US09430685B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods are provided to generate markings on the side of a substrate. The markings represent information. In an embodiment, the information provided in the markings may be used to collect information during an assembly process.
US09430678B2
Advantageous analog and/or digital logic cells and methods of powering circuit blocks using the same are provided. A digital logic cell can include a charge storage device, a logic block, and connections to a power supply. The charge storage device may be a capacitor. The capacitor or other charge storage device can be disconnected from the logic block and a power supply to discharge the capacitor, and then connected to the power supply, via the power supply connections, to charge the capacitor. The capacitor can be disconnected from a ground connection of the power supply while the capacitor is discharged. After being charged via the power supply, the capacitor can also be disconnected from the power supply (including ground) and connected to the logic block to power the logic block.
US09430669B2
A content management system allows a user to create a collection folder to which a submitting user can add content items without being able to access content items added to the folder by other submitting users. A collection folder is created in a namespace of a collecting user and folder is made available to multiple submitting users to allow the submitting users to add items to the folder. When a submitting user first request to store a content item in the collection folder, the content management system creates a sub-folder associated with the submitting user in the collection folder and stores the content item in the sub-folder. The submitting user is given rights to the sub-folder, but is not given rights to sub-folders created for other submitting users.
US09430666B2
A system for facilitating data access and management on a smart card is provided. According to one exemplary aspect of the system, a storage architecture is provided in the smart card which allows data stored thereon to be shared by multiple parties. Access to data stored on the smart card is controlled by various access methods depending on the actions to be taken with respect to the data to be accessed.
US09430643B2
A computer program includes a plurality of different types of computer program instructions. Prior to execution of the computer program, the computer the computer program instructions of each of the types. At a time during execution of the computer program, the computer counts the computer program instructions of each of the types. The computer, in response to determining that the count for one of the instruction types determined prior to execution of the computer program differs by at least an associated threshold value from the count for the same instruction type determined during execution, makes a record that the computer program has an indicia of maliciousness.
US09430638B2
The embodiment of the present document provides an authentication method, an authentication apparatus and an authentication device. The method includes: a first device determining an authentication preparation parameter; and according to the authentication preparation parameter, the first device transmitting a first authentication control message including a first device identifier stored in the first device to a second device with a second device identifier, controlling the second device to judge whether the first device identifier matches the second device identifier according to the first authentication control message, obtaining a judgment result, and when the judgment result is NO, performing a control operation to disable the second device from reading all or some user data from the first device.
US09430635B2
Techniques for securely displaying sensitive information against attempts to capture such information via screenshots are introduced. Similar to the pieces of a puzzle, a plurality of images that collectively represent a keypad (for example) are generated and each image represents a different part of the characters. The generated images are to be displayed to a human user in a sequential fashion at at least a predetermined minimum frame rate, such that the plurality of images sequentially displayed are perceivable by the human user collectively as the keypad. In each of the plurality of images, at least a part of the characters of the keypad is disguised or concealed, and in some embodiments, to the extent that not a single character of the keypad is recognizable by a human or a machine. Further, bogus data can be selectively inserted to enhance security.
US09430634B1
A technique provides user authentication using a smart device (e.g., a smart phone, a tablet, etc.). The technique involves displaying, by processing circuitry of a smart device, a password prompt on a touch screen of the smart device. The password prompt includes a motion video of touch screen gestures to prompt a user of the smart device to enter a gesture password. The technique further involves receiving, by the processing circuitry, a trial gesture password entered by the user via the touch screen. The trial gesture password includes a user-entered sequence of touch screen gestures. The technique further involves performing, by the processing circuitry, multiple gesture password confirmation operations to verify that the user is able to re-enter the trial gesture password via the touch screen over time to authenticate the user to the smart device.
US09430632B2
A function performing apparatus includes a function performing unit, an operation unit, a processor and memory. The function performing apparatus receives a first instruction from a portable device, determines whether first authentication information is to be registered in an authentication memory, registers the first authentication information in authentication the memory, transmits the first authentication information, receives a second instruction including the first authentication information from the portable device, changes a state of the function performing apparatus from a non-permission state to a permission state if the second instruction is received while the first authentication information is registered in the authentication memory and changes the state from the non-permission state to the permission state if second authentication information is input to the function performing apparatus by the operation unit while the second authentication information is registered in the authentication memory.
US09430617B2
Systems and methods for content selection and processing in an information system are described herein. In one example, a content suggestion engine operates to select, suggest, or recommend content to human users. The selection of content may be suited to a goal or set of goals set by a human user (for example, content recommendations used to assist the human user with achieving a personal health goal). The content suggestion engine may evaluate information to help determine the appropriateness of the content suggestions, considering factors such as a psychological profile, medical conditions, lifestyle, demographics, and goals. The content may be further filtered and weighted to select a subset of content and suggested actions most relevant to the human user.
US09430615B2
A personal electronic device is configured to unobtrusively detect heart rate and rhythm anomalies utilizing an electrocardiogram (EKG)-based detection and monitoring method. As one example, while a user is using the personal electronic device for its intended function, such as communicating, playing music, and/or watching videos, the personal electronic device may be unobtrusively detecting and recording a user's heart rate and heart rhythm to detect anomalies. For instance, while a user is making a phone call, electrodes of the personal electronic device located in the vicinity of the earpiece and on the handset, may come into contact with a user's ear and a user's hand respectively. Thus, while the personal electronic device is being consciously used for a function other than EKG monitoring, EKG monitoring is unobtrusively occurring.
US09430611B2
A system and method for determining the genetic data for one or a small set of cells, or from fragmentary DNA, where a limited quantity of genetic data is available, are disclosed. Genetic data for the target individual is acquired and amplified using known methods, and poorly measured base pairs, missing alleles and missing regions are reconstructed using expected similarities between the target genome and the genome of genetically related subjects. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention incomplete genetic data is acquired from embryonic cells, fetal cells, or cell-free fetal DNA isolated from the mother's blood, and the incomplete genetic data is reconstructed using the more complete genetic data from a larger sample diploid cells from one or both parents, with or without genetic data from haploid cells from one or both parents, and/or genetic data taken from other related individuals.
US09430605B2
A device includes a plurality of connectors on a top surface of a package component. The plurality of connectors includes a first connector having a first lateral dimension, and a second connector having a second lateral dimension. The second lateral dimension is greater than the first lateral dimension. The first and the second lateral dimensions are measured in directions parallel to a major surface of the package component.
US09430604B2
Various example embodiments are directed to methods and apparatuses for implementing a circuit design within an integrated circuit (IC) package. A respective capacitance is determined for each die contact of a circuit design. A respective target inductance range is selected for each of the plurality of die contacts based on the determined capacitance. A segmentation of the circuit design is determined as a function of the target inductance ranges. The segmentation defines an implementation of the circuit design on a plurality of IC dies. The IC dies are placed at respective locations on the substrate, based on the resulting inductances of connections (e.g., conductive traces) between the die contacts and terminals of the IC package.
US09430603B1
The method includes identifying, by one or more computer processors, a location that corresponds to an integrated circuit chip on a wafer. The method further includes identifying, by one or more computer processors, an on-chip variation of the integrated circuit chip. The method further includes determining, by one or more computer processes, a desired voltage for the integrated circuit chip based upon the identified on-chip variation of the integrated circuit chip. The method further includes adjusting, by one or more computer processors, the voltage of the integrated circuit chip via a voltage regulated on the integrated circuit chip based upon the determined desired voltage.
US09430599B2
A method, system and product for determining error infliction probability or probability. The method comprises obtaining a representation of a circuit, wherein the circuit comprises nodes, wherein the nodes comprise at least one critical node; obtaining a trace, wherein the trace comprises recorded values of the nodes in a plurality of cycles; determining, by a processor, a Soft Error Infliction Probability (SEIP) of a node, wherein the SEIP is a value representing a probability that a Single Event Upset (SEU) effecting the node in a cycle will inflict a soft error by propagating through the circuit to the at least one critical node, wherein said determining comprises simulating a propagation of the SEU from the cycle to consecutive cycles, wherein said simulating utilizes values from the trace which are associated with the consecutive cycles; and outputting the SEIP of the node.
US09430589B2
A safety automation builder that assists in development of compliant safety functions for industrial safety systems is provided. The safety automation builder imports a system drawing or image of a user's manufacturing line, machine, or production area, and guides the user through a workflow that facilitates configuration of safety functions for each hazardous access point. The safety automation builder leverages a library of safety devices and encoded knowledge of industrial safety standards to guide the user toward selection of suitable safety devices for mitigating risks associated with the access points. Once configured, the safety automation builder can export the safety function data to an external verification system for confirmation that the configured safety functions comply with the prescribed industrial safety standards.
US09430584B2
A query collector may be configured to receive a plurality of queries applied by a search engine to obtain corresponding search results. A graph manager may be configured to generate, based on the plurality of queries, a directed graph of nodes, each node corresponding to at least one query and connected to another node, and further configured to merge at least two of the nodes based on a similarity of corresponding queries thereof, to obtain a merged node, and generate at least one representative query representing the merged node. A suggestion generator may be configured to match a current query with a matching node of the nodes, determine that the merged node is a successor node of the matching node within the directed graph, and provide the at least one representative query as a suggested query for a future search to be conducted by the search engine.
US09430577B2
An exemplary system for monitoring search spam and protecting against search spam includes a self-monitoring subsystem to uncover spam patterns and a self-protection subsystem to protect against spam by providing spam-related information to strengthen a relevance ranking algorithm. An exemplary architecture for monitoring search spam includes a first component to receive one or more spammer targeted keywords and to search, scan and analyze URLs based at least in part on the one or more spammer targeted keywords, a second component to receive one or more URLs from the first component and to verify one or more of these URLs as a spam URL and a third component to collect spammer targeted keywords associated with one or more spam URLs and to provide one or more of the spammer targeted keywords to the first component.
US09430569B2
System and method for collecting information from a plurality of related sites, analyzing the information and storing the relevant information in a data base for future use. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the system uses the provided list of sites, whether obtained automatically or separately, queries them and analyzes the result retrieved from each site. The information may also optionally and preferably be ranked.
US09430553B2
A disclosed system, method, and computer-readable storage medium automatically identify, cluster, and cross-reference various editions of an application. The editions are clustered and associated with a canonical application structure describing the general functionality of each edition in the cluster. When an application search query is received from a client device, one or more canonical applications corresponding to the query are identified and provided to the client device. Enhancing the relevancy of search results by merging several editions of an application into one canonical application structure reduces unwanted and redundant results on a search result page.
US09430543B2
Embodiments of methods, systems, and computer program products for incrementally updating a large key-value store can include a computer-implemented method of updating a master database comprising refreshing a refresh set of oldest entries in the master database, merging an emergency set of entries in an emergency database into the master database, and deleting the emergency set of entries from the emergency database. In some embodiments, the computer-implemented method can further comprise merging a changed set of entries in a changed database into the master database and deleting the changed set of entries from the changed database. Other embodiments of related methods and systems are also provided.
US09430534B2
This disclosure generally relates to computer-implemented analytics, and more particularly to systems and methods for improved security and precision in executing analytics using SDKs. In one embodiment, an analytics system is disclosed, comprising: a processor; and a memory device operatively connected to the processor and storing processor-executable instructions for: receiving an application programming interface (API) call for a service; parsing the API call to extract an API call name and one or more API call parameters; generating prediction values for one or more interpreted-data parameters; obtaining one or more analytics rules; performing an analytics operation to generate an analytics result according to the one or more analytics rules based on the generated prediction values for the one or more interpreted-data parameters and the extracted one or more API call parameters; and generating a visual representation of the analytics result.
US09430532B2
A content provider system ranks media content items with respect to a particular user based on selection scores determined for each of the media content items. The selection scores may be determined using a particular model that calculates a predicted selection score based on feature values associated with the content item with respect to the particular user. The feature values may indicate properties of the media content item, the particular user, or the particular user's relationship with the content item, including information about the novelty of the media content item with respect to the user. The particular model may be trained with sample user consumption data points that represent various combinations of media content items and users. The data point information evaluated during the training of the particular model may cause the model to assign higher selection scores to content items that are novel in particular ways.
US09430528B2
Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to grid queries. In aspects, a client sends search criteria that represent two or more dimensions to a service. The service obtains results that satisfy the search criteria and performs intersection operations to populate a data grid. The data grid is then returned to the client for output on an output device of the client. The client may provide a user interface that allows quick updating of the search criteria to obtain a new data grid.
US09430526B2
A method, database system and computer program are disclosed for optimizing a SQL query, in which the SQL query seeks to aggregate temporal database information. The method includes determining whether two rows of information have a common grouping value, and if so, determining both temporal overlap and temporal non-overlap components of the two rows, aggregating each of the temporal overlap components of the two rows, and separating the temporal non-overlap components of the two rows.
US09430517B2
Methods and systems for presenting online content elements based on information known to a service provider. One of the methods is a method for presenting online content at a communication apparatus, the communication apparatus being assigned an identifier. The method comprises: obtaining information that pertains to a profile associated with the identifier and provided by a service provider involved in assigning the identifier to the communication apparatus; determining an online content element to be presented at the communication apparatus based on the information; and causing the communication apparatus to present the online content element. Another one of the methods is a method for facilitating determination of online content to be presented at a communication apparatus. Servers for implementing the methods are also provided.
US09430502B1
A method and apparatus for collecting statistics data over a communications network using scalable stateless processes are disclosed. A process capable of obtaining statistics data, in one embodiment, detects a delay associated with the availability of statistics data in accordance with predefined lag duration, and subsequently, adds one or more stateless processes to a pool of stateless processes to increase capacity of collecting statistics data. Upon enabling a stateless process to collect statistics data from network element (“NE”) in response to a statistics collecting tasks, the statistics data is stored in a database.
US09430501B1
Time correction records are created for correcting timestamps of network logs to identify timing of network events in a predetermined time reference frame, the network logs being created by logging devices generating the timestamps in device time reference frames. For each logging device, one or more network events are generated or identified at respective event times in the predetermined time reference frame, each network event having a corresponding event-related network log from the logging device and a respective timestamp in a device time reference frame. For each network event, a respective difference value is calculated as a difference between the event time and a respective timestamp from a network log. For each logging device, a selection function is applied to the difference values to calculate a correction value, and the correction value is stored along with an identifier of the logging device in a time correction record.
US09430496B2
A computer-implemented augmented reality method includes receiving one or more indications, entered on a mobile computing device by a user of the mobile computing device, of a distance range for determining items to display with an augmented reality application, the distance range representing geographic distance from a base point where the mobile computing device is located. The method also includes selecting, from items in a computer database, one or more items that are located within the distance range from the mobile computing device entered by the user, and providing data for representing labels for the selected one or more items on a visual display of the mobile computing device, the labels corresponding to the selected items, and the items corresponding to geographical features that are within the distance range as measure from the mobile computing device.
US09430495B2
A social networking system generates a location store based on information received from its users. The location store includes entries having a physical location description and one or more terms associated with the physical location description. One or more entries associated with physical location descriptions within an area are identified. A local frequency of occurrence of each term in the identified entry is determined, and a global frequency of occurrence of each term in the identified entries within the location store is determined. Trending terms in the identified entries are determined based on the local frequencies and the global frequencies. Identified entries are compared to each other, with a score based on differing terms in compared entries and whether the differing terms are trending terms is generated. If a score is less than a threshold value, a combined entry is generated from the compared entries.
US09430493B2
A write allocation technique extends a conventional write allocation procedure employed by a write anywhere file system of a storage system. A write allocator of the file system implements the extended write allocation technique in response to an event in the file system. The extended write allocation technique efficiently allocates blocks, and frees blocks, to and from a virtual volume (vvol) of an aggregate. The aggregate is a physical volume comprising one or more groups of disks, such as RAID groups, underlying one or more vvols of the storage system. The aggregate has its own physical volume block number (pvbn) space and maintains metadata, such as block allocation structures, within that pvbn space. Each vvol also has its own virtual volume block number (vvbn) space and maintains metadata, such as block allocation structures, within that vvbn space. The inventive technique extends input/output efficiencies of the conventional write allocation procedure to comport with an extended file system layout of the storage system.
US09430488B2
Embodiments are directed towards managing and tracking item identification of a plurality of items to determine if an item is a new or existing item, where an existing item has been previously processed. In some embodiments, two or more item identifiers may be generated. In one embodiment, generating the two or more item identifiers may include analyzing the item using a small item size characteristic, a compressed item, or for an identifier collision. The two or more item identifiers may be employed to determine if the item is a new or existing item. In one embodiment, the two or more item identifiers may be compared to a record about an existing item to determine if the item is a new or existing item. If the item is an existing item, then the item may be further processed to determine if the existing item has actually changed.
US09430486B2
Systems and methods enabling search of a repository for the location of data that is similar to input data, using a defined measure of similarity, in a time that is independent of the size of the repository and linear in a size of the input data, and a space that is proportional to a small fraction of the size of the repository. The similar data segments thus located are further analyzed to determine their common (identical) data sections, regardless of the order and position of the common data sections in the repository and input, and in a time that is linear in the segment size and in constant space.
US09430483B1
Techniques for automatic file system migration to a network attached storage (NAS) device or system. For example, a method comprises the following steps. A first network attached storage system and a second network attached storage system are designated. A file system on the first network attached storage system is selected to migrate to the second network attached storage system, at least one criterion of the file system on the second network attached storage system is defined, and a configuration of the second network attached storage system is automatically determined based on the defined criterion.
US09430482B2
A non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to receive a first file that is in a first file format and includes taxonomy data of a first marketplace; define a second file that is in a template file format and includes the taxonomy data of the first marketplace; and send the second file to a taxonomy platform such that inventory data is mapped to a taxonomy of the first marketplace. The code further causes the processor to receive a third file that is in a second file format and includes taxonomy data of a second marketplace; define a fourth file that is in the template file format and includes the taxonomy data of the second marketplace; and send the fourth file to the taxonomy platform such that the inventory data is mapped to a taxonomy of the second marketplace.
US09430466B1
Techniques include outputting to a developer an offer to opt-in to a translation feature that enables human translators to translate their web page to a target language. In response to receiving a first request to opt-in to the translation feature, the server: generates and stores a web page copy, obtains from the human translators translations of at least a portion of the web page from its source language to the target language, modifies the web page copy based on the obtained translations to obtain a translated web page that is a translated version of the web page, detects a second request for the web page from a computing device associated with the target language, and in response to detecting the second request outputs, to the computing device, the translated web page with additional content relevant to the computing device or a user associated with the computing device.
US09430455B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for intelligent form-filling and electronic document generation. One method may include generating a decision tree representing questions which facilitates the completion of a form having one or more data fields. The method may comprise: inputting the questions into a computing device, wherein the questions relate to data to be filled into the one or more data fields of the form; arranging an order of the questions in the computing device based on possible answers given; and using the computing device to automatically generate the decision tree based on the questions, the possible answers, and the order of the questions.
US09430452B2
Various embodiments provide an interface between a Web browser's layout engine and a scripting engine. The interface enables objects from the layout engine to be recognized by a memory manager in the scripting engine and interact in a streamlined, efficient manner. In accordance with one or more embodiments, the interface allows browser layout engine objects to be created as objects that are native to the scripting engine. Alternately or additionally, in some embodiments, the native objects are further configured to proxy functionality between the layout engine and the scripting engine.
US09430437B1
A computer network system configured with disaggregated inputs/outputs. This system can be configured in a leaf-spine architecture and can include a router coupled to a network source, a plurality of core switches coupled to the router, a plurality of aggregator switches coupled to each of the plurality of core switches, and a plurality of rack modules coupled to each of the plurality of aggregator switches. The plurality of rack modules can each include an I/O appliance with a downstream aggregator module, a plurality of server devices each with PCIe interfaces, and an upstream aggregator module that aggregates each of the PCIe interfaces. A high-speed link can be configured between the downstream and upstream aggregator modules via aggregation of many serial lanes to provide reliable high speed bit stream transport over long distances, which allows for better utilization of resources and scalability of memory capacity independent of the server count.
US09430431B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to electronic devices and data transmission methods. The electronic device includes: a first part including a first main board, a first processor connected to the first main board, at least one sharable hardware component and a first connector; and a second part including a second main board, a second processor connected to the second main board and a second connector corresponding to the first connector. The first part and the second part are connectable to each other via the first connector and the second connector. The first connector is configured to receive, from a first driving module of the hardware component, a first data sent from the hardware component via a first connector driving module, and transmit the first data to the second connector such that a second connector driving module can provide the first data from the second connector to a first application running in the second part via a second driving module of the hardware component. The present invention realizes simple and effective sharing of hardware component.
US09430422B2
Embodiments of a multi-processor array are disclosed that may include a plurality of processors and configurable communication elements coupled together in a interspersed arrangement. Each configurable communication element may include a local memory and a plurality of routing engines. The local memory may be coupled to a subset of the plurality of processors. Each routing engine may be configured to receive one or more messages from a plurality of sources, assign each received message to a given destination of a plurality of destinations dependent upon configuration information, and forward each message to assigned destination. The plurality of destinations may include the local memory, and routing engines included in a subset of the plurality of configurable communication elements.
US09430417B2
Methods of operating a memory include performing a memory access operation, obtaining an address corresponding to a subsequent memory access operation prior to stopping the memory access operation, stopping the memory access operation, sharing charge between access lines used for the memory access operation and access lines to be used for the subsequent memory access operation, and performing the subsequent memory access operation.
US09430416B2
A pattern-based service bus includes a plurality of bus endpoints, a bus-hosted service, and a bus storage component. The plurality of bus endpoints interact with bus participants external to the pattern-based service bus, wherein each of the plurality of bus endpoints are identified by a unique address, and type of interaction to be provided by the bus endpoint. The bus-hosted service implements patterns that define allowed interactions between each of the plurality of bus endpoints and the bus-hosted service, wherein the implemented patterns can be utilized by the plurality of bus endpoints to interact with the bus-hosted service. The bus storage component interacts with the bus-hosted service to store information relevant to operation of the pattern-based service bus.
US09430415B2
A method for managing concurrent system dumps of address spaces of memory of a computing system. The method comprises analyzing address space of memory to determine high priority areas and low priority areas of the address space. The method further comprises stopping all application threads of memory. In addition, the method further comprises performing a system dump of all the high priority areas of the address space. Moreover, the method further comprises initiating a background thread that performs a system dump of the low priority areas in background of the address space, and allowing, by the one or more computer processors, all of the application threads of memory to restart.
US09430412B2
A method and system for enabling Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) for accessing remote solid state drives (SSDs) (or other types of remote non-volatile memory) over the Ethernet or other networks. An extended NVMe controller is provided for enabling CPU to access remote non-volatile memory using NVMe protocol. The extended NVMe controller is implemented on one server for communication with other servers or non-volatile memory via Ethernet switch. The NVMe protocol is used over the Ethernet or similar networks by modifying it to provide a special NVM-over-Ethernet frame.
US09430410B2
A method for supporting a plurality of load accesses is disclosed. A plurality of requests to access a data cache is accessed, and in response, a tag memory is accessed that maintains a plurality of copies of tags for each entry in the data cache. Tags are identified that correspond to individual requests. The data cache is accessed based on the tags that correspond to the individual requests. A plurality of requests to access the same block of the plurality of blocks causes an access arbitration that is executed in the same clock cycle as is the access of the tag memory.
US09430408B2
An embodiment of an apparatus for securing program code stored in a non-volatile memory is introduced. A non-volatile memory contains a first region and a second region. Two NVMMCS (non-volatile memory management controllers respectively coupled to the two regions. A programming command-and-address decoder is coupled to the NVMMCS. The programming command-and-address decoder instructs the first NVMMC to erase data from the first region when receiving a command to erase the first region via a programming interface, and instructs the second NVMMC to erase data from the second region when receiving a command to erase the second region via the programming interface.
US09430404B2
For data processing in a computing storage environment by a processor device, the computing storage environment incorporating at least high-speed and lower-speed caches, and managed tiered levels of storage, a Solid State Device (SSD) tier is variably shared between the lower-speed cache and the managed tiered levels of storage such that the managed tiered levels of storage are operational on large data segments, and the lower-speed cache is allocated with the large data segments, yet operates with data segments of a smaller size than the large data segments and within the large data segments, where if selected data segments are cached in the lower-speed cache and are determined to become uniformly hot, the selected group from the lower-speed cache are migrated to the SSD tier.
US09430400B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a computer-implemented method for altering migration rules for a unified virtual memory system. The method includes detecting that a migration rule trigger has been satisfied. The method also includes identifying a migration rule action that is associated with the migration rule trigger. The method further includes executing the migration rule action. Other embodiments of the present invention include a computer-readable medium, a computing device, and a unified virtual memory subsystem. One advantage of the disclosed approach is that various settings of the unified virtual memory system may be modified during program execution. This ability to alter the settings allows for an application to vary the manner in which memory pages are migrated and otherwise manipulated, which provides the application the ability to optimize the unified virtual memory system for efficient execution.
US09430392B2
Technologies for supporting large pages in hardware prefetchers are described. A processor includes a processor core comprising a pipeline, cache memory and a hardware prefetcher coupled to the processor core and the cache memory. The hardware prefetcher is a region-based hardware prefetcher to track memory regions of a predefined region size that is defined by software to be executed by the processor. The hardware prefetcher is operative to receive incoming requests and track different memory regions of predefined size with multiple streams in a stream table with stream entries. The hardware prefetcher generates a prefetch request and determines whether the prefetch request goes beyond a page boundary of the one memory region. The hardware prefetcher creates a new stream entry to track a successive memory region when the prefetch request goes beyond the page boundary of the one memory region, allowing subsequent prefetch requests to the successive memory region.
US09430385B2
A processor includes a multi-level cache hierarchy where a lock property is associated with a cache line. The cache line retains the lock property and may move back and forth within the cache hierarchy. The cache line may be evicted from the cache hierarchy after the lock property is removed.
US09430380B2
In response to execution in a memory transaction of a transactional load instruction that speculatively binds to a value held in a store-through upper level cache, a processor core sets a flag, transmits a transactional load operation to a store-in lower level cache that tracks a target cache line address of a target cache line containing the value, monitors, during a core TM tracking interval, the target cache line address for invalidation messages from the store-in lower level cache until the store-in lower level cache signals that the store-in lower level cache has assumed responsibility for tracking the target cache line address, and responsive to receipt during the core TM tracking interval of an invalidation message indicating presence of a conflicting snooped operation, resets the flag. At termination of the memory transaction, the processor core fails the memory transaction responsive to the flag being reset.
US09430376B2
Priority-based garbage collection utilizes attributes of data stored in the non-volatile memory array in order to improve efficiency of garbage collection and of the overall data storage system. A set of low priority data can be selectively evicted from a non-volatile memory array. This can, for example, reduce write amplification associated with garbage collection. Another set of low priority data can be regrouped or consolidated in a different region of the non-volatile memory array. In addition, flushing of data can be performed in order to enhance or optimize garbage collection. Performance and endurance can thereby be improved.
US09430373B2
Memory system controllers can include a switch and non-volatile memory control circuitry coupled to the switch. The non-volatile memory control circuitry can include a channel control circuit coupled to logical units. The channel control circuitry can be configured to relay an erase command to a first one of the logical units and relay a particular command from the switch to a second one of the logical units while the erase command is being executed on the first one of the plurality of logical units.
US09430368B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing a read request for a piece of content stored within a storage system. If it is determined that the piece of content is not present within a front end cache system of the storage system, requesting the piece of content from a multi-tiered data array, thus defining requested content. The requested content is received from the multi-tiered data array. A tier designator, concerning the requested content, is received that identifies a specific data tier within the multi-tiered data array from which the requested content was obtained.
US09430364B1
Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to systems and methods for facilitating optimization of mobile application testing. In one embodiment, a mobile application testing system (MATS) allows simultaneous communication to a plurality of devices regardless of device type and operating system. Accordingly, the MATS performs mobile testing without “jail-breaking” or removing various components of the user device. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, the MATS enables users to securely test mobile applications by supporting data routing behind a security firewall utilizing a transition of communications protocols. Further, various protocols provide a data tunnel allowing multiple concurrent testing sessions for multiple users via an authentication scheme. Additionally, concurrent testing sessions may include single app testing on multiple devices or a plurality of apps testing on a plurality of devices.
US09430360B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for testing navigation graph services. Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a directed graph based on a navigation graph service, determine a set of paths between nodes in the directed graph, and generate a testing script for an arbitrary performance testing tool based on the determined set of paths. The set of paths may comprise edge-disjoint paths between nodes in the directed graph.
US09430357B1
A pre-initialized value of contents of a memory location is identified. A load value of contents loaded from the memory location by execution of a first instruction that loads from the memory location is also identified. A comparison is made between the load value and the pre-initialized value. Based on the comparison, a determination is made that the load value and the pre-initialized value are the same. In response to this determination, it is indicated that the first instruction contains an uninitialized memory reference.
US09430351B2
A data acquisition system can include a central controller to provide a data acquisition signal. The data acquisition system can also include a cabinet to receive the data acquisition signal. The cabinet can have an array of modules installed therein. The cabinet can include a backplane connected to each module of the array of modules. The backplane can provide a status request signal to a given module in the array of modules if the given module is assigned a module address identified by the data acquisition signal. The given module can provide status data characterizing an operational status of the given module in response to the status request.
US09430349B2
A scalable test platform includes a PCIe-based event fabric. One or more instrument subsystems are coupled to the PCIe-based event fabric and configured to interface one or more devices under test and generate captured test data. One or more digital signal processing subsystems are coupled to the PCIe-based event fabric and configured to process the captured test data.
US09430348B2
A scalable test platform includes a PCIe-based event fabric. One or more CPU subsystems are coupled to the PCIe-based event fabric and configured to execute an automated test process. One or more instrument subsystems are coupled to the PCIe-based event fabric and configured to interface one or more devices under test.
US09430341B2
Failover in a data center that includes a multi-density server, where the multi-density server includes multiple independent servers, includes; detecting, by a management module, a failure of one of the independent servers of the multi-density server; identifying, by the management module, a failover target; determining, by the management module, whether the failover target is a non-failed independent server included in the multi-density server; and responsive to determining that the failover target is a non-failed independent server included in the multi-density server, migrating, by the management module, the failed independent server's workload to another server that is not included in the multi-density server.
US09430340B2
A verification control part has the same write information data piece written into each of a plurality of memories according to a write instruction and then reads out information data piece from the plurality of memories. At this time, a coincidence determining part performs first verification to determine whether respective read-out information data pieces read out from the memories coincide with each other and outputs a verification result signal to the outside, and simultaneously the verification control part outputs one of the read-out information data pieces as an information data piece for second verification, which performs coincidence determination with the write information data piece, to the outside.
US09430338B2
A method, computing device and computer program product are provided to maintain a comprehensive record of log entries, even in an instance in which the recordation of log entries to the primary log temporarily fails. In the context of a method, one or more log entries are written to a primary log. The method also includes determining that writing a log entry to the primary log has failed and writing the log entry to a fallback log in an instance in which writing the log entry to the primary log has failed. The method further includes performing a restoration process. The restoration process includes determining whether the log entry written to the fallback log is able to be written to the primary log. If so, the restoration process writes one or more log entries written to the fallback log to the primary log. If not, the restoration process is repeated.
US09430336B2
A technique by a processing module of a computing device of a dispersed storage network (DSN) to generate metadata associated with a stored data object. Once the data object is identified, a data segment of the data object is determined and a number of data slices corresponding to the data segment is retrieved. Then, the data segment is regenerated from the retrieved data slices. Once the data segment is regenerated, metadata that is associated with the data segment is generated and stored.
US09430329B2
Apparatus and method for data integrity management in a data storage device. In accordance with some embodiments, a controller transfers user data blocks between a host device and a main memory. Each user data block has an associated logical address. A data integrity manager generates and stores a verification code for each user data block in a table structure in a local memory. The data integrity manager uses the verification code to independently verify a most current version of a selected user data block is being retrieved by the controller from the main memory during a host read request.
US09430324B2
A memory module is disclosed that includes a substrate, a memory device that outputs read data, and a buffer. The buffer has a primary interface for transferring the read data to a memory controller and a secondary interface coupled to the memory device to receive the read data. The buffer includes error logic to identify an error in the received read data and to identify a storage cell location in the memory device associated with the error. Repair logic maps a replacement storage element as a substitute storage element for the storage cell location associated with the error.
US09430321B2
Techniques for operating a storage system are disclosed. A read request with an object identifier for a data object is received. A synchronous group of data storage devices across a plurality of enclosures is identified. The synchronous group is associated with the object identifier. A request is sent to the plurality of enclosures to synchronously activate the data storage devices in the synchronous group. After sending the request, data fragments associated with the object identifier are retrieved from the synchronous group of data storage devices. The data fragments are erasure decoded into a contiguous data range to reconstruct the data object.
US09430316B2
An information handling system (IHS) diagnostic system includes a user IHS that is coupled to a network and operable to generate a log file that is associated with a user IHS error. A distributed processing IHS is coupled to the user IHS through the network and operable to receive the log file generated by the user IHS over the network. That log file is then stored on a plurality of node IHS's in the distributed processing IHS. When a job request is received from the user IHS over the network, a job associated with the job request is performed on the log file using the plurality of node IHS's to create a job result. The job result that includes at least one cause of the user IHS error is then provided to the user IHS.
US09430305B2
A server system includes a PCH, a BMC, a BIOS with a write protect end, and a controlling circuit. The BIOS includes a write protect end. The BMC includes a memory portion storing updated server data. The BIOS is electrically connected to the PCH and is electrically connected to the BMC. The controlling circuit includes a first input end and an output end. The first input end is electrically connected to the PCH. The output end is electrically connected to the write protect end. The controlling circuit is configured so that when an error in the BIOS is detected, the write protect end is opened and the BIOS is updated from the memory portion of the BMC.
US09430295B1
Processing infrastructure metadata information about a virtual resource of a virtual cloud is disclosed. Infrastructure metadata information is collected. The collected metadata information is about a virtual resource of a virtual cloud. A storage of infrastructure metadata information is updated. The updating of the storage of infrastructure metadata information is performed using the collected information.
US09430292B2
An information processing system includes: a plurality of processors configured to cause a virtual machine on each processor to be operated or terminated; a plurality of storage devices; and a control device configured to: collect processing loads of the respective processors, cause a first virtual machine which operates on a first processor in which a frequency of a processing load exceeding a first threshold exceeds a first proportion, to be terminated, cause a second processor which is stopped among the plurality of processors, to be operated, and cause a first storage device which is coupled with the terminated first virtual machine among the plurality of storage devices, to be coupled with the operated second processor.
US09430286B2
A method begins by a distributed storage (DS) processing module transmitting a set of requests to a set of DS units regarding a set of data elements and receiving a set of respective requests from the set of DS units. When the set of respective requests is in accordance with a current distributed task/data responsibility allocation period, the method continues with the DS processing module issuing a set of responses to the set of DS units. The method continues with the DS processing module receiving a set of respective responses from the set of DS units. When the set of received respective responses is in accordance with the current distributed task/data responsibility allocation period, the method continues with the DS processing module processing the set of received respective responses in accordance with the current distributed task/data responsibility allocation period to produce one of a set of results.
US09430284B2
Techniques to process virtual machine objects through multistep workflows in a computer system are described. In an example, a method of processing virtual machine objects through a workflow having a plurality of ordered steps in a computer system includes executing the workflow on computing resources of the computer system using the virtual machine objects as parametric input, where the computing resources: divide the virtual machine objects into workgroups; perform instances of a step of the workflow in parallel on the workgroups as the workgroups complete a prior step in the workflow; and execute an agent to delegate the workgroups to, and receive results from, the instances of the step as the workflow is executed.
US09430272B2
Embodiments are directed to establishing efficient virtual machine reference points and to specifying a virtual machine reference point to query incremental changes. In one scenario, a computer system accesses a stable virtual machine checkpoint that includes portions of underlying data stored in data storage, where the checkpoint is associated with a specific point in time. The computer system then queries the data storage to determine data storage identifiers that reference the point in time associated with the checkpoint and stores the determined data storage identifiers as a virtual machine reference point, where each subsequent change to the data storage results in an update to the data storage identifier, so that virtual machine reference point is usable to identify incremental changes from specific points in time on.
US09430265B1
Method for avoiding Guest I/O timeout, including generating a request to an I/O device in a Guest Operating System (GOS) running inside a VM; setting a VM timeout deadline; in a hypervisor, setting a supervisory timeout deadline for the I/O device to respond that is shorter than the VM timeout deadline; if no response is received before expiration of the supervisory timeout deadline, pausing the GOS; freezing system time of the GOS; activating a handler for the I/O device response in the hypervisor; upon receipt of the response prior to the supervisory timeout deadline, forwarding the response to the GOS, unpausing the GOS, unfreezing the system time of the GOS; upon receipt of the response after the supervisory timeout deadline, and after the GOS is unpaused by the hypervisor, the Guest OS receives the response from the hardware device; and if no response is received, the GOS is kept paused.
US09430259B2
Novel tools and techniques for implementing a virtualization congestion control framework. In one aspect, an orchestrator might be provided within a virtual machine environment context in order to provide two-way communications between the virtual machine (“VM”) and one or more applications running on one or more virtual machines in the VM environment in order to control congestion in hardware resource usage, perhaps using a congestion API. In some embodiments, the two-way communications might include communications from the VM to the applications including maximum hardware resources and current resources, and might further include communications from the applications to the VM including pre-congestion notifications and low-utilization notifications. According to some embodiments, a buffer utilization feedback may be provided between the VM and the applications, said buffer utilization feedback allowing the applications to control pushback mechanisms, said pushback mechanisms including mechanisms for pushing back on or decreasing hardware resource usage.
US09430249B2
A memory access control system includes a plurality of operators, a first memory, and a second memory. The plurality of operators are configured to execute different arithmetic operations. The first memory has a shared region accessible from the plurality of operators. The second memory is configured to cause any one of the plurality of operators to access. One of the operators is configured to access the second memory to load required data and execute a process concurrently with loading data required for a separate other process to cause the first memory to hold the data required for the separate other process.
US09430247B2
A semiconductor device includes a power-up signal generation unit suitable for receiving a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage higher the first power supply voltage and generating a power-up signal when the first and second power supply voltage increase to reach target levels, respectively, a voltage level adjusting unit suitable for generating a third power supply voltage by adjusting a voltage level of the second power supply voltage, a boot-up signal generation unit suitable for generating a boot-up signal in response to the power-up signal, and a circuit operation unit suitable for performing a boot-up operation using the third power supply voltage in response to the boot-up signal.
US09430244B1
A method includes processing a sequence of instructions of program code that are specified using one or more architectural registers, by a hardware-implemented pipeline that renames the architectural registers in the instructions so as to produce operations specified using one or more physical registers. At least first and second segments of the sequence of instructions are selected, wherein the second segment occurs later in the sequence than the first segment. One or more of the architectural registers in the instructions of the second segment are renamed, before completing renaming the architectural registers in the instructions of the first segment, by pre-allocating one or more of the physical registers to one or more of the architectural registers.
US09430239B2
A network processor includes a plurality of processing cores configured to process data packets, and a processing mode mechanism configurable to configure the processing cores between a pipeline processing mode and a parallel processing mode. The processing mode mechanism may include switch elements, or a fabric logic and a bus, configurable to interconnect the processing cores to operate in either the pipeline processing mode or the parallel processing mode.
US09430236B2
Embodiments relate to code stack management. An aspect includes a processor configured to execute a software application. Another aspect includes a code stack memory area and a data stack memory area, the code stack memory area being separate from the data stack memory area. Another aspect includes maintaining a data stack in the data stack memory area, the data stack comprising a plurality of stack frames comprising one or more data variables corresponding to the execution of the software application. Another aspect includes maintaining a code stack in the code stack memory area, the code stack comprising a plurality of code stack entries comprising executable computer code corresponding to the execution of the software application.
US09430235B2
A method and information processing system manage load and store operations that can be executed out-of-order. At least one of a load instruction and a store instruction is executed. A determination is made that an operand store compare hazard has been encountered. An entry within an operand store compare hazard prediction table is created based on the determination. The entry includes at least an instruction address of the instruction that has been executed and a hazard indicating flag associated with the instruction. The hazard indicating flag indicates that the instruction has encountered the operand store compare hazard. When a load instruction is associated with the hazard indicating flag, the load instruction becomes dependent upon all store instructions associated with a substantially similar hazard indicating flag.
US09430223B2
Mechanisms are provided for performing a live update of an operating system. The mechanisms receive an update to an operating system and clone a root volume group associated with an operating system instance executing in a first logical partition of the data processing system to generate a cloned root volume group. The mechanisms apply the update to the cloned root volume group to generate an updated and cloned root volume group and boot a second logical partition of the data processing system using the updated and cloned root volume group. Moreover, the mechanisms mirror the original root volume group associated with an operating system instance executing in a first logical partition and import the mirrored root volume group into the second logical partition. The mechanisms migrate application instances to the second logical partition by restarting the application instances in the second logical partition using the mirrored root volume group.
US09430221B2
A method for updating firmware of a rackmount server system is disclosed herein and is suited to update a firmware of an update-needed chip module by a control chip module. The method includes the following steps of: sending a plurality of packets constituting a renewed firmware to the update-needed chip module by the control chip module; sending a command of verifying the plurality of packets to the update-needed chip module by the control chip module; acquiring a plurality of verification messages, corresponding to the plurality of packets, from the update-needed chip module by the control chip module; and determining whether all of the plurality of verification messages corresponding to the plurality of packets are correct or not by the control chip module, thereby making sure whether the plurality of packets received by the update-needed chip module are incorrect or not.
US09430212B2
In an embodiment, a method comprises using a first server computer, executing a process that is configured to generate virtual computer instances; receiving a request to generate a first custom virtual computer instance, wherein the request identifies one or more software packages to install on the first custom virtual computer instance; copying a first pre-configured volume image onto a volume of a data storage device, wherein the volume includes one or more base software packages in a file system; mounting the volume to the first server computer, in response to receiving the request; installing each of the one or more software packages on the volume; unmounting the volume; creating a snapshot of the volume; registering the snapshot as a registered custom volume image.
US09430209B2
Reference packages may include a self-contained set of implementation tasks, that when executed at a computing system, provide the computing system with a particular functionality. Implementation tasks in a reference package may be compared to an existing configuration of a computing system to determine which of the implementation tasks have already been executed/installed in the computing system and which have not. Implementation tasks that have not been installed may be selected for inclusion in a final target package. Implementation tasks that have been partially installed or installed differently in the existing computing system from the implementation tasks may have secondary tasks added to them in the final target package. Each secondary task may enable a change to the configuration of the existing system to resolve the configuration inconsistency between the existing configuration in the computing system and the configuration specified in a corresponding implementation task.
US09430205B2
An apparatus for controlling an execution of a binary code by multiple threads includes a detection unit configured to detect an occurrence of modification of a first part that is a part of a first binary code by a self-modifying code; a specifying unit configured to specify a second part that is a part corresponding to the first part in a second binary code acquired by converting the first binary code, in response to detection of the occurrence of modification of the first part by the self-modifying code; and a correction unit configured to correct the second part such that a specific thread that executes the second part of the second binary code among the multiple threads causes an exception.
US09430171B2
A management apparatus includes a user information management unit, a device information management unit, and a controller. The user information management unit manages information about groups to which individual users belong, in association with user identification information identifying the users. The device information management unit manages, for one device or each of plural devices, information about a main group to which the device belongs and information about a sub-group for which use of the device is permitted, in association with each other. The controller controls, when accepting a request for using a device from an information terminal, use of the device in accordance with whether or not information about a group managed in association with user identification information of a user who operates the information terminal is included in information about the main group or sub-group managed in association with the device.
US09430170B2
In an image processor, a controller is configured to perform: acquiring target image data representing a target image including a first object and a second object; selecting one of a first printing quality and a second printing quality, printing the target image with the second printing quality consuming more colorant than printing the target image with the first printing quality; setting, in a case where the second printing quality is selected, a first scale factor indicating a ratio of a size of a reduced first object to a first object size and a second scale factor indicating a ratio of a size of a reduced second object and a second object size; generating processed image data representing a processed image including the size-reduced first object and the size-reduced second object; and controlling a print executing unit to print the processed image according to the processed image data.
US09430163B1
A method, and system for implementing enhanced fast full synchronization for remote disk mirroring in a computer system. A source backup copy is made locally available to a target for remote disk mirroring. Sectors are identified that are different between the source and target. A hash function is used over a block to be compared, with an adaptive number of tracking sectors per block, starting with a minimum block size.
US09430161B2
The first storage area stores original data of an update target that is to be updated by a host. The controller divides data to be written over the original data of the update target stored in the first storage area into a plurality of pieces of update data and thereby distributes the plurality of pieces of update data for each of successive addresses. The second storage area stores the plurality of update data distributed by the controller. The third storage area stores information in which an update area address, which is an address of the first storage area to be overwritten by the plurality of pieces of update data of the original data of the update target, is associated with a storage destination address, which is an address of the second storage area that has stored the plurality of pieces of update data.
US09430158B2
An indication of an event is received at a storage controller. The indication of the event corresponds to a first severity. It is determined that the event is associated with a first stream of commands. It is determined whether the indication of the event is the first indication of the event received by the storage controller. If the indication of the event is the first indication of the event received by the storage controller, a maximum allowed count of in-flight commands to be less than a current count of in-flight commands is set. If the indication of the event is not the first indication of the event received by the storage controller, it is determined that the first severity is greater than a second severity corresponding to a previously received indication. If the first severity is greater than the second severity, the maximum allowed count of in-flight commands is decreased.
US09430156B1
In response to a request for stored data, retrieving an index entry, based on an identifier of the requested data, corresponding to an indexed block of storage containing the requested data. The index entry includes a start location of an indexed storage block and sub-block locators that identify the start of one or more sub-blocks within the indexed storage block. The sub-block containing the requested data is determined and the corresponding sub-block locator is read to find the starting location of the sub-block. Without reading the entire indexed storage block, the sub-block may be read from the starting location of the sub-block, decompressed, and the decompressed requested data read from the sub-block may be transmitted to the client. In this way, fewer I/O operations are needed that read the requested data, and memory needed for storing index information is minimized.
US09430155B2
In one embodiment, a method for writing data to a magnetic recording tape includes writing a plurality of files to a first partition of a magnetic recording tape using a tape drive, and writing an index to a second partition of the magnetic recording tape using the tape drive, the index including information about locations of data of the plurality of files in the first partition of the magnetic recording tape.
US09430153B2
A memory heap management facility is provided that is able to perform various management tasks, including, but not limited to, garbage collection, compaction, and/or re-ordering of objects within a heap. One or more of these management tasks improve system performance by limiting movement of pages in and out of virtual memory. The garbage collection technique selectively performs garbage collection such that certain objects, such as old but live, infrequently referenced objects, are not garbage collected each time garbage collection is performed.
US09430150B2
A data storage system includes a data storage controller, a data storage device, and a logic circuit. The logic circuit receives hard drive status information from the data storage controller. The information is communicated by a first status signal and a second status signal. The logic circuit provides a power control signal to the data storage device based on a logic state of the first status signal and a logic state of the second status signal.
US09430138B2
Control apparatus includes an optical subsystem, which is configured to direct first light toward a scene that includes a hand of a user in proximity to a wall of a room and to receive the first light that is reflected from the scene, and to direct second light toward the wall so as to project an image of a control device onto the wall. A processor is configured to control the optical subsystem so as to generate, responsively to the received first light, a depth map of the scene, to process the depth map so as to detect a proximity of the hand to the wall in a location of the projected image, and to control electrical equipment in the room responsively to the proximity.
US09430127B2
Creating a graphical representation of at least one of a chemical structure and a biological structure using a touch screen interface may include identifying connection location(s) of an in-progress structure and connection location(s) of a separate structure element, determine, upon receipt of a gesture input moving the structure element towards the in-progress structure, that a distance between a first connection location of the in-progress structure and a first connection location of the structure element signals an intended connection of the structure element to the in-progress structure at or about the corresponding connection locations, analyze a resultant structure formed by connection of the in-progress structure and the structure element at or about the corresponding connection locations to determine a response, and provide a visible cue, an audible cue, and/or a haptic cue corresponding to the response.
US09430126B2
The present description refers to a technique for receiving a request to create a new business object where the request includes one or more business object attributes, determining a type of business object based on one or more business object attributes, identifying a plurality of fields associated with the type of business object, selecting a subset of the plurality of fields, causing a business object creation interface to be inserted into the application window including the selected subset of fields, receiving, information entered into the one or more fields by a user via the business object creation interface, generating the new business object with the received information, causing the new business object to be added to the list of business objects in the application window, and causing the business object creation interface to be removed from the application window.
US09430124B2
Techniques to facilitate finding a tab or tabs in a user interface window are described. Various embodiments present tabs, individual tabs being associated with an opened document such as a web page or an activity, in a user interface window and automatically group at least some of the tabs together in a visually distinctive way. In at least some embodiments, this grouping is performed in response to a user interacting with the tabs in a particular way. For instance, a user may cause a tab to be created or moved within the user interface window such that the tab is grouped with a tab group or ungrouped from a tab group. Furthermore, one or more embodiments provide for certain tab-related actions, such as selecting an active tab and changing a display of a title of a tab, which can be performed in a manner based at least in part on this grouping.
US09430116B2
A service policy visualization interface is provided that is capable of selection and filtering of policy resources associated with a service managed using service policies. In response to detecting a selection of a policy resource within the service policy visualization interface, the selected policy resource is introspected to identify service policies. The service policies are attached to the selected policy resource within a resource hierarchy associated with the selected policy resource. Based upon results of the introspection of the selected policy resource, an effective applied policy configuration associated with the selected policy resource is created, including correlated and combined effects of the attached service policies. The effective applied policy configuration associated with the selected policy resource, including the correlated and combined effects of the attached service policies, is displayed within the service policy visualization interface.
US09430110B2
A touch detection circuit includes: a touch detection section configured to detect a plurality of touch points made by one or more users, based on positive data in a touch data map that includes the positive data and negative data; and a determination section configured to detect, based on the negative data in the touch data map, a plurality of negative points, and determine, based on the plurality of negative points, touch points made by same user in the plurality of touch points.
US09430103B2
For sensing a control point on a capacitive-type panel, first and second voltage signals are respectively received through two sets of receiving lines selected from N receiving lines in response to first and second charge/discharge signals transmitted through two sets of transmitting lines selected from M transmitting lines, respectively, during a first time period. Third and fourth voltage signals are received through two sets of receiving lines selected from the N receiving lines in response to third and fourth charge/discharge signals respectively transmitted through the two sets of transmitting lines, respectively, during a second time period. A characteristic value is generated according to the first, second, third and fourth voltage signals. Repeat the steps to generate characteristic values for neighboring regions defined by different combinations of transmitting lines and receiving lines. Position information of control point(s) on the capacitive-type panel is estimated accordingly.
US09430096B2
An interactive projector includes: a base placed on a projection surface; a leg configured to raise with tilting from the base towards the projection surface; a projecting unit, mounted on the leg on the side of a projection surface, configured to project first image; a reflector, provided at a free-end portion of the leg, configured to reflect the image projected from the projecting unit towards the projection surface; and an image pickup unit, mounted on the reflector, configured to photograph the projection surface and output second image to an electronic device that outputs, to the projecting unit, the first image that is generated based on the second image.
US09430093B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for monitoring interactions by an input object with an interactive interface projected onto an interface object. That is, an input object (e.g., a finger) and an interface object (e.g., a wall, a hand, a notepad, etc.) may be identified and tracked in real-time using depth data (e.g., depth data extracted from images captured by a depth camera). An interactive interface (e.g., a calculator, an email program, a keyboard, etc.) may be projected onto the interface object, such that the input object may be used to interact with the interactive interface. For example, the input object may be tracked to determine whether the input object is touching or hovering above the interface object and/or a projected portion of the interactive interface. If the input object is in a touch state, then a corresponding event associated with the interactive interface may be invoked.
US09430091B2
A method of detecting power of an active touch medium is disclosed in the present invention. The method includes capturing an image with an optical signal generated from the active touch medium, reading a first threshold value, comparing an intensity of the optical signal and the first threshold value, and executing a low power mode when the intensity of the optical signal is smaller than the first threshold value.
US09430086B2
A display panel includes: display elements; a plurality of drive electrodes; one or more touch detecting electrodes that form a capacitor along with the corresponding drive electrode; a main driver unit that generates a basic drive signal including a pulse part supplied to the drive electrodes; and a first auxiliary driver unit that includes a capacitive element and that exchanges electric charges between the capacitive element and the drive electrodes in synchronization with the pulse part.
US09430080B2
The present invention relates to a touch positioning method, a touch screen, a touch system and a display. The touch positioning method comprises: processing image collected by the first camera to obtain first image data, and processing image collected by the second camera to obtain second image data, wherein the first image data comprise one touch image block, and the second image data comprise at least two touch image blocks; processing the second image data to obtain third image data, the third image data comprising image blocks of two suspected touch objects; obtaining a distance between the two suspected touch objects according to the first image data and the third image data; and obtaining location information of an actual touch object according to the first image data, the third image data and the distance between the two suspected touch objects. The invention may eliminate misjudgment caused by “crack dot” (FIG. 5).
US09430071B2
The present invention has a main purpose of providing a resin composition capable of forming a resin film excellent in hardness and heat resistance. To achieve the purpose described above, the present invention provides a resin composition, comprising: a developable polysiloxane containing a developable group and substantially no radically polymerizable group; a polymerizable polysiloxane containing a radically polymerizable group and substantially no developable group; and a polyfunctional monomer.
US09430070B2
A display device, method, computer-readable storage medium and user interface, each of which detects contact to or proximity of an object with respect to a generated image, and responsive to detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, disables any operational functions associated with a first portion of the generated image. Additionally, operation associated with a second portion of the generated image is allowed responsive to the detection of contact to or proximity of the object to the generated image, where the second portion of the generated image is different from the first portion of the generated image. An indication corresponding to the second portion of the generated image for which operation is enabled may be displayed on the generated image.
US09430069B2
A touch scanning method includes, in the absence of a touch, performing a coarse scanning on the touch screen, and in the presence of a touch, performing a fine scanning on a full detection-activated region containing a touch point while performing the coarse scanning on the remaining region other than the full detection-activated region. During coarse scanning, in first M frames of M+N successive frames, drive lines spaced apart from one another by at least one of the drive lines are driven, and sense lines spaced apart from one another by at least one of the sense lines are detected. In the succeeding N frames of the M+N frames, there is no activity in the drive and sense lines. During the fine scanning, each drive line and each sense line within the full detection-activated region is driven and detected, respectively.
US09430068B2
A touch screen, includes a substrate, a first embossing adhesive layer, a first metal conductive layer, a first electrode lead, a transparent insulating film, a second embossing adhesive layer, a second metal conductive layer and a second electrode lead, and has low material cost since the conductive layers are made of metal materials; a first slot is provided in the transparent insulating film, a second slot is provided in the second embossing adhesive layer, the first slot and the second slot directly face a free end of the first electrode lead, and a free end of the second electrode lead is positioned around the second slot, thus the free ends of the first and second electrode leads are exposed to the same side of the substrate and electrically connected with a circuit board, thus simplifying adhering process and structural design of the circuit board, and reducing manufacturing cost.
US09430066B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for input classification for multi-touch systems. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data describing a first region of contact with a touch sensitive display, a second region of contact with the touch sensitive display, and a third region of contact with the touch sensitive display, the second region of contact being separate from the first region of contact and the third region of contact being separate from the first region of contact and the second region of contact. The method includes classifying the first region of contact as a touch point provided by a user's body part. The method includes classifying the second region of contact as incidental touch input provided by a user's resting body part. The method includes classifying the third region of contact as a stylus input.
US09430060B2
A stylus capable of detecting pressure on its tip is disclosed in the present disclosure. The stylus includes a holder, a tip and a pressure sensing module. The pressure sensing module can detect the pressure on the tip. The pressure sensing module includes a retractable body disposed inside the holder and connected to the tip. The retractable body includes a base, a reference component disposed on an end of the base and fixed inside the holder, and a movable component disposed on the other end of the base and connected to the tip. The movable component can move relative to the reference component with the tip. The pressure sensing module further includes a sensor disposed by the retractable body for detecting a movement of the movable component relative to the reference component, so that value of the movement can be analyzed for calculating value of the pressure.
US09430057B2
An electronic device including a display of a main surface area and a curved surface area extended from the main surface area, and a controller configured to: control the display to present a preview image on the main surface area and a user interface (UI) on the curved surface area, the UI comprising a UI element for photographing an image, control the display to present the UI element at a first location in the curved surface area while the electronic device is in a landscape state, and control the display to present the UI element at a second location in the curved surface area while the electronic device is in a portrait state.
US09430054B1
Systems and methods for registering key inputs are provided. A system includes an input module configured to detect a first key input by a user at a point on a layout of primary keys. The system includes a correction module configured to determine whether the first key input is associated with a single one of the primary keys or a plurality of the primary keys. The input module is configured to detect a second key input if the first key input is determined to be associated with the plurality of the primary keys. The second key input includes a swipe gesture by the user from the point at which the first key input is detected on the layout towards a particular one of the plurality of the primary keys. The system includes a selection module configured to register the first or second key input as an actual key input.
US09430052B2
A method for controlling a function of an electronic device by using an electronic pen and the electronic device are provided. The method of controlling the function of the electronic device includes determining a motion of an electronic pen inserted into the electronic device and confirming an operation corresponding to the determined motion of the electronic pen to perform the operation.
US09430045B2
An embodiment provides a method, including: receiving at a sensor of an information handling device image input; determining, using one or more processors, a predetermined gesture within the image input; capturing additional gesture input associated with the predetermined gesture; and processing an image rendered on a display device according to the additional gesture input associated with the predetermined gesture. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09430042B2
Systems and methods for virtual detents through vibrotactile feedback are described. One described method includes receiving an input signal comprising information associated with the manipulation of an input device and generating a signal configured to cause an actuator to provide a vibrotactile effect to the input device, the vibrotactile effect comprising a virtual detent.
US09430036B1
Examples of methods, systems, apparatus, and machine-readable storage media are provided to facilitate access and control of a remote desktop of a remote machine by a web browser at a client device through a web server without installing proprietary plug-ins or protocols on the client device. A web server may translate user input requests from a windows web browser into input calls compatible with a remote desktop display protocol. The web server may receive remote desktop drawing commands from the remote machine and translate the remote desktop drawing commands into web browser drawing updates compatible with the windows web browser. A web server may communicate with the windows web browser via HTTP and communicate with a remote machine via a remote desktop display protocol.
US09430030B2
The present invention provides a status switching method applied to a slave device. The status switching method includes: receiving a command wrapper from a host device; receiving a status query command corresponding to the command wrapper from the host device; transmitting a status wrapper to the host device in response to the status query command; and refusing to enter a low-power status corresponding to a switch status request when the switch status request is received during a specific period, wherein the specific period starts when the command wrapper is received and ends when the status wrapper is transmitted.
US09430029B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for offloading services and functionalities from a main host central processing unit (CPU) of a computing device to a dedicated power-efficient offload engine, thereby enabling a longer battery life for the device and an enhanced set of features.
US09430021B2
A battery management system/method implementing optimal dynamic battery charge/discharge cycling is disclosed. The system utilizes a power source control unit (PSCU) to selectively switch a power supply source to a battery charger that charges a battery servicing a portable computing device. The PSCU is controlled by a power monitor control unit (PMCU) that monitors the battery state and determines the optimal charge/discharge profile for the battery. Depending on the type and current condition of the battery as well as battery charge/discharge history, the PMCU monitors the historical, current, and/or anticipated demand activity of the battery to determine an optimal charge/discharge profile for the battery to enable maximum battery life under a wide variety of environmental and use profiles. Present invention methods control battery charge/discharge activity based on computing device historical/anticipated use characteristics, battery chemistry, and/or optimal battery lifecycle operation.
US09430015B2
A multiple-core processor system includes a memory unit storing the number of time intervals within a time bin, a time interval being a time interval between two consecutive operations; and a processor configured to: update the number of time intervals, specify a time stretch during which the number of time intervals stays above a threshold, and set, based on the number of time intervals, a power supply mode in which the multiple-core processor is supplied with power.
US09430010B2
A server rack includes a rack space having a plurality of rack units for receiving equipment, a power mapping module, and a plurality of power receptacles. Each power receptacle is coupled to the power mapping module to provide an indication to the power mapping module when equipment is plugged in to the power receptacles, uniquely associated with one of the plurality of rack units, and collocated with the associated rack unit. The power mapping module is operable to determine which rack unit of the plurality of rack units that first equipment is installed into, based upon a first power receptacle of the first equipment being coupled to a first power receptacle of the plurality of power receptacles.
US09430008B2
A method includes detecting removal or depletion of a power supply associated with a powered device. The powered device is configured to receive power from a power adapter via a narrow-voltage direct current/direct current (NVDC) charger and from the power supply. The method also includes, in response to the detection, disabling a dynamic power management function of the NVDC charger. The method further includes monitoring input current or input power provided to the powered device by the NVDC charger and determining if the input current or input power exceeds a threshold. In addition, the method includes, if the input current or input power exceeds the threshold, triggering a throttling of an operating clock frequency of the powered device. The method could also include (i) disabling a specified mode of operation and turning on a voltage regulator of the NVDC charger in response to the detection and (ii) providing over-voltage protection.
US09430006B1
The computing device includes an enclosure including a first structure, a second structure aligned parallel to the first structure and a third structure disposed between the first structure and the second structure, the third structure including a thermally non-conductive material, a heat generating element in contact with the third structure, and a flexible sheet in contact with the heat generating element and the second structure, the flexible sheet configured to conduct heat generated by the heat generating element away from the first structure and to a surface of the second structure.
US09430002B2
A mounting structure for mounting a module and an electronic device having the structure are provided. The electronic device includes at least one module, a bracket having an opening configured to contain the at least one module, a support rib extended upwardly along a boundary of the opening to support an outer circumferential surface of the at least one module, and two stopper protrusions formed on the outer circumferential surface of the at least one module in a protrusion manner to support the at least one module being restrained by the bracket and prevent the at least one module from completely passing through the opening, wherein a lower portion of the at least one module is partially inserted into the opening of the bracket.
US09430000B2
An information handling system converts from a closed position to a tablet position by rotating a lid with a display 360 degrees about a hinge having synchronized and continuous motion. The hinge has first and second axles held in a spaced and substantially parallel orientation by a support. A flexible compressive member translates motion of each axle to the other to provide fluid movement of the lid relative to the housing. For instance, ball bearings disposed in guide formed in the support translate rotational motion between a first and second axles.
US09429997B2
An electronic device may have a hollow display cover structure. The hollow display cover structure may be formed from a structure having an inner surface. The structure may be an elongated member having a longitudinal axis. A material such as sapphire, other crystalline materials, or other transparent materials may be used in forming the hollow display cover structure. A flexible display layer such as an organic light-emitting diode display layer or other flexible display structure may be wrapped around the longitudinal axis to cover the interior surface of the hollow display cover structure. The electronic device may have a touch sensor, accelerometer, gyroscope, and other sensors for gathering input such as user input. The electronic device may use one or more sensors to gather information on rotational motion of the device and can display content on the flexible display layer accordingly.
US09429986B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a first body, a second body connected with the first body, and a connecting member. The connecting member is hinged with the first body via a first hinge shaft and is hinged with the second body via a second hinge shaft, such as to enable the first body and the second body to be switched between an open state and a closed state. The electronic device is configured in such a manner that, in the closed state, a second housing of the first body snuggles against a first housing of the second body, and in the open state, a lower rim of the first body is located at a front portion of the second body; and the lower rim of the first body keeps abutting against the upper surface of the second body while the state of relative position is switched.
US09429973B2
A system and method for controlling performance and/or power based on monitored performance characteristics. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise an integrated circuit comprising a first circuit module that receives electrical power. A second circuit module may monitor one or more performance characteristics of the first circuit module and/or the integrated circuit. A third circuit module may, for example, determine power control information based at least in part on the monitored performance characteristic(s). The power control information may be communicated to power supply circuitry to control various characteristics of the electrical power. Various aspects of the present invention may also comprise an integrated circuit comprising a first module that monitors at least one performance characteristic of a first electrical device. The integrated circuit may also comprise modules that determine power control information based on the monitored performance characteristic(s) and communicate such power control information to power supply circuitry.
US09429972B2
A low dropout regulator comprises an output transistor with a controlled section between a first supply terminal and an output terminal, and a differential amplifier comprising a feedback input coupled to the output terminal, a reference input receiving a reference voltage, an output connected to a control terminal of the output transistor, and a pair of input transistors connected to a tail current source. A control terminal of a first transistor is connected to the reference input. A control terminal of a second transistor is connected to the feedback input. A first capacitive element is coupled between the output terminal and common connection of the input transistors of one pair with their tail current source. A second capacitive element is coupled between a second supply terminal and the common connection of the input transistors of one pair with their tail current source.
US09429971B2
Circuits and methods for providing short-circuit protection in a voltage regulator are disclosed. A voltage regulator includes a pass switch, a voltage error amplifier, a driver circuit, and a short-circuit protection circuit. The pass element is coupled to a power supply and a load, and generates an output voltage in response to a drive signal. The voltage error amplifier generates an error voltage based on a difference of a reference voltage and the output voltage and the driver circuit generates the drive signal in response to the error voltage. The short-circuit protection circuit senses the drive signal and provides a high-resistance path to the driver circuit in a short-circuit event. In a short-circuit event, the high-resistance path clamps current in the driver circuit thereby clamping a voltage difference between the first and third terminals and thereby limiting a load current in the short-circuit event.
US09429970B2
A power supply system has a current source configured to provide an output current, a load supplied by the current source, and a current ripple suppression circuit. The current ripple suppression circuit has a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the current ripple suppression circuit is coupled to the load, and the second end of the current ripple suppression circuit is coupled to a reference ground; wherein the current ripple suppression circuit is configured to suppress the current ripple in the output current and adaptively adjust the output current of the current source at a predetermined current level.
US09429969B2
Embodiments of signal bias generators and regulators are described generally herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09429964B2
A voltage regulator includes a programming interface via which programming instructions may be applied to a processor of the voltage regulator. The voltage regulator operates the processor according to the programming instructions to select one of multiple active internally-generated analog voltage levels to determine an output voltage level of the voltage regulator.
US09429963B2
A power supply device includes: a comparator that compares an error voltage and a slope voltage to generate a comparison signal; a PWM pulse generation portion that generates a PWM pulse based on a clock signal and the comparison signal; an on-time fixed pulse generation portion that uses the comparison signal as a trigger to generate an on-time fixed pulse where an on-time and an on-time number are constant; a selector that selects any one of the PWM pulse and the on-time fixed pulse; and a selector control portion that generates a selector control signal such that any one of the PWM pulse and the on-time fixed pulse is selected according to whether or not the comparison signal is kept at the same logic level over a predetermined mask period.
US09429957B2
A fuel tank assembly is fillable by a fuel pump. The fuel pump is configured such that the existence of a predetermined condition causes the pump to stop delivering fuel. The fuel tank assembly includes a tank defining a chamber, a fill tube, and a fuel pump shut-off system. The fill tube defines an opening configured to receive a nozzle of the pump, and a passageway that provides fluid communication between the opening and the chamber to transfer liquid fuel from the nozzle to the chamber. The fuel pump shut-off system is configured to selectively generate the predetermined condition, and is configured such that whether the predetermined condition exists depends on the total volume of liquid fuel in the chamber and the chemical composition of the liquid fuel in the chamber.
US09429956B1
A modular check valve system for providing back pressure to a fluid flow having a housing with a seating end, a receiving end, a housing annulus, and a housing sealing surface. The modular check valve system can also have at least one cartridge insert fluidly connected to the housing. The cartridge insert can have a poppet engaging a cartridge housing sealing surface, a pair of O-rings positioned on the cartridge housing, and a rod secured to the poppet. The rod is configured to move the poppet from a sealed position to an open position. A spring guide with spring is disposed around the rod. A compression adjustment device is connected to the first rod opposite the spring guide to apply force to the rod sealing the poppet against the cartridge housing sealing surface and creating fluid back pressure in the housing annulus when the spring is decompressed.
US09429955B2
An apparatus controller for prompting a rider to be positioned on a vehicle in such a manner as to reduce lateral instability due to lateral acceleration of the vehicle. The apparatus has an input for receiving specification from the rider of a desired direction of travel, and indicating means for reflecting to the rider a propitious instantaneous body orientation to enhance stability in the face of lateral acceleration. The indicating may include a handlebar that is pivotable with respect to the vehicle and that is driven in response to vehicle turning.
US09429935B2
Methods of fabricating shims for joining parts are disclosed. An example method of fabricating shims for joining parts, wherein the parts having mating surfaces separated by a gap, includes: generating first digital data representing a first surface profile of a first part; generating second digital data representing a second surface profile of a second part to mate with the first part; determining distances between the first and second parts, as assembled, at multiple locations; generating a digital volume that closely matches a gap between the first and second parts based on the determined distances; generating a three dimensional digital representation of a shim to fill the gap using the first and second digital data; and automatically fabricating the shim matching the gap using a computer-controlled machine, the machine being controlled using the three dimensional digital representation of the shim.
US09429926B2
An automation and motion control system for the entertainment industry is used to dynamically respond to random or unknown inputs as well as known inputs and to coordinate the movement and operation of the objects, such as theatrical props, cameras, stunt persons, lighting, scenery, drapery, kinetic art sculptures, moving displays or other similar types of devices or items, on a large scale.
US09429915B2
The electronic module (1) includes a quartz or MEMS resonator (3), which is confined within a resonator case (5), which is provided with electrical contact pads (15) over at least one external surface for the electrical connection of the resonator. A printed circuit board (6) is also provided for carrying the resonator case (5) and it includes electrical connection terminals (18) for connection to the electrical connection pads (15) of the resonator case. The resonator case (5) is fixedly held inside a case structure (6, 9) of the electronic module (1), via at least one mechanical shock damping element (7). The damping element 7) may be an elastomer element, which includes metal wires (17) for the electrical connection of the resonator case (5) across the printed circuit board (6).
US09429907B2
An image forming apparatus may include: a process cartridge, an apparatus body and a spacing member. The process cartridge may be detachably mountable to the apparatus body and include a photosensitive unit having a photosensitive member, a developing unit having a developing roller, and a driving input part into which a driving force from the apparatus body is configured to be inputted. The apparatus body may include a driving input member which is configured to input the driving force. Additionally or alternatively, the spacing member may be attached to the process cartridge and configured to space the photosensitive member and the developing roller. The spacing member may include a first cover part which is located between the driving input part and the driving input member and covers at least a portion of the driving input part.
US09429905B2
A cartridge mountable in an image forming apparatus includes a first unit that stores developer and a second unit that accommodates the first unit. The first unit includes a first detected part configured to be displaced irreversibly from a first-unit new-product position to a first-unit used position upon receipt of a driving force from the image forming apparatus, the first detected part contacting a detector provided in the image forming apparatus while being displaced from the first-unit new-product position to the first-unit used position to be detected by the detector. The second unit includes a second detected part configured to be displaced irreversibly from a second-unit new-product position to a second-unit used position upon receipt of a driving force from the image forming apparatus, the second detected part contacting the detector while being displaced from the second-unit new-product position to the second-unit used position to be detected by the detector.
US09429902B2
Provided is a developing cartridge including a photosensitive unit and a developing unit connected to each other to rotate to a developing location and a non-developing location. An elastic member applies an elastic force to the developing unit and the photosensitive unit in a direction of rotating to the developing location. The developing cartridge includes a nip separating portion switched to a nip forming location where the developing unit is located at the developing location and to a nip separating location where the developing unit is located at the non-developing location, a manipulation portion for switching the nip separating portion to the nip forming location and to the nip separating location by a manual manipulation, and a nip forming unit for switching the nip separating portion from the nip separating location to the nip forming location as the photosensitive unit and the developing unit start to operate.
US09429890B2
There is provided a fixing device for fixing a toner image formed on a surface of a recording medium by toner, wherein the toner includes a releasing agent and satisfies Ta
US09429882B2
Damage caused to a transfer medium due to heat when partially using transfer material regions is suppressed. An image forming apparatus (1) includes a transporting unit (4A, 4B) which transports a belt-like transfer medium (4) on which transfer material regions (Y, M, C, OP) of a first size respectively corresponding to transfer materials are arranged in a predetermined order in a repeated manner along a longitudinal direction thereof, and an image forming unit (3) which transfers the transfer materials in sequence by heating the respective transfer material regions and thereby forms on a recording medium an image with the first size or an image with a second size which is not larger than one half the first size. When forming an image with the second size, the image forming unit either uses unused portions of transfer material regions that have already been used to form an image with the second size or uses new transfer material regions on the transfer medium. When forming the image with the second size by using the new transfer material regions, the image forming unit performs the image formation at a slower speed than when forming an image with the first size.
US09429870B2
An apparatus includes a housing having a reservoir for storing consumable material and an outlet for exiting the consumable material from the reservoir; a rotatable shaft disposed inside the reservoir and positioned along a length of the housing; and one or more magnetic members disposed within the housing and coupled to the shaft so as to rotate therewith. The one or more magnetic members generate a magnetic field and when rotating indicate information about the replaceable unit. The information is based upon the presence or absence of the one or more magnetic members relative to one or more predetermined locations for receiving a magnetic member within the housing.
US09429869B1
In a developing device, a sheet member is provided via a gap at a second specific position in a specific region between a position on a downstream side in a first rotation direction relative to a first specific position, and a high-magnetic-force position at which an intensity of a magnetic force is the highest in a second region, on the outer circumferential surface of a developer carrying body. The sheet member limits a layer thickness of a two-component developer carried on the developer carrying body rotating in a second rotation direction. The sheet member is able to elastically deform in accordance with application of a pressing force equal to or greater than a tolerable value in the first rotation direction or the second rotation direction.
US09429863B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a liquid developing agent for electrophotography or electrostatic recording obtained by utilizing the coacervation method, wherein such liquid developing agent has good abrasion resistance. To this end, a liquid developing agent is provided which is obtained by utilizing the coacervation method, comprising insulating liquid in which colored resin particles formed by at least pigment, pigment dispersant, acid-group-containing resin, binder resin, and resin whose glass transition temperature is −120 to −60° C. are dispersed, wherein the resin whose glass transition temperature is −120 to −60° C. is contained in the colored resin particle by 1.0 to 5.0 percent by mass.
US09429856B1
An overlay target for a semiconductor device is disclosed. The overlay measurement target includes a first ring target located on a first measured layer of the semiconductor device. The first ring target includes a plurality of detectable features arranged in a circular manner having a first circumference. The overlay measurement target also includes a second ring target located on a second measured layer of the semiconductor device. The second ring target includes a plurality of detectable features arranged in a circular manner having a second circumference different from the first circumference. The displacement between a detected center of the first ring target and a detected center of the second ring target indicates an overlay error between the first measured layer and the second measured layer.
US09429853B2
A lithographic apparatus, including a movable table, a projection system configured to project a patterned radiation beam onto a substrate, and a liquid supply system configured to provide liquid to a space between a final element of the projection system and the table, the liquid supply system including an inlet configured to provide liquid to the space, the inlet including an array of inlet orifices located below a bottom surface of the final element and configured to provide an essentially horizontal flow of liquid therefrom, the array of inlet orifices extending along a side of an exposure field of the patterned radiation beam, and an extractor configured to remove liquid from the space, the extractor including a two dimensional array of outlet orifices, extending at least partly in a horizontal direction, through which the liquid can be extracted from the space.
US09429849B2
According to one embodiment, a parameter for laser irradiation is adjusted in correspondence with thickness distribution of a substrate of a pattern transferring plate in which a pattern is formed on the substrate to form an altered portion within the substrate.
US09429844B2
Organic coating composition are provided including antireflective coating compositions that can reduce reflection of exposing radiation from a substrate back into an overcoated photoresist layer and/or function as a planarizing or via-fill layer. Preferred organic coating compositions of the invention comprise one or more resins that can harden upon thermal treatment without generation of a cleavage product. Particularly preferred organic coating compositions of the invention comprise one or more components that comprise anhydride and hydroxy moieties.
US09429842B2
Disclosed are a positive photosensitive resin composition including (A) an alkali soluble resin, (B) a photosensitive diazoquinone compound, (C) a thermosetting cross-linking agent represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, wherein each substituent of Chemical Formula 1 is the same as defined in the detailed description, and (D) a solvent, a photosensitive resin film using the same, and a display device.
US09429840B2
A pattern forming method includes: (i) a step of forming a first film by using an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition (I), (ii) a step of exposing the first film, (iii) a step of developing the exposed first film by using an organic solvent-containing developer to form a negative pattern, (iv) a step of forming a second film on the negative pattern by using a specific composition (II), (v) a step of increasing polarity of the specific compound present in the second film, and (vi) a step of removing a specific area of the second film by using the organic solvent-containing remover.
US09429837B2
An aqueous curable imprintable medium having at least one curable compound according to Formula 1: wherein R1-R3 are hydrolysable alkoxy groups, and wherein R4 is selected from the group consisting of C1-C6 linear alkyl groups, hydrolysable alkoxy groups and a phenyl group; and a photo-acid generator or a photo-base generator. Such a medium may have an extended shelf-life and may facilitate the formation of highly reproducible patterned layers when used in an imprint lithography process.
US09429830B2
A fluorescent light emitting element includes a substrate; a phosphor layer that is provided on the substrate; an adhesive layer that is provided between the substrate and the phosphor layer; and a reflection unit that is provided between the adhesive layer and the substrate or between the adhesive layer and the phosphor layer. The phosphor layer is formed of a sintered body made of a cerium-activated garnet structure phosphor containing 0.05 atm % cerium, and a thickness of the phosphor layer is in a range of 100 μm to 250 μm.
US09429826B2
A front projection display device is provided including an image-generating source configured to generate an image, a wide angle lens system adapted to receive the image, and a screen. The wide angle lens system may be configured to increase distortion of the image in a first stage and decrease distortion of the image in a second stage. The screen may be configured to receive the image from the wide angle lens system on a first side and reflect the image back to a viewer on the first side. In another embodiment, a screen is provided for a front projection system, the screen may be configured to receive light from a steep angle and may include any number of surface topographies configured to reflect light back to the viewer along a desired viewing plane.
US09429820B2
A mounting apparatus for a camera apparatus is provided to be mounted on a mounting surface of a construction to support the camera apparatus. The mounting apparatus includes a first frame, a second frame, an interconnecting member that interconnects the first frame and the second frame, a mounting member that is arranged between the first frame and the second frame, wherein the camera apparatus can be mounted on the mounting member, and a moving unit, configured to move the mounting member between the first frame and the second frame. The mounting member is fixable at an arbitrary position by the moving unit.
US09429819B2
A camera that has an optical unit includes: a base plate; a plurality of openings which is provided on the base plate and each of which has a substantially rectangular opening shape having long sides and short sides; and a plurality of optical components each of which covers any of the plurality of openings. The plurality of openings is disposed to be cyclically placed in one optical path through rotation of the base plate, and is disposed such that a part of a long side of each opening thereof faces a part of a short side of another opening thereof adjacent thereto.
US09429812B2
An optical device includes an optical reflector based on a coupled-loopback optical waveguide. In particular, an input port, an output port and an optical loop in arms of the optical reflector are optically coupled to a directional coupler. The directional coupler evanescently couples an optical signal between the arms. For example, the directional coupler may include: a multimode interference coupler and/or a Mach-Zehnder Interferometer (MZI). Moreover, destructive interference during the evanescent coupling determines the reflection and transmission power coefficients of the optical reflector.
US09429808B2
An electrochromic device including a substrate, an electrolyte placed between a first optically-active electrochromic electrode and a second optically-passive electrochromic electrode, and a quantity X of cations. The first electrode is capable of storing a quantity of cations equal to Y while the second electrode is capable of storing a quantity of cations equal to Z. The first electrode and the second electrode are respectively associated with a first current collector and with a second current collector. The device includes a quantity of cations X such that Y
US09429807B2
A means of forming unevenness for preventing specular reflection of a pixel electrode, without increasing the number of process steps, is provided. In a method of manufacturing a reflecting type liquid crystal display device, the formation of unevenness (having a radius of curvature r in a convex portion) in the surface of a pixel electrode is performed by the same photomask as that used for forming a channel etch type TFT, in which the convex portion is formed in order to provide unevenness to the surface of the pixel electrode and give light scattering characteristics.
US09429799B2
Variable liquid crystal devices for controlling the propagation of light through a liquid crystal layer use a frequency dependent material to dynamically reconfigure effective electrode structures in the device. The frequency of a drive signal that generates an electric field in the device can be varied, and the frequency dependent material has different charge mobilities for the different frequencies. At a low charge mobility, the frequency dependent material has little effect on the existing electrode structures. However, at a high charge mobility, the frequency dependent material appears as an extension of the fixed electrodes, and can be used to change the effective electrode structure and, thereby, the spatial profile of the electric field. This, in turn, changes the optical properties of the liquid crystal, thus allowing the optical device to be frequency controllable.
US09429797B2
A liquid crystal panel includes multiple pixel units, each pixel unit including a first pixel region and a second pixel region. Besides, the liquid crystal panel comprises a thin-film-transistor (TFT) substrate, a color filter substrate disposed oppositely to the TFT substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the TFT substrate and the color filter substrate; multiple pixel electrodes disposed on the TFT substrate; a common electrode disposed on the color filter substrate; a first insulation layer disposed on the color filter substrate, located in the first pixel region and located between the color filter substrate and the common electrode; and a second insulation layer disposed on the color filter substrate, located in the second pixel region and located above the color filter substrate and the common electrode. The present invention also discloses a liquid crystal display having the above liquid crystal panel.
US09429785B2
An in-cell touch type liquid crystal display device includes a touch line and a dummy touch line along a direction between neighboring pixel electrodes on a first passivation layer; a second passivation layer on the touch line and the dummy touch line; and common electrodes separated from one another in respective touch blocks, and each including first openings corresponding to each pixel region and a second opening corresponding to the touch line, wherein a connection pattern extending over a gate line from a side of the touch line at an inner region of the touch block is connected to a common electrode through a touch contact hole, and wherein an open portion is between the touch line and the dummy touch line.
US09429777B2
An electro-optic modulator for a laser beam includes an yttrium vanadate crystal cooperative with a double-pass electro-optic switch. A beam to be modulated passes through the yttrium vanadate crystal and makes a forward and a reverse pass through the electro-optic switch. The electro-optic switch returns the beam to the vanadate crystal selectively in one of two polarization orientations at 90 degrees to each other. Depending on the polarization orientation, the returned beam is transmitted by the crystal along a corresponding one of two about-parallel paths spaced apart from each other.
US09429770B2
There is provided a progressive addition lens capable of improving both of astigmatism and power error on a peripheral part of a distance area, including a distance area used for a distance vision, and other area different from the distance area, wherein at least one of an eyeball side surface of a wearer and an object side surface in the progressive addition lens is formed into an aspheric form, and when a prescription value T to be obtained from formula “S+C/2” expressed by a prescribed spherical power S and a cylindrical power C, is minus, the area where a power deviation ΔD of a spherical equivalent power D from the prescription value T goes negative, exists on principal sight line in the distance area.
US09429768B2
An optical processor is presented for applying optical processing to a light field passing through a predetermined imaging lens unit. The optical processor comprises a pattern in the form of spaced apart regions of different optical properties. The pattern is configured to define a phase coder, and a dispersion profile coder. The phase coder affects profiles of Through Focus Modulation Transfer Function (TFMTF) for different wavelength components of the light field in accordance with a predetermined profile of an extended depth of focusing to be obtained by the imaging lens unit. The dispersion profile coder is configured in accordance with the imaging lens unit and the predetermined profile of the extended depth of focusing to provide a predetermined overlapping between said TFMTF profiles within said predetermined profile of the extended depth of focusing.
US09429766B2
The present invention provides a 3D display method, which comprises: obtaining an interference value of a display unit displaying at least one pair of images with parallax; adjusting the display unit based on the interference value; and the adjusted display unit displaying the at least one pair of images with parallax. The present invention also provides a 3D display device. Through the technical solution of the present invention, the crosstalk phenomenon during the 3D display process can be relieved to optimize the 3D display result.
US09429757B1
A system for producing a display image on a transparent, semi-transparent or translucent surface, without the need for an integral light source. The system includes a reflective surface that utilizes external light to project the display image in a selectable direction. A light collecting element collects and directs ambient light to the reflective surface. A display processor creates the display image and transmits the image onto an optical device. The optical device that has a reflective polarizer accepts the projected display image. The optical device selectively reflects light of the projected display image, and while controlling the optical properties of the light from second direction it combines the projected display image with the light from the second direction.
US09429744B2
A system and method are disclosed for correcting the color of microscope images for different illuminants. The system includes a microscope having at least one image setting value selector with a plurality of pre-set positions, and an optical train having a distal end and a proximal end and being configured to convey illumination. The optical train is further configured to allow introduction of a calibration slide into the optical train of the microscope at a plurality of possible positions, each position being a conjugate plane of the sample plane, when the sample is in focus. The calibration slide incorporates an integral transmission filter array of known transmission values.
US09429738B2
Provided is a zoom lens having, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power; a second lens group (G2) having negative refractive power; and a third lens group (G3) having positive refractive power. The first lens group (G1) and the third lens group (G3) respectively move toward the object upon zooming from the wide-angle end state to the telephoto end state. The first lens group (G1) includes a diffraction optical element (DOE) in which two optical elements, constituted by optical materials of which refractive index difference at the d-line is 0.45 or less, are cemented and a diffraction optical surface (corresponding to the optical surface with the radius of curvature R8 in FIG. 1) on which diffraction grating grooves are formed, exists on the interface of the two optical elements. The zoom lens satisfies the following conditional expressions: 0.05<φ1/ft<1.00, and 3.0<φd/y<10.0, where φ1 denotes an effective diameter of a surface closest to the object in the first lens group (G1), ft denotes a focal length of the zoom lens (ZL) in the telephoto end state, φd denotes an effective diameter of the diffraction optical surface, and y denotes a maximum image height of the zoom lens (ZL).
US09429727B2
An optical subassembly includes: a TSV submount layer carrying an active optical component and a sandwich cap bonded to the TSV submount layer. The sandwich cap includes a bottom spacer layer disposed above the TSV submount layer, a glass layer above the bottom spacer layer, and an upper spacer layer above the glass layer. A cavity is defined in the bottom spacer layer and configured for accommodating the active optical component. At least one first lens is formed on the glass layer and is opposite to the active optical component. An alignment feature is formed in the upper spacer layer.
US09429726B2
An optical module includes a circuit board, a photoelectric conversion element mounted on the circuit board, an optical connector for optically connecting the photoelectric conversion element and an optical fiber, a semiconductor circuit element mounted on the circuit board and electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion element, a pressing member for pressing and fixing the optical connector to the circuit board, and a supporting member for supporting the pressing member. The supporting member includes a heat-absorbing surface and a heat-dissipating surface. The heat-absorbing surface is thermally connected to the semiconductor circuit element. The heat-dissipating surface dissipates heat of the semiconductor circuit element to be absorbed through the heat-absorbing surface.
US09429724B2
A function-specific network interface module is provided which includes a housing and a connection interface at opposing ends of the housing configured to connect to another function-specific network interface module in a cascaded manner. The function-specific network interface module further includes one or more circuit components operable to provide a dedicated network function so that a plurality of different network functions is provided when the function-specific network interface module is connected to the other function-specific network interface module via the connection interface.
US09429702B2
A backlight module including a light source module and a light guide structure is provided. The light source module includes a base, at least one light source and a first circuit layer. The base includes a carrying surface. The at least one light source is mounted on the carrying surface. The first circuit layer is integrated with the carrying surface and electrically connected to the light source. The light guide plate includes an engaging surface and at least one recess. The engaging surface is engaged with the light source module. The recess is disposed at the engaging surface for receiving the light source, wherein a material of the light guide plate and a material of the base are the same. The second circuit layer is integrated with the engaging surface, and electrically connected to the first circuit layer.
US09429698B2
A display device includes a light source, a light guide plate in which light emitted from the light source is incident on one surface and is emitted to the other surface, a bottom case configured to accommodate the light guide plate, a wavelength conversion unit between the light source and the light guide plate, a wavelength conversion unit holder disposed on the bottom case on an area corresponding to one end portion of the wavelength conversion unit, and a wave length conversion unit fixed to the wavelength conversion unit holder.
US09429693B2
A rib waveguide type high-order mode filter includes a plate-like slab region 1; a projection portion 2 formed in a stripe along a waveguiding direction of light on the slab region 1; and a mesa region 4 having a bottom surface positioned at the same level as that of the bottom surface of the slab region 1 and a top surface positioned at a higher level than that of the top surface of the slab region 1, on at least one side of the slab region 1, wherein the projection portion 2, the slab region 1, and the mesa region 4 are made of the same material; and the mesa region 4 includes a doped area 4a in which an optical-absorption function is added by impurity doping into the material.
US09429683B2
There is provided a polyurethane xerogel prepared from a mixture comprising: (a) at least one isocyanate, (b) at least one silicone containing compound of formula J: wherein at least one group represents a hydrocarbyl group and p represents an integer of from 1 to 40, or at least one R2 group represents a hydrocarbyl group and q represents an integer of from 1 to 40; and at least one R3 group represents a hydrocarbyl group and w represents an integer of from 1 to 40, or at least one R4 group represents a hydrocarbyl group and y represents an integer of from 1 to 40; (c) optionally one or more additional components; wherein the isocyanate and silicone containing compound are reacted under substantially anhydrous conditions. There is also provided a contact lens formed from the polyurethane xerogel.
US09429678B2
Apparatus, computer readable media, and computer programs for managing an intelligent field, are provided. An exemplary apparatus can include, for example, a computer configured to perform the operations of receiving well instrument data, processing the data, detecting a missing or faulty data period, applying a rule set and logics, estimating values for the missing or faulty data, validating the estimated values, and inserting the data in the data period.
US09429677B2
High performance computing (HPC) and grid computing processing for seismic and reservoir simulation are performed without impacting or losing processing time in case of failures. A Data Distribution Service (DDS) standard is implemented in High Performance Computing (HPC) and grid computing platforms, to avoid the shortcomings of current Message Passing Interface (MPI) communication between computing modules, and provide quality of service (QoS) for such applications. QoS properties of the processing can be controlled. Multiple data publishers or master nodes of a cluster have access to the same data source. Each of these publishers has an ownership strength quality of service, and the publisher with the highest ownership strength number is the designated publisher of the data to subscriber processor nodes of the cluster. If the designated data publisher prematurely terminates or crashes for some reason, then the publisher node with the next highest ownership strength measure is designated as data publisher and continues publishing data to subscribers.
US09429672B2
A locator for capacitively sensing an object includes a transmission electrode to which an excitation signal can be applied, a reception electrode, a sensing region in the region of the transmission electrode and the reception electrode, and a measuring device for sensing a capacitance between the transmission electrode and the reception electrode. The locator further includes a processing device for determining the presence of the object in the sensing region if the sensed capacitance differs from a reference capacitance, and a screening electrode that is arranged in the region of the transmission electrode and the reception electrode. The screening electrode is connected to a potential so as to reduce the base capacitance between the transmission electrode and the reception electrode.
US09429667B2
Systems and methods include seismic data stacking derived from a set of image volumes. Stacking includes finding a sub-set of seismic image volumes (and in some implementations their respective stacking weights) or multiple realizations of sub-set of seismic image volumes from a given set that are consistent and similar to each other. Some or all of the input seismic image volumes can be stacked together as they would be with a conventional stack. However, the signal-to-noise ratio can be enhanced by only stacking those volumes that contain consistent and relevant information. Optimal stacking can utilize an algorithm that can be implemented in a moving window fashion.
US09429666B2
A method is provided for automatically detecting marine animals, carried out by a detection device. The method includes obtaining acoustic signal measurements collected by at least one acoustic sensor in a underwater environment; and at least one of a first branch for detecting frequency modulated sounds and a second branch for detecting impulsive sounds; each branch comprising a step of detecting sounds by: implementing in parallel several detection channels each having a different and fixed value for at least one degree of freedom; selecting the detection channel having a maximum signal to noise ratio; and comparing the signal to noise ratio of the selected detection channel to a determined threshold. The method further includes taking an alarm decision, indicating the presence of at least one marine animal, as a function of an output of the first branch and/or an output of the second branch.
US09429659B1
A machine or group of machines for monitoring location of at least one of a vehicle or freight carried by the vehicle includes a server comprising a central processing unit, a memory, a clock, and a server communication transceiver that receives location information of a mobile device, the mobile device comprising a GPS receiver, a microprocessor and a wireless communication transceiver coupled to the GPS receiver, the mobile device comprising the GPS receiver programmed to receive data sent by a plurality of GPS satellites, calculate location information of the mobile device comprising the GPS receiver and transmit the location information.
US09429658B2
Methods and systems for a dual mode global navigation satellite system may comprise selectively enabling a medium Earth orbit (MEO) radio frequency (RF) path and a low Earth orbit (LEO) RF path in a wireless communication device to receive RF satellite signals. The signals may be down-converted to determine a position of the wireless device. The signals may be down-converted utilizing local oscillator signals from a phase locked loop (PLL). The RF paths may be time-division duplexed by the selective enabling of the MEO and LEO paths. Acquisition and tracking modules in the MEO RF path may be blanked when the LEO RF path is enabled. The MEO RF path may be powered down when the LEO RF path is enabled. The signals may be down-converted to an intermediate frequency before down-converting to baseband frequencies or may be down-converted directly to baseband frequencies. In-phase and quadrature signals may be processed.
US09429654B2
A method for determining the integrity risk at an alert limit of a position solution determined with a satellite navigation system involves calculating a first integrity risk at the alert limit assuming that one satellite j of the satellites is faulty. A first position solution is determined with the signals from all of the satellites and a second position solution is determined with the signals from all of the satellites except for the signal received from the satellite j. A difference between the first and the second position solution is identified and subtracted from the alert limit to create a reduced alert limit. A second integrity risk at the reduced alert limit is calculated with the signals received from all satellites except the signal received from the satellite j. The integrity risk at the alert limit is determined using the minimum of the first and second integrity risks.
US09429651B2
A device for detecting a presence of an object includes an optical phased array, a detector, a processing portion and an indicator. The optical phased array can transmit a first optical beam to a first location at a first time and can transmit a second optical beam to a second location at a second time. The detector can detect a first reflected beam based on the first optical beam and can detect a second reflected beam based on the second optical beam. The processing portion can determine the presence of the object based on the first reflected beam and the second reflected beam. The indicator can generate an indicator signal based on the presence of the object.
US09429642B1
A method and apparatus are disclosed for searching for a radar signal within signals received by a wireless device. The wireless device may receive signals within a first frequency segment and a second frequency segment, which is adjacent to the first frequency segment. The wireless device may search for the radar signal within the first frequency segment or the second frequency segment based, at least in part, on Fast Fourier Transform bins associated with the received signals.
US09429635B2
Embodiments relate to evaluating properties of tissues with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A MR image is used to measure a characteristic that influences a particular chemical property of a tissue. In an exemplary embodiment, tissue transverse relaxation values or relaxation rates, which can readily be measured from MR images, are used to evaluate iron deposition in tissue. Iron deposition influences the tissue transverse relaxation values (T2 or T2*) or relaxation rates (R2=1/T2 or R2*=1/T2*). A clinically relevant R2CR* map is calculated based on the known values of the effective R2eff*, the water R2w*, and the fat R2f* by incorporating the most relevant value for each individual image element of a plurality of image elements of an MR image of the tissue. The clinically relevant R2CR* map provides an accurate evaluation of iron deposition in any region of the tissue with the use of one map.
US09429631B2
A device and related method for refracting radio waves to enable the temporary or permanent recording of said waves. The device includes a piece of material that is transparent or translucent to radio waves. The piece of material, which may be solid, is selected to have an inherent radio wave refraction index greater than a value of one for either its transparent or translucent state. The radio waves are selectively passed through the material and recorded on a translation medium for observation.
US09429626B2
An electric storage device management system includes a voltage sensor, a memory, and a controller. The voltage sensor detects a voltage across an electric storage device having a correlation between an open circuit voltage (OCV) and a state of charge (SOC) including a slight change region and a sharp change region. The memory stores information on correlation between OCV and SOC in the sharp change region. The controller is configured to: determine an OCV based on a voltage detected by the voltage sensor; determine whether the defined OCV is within the sharp change region; determine an SOC corresponding to the defined OCV based on the stored information stored if the defined OCV is within the sharp change region; determine the determined SOC as an estimated SOC; and prohibit the determining of the SOC as an estimated SOC if the defined OCV is out of the sharp change region.
US09429619B2
Methods and systems optimize power usage in an integrated circuit design by sorting the integrated circuit devices after manufacture into relatively slow integrated circuit devices and relatively fast integrated circuit devices to classify the integrated circuit devices into different voltage bins. The methods and systems establish a bin-specific reliability testing processes for each of the voltage bins and test the integrated circuit devices using a tester. This allows the methods and systems to identify as defective ones of the integrated circuit devices that fail the bin-specific integrated circuit reliability testing processes of a corresponding voltage bin. The methods and systems remove the defective ones of the integrated circuit devices to allow only non-defective integrated circuit devices to remain and supply the non-defective integrated circuit devices to a customer.
US09429614B2
A system to detect whether a potentiometer is in an open circuit condition is disclosed. The system includes a potentiometer having an adjustable arm. A low pass filter is coupled to the adjustable arm. A controller has a first driver output coupled to a voltage input of the potentiometer and a second driver output coupled to the adjustable arm. The controller determines failure of the potentiometer by setting the first driver output to a high value. A first sample voltage from the adjustable arm is read and determined whether the first sample voltage is between a high and a low threshold value. The first driver output is set to a low value. A voltage is applied to the adjustable arm via the second driver output. A second sample is read from the adjustable input and it is determined whether the second sample is below an arm threshold value.
US09429607B2
A dummy MOSFET is connected in series with a device under test to form cascode structure. The conductance of the low conductance MOSFET is derived from the measurements done on the cascode structure. An open loop gain stage is connected to the cascode structure in case the signal at the internal node of the cascode structure is extremely small to be measured directly and accurately. Impedance measurements can also be done on high impedance MOS devices without noise distortion with the help of the cascode arrangement.
US09429606B2
Increasing the resolution of a resistance sensor by adjusting a current source.
US09429598B2
A semiconductor arrangement may include a multiplicity of semiconductor elements with controlling paths and controlled paths, the controlled paths having controllable conductivities and being connected parallel to each other. The semiconductor arrangement may also include a current evaluation circuit configured to measure current strengths of currents present in the controlled paths and to provide a signal representing the sum of the measured current strengths, and a control circuit connected to the controlling paths and configured to control the conductivities of the controlled paths in accordance with an input signal and the signal representing the sum of the current strengths. The at least one controlled path is controlled to have minimum conductivity if the signal representing the sum of the current strengths is below a threshold value.
US09429596B2
The invention relates to a method for measuring a current or voltage output quantity of a switched-mode power supply circuit (H), referred to as a chopper circuit, of period T and of cyclic ratio α, belonging to the interval]0; 1[, such that, at each period, the supply current is non-zero during an “ON” phase of duration αT, and zero during an “OFF” phase of duration (1−α)T. The measurement method includes the following steps: measuring the value Gon of an image of the output quantity during an “ON” phase; measuring the value Goff of an image of the output quantity during an “OFF” phase; calculating the difference ΔG=Gon−Goff; and using the difference ΔG for evaluating the output quantity.
US09429591B1
A structure and method for providing a contact pin between a device under test (DUT) and a load board which provides upper and lower contact point which are axial aligned is disclosed. The pin has an upper (30) and lower (32) section and a hinge (44/46) in between which allow flex of both upper and lower contact (24/26) which, but the axial alignment can provide a direct replacement for POGO pins but with greater reliability. It also includes a structure and method for removing upper pins 230 by use of a modified hinge 244a.
US09429590B2
Methods and apparatus for accelerometer autocalibration in a mobile device are provided. In an example, a signal is received from the accelerometer. A substantially constant state of the signal, such as that caused by a freefall of the accelerometer, is detected. When the signal remains in the substantially constant state for at least a predetermined period of time, the signal's noise level is measured. A compensating signal based upon the measured noise level is determined and can be output to the accelerometer, thus compensating the accelerometer to mitigate the noise level. In examples, the compensating signal can be a reference voltage, a reference frequency, and/or a reference pulse train. In a further example, the compensating is performed only when the noise level of the signal is within a range for at least the predetermined period of time.
US09429587B2
In order to configure a housing of a sensor, in particular of an angle sensor, long term leak tight in the best way possible a cover is not glued into the pot shaped housing or screwed in and sealed, but welded in the housing through a laser. In spite of the sensor chip already being in the housing, the heat induction is so small that the sensor chip is not damaged even though the sensor chip is very small.
US09429561B2
Methods, systems, and compounds for detecting modified nucleic acid bases are disclosed and described. The methods provide for detecting a nucleic acid lesion and can include directing a nucleic acid adduct into a channel, wherein the nucleic acid adduct includes a nucleic acid having a lesion and a current modulating compound coupled to the nucleic acid at the lesion (110), and measuring a change in current through the channel in response to the current modulating compound to detect the lesion (112). The method can optionally include forming the nucleic acid adduct. Also provided is a method for identifying the number of repeat nucleotides in at least a portion of a nucleic acid strand, a method of assigning a registration marker within a nucleic acid, and a method of obtaining sequence information from a nucleic acid comprising assigning a registration marker on the nucleic acid.
US09429560B2
A cell grabber has a unitary structure including a transparent grabber head at a terminus thereof and an elongated mounting portion extending therefrom for attachment to a force transducer. The grabber head has a planar or concave bonding surface which is coated with an adhesive film to secure the specimen, especially single cells, for tensile measurements. The cell grabber may be used in connection with auxotonic, isometric or isotonic force measurement systems.
US09429558B2
A multi-function testing apparatus contains a test cell, a piston positioned within the test cell and an adjustable piston depth-setting rod. The testing apparatus may be used to assess carbon dioxide resistance and hydraulic bonding strength of a set cement as well as to evaluate the self-healing capabilities of a set cement. Testing on the set cement may be conducted at simulated downhole conditions.
US09429552B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method of preparing a reference solution of a gaseous substance necessary for calibration of various measuring instruments used in measurement of the gaseous substance, such as radon (Rn-220) or a volatile substance, contained in seawater, subsurface water, surface water or the like. An apparatus of preparing a reference solution according to the present invention includes a gas component detector having two ports and configured to measure a concentration of a predetermined gaseous substance; a gas vessel having two ports and configured to accommodate the predetermined gaseous substance; a reference solution preparation vessel having two ports and configured to accommodate a predetermined liquid substance; pipe lines connecting the ports of the gas component detector, the gas vessel and the reference solution preparation vessel; and valves installed on the pipe lines.
US09429551B2
A method and apparatus for generating carbon monoxide and in particular a device for testing carbon monoxide detectors which utilizes the method and apparatus for generating carbon monoxide. A layer of Activated Carbon Cloth is heated so that it produces small quantities of carbon monoxide. The Activated Carbon Cloth may be provided in a removable cassette.
US09429549B2
Segments into which time is divided are set at a point where predicted elution time ranges of compounds in a compound table do not overlap. One or more compounds are allotted to each segment. Subsequently, the dwell time per ion is calculated in each segment, based on the number of assigned compounds, loop time and the like. If the dwell time is shorter than the lower limit value (No in S6), the one segment is forcedly subdivided such that each subdivision include a predetermined number of compounds (S7). A compound having an elution time range trespassing the new segment boundary is allotted as a measurement target to both segments across the boundary (S8). If the dwell time is of at least the lower limit in every segment regenerated by the subdivision (Yes in S9), the process for this segment is finished. Such subdivision and compound reassignment in every segment can automatically create a parameter table for a measurement method capable of achieving high quantitativeness.
US09429547B1
A fabrication process for producing, annealing, and conjugating nucleic acid molecules is implemented, under the direction of one or more computer programs, on two or more instruments, for carrying out the process. The process can include: (a) synthesizing, on a solid support and in a plurality of reactions, at least one of a nucleic acid and a peptide nucleic acid, and cleaving the synthesized biomolecule product from the support, providing a sample of synthesized biomolecule product from each reaction of the plurality; (b) measuring, for each sample, the volume of the sample and/or the concentration of the product; (c) subjecting the product from each reaction to chromatography under conditions suitable for achieving single-base-resolution for the product, the conditions being a function of the volume and/or concentration measured in (b); and then (d) collecting and pooling, from the chromatography of (c) for each sample, peaks that correspond to the product.
US09429537B2
A method of using a sensor element includes: exposing a sensor element to an unknown analyte vapor; measuring a capacitance of the sensor element to obtain a measured capacitance; obtaining a true capacitance of the sensor element; exposing the semi-reflective conductive electrode to incident light and observing reflected light in order to measure a spectral change between the incident light and the reflected light; comparing the true capacitance and the measured spectral change, or at least one derivative thereof, to a reference library, the reference library comprising reference correlations between spectral change and true capacitance, or at least one derivative thereof, for a plurality of reference analyte vapors; and determining at least one of the chemical class or identity of the analyte vapor.
US09429526B2
A blade inspection apparatus inspects a plurality of blades periodically disposed on a periphery of a rotating shaft of a rotor of an engine and rotated on the rotating shaft. The blade inspection apparatus has a borescope having an insertion portion in which an observation optical system is provided, fixtures attached to one of a plurality of external access ports provided on the engine and fixing the borescope, and dedicated for each of the external access ports, and an identification information output portion for outputting identification information for identifying the external access port to which the fixtures are attached.
US09429524B2
Systems and methods for imaging a plurality of blood fluid samples or other types of samples include processing at least a portion of a sample to enhance imageability of certain particles in that portion and subsequently imaging the sample portion. In some instances, processing and imaging of various samples may be staged in a manner to optimize throughput of the system or method.
US09429521B2
Chlorophyll fluorescence may be studied in response to a variety of environmental cues or conditions by growing phototrophic organisms under actinic illumination. Such illumination may be punctuated or disrupted to gain information about the photosynthetic properties or performance of the phototrophic organism. Instruments or devices for carrying out the method are also described.
US09429519B2
A fluorescent light detection device includes: an excitation light source; an excitation light fiber; a fluorescent light fiber; a detector configured to receive the fluorescent light emitted from the fluorescent light fiber; a retention member configured to retain the fibers so that an emitting end face of the excitation light fiber and an incident end face of the fluorescent light fiber are located at close proximity; an excitation light selection filter provided in contact with the emitting end face; and a fluorescent light selection filter provided in contact with the incident end face. The excitation light emitted from the emitting end face irradiates a test object via the excitation light selection filter and the fluorescent light produced by the test object is incident on the incident end face via the fluorescent light selection filter.
US09429518B2
The present invention relates to a kit comprising a DNA-dependant DNA polymerase and at least one natural deoxynucleoside and to a kit comprising a DNA-dependent DNA polymerase and a detection system comprising a DNA template molecule, a DNA primer molecule, and a fluorescent moiety capable of being displaced from, or bound to, dsDNA synthesized by said DNA-dependent polymerase. It further relates to A method for measuring deoxynucleoside kinase activity in a sample characterized by; (i) contacting the sample, in a container, with a reaction mix comprising a DNA-dependent DNA polymerase, at least one deoxynucleoside and a detection system comprising a DNA template molecule, a DNA primer molecule, and a fluorescent moiety capable of being incorporated in, displaced from, or bound to dsDNA synthesized by said DNA dependent polymerase; (ii) incubating said container; (iii) measuring the signal from the fluorescent moiety; and correlating the signal from the fluorescent moiety to the deoxynucleoside kinase activity in the sample.
US09429513B2
A sensor apparatus includes an irradiation system with a light source configured to emit linearly polarized light of a first polarization direction onto a sheet-like object, in a direction oblique to a direction orthogonal to a surface of the object, a first photodetector arranged on an optical path of light that is emitted from the irradiation system and then is reflected at the object by regular reflection, a first optical element, arranged on an optical path of light reflected by diffuse reflection from an incidence plane of the object, configured to transmit linearly polarized light of a second polarization direction that is orthogonal to the first polarization direction, a second photodetector configured to receive light that has passed through the first optical element, and a detection unit configured to detect at least one of basis weight and thickness of the object.
US09429494B1
A method to test for leakage of an enclosure of a hermetically sealed disk drive is disclosed. The method includes filling the disk drive enclosure with a gas mixture that includes a tracer gas. The tracer gas may comprise helium gas or hydrogen gas, and constitute between 1% and 10% of the gas mixture. The method includes hermetically sealing the disk drive enclosure. The method also includes testing for the presence of the tracer gas outside of the disk drive enclosure.
US09429487B2
A magnetic load sensor unit for use in a linear motion actuator is provided which is less likely to suffer from hysteresis errors during use while being mounted in the linear motion actuator, and which can reduce the axial length of the linear motion actuator. The magnetic load sensor unit is configured to detect the magnitude of an axial load applied to an object from the linear motion actuator. The sensor unit includes a flange member configured to be deflected when a reaction force to the axial load is received through a thrust bearing, a magnetic target which generates magnetic fields; and a magnetic sensor arranged such that its position relative to the magnetic target changes when the flange member is deflected. The flange member has an axial end surface in which a groove is formed with which rolling elements of the thrust bearing are in rolling contact.
US09429477B2
A system for monitoring the performance of a fluid heat exchanger for use with an engine includes a heat exchanger having a first fluid flow path therethrough and a second fluid flow path therethrough, a first temperature sensor positioned in the first fluid flow path at an exit from the heat exchanger, a second temperature sensor positioned in the second fluid flow path at an entry to the heat exchanger, a processor and an alert generator. The processor is adapted to receive a first temperature measurement value from the first temperature sensor, and a second temperature measurement value from the second temperature sensor, the processor being further adapted to calculate a temperature difference between the first and second temperature measurement values. The alert generator is adapted to generate an alert signal to a user, the alert signal being generated if the temperature difference is greater than a threshold value.
US09429472B2
An illumination device is provided with a light source, a photodetector, and a support structure. The light source, which emits light, has light distribution in which a reference axis serves as an axis of symmetry or light distribution in which a plane including the reference axis serves as a plane of symmetry. A first light beam in the light is guided to the object to be illuminated. A second light beam in the light is guided to the photodetector. The photodetector detects intensity of the second light beam. The light source and the photodetector are supported by the support structure in positions and postures that allow the first light beam and the second light beam to be guided in an aforementioned manner. A traveling direction of the first light beam and a traveling direction of the second light beam make the same angle with the reference axis.
US09429468B2
In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a sensor integrated circuit (IC) that is adapted for ambient light sensing (ALS) and/or proximity detection. The sensor integrated circuit (IC) includes an integrated analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that is adapted to convert at least one signal related to ambient light sensing (ALS) and/or proximity detection to at least one digital signal, and an integrated light emitting diode (LED) driver that is adapted to drive at least one LED. The sensor IC also includes an integrated power management unit (PMU) that is adapted to reduce power dissipation of the sensor IC by running at a low duty cycle the integrated LED driver and the integrated ADC.
US09429463B2
Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for measuring moving vehicle information. Moving vehicle information may be measured by a sensor configured to respond to one or more wheels of the vehicle, where one or more of the wheels changes the characteristic impedance of the sensor at the wheel's contact location. An electrical time domain reflectometry signal processing system which is capable of measuring the change in the impedance of the sensor and converting the impedance change to a signal may be connected operatively to the sensor. A data-processing system receives the signal and extracts the vehicle information therefrom.
US09429456B2
A magnetization device with a magnetic field which is generated by permanent magnets for variable magnetization of a medium flowing through a tube over a magnetization distance along the longitudinal axis of the tube. The magnetization device improves the quality of the results relative to known nuclear magnetic resonance measurement and analysis methods in that the magnetic field in the medium has a single direction over the magnetization distance.
US09429450B2
A method for measuring Brillouin backscattering from an optical fiber, comprising mixing backscattered light received from the optical fiber and having a Brillouin frequency fβ(t) with coherent light at a frequency f i in an optical detector to produce an electrical signal with a difference frequency ΔF(t)=fβ(t)−f15 and directly digitizing the electrical signal using an analog-to-digital converter to generate a sequence of samples representing the electrical signal, the samples then being processed to determine one or more properties of the Brillouin spectral line. The difference frequency may be further reduced by an additional frequency mixing stage to allow digitization at a lower sampling rate.
US09429448B2
An apparatus and a method of correcting meter data for enhancement of electricity data management in a remote automatic measuring environment of a photovoltaic module are disclosed. According to an exemplary embodiment, a meter reads energy usage of a consumer and transmits meter data on the energy usage to an automatic meter reading (AMR) server. A meter data management system monitors an error in the transmitted meter data and a non-reading interval and re-requests collection of an error in meter data and a non-reading interval to the AMR server. When an error and a non-reading interval are found even after meter data is collected on the re-requesting, the error in the meter data and the non-reading interval are corrected using an estimated approximate value based on a history of previous meter data accumulated in a database of the AMR server.
US09429437B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for determining the location and direction of travel of a mobile device using map vector constraints is disclosed.
US09429429B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a route-planning device (200;302) comprising a storage section (230;308) storing map information, the map information including information identifying a plurality of potential positions, each potential position corresponding to a position at which a location of a predetermined type might potentially be found; and a search route module (490) arranged to determine a search route visiting at least one of the potential positions, the determination of the search route using a predetermined efficiency measure based on likelihood of finding a location of the predetermined type.
US09429426B2
A control system includes a processor that operates one or more control loops that enable gyroscopic angular measurement for an inertial measurement unit (IMU). Each of the one or more control loops operates over a range of set points defined for each of the respective control loops. A dynamic loop adjuster receives environmental input data to determine environmental conditions for the IMU. The dynamic loop adjuster alters at least one of the set points for at least one of the one or more control loops operated by the processor based on the determined environmental conditions.
US09429425B2
In one embodiment, an aerial collection system includes an image collection field vehicle that travels at street level and an image collection aerial vehicle that travels in the air above the street. The aerial vehicle collects image data including at least a portion of the field vehicle. The field vehicle includes a marker, which is identified from the collected image data. The marker is analyzed to determine an operating characteristic of the aerial vehicle. In one example, the operating characteristic in the marker includes information for a flight instruction for the aerial vehicle. In another example, the operating characteristic in the marker includes information for the three dimensional relationship between the vehicles. The three dimensional relationship is used to combine images collected from the air and images collected from the street level.
US09429422B2
An improved method and apparatus for non-destructive measurements of coating thicknesses on a curved surface by measuring components of the microwave energy reflected from the surface. Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a portable microwave thickness detector with a rounded rocker-type base allowing the microwave beam to be moved through a range of angles with respect to the target surface. An optical alignment system determines when the microwave angle of incidence is at a desired angle when the components of the reflected microwave energy are measured. Preferred embodiments of the present invention also provide a portable microwave thickness detector which maintains a constant standoff distance between the between the microwave detector and the sample to be measured.
US09429415B2
A surface emitting laser according to the present invention includes a lower reflector, a first spacer layer, an active layer, a second spacer layer composed of a semiconductor material, a gap section formed of at least one of vacuum and gas, and an upper reflector in the written order, and also includes a control mechanism that changes a distance between an interface between the second spacer layer and the gap section and an interface between the upper reflector and the gap section. An optical path length neff×d extending from an interface between the lower reflector and the first spacer layer to an interface between the second spacer layer and the gap section satisfies a predetermined relationship.
US09429404B2
A target senses whether and where it has been struck by a laser light. The target includes a screen for allowing laser light to pass through, a plurality of light sensors behind the screen, and an optical display associated with one or more of the light sensors. When the target is struck by a laser light, a sensor records the strike, and the target may be struck with laser light multiple times, whereby different sensors may record the different strikes. To determine whether and where the target has been struck, the user activates a display mode that causes the optical displays in the target to illuminate. The user can then reset the target so the user can begin again.
US09429400B1
A forebody flow control system and more particularly an aircraft or missile flow control system for enhanced maneuverability and stabilization utilizes various types of sensors and various types of activatable flow effectors to maneuver the aircraft or missile with the help of a control system. A method of operating the flow control system is also disclosed.
US09429398B2
A dynamic signal to noise ratio tracking system enables detection and tracking of amusement park equipment within the field of view of the tracking system. The tracking system may include an emitter configured to emit electromagnetic radiation within an area, a detector configured to detect electromagnetic radiation reflected back from show elements within the area, and a control unit configured to evaluate signals from the detector to determine whether the show elements are to be adjusted.
US09429396B2
An electronic weapon with an installed deployment unit, from which at least one tethered electrode is launched, provides a stimulus current through a target to inhibit locomotion by the target. The wire tether, also called a filament, conducts the stimulus current. The one or more electrodes, according to various aspects of the present invention, perform one or more of the following functions in any combination: binding the filament to the electrode, deploying the filament from the deployment unit, coupling the electrode to the target, and distributing a current density with respect to a volume of target tissue. An electrode may include a spear comprising a material with integrated conductive and insulative substances (e.g., conductive fibers in insulative composite material) and a geometry to dissipate kinetic energy after impact with the target.
US09429390B2
A telescopic sight (10) for a firearm includes a main housing (12), an objective lens assembly (22) for creating an image of a distant object, an ocular lens assembly (30) presenting the image to a viewer, and an optical element assembly (40) between the objective lens assembly (22) and the ocular lens assembly (30). The optical element assembly (40) includes a reticle piece (46) containing a reticle viewable by a user when the user views the image presented by the ocular lens assembly (30). A first adjuster (70, 74) is operatively coupled with the objective lens assembly (22) for removing parallax between the image and the reticle. A second adjuster (72, 76) is operatively coupled with the optical element assembly (40) for removing parallax between the image and the reticle.
US09429388B2
An accessory mounting interface for a firearm is provided. The accessory mounting interface has a firearm accessory, a first elongated fastener, a second fastener, and an elongated slot in a firearm. The second fastener has two straight edges parallel to each other, and at least one of the two straight edges prevent the second fastener from rotating beyond a closed position once a portion of the second fastener has passed through and at least partially cleared the elongated slot.
US09429378B2
A follower for a firearm magazine is provided. In some embodiments, the follower has: a platform shaped to interface with a firearm cartridge; a first side face extending longitudinally from the platform and having a first end opposing the platform; and a second side face extending longitudinally from the platform and having a second end opposing the platform. The first side face and the second side face may define a receiving space for receiving at least a portion of a magazine spring. At least one of the first end and the second end may have a nonlinear profile shaped to translate a lateral spring force into a longitudinal spring force.
US09429374B2
A rail cooling method includes: calculating, based on a relation between temperatures and an amount of warp of the rail cooled to ambient temperature after the forced cooling, the temperatures including a cooling start temperature of the head, a cooling end temperature of the head, a cooling start temperature of the foot and a cooling end temperature of the foot, a target value or a target value range for each of the temperatures so that the amount of warp of the rail at ambient temperature falls within a permissive range; and setting a cooling condition in accordance with the target value or the target value range to perform the forced cooling on the head and the foot.
US09429365B2
In a method of manufacturing a heat exchanger tube sheet sealing elements are arranged on respective ends of heat exchanger tubes. Said ends of the heat exchanger tubes having the sealing elements are arranged at predetermined positions in a mold. Said ends of the heat exchanger tubes are sealed such that a tube sheet material to be casted in the mold does not enter the heat exchanger tubes during casting of the tube sheet material. A tube sheet material is casted in the mold for covering the sealing elements. The tube sheet material is hardened in the mold.
US09429364B2
A channel inductor of a channel induction furnace is disclosed. The channel inductor comprises a channel liner that defines a channel for a molten metal to flow through the channel inductor. The channel liner comprises an inlet and an outlet for the molten metal and a flange for mounting the channel liner to a refractory material lining of a pot of the channel inductor furnace. The channel liner being formed from a ceramic material that is resistant to chemical attack by the molten metal in the channel, whereby in use of the channel induction furnace direct contact between the molten metal and the channel inductor is limited to contact with the channel liner (including the flange) only and molten metal does not contact other parts of the channel inductor.
US09429362B2
Provided is a drying apparatus with which, in the case where rotating vane assemblies are vertically arranged in a plurality of stages, and a spacing (clearance) between stages is to be set depending upon a specific one of the various types of materials to be dried, always allows an optimum dimension to be easily provided, thereby an extremely high drying efficiency based on the advantage of the vertical type can be easily implemented.With a drying apparatus 10, rotating vane assemblies 21, 210 each constituted by a plurality of circular-arc vane sections 22, 220 are disposed in a plurality of stages vertically arranged along a rotating axle 20 in a vertical cylindrical drying vessel 11. The clearance F between any two adjoining stages of the plurality of stages of the rotating vane assembly 21, 210 is set at 0 to 15% of the diameter of a circle connecting between the outermost peripheral edges of the adjacent flat surfaces 23, 230 of the circular-arc vane sections 22, 220.
US09429360B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing with a plurality of contacts therein and a metallic shell enclosing said housing to form a mating cavity in which the contacting sections of the contacts are exposed upon a mating tongue of the housing, which extends in the mating cavity. A heating device is retained in the housing and located adjacent to the contacting sections of the contacts to expel humidity therefrom and away from the mating cavity.
US09429349B2
A device (100) for producing artificial snow, provided with a body (101) including a pressurized water supply duct (10) and a pressurized air supply duct (20), at least one spray element (130) for spraying water or a mixture of air and water, at least one control valve (140) for adjusting the pressurized water and/or pressurized air supply of the spray element, and operating elements, in the form of at least one camshaft, for operating the control valve (140). The valve (140) is placed on the pressurized water and air supply ducts (10 and 20), and includes, on the periphery thereof, a water chamber (144) for the pressurized water supply thereof and an air chamber (145) for the pressurized air supply thereof. The valve (140) also includes a fixed body (141) in the general shape of a tube defining an inner receiving region (142) wherein a movable body (142) is housed, the body being translatably movable along a translation axis.
US09429348B2
A method for producing substantially dendritic snow includes: a) supplying a flow of humid air (1) and a flow of cold air (9) into a substantially closed space (15, 16, 17) to mix the two air flows and create an atmosphere oversaturated with water within the space; b) forming ice crystals and allowing snowflakes to grow from the oversaturated atmosphere, keeping the ice crystals and growing snowflakes floating within the space and allowing them to grow over a predetermined period of time sufficiently long to obtain snowflakes having a predefined size, the floating condition being achieved by moving the ice crystals and growing snowflakes, on average, along a substantially helical trajectory by the air flow, which results in the snowflakes being distributed according to their size along the substantially helical trajectory; and c) thereafter releasing the predefined size snowflakes via a release opening (7) of the space by a carrier air flow (3).
US09429347B2
A refrigeration apparatus includes a high-temperature side circulation circuit, a low-temperature side circulation circuit, a cascade capacitor, and control means. The high-temperature side circulation circuit forms a refrigerant circuit in which a high-temperature side compressor, a high-temperature side condenser, a high-temperature side expansion device, and a high-temperature side evaporator are connected by a pipe. The refrigerant circuit allows a high-temperature side refrigerant to circulate therethrough. The high-temperature side refrigerant has a carbon-carbon double bond in its molecular structure. The high-temperature side compressor has a variable discharge capacity and is configured to discharge the high-temperature side refrigerant. The low-temperature side circulation circuit forms a refrigerant circuit in which a low-temperature side compressor, a low-temperature side condenser, a low-temperature side expansion device, and a low-temperature side evaporator are connected by a pipe. The refrigerant circuit allows a low-temperature side refrigerant to circulate therethrough. The low-temperature side refrigerant contains carbon dioxide.
US09429341B2
Expandable shelters having a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system arranged to receive outside air away from a mechanical compartment are disclosed. The expandable shelters may comprise an air inlet vent disposed in a front of the expandable shelter interconnected to an in-floor air duct arranged to draw outside air below an interior floor and exchange heat with the coolest area of the expandable shelter. By virtue of having an air inlet vent receive outside air from a location substantially away from the mechanical compartment and exchange heat with the coolest area of the expandable shelter, an environmental control unit (ECU), housed in the mechanical compartment, receives relatively cool outside air, keeping air temperatures inside the mechanical compartment below the upper operating limit of the ECU.
US09429336B2
A device for regulating the airflow in an air damper including a twist sleeve of flexible material, the cross section of which substantially conforms to, an outer tube in which the flow takes place, one end of the twist sleeve being disposed on the inner side of the outer tube and the other end of the twist sleeve being disposed in a tube sleeve which can be rotated under an axial displacement controlled in relation to the rotation. The tube sleeve may be provided with a helical slot. A guide pin is arranged on an inner side of the outer tube, which guide pin goes down into the helical slot. The operating apparatus comprises two cords, which cords are provided with fastenings against the tube sleeve and run along opposite circumferential directions of the tube sleeve between the outer tube and the tube sleeve.
US09429334B2
A heating ventilation and cooling system includes a cooling source and/or a heating source, and a controller. The cooling and/or heating sources are configured to respectively cool and heat an enclosed space. The controller is configured to receive an apparent temperature set point. The controller is further configure to operate the cooling and/or heating sources to maintain an absolute air temperature that is different from the apparent temperature set point.
US09429327B2
Disclosed is a hose burner capable of being carried by a user in a convenient manner. The hose burner comprises: a body unit including a cylindrical body having an open upper surface and having an insertion opening penetratingly-formed at one side thereof, and including an air mixture container accommodated in the body, and configured to mix injected fuel and air to combust the fuel; a fuel supply pipe having a fuel supply opening at one end thereof, bent to pass through an upper surface of the body unit, and having a fuel injection nozzle at another end thereof, the fuel supply opening inserted into the insertion opening of the body and protruding toward the air mixture container; and a supporting unit configured to support the body unit installed with a predetermined gap from an installation surface.
US09429325B2
A combustor (10) includes a liner (12) that defines a combustion chamber (18) first pre-mix chamber (14) is upstream of the combustion chamber, and a fuel plenum (40) in fluid communication with the first pre-mix chamber surrounds a least a portion of the first pre-mix chamber. A method of supplying a fuel to combustor includes flowing the fuel over an outer surface of a first pre-mix chamber and into the first pre-mix chamber.
US09429321B2
An electrical circuit for ignition system for jet engines comprises: main inverter, secondary inverter, main Diode, Secondary Diode, main capacitor, secondary capacitor, controller, main transformer, secondary transformer, transistor, wire connection to electrode and wire connections to the power source and switch.
US09429319B2
To inhibit corrosion of water wall tubes of a boiler and stabilize combustion on a burner during oxygen combustion operation, a boiler combustion system includes a boiler equipped with a burner and a two-staged combustion gas input port; a flue gas supply fan extracting flue gas from a flue gas treatment system via a flue gas circulation line; a combustion gas supply line, fuel carrier gas supply line, and two-staged combustion gas supply line branched off from the flue gas circulation line downstream of the flue gas supply fan; an oxygen supply line supplying oxygen-rich gas to the combustion gas supply line and fuel carrier gas supply line; combustion air supply fans; a switching unit switching operation between the flue gas supply fan and the combustion air supply fans; and dampers regulating gas flow rates on the combustion gas supply line and the two-staged combustion gas supply line, respectively.
US09429282B2
This disclosure provides an apparatus 100 and system 100 for a rotatable mounting of stage devices.
US09429281B2
An adjustable solar-charged lamp configured to collect and store energy from the sun and to illuminate the lamp with the stored energy, the lamp including a housing, a lens engaged with the housing; a solar collector attached to the housing; a battery and a light emitting device disposed within an interior of the housing and in communication with the solar collector; and a hanger assembly pivotally attached to the housing, wherein the solar collector is repositionable to the hanger assembly to provide maximum exposure to a light source, such as the sun.
US09429279B2
Lighting apparatus and methods employing LED light sources are described. The LED light sources are integrated with other components in the form of a luminaire or other general purpose lighting structure. Some of the lighting structures are formed as Parabolic Aluminum Reflector (PAR) luminaires, allowing them to be inserted into conventional sockets. The lighting structures display beneficial operating characteristics, such as efficient operation, high thermal dissipation, high output, and good color mixing.
US09429272B1
A pressure vessel includes a first (base or innermost) layer composed of a resin-impregnated woven sleeve with chopped basalt fibers assembled in the voids of the sleeve and impregnated with an epoxy resin. A second and third layer is composed of continuous basalt fiber filaments arranged in a helical pattern, with the helical angle of the second layer being not equal to that of the third layer. A fourth layer is composed of continuous basalt fibers arranged in a hoop pattern. The fifth (outermost) layer is composed of randomly oriented chopped basalt fibers impregnated with a resin matrix and compacted with the subsequent wound filaments at up to ten pounds of tension.
US09429262B2
A coupling for conveying fluid between a component of a fluid system and an insertion end of a conduit may include tapered inward protrusions. The coupling may also include a stop surface disposed at a generally perpendicular angle with respect to one or more planar surfaces of the tapered inward protrusions.
US09429255B2
A hollow seamless pipe for a high-strength spring in the present invention includes a steel material in which chemical component compositions are properly adjusted, wherein a depth of a whole decarburized layer in an inner surface layer part is 100 μm or less, a depth of a flaw which is present in an inner surface is 40 μm or less, a width of the flaw is 60 μm or less, and a number density of a carbide which has a circle equivalent diameter of 500 nm or more and is present in the inner surface layer part is 1.8×10−2 particles/μm2 or less.
US09429249B2
The present invention relates to a fluid triggerable passive valve for controlling flow of one or more fluids comprising: a volume comprising at least two capillary pressure barriers for respectively pinning a first and second fluid-fluid meniscus, the two capillary pressure barriers dividing the volume in at least three sub volumes, whereby two sub volumes being positioned upstream and one sub volume being positioned downstream with respect to the advancement direction of each respective fluid-fluid meniscus; wherein the capillary pressure barriers are spaced apart such that upon pinning of a first fluid-fluid meniscus on a first capillary pressure barrier and arrival or pinning of a second fluid-fluid meniscus on or at a second capillary pressure barrier, the two menisci touch and thereby coalesce into one fluid-fluid meniscus.
US09429245B2
A method is described for manufacturing a solenoid valve, in particular a fuel injector, the solenoid valve having a valve needle which is movably guided in the axial direction, a magnet core and an armature which is situated axially diametrically opposed to the magnet core, the armature being situated on the valve needle, the armature having a first base material and a first reinforcing element and the magnet core having a second base material and a second reinforcing element. The method has one method step. The first reinforcing element is applied to the first base material and/or the second reinforcing element is applied to the second base material during the method step with the aid of molten bath spraying or with the aid of cold gas spraying.
US09429243B2
A pressure controlled valve having a housing with a first pressure chamber for communication to a pneumatically pressurized control source. The housing has an inlet for communication with a pneumatic supply source and outlet selectively in fluid flow with the inlet. A movable valve selectively opens and closes with respect to a valve seat for selectively opening a pathway from the inlet to the outlet and closing the pathway between the inlet and outlet. The pressure chamber may be sealingly and fluidly separated from the pathway between the inlet and the outlet. The pressure chamber provides a closing biasing force on the movable valve and a resilient spring mounted in the housing provides an opening biasing force on the movable valve.
US09429226B2
A carrier having short pinion gears and long pinion gears is made compact, and the mountability of the carrier on vehicles is improved. In a structure of the carrier, short pinion gear housing spaces are formed between thick-walled portions of a carrier body and a carrier cover, and long pinion gear housing spaces are formed between flange portions and the carrier cover. Bridge portions are provided on the radially outer side of the short pinion gear housing spaces, and fixed to the carrier cover. Openings are provided on the radially outer side of the long pinion gear housing spaces. Splines to be engaged with a friction member of a clutch are formed on the outer peripheral surfaces of the bridge portions.
US09429225B2
An epicyclic reduction gear, for example for a turbomachine, including a device forming a fluid circulation passage configured to generate a pressure drop, created by stacking at least two elements. Each element includes a passage for carrying fluid configured to generate a pressure drop and including an inlet and an outlet. The outlet, or inlet, of the passage of one of the elements is, respectively, connected to the inlet, or to the outlet, of the passage of the other element.
US09429220B2
A method and system for bypassing a control valve that would otherwise disengage differential and/or inter-axle locking means. The bypass is achieved by a valve that can be actuated by a vehicle condition change.
US09429218B2
An actuator includes a drive screw (32), an external tube (34), a stretchable tube (35), and a buffer structure (50). The external tube (34) is sleeved around the drive screw (32) externally. The stretchable tube (35) is passed through and connected to the external tube (34), wherein the stretchable tube (35) has a nut (351) screwed to and driven by the drive screw (32). The buffer structure (50) comprises a positioning member (51) and a buffer unit (52). The positioning member (51) is fixed to the drive screw (32). The buffer unit (52) is sleeved around the drive screw (32) and between the nut (351) and the positioning member (51). Therefore, the impact force generated during the fast falling of the stretchable tube (35) can be absorbed.
US09429213B2
A multi-clutch transmission is provided with a first and a second input frictional clutch, an input arrangement for establishing a driving connection of a prime mover and the first and second frictional clutches, and a main transmission. The main transmission has a first and a second rotational axis about which a main shaft and a countershaft is arranged respectively, an output shaft and connection means for establishing a driving connection between the main shaft and the output shaft, and least two input shafts, which are connected to the first and second input frictional clutch, and a reverse shaft provided with a first reverse gear wheel. A reverse gear is achieved by transferring power over the reverse shaft to the output shaft.
US09429212B2
An axle arrangement for a working machine with at least one drive-through axle. The drive-through axle comprises a crown bevel gear (111), a pinion gear (112) and an output shaft (104) for driving a further axle. The crown bevel gear (111), the pinion gear (112) and the output shaft (104) are surrounded by a housing (103) and the output shaft (104) is arranged coaxially with the pinion gear (112).
US09429204B2
A holding device for medical instruments, having a bracket on which at least one medical instrument can be affixed, at least one joint to position the bracket and a weight-relieving system to compensate the bracket load. The holding device is of compact and light structure and for cleaning purposes is completely autoclavable together with the bracket. The weight-relieving system is configured as a resetting element that is coupled with the bracket and is made of a material that essentially includes a plateau stress.
US09429201B2
The invention relates to braking devices for the wheels of a motor vehicle which can be rotated around axle pins, provided with a brake caliper attachment comprising an axle-sided carrier, which can be fixed to the axle of the vehicle, and a brake-sided carrier, which can be detachably fixed thereon by means of screws, in order to receive the caliper of the brake. Axial and/or radial bearing surfaces of the axle-sided carrier or brake-sided carrier may be located on the same axial or radial plane and/or are respectively located on parallel planes which are offset in relation. The axial and/or radial bearing surfaces may be inclined on one side relative to the axial or radial plane oriented in an inner or outer direction and/or the axial and/or radial bearing surfaces may be in the form of a prism and the carriers on the bearing surfaces thereof are coupled by screws.
US09429194B2
A rolling element guide cage having a ring element which is made from a sheet material and has an axial profiling produced using forming techniques and forms a plurality of successive rolling element guide structures in the circumferential direction. The ring element is composed of at least two flat material ring segments joined to one another successively in the circumferential direction, said segments being joined together in a manufacturing step which precedes the formation of the axial profiling.
US09429190B2
A tolerance ring that has a ring shape approximately circling along a predetermined direction includes a plurality of projections, wherein the curvature radiuses of end portions in a circling direction are smaller than the curvature radius of a portion other than the end portions in the circling direction.
US09429183B2
The invention relates to a method of producing a martensitic steel comprising a content of other metals such that it can be hardened by intermetallic compound and carbide precipitation, with an Al content of between 0.4% and 3%. The heat shaping temperature of the last heat shaping pass of said steel is lower than the solubility temperature of the aluminum nitrides in the steel, and the treatment temperature for each potential heat treatment after said last heat shaping pass is lower than the solid-state solubility temperature of the aluminum nitrides in said steel.
US09429180B2
A locking stem includes a bolt fastener having a pivoting tab that is disposed within a radial slot formed in one end of a shaft of the fastener, the pivoting tab pivots about a pivot, the tab has a pivot point located off center so the tab falls to one side when tilted. The bolt fastener attaches to a complementary fastener attached to a fixture. The locking stem may be for a caster.
US09429179B2
A retaining wave spring includes a first open-loop that has a wall that is substantially planar. The retaining wave spring also includes a second open-loop continuing from an end portion of the first open-loop. The second open-loop has a wall having curved portions. An outer diameter of the first open-loop and an outer diameter of the second open-loop have different sizes.
US09429173B2
A positioner includes: an explosion proof container containing, in an interior space, an electric circuit module and an electropneumatic converter converting, into pneumatic signals, electric signals processed by the electric circuit module; and a pneumatic amplifier, provided outside of the explosion proof container, amplifying the pneumatic signal converted by the electropneumatic converter. The explosion proof container is formed with air flow paths for the air fed into the pneumatic amplifier and the air fed out of the pneumatic amplifier, in a thick portion between inner and outer wall faces of the container that encompasses the surrounding of the interior space. The air flow paths are formed along an inner wall face of the explosion proof container. The inner wall face of the explosion proof container where on the air flow path is formed is arc-shaped or a shape that uses many curved faces of free curve shapes.
US09429169B2
A turbine engine including a stator including variable-pitch vanes that are controlled stage by stage. An actuator ring connected by crank-arms to the variable-pitch vanes is coupled to at least one adjacent specific drive unit in a general form of an actuator.
US09429164B2
A rotor (2) provided for a canned motor of a wet-running centrifugal pump forms the shaft for the drive of the impeller (7) and includes at least one permanent magnet (12) which is encapsulated in a fluid-tight manner. The peripheral part of the encapsulation in the region of the at least one permanent magnet (12) forms the rotor shaft.
US09429158B2
A compressor and an air-conditioner having a compressor are provided. The air-conditioner may be operated in a pre-set operation mode according to a detected application voltage or in a pre-set operation mode according to a pre-set time domain. A compressor temperature or an ambient temperature may be detected to operate the air-conditioner in the pre-set operation mode according to the detected application voltage or in the pre-set operation mode according to the pre-set time domain to continuously operate the compressor.
US09429156B2
A compressor is provided that may include a cylinder including an outer cylinder portion, an inner cylinder portion, and a vane portion connected between the outer cylinder portion and the inner cylinder portion, which is fixed to a casing. A rolling piston may be slidably coupled to the vane portion to form an outer compression space and an inner compression space while making a turning movement between the outer cylinder portion and the inner cylinder portion. Through this, a weight of a rotating body may be reduced to obtain a low power loss with respect to the same cooling power and a small bearing area, thereby reducing refrigerant leakage as well as easily changing a capacity of a cylinder in an expanded manner. In addition, refrigerant may be discharged in opposite directions to each other in each compression space, thereby reducing vibration noise of the compressor.
US09429154B2
An electromagnetic pump including a suction check valve including a tubular portion and a flange portion that extends in a radial direction from an end edge of the tubular portion, the suction check valve being formed with a through hole that penetrates the tubular portion and the flange portion to form a suction port in an end surface of the flange portion. A strainer attached to the suction port and having a pore forming region which is larger than an inside diameter of the through hole at the tubular portion and in which a large number of pores are formed. The suction check valve is formed with a diameter reducing portion formed such that the inside diameter of the through hole is reduced from the flange portion toward the tubular portion with a degree of diameter reduction varied from a large value to a small value.
US09429152B2
A method for controlling a variable displacement pump by calculation by a controller using a closed-center-type directional control valve, the method allowing effective utilization of the variable displacement pump while avoiding the risk of engine stall is provided. The method includes determining a first virtual discharge pressure and a second virtual discharge pressure. The method includes controlling the variable displacement pump based on a smaller value of the first virtual discharge pressure and the second virtual discharge pressure.
US09429143B2
A wind farm includes a plurality of wind power generation units each including a rotation axis, a hub, at least two airfoil blades, a pitch control system and a yaw control system. At least two first-direction wind power generation units are spaced apart longitudinally from each other along a prevailing energy wind direction at a predetermined interval and whose blades are rotated in a same direction. At least one second-direction wind power generation unit that is located between the first-direction wind power generation units and has blades rotating in an opposite direction to a rotational direction of the blades of the first-direction wind power generation units.
US09429136B2
Control system of variable speed pumped storage hydropower system and method of controlling the same
In one embodiment, a control system of a variable speed pumped storage hydropower system includes an optimization processing unit configured to calculate a flow rate adjusting valve opening demand value and a first command value, a speed control unit configured to generate a secondary current active power component command value of a secondary excitation device based on the first command value, a mechanical (pump-turbine) output compensation unit configured to calculate a compensation value of the opening of the flow rate adjusting valve and/or a compensation value of the generator-motor output, and an output control unit configured to generate a flow rate adjusting valve opening command value based on the generator-motor output command value, the flow rate adjusting valve opening demand value, the compensation value calculated by the mechanical output compensation unit, and the output detection value of the generator-motor.
US09429132B1
In order to reduce AC ringing of the secondary voltage after the spark event in a capacitive ignition system, which would influence ion-sensing, a secondary winding current (IR) flowing through the secondary winding (4) after the spark event is forced to flow through a forward-biased muting diode (D1) that is connected across the secondary winding (4).
US09429127B2
A fuel injector which injects a gaseous fuel includes a nozzle and a housing. The nozzle has an outlet which injects the gaseous fuel at a flow rate greater than or equal to a predetermined rate. The housing has a mixing chamber which communicates with the outlet. The housing further has an air introducing passage which introduces an outer air into the mixing chamber and an injection hole which injects an air-mixed fuel formed by mixing the gaseous fuel with the outer air. Thus, a mixing of the gaseous fuel and the outer air can be improved, and the gaseous fuel can be efficiently combusted.
US09429125B2
Test liquid (3) including thermosetting resin is injected from an injection valve (2). Light (L) is irradiated to a spray (6) of the test liquid (3) injected from the injection valve (2) as a treatment for producing a hardening effect to the thermosetting resin. Liquid drops in the spray (6) are hardened and collected as particles. Spray characteristics such as a particle size distribution of the injection valve or the like are analyzed by using the collected particles.
US09429122B2
In a fuel injection device having a sensor for detecting a state in the combustion chamber in a free end thereof, the sensor signal transmitting member for transmitting the sensor signal is protected from vibrations and moisture. The fuel injection device comprises: a valve body (33) having a free end exposed to the combustion chamber (7) defined in the engine main body (3) and a base end located outside of the engine main body; a sensor (38) supported at the free end of the valve body to detect a state of the combustion chamber; a sensor signal transmitting member (91) extending from the sensor to the base end of the valve body along an exterior of the valve body to transmit a signal from the sensor; and a second resin portion (40) and/or a bonding agent (100) covering the sensor signal transmitting member and securing the sensor signal transmitting member onto an exterior of the valve body.
US09429120B2
A feedthrough device includes first and second opposing outer end faces. The feedthrough device includes an opening, between the first and second opposing outer end faces, that allows fluid communication between an interior and an exterior of the feedthrough device. A conductor extends through the feedthrough device from the first end face, through the interior, to the second end face.
US09429110B2
Methods and systems are provided for controlling and coordinating control of a post-catalyst exhaust throttle and an EGR valve to expedite catalyst heating. By closing both valves during an engine cold start, an elevated exhaust backpressure and increased heat rejection at an EGR cooler can be synergistically used to warm each of an engine and an exhaust catalyst. The valves may also be controlled to vary an amount of exhaust flowing through an exhaust venturi so as to meet engine vacuum needs while providing a desired amount of engine EGR.
US09429106B2
The invention concerns a combustion chamber (10) comprising a neck (15) downstream of the injection (11) of gases, and downstream of this neck a divergent section (20) whereof the outer face of the wall (30), when in operation, is cooled by a cooling system using a cryogenic product and surrounding this outer face. This divergent section (20), on the inner face (32) of its wall (30), comprises a coating (40) acting as temperature compensator so that the temperature of the inner face (42) of the coating (40) is higher than the condensation temperature of the combustion gases on this inner face (42) under operating conditions, such that no condensation is formed on this inner face (42).
US09429105B2
A rocket vehicle includes a controller that integrates operation of a variable-vector main thruster and attitude control thrusters. When the main thruster is firing and roll is commanded, the controller can provide roll moment by firing only a single attitude control thruster, while changing the thrust vector of the main thruster to offset any pitch/yaw moments induced by the firing of the single attitude control thruster. The single attitude control thruster may be a thruster on the leeward side of the rocket vehicle. Since there is a lower wall pressure on the leeward side of the rocket vehicle, the thruster efficiency is improved by accomplishing roll by use of a single thruster (which may be one of a pair of thrusters used to achieve roll in one direction). A significant reduction in fuel use may be accomplished.
US09429093B2
A fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine in which pressurized fuel is made available in a pressure accumulator and a fuel pressure prevailing in the pressure accumulator is ascertained with the aid of a pressure sensor and in which the fuel enters a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine through at least one fuel injection device. A slope of a curve, which links a pressure difference in the pressure accumulator during a fuel injection to an injected fuel quantity, is ascertained and the fuel pressure prevailing in the pressure accumulator is inferred from the slope.
US09429090B2
A method of estimating temperature of a catalyst associated with a cylinder bank of a multi-displacement internal combustion engine having multiple cylinder banks associated with multiple catalysts. A temperature estimate of the catalysts associated with the multiple cylinder banks is set substantially equal to a base model temperature. Deactivation of a cylinder bank of the multiple cylinder banks is determined, and a catalyst cooldown correction is identified for the catalyst associated with the deactivated cylinder bank from a catalyst cooldown model including time elapsed since deactivation of the cylinder bank. The catalyst cooldown correction is applied to the temperature estimate of the catalyst associated with the deactivated cylinder bank to update the temperature estimate of the catalyst.
US09429086B2
A control section starts cranking of an engine with a first opening degree upon detection of a first operation signal, and, if the engine has reached a predetermined number of rotations through a predetermined number of times of the cranking with the first opening degree, the control section starts running of the engine in a first mode corresponding to the first opening degree. If the engine has not reached the predetermined number of rotations through the predetermined number of times of the cranking with the first opening degree, the control section starts cranking with a second opening degree, and, if the engine has reached the predetermined number of rotations through the predetermined number of times of the cranking with the second opening degree, the control section starts running of the engine in a second mode corresponding to the second opening degree.
US09429084B2
Systems and methods for increasing hybrid driveline efficiency are disclosed. In one example, an efficient engine operating region is defined within an engine operating domain based on an engine's brake specific fuel consumption. The systems and methods may increase an amount of time a hybrid driveline operates at more efficient operating conditions.
US09429083B2
A vehicle device and method for controlling facility exhaust ventilation systems in facilities related to first responder and other commercial vehicles, wherein the device and method automatically reengages operation of the facility exhaust ventilation system, based on vehicle status inputs.
US09429076B2
A turboprop-powered medium altitude long endurance aircraft, having a gas turbine engine; a heat scavenging device to scavenge heat from the gas turbine engine; and a heating device to use the scavenged heat to provide heating to the aircraft. The heat scavenging device may be placed on an engine casing and/or on or in an engine exhaust duct. The heating device may include a circulation path routed directly to a location in the aircraft where heating is to be performed, for example a leading edge of an engine support pylon or a leading edge of an engine-carrying wing. The heating device can include a heat exchanger.
US09429064B2
A coolant control valve apparatus 10 includes a main valve 11 which adjusts a flow rate of a coolant in a main channel 4 to control the flow rate of the coolant in the main channel 4. Further, the coolant control valve apparatus 10 includes a detour channel 67 provided being diverged from the main channel 4 so as to detour the main valve 11. The coolant control valve apparatus 10 includes a valve main body 41 which opens and closes the detour channel 67 and a temperature detection medium 42 which can open and close the valve main body 41 according to a temperature of the coolant. The temperature detection medium 42 is disposed in the diverging part between the detour channel 67 and the bypass channel 5.
US09429062B2
An example method includes interpreting an NH3 composition value at a position upstream of a selective reduction catalyst (SCR) element fluidly disposed in the exhaust conduit of an engine, interpreting a NOx composition value at a position downstream of the SCR element, and determining an NH3 sensor rationality threshold in response to the upstream NH3 composition value. The method further includes determining an NH3 sensor health value as indicating a sensor failure in response to the downstream NOx composition value exceeding the NH3 sensor rationality threshold.
US09429054B2
In a honeycomb structure, a bonding material monolithically bonds a plurality of honeycomb segments. The bonding material contains crystalline anisotropic ceramic particle and a particulate pore former. The crystalline anisotropic ceramic particle is 20 mass % or less. An average particle diameter of the pore former in the bonding material is 80 to 200 μm. In the case where a compressive Young's modulus of the bonding material is assumed as E (unit: MPa) and a shear strength of the bonding material is assumed as σ (unit: kPa), σ/E is 5 to 50.
US09429045B2
A method for operating a gas and steam turbine plant is provided. In the plant, the flue gas that escapes from a gas turbine is routed through a waste gas steam generator and where a flow medium that is used to drive a steam turbine is conducted in a flow medium circuit that includes several pressure stages. At least one of the pressure stages has an evaporator circuit with a steam collection drum that has a plurality of downpipes connected to the steam collection drum and a plurality of rising pipes downstream of the downpipes that are likewise connected to the steam collection drum and are heated by the flue gas in the waste heat steam generator. The height of the fluid column formed by the flow medium in the downpipes is monitored and a transient dry operation of the evaporator circuit can thus be detected and safeguarded against.
US09429040B2
An expansion turbine, comprising: a case having an inlet and an outlet for a working fluid; at least one stator (3) installed inside the case; at least one rotor (2) installed inside the case and rotating around a respective revolution axis (X-X); a short-pipe (4) constrained to the case; a mechanical unit (5) installed inside the short-pipe (4). The mechanical unit (5) comprises a bushing (7) and a shaft (6) rotatably installed inside the bushing (7). The shaft (6) is connected to the rotor (2) in removable manner and the whole mechanical unit (5) inclusive of the shaft (6) is extractable from the short-pipe (4) in a unitary form from the side opposite to said rotor (2). The rotor (2) is movable along the axial direction (X-X) between a first configuration, in which the mechanical unit (5) is installed inside the short-pipe (4) and the rotor (2) is spaced from the short-pipe (4), so that the working fluid can revolve it, and a second configuration, in which the mechanical unit (5) is extracted from the short-pipe (4) and the rotor (2) leans against the short-pipe (4) a static seal (18,19).
US09429037B2
A turbine includes a rotor, a fluid bearing for rotatably supporting the rotor, an air supply conduit system for supplying air towards the fluid bearing, a discharge conduit system for discharging a portion of the supplied air and a control system arranged to change an amount of air discharging through the discharge conduit system based on a running condition of the turbine.
US09429034B2
A method of fabricating a turbine engine shaft from a metal billet of generally cylindrical shape, the method including drilling the billet to form a through axial cylindrical bore therein, engaging a cylindrical insert in the bore, the insert being made of a material having yield stress close to that of the material of the billet so that the materials of the insert and of the billet have substantially the same behavior during forging, hot forging the billet to form a forged blank of length greater than that of the billet, withdrawing the insert, and machining the blank.
US09429024B2
A propeller blade includes a foam core and a structural layer that surrounds at least a portion of the foam core and includes a face side and a camber side is disclosed. The propeller blade also includes an insert disposed in the foam core in operable contact with the face side and the camber side of the structural layer.
US09429020B2
A scroll pump includes a frame, a stationary plate scroll, an orbiting plate scroll, a non-energized type of tip seal or seals, an eccentric drive mechanism assembled to and supported by the frame and to which the orbiting plate scroll is assembled so as to be drivable by the eccentric drive mechanism in an orbit about a longitudinal axis of the pump, and an axial compliance system including a flexure. The flexure is interposed between a bearing of the eccentric drive mechanism and a flexure-locating surface of the eccentric drive mechanism. The flexure allows the orbiting plate scroll to move away from the stationary plate scroll in the case of an assembly process which would otherwise result in the tip seal(s) being too forcefully engaged with the plate of the opposing plate scroll.
US09429015B2
A profile of a cutting tip includes a convex portion extending from a cutting end to an inflection point located at an axial and radial distance from the cutting end. A concave portion extends from the inflection point to a point at a greater radial and axial distance from the cutting end. The profiles of the generally concave portion and the generally convex portion have a first linear portion defined by a portion of a first line extending from a first point at a first radial position to a second point at a second radial position and axially spaced from the first point. A second linear portion is defined by a portion of a second line extending from a third point to a fourth point at the second radial position and at an axial distance from the second point corresponding to about half a length of the first line.
US09429012B2
A downhole salinity measurement and logging sensor system has multiple cells, each to measure conductivity, temperature and pressure of fluids at depths of interest in a wellbore. The multiple cells protect against effects of non-homogeneous wellbore fluids. The system also determines salinity of the liquid in the wellbore from conductance measurements, and stores the salinity data along with the temperature and pressure readings from the well. The sensors of conductivity, temperature and pressure are made using micro-fabrication technologies, and the system is packaged to comply with harsh downhole environments. The system may be deployed in the well with coiled tubing (CT), wireline or vehicles with a robotic system. The system can be deployed with an onboard memory, or with wireline surface access for real time access to measurement data or programming the device.
US09429009B2
A method and system for autonomously enhancing the performance of rig operations at a rig-site, including subterranean operations at a rig-site. The system may include an integrated control system, wherein the integrated control system monitors one or more parameters of sensor units of the rig operations, and a central computer that can communicate with sensor units reporting the health and operational status of the rig operations. The system may further be upgraded by a package of sensors attached to the various tools that allow the central computer an overall synchronized view of the rig operations.
US09429008B2
A drilling system may include one or more downhole components to which a torque is applied. To determine the torque, the rotational velocity may be determined at two locations on a downhole component. An angle of twist may be determined by taking the integral of the rotational velocity at the two points, and the torque may be proportional to the angle of twist. The angle of twist, physical properties based on the geometry and material of the downhole component may be used, and the distance between the two locations may be used to calculate the torque.
US09429005B2
Methods of treating a subterranean formation including providing a subterranean formation comprising at least one fracture; providing proppant particulates coated with a binding agent and having a gas-generating chemical and a delayed encapsulated activator attached thereto so as to form coated proppant particulates; suspending the coated proppant particulates in a treatment fluid; placing the treatment fluid into the at least one fracture; and reacting the gas-generating chemical and the delayed encapsulated activator so as to produce a gas within the at least one fracture and form a proppant pack therein.
US09429001B2
A dual well pumping unit (12) has two hydraulic ram units (26), one for each well, which are connected together for regenerative assist. Synchronized variable stroke and variable speed pump down control is provided, such that should pump down be encountered in one of the wells, programmable controllers (46) reduce the speed and the stroke of a ram unit (26) for a pumped-down well by the same percentage, to maintain a constant cycle time between upstrokes and down strokes such that the ram unit (26) of the pumped down well will remain synchronized with a ram unit (26) of the other well. Preferably the speed and the stroke of the ram unit (26) of the pumped down well will be decreased by 1.5% per stroke when pump down is detected, and will be increased by 3% per stroke until a constant fluid level is reached.
US09428999B2
A system for use with a well having multiple zones can include multiple well screens which filter fluid flowing between a completion string and respective ones of the zones, at least one optical waveguide which senses at least one property of the fluid as it flows between the completion string and at least one of the zones, multiple flow control devices which variably restrict flow of the fluid through respective ones of the well screens, and multiple pressure sensors which sense pressure of the fluid which flows through respective ones of the well screens. A completion string for use in a subterranean well can include at least one well screen, at least one flow control device which selectively prevents and permits substantially unrestricted flow through the well screen, and at least one other flow control device which is remotely operable, and which variably restricts flow through the well screen.
US09428998B2
A setting tool for hanging a tubular string includes: a mandrel having an upper portion and a lower portion for extending into the tubular string; a housing connected to the mandrel upper portion; and a bonnet. The bonnet is: for receiving an upper end of the tubular string, disposed along the mandrel, and linked to the housing. The setting tool further includes: an actuator for stroking the bonnet relative to the mandrel and the housing, thereby setting a hanger of the tubular string; an electronics package in communication with the actuator for operating the actuator in response to receiving a command signal; and a latch. The latch is: connected to the mandrel lower portion, operable between an extended position and a retracted position, for being restrained in the retracted position by being disposed in the tubular string, and extendable by being removed from the tubular string.
US09428996B2
Testing water contamination around oil or gas wells. To determine a testing zone around an oil or gas well, multiple variables are received by data processing apparatus. The variables include variables associated with an oil or gas well, variables associated with an entity performing hydraulic fracturing in the oil or gas well, and variables associated with inhabitable regions surrounding the oil or gas well, to name a few. The multiple variables are processed by the data processing apparatus. In response to the processing, a zone around the oil or gas well within which to test for contamination due to the hydraulic fracturing in the oil or gas well is determined.
US09428994B2
The present disclosure relates to a monitor for a blowout preventer of a wellbore. The blowout preventer includes a housing, rams, and an actuator comprising a cylinder with a piston. The piston is operatively connectable with the ram and movable therewith. The monitor includes a monitor base operatively connectable to the cylinder (the monitor base having an interior side inside the cylinder and an exterior side outside the cylinder), an interior plate positionable inside the cylinder about the interior side of the base (the interior plate operatively connectable to the piston and movable therewith), an exterior plate positionable outside the cylinder about the exterior surface of the monitor base (the exterior plate coupled by magnets to the interior plate and rotatable therewith), and a trigger sensor operatively connectable about the monitor base and the exterior plate to detect rotation thereof whereby a position of the ram may be determined.
US09428991B1
A downhole tool and concomitant methodology for selectively opening and closing multiple frac stages and multiple production zones in the absence of an intervention step. A sliding frac valve is disposed between a fixed open sleeve and a fixed mandrel. Under the influence of an open flow port or a closed flow port, the sliding frac valve is caused to slide in a predetermined direction to trigger emplacement of a locking rib cage within a corresponding recess, thereby locking the tool in an open or closed position. An option is provided for selectively filtering sand and other particulate impurities using a similarly slidable sliding screen valve.
US09428987B2
A system and/or a method collects formation fluids using a single packer with expansion rings and/or an irregular sealing layer. The packer may have an expansion ring extending around an outer circumference. The expansion ring may seal a portion of a wellbore to sample fluid from a formation. An irregular sealing layer may facilitate leaking between drains of the packer. The irregular sealing layer may have grooves through which fluid may flow. The irregular sealing layer may be composed of fibers and/or plastic.
US09428968B2
A rotary drill bit for engaging an earth strata material includes an elongate drill bit body having an axial forward end and an axial rearward end, and a cutting insert attached to the axial forward end of the elongate drill bit body. The cutting insert has an elongate insert body rotatable about a central axis and includes a pair of symmetrical halves symmetrical about the central axis, each symmetrical half including a leading face, a top surface having a relief surface, a T-land surface extending between the leading face and the relief surface and a cutting edge formed at the intersection of the T-land surface and the relief surface. The cutting edge can have a negative axial rake angle. The relief surface can include a primary relief surface and a secondary relief surface.
US09428966B2
A cutting element for an earth-boring tool includes a volume of superabrasive material having a cutting face and a shaped feature on the cutting face. The shaped feature may include at least one of a recess extending into the volume of superabrasive material from the cutting face and a protrusion extending outward from the cutting face. A first portion of the cutting face may have a first surface roughness, and a second portion of the cutting face may have a second surface roughness greater than the first surface roughness of the first portion of the cutting face. The volume of superabrasive material may be disposed on a substrate. Methods of forming cutting elements may include forming one or more shaped features in a cutting face of the cutting elements. Earth-boring tools may include such cutting elements.
US09428962B2
A downhole tool for increasing a cross-sectional area of a wellbore is provided. The downhole tool may include a first drilling assembly including a first reaming tool for selectively increasing the cross-sectional area of the wellbore. A first ball seat may receive a first ball. At least one of the first ball seat and the first ball may deform to allow the first ball to pass through the first ball seat when a predetermined pressure is applied thereto. A first piston may be coupled to the first ball seat. The first ball seat and the first piston may stroke when the first ball is received within the first ball seat, thereby actuating the first reaming tool between an active state and an inactive state.
US09428961B2
A method for rotary steerable drilling, comprising calculating a first plurality of convergence plans if an estimated position of a drill bit is not within a defined margin of error of a desired point along a planned path for a borehole, calculating a second plurality of convergence plans if the estimated position of the drill bit is not within the margin of error, selecting a convergence plan that best satisfies a set of target parameters from the first and second plurality of convergence plans, producing a set of control parameters representing the selected convergence plan, transmitting one or more commands to one or more rotary steering components to actuate the one or more rotary steering components, in order to alter the planned path for the borehole in accordance with the set of control parameters, and drilling at least a portion of the borehole based on the set of control parameters.
US09428959B2
Systems and methods usable for drilling wells and performing other well operations include a drilling tool having inner and outer, counter-rotating drill bits. Opposing reactive torques generated by the inner bit and the outer bit can reduce or cancel the net reactive torque transmitted upwell, through the drill string. Counter rotation of the inner and the outer drill bits can be achieved by a gear system, which transfers torque from a single rotating tubular shaft to a tubular sleeve positioned concentrically about the tubular shaft. The gear system transfers torque from a first gear to a second gear, at a one-to-one rotation/torque ratio, but with an opposite direction of rotation. Tools connected to the tubular sleeve and tubular shaft can thereby be provided with opposing rotational motion.
US09428950B2
An arrangement for moving a movable furniture part, in particular a furniture part which is mounted pivotably about an axis, includes at least one ejection device for ejecting the movable furniture part from a closed position into an open position, and the at least one ejection device includes at least one force accumulator. The arrangement further includes a loading device for loading the at least one force accumulator by an opening or closing movement of the movable furniture part. At least one Bowden cable for transmitting force during the loading of the at least one force accumulator is arranged between the at least one ejection device and the loading device.
US09428949B2
A system of two door panels is defined with the panels arranged one above the other, each with independent horizontal movement operation. Each door panel is provided with a support and guide system that allows each to be moved horizontally into and away from an enclosure opening. The construction of the doors and supports enables attachment and operation on small lightweight vehicles in the nature of golf carts and similar vehicles. The construction details enable the panels to be secured onto to integrated into small light weight personal vehicles such as golf-carts and similar vehicles without substantially altering the vehicle's performance and operation.
US09428944B1
A liftgate/decklid assembly for a motor vehicle includes a liftgate panel hingedly connected to the vehicle to define a liftgate swing arc. A decklid panel is hingedly connected to the liftgate panel to define a decklid swing arc. The decklid and liftgate panels are not aligned, causing the decklid swing arc to be different from the liftgate swing arc. The assembly further includes a liftgate/decklid assembly closure mechanism including an articulating member configured for translating a portion of the closure mechanism between an orientation normal to the liftgate swing arc and an orientation normal to the decklid swing arc.
US09428933B2
A stake system and method configured to be used in substantially loose material to anchor an object are provided. In one embodiment, the stake system includes a flexible line and a stake member having an elongated portion and a distal portion. One end of the flexible line couples to the distal portion of the stake member. The distal portion of the stake member and the flexible line are driven into the loose material. The flexible line is moved to extend tautly from the distal portion and through the loose material at an angle such that an end of the flexible line above the loose material couples to the object.
US09428929B2
A new automatic pool skimmer cleaning system includes an auto clean skimmer, debris basin, and pump. A check valve line runs from the side of the skimmer to the debris basin. When the pump is run, suction on the check valve line opens the valve and allows water and accumulated debris in the skimmer to flow into the debris basin, where debris is caught in a debris basket. The filtered water is returned to the skimmer. Debris accumulates in the debris basin over a season and is occasionally emptied. The system's pump operates independently of the pool's filtration system and is run when the filtration pump is cycled off. For vacuuming, a vacuum attachment connects to the check valve line and allows vacuumed water to be passed directly through the debris basin and debris basket and then returned to the filtration system, avoiding the need to backwash the filter.
US09428928B2
A swimming pool with a circulating water flow includes a plurality of side walls adjacent a swimming compartment, one of the side walls including an outlet, at least one inlet positioned below and at a lateral side of the outlet, and a plenum arrangement on a side of the one wall opposite the swimming compartment. The plenum arrangement is in communication with each inlet and the outlet. A water propulsion device is positioned within the plenum arrangement and effects a pair of circuitous water flow paths within the swimming compartment. The swimming pool having an absence of a separate return flow plenum arrangement extending along the length of the swimming compartment.
US09428921B2
A method for installing and securing a trim system adjacent an edge of a building penetration, the trim system including at least one bracket that is attachable to a wall. The bracket having a center channel having opposed first and second side walls, at least one locking wedge located along each opposed side wall, and at least one tab extending outwardly from a side wall for gauging bracket distance from the edge of the penetration. The trim system also including at least one trim piece that is attachable to the bracket, the trim including at least two longitudinally extending slots disposed within the hidden surface of the trim for receiving the at least one locking wedge located along each opposed side wall of the bracket.
US09428919B2
Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a mechanical locking system comprising a tongue with rocker arms that allows locking by a vertical turning motion. The tongue has an inner part mounted in a sideward open fixation groove in a first edge and an outer part extending beyond a vertical plane, the inner part is fixed in the sideward open groove, wherein the tongue has at least one rocker arm extending in the length direction of the tongue, the rocker arm having a displaceable pressing protrusion that during locking is in contact with a second edge and a displaceable locking protrusion that in locked position cooperates with a tongue groove, wherein the locking protrusions are displaced outwardly away from the main tongue body when the pressing protrusion is pressed and displaced inwardly towards the inner part of the tongue.
US09428912B2
The present invention relates to a membrane comprising a bulkhead layer, wherein more than 50% by weight of the bulkhead layer is composed of PVC, and a barrier layer. The barrier layer can, on the one hand, be a barrier layer S1, wherein the barrier layer S1 has a polyvinyl alcohol layer comprising more than 50% by weight of copolymer PA, which is connected to the bulkhead layer by a polyurethane layer, wherein more than 10% by weight of the polyurethane layer is composed of polyurethane PUR. The barrier layer can, on the other hand, be a barrier layer S2, wherein the barrier layer S2 has a composition comprising 5-50% by weight of polyurethane PUR and 50-95% by weight of copolymer PA. The membranes according to the invention have significantly lower plasticizer migration compared to the membranes of the prior art and are distinguished by improved resistance to aging, particularly as regards the adherence of the barrier layer on the bulkhead layer, and imperviousness to damp.
US09428910B2
A backed paneling unit comprised of a backing portion that includes at least an elevated portion. A depth portion may also be included. An elevated portion and/or a depth portion may be formed using any suitable method including, but not limited to, molding, machining and heat stamping. Optionally, a backing portion may comprise a hydrophobic material. Such features may enable fluid flow (e.g., ventilation or liquid drainage) behind the backing portion. Additionally, the elevated portion of the backing portion may eliminate the need for the use of furring strips when installing, for example, siding.
US09428903B2
A tile hook and flashing assembly, having: (a) a lower flashing; (b) an upper flashing; (c) a tile hook; and (d) a seal, wherein tile hook extends through an aperture passing between overlapping portions of the upper and lower flashings, and wherein the seal extends across the aperture and seals around the tile hook.
US09428894B2
Method for producing a vanity unit assembly, includes: making a cutout in a receiving surface, leaving behind an edge made from a laminated layer overhanging the inside of the cutout; making, from a thin sheet of thermoplastic synthetic material(s), called the decorative film, a preform of the basin including a rim that is planar along the periphery thereof, towards the outside of the preform, the rim having a width smaller than the width of the laminated layer edge; installing the preform and the receiving surface in the mould so that the preform is inserted into the cutout formed in the support material and the planar rim of the preform comes into contact with the laminated layer edge; closing the mould and injecting a second thermoplastic synthetic material, between the concave shell and the preform. A vanity unit wherein the basin is flush with the receiving surface is also described.
US09428892B2
A jet regulator, having a non-circular profile when viewed in a flow direction, is provided. The jet regulator includes a jet regulator housing configured to be inserted into a water outlet of a sanitary outlet fitting from an outlet end side. The housing includes a latching part, which has at least one spring arm integrally formed on an outer periphery of the jet regulator housing, the at least one spring arm extending tangentially away from the housing, in the flow direction, toward a free arm end. The at least one spring arm is resiliently biased away from the housing.
US09428888B2
A flushing device includes an enclosure having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface defining an interior of the enclosure and the outer surface defining an exterior of the enclosure, the inner surface and the outer surface further defining an access opening proximate an upper portion of the enclosure; a discharge conduit; a platform situated within the enclosure, the platform having a top surface and a bottom surface, the platform movable to proximate the access opening; and a U-shaped rigid fluid routing support pipe mounted to the platform and in fluid communication with the discharge conduit.
US09428885B2
Disclosed is a guidance system that helps an earthmoving machine operator to control exactly to what elevation to dig. The system includes an electronic sensing device and a display monitor. In one embodiment, the electronic sensing device includes a distance measuring sensor (LDM), an elevation detecting sensor, an orientation sensor, and a steering mechanism for the LDM. The sensing device is mounted to an earthmoving machine, and sends signals to the display showing the machine operator where to move the digging tool for digging to the desired elevation. The various sensors in the sensing device are calibrated at the factory, so the sensing device can be mounted to an earthmoving machine and then be immediately used by that machine without needing any calibration that involves the machine itself, which is a huge advantage for the equipment operator. The measurements are made via non-contact sensors, thereby preserving the jobsite surface.
US09428875B2
Provided is a pneumatic fender that suppresses damage to a flexible hollow body and an energy-absorbing body and exhibits improved ship sway reduction effects. A pneumatic fender is provided with an orifice that allows for communication between an interior space of a flexible hollow body and the interior space of the casing, and a safety valve that opens and allows for communication between the internal space of the flexible hollow body and the internal space of the casing by opening when the internal pressure of the flexible hollow body reaches a predetermined pressure.
US09428874B2
A plow edge having improved durability and performance is provided which can comprise an elastomeric material, for example, a styrene elastomeric material. The present disclosure provides a plow blade edge system for mounting to a mold board of a plow comprising an adapter blade, at least two elastomeric blade segments wherein each segment is selectively reversible to present first and second edges; a clamp bar wherein the clamp bar is mounted to the adapter blade with the at least two elastomeric blade segments secured therebetween; and, each of the at least two elastomeric blade segments secured selectively in a first orientation or a second orientation.
US09428873B2
A pet scoop assembly and method of use is provided. The assembly includes a scoop member; a receptacle detachably engageable with the scoop member; and a door disposed intermediate the two. A disposable bag may line the receptacle and be clamped in place between the receptacle and scoop member. The door opens inwardly into the receptacle. When the scoop assembly is turned into a vertical orientation, the door opens by gravity or by the weight of gathered pet waste sliding onto the door. A region of the scoop member adjacent the door is angled to allow pet waste to slide readily from the scoop member into the receptacle.
US09428868B2
The trailer for a children's vehicle is characterized by a tub for accommodating spreading material, a drive casing on which the tub is positioned, a drive axle which is rotatably supported in the drive casing and is connected to a drive wheel, preferably a drive gear, for rotation therewith, a gearing, preferably a train of gears in the drive casing, which meshes with the drive wheel, and a spreading disc which is rotatably coupled with the gearing, wherein the tub comprises a bottom with an exit opening for the spreading material that is arranged above the spreading disc, so that exiting spreading material falls onto the spreading disc.
US09428867B2
A railroad tie plate dispenser includes a feed chute having a top portion for receiving a stack of railroad tie plates and a push tab at a bottom portion of the feed chute for stripping railroad tie plates from the feed chute through an opening in the feed chute to dispense railroad tie plates from a front side of the feed chute.
US09428865B2
Paper strength agents comprising a vegetable protein or polysaccharide and a cross linker are disclosed. Methods of preparing such agents and using them to increase the strength of a pulp product are also disclosed.
US09428861B2
A device for manufacturing, processing or finishing a web-shaped material web, in particular a fiber-material, paper, tissue or cardboard web, includes an interior space and a housing which, at least in part, surrounds the interior space and has an inner face and an outer face. The interior space has a temperature which is different from that of the surroundings of the housing, and the inner face and/or the outer face, at least in partial-regions, is/are provided with a thermal-insulation layer composed of at least one coating.
US09428846B2
A system for removing a plastic wrap from a cylindrical module includes a conveyor transporting the cylindrical module toward a disperser with the cylindrical axis of the module parallel to the direction of conveyor movement. The direction of the wrap around the module is determined and the cover is removed during rotation of the module, either by unwrapping the plastic or by slitting the plastic and then rotating the module. In one embodiment, the equipment used to handle a cylindrical module is moved out of the path of movement of a conventional rectangular module so an installation can handle both rectangular and wrapped cylindrical modules.
US09428841B2
Disclosed is an apparatus wherein an electric circuit with at least a power source, two electrodes and a plating solution is established. The plating solution comprises a solvent and, dissolved in the solvent, at least a first metal and a second metal. The power source supplies a current to the electric circuit during a plating process. The amount of electric current is above that required to achieve the overpotential for plating the first metal, but below that required to achieve the overpotential for plating the second metal such that only the first metal plates. This apparatus can be implemented, for example, in conjunction with a plating apparatus or an analysis and dosing apparatus of an electrodeposition system. In the case of an analysis and dosing apparatus, additional components further allow for the addition of that specific metal back into the plating solution. Also disclosed herein are associated methods.
US09428831B2
A heat equalizer includes a container structure, a material feed pipe, and a heating mechanism. The container structure includes an inner container and an outer container. In the outer container, a working fluid is held. Respective upper ends of the inner container and the outer container are joined to form a hollow portion between the inner container and the outer container. The material feed pipe extends from an outside of the container structure to the inner surface of the inner container. The heating mechanism is placed at the bottom of the outer container. At the bottom surface of the inner container, a plurality of protrusions protruding toward the inside of the inner container and depressions formed by the bottom surface depressed inward of the protrusions and capable of receiving the vaporized working fluid are formed.
US09428821B2
A gold alloy having, expressed by weight, about 24.5 to 25.5% Au, about 19.0 to 23.0% Ag, about 43.0 to 47.0% Cu, about 6.0 to 10.0% Zn, about 0.05 to 0.30% Si, and about 0.005 to 0.03% Ir. Alternatively, a alloy having, expressed by weight, about 16-17% Au, about 19-23% Ag, about 50-55% Cu, about 6-10% Zn, about 0.05-0.30% Si, and about 0.005-0.03% Ir.
US09428818B2
A method for reducing material containing iron oxide in a solid bed in a reduction shaft and converting the material to pre-reduced material in the reduction shaft by introducing pre-reduction gas into the solid bed at a pressure p1. Pre-reduced material is introduced from the reduction shaft into a melter gasifier and there finally reduced by reduction gas under a pressure p2. A top gas at pressure p3 is diverted from above the solid bed out of the reduction shaft. A dust exhaust gas having a pressure p4 is diverted from the solid bed out of the reduction shaft. The relationships p1>p4 and p1>p3, and preferably also p4>p3, apply. A device carries out such a method.
US09428814B2
This document provides methods and materials for detecting target nucleic acid. For example, methods and materials for detecting the presence or absence of target nucleic acid, methods and materials for detecting the amount of target nucleic acid present within a sample, kits for detecting the presence or absence of target nucleic acid, kits for detecting the amount of target nucleic acid present within a sample, and methods for making such kits are provided.
US09428811B2
Provided herein are methods of characterizing the epigenetic signature of human induced pluripotent stem cells. The methods are useful in identifying human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), diagnostic markers for incomplete hiPSCs reprogramming, and characterization of the efficacy of different reprogramming techniques.
US09428808B2
This invention provides markers, methods, biochips and kits for milk quality detection. The present invention particularly provides a method for milk quality detection by means of detecting the particular microRNAs in milk, so as to establish the standard of raw milk content.
US09428806B2
Systems and methods for specific nucleic acid (NA) sequence detection that do not rely on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for target sequence amplification and do not require any special reagents other than a complementary sequence capture probe conjugated to spherical beads.
US09428805B2
A technique is provided for forming a nanodevice for sequencing. A bottom metal contact is disposed at a location in an insulator that is on a substrate. A nonconducting material is disposed on top of the bottom metal contact and the insulator. A carbon nanotube is disposed on top of the nonconducting material. Top metal contacts are disposed on top of the carbon nanotube at the location of the bottom metal contact, where the top metal contacts are formed at opposing ends of the carbon nanotube at the location. The carbon nanotube is suspended over the bottom metal contact at the location, by etching away the nonconducting material under the carbon nanotube to expose the bottom metal contact as a bottom of a trench, while leaving the nonconducting material immediately under the top metal contacts as walls of the trench.
US09428800B2
A system for holding at least one of sample and reagent for analysis. The system includes a pair of parallel covers, at least one of which is light transmissive, of which pair a light transmissive cover forms a top, and of which pair the other forms a bottom. A frame is disposed between the covers to define, in relation to the covers, an interior volume. The frame and the covers are associated with one another to form a case, the case being substantially tight to liquids. A microfluidic array is disposed in the interior volume. The array includes a sheet of material having a pair of opposed surfaces, a thickness, and a plurality of through-holes running through the thickness between the surfaces, the through-holes containing at least one of sample and reagent.
US09428798B2
A polynucleotide comprising a first region the 5′ end of which is complementary to a portion of a target nucleic acid, a cleavable second region, a third region having a stem-loop structure, and a fourth region complementary to the 3′ end of the first region, and use of the polynucleotide, as well as a composition comprising two such polynucleotides each of which hybridize different strands of a double-stranded target nucleic acid, and methods and kits using the same for amplifying targets.
US09428779B2
The present disclosure provides novel proteins that when over expressed in algae result in an increase or change in fatty acid and/or glycerol lipid production and/or accumulation, without a substantial decrease in the growth rate of the alga or the break down of algal components, such as chlorophyll. The present disclosure also describes methods of using the novel proteins to increase or change the production and/or accumulation of fatty acids and/or glycerol lipids in algae. In addition, these proteins are useful tools in obtaining information about the fatty acid and triacyglyceride (TAG) synthetic pathways in algae.
US09428777B2
Objects of the present invention are to provide a transformant which can produce lactic acid with high productivity without requiring neutralization with an alkali, a method for producing the same, and a method for producing lactic acid by using the transformant. Namely, they are a transformant, in which Schizosaccharomyces pombe is used as a host, a lactate dehydrogenase gene of Lactobacillus pentosus is introduced, and a part of a gene cluster encoding a pyruvate decarboxylase in the Schizosaccharomyces pombe host is deleted or inactivated; a method for producing the transformant; and a method for producing lactic acid by using the transformant.
US09428774B2
The present invention relates to a mutant microorganism, which is selected from the group consisting of genus Mannheimia, genus Actinobacillus and genus Anaerobiospirillum, producing homo-succinic acid and a method for producing homo-succinic acid using the same, and more particularly to a mutant microorganism producing succinic acid at a high concentration while producing little or no other organic acids in anaerobic conditions, which is obtained by disrupting a gene encoding lactate dehydrogenase (ldhA), a gene encoding phosphotransacetylase (pta), and a gene encoding acetate kinase (ackA), without disrupting a gene encoding pyruvate formate lyase (pfl), as well as a method for producing succinic acid using the same. The inventive mutant microorganism has the property of having a high growth rate and succinic acid productivity while producing little or no organic acids, as compared to the prior strains producing succinic acid. Thus, the inventive mutant microorganism is useful to produce succinic acid for industrial use.
US09428773B2
The present disclosure provides recombinant cyanobacteria having acetolactate synthase activity and acetolactate decarboxylase activity, as well as recombinant cyanobacteria having acetolactate synthase activity, acetolactate decarboxylase activity, and secondary alcohol dehydrogenase activity. Methods for the production of the recombinant cyanobacteria, as well as methods for use thereof for production of acetoin and 2,3-butanediol from carbon dioxide and light are also provided.
US09428772B2
A method for producing fermentation products from lignocellulosic biomass is provided. Lignocellulosic biomass is composed of lignocellulosic fibers which are hollow and primarily contain cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Lignin is concentrated in the outer fiber wall and glues the fibers into bundles, but the inner fiber wall has a much lower concentration of lignin and has more easily accessible cellulose and hemicellulose. This method uses vacuum infusion to infuse enzymes into the lumen (hollow center) of lignocellulosic fibers to hydrolyze the hemicellulose and cellulose to produce sugars and oligomers, and then uses cycles of vacuum pressure to pump these homogeneous reagents and sugars and oligomers into and out of the lumen. These reagents are homogenized by mixing the reagents with process water using turbulent mixing to produce a homogeneous reagent. The sugars may be fermented, such as with yeast, to a fermentation product, such as ethanol or butanol.
US09428770B2
The invention provides a general and facile method to obtain secondary metabolites from fungal sources. The invention is based on the discovery that the fungal gene veA and protein encoded thereby regulates the activity of multiple secondary metabolite gene clusters in fungi. Over expression of the gene veA provides increased production of secondary metabolites in engineered cells. In particular, such a method of increasing secondary metabolite production allows the production of improved yields of valuable secondary metabolite products.
US09428768B2
The present invention relates to improved methods for producing adenovirus compositions wherein host cells are grown in a bioreactor and purified by size partitioning purification to provide purified adenovirus compositions.
US09428766B2
The current invention reports a method for the recombinant production of a secreted heterologous immunoglobulin in a CHO cell comprising the following steps: i) providing a CHO cell, which is adapted to growth in suspension culture, adapted to growth in serum-free medium, mycoplasma free, and virus free, ii) providing a vector comprising a prokaryotic origin of replication, a first nucleic acid conferring resistance to a prokaryotic selection agent, a second nucleic acid encoding the heavy chain of said heterologous immunoglobulin, a third nucleic acid encoding the light chain of said heterologous immunoglobulin, a fourth nucleic acid conferring resistance to a eukaryotic selection agent, iii) transfecting said CHO cell, wherein said transfecting comprises a) transfecting said CHO cell with said vector comprising a fourth nucleic acid conferring resistance to a first eukaryotic selection agent, b) selecting a CHO cell by growth in cultivation medium containing said first eukaryotic selection agent, c) transfecting said selected CHO cell with said vector comprising a fourth nucleic acid conferring resistance to a second eukaryotic selection agent different to said first eukaryotic selection agent, d) selecting a CHO cell by selected growth in cultivation medium containing said first and said second eukaryotic selection agent, iv) cultivating said transfected CHO cell in a medium in the presence of said first and second eukaryotic selection agent, under conditions suitable for the expression of said second, and third nucleic acid, and v) recovering said secreted heterologous immunoglobulin from the cultivation medium.
US09428762B2
Methods and composition for the production of sorghum hybrids with selected and different flowering times are provided. In accordance with the invention, a substantially continual and high-yield harvest of sorghum is provided. Improved methods of seed production are also provided.
US09428754B2
The invention relates to the use of a protein with recombinase activity to catalyze a site-specific DNA recombination and a method for producing a site-specific DNA recombination. The invention is applicable alone or in combination with other recombinase systems for genetic manipulation, for example in medical research. The objective of the invention is solved by the use of a protein with recombinase activity to catalyze a site-specific DNA recombination at, preferably at two, recognition sites that are identical or reverse complementary to each other. The invention also includes a method for producing a site-specific DNA recombination comprising the steps of a) providing a cell comprising at least two recognition sites that are identical or reverse complementary to each other; and b) contacting a protein with recombinase activity with the recognition sites, thereby producing the site-specific DNA-recombination.
US09428744B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a polymer/biological entities alloy, comprising a step of mixing a polymer and biological entities that degrade it, during a heat treatment, said heat treatment being performed at a temperature T above room temperature and said biological entities being resistant to said temperature T, characterized in that said biological entities are chosen from enzymes that degrade said polymer and microorganisms that degrade said polymer.
US09428741B2
The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having alpha-L-arabinofuranosidase activity and isolated nucleic acid sequences encoding the polypeptides, such that the nucleic acid is operably linked to a heterologous control sequence for expression. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the nucleic acid sequences as well as methods for producing and using the polypeptides set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2 and fragments of SEQ ID NO: 2.
US09428740B2
A substrate or coating is provided that includes a lipase with enzymatic activity toward a component of a fingerprint. Also provided is a process for facilitating the removal of fingerprints is provided wherein an inventive substrate or coating including a lipase is capable of enzymatically degrading of one or more components of the fingerprint to facilitate fingerprint removal from the substrate or said coating. Applying heat to the substrate or coating increases the rate of fingerprint removal.
US09428738B2
The present invention falls within the field of biotechnology. More specifically, the invention relates to reverse transcriptases expressed and purified in bacteria and having the amino acid sequence of the reverse transcriptase of a human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) group O, modified at positions 358, 359 and 360; and variants of this enzyme that contain additional changes at positions 355 and 357 or at 478 or position 69 (in this case accompanied by an insertion of two amino acids). These polymerases have greater activity than the non-mutated enzyme at high temperatures (above 60° C.). In addition, they retain the capacity for DNA synthesis at temperatures greater than 70° C. Moreover, the copying fidelity of these enzymes is not significantly different from that of the non-mutated reverse transcriptase.
US09428735B2
This invention relates, e.g., to a method for differentiating mammalian (e.g., human) pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) into smooth muscle-like cells (SMLCs) in vitro, comprising a) plating a single-cell suspension of PSCs that are smaller than 50 μm at a seeding concentration of about 5×104 cells/cm2-about 1×105 cells/cm2 onto a suitable surface, and culturing the cells under conditions which prevent the PSCs from aggregating and induce differentiation of the PSCs into vasculogenic progenitor cells; b) harvesting the cultured cells of step a) and separating them into a single cell suspension of cells that are smaller than 50 μm; and c) plating the single cell suspension of step b) at a seeding concentration of about 1×104 cells/cm2-about 5×104 cells/cm2 on a suitable surface, and culturing the cells in a differentiation medium that is supplemented with platelet-derived growth factor BB (PDGF-BB) and transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF β1), for a sufficient period of time to allow the vasculogenic progenitor cells to mature into SMLCs. In one embodiment of the invention, the cells from step c) are further subjected to a shear force of at least 1 dyne/cm2 for a time period sufficient to enhance differentiation, maturation and/or functionality of the cells.
US09428727B2
The present application describes an optimized medium for growth of mammalian cells as well as polypeptide production. The cell culture medium is characterized by a Sow ratio of sodium to potassium ions, it further relates to the method of producing polypeptides using such cell culture media. Sn another aspect, the method of polypeptide production can also comprise a temperature shift and/or a pH-shift to further optimize growth and product yield.
US09428723B2
A micro-incubator manifold for improved microfluidic configurations and systems and methods of manufacture and operation for a manifold and automated microfluidic systems.
US09428722B2
Biomass feedstocks (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) are processed to produce useful products, such as fuels. For example, systems are described that can convert feedstock materials to a sugar solution, which can then be fermented to produce ethanol. Biomass feedstock is dispersed in a liquid medium and then saccharified.
US09428718B2
Disclosed is a liquid cleaning mixture used to remove DMSO and other solvents and compounds that may build up on the surface of dielectric barrier material in a plasma cleaning device, where the DMSO, solvent and compounds have become contaminants.
US09428717B2
Disclosed are compositions comprising 90 to 99 weight percent trans-1,2-dichloroethylene, from 0.1 to 8 weight percent methylperfluoroheptene ethers and from 0.1 to 2.0 weight percent of 1,1,1,2,2,3,4,5,5,5-decafluoropentane, wherein the composition is non-flammable. The disclosure further provides a method for removing residue from a surface of an article comprising: (a) contacting the article with a composition comprising a composition of MPHE, HFC-4310mee and trans-1,2-dichloroethylene; and (b) recovering the surface from the composition.
US09428716B2
The present invention relates to the use of oligohydroxybenzoic acid derivatives in washing and cleaning agents in order to improve washing or cleaning performance with respect to bleachable stains.
US09428708B2
A solid coating film (41) is formed on a surface of a screw member (25) of a temperature sensor (1), serving as an internal combustion engine attachment component, by use of a lubricating coating composition containing, as solid ingredients for forming the coating film (41), an organosilicon polymer having a polycarbosilane skeleton cross-linked by a metallic element, and a solid lubricant composed of at least one member selected from among molybdenum disulfide, boron nitride, graphite, and mica, and an organic solvent serving as the solvent for the solid ingredients. By virtue of the coating film (41), high seizure resistance can be attained.
US09428700B2
An improved hydrovisbreaking process for reducing the viscosity of a liquid hydrocarbon feedstock is provided. A substantially single-phase hydrogen-enriched liquid hydrocarbon feedstock is obtained by mixing the feedstock with hydrogen gas and flashing off the excess hydrogen gas. Comparatively smaller reactor vessels can be used without a gas recycle system, thus reducing the capital cost of hydrovisbreaking process. Further the need for cutter stocks can be minimized or eliminated.
US09428696B2
The invention relates to a process for the production of synthesis gas by the use of autothermal reforming or catalytic partial oxidation in which, after removal of water, effluent gas from the ATR or CPO is recycled to the feed of the ATR or CPO.
US09428684B2
An aqueous fluid composition useful for the recovery of hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation, including a mixture of water, a water soluble polymer, an inorganic salt and at least one zwitterionic surfactant and methods of using same.
US09428674B2
A copolymer latex for adhesives contains a copolymer latex obtained by copolymerizing an aliphatic conjugated diene monomer with another monomer copolymerizable with this, an alkali metal salt of a carboxylic acid, and a divalent metal carbonate.
US09428669B2
A two-part polyurethane composition including a first pack and a second pack. The first pack includes at least one hyperbranched copolymer having OH groups and which is prepared from at least one or more monomer(s) having at least two unsaturated C—C bonds and one or more monomer(s) having one unsaturated C—C bond and one hydroxyl group in the presence of a cobalt (II) complex. The second pack comprises at least one polyisocyanate. Disclosed is a two-part polyurethane composition which has low viscosity, long pot life, fast cure, excellent weathering and UV resistance and which is suitable for use as a coating.
US09428666B2
Hydrophilic, self-cleaning coating compositions and methods to make and use the compositions are disclosed. The coatings comprise perlite and/or expanded perlite that are activated with hydrophilic agents. The perlites when incorporated in paints provide hydrophilic, self-cleaning and/or biocidal property to the coating.
US09428646B2
A halogen-free resin composition includes (A) 100 parts by weight of polyphenylene oxide resin; (B) 10 to 50 parts by weight of maleimide resin; (C) 5 to 100 parts by weight of polybutadiene copolymer; (D) 5 to 30 parts by weight of cyanate ester resin; and (E) 15 to 150 parts by weight of phosphazene. The halogen-free resin composition is characterized by specific ingredients and proportions thereof to achieve circuit board laminate properties, such as a high glass transition temperature, low coefficient of thermal expansion, low dielectric properties, heat resistance, flame retardation, and being halogen-free, and thus is applicable to the manufacturing of a prepreg or resin film, thereby being applicable to the manufacturing of metal laminates and printed circuit boards.
US09428643B2
Disclosed herein is a method of reducing the amount of antimony flame retardant compound in a flame retardant composition which comprises using calcium oxide or a combination of talc and calcium oxide as a filler in the composition, wherein the composition comprises specific amounts of a polyester, a brominated flame retardant compound, an antimony flame retardant compound, and a filler comprising calcium oxide or a combination of talc and calcium oxide. Also disclosed are compositions prepared by such a method and articles derived therefrom.
US09428640B2
Disclosed is a polymer including a polymer polymerized of a phosphorous-based monomer, a polymer polymerized of a nitrogen-based monomer, or a polymer polymerized of the phosphorous-based monomer and the nitrogen-based monomer. The phosphorous-based monomer has the formula as follows: and the nitrogen-based monomer has the formula as follows: R1 and R3 consists of hydrogen, a phenyl group, a C7-12 alkyl phenyl group, a C1-12 alkyl group, a C2-12 ether group, a C1-12 alkoxyl group, or a C1-12 hydroxylalkyl group, respectively. R2 and R4 consists of a phenylene group, a C7-12 alkyl phenylene group, a C1-12 alkylene group, a C2-12 ether group, a C1-12 alkylene glycol group, or a C1-12 hydroxylalkylene group, respectively.
US09428636B2
An ethylene/α-olefin copolymer comprising units derived from ethylene; and units derived from at least one α-olefin; wherein the ethylene/α-olefin copolymer has a density in the range of from 0.90 to 0.94 g/cc; a melt index (I2) in the range of from 0.05 to 50 dg/min; an Mw/Mn of from 3 to 5; and from 300 to 500 vinyl unsaturations per 1,000,000 carbon atoms in the ethylene/α-olefin copolymer is provided. Also provided is a process for producing an ethylene/α-olefin copolymer comprising: (1) polymerizing ethylene and one or more α-olefins in a polymerization reactor; (2) thereby producing an enhanced melt strength ethylene/α-olefin copolymer having from 300 to 500 vinyl unsaturation units per 1,000,000 carbon atoms, a density in the range of from 0.90 to 0.94 g/cc; a melt index (I2) in the range of from 0.05 to 50 dg/min; and a Mw/Mn of from 3 to 5.
US09428634B2
A one or more component moisture cure Organosiloxane composition that has strength in an uncured state (commonly referred to in the industry as “green strength”) and its uses. The composition comprises an organopolysiloxane polymer having a viscosity of at least 1000 mPa·s at 25° C. and not less than two silicon-bonded hydroxyl groups and/or silicon bonded hydrolysable groups; a suitable catalyst; a cross-linker adapted to react with organopolysiloxane polymer when catalysed with the catalyst; and optionally one or more rheology modifiers and 0 to 10% by weight of the composition of one or more extenders or plasticisers but in particular the composition contains a precipitated calcium carbonate filler in an amount of from 50 to 70 weight % of the total composition.
US09428631B2
Accelerator solution suitable for forming a redox system with peroxides, comprising (i) an iron compound selected from iron carboxylates, iron 1,3-dioxo complexes, and iron dicylcopentadienyl complexes, (ii) a compound of a second transition metal; the weight ratio of iron:second transition metal being in the range 3:1 to 200:1, with the proviso that the accelerator solution is essentially free of ascorbic acid.
US09428629B2
Methods of adjusting the properties of a composition are provided. The compositions comprise a polymer-containing matrix and a filler comprising a hygroscopic salt. Preferred such salts comprise a cage compound selected from the group consisting of borane cage compounds, carborane cage compounds, metal complexes thereof, residues thereof, mixtures thereof, and/or agglomerations thereof, where the cage compound is not covalently bound to the matrix polymer.
US09428628B2
The present invention is directed to a functionalized elastomer having the formula (P-Bn)q-X where P is a polydiene segment, B is a styrenic monomer residue, n is the number of styrenic monomer residues, and Bn is a polystyrenic segment; X is a multifunctional terminator residue, and q is the number of (P-Bn) chains coupled to X; wherein for q=1, the weight percent of the functionalized elastomer is at least 90 percent by weight.
US09428618B2
The invention relates to a method for producing halogenated oligomers and/or halogenated polymers of elements of the third to fifth main group, wherein the halogenated oligomers and/or halogenated polymers are synthesized from a first chain-forming agent and a second chain-forming agent in a plasma-chemical reaction. At least one of the two chain-forming agents is a halogen compound of an element of the third to fifth main group.
US09428614B2
A high-strength high-modulus polyimide fiber and its preparation method pertain to the technical field of high-performance organic fiber. This fiber includes the polyimide (PI) fiber made from 3,3′,4,4′-biphenyl tetracarboxylic diandhydride (BPDA), p-phenylenediamine (pPDA) and 2-(4-aminophenyl)-1H-benzimidazol-5-amine (BIA), wherein the molar ratio between PPDA and BIA is 1:10˜3:1. During the synthesis, other diamine and diandhydride monomers may also be added. In the preparation process, the gradient temperature reaction method and one-step continuous preparation method are adopted, the synthesis and processing difficulty caused by the increase of the content of BIA is overcome, the problem of poor uniformity and stability of fiber is solved and PI fiber with high strength and high modulus is obtained. Its strength may reach 4.5 GPa and modulus may reach 201 GPa. Moreover, the sources of the raw materials are extensive, the spinning process is continuous, the cost is low, the efficiency is high and industrial production may be realized.
US09428611B2
The present invention relates to novel catalysts for the production of cast polyamide, to processes for production thereof and to the use thereof.
US09428610B2
Composite particles comprising core particles completely or partially coated with a precipitated polymer, where the d50 median diameter of the core particles is from 1 to 70 μm and wherein the core particle is an inorganic material which does not include titanium dioxide are provided. A method to prepare the particles includes dissolution of a polymer in a solvent and precipitation of the polymer in the presence of a suspension of the core particles. Further provided is a layer by layer moulding process employing the composite particles and mouldings obtained therefrom.
US09428608B2
The present invention provides an aromatic polycarbonate resin composition having a high molecular weight and less amount of a heterologous structure, retaining good qualities, and excellent in thermal stability, and an improved preparation process thereof.
US09428607B2
The provided are a polylactic acid-polyalkylene glycol copolymer and a composition comprising the same which have excellent crystallization rate, wherein the polylactic acid-polyalkylene glycol copolymer is prepared by melt-reacting polylactic acid with polyalkylene glycol of which one end group is substituted with a functional group and has improved eco-friendliness, injection moldability, and excellent heat resistance which makes it to be suitably applied to various molded articles requiring great heat resistance, such as disposables, kitchen utensils and containers, electric-electronic parts and automobile parts.
US09428603B2
The present invention provides a process for preparing copolymers, by oxidatively polymerizing thiophene or substituted thiophene such as 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene or 3-hexyl thiophene in presence of a reactive surfactant, as aqueous dispersions using catalyst such as FeCl3 and peroxide as the oxidizing agent.
US09428593B2
A low temperature polymerization reactor for the production of butyl rubber by catalytic polymerization of isobutylene with small amount of a conjugated diolefin such as isoprene includes: an extended upper head with fluid deflector fixed to the top tube-sheet, the shapes of the head and deflector being optimized in order to reach a very homogeneous slurry velocity in the rows of tubes and to minimize the pressure drop due to the inversion of flow from up-flow to down-flow and to the entrance of the slurry in the tubes; an hemispheric bottom head with fluid deflectors placed between the impeller and the bottom itself and designed to minimize the pressure drop due to the inversion of flow from down-flow to up-flow; and straightening baffles inside the draft tube, which shape and dimensions are optimized to turn the radial velocity components produced by the rotation of the impeller into axial velocity components.
US09428591B2
This invention concerns a biopolymer consisting of a polysaccharide composed of galactose (50-90%), glucose (1-25%), mannose (1-25%) and rhamnose (0.5-20%), which may additionally contain, in trace amounts, xylose, fucose, ribose, arabinose and/or fructose. The galactose-rich polymer also contains non-saccharide components, namely, acyl groups. This invention also concerns a process for the production of the galactose-rich polymer, by microbial fermentation using glycerol or glycerol-rich substrates as carbon source, and recovery of the polymer from the culture broth. From the process for the production of the galactose-rich polymer results the co-production of intracellular biopolymers, namely, polyhydroxyalkanoates. This invention also concerns to the application of the galactose-rich polymer and the products of its partial or complete degradation and/or derivatization, namely, galacto-oligosaccharides, galactose, rhamnose and others, by physical, chemical and/or biological methods, in food, agricultural, textile and paper industries, pharmaceutical and cosmetic products, oil and metal recovery in mining industry, industrial waste treatment and wastewater treatment, among others.
US09428589B2
Described herein are compounds and methods for tethering proteins. For example, dimers of proteins, including SOD1 and DJ-1, are described, where the dimers are formed by the covalent bonding of a cysteine on the first monomer to a cysteine on the second monomer via a cyclic disulfide linker. The covalently attached dimers exhibit increased stabilization.
US09428583B2
The present disclosure relates to antibodies targeting LRP6 and compositions and methods of use thereof.
US09428582B2
The invention relates to a method for the treatment of a disease susceptible to anti-EGFR treatment, comprising the step of administering, to a human being in nee thereof, a combination of an anti-EGFR agent and an anti-neutrophil-chemoattracta agent, wherein said anti-neutrophil-chemoattractant agent is administered in a dosage regimen that is sufficient to reduce one or more undesired dermatological side-effects the anti-EGFR agent. In one embodiment, the anti-EGFR agent is an anti-EGF antibody and the anti-neutrophil-chemoattractant agent is an anti-IL-8 antibody.
US09428579B2
An anti-IL-12 antibody that binds to a portion of the IL-12 protein corresponding to at least one amino acid residue selected from the group consisting of residues 15, 17-21, 23, 40-43, 45-47, 54-56 and 58-62 of the amino acid sequence of the p40 subunit of IL-12, including isolated nucleic acids that encode at least one anti-IL-12 antibody, vectors, host cells, transgenic animals or plants, and methods of making and using thereof have applications in diagnostic and/or therapeutic compositions, methods and devices.
US09428576B2
The present invention is related to the anti-p40 antibodies, kits, cocktails, and use of anti-p40 antibodies for detection of cancer.
US09428573B2
The invention provides soluble fusion protein complexes having at least two soluble fusion proteins. The first fusion protein is a biologically active polypeptide covalently linked to an interleukin-15 (IL-15) polypeptide or a functional fragment thereof. The second fusion protein is a second biologically active polypeptide covalently linked to a soluble interleukin-15 receptor alpha (IL-15Rα) polypeptide or a functional fragment thereof. In the complexes of the invention, one or both of the first and second fusion proteins further includes an immunoglobulin Fc domain or a functional fragment thereof; and the first fusion protein binds to the soluble IL-15Rα domain of the second fusion protein to form a soluble fusion protein complex. The invention further provides methods for making and using the complexes of the invention.
US09428571B2
Provided herein are various processes for the improved production of antibody producing organisms, antibody producing tissues, antibody producing cells and antibodies. In certain embodiments, provided herein are methods for rapidly producing antibody producing organisms, tissues, cells and antibodies derived from humans, organisms, plants or cells that are genetically altered to over-express certain proteins.
US09428568B2
Compositions and methods are provided for modulating cell-cell fusion by using agents that modulate expression, activity, or function of intermediate-conductance calcium-activated potassium (SK4) channel. In some embodiments, the compositions and methods of the invention provide for inhibition of multi-nucleated osteoclastogenesis and cell-cell fusion, especially cell fusion involving macrophages. In such embodiments, the compositions can comprise inhibitory nucleic acids, monoclonal antibodies or small molecule inhibitors of the SK4 channels and find use in preventing and/or treating various diseases or disorders including bone loss, autoimmune and inflammatory diseases or disorders, implant and transplant rejection, and cancer metastasis. In other embodiments, the compositions and methods of the invention provide for activation of cell-cell fusion. Also provided are methods to screen for SK4 channel modulators (inhibitors or activators) that modulate cell-cell fusion, particularly macrophage cell fusion.
US09428563B2
The present invention provides fusion polypeptides comprising polypeptide ligands that are modified by circular permutation and fused to at least one polypeptide fusion partner wherein such fusion polypeptides have new, improved or enhanced biological functions or activities. Such improvements include, but are not limited to, increased binding affinity, increased activity, increased agonist activity (super agonist), antagonist activity, increased accessibility, increased flexibility of the active site, increased stability, broader and/or changed substrate specificity, and combinations thereof.
US09428559B2
Methods of identifying genes conferring ethanol tolerance in yeasts, genes that confer ethanol tolerance, and mutant strains used to identify such genes are described. A gene herein designated HpETT1 was isolated from the yeast Hansenula polymorpha. Expression of HpETT1 in an ethanol sensitive mutant H. polymorpha strain designated 7E complimented ethanol sensitivity of the mutant. When multiple copies of the HpETT1 were integrated into the genome and overexpressed, the transformed strain demonstrated approximately 10-fold greater resistance to ethanol and resistance to the protein misfolding agent AZC. Expression of HpETT1 also increased ethanol tolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. HpEtt1 has 39% sequence identity to a previously identified protein from S. cerevisiae denoted MPE1, however, the MPE1 gene does not confer ethanol resistance to the 7E mutant. Another gene from the yeast Pichia stipitis was identified that encodes an orthologue protein having 37% identity to HpETT1 herein designated PsETT1 and also confers ethanol resistance to the 7E mutant.
US09428558B2
The present invention relates to methods for producing a polypeptide comprising using a signal peptide foreign to the polypeptide, nucleic acid constructs comprising a first and a second nucleotide sequence encoding the signal peptide and the polypeptide and expression vectors and host cells comprising said nucleic acid construct. The signal peptide is the LQ2 peptide which is a hybrid of sequence from the signal peptide of alpha amylase from Bacillus licheniformis and of alpha amylase from Bacillus amyloliquefaciens.
US09428557B2
Tat protein produced in bulk culture is inactive when induced at conventional optical densities but can be obtained in biologically active form when induced during the logarithmic growth phase.
US09428555B2
The invention relates to a truncated L1 protein of the Human Papillomavirus Type 16, a virus-like particle consisting of the protein, a vaccine comprising said virus-like particle, and the use of the vaccine in the prevention of cervical cancer.
US09428543B2
The invention provides a one-step process for preparing a cell-binding agent cytotoxic agent conjugate comprising contacting a cell-binding agent with a cytotoxic agent to form a first mixture comprising the cell-binding agent and the cytotoxic agent and contacting the first mixture comprising the cell-binding agent and the cytotoxic agent with a bifunctional crosslinking reagent, which provides a linker, in a solution having a pH of about 4 to about 9 to provide a second mixture comprising the cell-binding agent cytotoxic agent conjugate, wherein the cell-binding agent is chemically coupled through the linker to the cytotoxic agent, free cytotoxic agent, and reaction by-products. The second mixture is then optionally subjected to purification to provide a purified cell-binding agent cytotoxic agent conjugate.
US09428536B2
Compositions and methods relating to immunostimulatory RNA oligomers are provided. The immunostimulatory RNA molecules are believed to represent natural ligands of one or more Toll-like receptors, including Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) and Toll-like receptor 8 (TLR8). The compositions and methods are useful for stimulating immune activation. Methods useful for screening candidate immunostimulatory compounds are also provided.
US09428530B2
The present invention relates to novel derivatives of oxazaphosphorines that are pre-activated, to the methods for preparing same, to the pharmaceutical compositions containing same and to the therapeutic use thereof, in particular for treating cancer.
US09428524B2
This invention relates to compounds of formula II: wherein R1, R2, ProtSH, and ProtNH are as defined, to processes for the synthesis of ecteinascidins of formula I from compounds of formula II, and to processes for the synthesis of compounds of formula II.
US09428519B2
The present invention belongs to the field of natural medicine and pharmaceutical chemistry, and relates to novel homoharringtonine acylated derivatives of formula (I) and formula (II) and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, to a process for the preparation of these compounds, compositions containing such compounds and their use in preparing antineoplastic medicaments.
US09428504B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): as defined in the specification and compositions comprising any of such novel compounds. These compounds are antagonists of P2Y1 receptor and may be used as medicaments in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of thromboembolic disorders.
US09428500B2
The present invention relates to inhibitors of the oncogenic protein kinase ALK of formula (I) as herein described and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, as well as to key intermediates towards their synthesis. The compounds of formula (I) are useful in the preparation of a medicament, in particular for the treatment of cancer.
US09428495B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to selectively substituted quinoline compounds that act as antagonists or inhibitors for Toll-like receptors 7 and/or 8, and their use in pharmaceutical compositions effective for treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and lupus nephritis.
US09428493B2
The invention provides a compound of formula (I): wherein R1-R5 have any of the values defined in the specification. The compounds are useful for the treatment of cancer and other diseases.
US09428491B2
The present invention relates to novel antiviral active 5-{4-[1H-imidazol-5-ylaryl(or hetaryl)]-buta-1,3-diynyl}-1H-imidazoles of the general formula 1 and pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, pharmaceutical composition, antiviral medicament, therapeutic kit for prophylaxis and treatment of hepatisis C virus diseases, and method for prophylaxis and treatment of hepatisis C. wherein: R1 and R2—represent optionally identical radicals selected from 2.1 and 2.2, where an asterisk (*) denotes the position of attachment to the imidazole fragment, (S) and (R) are types of chiral centers; R3 is isopropyl or phenyl radicals; Ar an aromatic or heteroaromatic diradical.
US09428488B2
To provide an industrially useful method for producing pharmaceutically useful 4-[5-(pyridin-4-yl)-1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl]pyridine-2-carbonitrile, and an intermediate for producing the compound.The method for producing compound represented by formula (1) is represented by the following reaction scheme, and the intermediate is represented by the following formula (4).
US09428487B2
The present application relates to novel amides and thioamides, to processes for preparation thereof and to use thereof for controlling animal pests, in particular arthropods and especially insects.
US09428485B2
A salt represented by formula (I): wherein Q1 and Q2 each independently represent a fluorine atom or a C1-C6 perfluoroalkyl group, A1 represents a C1-C30 monovalent organic group, X1 represents a C1-C10 aliphatic hydrocarbon group where a hydrogen atom may be replaced by a hydroxy group, m1 and m2 independently each represent an integer of 1 to 4, and Z+ represents an organic cation.
US09428484B2
The present invention relates to a method for the production of cyclic carboxylic acid esters, in particular intramolecular lactones, such as e.g. dilactide, the production of these cyclic esters from oligomeric carboxylic acids being effected by cyclizing depolymerization. During this reaction, a condensation product of these oligomeric carboxylic acids is produced as by-product, i.e. a mixture of higher-molecular oligomeric carboxylic acids which are hydrolyzed in a further step and hence recovered. This hydrolysate can be added again to the cyclizing depolymerization which is implemented in the first step.
US09428480B2
Disclosed is an oxidation process to produce a crude carboxylic acid product carboxylic acid product. The process comprises oxidizing a feed stream comprising at least one oxidizable compound to generate a crude carboxylic acid slurry comprising furan-2,5-dicarboxylic acid (FDCA) and compositions thereof. Also disclosed is a process to produce a dry purified carboxylic acid product by utilizing various purification methods on the crude carboxylic acid.
US09428475B2
In its many embodiments, the present invention provides certain iminothiadiazine dioxide compounds, including compounds Formula (I): (I) and include stereoisomers thereof, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of said compounds stereoisomers, wherein each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R9, ring A, ring B, m, n, p, -L1-, L2-, and L3- is selected independently and as defined herein. The novel iminothiadiazine dioxide compounds of the invention have surprisingly been found to exhibit properties which are expected to render them advantageous as BACE inhibitors and/or for the treatment and prevention of various pathologies related to β-amyloid (Aβ) production. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more such compounds (alone and in combination nation with one or more other active agents), and methods for their preparation and use in treating pathologies associated with amyloid beta (Aβ) protein, including Alzheimers disease, are also disclosed.
US09428472B2
Methods of treating, preventing and ameliorating bacterial infections with 1,2-benzisothiazolinone and isoindolinone derivatives are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions containing 1,2-benzisothiazolinone and isoindolinone derivatives are useful for treating bacterial infections caused by drug resistant strains of bacteria, including but not limited to methicillin and vancomycin bacterial organisms.
US09428452B2
The present invention is directed to novel retinoid-related orphan receptor gamma (RORγ) modulators, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing these modulators, and their use in the treatment of inflammatory, metabolic and autoimmune diseases mediated by RORγ.
US09428450B2
A process for producing taurine from alkali ditaurinate or alkali tritaurinate, or their mixture, comprising the conversion of alkali ditaurinate to dialkali ditaurinate or alkali tritaurinate to trialkali tritaurinate, or their mixture, the ammonolysis reaction of ammonia added to a solution of dialkali ditaurinate or trialkali tritaurinate, or their mixture, to yield alkali taurinate, removing excess ammonia from the foregoing and neutralizing alkali taurinates with an acid to form a crystalline suspension of taurine, and recovering taurine by means of solid-liquid separation.
US09428447B2
The present disclosure relates to novel compounds having vitamin D receptor agonist and histone deacetylase inhibitory efficacy as well as methods for reducing or inhibiting the proliferation of cancer cells or for treating cancer.
US09428446B2
A new process for the production of APMMEA (aminopropylmethylethanolamine) is proposed. This process comprises at least 2 steps in which MEAPN (monomethylethanolaminopropionitrile) is first produced from MMEA (monomethylethanol amine) and ACN (acrylonitrile) and then said MEAPN is hydrogenated to obtain the corresponding amine, the APMMEA compound. APMMEA may be then eventually purified by several known process, notably by distillation.
US09428438B2
Process for obtaining formic acid by thermal separation of a stream comprising formic acid and a tertiary amine (I), in which, in step (a), a liquid stream comprising formic acid, methanol, water and tertiary amine (I) is produced by combining methyl formate, water and tertiary amine (I), from there in step (b), methanol is separated off and in step (c), formic acid is removed by distillation from the liquid stream obtained in a distillation apparatus, wherein, when methyl formate, water and tertiary amine (I) are combined, methyl formate, water and optionally tertiary amine (I) are first introduced in step (a1) in a molar ratio of 0≦n(amine to a1)/n(mefo to a1)≦0.1, and from 70 to 100% of the hydrolysis equilibrium possible is set and then, in step (a2), tertiary amine (I) is introduced in a molar ratio of 0.1≦n(amine to a2)/n(mefo to a1)≦2, and the mixture is reacted.
US09428431B2
Provided are compositions including (3R, 4R, 6R)-stereoisomers of phenyl substituted pinenes having CB receptor agonist properties, methods of treating diseases or disorders with the pharmaceutical compositions, and processes for their preparation are also provided.
US09428429B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a fluorine-containing alkane, which comprises reacting at least one fluorine-containing compound selected from the group consisting of chlorine-containing fluoroalkanes and fluorine-containing alkenes with hydrogen gas in the presence of catalysts, wherein two or more catalysts having different catalytic activities are used, and the fluorine-containing compound and hydrogen gas, which are starting materials, are sequentially brought into contact with the catalysts in the order of the catalyst having a lower catalytic activity followed by the catalyst having a higher catalytic activity. According to the present invention, in the method for producing a fluorine-containing alkane by using chlorine-containing fluoroalkane or fluorine-containing alkene as a starting material, and subjection it to a reduction reaction or a hydrogen addition reaction, the objective fluorine-containing alkane can be produced with high productivity.
US09428428B2
A method for producing difluoromethane, including the catalytic reaction of dichloromethane with hydrogen fluoride in the liquid phase, in the presence of chlorine, and in the presence of an ionic liquid catalyst consisting of the product of the reaction of antimony pentachloride with an organic salt having the general formula X+A, where A is a halide anion or hexafluoroantimonate, and X+ is a quaternary ammonium cation, quarternary phosphonium or ternary sulfonium. Further, equipment suitable for implementing said method.
US09428427B2
A process is described, such process comprising i) contacting a hydrocarbon feed with a heterogeneous catalyst under conditions suitable to hydrolyze nitriles present in the feed to form a nitrile hydrolysis product comprising ammonia, carboxylic acid and carboxylate salts or a mixture thereof; and ii) removing the nitrile hydrolysis product from the feed. In an embodiment, the hydrocarbon feed comprises olefins and is intended for use in an olefin oligomerization process.
US09428409B2
A kit for installation on a top portion of a tank to treat a liquid that includes: (a) a pump volute or hydrocyclone head having an inlet and a throat having an outlet and a central axis, the outlet of the throat is installed on the top portion of the tank and the tank has a maximum inner diameter that is larger than an inner diameter of the outlet of the throat; and (b) a wave energy source having a first electrode within the pump volute or hydrocyclone head that is aligned with the throat along the central, and a second electrode that is installed within the tank such that the second electrode is spaced apart and axially aligned with first electrode along the central axis.
US09428405B2
A valve (16) comprising a housing (30), a valve filter media (34) and an actuator (48). The housing (30) defines a chamber (32) having an inlet (44) and outlet (48). The media (34) is positioned within the chamber (30) such that liquids flowing between the inlet (44) and outlet (48) pass through the media (34). The valve filter media (34) is formed of a material which can absorb hydrocarbons, causing the media (34) to change its material properties thereby restricting the flow of liquids through the valve (16) and increasing the pressure differential across the media (34). The actuator (48) has at least a portion positioned within the housing chamber (32). If the pressure differential across the media (34) exceeds a predetermined threshold, the media (34) bears against the actuator (48) causing the actuator (48) to restrict the flow of liquids through the valve (16).
US09428403B2
An apparatus and method for the distillation of ocean and brackish water that includes insulation for preventing heat from escaping to the atmosphere is disclosed. The insulation comprises a second wall surrounding the basic assemblies of a desalination system in which the space between the second wall and basic assemblies is under low partial vacuum and is partially or totally filled with an insulation material for structural support. The system allows for flash evaporation of heated input water and condensing the resultant vapors into pure distilled water. The heat of condensation as well as heat from the salt byproduct may be recaptured and used to preheat the input contaminated water.
US09428398B2
The present invention provides a process for preparing a precipitated calcium carbonate product. The process comprises the steps of preparing slaking quick time to obtain slaked lime; and subjecting the slaked lime, without agitation, without prior cooling in a heat exchanger, and in the absence of any additives, to carbonation with carbon dioxide as to produce PCC. The newly prepared product develops better performance thanks to improved resistance during processing.
US09428397B2
There is provided a process for extracting Carnallite from an aqueous solution, the process comprising steps of pre-heating the solution comprising said Carnallite in a series of at least two heat exchangers, thereby obtaining a pre-heated solution; and concentrating said pre-heated solution in a series of at least two evaporation units, whereby forming a concentrated solution and hot vapors; wherein at least one of said evaporation units employs steam for indirect heating, and wherein at least one of said heat exchanger units employs the heat of said hot vapors formed in said evaporation units.
US09428390B2
This disclosure relates to porous carbon and a method of preparing the same. The porous carbon of the present invention is derived from a carbonitride compound having a composition comprising metal and nitrogen. The porous carbon of the present invention comprises both micropores and mesopores, and has a large specific surface area, and thus, may be usefully used in various fields.
US09428382B2
A method for manufacturing a composite compensating balance spring is provided, the method including providing a first wafer made of a first material; providing at least one second wafer made of at least one second material having Young's modulus variations with temperature that are of opposite sign as those of the first material; joining the first wafer to the at least one second wafer to form a substrate; etching a pattern through the substrate to form a composite compensating balance spring including a first thickness of the first material and at least a second thickness of the at least one second material; and releasing the composite compensating balance spring from the substrate.
US09428381B2
Methods, apparatuses and devices are described where a main wafer is irreversibly bonded to a carrier wafer and thinned to reduce a thickness of the main wafer, for example down to a thickness of 300 μm or below.
US09428375B2
A method and apparatus are provided for monitoring a fuel delivery system to limit acidic corrosion. An exemplary monitoring system includes a controller, at least one monitor, and an output. The monitoring system may collect and analyze data indicative of a corrosive environment in the fuel delivery system. The monitoring system may also automatically warn an operator of the fueling station of the corrosive environment so that the operator can take preventative or corrective action.
US09428371B2
A device for controlling movement of a rope has a main part and a bar. The main part defines a central opening, first and second side portions, first and second end portions, first and second pairs of projection portions extending from the first and second end portions, respectively, a first notch defined by the first pair of projection portions, and at least a first end friction surface formed at a juncture of one projection portion of the first pair of projection portions and the first end portion. The bar defines a bar notch. The first side portion pivotably supports the bar for rotation between a first position in which the bar is not in contact the second side portion and a second position in which the bar notch receives the second side portion.
US09428367B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a long-distance transport system for people in an inclined lane, in which the system includes a plurality of hydraulic driving units, a traction chain, a truss, supporting guide rails and retractable pedals. According to an embodiment of the invention, the truss is formed by a plurality of truss units sequentially connected end to end. Each truss unit is provided with the hydraulic driving unit. The traction chain and the supporting guide rails are all arranged in the length direction of the truss. The traction chain is driven by and connected with the plurality of the hydraulic driving units. The retractable pedals are arranged on the traction chain and are provided with supporting rollers rolling along the supporting guide rails.
US09428359B2
A method of redirecting a glass ribbon assembly from a first glass conveyance path to a second. The method includes conveying the glass ribbon assembly that includes a flexible glass substrate that has first and second surfaces that extend laterally between the edges, and first and second handling tabs affixed to the respective edges. The handling tabs extend above and below the flexible glass substrate and define a handling surface envelope. The method also includes supporting the glass ribbon assembly on the first and second handling tabs such that the flexible glass substrate is free to flex out of the handling surface envelope while remaining spaced apart from a primary roll member when the flexible glass substrate is directed around the primary roll member.
US09428357B2
A conveying device and a conveying control method that can control a phase of a main conveying roller and a position of a print medium with an inexpensive configuration and a fast throughput are provided. For that purpose, an LF roller phase is obtained, phase matching control is performed so that the print medium comes to a desired position when the LF roller is at a desired phase, and skewing of the print medium is corrected by the same control method as the phase matching control.
US09428342B2
Provided is a semiconductor device that suppresses the occurrence of defects due to photocorrosion. A method for manufacturing the semiconductor device includes the steps of: forming an insulating layer with a concave portion over a substrate; forming a conductive film over the insulating film and the inside of the concave portion; polishing and removing the conductive film positioned over the insulating layer; and cleaning the insulating layer in a light-shielded state. Between the step of polishing and the step of cleaning, or after the step of cleaning, the substrate SUB is moved by detecting the presence or absence of the substrate SUB in the light-shielded state using an infrared sensor.
US09428320B1
A fastener storage and organizer tray for storing, organizing, transporting headed fasteners, mating nuts, washers, screws, and other fasteners and fittings. The tray has a bottom wall bounded by upstanding peripheral side walls, and a plurality of individual compartments defined by upstanding lateral and transverse divider walls. At least one compartment has a generally rectangular raised platform with a horizontal top surface and a recessed trough at each end. The shanks of headed fasteners are supported on the platform surface with the heads and ends of the shanks in laterally adjacent alternating inverted side-by-side relation over the troughs at the ends of the platform. A fastener is easily removed by pressing down on the end of the shank to pivot it downward and raise the head of the fastener, and grasping the head of the fastener to remove it from the compartment, or vice versa.
US09428316B2
A two-component curable oxygen-absorbing composition comprises a polyester comprising structural units derived from an acid component (A) and an acid component (B), wherein the ratio of the acid component (A) to total acid components is 70 mol % to 95 mol %, the ratio of the acid component (B) to total acid components is 0 mol % to 15 mol %, the polyester has a glass transition temperature of −20° C. to 0° C., the resin is cured using a diisocyanate hardening agent, and the acid component (A) is a tetrahydrophthalic acid or a derivative thereof, or a tetrahydrophthalic acid anhydride or a derivative thereof, and the acid component (B) is a phthalic acid or an analog thereof.
US09428304B2
A vent and exhaust device for a container within which an overpressure of gas can be created during use, such as a battery for a vehicle. The device having a hollow body, suited to being arranged on an opening of such container with internal cavity, closed but communicating with the outside and with a passage connected to the inside of the container from which the gas that forms in the latter can pass to escape to the outside of the aforesaid body. There being placed on such passage a filter element permeable to such gas. Such filter element is subject to pressure placed in such cavity and suited to pushing it in the position of interception of the passage, but allowing the momentary opening of the latter for a venting of the gas when the pressure exceeds a predetermined value.
US09428301B1
A self-destructive aquatic device for use in a water environment is formed with a body having a metallic portion and a covering preventing exposure of the metallic portion of the body from the water environment. A gap in the covering is used to expose the metallic portion of the body to the water environment. The covering has a cathodic property with respect to the metallic portion of the body, so that the gap and the covering establishing a cathodic-anodic ratio of areas exposed to the water environment to promote erosion of the metallic portion of the body in the water environment. This, in turn, results in controlled break-up of the aquatic device.
US09428300B2
A foldable box template includes first, second, third, fourth, and fifth segments. Each of the segments has a length, a width, and one or more flaps. The first segment is positioned at a first end of the template and the fifth segment is positioned at a second, opposing end of the template. The first and third segments are each divided into two subsections by an intermediate crease. The intermediate creases facilitate folding of the foldable box template during the creation of a manufacturer's joint.
US09428297B2
A plastic container having a longitudinal axis includes an upper portion that defines an opening into the container and a sidewall portion that extends from the upper portion in a longitudinal direction parallel to the longitudinal axis. The container also includes a base portion that extends from the sidewall portion and that closes off the container. The upper portion further includes a rim member, a neck member that extends in the longitudinal direction away from the rim member, and a shoulder member that extends from the neck to the sidewall portion. The shoulder member extends at an acute angle relative to a transverse plane that is substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The upper portion also includes at least one reinforcing member that extends in the longitudinal direction between the rim member and the shoulder member. The reinforcing member projects outwardly from the neck member.
US09428286B1
Method of making a housing having wall panels (58, 60, 62 and 64) formed from a single, metallic work piece (50) by folding it at each of four locations defining corners all of which are spaced from opposite ends of the work piece (50) with at least one fold having an angle substantially different from a right angle and then securing together opposite ends (52, 54) of the work piece with a weld joint (56). As a result of bringing together the opposite ends, at least one of the panels curved in a stressed state and forms interior corner angles at opposite sides that are substantially different from a right angle. A closure base (48) is attached to the bottom of the wall assembly (44) to close and support the open bottom of the wall assembly (44), and as closure top (46) is attached an open top of the wall assembly (44).
US09428278B2
The invention relates to a motive flow valve (30) for aircraft engine comprising: a shaft (31) comprising a high-pressure chamber (36), a low-pressure chamber (33), a fuel inlet (42), a fuel outlet (44), and a shoulder (45) arranged between the fuel inlet and the fuel outlet, defining an abutment surface (46), a drawer (55) configured to be displaced relatively to the shaft under the effect of a difference in pressure between the high- and low-pressure chambers, between a closed position wherein the drawer abuts with the abutment surface in the closed position and obstructs the fuel inlet, and an open position wherein the drawer releases the fuel inlet, with the drawer comprising a portion extending into an intermediate chamber (39), the drawer further comprising a channel (62) exiting on the one hand in a first portion (63) of the intermediate chamber and communicating with the fuel outlet in the open and closed positions, and on the other hand in a second portion (64) of the intermediate chamber that does not communicate with the fuel inlet or with the fuel outlet in the open and closed positions, and a sealing element (59) interposed between the abutment surface and the drawer in the closed position.
US09428275B2
A method of positioning a monument within an aircraft. The method includes positioning first and second tracks having first and second carriages thereon on the floor. The first and second carriages are initially in a first position. The method includes positioning a floor of a first monument section with a first fitting on the carriage of the first track, positioning a floor of a second monument section with a second fitting on the carriage of the second track, moving the first and second monument sections with the carriages to a second position, aligning the first fittings with a connection point on the aircraft floor, raising the floors of the first and second monument sections and removing the first and second tracks, lowering the floors of the first and second monument sections, securing the first and second fittings to the connection points associated therewith.
US09428271B2
A draining apparatus for draining liquids from a vehicle includes a containment; a drain mast having an outlet opening and an inlet; and an actuator. The containment is adapted for being coupled with a structure of the vehicle, wherein the actuator is coupled with the drain mast and adapted for moving the drain mast into a retracted position and at least one extracted position relative to the containment, and wherein the containment is further adapted for accommodating the drain mast in the retracted position at least partially. The drainage apparatus has clear advantages regarding the parasitic drag compared to known drainage masts as it is only deployed into the flow when it is absolutely necessary.
US09428266B2
An aircraft landing gear comprising: a shock-absorbing main leg having a sprung part for attachment to an aircraft and an un-sprung part including a slider and an axle carrying at least one wheel, the wheel having a toothed ring gear; a drive transmission mounted externally on the sprung part, or on the un-sprung part, of the main leg, the drive transmission having at least one motor and a drive pinion for meshing with the toothed ring of the wheel; and an actuator for lifting the drive transmission into and out of driving engagement with the toothed ring and for maintaining the driving engagement as the landing gear deflects during a ground taxiing operation. Also, a method of operating the aircraft landing gear.
US09428261B2
A traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) device is provided. The device includes a radome having an antenna. A chassis is bonded to said radome about a periphery by a skirt layer. A housing is adhesively bonded to the radome, the skirt layer and the chassis. The housing has a substantially flat bottom portion with a wall extended about a periphery, the wall forming a lap joint with the chassis and radome.
US09428255B2
The present invention relates to a flexible propeller that has the feature of generating propulsive force in only one direction, irrespective of the direction of rotation. The flexible propeller may be used in a mechanism similar to a sterndrive, being actuated by two cables and that are wound around a threaded spindle on the sterndrive shaft, one clockwise and the other anticlockwise, and capable of being actuated alternately longitudinally, causing the flexible propeller to rotate in alternate directions, first in one direction and then in the other. The sterndrive in turn may be used in compact structures that can be fitted to catamarans, kayaks or other types of small vessels, without the need for major alterations to the original vessel.
US09428245B2
A drive unit has three axles, three rotation transmitting members and an acting force detecting unit. The first axle is configured to be rotated by a crank arm. The first rotation transmitting member is arranged on the first axle to transmit rotation of the first axle by the crank arm. The second axle is spaced from the first axle. The second rotation transmitting member is arranged on the second axle, and is operatively engaged with the first rotation transmitting member to transmit rotation of the first rotation transmitting member. The third axle is spaced from the first axle and the second axle. The third rotation transmitting member is arranged on the third axle, and operatively engaged with the second rotation transmitting member to transmit rotation of the second rotation transmitting member. The acting force detecting unit arranged to detect a force acting on the second axle.
US09428244B2
A manually-powered vehicle propelled by muscular force, whose user maintains a standing position, and whose drive is hand-held. The vehicle according to the invention includes two drive wheels, with independent mechanisms installed inside them, which transform the swinging motion of the levers into unidirectional gyration of the drive wheels axis thus driving the vehicle forward, at least one neutral wheel mounted in a way allowing rotation around the vertical axis, and where a low-slung platform is attached directly to the casing of the mechanisms.
US09428232B2
A snowmobile includes a plurality of ground engaging members, a frame supported by the ground engaging members, and a powertrain assembly supported by the frame. Additionally, the snowmobile includes a front suspension assembly supported by the frame. The front suspension assembly includes an upper control arm operably coupled to the frame and a lower control arm operably coupled to the frame. The lower control arm is forged. At least a portion of the lower control arm includes an artificially-induced area of localized stress, and the lower control arm is configured to absorb energy at the area of localized stress.
US09428223B2
A support structure is provided for a motor vehicle that has a front wheel (8). The support structure includes an A pillar (5) having a slide-off surface (40) for the front wheel. The slide-off surface for the front wheel (8) is inclined so that the front wheel (8) slides out along the slide-off surface (40).
US09428220B2
A method and a device for maneuvering a combination of a towing vehicle and a trailer, wherein the trailer is connected to the towing vehicle by a non-steerable tow-bar, and the towing vehicle observes the rear surroundings, including the trailer, by a rear-view camera. The method includes the steps: a) determining the actual articulation of the trailer relative to the towing vehicle; b) determining the length of the tow-bar and the maximum articulation of the trailer; c) inputting the intended articulation of the trailer; d) reversing the towing vehicle with at least active steering support until the intended articulation of the trailer is reached; e) fixing the direction of travel predetermined by the intended articulation; f) maneuvering the towing vehicle with at least active steering support while maintaining the predetermined direction of travel until an eventual parking position is reached.
US09428216B2
A rack bush, which constitutes a rack and pinion type steering system and supports a rack shaft in which rack teeth are formed at one circumferential portion, includes a bush main body and a rigidity reducing portion. The bush main body has an annular shape into which the rack shaft is inserted. The bush main body is divided, in a circumferential direction, into two portions including a rack teeth-side portion located on the same side as the rack teeth in the circumferential direction and a back face-side portion other than the rack teeth-side portion. The rigidity reducing portion is provided in the rack teeth-side portion, and makes a rigidity of the rack teeth-side portion lower than a rigidity of the back face-side portion.
US09428215B1
A steering system includes a second tooth defining member and an energy absorbing unit. The energy absorbing unit includes energy absorbing portions each including a first portion extending upward in a column axial direction from a restraining portion restrained in the column axial direction and a second portion formed by folding back the energy absorbing portion at a fold-back portion, the energy absorbing portions being separated from each other in a first orthogonal direction, and a coupling portion that couples the second portions together and moves together with the second tooth defining member at the time of the secondary collision. At the time of the secondary collision, the energy absorbing portions allow the fold-back portions to move downward in the column axial direction to absorb impact energy while guiding downward movement of the second tooth defining member in the column axial direction between facing edges of the energy absorbing portions.
US09428206B1
A ball cart for holding sporting equipment is disclosed. The cart may be capable of opening for use and closing into a shape that is more convenient for storage and transportation purposes. The cart consists of multiple folding parts and a dropstep pedal to efficiently collapse a sporting equipment cart. First springs bias the cart toward an open position. Second springs bias a handle that releases the cart from a closed position and allows the bias of the first springs to open the cart. The dropstep may be operated with a user's foot and does not require the use of hands.
US09428203B2
Device for receiving, processing and generating signals for automatically controlling a rail vehicle
A device for receiving, processing and generating signals for automatically controlling a rail vehicle with a receiving module; a transmitting module; a speedometer module; an RFID module; and a braking module. The controller comprises a programmable logic controller and wherein said controller is connected to the receiving module, the transmitting module, the speedometer module, the RFID module; and the braking module. The receiving module is in the form of a GPS receiver wherein said transmitting module is in the form of a GSM modem wherein said transmitting module receives signals from a traffic dispatch server. The speedometer module comprises a speedometer wherein said RFID module comprises an RFID aerial. The braking module receives signals from the brake in the rail vehicle and transmits same to the controller as well as receives signals from the controller to the braking system.
US09428201B1
A locomotive blue light reverser key has a handle portion and a shaft portion that is connected to the handle portion. The handle portion includes a Light Emitting Diode (LED), a switch, a battery that powers the LED, and a blue tinted lens. The shaft portion is insertable into a reverser of a locomotive. During a blue signal procedure when the train is not permitted to move, a train operator uses the blue light reverser key to indicate the blue signal procedure is in effect. The train operator activates the LED on the handle portion and inserts the blue light reverser key into the reverser. The shaft portion does not engage any locking mechanism within the reverser, and the reverser key prevents the locomotive from moving forward or backward. The blue light emitted from the blue light reverser key also notifies other train operators of the blue signal procedure.
US09428198B2
Apparatus and method for gravity-augmented preload of drive wheels in a monorail vehicle travelling along a guide rail with bearing and contact surfaces that are non-parallel with the gravity vector. The vehicle defines a pivot location against the bearing surface and a constraint point on the contact surface for engaging the rail on the bearing and contact surfaces, respectively. The vehicle is mounted so its center of gravity is at a rear longitudinal offset rrl from the pivot location and a vertical offset rvert from the guide rail. A force and moment balance thus created result in a normal load on a drive wheel engaged with the bearing surface at the pivot location, where the load value exceeds a standard normal load generated by the mass of the monorail vehicle alone.
US09428195B1
A system for transferring data comprises an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receive event information from a vehicle event recorder including an event type for each event associated with the event information. The processor is configured to determine a historical coachable profile for event types associated with the event information and select a group of events to transfer based at least in part on the historical coachable profile for the event types.
US09428191B2
An information processing apparatus includes a generation section configured to generate, from a state of a mobile vehicle in each position obtained by discretizing a traveling route along which the mobile vehicle travels, a state of the mobile vehicle in a next position for each use state of drive means contained in the mobile vehicle; and an optimization section configured to optimize the use state of the drive means in each position based on at least one of states of the mobile vehicle in each position generated by the generation section.
US09428189B2
A vehicle running control apparatus includes a following distance control unit for maintaining a following distance between an own vehicle on which the vehicle running control apparatus is mounted and a preceding vehicle, an accelerating unit for accelerating the own vehicle at a set acceleration so that a speed of the own vehicle reaches a set speed when the preceding vehicle is lost, and an acceleration suppressing unit configured to suppress acceleration of the own vehicle by the accelerating unit on condition that the preceding vehicle and the own vehicle are under an acceleration suppression condition that an allowance time to collision is smaller than a predetermine lower limit at a moment of loss of the preceding vehicle.
US09428187B2
A system and method for providing path planning and generation for automated lane centering and/or lane changing purposes for a vehicle traveling on a roadway, where the method employs roadway measurement values from a vision camera within an effective range of the camera and roadway measurement values from a map database beyond the range of the camera. The method uses the roadway measurement values from the camera to determine a desired path along a first segment of the roadway and identifies an end of the first segment based on how accurately the camera defines the roadway. The method then uses the roadway measurement values from the map database to determine the desired path along a second segment of the roadway that begins at the end of the first segment, where a transition from the first segment to the second segment is smooth.
US09428186B2
Vehicular arrangement for obtaining information about objects exterior to the vehicle includes distance measuring systems fixed to the vehicle along the windshield, an edge or side of the vehicle, each including a camera that obtains images of objects exterior of the vehicle and a processor that determines a distance between the vehicle and objects included in images obtained by the camera and a speed of the objects based on the successive distance determinations. A reactive system is arranged on the vehicle and coupled to the distance measuring systems, and considers distance between the objects and the vehicle and the speed of the objects and reacts accordingly. A position of the distance measuring systems is selected to encompass an area in front of the vehicle, an area behind the vehicle and an area on each side of the vehicle in the fixed fields of view of the distance measuring systems.
US09428183B2
A method for apprising a driver to a change in automation level of an automated self-drive system for a vehicle includes identifying an expected automation level change and communicating a required engagement level. The driver is thereby apprised of an appropriate level of engagement with each of a multiple of manual vehicle controls.
US09428181B2
A neutral determination device is provided with an inhibitor switch and a controller. The inhibitor switch outputs an inhibitor switch signal that indicates a vehicle running range of a vehicle. The controller is programmed to execute a neutral determination process upon determining the vehicle running range exists based on the inhibitor switch signal and a rotational speed control is being performed on a motor that is configured to output a force that drives the vehicle. The controller is programmed to determine existence of a neutral state of a control valve that is configured to selectively supply a control hydraulic pressure to a hydraulic pressure chamber of the clutch upon determining that a motor torque during the rotational speed control is smaller than an estimated motor torque based on a target transmission torque capacity of a clutch that selectively connects and disconnects the motor to and from a drive wheel.
US09428179B2
A power transmission device for a hybrid vehicle includes a transmission device that includes a carrier to which an engine rotation shaft is connected; a differential device that includes a plurality of rotation components individually connected to a ring gear of the transmission device, an MG1 rotation shaft, an MG2 rotation shaft, and a drive wheel; a gear shift adjustment device that includes an engagement portion capable of controlling the transmission device to a neutral state where transmission of power between the carrier and the ring gear is not allowed or to a state where the transmission of power is allowed; and an HVECU that includes a first step of decreasing a rotating speed of a first rotating electric machine at the time an engine is started up during an EV travel mode.
US09428177B2
A vehicle includes an electric storage apparatus that outputs an electric power to be converted into a kinetic energy for use in running of the vehicle, an engine that generates a kinetic energy for use in running of the vehicle, a generator that receives an output from the engine to generate an electric power, and a controller that controls charge and discharge of the electric storage apparatus. In performing charge of the electric storage apparatus using an electric power from an external power source and in performing charge of the electric storage apparatus using the electric power output from the generator in response to a signal produced through operation by a user, the controller calculate a full charge capacity of the electric storage apparatus based on an SOC of the electric storage apparatus at each of start and end of the charge and a current sum amount during the charge.
US09428157B2
A drum brake is provided that improves the direction of the actuating forces to reduce stress, improve efficiency and permit thicker brake linings. First and second brake shoes each have a first end pivotally coupled to a brake spider. First and second cam followers are disposed at corresponding second ends of the brake shoes. A cam engages the cam followers with movement of the cam causing the brake shoes to move between positions of engagement and disengagement with a braking surface. The cam followers are offset such that a center of the first cam follower is disposed at a first distance from a center axis of the brake and a center of the second cam follower is disposed at a second distance from the center axis with the first distance different from the second distance so as to improve the direction of the cam force vector.
US09428146B2
[Object]To cancel both a function of a vehicle sensor and a function of a webbing sensor at a predetermined condition while having a simple structure and a fewer number of parts.[Solution]When fully retracting a seat belt 4, a cam follower 22b abuts against a first cam portion 20a; accordingly, an actuator holding portion 23b urges an actuator 13b in a non-operable position and a function of a vehicle sensor 13 is canceled. When a large load is applied to the actuator holding portion 23b while in the above canceled state, the load is supported by the first cam portion 20a; accordingly, first and second levers 22 and 23 do not pivot and cancellation of the function of the vehicle sensor 13 is prevented from being canceled. Furthermore, when a lock claw 22c is separated from a ratchet tooth 17b, a ring gear 17 becomes rotatable and a function of a webbing sensor 12 is canceled.
US09428145B2
An electric retractor comprises a winding part configured to extract and wind a seatbelt that restrains an occupant, an electric driving part for extracting or winding the seatbelt by a driving of a motor, and a control part configured to control the driving of the motor, wherein respective external covers of each of the parts are electrically connected to the same potential, and at least one of the external covers is connected to a GND.
US09428141B2
Provided is a driver airbag apparatus capable of adjusting deployment pressure of an airbag by adjusting an amount of gas discharged to the outside of the airbag. To this end, according to the airbag apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a vent cover and a tether are installed to the airbag, and a vent hole formed in the airbag is opened or shielded by the vent cover and the tether.
US09428137B2
A seat cushion airbag system may include: a cushion body installed on a seat of a vehicle, unfolded by receiving gas from an inflator, and including a rear chamber which lifts the rear part of the body of a passenger and a front chamber which lifts the front part of the body of the passenger while inflating more than the rear chamber; and an unfolding restriction unit installed between the rear chamber and the front chamber, and having a vent hole through which gas is passed.
US09428135B1
A number of variations may include a front center airbag system comprising: a first airbag mounted on an inboard side of a first front seat and a second airbag mounted on an inboard side of a second front seat, wherein the first airbag and the second airbag are constructed and arranged so that in a deployment condition the first airbag and the second airbag fill a space between and partially forward of the first front seat and the second front seat.
