; and an ignition unit that ignites the air-fuel mixture of combustion air and fuel within the flame stabilizer.
US09416704B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an exhaust gas treatment device of an engine capable of preventing matching surfaces of catalyst portions configuring a combustible gas catalyst from being thermally damaged. In the exhaust gas treatment device, combustible gas is produced by combustible gas generating catalyst, exhaust gas heated by combustion of combustible gas is supplied to an exhaust gas treatment portion, the combustible gas generating catalyst comprises an aggregate of a plurality of catalyst portions, each of the catalyst portions includes a matching surface with respect to adjacent one of the catalyst portions, a fastening ring is fitted over the combustible gas generating catalyst in which the matching surfaces of the adjacent catalyst portions are abutted against each other, and the matching surfaces of the adjacent catalyst portions are brought into tight contact with each other by a fastening force of the fastening ring.
US09416700B2
A sound generator, for a system for influencing sound waves propagating through an exhaust system of a vehicle driven by an internal combustion engine, includes an enclosure comprised of an upper shell and a lower shell. A bell mouth, supported by the lower shell and penetrating the lower shell, is configured for a fluid communication with the exhaust system. A loudspeaker is disposed in the enclosure and supported by the bell mouth. The lower shell of the enclosure supports the upper shell of the enclosure. The bell mouth is solely supported by the lower shell of the enclosure. The lower shell may include at least one air-tight feed-through for a control wire connected to the loudspeaker and/or at least one pressure equalizing valve. An anti-sound system is provided that includes the sound generator and a vehicle is provided with the anti-sound system.
US09416691B2
An internal-combustion engine includes a system for variable actuation of intake valves, including a control valve for each cylinder, which controls communication of a pressurized-fluid chamber with a discharge channel. The control valve has at least three different positions, namely, a first completely open position, a second partially open position, and a third completely closed position. Electronic control means are programmed for keeping the control valve in its closed position in operating stages in which the intake valve must remain coupled to the respective cam and for bringing the control valve from its completely closed position to its partially open position or to its completely open position in operating stages in which the intake valve must be uncoupled from the respective cam, selection between the first position and said second position of the control valve being made as a function of one or more operating parameters of the engine.
US09416690B2
A valve stem seal including a radially outwardly extending flange that includes one or more circumferential grooves to allow the flange to flex and lay flat against a support surface and protect the flange from fatigue.
US09416688B2
A switchable roller finger follower including a combined lost motion spring and hydraulic lash adjuster clip is provided. The switchable roller finger follower includes at least one spring having two coiled spring portions. Each of the two coiled spring portions is wrapped around a respective spring holding pin formed on an inner elongated body. Each one of the at least two coiled spring portions includes a first leg and a second leg. The first legs each extend from a respective one of the two coiled spring portions to engage a spring pallet formed on an outer elongated body. The second legs each contact a bottom portion of the inner elongated body in proximity to a socket portion to act as a retainer for retaining a hydraulic lash adjuster to the inner elongated body.
US09416680B2
An oil supply system for a propeller turbine engine including a propeller, a propeller gearbox connected to the propeller and a propeller adjusting device for altering the pitch angle of the propeller blades. The system includes an oil circuit and a propeller main pump for supplying the propeller gearbox and a propeller high-pressure pump supplying the propeller adjusting device with oil. The system includes an oil accumulator for providing, in the event of an undersupply of oil by the propeller main pump, oil contained in the oil accumulator to the inlet of the propeller high-pressure pump such that the pump inlet pressure at the inlet of the propeller high-pressure pump does not fall short of a certain minimum value. The oil accumulator is incorporated into the inflow to the propeller high-pressure pump to be continuously supplied and charged with oil of the propeller main pump.
US09416679B2
A borescope assembly includes a first borescope plug comprising a first perimeter geometry portion. Also included is a second borescope plug comprising a second perimeter geometry portion distinct from the first perimeter geometry portion. Further included is a first borescope hole comprising a first hole geometry portion corresponding to the first perimeter geometry portion of the first borescope plug. Yet further included is a second borescope hole comprising a second hole geometry portion corresponding to the second perimeter geometry portion of the second borescope plug.
US09416677B2
A gas turbine engine includes a front center body case structure. A geared architecture is at least partially supported by the front center body case structure. A bearing structure is mounted to the front center body case structure to rotationally support a shaft driven by the geared architecture, the shaft drive a fan. A bearing compartment passage structure is in communication with the bearing structure through the front center body case structure. A method is also disclosed.
US09416673B2
A turbine section has a turbine rotor carrying turbine blades. The turbine blades include seal members at a radially inner location. A vane section is formed of a plurality of circumferentially spaced vane components, each of which has an airfoil extending radially outwardly of a platform. A first seal member is fixed to the platform, and is positioned to be adjacent a seal from a blade which is positioned in one axial direction relative to the first seal member. A second seal member extends circumferentially beyond at least a plurality of the vane components and is positioned to be adjacent a seal member of a blade on an opposed axial side from the first blade. A vane component is also disclosed and claimed.
US09416669B2
A turbine airfoil including an airfoil body is disclosed. The airfoil includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, an exterior surface including a suction side extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge and a pressure side extending from the leading edge to a trailing end. The pressure side is located opposite to the suction side on the airfoil body. The complete pressure side of the exterior surface is coated by a thermal barrier coating with a thickness decreasing towards the trailing end.
US09416668B2
A fan blade having a body with a dovetail and an airfoil extending radially outwardly. The airfoil includes a pair of skins spaced to form an internal core, which define a pressure side and a suction side, and extending from a radially inner end to a radially outer tip. The core receives a plurality of braided tubes, with the tubes extending with at least a component in a radially outward direction. A fan and an engine are also described.
US09416666B2
The present application provides a turbine blade cooling system. The turbine blade cooling system may include a first turbine blade with a first turbine blade platform having a cooling cavity in communication with a pressure side passage and a second turbine blade with a second turbine blade platform having a platform cooling cavity with a suction side passage. The pressure side passage of the first turbine blade platform is in communication with the suction side passage of the second turbine blade platform.
US09416653B2
An apparatus for use in a wellbore for performing a treatment operation is disclosed that in one non-limiting embodiment may include an inner string that further includes a first tubular having a first communication link, and a service tool including a cross-over tool having a fluid flow passage therein for supplying a treatment fluid under pressure from an inside of the service tool to an outside of the service tool, and wherein the service tool includes a second communication link operatively coupled to the first communication link and wherein the second communication link runs across or through the fluid flow passage in the cross-over tool that is protected from direct flow of the fluid under pressure from the inside of the service tool to the outside of the service tool.
US09416652B2
A wellhead assembly having a tubular magnetized in at least one selected location, and a sensor proximate the magnetized location that monitors a magnetic field from the magnetized location. The magnetic field changes in response to changes in mechanical stress of the magnetized location, so that signals from the sensor represent loads applied to the tubular. Analyzing the signals over time provides fatigue loading data useful for estimating structural integrity of the tubular and its fatigue life. Example tubulars include a low pressure housing, a high pressure housing, conductor pipes respectively coupled with the housings, a string of tubing, a string of casing, housing and tubing connections, housing and tubing seals, tubing hangers, tubing risers, and other underwater structural components that require fatigue monitoring, or can be monitored for fatigue.
US09416650B2
The present invention relates to a downhole tool comprising a tool housing, an electronics assembly comprising an electronic module located within the housing, wherein the electronics assembly further comprises a plurality of transistor elements being electrically connected with the electronic module and being arranged on a thermal member which is thermally connected with the housing, wherein the electronic module is thermally insulated from the thermal member. Furthermore, the invention relates to a downhole system comprising a wireline, a tool string, and a downhole tool according to the invention.
US09416642B2
Systems, methods, and software can be used to simulate a fracture treatment. In some aspects, physically separate rock blocks of a subterranean zone are modeled by separate block models. The block model for each physically separate rock block represents intra-block mechanics of the rock block, for example, as a group of discrete block elements. Interactions between adjacent pairs of the rock blocks are modeled by separate joint models. The joint model for each adjacent pair of rock blocks represents inter-block mechanics between the adjacent rock blocks, for example, as pre-defined joints. The block models and joint models are used to simulate an injection treatment of the subterranean zone.
US09416639B2
A hydrocarbon resource recovery apparatus for a subterranean formation having a wellbore extending therein includes a radio frequency (RF) power source, a gas source, and an RF antenna within the wellbore. An RF transmission line extends within the wellbore between the RF power source and the RF antenna and is coupled to the gas source to be cooled and/or pressure balanced by a flow of gas therefrom. At least one of the RF antenna and RF transmission line define a gas lift passageway coupled to the gas source to lift hydrocarbon resources within the wellbore.
US09416638B2
A production system for use in a wellbore having a main bore with an axis, a lower lateral bore, and an upper lateral bore, includes a hollow whipstock with a central bore. The hollow whipstock is secured to the main bore between the lower lateral bore and the upper lateral bore. A sleeve assembly has a moveable inner sleeve with an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the central bore of the hollow whipstock, and a moveable outer sleeve with an outer diameter larger than the inner diameter of the central bore of the hollow whipstock. A flow control valve is located in the main bore above the upper lateral bore. The flow control valve has an inner tubing member in selective fluid communication with the lower lateral bore and an annular conduit in selective fluid communication with the upper lateral bore.
US09416634B2
Operators manufacture a wellscreen by forming a wire-wrapped screen on a base pipe. Rather than stopping and restarting winding, the desired length of screen is completed along the base pipe, and then the wire screen is segmented into a plurality of screen sections as required for the various zones and details of the implementation. Operators arrange the screen sections relative to one another on the base pipe, which can have different lengths with and without perforations. On the free ends of these separate screen sections, mating split ring components fit around the free ends and the base pipes. Male edges of one split ring component mate to complementary female edges of another to form the end ring around the screen section and base pipe, and longitudinal welds made in seams along the mating edges affix the split ring components together.
US09416633B2
A screen assembly including one or more screen members that correspondingly form one or more flow paths. The one or more flow paths are discrete from a tubular with which the one or more screen members are associated, but in fluid communication with an axial passageway of the tubular. A method of using a screen assembly is also included.
US09416632B2
A containment system for recovering hydrocarbon fluid from a leaking device situated at a deep seafloor comprising a pipe for conveying an input fluid that is a mix of water, oil, gas, and hydrate, and a treatment facility fed with the input fluid from the pipe and separating the components of the input fluid. The treatment facility comprises a tank for dissociation of hydrate component and extraction of the oil component. The treatment facility comprises a heater device inside the tank.
US09416631B2
In some aspects, a one-dimensional flow model is generated. The one-dimensional flow model can represent flow of a first fluid and a second fluid in a flow path in a well system environment. The one-dimensional flow model comprises an effective diffusion coefficient model for a composite fluid volume comprising the first and second fluids. The effective diffusion coefficient model calculates an effective diffusion coefficient for the composite fluid volume based on a difference between the respective densities and viscosities of the first fluid and the second fluid.
US09416630B2
A method of estimating flow properties of an earth formation includes: selecting a grid block representing a region of the earth formation, the region including at least one of an area and a volume of the earth formation, the grid block including a plurality of grid cells and having an orientation defined by grid axes; and calculating a fluid flow model of the region. Calculating the model includes: estimating a principal flow direction for each grid cell; adjusting the orientation of the grid block based on the principal flow direction; and calculating fluid flow parameters in each grid cell to generate the fluid flow model.
US09416628B2
The disclosure relates to an activator for a blowout preventer of a wellsite. The blowout preventer includes rams sealingly positionable about a tubular of a wellbore at the wellsite and driven by a circuit. The activator includes a cylinder, a trigger valve operatively connectable between the cylinder and the circuit, a piston, and a timing adjuster. The trigger valve includes a trigger to selectively pilot the circuit. The piston has a piston stroke extending between a retracted position and an extended position. The timing adjuster is engagable by the piston and adjustably positionable about the cylinder to define the retracted position of the piston stroke whereby a length of the piston stroke is adjustably defined.
US09416627B2
A method for cleaning oil wells to increase the flow of oil thereof by use of a unique cleaning emulsion comprising of water, hydrocarbon solvent, terpene hydrocarbon material, demulsifier, detergent, and optionally an acid. This one step method provides for the simultaneously cleaning/removal of asphaltene and/or paraffin and scale at a wide range of temperatures. This method can be used alone or with the assistance of a wash tool which is a combination pressure and surge wash tool having a nipple assembly, or a hydro self-rotating nozzle wash tool.
US09416622B2
A flow restrictor includes resilient flaps that can flex outward to an open position in response to fluid flow pressure and return to an initial position at which the resilient flaps restrict fluid flow more than in the open position. The resilient flaps can overlap and variably restrict fluid flow based on fluid flow pressure. The flow restrictor can be used on a transport tube to avoid a need for a packing tube in an alternative path system to deliver gravel packing slurry.
US09416619B2
A system for cementing a wellbore penetrating an earth formation into which a pipe extends. A cement material is positioned in the space between the wellbore and the pipe by circulated capsules containing the cement material through the pipe into the space between the wellbore and the pipe. The capsules contain the cementing material encapsulated in a shell. The capsules are added to a fluid and the fluid with capsules is circulated through the pipe into the space between the wellbore and the pipe. The shell is breached once the capsules contain the cementing material are in position in the space between the wellbore and the pipe.
US09416610B2
An apparatus for performing abrasive jet perforating in a well comprises a generally cylindrically shaped tube with a side, an upper portion, and a lower portion; a plurality of smooth holes drilled into the side of the tube; abrasive jets mounted in at least some of the plurality of smooth holes; protective plates mounted in the side of the tube and surrounding the abrasive jets to hold the abrasive jets in place; wafers recessed into pockets on the protective plates and surrounding the abrasive jets to protect the abrasive jets from damage due to rebound of abrasive-carrying fluid slurry ejected by the abrasive jets; and fasteners securing the protective plates to the side of the tube and positioned away from the rebound of abrasive-carrying fluid slurry ejected by the abrasive jets.
US09416607B2
The present invention relates to a downhole tool for guiding a device into a side track of a borehole, the tool having a tool axis and comprising a tool housing connected to an energy source. The invention further relates to a method for moving the downhole tool into a side track.
US09416600B2
A conductor pipe support system for a bottom-supported offshore drilling rig, the conductor pipe support system including a guide member configured for supporting a conductor pipe against horizontal movement when the conductor pipe extends from a blow-out preventer downward towards the seabed; a support member configured for vertically supporting at least a part of the load of the conductor pipe; and an access platform for allowing personnel to access at least a bottom portion of the blow-out preventer system; wherein the support member is connectable to the conductor pipe below the access platform.
US09416596B2
An annular restrictor for use in a well can include a body which extends circumferentially about a tubular mandrel, and a section which, in cooperation with the body, restricts fluid flow through an annulus, a line being secured between the body and the section. A method of completing a well can include installing a line in an annular restrictor, and restricting fluid flow through an annulus, with the restricting being performed by the annular restrictor interconnected between steam injection valves. A method of attaching a line to a tubular string for use in a well can include covering the line with a section of an annular restrictor, and securing the section to a body of the annular restrictor, each of the section and the body having a flow restricting surface formed thereon, and the covering and securing steps being performed without splicing or making a connection in the line.
US09416588B2
A safety assembly structure of a curtain bead chain is revealed herein. It comprises a bead chain having a string with a plurality of beads and having a safety assembly thereon for controlling a curtain. The safety assembly includes two insert blocks for joining to both ends of the string of the bead chain and a connecting unit wrapping around the two insert blocks for connecting thereof.
US09416582B2
The invention relates to double glazing comprising at least one glass sheet that has a set of low-emission layers on each side, one side being coated with layers which are produced using sputtering and which include at least one metal layer that reflects infrared radiation. The other side of said at least one glass sheet comprises one or more metal oxide layers that are deposited using gas phase pyrolysis. The disclosed glazing has a minimum light transmittance of 60 percent (with 4 mm thick clear glass sheets).
US09416581B2
This relates to vacuum insulated glass (VIG) window units and methods for making VIG window units. Hybrid getter(s) are utilized. In certain example embodiments, a hybrid getter for use in a VIG window unit and/or a method making same includes both evaporable getter (EG) material and non-evaporable getter (NEG) material. In certain example embodiments, the NEG material may be covered (directly or indirectly) with EG material in the hybrid getter at least prior to getter activating/flashing.
US09416580B2
A door jamb configured to provide a flush in-swing door when viewed in the direction of door in-swing.
US09416570B1
A spring strut assembly comprises a cylinder having a wall defining an interior volume comprising a working end and a boosting chamber; the working end including a first volume and the boosting chamber including a second volume of gas. A piston assembly is disposed for reciprocation in the working end of the interior volume. A piston rod has a proximal end secured to the piston and a distal end projecting out of a first end of the cylinder. A temperature control valve assembly is disposed in the interior volume separating the working end from the boosting chamber and a shock absorbing assembly is disposed in the interior volume between the piston assembly and the first end of the cylinder, and is compressible by the piston assembly when the temperature control valve is dislodged by pressure in the boosting chamber thereby driving the piston assembly into the shock absorbing member.
US09416568B2
A door lock device for a household appliance door provided with a prong is described. The device has a mechanical module for retaining the device in a closed position, or releasing the prong for opening the device. The device also has opening means with an unlock slider, returning means of the unlock slider, and an activation member.
US09416564B2
A latch and a method for preventing a latch from failing to open while a connected handle is lifted are provided. The latch includes a primary pawl pivotally mounted to the latch. An end piece having a protrusion extending from it is fixed to the primary pawl. An inner lever is rotatably coupled to the end piece. The inner lever includes a tail adjacent the protrusion of the end piece. The inner lever is movable between a first position and a second position. A secondary pawl is pivotally mounted to the latch and is movable between a first position and a second position. A blocking lever is also coupled to the latch and movable between a first position and a second position. When the inner lever is in a second position, the tail abuts the protrusion and the blocking lever limits movement of the inner lever and the primary pawl.
US09416560B2
A door handle mounting system is comprised of a face plate having a handle mounting hole therein to receive a shank portion of a handle therethrough. A circumferential abutment is associated with the handle for abutment about the mounting hole on an outer face of the face plate when the shank portion is disposed thereinto. A retainer ring, formed of flexible non-metallic material having a memory, is adapted to engage with the shank portion adjacent a rear face of the face plate. The retainer ring has an integrally formed locking portion for locking engagement with the shank portion, and an integrally formed tensioning portion for flexible abutment with the rear face of the face plate to apply a pulling force on the shank portion while retaining the handle operationally secured to the face plate. A coupling sleeve is also securable to the shank portion and engageable by the retainer ring.
US09416555B2
A structure for supporting electric power transmission lines that aims to obtain a better stress and strain behaviour providing a higher ultimate economy. The preferred embodiment is directed to a structure that comprises a metallic vertical structure (101) having: a lower tubular frustum shape (103) with a smaller end (104) and a larger end (105), wherein the smaller end is on the bottom and the larger end on the top; an upper frustum shape (106) with a smaller end (107) and a larger end (108), wherein the smaller end is on the top and the larger end on the bottom; and wherein the larger end of the lower frustum is adjoined to the larger end of the upper frustum; line supporting members (109); side supporting elements (110) attached in the adjoining region (111) of the lower and upper frustums, and extending between the attachment and an anchoring base (113); and wherein the adjoining region is below the line supporting members.
US09416551B2
A preassembled display system is assembled at a first location by attaching a plurality of display panels to a frame. The preassembled display system is loaded onto a transportation vehicle. Next, the preassembled display system is moved to a second located in a transportation vehicle. The display unit is installed at the second location by attaching the preassembled display system to a mounting unit. A receiver box for providing media to display at the plurality of display panels is attached. The attaching of the receiver box may be performed at the first location and/or at the second location. The plurality of display panels are electrically connected to the receiver box. Again, the electrically connecting may be performed at the first location and/or at the second location.
US09416549B2
A baseboard having an installation section and a cover section. Included are a bottom shelf, a middle shelf, and a top shelf expanding from its surface in the same direction. The end of the bottom shelf is bent towards the middle shelf. The middle shelf is bent in a part of its width towards the top shelf and, in a larger part of its width, the middle shelf is bent towards the bottom shelf, while the top shelf is bent in a part of its width towards the middle shelf and, in a larger part of its width, the top shelf is bent out upwards. The external surfaces of the bent sections of the ends of the bottom shelf and of the top shelf form a flexible lock. The elements of the mounting part and the cover part form a top chamber and a bottom chamber.
US09416534B2
An interlocking block construction system is provided. A plurality of interlocking blocks may each include: a top portion having a top protruding ridge; a bottom portion having a bottom recessed channel; a first side having a side protruding ridge; and a second side having a side recessed channel. The top protruding ridge of a first interlocking block is formed to fit within a bottom recessed channel of a second interlocking block. The side protruding ridge of the second interlocking block is formed to fit within a side recessed channel of a third interlocking block. The plurality of interlocking blocks connected together form a wall.
US09416533B2
A device for damping a transmitted vibration by the moment of inertia of a fly wheel and the adjustable resistance force of a viscous magnetic fluid to allow the viscous magnetic fluid exerts its property even under no external power source. A sleeve with an attached ball nut is disposed in a first cylinder so as to reciprocate. The reciprocating motion of the sleeve is converted into a rotational motion by a ball screw to rotate a fly wheel in a second cylinder and a generator rotating shaft. Between the fly wheel and the inner surface of the second cylinder, a sealed space is formed in which a viscous magnetic fluid is sealed. A magnetic field generating unit which generates a magnetic field running across the sealed space with the fly wheel serving as a part of a magnetic circuit is disposed on the inner circumference of the second cylinder.
US09416529B1
Apparatus are provided for a curtain wall anchor system. The curtain wall anchor assembly may include various anchor assemblies. Each possible anchor assembly is intended to reduce labor time and costs and eliminate extraneous steps in the construction process involving curtain walls. Each possible anchor assembly also features an optional component of attaching a concrete anchor for optimizing load paths and solving issues of bending in traditional edge angle pour stops.
US09416523B2
A flushometer toilet is used in a bathroom that has access to only a small diameter water supply pipe that usually would be useful only with a gravity toilet. A water storage apparatus (60) is provided that includes large diameter pipes (of 1.5 inches diameter) lying close to the flushometer valve (44) so at the beginning of a flushing, a large volume of water is available at a pressure of at least 30 psi.
US09416520B2
A wear pad assembly for a tool includes a wear-resistant pad having a hole for receiving a fastener. A mounting bracket is attached to the wear-resistant pad and includes a pair of coaxial holes extending through an upper flange and a lower flange of the mounting bracket configured to engage with an upper surface and a lower surface of an edge of the tool. A quick-release pin secures the wear pad assembly to the tool edge by passing through the hole in the wear-resistant pad, the pair of coaxial holes in the upper and lower flanges of the mounting bracket, and a hole in the edge of the tool.
US09416504B1
A bridge pier structure includes a damper having damping characteristics, a substructure joined with a lower end portion of the damper, and a pillar member provided upright on the substructure, a side surface of the pillar member being joined with an upper end portion of the damper. The damper is substantially parallel to the side surface of the pillar member.
US09416500B2
In a self-propelled cold milling machine, in particular cold milling machine, for working ground surfaces, with a milling drum supported at a machine frame, no less than one conveying device arranged at the machine frame which accepts the milled-off material from the milling drum and discharges said milled-off material, in conveying direction, at a discharge end along a parabolic trajectory onto a point of discharge, it is provided for the following features to be achieved: that the conveying device comprises a shielding device at the discharge end, where said shielding device shields the material milled off and leaving the conveying device without influencing the parabolic trajectory on a part of the path to the point of discharge at least by means of lateral sections.
US09416491B2
The present invention relates to a method of and an arrangement for transferring a process liquid from a washing and thickening device to a subsequent process stage. In accordance with an advantageous embodiment of the present invention, the method and the arrangement are applicable, for example, in transferring fibre suspensions or pulps from washing and thickening device to a subsequent process stage in pulp and paper making industry such that the dilution of pulp after a washing and thickening device is performed in a stand pipe (18) below the surface level control range.
US09416489B2
Disclosed is a tow warp construction and a process for forming such tow warp construction where such tow warp construction has a longer life span, that is retains its useful dimensions and characteristics longer than known tow warp constructions and consequently has a longer useful life span than known tow warp constructions. Most broadly the construction of the tow warp construction of the present disclosure and process for forming such includes gradually and progressively introducing fibers from a second group of fibers (or “second group of linear elements”) into an otherwise conventional stranding process where fibers from a first group of fibers (or “first group of linear elements”) are being stranded to form strands (or “third group of linear elements”), so as to either or both increase the diameter of the strands and/or substitute the first group of fibers by fibers from the second group of fibers, so as to: a) in the first instance, increase the diameter of the formed strands and subsequently of a strength member formed of the strands, especially for increasing the diameter and strength of the tow warp's strength member in and about the splice braid zone where it connects to a towed object such as a paravane; and b) in the second instance, substitute in a predetermined region on the long dimension of the strands and subsequently in a predetermined region on a long dimension of a strength member formed of the strands fibers of higher creep and/or lower melting points by fibers of lower creep and/or higher melting points, especially for increasing the resistance of the tow warps strength member to bending fatigue.
US09416479B2
Methods of determining a laundry load size in a laundry treating appliance comprising a rotatable drum at least partially defining a treating chamber for receiving laundry for treatment in accordance with a treating cycle of operation, at least one imaging device, and a controller having a processor, the method includes generating multiple images and determining, by the controller, a load size based on the multiple images.
US09416468B2
The present invention concerns a method for manufacturing a woven informative support. The informative support (1) comprises a piece (2) of fabric, constituted by an interlacing of threads of at least two different colors. The interlacing of the threads of the piece (2) define the image (4) corresponding to an optically read code, on at least one face (3) thereof, through the contrast between at least two different colors.
US09416464B1
Apparatus and methods for controlling gas flows in a HVPE reactor. Gas flows may be controlled by a gas focusing element. Gas injection and gas collection tubes are positioned within an outer tube and are separated from each other to define a space there between. A gas, such as HCl gas, flows over the outer surfaces of the injection and collection tubes to contain gases within the space as they flow from the injection tube to the collection tube and over a seed upon which group III nitride materials are grown. Gas flows may also be controlled by a multi-tube structure that separates gases until they reach a grown zone. A multi-tube structure may include four tubes, which separate flows of a halide reactive gas, a reaction product that flows with a carrier gas, and ammonia.
US09416450B2
Embodiments of process chambers and methods for performing HWCVD processes within such process chambers and depositing a thin film from two or more source compounds on a surface of a substrate are provided. In some embodiments, the process chamber includes a showerhead assembly disposed between a metal filament assembly and a substrate processing zone. The showerhead assembly includes a showerhead body and a dual-zone face plate with a plurality of first channels and second channels therein. A first source compound is delivered through the metal filament assembly to form radicals of the first source compound and pass through the first channels into the substrate processing zone without forming any plasma. A second source compound is delivered through the showerhead body into the second channels of the dual-zone face plate without passing through the metal filament assembly and without contacting the radicals until reaching the substrate processing zone.
US09416442B2
Systems and methods for strengthening a sapphire part are described herein. One method may take the form of orienting a first surface of a sapphire member relative to an ion implantation device, selecting an ion implantation concentration and directing ions at the first surface of the sapphire member. The ions are embedded under the first surface to create compressive stress in the sapphire surface.
US09416431B2
A process for treating a feedstock is provided. The feedstock comprises a mineral and/or a metal oxide/silicate derived from or associated with a mineral. The process comprises treating the feedstock by reacting, in a reaction step, the mineral and/or the metal oxide/silicate derived from or associated with a mineral, with an ammonium acid fluoride having the generic formula NH4F.xHF, wherein 1
US09416425B2
The present invention relates to a process to perform a molecular risk assessment (MRA) upon a sample suspected to contain an enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), comprising the steps: contacting said sample or DNA isolated therefrom with a pair of primers derived from the following target genes stx1, stx2, eae and/or espk; wherein the process is characterized in that if amplification products are detected for each of the target genes in the first step, in a second step said sample or DNA isolated therefrom is contacted with a pair of primers derived from the following target genes nleB, nleH1-2, nleE, ent/espL2, eae subtypes γ, β, ε and θ and the target genes rfbE (0157), wbdl (0111), wzx (026); ihp1 (0145), wzx (0103); and detecting the presence or the absence of an amplification product for each of the target genes.
US09416424B2
The present invention provides methods of: identifying pathogens in biological samples from humans and animals, resolving a plurality of etiologic agents present in samples obtained from humans and animals, determining detailed genetic information about such pathogens or etiologic agents, and rapid detection and identification of bioagents from environmental, clinical or other samples.
US09416422B2
The present invention features methods and compositions for identifying markers of minimum residual disease (MRD), as well as markers of metastatic cells. The present invention further provides methods for detecting MRD and metastatic cell in a subject.
US09416421B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for research, diagnostic, drug screening, and therapeutic applications related to paroxysmal dystonic choreoathetosis and related conditions. In particular, the present invention provides mutations in the myofibrillogenesis regulator 1 (MR-1) gene associated with such conditions.
US09416411B2
The present invention is directed to methods and compositions for generating a pool of oligonucleotides. The invention finds use in preparing a population or subpopulations of oligonucleotides in solution. The pool of oligonucleotides finds use in a variety of nucleic acid detection and/or amplification assays.
US09416409B2
The present invention provides systems, methods, and compositions for performing molecular tests. In particular, the present invention provides methods, compositions and systems for generating target sequence-linked solid supports (e.g., beads) using a solid support linked to a plurality of capture sequences and capture primers composed of a 3′ target-specific portion and a 5′ capture sequence portion. In certain embodiments, the target sequence linked solid support is used in sequencing methods (e.g., pyrosequencing, zero-mode waveguide type sequencing, nanopore sequencing, etc.) to determine the sequence of the target sequence (e.g., in order to detect the identity of a target nucleic acid in sample).
US09416404B2
Methods are provided for diagnosing in a subject a condition, such as a carcinoma, sarcoma or leukemia, associated with hypermethylation of genes by isolating the genes from tissue containing as few as 50 to 1000 tumor cells. Using quantitative multiplex methylation specific PCR (QM-MSP), multiple genes can be quantitatively evaluated from samples usually yielding sufficient DNA for analyses of only 1 or 2 genes. DNA sequences isolated from the sample are simultaneously co-amplified in an initial multiplex round of PCR, and the methylation status of individual hypermethylation-prone gene promoter sequences is then determined separately or in multiplex using a real time PCR round that is methylation status-specific. Within genes of the panel, the level of promoter hypermethylation as well as the incidence of promoter hypermethylation can be determined and the level of genes in the panel can be scored cumulatively. The QM-MSP method is adaptable for high throughput automated technology.
US09416396B2
A biological process indicator is provided for validating a treatment process in which the amount or activity of a contaminant in a sample is reduced. The indicator comprises a thermostable kinase covalently linked to a biological component, with the proviso that the biological component is not an antibody. Methods of preparing the indicator, and methods of using the indicator, are also provided.
US09416382B2
Acyl-CoA:lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase [“LPCAT”] having the ability to convert acyl-CoA+1-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine to CoA+1,2-diacyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (EC 2.3.1.23) is disclosed herein to be over-expressed along with the over-expression of phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase [“PDAT”] having the ability to transfer a fatty acyl group from the sn-2 position of a phospholipid (e.g., phosphatidylcholine) to the sn-3 position of 1,2-diacylglycerol [E.C.2.3.1.158], thus resulting in a lysophospholipid and TAG. Co-expression of these enzymes in a recombinant microbial host cell resulted in increased production of long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids [“PUFAs”].
US09416381B2
Provided is a mutant of propionyl-CoA transferase from Clostridium propionicum that can convert lactate into lactyl-CoA with high efficiency in a method of preparing a polylactate (PLA) or PLA copolymer using microorganisms. Unlike conventional propionyl-CoA transferase which is weakly expressed in E. coli, when a mutant of propionyl-CoA transferase from Clostridium propionicum is introduced into recombinant E. coli, lactyl-CoA can be supplied very smoothly, thereby enabling highly efficient preparation of polylactate (PLA) and PLA copolymer.
US09416375B2
A process for the use of peracid compositions to eliminate and/or control the growth of undesirable bacteria, including contaminating bacteria, in the fermentation production of alcohol is disclosed. Beneficially, the peracid compositions and methods of use of the same do not interfere or inhibit the growth or replication of yeast and have low or no adverse environmental impact.
US09416361B2
Antisense compositions targeted against an mRNA sequence coding for a selected protein, at a region having its 5′ end from 1 to about 25 base pairs downstream of a normal splice acceptor junction in the preprocessed mRNA, are disclosed. The antisense compound is RNase-inactive, and is preferably a phosphorodiamidate-linked morpholino oligonucleotide. Such targeting is effective to inhibit natural mRNA splice processing, produce splice variant mRNAs, and inhibit normal expression of the protein.
US09416352B2
Mutant Neq HS DNA polymerase derived from Nanoarchaeum equitans and its application to hot-start PCR
A DNA polymerase (Neq DNA polymerase) derived from Nanoarchaeum equitans is split into Neq L and Neq S fragments, each of which contains inteins. A Neq hot-start (HS) DNA polymerase in which the inteins of the Neq L and Neq S fragments are linked with each other is provided in the form of a precursor of Neq DNA polymerase. A purification method can be significantly improved by inserting a His-tag sequence composed of six histidine residues between the inteins of the Neq L and Neq S fragments at a gene level. As a result of effort to enhance PCR efficiency of the Neq HS DNA polymerase, a gene coding for the Neq HS DNA polymerase is mutated at specific positions to screen mutant Neq HS polymerases (M1, M2, and M3) having a highly improved PCR amplification rate and amplification level.
US09416338B2
Cleaning compositions and processes for cleaning residue from a microelectronic device having said residue thereon. The composition comprises at least one amine, at least one oxidizing agent, water, and at least one borate species and achieves highly efficacious cleaning of the residue material, including post-ash residue, post-etch residue, post-CMP residue, particles, organic contaminants, metal ion contaminants, and combinations thereof from the microelectronic device while simultaneously not damaging the titanium nitride layers and low-k dielectric materials also present on the device.
US09416337B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing esters from fatty alcohols, in which fatty alcohols and fatty acids are reacted in the presence of an enzyme at a temperature in the range of 30 to 50° C., the water which forms is removed and the reaction is completed under reduced pressure at a temperature of 50 to 80° C.
US09416333B2
The present invention relates to the use of avocado seeds in order to obtain avocado oil enriched in alkyl polyols and/or acetylated derivatives thereof, said avocado seeds accounting for 10 to 50% by weight relative to the total weight of avocado used. The invention also relates to a method for obtaining avocado oil enriched in alkyl polyols or acetylated derivatives thereof from at least avocado seeds, said avocado seeds accounting for 10 to 50% by weight relative to the total weight of avocado used. The invention also relates to avocado oil enriched in alkyl polyols and/or acetylated derivatives thereof, obtainable by the present method. The invention also relates to the use of avocado oil in order to prepare an avocado oil concentrate enriched in alkyl polyols and/or acetylated derivatives thereof, or to prepare an avocado unsaponifiable enriched in alkyl polyols. Lastly, the invention relates to an avocado unsaponifiable enriched in alkyl polyols or an avocado oil concentrate enriched in alkyl polyols and/or acetylated derivatives thereof, obtainable from said avocado oil, for use as a drug, advantageously in the prevention and/or treatment of conjunctive tissue disorders such as arthrosis, articular pathologies such as rheumatism, or periodontal diseases such as gingivitis or periodontitis.
US09416331B2
A drag reducing composition and method of use wherein the drag reducing composition comprises a polyolefin, drag reducing polymer, a carrier or suspending medium, and a polycarboxylate dispersion agent.
US09416327B2
The present invention provides a hybrid gasification system which simultaneously has the advantages of an entrained-flow gasifier using pulverized fuel and a fluidized-bed gasifier utilized for gasifying fuel with relatively various properties. The present intention provides a hybrid gasification system employing a structure in which a second reaction chamber operated at a temperature of 700 to 900 is surrounded by a first reaction chamber operated at temperature, thereby obtaining an insulation effect, performing additional heat exchange, and minimizing a heat loss. Furthermore, the present invention provides a hybrid gasification system having a structure in which unreacted substances and tar within synthetic gas generated from a first reaction chamber reacts within a second reaction chamber, thereby increasing the entire gasification efficiency.
US09416325B2
Method and system for predicting a need for introducing anti-fouling additives to a hydrocarbon stream in a hydrocarbon refinery. The method comprises characterizing whether the hydrocarbon stream is a non-high solvency dispersive power (“HSDP”) crude and performing at least one of determining whether the hydrocarbon stream is subject to filterable solids levels greater than about 100 wppm or classifying whether the hydrocarbon stream has an expected low flow velocity during normal operating conditions within the refinery. The method further comprises indicating, using a processor, that anti-fouling additives are recommended if the hydrocarbon stream is characterized to be a non-HSDP crude and either the hydrocarbon stream is determined to be subject to filterable solids levels greater than about 100 wppm or the hydrocarbon stream is classified as having expected low flow within a heat exchanger of the refinery.
US09416322B2
This invention relates to a process of preparing an improved catalyst comprising a clay derived zeolite. In particular, the invention comprises combining an yttrium compound with a zeolite produced by treating clay with a silica source and under alkaline conditions. The clay derived zeolite can be further combined with conventional matrix and/or binder precursors to form particulates suitable for use as catalysts in fluid catalytic cracking (FCC). Alternatively, the clay that is treated with the silica source and alkaline conditions can be in particulate form having sizes suitable for use in FCC, and the zeolite is produced in situ within the particulate. Yttrium compound is then combined with the zeolite in the particulate, e.g., via impregnation. It has been shown that the addition of the yttrium compound improves zeolite surface area retention, and zeolite stability in catalysts comprising clay derived zeolites.
US09416318B2
A liquid crystal composition containing an optically active compound represented by the following formula (1) and a liquid crystal compound shows a cholesteric liquid crystal phase having an excellent alignment state: K1 and K2 represent benzene, cyclohexane or cyclohexene; X1 to X12 represent hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkynyl, alkenyl or alkyloxy.
US09416316B2
A liquid crystal composition including a first class including a polar liquid crystal compound having at least one fluorine atom and a second class compound including a neutral liquid crystal compound, in which the first class compound includes a first subclass compound having a dielectric anisotropy (Δ∈) of 15 to 21 and a second subclass compound having a dielectric anisotropy (Δ∈) of 5 to 15, and the first sub-class compound includes a liquid crystal compound expressed by the following Chemical Formula 1, in which R is an alkyl group or an alkenyl group.
US09416314B2
The present invention relates to an optical switch element, comprising a liquid-crystalline medium for the temperature-dependent regulation of radiant energy flow. The invention furthermore relates to the use of the optical switch element for the regulation of radiant energy flow between interior spaces and the environment and for the regulation of the temperature of interior spaces. The invention furthermore relates to a liquid-crystalline medium, characterized in that it comprises 5-95% of a compound of the formula (I), in particular for use in the optical switch elements according to the invention.
US09416303B2
The invention provides protein adhesives and methods of making and using such adhesives. The protein adhesives contain ground plant meal or an isolated polypeptide composition obtained from plant biomass.
US09416297B2
The present disclosure relates to a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) slurry composition that provides for a high metal to dielectric material selectivity along with a low rate of metal recess formation. In some embodiments, the disclosed slurry composition has an oxidant and an etching inhibitor. The oxidant has a compound with one or more oxygen molecules. The etching inhibitor has a nitrogen-oxide compound. The etching inhibitor reduces the rate of metal and dielectric material (e.g., oxide) removal, but does so in a manner that reduces the rate of dielectric material removal by a larger amount, so as to provide the slurry composition with a high metal (e.g., germanium) to dielectric material removal selectivity and with a low rate of metal recess formation.
US09416288B2
An inkjet recording method includes discharging a composition including a metal powder, an organic solvent, and a binder resin. Metal or metal alloy constitutes at least a surface of the metal powder, and the surface of the metal powder is treated by a surface preparation with a fluorinated silane composition and/or a fluorinated phosphate ester.
US09416279B2
Photovoltaic devices such as solar cells, hybrid solar cell-batteries, and other such devices may include an active layer disposed between two electrodes. The active layer may have perovskite material and other material such as mesoporous material, interfacial layers, thin-coat interfacial layers, and combinations thereof. The perovskite material may be photoactive. The perovskite material may be disposed between two or more other materials in the photovoltaic device. Inclusion of these materials in various arrangements within an active layer of a photovoltaic device may improve device performance. Other materials may be included to further improve device performance, such as, for example: additional perovskites, and additional interfacial layers.
US09416271B2
A method for forming a halogen-free curable composition containing a benzoxazine monomer, at least one epoxy resin, a catalyst, a toughening agent and a solvent. The halogen-free curable composition is especially suited for use in automobile and aerospace applications since the composition, upon curing, produces a composite having a high glass transition temperature.
US09416269B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for the manufacture of polycarbonate blend compositions containing recycle for improvement in surface aesthetics. The resulting compositions, can be used in the manufacture of articles while still retaining the advantageous physical properties of polycarbonate blend reference compositions that do not contain recycle material. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US09416251B2
There is provided an article prepared from a fluoroelastomer, the fluoroelastomer being derived from an emulsion, the emulsion comprising a fluorinated emulsifier represented by the formula F—(CF2)t—[O(CF2)n]m—O—(CHF)o—(CF2)p—X.
US09416240B2
A low-wear microporous friction material with a high stability coefficient and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The formula of the friction material includes GM-15 resin 15-50 wt %, rubber 0-10 wt %, shaping aid 0.5-5 wt %, sintering aid 0.5-5 wt %, foaming aid 0.5-5 wt %, kaolin powder 0.5-20 wt %, barite powder 5-40 wt %, carbon fiber 2-20 wt %, KEVLAR 1-5 wt %, zinc oxide 1-10 wt %, and iron oxide red 0-2 wt %. By adjusting the hydrophilicity of the friction material and controlling the surface tension of the material, the friction coefficient of the material is kept from lowering under wet conditions and is rendered stable in dry and wet conditions. More specifically, the friction coefficient of the friction material stays above 0.25 under wet conditions, and the stability coefficient of the friction coefficient can reach 85% or above on an MM 1000 tester.
US09416220B2
A resin composition for optical stereolithography including a cation-polymerizable organic compound (A), a radical polymerizable organic compound (B), a cationic polymerization initiator (C) and a radical polymerization initiator (D), wherein the cationic polymerization initiator (C) is an aromatic sulfonium compound (C-1) represented by the following general formula (C-1): wherein R1, R2, and R3 represent a monovalent organic group, Rf represents a fluoroalkyl group, m is the same number as the cationic charge of the “cation [S+(R1)(R2)(R3)]”, and n is an integer in a range of 0 to 6. The resin composition also includes an aromatic thiol compound (E) represented by the following general formula (E): R4SH)p (E) wherein, R4 represents a mono- or di-valent aromatic hydrocarbon which may optionally have a substituent, and p is an integer of 1 or 2.
US09416219B2
Provided is an RTM moldable chain curing resin composition which can be molded with less energy in a short time, and which makes it possible to obtain a cured product that is superior in mechanical strength. A chain curing resin composition of the present invention includes an alicyclic epoxy compound (A) having two cyclohexene oxides in a molecule and a specific modified bisphenol A-type epoxy resin (B), and the content of the alicyclic epoxy compound (A) is 25 to 90% by mass, when the total of the component (A) and the component (B) is taken as 100% by mass.
US09416213B2
A process for producing a polycarbodiimide, comprising polymerizing a diisocyanate in the presence of a carbodiimidization catalyst in a reaction vessel in liquid phase at a temperature in the range of from 20 to 250° C., at a pressure in the range of from 20 to 800 mbar and in the presence of at least one inert gas, wherein the at least one inert gas is introduced into the liquid phase in the reaction vessel with a flow rate in the range of from 0.1 x/h to 100 x/h, x being the volume of the reaction vessel.
US09416210B2
The invention generally relates to zwitterionic polymers (including zwitterionic copolymers), such as polymethacrylic structures, with pendent functional moieties, such as therapeutic or biologic moieties. More particularly, the invention relates to phosphorylcholine-substituted methacrylic polymers prepared by free radical polymerization and click chemistry, for example, and compositions and products comprising same, as well as related methods and uses of the compositions, for example, as biological or therapeutic agents and in drug delivery thereof.
US09416207B2
The present invention relates to a polypropylene composition comprising comonomer units derived from ethylene in an amount of from 1.5 wt % to 35 wt %, and from at least one C5-12 alpha-olefin in an amount of from 1.0 mol % to 3.0 mol %, wherein the polypropylene composition has an amount of xylene solubles XS of at least 40 wt %, and the xylene solubles have an amount of ethylene-derived comonomer units of from 4.0 wt % to 70 wt %.
US09416205B2
A novel class of organometallic complexes can be used as an ingredient of a catalyst system. The catalyst system can be used in polymerizations of ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon monomers that include both olefins and polyenes.
US09416202B2
Processes of forming catalyst systems, catalyst systems and polymers formed therefrom are described herein. The processes generally include providing a first compound including a magnesium dialkoxide, contacting the first compound with a second compound to form a solution of reaction product “A”, wherein the second compound is generally represented by the formula: Ti(OR1)4; wherein R1 is selected from C1 to C10 linear to branched alkyls, contacting the solution of reaction product “A” with a first metal halide to form a solid reaction product “B”, contacting solid reaction product “B” with a second metal halide, to form reaction product “C” and contacting reaction product “C” with reducing agent to form a catalyst component.
US09416200B2
A process for the preparation of a 1,3-butadiene and styrene copolymer comprising the following steps: a) anionically polymerizing a blend comprising from 5% by weight to 40% by weight of styrene and from 60% by weight to 95% by weight of 1,3-butadiene, with respect to the overall weight of the mixture, in the presence of at least one hydrocarbon solvent, of at least one lithium-based catalyst having the general formula LiR1 wherein R1 represents a linear or branched C3-C10 alkyl group, and of least one polar modifier; b) optionally, reacting the copolymer obtained in step (a) with at least one chain-end monomer selected from 1,3-butadiene, styrene and α-methylstyrene; c) reacting from 10% by weight to 70% by weight, preferably from 20% by weight to 50% by weight, of the lithium-terminated polymeric chains present in the copolymer obtained in step (a) or in step (b), with at least one coupling agent selected from liquid polyepoxides having at least three reactive sites capable of reacting with the carbon-lithium chain-ends; d) optionally, reacting the copolymer obtained in step (c) with at least one chain-end monomer selected from 1,3-butadiene, styrene and a-methylstyrene; e) reacting the linear polymeric chains remaining in the copolymer obtained in step (c) or in step (d), with at least one tin compound having the general formula XSn(R2)3 wherein X represents a halogen atom such as, for example, chlorine and R2 represents a linear or branched C1-C10 alkyl group.
US09416195B2
An antibody comprising an antigen recognition region which comprises CDR amino acid sequences set forth in SEQ ID NO: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.
US09416192B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for treatment and/or prevention of cancer, which comprises, as an active ingredient, an antibody or fragment thereof having an immunological reactivity with a CAPRIN-1 protein or a fragment thereof comprising 7 or more consecutive amino acids.
US09416185B2
Disclosed are humanized antibodies that bind specifically to TNF superfamily member 15 (TNFSF15), also known as TL1A. Methods of making and using the anti-TL1A antibodies are also described. The humanized antibodies may be antagonists and may used to treat or diagnose conditions associated with TL1A function.
US09416178B2
The present invention relates to Jagged-binding agents and methods of using the agents for treating diseases such as cancer. The present invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to an extracellular domain of human Jagged1 or human Jagged2 and modulate Jagged activity. The present invention further provides methods of using agents that modulate the activity of Jagged, such as antibodies that specifically bind Jagged, and inhibit tumor growth. Also described are methods of treating cancer comprising administering a therapeutically effect amount of an agent or antibody of the present invention to a patient having a tumor or cancer.
US09416177B2
This invention features antibodies that specifically bind to a human Dragon family protein.
US09416176B2
The present invention provides means, such as a method, for determining whether a mammalian subject having a colorectal cancer belongs to a first or a second group, wherein the prognosis of subjects of the first group is better than the prognosis of subjects of the second group. The method comprises the steps of: evaluating an amount of RBM3 protein or RBM3 mRNA molecule in at least part of a sample earlier obtained from the subject and determining a sample value corresponding to the evaluated amount; comparing said sample value with a predetermined reference value; andif said sample value is higher than said reference value, concluding that the subject belongs to the first group; and if said sample value is lower than or equal to said reference value, concluding that the subject belongs to the second group.
US09416169B2
The present invention comprises a humanized monoclonal antibody that binds to the chemokine receptor CCR4. This antibody is derived from Mab 1567 and recognizes the same epitope. Binding of the invented antibody to CCR4 inhibits ligand-mediated activities and is used to treat symptoms of cancer. Moreover, the antibody is used in combination with vaccines to suppress the activity of regulatory T cells.
US09416165B2
The application relates to methods of treating a chronic viral infection, such as HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), by modulating Tim-3 activity, whereby blocking the action of Tim-3 on a T cell enhances the immunity to the virus.
US09416161B2
The present disclosure relates to protein and peptide chemistry. More particularly, it relates to compounds, compositions and uses thereof for promoting and inhibiting angiogenesis. The peptides of the present disclosure include peptides comprising SEQ ID NOs: 1-4 which promote angiogenesis and cell proliferation. Further, the anti-angiogenic compounds of the present disclosure include antisense oligonucleotides that hybridize or are complementary to the polynucleotides of SEQ ID NOs: 5-16, and the like.
US09416159B2
Method of producing a positive inotropic effect using an antibody that binds sodium potassium atpase
Activation sites on the alpha subunit of sodium potassium ATPase have been discovered. It has also been discovered that certain antibodies that bind to the alpha subunit of sodium potassium ATPase dramatically increase enzyme activity. There has never before been a report of precise activation sites or drug interaction sites for sodium potassium ATPase. Certain methods have also been discovered for treating or preventing diseases associated with low sodium potassium ATPase activity by administering antibodies, antibody fragments and small molecules that bind to the activation sites on the alpha subunit of sodium potassium ATPase.
US09416149B2
The invention provides methods for treating fibrosis, as well as methods for modulating mitochondrial peroxide production in a cell, and methods for modulating the import of Rac1 into the mitochondria of a cell.
US09416134B2
Provided herein are formulations, processes, solid forms and methods of use relating to the Compound for formula 1: having the name 1-ethyl-7-(2-methyl-6-(1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)pyridin-3-yl)-3,4 -dihydropyrazino[2,3-b]pyrazin-2(1H)-one and tautomers thereof.
US09416121B2
The invention relates to compounds of Formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester or prodrug thereof:
US09416101B2
Provided herein are novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions for use, inter alia, in methods of reducing Wnt-mediated effects and treating cancer.
US09416096B2
Disclosed herein are crystalline forms of (N,N-Diethylcarbamoyl)methyl methyl (2E)but-2-ene-1,4-dioate, which is a prodrug of methyl hydrogen fumarate. Crystalline form 1, Crystalline form 2, Crystalline 3, and Crystalline form 4 are disclosed.
US09416093B2
This invention relates to a supported quaternary phosphonium catalyst, preparation thereof and use thereof in producing dialkyl carbonates. The supported quaternary phosphonium catalyst of this invention has the following average molecular structure (I), and is characterized by a relatively high and stable catalyst activity. wherein, each of X, L, n, R1, R2, R3 and is the same as that in the specification.
US09416088B1
A process for producing acetic acid is disclosed in which the recycle ratio of the mass flow of the light liquid phase recycled to the reactor to the mass flow of the aqueous recycle stream recycled to the reactor is less than or equal to 2.
US09416084B2
The present invention relates to methods of producing ingenol-3-angelate (I) from ingenol (II). Furthermore, the invention relates to intermediates useful for the synthesis of ingenol-3-angelate (I) from ingenol (II) and to methods of producing said intermediates.
US09416072B1
A feedstream comprising paraxylene and styrene is contacted, in the presence of hydrogen, with a catalyst comprising at least one metal, selected from one or more metals selected from Groups 8-10.
US09416067B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst composition comprising cobalt manganese oxide which is modified with lanthanum and/or phosphorus and optionally one or more basic elements selected from the group consisting of alkali metal, alkaline earth metal and transition metal. Furthermore, a method for preparing said catalyst composition and a process for producing aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons by Fischer-Tropsch synthesis using said catalyst composition is provided.
US09416046B2
A method cleaving an end portion of an optical fiber involves providing a ferrule having a first end, a second end, and a ferrule bore extending between the first and second ends. An optical fiber is inserted through the ferrule bore so that an end portion of the optical fiber extends past an end face on the second end of the ferrule. At least one laser beam is emitted from at least one laser and directed to be incident on the end portion of the optical fiber at a first location. The at least one laser beam is emitted and directed to have a maximum beam width that is less than an outer diameter of the optical fiber at the first location so that the at least one laser can be operated to form a hole in the optical fiber at the first location.
US09416035B2
A device for sewage treatment, including: a reactor and a magnetic field generator. The reactor includes a stirrer, an aerator, an activated sludge zone, an upper end including a water inlet, a side wall including a water outlet, and a bottom including a sludge outlet. The magnetic field includes magnets and iron plates. The activated sludge zone is disposed inside the reactor. The stirrer and the aerator are disposed within the activated sludge zone. The aerator is arranged beneath the stirrer. The magnetic field generator is disposed outside the reactor. The magnets and the iron plates are symmetrically disposed on two sides of the reactor, respectively, and each of the magnets is disposed on the inner side of the corresponding iron plate. The magnets disposed on both sides of the reactor produce magnetic fields having the same direction.
US09416034B2
A method and an apparatus for dispensing a pH balancing solution are provided. The apparatus includes a system having a chlorine generator with a power supply coupled to the chlorine generator, the chlorine generator servicing a body of water and chlorinating it. A pH monitoring and balancing unit is provided. The pH monitoring and balancing unit monitors and measures when power is supplied from the power supply to the chlorine generator to produce chlorine and thereby calculates an operational time for the chlorine generator. A pH monitoring and balancing unit controller is also provided, the pH monitoring and balancing unit controller computing an estimated pH level based on the production of the chlorine generator from the operational time measured and then determining if the estimated pH is outside of a desired range, and, if it is outside of the desired range, metering a discrete amount of pH balancing solution based on this estimated pH level to return the pH of the body of water to within the desired range.
US09416029B2
A biocidal water purification apparatus exposes water to radiation to eliminate viable species. A housing forms a path for water to flow from an inlet to an outlet along a flow path through a treatment zone at which the water is subjected to radiation from a source of radiation, such as beta particles from strontium-90. The exposure to radiation is enhanced using a narrow water flow path lined with the source, especially on oppositely interleaved plates with triangular cross sections, spaced by about 0.25 inch to produce an elongated zigzag path traversed by the water, for example by vertical gravity feed. Additional aspects include other forms of radiation and pre- and post-treatment water treatment or filtration stages and alternatives for continuous, batch and timed-residence water flow management.
US09416021B2
The invention relates to a process for producing calcium sulphate dihydrate by reacting a water-soluble calcium compound with a water-soluble sulphate compound in the presence of water and a polymer containing acid groups, wherein the polymer containing acid groups comprises specific polyether groups. Additionally disclosed are calcium sulphate dihydrate producible by the process according to the invention, and the use thereof for production of gypsum plasterboard.
US09416016B2
Hyperhalogens, a new class of highly electronegative species, are now invented. A hyperhalogen is a superhalogen-containing composition in which the electron affinity (EA) of the hyperhalogen is even larger than that of the superhalogens they are composed of. Novel production methods are provided in which highly electronegative species are produced by surrounding a central metal atom by superhalogen moieties.
US09416014B2
An apparatus for producing trichlorosilane, including: a reaction vessel in which a supply gas containing silicon tetrachloride and hydrogen is supplied to produce a reaction product gas containing trichlorosilane and hydrogen chloride; a heating mechanism that heats the interior of the reaction vessel; a gas supply section that supplies the supply gas in the reaction vessel; and a gas discharge section that discharges the reaction product gas from the reaction vessel to the outside, wherein a reaction passageway is formed in the interior of the reaction vessel, in which a plurality of small spaces partitioned by a plurality of reaction tubular walls that have different inner diameters and are substantially concentrically disposed communicate by flow penetration sections formed alternately in lower portions and upper portions of the reaction tubular walls in order from the inside, and the gas supply section and the gas discharge section are connected to the reaction passageway.
US09416011B2
The present invention is directed to compositions comprising free standing and stacked assemblies of two dimensional crystalline solids, and methods of making the same.
US09416005B2
A solid state system comprising a host material and a quantum spin defect, wherein the quantum spin defect has a T2 at room temperature of about 300 μs or more and wherein the host material comprises a layer of single crystal CVD diamond having a total nitrogen concentration of about 20 ppb or less, wherein the surface roughness, Rq of the single crystal diamond within an area defined by a circle of radius of about 5 μm centered on the point on the surface nearest to where the quantum spin defect is formed is about 10 nm or less, methods for preparing solid state systems and the use of single crystal diamond having a total nitrogen concentration of about 20 ppb or less in spintronic applications are described.
US09415991B2
An apparatus for controlling a fluid flow may include a flow channel, a housing, a flow restrictor, and a housing adjustment member. The flow channel defines a fluid pathway for the fluid flow. The fluid pathway includes an inlet and an exit. The housing surrounds the flow channel. The housing comprises an exterior surface defining a first threaded portion. The flow restrictor is located within the housing and proximate the exit. The housing adjustment member includes a second threaded portion in contact with the first threaded portion. Embodiments may include a method for controlling a fluid flow. The method comprises: causing the fluid flow to pass through a flow channel having an inlet and an exit; restricting, via a flow restrictor, the fluid flow, the flow restrictor located proximate the exit; and adjusting a position of the flow restrictor to further restrict or unrestrict the fluid flow.
US09415989B2
An apparatus and method for automatically forming and filling containers, such as water bottles. The apparatus has a plurality of workstations and a conveyer comprising container carriers. The workstations comprise an insertion station, a container forming station, a filling station, a closing station, and an ejection station. The insertion station feeds a container preform into a container carrier. The container forming station forms a container from the container preform. The filling station fills the formed container with a fluid. The closing station closes the filled container with a lid. The conveyer moves the container preform and the container from the insertion station via the container forming station, the filling station and the closing station to the ejection station. The container preform and the container formed from the preform may continuously reside in the container carrier along the whole process beginning with the insertion station and ending with the ejection station.
US09415987B2
The invention herein provides for a tab lifting and leveraging device for opening a pop top or pull top container wherein said pop top or pull top container is of hand held size and having a sealed opening and a lift tab located on its top surface. Said tab lifting and leveraging device of the invention herein comprising a planar length of solid durable material having at least a length and a width. Said device further having a bottom edge, a top edge, a proximate side edge, a distal side edge, a prying element, a rear groove, a recessed fulcrum point, and a handle. When in use, said prying element is fitted through said lift tab and lifted at a given angle against the container surface.
US09415983B2
A crash prevention system mounted to the crane mast for a storage and retrieval machine having a rotating sensor apparatus for forming a circular detection pattern that detects an obstruction along the entire front or back of the crane mast is disclosed. A processor in operative communication with the rotating sensor apparatus generates a fault condition that terminates the movement of the storage and retrieval machine and prevents contact with the obstruction.
US09415977B2
Disclosed in the present invention is a crane, method and apparatus for monitoring the swing angle, weight or gesture of the crane load, belonging to the technical field of crane; the purpose of the present invention is provide an apparatus for monitoring the swing angle, weight or gesture for the crane's hoisting, and to provide a crane which comprises aforesaid apparatus; when hoisting a load, the swing angle, weight or gesture are displayed in both the native crane cab and the collaborative crane cab by wireless transmission and switching channels in the cab; then, not only can the drivers operate the cranes to eliminate the deflection of load and achieve the vertical hoisting according to the load's swing angle of each crane displayed on the screen, but also operate the cranes to make balance of weight distribution according to the real-time ratio of load weight or load gesture.
US09415962B2
A printing apparatus according to one aspect of this invention includes a sheet holding unit configured to hold an envelope, and a detection unit configured to detect an opening width between guides for guiding an envelope held by the sheet holding unit. The printing apparatus further includes an identifying unit configured to identify a flap size of the envelope based on the opening width detected by the detection unit and a size set for the envelope held by the sheet holding unit, and a printing unit configured to print an image on the envelope by shifting image data based on the flap size identified by the identifying unit.
US09415960B2
A sheet is conveyed with no slack between a first conveying path and a second conveying path, thus allowing a high-quality image to be printed on the sheet and suppressing a possible sheet jam. A conveying path with a changeable conveying path length is provided between a first conveying path including a pair of downstream side conveying rollers and a pair of downstream side conveying rollers and a second conveying path including a pair of downstream side conveying rollers and a pair of downstream side conveying rollers.
US09415950B1
An anchor for mounting a cant engaging member on a belt of a conveyor, comprises a clamp having a top jaw and a bottom jaw respectively configured for engagement with a top surface and a bottom surface of the belt. The top and bottom jaws have attachment portions projecting laterally outwardly from opposed sides of the belt. Fasteners engageable with the attachment portions for drawing the top and bottom jaws tightly against the top and bottom surfaces of the belt. An anti-slip layer may be provided between the top jaw and the belt. The top jaw may be provided with stress distribution extensions forwardly and rearwardly from the fasteners for re-distributing localized stresses over a greater surface of the belt and thus avoid premature wear of the belt.
US09415940B2
A conveyor take-up device may include a carriage, a pulley, a counterweight assembly, at least one connector, and at least one safety restraint. The carriage may be movably joined to a support structure and may support the pulley, which may be configured for operative association with an endless conveyor belt. The counterweight assembly may include a counterweight arm, a tension arm, and a counterweight. The counterweight arm may be pivotally joined to the support structure and configured to move between upper and lower limit positions. The tension arm may extend generally transversely from a first end portion of the counterweight arm with the counterweight supported by the counterweight arm distal from the tension arm. The connector may be joined to the carriage at one end portion of connector and to the tension arm at a second end portion that is distal the first end portion of the connector.
US09415938B2
A sorting system configured to sort materials by size, and/or weight is disclosed herein. The sorting system is configured to operate in a smaller footprint as compared with conventional sorting systems. For instance, a main sorting track of sorting system is configured to deliver sorted material to either side of the main sorting track. Additionally, the sorting system is configured to reduce mechanical damage imparted on the material to be sorted by sorting system by a sliding and/or rolled delivery. Aspects of the sorting system may be mounted on a mobile platform.
US09415935B1
An apparatus for determining discrepancies between physical inventory and virtual inventory includes a memory and a processor. The memory can store a virtual inventory associated with an inventory bin, and an image representing a physical inventory associated with the inventory bin. The processor is coupled to the memory and can determine from the image a physical inventory comprising one or more units of inventory from the inventory bin. The processor can also determine discrepancies between the determined physical inventory of the inventory bin and the virtual inventory associated with the inventory bin.
US09415933B2
The article storage device (1) includes a warehouse (2) including racks (21) to store articles (A), a cage (4) suspended from a crane (3) so as to go up and down, and a carriage (5) disposed on the cage (4). The cage (4) includes outriggers (6) capable of extending and retracting to the racks (21) and of being engaged with the racks (21). The racks (21) each include first engagement portions (7) disposed at portions with which the outriggers (6) are engaged, and a second engagement portion (8) disposed adjacent to one first engagement portion (7) in an extending and retracting direction of the outriggers (6). The second engagement portion (8) is capable of positioning one outrigger (6). One outrigger (6) is engaged with the second engagement portion (8) disposed in a side to which the carriage (5) travels, and the other outriggers (6) are engaged with the first engagement portions (7).
US09415919B2
A flat bag storing a liquid-impregnated sheet-shaped object has on its top side a joined part constituted by two films sealed together. The sealed part forming the joined part is formed at the base of the joined part over the entire length of the joined part. The edge of the joined part is not sealed but forms a non-sealed part instead, and the end edge of one of the two films constituting the non-sealed part is formed longer than the end edge of the other film. The flat bag simplifies the operation of spreading a folded-up sheet stored therein by removing the sheet from the flat bag and allowing the removed sheet to be attached on the face quickly and reliably without dirtying the fingers.
US09415918B2
Packages for housing consumable products and methods of using same are provided. The packages may be customized, functional packages that are designed to prevent accidental spillage or leakage of a flowable consumable product housed therein when the package is opened or during consumption of the product from the package. In a general embodiment, flexible packages are provided and include a body defining a cavity for housing a flowable product, a channel for dispensing the flowable product from the cavity, and a releasable seal that blocks the channel under the application of light pressure, such as occurs during opening the package, but unblocks the channel under heavier pressure, such as occurs during consumption of the product.
US09415905B1
A crown cap is adapted to be removably coupled to a bottle. The crown cap has a circular central region and a downwardly extending side wall in a generally cylindrical configuration. The side wall has an inwardly scrolled lower edge. The central region of the crown cap radially terminates in an upwardly extending exterior projection. The crown cap has a downwardly extending interior projection radially interior of the exterior projection. An adhesive is provided in the exterior projection.
US09415904B1
An improved cork closure for beverage and wine bottles having a recess on the outer face of the closure. The recess is designed to facilitate the extraction process by providing central constraint on the position of the corkscrew on the face of the closure and to guide the corkscrew along the axis of the closure. This recess does not interfere with any other type of extraction device.
US09415901B2
A foldable handle for a cook-pot including a bracket attached to the cook-pot, a handle member, a lock member and a bracing link member. The handle member has an upper end portion pivotally connected to the bracket, and opposed first and second sidewalls, each with an upper opening located in the upper end portion of the handle member and a lower opening located in a lower end portion of the handle member. The handle member has a guide channel with a lock member slidably disposed therein for movement between the upper and lower end portions of the handle member. First and second resiliently flexible members each having a projection for removably fitting within corresponding upper and lower openings of the first and second sidewalls. The link member has a first end rotatable retained by the bracket, and a second end rotatably attached to the lock member.
US09415886B2
A bag rack and dispensing system and method of packaging and dispensing items, such as food, is disclosed. The bag rack and dispensing system includes a rack that is formed of a base assembly and a hanger assembly on which multiple storage bags can be hung. A method of using the bag rack and dispensing system for packaging and dispensing food items includes, but is not limited to, the steps of hanging the storage bags on the rack of the bag rack and dispensing system, opening the frontmost storage bag, holding open or propping open the storage bag using a hooking device, placing the food item(s) or any other types of item(s) into the storage bag, removing the hooking device, if used, closing the storage bag, and removing the filled storage bag from the rack of the bag rack and dispensing system.
US09415879B2
A device is disclosed for preventing gases and/or fluids emanating from a wing box of an aircraft from passing to an aircraft fuselage cell situated underneath it. The device comprises at least one sheet-like material positioned below or above the wing box. The sheet-like material is preferably made of a woven fabric comprising aramid fibers or the like, which fabric in order to ensure the required seal vis-à-vis liquid and/or gaseous substances, in particular vis-à-vis fuels, has been impregnated or soaked with an epichlorohydrin elastomer compound or with some other elastomer, for example a rubber compound or the like.
US09415877B2
A method of synchronizing engines of an airplane in accordance with at least one activation logic (10, 10′) defining a deactivated state (20), a primed state (22), and at least one activated state (16, 18), and comprising: passing (32) synchronization from the deactivated state to the primed state when a pilot of the airplane issues an activation order; passing (36) synchronization from the primed state to the activated state when at least certain safety and/or activation conditions are satisfied; and passing (24, 34) synchronization from the activated or primed state to the deactivated state when the pilot issues a deactivation order or whenever at least some of the safety conditions are not satisfied.
US09415874B2
Methods provide for a configurable tray table. According to aspects of the disclosure, a tray rail is rotatable connected to a frame of a support assembly. Three tray table segments create a tray assembly having a multi-planar configuration and is coupled to the tray rail. A first tray table segment is pivotally connected to a second tray table segment via a first hinged longitudinal edge of the second tray table segment. A third tray table segment is pivotally connected to the second tray table segment along a second hinged longitudinal edge that is parallel to the first hinged longitudinal edge.
US09415872B2
An aircraft galley power and control system is disclosed having a plurality of electrical appliances within a monument, the galley control system including a control panel removed from the electrical appliances that include controls for operating each of the electrical appliances, The galley also includes a galley controller interface for receiving commands from a display screen on the control panel and communicating the commands to the electrical appliances.
US09415871B1
The fuselage of an aircraft comprises a floor structure, a roof structure, a first lateral side structure, a second lateral side structure, and a middle structure. The floor structure, the roof structure, the first lateral side structure, and the second lateral side structure define a fuselage space between them. The middle structure spans at least part way between the floor structure and the roof structure, and runs between the first lateral side structure and the second lateral side structure such that the middle structure partitions the fuselage space into an occupant space and a cargo space. A seat for a pilot is disposed in the occupant space lateral to a portion of the middle structure and a portion of the cargo space.
US09415870B1
This disclosure is directed to monitoring a noise signature of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and varying the speed of the motors of the UAV to reduce unwanted sound (i.e., noise) of the UAV based on the noise signature. The noise signature of the UAV may be measured by an audio sensor of a vibration sensor, and feedback may be provided to the UAV. The UAV may generate noise during flight, which may include a number of noise components such as tonal noise (e.g., a whining noise such as a whistle of a kettle at full boil) and broadband noise (e.g., a complex mixture of sounds of different frequencies, such as the sound of ocean surf). By measuring the noise signature of the UAV, and varying the motor revolutions per minute (RPM) during flight operations, the UAV may reduce tonal components of the UAV noise signature.
US09415868B2
A rotor blade (1) with an exterior shell (20) extending in a span and chord wise direction and at least one control flap (4) extending in essentially span wise direction to said exterior shell (20). Load transmission means inside said blade chamber (7) comprise piling type housings (13) respectively with one actuator (8, 9), one flap drive (10, 11) and a longitudinal girder (15). Said at least one piling type housing (13) comprises at least one upper strap (14) and at least one lower strap (14) oriented essentially in said chord direction in between said longitudinal girder (15) on the one side and the support for said at least one actuator (8, 9) on the other side, each of said upper and lower straps (14) being symmetric aligned in chord direction relative to at least two pivot bearings (35, 36). Said upper and lower straps (14) are stiff in chord direction and flexible in span wise direction.
US09415865B2
An aircraft wheel which is provided with rotational driving unit (110). The driving unit comprises a driving ring (111) which is associated with structure (112) for attaching the ring to a rim of the wheel. The attachment structure is fixed to treads (119) of the rim which further serve to retain removable brake blocks (121) with which the rim is provided.
US09415860B2
Systems and methods for configuring a direct lift control system of a vehicle are disclosed. An example system provided herein includes a spoiler coupled to an aircraft, a direct lift control schedule to generate a plurality of spoiler deflection commands and a controller to control an actuator coupled to the spoiler to actuate the spoiler based on the spoiler deflection commands to modulate lift of the aircraft without using a short-period pitch control.
US09415857B2
A wing fold system may move a second portion of a wing with respect to a first portion of the wing between flight position 301 and folded position 303. A first link may rotate in response to actuating an actuator. A second link may move in response to rotating of the first link. The second portion of the wing may move in response to moving the second link and the second portion may move with respect to the first portion of the wing. One of the first portion and the second portion may be a fixed portion of the wing and the other of the first portion and the second portion may be a wingtip of the wing.
US09415853B2
A method and apparatus comprising a sealing member, an integral structure associated with the sealing member, and an engagement section extending from the sealing member. The sealing member is configured to be attached to a surface of an object. The sealing member is consolidated with the integral structure. The engagement section is deformable and configured to engage a receiving structure in the object.
US09415852B2
An air vehicle such as an airship is provided, having a rounded top portion, and the bottom portion of which has a substantially planar shape, including a region having a smaller inclination, which is referred to as a bottom surface, and the surface area of which is larger than that of an intermediate region having a greater inclination, referred to as an intermediate surface. The general shape produces, due to relative wind, a resulting overall downward force near the ground. The vehicle also includes a device for anchoring same to the ground, the anchoring device being stationary or controllable from the vehicle, located at the front portion of the vehicle, and projecting downward, in particular a ram including a portion which can be expanded by applying a bar against a translatably movable shoulder. Also included is a landing method implementing such a vehicle.
US09415847B2
A man-overboard rescue and retrieval system includes a net assembly having a pair of laterally spaced apart side ropes and a plurality of net portions, each net portion being constructed of a material that floats, extends laterally between the side ropes, and is spaced apart longitudinally from an adjacent net portion. The system includes a deployment capsule defining an interior space configured to selectively receive the net assembly therein. A launching device includes a framework configured to receive the deployment member. A first compressed air canister is in fluid communication with the launching device and the deployment member and configured to apply force to the deployment member when actuated that is sufficient to propel the deployment member from the launching device. Each net portion includes a net spreader connected to a second compressed air canister for selective inflation thereof so as to spread apart the side ropes and net portions.
US09415837B2
The invention describes a device for controlling trim and/or steering of a boat, ship or vessel having an actuator, an actuating means and an interceptor member, wherein the actuator acts upon the actuating means, which acts upon said interceptor member such that the interceptor member is linearly displaceable between a retracted and an extracted position. Further, the actuating means is displaceable in a first direction and acts upon a first and a second crankshaft, wherein the first and second crankshafts are arranged such that they rotate in opposite direction relative to each other when the actuating means acts thereon. Thereafter the first and second crankshafts interact with the interceptor member such that a rotation of the first and second crankshafts consequently lead to a displacement of the interceptor member between the refracted and the extracted position, wherein the displacement of the interceptor member is perpendicular to the first direction.
US09415832B2
A bicycle pedal comprises a pedal axle, a pedal body, a first sub member, a first clamping member, a second clamping member, a biasing structure, and a restricting structure. The first sub member is movable relative to the pedal body about a first pivot axis between a first position and a second position. The first clamping member is movable relative to the first sub member about a second pivot axis between a third position and a fourth position. The restricting structure is configured to restrict the first sub member from pivoting about the first pivot axis relative to the pedal body toward the second position.
US09415828B2
An adjustable rear wheel dropout system includes an over center clamp, toggle clamp or four bar link mechanism to tension a bicycle's chain or belt drive system. A toggle clamp system moves the rear axle as needed to achieve the desired tension in the chain or belt. The over center toggle clamp system is also useful in facilitating the repeatable reinstallation of a rear wheel in a predetermined position. A wheel skewer system secures or locks the adjustable rear wheel dropout in the desired location. The dropout system includes a chain stay adjustment area or void to allow the wheel skewer to be inserted though the dropout. After the end position is secured by the toggle system, the wheel skewer further secures the dropout position as the wheel skewer is tightened to secure the wheel to the bicycle.
US09415813B2
A foldable vehicle may include a front floor coupled with front wheels and a rear floor coupled with rear wheels, wherein the front floor and the rear floor increase or decrease a wheelbase of the vehicle by sliding over and under each other, a windshield part hinged to the front floor to turn forward or backward, a rear cabin part hinged to the floor part to turn forward or backward, and a roof part hinged to an upper end of the windshield part and hinged to an upper end of the rear cabin part, wherein the roof part may be configured to be stowed inside the vehicle when the windshield part and the rear cabin part may be folded inward, and may be configured to be exposed to the outside to form a roof of the vehicle when the windshield part and the rear cabin part may be unfolded outward.
US09415810B2
The present invention in one or more embodiments provides a vehicle roof structure which includes a cast node including a pillar portion for receiving a pillar and a roof-rail portion for receiving a roof rail, the roof-rail portion having first and second ends, which may have a closed first cross-section and a closed second cross-section, respectively. The closed first cross-section may be different from the closed second cross-section such that the first and second ends are to receive two individual roof rails of different dimensions. The closed first cross-section may be larger in opening dimension than the closed second cross-section, when the first end is positioned closer to a front of the vehicle than the second end.
US09415804B2
The invention relates to a device and a method for displaying objects in the surroundings of a vehicle having a sensor arrangement, in order to sense objects in the surroundings of the vehicle and to determine the position thereof relative to the vehicle, wherein the sensor arrangement covers, with its detection range, only a partial area of the surroundings of the vehicle; in order to improve the assistance provided to the driver during parking processes and the processes of removing a vehicle from a parking space, the processing device is designed to determine the area of the surroundings of the vehicle for which no object information is yet available, since said area has not yet been passed over by the detection range of the sensor arrangement, and the display device is designed to display the extent of this area.
US09415792B2
In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention, an adjustment assembly for allowing or preventing adjustment of a component is provided. The adjustment assembly includes a first bracket at least partially surrounding the component, a second bracket at least partially surrounding the first bracket, and a piezoelectric device biasing against one of the first bracket or the second bracket in a first position, the piezoelectric device configured to contract and release the bias against one of the first bracket and the second bracket in a second position.
US09415791B1
A steering wheel assembly includes an armature having a hub, a rim and at least two spokes extending between the hub and the rim, and a damper. The damper connects the at least two spokes and the hub and prevents contact between the spokes and hub. The at least two spokes and hub may include interdigitating projections which the damper prevents from contacting one another. The damper substantially fills a gap between the interdigitating projections and envelops the interdigitating projections. In one embodiment, the damper is annular and the interdigitating projections extend radially and include a base and a distal end having a length greater than a length of the base.
US09415790B2
A device and assembly for transporting a child, such as a pram and/or buggy. The pram comprises two wheel-bearing arms which are pivotally coupled by a coupling housing. One of these arms is pivotally connected to a connector element for coupling to, for instance, a child's seat. The pram further comprises a transmission between the connector element and the other arm for the purpose of rotating the connector element during said pivoting of the pram from the folded-open position to the collapsed position.
US09415784B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method for detecting a condition associated with a wheel on a train car. The method may include detecting a position of the wheel. The method may also include detecting a position of a rail on which the wheel travels. The method may further include comparing the position of the wheel relative to the position of the rail, and determining a wheel condition based on the comparison.
US09415762B2
A method, comprising propelling a vehicle with an engine and a motor starting the engine if energy stored in an energy storage device is greater than an upper threshold level when a contaminant amount in the engine oil is greater than a threshold amount. In this way, it is possible to harmonize fuel degradation along with oil degradation, while still providing efficient vehicle and engine operation.
US09415761B2
Systems and methods for improving gear shifting of a step-ratio automatic transmission in a hybrid vehicle are presented. The systems and methods may provide for adjusting torque capacity of one or more driveline clutches to reduce driveline torque disturbances that may be related to driveline inertia torque during transmission gear shifting.
US09415756B2
A brake control system for a distributed power vehicle system includes a brake system and a distributed power control system in a first vehicle, and first and second separate communication links between the brake system and the distributed power control system. In operation, upon the initiation of a penalty brake application, the brake system transmits information about the brake level of the penalty brake application to the distributed power control system, over at least the first communication link. However, if the first communication link fails, the brake system redundantly transmits the information about the level of the penalty brake application to the distributed power control system over the second communication link. The information is transmitted from the distributed power control system in the first vehicle to remote vehicles for carrying out the penalty brake application.
US09415752B2
A motor vehicle has a driver assistance unit that includes a braking unit and at least one detection unit to detect an environmental parameter. The driver assistance unit can control performance of an autonomous deceleration of the motor vehicle in the case of a risk of collision, which is recognized using the environmental parameter. The driver assistance unit is formed in such a way that an autonomous emergency stop is only then able to be carried out if the motor vehicle has at least one reversible seat belt pre-tensioner.
US09415736B2
A method is disclosed for determining whether it is necessary to utilize safety equipment of a vehicle. The method includes detecting an impending impact of an object with a vehicle's windscreen by obtaining data concerning the object from a vehicle-mounted vision sensor, analyzing the data to determine whether the object will impact the windscreen, and activating the safety equipment only if the windscreen impact is imminent.
US09415728B2
A low-weight sound-absorbing dash pad for a vehicle includes a sound-absorbing/blocking multilayer bonded to a surface of a sound-absorbing member. The sound-absorbing/blocking multilayer is formed by sequentially bonding a first sound-absorbing layer, a sound-blocking layer, and a second sound-absorbing layer that are made of thermoplastic resin.
US09415710B2
A console armrest assembly includes a support, a displaceable cover and a hinge pivotally attaching that cover to the support. A dampening strut is connected between the hinge and the support. Further, a detent mechanism is carried on the strut and a support for holding the cover in a closed position.
US09415697B2
A contactless power supply device including: a power receiving portion (22) which is provided at the center in the vehicle width direction, of a front part of the lower surface of a floor panel (40) of a vehicle (1); a power supply portion (12) which is provided for a parking space (2) and contactlessly supplies electric power to the vehicle by magnetic connection with the power receiving portion (22); a sub-frame (51) provided in a lower part of a front compartment (1F) of the vehicle (1); a motor unit (29U) mounted on the sub-frame (51); and extension portions (53) stiffening fixed portions of the power receiving portion (22), the extension portions (53) being extended from both sides of the rear end of the sub-frame (51) in the vehicle width direction toward the back of the vehicle along both sides of the power receiving portion (22) in the vehicle width direction.
US09415694B2
A power device of an electric vehicle according to the present invention includes an electricity storage device which stores electricity of direct current, an inverter device which generates alternating current from the direct current stored in the electricity storage device, multiple electric motors which receive supply of electricity of the alternating current generated by the inverter device and generate a traveling driving force, and a driving force transmission mechanism which transmits rotation of each output shaft portion of the multiple electric motors to a driving wheel. The driving force transmission mechanism is configured such that rotation of each output shaft portion is transmitted to the driving wheel with an equal speed change ratio, and the multiple electric motors are connected to a single inverter device, and configured to receive electricity supply of the alternating current generated by the single inverter device.
US09415682B2
A refueling portion structure of a fuel tank includes: a refueling pipe that has a refueling port into which a refueling nozzle is to be inserted, and that communicates with a fuel tank; an opening/closing valve that is provided on a flow path within the refueling pipe and closes the flow path, and that, when pushed by the refueling nozzle, opens the flow path; and a valve opening/closing device that, in a case in which a tank internal pressure of the fuel tank exceeds a set value that is set in advance, restricts or inhibits opening operation of the opening/closing valve, and, in a case in which the tank internal pressure is less than or equal to the set value, permits the opening operation of the opening/closing valve.
US09415677B2
A motorcycle includes a body frame, an engine supported by the body frame, a radiator disposed in front of the engine, a radiator fan disposed between the engine and the radiator, a left frame cover disposed above the radiator, and an intake air temperature sensor mounted to the left frame cover. The radiator fan rotates clockwise as viewed from the front of the vehicle, and the intake air temperature sensor is positioned above a right end of the radiator as viewed from the front of the vehicle.
US09415676B2
A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle drive system including: a differential device provided with rotary elements respectively connected to an engine, first and second electric motors and an output rotary member; a brake for selectively fixing the rotary element connected to the first electric motor, to a stationary member; and a parking-lock mechanism preventing a rotary motion of a parking-lock gear connected to the output rotary member, when a manually-operated shifting device is operated to a parking-lock position. The control apparatus includes an engine starting control-portion configured to start the engine in a starting-mode wherein an operating speed of the engine is raised with a torque generated by the second electric motor in an engaged state of the brake, where the engine is required to be started while the vehicle has been held at rest and the rotary motion of the parking-lock gear is prevented by the parking-lock mechanism.
US09415672B2
A battery mounting unit for a vehicle may include a front bracket bonded to a top of a rear floor panel of a vehicle body and having a through-hole penetrated together with the rear floor panel, a reinforcing bracket bonded to an inner side of a rear floor side member on a bottom of the rear floor panel to correspond to the front bracket and having a welding nut on a bottom corresponding to the through-hole of the front bracket, a rear bracket bonded to an outer surface of the rear floor side member and having a plurality of welding nuts on a lower side of a top thereof, a battery tray fastened to the plurality of welding nuts on the rear bracket by a bolt and seated with a battery, and a battery clamper joined to the battery tray to fix the battery to the battery tray.
US09415662B2
A sensor module includes a housing. A heat source is located within the housing of the sensor module and a plurality of temperature sensors are mounted in housing of said sensor module. At least one temperature sensors is located adjacent to the heat source and at least one other temperature sensor is spaced from the heat source. A humidity sensor is located within the housing of the sensor module. A controller is connected to the plurality of temperature sensors and to the humidity sensor for determining at least one of relative humidity and temperature at the windscreen using a regression analysis and for providing a control signal indicative thereof.
US09415649B2
An amphibian operable in land and marine modes includes a hull, having a discontinuity, and a retractable wheel or track drive assembly at least partially located in the discontinuity. A wheel or track drive of the at least one retractable wheel or track drive assembly is retracted above a lowest point of the hull when operating in marine mode, and the wheel or track drive is protracted below the lowest point when operating in land mode. The hull is a planing V hull having a forward bow section defining a frontal bow surface/area across a beam of the hull. The discontinuity is provided in the forward bow section, and the wheel or track drive of the retractable wheel or track drive assembly is located ahead of and in front of at least a portion of the frontal bow area when protracted.
US09415641B2
Disclosed are a method and a system for monitoring the pressure of a tire. The system measures frequencies of multiple tires mounted on the vehicle, sets a first average frequency for a normal pressure state and a second average frequency for determination of a low pressure state, wherein the first average frequency is calculated by accumulating the measured frequencies for each speed interval in a stop mode and the second average frequency is calculated by accumulating the measured frequencies for each speed interval in a driving mode, calculates low-pressure probabilities for each speed interval of the tire by using the second frequency, a predetermined low-pressure reference frequency, and a predetermined frequency determination interval for determining low-pressure, and determines whether each tire is at low pressure state by aggregating the low-pressure probabilities for each speed interval of the tire.
US09415640B2
A rim mounted control assembly receives therethrough the tire valve stem from an air maintenance tire. A control assembly regulator controls a flow of air to and from a tire-mounted air pumping tube. The control assembly includes a bi-directional air distribution block having multiple parallel air pathways, each air pathway coupled to a respective conduit connected to an air pumping tube mounted within a tire sidewall. The pathways alternatively operate to deliver ambient non-pressurized air to the air pumping tube in response to directional tire rotation against a ground surface.
US09415637B2
The pneumatic tire includes a plurality of circumferential main grooves and extending in the tire circumferential direction, and a plurality of land portions partitioned by the circumferential main grooves. One row of the land portion includes a plurality of lug grooves that pass through the land portion in the tire width direction and is disposed at predetermined intervals in the tire circumferential direction, and a plurality of blocks partitioned by the lug grooves. Also, the lug groove includes a first lug groove portion and at least one second lug groove portion opening into one of the circumferential main grooves. Also, the groove width b of the first lug groove portion and the groove width B of the second lug groove portion have the relationships of 2.0 mm≦b≦5.0 mm, 5.0 mm≦B≦10.0 mm, and b
US09415636B2
Provided is a tire having at least a circular tire frame formed of a thermoplastic resin material, the tire including a reinforcing cord member that forms a reinforcing cord layer on the outer circumference of the tire frame, and the thermoplastic resin material including at least a polyamide-based thermoplastic elastomer.
US09415634B2
A bicycle hub with protective structure includes a hub cassette and at least one protective member. The hub cassette has a driving portion and a shell portion connected to the driving portion. The shell portion has a plurality of ribs integrally formed on an outer periphery of the shell portion and extending axially. The protective member is made of harder material than that of the ribs. The protective member has a U-shaped cross section and defines a top wall and two side walls. The top wall and the two side walls define an engaging groove. Specifically, an inner angle of the engaging groove between the top wall and each of the side walls is an acute angle originally. Each of the two side walls of the protective member is flexible relative to the top wall of the protective member so as to clamp two lateral walls of the associated rib.
US09415626B2
A deco glass panel including a mother substrate formed of glass, a glass powder layer welded on the mother substrate and a rear surface pattern disposed on a rear surface of the mother substrate, wherein the rear surface pattern is located within an outline of the glass powder layer when viewed from the front surface of the mother substrate.
US09415620B2
The instant invention relates to improved liquid sizing compositions comprising derivatives of diaminostilbene, binders, protective polymers and divalent metal salts for the optical brightening of substrates suitable for high quality ink jet printing.
US09415619B2
Systems and methods for decoratively coating a substrate are disclosed wherein the ink is diffused into the substrate, as opposed to onto the substrate. Substrates are able to comprise metals, plastics, bamboo, wood, glass, and metals wherein such materials can also be pre-coated. A system for transferring a decorative image to a substrate comprises a chamber configured to receive a substrate, a means for securing a transfer medium containing the decorative image to be transferred, an optional vacuum source coupled to the chamber, and a heat source removably coupled to the chamber. The transfer is positioned face down onto a surface of the substrate, secured into position. The vacuum source may be used to evacuate the chamber to more tightly pull the transfer medium to the substrate. Then the substrate and transfer are heated, and the transfer medium ink diffuses into the substrate, thereby diffusing the image into the substrate.
US09415618B2
Disclosed is a ribbon cassette for a label printing device, comprising a ribbon cassette case that contains a printing tape (18), a medium tape (17), and a carrier tape (20). The label printing device is provided with a determining region (5) for determining feature information of the ribbon cassette, the determining region is provided with a plurality of determining columns (XY) with planar distribution. The ribbon cassette further comprises a detecting portion (10) corresponding to the determining region, the detecting portion is detecting column(s) (11) corresponding to the determining columns. The number, position, or a combination of the number and the position of the detecting column characterizes the feature of the ribbon cassette.
US09415616B2
A recording apparatus includes a medium support unit which supports a medium in an inclined state, a medium feeding unit which sends out the medium which is supported by the medium support unit, a substrate which configures a control unit of the apparatus, and a battery accommodation unit which accommodates a battery which is a power source of the medium feeding unit and the control unit, in which the battery accommodation unit and the substrate are arranged on the lower side of the medium support unit, and the battery accommodation unit is arranged at a location which is separated from a place facing the substrate. At least a part of an arranging region of the battery accommodation unit, and at least a part of an arranging region of the substrate are in the same range in the height direction.
US09415609B2
A recording apparatus includes a recording head that performs recording on a medium, a carriage that reciprocates in a predetermined direction, and an operation panel that has a predetermined operation function. The carriage and the operation panel are adjacent to each other. The operation panel overlaps at least a portion of the carriage in a height direction of the recording apparatus.
US09415605B2
The laser marking apparatus includes: a laser device; a first conveying portion that conveys an illuminated object to at least a region illuminated by a laser beam through the laser device; a second conveying portion, provided on an upstream side of the first conveying portion, able to convey the illuminated object in a direction that is essentially perpendicular to that of the first conveying portion; a switching mechanism, provided between the first conveying portion and the second conveying portion, which switches a conveyance destination of the illuminated object to the first conveying portion or the second conveying portion; and an imaging portion, provided in a vicinity of the second conveying portion, that captures an image of the illuminated object that is conveyed by the second conveying portion.
US09415601B1
A printer 110 to which an ink tank 11 for containing ink IK is fixed and configured such that a user can supply the ink IK to the ink tank 11 includes a sensor 60 for performing remaining ink detection for checking whether or not the ink IK is present at a predetermined position in the ink tank 11, a control unit 40 that executes the remaining ink detection using the sensor 60, a consumption calculation unit 42 that calculates consumption of the ink IK that is consumed from the ink tank 11, and a storage unit 50 that updates and stores the consumption of the ink IK calculated by the consumption calculation unit 42. When a print job is being executed, the control unit 40 executes the remaining ink detection after a first predetermined amount of the ink IK is consumed.
US09415600B2
An apparatus detects inoperative inkjets during printing of three-dimensional objects. The apparatus includes an optical sensor with a predetermined focal plane. The optical sensor is moved to a position that enables the sensor to generate image data of material drops ejected by a group of inkjets in a single row of a printhead. These image data are analyzed to detect inoperative inkjets to enable printhead maintenance at appropriate times to maintain the operational status of the inkjets in the printhead. The optical sensor is moved along a length and width of the printhead to enable the sensor to generate image data of all the inkjets that eject material from the printhead.
