US09424429B1
A configurable load balancer can be utilized in a multi-tenant environment, where the load balancer can incorporate, or utilize, an account management service operable to perform security tasks such as authentication, authorization, and session management. Customers can utilize the load balancer to control access that users have to resources associated with those customers, without having to build and maintain a dedicated user management system. By implementing security functionality at the load balancer level, traffic can be managed before reaching the resources, which can help to reduce traffic and load on the resources, and can also help to prevent attacks and secure sensitive information. Visibility into the traffic through the load balancer also allows for behavior and usage monitoring, which is helpful for tasks such as billing and usage limit enforcement.
US09424425B2
Anti-malware process protection techniques are described. In one or more implementations, an anti-malware process is launched. The anti-malware process is verified based at least in part on an anti-malware driver that contains certificates which contain an identity that is signed with the trusted certificate from a verified source. After the anti-malware process is verified, the anti-malware process may be assigned a protection level, and an administrative user may be prevented from altering the anti-malware process.
US09424422B2
Software applications are analyzed to determine if they are legitimate applications and warnings are provided to users to avoid installation and/or purchases of unnecessary and/or potentially harmful software based on comparisons of user-interface characteristics of the software applications to visual characteristics of authentic applications to determine to what extent they match (or do not match) or are attempting to mirror the legitimate application.
US09424411B2
A method includes obtaining a gaze feature of a user of a device, wherein the device has already been unlocked using a second feature, the gaze feature being based on images of a pupil relative to a display screen of the device, comparing the obtained gaze feature to known gaze features of an authorized user of the device, and determining whether or not the user is authorized to use the device based on the comparison.
US09424409B2
A method for protecting privacy and enhancing security on an electronic device is provided. When sensor information associated with at least one user input action is collected by a sensor in an electronic device hosting a plurality of applications, the method includes intercepting a request to access the sensor information from a requesting application of the plurality of applications, and controlling access to the sensor information associated with the at least one user input action based on the requesting application. By controlling access to the sensor information, leakage of sensitive or secure information to a malicious background application is minimized and privacy and security are enhanced.
US09424405B2
The described embodiments comprise an electronic device that executes an application, the electronic device including a processing subsystem. In these embodiments, the processing subsystem is configured to acquire a receipt associated with the application, wherein the application was purchased by a purchasing entity and installed on the electronic device after being assigned to a user of the electronic device by the purchasing entity. The processing subsystem is further configured to determine, using the receipt, if the application has expired. When the application has not expired, The processing subsystem is configured to execute the application with predetermined functions of the application enabled. When the application has expired, The processing subsystem is configured to execute the application with the predetermined functions of the application disabled.
US09424401B2
Licenses to software services are assigned automatically to users as a function of one or more user attributes. An attribute can include membership in a group such as a license group or a security group, among other things such as location. License assignments can also be retracted automatically upon changes in one or more user attributes.
US09424400B1
The present invention relates to digital rights management (DRM) for content that may be downloaded and securely transferred from one storage to another storage. The storage may be a disk drive, or network attached storage. The storage performs cryptographic operations and provides a root of trust. The DRM system enables secure copying or transfer of content from one storage device to another storage device. In this embodiment, a trusted server that is authenticated and trusted by both storage devices brokers the transfer of content. The trusted server may be a separate entity of the DRM system or may be a component or function of an existing server of the DRM system. In another embodiment, the storage devices may transfer content in a peer-to-peer fashion. The transfer of content may be authorized and controlled based on a digital certificate associated with the content.
US09424371B2
A method, system, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to augment an as-built model. A CAD drawing of a project as well as a digital representation of a physical implementation of the project are obtained. A relationship that maps the digital representation to the CAD drawing is defined/established. A component of the digital representation is identified based on the relationship (e.g., and a database/catalog). Information about the identified component is transmitted to and displayed on a computer (e.g., a mobile device).
US09424355B2
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention coordinate the distribution of content by multiple users on a variety of distribution platforms. One embodiment includes a coordination server system, where the coordination server system is configured to query a coordination database, wherein the coordination database includes: a source account; a repeater account including access information enabling access via a distribution platform to a user account maintained by the distribution platform; content associated with the source account; a distribution rule associated with the content; wherein the coordination server system is configured to: associate uploaded content with the source account in the coordination database; and post the content in a user account associated with the repeater account via a distribution platform using access information associated with a repeater account according to the distribution rule.
US09424349B2
To restore context information about a clip that was sampled from a broadcast program, the clip is identified by matching a digital fingerprint of the clip against a database of known digital fingerprints taken from broadcast programs. If the clip can be identified, it is then associated with information about the matching broadcast program. The loss of context data about the clip obtained from a broadcast program is thus remedied, enabling media content available online to be more useable for a variety of purposes, such as media searching, automatic broadcast attribution, and targeting advertisements.
US09424344B2
A method for natural language search for variables is provided. The method may include searching an index using key words from a user's natural language question and the context of the user's question. The index may reference variables and/or web service calls in a domain model. The method may also include saving documents obtained in response to the search. The method may also include mapping each of the documents as a node into an object graph. Each node may be associated with a parent node, except when the node is a root node. The method may also include identifying the root node of each document. The method may also include identifying the path of each node from the node to the node's root node. The method may also include identifying matching paths. Each matching path may provide an answer to the user's question.
US09424342B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting local search queries. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a search query log that includes data specifying search queries corresponding to particular geographic regions and for at least one of the search queries corresponding to the particular geographic region generating a geo-query count that represents a total number of times that the search query was received over a specified period. The geo-query count is compared to a corresponding expected query count for the search query, where the expected query count is a baseline number of times that the query is expected to be received. In response to determining that the search query has a geo-query count that exceeds the corresponding expected query count by at least a threshold amount, the particular query is classified as a local query for the particular geographic region.
US09424340B1
A system may identify a set of first documents associated with an organization, and identify clusters to which the first documents belong. Each of a number of the identified clusters may include a group of documents that includes one of the first documents and one or more second documents associated with one or more different organizations. The system may determine a quality score for each of the documents in each of the identified clusters, and determine, for each of the number of the identified clusters, whether the quality score of the one of the first documents in the identified cluster is higher than the quality score of the one or more second documents in the identified cluster. The system may generate a proxy pad score based on the determinations, and store the proxy pad score.
US09424338B2
Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to functions used for retrieving image results based on search queries. More specifically, image search queries can be pre-grouped or classified based on visual and semantic similarity. For example, a pairwise image similarity value for a pair of queries can be computed based on one or more of the sum of all of the overlapping the image results, the sum of the image distances between all of the pairs of images in the image results, and the rank of each of the images in the image results. The pairwise image similarity values can then be used to generate image query clusters. Each image query clusters can include a set of queries with high pairwise image similarity values. In some examples, a distance function can be determined for each image query cluster. This data can be used to provide image results.
US09424333B1
Various systems and methods are provided for accessing and traversing one or more complex data structures and generating a functional user interface that can enable non-technical users to quickly and dynamically edit and generate detailed reports. The user interfaces are interactive such that a user may make selections, provide inputs, and/or manipulate outputs. In response to various user inputs, the system automatically accesses and traverses complex data structures (including, for example, a mathematical graph having nodes and edges), calculates complex data based on the traversals, displays the calculated complex data to the user, and/or enters the calculated complex data into the reports. The reports may be automatically updated based on a context selected by the user, and the system may automatically publish reports in multiple contexts.
US09424328B2
Techniques for assisting owners to remotely administer their digital content items stored at non-owners' personal computing devices. The techniques involve identifying owned content items from among content items stored in a synchronization replica that is synchronized with synchronization replicas at the non-owners' personal computing devices. The techniques further involve allowing owners to remotely perform certain administrative actions on owned content items. For example, in response to a command initiated at an owner's personal computing device, a network signal or signals can be sent to a synchronization agent installed on the non-owners' personal computing devices to automatically remove all owned content items from the synchronization replicas at the non-owners' personal computing devices. For example, the generation and sending of such signal can be performed by an online content item storage and synchronization service that synchronizes a server-stored synchronization replica with the synchronization replicas at the non-owners' personal computing devices.
US09424324B2
In a method for storing and providing medical image data in a distributed, computer-based system of a clinical facility comprising multiple satellites, wherein a satellite has at least one modality, an image administration server and at least one local database, and wherein the clinical facility also has a central database for the administration of the stored image data and a central long-term storage for long-term storage, the image data are acquired at the modality, the image data include metadata and pixel data, partial metadata in the metadata of the acquired image data are marked, at least the metadata of the image data acquired are locally stored at the respective satellites, the image data of the image data acquired at the respective satellites are centrally stored in the central long-term storage, all metadata stored in the local database in the central database are completely, centrally replicated, and the marked partial metadata of the image data from the central database are partially, automatically replicated at respective local databases of one, multiple or all satellites in order to be able to provide these image data at the satellites.
US09424322B2
An apparatus includes at least one computer readable storage medium that bears instructions executable by a processor to configure the processor for accessing one or more electronically stored calendars of events pertaining to at least one user to obtain first calendar information from the one or more electronically stored calendars. The instructions also configure the processor for accessing at least one social network service for which the user has an account to obtain second calendar information from the site, consolidating the first and second calendar information to render consolidated information, presenting at least some of the consolidated information on a user device associated with the user, and presenting a recommendation for action pertaining to the event along with at least one event in die consolidated information.
US09424315B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a run-time scheduler that schedules tasks for database queries on one or more execution resources in a dataflow fashion. In some embodiments, the run-time scheduler may comprise a task manager, a memory manager, and hardware resource manager. When a query is received by a host database management system, a query plan is created for that query. The query plan splits a query into various fragments. These fragments are further compiled into a directed acyclic graph of tasks. Unlike conventional scheduling, the dependency arc in the directed acyclic graph is based on page resources. Tasks may comprise machine code that may be executed by hardware to perform portions of the query. These tasks may also be performed in software or relate to I/O.
US09424303B2
A robotic system is provided. The robotic system includes a publishing node including at least one first synchronization database that includes a plurality of attributes, each of the attributes including a tag identifying the attribute and data, a flag associated with each of the attributes, and a subscriber list. The system also includes a subscriber node including at least one second synchronization database. The publishing node is configured to set the flag associated with the attributes when the attributes are written in the at least one first synchronization database or when the data included in the attributes are modified and publish the flagged attributes to the subscriber node.
US09424296B2
Making data available from a database is disclosed. Making data available includes specifying a query function having a query function name, wherein the query function includes a structure and a member, determining the structure and the member included in the query function, wherein the query function has a query function name and includes the structure and the member, creating an index for the structure on the member, and compiling the query function to be available to a user by invoking the query function name without the user having to specify the structure and the member. Retrieving data from a database is disclosed. Retrieving includes invoking a query function that specifies a plurality of structures and a value, accessing a cross index of the plurality of structures, and using the cross index to access the data.
US09424294B2
Methods for faceted searching within clustered in-memory databases are disclosed. Faceted searching may be used to generate search suggestions. The faceted search engine may be able to use non-literal key algorithms for a partial prefix fuzzy matching and may include a feature disambiguation module. The disclosed search engine may be capable of processing large amounts of unstructured data in real time to generate search suggestions.
US09424290B2
Systems and methods for validating data in a communication network environment include receiving a data transformation specification from a user. The data transformation specification is analyzed to determine data transformation rules which are indicative of a relationship between corresponding fields of the source repository and the target repository. Test cases and test scripts are generated based on the data transformation rules and the test cases and the test scripts are executed on the source repository and the target repository to validate the relationship between the corresponding fields of the source repository and the target repository. Thereafter, a log file, indicative of the outcome of the execution of the test cases and the test scripts, is generated.
US09424277B2
An automated and extensible system for analysis and retrieval of images based on region-of-interest (ROI) analysis of one or more true objects depicted by an image is provided. The system uses a database that is a relational or analytical database containing searchable vectors that represent the images stored in a repository. Entries in the database are created by an image locator and ROI classifier working together to locate images within the repository and extract relevant information to be stored in the ROI database. The ROI classifier analyzes objects in an image to arrive at actual features of the true object. Graphical searches are performed by the collaborative workings of an image retrieval module, an image search requestor and an ROI query module. The image search requestor is an abstraction layer that translates user or agent search requests into the language understood by the ROI query.
US09424275B2
Systems and methods for cloning a cloud node are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method for cloning a cloud node comprises identifying changes during editing of content over a predetermined interval in an author node, compiling, via a replication agent of the author node, all changes of the content identified during the predetermined interval, all of the changes compiled in a replication queue maintained by the replication agent, and at the end of the predetermined interval, providing all of the changes of the content identified during the predetermined interval from the replication queue to both the publisher node and a clone of the published node.
US09424272B2
A cluster of nodes in a distributed file system may include; at least two namenodes, each coupled to a plurality of data nodes and each configured to store a state of a namespace of the cluster and each being configured to respond to a request from a client while other(s) of the namenodes are responding to other requests from other clients; and a coordination engine coupled to each of the namenodes. The coordination engine may be configured to receive proposals from the namenodes to change the state of the namespace by replicating, deleting and/or adding data blocks stored in the data nodes and to generate, in response, an ordered set of agreements that specifies an order in which the namenodes are to change the state of the namespace. The namenodes are configured to delay making changes thereto until after the ordered set of agreements is received from the coordination engine.
US09424270B1
Systems and methods are presented which allow a user's device to accept media from a variety of sources, process those media items based on their characteristics, and deliver the captured media to a pre-established variety of diverse locations with minimal or no user interaction. These systems and methods can also make media items available to a plurality of internet web sites without actually creating and delivering copies of files. In one embodiment, the diverse locations can each have individual delivery protocols (for example, login and formats) and when a number of media are available at the user's device for delivery to storage locations the media can be delivered to pre-established locations with a single user command without regard to the individual location delivery requirements. In another embodiment, processing, delivery, and access to new media items is handled automatically based on pre-established criteria and analysis of the data and metadata of the media items themselves. While unobtrusive user feedback is displayed during media processing, no user attention or intervention is required as long as no changes to the default settings are desired.
US09424268B2
A method and apparatus for merging data acquired by two or more capture devices from two or more points in a computer system, duplicate frames are analyzed to determine the time difference between the timestamp of a first capture device and a second capture device. The disclosure compares the frames for duplicates. If the duplicate frames are the first set of duplicate frames discovered, then all previous timestamps and all subsequent timestamps from the second capture device are adjusted by the calculated time difference. If duplicate frames are again discovered, the time difference is recalculated and all subsequent frames from the second capture device are adjusted by the calculated time difference. After all the frames have been analyzed and the timestamps adjusted, the frames are merged together and put into chronological order to simulate a single capture of data encompassing all of the points where the data was collected.
US09424266B2
Described is maintaining cached hash values for files in association with state data for each file that represents the state of that file's contents at the time of hashing. For example, in a journaling file system, the state data may comprise the update sequence number of the file in the journal and a journal identifier for that journal instance. A request for a hash value for a file is processed by determining whether a cached hash value is maintained for that file. If so, and the associated maintained state data matches current state data for the file, the file contents are unchanged since the last hash computation, whereby the cached hash value is returned in response to the request. Otherwise, a new hash value is computed for the file and returned, and cached for future use. Multiple types of hashes may be cached for a given file.
US09424265B1
Backing up and restoring a multi-user relational database management system is described. A first unique backup file name is created, based on a user-specified name, for a first backup file associated with a relational database management system that provides multi-user access to at least one database. A second unique backup file name is created, based on the user-specified name, for a second backup file associated with the relational database management system. A request is received to restore a database to a state associated with a point in time. The first backup file and the second backup file are recovered based on the point in time and the user-specified name. The first backup file and the second backup file are restored to the database.
US09424239B2
A shared renderer maintains shared state information to which two or more augmented reality application contribute. The shared renderer then provides a single output presentation based on the shared state information. Among other aspects, the shared renderer includes a permission mechanism by which applications can share information regarding object properties. The shared renderer may also include: a physics engine for simulating movement of at least one object that is represented by the shared state information; an annotation engine for managing a presentation of annotations produced by plural applications; and/or an occlusion engine for managing the behavior of the output presentation when two or more objects, produced by two or more applications, overlap within the output presentation.
US09424238B2
Methods and systems for validating order sets that are to be exported are described. Such order set validation may optionally be performed in substantially real-time. A content editor user interface configured to enable a user to create or edit an order set is provided for display. A user selection of a target format to which the order set is to be exported is received. A user edit with respect to the order set is detected and a validation rule is accessed. The rule is applied to the edited order set to obtain a validation evaluation, optionally in substantially real-time, indicating whether the edited order set is ready for export to the target format, and a corresponding validation notification is provided for display via the content editor. The order set may be exported to the user selected target format.
US09424233B2
A method of inferring user intent in search input in a conversational interaction system is disclosed. A method of inferring user intent in a search input includes providing a user preference signature that describes preferences of the user, receiving search input from the user intended by the user to identify at least one desired item, and determining that a portion of the search input contains an ambiguous identifier. The ambiguous identifier is intended by the user to identify, at least in part, a desired item. The method further includes inferring a meaning for the ambiguous identifier based on matching portions of the search input to the preferences of the user described by the user preference signature and selecting items from a set of content items based on comparing the search input and the inferred meaning of the ambiguous identifier with metadata associated with the content items.
US09424229B2
A system and method for optimizing a flow of data traffic are provided. A plurality of tori are connected in a parallel tori interconnect. Each torus includes a plurality of nodes. The nodes in the torus are interconnected using links. A host in the network is connected to a subset of nodes where nodes in the subset are associated with different tori. The host transmits the packets to the parallel tori interconnect by selecting a node the subset of nodes. The packets are transmitted using links between from the node to the plurality of nodes in the torus, but not between the plurality of tori.
US09424222B1
Apparatuses and methods for charge sharing across data buses based on respective levels of the data buses are disclosed herein. An example apparatus may include a first bus, a second bus, and a charge sharing circuit coupled to each of the first bus and the second bus. The charge sharing circuit may be configured to couple the first bus to the second bus based on logic levels of the first bus and the second bus. For example, the charge sharing circuit may couple the first bus to the second bus responsive to the first bus and the second bus having inverted logic levels.
US09424211B2
Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for providing multiple virtual device controllers by redirecting an interrupt from a physical device controller are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a processor, a physical device controller, and virtualization logic. The virtualization logic is to receive a first interrupt from the physical device controller, and in response, send a second interrupt to the processor from one of a plurality of virtual device controllers.
US09424203B2
A return stack buffers (RSB) is modified to store index values instead of addresses. When a function is called, the address following the function call is stored in a look-up table and the index at which the address is stored is pushed to the RSB. When a function returns, an index is popped from the RSB and used to identify an address in the look-up table. In another embodiment, the RSB is modified such that each entry comprises two or more address slots. When a function is called, the address following the function call is pushed to the RSB and stored in a selected one of the address slots in a top entry in the RSB. One or more pointer bits within the entry are set to indicate which slot the address was stored in.
US09424201B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a computer-implemented method for migrating a memory page from a first memory to a second memory. The method includes determining a first page size supported by the first memory. The method also includes determining a second page size supported by the second memory. The method further includes determining a use history of the memory page based on an entry in a page state directory associated with the memory page. The method also includes migrating the memory page between the first memory and the second memory based on the first page size, the second page size, and the use history.
US09424198B2
A processor includes at least one execution unit, a near memory, and memory management logic to manage the near memory and a far memory external to the processor as a unified exclusive memory. Each of a plurality of data blocks may be exclusively stored in either the far memory or the near memory. The unified exclusive memory space may be divided into a plurality of sets and a plurality of ways. In response to a request for a first block stored in the far memory, the memory management logic may move the first block from the far memory to the near memory, and may move a second block from the near memory to the far memory. A tag buffer may store tags associated with blocks being moved between the near memory and the far memory. Fill and drain buffers may also be used. Other implementations are described and claimed.
US09424189B1
A computer-implemented method for mitigating write-back caching failures may include (1) detecting a failure that impairs at least one write-back cache that temporarily caches updates for individual files stored on a storage device, (2) identifying an attribute of an individual file stored on the storage device in response to the failure that impairs the write-back cache, (3) determining that at least a portion of the individual file is obsolete based at least in part on the attribute of the individual file, and then (4) performing at least one mitigating action with respect to the individual file to address the obsolete portion of the individual file. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09424186B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for controlling memory startup, and relate to the field of memory control technologies. The present invention is not limited to the number of pins of a control chip, thereby reducing costs. The method is applied to a control apparatus, where the control apparatus includes a preset data segment; the preset data segment includes at least one sub data segment; and each sub data segment is corresponding to one configuration type. The method includes: reading each sub data segment in a first data segment and performing a first operation on a sub data segment corresponding to a first configuration type to obtain a second data segment; performing matching between the second data segment and the preset data segment; and starting up the memory according to the first configuration type when the second data segment matches the preset data segment.
US09424184B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for implementing nameless storage operations. Storage clients can access and allocate portions of an address space of a non-volatile storage device to a nameless storage request. The methods include receiving from a storage client, a nameless storage request configured for storing data in an unspecified, available address of a logical block address of a non-volatile storage device, determining whether there exists enough logical capacity in the logical address space to satisfy the nameless storage request, allocating a logical identifier to the nameless storage request, and sending the allocated logical identifier to the storage client. Other embodiments are described.
US09424180B2
A storage system creates an abstraction of flash Solid State Device (SSD) media allowing random write operations of arbitrary size by a user while performing large sequential write operations of a uniform size to an SSD array. This reduces the number of random write operations performed in the SSD array and as a result increases performance of the SSD array. A control element determines when blocks from different buffers should be combined together or discarded based on fragmentation and read activity. This optimization scheme increases memory capacity and improves memory utilization and performance.
US09424179B2
Systems and method relating generally to solid state memory, and more particularly to systems and methods for recycling data in a solid state memory. The systems and methods include receiving a data set maintained in a memory device, applying at least one iteration of a data decoding algorithm to the data set by a data decoder circuit to yield a decoded output, counting the number of iterations of the data decoding algorithm applied to the data set to yield an iteration count, and recycling the data set to the memory device. The recycling is triggered based at least in part on the iteration count.
US09424175B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a write request on a first cache system, wherein the write request identifies new content to be written to a data array. A write request content identifier associated with the new content is compared to a plurality of content identifiers included within a content directory for the first cache system to determine if a matching content identifier exists. Each of the plurality of content identifiers is associated with a piece of previously-written content included within the first cache system. If a matching content identifier is identified, content on the data array is copied from a first location on the data array associated with the matching content identifier to a second location on the data array associated with the write request content identifier.
US09424162B2
Systems and techniques are described for analyzing input output I/O traces. One of the techniques includes receiving an I/O trace, the I/O trace identifying a temporal sequence of previously submitted I/O requests; partitioning the I/O trace into a plurality of partitions based on a load pattern of the I/O requests in the I/O trace and a data access pattern of the I/O requests in the I/O trace; and generating a signature for each partition, wherein the signature for each of the partitions identifies characteristics of the I/O requests in the partition, and wherein the characteristics of the I/O requests in the partition include the load pattern of the I/O requests in the partition and the data access pattern of the I/O requests in the partition.
US09424157B2
A computer management system may track services on multiple computers executing the same workload. Various performance counters may be retrieved from the computers and analyzed to identify those with low deviations and low mean deviations. Statistical tests may then be used to compare the values of a particular computer to the deviation of the group of computers to identify outliers, which may indicate degraded performance and imminent failure of the computer. The management system may analyze any collectable performance related parameter to identify outlying systems.
US09424146B2
A method, a computer, and an apparatus for migrating memory data. After receiving a first trigger instruction, a processor can exit an operating system and execute a memory data migration instruction of a basic input/output system, where the memory data migration instruction of the basic input/output system enables the processor to determine a source memory card of to-be-migrated memory data, determine a backup memory card for the source memory card, and instruct a memory controller of the source memory card to migrate the memory data, so as to enable the memory controller of the source memory card to read the memory data of the source memory card and write the read memory data of the source memory card into the backup memory card according to an instruction of the processor.
US09424142B2
Technologies for hardware-assisted application checkpointing include a computing device having a processor with hardware checkpoint support. In response to encountering a checkpoint event during execution of an application, the computing device saves the execution state of the application to nonvolatile storage using the hardware checkpoint support. The computing device may also restore the execution state using the hardware checkpoint support. The hardware checkpoint support may save part or all of the virtual memory space of the application in a manner transparent to the executing process. The hardware checkpoint support may be invoked using one or more system hooks such as system calls or processor instructions. The computing device may monitor for checkpoint events using hardware event monitors of the processor, chipset, or other components of the computing device. The computing device may store execution state in a dedicated flash memory cache. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09424139B1
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for recovering data. In some embodiments, this includes creating a version of the data set, determining a metadata window based on the created version, storing metadata based on the determined metadata window in a first storage device, and storing the version in a second storage device. In some embodiments, a metadata tag may be associated with the metadata, and in some embodiments, a version tag may be associated with the version.
US09424127B2
Aspects of charger detection and optimization prior to host control are described herein. In various embodiments, a condition of whether reverse current is present on a system bus is detected. When the condition for reverse current is present, reverse current is sunk by one or more of various reverse current sink circuits. By relying upon one or more of the reverse current sink circuits, for safety, to address or mitigate the condition for reverse current, a detector may be able to identify or distinguish among several different types of charger or charging ports coupled to a system bus allowing a charger to be selected optimally. Further, an indicator of the type of charger or charging port coupled to the system bus is communicated over a single pin interface, for backwards compatibility with circuits capable of identifying between only two different types of chargers.
US09424122B2
A digital information transfer system includes an electronic driver unit in electrical communication with a power supply to receive an input voltage. The driver converts the input data into output data based on a digital information transfer system protocol. An electronic fault detection is configured to determine a fault condition of the at least one output transmission line based on a comparison between a voltage level of the at least one output transmission line and the input voltage. An electronic fault protection module is in electrical communication with each of the driver unit, the at least one output transmission line and the fault detection module. The electronic fault protection module is configured to selectively disconnect the driver unit from the at least one output transmission line in response to detecting the fault condition.
US09424115B2
Test results can be analyzed and linked using an automated system. In a first embodiment, an error log can be received including log data associated with an error. The log data can be parsed to transform it into a standardized format to allow for easier searching and comparison. Once standardized, an automatic comparison can be made between the parsed log data and previous errors obtained from error logs. If a match is found between the parsed log data and a previous error, then the parsed log data can be linked to the previous error so as to generate a relationship between the two.
US09424107B1
Techniques for enhancing content being rendered on an electronic device are described herein. In some instances, the techniques include monitoring interactions between a user and a content item that the user consumes on an electronic device. The content items may include electronic books, songs, videos, documents, or the like. In response to detecting an interaction between the user and the content item, the techniques may publish an event indicative of the interaction to an application platform that hosts one or more applications. The applications may be designed to enhance the content that the user consumes in one or more specified ways.
US09424092B2
Heterogeneous thread scheduling techniques are described in which a processing workload is distributed to heterogeneous processing cores of a processing system. The heterogeneous thread scheduling may be implemented based upon a combination of periodic assessments of system-wide power management considerations used to control states of the processing cores and higher frequency thread-by-thread placement decisions that are made in accordance with thread specific policies. In one or more implementations, a system workload context is periodically analyzed for a processing system having heterogeneous cores including power efficient cores and performance oriented cores. Based on the periodic analysis, cores states are set for some of the heterogeneous cores to control activation of the power efficient cores and performance oriented cores for thread scheduling. Then, individual threads are scheduled in dependence upon the core states to allocate the individual threads between active cores of the heterogeneous cores on a per-thread basis.
US09424090B2
Systems and methods provide a processing task load and type adaptive manycore processor architecture, enabling flexible and efficient information processing. The architecture enables executing time variable sets of information processing tasks of differing types on their assigned processing cores of matching types. This involves: for successive core allocation periods (CAPs), selecting specific processing tasks for execution on the cores of the manycore processor for a next CAP based at least in part on core capacity demand expressions associated with the processing tasks hosted on the processor, assigning the selected tasks for execution at cores of the processor for the next CAP so as to maximize the number of processor cores whose assigned tasks for the present and next CAP are associated with same core type, and reconfiguring the cores so that a type of each core in said array matches a type of its assigned task on the next CAP.
US09424079B2
Various embodiments provide techniques and constructs to improve execution speed of distributed iterative computation using heterogeneous specialized resources including, for example, processors and accelerators. Iteration over an arbitrary sub-graph without loop unrolling including for algorithms with data-dependent loop termination and large iteration counts, including as a result of nested iteration, are supported in a resource-efficient manner without adding vertices to a dataflow graph to represent iteration constructs. Instead, some or all of the existing vertices within the sub-graph that is to be iterated upon based on having additional and/or modified ports and channels associated with them.
US09424075B1
A timer service receives timer creation requests from clients and fires those timers upon their expiration by returning to the requesting clients payloads provided with the timer creation requests. A timer creation request includes a client identifier, a timer expiration time, and a payload. The timer service queues timer creation requests, a creation worker adds timer records to a timer store in response to requests and manages virtual partitions of the timer store, and sweeper workers, one per virtual partition, sweep timers into a second queue. A firing worker reads timer index records from the second queue, determines the timers referenced in those timer index records and executes the payloads of those timers. The timer store can be tiered, with virtual partitions different storage priorities based on the timer expirations of the timers in the virtual partitions.
US09424071B2
Generating a digest in a transactional memory environment for performing transactional executions, the transactional memory environment supporting transaction nesting is provided. Included is generating for a transaction, by a computer system, a computed digest based on the execution of at least one of a plurality of instructions of the transaction; based on beginning a nested transaction, executed within the transactional region of the transaction, saving a snapshot of the computed digest as a nesting level snapshot; beginning execution of the nested transaction: updating, by the computer system, the computed digest based on the execution of at least one of a plurality of instructions of the nested transaction; and based on an abort of the nested transaction, restoring the computed digest from the nesting level snapshot and restarting the nested transaction.
US09424063B2
A method for adjusting the configuration of host computers in a cluster on which virtual machines are running in response to a failed change in state is disclosed. The method involves receiving at least one reason a change in state failed the present check or the future check, associating the at least one reason with at least one remediation action, wherein the remediation action would allow the change in state to pass both a present check and a future check, assigning the at least one remediation action a cost, and determining a set of remediation actions to perform based on the cost assigned to each remediation action. In an embodiment, the steps of this method may be implemented in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions that, when executed in a computing device, causes the computing device to carry out the steps.
US09424058B1
A virtual machine template is created. The template includes a file system containing files to be deduplicated across multiple virtual machines. For each file to deduplicate, a hash of the content is generated and stored in association with the file. The content of the file is moved from the virtual machine template to a file store. The entry for the file in the store is indexed according to the hash. Multiple virtual machines are created by cloning the template, each containing a copy of its file system and the hashes stored locally in association with the corresponding deduplicated files. File access operations are monitored on each one of the multiple virtual machines, and attempts to access deduplicated file are detected. In response, the corresponding locally stored hash is used to retrieve the content of the file from the central file store, and provide it to the virtual machine.
US09424057B2
A method of managing use of resources in data center comprises: determining whether first storage subsystem includes a virtual volume or a storage pool that uses a physical volume of second storage subsystem and, if yes, migrating the physical volume to first storage subsystem; determining whether any storage subsystem includes a virtual volume created directly from a physical volume and, if yes, migrating the virtual volume to another virtual volume provisioned from the storage pool of the storage subsystem; and determining whether all virtual volumes satisfy a preset service level objective and, if no, then selecting a virtual machine which has a smallest virtual machine disk file and selecting a storage pool having a largest free space, and then selecting a virtual volume of the storage subsystem which has the selected storage pool and migrating the virtual machine disk file of the selected virtual machine to the selected virtual volume.
US09424041B2
A method and apparatus for simultaneously canceling a dependent instruction and a nested dependent instruction when a cancel timer of a source of the dependent instruction and a cancel timer of a source of the nested dependent instruction expire and a producer instruction speculatively waking up the dependent instruction is canceled.
US09424036B2
Producer-consumer instructions, comprising a first instruction and a second instruction in program order, are fetched requiring in-order execution, the second instruction is modified by the processor so that the first instruction and second instruction can be completed out-of-order, the modification comprising any one of extending an immediate field of the second instruction using immediate field information of the first instruction or providing a source location of the first instruction as an additional source location to source locations of the second instruction.
US09424031B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to overcoming limitations of vector registers in their use with bit-parallel string matching algorithms. An apparatus includes a processor element; and logic to receive a pattern comprising a first string of elements to employ in a string matching operation, instantiate a test bitmask in a first vector register of the processor element, the first vector register comprising multiple lanes, copy bit values at MSB bit positions of the multiple lanes of the first vector register to a first vector mask as a vector value, bit-shift the vector value as a scalar value, bit-shift the first vector register, employ the vector value of the first vector mask to selectively fill LSB bit positions of lanes of a second vector register of the processor element; and OR the second vector register into the first vector register. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09424027B2
This invention bridges the gap between bare-block messaging for I/O and exchange messaging for inter-task communication by providing a message make service to make exchange messages from bare-block messages during input and a message unmake service to do the opposite during output. This invention also introduces new capabilities for message broadcasting by using broadcast message exchanges and message multicasting and distributed message assembly by using proxy messages.
US09424019B2
A computer system includes one or more field programmable gate arrays as a coprocessor that can be shared among processes and programmed using hardware libraries. Given a set of hardware libraries, an update process periodically updates the libraries and/or adds new libraries. One or more update servers can provide information about libraries available for download, either in response to a request or by notifying systems using such libraries. New available libraries can be presented to a user for selection and download. Requests for updated libraries can arise in several ways, such as through polling for updates, exceptions from applications attempting to use libraries, and upon compilation of application code.
US09424015B2
Systems and methods for optimizing transactional memory operations may employ static analysis of source code and static caching of memory objects to elide redundant transactional accesses. For example, a compiler (or an optimizer thereof) may be configured to analyze code that includes an atomic transaction to determine if any read accesses to shared memory locations are dominated by a previous read or write access to the same locations and/or any write accesses to shared memory locations are post-dominated by a subsequent write access to the same locations. Any access within a transaction that is determined to be redundant (e.g., any access other than the first read of a given shared memory location from within the transaction or the last write to a given shared memory location from within the transaction) may be replaced (by the compiler/optimizer) with a non-transactional access to a cached shadow copy of the shared memory location.
US09424011B2
A computer-implemented method, carried out by one or more processors, for recursive expression reduction. In an embodiment, the method comprises the steps of identifying a candidate loop, where the candidate loop includes at least one or more reduction variables and reduction operations; altering grouping of loop invariants and loop variants within the candidate loop; and performing recursive expression simplification for an inner loop, wherein the inner loop is located within the candidate loop.
US09423998B2
A system and method for playback of media content, for example music, video, or other media content. A media device having a media playback application and including a touch-sensitive user interface can be adapted to display a visual array of media options, for example as a grid or list of card elements. Each media option can be associated with one or more media content items that can be streamed to and/or played on the device. The system can determine a selected card element, or media options that are proximate to a selected point or region of the visual array, and play or crossfade media content as appropriate. In accordance with various embodiments, additional features can be provided that improve user interaction, for example the use of audible notifications, media caching, or touch menus.
US09423990B2
A non-transitory computer readable recording medium stores an account management program. The account management program causes a computer in a mobile terminal apparatus to perform the steps of: receiving service table data from an image forming apparatus and storing the service table data in the mobile terminal apparatus; receiving account information required to use a service from a user; storing the account information in the mobile terminal apparatus so as to associate the account information with the service; receiving an identification code of the service when the user logs in the image forming apparatus, and storing the identification code in the mobile terminal apparatus so as to associate the identification code with the account information associated with the service; and receiving the identification code from the image forming apparatus when performing the service, and transmitting to the image forming apparatus the account information associated with the received identification code.
US09423987B2
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium stores a printer driver executable by a data processing apparatus. The data processing apparatus includes a storage device and is configured to execute application program. The printer driver causes the data processing apparatus to perform: acquiring, in response to receiving a print instruction from the application program, a parameter provided by the application program for at least one setting items relating to printing; determining, as a print setting, one predetermined parameter set of a plurality of predetermined parameter sets that are stored in the storage device, each of the plurality of predetermined parameter sets including a plurality of predetermined parameters for the plurality of setting items relating to printing, the one predetermined parameter set being relevant to the parameter provided by the application program; generating a print command in accordance with the print setting; and outputting the print command to a printer.
US09423980B1
Methods and systems for automatically creating a cluster are provided. The method includes discovering at least a first and a second intelligent storage adapter, determining if the first or the second intelligent storage adapter is operating within a cluster, and when neither the first or the second intelligent storage adapter are a part of any cluster, then automatically generating a cluster with a unique identifier and assigning one of the first or the second intelligent storage adapters as a master of the cluster.
US09423979B2
According to one embodiment, a first controller determines whether one or a plurality of pointers corresponding to a buffered command can be stored in a second buffer. The first controller stores the pointers in the second buffer when the pointers can be stored in the second buffer. The first controller causes a second controller to execute the command and to perform data transfer between a non-volatile memory and a data buffer, and executes data transfer between the data buffer and a host using the pointers stored in the second buffer.
US09423975B2
A secondary storage controller receives metadata that uniquely identifies a source volume of a primary storage controller. Data stored in the source volume of the primary storage controller is synchronously copied to a target volume of the secondary storage controller. The secondary storage controller receives a command from a primary host to write selected data to the source volume. In response to receiving the command at the secondary storage controller, the selected data is written to the target volume of the secondary storage controller.
US09423972B2
A data processing system includes a command buffer and control circuitry. The command buffer is configured to store pending write requests to a memory in which each pending write request has corresponding write data. The control circuitry is configured to select a pending write request from an entry of the command buffer and send the selected write request to the memory. The selected write request is a partial write request having first write data stored in the entry. Sending the selected write request includes performing a read-modify-write (RMW), wherein the control circuitry is configured to, after a read operation of the RMW, update the pending write request in the entry from a partial write request to a full write request.
US09423965B2
According to one embodiment, a method includes receiving a write request and determining a first portion of information associated with the write request. The method additionally includes determining a first location on a first disk to write the first portion of information and, based on the determined first location on the first disk, determining a second location on a second disk to write the first portion of information. The method further includes writing the first portion of the information to the first location on the first disk. The first location comprises an outer track of the first disk. The method further includes writing the first portion of the information to the second location on the second disk, the second location comprising an inner track of the second disk.
US09423957B2
A method includes determining a plurality of configuration entries based on received provisioning requests and further based on provisioning system resource utilization data. Each configuration entry includes a corresponding virtual system template, and a corresponding number of virtual systems to be provisioned. The method also includes provisioning the corresponding number of virtual systems for a first configuration entry in the plurality of configuration entries. The corresponding number of virtual systems are provisioned based on the corresponding virtual system template for the first configuration entry. The method additionally includes storing the provisioned virtual systems in a resource pool and processing a provisioning request utilizing a pre-provisioned virtual system stored in the resource pool.
US09423956B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include receiving a device discovery command from a recovery manager running on a management server within a first or second datacenter. In response to the device discovery command, device identifiers for one or more logical storage devices within the first datacenter are requested. In response to the request, a device discovery response including a first identifier is received. The received device discovery response is modified to include the first device identifier as the identifier for both an underlying logical storage device and as an identifier for a peer logical storage device. The modified response is returned to the recovery manager in response to the device discovery command.
US09423955B2
A method and device for reproducing contents of a mobile terminal having a touch screen, including: displaying on the touch screen a list of items corresponding to a plurality of contents stored in the mobile terminal; detecting a touch input to an item displayed in the list; displaying on the touch screen a reproduction screen display having a location and a size corresponding to a determined touch input location; and one of reproducing an entirety of a content corresponding to the touched item and reproducing only a portion of the content corresponding to the touched item in the reproduction screen display according to a detected touch type.
US09423950B2
A display control apparatus, allowing a plurality of input operations to be performed by a touch panel, increasing application performance, and decreasing power consumption, is realized. The display control apparatus performs a coordinate sampling processing at a short (fast) coordinate sampling cycle t1 until a predetermined time T elapses from the starting of touch, and performs the sampling in a coordinate sampling cycle t2 that is longer (slower) than t1 after the predetermined time T elapses. The display control apparatus can certainly distinguish an operation in a coordinate sampling cycle of a necessary minimum speed by setting a coordinate sampling cycle to be high-speed at immediately after starting, and changing a coordinate sampling cycle to be low-speed in the other period.
US09423947B2
According to an aspect, a mobile electronic device includes: a display unit, an operating unit, and a control unit. The display unit for displays a character input screen including a part of a plurality of soft key objects each associated with a process in a line. The operating unit receives input of an operation. Upon detecting a changing operation through the operating unit, the control unit changes arrangement of the soft key objects such that at least one of the soft key objects that has been displayed is not displayed and at least one of the soft key objects that has not been displayed is displayed.
US09423939B2
Embodiments related to dynamically adjusting a user interface based upon depth information are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method including receiving depth information of a physical space from a depth camera, locating a user within the physical space from the depth information, determining a distance between the user and a display device from the depth information, and adjusting one or more features of a user interface displayed on the display device based on the distance.
US09423930B2
A mobile device includes a file information acquiring unit, a file information display unit that displays the file information acquired on a display unit, a file presence identifying unit that determines whether or not a file specified by file information designated by a user from among the file information displayed on the display unit is stored in a storage unit, a first file transmitting unit that transmits the stored file to another mobile device when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is stored in the internal storage unit, a file acquiring unit that downloads the file specified by the designated file information from the server when the file presence identifying unit determines that the file is not stored in the internal storage unit, and a second file transmitting unit that transmits the file acquired by the file acquiring unit to the other mobile device.
US09423928B1
In some embodiments, the instant invention provides for a computer system, including: a specifically programmed publishing server; a non-transitory database; a network publishing portal for connecting digital content creators and digital content viewers to the publishing server over a computer network; where the server, the database and the portal are programmed with specialized publishing software for: receiving digital content from each digital content creator; displaying a specifically programmed hotspot template; where the hotspot template permits to define a plurality of hotspots in the digital content; where each hotspot is an interactive visual programmed clue which allows the viewer to dynamically proceed to experience another portion of the digital content; and where, by sequentially experiencing a first portion of the digital content and another portion of the digital content, the viewer experiences a viewer personalized storyline digital experience which differs from a storyline digital experience pre-defined by the digital content creator.
US09423927B2
Systems and methods for managing user interface elements using gestures are disclosed. In some implementations, a block representing a plurality of user interface elements is displayed on a touch screen of a device. A first gesture initiated at a position corresponding to the block representing the plurality of the user interface elements is received via the touch screen. A first path corresponding to the first gesture is stored in a memory. At least a portion of the plurality of user interface elements are displayed on the touch screen in positions along the first path.
US09423912B2
A touch panel includes a substrate, a touch sensing electrode, and an optical compensation layer. The touch sensing electrode is disposed on the substrate. The optical compensation layer is disposed on the substrate and covers the touch sensing electrode. A refraction index of the optical compensation layer is smaller than or equal to a refraction index of the touch sensing electrode.
US09423911B2
A touch point correction method is provided. Firstly, a first longitudinal base line of several longitudinal electrodes having a maximal energy is detected. Then, a right-side number of the longitudinal electrodes located in right side of the first longitudinal base line and sensing energy is detected. Then, a left-side number of the longitudinal electrodes located in left side of the longitudinal base line and sensing energy is detected. Then, a side corresponding to the largest of the right-side and left-side numbers is used as an inclined side, and a direction from the first longitudinal base line towards the inclined side is defined as an inclined direction. Then, a second longitudinal base line of the longitudinal electrodes having a sub-maximal energy is detected. Then, the sensing point is corrected by correction toward a reverse direction of the inclined direction according to ratio of the sub-maximal energy to the maximal energy.
US09423908B2
An approach is provided for receiving user inputs at a touch-screen of a device, with each user input including a set of input properties. Based on the input properties, identifying an intended input type from a number of input types with input types including a handwriting type and a gesture type. Based on the received user inputs, generating system inputs for the identified intended input type. Inputting the generated system inputs to the device.
US09423907B2
Discussed is a display device with integrated touch screen and a method of driving the same. The display device includes a panel including a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes, a touch IC, and a display driver IC. The touch IC generates a first driving pulse, and determines whether there is a touch using a plurality of sensing signals generated by the sensing electrodes. When the panel operates a touch driving mode, the display driver IC generates a second driving pulse with the first driving pulse to apply the second driving pulse to the driving electrodes and receives the sensing signals from the respective sensing electrodes to transfer the sensing signals to the touch IC.
US09423903B2
A capacitive touch screen panel includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrode serials arranged in parallel in a first direction, a plurality of second electrode serials arranged in parallel intersecting the first electrode serials, a plurality of first routing wires, a plurality of second routing wires and an insulation layer that electrically insulates the first electrode serials from the second electrode serials, wherein each of the first electrode serials includes a plurality of first electrode patterns and a plurality of first connection patterns, and wherein a first conductive layer of the first routing wire, a first conductive layer of the second routing wire, and the first connection patterns are formed in the same layer.
US09423894B2
A user interface device including a floating actuator sub-assembly and a base assembly flexibly coupled to the floating actuator assembly is disclosed. The floating actuator assembly may include a magnet array assembly with a plurality of magnets fixed relative to each other. The user interface device may further include a deformable actuator sub-assembly, which may include a magnet array assembly with a plurality of magnets in a movable configuration relative to each other. A base assembly may include multi-axis magnetic sensors corresponding to the magnets in the magnet arrays to sense position of motion of the magnets during user displacements and/or deformation of actuator elements of the user interface device.
US09423887B2
A method of adjusting sampling precision of a navigation device is disclosed in the present invention. The sampling precision represents counts per inch (CPI) or dots per inch (DPI) of the navigation device. The method includes determining a predetermined mode of the navigation device, obtaining resolution of a display, and adjusting the sampling precision according to the resolution and the predetermined mode, so that the sampling precision of the navigation device can be accordingly increased and decreased due to variation of the resolution.
US09423885B2
A cursor maneuvering device comprises a cavity containing a plurality of colored lights and an image sensor and covered with a semi-transparent medium having dispersive surfaces. The colored lights are located in the cavity in an as largely departed as possible manner and illuminate a pointing device contacting the surface of the semi-transparent medium. The image sensor detects a hue of light illuminating the pointing device and controls a cursor depending upon the hue. Changes in the hue of a moving pointing device are translated into movement of the cursor on the display of an electronic device. The pointing device may be anything touching the semi-transparent medium, for instance a finger.
US09423872B2
A method for controlling a portable device is disclosed. The method includes displaying a plurality of augmented reality (AR) images, detecting a gaze of a user, determining a target object based on the gaze of the user, identifying an associated AR image that is associated with the target object and a non-associated AR image that is not associated with the target object from the plural AR images, and maintaining display of the associated AR image and terminating display of the non-associated AR image when the target object is a moving object.
US09423867B2
A power supply control circuit includes: a power supply unit that outputs the DC voltage for the load operation; a first switch of which opening/closing is controlled by applying the DC voltage from the power supply unit; a second switch which is manually operated to switch over the power supply; and a control unit. The second switch achieves a first state when not manually operated, and achieves a second state when manually operated. The control unit closes the first switch, if the second switch is changed to the second state and thereafter changed to the first state, when the second switch is in the first state and the DC voltage output from the power supply unit is not less than a predetermined value.
US09423864B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a PCI express device, and a link energy management method and device. The method includes: obtaining, by a first device, adjustment information for performing adjustment processing on a current rate and/or bit width of a PCI express link; stopping, by the first device, data sending, and clearing a master enable bit of a configuration space command register of a second device at an opposite end of the link, so that the second device stops data sending after current data sending is finished; performing, by the first device, adjustment processing on the rate and/or bit width of the link according to the adjustment information; resuming, by the first device, the data sending, and resetting the master enable bit, so that the first device and the second device send and receive data again at a rate and/or bit width that is obtained after the adjustment processing.
US09423863B2
A server system and a control method thereof are provided. The server system includes a first computing module, a power distribution board (PDB) module, a first storage apparatus, and a second storage apparatus. The PDB module is connected to the first computing module and is configured to distribute the power of the server system. The first storage apparatus and the second storage apparatus are connected to the PDB module. After finishing a boot operation, the first computing module determines whether a second computing module connected to the PDB module is present, such that the first computing module controls the PDB module to select and distribute the first storage apparatus and the second storage apparatus to the first computing module and the second computing module. Therefore, the server system can achieve different data access applications in the server system by only using a general-purpose PDB module.
US09423858B2
In an embodiment, the present invention includes a processor having a first domain with at least one core to execute instructions, a second domain coupled to the first domain and having at least one non-core circuit, and a power control unit (PCU) coupled to the first and second domains. The PCU may include a power sharing logic to receive encoded power consumption information from the second domain and to calculate an available power budget for the first domain based at least in part on the encoded power consumption information. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09423848B2
An energy management system may include a plurality of industrial automation devices and a first energy agent embedded within an industrial automation device of the plurality of industrial automation devices. The first energy agent may monitor one or more energy properties that correspond to the industrial automation device. Also, the first energy agent may adjust one or more operations of the industrial automation device based at least in part on the energy properties and an energy objective.
US09423847B2
A processor includes a processor core and a power management controller operable to receive a timer event, store the timer event, generate a hardware system sleep command to enter a hardware system sleep state, and restore the timer event upon exiting from the hardware system sleep state.
US09423846B2
In an integrated circuit device, a power circuit for maintaining asserted values on an input output pin of the device when a functional block of the device is placed in a sleep mode. The device includes a power circuit disposed along the periphery of the device, the power circuit configured to maintain power when the device is placed in a low-power mode. A plurality of input output blocks are included in the device and are for receiving external inputs for the integrated circuit device and for providing outputs from the integrated circuit device. The power circuit is coupled to provide power to at least one of the input output blocks to maintain state when the integrated circuit device is in the low-power mode.
US09423841B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a component for a portable electronic device. The component includes a gasket containing a rigid portion disposed around a bottom of a heat pipe, wherein the rigid portion forms a duct between a fan and an exhaust vent of the electronic device. The gasket also includes a first flexible portion bonded to the rigid portion, wherein the first flexible portion comprises a flap that is open during assembly of the heat pipe in the electronic device and closed over the heat pipe and the rigid portion to seal the duct around the heat pipe after the assembly.
US09423835B2
An invisible, light-transmissive display system with a light resistant material is provided. Substantially invisible, tapered, light-transmissive holes are penetrated in a lighttransmissive pattern through at least a portion of the light resistant material using a laser beam having a focal width less than the smallest diameter of the tapered holes.
US09423830B1
Described herein are electronic devices that includes a display stack having a cover component atop a lightguide component and a display component below the lightguide component. In some instances, the cover component including an antiglare etching applied to a top surface of a coverglass and a touch pattern applied to a bottom surface of the coverglass. In some cases, an optically clear adhesive layer formed from two types of optically clear adhesive may be located between the cover component and the lightguide component and a ring adhesive may be applied to around an outer edge of the cover component, the optically clear adhesive and the lightguide component.
US09423829B2
Various configurations of an electronic display, and devices incorporating the display, are provided. The display may have multiple portions connected along one or more axes, lines, points, or other connecting areas. The portions are movable about the connections. In various configurations, the display portions emulate different media and/or communication and computing devices. Two or more of the display devices may be coupled in an array.
US09423819B2
A random number generator includes a light source emitting light at a first frequency, an optical unit including an optical component configured to receive light at the first frequency and emit light at a second frequency, and a measurement unit configured to receive light at the second frequency, and generate a random output value related to a phase parameter of the light at the second frequency.
US09423818B2
An over-center handle mechanism is provided to operate electrical equipment, such as a switch or breaker, housed in an electrical enclosure. The over-center handle mechanism includes an adaptor knob, a rotary actuator and a spring. The adaptor knob interfaces with the electrical equipment. The rotary actuator is connected to the adaptor knob, and includes a cam. A through-door handle is used to operate the rotary actuator, which in turn operates the electrical equipment via the adaptor knob. To optimize an angular torque feeling at the through-door handle, the over-center handle mechanism further includes the spring to provide an opposing force against movement of the cam of the rotary actuator, and thus, the through-door handle. A solid lubricant of PTFE may also be provided as an interface between the cam and the spring to reduce friction therebetween.
US09423817B2
A power source circuit for idling-stop vehicles is provided whereby at normal times other than a restarting of an engine after being idling-stopped, a first voltage detected by a current detection circuit when a bypass switch is turned off is acquired, and a second voltage detected by the current detection circuit when the bypass switch is turned on is also acquired, and an electric current flowing from a battery to a load via the bypass switch is obtained on the basis of a difference between the first voltage and the second voltage.
US09423815B2
A semiconductor device and a highly reliable circuit are realized using the transistors having a lower withstand voltage. There are provided a differential pair including a first and a second transistor which respectively receive input signals having mutually reversed phases; a third and a fourth transistor respectively cascode-coupled to the first and the second transistor, and having the same conductivity type as the first and the second transistor; a first and a second output terminal coupled to respective drains of the third and the fourth transistor; and a voltage divider circuit which divides an intermediate potential between respective potentials of the first and the second output terminal and supplies the divided potential to gates of the third and the fourth transistor.
US09423814B2
A power supply apparatus and a method for supplying power are provided. The method includes: providing a first power supply for outputting a first power signal; providing a second power supply for outputting a second power signal; and selectively charging the second power supply by using the first power supply.
US09423813B2
Embodiments of circuitry, which includes power supply switching circuitry and a first inductive element, are disclosed. The power supply switching circuitry has a first switching output and a second switching output. The first inductive element is coupled between the first switching output and a power supply output. The power supply switching circuitry operates in one of a first operating mode and a second operating mode. During the first operating mode, the first switching output is voltage compatible with the second switching output. During the second operating mode, the first switching output is allowed to be voltage incompatible with the second switching output.
US09423811B2
A switching regulator with an output high threshold voltage setting and an output low threshold voltage setting that permits a plurality of different operating modes to be established. Combined with these two threshold voltages is the ability to adjust both threshold voltages over the full range of the regulator output voltage, which yields switching regulator modes of forced normal operation, automatic where the operating mode is dependent upon output current and forced sleep mode.
US09423810B2
A voltage regulator and a control method thereof are provided to dynamically adjust an output voltage. The voltage regulator comprises a plurality of switching transistors and a control circuit. The first end of each switching transistor receives a driving voltage, and the second end of each switching transistor is electrically connected to the end which outputs the output voltage. The input end and the feedback end of the control circuit respectively receive a reference voltage and the output voltage. A plurality of output ends of the control circuit are electrically connected to the control ends of the switching transistors respectively. Switching transistors adjust the output voltage. The control circuit compares the output voltage with the reference voltage, and selectively turns the switching transistors on or off according to the comparison between the output voltage and the reference voltage, to control the output voltage to approach the reference voltage.
US09423808B2
A method for a DC to DC converter with a pseudo constant switching frequency is disclosed herein. For example, some embodiments provide a DC to DC converter having a switch connected to a switching node to control a voltage of the switching node, and a switching controller that is adapted to turn on and off the switch at a substantially constant frequency based at least in part on the voltage of the switching node. The switching controller includes a modulator connected to a control electrode of the switch and that is adapted to actuate and deactuate the switch, and a first timer that is connected to the switching node and to the modulator. The first timer uses the voltage of the switching node to determine an on-time for the switch.
US09423791B2
A non-contact sensor system and method are disclosed for determining paper sheet quality parameters such as caliper, basis weight and sheet moisture based on THz radiation. The method can include emitting, by an emitter system, a THz radiation signal towards paper sheet material such that the THz radiation interacts with the paper sheet material; detecting, by a detector system, a time and/or frequency dependent response of the THz radiation signal having interacted with the paper sheet material; determining model parameters of a physical model by optimizing the model parameters such that a predicted response of the physical model is fitted to the detected response, the model parameters being indicative of transmission and/or reflection coefficients at interfaces of the paper sheet material with surrounding media; and determining, from the determined model parameters, at least some of the paper sheet quality parameters.
US09423789B2
Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method, comprising: recognizing, by a PLC, that a memory device has been connected to the PLC; and configuring the PLC via a PLC executable software program resident on the memory device. Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method, comprising: via a PLC network interface: presenting a PLC network as a namespace shell extension of an operating system of a non-PLC information device; and rendering, to a user of the non-PLC information device, the PLC network as a node of a network. Certain exemplary embodiments can comprise a method, comprising: via a PLC network interface: presenting a PLC network as a namespace shell extension of an operating system of a non-PLC information device; and searching the PLC network for at least one item corresponding to one or more search parameters.
US09423771B2
A method of placing under a protective atmosphere a watch case fitted with its movement, includes: installing the watch case in the housing of a support including a unit for holding the watch and a unit for guiding an actuator acting on a part of the case; introducing the support into a flexible pouch; installing the support in the open pouch in a device for imposing a protective atmosphere; reducing the pressure within such device; closing the pouch containing the support; extracting the support from the sealed pouch of the device for imposing a protective atmosphere; closing the watch case by acting on the actuator via the outside of the pouch in order that it displaces a part of the watch according to the guide unit in order to close the watch; opening the pouch and separation of the actuator from the part of the case on which it acts.
US09423764B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly; a rotatable member supported by the main assembly rotatably about a first rotational center; an openable member supported by the rotatable member rotatably about a second rotational center; and an urging member provided between the openable member and the rotatable member and configured to apply an urging force for suppressing opening of the openable member, wherein the openable member is capable of switching a rotational center between the first rotational center and the second rotational center in opening and closing operation of the openable member.
US09423761B2
An image forming device includes: a cartridge; a supporting member; a belt unit; a waste toner storage member; and a conveying member. The cartridge is configured to retain a photosensitive body. The belt unit includes a belt; and a cleaning member. The cleaning member removes residual toner remaining on the belt. The waste toner storage member stores the residual toner. The belt unit is movable between a contact position in which the belt contacts the photosensitive body and a separated position in which the belt is separated from the photosensitive body. The conveying member allows the residual toner to be conveyed from the cleaning member to the waste toner storage member when the belt unit is in the contact position, and interrupts the residual toner from being conveyed from the cleaning member to the waste toner storage member when the belt unit is in the separated position.
US09423753B1
An image forming apparatus includes a density detection part and a control part to correct a density of developer image. The control part causes the density detection part to detect a density of first developer image and second developer image to obtain a first density detection result, and to detect a second density detection result that is another density detection result, and afterwards computes a first density comparison value by comparing the first density detection result with the second density detection result and corrects the density of the first developer image by subtracting the first density comparison value from the first density detection result.
US09423751B2
A latent image forming unit forms an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive member. A developing unit includes a container. The container stores toner. A circulating unit circulates the toner in the container. The developing unit develops the electrostatic latent image using the toner. A replenishment unit replenishes the developing unit with toner. A detection unit detects a density of the toner in the container. An acquisition unit acquires a circulation period at which the circulating unit causes the toner to circulate. A determining unit determines a correction condition based on the circulation period. A correction unit corrects a detection result of the detection unit based on the correction condition. A controller controls the replenishment unit based on the detection result corrected by the correction unit.
US09423731B2
An image forming apparatus forms a toner image of text on a recording sheet based on PDL data prescribing text data and one or more print conditions of thereof, and thermally fixes the toner image, and includes: condition acquisition unit analyzing the PDL data to acquire, as the conditions, one or more of character number, character spacing, and line spacing from the PDL data; judgment unit judging for each condition, by comparing the condition with reference value, the judgment indicating whether the condition is suitable for ensuring fixability of the toner image if thermally fixed at a temperature that is lower than predetermined temperature; and temperature control unit, when the judgment unit judges negatively for at least one condition, setting a fixing temperature for thermally fixing the toner image to the predetermined temperature, when the judgment unit judges affirmatively for all conditions, setting the fixing temperature to the lower temperature.
US09423711B2
A magnetic toner including: magnetic toner particles containing a binder resin, a magnetic body, and a release agent; and inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles, wherein the inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles contain metal oxide fine particles, the metal oxide fine particles containing silica fine particles, and optionally containing titania fine particles and alumina fine particles, and a content of the silica fine particles being at least 85 mass % with respect to a total mass of the silica fine particles, the titania fine particles and the alumina fine particles, wherein the magnetic toner has a coverage ratio A of the magnetic toner particles' surface by the inorganic fine particles and a coverage ratio B of the magnetic toner particles' surface by the inorganic fine particles fixed to the magnetic toner particles' surface that reside in prescribed numerical value ranges; the binder resin contains a styrene resin; the release agent contains a monoester compound or a diester compound; and the softening temperature and softening point of the magnetic toner reside in prescribed temperature ranges.
US09423710B2
The magnetic toner includes magnetic toner particles comprising a binder resin and a magnetic body and inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles, whereinthe inorganic fine particles present on the surface of the magnetic toner particles comprise metal oxide fine particles, the metal oxide fine particles containing silica fine particles, and optionally containing titania fine particles and alumina fine particles, and a content of the silica fine particles being at least 85 mass % with respect to a total mass of the silica fine particles, the titania fine particles and the alumina fine particles, wherein; when a coverage ratio A (%) is a coverage ratio of the magnetic toner particle's surface by the inorganic fine particles and a coverage ratio B (%) is a coverage ratio of the magnetic toner particle' surface by the inorganic fine particles that are fixed to the magnetic toner particle's surface, the magnetic toner has a coverage ratio A, a coefficient of variation on the coverage ratio A, a ratio of the coverage ratio B to the coverage ratio A, and a compression ratio in a specific range.
US09423704B2
An apparatus and method for measuring thermo-mechanically induced reticle distortion or other distortion in a lithography device enables detecting distortion at the nanometer level in situ. The techniques described use relatively simple optical detectors and data acquisition electronics that are capable of monitoring the distortion in real time, during operation of the lithography equipment. Time-varying anisotropic distortion of a reticle can be measured by directing slit patterns of light having different orientations to the reticle and detecting reflected, transmitted or diffracted light from the reticle. In one example, corresponding segments of successive time measurements of secondary light signals are compared as the reticle scans a substrate at a reticle stage speed of about 1 m/s to detect temporal offsets and other features that correspond to spatial distortion.
US09423697B2
An illumination optical apparatus and projection exposure apparatus capable of reducing a light quantity loss when a mask is illuminated with a polarized illumination light. An illumination optical system for illuminating a reticle with an illumination light and a projection optical system for projecting the pattern image of the reticle onto a wafer are provided. An illumination light emitted from an exposure light source in a linearly polarized state in the illumination optical system passes through first and second birefringent members having different fast axis directions and is converted into a polarized state that is substantially linearly polarized in a circumferential direction with the optical axis as the center in an almost specific annular area, and them illuminates the reticle under an annular illuminating condition after passing through a fly-eye lens.
US09423696B2
Method for operating a projection exposure apparatus for microlithography, the projection exposure apparatus comprising an optical element, a manipulator, which acts on the optical element by changing the temperature of the optical element and the deflection of which brings about a heat flow caused by the manipulator into the optical element. The history of the effects, in particular the temperatures introduced into the optical element or the optical effects caused thereby, of the manipulator are recorded in a record.
US09423694B2
There is disclosed a polarization-modulating element for modulating a polarization state of incident light into a predetermined polarization state, the polarization-modulating element being made of an optical material with optical activity and having a circumferentially varying thickness profile.
US09423691B2
In a layered structure having at least a substrate and a photosensitive resin layer or cured film layer formed on the substrate and containing an inorganic filler, the content of the inorganic filler in the photosensitive resin layer or cured film layer is low on the side contacting the substrate and high on the surface side away from the substrate, so that a linear thermal expansion coefficient of the photosensitive resin layer or cured film layer as a whole is maintained as low as possible. Preferably, the inorganic filler content in the layer gradually increases continuously obliquely or stepwise from the side contacting the substrate to the surface side away from the substrate. A photosensitive dry film containing the above-mentioned photosensitive resin layer is suitable for use as a solder resist or an interlayer resin insulation layer of a printed wiring board.
US09423688B2
A slit shaped area of a patterning device is illuminated to impart a radiation beam with a pattern in its cross-section. A projection system projects the patterned radiation beam onto a target portion of a substrate. As the radiation beam is scanned across the target portion of the substrate, a configuration of the projection system is adjusted and applies a pattern to the target portion. The adjusting may affect a magnitude of an image magnification component of the projection system, along the length of the slit shaped area, or an image distortion in a scan direction. The adjusting is arranged to compensate an effect on pattern overlay accuracy of a distortion of the patterning device.
US09423686B2
A mask for microlithography comprises a substrate; a first pattern area on the substrate, the first pattern area comprising a first pattern extending over a first length in a mask scanning direction and a first width in a direction perpendicular to the mask scan direction; and a second pattern area on the substrate adjacent to the first pattern area in the mask scanning direction, the second pattern area comprising a second pattern extending over a second length in the mask scanning direction and a second width identical to the first width in the direction perpendicular to the mask scan direction.
US09423685B2
Provided is a multilayer reflective film formed substrate formed with a fiducial mark for accurately managing coordinates of defects. A multilayer reflective film formed substrate is formed with a multilayer reflective film, which is adapted to reflect EUV light, on a substrate and a fiducial mark which serves as a reference for a defect position in defect information is formed on the multilayer reflective film. The fiducial mark includes a main mark for determining a reference point for the defect position and auxiliary marks arranged around the main mark. The main mark has a point-symmetrical shape and has a portion with a width of 200 nm or more and 10 μm or less with respect to a scanning direction of an electron beam writing apparatus or defect inspection light.
US09423667B2
A high-frequency circuit 10 includes: a termination resistor 12a embedded to a surface of a substrate 21; and a signal line 11a formed on the surface of the substrate 21, the signal line having a junction segment CJ, the junction segment CJ covering a portion of an upper surface of the termination resistor 12a so that at least a portion along a width of the junction segment CJ that extends from the start position to the end position is connected to the termination resistor 12a. A width WS of the signal line 11a at the start position of the junction segment CJ is equal to or greater than a width WT of the upper surface of the termination resistor 12a at the start position.
US09423664B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling transitions in an optically switchable device. In one aspect, a controller for a tintable window may include a processor, an input for receiving output signals from sensors, and instructions for causing the processor to determine a level of tint of the tintable window, and an output for controlling the level of tint in the tintable window. The instructions may include a relationship between the received output signals and the level of tint, with the relationship employing output signals from an exterior photosensor, an interior photosensor, an occupancy sensor, an exterior temperature sensor, and a transmissivity sensor. In some instances, the controller may receive output signals over a network and/or be interfaced with a network, and in some instances, the controller may be a standalone controller that is not interfaced with a network.
US09423663B2
A method for manufacturing a patterned layer includes the steps of: providing a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; providing a material source for supplying a plurality of charged particles, in which the first surface faces the material source; providing a magnetic element, in which the second surface is arranged between the magnetic element and the first surface; and depositing the charged particles on the first surface through using the magnetic element so as to form a patterned layer. A method for manufacturing an electrochromic device is disclosed as well.
US09423652B2
A light source assembly includes a base plate, a light source secured on the base plate, a first reflection member, a second reflection member, and a diffusion plate. The first reflection member includes a base portion secured on the base plate and a plurality of protrusions with reflection surfaces inclined to the base plate. A through hole is defined on the base portion to receive the light source. Each protrusion protrudes from a side of the base portion away from the base plate and extends around the through hole. The second reflection member includes a reflection portion defining a plurality of light holes. The diffusion plate covers the second reflection member. Light emitting from the light source transmits to the light guide assembly via the reflection portion and the reflection surfaces.
US09423651B2
A backlight module comprising a light source and a diffusion plate disposed immediately opposite a light exiting surface of the light source.
US09423644B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a display including: a first substrate; gate lines and data lines; transistors respectively located in pixel areas, wherein each of the transistors includes: an active layer on the first substrate and having a first end portion, a second end portion, and a necked-down portion connecting the first and the second end portions; a second substrate on the first substrate; and a display medium between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US09423641B2
A panel for a display device is provided. The panel includes a first substrate, a touch sensing circuit formed on the first substrate, the touch sensing circuit including at least one sensing thin film transistor and a connection wire, and a shielding electrode formed covering at least a portion of the sensing thin film transistor and the connection wire.
US09423638B2
A thin display unit that incorporates a high-luminance, high-contrast display part that is free of image detects caused by the deformation of the display part is provided. The display unit of the present invention includes an image display part 2 and a light-transmitting protective part 3 arranged on the image display part 2. A cured resin layer 5 is arranged between the display part 2 and the protective part 3. The cured resin layer 5 has a transmittance of 90% or higher in the visible range and a storage modulus at 25° C. of 1×107 Pa or less. The cured resin layer 5 is formed from a resin composition that has a cure shrinkage of 5% or less.
US09423637B2
A source AMP output circuit (10) is provided with a switching circuit (17) for carrying out the following operation. That is, in a case where a polarity is reversed, the switching circuit (17) disconnects a data signal line (S(M)) from output terminals of a positive amplifier circuit (15) and a negative polarity amplifier circuit (16) each included in the source AMP output circuit (10), and then connects the data signal line S(M) to a power supply which is in a power supply voltage range (Vdd1 to Vdd3) of the positive polarity amplifier circuit (15) or to a power supply which is in a power supply voltage range (Vdd2 to Vdd4) of the negative polarity amplifier circuit (16).
US09423630B2
A lens driving device that is based on a Voice Coil Actuator (VCA) structure and provides the auto-focusing and optical image stabilization (OIS) functions. These two functions can be realized by a common magnet scheme, or a separate magnet scheme. Also, the present invention provides an improved structure for the lens driving device to enhance the function of OIS thereof. By arranging a magnetic enhancement device below the OIS coils in the lens driving device, the magnetic driving force of the OIS coils and magnetic induction of the Hall sensors, if present, can be enhanced, and the magnetic sensitivity thereof may be also improved.
US09423628B2
A VCM (Voice Coil Motor) is disclosed, the VCM including an auto focus module vertically moving a lens and having terminals exposed to an outer surface, a fixation member coupled to the outer surface of the auto focus module to expose the terminals, a handshake correction module including a first driving unit coupled to an outer surface of the fixation member and a second driving unit opposite to the first driving unit, a connection member connecting an upper end of the auto focus module to an upper end of the handshake correction module, and a flexible circuit board connected to the terminals and the second driving unit to apply a driving signal to the first and second driving units.
US09423626B2
A three-dimensional (3D) image display apparatus and method are provided. The 3D image display apparatus includes an image generating unit configured to generate an image, an active optical device configured to change a propagation path of light containing the generated image, and provide the generated image to multiple viewpoints that are located along a first direction parallel to the image generating unit, and a varifocal lens configured to vary a focal position of the generated image along a second direction away from the image generating unit.
US09423612B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for positioning content within an FOV of a HWC based on sensor feedback.
US09423610B2
An optical scanning apparatus has a first scanning optical element having a negative power in a sub-scanning direction. A first light beam and a second light beam enter the first scanning optical element through points of an input surface on a same side of a reference surface, which includes an optical axis of the first scanning optical element and being parallel to a main-scanning direction. The second light beam makes a greater angle with the reference surface than the first light beam. A first angle between the reference surface and a principal ray of a first ghost light beam is greater than a second angle between the reference surface and a principal ray of a first normal light beam and is smaller than a third angle between the reference surface and a principal ray of a second normal light beam.
US09423606B2
A method of manufacturing an electrowetting device including dispensing a fluid from a channel and onto a surface of a support plate. The channel is formed by a part of the surface of the support plate, an interface between the fluid and another fluid, and a further surface which is for example a surface of a roller.
US09423597B2
An optical instrument of the present invention has a first lens group and a second lens group capable of moving in an optical axis direction in order to perform optical zooming, and comprises a storage section for storing first position information relating to positions of the first lens group and positions of the second lens group corresponding to identical focal lengths that fall within a focal length region range in which zoom operations of the optical instrument are carried out, and second position information relating to positions of the first lens group and positions of the second lens group corresponding to different focal lengths that fall within the focal length region, and establishes a second optical state of a higher shooting magnification than a first optical state, when establishing substantially the same focal length as a focal length of the first optical state based on the first position information.
US09423595B2
An imaging lens is essentially constituted by seven lenses, including: a positive first lens having a convex surface toward the object side; a second lens, of which at least one surface is of an aspherical shape; a third lens, of which at least one surface is of an aspherical shape; a fourth lens, of which at least one surface is of an aspherical shape; a positive fifth lens of a meniscus shape with a convex surface toward the image side; a sixth lens, of which at least one surface is of an aspherical shape; and a negative seventh lens having a concave surface toward the image side, provided in this order from the object side. The imaging lens satisfies a predetermined conditional formula.
US09423587B2
An optical imaging lens includes: a first, second, third and fourth lens element, the first lens element having an object-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis, the second lens element having an object-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis, and an image-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of its periphery, the third lens element having an image-side surface with a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis, the fourth lens element having an image-side surface with a concave portion in a vicinity of the optical axis, wherein the optical imaging lens set does not include any lens element with refractive power other than said first, second, third and fourth lens elements.
US09423583B2
Methods of controlling the position of an optical fiber having a minimum bend radius within an optical fiber channel in a fiber optic cable having a small footprint are disclosed. The position of the optical fibers is controlled so that the fiber is not bent at a radius below its minimum bend radius.
US09423579B2
Some embodiments include a latch mechanism and an optoelectronic module that includes the latch mechanism. The latch mechanism may include a driver, a follower, a pivot member, and a cam member. The driver may be configured to rotate relative to a housing of the optoelectronic module about an axis of rotation. The follower may be configured to be slidably positioned relative the housing. The follower may include a resilient member configured to interface with the housing and may define an opening including a protuberance. The pivot member may be coupled to the driver or to the housing and may define the axis of rotation. The cam member may be coupled to the driver and may be configured to engage the follower from within the opening so as to urge the follower to slide relative to the housing as the driver is rotated between a latched position and an unlatched position.
US09423574B2
An extraction mechanism A has: a release part, e.g., a slider 6, configured to release an engagement between a cage 2 and a device, e.g., an optical module 1, inserted into the cage 2 and engaged and latched to the cage 2; an ejection part, e.g., an ejector 5, etc., configured to eject the device out of the cage 2; and a release lever 7 configured to activate the release part and the ejection part. The extraction mechanism is provided to the device. This enables to clearly inform an operator of the extraction operation.
US09423573B2
An optical fiber socket includes a socket body and a fastening member. The socket body has a plugging slot. The edge of the plugging slot forms a stop wall and an accommodating slot is formed in the plugging slot near the stop wall. The fastening member is slidably disposed in the plugging slot. The fastening member extends and forms a stopper pin. The stopper pin is for sliding along the accommodating slot and for being stopped between the stop wall and the accommodating slot. The stopper pin stops between the stop wall and the accommodating slot so the optical fiber plug is able to be plugged in and be fixed stably.
US09423565B2
Planar waveguide apparatus provides a waveguide at least partially overlying a passive buried rib waveguide for coupling optical radiation there between. The overlying waveguide has at least one tapered section, the width of the taper determining the degree of coupling between the waveguides at points along the tapered section. The overlying waveguide may have an active core region. The passive buried rib may have one or more unguided sections below electrically driven regions of the active waveguide to avoid parasitic modes and/or may provide a grating for use as a filter or feedback. Variations include a branched passive waveguide for coupling to two or more overlying waveguides and two or more aligned and active overlying waveguides coupling to one passive waveguide, there being a break in a shared core region of the active waveguides to provide electrical isolation between them.
US09423561B1
An apparatus to attach a fiber block to a silicon waveguide. The apparatus includes a holder base holding a portion of an array of optical fibers aligned optically in multiple slots in parallel. The apparatus further includes a holder cap combined with the holder base for fixing the portion of the fibers and leaving the fibers free with arbitrary length beyond a first edge of the holder base but keeping only additional second length of the fibers beyond a second edge of the holder base with fiber ending facets at the second length. Additionally, the apparatus includes a silicon photonics waveguide chip including an attachment section connected to a waveguide section. The attachment section includes multiple grooves laid in parallel for respectively attaching with the second length of the fibers so that the fiber ending facets are coupled to multiple waveguides formed in parallel in the waveguide section.
US09423559B2
A multi-core amplification optical fiber includes: a plurality of core portions doped with a rare-earth element; an inner cladding portion positioned at a periphery of the plurality of core portions, having a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the plurality of core portions, in which a first hole is formed; and an outer cladding layer positioned at a periphery of the inner cladding portion, having a refractive index lower than the refractive index of the inner cladding portion.
US09423555B2
In a backlight (20) including a frame (22) having an opening (22a), and a light guide plate assembly (23) disposed inside the frame (22) and having a light guide plate (24) and a light source (25), the backlight being configured to emit illumination light through the opening (22a), the frame (22) is formed by bending a metal plate and includes a bottom surface portion (22b) facing a rear surface of the light guide plate (24), a peripheral surface portion (22c) standing on a peripheral edge of the bottom surface portion (22b), and an upper surface portion (22d) bent from an upper end of the peripheral surface portion (22c) to form a peripheral edge of the opening, and an outer shape of the light guide plate assembly (23) is smaller than the opening (22a).
US09423554B2
There are provided a light emitting unit that enhances the uniformity of in-plane colors, as well as a display and a lighting apparatus that include such a light emitting unit thereon. The light emitting unit includes: a plurality of light emitting sections each having a light source and a wavelength conversion member, the wavelength conversion member converting a wavelength of light emitted from the light source; an optical component having a light incident surface in opposition to the plurality of light emitting sections; and a color unevenness prevention structure suppressing direct entering of light from the light source into the optical component.
US09423553B2
A backlight device includes a prism film having a top face on a display panel side and a bottom face opposing the top face, and a reflector plate having a reflection face opposing the bottom face. A prism-like pattern is formed on the top face of the prism film and a scattering pattern is formed on the reflection face of the reflector plate. When a first normal line axis of a slope forming the prism-like pattern and a second normal line axis of one slope forming the scattering pattern are projected on an imaginary plane parallel to the display panel, the projected first and second normal line axes form an acute angle.
US09423552B2
A lightguide assembly including structures to provide for outcoupling of light from an internal reflection structure. In an embodiment, a lightguide assembly includes light transmissive bodies forming respective corrugations which are coupled to one another. Optical coatings are variously disposed between the respective corrugations, wherein the optical coatings provide for redirection of light from the lightguide assembly. In another embodiment, optical coatings are each applied to a respective one of alternate facets of a corrugation. Polymer film portions provide mechanical support for the optical coatings during application to the corrugation.
US09423550B2
The present invention provides a backlight module and a display device. The present invention can solve the problem that a hot spot in a marginal portion of a light guide plate results in non-uniform brightness of emitted light from a backlight module. The backlight module comprises a light guide plate and a plurality of light sources, the light guide plate comprising a light incident surface, the plurality of light sources being arranged opposite to the light incident surface of the light guide plate. The backlight module further comprises a light scattering unit arranged between the plurality of light sources and the light incident surface of the light guide plate, and the light scattering unit is used for scattering and irradiating light rays from the plurality of light sources to the light guide plate. The display device of the present invention comprises the backlight module as described above.
US09423546B2
A laser beam (L50) generated by a laser light source (50) is reflected by a light beam scanning device (60), and irradiated onto a hologram recording medium (45). On the hologram recording medium (45), an image (35) of a scatter plate is recorded as a hologram by using reference light that converges on a scanning origin (B). The light beam scanning device (60) bends the laser beam (L50) at the scanning origin (B) and irradiates it onto the hologram recording medium (45). At this time, scanning is carried out by changing the bending mode of the laser beam with time so that the irradiation position of the bent laser beam (L60) on the hologram recording medium (45) changes with time. Regardless of the beam irradiation position, diffracted light (L45) from the hologram recording medium (45) reproduces the same reproduction image (35) of the scatter plate at the same position. An illumination spot in which speckles are reduced is formed on the light receiving surface (R) of an illuminating object (70) by the reproduction image (35) of the hologram.
US09423544B2
An optical compensation film for a liquid crystal display is provided and comprises a liquid crystal layer which is disposed on a substrate and has a plurality of first stripe-structure regions with a first thickness and a plurality of second stripe-structure regions with a second thickness, wherein each of the second stripe-structure regions is contiguous to at least one of the first stripe-structure region and the second thickness is greater than the first thickness. The method for manufacturing the optical compensation film is provided.
US09423541B2
A manufacturing method of a mother substrate assembly includes forming a metal layer on substantially an entire surface of a transparent substrate including a cell area including a non-display area and a display area, an align key area, and a substrate area surrounding the cell area and the align key area, etching the metal layer to form an align key in the align key area, etching the metal layer to form a reflection part in the non-display area, and etching the metal layer in the display area to form a metal nanowire in the display area.
US09423540B2
Methods for manufacturing the grating sheet and a liquid crystal display panel are provided. The grating sheet comprises a plurality of primary color gratings in parallel, each of which comprises a red R sub-grating, a green G sub-grating and a blue B sub-grating in parallel, and each sub-grating comprises an opening area and a reflective region disposed around the opening area and corresponds to a pixel unit on a sub-array substrate. The methods for manufacturing the grating sheet and a liquid crystal display panel may be applicable to a system with a liquid crystal display.
US09423538B2
An apparatus for directing thermal infrared energy toward or away from a target is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a covering having a plurality of retroreflective elements. The plurality of retroreflective elements are configured to retroreflect electromagnetic beams primarily at thermal infrared wavelengths, receive the electromagnetic beams from the target along beam reception paths, and reflect the electromagnetic beams back toward the target along beam reflection paths. The beam reflection paths have substantially the same elevation angle and/or azimuth angle as their respective beam reception paths.
US09423536B2
A device for measurement by means of a light ray is equipped with a covering device for reducing stray light. The device comprises an array of lenses along an optical axis; a prism attached to one of the lenses with a slanted surface for coupling of the light ray incident from a light source placed lateral to the optical axis, onto the optical axis, so that the light ray can pass through the array of lenses along the optical axis; a receiver for receipt of a share of the light ray reflected by an object; and a covering device for at least one area of the prism that scatters a share of the light ray as stray light to the receiver.
US09423530B2
The optical element of the present invention has an anti-reflection film formed on a substrate. Here, the anti-reflection film comprises a first layer formed on the substrate; a second layer formed on the first layer and consisting of a material different from that of the first layer; and a third layer formed on the second layer and consisting of a concave-convex structure. Also, the third layer has three regions of which a refractive index for each thickness changes at a constant rate by continuously changing the space filling factor of the concave-convex structure.
US09423528B2
The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a contact lens including the steps of: (i) adding reactive components to a mold, wherein the reactive components comprise (a) at least one hydroxy-containing silicone component having a weight average molecular weight from about 200 to about 15,000 g/mole and (b) at least one mono-ether terminated, mono-methacrylate terminated polyethylene glycol having a weight average molecular weight from about 200 to about 10,000 g/mole; (ii) curing the reactive components within the mold to form the contact lens; and (iii) removing the contact lens from said mold.
US09423525B2
A method for obtaining gain compensated propagation measurements includes rotating an electromagnetic logging while drilling tool having at least one axial transmitter antenna, at least one transverse transmitter antenna, at least one axial receiver antenna and at least one transverse receiver antenna in a subterranean wellbore. Electromagnetic voltage measurements are acquired from the axial and transverse receiver antennas while rotating. The acquired voltage measurements are processed to compute harmonic voltage coefficients. Ratios of selected ones of the harmonic voltage coefficients are in turn processed to compute at least one gain compensated quantity including an axial cross term.
US09423519B2
In the field of marine geophysical surveying, systems and methods for controlling the spatial distribution or orientation of a geophysical sensor streamer or an array of geophysical sensor streamers towed behind a survey vessel are provided. Various techniques for changing the spatial distribution or orientation of such geophysical sensor streamers in response to changing conditions are provided. For example, crosscurrent conditions may be determined based on configuration data received from positioning devices along the length of a streamer, and a new desired orientation for the streamer may be determined based on the crosscurrent conditions. The new desired orientation may include a new desired feather angle for the streamer.
US09423515B2
A detector array includes at least one direct conversion detector pixel (114-114M) configured to detect photons of poly-chromatic ionizing radiation. The pixel includes a cathode layer (116), an anode layer (118) including an anode electrode (118-118 M ) for each of the at least one detector pixels, a direct conversion material (120), disposed between the cathode layer and the anode layer, and a gate electrode disposed in the direct conversion material, parallelto and between the cathode and anode layers.
US09423512B2
A radiation imaging apparatus includes a pixel array having pixels, a bias line applying a bias potential to converters of the pixels, a detection circuit which detects a current flowing to the bias line, and a control unit which detects a start of radiation irradiation to the pixel array based on an output from the detection circuit and controls a charge accumulation operation of the pixels in accordance with the detection. The detection circuit includes a differential amplifier circuit and a feedback path, and applies a potential corresponding to a reference bias potential to the bias line. The differential amplifier circuit includes a first input terminal receiving the reference bias potential, a second input terminal connected to the bias line, and an output terminal, and the feedback path connects the output terminal and the second input terminal.
US09423498B1
In an example method, a vehicle configured to operate in an autonomous mode could have a radar system used to aid in vehicle guidance. The method could include a plurality of antennas configured to transmit and receive electromagnetic signals. The method may also include a one or more sensors configured to measure a movement of the vehicle. A portion of the method may be performed by a processor configured to: i) determine adjustments based on the movement of the vehicle; ii) calculate distance and direction information for received electromagnetic signals; and iii) recover distance and direction information for received electromagnetic signals with the adjustments applied. The processor may be further configured to adjust the movement of the autonomous vehicle based on the distance and direction information with adjustments applied.
US09423494B2
A sonar transmitter includes digital logic that controls switches coupled to a primary coil of a transformer. The switches are driven to produce at least one voltage pulse across a secondary coil for the transformer to produce a series of voltage pulses approximating the desired signal. The transformer may comprise: a secondary coil having a plurality of windings arranged into a first section, a middle section, and a final section; and a primary coil winding wound only with the secondary coil windings forming the middle section.
US09423491B2
A radar device that transmits a high frequency signal and detects an object by a reflected wave that is reflected by the object includes a transmitting antenna that transmits the high frequency signal, a receiving antenna that receives a reflected wave that is transmitted by the transmitting antenna and reflected by the object, and a dummy antenna that attenuates a reflected wave that is reflected by a structure arranged on a transmission path of the high frequency signal. The dummy antenna is configured be selectable as an antenna having another function.
US09423477B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes a split magnet system having a pair of MRI magnet housings separated by gap. A pair of main MRI magnets are disposed within respective MRI magnet housings. A plurality of buttress assemblies are attached to the MRI magnet housings. Some or all of the buttress assemblies are provided with removable connections to the MRI magnet housings. This allows for partial disassembly of the MRI system for improved transport and maneuverability for relocating the MRI system. The MRI system can include a gantry in the gap for supporting a radiation therapy system. Also, the removably buttress assemblies can be used for housing conduits, such as electrical and fluid conduits, between the pair of MRI magnet housings.
US09423472B2
In the method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive sensor module, at first a composite arrangement out of a semiconductor substrate and a metal-insulator arrangement is provided, wherein a semiconductor circuit arrangement is integrated adjacent to a main surface of the semiconductor substrate into the same, wherein the metal-insulator arrangement is arranged on the main surface of the semiconductor substrate and comprises a structured metal sheet and insulation material at least partially surrounding the structured metal sheet, wherein the structured metal sheet is electrically connected to the semiconductor circuit arrangement. Then, a magnetoresistive sensor structure is applied onto a surface of the insulation material of the composite arrangement, and finally an electrical connection between the magnetoresistive sensor structure and the structured metal sheet is established, so that the magnetoresistive sensor structure is connected to the integrated circuit arrangement.
US09423464B2
A battery control device includes an acquisition portion that acquires measured values on the battery state every predetermined period, and a determination processing portion that determines the battery state. The determination processing portion determines that the battery state is abnormal when the number of times the measured value is out of a given range reaches a threshold until the measured value is acquired a predetermined standard number of times. If the number of times the measured value is out of range is less than the threshold when the measured number is acquired the standard number of times, the determination of the battery state is performed for an extended period until the number of times the measured value is out of the range reaches the threshold, or until the measured number is within the range, based on the measured value acquired more than the standard number of times.
US09423452B2
A method for performing contactless signal testing includes receiving, with a testing pad of an integrated circuit, a signal within an electron beam, converting an electrical current created by the e-beam to a voltage with a number of diodes connected to a positive voltage supply, extracting a digital test signal from the voltage signal with a digital inverter, and passing the test signal to digital circuitry within the integrated circuit.
US09423446B2
An insulation state detecting device includes a positive side input terminal connected to a positive side power line of a high voltage DC power supply, a negative side input terminal connected to a negative side power line of the high voltage DC power supply, a ground electrode, a controller that detects insulation states between the positive side power line and the negative side power line and the ground electrode based on a charge voltage of a flying capacitor, and an equilibrium state forming circuit that promotes an operation of transiting a charge state of a positive side electrostatic capacitance between the positive side power line and the ground electrode and a charge state of a negative side electrostatic capacitance between the negative side power line and the ground electrode from non-equilibrium states to equilibrium states.
US09423438B2
A dielectric constant measurement circuit includes a dielectric constant sensor, an oscillator controlling circuit, a waveform converting circuit, and a counting readout circuit. The oscillator controlling circuit generates an oscillation waveform according to the response of the dielectric constant sensor to a dielectric material. The waveform converting circuit converts the oscillation waveform into frequency division square waves. The counting readout circuit includes a switching counter, a switching circuit, a reference current source, and a current integrator. The reference current source charges the current integrator through the switching circuit controlled by the frequency division square waves, and the switching counter counts the number of the turned-on states of the switching circuit and stops counting the number of the turned-on states when a value of the output voltage from the current integrator reaches a value of the reference voltage, and the number of the turned-on states is related to the oscillation frequency.
US09423435B2
An electric power metering device which includes a current sensor, an electronic measurement and rectifier circuit, a processing circuit and a transmitter connected to the processing circuit to transmit power messages to an electric power measurement receiver. An electric current integration capacitor is connected to the current sensor via a rectifier circuit. A switch is commanded by a threshold detector to supply to the processing circuit and the transmitter power accumulated in the capacitor when its electric voltage has exceeded a predefined voltage threshold. A power message representative of a quantity of electric power is then transmitted. A power metering method includes transmission of a power message when a capacitor voltage has reached a voltage threshold.
US09423429B2
A first magnetoelectric conversion element group including magnetoelectric conversion elements, and a second magnetoelectric conversion element group including magnetoelectric conversion elements are arranged across a cutout of a wiring board. The first and second groups are arranged line-symmetrically with respect to a first imaginary line. The elements in the first and second groups are arranged line-symmetrically with respect to a second imaginary line. The first imaginary line and the second imaginary line orthogonally intersect each other at a placement position at which a current path to be measured is placed. The orientation of the sensitivity axis of each of a plurality of magnetoelectric-conversion-element sets having point symmetry about the placement position is parallel or antiparallel. An element spacing, which is spacing between neighboring elements in the first and second groups, is narrower than a group spacing, which is the narrowest spacing between the first and second groups.
US09423427B2
In an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a sensing device. The sensing device includes circuitry configured to sense self-capacitance and circuitry configured to sense mutual-capacitance, each configured to detect capacitance values corresponding to whether an object is proximate to a touch screen. The sensing device is configured to measure a first capacitance value using the self-capacitance circuitry during self-capacitance sensing operations and to measure a second capacitance value using the mutual-capacitance circuitry during mutual-capacitance sensing operations.
US09423420B2
A test system may be provided in which devices under test are loaded into test trays and tested at a plurality of test stations. To test a device under test at a given test station, the test tray may be installed into a test fixture at the test station. Test equipment at each test station may communicate with the device under test via the test fixture and the test tray. Each test tray may have a spring-loaded corner portion that may be used to secure the device under test to the test tray. The test tray may have contacts that mate with corresponding contacts at each test fixture and may have a built in cable that connects to the device under test. The test fixture may have a detector that can detect whether or not a test tray is present on the test fixture.
US09423413B2
A touch sensor is associated with a housing that is adapted for attachment to the outer perimeter of a fluid conduit. The housing can be attached to the fluid conduit such that the touch sensor can detect the presence of fluid within the fluid conduit. The output of the touch sensor can be used by an indicator or processor.
US09423398B2
In accordance with exemplary embodiments, apparatus and method for biologic sample rapid collection and recovery device, and convenient storage are provided. An exemplary embodiment includes an apparatus comprising a lateral flow technology device including at least a membrane configured to bind an analyte from a sample that flows through the lateral flow technology device, in which a selected portion of the membrane bound to the analyte when placed directly in an analysis system does not substantially inhibit analysis of the analyte. An elution protocol is not required to extract the analyte bound from the selected portion before placed directly in the analysis system.
US09423396B2
The present invention is directed to a fluorescence compound represented by structural Formula (I), with specificity to neural stem cells: (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The variables for structural Formula (I) are defined herein. Also described are methods for detection of beta cells, pancreatic islets and microglia cells, comprising using a compound of structural Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Compounds of structural Formula (I) can also differentiate healthy pancreatic islet cells from diabetic pancreatic islet cells.
US09423387B2
Cantilever chemical vapor sensors that can be tailored to respond preferentially in frequency by controlling the location of deposition of an adsorbing layer. Cantilever chemical vapor sensor having a base, one or more legs and a tip are fabricated using a gold layer to promote deposition of a sorbing layer of a polymeric material in a desired location, and using a chromium layer to inhibit deposition of the sorbing layer in other locations. Sorbing layers having different glass temperatures Tg and their effects are described. The methods of making such cantilever chemical vapor sensors are described.
US09423372B2
The present invention provides a method of determining the overall oxidative status of a body fluid or a tissue of a patient by measuring the oxidation-reduction potential (ORP) of the body fluid or tissue. The method has been found to be useful in the diagnosis, evaluation and monitoring of patients who have suffered a trauma (such as a head injury), patients suspected of being critically-ill or who are critically ill, patients who have an infection, and patients suspected of having a myocardial infarction (MI) or who have had an MI. The method has also been found useful in monitoring and evaluating exercise performance in patients. In addition, the method has been found useful in monitoring and evaluating stored blood products and patients who will receive such a product.
US09423360B1
The following relates to assessing the quality of an optical component. The optical component comprises an arrangement of a first and a second optically transmissive component grating having a component relative orientation angle, and the quality is assessed in terms of a deviation of the component relative orientation angle from a desired relative orientation angle. A master component comprises a substantially matching arrangement of a first and a second optically transmissive master grating having the desired relative orientation angle. The components are supported with the first and second component gratings in the vicinity of the first and second master gratings, and first and second fringe patterns formed by the first gratings and second gratings respectively are used to output a quality assessment, which is based on the fringe spacing of the second fringe pattern when the fringe spacing of the first fringe pattern is substantially maximal.
US09423358B1
A system, method, and apparatus for identifying an anomaly in a structure are disclosed. The method involves applying a quantity of a liquid onto the structure, and removing an excess of the liquid from the structure. The method further involves propagating, with at least one source, at least one transmit signal onto a location on the structure. At least one transmit signal comprises at least one terahertz frequency. Also, the method involves receiving, with at least one detector, at least one receive signal reflected from the location on the structure. Further, the method involves determining, with at least one processor, whether the location exhibits an anomaly by analyzing the intensity of at least one receive signal.
US09423353B2
Apparatus and methods for fluorescence imaging using radiofrequency multiplexed excitation. One apparatus splits an excitation laser beam into two arms of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The light in the first beam is frequency shifted by an acousto-optic deflector, which is driven by a phase-engineered radiofrequency comb designed to minimize peak-to-average power ratio. This RF comb generates multiple deflected optical beams possessing a range of output angles and frequency shifts. The second beam is shifted in frequency using an acousto-optic frequency shifter. After combining at a second beam splitter, the two beams are focused to a line on the sample using a conventional laser scanning microscope lens system. The acousto-optic deflectors frequency-encode the simultaneous excitation of an entire row of pixels, which enables detection and de-multiplexing of fluorescence images using a single photomultiplier tube and digital phase-coherent signal recovery techniques.
US09423347B2
An automatic analyzing apparatus includes a stir piece moving part that moves a stir piece for stirring a mixture into a reaction container, a reaction disk that rotationally moves and thereafter stops the reaction container in which the stir piece moved by the stir piece moving part and the mixture are housed, and first drivers that drive the stir piece in the reaction container to stir first and second mixtures. During the rotation movement of the reaction container into which first and second reagents have been dispensed at first and second reagent dispensing positions, the first drivers vertically move the stir piece in the reaction container and stir the first and second mixtures.
US09423346B2
The present invention is directed to an apparatus and method for measuring the haze value of transmissive samples. The apparatus comprises a first light source selectively configurable to emit a first light beam, a second light source selectively configurable to emit a second light beam, an integrating sphere having an outer surface and an inner surface, the inner surface configured to reflect light incident upon the inner surface, the inner surface further enclosing an interior volume. The integrating sphere is further equipped with an exit port configured to emit light from the interior volume of the integrating sphere. The exit port is positioned such that light from the first light source exits the integrating sphere without obstruction, and light from the second light source is diffused on the interior surface of the integrating sphere prior to exiting the exit port. A light detector is also included and is configured to generate a light-intensity signal when light exiting the integrating sphere has passed through a sample and is incident on the light detector. The apparatus further includes a processor configured to receive the light-intensity signal and generate an output signal to a user indicating the haze value. The present invention is also directed to a method of calculating the haze value of a sample using a stored calibration value, a diffuse transmission value (sample-absent diffuse light-intensity value), a direct transmission value (sample-absent direct light-intensity value), a measured diffuse transmission value (sample-present diffuse light-intensity value) and a measured direct transmission value (sample-present direct light-intensity value).
US09423345B2
Techniques for forming nanoribbon or bulk graphene-based SPR sensors are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a graphene-based SPR sensor is provided which includes the steps of: depositing graphene onto a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a dielectric layer on a conductive layer, and wherein the graphene is deposited onto the dielectric layer; and patterning the graphene into multiple, evenly spaced graphene strips, wherein each of the graphene strips has a width of from about 50 nanometers to about 5 micrometers, and ranges therebetween, and wherein the graphene strips are separated from one another by a distance of from about 5 nanometers to about 50 micrometers, and ranges therebetween. Alternatively, bulk graphene may be employed and the dielectric layer is used to form periodic regions of differing permittivity. A testing apparatus and method of analyzing a sample using the present SPR sensors are also provided.
US09423338B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for determining a substance in a fluid excreted/extracted from the body or spent dialysate, e.g., for determining a quality measure for the dialysis, such as the concentration of selected toxic substances, and/or for determining a removed total quantity of uremic toxins during a dialysis with a dialysis apparatus. A concentration of a substance in the fluid may be determined by: detecting, by an absorption sensor, a first extinction signal of the fluid at an analysis wavelength at a defined first pH value of the fluid; adjusting, by a pH adjusting device, a second pH value of the fluid which differs from the first pH value; detecting, by the absorption sensor, a second extinction signal of the fluid at the analysis wavelength at the second pH value; and processing/comparing the two extinction signals for the first and the second pH values and determining an absolute concentration of the substance dissolved in the fluid.
US09423312B2
An impact indicator for impact detection and indication includes: a housing; and a detection assembly configured to detect receipt by the housing of an acceleration event. The detection assembly comprises first and second indicias displayable thereby, wherein the first indicia is displayed in an unactivated state of the impact indicator, and wherein in response to detecting the acceleration event, the second indicia is displayed, the second indicia further comprising an indication of a direction of the acceleration event.
US09423303B2
A portable thermal imaging system includes a portable housing configured to be carried by a user, a bolometer sensor assembly supported by the housing and including an array of thermal sensor elements and at least one plasmonic lens, a memory including program instructions, and a processor operably connected to the memory and to the sensor, and configured to execute the program instructions to obtain signals from each of a selected set of thermal sensor elements of the array of thermal sensor elements, assign each of the obtained signals with a respective color data associated with a temperature of a sensed object, and render the color data.
US09423301B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to integrated resonance detectors and arrays of integrated resonance detectors and to methods for making and using the integrated resonance detectors and arrays. Integrated resonance detectors comprise a substrate, a conducting mirror layer, an active layer, and a patterned conducting layer. Electromagnetic radiation is detected by transducing a specific resonance-induced field enhancement in the active layer to a detection current that is proportional to the incident irradiance.
US09423300B2
A system and apparatus for: (i) receiving an image of a visually perceptible scene; (ii) sensing the presence and intensity of signals in a selected frequency band, which may include one or more of radio frequency, microwave, infrared, visible and ultraviolet, in part or all of the scene; (iii) displaying the frequency band as a visually distinguishable overlay on the visually perceptible scene; and (iv) indicating whether the signal intensity for a selected frequency interval is changing with passage of time.
US09423298B2
A laser target board apparatus is provided for detecting spatial and temporal intensity distribution of high energy laser beams. The laser target board apparatus may include a panel having a plurality of openings and a plurality of optical rods placed therein. The laser target board apparatus may further have an optic fiber array positioned substantially parallel to and behind the panel and separated from the panel by a predetermined distance. At least one lens is configured to receive photons emitted from a second end of each optic fiber unit of the optic fiber array, and at least one camera is configured to detect the photons. A processor is configured to analyze temporal and spatial distribution of intensity of the received high energy laser beam based on data generated by the at least one camera.
US09423293B2
The present invention relates to an optical receptacle that can generate monitor light and can be also produced by integral molding, and an optical module having the optical receptacle. The optical receptacle has a first optical face on which light emitted from a light emitting element is incident, reflection surfaces that reflect the light to a light receiving element, a light splitting section that splits the light into monitor light heading for the light receiving element and signal light heading for an end face of an optical fiber, and a second optical face that emits the signal light toward the end face of the optical fiber. The light splitting section has a divided transmission surface and a divided reflection surface. The divided reflection surface is an inclining surface with respect to an optical axis of the light reflected by the reflection surfaces.
US09423291B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining the oscillation amplitude of a sonotrode excited by a converter, wherein the converter is connected to a current generator and the current IE(t) provided by the current generator and flowing through the converter is measured. According to the invention, in order to provide a method for determining the oscillation amplitude of a sonotrode excited by a converter, the voltage UE(t) applied to the converter by the current generator is measured and the oscillation amplitude of the sonotorode or a field quantity of the electrical oscillation system comprising the current generator and the converter, said field quantity being related to the oscillation amplitude of the sonotrode, is calculated from the measured voltage UE(t) and from the measured current IE(t).
US09423288B2
A method for determining a fluid level value in a fluid tank of an internal combustion engine equipped with a discrete level sensor is provided. The discrete level sensor is configured for generating a first electrical signal when a fluid level is above or equal to a first predetermined fluid level threshold value and generating a second electrical signal when the fluid level is above or equal to a second predetermined fluid level threshold value. The second predetermined fluid level threshold value is greater than the first predetermined fluid level threshold value. The method includes monitoring a number of occurrences of the first electrical signal and of the second electrical signal over a time interval. The fluid level in the fluid tank is calculated as a function of the number of occurrences of the first and of the second electrical signals over the time interval.
US09423282B2
A system and method for determining the angular position of a bearing assembly and compensating measurements for bearing runout error in metrology devices, such as an articulated arm coordinate measurement device and a laser tracker, is provided. The system and method includes measuring the bearing runout error and defining a waveform from encoder readings for a first set of rotations. In one embodiment, a transfer function is created based on an analysis of the bearing runout error, such as with a Fourier analysis for example. In another embodiment the bearing runout error is mapped to an absolute angular position. During operation, the angular position of the bearing assembly is determined by comparing a waveform to the waveform from the first set of rotations. With the angular position determined, the bearing runout error may be used to compensate the measurements of the metrology device.
US09423279B2
An optical module includes: a light source configured to emit diffusion light to tracks; one light receiving array and another light receiving array which are arranged across the light source in a width direction substantially vertical to the measurement direction; a light receiving array arranged between the one light receiving array and the light source, and configured to receive light which is reflected at the tracks having a first incremental pattern; and a light receiving array arranged between the another first light receiving array and the light source, and configured to receive light which is reflected at the tracks having a second incremental pattern which pitch is longer than a pitch of the first incremental pattern.
US09423274B2
A sensor with magnetic blocks unevenly distributed in a housing includes, sequentially connected, a sensing element, a power assistance model processor (21), a digital-to-analog converter (27), and an operational amplifier (28). The sensing element includes permanent magnetic blocks (2) and a Hall element (3) arranged in a cavity fitted together by a rotating disk (1) and a fixing disk (40). Multiple permanent magnetic blocks (2) are fixedly arranged on the rotating disk (1) in a circular-annular distribution, and at most two of the permanent magnetic blocks (2) are different in intervals. On a certain side of the rotating disk (1), the magnetic polarities of adjacent permanent magnetic blocks (2) are opposite, namely, the magnetic polarities of all of the permanent magnetic blocks (2) on the certain side of the rotating disk (1) are distributed in a pattern of pole N, pole S, pole N.
US09423270B2
An electronic device includes: a sensor that detects a triaxial direction acceleration; and a processor operable to calculate axial components in the triaxial directions of a gravitational acceleration from detection values of the sensor, to determine a ratio of a magnitude of the gravitational acceleration with respect to the axial components of an axial direction of the triaxial directions, to determine a vertical acceleration magnitude according to the ratio and the detection values of the sensor in the axial direction, and to judge whether or not a motion state is a running state according to the vertical acceleration magnitude.
US09423269B2
A mobile communication device includes a global positioning system (GPS) capability, a digital processor, digital memory, a display screen, and a software (SW) application executing by the processor, the SW providing determining and recording a start of a trip, tracking location of the vehicle after trip start, interpreting data and recording an acceleration event, a deceleration event or a speeding event, recording fuel volume during the trip, determining and recording an end of the trip; and an interactive display including an address at the start and the end of the trip, separated by a timeline for the trip, a vehicle icon moveable along the timeline, icons specific to event type at locations along the timeline representing the acceleration, deceleration and speeding events determined during the trip, and a summary box providing a distance and duration of the trip and fuel efficiency and fuel cost for the trip.
US09423267B2
A position detector is configured to detect a current position of a moving body. A condition detector is configured to detect moving conditions including a forward direction of the moving body. A display unit is configured to display a predetermined image overlaid on the landscape in front of the moving body. A storage unit is configured to store the position of each intersection in a route along which the moving body moves and the position and shape of each object existing around the intersection. A selector is configured to select any one of the objects existing around an intersection for which guidance is needed when the moving body nears the intersection. A drawing controller is configured to draw on the display unit, a guide figure indicating the object selected by the selector.
US09423266B2
Navigational lane guidance enhances a maneuver display by incorporating full display of available lanes in a freeway, when available in the map data. An otherwise regular turn icon display is replaced with a variable width image that grows to show all available lanes, highlighting lanes usable to complete a navigated maneuver. A new lane TrueType font displays the lane guidance image, with individual characters representing each possible line situation. Since TrueType fonts are vector-based, they can be used to generate the lane images at any size, in a platform-independent fashion. The lane font has direction arrows, which can be combined to form composite arrows; and additional direction arrows as needed to allow replacement of the routing icons currently in use. Lane dividers may also be implemented.
US09423257B2
A portable navigation device and method are capable of presenting a destination direction to a user without resorting to visual sensation with a relatively simple configuration. Vibration elements are disposed on or in different positions of a housing. The respective vibration intensities of the vibration elements are determined on the basis of an angular difference θ between a destination direction Vn and a terminal direction Vd. The vibration elements are respectively controlled in accordance with the determined vibration intensities. The position of a vibration, which is obtained as a result of blending vibrations of the vibration elements is sensed by a user.
US09423252B2
In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a reading from a magnetometer of a mobile device. A cluster from a plurality of clusters of bias offsets generated from previously-calibrated readings is selected. The selected cluster has a representative bias offset, a mean of magnitudes in the selected cluster, and a magnitude threshold. An external magnetic field is estimated based on the reading and the representative bias offset for the selected cluster. Whether a magnitude of the estimated external field is within a magnitude range defined by the mean magnitude and the mean magnitude plus the magnitude threshold is determined.
US09423244B2
A system for configuring a monitored zone of an optoelectronic monitoring device has an optical reception device for detecting an optical sequence generated by a sequence generation unit. A first memory device is used to store an association between the optical sequences selectable at the sequence generation unit and shape elements. A second memory device stores a shape of the monitored zone, and an evaluation unit determines the shape of the monitored zone from the detected optical sequences and the shape elements.
US09423243B1
A strain sensor includes a light source, a marker which is disposed on a measuring object so that light from the light source is reflected by or transmitted through the marker, a detector which detects the intensity of the light from the marker, and a signal processor which calculates a strain amount based on the detected light intensity. The marker is a flat film including first and second media having different refractive indexes. The second medium is periodically arrayed in the first medium and exists simultaneously with the first medium on a plane parallel to the marker mounting surface. The maximum length of the second medium in a direction parallel to the mounting surface is shorter than the wavelength of the emitted light. The first and second media deform in response to load in a direction parallel to the mounting surface.
US09423241B2
An optical measuring apparatus includes a light emitter, a scanner, a polarizing plate, a photoreceiver, and a CPU. The light emitter emits a laser beam. The scanner uses the laser beam emitted from the light emitter and scans a measurement region where a work piece is placed. The polarizing plate allows passage for only a laser beam, among the laser beams fired by the scanner, directed orthogonally to an emission direction of the laser beam and an axis direction of the work piece. The photoreceiver receives the laser beam that has passed through the measurement region and the polarizing plate. The CPU calculates a dimension of the work piece from a pattern of light and dark in a scan direction, the pattern being obtained by the photoreceiver.
US09423240B2
A laser processing system for accurate detection of how far away the surface of a workpiece may be includes a platform, a laser processing device, a distance detection device, and a driving device. The platform is configured for carrying at least one workpiece. Both the laser processing device and the distance detection device are arranged upon the platform. The distance detection device detects an actual distance between a surface of the workpiece and the laser processing device, and compares the preset height with the actual height. If the preset height is less than the actual height, the distance detection device emitting a warning signal to remind a worker to re-enter a new preset height.
US09423226B2
The invention relates to a spin-stabilized projectile including a body enclosing a payload formed by a group of sub-projectiles that can be dispersed over a trajectory under the action of a pyrotechnic charge. The projectile is characterized in that the pyrotechnic charge is formed by a detonation relay that is separated from the payload by a piston slidably mounted in the body, said piston comprising a recess covering the detonation relay.
US09423225B1
A non-pyrotechnic disseminator includes a body portion with a cover; a first compartment adjacent to the cover that is configured to hold disseminating materials; a chamber adjacent to the first compartment; a disk within the chamber and adjacent to the first compartment; a flow control device adjacent to the chamber opposite the disk; a second compartment adjacent to the flow control device and including a pin; an actuating mechanism connected to the pin; a third compartment adjacent to the second compartment opposite the flow control device that is configured to hold compressed gas; and a seal separating the second compartment from the third compartment. Actuation of the actuating mechanism causes the pin to break the seal causing release of the compressed gas into the second compartment and through the flow control device in a predetermined delayed timing, and then causing the compressed gas to burst the disk thereby pushing the disseminating materials out of the body portion by rupturing the cover.
US09423224B2
A kinetic fireball incendiary munition is provided having an outer shell or bomb casing, one or more incendiary sub munitions therein, and an igniter therefore. Each of the submunitions includes an incendiary portion, at least one rocket motor that propels the submunition inside of a target volume, and an oxidizer for the incendiary portion and rocket motor. The submunitions liberate sufficient heat to produce elevated temperatures inside of a target structure to thermalize the contents thereof without creating a substantial overpressure or explosive effect.
US09423213B2
In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a target marker for a firearm may comprise a module having a first portion, and a second portion electrically connected and coupled to the first portion. A light source may be disposed within and electrically connected to the second portion. An optical component may be coupled to the first portion at a first fixed distance from the light source. A circuit board may be electrically connected to the light source via at least one lead, wherein the lead may permit relative movement between the circuit board and the light source and may maintain a second fixed distance between the circuit board and the light source.
US09423211B2
The apparatus includes a body portion and a door removably connected to the body portion, revealing the interior of the body portion, the door having at least one latching element. An access assembly is attached to the body portion, the access assembly including a latch bar having an opening to receive the latching element. A plurality of actuating buttons are provided for the user. A mechanism responsive to operation of preselected buttons in a preselected sequence releases an actuation mechanism. An operating member accessible to the user and operatively connected to the actuation mechanism moves the released actuation mechanism to move the latching bar so that the latching element is released from the latching bar, allowing the door to be opened.
US09423209B1
A self-guided racking assist system for charging a handgun includes a racking assist device that is adapted for self-guided sliding assembly with a barrel of the handgun via a guide rod member and a cylindrical member defining a cavity therebetween. When the racking assist device is seated on a support surface, the handgun may easily be pushed against the racking assist device to charge the handgun.
US09423206B2
A pre-charged pneumatic air rifle air tank adapter lowers an air tank relative to the pre-charged pneumatic air rifle. The lowered air tank facilitates aiming. The adapter also provides a substrate for mounting accessories including a quick disconnect refill plug and a pressure gauge. The adapter includes a female rifle fitting with a threaded central conduit, a male air tank fitting with a central conduit and external threads parallel to, coplanar with and about 0.75 to 1.5 inches apart in elevation from the central conduit of the female rifle fitting, measured vertically from centerline to centerline. A body of the adapter has an internal conduit extending from the female rifle fitting to the male air tank fitting.
US09423205B1
A toy projectile launching device. The device preferably includes a handle, barrel, muzzle, trigger, cocking shaft, and cocking handle. The device uses a spring loaded shaft in order to launch an orb. In addition, the launching mechanism of the device imparts rotation upon the orb, which stabilizes the orb in flight—thereby achieving an increase in sustained velocity and an increase in the distance traveled.
US09423204B2
Provided is a recurved bow including: a handle; a pair of limbs coupled at both ends of the handle; and a bowstring, wherein a projecting coupling member is provided in front of each of the limbs, and is extended forwardly from each of the limbs, and has a coupling portion in the front thereof, and is coupled with a coupling pin of a rear side of each of the limbs, and wherein a damper member is provided in which the damper member comprises a corresponding coupler that is coupled with the coupling portion formed in front of each of the projecting coupling member, and a damper coupled with the front of the corresponding coupler, to thereby rapidly damp vibrations generated in one end of each of the limbs to thus enhance a vibration damping function.
US09423203B2
In some embodiments, a crossbow system comprises a crossbow comprising a stock and a bow portion. The bow portion comprises a bowstring having a nocking point. The crossbow defines a shooting axis. The stock comprises a rope anchor located below the shooting axis. The crossbow system further comprises a cocking rope constructed and arranged to engage the bowstring and to be anchored to the rope anchor.
US09423192B2
A heat spreading device includes sectioning forming a first chamber portion and a second chamber portion, a first plurality of conduits, and a second at least two conduits. The second at least two conduits interconnect the first chamber portion and the second chamber portion. The heat spreading device may also include cavities, a barrier, and fins.
US09423184B2
A corrugated-fin heat exchanger is constructed by arranging a plurality of flat heat exchange tubes parallel to each other in a horizontal direction between a pair of opposing header pipes, joining, at a position between the plurality of flat heat exchange tubes, corrugated fins formed by alternately repeating peak folding and valley folding portions, and forming water flow passages from lug pieces that are obtained by obliquely cutting and raising flange portions extending along end portions of each of the plurality of flat heat exchange tubes (3) in a width direction thereof. A pitch (P) of each of the corrugated fins between a peak and a valley thereof, a width (L) of each of the lug pieces in a vertical direction thereof, and a thickness (T) of the each of the plurality of flat heat exchange tubes have a relationship of P×2≧L≧T.
US09423183B2
A heat treatment method of an impeller includes a heat treatment preparation process of arranging the impeller within a vacuum furnace, an impeller covering process of covering an outer peripheral surface of the impeller in a circumferential direction by a heat uniformizing jig made of a radiation conversion material which radiates transferred heat as radiant heat, and a heat treatment process including a heating process and a cooling process in which heat treatment is performed by heating or cooling the impeller covered with the heat uniformizing jig from the periphery using a heater.
US09423176B1
An apparatus that employs dual air ducts is described for balancing the return air flow between forward and reverse fan directions in a direct-fired lumber kiln. As freshly heated air enters the kiln, this system forces the air to pass through the stacks of lumber at least once before returning to be reheated. The disclosed apparatus and methods enable more efficient use of energy, reduce drying time and improve the uniformity and precision of the lumber drying process.
US09423171B2
A modular refrigeration and/or freezer appliance comprising a base module, a cabinet module comprising U-shaped front and rear plates defining a structure with an open top, bottom, and front, with the front and rear plates spaced from each other to define therebetween a U-shaped insulation compartment with upper and lower edges, an insulation module received within the U-shaped insulation compartment, a bottom closure wall module, a top closure wall module, and a door hingedly coupled to the base module and the cabinet module to selectively close the open front of the cabinet module to form a thermally insulated compartment.
US09423163B2
The present invention relates to a liquid temperature controlling system and, more particularly, to a modular liquid temperature controlling system that is structured and/or configured to cool a volume of liquid stored in a container through direct contact with a portion of the system which utilizes at least one thermoelectric device.
US09423160B2
A regenerative refrigerator includes an expander which includes a regenerator including a regenerative material and an expansion space for expanding a refrigerant gas flowing in the regenerator, the regenerator being configured such that a temperature profile at a predetermined temperature range in the regenerator is selectively higher than a case when lead is used as the regenerative material.
US09423147B2
A mixer for mixing air flows is provided that can include an air duct, which has at least one hot air duct and one cold air duct, wherein an air flow through the hot air duct and through the cold air duct can be controlled by a respective mixing flap. A heating element is arranged in the hot air duct in order to heat the air passing through the hot air duct. Furthermore, the mixer can include a mixing chamber, which is connected to an air outlet side of the hot air duct and of the cold air duct of the air duct such as to enable fluid flow. The mixing chamber can have air guiding elements, which are arranged in such a way that air flowing out of an air outlet side of the hot air duct crosses air flowing out of an air outlet side of the cold air duct.
US09423146B2
A device configured to control one or more components of an HVAC system. The device includes a display, a controller in communication with the display, and wherein the controller is configured to receive one or more user defined environmental settings. Further, the controller communicates with one or more environmental sensors, wherein the environmental sensors detect one or more environmental conditions. In addition, the controller is further configured to provide a visual indication on the display for the detected environmental conditions with respect to the user defined environmental settings. This visual indication includes one or more bounded region having an interior space indicative of user comfort level, wherein the bounded regions have one or more borders, and wherein the borders at least partially represent the user defined environmental settings. In addition, the visual indication includes one or more icons that represents the detected environmental conditions and are displayed in relation to the bounded regions.
US09423145B2
An air conditioner includes an air conditioner body and a remote controller that controls the operation of the air conditioner body. The air conditioner body includes a body receiver that receives a control signal for controlling the operation from the remote controller, and a body transmitter that transmits operation information for the air conditioner body to the remote controller. The remote controller includes a remote-controller transmitter that transmits the control signal for controlling the operation to the air conditioner body, a remote-controller receiver that receives the operation information transmitted from the air conditioner body, and a power-saving standby unit that sets the remote-controller receiver as a reception standby state when a request signal to request operation information is transmitted from the remote controller to the air conditioner body at each predetermined time interval, and that releases the reception standby state after a given time has passed.
US09423133B2
An apparatus and method for assisting with the combustion of fuel are described. The apparatus includes a swirler assembly and a fuel nozzle. Fuel is directed into a fuel nozzle mixing chamber and combines with air therein to form a fuel-air mixture. At least one plasma generator, at least partially within the fuel nozzle, generates an at least one of an at least partially ionized air-fuel mixture and an at least partially dissociated air-fuel mixture (“at least partially I/D air-fuel mixture”) via a plasma generator discharge. A combustion chamber inlet admits the at least partially I/D air-fuel mixture from the plasma generator into a combustion chamber internal volume. Combustion air flows through the swirler body and into the combustion chamber internal volume. Combustion of the at least partially I/D air-fuel mixture with the combustion air occurs at least partially within the combustion chamber internal volume to responsively produce products.
US09423129B2
A combustor adapted for use in a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The combustor includes a metallic shell forming a cavity and a ceramic liner arranged in the cavity of the metallic shell. The ceramic liner defines a combustion chamber in which fuel is burned during operation of a gas turbine engine. The ceramic liner includes a plurality of ceramic tiles mounted to the metallic shell and arranged to shield the metallic shell from heat generated in the combustion chamber.
US09423123B2
A safety pressure switch can be used with a gas appliance. The gas appliance can be a single fuel or a dual fuel appliance for use with one of a first fuel type or a second fuel type different than the first. The safety pressure switch can be fluidly connected to a fuel input and electrically coupled to a pilot assembly.
US09423120B2
An LED candle lamp having the humidifying and flavoring function comprising a shell, a light emitting device mounted on the shell, a control system and a power supply unit, wherein the shell is provided inside with a humidifying device that includes a water storage tank, a sealing cover, an atomizing sheet and water absorbent cotton, the water storage tank and the sealing cover forming a sealed water storage space by being screwed together, the sealing cover being provided with an accommodating chamber provided inside with the atomizing sheet, the sealing cover being provided with a mist outlet exposed to the shell, the water storage tank being fixedly provided inside with the water absorbent cotton, wherein the control system may be a PCB control panel provided with an elastic contact conductive wire.
US09423100B2
A radiation emitter includes a device for coupling radiation from at least one radiation generator and a radiation combining device that combines the radiation to bundled radiation. The radiation combining device includes a telescopic optic with a collimation reflector and a secondary reflector. The radiation combining device is configured to accept directional radiation from a plurality of light conducting devices from at least one radiation generator.
US09423097B2
A light-emitting module (1) comprising a light source array of solid state light-sources arranged along a geometrical line (O), and an envelope (40) surrounding the light unit (10). The envelope comprises abase structure (6) extending along the light source array and including a diffuse reflective portion, two side reflector regions (4, 4′) arranged on opposite sides of the base structure, and a curved prism sheet (8) extending between the two side reflector regions at a constant distance (R) from the geometrical line (O). The curved prism sheet includes a plurality of prism structures (28) having right top angles and arranged such that light emitted from the light sources and directly incident on the prism structures is retroreflected back towards the geometrical line (O), while light incident on the prism structures after being diffused by the diffuse reflective portion and/or being reflected by the side reflector regions, is transmitted through the curved prism sheet. Various embodiments of the present invention provide improved luminance uniformity.
US09423096B2
An LED lighting apparatus including a plurality of lens members aligned substantially along a preferential/non-preferential line. Each lens member being elongate across the preferential/non-preferential line with all elongate lens members being in substantially same orientation and each configured for light to exit the unitary lens predominantly toward the preferential side. Each lens member includes an elongate opening for receiving light from a group of emitters aligned across the preferential/non-preferential line; a refracting inner surface forming a void and having a racetrack-shaped surrounding surface extending from the opening to a substantially planar elongate end surface; and a lateral surface having opposed preferential and non-preferential surface portions, the non-preferential portion being at an angle to the base plane which is greater than the angle of the preferential portion to the base plane.
US09423094B2
A lighting device for a motor vehicle includes several flat light-conducting elements that are arranged in layers one behind the other in a layer arrangement. The individual light-conducting elements do not touch one another and are clearly spaced apart from one another. Each of the light-conducting elements includes a light-scattering structural element. An illuminating device is optically coupled to each of the light-conducting elements in order to couple light into the light-conducting elements. Light is coupled out of the light-conducting elements by means of the structural elements.
US09423093B1
An under-vehicle ground effect system described herein creates recognizable images includes a frame component with an interior compartment and a replaceable face plate with at least one cutout defined therein. At least one light source is positioned within the interior compartment and behind the replaceable face plate. Light from the light source(s) produces a recognizable image when the light source(s) is activated. The recognizable image may be a projected recognizable image and/or a backlit recognizable image.
US09423077B2
A cylinder caddy, adapted to a bottle with a neck, a bottom, and a center of gravity is provided. The caddy has a strap configured to affix circumferentially to the cylinder at a location higher than the center of gravity, and at least one axial strap configured to connect the strap. The caddy includes a handle with a first end pivotally attached to the upper strap, and a second end configured to detachably connect to the neck. In a first position, the handle is pivoted to allow the second end to be attached to the neck, thereby requiring the removal of a regulator, protecting the neck from dust and other particulates and allowing a user to safely carry the cylinder. In a second position, the handle is pivoted to allow the second end form a strut, thereby providing the user a more stable operating position.
US09423070B2
A plastic body incorporating a flate base, with a top side and a bottom side, is encompassed by a rim perpendicular on it. A pair of rectangular prolongations extends from a side of flat base. Each rectangular prolongation terminates into a downwardly extending end, bent back at 90 degrees and provided with a tapered plate, inwardly directed for tangentially contacting an interior of a gutter. A cantilever bar, having a bent longitudinal axis of symmetry, is located at midway between the pair of rectangular prolongations. A slanted, ribbed plate extending transversally at the bottom end of cantilever bar is adapted to tangentially contact a gutter, respectively a curvilinear external surface of the latter. A tubular housing projecting perpendicularly out of the bottom side of the flat base is used for inserting a pole for positioning and anchoring the gutter-anchored structure.
US09423068B2
A device and method for supplying ozonated liquid is disclosed. Liquid in a reservoir is pumped from the reservoir to a separate ozone generator and is thereby ozonated. The ozonated liquid is retained to the reservoir so that the liquid is circulated in a loop. As the liquid is circulated through the ozone generator, the concentration of ozone increases. Once the liquid has been sufficiently ozonated, the generator is disconnected and the reservoir moved to where ozonated water is required and ozonated water is dispensed from the reservoir.
US09423067B2
A collapsible stand has a first member and a second member. The first member has a containment portion and an engaging portion, a circumference of the containment portion further has a first connecting portion, the second member has an accepting portion and a slot, a circumference of the second member further has a second connecting portion, and the second member engages with the engaging portion of the first member.
US09423053B2
A fitting for channel framing includes a first clip arm configured to extend into a first external fitting groove of the channel framing and clip onto the channel framing, and a second clip arm configured to extend into a second external fitting groove of the channel framing and clip onto the channel framing. An outer portion connected to and extending between the first and second clip arms is configured to span across the continuous slot when the first and second clip arms extend into the respective first and second external fitting grooves and are clipped onto the channel framing.
US09423047B2
A device for regulating the flow of a fluid is provided with a valve housing having at least two valve connections, which are fluidically connected to one another via a valve chamber, at least one valve seat, which has a fluid connection to the valve chamber and one of the valve connections, a valve element, which has an actuating section located outside of the valve chamber and a closing body located within the valve chamber for the at least one valve seat. An electromagnet having a solenoid armature acts upon the actuating section. The solenoid armature is supported via two flat springs.
US09423045B2
A solenoid valve is provided having a hydraulic body with an undulated expansion artery to prevent an exchange of fluid between an interior of the hydraulic body and the exterior of the solenoid valve.
US09423044B2
A piezoelectric valve operated by voltage and a method of manufacturing the piezoelectric valve. The piezoelectric valve includes: a valve body; a valve unit; a plate-shaped piezoelectric element; an insulation stick for insulating the piezoelectric element; an adjustment bolt attached to the valve body with the insulation stick fitted over the bolt; an elastic body elastically supporting the insulation stick; an adjustment nut tightened to the adjustment bolt for moving along the bolt by rotation of the bolt so as to displace the insulation stick and an end of the piezoelectric element by pushing the insulation stick; and an adjuster for moving the adjustment nut along the adjustment bolt by a pivoting of the adjustment bolt, thereby adjusting a pushing force of the insulation stick. The piezoelectric valve can reduce economic loss in manufactured valves because the valve flow rate can be adjusted even after assembling the valve body.
US09423040B2
Valve of the type having a body which is provided with an inlet and an outlet of a fluid which are reciprocally put in flow communication by means of a communication chamber in which said communication chamber can be occluded by means of closure means and in which the communication chamber is divided in a first chamber and a second chamber, each putting in flow communication the inlet and the outlet of the fluid according to a parallel configuration. The first chamber is provided with first closing means, the second chamber is provided with second closing means and there is further provided at least one third closing means.
US09423036B1
A thermostatic radiator valve insert may be installed into an existing valve body within a fluid system. The insert may include an actuator that can be connected to a sensor, a thermostatic element or other controller, and may replace components of a manually operable valve. By removing the internal components of a manually operable valve from a valve body and installing a thermostatic radiator valve insert of the present invention therein, automatic control features may be implemented in a fluid system without requiring a full replacement of the manually operated valve or any associated piping. The insert may operate using some of the original components of the manually operated valve, and may also include replacement parts such as seating surfaces.
US09423032B2
An annular seal cavity throat bushing includes an inner annular surface having a substantially latitudinal channel with the channel being provided with at least one orifice to allow fluid communication between the inside of the bushing and the outside of the bushing. The bushing is further provided with at least one groove extending substantially longitudinally from one end of the bushing to the channel. The groove has at least one tapered edge which increases the width of the groove along its length.
US09423026B2
In one aspect, a method for controlling a continuously variable transmission when transitioning the transmission from operation within a hydrostatic mode to operation within a hydro-mechanical mode may generally include initially operating the transmission in the hydrostatic mode, receiving a mode switch signal associated with transitioning the operation of the transmission to the hydro-mechanical mode and initiating a clutch swap between a secondary range clutch and a directional clutch of the transmission. In addition, the method may include adjusting a swash plate angle of the transmission as the directional clutch is slipped in order to transition the operation of the transmission to a point along a hydro-mechanical operating curve and fully engaging the directional clutch to allow operation of the transmission along the hydro-mechanical operating curve.
US09423014B2
The present teachings provide for a differential assembly including a pair of plates and a keeper. A pair of pinion gears can be rotatable within a case for common rotation about a first axis and relative rotation about a second axis. A pair of side gears can meshingly engage the pinion gears, each being coupled for rotation with an output shaft. Each plate can be received in a groove defined by a respective output shaft, and can have a radial width greater than a depth of the groove. The keeper can be axially between the pinion and side gears, and can include releasably coupled first and second bodies, that cooperate to define first and second bores. Each bore can define an inner surface that surrounds a respective one of the plates to prevent its escape from the groove.
US09423013B2
Planetary gearsets (PS1, PS2) are coupled and arranged coaxially and radially offset relative to one another. Gearset (PS1) is arranged radially inside gearset (PS2) and each have a carrier on which planet gears (8, 12) respectively rotate. A support ring, having inner and outer teeth, is radially arranged between the planet gears (8, 12). A sun gear, which meshes with planet gears (8) which mesh with the inner teeth of the support ring, is radially within gearset (PS1). A ring gear, which meshes with planet gears (12) which mesh with inner teeth of the support ring, is radially outside gearset (PS2). The sun gear of gearset (PS1) is fixed to an input shaft. The carrier of gearset (PS1) is fixed to the ring gear of gearset (PS2) and mounted, via a radial-axial bearing, on the output shaft. The carrier of gearset (PS2) is fixed to an output shaft.
US09423011B2
A variable valve timing control apparatus includes a driving-side rotation member rotating in synchronization with a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, a driven-side rotation member integrally rotating with a camshaft of the internal combustion engine, an intermediate lock mechanism being selectively switchable between a locked state and an unlocked state, a plurality of hydraulic chambers, at least one of the plurality of hydraulic chambers being positioned at a lower side than an axis of the camshaft, a plurality of partition portions, each of the plurality of partition portions dividing each of the hydraulic chambers into an advanced angle chamber and a retarded angle chamber, an electromagnetic valve including a supply and discharge port that is positioned at an upper side than the axis of the camshaft and switching supply and discharge of fluid relative to the hydraulic chambers, and a pump supplying fluid to the electromagnetic valve.
US09422999B2
A spring functional component for a hydroelastic bearing. The component comprises a mounting inner connection, a mounting outer connection radially surrounding the mounting inner connection, a spring body which delimits at least two working chambers for receiving a damping fluid and couples the mounting inner and outer connections to one another in order to allow a relative movability between the mounting inner and outer connection and a support frame surrounding the mounting inner connection made of a rigid material such as plastic or metal, on which at least one radial stop is held, wherein the radial stop can be displaced from a pre-assembly state, in which a stop end of the radial stop is disengaged with respect to a stop counterpiece on the mounting inner connection side or mounting outer connection side, into a final assembly state in which the stop end engages the stop counterpiece.
US09422996B2
A wheel housing for a vehicle, such as a truck. The wheel housing includes a rotatable hub and stationary axle housing disposed within the hub. A wet brake assembly is disposed between the axle housing and the hub. The wet brake assembly includes a disc stack, which includes a plurality of friction plates that are coupled for rotation with the hub and that are separated from each other by a plurality of separator plates that remain stationary with the axle housing. The disc stack is cooled by coolant or oil that flows through a closed circuit. During a braking event, pressure spikes in the coolant circuit are alleviated by the placement of a compressible accumulator in the outlet passageway of the coolant circuit.
US09422995B2
A brake caliper for a brake system of a vehicle includes a caliper body, a piston, and a brake insulator. The piston may be positioned at least partially inside the caliper body. The brake insulator includes a fabric and is positioned adjacent to a face of the piston. The brake insulator may have a thickness of about 0.75 mm to about 1.5 mm. The brake insulator may include a fabric connected to the piston and the fabric may include polymeric elements. According to at least one exemplary embodiment, a brake insulator for a brake caliper may include a fabric having a plurality of elements positioned relative to one another to create a plurality of interstices between the elements. The interstices may include air pockets and the brake insulator may have a thickness of about 0.75 mm to about 1.5 mm. A vehicle may include the exemplary embodiments of the brake insulator and the brake caliper.
US09422994B2
A cast-iron friction member is manufactured by: performing a nitrocarburizing treatment on a cast workpiece at a treatment temperature of 500° C. to 600° C. to thus form a nitrogen compound layer on a surface of the workpiece; and exposing the workpiece to an atmosphere when a temperature becomes 400° C. to 480° C. after the nitrocarburizing treatment so as to cool the workpiece to a room temperature while keeping a contact state with oxygen to thus form an iron oxide layer including Fe3O4 on a surface of the nitrogen compound layer.
US09422991B2
A caliper assembly for a service and parking disc brake (1) comprising a service caliper body (2) placed astride a disc for a disc brake having a first and second elongated element on the vehicle side (4), a first service pad (8) to abut it against a first braking surface of the disc and exercise a service braking action on the vehicle, said first elongated element (4) comprising a first abutment and guide pin (16) of the first pad (8) to guide it and receive the braking action of the vehicle, a parking caliper (17) comprising separate thrust means (20) of the parking caliper and for abutting at least a third parking pad (21) against the first braking surface of the disc, said parking caliper (17) has a connection (18) for supporting and connecting at least partially said parking caliper (17) to said service caliper body (2), said connection (18) of the parking caliper (17) to the service caliper body (2) comprises a first blocking screw (19) positioned coaxially to said first support and guide pin (16) of the first service pad (8).
US09422986B2
A telescopic shaft includes a male shaft having an outer circumference on which a plurality of protruding teeth are formed, and a female shaft having an inner circumference on which a plurality of tooth grooves are formed. The tooth grooves of the female shaft are fitted onto the protruding teeth of the male shaft such that the male shaft and the female shaft are relatively slidable in an axial direction and such that a rotational torque is transmittable between the male shaft and the female shaft. One of a curvature radius of a tooth surface of the protruding teeth and a curvature radius of a tooth surface of the tooth grooves is smaller than the other of the curvature radius of the tooth surface of the protruding teeth and the curvature radius of the tooth surface of the tooth grooves.
US09422985B2
A sealing and bearing unit for at least two shafts orientated in parallel with one another is disclosed. The sealing and bearing unit includes a housing preferably constituted in one piece with at least two openings for the at least two shafts orientated in parallel with one another. There are assigned to each opening at least one bearing for the rotational holding of the respective shaft in the housing and at least one seal interposed between the housing and the respective shaft. Furthermore, there is assigned in each case to the respective at least one bearing and to the respective at least one seal at least one individual fixing for their independent connection to the housing.
US09422982B2
A radial rolling element bearing (1) formed of a cylindrical outer ring (3) that is inserted into a housing (2), and a rolling element cage (4) arranged in said outer ring and formed by a plurality of roller-shaped rolling bodies (6) which are inserted into a bearing cage (5) and held thereby, equidistantly, in a circumferential direction, and roll on an outer raceway (8) formed by the inner lateral surface (7) of the outer ring, and on an inner raceway (11) formed by the outer lateral surface (9) of a shaft (10) to be mounted or a smooth cylindrical inner ring pushed onto said shaft. The roller race is axially guided by two separate flanged disks (14, 15) which lie against the axial sides (12, 13) of the outer ring and are axially secured, together with the outer ring, by securing elements which engage in recesses (16, 17) in the housing. According to the invention, this radial rolling element bearing is characterized in that said flanged disks include a right-angled profiled cross-section that has a horizontal securing leg (18, 20) and a vertical flanged leg (19, 21) and, by pressing their horizontal securing legs onto two peripheral stepped shoulders (22, 23) in the edge regions of the outer lateral surface (24) of the outer ring, are secured thereto; and in that the securing elements which engage in recesses in the housing for the purpose of axially securing said rolling element bearing are designed as spring elements (25, 26) integrated into the securing legs of the flanged disks.
US09422970B1
A suction cup is disclosed, including a suction disc assembly, a rotatable unit and a hanger accessory interface; wherein the suction disc assembly including a suction disc and a pull-up element disposed on the suction disc; the rotatable unit including a carrier base, a penetration hole, and a plurality of tilt tracks, the tilt tracks being distributed around a ring-shaped inner wall of the carrier base and the penetration hole being formed at the center area of the carrier base; the hanger accessory interface being disposed inside the carrier base and contacts the suction disc through the carrier base; the hanger accessory interface including a plurality of slider blocks, with each slider block located at a corresponding tilt track; the pull-up element being engaged to the hanger accessory interface through the penetration hole; as such, suction cup provides convenience and enhance durable suction for attachment.
US09422968B2
An encapsulated fastener includes a nut having a face with a concave gap adapted to receive a bolt. The nut is encapsulated by an encapsulation including an extension, which includes a tube adapted for receiving a portion of the bolt and a flange adapted for engaging a face of the nut. The encapsulation extension is placed on the nut in an overmolding tool, wherein an encapsulation base is injection molded over a portion of the encapsulation extension. The encapsulation base encapsulates the nut and extends into the nut concave gap forming a base foot and washer protrusion. The nut is encapsulated except for its bore which is sealed off during the overmolding process by a spring-mounted mandrel. Alternative embodiments of the invention include tubes with different configurations for contacting the bolt whereby the tube or cylinder is reinforced. A method and tooling for manufacturing the encapsulated fastener are also provided.
US09422960B2
A structural support apparatus comprises a connection bracket comprising, a generally flat, rigid member having opposing generally flat faces and a thickness extending between the flat faces. The rigid member is attachable to a support member. An arm extends from an end of the rigid member and a finger extends from the arm and is receivable in a hollow channel formed in an attachable member of rigid material. The hollow channel is complementary in configuration to at least one of the finger and the arm and a selected recess configuration is formed between the finger, the arm and the end of the rigid member. The recess accommodates one or more lip portions of the attachable member when either the arm or the finger, are received within the hollow channel.
US09422959B2
A structural component interconnect assembly includes a first component adapted for interconnection with a second component. A connection component is adapted for securing the first component and the second component together in a secured interconnection. The connection component includes at least two flanges spaced from each other by a first distance. The first component includes a mating surface having at least two slots formed therein and spaced one from another by the first distance. The second component includes a first surface and a second surface spaced one from the other by a distance on the order of the first distance. Engagement of the at least two flanges, via the at least two slots, with the first surface and the second surface secures the first component to the second component.
US09422958B2
Fasteners are generally described. In some examples, a fastener can be configured to releasably connect a first member to a second member. The fastener can comprise an element that is able to be arranged with respect to the first member. The element can comprise a latching region that is able to assume a latching orientation. The fastener can also comprise a latch that is able to be arranged with respect to the second member. The latch can comprise a latching portion that is able to latch with the latching region when in the latching orientation to connect the first member to the second member. The fastener can be configured such that the element is movable relative to the latch so that, when moved relative to the latch, the element urges the latching portion out of the latching region to enable disconnection of the first member from the second member.
US09422954B2
Disclosed herein is an active roughness actuator and a method of forming an active roughness actuator. The active roughness actuator includes a surface having at least one aperture; a compliant layer disposed on the surface such that the compliant layer covers the at least one aperture; a chamber having a fluid therein and a piezoelectric surface mechanically coupled to the chamber. The chamber is in fluid communication with the compliant layer via the at least one aperture. The piezoelectric surface is configured to displace the fluid in the chamber to control production of at least one dimple in the compliant layer proximate to the at least one aperture.
US09422950B2
A piston-cylinder actuator includes a unique mount for an absolute-position sensor. The mount is made from a bearing material provides a flexible connection between the sensor mount and the cylinder housing. This flexible connection allows the piston rod to deflect naturally, under its own weight or under other laterally-directed forces, while maintaining the distance and perpendicularity between the sensor and the rod surface, within acceptable limits. The sensor mount is made from a bearing material that will allow it to float directly on the rod surface without scuffing or otherwise damaging the rod surface, particularly the markings or other indicia on that surface. Due to the flexible connection between the sensor mount and the cylinder housing, the proper distance between the sensor and the rod surface can be maintained at all times.
US09422948B2
There is provided an energy storage system. The system includes a storage tank, a reservoir connected to the storage tank configured to store fluid and exchange the stored fluid with the storage tank, at least one path configured to transfer the stored fluid between the storage tank and the reservoir, a pump configured to inject the stored fluid into the storage tank and compress air in the storage tank, and a generator configured to generate electricity by using the injected fluid transferred from the storage tank to the reservoir.
US09422947B1
A method, system and apparatus including a mechanism capable of performing a variety of operations, each operation having a respective power requirement and a power source capable of providing power to the mechanism at a variety of different levels corresponding to the operations being undertaken by the mechanism where the power source is regulated to at least provide a first lower power level sufficient for one or more operations requiring a lower power level and is increased to provide a higher power level as needed for one or more alternative operations requiring a higher power level.
US09422945B2
A pressure accumulator has at least one accumulator housing (403) with at least one connection (411) for a pressure medium (421), especially in the form of a fluid that can be accumulated in the accumulator housing (403). The filling material (419) has hollow chambers or forms at least one hollow chamber for accommodating at least part of pressure medium (421) and/or at least one further pressure medium (449) introduced into at least sections of the accumulator housing (403).
US09422942B2
A system for applying tension to a component for use in molten metal processing. Preferably, the component includes an outer core and at least one tension rod positioned partially within the outer core. The component is preferably elongated, such as a support post or an impeller shaft. The tension rod applies compression to the outer cover, which makes the outer cover more resistant to breakage if it strikes, or is stricken by, an object.
US09422931B2
A milking installation with a milking robot for automatically connecting teat cups to the teats of a dairy animal has milk lines extending between the teat cups and a milk de-aeration unit or milk glass. A de-aeration port is present at the top of the de-aeration unit and a de-aeration line connects the milk glass to a vacuum system. At the bottom of the milk glass a milk inlet line is provided which connects the milk glass to the milk pump. The milk pump includes a milk inlet, a pump housing, a milk outlet. The milk pump is a membrane pump which type of pump is known to be gentle to the milk and thus reduce occurrence of lypolysis of the milk when pumped through the milking installation.
US09422924B2
For a wind turbine, an electromagnetically shielding nacelle cover is formed of a composite material which can comprise, for example, an outer layer made of a fiber material or fiber mats such as glass fiber mats and an interposed foam layer. A conductor layer, for example a mesh, a woven fabric or a coating made of conductive material is integrated between the fiber layers of the composite material to provide electromagnetic shielding of the nacelle. The conductor layer is also connected, or can be connected, directly or indirectly, to at least one conductive structure that is applied to the outside of the nacelle cover.
US09422917B2
The invention provides a safety system for a wind turbine comprising a tower with a nacelle, and a rotor with blades and a connected drive train. The safety system comprises at least one load sensing system for providing a load signal significant for a load on the tower or rotor, and an electronic system which based on the load signal brings the wind turbine to a safe condition.
US09422916B2
A method for forming a profile for a hollow component is provided. A first composite fiber layer is laid out on a first surface corresponding to a first profile section of the component. A second composite fiber layer is laid out in a second surface corresponding to a second profile section of the component. A collapsed bag is laid out in onto the first composite fiber layer. The bag and the first composite fiber layer are fixed to the first surface. First and second mould elements are coupled such that the first surface and the second surface correspond to the first and second profiles. The bag is inflated such that the first composite fiber layer is pressed to the first surface and the second composite fiber layer is pressed to the second surface so that the first and second layers are coupled to form the profile.
US09422909B2
An automatic stop device for a vehicle engine includes: an automatic stop control unit which performs automatic engine stop when a predetermined automatic stop initiating condition is established while the vehicle is stopped, and prohibits automatic engine stop when the automatic stop initiating condition is not established; a restart control unit which performs automatic engine restart when a predetermined automatic stop cancelling condition is established after the engine is automatically stopped; and a storage unit which stores a cause of prohibiting automatic engine stop when automatic stop of the engine is prohibited while the vehicle is stopped, or a cause of performing automatic engine restart when the engine that has been automatically stopped is automatically restarted.
US09422908B2
A vehicular control apparatus performs control of enabling idle operation of an internal combustion engine that generates a motive power applied to a driving wheel of a vehicle if a vehicle speed of the vehicle is lower than a predetermined vehicle speed that is set in advance, and disabling idle operation of the internal combustion engine if the vehicle speed of the vehicle is equal to or higher than the predetermined vehicle speed, when the vehicle is in a state other than an acceleration running state. Accordingly, the vehicular control apparatus achieves an effect of making it possible to suppress the consumption of fuel.
US09422903B2
In a GDI fuel rail mounting system comprising a fuel injection rail, having at least one fuel injector receiving cup with a generally cylindrical shape directly attached to the fuel rail generally perpendicular to and offset from the center of the fuel rail. The fuel rail further comprising at least one generally cylindrical attachment means proximal the fuel injector receiving cup, also attached to the fuel rail offset from the center thereof, the attachment means and the fuel injector receiving cup being disposed generally parallel to each other. A securing strap is attached to the outer curvature of at least one of the injector receiving cup and the attachment means, at least partially wrapping around the outer periphery of the attachment means, thereby inhibiting torsional, lineal, and lateral movement of the injector cup relative to the attachment means and the fuel rail.
US09422902B2
A heat transfer system for use in an internal combustion engine and related methods are disclosed. The heat transfer system may be configured to absorb and transfer heat from a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The heat transfer system may also be configured to reintroduce absorbed and/or transferred heat into the internal combustion engine via a fuel injector or another suitable device. Removal of the heat from the combustion chamber may reduce a quantity of work required or used for compression of a first combustion fluid, increase a charge density in the combustion chamber, and/or increase the compression ratio of the engine. Additionally, the heat transfer system may be designed such that it may be used to retrofit an existing internal combustion engine.
US09422893B2
The present invention resides in a control apparatus for an internal combustion engine in which selective use is made of a case where a first fuel, being easy to be ignited, is caused to combust by itself, and a case where a second fuel, being hard to be ignited, is also caused to combust by igniting the first fuel, and which is provided with an acquisition unit configured to acquire a combustion state of the second fuel in the case where the second fuel is also caused to combust by igniting the first fuel, and a decision unit configured to decide amounts of supply of the first fuel and the second fuel to be supplied to the internal combustion engine on and after next time, based on the combustion state of the second fuel determined by the acquisition unit.
US09422883B2
A method is provided for generating rapid light-off for a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) close-coupled to a compression-ignition engine. The engine includes an intake passage in fluid communication with a combustion chamber, a throttle for controlling a flow of intake air through the intake passage, and an exhaust passage configured to channel an exhaust gas from the combustion chamber to the DOC. The method includes starting the engine to commence a warm-up thereof and regulating the throttle to restrict supply of the intake airflow to the combustion chamber. The method additionally includes injecting a predetermined amount of fuel into the combustion chamber during the engine's exhaust cycle such that the injected fuel is carried by the exhaust gas and burned in the exhaust passage. Regulating the throttle and injecting fuel during the warm-up of the engine together increase temperature of the exhaust gas for rapid light-off of the close-coupled DOC.
US09422879B2
Various systems and method for controlling exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) in an internal combustion engine are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes injecting fuel to a subset of cylinders that includes less than all cylinders of a first cylinder group to obtain a target EGR rate. The first cylinder group provides exhaust gas through an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) passage structure fluidly coupled between the first cylinder group and an intake passage structure. The method further includes injecting fuel to at least one cylinder of a second cylinder group. The second cylinder group provides substantially no exhaust gas through the EGR passage structure.
US09422866B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to a method and system for transient operating of a gas turbine. Operation of the gas turbine the controller determines command values for an inlet air mass flow, fuel mass flow, and for a water or steam mass flow. In order to allow fast transient operation with a stable premix flame at least one command value is dynamically compensated to compensate for the different system dynamics of the supply systems to synchronize the resulting changes in fuel, water, steam, and/or combustion air mass flows, which reach the combustor, so that the fuel to air ratio stays within the combustible limit.
US09422862B2
The combined cycle power system includes a fuel cell, a gas turbine, a fuel gas supply line, a compressed air supply line, a discharged fuel recirculation line, a discharged air supply line, a gas turbine fuel supply line, a discharged fuel atmospheric release line, a discharged air atmospheric release line, and a discharged fuel release bypass line in which a bypass on-off valve is provided in a flow passage that connects the discharged fuel atmospheric release line and the discharged fuel recirculation line downstream of the discharged fuel release source valve and downstream of the discharged fuel circulation source valve.
US09422852B2
An object of the invention is to enhance the exhaust gas purification rate and to reduce the possibility of breakage of a heater element in an electric heating catalyst (EHC) by generating heat by the heater element in a improved manner. A pair of electrodes including surface electrodes 7a extending in the axial and circumferential directions of the heater element along the outer circumferential surface of said heater element are provided in such a way as to be opposed to each other on the heater element located therebetween. The surface electrodes 7a are adapted in such a way that current flowing between the surface electrodes 7a flows mainly on the outer circumferential surface of the heater element in a part of the heater element with respect to the axial direction and flows mainly in an inner portion of the heater element in another part of the heater element with respect to the axial direction.
US09422847B2
An apparatus includes a dosing module structured to suspend dosing in an exhaust aftertreatment system; a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) inlet NOx module structured to interpret SCR inlet NOx data and an SCR inlet temperature; a SCR outlet NOx module structured to interpret SCR outlet NOx data; and a system diagnostic module structured to determine an efficiency of a SCR system based on the SCR inlet and outlet NOx data over a range of SCR temperatures, wherein the system diagnostic module is further structured to determine a state of at least one of a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC), a diesel particulate filter (DPF), and the SCR system based on the SCR efficiency at an elevated SCR temperature range and the SCR efficiency at a relatively lower SCR temperature range relative to a high SCR efficiency threshold and a low SCR efficiency threshold.
US09422840B2
In a hydraulic valve comprising a spool, one or more band-shape check valves and an enclosing bolt or snout, the check valve may be compressed to the point of excessive wear or failure and may impede spool movement. The problem outlined is solved by an inventive hydraulic valve for use with a cam phasing apparatus of an internal combustion engine. The hydraulic valve comprises a hollow bolt or snout, check valves, and a spool disposed inside the bolt while still being able to shift axially within the bolt. The bolt and spool are configured to provide fluid passageways between the spool and the cam phasing apparatus depending on a translational displacement of the spool. Furthermore, the spool is configured to allow an oil flow through the fluid passageway, yet limit a compression of the band-type check valves.
US09422826B2
A start control unit for a steam turbine plant, wherein inputting a measured value of a steam temperature fed to a steam turbine, a measured value or an estimated value of a rotor temperature of the steam turbine, and a measured value of a casing temperature of the steam turbine, and controlling a steam flow rate so as to increase the steam flow rate fed to the steam turbine when a difference between the steam temperature and the rotor temperature is smaller than a first regulated value and a difference between the rotor temperature and the casing temperature is a second regulated value or larger.
US09422814B2
A method is provided for repairing an area of damaged coating on a component of a turbine module in a gas turbine engine, the component formed of a base material having a diffusion coating applied to the base material. The repair may be accomplished in place by directly heating the area to which a touch-up coating material has been applied with a hot gas plasma without the need to place the component in an oven for curing and heat treatment of the touch-up coating applied to the damaged area.
US09422809B2
A fluid pressure pulse generator comprising a stator and rotor that can be used in measurement while drilling using mud pulse or pressure pulse telemetry is disclosed. The stator comprises a stator body with a circular opening therethrough and the rotor comprises a circular rotor body rotatably received in the circular opening of the stator body. One of the stator body or the rotor body comprises one or more than one fluid opening for flow of fluid therethrough and the other of the stator body or the rotor body comprises one or more than one full flow chamber. The rotor is rotatable between a full flow configuration whereby the full flow chamber and the fluid opening align so that fluid flows from the full flow chamber through the fluid opening, and a reduced flow configuration whereby the full flow chamber and the fluid opening are not aligned. The flow of fluid through the fluid opening in the reduced flow configuration is less than the flow of fluid through the fluid opening in the full flow configuration thereby generating a fluid pressure pulse.
US09422808B2
A downhole signal transmission system provides electric radiofrequency signals that are coupled to electrically conductive or non-conductive fluids through electrical insulators. A plurality of signal repeaters are tuned to the frequencies of the radiofrequency signals, and a plurality of transmission lines terminated by resonance circuits are also provided such that the terminating resonance circuits resonate on the frequencies of the electric radiofrequency signals. The plurality of signal repeaters and plurality of transmission elements are arranged to be redundant such that a failure of one or more of the signal repeaters or a failure of one or more of the transmission elements does not substantially affect the operation of the data transmission system. The signal repeaters and transmission elements also are arranged such that a failure of any of the signal repeaters or a failure of any of the transmission elements is communicated to the surface.
US09422798B2
Hydrocarbon resource heating apparatus including ferromagnetic transmission line and related methods
A device for heating hydrocarbon resources in a subterranean formation having a wellbore therein may include an RF antenna configured to be positioned within the wellbore to heat the hydrocarbon resources in the subterranean formation. The device may further include a radio frequency (RF) source, and an RF transmission line coupling the RF antenna and the RF source. The RF transmission line may include ferromagnetic material. A magnetic source may be magnetically coupled to the RF transmission line and configured to magnetically saturate the ferromagnetic material.
US09422794B2
The invention provides a system for lining a wellbore. The system comprises an expandable tubular element arranged in the wellbore, the tubular element having a first end part and a second end part whereby the second end part extends into a tubular wall located in the wellbore. An expander is arranged to radially expand the tubular element by movement of the expander through the tubular element in a direction from the first end part to the second end part, said direction defining an expansion direction. The system further comprises an anchor arranged to anchor said second end part to the tubular wall in a manner that the anchor substantially prevents movement of said second end part in the expansion direction and allows movement of said second end part in the direction opposite to the expansion direction.
US09422788B2
A system includes a back pressure valve. The back pressure valve includes a body, a plunger disposed internal to the body, and a friction member disposed about the exterior of the body. The friction member is configured to expand radially to contact an internal surface of a bore. A method includes disposing a back pressure valve into a straight bore and expanding a friction member of the back pressure valve radially into contact with an internal surface of the straight bore.
US09422785B2
An internal blow out preventer for use in a drill string, comprising a housing having an outer valve closure element and where the outer valve closure element is configured to be moved between an open and a closed position, wherein the outer valve closure element is provided with an inner valve closure element that is configured to be moved between an open and a closed position inside the outer valve closure element.
US09422784B2
A snubbing apparatus for a wellhead has a snubbing stack with a upper sealing element and a lower sealing element that seal between the elongate string and the snubbing stack. A string driver carried by the snubbing stack manipulates the elongate string through the upper and lower sealing elements. There is a source of inert liquid connected to the snubbing stack between the upper sealing element and the lower sealing element. A pressure sensor is connected to sense the pressure below the lower sealing element and is connected to provide a pressure signal to the source of inert liquid. The source of inert liquid is configured to pressurize the snubbing stack between the upper sealing element and the lower sealing element in response to the pressure signal.
US09422776B2
A rotating control device housing includes an upper riser flange; a lower riser flange; a latch section for receiving a bearing assembly and connected to the upper riser flange; a port section connected to the latch section by a flanged connection, having an outlet for discharging fluid flow diverted by the bearing assembly, and connected to the lower riser flange; and a jumper connected to the upper and lower riser flanges.
US09422775B2
The present invention relates to a casing module for being part of a downhole casing system, comprising a base pipe extending in a longitudinal direction and having a circumference, a functional assembly mounted over the base pipe to define a casing module flow path between the functional assembly and the base pipe, and a main flow path arranged substantially in a center of the base pipe and extending in a longitudinal direction of the casing system, wherein at least a part of the casing module flow path is an annular flow path extending both in the longitudinal direction of the base pipe and continuously around the entire circumference of the base pipe, and the base pipe has end sections at which a plurality of supporting structures protrude from an outer surface to provide support for the functional assembly, the supporting structures defining a plurality of casing module flow paths extending in the longitudinal direction. The present invention furthermore relates to a downhole casing system for performing operations in a wellbore containing well fluid.
US09422772B2
A drill head clean out device having a clean out tool, a first bar having a first end and a second end, wherein the clean out tool is adapted to be positioned on the first end of the first bar, a coupling member having a first aperture adapted to receive the first bar when the first bar is in a vertical orientation, a second bar having a first end and a second end, wherein the coupling member has a second aperture adapted to receive a first end of the second bar when the second bar is in a horizontal orientation, and wherein the second end of the second bar is adapted to be positioned within an aperture in a base of a drill rig.
US09422761B2
Device for invalidating notes of value, which comprises at least one combined dyestuff and trigger module, the dyestuff and trigger module being connectable via at least one first connecting element to a second connecting element of the value note transport container complementary to the first connecting element. The device has a dyestuff distributing unit for distributing dyestuff exiting from an outlet opening of the dyestuff and trigger module onto the notes of value. By means of the first connecting element a disconnectable plug connection to the second connecting element is establishable. Further, the disclosure relates to a cash box comprising such a device.
US09422750B2
A latch mechanism includes a latchable structure and a latch member assembled with the latchable structure and movable between a latching position and a releasing position. The latch member includes a first stop portion positioned to engage a second stop portion carried by the latchable structure when the latch member is in one of the latching position and the releasing position.
US09422741B1
A helical pile having lateral support. A helical pile has lateral support plates that extend in a vertical direction parallel to the axis of the helical pile and substantially perpendicular to a plane of a helix on the helical pile. A helical support rod assembly provides additional lateral support to a helical pile. The helical support rod assembly has a longitudinal axis that intersects the longitudinal axis of the helical pile. The helical pile provides a foundation for a post, such as a support post used in supporting a suspended fence in a ball field. The helical support rod assembly provides additional lateral support that may be required for larger post, such as a foul pole in a ball field. The time and labor for installing a foundation for posts is substantially reduced.
US09422739B2
A system and method is described generally for providing a high altitude conduit the high altitude conduit includes a first material layer forming an elongated duct. The high altitude conduit also includes a second material layer outside the first material layer. The second material layer defines a space between the second material layer and the first material layer. A gas has a density that is less dense than that of the atmosphere outside of the second material layer. The gas is disposed in the space between the first and the second layer. An introducer is configured to provide the gas into the space between the first material layer and the second material layer. The gas causes the conduit to extend in an approximately upright orientation.
US09422738B2
In a filter apparatus with a filter for filtering a liquid including, in a housing, a filter structure which is rotatably supported off-center so that it is arranged at one side in close proximity to the housing wall and at the opposite side a housing space is formed in which at least one nozzle tube with nozzle openings directed toward the filter structure and advantageously also an ultrasound transducer are arranged for removing deposits from the filter structure. A liquid inlet is connected to filter housing bottom wall in the area of the housing space and a return pipe is connected to the bottom wall in communication with a center passage of the filter structure for discharging cleaned liquid. The liquid inlet includes a valve for blocking the water flow and a drain opening for draining cleaning liquid during filter cleaning.
US09422732B2
Slidable barrier arrangements for a structure having a plurality of stories are described. A first retainer element can be operatively connected to the structure. The retainer element can span a plurality of stories of the structure. The retainer element can include a plurality of retainer segments, including an uppermost retainer segment and one or more lower retainer segments. The one or more lower retainer segments can include a lowermost retainer segment. A barrier and the first retainer element can be brought together such that a portion of the barrier is retainably engaged by the lower retainer segments of the first retainer element. The length of the barrier can substantially correspond to the length of the lower retainer segments. Thus, the uppermost retainer segment can extend vertically above an upper edge side of the barrier. The barrier can be selectively moved, such as by sliding, within the first retainer element.
US09422725B1
A vent assisted single-ply roof system including an augmented design that incorporates mechanical fasteners, insulation bonding adhesives and membrane bonding adhesives in the turbulent wind vortex areas along the perimeter of the deck as determined by ASCE 7 calculations. Coupled with roof vents for equalizing the pressure under a loose laid membrane in the field-of-roof area outside the turbulent wind vortex areas to reduce membrane stress and resist wind uplift pressures during high wind events.
US09422720B2
A mount for a membrane roof is assembled from first and second metal plates coated on at least one side with heat-weldable material, at least one bolt and two sheets of membrane roofing material. The parts are assembled in a manner that the bolt faces upwards and is effectively sealed in the assembly against any leak around the bolt by a first sheet of roofing material. The mount may be attached to a roof by fasteners around the periphery of the first base plate, and the second sheet of membrane material seals the fasteners and fastener holes.
US09422719B2
A roofing product can include roofing granules, wherein the roofing granules include base particles and a coating covering the base particles. The base particles are sintered. The coating has a depth of penetration into an outside surface of at least about 0.5% of an average radius of the base particles. In an embodiment, the coating has a depth of penetration into an outside surface of at least about 2.5 microns into the base particles. Further included is a process of forming the roofing granules.
US09422714B2
A wooden frame truss with enhanced fire resistance is provided and includes an upper chord extending along a longitudinal axis, a lower chord disposed below the upper chord and extending along a vertically displaced, parallel axis, a plurality of supports attached between the upper and lower chords, and a plurality of metal gusset plates securing the supports to the chords. At least one wallboard batten strip is attached to an underside of the lower chord, the strip being constructed and arranged so that the strip defines a ledge extending from each side of the lower chord.
US09422713B2
A wall system for basements includes a horizontally-extending floor member defining an upwardly facing channel. A first vertically-extending support beam is coupled to the floor member and defines a pair of laterally-adjacent channels separated by a center rib. A second similar support beam is laterally displaced along the floor member with respect to the first support beam. A foam panel is disposed in the upwardly facing channel of the floor member and in one of the laterally-adjacent channels of the first support beam and in one of the laterally-adjacent channels of the second support beam. The floor member, first support beam and second support beam comprise a non-organic plastic material. The foam panel comprises a closed-cell non-organic foam material. The wall system can be formed in-situ and can be configured as a free-standing wall.
US09422709B2
A floor drain having a drain body that receives a rotatable frame with a grate. The orientation of the grate and frame about an axis of the drain body may be adjusted by rotating the frame relative to the drain body and clamping the frame in the desired orientation. Adjustments to the orientation of the grate and frame can be made to align the grate and frame with floor tiles or other flooring materials and with walls surrounding the floor drain.
US09422708B2
A drain assembly for providing a drain in a floor. The drain assembly includes a drain conduit, a strainer and an adaptor. The drain conduit has an inner surface that defines a fluid flow path and an outer surface. The strainer is disposed above the drain conduit and has openings in fluid communication with the fluid flow path of the drain conduit. The adaptor may be securable in the drain conduit and may be connected to the strainer. Prior to securing the adaptor in the drain conduit, a position of the adaptor in the drain conduit may be moveable to allow a top surface of the strainer to be substantially aligned with the floor. A method of assembly is also disclosed.
US09422706B2
The apparatus and method of the invention provides for a rinse valve for controlling the flow of rinse fluid to a vacuum waste receptacle. The rinse valve comprises a primary rinse fluid flow path and a poppet assembly intersecting the primary rinse fluid flow path. The rinse valve also comprises a solenoid-driven fluid control device having a solenoid armature movable between an inactive state in which the armature engages the poppet assembly to block flow of the rinse fluid through a poppet channel and an active state in which the solenoid armature is disengaged from the poppet assembly to allow flow of the rinse fluid through the poppet channel to raise the poppet assembly, permitting the flow of the rinse fluid through the primary rinse fluid flow path and out of the valve, the armature being located at all times out of the primary flow path of the rinse fluid.
US09422703B1
An odor-removing hinge system and method of use for withdrawing noxious odors from toilets and portable commodes is disclosed. The present seat hinge system includes an integrated housing that functions as a portion of an exhaust pathway for noxious gases expelled within the toilet bowl. The present hinge system includes at least one hollow bolt disposed in fluid communication with the housing, which is used to secure the toilet seat to the toilet. In one embodiment the noxious gases within the toilet bowl are carried by convection or vacuum via connective tubing to an exhaust conduit installed in an adjacent wall. In other embodiments the noxious gases are directed through a detachable air filter assembly secured to the housing and the odorless filtered air is recirculated. In a method of use the present hinge system is retrofitted to existing toilets and portables commodes in replacement of standard toilet seat hinges.
US09422702B2
Toilet basket (1) for receiving solid or gelled preparations having at least one container (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) for receiving at least one preparation (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d), the container (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) positionable below the toilet rim so that flushing water can flow over it when the toilet is flushed, and at least one inlet opening (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d) and one outlet opening (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) shaped in the container wall (7) for the flushing water; a holder (2) for mounting the toilet basket (1) on the bowl rim; a flushing water distributing element (8) arranged and configured on the toilet basket (1) so that the flushing water distributing element (8) is impinged upon by flushing water upon flushing, and an equalized delivery of flushing water into the inlet opening (5a, 5b, 5c, 5d) of the container (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d) is produced.
US09422700B2
An apparatus (100) for a toilet (600) is provided. The apparatus can include a rim engagement portion (101) and a sheet catcher (102) comprising one or more barbs (104,105,106). A bowl side bestrider (103) can couple the rim engagement portion to the sheet catcher. The sheet catcher to situate within a water seal (605) of the toilet when the rim engagement portion engages a rim (601) of the toilet. The barbs can to catch non-dispersible sheets (701) when the toilet is flushed.
US09422698B2
In one aspect, a waste disposal for processing waste may generally include a motor defining a rotational axis, a cutter plate coupled to the motor for rotation therewith and a housing configured to encase the motor and the cutter plate. The housing may include an upper housing portion and a lower housing portion. The upper housing portion may define an inner surface at least partially forming a converging section of the upper housing portion. The upper housing portion may further define an inlet through the converging section. The inlet may be oriented relative to the housing such that water flowing through the inlet is directed into the housing at a non-radial flow angle. In addition, the inner surface may define a curved profile such that a grind chamber of the housing is substantially dome-shaped along the converging section.
US09422697B2
Fragrance control is provided by articles of manufacture including various solid state fragrancing objects, methods of using such objects, and systems that employ one or more such objects. The fragrancing object can be easy to manufacture, long lasting, provide fragrance that is consistently released over time, provide an indication to the user that the object needs to be replaced, and can hold a desired ratio of fragrance. The fragrancing object can include a first material comprising a polyether block amide, a second material comprising a polyolefin elastomer (POE), and a fragrance component such as a fragrance oil.
US09422693B2
A protective device for a culvert pipe has a generally conical screen portion extending between a base member at one end and an apex member at the other end. The base member is annular about an opening sized to receive the open end of the culvert pipe therein. The apex member may take the form of a domed cap, or an annular ring structure. The screen portion is formed of a plurality of rigid members between opposing first and second ends which are arranged to be selectively mounted to the base member and the apex member respectively using threaded fasteners. The two apex members may thus be interchangeable with one another.
US09422692B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems for performing non-contact based determination of the position of an implement. In one embodiment, a non-contact based measurement system is used to determine the relative position of an implement coupled with a mobile machine. The geographic position of the mobile machine is determined and the geographic position of said implement based upon the geographic position of the mobile machine and the position of the implement relative to the mobile machine.
US09422691B2
Provided is an upper slewing body allowing elements to be compactly arranged while preventing required length of a hydraulic pipe from increase. The upper slewing body includes an upper frame, an engine, a hydraulic pump coupled thereto, a control valve forward of the engine and rearward of a slewing axis, and a rear tank between the engine and the control valve. The control valve is oblique to a frame lateral direction so as to locate a front end portion thereof forward of an inner end portion thereof. The rear tank has a rear opposition side surface opposed to a rear side surface of the control valve while being oblique to the rear side surface thereto.
US09422683B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a foldable scooper for use in picking up animal waste. The scooper can be folded and configured to attach to a leash or be inserted into a user's pocket, thereby making it hands free. In some embodiments, the foldable scooper can be wrapped by a waste bag, thereby allowing a user to pick up animal waste without ever coming in contact with the waste.
US09422681B2
A barrier structure with bolt-down pockets, allowing the structure to be installed as a semi-permanent or permanent structure. The bolt-down pockets are at uniform spacing along the base of the barrier structure and located on opposite sides of the structure. A bolt-down bar extends across and through the base at each pair of bolt-down pockets. Additional reinforcement is provided by rebar bent a generally “U” shape, sometimes called a “hairpin” shape. Toward each end of each bolt-down plate, the base of the “U” shaped rebar is welded to the bolt-down plate near a bolt hole in the bolt-down plate with the legs of the “U” extending at an angle up into the concrete structure. Further reinforcing at the sites of the bolt-down pockets is provided by rebar, sometimes called “stirrups”, bent in a form which generally conforms to the cross-section of the precast concrete structure.
US09422680B2
Provided is a deck, configured for supporting a carriageable surface, including first structural girders defining a support surface for the carriageable surface; at least one second structural girder configured to position itself on the opposite side to said carriageable surface in relation to the first structural girders; diagonal girders integrally connecting the first and said second structural girders to each other, defining, for the deck, a truss; said first and said second structural girders include a core in concrete material: and an external reinforcement partially cladding the core and made of metallic material.
US09422677B2
A self-propelling construction machine has a machine frame, an operating drum and a drum housing enclosing the operating drum. The drum housing is closed off by a front and/or rear sealing element and/or lateral sealing element. The construction machine has a mechanism for raising and lowering the at least one sealing element. A measuring unit is configured so that the measuring unit measures the forces acting on the sealing element when the sealing element encounters an obstacle. A control unit generates a control signal for raising the sealing element when the force measured by the measuring unit is larger than a predetermined limit value, so that the sealing element is raised.
US09422675B2
A compactor, comprising at least one compactor roller that can be rotated around a roller axis of rotation, at least one edge shaping device and a fluid reservoir/delivery system for storing and delivering fluid to at least one compactor roller and at least one edge shaping device, characterized in that the fluid reservoir/delivery system comprises at least one first fluid pump for pumping fluid to at least one first fluid delivery unit assigned to a compactor roller and at least one second fluid pump for pumping fluid to at least one second fluid delivery unit assigned to an edge shaping unit.
US09422674B2
An improved in-track welder eliminates conduction path force members and employs separate bridging current path conductors for DC welding of rail ends. The enhancement allows for an increased closure distance, thus improving cold-weather operations. An increased allowable distance between conduction contacts allows for the incorporation of an internal shear member for more efficient finishing of welds. The force members may be optimized for strength rather than electrical properties, and are comprised of relatively small diameter alloy steel rods.
US09422673B2
Embodiments of a tie plate sorter are disclosed wherein the tie plates are sorted and fed to an output device for further feeding to a tie plate distribution system. The tie plates may be oriented as needed. Exemplary methods are also provided.
US09422666B2
A papermaker's through-air dryer (TAD) fabric for use in the production of tissue and towel products. The fabric is woven according to a 10-shed, semi-duplex weave design in which the warp and weft yarns are arranged so as to form pockets of at least two differing sizes in a first planar fabric surface. The pockets are designed and arranged to impart a measure of bulk and absorbency to the paper products conveyed thereon by providing MD oriented recesses in the PS fabric surface into which a portion of the component fibers of the paper products formed on the fabric are deflected during manufacture.
US09422665B2
A headbox apparatus for a papermaking machine is disclosed. The headbox apparatus defines a flow path for stock flowing between an upstream header and a downstream slice lip. Each block and an adjacent block of a plurality of blocks defines therebetween a flow tube for the flow therethrough of the stock. An upstream ramp is defined by a first surface for generating an upstream vortex adjacent to the first surface. A downstream ramp is defined by a second surface for generating a downstream vortex adjacent to the second surface. Adjacent blocks also generate downstream vortices which rotate in opposite directions relative to each other within the flow tube so that impact of the upstream and downstream vortices on a flow consistency and a velocity uniformity of the stock is reduced.
US09422661B2
A pump assembly for a washing machine appliance is provided. The pump assembly includes a casing that receives a filter. The filter includes a labyrinth filter portion and a mesh filter portion. A drain pump is in fluid communication with the labyrinth filter portion, and a recirculation pump is in fluid communication with the mesh filter portion. Related washing machine appliances are also provided.
US09422654B2
The invention provides nonwoven mats comprising polyetherketoneketone fibers or mixtures thereof. Also provided are filters, textiles, blankets, and insulation prepared from polyetherketoneketone nonwoven mats, as well as methods for manufacturing the same.
US09422644B2
The present invention relates to a poly-ether-ester elastomer resin composition and elastic monofilaments prepared therefrom, and more specifically to a thermoplastic poly-ether-ester elastomer resin composition and elastic monofilaments prepared therefrom, wherein the thermoplastic poly-ether-ester elastomer resin composition is prepared from a poly-ether-ester block copolymer, a heat stabilizer, a UV absorber, a hindered amine light stabilizer, and porous silica, thereby ensuring excellent perceived quality, spinnability and weavability.
US09422638B2
Crack formation and propagation in a silicon substrate may be reduced by forming a crack reducing portion. The silicon substrate includes a silicon main portion and a silicon edge portion formed around the silicon main portion. The crack reducing portion is formed on the silicon edge portion of the silicon substrate such that the directions of crystal faces in the crack reducing portion are randomly oriented.
US09422637B2
Provides are a system of controlling a diameter of a single crystal ingot and a single crystal ingot growing apparatus including the same. The system of controlling a diameter of a single crystal ingot includes: a diameter measuring sensor measuring a diameter of a single crystal ingot; a Low-Pass Filter (LPF) removing short period noise from measured data from the diameter measuring sensor; and an Automatic Diameter Control (ADC) sensor controlling the diameter of the single crystal ingot through controlling of a pull speed by using data having the noise removed as current data.
US09422629B2
A method of treating a rolled steel article, the method comprising: providing a first solution comprising an acid arranged to separate mill scale components from steel and a surfactant arranged to suspend separated mill scale components in the first solution; applying the first solution to a surface of the article for a prescribed duration; rinsing the first solution from the surface of the article by applying a rinse liquid to the article; directing a first flow of air onto the surface of the article to remove moisture from the surface of rolled steel article; and directing a second flow of air onto the surface of the article subsequent to application of the second solution until remaining moisture on the article is substantially removed.
US09422621B2
Gate metallization structures and methods for semiconductor devices are disclosed, wherein a refractory metal barrier is implemented to provide performance improvements. Transistor devices are disclosed having a compound semiconductor substrate and an electron-beam evaporated gate structure including a layer of tantalum nitride (TaNx), a layer of titanium (Ti) and a layer of gold (Au).
US09422619B2
A processing apparatus includes a substrate holding portion, a shield arranged to surround a substrate, and a shield holding portion configured to hold the shield. The shield includes first magnets each having a magnetic pole of a first polarity facing the shield holding portion, and second magnets each having a magnetic pole of a second polarity facing the shield holding portion. The first magnets and the second magnets are arranged at positions symmetrical with respect to the center of the shield. The shield holding portion includes third magnets each having a magnetic pole of the first polarity facing the shield, and fourth magnets each having a magnetic pole of the second polarity facing the shield.
US09422615B2
Exposing nitinol to a shape setting temperature while the nitinol is in an unstrained or minimally strained condition. The nitinol is then substantially deformed in shape while at elevated temperature. After deformation, the nitinol remains at the elevated temperature for a time to shape set the material. The nitinol is then returned to approximately room temperature 20° C. by means of water quenching or air cooling for example.
US09422612B2
An aluminum alloy wire having excellent bending characteristics, strength, and electrically conductive characteristics, an aluminum alloy stranded wire, a covered electric wire including the above-described alloy wire or stranded wire, and a wire harness including the covered electric wire are provided. The aluminum alloy wire contains not less than 0.1% and not more than 1.5% by mass of Mg, not less than 0.03% and not more than 2.0% of Si, not less than 0.05% and not more than 0.5% of Cu, and a remainder including Al and an impurity, satisfies 0.8≦Mg/Si ratio by mass ≦3.5, has an electrical conductivity from 35% IACS to 58% IACS, a tensile strength from 150 MPa to 400 MPa, and an elongation not less than 2%. The aluminum alloy wire is manufactured through the steps of casting→rolling→wiredrawing→solution heat treatment.
US09422603B2
The present teachings provide methods, compositions, and kits for performing primer extension reactions on at least two target polynucleotides in the same reaction mixture. In some embodiments, a reverse transcription reaction is performed on a first target polynucleotide with a hot start primer comprising a self-complementary stem and a loop, and extension products form at high temperatures but extension products form less so at low temperatures since the self-complementary stem of the hot start primer prevents hybridization of the target specific region to the target. However, non-hot start primers with free target specific regions can hybridize to their corresponding targets at the low temperature and extension can happen at the low temperature.
US09422601B2
A method of amplifying DNA from RNA in a sample by using circular RNA is provided.
US09422600B2
Methods and apparatus relate to reduction of sequence errors generated during synthesis of nucleic acids on a microarray chip. The error reduction can include synthesis of complementary stands (to template strands), using a short universal primer complementary to the template strands and polymerase. Heteroduplex can be formed be melting and re-annealing complementary stands and template strands. The heteroduplexes containing a mismatch can be recognized and cleaved by a mismatch endonuclease. The mismatch-containing cleaved heteroduplexes can be removed from the microarray chip using a global buffer exchange. The error free synthetic nucleic acids generated therefrom can be used for a variety of applications, including synthesis of biofuels and value-added pharmaceutical products.
US09422596B1
Provided are methods and columns employing a solid support comprising silica and silicon carbide for the isolation and purification of nucleic acids, and in particular, the isolation and purification of both high and low molecular weight RNA.
US09422592B2
Analyzing peripheral blood RNA populations presents an effective, accurate, minimally invasive method of determining a patient's cancer status. Using circulating free RNA of the genes disclosed herein, systems and methods are disclosed which can accurately identify cancer signatures in the patient blood samples.
US09422582B2
Provided herein are recombinant yeast host cells and methods for their use for production of isobutanol. Yeast host cells provided comprise an isobutanol biosynthetic pathway and at least one of reduced or eliminated aldehyde dehydrogenase activity, reduced or eliminated acetolactate reductase activity; or a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having ketol-acid reductoisomerase activity.
US09422581B2
Provided herein are recombinant yeast host cells and methods for their use for production of isobutanol. Yeast host cells provided comprise an isobutanol biosynthetic pathway and at least one of reduced or eliminated aldehyde dehydrogenase activity, reduced or eliminated acetolactate reductase activity; or a heterologous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide having ketol-acid reductoisomerase activity.
US09422580B2
This document describes biochemical pathways for producing butadiene by forming two vinyl groups in a butadiene synthesis substrate. These pathways described herein rely on enzymes such as mevalonate diphosphate decarboxylase, isoprene synthase, and dehydratases for the final enzymatic step.
US09422577B2
The present invention relates in part to nucleic acids encoding proteins, nucleic acids containing non-canonical nucleotides, therapeutics comprising nucleic acids, methods, kits, and devices for inducing cells to express proteins, methods, kits, and devices for transfecting, gene editing, and reprogramming cells, and cells, organisms, and therapeutics produced using these methods, kits, and devices. Methods for inducing cells to express proteins and for reprogramming and gene-editing cells using RNA are disclosed. Methods for producing cells from patient samples, cells produced using these methods, and therapeutics comprising cells produced using these methods are also disclosed.
US09422570B2
The present invention is directed to a method for increasing seed yield in a plant, the method comprising disruption of endogenous AHP6 gene in cells of the plant, wherein said disruption inhibits expression and/or activity of a product of said endogenous AHP6 gene compared to a corresponding control plant lacking such a disruption.
US09422557B2
The present invention provides novel compositions for use to enhance weed control. Specifically, the present invention provides for methods and compositions that modulate Acetyl-CoA carboxylase in weed species. The present invention also provides for combinations of compositions and methods that enhance weed control.
US09422550B2
Provided herein are, inter alia, methods for linking an mRNA molecule to a polypeptide (e.g., a peptide or a protein) by linking the mRNA molecule to a linking amino acid in the polypeptide, or by linking the mRNA molecule to a linking tRNA to which the polypeptide is attached, via reactions not catalyzed by the ribosome, and methods for making polypeptide libraries. Also provided are mRNA-protein complexes and mRNA-tRNA-protein complexes, libraries containing these complexes, and methods of using these complexes.
US09422533B2
The gene encoding N-methylputrescine oxidase (MPO) and constructs comprising such DNA are provided, including methods of regulating MPO expression independently or with other alkaloid biosynthesis genes to modulate alkaloid production in plants and host cells. MPO genes or fragments thereof are useful for reducing pyrrolidine or tropane alkaloid production in plants, for increasing pyrrolidine or tropane alkaloid production in plants, and for producing an MPO enzyme in host cells.
US09422531B2
The present disclosure relates to engineered ketoreductase polypeptides for the preparation of hydroxyl substituted carbamate compounds, and polynucleotides, vectors, host cells, and methods of making and using the ketoreductase polypeptides.
US09422527B2
The present invention relates to a method of designing an inhibitor of the binding of HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) glycoprotein (gp)120 to a CD4-receptor or to the integrin alpha4 beta7 (a4b7). The inhibitor interacts with at least two amino acid residues comprised in six motifs within the 3-dimensional structure of gp120. Also provided are compounds, pharmaceutical compositions thereof and uses thereof in the development of an inhibitor of the binding of a HIV gp120 to a CD4-receptor or an integrin alpha4 beta7 (a4b7). The inhibitors are useful for the prevention or treatment of an HIV infection and/or diseases associated with an HIV infection.
US09422519B2
A biomass hydrothermal decomposition system includes a hydrothermal decomposition unit 17 that transports the fed biomass material from a lower side to an upper side in an apparatus body 13 by screw means 14, feeds pressurized hot water 15 from an upper side different from a feed position of the biomass material 11 into the apparatus body 13, which is pressurized hot water to be discharged, so as to separate a lignin component and a hemicellulose component from the biomass material; a biomass solid discharging unit 18 that discharges a biomass solid 20 from the upper side of the apparatus body 13; and a slurrying vessel 21 communicating with the biomass solid discharging unit 18, into which water 19 is injected and the discharged biomass solid 20 is added to obtain a slurried biomass solid are provided.
US09422517B2
The devices and systems described herein include one or more fluid paths, e.g., channels, and one or more selectively permeable obstacles arranged in the fluid path(s), each including a plurality of aligned nanostructures, e.g., nanotubes or nanorods, defining an outer surface of the obstacle and an internal network of voids. The obstacle(s) can further include binding moieties applied to the outer surface and/or to the surfaces of the individual nanostructures within the obstacle(s). The devices can be manufactured by forming the dense groupings of nanostructures to extend outwards and upwards from a substrate; forming a fluidic channel, bonding the fluidic channel to the substrate; and optionally applying binding moieties to the obstacles. The devices can be used to manipulate cells within fluid samples.
US09422516B2
A bioreactor chamber assembly comprising a cap and a base capable of being coupled together axially to define an internal chamber. The cap and base comprise interengaging formations that are coupled together by a twist-lock rotation of the base and cap to provide a fluid tight seal between the base and cap via respective sealing surfaces.
US09422509B2
The application describes a liquid washing or cleaning agent comprising a) an alkoxylated oxo alcohol with 7 or 8 alkoxy units and b) a polymer with a soil detachment capacity. The liquid washing or cleaning agent exhibits elevated cleaning performance, in particular on greasy soiling, and improved graying inhibition.
US09422508B2
Compositions containing phenolic antioxidant solutions are provided. The invention further provides methods of making and using such compositions as well as compositions that contain both biodiesel and at least one antioxidant concentrate solutions and blended fuel compositions containing biodiesel blended with other fuels.
US09422507B2
A process for recovering fatty acids, resin acids and sterols from tall oil pitch, said process comprising a) saponifying the tall oil pitch with an alkali to hydrolyze esters included in the pitch to free alcohols and organic acids in salt form, b) acidulating the saponified pitch with a mineral acid to convert the organic acids in salt form into free organic acids and to form an organic phase and an aqueous phase, c) separating the aqueous phase from the organic phase, d) evaporation fractionating the organic phase to obtain a distillate rich in sterols, fatty acids and resin acids, d) evaporation fractionating the organic phase to obtain a distillate rich in sterols, fatty acids and resin acids, e) evaporation fractionating the distillate to obtain a bottom fraction rich in sterols, and a distillate rich in fatty acids and resin acids, and f) subjecting the sterols in the sterol-rich bottom fraction to crystallization purification.
US09422503B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing metal workpieces for cold forming by first applying a phosphate layer and then applying a lubricant layer which has a major content in organic polymer material. The phosphate layer is formed by an aqueous acidic phosphating solution having a major content in calcium, magnesium or manganese and phosphate. The lubricant layer is formed by contacting the phosphated surface with an aqueous lubricant composition which has a content in organic polymer material based on ionomer and optionally also non-ionomer the organic polymer material used predominantly being monomers, oligomers, co-oligomers, polymers or copolymers based on ionomer, acrylic acid/methacrylic acid, epoxide, ethylene, polyamide, propylene, styrene, urethane, the ester or salt thereof. The invention also relates to the corresponding lubricant composition, to the lubricant layer produced thereof and to its use.
US09422494B2
The present invention provides a process for producing jet fuel components from syngas. Syngas is converted to methanol and ethanol, and, optionally, higher alcohols. The methanol is separated from the ethanol and higher alcohols, and converted to C5-9 paraffins and aromatics via a dimethyl ether intermediate. The dimethyl ether is reacted over a catalyst to form jet fuel range hydrocarbons and aromatics. The ethanol and higher alcohols are dehydrated to form olefins, which are then oligomerized and, optionally, hydrogenated and/or isomerized, to form products in the jet fuel range. All or part of the two separate product streams can be combined, to provide jet fuel components which include aromatics and paraffins, ideally isoparaffins, in the jet fuel range. The syngas is in one embodiment derived from biomass or another renewable carbon-containing feedstock, thereby providing a biorefining process for producing renewable jet fuel.
US09422486B2
The present invention relates to a selective hydrogenation catalyst for an unsaturated compound. The supported catalyst contains at least one Group VIB non-noble metal oxide and at least one Group VIII non-noble metal oxide deposited on a carrier; and the catalyst has an optimized acid distribution on the surface of the catalyst, and more preferably has an optimized Group VIII/VIB metal ratio and a Group VIII non-noble metal density per unit of catalyst surface area. Using the catalyst of the present invention can have the following advantages: the weight increase of light sulphides in an unsaturated compound or a mixture containing unsaturated compounds, the hydrogenation of a polyunsaturated compound, the isomerization of a monounsaturated compound, high operation flexibility and a significant improvement in the effects of a hydrogenation treatment.
US09422485B2
The present application generally relates to a method of trading cellulosic-renewable identification numbers by co-processing a renewable fuel oil with a petroleum fraction to form a renewable identification number-compliant fuel, obtaining one or more renewable identification numbers, and transferring the rights of renewable identification numbers.
US09422478B2
Char-handling processes for controlling overall heat balance, ash accumulation, and afterburn in a reheater are provided. Carbonaceous biomass feedstock is pyrolyzed using a heat transfer medium forming pyrolysis products and a spent heat transfer medium. The spent heat transfer medium is separated into segregated char and char-depleted spent heat transfer medium. The char-depleted spent heat transfer medium is introduced into a dense bed of heat transfer medium fluidized by a stream of oxygen-containing regeneration gas. All or a portion of the segregated char is combusted in the dense bed using the stream of oxygen-containing regeneration gas. A portion of the segregated char may be exported out of the pyrolysis system to control the overall heat balance and ash accumulation.
US09422477B2
A liquid crystal composition includes a first class liquid crystal compound and a second class liquid crystal compound, wherein the first class liquid crystal compound includes one or more compounds represented by Chemical Formulas 1 to 8: in which X and Y are independently a C1-C7 alkyl group.
US09422476B2
A liquid crystal composition includes a first compound represented by following Chemical Formula 1, a second compound represented by following Chemical Formula 2, and at least one of a third compound represented by following Chemical Formula 3 and a fourth compound represented by following Chemical Formula 4. In which R and R′ are independently an alkyl group or an alkoxy group.
US09422474B2
The present invention relates to a nanophosphor and a synthesis method thereof, and provides a nanophosphor comprising a first compound of Formula 1, wherein the first compound is fluoride-based one which is co-doped with Ce3+ and Tb3+. NaGd1−p−q−rMrF4:Ce3+p,Tb3+q (1) In the Formula 1, descriptions on the p, q, r and M are overlapped with what was described in the detailed description of the present invention, so their concrete description are omitted. The nanophosphor has good light emission intensity and magnetic property as well as up-conversion and/or down-conversion property able to emit visible light after excitation by infrared and/or ultraviolet rays, so can be applied to a contrast agent and a counterfeit prevention code.
US09422469B2
In an embodiment of the disclosure, mixtures of different carbon length alcohols are used as the primary feedstock for Guerbet alcohols. Specifically, embodiments relate to a method of synthesizing mixed molecular weight surfactants from a mixture of primary alcohols comprising, receiving a mixture of primary alcohols comprising at least two different chain length primary alcohols and reacting the mixture of primary alcohols to produce a mixture of Guerbet alcohols. The mixture of Guerbet alcohols is then used to produce a surfactant composition comprising surfactants of different molecular weights.
US09422457B2
A chemical-mechanical polishing concentrate includes at least 10 weight percent of a colloidal silica abrasive particle dispersed in a liquid carrier having a pH in a range from about 1.5 to about 7. The colloidal silica abrasive includes an aminosilane compound or a phosphonium silane compound incorporated therein. The concentrate may be diluted with at least 3 parts water per one part concentrate prior to use.
US09422456B2
A chemical-mechanical polishing composition includes colloidal silica abrasive particles dispersed in a liquid carrier having a pH in a range from about 1.5 to about 7. The colloidal silica abrasive particles include an aminosilane compound or a phosphonium silane compound incorporated therein. The composition may be used to polish a substrate including a silicon oxygen material such as TEOS.
US09422450B2
The present invention relates to a methods and composition in which a D-form or retro-inverso Pseudomonas pilin peptide, optionally having a polyethylene glycol moiety covalently attached to the peptide, is bound to a substrate. The disclosed methods and composition are useful for reducing the frictional coefficient, inhibiting biofilm formation by non-Pseudomonas bacteria, for reducing the inflammatory response to a material, for reducing corrosion of metals, and in biosensor applications.
US09422446B2
The present invention relates to a photosensitive resin composition, a protective film and an element having the same. The aforementioned photosensitive resin composition includes an alkali-soluble resin (A), an ortho-naphthoquinone diazide sulfonic acid ester (B) and a solvent (C). The alkali-soluble resin (A) is copolymerized by an unsaturated carboxylic acid or unsaturated carboxylic anhydride compound (a1), a fluorene derivative having a double-bond group (a2) and an unsaturated compound having an acid-decomposable group (a3).
US09422440B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure is directed to an amorphous bis-urea compound having a formula 1: where X is a branched alkyl bridge and R′ and R″ are alkyl groups.
US09422439B2
The present disclosure provides ink sets and related methods. An ink set can comprise an ink including an ink colorant and an ink vehicle, the ink devoid of metal salt; a treatment fluid including a latex, the treatment fluid devoid of thickener and colorant; and a fixer fluid including a precipitating agent, the fixer fluid devoid of colorant.
US09422427B2
An artificial marble chip of the present invention comprises curable resin, metal fiber and/or inorganic fiber, and inorganic filler. The metal fiber and/or inorganic fiber preferably have an average length of about 1 to about 6 mm and an average particle diameter of about 10 to about 15 μm. An artificial marble according to the present invention is produced by using the artificial marble chip, curable resin matrix, and inorganic filler as main components. The curable resin is preferably selected from acrylic resin, unsaturated polyester resin, epoxy resin, or a copolymer thereof. The artificial marble according to the present invention is produced by the steps of: producing an artificial marble composition by mixing the artificial marble chip, the inorganic filler, and other additives into the curable resin matrix; and curing the composition at about 25 to about 180° C. The invention can also include the step of defoaming the composition prior to curing.
US09422424B2
A masterbatch of additives is useful for maintaining a constant and reduced coefficient of friction in polyethylene (PE) based films. The masterbatch is a compounded blend of siloxane additive in conjunction with a mineral, a cyclic olefin copolymer and, optionally, an antioxidant. These additives are different from the polar additives used in the past to reduce COF of PE films and do not have inherent incompatibility with the nonpolar PE matrix.
US09422420B2
A method for treating a zone of a well with a viscosified fluid is provided, wherein the fluid is adapted to break in the well. The method includes the steps of: (A) introducing a well fluid into the zone of the well, wherein the well fluid includes: (i) a water phase; (ii) a water-soluble polymer in the water-phase; and (iii) a source of a hydroxylamine or salt thereof; and (B) allowing the viscosity of the well fluid to break in the zone.
US09422417B1
Disclosed is a modified conjugated diene polymer represented by Formula 1. Advantageously, provided are a modified conjugated diene polymer which exhibits superior compatibility with a reinforcing filler, heat generation, tensile strength and abrasion resistance, low fuel consumption and excellent wet skid resistance, a method for preparing the same and a rubber composition comprising the same.
US09422416B2
Provided is a resin composition that includes calcium carbonate contained in a polyester resin, a polyamide resin, or at thermosetting resin and that achieves good moldability. The resin composition includes calcium carbonate having a pH ranging from 6.0 to 8.5 and a 1N acetic acid-insoluble residue or 30% by mass or more and the calcium carbonate is contained in a polyester resin, a polyamide resin, or a thermosetting resin.
US09422408B2
Provided are methods for producing a thermoplastic vulcanizate. One method includes charging vulcanizable rubber to a reactor; charging a masterbatch of thermoplastic resin and a catalyst for a phenolic resin curative to the reactor; charging a phenolic resin curative to the reactor; and dynamically vulcanizing the rubber with the phenolic resin curative in the presence of the catalyst. Also provided are thermoplastic vulcanizates made by the methods of the invention.
US09422406B2
A two component adhesive system is described. The first component of the system is made from a sulfonated lignin having at least one amine group containing side arm and at least one hydroxyl group containing side arm. The second component of the system is made from a sulfonated lignin having at least one chloroformate group containing side arm.
US09422400B2
A granular polyarylene sulfide; (i) the granular polyarylene sulfide containing an —S— substituent at the terminal, the substituent being formed by cleavage of a disulfide compound; (ii) the granular polyarylene sulfide being an oversize fraction after sifting with a sieve having a mesh size of at least 38 μm; (iii) the granular polyarylene sulfide having a halogen content of at most 1,500 ppm; and (iv) the granular polyarylene sulfide being a granular polyarylene sulfide having a melt viscosity of 3 to 100 Pa·s when measured under conditions at a temperature of 310° C. and a shear rate of 1,200 sec−1. The granular polyarylene sulfide is well balanced in melt viscosity, halogen content, nitrogen content, thermal stability, and yield.
US09422391B2
The present invention relates to a two-part composition suitable for use in the preparation of a foamed material wherein the first part comprises a source of metal ions and water and the second part comprises an isocyanate, wherein the ratio of NCO isocyanate to water to metal ions is 1 mol:3.5 to 5.5 mol:95 to 650 mmol. Also forming part of the invention is a foamed isocyanate material, a method of preparing the material and controlling foam formation and uses of the composition and material.
US09422389B2
The invention relates to processes for preparing a synthetic foam having present therein particles with a controlled particle distribution and the use of said foam, as well as to foams as such. Accordingly the invention is directed to a process for preparing a synthetic foam having present therein particles, wherein the distribution of said particles is controlled by the following steps of dissolving at least one synthetic polymer in one or more solvents to form a solution; contacting particles with said solution to form a polymer/particles mixture; and freeze-drying the polymer/particles mixture by: freezing the polymer/particles mixture; and subsequently subliming the one or more solvents to form a synthetic foam comprising said particles.
US09422388B2
The invention relates to a crosslinkable composition containing reactive polymers selected from among (i) prepolymers having reactive NCO groups or (ii) polymers which have reactive silane groups, optionally further additives and at least one metal-based catalyst, wherein the composition contains up to 10% by weight of retarding substance selected from among cyclic α-hydroxy ketones and/or triphenols having three adjacent OH groups.
US09422387B2
A composition includes a responsive block copolymer, the responsive block copolymer including at least one block A that is a triggerable copolymer, the triggerable copolymer including at least one lower critical solution temperature monomer and at least one charged monomer, wherein the triggerable copolymer block A is a dual trigger block configured to trigger on temperature and ionic strength, and wherein the responsive block copolymer micellizes or gels at a temperature between 28° C. and 37° C. and a salt concentration of about 0.9 wt %.
US09422385B2
This invention relates to polyethylene copolymers comprising ethylene and vinyl terminated macromonomers. The polyethylene copolymers are achieved by copolymerization of ethylene and vinyl terminated macromonomers in a polymerization reactor, particularly in high yields and with a wide range of VTM molecular weights, that can be made at commercial rates.
US09422381B2
A method of olefin polymerization enables production of polyolefin with high productivity while suppressing sheeting or caking in the reactor. The method of olefin polymerization includes: feeding a circulating gas including at least one alpha-olefin and an inert gas into a reactor; polymerizing the alpha-olefin into a polyolefin in a reaction region in the reactor; and discharging the polyolefin from the reactor, which reactor consists of a cylindrical base section a positioned in the lower part thereof and a conical top section b positioned on the top of the cylindrical base section and having an open top. The inside of the reactor is divided into a reaction region A that is a fluidized bed region having an olefin polymerization occurring therein, and a free region B positioned on the top of the reaction region A and having solid polyolefin particles separated from the gas phase.
US09422374B2
A continuous polymerization apparatus uses at least a first reactor and a second reactor (10, 20). Each of the reactors (10, 20) includes at least one supply port (11a, 21a, and 21b), an effluent port (11b, 21d), and a temperature detecting means (T1, T2), each of which detects the temperature in the reactor. The supply port (11a) of the first reactor (10) is connected to supply sources (1, 3) of a raw material monomer and a polymerization initiator, and the effluent port (11b) is connected to the first supply port (21a) of the second reactor (20) through a connection line (15a). The second supply port (21b) of the second reactor (20) is connected to a replenishing line (15b) that supplies a new raw material monomer to the second reactor.
US09422371B2
A method for immobilizing an amino-containing material to a substrate is described. The method involves providing a tethering compound with two reactive groups: a substrate reactive group and a fluoroalkoxycarbonyl group. The method further involves preparing a substrate-attached tethering group by reacting the substrate reactive group of the tethering compound with a complementary functional group on the surface of a substrate. The substrate-attached tethering group has a fluoroalkoxycarbonyl group that can be reacted with an amino-containing material to form an immobilization group that connects the amino-containing material to the substrate.
US09422370B2
A genetically modified non-human animal is provided, wherein the non-human animal expresses an antibody repertoire capable of pH dependent binding to antigens upon immunization. A genetically modified non-human animal is provided that expresses a single light chain variable domain derived from a single rearranged light chain variable region gene in the germline of the non-human animal, wherein the single rearranged light chain variable region gene comprises a substitution of at least one non-histidine encoding codon with a histidine encoding codon. Methods of making non-human animals that express antibodies comprising a histidine-containing universal light chain are provided.
US09422369B2
The present invention provides a specific binding molecule which specifically binds to a peptide having the amino acid sequence of EDGIKRIQDD and comprises a polypeptide having an immunoglobulin VL domain linked to an immunoglobulin VH domain in which the VL domain comprises Complementarity Determining Regions (CDRs) VLCDR1, VLCDR2 and VLCDR3, and in which the VH domain comprises Complementarity Determining Regions (CDRs) VHCDR1, VHCDR2, VHCDR3, each having a respective amino acid sequence as follows in which VHCDR1 is GYSFTGYNMN VHCDR2 is NIDPYYGGTTYNQKFKG VHCDR3 is EVDY VLCDR1 is RASKSVSTSTSGYSYMH VLCDR2 is LVSNLES VLCDR3 is QHIRELTRSEG or an amino acid sequence at least 70% identical thereto.
US09422365B2
The invention concerns a peptide or arrangement of peptides forming a Staphylococcus aureus epitope binding site comprising a first amino acid sequence and a second amino acid sequence, wherein the first amino acid sequence is at least 88% identical to sequence SEQ ID NO:1 and wherein the second amino acid sequence is at least 88% identical to sequence SEQ ID NO: 2.
US09422360B2
Provided is a porcine CD28 receptor molecule, which is: 1) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:2, or 2) a protein derived from 1) by substitution, deletion or addition of one or several amino acids in the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:2 and having equivalent activity with 1). Further provided is a gene for coding the porcine CD28 receptor, the nucleotide sequence of which is shown as SEQ ID NO:1. When the provided co-stimulating receptor CD28 is expressed specifically and highly in a T cell, the activation, proliferation and cell factor secretion activity of the T cell when stimulated by an antigen can be enhanced, thereby enhancing the acquired immune response of a host and enhancing the immune effect of a vaccine.
US09422356B2
The present invention relates to expression vectors and methods for enhancing soluble expression and secretion of an insoluble heterologous protein, particularly a bulky folded active heterologous protein which has one or more transmembrane-like domains or intramolecular disulfide bonds by linking a leader peptide with acidic or basic pI and high hydrophilicity thereto; by substituting one or more amino acids within N-terminal of the heterologous protein with ones having acidic or neutral pI and high hydrophilicity; or reducing elevating ΔGRNA value of a polynucleotide encoding the leader peptide having basic pI value and high hydrophilicity. The expression vector and the method may be used to produce of heterologous protein and to transduce of therapeutic proteins in a patient by preventing formation of insoluble inclusion body and by enhancing secretional efficiency of the heterologous protein into the periplasm or outside cell.
US09422354B2
The present invention relates to methods for purification of recombinant human granulocyte colony stimulating factor (rHu GCSF). The present invention particularly relates to methods for purification of rHu GCSF involving techniques such as aqueous two phase extraction and multimodal chromatographic purification to obtain highly purified rHu GCSF. The present invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the rHu GCSF, purified using the methods described herein.
US09422347B2
The present invention relates to the production of malaria transmission blocking vaccines in single-celled green algae, particularly algae of the genus Chlamydomonas, e.g., Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; the immunogenic Plasmodium polypeptides produced and compositions comprising them; and methods for preventing, ameliorating, reducing, delaying, treating and blocking the transmission of malaria by administration of immunogenic Plasmodium polypeptides produced in an algal host cell.
US09422344B2
The invention relates to a transport protein which can be obtained by modifying the heavy chain of the neurotoxin formed by Clostridium botulinum. The protein binds specifically to nerve cells with a higher affinity as the native neurotoxin. The invention also relates to a method for the production of transport protein, the nucleic acids coding for the transport protein, the transport protein containing pharmaceutical and cosmetic compositions and use thereof.
US09422330B2
A method for separating on a RP-HPLC system a polypeptide of interest from at least one unwanted component is described, wherein at least one of the elution steps is performed at or in close proximity to the pl value of the peptide of interest.
US09422326B2
There is described a process for the industrial synthesis of 11-methylene-18-methyl-estr-4-en-3,17-dione, a compound having the structure formula (I) depicted below: (Formula I) (I) useful as intermediate compound in the synthesis of the progestin compounds Desogestrel and Etonogestrel.
US09422322B2
Disclosed herein are nucleosides, nucleotides and analogs thereof, pharmaceutical compositions that include one or more of nucleosides, nucleotides and analogs thereof, and methods of synthesizing the same. Also disclosed herein are methods of ameliorating and/or treating a paramyxovirus viral infection, with a nucleoside, a nucleotide and an analog thereof.
US09422309B2
The present invention relates to a compound according to formula (I) wherein R1 represents optionally substituted heteroaryl, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, solvates or pharmaceutically acceptable and physiologically cleavable esters thereof. The invention relates further to intermediates for the preparation of said compounds, to said compounds for use in therapy, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, to methods of treating diseases, e.g. diseases associated with hyperplasia, neoplasia or dysplasia, with said compounds, to methods of treatment of cosmetic indications with said compounds, and to the use of said compounds in the manufacture of medicaments.
US09422304B2
Isohexide dicarbamates and a method of preparing the same are described. The method involves reacting a mixture of an isohexide and a cynate salt in a non-aqueous solvent, with a miscible acid having a pKa of about 3.7 or less. The isohexide dicarbamates can serve as precursor materials from which various derivative compounds can be synthesized.
US09422294B2
The invention aims in establishing a method for modifying biomolecules using a reaction that efficiently modifies biomolecules and is widely applicable. The invention thus provides a cyclic compound containing two triazole rings formed by adding and ligating an azide compound possessing an azido group to each of the two carbon-carbon triple bond sites of an eight-membered cyclic skeleton of a cyclic diyne compound by a double click reaction; a method for producing a cyclic compound using a double click reaction; and a method for modifying biomolecules.
US09422291B2
Antiviral compositions and methods are contemplated that are especially effective in the treatment and prevention of influenza A viruses. Also presented are cellular assays to identify small molecule compounds having antiviral properties, particularly as it relates to detection of influenza A RNA-dependent RNA polymerase activity in a mammalian cell independent of other influenza A components. Preferred assays allow for identification of viral replication inhibitors that do not disrupt normal cellular activity.
US09422287B2
The present invention relates to a compound according to formula (I), to the use thereof in an electronic device and to an electronic device which comprises one or more compounds according to formula (I).
US09422278B2
This document discloses molecules having the following formula (“Formula One”): and processes related thereto.
US09422276B2
The present application relates to known and novel aryl- and hetarylcarboxamides of the formula (I) and to their use as medicaments for controlling endoparasites in animals or humans, and also to parasiticidal compositions, in particular endoparasites, comprising aryl- and hetarylcyclylcarboxamides.
US09422274B2
Oxazolidinone derivatives and composition for preventing or treating hepatitis C containing the same
The present invention relates to oxazolidinone compounds represented by Chemical Formula 1, pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof or hydrates, a method of preparing the same, and a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating Hepatitis C infection: Wherein R1, R7 and X are defined in the detailed description.
US09422273B2
The present invention provides compounds, that are N-alkyl-2-(1-(5-substituted-2-(3-oxo-3-(trifluoromethylsulfonamido)propyl)benzyl)pyrrolidin-2-yl)oxazole-4-carboxamide wherein the 5 substituent is selected from the group consisting of halo and alkyloxy radicals. The compound may be represented by the following formula wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of CO2R7 and CON(R7)SO2R7 wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and R7 are as defined in the specification. The compounds may be administered to treat DP1, FP, EP1, EP3, TP and/or EP4 receptor mediated diseases or conditions.
US09422259B2
Compounds represented by Formula I are provided that include synthetic transtaganolide and basiliolide products. Derivatives of these compounds and methods of synthesis are also provided.
US09422254B2
A pharmaceutical composition of fungicide including at least a compound represented by Formula (I). The pharmaceutical composition of fungicide can further include an emulsifier, a cosolvent, a stabilizer, and a solvent. The fungicide can prevent and treat powdery mildew, downy mildew, gray mold, brown spot, scab of vegetables and fruits, southern leaf blight of corn, rice false smut, citrus stem-end rot, and rape sclerotinia rot, with high efficiency, low toxicity, and relative environmental friendliness. A method of preparing the fungicide and a method of using thereof are also provided.
US09422241B2
This disclosure concerns novel demethylpenclomedine analogs. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and methods for using such compositions to treat hyperproliferative disorders. In one embodiment the analogs are represented by the formula
US09422232B2
Probes comprising one or more selectively cleavable α-azidoether moieties are provided; and linkers comprising the one or more selectively cleavable α-azidoether moieties. The α-azidoether moiety will undergo a Staudinger reaction with a suitable reducing agent, resulting in cleavage. The probes find use in a variety of detection assays, e.g. specific polynucleotide binding assays, polypeptide binding assays, etc. The cleavable linkers are suitable for synthetic reactions, e.g. to prepare probes of the invention; in the synthesis of cleavable peptide conjugates; and the like.
US09422231B2
Methods are provided to inhibit proliferation of Trypanosoma cruzi with imido-substituted 1,4-naphthoquinones, including novel compounds. Administering an imido-substituted 1,4-naphthoquinone can be used to provide prophylaxis or treatment to a patient in need of treatment against Chagas disease.
US09422230B2
An efficient synthesis of the anticonvulsant drug, Pregabalin hydrochloride is described using simple transformations in high enantiopurity (>99% ee) and overall yield of 44 to 50%.
US09422228B2
3,3-diphenylpropylamines of general formula (I), particularly Fesoterodine, as well as their enantiomers, solvates and salts, can be produced by treating a compound of formula (II) with a chiral alcohol to yield the diastereomeric esters of formula (IV) and (IV′), which can be further transformed into a compound of formula (I), or an enantiomer, solvate or salt thereof, wherein R1 is C1-C8 alkyl; and R2 and R3, independently of one another, represent H or C1-C6 alkyl, or together form a ring of 3 to 7 members with the nitrogen to which they are bound.
US09422223B2
This invention pertains generally to prostacyclin formulations and methods for their use in promoting vasodilation, inhibiting platelet aggregation and thrombus formation, stimulating thrombolysis, inhibiting cell proliferation (including vascular remodeling), providing cytoprotection, preventing atherogenesis and inducing angiogenesis.
US09422220B2
Method and devices for separating and purifying carboxylic acids from fermentation broths comprising carboxylic acid ammonium salts are disclosed herein. The method includes (a) removing biomass and any solids present from the fermentation broth; (b) preparing a solution comprising the desired carboxylic acid and an additional solution comprising ammonium salts, by carrying out simulated moving bed chromatography (SMB); (c) ultra-purifying the solution comprising the desired carboxylic acid from method step (b); (d) concentrating the purified carboxylic acid solution from method step (c); (e) crystallizing the concentrated carboxylic acid solution from method step (d); and (f) concentrating the additional solution comprising ammonium salts from method step (b). A combination of reverse osmosis and evaporation is carried out in method steps (d) and (f), and the vapor from the evaporation of method step (f) is passed into the evaporation of method step (d).
US09422217B2
The invention is directed to a method for recovering carboyxlic acid from an magnesium carboxylate containing aqueous mixture, including the steps of: contacting the aqueous mixture with an acidic ion exchanger, thereby forming a carboxylic acid mixture and an ion exchanger loaded with magnesium ions; contacting the ion exchanger loaded with magnesium ions with a hydrochloric acid solution, thereby forming a magnesium chloride solution; and thermally decomposing the magnesium chloride solution at a temperature of at least 300° C., thereby forming magnesium oxide (MgO) and hydrogen chloride (HCl).
US09422213B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for producing dimethyl ether by catalytic dehydration of methanol and by distillation of the dehydration product. The method is characterized in that the catalytic dehydration takes place in at least two reaction stages which are connected in series and of which at least the first reaction stage is operated adiabatically, wherein a cooling of the reaction products takes place at least between the first and the second reaction stages.
US09422210B2
Olefins may be recovered from a methanol to olefins reactor effluent by initially feeding the effluent to an absorber demethanizer to contact the effluent with an absorbent to recover an overheads including methane and ethylene and a bottoms including the absorbent, ethylene, and ethane. The bottoms are separated to recover an ethylene fraction and an ethane fraction. The overheads are cooled and partially condensed in a first heat exchanger to a temperature of −40° C. or greater. The resulting stream, or a portion thereof, may be further cooled and condensed via indirect heat exchange with a mixed refrigerant to a temperature of less than −40° C. The non-condensed vapors are separated from the condensed liquids to form a liquid fraction and a methane fraction. The liquid fraction is fed to the absorber demethanizer as reflux, and the methane and ethane fractions combined to form the mixed refrigerant.
US09422209B2
A process for producing propylene is disclosed, including: fractionating a mixed C4 hydrocarbon stream to recover a first fraction comprising isobutene and a second fraction comprising 2-butene; contacting the first fraction with a first metathesis catalyst in a first metathesis reaction zone; recovering an effluent from the first metathesis reaction zone comprising at least one of ethylene, propylene, unreacted isobutene, C5 olefins, and C6 olefins; contacting the second fraction and the ethylene in the effluent with a second metathesis catalyst in a second metathesis reaction zone; recovering an effluent from the second reaction zone comprising at least one of unreacted ethylene, propylene, unreacted 2-butene, fractionating the effluent from the first metathesis reaction zone and the effluent from the second metathesis reaction zone to recover an ethylene fraction, a propylene fraction, one or more C4 fractions, and a fraction comprising at least one of C5 and C6 olefins.
US09422203B2
A nitrogen stabilizing composition is provided. The composition includes 10% to 18% w/w N-(n-butyl) thiophosphoric triamide (NBPT), a solvent, a light oil, and an emulsifier. Related methods for making liquid nitrogen stabilizing compositions, coated urea fertilizers and liquid urea fertilizer solutions are also provided.
US09422202B2
The present invention relates to an amorphous, vitreous phosphorus-potassium fertilizer obtained by melting raw materials containing phosphorus pentoxide (P2O5), potassium oxide (K2O), providers of SiO2 and silicates, and providers of MgO and CaO. The fertilizer of the present invention is produced by a process of melting the raw materials, followed by quenching, enabling the formation of a vitreous and amorphous material containing phases of phosphorus and of potassium, which are soluble in a weak acid.
US09422199B2
A refractory particularly for the use in an inner lining of a blast furnace is a layered composite comprising a protective layer and a conductive layer, wherein the interlayer bonding strength between the individual layers is more than 6 MPa.
US09422196B2
A high performance transparent polycrystalline ceramic material is provided. The transparent polycrystalline ceramic material has a nitrogen-containing isotropic lattice structure and having 80% optical transmission at a wavelength between 3.86 and 4.30 microns through said material at 11 mm of thickness.
US09422176B2
Electrochemical separation devices are configured for lower energy consumption. Techniques for reducing shadow effect may involve providing distance between a spacer screen and an adjacent ion-selective membrane. A spacer having a screen that is thin relative to a surrounding frame may be used. Mild pressure may also be applied to a compartment to promote distance between a spacer screen and an adjacent ion-selective membrane.
US09422161B2
The invention relates to an ultrahard nanotwinned boron nitride bulk material and synthetic method thereof. Particularly, the invention discloses a nanocrystalline cubic boron nitride bulk material containing high density of twins and synthetic method thereof, in which a nanotwinned boron nitride bulk are synthesized from nanospherical boron nitride particles (preferably with a size of 5-70 nm) with onion-like structure as raw materials by using high temperature and high pressure synthesis. As compared with the prior arts, the nanotwinned boron nitride bulk obtained according to the invention has a much higher hardness than that of a normal cubic boron nitride single crystal. The nanotwinned boron nitride bulk has great prospects in applications, such as precision and ultra-precision machining, abrasives, drawing dies, and special optics as well as other fields.
US09422159B2
A digital quantum dot radiographic detection system described herein includes: a scintillation subsystem and a semiconductor visible light detection subsystem (including a plurality of quantum dot image sensors). In a first preferred digital quantum dot radiographic detection system, the plurality of quantum dot image sensors is in substantially direct contact with the scintillation subsystem. In a second preferred digital quantum dot radiographic detection system, the scintillation subsystem has a plurality of discrete scintillation packets, at least one of the discrete scintillation packets communicating with at least one of the quantum dot image sensors.
US09422152B2
A hybridly integrated component includes an ASIC element having circuit functions which are integrated into the ASIC substrate; a layer structure on the ASIC substrate which includes at least one wiring level; a MEMS element including at least one micromechanical structure component which extends over the entire thickness of the MEMS substrate; and a cap wafer. The MEMS element is mounted on the ASIC layer structure. The cap wafer is mounted over the MEMS element in a pressure-tight manner. A sealing structure is formed in the MEMS substrate which completely surrounds the micromechanical structure component and extends over the entire thickness of the MEMS substrate at least up to the ASIC layer structure. The cap wafer is joined circumferentially to the MEMS substrate in the area of the sealing structure.
US09422147B2
A fluid dispenser has a housing in which fluid flow control components are located and at least one fluid conduit completing first and second fluid flow paths between the at least one fluid storage tank and a nozzle coupled to the housing. The fluid dispenser also has a fluid flow meter located along said fluid flow path, a control system, and a recirculation subsystem. The recirculation subsystem has a bypass valve located along one of the first and second flow paths. The bypass valve is operative to prevent fluid communication between the first and second fluid flow paths when the fluid dispenser is in use and to allow fluid communication between the first and second fluid flow paths when the fluid dispenser is not in use. Methods of measuring the flow rate of a fluid in the fluid dispenser are also disclosed.
US09422138B2
An arrangement for damping oscillation of a loading member in a crane includes a trolley, a hoisting mechanism, hoisting ropes, and a loading member. The arrangement includes a vertical guide projection arranged in an upper part of the loading member, and a guide part arranged in the trolley and receiving the guide projection. Damping members connected to the guide part are arranged in a separate support frame which is guidable into its place in a dock arranged underneath the trolley and which is lowerable off the dock onto the loading member. The guide part is a floating guide tube structure. The damping members include a plurality of side damping modules connected between a side wall of the guide tube structure and the support frame for substantially damping horizontal movement of the guide tube structure. A support joint is arranged in an upper part of the support frame.
US09422137B2
There is a method and a device for lifting and lowering respectively a load, the load having a lifting loop attached to the load. The device comprising: a first member having means for attachment to a lifting device and means for attachment to the lifting loop of the load; a second member having means on the second member for automatically guiding the lifting loop to define a path for coupling and uncoupling of the lifting loop to and from the first member; a securing mechanism on the first member which automatically secures the lifting loop to the first member when the lifting loop engages the first member; and a release mechanism for releasing the securing mechanism to release the lifting loop from the first member.
US09422132B1
An improved apparatus and method for a hanging rotational hose reel includes a bracket for hanging the hose reel, a spool for winding a hose about a first rotational axis, a frame for supporting the spool, and a rotational assembly connecting the bracket and the frame. The rotational assembly allows rotation of the spool about a second rotational axis. The hanging hose reel may be secured to a surface or may hang from a wagon and/or stand.
US09422130B1
A sheet stack aligning mechanism for a print job finishing machine is provided. The mechanism includes a belt driven in a reciprocating motion; a stationary rod having a longitudinal direction; a sheet stack alignment tamper that tamps a stack of sheets into alignment; and a belt clamp. The belt clamp has a main body attached to the sheet stack alignment tamper, a pivot pin, a belt attachment portion pivotably attached to the main body by the pivot pin, the belt attachment portion being fixed to the belt such that it does not move relative to the belt, and a bushing portion fixed to the main body and slidably attached to the rod. The pivot pin permits the belt attachment portion to follow a movement of the belt in a direction non-parallel to the longitudinal direction while the main body moves only in the longitudinal direction of the rod.
US09422128B2
A sheet conveying apparatus includes first and second rotator pairs and a sheet detecting portion. The sheet detecting portion includes a moving member provided to move to a detection state from a standby state in which the moving member protrudes into a sheet conveying path by being pressed by a front end of the sheet conveyed by the first rotator pair and such that a rear end of the sheet does not pass within a moving trajectory of the moving member in moving from the detection state to the standby state and a sensor detecting the sheet based on the move of the moving member from the standby state to the detection state.
US09422125B2
An image recording apparatus including a first tray having a first holding portion for holding sheets, a second tray disposed above the first tray and including a second holding portion for holding sheets, a sheet feeder that selectively feeds a sheet from one of the first tray and the second tray in a sheet feed direction, a recording unit that records an image on the sheet fed by the sheet feeder, and a discharge roller that discharges the sheet on which the image is recorded by the recording unit. The second holding portion of the second tray moves above the first holding portion of the first tray. The second tray further includes a discharged sheet receiving portion for receiving the sheet discharged by the discharge roller. The second tray including the discharged sheet receiving portion pivots relative to the first tray.
US09422114B2
Disclosed is a device for improving the method of manufacturing Archimedes screws by assembling sectors on a shaft without forming gaps, cutting edges or weak regions between one another and ensuring the continuity of the turns of which the screw consists. It consists of a sector having a turn with a length equal to one screw thread and having a geometry that enables it to be interlocked with another, identical sector. The turn sits on a core, the geometry of which is obtained by following in each case a helical generatrix which is offset through at least one turn thickness. The terminal face of the turn is inclined at an angle with respect to the axis of the sector. The device according to the invention is particularly intended for the production of systems for metering or pumping viscous, pulverulent or granular products, the systems including at least one Archimedes screw.
US09422111B2
A method and apparatus for driving a wire conveyor belt with a buildup shedding sprocket. When driving a belt in any application in which material is added to articles on the belt, excess material accumulates on the support shelves between the sprocket teeth. A relief cut is made between the sprocket teeth providing a channel through which the excess material can be pushed away.
US09422095B2
A marking object having at least one object blank (3) and held by an object carrier (2), the object blank (3) being markable by a marking apparatus (7). To configure the marking objects such that the known drawbacks are eliminated, the object carrier (2) has at least one identification means (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) that contains at least one piece of information relating to the marking object (1) and/or the identification means (4a, 4b, 4c, 4d) can be used to store at least one piece of information relating to the marking object (1).
US09422086B2
Mating engagement surfaces on the bottom panel and lid on each of two or more containers permit the containers to be helically stacked on an axis. As stacked, a front face of one container is displaced from front faces of adjacent ones of the containers by a predetermined angle preselected to be more than zero but less than ninety degrees.
US09422076B2
A container defining a longitudinal axis and a transverse direction that is transverse with respect to the longitudinal axis. The container includes a finish and a sidewall portion extending from the finish. A base portion extends from the sidewall portion and encloses the sidewall portion to form a volume therein for retaining a commodity. The base portion has a contact surface for supporting the container. A plurality of straps extend radially along the base portion away from the longitudinal axis in the transverse direction, each one of the straps defines a strap surface that is closer to the finish than the contact surface.
US09422074B2
The sealing roll includes a stationary internal shaft and an inductively heatable roll jacket supported with freedom to rotate around the shaft. A plurality of induction coils is wound around the shaft over ferrites, which are open to the outside. Cables for the induction coils are laid through a cable conduit in the shaft for connection to an external induction generator. A water cooling channel for indirectly cooling the induction coils is also arranged in the shaft. A cavity is formed in at least an axial subsection of the sealing roll between the roll jacket and the shaft, and at least part of a temperature detection device is arranged in the cavity or adjacent to the cavity so that an IR temperature sensor receives radiation emitted by the roll jacket and thus detects a temperature of the roll jacket.
US09422073B2
An appliance for dispensing, forming and vacuum packaging a container is provided including a base, a vacuum motor disposed in the base, a vacuum sealing compartment formed in the base including a vacuum trough fluidly connected to the vacuum motor, a sealing element disposed in the vacuum sealing compartment adjacent the vacuum trough, and a bag roll storage compartment formed in the base vertically disposed above the vacuum sealing compartment. At least one section of the container material may be dispensed from the storage compartment and cut from the roll of container material and sealed on a first free end with the sealing element to form an unsealed container. The unsealed container may then be evacuated by the vacuum motor through a second free end inserted into the vacuum trough and/or sealed on the second free end with the sealing element to form a hermetically sealed container.
US09422070B2
An automatic or semiautomatic device for the controlled metering and mixing of a plurality of active liquid substances for plants, includes elements for selectively sampling the substances in corresponding containers and moreover includes a fluid transfer element and, elements for metering, mixing, and diluting the sampled or transferred amounts of the liquid substance(s). The device also includes a controlling and managing unit that controls the sampling and transferring element and is associated with measurement elements and an element for controlling the flow of fluids within the valve-type device. The measurement elements include an element, advantageous for sequential use, for measuring a basic volume of a sampled concentrated liquid substance, the volume needing to be mixed and/or diluted. The measurement elements moreover include an element for continuously measuring the final volume of the metered solution obtained by diluting, after metering, the concentrated liquid substance or the mixture of concentrated liquid substances.
US09422064B2
A system and method is provided for alerting a crew member of a rotorcraft that at least one tie-down device is still attached to the rotorcraft is provided. The system includes or cooperates with at least one source of tie-down sensor data. A processor is operationally coupled to the source of tie-down sensor data and to a source of rotorcraft data and causes a warning to be generated if at least one attached tie-down device is sensed.
US09422059B2
A vehicle seat (1) includes a backrest (10) and a table unit (40) which is pivotable about a pivot axis (S) from a not-in-use position into a use position. The backrest (10) includes a backrest cover (20), to which the table unit (40) is fastened. A prestressed table spring (34) is provided. The table unit (40) is held on the backrest (10) by a spring force applied by the table spring (34). The table spring (34) is arranged on a side of the backrest cover (20) which faces away from the table unit (40).
US09422057B2
A galley (10) for an aircraft comprises a plurality of electrical kitchen appliances (24) that differ functionally from one another. Of these, at least a partial number of at least two electrical appliances comprise in each case an operator control unit (26), which is manufactured structurally separate from a main functional part of the relevant appliance and has an arrangement of operator control elements for operator control of the appliance. The operator control units are in this case designed to be of an identical construction to one another from appliance to appliance.
US09422050B2
A leading edge slat arranged on the aerofoil of an aircraft. The leading edge slat is provided on the front of the main wing. The leading edge slat has a partially extended setting, with its trailing edge flat against the wing, and a further extended setting, with its trailing edge spaced apart from the nose of the wing to open a gap feeding high-energy air from the lower surface of the slat to the upper surface of the wing. The leading edge slat includes a body and a trailing edge facing the main wing, which can be bent around the spanwise direction of the slat relative to the body, and on which the trailing edge of the slat is provided, and which by means of a device generating a contact force is loaded for making contact between the trailing edge of the slat and the profile nose of the wing.
US09422046B2
A boat propulsion device includes an engine including a crankshaft extending in an up-and-down direction and a cowling accommodating the engine. The cowling includes a first cowling portion preferably made of resin, a second cowling and a coupling mechanism configured to couple the first cowling portion to the second cowling portion. The coupling mechanism includes a first lock portion and a second lock portion. The first lock portion is attached to the first cowling portion. The second lock portion is attached to the second cowling portion and locks with the first lock portion. The first cowling portion includes a cowling main body and a support portion. The support portion preferably has a plate shape. The support portion is erected on an inner surface of the cowling main body, supports the first lock portion, and includes a small thickness section and a large thickness section.
US09422044B2
A vessel propulsion apparatus includes a drive shaft that is rotationally driven by a prime mover, a drive gear connected to the drive shaft, a front gear that engages the drive gear, a rear gear that engages the drive gear and that is disposed behind the front gear, a dog clutch that selectively engages one of the front gear and the rear gear, and an oil passage that passes through the inside of the front gear and that guides oil from a forward space in front of the front gear to a rearward space behind the front gear.
US09422041B2
A buoyancy control apparatus for body surfing includes a buoyancy vest to be worn alone or under a body surfing suit or wetsuit, the vest having a plurality of spaced pockets with access openings on the exterior surface of the vest, and a plurality of foam inserts sized for fitting into the pockets via the access openings. The body surfer can regulate their buoyancy by adding foam inserts to the pockets or removing foam inserts from the pockets to enable them to maintain desired control and buoyancy balance in the water.
US09422037B2
A floating LNG plant including a first and a second converted LNG carrier each provided with a hull and at least one LNG storage tank wherein the floating LNG plant further includes: a connection structure for connecting the hull of the first and the second converted LNG carrier in order to obtain a twin-hull vessel; process equipment for LNG processing on the floating LNG plant; and a mooring system for mooring the floating LNG plant to the seabed, wherein the at least first and second converted LNG carrier each include an LNG carrier, originally provided with a plurality of LNG tanks, wherein at least one LNG tank has been deactivated and/or removed from at least one LNG carrier to create space on the floating LNG plant for installing the process equipment for LNG processing.
US09422023B1
The present bicycle enables a user to selectively ride or walk the bicycle by providing a clearance or enclosure between the front portion of the bicycle and the rear portion of the bicycle. The enclosure is created by bending two top tubes laterally outward and away from each other, and bending two down tubes laterally outward and away from each other, so that the user can stand or walk within the enclosure, with his body between the two top tubes and between the two down tubes. The space provided by the enclosure is sufficient to permit pedaling while seated and permit walking while standing, without excessive bumping into the bicycle frame.
US09422013B2
A modular trailer system is described, wherein a gooseneck, deck, and dolly are attachable to each other in a variety of ways. One configuration allows the gooseneck and dolly to be attached to either end of the deck. Another configuration allows the gooseneck and dolly to be attached directly to each other. This permits the method of transporting a deck to a site, and then returning the gooseneck and dolly to another location.
US09422010B2
A vehicle frame assembly, system and method includes a vehicle frame assembly having a variable length longitudinal frame component. The longitudinal frame component is formed at a first length when used on a first vehicle type and formed at a second length when used on a second vehicle type.
US09422007B2
A vehicle body front part structure has a front side member that is located at a front part of a body of a vehicle and that extends in a vehicle front-rear direction, a shock absorption bracket that projects from an outer side surface in a vehicle width direction at a front end portion of the front side member toward an outside in the vehicle width direction, a hood ridge body that is disposed above the front side member and that extends in the vehicle front-rear direction, and a hood ridge extension member that extends from a front end of the hood ridge body toward the front of the vehicle. The shock absorption bracket has a front surface connected to a front end surface of the front side member, and an inclined surface.
US09422002B2
A vehicle system includes a communication interface configured to receive parking information from an infrastructure device. The parking information identifies at least one open parking space and at least one characteristic associated with the parking space. The vehicle system further includes a processing device configured to select the at least one parking space based at least in part on the characteristic.
US09421999B2
A steering system is described for a vehicle having steerable wheels. A hydraulic charge pressure circuit may be configured to provide charge pressure to one or more hydraulic components of the vehicle, and a hydraulic drive pressure circuit may be configured to provide working pressure to one or more other hydraulic components of the vehicle. Hydraulic machines may rotate front wheels in order to drive the vehicle, and a front valve assembly may control steering of the front wheels by controlling the hydraulic machines. The hydraulic machines may be driven to rotate the front wheels by the working pressure from the hydraulic drive pressure circuit, and the front valve assembly may control the front hydraulic machines to steer the agricultural vehicle by controlling flow of hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic charge pressure circuit through the front valve assembly.
US09421998B2
A method for detecting a motor error of a motor driven power steering (MDPS) may include: calculating, by a control unit, a Q-axis command current of a motor through a Q-axis command current calculation unit, according to requested torque; calculating a command current of each phase of the motor from the calculated Q-axis command current of the motor; controlling the motor according to the Q-axis command current of the motor, and sensing a measured current of each phase of the motor through each current sensor; determining whether each phase of the motor is disconnected, through the command current and the measured current of each phase of the motor; and outputting the determination result to an output unit.
US09421997B2
An apparatus for removing hysteresis of motor driven power steering (MDPS) may include: a motor driving unit for rotating a motor; a key on/off sensing unit for sensing a key on/off of a vehicle; and an electronic control unit (ECU) for receiving a key off state of the vehicle from the key on/off sensing unit and repeating a sweep function a preset number of times. The sweep function may include applying a current having an asynchronous frequency, which does not coincide with a synchronous frequency of the motor, to the motor through the motor driving unit.
US09421994B2
The invention relates to a steering column for a motor vehicle, wherein the steering column comprises a steering spindle bearing unit and a steering spindle mounted in the steering spindle bearing unit so as to be rotatable about a steering spindle longitudinal axis, and a support unit, which is provided in the motor vehicle for fixing the steering column and against which the steering spindle bearing unit is retained. The steering spindle bearing unit has a thread and can be adjusted by means of a motor along the steering spindle longitudinal axis relative to the support unit, wherein the steering spindle bearing unit, for adjustment thereof along the steering spindle longitudinal axis relative to the support unit, is connected by means of at least one drive belt or at least one drive chain to the motor.
US09421993B2
A motor vehicle steering wheel provided with controls for the turn indicators; the steering wheel has: a central hub, which is mounted so as to rotate; an outer crown, which is rigidly coupled to the central hub by means of at least two spokes; and two controls, each of which is mounted on a corresponding spoke to be actuated with a vertical movement and operate the right turn indicators and the left turn indicators; each control has a rear appendage, which projects from the rear side of the corresponding spoke; and each control can be actuated with a vertical movement in a direction to operate the left turn indicators and can be actuated with a vertical movement in an opposite direction to operate the right turn indicators.
US09421988B2
This guide-rail track vehicle, which travels on a track, is provided with: a carbody disposed at the top of a vehicle; and a running device that supports the carbody from below, and has a guide frame to which at least a pair of guide wheels, which are guided by a guide rail disposed on the track, are attached. Moreover, the guide frame has: a pair of beam members that are capable of sliding in the width direction of the track, and to which the guide wheels are attached; a rotating part capable of rotating around a first axis in the direction of travel; and a transmission part that converts the rotation of the rotating part to motion in the width direction, and moves the guide wheels in a symmetrical fashion by synchronizing the pair of beam members. Thus, the guide-rail track vehicle has a running device that allows the distance between the guide wheels to be changed.
US09421977B2
A running control device is configured to execute an engine coupling running mode performed with an engine and wheels connected by a connecting/disconnecting device, a neutral inertia running mode performed with the engine separated from the wheels by the connecting/disconnecting device while the engine is supplied with fuel and allowed to perform self-sustaining rotation, and a free-run inertia running mode performed with the engine separated from the wheels by the connecting/disconnecting device while fuel supply to the engine is stopped to stop rotation. The neutral inertia running mode is terminated when an operation amount of the accelerator pedal becomes equal to or greater than a predefined first determination value. The free-run inertia running mode is terminated when an operation amount of the accelerator pedal becomes equal to or greater than a predefined second determination value larger than the first determination value.
US09421976B2
Systems and methods for improving operation of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, driveline disconnect clutch operation is adjusted in response to vehicle mass so that the vehicle may operate similarly at lower and higher vehicle masses.
US09421973B2
A system and method of autonomously steering a vehicle responsively to failure of a lane-centering system through time-dependent steering angle correction to reduce jerk resulting from transition of steering control from a lane-centering system to a lane-keeping system or vise-versa.
US09421971B2
A driver assistance system of a vehicle for controlling a distance from the vehicle to a further vehicle. In the method, a distance between the vehicle and the further vehicle and a relative speed between the vehicle and the further vehicle are determined. When the vehicle approaches the further vehicle, the vehicle is operated in an operational state from a group of a plurality of predetermined operational states in dependence upon the distance and the relative speed.
US09421968B2
A system for controlling torque for a hybrid vehicle includes a power source having an engine and a motor. An engine clutch is provided between the engine and the motor. A driving information detector detects demand torque for driving. A traction controller controls oil pressure supplied into a brake to prevent a wheel slip and request torque reduction control from a vehicle controller when the wheel slip is detected. A vehicle controller controls engagement of the engine clutch for driving in a hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) mode, wherein the vehicle controller determines output torques of the engine and the motor to perform torque reduction control according to the torque reduction control, and when the request for the torque reduction control is released, the vehicle controller sets a gradient for torque restoration of the engine and the motor and applies the gradient to follow the demand torque for driving.
US09421962B2
A method and system for displaying braking information such as energy dissipation braking information and regenerative braking information. The automobile including an energy dissipation braking system, a regenerative braking system, an energy dissipation braking sensor, a regenerative braking sensor, an energy conversions system, an energy storage unit, an energy storage sensor, a processor, an engine, and/or a display. The processor, energy dissipation braking sensor, and/or the regenerative braking system can acquire and analyze energy dissipating braking data and regenerative braking data in an automobile to determine appropriate braking information for display to a user on the display. Such braking information can include, for example, an energy efficiency rate, and/or an application percentage of the energy dissipation braking system and/or the regenerative braking system. The braking information can also be displayed in various modes to indicate desirable braking applications.
US09421956B2
The present disclosure relates to various vehicle braking assemblies. Brake pedal arms include, for example, a cam block that is configured to simplify the engagement between the power booster and pedal arm. Cam block can be movable with respect to the pedal arm to manage the gap between the pedal arm and power booster in by-wire braking assemblies.
US09421955B2
A suspension structure for an irregular ground traveling vehicle includes an upper arm and a lower arm, a drive shaft, a boot, and an outer guard. The upper and lower arms each have one end portion supported on a vehicle body frame. The drive shaft is disposed between the upper arm and the lower arm and transmits a drive force to a wheel. The boot covers an end portion of the drive shaft on a wheel side. The outer guard member covers a front side of the boot. A brake line, which extends from a caliper, is arranged within a width of the wheel and below the upper arm, and the outer guard member extends to an area in the vicinity of the upper arm.
US09421951B2
The present invention relates a wiper assembly having an elongated wiping element, a pair of elongated splines, and a pair of end caps. The wiping element has a head portion and a wiping portion. The splines support the wiping element and each has opposing longitudinal ends, lateral sides, top and bottom surfaces, a first pair of notches disposed at the longitudinal ends, and a second pair of notches disposed along the lateral sides spaced from the end. The end caps are mounted to the ends and have a body defined by a shell extending from a distal surface, a pair of lower shelves extending from the surface facing each other, a valley between the shelves, mounts extending from the surface and engaging the first notches, and resilient tabs extending from the mounts and having hook sections disposed within each of the second notches of the splines.
US09421949B2
A wiper for a vehicle is provided with: an arm-side connection section; a blade-side connection section; support shafts which protrude from side walls of the blade-side connection section; and shaft support recesses which are provided in the arm-side connection section. When a wiper blade is located in a mounting-dismounting enabled region, the mounting-dismounting openings and the small-diameter sections of the support shafts match with each other, and the support shafts and the shaft support recesses can be mounted to and dismounted from each other. When the wiper blade is located in a mounting-dismounting disabled region, the mounting-dismounting openings and the small-diameter sections do not match with each other, and the support shafts and the shaft support recesses cannot be mounted to and dismounted from each other. A shape retaining section is located between the pair of the shaft support recesses.
US09421945B1
A vehicle anti-theft system is configured to apply indications of driver presence and absence to control of a circuit between a brake pedal switch and a park shift interlock and/or a vehicle brake. Vehicle drivability is impaired without an indication of driver presence. The driver absence indication can include the combination open driver's door and an empty driver's seat. The driver presence indication can include authorized driver identification through entry of a code or other authorization mechanism.
US09421942B2
An air bag apparatus for a vehicle includes an inflator and a main tube configured to be unfolded toward an occupant of the vehicle by a gas pressure when the inflator explodes. A support tube is coupled to one side of the main tube and configured to be unfolded by being supplied with gas from the main tube. An active vent is configured to be installed in a path which connects the main tube to the support tube and to open and close the path. A controller is configured to control an opening and closing operation of the active vent.
US09421937B2
A panel having a deployable cover for an airbag module is provided. The panel having: an outer layer having a show surface and an inner surface opposite the show surface; a tear seam formed in the outer layer, the tear seam defined by a plurality of holes formed in the outer layer extending from the inner surface towards the show surface, wherein a residual wall thickness of the outer layer is located between each of the plurality of holes and the show surface, wherein the outer layer includes at least one filler material, that exhibits an absorbance of a wavenumber of a laser used to form the plurality of holes.
US09421929B2
An airbag deployment control apparatus and method utilizes an output of a pre-collision sensor mounted on the vehicle as a first airbag safing signal, and an output of a vehicle mounted impact sensor, when the impact sensor output exceeds a predetermined level corresponding to an actual vehicle collision, as a second airbag safing signal. A control, after determining the occurrence of the two consecutive safing signals, checks airbag arming and deployment criteria for deployment of the airbag. The pre-impact sensor can be a camera, radar, or Lidar sensor mounted on the vehicle.
US09421923B1
A vehicle floor includes a rigid floor structure having a datum location, and a compressible sound attenuating silencer and carpeting both shaped to correspond to the shape of the floor structure. The silencer overlies the floor structure and defines a relief in a section overlying the floor structure's datum location. The carpeting overlies the silencer and has a locator in a section overlying the floor structure's datum location. The locator is accommodated within the silencer's relief and applied against the floor structure's datum location to locate at least some of the carpeting with respect to the floor structure in a direction of the application.
US09421918B2
A load carrier foot, and a load carrying roof rack for a vehicle having at least one such load carrier foot. The load carrier foot has a lock arrangement for locking a load carrying bar to the load carrier foot comprising a wedge member, a tensioning member. The wedge member is adapted to cooperate with the tensioning member so that upon operation of the tensioning member. A clamping member is further arranged in working cooperation with the tensioning member. The present invention provides for a load carrying foot having a lock arrangement which requires little space inside of the load carrying bar to lock the load carrying bar to the load carrying foot, it permits the load carrier foot to be attached to the load carrying bar in a plurality of positions and it enables the load carrying bar to be attached to the load carrying foot while at the same time attach to the vehicle using the same tensioning member.
US09421916B1
A storage bin for an interior compartment of a vehicle includes a support structure manufactured from a substantially rigid plastic material, and configured for attachment to a panel of the vehicle. An outer wall portion is manufactured from a substantially rigid plastic material. A flexible wall portion is manufactured from a flexible silicone material, and interconnects the support structure and the outer wall portion. The flexible wall portion includes a plurality of pleats, and is collapsible in an accordion motion between a collapsed position and an expanded position. When disposed in the collapsed position, the flexible wall portion supports the outer wall portion adjacent the panel. When disposed in the expanded position, the flexible wall portion supports the outer wall portion a lateral offset distance from the panel to define a storage compartment.
US09421914B2
A vehicle seat includes a seatback having an opening defined along a portion thereof. A track is coupled with the seatback adjacent the opening and extends in an imperfect arc. A door comprising a single piece, flexible body is supported by the track and is slidable between an open position and a closed position relative to the opening. The door is moveable through the imperfect arc by flexing of the body.
