US09430354B2
An improved technique involves collecting data from a hosting environment that provides access to electronic computing resources and computing aggregated metrics from the data for a particular level of a user class hierarchy by aggregating metric values collected for subordinate levels of the user class hierarchy. Along these lines, a tracking server, upon receiving resource usage data, arranges the data in entries having values of metrics that describe some attribute related to resource usage and pertaining to a user class hierarchy. For a given level of the user class hierarchy, the tracking server performs an aggregation operation (e.g., a summation) of metric values over entries pertaining to subordinate levels of the user class hierarchy. The tracking server stores the result of the aggregation operation in an aggregation table for future report generation.
US09430353B2
An analysis and visualization is used to depict how a concurrent application executes threads on processor cores over time. With the analysis and visualization, a developer can readily identify thread migrations and thread affinity bugs that can degrade performance of the concurrent application. An example receives information regarding processes or threads running during a selected period of time. The information is processed to determine which processor cores are executing which threads over the selected period of time. The information is analyzed and executing threads for each core are depicted as channel segments over time, and can be presented in a graphical display. The visualization can help a developer identify areas of code that can be modified to avoid thread migration or to reduce thread affinity bugs to improve processor performance of concurrent applications.
US09430352B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to detect an unexecuted first thread and an unexecuted second thread; calculate standby power consumption of the first thread in a case of executing the second thread followed by the first thread, based on an execution period of the second thread and standby power consumption per unit time of the first thread; calculate standby power consumption of the second thread in a case of executing the first thread followed by the second thread, based on an execution period of the first thread and standby power consumption per unit time of the second thread; and determine an order of execution of the first thread and the second thread, based on comparison of the standby power consumption of first thread and the standby power consumption of the second thread.
US09430339B1
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method comprising: storing volatile data in nonvolatile memory; over a time interval, periodically refreshing the volatile data by (i) reading the volatile data from the nonvolatile memory and (ii) rewriting the volatile data to the nonvolatile memory; determining a number of errors in the volatile data that is read during the periodic refresh of the volatile data; and based, at least in part, on the number of errors that is determined, modifying the time interval. The method may also comprise decreasing the time interval if the number of errors is determined to be greater than an error threshold value.
US09430328B2
A memory device may include memory cells. The method may include receiving a request of reading a selected data word associated with a selected code word stored with an error correction code, and reading a first code word representing a first version of the selected code word by comparing a state of each selected memory cell with a first reference. The method may include verifying the first code word, setting the selected code word according to the first code word in response to a positive verification, reading at least one second code word representing a second version of the selected code word, verifying the second code word, and setting the selected code word according to the second code word in response to a negative verification of the first code word and to a positive verification of the second code word.
US09430326B2
Methods for writing multiple codewords having multiple sizes to a solid-state device are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a plurality of host data units for storage in a solid-state non-volatile memory. The method includes dividing the plurality of host data units among a plurality of data payloads, wherein a first data payload comprises a first host data unit and a second data payload comprises a portion of a second host data unit. The method includes encoding the first data payload into a first codeword having a first codeword size. The method includes encoding the second data payload into a second codeword having a second codeword size, the second codeword size being different from the first codeword size. The method includes writing the first codeword and the second codeword to a first page in the solid-state non-volatile memory. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US09430325B2
A method for programming data, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The method includes: receiving a writing command which instructs to write data to a logical address belonging to a logical programming unit; if a physical erasing unit of a physical programming unit which the logical programming unit is mapped to is a first type physical erasing unit, programming the data and a parity code corresponding to the data into the physical programming unit according to a first code rate; and if the physical erasing unit is a second type physical erasing unit, programming the data and the parity code corresponding to the data into the physical programming unit according to a second code rate. The first code rate is higher than the second code rate. Therefore, the lifespan of the physical erasing unit having a higher bit error rate may be extended.
US09430317B2
Described herein are methods and systems for performing functions associated with a non-functional key of a keyboard present on electronic devices such as cell-phones, telephones, ATMs, etc. The electronic device is operated in a non-functional key (NFK) coding mode using NFK codes (108) that are provided to a memory component (202) of the electronic device (102). In the NFK coding mode, a user is allowed to enter functional keys in a coded sequence. Based on the NFK codes (108), the coded sequence is used to identify a function associated with a non-functional key of the keyboard and the identified function is indicated to a processor (204) of the electronic device (102) for execution.
US09430314B2
A system and method for programming a memory device with debug data upon a system failure is disclosed herein. For example, the system can include a timer device, a buffer, a register, and a memory device. The buffer can be configured to receive debug data. The register can be configured to receive memory address information. Also, the memory device can be configured to store the debug data from the buffer at a memory address corresponding to the memory address information when a timer value of the timer device reaches zero. Further, the system can include a processing unit configured to provide the timer value to the timer device and the memory address information to the register.
US09430307B2
A method of reading data in an electronic system includes detecting whether a trigger signal in the electronic system is enabled, the trigger signal being selectively enabled according to at least one operating condition of the electronic system, as a consequence of detecting that the trigger signal is enabled, changing a size of read-ahead data based on the enabled trigger signal, and performing a read operation based on a read command and the changed size of the read-ahead data.
US09430306B2
Anticipatory protection of critical jobs in a computing system, including: identifying, by a system management module, a problem computing component in the computing system; identifying, by the system management modules, all proximate computing components in the computing system, wherein each proximate computing component is within a predetermined physical proximity of the problem computing component; determining, by the system management module, whether the proximate computing components are executing one or more critical jobs; and responsive to determining that the proximate computing components are executing one or more critical jobs migrating, by the system management module, the one or more critical jobs to distant computing components in the computing system, wherein each distant computing component is not within the predetermined physical proximity of the problem computing component.
US09430304B2
A method and a system for block scheduling are disclosed. The method includes retrieving an original block ID, determining a corresponding new block ID from a mapping, executing a new block corresponding to the new block ID, and repeating the retrieving, determining, and executing for each original block ID. The system includes a program memory configured to store multi-block computer programs, an identifier memory configured to store block identifiers (ID's), management hardware configured to retrieve an original block ID from the program memory, scheduling hardware configured to receive the original block ID from the management hardware and determine a new block ID corresponding to the original block ID using a stored mapping, and processing hardware configured to receive the new block ID from the scheduling hardware and execute a new block corresponding to the new block ID.
US09430302B2
The present invention provides methods, devices and systems for using and invoking an Oauth API. The method includes: receiving registration information for registering an Oauth API; generating an Oauth API invoking associated interface according to the registration information, and binding it with the registered Oauth API, to generate binding information; receiving an increasing Oauth API message and responding, generating a client requesting Oauth API interface, an Oauth API returned information processing interface and a client customer serial number managing interface, which correspond to the registered Oauth API; receiving a publishing application message, responding to the publishing application message, and generating a deployment package which includes the client requesting Oauth API interface, the Oauth API returned information processing interface and the client customer serial number managing interface; sending the binding information and the deployment package to an application running engine, based on which the application running engine complete Oauth API scheduling.
US09430301B2
A distributed system for downloading distributed Internet information and a method thereof are disclosed. A distribution subsystem receives downloading task information from a user, and sends the downloading task information to a downloading subsystem. The downloading subsystem downloads task result information according to the downloading task information, and sends the task result information to the distribution subsystem. The distribution subsystem receives the task result information, and returns the task result information to the user made the request. The physical environment of the system can include a distribution server and a downloading subsystem group, the internal function of the system is to assign the required tasks to the downloading subsystem group based on a queue model, the downloading subsystem group can process the assigned tasks concurrently. The system and the method is adapt to a mass-data acquisition over Internet, which may significantly improve the efficiency and timeliness for obtaining information.
US09430291B2
Provided are techniques for combining existing identity management information from multiple Identity Manager (IM) nodes. The combined information from the multiple IM nodes is presented. A provisioning request to change the identity management information is received. The provisioning request is decomposed to form multiple, separate sub-requests. One or more IM nodes are identified to process the sub-requests. The sub-requests are issued to the one or more IM nodes in parallel. A status of each of the sub-requests is received from each of the one or more IM nodes that is processing that sub-request. The received statuses are combined. The combined statuses are returned as a status of the provisioning request.
US09430276B2
A transactional memory system coalesces two outermost transactions in a transactional memory environment. A processor of the transactional memory system executes a first transaction begin instruction of a first outermost transaction and processes the first transaction. Based on encountering a first transaction end instruction of the first outermost transaction, the processor determines whether the first transaction is to-be coalesced with a second outermost transaction.
US09430260B2
A facility for configuring a virtual data center is described. A user such as an administrator uses a management interface to input information specifying a configuration for a virtual data center including virtual network nodes and virtual routers. In response, the facility instantiates each virtual network router needed for the configuration, such as by, for each, instantiating on commodity hardware a virtual machine running a general-purpose operating system used to provide routing services to the virtual network nodes.
US09430257B2
A processing device receives a rule for execution by a rules engine and provides the rule to the rules engine. The processing device receives a request to provision a virtual machine (VM) having VM attributes. The processing device provides metrics of a plurality of physical hosts to the rules engine and the VM attributes to the rules engine. The processing device then receives. from the rules engine, an identification of one or more prioritized physical hosts of the plurality of physical hosts. The processing device provisions the VM on one of the one or more prioritized physical hosts.
US09430254B2
A technique for register mapping in a virtual system includes preparing a register pool that includes a plurality of registers for mapping. A mapping table is prepared that has a register identifier (ID) and information related to each of a plurality of parameters that express an operational state of the virtual system for each of the registers. At the time a register access request is issued by a hardware thread, the register ID for an access target and information related to each of the plurality of parameters that express the operational state during operation is acquired. One of the registers, for which the acquired register ID and information related to each of the plurality of parameters match the register ID and information for each of the plurality of parameters within the mapping table, is set as a mapped register to be accessed per the register access request.
US09430253B2
Various embodiments of systems and methods for reusable and late addition enabled XML data binding are described herein. A computer receives an element class that is created for a non-atomic class. The element class comprises a first constructor, a decomposer that returns data extracted from an object for an entity to aid in serialization, and a composer that extracts value of the entity and creates a new instance of the non-atomic class using the extracted value to aid in de-serialization. The object is of type non-atomic class. The computer also receives an attribute class that is created for an atomic class to which the non-atomic class refers to. The attribute class comprises a second constructor, a serializer, and a de-serializer. The computer then generates an XML document using the element class and the attribute class.
US09430245B2
A pipelined processor employs branch prediction based on branch source instructions situated in a last one of a variable number of branch delay slots associated with a branch instruction. As each memory unit of data (UoD) progresses through the processing stages from one cycle to a next, a set of N branch prediction histories is built that is associated with the UoD, N being the number of cycles the branch predictor requires to produce an output. A history of evaluated branch outcomes of branch instructions that reached the branch evaluation stage is also maintained. Recovery from misprediction includes using the history of evaluated branch outcomes and the set of branch prediction histories associated with the UoD (readily available to a last stage of the pipeline) as a source of recovery histories for inputting to a branch predictor when N next memory units of data are loaded into the pipeline.
US09430241B2
Embodiments relate to a semi-exclusive second-level branch target buffer. An aspect includes a system for a semi-exclusive second-level branch target buffer. The system includes a first-level branch target buffer (BTB1), a branch target buffer preload table (BTBP), and a second-level branch target buffer (BTB2) coupled to a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to perform a method. The method includes performing a search to locate entries in the BTB2 having a memory region corresponding to a search request. Based on locating entries in the BTB2, a bulk transfer of located entries is performed from the BTB2 to the BTBP. A state associated with the located entries is updated to encourage exclusivity between the BTB1 and the BTB2. Based on transferring a BTBP entry from the BTBP to the BTB1, a BTB1 entry is evicted from the BTB1. The evicted BTB1 entry is transferred from the BTB1 to the BTB2.
US09430238B2
Aspects of the invention relate to executing a run-time-instrumentation EMIT (RIEMIT) instruction. A processor is configured to capture the run-time-instrumentation information of a stream of instructions. The RIEMIT instruction is fetched and executed. It is determined if the current run-time-instrumentation controls are configured to permit capturing and storing of run-time-instrumentation information in a run-time-instrumentation program buffer. If the controls are configured to store run-time-instrumentation instructions, then a RIEMIT instruction specified value is stored as an emit record of a reporting group in the run-time-instrumentation program buffer.
US09430233B2
A compiler includes a vector instruction processing mechanism that generates instructions for vector instructions in a way that assures correct operation in a bi-endian environment, wherein the processor architecture contains instructions with an inherent endian bias, along with at least one memory access instruction with a contrary endian bias. The compiler uses a code generation endian preference that matches the inherent computer system endian bias. The compiler generates instructions for vector instructions by determining whether the vector instruction has an endian bias that matches the code generation endian preference. When the endian bias of the vector instruction matches the code generation endian preference, the compiler generates one or more instructions for the vector instruction as normal. When the endian bias of the vector instruction does not match the code generation endian preference, the compiler generates instructions that include one or more vector element reverse instructions to fix the mismatch.
US09430232B2
In a system according to any one of embodiments, program structure information may include interval information. Each interval information may include source code position information indicating a successive region on a source code of a target program and parent-child information for specifying a parent-child relationship with respect to the interval information. The program structure information may include a reference interval without a parent. A processing unit may specify the number of parents existing between each interval information and the reference interval as a depth of each interval information from the reference interval, and create display information by arranging the interval information on a coordinate system defined by a first axis representing depth from the reference interval and a second axis representing the parent-child relationship based on the depth from the reference and the parent-child information.
US09430231B1
Embodiments of the present invention include a method, computer program product, and system for inserting text content into a computer file as a comment in a determined comment convention. In an embodiment, a comment convention is determined in a file. The file includes at least one file line. A text content is received. A comment is inserted into the file. The comment includes the comment convention and the text content.
US09430224B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a hot-update method and apparatus. For example, the method can include: obtaining, in response to receiving a hot-update instruction by a running program, an update assembly and difference descriptions for describing differences between the update assembly and an existing assembly of the running program, wherein, identical metadata in the update assembly and existing assembly have identical identifiers; loading the update assembly into memory, and finding, in the update assembly, functions which have been modified with respect to the existing assembly according to the difference descriptions; performing just-in-time compilation to the modified functions thus found to obtain update native code; and running the update native code in place of corresponding existing native code of the modified functions when the existing native code is required to be run.
US09430219B2
Techniques are described for automatically scheduling and performing upgrades in a hybrid cloud scenario. Advantages to these techniques include revision safe system upgrades and that the process is automated, thus reducing expensive operation costs. Techniques include receiving a landscape model describing changes to a customer landscape, identifying a customer-side system within a customer landscape to upgrade based on the landscape model, and identifying a server-side system within the server landscape that is associated with the customer-side system, and scheduling the customer-side system and the server-side system for upgrade.
US09430211B2
A system and method are disclosed for controlling a restricted ecosystem of software applications. The method may include originating software applications from a vendor, associating a collection of the software applications with a user, controlling the distribution of the collection of software applications to the user, controlling access to the collection of software applications based on user credentials, and controlling the installing and updating of the collection of software applications. The method may additionally include executing a first software application from the collection of software applications, executing a second software application, and transferring data from the first software application to the second software application. The method may additionally include transferring data from the first software application to a web service.
US09430210B2
A method and an apparatus for integrating Java software into a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes: installing and resolving Java software configured with an extended attribute to obtain contact data corresponding to the extended attribute; and adding an option for starting the Java software to the user interface of the mobile terminal according to the contact data, where the contact data includes the location and format of the added option for the Java software, and the data of the application entry of the Java software.
US09430204B2
A high level programming language provides a read-only communication operator that prevents a computational space from being written. An indexable type with a rank and element type defines the computational space. For an input indexable type, the read-only communication operator produces an output indexable type with the same rank and element type as the input indexable type but ensures that the output indexable type may not be written. The read-only communication operator ensures that any attempt to write to the output indexable type will be detected as an error at compile time.
US09430202B2
A software engine for decomposing work to be done into tasks, and distributing the tasks to multiple, independent CPUs for execution is described. The engine utilizes dynamic code generation, with run-time specialization of variables, to achieve high performance. Problems are decomposed according to methods that enhance parallel CPU operation, and provide better opportunities for specialization and optimization of dynamically generated code. A specific application of this engine, a software three dimensional (3D) graphical image renderer, is described.
US09430201B2
Methods are disclosed of compiling a software application having multiple functions. At least one of the functions is identified as a targeted function having a significant contribution to performance of the software application. A code version of the targeted function is generated with one of multiple machine models corresponding to different target utilizations for a target architecture, specifically corresponding to the one with the greatest of the different target utilizations. The generated code version of the targeted function is matched with an application thread of the target architecture.
US09430193B2
A programming interface for a computer platform may include various functionality. In certain embodiments, the programming interface may include a sidebar that provides dynamic communication access and information awareness in an integrated interactive peripheral display. Specified communication contacts and information elements may be dynamically tracked or received and provided to a user on an ongoing basis. This capability may be provided via a customizable dynamic thumbnail displayed in one or more columns in a persistent display strip along one edge of a display device. Information may be updated according to rules set by a user.
US09430187B2
A device includes a projection and camera system to create an augmented reality environment in which images are projected onto a scene and user movement within the scene is captured. The projection and camera system have a camera to image scattered IR light from the scene and compute time of flight values used in depth mapping of objects in the room. The system also has a projector to project the images onto the scene. The system controls the camera and projector mounted in a moveable head of a lamp with a motor mounted elsewhere in the lamp. In one implementation, the motor is mounted in the base of a table lamp.
US09430185B2
The application discusses a computer implemented method and apparatus for performing audio equalization in an audio receiver device, such as an integrated receiver/decoder or set top box, or integrated TV, connected to one or more audio playback devices, such as a television unit, computer screen and speakers, amplifier or home theater equipment. The method and apparatus use an equalization process which compares audio signals received in different audio formats (e.g. MPEG-1 Layer II, AC-3 2.0, AC-3 5.1 and HE-AAC) with one another, allowing a correction gain factor to be determined for equalizing the perceived loudness of the signals when played-back at a connected playback device. The correction gain factor is then applied in the audio receiver device before output.
US09430181B2
A method and assembly for use with a display configuration including a master sub-space and a plurality of slave sub-spaces, the assembly for controlling an information sharing session, the assembly comprising a processor linked to the display configuration and programmed to perform the steps of obtaining identification information from information sources usable to generate images on the sub-spaces during a session, presenting an interface via the master sub-space, the interface including a master workspace area for presenting images via the master sub-space and a tool area including source icons and panel icons associated with session images wherein each of the source and panel icons is selectable to create images within the master workspace area.
US09430180B2
A display panel includes a flexible substrate, a first display region, a second display region, and a third display region. The first display region has a quadrangle outline and includes a first side and a second side forming a first corner portion of the outline. The second display region is in contact with the first side and the width of the second display region in a direction parallel to the first side coincides with the length of the first side. The third display region is in contact with the second side and the width of the third display region in a direction parallel to the second side coincides with the length of the second side. The substrate includes a notch portion corresponding a region facing the first display region with the first corner portion provided therebetween.
US09430172B2
A print system includes a print service system, an information processing apparatus, and an image forming apparatus. The print service system includes a holding unit associated with a user and holding print data instructed by the user, a providing unit that provides access authorization information for the holding unit, to the information processing apparatus upon a request thereof, and an access authorizing unit that authorizes an access to the holding unit if receives the access authorization information. The information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit that transmits the access authorization information to the image forming apparatus by proximity communication. The image forming apparatus includes an authorization information acquiring unit that acquires the access authorization information by the proximity communication, and a print data acquiring unit that sends the acquired access authorization information to the print service system, is authorized to access the holding unit, and acquires the print data.
US09430164B1
Techniques for sanitizing a storage system are described herein. In one embodiment, for each file stored in the storage system, a list of fingerprints representing data chunks of the file is obtained. In such an embodiment, for each of the fingerprints, identifying a first container storing a data chunk corresponding to the fingerprint is identified, and determining a storage location of the first container in which the data chunk is stored is determined. In one embodiment, a bit in copy bit vector (CBV) is populated based on the identified container and the storage location. In one embodiment, after all of the bits corresponding to the data chunks of the first container have been populated in the CBV, data chunks represented by the CBV are copied from the first container to a second container, and records of the data chunks in the first container are erased.
US09430162B1
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for data unit classification in accordance with one embodiment of the present description, in which in response to a data processing command, a storage controller classifies data units of a storage unit as either allocated to a data set or as unallocated to any data set. If allocated to a data set, the storage controller can further classify data set-allocated data units as either containing client data or metadata or as empty. In accordance with one aspect of the present description, the storage controller may bypass data processing of the data units which have not been allocated to any data set or otherwise do not contain client data or metadata. Other aspects of data unit classification in accordance with the present description are described.
US09430159B2
In recovery operations performed after non-volatile memory devices (i.e., flash memories and so on) experience abnormal status, when unstable data pages are found, valid data pages are copied to another physical block from the original physical block directly and the original physical block is not utilized any more, in order to prevent from spreading error. Further, in order to accelerate the determination process, only partial data of a page is read and whether the page is a valid page is determined based on statistic, when finding out which page is a valid page.
US09430147B2
A method includes obtaining data from a touchpad, the data being associated with the location and movement of a user's finger and/or hand and not associated with an image of the user's finger from an image sensor, when the user operates the computerized system using the touchpad. The method further includes communicating the data from the touchpad to the computerized device, the touchpad being located in a location that is different from the location of the display screen. The method further includes analyzing the data in accordance with a model of a human hand, and assigning the data to at least one of a multitude of fingers of the model, computing a graphical representation of at least one finger of the user in accordance with the model, and displaying the graphical representation on the display screen.
US09430146B1
In one example, a computing device may receive an indication of a user input entered at a location of a presence-sensitive screen and defines a group of gesture events based at least in part on the indication. The computing device may determine a density of a portion of the group of gesture events. The density may indicate, for example, a quantity of gesture events associated with a region of the presence-sensitive screen over a time duration. In response to determining that the density satisfies a threshold, the computing device may modify the group of gesture events based at least in part on the density.
US09430145B2
A virtual keyboard is displayed on a touch screen display surface of a computing device. Partial images of the keyboard are displayed, where a partial image may be one key, referred to as the most probable key that the user will touch, or a group of keys, which may include some less probable or surrounding keys that may be touched. Sensors under or near the display surface detect an outline of the user hands and determines which finger is the fastest moving finger, which is presumed to be the finger used to touch a key. The most probable key is determined based on the fastest moving finger and may be displayed before the finger touches the surface. If the most probable key is not touched, a user profile containing user typing habits may be updated to reflect that a less probable key was touched.
US09430131B1
A system, methods, and user interface for organizing an unstructured collection of electronic objects in a list or group format are disclosed for more effectively locating and retrieving needed items from a large number of candidates. The electronic objects include various types of data objects, including files or folders or contacts. The methods include assigning importance measures to items in the collection based on various attributes associated with the objects. The attributes include metadata and attributes obtained from content analyzes of the objects, including a specific term, a term with a specific semantic attribute, a class of the object, and other attributes.
US09430125B1
In one aspect, a method, includes receiving and storing objects in a repository, translating objects in an object repository format to a graphical user interface (GUI) format, rendering the GUI format to a user, receiving a rule from the user using the GUI format, translating the rule in the GUI format to a rule repository format, storing rule in the rule repository format in a rule repository and compiling the rule in the rule repository format into a format that is acceptable for processing by the event based analysis engine.
US09430119B2
Systems and methods for organizing and displaying data structures in computing devices are provided herein. An exemplary method may include generating a graphical user interface (GUI) that includes at least one parent icon arranged into a primary frame according to a layout, receiving a selection of the at least one parent icon, transforming at least one parent icon into a secondary frame within the GUI and shrinking the at least one parent icon, and populating the primary frame with at least one child icon which is linked to the at least one parent icon, the at least one child icon being larger in size compared to the at least one parent icon.
US09430117B2
In a stream computing application, data may be transmitted between operators using tuples. However, the receiving operator may not evaluate these tuples as they arrive but instead wait to evaluate a group of tuples—i.e., a window. A window is typically triggered when a buffer associated with the receiving operator reaches a maximum window size or when a predetermined time period has expired. Additionally, a window may be triggered by a monitoring a tuple rate—i.e., the rate at which the operator receives the tuples. If the tuple rate exceeds or falls below a threshold, a window may be triggered. Further, the number of exceptions, or the rate at which an operator throws exceptions, may be monitored. If either of these parameters satisfies a threshold, a window may be triggered, thereby instructing an operator to evaluate the tuples contained within the window.
US09430114B1
Graphical mapping interface embodiments and method are provided for creating and displaying a schema map, which may be used by a data transformation system to perform a data transformation between at least one source schema and at least one target schema. According to one embodiment, the graphical mapping interface may comprise a source schema region for displaying a graphical representation of at least one source schema, a target schema region for displaying a graphical representation of at least one target schema, and a mapping region for displaying graphical representations of a plurality of links connecting the source nodes displayed in the source schema region to the target nodes displayed in the target schema region. The plurality of links may comprise at least one control link having at least one ECA rule associated therewith and at least one data link having at least one textual-based target field expression associated therewith.
US09430113B2
Electrically-conductive articles are prepared to have electrically-conductive silver metal electrode grids and electrically-conductive silver connector wire patterns (BUS lines) on one or both supporting sides of a transparent substrate. The electrically-conductive silver connector wire patterns are designed with at least one silver main wire that comprises two or more adjacent silver micro-wires in bundled patterns. These bundled patterns and silver micro-wires are designed with specific dimensions and configurations to provide optimal fidelity (or correspondence) to the mask image used to provide such images in a silver halide emulsion layer. The electrically-conductive articles are provided by imagewise exposure, development, and fixing of corresponding silver halide-containing conductive film element precursors containing photosensitive silver halide emulsion layers. The electrically-conductive articles can be used are parts of various electronic devices including touch screen devices.
US09430112B2
An information processing apparatus including a touch panel that detects a non-contact operation of an operation element by detecting an electrostatic capacitance of an operation surface of the touch panel; and a controller that determines a distance between the operation surface and the operation element based on the detected electrostatic capacitance, and controls a predetermined operation of the information processing apparatus based on the determined distance.
US09430108B2
A touch-sensitive display device is provided. The touch-sensitive display device includes a touch panel and a display panel. A plurality of sensing electrodes is formed in the touch panel. A plurality of driving electrodes to which driving voltages are applied is formed in the display panel. The plurality of sensing electrodes is formed in predetermined patterns on one side of the touch panel, and the patterns of the plurality of sensing electrodes are different in a first sensing region and a second sensing region.
US09430106B1
A computing device can coordinate haptic action with a stylus. The computing device can receive an indication of the stylus from the stylus and determine that coordinated haptic action is associated with a user input. The computing device can send haptic instructions to the stylus where the haptic instructions are based at least in part on the coordinated haptic action. The stylus can activate its haptic actuator in response to receiving the haptic instruction. The computing device can also activate its haptic actuator based at least in part on the coordinated haptic action.
US09430105B2
A self-capacitance touch sensor panel including a plurality of touch electrodes and one or more sense circuits coupled to the touch electrodes. The touch sensor panel also includes at least one offset cancellation circuit coupled to at least one of the touch electrodes and configured to generate an offset cancellation signal to cancel an offset signal at the at least one touch electrode. In some examples, the offset cancellation signal can be an offset cancellation current to cancel an offset current. In some examples, the offset cancellation circuit comprises a variable resistor, and a magnitude of the offset cancellation current is based on a resistance of the variable resistor. In some examples, each touch electrode is coupled to an offset cancellation circuit. In other examples, a single offset cancellation circuit is shared by a plurality of touch electrodes.
US09430102B2
Touch sensing systems comprising bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys and methods of making touch sensing arrays and electronic devices containing touch sensitive screens that include arrays containing bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys. The bulk-solidifying amorphous alloy substrates have select areas of crystalline and amorphous alloy providing for discrete areas of conductivity and resistivity.
US09430101B2
A flat panel display with an integrated touch screen panel includes upper and lower substrates each including a display area and first and second non-display areas around an outside of the display area. A plurality of sensing patterns are in the display area of the upper substrate. A plurality of sensing lines are in the first non-display area of the upper substrate and connected to the sensing patterns. A sealing member is between the second non-display areas of the upper and lower substrates. The upper substrate is a window substrate positioned as an uppermost one of a plurality of substrates provided in the flat panel display.
US09430097B2
A processing system includes a transmitter module, a receiver module, and a determination module. The transmitter module includes drives a first optical transmitter with a first optical coded signal based on a first code, and drives a second optical transmitter with a second optical coded signal based on a second code. The first code and the second code are non-orthogonal, and the first optical transmitter and the second optical transmitter transmit at overlapping times. The receiver module receives a resulting signal that includes effects corresponding to the first optical coded signal and the second optical coded signal. The determination module determines a first measurement between the first optical transmitter and the optical receiver, determines a second measurement between the second optical transmitter and the optical receiver, and determines positional information for an input object based on the first measurement and the second measurement.
US09430092B2
An optical scanner is configured to scan multiple print portions of a body part such as a finger. The optical scanner identifies a first one of the print portions in an area of an optical surface. An event such as launching an application is generated based on identifying the first print portion in the area of the optical surface. In addition, various events can be generated based on different combinations of print portions in different areas of the optical surface.In a second embodiment, a property detector is configured to identify different properties of a sleeve in different areas of a surface. An event is generated based on the detection of a property of the sleeve in an area of the surface.
US09430072B2
A touch panel includes a cover glass, a flexible substrate, and a touch-sensing electrode structure. The flexible substrate is connected to the cover glass via a bonding layer, and the touch-sensing electrode structure is formed on the flexible substrate. The cover glass, the bonding layer, the flexible substrate and the touch-sensing electrode structure are arranged in order, with the flexible substrate being located between the touch-sensing electrode structure and the bonding layer.
US09430067B2
Discussed herein is an information processing apparatus that detects a touch input at a touch panel disposed on or formed integrally with a display panel, performs sampling of the detected touch position and utilizes a predictive filter to estimate the coordinates of the touch position. The apparatus comprises a controller that actuates the predictive filter based on the application being executed and updates the display panel with the estimated coordinates when a predetermined condition is satisfied.
US09430065B2
A method is provided for generating ink data including stroke objects. The method includes generally four steps. The first step receives device-dependent user-input data including either one of pen event data of Type 1, which includes indicator position data and indicator pressure data, or pen event data of Type 2, which includes indicator position data but does not include indicator pressure data. The second step determines whether the pen event data is Type 1 or Type 2. The third step derives one or both of radius data for defining a width of the stroke object and transparency data for defining a transparency of the stroke object, based on the pen event data of Type 1 or Type 2. The fourth step outputs the stroke object including said one or both of radius data and transparency data as device-independent common attribute value(s) of each of multiple points of the stroke object.
US09430062B2
An apparatus and method for operating a touchscreen device using a device having a rigid or semi-rigid body composed of an exterior side and a hollow interior side. The interior side is sized to receive and substantially surround at least a portion of a finger of a user. One or more contact points are provided on the exterior side of the body element, wherein each contact point when placed into contact with a touchscreen device provides an electrical charge to the touchscreen device making it able to manipulate at least one element on the touchscreen. In certain non-limiting aspects, the device takes the form of a shape, design, animal, humanoid, non-humanoid, object, character, or the like with the contact points being one or more aspects of or protrusions from the device.
US09430053B2
Provided are a multi-hardware-system data processing device and information input method thereof, the multi-hardware-system data processing device comprising a first hardware system, a second hardware system, a switcher and a shared device; wherein the second hardware system comprises a second control module for generating a message when the second hardware system requires a user to input the information to be inputted, and a second communication module for sending the message to the first hardware system; wherein the first hardware system is connected to the shared device via the switcher and comprises a first communication module for receiving the message, and a first user interaction module for obtaining an input interface to be used by the user to input the information to be inputted according to the message, obtaining the information inputted by the user in the input interface, and sending the inputted information to the second hardware system via the first communication module; the second control module processes the inputted information. By the invention, it is not necessary to conduct switch when the background hardware system needs information to be inputted.
US09430050B2
Described herein are one or more techniques related to a touchsurface with level and planar translational travel responsiveness. One or more of the described implementations include an input device having a rigid body including a touchsurface configured to travel along a depression path in response to being depressed by a user. The input device also includes a leveling mechanism that operates in manner to keep the touchsurface substantially level as the touchsurface travels along the depression path in response to being depressed by the user. Furthermore, the input device has a planar-translation-effecting mechanism that defines a planar translation component of the depression path, such that the touchsurface exhibits planar translation as the touchsurface travels along the depression path.
US09430048B2
A method or apparatus for controlling a media device using gestures may include, for example, modifying media content to generate first updated media content according to a comparison of first information descriptive of a first environment of the source device to second information descriptive of a second environment of the recipient device, capturing images of a gesture, identifying a command from the gesture, and modifying the first updated media content to generate second updated media content according to the command. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09430047B2
The disclosure provides a method and device for data transfer between electronic devices. The method comprises detecting a first induction signal generated based on a contact with a first touch screen of a first electronic device, determining a selection of data desired to be transferred to a second electronic device, determining a gesture associated with the first induction signal, generating a data transfer request in response to the determination of the gesture and the selection, communicating the data transfer request from the first electronic device to the second electronic device and transferring the selected data to the second electronic device.
US09430034B2
In some examples, when a user requests a media device to play media data generated on a virtual machine or receive media data generated by the media device, the media data may be transmitted by sharing physical memory pages among different virtual machines and other virtual components.
US09430031B2
The present invention relates to a method and device that conserves power. In some embodiments, the device is a battery powered storage device. The invention employs a large cache and aggressive caching algorithm to serve data from the storage media (hard disk or SSD) or write data to the storage media. The cache provides an efficient location from which to serve data, especially multi-media. In one embodiment, the algorithm determines when to place the drive into a lower power state, such as idle, or standby, based on the amount of anticipated idle time provided by the large cache.
US09430028B2
A hierarchical wearable processing unit (HWPU) (102) for WPUs (100) is described. According to an implementation of the present subject matter, the HWPU (102) may include a plurality of hierarchies (106). Each hierarchy (106) from amongst the plurality of hierarchies (106) is determined for a particular performance and power consumption. Further, the HWPU (102) may include a plurality of hosts (104). One or more hosts (104) from amongst the plurality of hosts (104) are associated with each of the plurality of hierarchies (106) based on the particular performance and power consumption of each of the hierarchies (106). Furthermore, the HWPU (102) may include a control unit (118) to configure each of the plurality of hierarchies (106) with functionalities based on allocation of dedicated hardware resources.
US09430022B2
Architecture and associated methods are provided for power management of ambulatory medical devices. The medical devices is described by a suite of services, each assigned a level of priority (from discretionary to critical), and the power management architecture allows use interchangeable control modules of various levels. A Power Safety Controller supervises the system to ensure appropriate preservation of critical services and provide warnings for low battery level. A Fidelity Controller ensures optimal allocation of power between the different services. A device supervision module estimates device characteristics which can be used by the other levels. The overall architecture ensures a safe and optimal management of services, and allows for a bottom-up deployment of the device.
US09430018B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a plurality of operation input units configured to receive an operation input and enable operations by processing based on different functions; an operating unit group configured to perform the processing based on the different functions by at least one of operating units operating after the operation input; and an energy-saving control unit configured to perform energy-saving control for shifting one or more of the operating units to an energy-saving mode and reactivating one or more of the operating units from the energy-saving mode, and reactivate one or more of the operating units necessary for the operation after the operation input when the operation input during the energy-saving mode is common to a plurality of functions.
US09430003B2
Retractable touchpad devices and methods are provided. In general, an electronic device can include a retractable frame configured to move between a retracted configuration and an expanded configuration. In the retracted configuration, the frame can be contained within a base of the electronic device. In the expanded configuration, the frame can no longer be contained within the base, thereby allowing the frame to provide touchpad functionality when in the expanded configuration. The retractable frame can thus be configured to selectively provide touchpad functionality for the electronic device based on whether the frame is retracted or expanded. The retractable frame can be configured to be retracted in a variety of ways, such as by including a foldable member configured to be unfolded and folded so as to selectively provide touchpad access, or by including a slidable member configured to be slid so as to selectively provide touchpad access.
US09429999B2
A foldable display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the foldable display device includes a display panel and a window panel on the display panel. The window panel includes a folding area and a flat area adjacent to at least one side of the folding area. The flat area is less flexible than the folding area. An elastic modulus of the folding area is less than an elastic modulus of the flat area. The window panel includes a plurality of layers including a first layer, wherein a first thickness of the first layer in the folding area is different from a second thickness of the first layer in the flat area.
US09429984B2
In an energy management system for a data center, intelligent power distribution units are synchronized by a time server. Measurements carried out by the intelligent power distribution units are commenced and stopped synchronously. Each intelligent power distribution unit carries out a calculation based upon the Unix Epoch Time of receipt of a sampling command from the energy management system.
US09429983B1
A system clock signal distributed to electronic configurable and reconfigurable computing devices within a distributed computing system. The distributed computing devices, which may be dual-die chip carriers (DDCC), include input addressable data/clock ports on which system clock signals are accepted and may be propagated on one or more data/clock output ports. The input and/or output ports of various distributed computing devices may be configured and reconfigured according to system preferences or requirements.
US09429981B2
High frequency current transients, due to logic switching inside the CPU, are reduced by applying clock signals having different relative phases to different parts of the CPU. This reduces the amplitude of current variations, and hence noise induced onto the power supply voltage. In some embodiments, different CPU cores within multi-core CPUs are clocked with a different clock phases. Additionally a method and circuit for low-latency communication in the presence of large OCV effects is provided. The low-latency communication may be based on a FIFO. Strobes are used to indicate safe points in time to update and read signals between transmitter and receiver. The strobes are generated in a central clock generation module. The strobe mechanism is used to transfer the read and write pointers between the transmitter and receiver, while the payload data is transferred using a FIFO data array that allows data writes to be asynchronous to corresponding data reads.
US09429975B2
A voltage reference circuit implemented in GaAs to provide an output voltage component proportional to absolute temperature is described herein. The various embodiments of the voltage reference circuit described here can be used to provide precision voltage to bias a RF device. The voltage reference circuit can be provided on the same die as the RF device. The various embodiments described herein can be implemented in a GaAs material system.
US09429967B2
An embodiment of an electrically trimmable electronic device, wherein a resistor of electrically modifiable material is formed by a first generally strip-shaped portion and by a second generally strip-shaped portion, which extend transversely with respect to one another and are in direct electrical contact in a crossing area. The first and second portions have respective ends connected to own contact regions, coupled to a current pulse source and are made of the same material or of the same composition of materials starting from a same resistive layer of the material having electrically modifiable resistivity, for example, a phase-change material, such as a Ge—Sb—Te alloy, or polycrystalline silicon, or a metal material used for thin-film resistors. The trimming is performed by supplying a trimming current to the second portion so as to heat the crossing area and modify the resistivity thereof, without flowing longitudinally in the first portion.
US09429961B2
A system and method for data-driven HVAC optimization for outputting HVAC setpoints to a thermostat and determining a predicted HVAC usage of an HVAC unit based on the HVAC setpoints and an outdoor temperature. The system may further determine and output a predicted cost of the HVAC unit heating or cooling a structure based on the HVAC setpoints. The system may further select optimized HVAC setpoints such that the predicted cost is less than or equal to a user defined cost constraint and minimize deviation from user-preferred HVAC setpoints.
US09429953B1
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for enabling autonomous landing of an unmanned aerial vehicle. For example, systems and methods described herein enable autonomous landing of the unmanned aerial vehicle by providing an unmanned aerial vehicle ground station with various guidance systems for guiding the autonomous landing. In some embodiments, the guidance systems enable autonomous landing by providing one or more LEDs. In other embodiments, the guidance systems enable autonomous landing by providing various types of transmitted energy waves. In at least one embodiment, the guidance systems enable autonomous landing by providing a two-stage landing system that includes two or more types of transmitted energy.
US09429947B1
Although self-driving vehicles excel under “normal” driving conditions, they sometimes struggle with new situations that often would not be overly difficult for a person. Several embodiments described herein enable a hybrid approach that leverages the exceptional abilities of self-driving vehicles while soliciting human interaction in select situations. The resulting combination of machine intelligence and human intelligence significantly enlarges the potential of self-driving vehicles in a manner that will enable self-driving vehicles to become widespread much faster than would otherwise be the case.
US09429940B2
A self-propelled device includes a spherical housing and an internal drive system including one or more motors. The internal drive system acts to provide power to an interior surface of the spherical housing, thereby causing the self-propelled device to move. A biasing assembly can be included to enable the internal drive system to continuously engage an inner surface of the spherical housing. An external accessory magnetically interacts with interior magnetic components through the spherical housing such that as the self-propelled device rotates and maneuvers, the accessory component maintains a positional relationship to a top portion of the self-propelled device.
US09429939B2
A method, controller, and system for monitoring a manufacturing process are described. Measured values of multiple variables, including dependent variables, manipulated variables, or both, are received. Future values of the manipulated variables, future values of the dependent variables, or both, are predicted. A multivariate analysis is performed on a combination of (1) the measured values of the variables and (2) the future values of the manipulated variables, the future values of the dependent variables, or both, to generate multivariate statistics.
US09429933B2
A numerical controller for a machine tool has a component inspection timing notification function for notifying a user of the timing for inspection of each individual component used in the machine tool. The numerical controller reads an inspection cycle, acquires the date of inspection and state quantity of the component, and calculates an amount of change in state quantity. If the amount of change in state quantity is larger than a predetermined threshold, the inspection cycle is changed. If not, the next inspection date is calculated based on the last inspection date and the inspection cycle. Then, the next inspection date is notified.
US09429925B2
A method for operating an appliance, such as a refrigerator appliance, is provided. The method includes establishing a location of the appliance, obtaining weather information associated with the location of the appliance, scheduling a predicted power loss event for the appliance based at least in part on the weather information from the step of receiving, and operating the appliance according to a power loss operating profile before or during the predicted power loss event. A related refrigerator appliance is also provided.
US09429923B2
A method of controlling the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system of a building, the method comprising the steps of: (a) developing an initial thermal model of the building, and continuously updating the thermal model over time; (b) utilising the thermal model to continuously develop a daily HVAC operating plan for the building; and (c) continuously examining a current HVAC operating plan and optimising the alignment of the current HVAC operation with the current HVAC operating plan.
US09429920B2
Nutritional substance systems and methods are disclosed enabling the tracking and communication of changes in nutritional, organoleptic, and aesthetic values of nutritional substances, and further enabling the adaptive storage and adaptive conditioning of nutritional substances.
US09429916B2
A timepiece resonator including one weight connected by flexible strips to fixed attachment points of a fixed structure, this weight being subjected to a torque and/or a stress, and oscillating with at least two degrees of freedom in translation, and these flexible strips maintain the oscillations of this weight about a virtual pivot.
US09429911B2
The invention relates to a method for marking an object (1) during the production thereof, comprising the molding of at least one grating structure (10) on or in the surface of the object (1). To this end, said grating structure has a grating constant which permits observation by the naked eye of the diffraction structures which can be generated by visible light. The at least one grating structure (10) is generated by a molding process of the object (1), in which the mold used is equipped with a negative version of said grating structure. The object (1) at least partially consists of a soft polymer, in particular PVC-P, wherein the molding process is carried out as an injection molding process using an open mold. To this end, as a result of the injection molding process, the grating structure (10) comprises at least two regions (21, 22, 23), wherein the respective grating lines (31, 32, 33) of different regions (21, 22, 23) are phase-shifted and/or angularly displaced in relation to each other and the diffraction pattern is partially canceled so that the diffraction structures can be recognized by the naked eye only with suitable lighting.
US09429908B2
A connector includes a first connector member and a second connector member. The first connector member retains an integrated circuit having multiple first electrodes in a secured state and is externally contactable with the multiple first electrodes. The second connector member is attachable to and detachable from the first connector member and has a connection unit that is directly connected to the multiple first electrodes of the integrated circuit when the first connector member is attached to the second connector member.
US09429906B2
An image forming apparatus includes a mounting portion for mounting a process cartridge, the process cartridge including a first unit having an image bearing drum, and a second unit having a developing roller, the second unit being movable between a contact position in which the roller contacts the drum and a spaced position in which they are mutually spaced; an engageable member engageable with a force receiving portion provided on the second unit; wherein the engageable member is movable between a first position for maintaining the second unit in the spaced position by engaging with the force receiving portion, a second position for permitting movement of the second unit from the spaced position to the contact position; and a third position for permitting the process cartridge to be mounted, by being pressed by the process cartridge to retract, when the process cartridge is mounted to the mounting portion.
US09429900B2
An image forming apparatus includes a cartridge supporting member movable between an inside position in a state of carrying a first cartridge and a second cartridge, and a drawn position in which said first cartridge and said second cartridge are mountable and demountable relative to said cartridge supporting member. The supporting member includes a first mounting portion for a first cartridge, and a second mounting portion for a second cartridge which is disposed upstream of said first mounting portion with respect to a supporting member drawing direction. A first guide portion for the first cartridge, and a second guide portion for said second cartridge, wherein a downward movement distance of said second cartridge when the cartridge is demounted from said second mounting portion is larger than that of said first cartridge.
US09429899B2
A replaceable unit for an electrophotographic image forming device includes a circuit board mounted within a pocket on a first side of a housing of the replaceable unit. The pocket has an opening facing a front of the housing to permit an electrical connector of the image forming device to enter the pocket and mate with the circuit board. A first guide wall and a second guide wall are each positioned outside the pocket on the first side closer to the front than the opening. The first and second guide walls each include an inclined surface that inclines outward from the first side of the housing in a direction from the front to a rear of the housing to move the electrical connector of the image forming device toward the circuit board during insertion of the replaceable unit into the image forming device.
US09429898B2
A developing cartridge may include a casing, a developing roller, a first protrusion, and an electrode. The casing may be configured to accommodate developer therein. The developing roller may include a developing roller shaft extending in a first direction. The first protrusion may be positioned at an outer surface of the casing. The first protrusion may protrude outward from the outer surface in the first direction. The electrode may be positioned at the outer surface. The electrode may be configured to be electrically connected to the developing roller shaft. The electrode may include a second protrusion protruding outward in the first direction. The second protrusion may have an inner space extending in the first direction. The inner space may be positioned in the second protrusion. The first protrusion may be positioned in the inner space.
US09429897B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier that is rotatably supported, a to-be-transferred member onto which an image that is held by the image carrier is transferred, a driving unit that is disposed on a first end portion of the image carrier in an axial direction of the image carrier and that causes the image carrier to rotate, and a retreat mechanism that causes a second end portion of the image carrier to be separated from the to-be-transferred member while a connection between the image carrier and the driving unit is maintained and thereafter causes the image carrier to retreat by disconnecting the image carrier and the driving unit from each other.
US09429896B2
A cover movement mechanism has a cover, a base part, a holding part configured to contact the cover in a first opened state in which the cover is rotated to open by a first angle with respect to a closed state, thereby holding the cover in the first opened state, two shafts having a common axis and provided to one of the cover and the base part, two bearings configured to receive the two shafts and provided to other one of the cover and the base part, and a releasing mechanism configured to allow at least one of the two shafts to be released from corresponding one of the two bearings when the cover is in a second state in which the cover is rotated to open by a second angle that is smaller than the first angle and an opposing force preventing a rotation of cover acts on the cover.
US09429892B2
The recording medium determination apparatus includes a transmission unit for transmitting an ultrasonic wave, a receiving unit for outputting a signal corresponding to the ultrasonic wave, a peak extraction unit for detecting a value of the signal output from the receiving unit, a control unit for determining basis weight of a recording medium based on the value of the signal, and a timer for measuring a period of time from when the transmission unit transmits the ultrasonic wave to the detection by the peak extraction unit. The control unit calculates, based on a period of time measured by the timer at the time of factory shipment and a period of time measured by the timer after the factory shipment, variation of a distance between the transmission unit and the receiving unit after the factory shipment.
US09429891B2
A fixing device includes a heat conductor disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of an endless belt to heat the endless belt. A nip formation pad is disposed opposite the inner circumferential surface of the endless belt and presses the endless belt against a pressing rotary body to form a fixing nip between the endless belt and the pressing rotary body through which a recording medium bearing a toner image is conveyed. A support is disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of the heat conductor and contacts an abutment face of the nip formation pad to support the nip formation pad against pressure from the pressing rotary body. A heat insulator is interposed between the heater and the nip formation pad and the support to shield the nip formation pad and the support from the heater.
US09429888B2
A fixing device includes an endless fixing belt: a fixing belt holding member; a pressure member that makes a contact with the circumference of the fixing belt; a nip forming member that is disposed inside the fixing belt and forms a nip between the nip forming member and the pressure member; a nip supporting member that is made of a sheet metal; a side plate that supports the fixing belt holding member and the nip supporting member; and a pressure mechanism that presses the pressure member against the nip forming member with the fixing belt between the pressure member and the nip forming member. Both end surfaces of the nip supporting member are shear surfaces and one of the shear surfaces makes a contact with the nip forming member and the other shear surface is supported by the side plate.
US09429887B2
A fixing device includes a housing, a magnetic flux generation source, a first rotary body, a second rotary body, a first core, a second core, a shaft portion, a magnetic shielding body and an air flow generator. The shaft portion has a hollow cylindrical shape, holds the second core on a peripheral surface and includes an internal space extending in an axial direction inside. The shaft portion serves as a rotary shaft in the rotation of the second core. The air flow generator generates an air flow flowing in the internal space of the shaft portion from one end side toward the other end side in the axial direction.
US09429885B2
Provided is a light irradiation device including plural first irradiation units that irradiate an irradiation target area on a surface to be irradiated with light beams and are disposed in a specific direction, and plural second irradiation units that irradiate an outside of the irradiation target area with light beams and are disposed at an outer side of the first irradiation units in the specific direction, wherein light beams emitted from two adjacent irradiation units among the plural first irradiation units and the plural second irradiation units are superimposed with each other in the specific direction, and a first irradiation width that is not superimposed with the light beam from the adjacent first irradiation unit is smaller than a second irradiation width that is not superimposed with the light beam from the other adjacent first irradiation unit.
US09429881B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier; an intermediate transfer body; a second-transfer member; a support mechanism that supports the second-transfer member in a second-transfer region; a surface-positioning member that is disposed upstream of the second-transfer member in a transport direction; a determination device that determines whether or not a recording medium is a thin medium; and a controller that, in a case where it is determined that the recording medium is a thin medium, controls the support mechanism so as to move the second-transfer member more upstream in the transport direction than in other cases and controls the position of the surface-positioning member so as to move the second-transfer member in a direction such that an angle between the intermediate transfer body and the second-transfer member on the upstream side becomes larger than in other cases.
US09429879B2
An image forming apparatus includes four first imaging units that use standard toners for colors of yellow, magenta, cyan, and black, respectively. The image forming apparatus further includes a second imaging unit that uses a toner having a particle size smaller than a smallest one of particle sizes of the four standard toners. The image forming apparatus also includes a transfer unit that transfers first images formed by the respective first imaging units and a second image formed by the second imaging unit to a recording medium such that the first images are provided on the recording medium and the second image is provided on the first images.
US09429874B2
A toner container that is detachably attached to a main body of an image forming apparatus such that a longitudinal direction of the toner container is parallel to a horizontal direction includes: a cylindrical container body that has an opening on one end thereof in the longitudinal direction, and is configured to convey toner contained therein toward the opening; a cap portion into which the opening of the container body is inserted, and which includes a toner outlet at a bottom portion thereof for discharging toner discharged from the opening of the container body to the outside of the toner container in a vertically downward direction; and a shutter member that is held on the bottom portion of the cap portion, and moves along an outer periphery of the cap portion to thereby open and close the toner outlet, wherein the cap portion is formed by integral molding.
US09429867B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a rectangular plate-like body including a major surface. A plurality of light emitting portions formed in the major surface, and aligned in a straight line. A first terraced portion and a second terraced portion are formed in the major surface except areas in which the plurality of light emitting portions are formed.
US09429859B2
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a photosensitive layer that contains a charge generating material, a hole transport material, a binder resin, and a plasticizer. The hole transport material contains a triarylamine derivative represented by General Formula (1) below. The plasticizer contains at least one of a compound represented by General Formula (2a) and a compound represented by General Formula (2b) below.
US09429850B2
A laser device includes: a laser light output unit that outputs a fundamental wave laser light; a wavelength conversion unit that performs wavelength conversion of the fundamental wave laser light and outputs a converted laser light; an output detector that detects a power of the converted laser light; a power feedback circuit that controls the power of the fundamental wave laser light such that the power of the converted laser light is in constant; a phase matching adjustment configuration that adjusts a quantity of state at the wavelength conversion optical element; and a phase matching control circuit that controls an operation the phase matching adjustment configuration, wherein in a state that the power of the converted laser light is controlled in constant, the phase matching control circuit adjust the quantity of state in a predetermined range such that the power of the fundamental wave laser light is minimized.
US09429841B2
A resist composition having a resin having a structural unit represented by the formula (I), a resin being insoluble or poorly soluble in alkali aqueous solution, but becoming soluble in an alkali aqueous solution by the action of an acid and not including the structural unit represented by the formula (I), and an acid generator, wherein R1, A1, A13, A14, X12, Rb1, Rb2, Lb1, ring Wb1, Rb3, Rb4, m and Z1+ are defined in the specification.
US09429835B2
The present disclosure provides a structure of a photomask. The photomask includes a substrate; and a conductive material layer dispose over the substrate and patterned to include a plurality of openings and a recess structure surrounding the plurality of openings.
US09429832B2
A projection type display apparatus including an oblique projection optical system having a plurality of lenses is disclosed. A lens nearest to a projection screen has a vertical effective image area through which a light flux passes. The lens is arranged at a position not including an optical axis shared by the largest number of lenses among the plurality of lenses. A flat mirror for returning the optical path is arranged between the particular lens and the projection screen at a predetermined angle to the optical axis. An enlarged image obtained by the light flux returned by the flat mirror is formed toward a display screen.
US09429818B2
An accessory includes a body including a dial having a surface and multiple sets of optically-recognizable identification marks formed as part of the surface. The identification marks for each set are formed to be recognizable by a sensor having a two dimensional array of pixels. An apparatus includes a body comprising a groove having a first surface configured to align with a second surface of an accessory when a portion of the accessory is placed into the groove and a sensor formed in the first surface. The sensor includes a two dimensional array of pixels. An apparatus captures, with the sensor, an image of one of a set of multiple optically-recognizable identification marks formed as part of a surface of the dial, determines from the captured image a specific one of multiple possible accessories interchangeable for use with the apparatus, and performs configuration operation(s) based on the specific accessory.
US09429815B2
A blade drive device includes: a board including an opening; first and second blades opening and closing the opening; and first and second actuators respectively driving the first and second blades, wherein the first and second actuators respectively include first and second stators, first and second rotors, and first and second coils, and respectively drive the first and second blades through first and second drive members, the first drive member is arranged to overlap the first stator and the first coil in an optical axis direction, and the second drive member is arranged to overlap the second stator and the second coil in the optical axis direction.
US09429806B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes an array substrate including a substrate and a first electrode having an opening, wherein the opening has an edge. The array substrate further includes a second electrode disposed over the first electrode and including a first finger portion having a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The second electrode further includes a connection portion connecting the first finger portion at the edge, wherein the connection portion has a first concavity at the first side and a second concavity at the second side, and a length of the first concavity is greater than a length of the second concavity. The display device further includes an opposite substrate and a display medium.
US09429804B2
The present invention relates to a display device, and a manufacturing method thereof. The display device includes a first insulation substrate; gate lines and data lines positioned on the first insulating substrate. The gate lines and data lines are insulated from each other and crossed each other. A first passivation layer positioned on the gate lines and the data lines, and including a first contact opening. A color filter positioned on the first passivation layer, and including an opening. An organic insulation layer positioned on the color filter, and including a contact hole, in which the first contact opening is larger than the opening. The organic insulation layer covers the color filter and the contact opening.
US09429801B2
An LCD panel includes a gate driving module, a display unit, and multiple COF packaging units. An output lead wire of the multiple COF packaging units is connected with a gate lead wire of the display unit. The multiple COF packaging units are sequentially connected in series through a signal lead wire and are connected to the gate driving module. A first insulating pattern layer is disposed on the gate lead wire. The first insulating pattern layer is provided with a through-hole structure. The output lead wire is connected with the gate lead wire by utilizing a metal lead wire passing through the through-hole structure. A first through-hole structure connected with a first COF packaging unit has a smaller contacting area comparing to a second through-hole structure connected with a second COF packaging unit. The present invention also discloses a LCD device including the above LCD panel.
US09429795B2
A display panel includes a pixel array, a light-shielding pattern and a plurality of spacers. The pixel array includes a plurality of sub-pixels. The light-shielding pattern has a first edge and a second edge disposed adjacent to two neighboring sub-pixels, respectively, and a width H exists between the first edge and the second edge. The spacers overlap the light-shielding pattern in a vertical projection direction, and each spacer has a diameter D. Each spacer has a first rim facing the first edge and a second rim facing the second edge. The first rim and the first edge have a first distance A″, the second rim and the second edge have a second distance B″. The width H between the first edge and the second edge, the diameter D of the spacer, the first distance A″ and the second distance B″ satisfy the following relations: B″>0; A″≧0; B″>A″; and 2D≦H≦3D.
US09429789B2
LCD module and LCD panel are provided. The LCD panel includes a first substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a second substrate, a first color filter and a second color filter. The first color filter includes a transparent area and a filter area. The first substrate is located between the first color filter and the liquid crystal layer. The second color filter includes a transparent area and a filter area. The second substrate is located between the second color filter and the liquid crystal layer. An orthogonal projection of the transparent area of the first color filter on the second color filter is coincided with the filter area of the second color filter. An orthogonal projection of the filter area of the first color filter on the second color filter is coincided with the transparent area of the second color filter. The LCD module and LCD panel implement DOF display mode.
US09429784B2
A touch display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a display layer, a plurality of scan electrodes, a plurality of data electrodes, a plurality of thin-film transistors, a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes. The display layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The scan electrodes and data electrodes are on the first substrate and cross each other. The thin-film transistors electrically connect to the scan electrodes and the data electrodes. The driving electrodes are disposed between the data electrodes and the second substrate, and overlapped the scan electrodes. The sensing electrodes are disposed on and overlapped the data electrodes. The data electrodes, the scan electrodes, the driving electrodes and the sensing electrodes are electrically insulated from each other. In addition, the value of the voltage input the touching drive electrodes are negative value.
US09429783B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate including a first electrode and an insulating layer arranged so as to cover an edge of the first electrode, a second substrate including a second electrode facing the first electrode and a second slit from which the second electrode is removed, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first electrode includes a plurality of first slits extending inwardly from the edge of the first electrode. The insulating layer and the plurality of first slits are arranged such that a position of an end of the insulating layer and a position of a tip to which the first slit extends are apart from each other in a region between the edge of the first electrode and the second slit in a direction in which the first slit extends.
US09429775B2
An infrared transmission large-area shutter is provided. The infrared transmission large-area shutter includes a first contact layer on a substrate, a plurality of stacks formed in a two-dimensional (2D) array pattern on a first region of the first contact layer, each stack comprising a lower reflection layer, an active layer, an upper reflection layer, and a second contact layer which are formed sequentially in this order on the first contact layer, a first electrode formed on the first contact layer, a plurality of second electrodes on the second contact layers, a first polymer layer that surrounds sidewalls of the plurality of stacks on the first contact layer, and a second polymer layer, which is transparent to infrared rays, to cover the second electrode on the second contact layer. A through hole corresponding to the plurality of stacks is formed in the substrate.
US09429774B2
An optic modulator may include: an optical waveguide including a ridge-shaped portion having a first region and a second region over the first region; a slab-shaped portion being in contact with a first region of the ridge-shaped portion; an optical waveguide electrode forming a Schottky contact with a second region of the ridge-shaped portion; metal plugs being in contact with the slab-shaped portion and the optical waveguide electrode, respectively; and metal pads connected to the respective metal plugs.
US09429761B2
A first dichroic mirror (2a) and a second dichroic mirror (2b) are formed on the bonding surfaces between four right angle prisms (1a-1d) so as to intersect. The first dichroic mirror (2a) transmits, of visible light of P-polarization, at least the light of a specific wavelength band and reflects, of visible light of S-polarization, at least the light of the specific wavelength band. The second dichroic mirror (2b) transmits, of visible light of P-polarization, at least light of the specific wavelength band and transmits, of visible light of S-polarization, at least light of the specific wavelength band. The cutoff wavelengths with respect to S-polarized light of both dichroic mirrors (2a and 2b) are set within ranges of bands other than those of the three primary colors of light.
US09429756B1
An optical apparatus includes a transparent microdisplay and a curved mirror. The transparent microdisplay has an array of self-illuminating emitters configured to emit image light propagating in an external direction. The curved mirror is positioned to reflect the image light toward an eye-ward side of the optical apparatus. A first curvature of the curved mirror has an optical power configured to focus the image light reflected by the curved mirror within an eyebox sized area. The transparent microdisplay is disposed between the curved mirror and the eyebox sized area.
US09429753B2
On a combiner, a HUD display area is defined by display light from a projector, and guide lights are displayed. An optical path length from the combiner to a display-light projector, an optical path length from the combiner to a first light source, and an optical path length from the combiner to a second light source in a viewing direction are larger in this order.
US09429749B2
A vibration apparatus includes a plate-shaped dust prevention member, a vibration application member, and an electrode. The vibration application member includes a flexible thin plate-shaped piezoelectric member, and vibrates the dust prevention member. The electrode formed of a conductive thin plate or film, disposed to part or entire holding the piezoelectric member, and partly extends outward relative to the dust prevention member.
US09429740B2
The invention relates to a telecentric modular zoom system for mapping an object plane on a sensor, in particular in a digital transmitted light microscope or incident light microscope having interchangeable lenses, comprising a fixed tube lens unit (LG1) and multiple optical assemblies (LG2, LG3, LG4, LG5, LG6), at least two of which are adjustably arranged relative to one another for the purpose of changing the magnification, characterized in that [sic]. According to the invention, a physical aperture (BL) conjugated relative to the rear focal points of the objectives used and having a variable diameter may be arranged in the beam path, wherein the rear focal points of the objective may be mapped in the space between a sensor image (BIE) and the intermediate image (ZB), the images of the rear focal points of the objectives (aperture BL) and the sensor image (BIE) do not lie within or migrate through the optical assemblies (LG2, LG3, LG4, LG5, LG6, LG7).
US09429739B2
A wide-angle lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a first stop, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens, all of which are arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is with negative refractive power. The second lens is with negative refractive power. The third lens is with positive refractive power. The fourth lens is with positive refractive power. The fifth lens is with negative refractive power. The sixth lens is with positive refractive power. The fifth lens satisfies 16.1≦Vd5≦23.9, wherein Vd5 is an Abbe number of the fifth lens.
US09429737B2
An optical image lens system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface. The second lens element, the third lens element, and the fourth lens element have refractive power. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power is made of plastic, and has a convex object-side surface and a concave image-side surface, wherein the surfaces thereof are aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power is made of plastic, and has a concave image-side surface, wherein the image-side surface thereof changes from concave at a paraxial region to convex at a peripheral region, and the surfaces thereof are aspheric.
US09429725B2
Bidirectional parallel optical transceiver modules for use in optical links and methods for communicating bidirectionally over the links are provided. The bidirectional parallel optical transceiver modules have features that ensure relatively low optical crosstalk, relatively low return loss and relatively high SNR. In addition, the modules have an in-line, zig-zag configuration that allows the modules to be compact and to have high bidirectional channel density for achieving high bandwidth.
US09429722B2
The optical connector has the receptacle which is fastened to the board provided with the optical waveguides and has the plug which holds the optical fibers and is connected to the receptacle. The receptacle has the positioning member which positions the optical fibers to the optical waveguides to connect them optically by abutment against the plug and has the fastening member which is fastened to the board and fastens the positioning member to the optical waveguides.
US09429721B2
A method and system connects multiple cores within one fiber, e.g., a multi-core fiber (MCF), to multiple fibers with single-cores. The single-core fibers can then be terminated by traditional envelopes, such as a single core LC envelope. A connector holds the single-core fibers into a pattern that matches a pattern of all, or a sub group, of the individual cores of the MCF. The single-core fibers may all be terminated to individual connectors to form a fanout or breakout cable. Alternatively, the single-core fibers may extend to another connector wherein the single-core fibers are regrouped into a pattern to mate with the cores of another MCF, hence forming a jumper. One or more of the single core fibers may be terminated along the length of the jumper to form a jumper with one or more tap accesses.
US09429720B2
A ferrule includes a ferrule body which can be inserted into a through hole of a holding member of a polishing jig, and a flange which is supported on an upper surface of the holding member when the ferrule body is inserted into the through hole, wherein the flange has cutouts provided in a front surface thereof, which is opposed to the upper surface of the holding member.
US09429712B2
An optical switch is configured in a “dual-ganged” switch geometry to provide for the simultaneous switching of a selected transmit/receive pair of optical signal paths between a specific optical communication device and an optical communication network. A biaxially-symmetric signal redirection component may be used to direct the signals between the selected channel and the optical communication device. A specific waveguide (e.g., fiber) array topology within the dual-ganged switch (DGS) breaks the symmetry between the network transmit/receive arrays and a pair of transmit and receive signal paths associated with the communication device to improve isolation and minimize the possibility of cross-talk between non-selected waveguides in the transmit and receive arrays. The possibility of “hits” during switching between channels can be eliminated, and is controlled by dictating the process or switching steps used to rotate the biaxially-symmetric signal redirection element.
US09429707B2
A method of manufacturing a fiber axicon taper includes, aligning a fiber, splicing the fiber, pulling the fiber, necking the fiber, breaking the fiber, and rounding the edges of the fiber axicon taper.
US09429703B2
An illumination apparatus includes: a light-guiding plate; a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed along a side-end surface of the light-guiding plate that serves as a light-entry portion, each of the plurality of light-emitting elements has a light-emitting surface which faces toward the light entry portion; a light source substrate, disposed and separated with a space from the light entry portion of the light-guiding plate when viewed from above, that includes a mounting surface for the plurality of light-emitting elements, the mounting surface being orthogonal to the side-end surface serving as the light entry portion; and a step portion with which an end portion of the light source substrate located toward the light-guiding plate makes contact.
US09429700B2
A backlight module including an LGP, an optical film, a first light source is provided. The LGP has a bottom surface, a light emitting surface, a first light incident surface, and microstructures. Each microstructure is recessed into or protrudes out of the bottom surface and includes at least two structural units. A section line of each structural unit on a first reference plane is a curve, and the curve has a peak point. A distance between two peak points of two adjacent structural units along a first direction is greater than 0 and smaller than a half of a total width of the two structural units along the first direction. Each microstructure has a symmetric plane perpendicular to the light emitting surface and the first light incident surface. The optical film is located on the light emitting surface. The first light source is located beside the first light incident surface.
US09429695B2
Provided is a polarizing plate with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer which is excellent in reliability of optical properties and durability of pressure-sensitive adhesion. The polarizing plate with a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer comprises a polarizing film and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided directly on at least one surface of the polarizing film. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer comprises a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition containing a pressure-sensitive adhesive polymer, and an amount of an acid component in a total monomer component constituting the pressure-sensitive adhesive polymer is less than 8 wt %.
US09429694B2
A wavelength tunable interference filter, an optical filter device, an optical module, and an electronic apparatus include a fixed substrate, a movable substrate, a fixed reflective film provided on the fixed substrate, a movable reflective film provided on the movable substrate and facing the fixed reflective film with an inter-reflective film gap interposed therebetween, and an electrostatic actuator that changes the size of the inter-reflective film gap. The movable substrate is curved in a convex shape in a direction away from the fixed substrate in an initial state. The reflective film has reflectance characteristics in which the first reflectance at a predetermined first wavelength in a measurement wavelength range is lower than the second reflectance at a second wavelength longer than the first wavelength.
US09429689B2
An image display apparatus including an image display panel that includes: a first color filter for passing light of a first primary and first auxiliary pixels for displaying the first primary; a second color filter for passing light of a second primary and second auxiliary pixels for displaying the second primary; a third color filter for passing light of a third primary and third auxiliary pixels for displaying the third primary; and fourth auxiliary pixels for displaying a fourth color; the first auxiliary pixels, the second auxiliary pixels, the third auxiliary pixels, and the fourth auxiliary pixels being arranged in a two-dimensional matrix, and a light shielding region disposed at least partly around the peripheral edge of each of the fourth auxiliary pixels.
US09429684B2
Miscible polymerizable compositions comprising at least one primary amine-containing methacrylate monomer, or at least one primary amine-containing methacrylamide monomer, in addition to 20-80 wt. % siloxane monomer, 20-80 wt. % hydrophilic monomer, cross-linking agent, and polymerization initiator, are described. These polymerizable compositions can be used to form silicone hydrogel contact lenses, and in methods of manufacturing silicone hydrogel contact lenses.
US09429680B2
Described herein is an apparatus that includes an estimation module that estimates a probability of an ice crystal icing engine event based on infrared satellite data, numerical weather prediction data, and empirical data corresponding with at least one actual ice crystal icing engine event. The apparatus also includes a data product module that generates a data product that indicates the estimation of the probability of an ice crystal icing engine event. Additionally, the apparatus includes an output module that communicates the data product to a recipient.
US09429674B2
A method for detecting a target in a soil using a metal detector, including: generating a transmit magnetic field for transmission into the soil based on a transmit signal; receiving a receive magnetic field; providing a receive signal induced by the receive magnetic field; processing the receive signal for producing a set of data which has effects of signals from the soil reduced therein or removed therefrom; producing at least two components of a form of at least one time constant spectrum based on the set of data; and producing, at least one indicator output signal based on the at least two components for indicating the presence and/or identity of the target when the target is within, an influence of the transmit magnetic field.
US09429665B2
Position errors of the flat-panel detector in the axes system of the radiation penetration system relative to a necessitated position which remain, for example, after a coarse setup of the radiation penetration system are balanced and thus the accuracy of the radiation penetration system is brought almost randomly close to the accuracy which would have resulted if the flat-panel detector had been exactly adjusted mechanically subsequently by executing a geometrical correction of the radiation penetration raw image, so that a change of a projection of the penetrated object in the radiation penetration raw image due to the position error is reduced or corrected.
US09429664B2
An X-ray detector and an X-ray imaging apparatus including the X-ray detector are provided. The X-ray detector includes a detector element including a cathode electrode and an anode electrode which are spaced apart from each other and a photoconductive layer located between the cathode electrode and the anode electrode and configured to absorb X-rays and generate electric charges, a first temperature controller configured to contact a first surface of the detector element and is configured to control a temperature of the cathode electrode, and a second temperature controller configured to contact a second surface of the detector element opposite to the first surface of the detector element and configured to control a temperature of the anode electrode.
US09429662B2
A bulk semiconducting scintillator device, including: a Li-containing semiconductor compound of general composition Li-III-VI2, wherein III is a Group III element and VI is a Group VI element; wherein the Li-containing semiconductor compound is used in one or more of a first mode and a second mode, wherein: in the first mode, the Li-containing semiconductor compound is coupled to an electrical circuit under bias operable for measuring electron-hole pairs in the Li-containing semiconductor compound in the presence of neutrons and the Li-containing semiconductor compound is also coupled to current detection electronics operable for detecting a corresponding current in the Li-containing semiconductor compound; and, in the second mode, the Li-containing semiconductor compound is coupled to a photodetector operable for detecting photons generated in the Li-containing semiconductor compound in the presence of the neutrons.
US09429661B2
Described is a radiation dosimeter including multiple sensor devices (including one or more passive integrating electronic radiation sensor, a MEMS accelerometers, a wireless transmitters and, optionally, a GPS, a thermistor, or other chemical, biological or EMF sensors) and a computer program for the simultaneous detection and wireless transmission of ionizing radiation, motion and global position for use in occupational and environmental dosimetry. The described dosimeter utilizes new processes and algorithms to create a self-contained, passive, integrating dosimeter. Furthermore, disclosed embodiments provide the use of MEMS and nanotechnology manufacturing techniques to encapsulate individual ionizing radiation sensor elements within a radiation attenuating material that provides a “filtration bubble” around the sensor element, the use of multiple attenuating materials (filters) around multiple sensor elements, and the use of a software algorithm to discriminate between different types of ionizing radiation and different radiation energy.
US09429657B2
The functionality described herein allows a user device to determine an appropriate juncture at which to initiate processing within a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) dead zone in an energy-efficient manner. In one implementation, the functionality employs a sensor management module for determining when to activate a device movement sensor module provided by a user device. When activated, the user device uses the device movement sensor module to perform any environment-specific processing, such as a dead-reckoning process for determining incremental positions within the venue. Further, in a crowd-sourcing application, the user device may report the incremental positions together with beacon information to remote processing functionality.
US09429655B2
A method of detecting an unknown signal and estimating a source location of the unknown signal using aircraft based on an automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) system is provided. The method includes a first step (S100) for obtaining from a plurality of airborne aircrafts provided with a network system, aircraft signals transmitted to an air traffic control (ATC) and a second step (S200) for detecting, by the ATC, a presence of an unknown signal in the aircraft signals based on one of a time difference of arrival (TDOA) method, a time of arrival (TOA) method, and an angle of arrival (AOA) method. The method further includes a third step (S300) for estimating the source location of the unknown signal and a fourth step (S400) for transmitting unknown signal generation information associated with the unknown signal and the source location of the unknown signal to neighboring aircraft and the ATC.
US09429653B2
The present disclosure describes methods and systems for measuring crosswind speed by optical measurement of laser scintillation. One method includes projecting radiation into a medium, receiving, over time, with a photodetector receiver, a plurality of scintillation patterns of scattered radiation, comparing cumulative a radiation intensity for each received scintillation pattern of the received plurality of scintillation patterns, and measuring a cumulative weighted average cross-movement within the medium using the compared cumulative radiation intensities.
US09429629B1
An apparatus for providing a test load includes a current source in series with a resistor circuit. The current source may be a MOSFET, a shunt resistor, and operational amplifier. The resistor circuit includes a plurality of resistors and a plurality of switching semiconductors. The resistors and Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors are arranged so that the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors can be switched on or off to place the resistors in series, parallel, or both with one another, thereby affecting the resistance of the resistor circuit. A microprocessor or digital signal processor outputs signals to switch the Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors on or off.
US09429625B1
An analog test network includes a conductor. The conductor is coupled to provide a first analog signal from a circuit under test to an analog-to-digital converter circuit. The analog-to-digital converter circuit is operable to generate a first digital signal based on the first analog signal. A control circuit is operable to generate a second digital signal based on the first digital signal. A digital-to-analog converter circuit is operable to generate a second analog signal based on the second digital signal. The conductor is coupled to provide the second analog signal from the digital-to-analog converter circuit to the circuit under test.
US09429624B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for sampling an indicator of the internal state of an embedded system or integrated circuit, where the indicator is sampled in a manner synchronous to the internal clock of the embedded system or integrated circuit. The resulting samples can be used for determining secret data within the embedded system or integrated circuit, detecting failures, or detecting counterfeit devices.
US09429623B2
A system for use in automated test equipment. In one embodiment, the system includes a configurable integrated circuit (IC) programmed to provide test patterns and an interface to at least one device under test (DUT). The system also includes a connection to the at least one DUT, wherein the connection is coupled directly between the configurable IC and the at least one DUT.
US09429620B2
A signal processing system includes a module under test, an oscillation signal generator, a translational filter, and a testing module. The module under test has a signal input end. The oscillation signal generator generates an oscillation signal. The translational filter includes a mixer controlled by the oscillation signals. The mixer has a high-frequency side and a low-frequency side. The high-frequency side is coupled to the signal input end of the module under test. The testing module is coupled to the low-frequency side of the mixer. When the signal processing system is in a testing mode, the testing module provides a testing signal to the low-frequency side, so as to generate a high-frequency testing signal at the high-frequency side of the mixer.
US09429610B2
Techniques for determining the voltage-dependent capacitance of a circuit are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for determining voltage-dependent capacitance of a circuit comprises measuring a parameter of the circuit at each one of a plurality of voltages, and, for each voltage, determining a capacitance of the circuit at the voltage by fitting a resistor-capacitor (RC) model of the circuit to the measured parameter of the circuit at the voltage.
US09429605B2
Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit (IC). The IC determines a time-variant resistance of an sensing resistor, wherein a resistance of the sensing resistor reflects an ambient environmental condition. The IC includes first and second conditioning circuits, an analog to digital conversion (ADC) element, and a logic circuit. The first conditioning circuit provides a first voltage based on the resistance of the sensing resistor, while the second conditioning circuit provides a second voltage based on a resistance of an on-chip reference resistor. The ADC element provides a multi-bit digital value based on a ratio of the first and second voltages. The multi-bit digital value is indicative of the ambient environmental condition measured by the off-chip sensor. A logic circuit selectively adjusts the first and second voltages based on the multi-bit digital value to limit or avoid saturation of the ADC element. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09429601B2
An alternating current input voltage detection circuit comprises: a first voltage waveform detection circuit that detects a voltage waveform of one alternating current input terminal of the diode rectification circuit, based on a reference potential of the device; a second voltage waveform detection circuit that detects a voltage waveform of the other alternating current input terminal of the diode rectification circuit, based on the reference potential of the device, and a voltage waveform generation circuit that: calculates a first detection voltage waveform, which is output from the first voltage waveform detection circuit, and a second detection voltage waveform, which is output from the second voltage waveform detection circuit; generates a voltage waveform signal, in which waveform distortions generated in the first detection voltage waveform and the second detection voltage waveform are eliminated; and outputs the voltage waveform signal as the voltage detection signal.
US09429600B2
We describe a system to provide feedback to a user of an appliance for energy saving, the system comprising: means for monitoring an energy consumption of the appliance; means for inferring a mode of use of the appliance from said power consumption; and means for providing feedback to said user responsive to said inferred mode of use to indicate how an amount of energy used by said appliance may be reduced. In some embodiments the means for monitoring power consumption comprises means for identifying one or more periods of operation of the appliance from data representing aggregate power consumption of a plurality of devices including the appliance. In embodiments the means for monitoring the power consumption comprises means for monitoring mains electricity power consumption of the plurality of devices. Alternatively the means for monitoring the power consumption may comprise, for example, a plug-through power sensing device.
US09429595B2
Sensor devices and related methods disclosed. One example sensor device includes a substrate comprising a plurality of bobbins, the plurality of bobbins define an aperture structured to receive a conductor therein, a coil comprising a plurality of coil turns wound about each of the plurality of bobbins, a first shield extending between each of the plurality of bobbins and the plurality of coil turns; and a second shield positioned proximate to the plurality of coil turns, opposite the first shield such that the plurality of coil turns is between the first shield and the second shield.
US09429594B2
Terminal connection device for connecting an end of a medium- or high-voltage power cable to a connection point, comprising an interface cable, an inner conductor and a conductive or semiconductive layer. The terminal connection device further comprises a first stress control tube comprising a stress control element and an insulation layer arranged around the stress control element. The terminal connection device further comprises a first cable connector for connecting the interface cable to the power cable. The terminal connection device further comprises a second stress control tube comprising a stress control element and an insulating layer arranged around the stress control element, wherein the second stress control tube is mounted over the second end portion of the interface cable and at least a portion of the first cable connector. The terminal connection device further comprises one or more tubular shrinkable sleeves.
US09429582B2
WW-binding protein 2 (WBP2) has been demonstrated in different studies to be a tyrosine kinase substrate, to activate ERα/PR transcription and to play a role in breast cancer. However, the role of WBP2 tyrosine phosphorylation in regulating ER function and breast cancer biology is unknown. Here, we established WBP2 as a tyrosine phosphorylation target of estrogen signaling via EGFR crosstalk. Using dominant negative, constitutively active mutants, RNAi and pharmacological studies, we demonstrated that phosphorylation of WBP2 at Tyr192 and Tyr231 could be regulated by c-Src and c-Yes kinases. We further showed that abrogating WBP2 phosphorylation impaired >60% of ERα reporter activity putatively by blocking nuclear entry of WBP2 and its interaction with ERα. Compared to vector control, overexpression of WBP2 and its phospho-mimic mutant in MCF7 resulted in larger tumors in mice, induced loss of cell-cell adhesion, enhanced cell proliferation, anchorage-independent growth, migration and invasion in both estrogen-dependent and-independent manner, events of which could be substantially abolished by overexpression of phosphorylation-defective mutant. Wnt/β-catenin inhibitor FH535 blocked phospho-WBP2-mediated cancer cell growth more pronouncedly than tamoxifen and fulvestrant, in part by reducing the expression of ERα.
US09429580B2
The present invention relates to a diagnostic method for the detection of small quantities of amniotic fluid in the vagina. More specifically, the invention relates to the detection of PAMG-1 in the vagina using anti-PAMG-1 antibodies.
US09429578B2
An apparatus is provided for sensing an analyte in a fluid. The apparatus includes a fluid collecting device configured to collect the fluid containing the analyte; a fluid input in fluid communication with the fluid collecting device configured to input the fluid containing the analyte into the fluid collecting device, an analyte interactant in fluid communication with the fluid collecting device, wherein the analyte interactant, when contacted by the analyte, reacts to cause a first change in thermal energy within the fluid collecting device; a modulator that causes a second change in thermal energy; a thermal sensing device comprising at least one pyroelectric device thermally coupled to the fluid collecting device to generate a first signal in response to at least one of the first change in thermal energy and the second change in thermal energy; a control device operatively coupled to the thermal sensing device and the modulator that generates a second signal, wherein the second signal comprises information useful in characterizing the analyte. A related method also is disclosed.
US09429577B2
The present invention is related to the anti-Uroplakin II antibodies, kits, cocktails, and use of anti-Uroplakin II antibodies for detection of cancer.
US09429569B2
A method for identifying persons with increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes mellitus, or having type I diabetes mellitus, utilizing selected biomarkers described herein either alone or in combination. The present disclosure allows for broad based, reliable, screening of large population bases. Also provided are arrays and kits that can be used to perform such methods.
US09429554B2
The invention relates to methods for determining the source of hydrocarbons presented in the pores of a host rock or found in contaminated groundwater. The method includes the steps of (a) determining a first isotopic composition of boron and/or lithium in one or more components within a potential source rock sample, such as kerogen, clay, or water; (b) determining a second isotopic composition of boron and/or lithium in the hydrocarbons found within the pores of a host rock sample or in contaminated groundwater; and (c) comparing the first and second isotopic compositions to determine whether the potential source rock is the source of the hydrocarbons within the pores of the host rock or in contaminated groundwater. The comparison is facilitated by using the isotope fractionation between the kerogen, clay, or water components and the bitumen component of the potential source rock, which allows one to predict the isotope composition of any hydrocarbons originating in the bitumen component of the source rock, based on the isotope composition of one of the other three phases. The method can be used to select host rock for extracting oil and other hydrocarbons, as well as in remediating groundwater contamination.
US09429546B2
Ultrasonic bolt inspection apparatus and methods facilitate in situ as well as bench non-destructive evaluation (NDE) inspection of fastening bolt distal ends and their mating nuts. The apparatus is coupled to an exposed end of a fastener bolt head, its exposed thread tip or to a mating nut. The apparatus retains a phased array ultrasonic probe that generates inspection scan data and a rotational position encoder that generates rotational position data. The probe is coupled to an ultrasonic inspection system analyzer, which converts scan data into inspection data that characterizes possible defects in the inspected bolt. A system controller is coupled to the analyzer and the rotational position encoder, correlating rotation position data and inspection data, in order to identify location and characteristics of possible defects in the inspected bolt end.
US09429544B2
A sensor array comprising a series connection of parallel GMR sensor stripes provides a sensitive mechanism for detecting the presence of magnetized particles bonded to biological molecules that are affixed to a substrate. The adverse effect of hysteresis on the maintenance of a stable bias point for the magnetic moment of the sensor free layer is eliminated by a combination of biasing the sensor along its longitudinal direction rather than the usual transverse direction and by using the overcoat stress and magnetostriction of magnetic layers to create a compensatory transverse magnetic anisotropy. By making the spaces between the stripes narrower than the dimension of the magnetized particle and by making the width of the stripes equal to the dimension of the particle, the sensitivity of the sensor array is enhanced.
US09429540B2
An exhaust sensor comprises a sensing electrode and a reference electrode each in contact with an electrolyte. At least one of the sensing electrode and the reference electrode are formed by depositing an electrode precursor material on an electrolyte precursor material and sintering the combination at a sufficient temperature for a sufficient time to achieve densification of the electrolyte, wherein the electrode precursor material comprises an alkali salt. Electrode patterns having enhanced perimeter ratios are also disclosed. The resulting exhaust sensor is capable of providing a usable output at a reduced operating temperature.
US09429539B2
A method an system is disclosed for the detection and/or allocation of at least one point mutation in target DNA and/or RNA duplexes. The method comprises obtaining a functionalized surface which is coated with probe DNA and/or RNA whereto target DNA and/or RNA duplexes are attached, contacting said functionalized surface to an electrolytic solution having a neutral pH in a flow cell and measuring a first impedance value within said electrolytic solution, and then adding a chemical to the electrolytic solution which is able to achieve denaturation of the target DNA and/or RNA. The method further comprises measuring a second impedance value within the flow cell after completion of the denaturation of the DNA and/or RNA target, and then obtaining a value representative for the impact of the chemical on the impedance of the electrolytic solution. The amount and/or allocation of point mutation(s) within the target DNA and/or RNA is then determined by calculating the denaturation-time constant based on the difference between the first and second impedance value and taking into account the impact of the chemical by third impedance value.
US09429536B2
The present invention is a nanotechnology-based personal sensor device composed of molecularly imprinted polymers that are interrogated using radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for use in simultaneously monitoring airborne contaminants, e.g., of second-hand cigarette smoke.
US09429532B2
Disclosed is a method for determining when to replace a guard bed material used to remove one or more catalyst poisons from a feed based on a parameter change in a process. A guard bed having a guard bed material is in fluid communication with a catalyst bed having a catalyst. At least three monitors are positioned in said guard bed or said catalyst bed and at least one parameter of the guard bed or catalyst bed is monitored. A feed component comprising one or more catalyst poisons is supplied to said guard bed or said catalyst bed. The feed is contacted with said guard bed material or said catalyst to remove at least a portion of a catalyst poison and to form a product which produces an increase or a decrease in said parameter. The monitored parameters are compared to determine when to replace the guard bed material.
US09429529B2
A device designed to be used for neutron imaging, immersed in a medium containing specimens to be analyzed, comprises a first converter comprising a first material capable of converting thermal neutron radiation into remnant beta radiation and a second converter comprising a second material capable of converting a remnant beta radiation into light radiation, the second converter being in contact with the first converter. A method is also provided for neutron imaging immersed in a medium and using the device.
US09429505B2
In order for a parallel light beam to enable formation of an image at the center of a photodetector 52 without the use of an actuator for the adjustment by an order of micrometers, a particle size distribution measuring apparatus 1 is provided with: a control unit 70 for calculating the distribution of particle size; a lens 21, 22 which is located between a light source unit 40 and a cell base 31 and has an entrance plane 21a, 22a and an exit plane 21b, 22b that is not parallel to the entrance plane 21a, 22a; and a lens drive mechanism 25 that can rotate the lens 21, 22 for adjusting the optical axis so that the angle at which the parallel light beam enters into the entrance plane 21a, 22b can be changed, wherein a detecting surface 52b for adjusting the optical axis is formed on a photodetector 52.
US09429502B2
Sample preparation device for receiving in sealing relation one or more filter assemblies and one or more sample containers, each container uniquely positioned within the device to receive filtered sample from a designated filter. The device includes a body, a lid disposed on the body, a container tray, a base, an integrated seal on the body, a valve and a valve actuator. The tray can be disposed in a vacuum chamber defined by the lid and the body, and one or more sample containers can be disposed in the tray. When properly positioned in the tray in the vacuum chamber, each container is in fluid communication with a single respective filter assembly disposed in sealing relation in a respective aperture in the lid. A single actuation of a valve to place the vacuum chamber under vacuum causes the lid to seal to the base and drives the simultaneous filtration of a plurality of samples.
US09429498B2
A tire uniformity testing machine includes an upper spindle including an upper rim portion, a lower spindle including a lower rim portion, and a spindle actuator such as a servo actuator adapted to vary a distance between the upper and lower spindles along a y axis. The tire testing machine also includes a conveyor adapted to move an associated tire to be tested along an x axis in a conveying direction. The conveyor is driven by a conveyor actuator said as a servo actuator. A motion controller is provided and receives x axis position feedback indicating a conveying distance moved by the conveyor along said x axis and that uses the x axis position feedback to control the spindle actuator to vary the distance between the upper and lower spindles along the y axis according to a function y=F(x) for coordinated synchronous variation of the distance between the upper and lower spindles along the y axis in response to movement of the conveyor along the x axis. The conveyor also moves vertically along the y axis and its position along with y axis can also be controlled by a servo actuator for coordinated vertical movement as a function of said x axis position feedback and/or as a function of y axis position feedback provided by said spindle actuator indicating a distance between said lower and upper spindles.
US09429496B2
A system for creating an optical time domain reflectometer (OTDR) in a small package is described. This system allows the implementation of multiple channels of OTDR in package of similar size to existing fiber optic transceivers.
US09429492B2
An offset correction method for an automobile oil pressure sensor determines whether or not an engine start signal is applied. An offset value of the oil pressure sensor installed on an oil pressure line connected to an oil pump is detected within a first preset period after the start signal is applied. An output value of the oil pressure sensor is corrected after the offset value is detected.
US09429489B2
Provided is a system for measuring a chain parameter of a moving chain, wherein the chain has a repetitive structure such as a chain link or teeth in a cogged belt. The system includes at least one image sensor positioned and configured to receive light from the moving chain, and a processor functionally associated with the image sensor. The processor is configured to obtain, from a signal stream received from the image sensor, a chain parameter characterizing the chain while the chain moves. An Image Monitoring Unit (IMU) may be assembled proximal the chain of a bicycles or of a spin bike, and a Human Computer Interface (HCI) unit including a display and functionally associated with the IMU, allows a user to view measurement results of a chain parameter and to operate the system. Further provided is a method of measuring a chain parameter of a moving chain.
US09429485B1
A bolt shear force sensor for in-service monitoring is provided in which the sensor includes a deformable ring with channel-like cross-sections and a wire egress hole. The ring surrounds a bolt or fastener to be tested. The channel-like cross sections face exterior to a center of the ring. Strain sensing elements are mounted within the channel cross-sections as an outer circumference of the ring. The sensing elements capture hoop strain from surrounding plates of the operating system which holds the fastener. A signal conditioner operationally connected via wire conductors is used to convert strain sensing signals from the sensing elements to strain output. The strain outputs are then used in conjunction with a calibration curve of shear force versus strain to determine the magnitudes and directions of the resultant shear forces.
US09429484B2
The invention relates to a method for determining the heat flow (dQ/dt) emanating from a heat transporting fluid (12), which is a mixture of at least two different fluids, and which flows through a flow space (11) from a first position, where it has a first temperature (T1), to a second position, where it has, due to that heat flow (dQ/dt), a second temperature (T2), which is lower than said first temperature (T1), whereby the density and specific heat of said heat transporting fluid (12) is determined by measuring the speed of sound (vs) in said fluid, and said density and specific heat of said heat transporting fluid (12) is used to determine the heat flow (dQ/dt).
US09429478B2
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure a thermocouple is provided that includes an electrical component, such as a resistor, at or in close proximity to a junction where the temperature is expected to be measured. By monitoring analog voltage measurements, the system determines, for example, whether the measured temperature actually represents a temperature reading at the junction or whether the thermocouple has been compromised due to one or more of a variety of health issues, such as, a short circuit in the thermocouple, thereby causing a false junction.
US09429476B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for enhancing data accuracy of a noncontact infrared thermometer. One method includes determining dry atmospheric constituency and water vapor absorption coefficients across the infrared thermometers spectral bandpass and implementing the coefficients in processing with site-based atmospheric temperature and water vapor density profile and pressure measurements to provide corrected target temperature data compensating for contamination in said raw data due to said intervening atmosphere. The method is particularly well adapted for use in correcting data from less expensive but also less accurate wideband infrared thermometers.
US09429473B2
Highly advantageous spectrometer systems and associated methods are disclosed which utilize phase modulation in conjunction with first and second harmonic detection to reduce or eliminate negative impacts from interference patterns.
US09429471B2
A plurality of photodiodes arrayed in a one-dimensional form are divided into a plurality of groups. The structure of an antireflection coating is changed for each group so that all the surfaces of the photodiodes belonging to each group are covered with an antireflection coating having a transmittance characteristic which shows a maximum transmittance within a range of wavelengths of light to be received by those photodiodes. In particular, a SiO2 coating layer on the silicon substrate and an Al2O3 coating layer are common to all the photodiodes, while the structure of the upper layers are modified with respect to the wavelength. Within an ultraviolet wavelength region, the coating structure is more finely changed with respect to the wavelength. By such a design, the transmittance can be improved while making the best efforts to avoid a complex manufacturing process.
US09429461B2
A method for capacitive fill level measurement of liquids and/or bulk materials in a container using at least one measuring sensor that is connected to a measuring electronics, wherein the measuring sensor is constructed from a plurality of, at least three, electrodes which are electrically insulated from one another and which, for measuring the fill level, are inserted into the container, and in the inserted state extend into the container, and wherein these at least three electrodes are connected to the measuring electronics and are operated in at least one first or in at least one second measuring mode. The invention further relates to a device for capacitive fill level measurement of liquids and/or bulk materials in a container.
US09429459B2
A system and method for measuring a mass of fuel contained in a variable geometry container. The container comprises a container assembly, formed by a variable geometry container disposed on a rigid support, a three-axis load cell coupled with the rigid support and providing a first set of three signals with a magnitude proportional to the force exerted by the container assembly, a three-axis accelerometer coupled with the rigid support and providing a second set of three signals with a magnitude proportional to the acceleration to which the container assembly is subjected, and a signal processing device configured to convert the first and the second set of signals into force and acceleration data, for three perpendicular directions of the space, and configured to calculate a measure relative to the mass of fuel contained in the variable geometry container.
US09429458B2
A flowmeter has a guide structure that can have medium flowing through it and which preferably operates using the Coriolis principle. To provide a flowmeter that allows a high as possible measuring accuracy with a space requirement that is as small as possible, at least one sensor element is applied on an outer surface of the guide structure for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable.
US09429445B2
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: identifying a target location with a communication identification; detecting a current location for locating a device; selecting a candidate location based on the candidate location being closer to the current location than the target location where the candidate location is associated with the communication identification of the target location; and generating a travel route to the candidate location for displaying on the device.
US09429436B2
Arrangements related to determining an estimated time of arrival for vehicle navigation are described. A travel route between an origin and a destination is determined. The travel route includes a toll road. It can be determined whether one or more toll payment areas are located along the toll road. A toll payment delay for the one or more toll payment areas can be determined. Responsive to receiving an indication of automatic toll payment, the toll payment delay for the one or more toll payment areas can be adjusted. An estimated time of arrival to the destination can be determined using the adjusted toll payment delay for the one or more toll payment areas. The determined estimated time of arrival can be presented to a user.
US09429434B2
A system and method for mapping an indoor environment. A client device may receive an indication of a starting point on a floor plan. The client device may prompt the user to travel in a particular direction and indicate when the user can no longer travel in that direction. As the user travels from the starting point in the designated direction, the client device may gather information about the indoor environment. For example, the client device may gather wireless signal strength data, cellular tower strength data, or video image data while the user travels in the designated direction. The client device may associate the gathered information with the path the user traveled from the starting point to the ending point. The client device may indicate the area for which valid location information is available based on the path the user traveled and the information the user collected.
US09429433B2
The present application discloses a personal navigation system for providing route guidance and description information to visually impaired users. The system includes a terminal located near an entrance of an area to be traversed. The terminal stores data related to the physical layout of the area. A plurality of location transmitters are distributed about the area and broadcast a signal. A portable electronic device is configured to receive data from the terminal upon entry and determine the location of the user by processing the broadcasted signal of the transmitters. Route guidance is provided to the user via audible or sensory methods. Information may also be provided to the user describing the surrounding area.
US09429431B2
An electronic device can provide an interactive map with non-visual output, thereby making the map accessible to visually impaired users. The map can be based on a starting location defined based on a current location of the electronic device or on a location entered by the user. Nearby paths, nearby points of interest, or directions from the starting location to an ending location can be identified via audio output. Users can touch a screen of the electronic device in order to virtually explore a neighborhood. A user can be alerted when he is moving along or straying from a path, approaching an intersection or point of interest, or changing terrains. Thus, the user can familiarize himself with city-level spatial relationships without needing to physically explore unfamiliar surroundings.
US09429421B2
This application relates to determining uniformity of a housing for a computing device based on characteristics of a reflected pattern of light incident upon the housing. The reflected pattern of light can include an array of shapes such as dots whose orientation and location can provide indications of uniformity for the housing. The array of shapes are analyzed to determine certain geometric properties such as area for each shape in the array of shapes. The geometric properties can thereafter be compared to a predetermined geometric, threshold, or tolerance value, and each shape can be assigned a rank of uniformity. Once a rank of uniformity is defined for each shape, a compilation of uniformity values can be generated and used to find portions on the housing where the housing is not uniform or flat.
US09429416B2
An accessory for an articulated head of a tridimensional coordinate measuring machine, machine tool or programmable manipulator. The invention includes a light source that is applicable adjacent to the measure probe in order to light selectively the measure point. The accessory can include an image capture device.
US09429411B2
An athletic parameter measurement device worn by an athlete during an athletic activity session includes a housing which attaches to the athlete, a display, a processor associated with the display, and an athletic parameter measurement sensor. During the athletic activity, the device detects, using the sensor, a vertical jump height of the athlete, and displays, during the performance of the athletic activity session, a representation of the vertical jump height on the display.
US09429410B2
A process for producing a beam element of a co-ordinate measuring machine, comprising the steps of applying a machinable metal coating by spraying on a structural substrate made of ceramic material, impregnating the coating with a resin, and executing on the coating a surface-finishing machining operation and a treatment of surface hardening.
US09429405B1
Less lethal ammunition is disclosed for inhibiting activities of a living target, and marking the living target. The ammunition comprises a cylindrical casing, a charged disposed within the cylindrical casing, a cylindrical body defining a bottom cap and a top section. The cylindrical body has first portion disposed within the casing and a second portion extending from the casing. An inhibiting agent is disposed within the casing substantially adjacent the bottom cap, and at least one marking capsule is disposed within the cylindrical body substantially adjacent a top section. A spacer is disposed within the cylindrical body intermediate the inhabiting agent and the marking capsule(s). The ammunition may be fired from a conventional handgun, rifle or shotgun. The cylindrical body is formed of a substantially transparent material to allow a user to visual identify the marking capsules and inhibiting agent within the cylindrical body.
US09429401B2
A stability system for a vehicle moving through a fluid includes stabilizers each having a drive surface that follows the position of the fluid stream perceived by the vehicle. The movement of the drive surface positions control surfaces of the stabilizers, which are coupled to the drive surfaces by mechanical linkages. Lift forces on the drive surfaces provide the force that is used in positioning the control surfaces. The deflection of the control surfaces provides a force on the vehicle that affects stability of the vehicle, for instance in making an inherently unstable vehicle more stable. The stability system may work completely passively, without any active control, and without the need for power to operate it.
US09429397B1
A system for adaptable and portable target impact detection includes: a target impact detector, including a sensor array and a sensor control unit; and a target control device; such that the sensor control unit calculates an impact location on a shooting target, and a user can interact with the target impact detector, via use of the target control device, in order to view information about target impacts, and in order to calibrate the target impact detector. A sensor control unit includes a processor; a non-transitory memory; an input/output component; a sensor array controller; a targeting calculator; a sensor calibrator; and a data bus. Also disclosed is a method for target impact detection, including: positioning target impact detector, selecting static calibration, shooting projectile, measuring shockwave, calculating estimated target impact, determining dynamic calibration, and calculating improved target impact.
US09429387B1
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for a selectable barrel support that can be inserted into a forend of a firearm stock to support a first barrel type and flipped, rotated, or otherwise moved to support a second barrel type (or third or fourth barrel types). A tensioning mechanism is provided. Bull and tapered barrels are examples of two barrel types that the selectable barrel support can be used to support. The selectable barrel support enables a firearm owner or gunsmith to exchange barrel types on a firearm without having to switch out the firearm stock.
US09429385B1
A drum magazine for loading paintballs and shaped projectiles into a magazine-fed firearm includes a spiral feed track that stores paintballs as well as a projectile feed assembly that pushes paintballs through the spiral feed track. Paintballs exit the spiral feed track through a feed port and through a modular feed adapter that is inserted into a paintball marker. A clock spring and a spring rotor are utilized in order to adjust the pressure that is exerted on paintballs within the spiral feed track. Tension in the clock spring may be increased to a desired level by rotating the spring rotor to wind the clock spring. Paintballs are prevented from loading when the drum magazine is not loaded into a paintball marker by a locking assembly. A ratcheting gear engages a gear locking pawl while the drum magazine is not loaded, preventing the clock spring from becoming unwound.
US09429383B2
An apparatus for mounting an accessory, such as a front stabilizer, to an archery bow allows a wide variety of adjusted positions. The apparatus includes first and second coupling members, a first threaded system for securing the first coupling member to a handle of the archery bow, and a second threaded system for securing the first and second coupling members together. The first threaded system allows the first coupling member to be adjusted about its longitudinal axis relative to the bow handle when loosened, and to be fixed relative to the bow handle when tightened. The second threaded system allows the first and second coupling members to be angularly adjusted relative to each other when loosened, and to be fixed relative to each other when tightened. A front stabilizer or other accessory is secured to the second coupling member.
US09429375B2
In various embodiments, an AR-15/M-16 style rifle may comprise a lower receiver, a magazine catch spring, a magazine release button, an ambidextrous magazine release button, and a magazine catch. The magazine catch spring may be at least partially installable within the lower receiver. The magazine release button may operatively engage a first end of the magazine catch spring. The magazine release button may be movably installed in the lower receiver. The ambidextrous magazine release button may be pivotally installed within the lower receiver. The ambidextrous magazine release button may be configured to pivot about a pivot screw in the lower receiver. The magazine catch may be moveably installed in the lower receiver. The magazine catch may comprise a first portion that operatively engages the magazine release button and a second portion that operatively engages the ambidextrous magazine release button.
US09429373B2
Provided is a heat exchanger, which includes a plurality of tubes and a plurality of fins. The tubes accommodate respective refrigerant passages through which refrigerant flows. The fins having a plate shape are spaced apart from each other, and include a plurality of through holes through which the tubes pass, respectively. The fin is provided with a condensate water guide part guiding discharge of condensate water generated during heat exchange between air and the refrigerant flowing through the tube. Accordingly, adhesion of the tube and the fin is facilitated, the distance between neighboring fins is maintained, and condensate water is efficiently discharged.
US09429369B2
A thermal module structure includes a base and at least one locating member. The base has at least one channel formed thereon and the channel has a closed bottom portion and an open top portion. At least one first coupling section is formed on the base at a position corresponding to the open top portion of the channel. The locating member is provided on one side with at least one second coupling section corresponding to the first coupling section, and is fitted above the channel with the second coupling section engaged with the first coupling section. Therefore, with the locating member, a heat pipe set in the channel can be quickly and firmly held to the base at upgraded efficiency and reduced time and labor cost.
US09429366B2
A core unit for an energy recovery system for exchanging heat and vapor between two independent intake and exhaust airstreams without intermixing thereof, the core unit having a fibrous microporous support substrate and a sulfonated block copolymer having at least one end block A and at least one interior block B wherein each A block contains essentially no sulfonic acid or sulfonate ester functional groups and each B block is a polymer block containing from about 10 to about 100 mol percent sulfonic acid or sulfonate ester functional groups based on the number of monomer units, and wherein the sulfonated block copolymer is laminated on the microporous support substrate.
US09429359B2
A method for drying a wet CO2 rich gas stream from an oxy-combustion process that includes: compressing the wet CO2 rich gas stream to a drying process operating pressure, cooling the wet CO2 rich gas stream in at least one cooler, alternately drying the wet CO2 rich gas stream in at least one dryer which contains at least one desiccant bed and regenerating the desiccant bed by conducting a heated regenerating gas through the dryer in opposite direction to the flow direction of the wet CO2 rich gas stream, separating the dried CO2 rich gas stream in a purification process to a purified CO2 gas stream and a waste gas stream rich in nitrogen and oxygen, whereby the waste gas stream rich in nitrogen and oxygen is used as regenerating gas, and subsequently to the regeneration the dryer is purged at least once by a pressurized CO2 rich gas stream conducted from the compressor, and whereby the dryer is charged up to the drying process operating pressure with a pressurized CO2 rich gas stream conducted from the compressor before each drying process.
US09429353B2
An apparatus, a system and a method for removing porting, and using geometry to create a heat soaked surface area in an ice area related to door assemblies. Heat conducting material such as, e.g., aluminum, is used to conduct heat efficiently to prevent icing at the transition point between an end of a door panel and its vertical guide structures in applications where freezer environments must be maintained while permitting ingress into a freezer environment, egress from a freezer environment, or both.
US09429350B2
The present invention relates to a box system for keeping medicine and other payloads at a desired temperature for prolonged periods of time. The system generally includes three or more insulating materials between a refrigerant and the payload so that the payload is not cold-shocked by the refrigerant but instead maintains a desired temperature range during shipment. An advantage of the box system of certain embodiments of the present disclosure is that the system allows a shipper to use a temperature controlled system that is effective in controlling temperature without the need for any expensive phase change materials. A box having foldable tabs for securing the materials to each other is also disclosed herein.
US09429345B2
A heating and cooling system includes an evaporator, a compressor, and a condenser. A heat exchanger, which may be an outdoor heat exchanger, is configured to receive the refrigerant from the condenser, to selectively extract heat from or to add heat to the refrigerant, and to transfer the refrigerant to the evaporator. First control valving, disposed between the condenser and the heat exchanger, is configured to regulate flow of the refrigerant from the condenser to the heat exchanger in a first mode of operation. Second control valving, disposed between the condenser and the heat exchanger, is configured to regulate flow of the refrigerant from the heat exchanger to the evaporator in a second mode of operation. The system may be operated in a variety of modes by appropriate control of the valving and other system components.
US09429344B2
An electrocaloric with active regeneration includes first and second electrocaloric capacitors proximate one another enabling heat transfer there between. In the system, complementary first and second electric fields are applied to their respective electrocaloric capacitors such that when the electric fields are applied the temperature of the first electrocaloric capacitor increases while the temperature of the second electrocaloric capacitor decreases or vice-versa. Shifting of one or both of the electrocaloric capacitors relative to one another assists in heat transfer between the two and may additionally transfer heat from an object to be cooled, which is connected to the first electrocaloric capacitor, to a heat sink, which is connected to a second electrocaloric capacitor.
US09429343B2
A refrigerant circuit includes a compressor, a heat source-side heat exchanger, and a usage-side heat exchanger capable of heating an aqueous medium. An aqueous medium circuit includes a circulation pump and the usage-side heat exchanger, and is connected to aqueous medium devices. An auxiliary heat source is provided at an outlet side of the usage-side heat exchanger in the aqueous medium circuit to further heat the aqueous medium. A heating capability computation unit computes a heating capability of the aqueous medium devices based on an operating state quantity of constituent devices or refrigerant flowing through the refrigerant circuit. A circulation flow rate computation unit computes a circulation flow rate of the aqueous medium based on an outlet/inlet temperature difference and the heating capability. A prediction unit predicts an outlet temperature of the aqueous medium in the auxiliary heat source based on the circulation flow rate and heat source capability information.
US09429342B2
It is a purpose for the invention to provide a rotating device (107) to generate heat, cold and pressure from the outlet at the rotation axis, by centrifugation pressurized fluid in that it include at least two under-supported U-channel structures (107) where one of the channels (104, 105) from each U-channel structure (107) toward the periphery (107) is in thermal contact, forming a heat exchanger (106) where one of the channels (105) contains a compressible cooling fluid which develops heat from the centrifugal compression in the channel (105), and the heat is transferred to a heating fluid with a lower temperature in the second channel (104) in heat exchanger (106) toward the periphery (107) where heat exchanging ceases, and the U-channels (107) is connected to its inlet—(101, 102) and outlet channels (111, 112) at the rotation axis for the transport of said fluid through the U-channels (104, 105, 108, 109) via the periphery (107), which after the outlet (111) for heating fluid is heat-exploited, and cooling fluid (112) is cold-exploited, and the heating fluid before the outlet (111) is pressurized by the heat received in the heat exchangers (106), and the cooling fluid is compressed with an adapted circulation pressure before inlet (102) to compensate against emitted heat in heat exchangers (106), and an expansion work of the heating fluid reduces the supplied energy to the compression work of the cooling fluid, and U-channel structures is rotated by appropriate means, and the U-channels are arranged radial and in balance around the rotation axis.
US09429340B2
A device for using solar energy to heat air. The device can include a hot air panel having a box. The box can include a glazing, a collection plate, and a base layer. The collection plate can be disposed between the glazing and the base layer so as to define a first chamber and a second chamber. The first chamber can be an insulation chamber that can hold air within the box. The second chamber can be a flow chamber that allows air to flow through the box. The box can be further associated with a temperature detection device and a fan.
US09429331B2
A heater management system provides heat to heated zones of a mobile unit. For each heated zone, the heater management system includes a heater driver and a sensor. The heater driver is controlled by a unique control channel that is configured to heat the heated zone. The sensor senses environmental data external and internal to the heated zone. The heater management system includes a memory storing a heater driver prioritization database. The heater management system includes a heater control logic unit programmed to receive periodic reports from each of the sensors, prioritize the heated zones by utilizing the heater driver database as a function of the periodic reports, and determine power to be provided to each of the heater drivers based on the prioritizing operation and a predetermined global power limitation.
US09429330B2
A heating system comprising a first flow pipe and a second flow pipe which are interconnected at ends thereof to form a closed loop fluid flow circuit. A housing having a passage extending therethrough for passage of water through the housing is interconnected with the fluid flow circuit, and a pump is utilized to circulate water through the fluid flow circuit. The housing provides at least one opening defined therein separate from the passage, and at least one heating element is inserted therein, projecting into the housing, so as to be in direct contact with the water therein. The heating element is powered by a power source for enabling the heating element to heat the water and operate the pump. Radiator panels are connected to the fluid flow circuit, to radiate the heat from the heated water flowing in the fluid flow circuit to a space heated by the heating system. A thermostatic safety control is provided in association with the heating element, which is adapted to turn the heating element off when a temperature of the water exceeds a pre-determined level. In another embodiment, a remote device can be used to selectively activate, or deactivate, the power source in heating the heating element.
US09429315B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus of controlling an oxygen supply in an oxyfuel combustion boiler capable of attaining stable oxyfuel combustion even when properties of coal are changed. A boiler-brought-in oxygen density is obtained when coal with a fuel ratio measured by fuel measuring means 39 is burned stably with oxygen in a boiler 4 so that a relationship between the fuel ratio and/or carbon content of the coal and the boiler-brought-in oxygen density is obtained and inputted in advance into the controller. When the coal is changed to the new kind of coal, a total amount of gases recirculated is regulated such that a boiler-brought-in oxygen density becomes accordance with a fuel ratio and/or a carbon content which is measured in advance for the new kind of coal.
US09429311B2
To illuminate a structure 5 with informational content on components 3, 20 of a filling opening in a laundry appliance, particularly a washing machine or a washer/dryer, components 3, 20, which are made of a transparent or translucent material, have a pot-shaped laundry deflector 20 and a window cover 3 lying at least approximately flush with the front face 1 of the laundry appliance. Components 3, 20 bear lettering 4, 16 and/or a symbol to be illuminated. Light-emitting elements 6, 17 are arranged opposite lateral edge faces 10, 15 of at least one of the components 3, 20, the light beams 9, 19 emitted by said elements being directed onto the edge faces 10, 15. The lettering 4, 16 or the symbol consists of a three-dimensional structure 5 in the material with an at least microscopically small extension into the material. To specify a structural illumination in which a lower number of light sources is adequate, one of the components 3, which is located at least approximately flush with the front face 1 of the laundry appliance and which is provided with the structure 5, 16, has a light-conducting element 13 extending inwards away from the flush line, the light inlet area 15 of which element extends as an edge face to the other component 20 and is guided into the radiation range of the light-emitting element 17.
US09429307B1
A connection to an electrical supply for a lighting system can be configured to facilitate deployment of the lighting system in a cramped space, for example in a shallow overhead plenum. The lighting system can comprise a housing for the light source. One or more sides of the housing can extend about the light source, for example circumferentially around the light source or otherwise laterally enclosing the light source. The electrical connection can be provided at a side of the housing, resulting in a low profile.
US09429304B2
A light emitting module includes a board on which a plurality of light emitting devices are mounted, a first interconnecting section having first interconnections, one end of each of which being connected to one of an anode side and an cathode side of an associated one of the light emitting devices, a second interconnecting section having second interconnections, one end of each of which being connected to the other of the anode side and the cathode side of an associated one of the light emitting devices, and a power supply portion provided along one side of the board to receive an external power. The second interconnecting section has at least one, but less than the number of the second interconnections, collectively interconnecting portion to which another end of each of the second interconnections is connected.
US09429300B2
A filter for use with an illumination device of a type having a reflector with an exit opening and an illumination source mounted within the reflector, the reflector shaped to direct radiation emitted from the illumination source through the exit opening. The filter may include an outer support attached to a periphery of the exit opening; an inner support concentric with the outer support; a filter having a plurality of filter elements extending between and pivotally attached to the inner and the outer supports, the filter elements being shaped and positioned to substantially cover the exit opening to filter the emitted radiation passing through the exit opening when pivoted to a closed position, and to allow the emitted radiation to pass substantially unfiltered through the exit opening when pivoted to an open position; and an actuator connected to pivot the filter elements to the closed and open positions.
US09429296B2
An LES is a surface from which light emanates from a lighting fixture. The present disclosure relates to a providing a lighting fixture that has an actual light emitting surface (A-LES), which is substantially smaller than the maximum potential LES (M-LES) for the lighting fixture. The M-LES is defined as the theoretical maximum LES for the mounting structure of the lighting fixture, and the A-LES is defined as the actual LES of the lighting fixture, as dictated by the lens or optical structures of the lighting fixture. The A-LES may provide an LES that is not only smaller, but also shaped differently, from the M-LES, to help control the light output of the lighting fixture based on the lighting application.
US09429280B2
In various embodiments, an illumination device includes a housing, a power connector for connecting the illumination device to a power socket and receiving input power, a light emitter for direct illumination disposed within the housing, a circuit for regulating the input power and providing the regulated power to the light emitter, and a decorative illumination element for providing decorative illumination.
US09429277B2
A plurality of adjacent capsules, each comprising a base component, a body component carrying an LED circuit board, and a lens component, wherein the body and the base snap together and the lens snap-fits to the body. Such capsules are attached to a flexible electrical power cable by electrical connector components internal to the body and which conduct power from the power cable through the body to the LED circuit board.
US09429275B2
A hydraulic system for a hybrid module which is located between an engine and a transmission includes a parallel arrangement of a mechanical pump and an electric pump. Each pump is constructed and arranged to deliver oil to other portions of the hydraulic system depending on the operational mode. Three operational modes are described including an electric mode, a transition mode, and a cruise mode. Included is a lube splitter valve which prioritizes the delivery of oil between downstream components and the motor (eMachine). The motor temperature is monitored and an elevated motor temperature provides an indication of a clogged oil filter.
US09429274B2
A system for regulating an amount of fresh lime slurry introduced to a spray dry absorber. The control system includes a controller configured to receive input from a continuous emissions monitoring system (CEMS), a valve in communication with the controller and a spray dry absorber suction pump, the valve adapted to regulate an amount of fresh lime slurry provided to the spray dry absorber suction pump and a valve in communication with the controller and a pre-mix tank, the valve adapted to regulate an amount of fresh lime slurry provided to the pre-mix tank.
US09429269B2
A portable water sport board rack includes a board holder that has an elongated back section, a curved bottom section, and a lip section that define a channel for receiving a large water sport board such as a paddle board. The bottom end of the board holder and an elongated rod are secured onto the top and bottom surfaces of a rotational unit which can rotate 360 degrees about a vertical axis. The elongated rod includes a shape and size to be removably inserted within the rod holder of a boat.
US09429267B2
A system relating to ceramic/rubberized lined steel pipes adapted to carry crushed rock and other highly abrasive materials.
US09429266B2
A brake mechanism of a robot using a multi-output differential gear, capable of selectively blocking or applying driving force as needed, the brake mechanism including, a differential gear unit receiving driving force and generating at least three outputs differentiated from the driving force while being linked with the driving force, a driving unit transferring the driving force to the differential gear unit and moving in a direction away from or approaching the differential gear unit to thereby be detachably provided in the differential gear unit, and a rescuing unit controlling a spaced distance between the driving unit and the differential gear unit to attach and detach the driving unit to and from the differential gear unit.
US09429250B2
A float device for use in a body of water includes a float configured to transform between a deflated state and an inflated state. The float includes at least one internal chamber. The float includes a manual inflation value configured to provide a passageway for adding gas to the at least one internal chamber and a deflation valve configured to provide a passageway for releasing gas from the at least one internal chamber. A float attachment member is attached to the float, such that when the float is placed in the body of water, the float attachment member is underwater.
US09429248B2
Process chamber gas flow control apparatus having a tiltable valve are disclosed. The gas flow apparatus includes a process chamber adapted to contain a substrate, an exit from the process chamber including a valve seat, and a tiltable valve configured and adapted to tilt relative to the valve seat to control flow non-uniformities within the process chamber. Systems and methods including the tiltable valve apparatus are disclosed, as are numerous other aspects.
US09429247B2
A semiconductor substrate processing system having acoustic monitoring is disclosed. The system includes a process chamber adapted to perform a process on a substrate, a process fluid source, a fluid conduit coupling the fluid source to the process chamber, and a flow control valve located along the fluid conduit and adapted to be operable to control a flow of a process fluid between the process fluid source and the process chamber. The system includes one or more acoustic sensors operable to sense acoustic noise coupled to at least one of the process fluid source, the fluid conduit, and the flow control valve, and an acoustic processor adapted to receive at least one signal from the one or more acoustic sensors. Acoustic monitoring methods are provided, as are other aspects.
US09429244B2
A valve plug assembly includes a support member having a support member body having a first end and a second end. A stem bore adapted to receive a valve stem may extend axially inward from the second end, and a mating protrusion may extend axially outward from the first end. The valve plug assembly also includes a plug tip having a first end and a second end, and a plug surface adapted to engage a valve seat is disposed adjacent to the first end. A mating bore may extend axially inward from the second end, and the mating protrusion may be received into the mating bore such that a threaded portion of the mating protrusion engages a threaded portion of the mating bore. Additionally, an adhesive bonds the threaded portion of the mating protrusion to the threaded portion of the mating bore.
US09429242B2
A control valve for hydraulic media is provided. The control valve includes a valve body having four ports. A first seat, a second seat, and a dual seat are positioned in the valve body between the ports. Two poppets, each including a disc and a cup, with a spring located therebetween, are arranged on a cylindrical pin with an enlarged engagement portion that is slidably supported within the valve body. A solenoid assembly movable in an axial direction within the valve body contacts the cylindrical pin and adjusts the position of the discs and cups of the poppets with respect to the seats of the valve body to minimize unwanted leakage between the ports. This configuration comprises four variable orifices that cooperate to provide controlled flow during different energizing phases of the solenoid assembly.
US09429237B2
A sealing device comprising a sealing circular piece, an inner ring and an outer ring, one of the two rings being able to rotate relative to an axis, the circular piece being arranged between the two rings and comprising two circular lips arranged in a groove at right angles to the axis of rotation, a top lip and a bottom lip substantially at right angles to the top lip, the bottom lip has a radius of curvature directed towards the interior, the groove being provided on the outer face of the inner ring and a third circular lip pressing on the outer face of the inner ring, and a part is fixed in an orifice formed in the outer ring.
US09429236B2
Sealing devices such as packers comprise a sealing element having one or more non-elastomeric fibrous sealing material layers formed by a plurality of fibers. The plurality of fibers may comprise one or more of natural material, metallic material, plastic material, or other non-elastomeric sealing material. The non-elastomeric fibrous sealing material layers may be formed by weaving the plurality of fibers, braiding the plurality of fibers, or forming a fibrous mass of the plurality of fibers. During operation, the non-elastomeric fibrous sealing material layers are radially expanded causing compression of the non-elastomeric fibrous sealing material layers. As a result, at least a portion of the air volume within the non-elastomeric fibrous sealing material layers is displaced by non-elastomeric fibrous sealing material causing the sealing element to engage a sealing surface, thereby forming a seal.
US09429234B2
A gear stage display device of a vehicle is provided and includes a light-emitting unit that is configured to generate light with different brightnesses. In addition, a first brightness controller is connected to the light-emitting unit and is configured to adjust the light-emitting unit to a first brightness. A second brightness controller is connected in parallel to the first brightness controller and is configured to adjust the light-emitting unit to a second brightness. In response to receiving a brightness control signal and a gear stage selection signal, one of the first brightness controller and the second brightness controller is configured to adjust the light-emitting unit.
US09429233B1
A brake clutch for an automatic transmission includes a piston that is positioned adjacent a multi-disc clutch pack and is movable between an engaged configuration and a disengaged configuration relative to the multi-disc clutch pack. Teeth of a plurality of ratcheting teeth of the piston are meshed with teeth of a plurality of ratcheting teeth of a retaining assembly of the brake clutch. A related automatic transmission is also provided.
US09429232B2
A transmission includes an electro-hydraulic controller that includes redundancy in the hydraulic circuit that permits single fault failures to be compensated for by changing the flow path of hydraulic fluid to bypass the single fault failure. The redundancy results in the ability of the transmission to maintain full operation in all modes.
US09429231B2
The present invention provides a flushing circuit for a hydraulic cylinder drive circuit, by which the flushing of the circuit is conducted while protecting precision apparatuses of a control valve unit, because the flushing of a reciprocating hydraulic cylinder and its drive circuit is conducted while bypassing the control valve unit.In a hydraulic oil supply/discharge circuit connecting a tank of hydraulic oil, a hydraulic pump generating pressurized hydraulic oil, and a hydraulic cylinder with one another, a control valve unit in which at least a direction switching valve is provided in the vicinity of the hydraulic pump and the oil tank and a multifunction valve having a bypass circuit in the vicinity of the hydraulic cylinder are provided, and a bypass circuit bypassing the control valve unit is provided to branch from a hydraulic oil supply/discharge circuit between the multifunction valve and the control valve unit. At the time of the flushing of the hydraulic cylinder and the hydraulic oil supply/discharge circuit, contaminated hydraulic oil returns the tank without passing through the control valve unit, with the result that the control valve unit is protected from the contaminated hydraulic oil.
US09429230B2
Provided is a range change device which includes a main motor and an auxiliary motor, a sun gear which is joined to a motor shaft of the main motor, an auxiliary gear which is joined to a motor shaft of the auxiliary motor, a plurality of planetary gears which are engaged with the sun gear, an annular gear in which internal teeth engaged with the planetary gears and external teeth engaged with the auxiliary gear are formed, a carrier which supports the planetary gears in a state where the carrier allows the planetary gears to rotate and revolve and is rotatable on an external circumference of the motor shaft, a small gear which is mounted on the carrier and rotates about an axis of the motor shaft, and a large gear which is engaged with the small gear.
US09429229B2
A shift control device for a continuously variable transmission includes a downhill control module that executes downhill control in which a gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission is corrected to a low side during driving downhill, and a gear ratio holding module that, in the case where a braking operation is detected while downhill control is executed, the gear ratio of the continuously variable transmission is held at the gear ratio at the time when the braking operation is started.
US09429216B2
A chain guide and a chain tensioner device using the chain guide. A roller, brought into contact with a chain, comprises a support shaft supported by an opposing guide base provided along the running direction of the chain, and roller bearings each having a steel outer ring on the outer peripheral surface of the support shaft so as to be brought into contact with the chain. The roller is also configured to be assembled by inserting opposite ends of the support shaft into support recesses on facing wall surfaces of the guide base. The roller has a vibration damping material between the support shaft and the support recess of each of the plate members.
US09429214B2
An automatic transmission includes an input shaft; a hub housing; a first clutch; a planetary gear portion; and a second clutch. A locking gap of the first clutch is formed to be greater than a locking gap of the second clutch. When the hub housing is rotated in the reverse direction, the sun gear is rotated in the forward direction, the second clutch is first released before the first clutch is locked, so that the hub housing is rotated in the reverse direction and is capable of moving backward.
US09429199B2
A wedge clutch, including: an inner hub; an outer race including an axially extending portion; and a plurality of wedge plates radially located between the inner hub and the axially extending portion. In a closed position for the clutch, the plurality of wedges is non-rotatably connected to the inner hub and the axially extending portion. In an open position for the clutch: the plurality of wedge plates is rotatable with respect to the outer race; each wedge plate is separated, in a radial direction, from the axially extending portion by a respective first radial distance; and the respective first radial distance for said each wedge plate is different from the respective first radial distance for each remaining wedge plate in the plurality of wedge plates.
US09429198B2
A coupling device for a ride lawnmower engine and a rotary pump is a device that is utilized to connect and transmit power between two shafts such as the driveshaft of a ride lawnmower engine and the input sleeve of a rotary pump. The device features a tubular coupling shaft with an axial motor adapter used to connect the driveshaft and the input sleeve. A compression spring is mounted within an open end of the tubular coupling shaft and is able to vertically lower the tubular coupling shaft towards the driveshaft in order to allow the axial motor adapter to engage the driveshaft. Conversely, the compression spring is compressed when the tubular coupling shaft is vertically raised. A height adjusting clamp is utilized to regulate the vertical positioning of the driveshaft coupling device in order to allow manual engagement and disengagement of the ride lawnmower engine and the rotary pump.
US09429196B1
A rolling bearing assembly having a first ring with a first circumferentially extending seal groove, and a fluid path in the first ring with an inlet located on an outer surface and an outlet connected to the first seal groove. A second ring has a second circumferentially extending seal groove. Rolling elements are supported between the first ring and the second ring, with the rolling elements running on races thereof. A seal including a first radial end that is engaged within the first seal groove is provided. A second radial end is located in the second seal groove, and the second end includes a circumferentially extending race side contact and a circumferentially extending outside lip. At least one passage that is in communication with the at least one fluid path extends from the first to the second radial end and discharges between the race side contact and the outside lip.
US09429195B2
A rolling bearing apparatus includes a lubrication unit provided adjacently to an annular space formed between an inner ring and an outer ring. The lubrication unit includes a tank that stores a lubricant to be supplied to an annular space and that has an outlet portion through which the lubricant flows out. The tank has a flexible bag in which the lubricant is stored. The bag is filled with the lubricant and allows the lubricant to flow out through the outlet portion as a volume of the bag decreases.
US09429191B2
A journal bearing assembly includes a bearing housing, a plurality of bearing pads, and a plurality of bearing pad support assemblies. The bearing housing includes a radial outer wall. The plurality of bearing pads are mounted within the bearing housing, and include at least one of a gas permeable porous media and an array of gas delivery holes. The plurality of bearing pad support assemblies are radially interposed between the bearing pads and the radial outer wall. Each of the bearing pad support assemblies includes a spring assembly and a damper assembly.
US09429184B2
This invention provides connector assemblies comprising at least two connector elements pivotally joined to each other, wherein each connector element is configured for attachment to a natural tree pole such as bamboo. Useful connector elements include members configured to conform the surface of a natural tree pole. Useful connector elements include terminal connector elements configured for attachment to the terminal end of a natural tree pole and side connector elements configured for attachment to the side of a natural tree pole.
US09429181B2
A vehicle wheel lock assembly includes a main body and a first sleeve. The main body has a wheel engaging end, a key portion, a first supporting section and a key receiving end. The key portion has a plurality of surface contours defining a first key pattern configured to couple with a tool for torsional movement of the main body. The first sleeve has an open end and a closed end. The open end is installed to the first supporting section of the main body such that the closed end of the first sleeve covers the key receiving end with the key portion exposed relative to the first sleeve. The first sleeve is retained by the first supporting section for rotation about the central axis of the main body and is non-movably retained relative to an axial direction of the main body.
US09429175B2
A hydraulic control valve assembly (10), method and system, characterized by control valves (26) each having a variable metering orifice; a compensator (28) that controls flow of fluid from the variable metering orifice to a work port (A,B) in response to a differential in pressures acting on opposite first and second sides of the compensator, wherein a first side receives a pressure at the downstream side of the variable metering orifice; a load sense passage (34) providing a load sense pressure; and a differential pressure controller (40) having a first inlet connected to a pump supply port and a second inlet connected to the load sense passage, the controller having a first operational mode in which load sense pressure at the second inlet is supplied to an outlet of the controller and a second operational mode in which flow from the first inlet is metered to the outlet of the controller to provide a differential control output pressure, and wherein an outlet of the differential pressure controller is connected to a pump control port and/or to the second side of the pressure compensating valve of at least one of the control valves.
US09429170B2
A drive train (1) has an internal combustion engine (2), a traction drive (3), and working hydraulics (4) having at least one hydraulic pump (7). A connecting line (26) leads to a hydraulic accumulator (25) and is connected to a delivery line (10) of the hydraulic pump (7) that leads to the working hydraulics (4). A shutoff valve (30) is located in the connecting line (26). The shutoff valve (30) is a check valve (31) that opens automatically and as a function of the pressure to allow a flow to the hydraulic accumulator (25). A pressure relief valve (32) is operatively associated with the connecting line (26) between the shutoff valve (30) and the hydraulic accumulator (25).
US09429168B2
A fan includes a frame and an impeller. The frame includes a main body, a plurality of guiding elements and a motor base. The main body has an airflow inlet and an airflow outlet. The guiding elements are disposed in the main body and located at the airflow outlet, wherein each of the guiding elements includes an inclined part and an axial extended part, and the inclined par meets the axial extended part at an angle. The motor base connects to the main body. The impeller is disposed on the motor base for providing an airflow, wherein the guiding elements guide the airflow away from the fan.
US09429163B2
A series fan assembling structure includes a connection assembly, a first fan and a second fan. The connection assembly has a first connection member having a first end face and a second end face opposite to the first end face. A second connection member is disposed at an upper end of the first connection member to outward horizontally extend from the first end face. A third connection member is disposed at a lower end of the first connection member to outward horizontally extend from the second end face. A passage is formed at the centers of the first and second end faces. The first fan is mated with the first end face of the first connection member and horizontally connected with the second connection member. The second fan is mated with the second end face of the first connection member and horizontally connected with the third connection member.
US09429159B2
A pump includes a pump chamber in which a rotor with gates is supported so that it can rotate, an electric motor for driving the rotor, a muffler that encloses a volume in the area of the pump chamber, wherein the volume is in active connection with an outlet port and a front muffler that is arranged within the muffler. To improve the service life and reliability of the pump in a vehicle with minimal installation expense, it is proposed that a filter is integrated into the front muffler.
US09429157B2
A compressor having a lower frame and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The compressor may include a cylindrical shell, a rotational shaft rotatably mounted in the cylindrical shell, a rotor and a stator that rotates the rotational shaft, a compression device driven by the rotational shaft, a lower bearing configured to rotatably support one side of the rotational shaft, a lower frame configured to support the lower bearing, the lower frame being configured to be press-fitted into a lower end portion of the cylindrical shell, and a base configured to seal the lower end portion of the cylindrical shell. The lower frame may include a main body configured to be press-fitted onto an inner circumferential surface of the cylindrical shell and a flange that extends from the main body, the flange being configured to limit a press-fit depth by contacting the lower end portion of the cylindrical shell.
US09429148B2
A fan control system and a fan controlling method thereof are disclosed. The fan control system is used to an electronic apparatus for controlling an air pump fan device. The fan controlling method includes following steps: setting a plurality of vibrating working periods of the air pump fan device; setting a plurality of vibrating frequencies of the air pump fan device, wherein each vibrating frequency has a different vibrating frequency value; detecting a temperature of the electronic apparatus; determining whether the temperature of the electronic apparatus exceeding a first setting temperature; and if yes, controlling the air pump fan device to vibrate according to the plurality of vibrating frequencies during the plurality of vibrating working periods, wherein adjacent vibrating working periods of the plurality of vibrating working periods correspond to different vibrating frequency values.
US09429147B2
A variable displacement swash plate compressor is provided with a housing, a drive shaft, a swash plate, a link mechanism, a piston, a conversion mechanism, an actuator, and a control mechanism. The housing includes a suction chamber, a discharge chamber, a swash plate chamber, and a cylinder bore. The actuator includes a movable body coupled to the swash plate, a fixed body fixed to the drive shaft, and a control pressure chamber defined by the movable body and the fixed body. The movable body includes a circumferential wall extending in a direction along a rotational axis and surrounding the fixed body, which includes a guide portion projecting in an axial direction along an inner surface of the circumferential wall. The movable body contacts the guide portion to restrict inclination of the movable body relative to the drive shaft that is greater than or equal to a predetermined amount.
US09429145B2
A thermal gradient hydroelectric power system and method is disclosed herein. Specifically, the method can comprise cycling through a submersed evaporator warm from a natural warm water source, said warm water source having a first temperature. The method also can comprise evaporating a working fluid using said evaporator, and routing the working fluid from the evaporator through a vapor line to a condenser above said evaporator. Finally, the method can also comprise cycling through a condenser cold water from a natural cold water source, the cold water source having a second temperature, and condensing the working fluid, the working fluid having a boiling point between said first temperature and said second temperature.
US09429141B2
Methods and systems described herein relate to power generation control for an aerial vehicle of an air wind turbine (AWT). More specifically, the methods described herein relate to balancing power generation or preventing a component of the aerial vehicle from overheating using rotor speed control. An example method may include operating an aerial vehicle in a crosswind-flight mode to generate power. The aerial vehicle may include a rotor configured to help generate the power. While the aerial vehicle is in the crosswind-flight mode the method may include comparing a power output level of the aerial vehicle to a power threshold and, based on the comparison, adjusting operation of the rotor in a manner that generates an optimal amount of power or minimizes overheating of the aerial vehicle.
US09429131B2
A method for controlling an engine starter system including a starter capable of being controlled by an electronic control unit and having an electric motor and a pinion coupled together for transferring rotational torque from the motor to the pinion when the motor is activated; controlling activation of the motor with an electronic control unit output motor signal in response to an engine speed input signal; determining the pinion speed in an open loop manner based solely on the time since activation of the motor and the voltage applied to the motor; and selectively moving the pinion between a retracted state and an extended state in response to an electronic control unit output pinion signal, whereby the starter is capable of selectively engaging an engine for cranking the engine. Also, a starter system that facilitates this method.
US09429113B2
An exhaust gas cooling device, which cools exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine mounted on a vehicle through heat exchange between the exhaust gas and a coolant, includes: a plurality of tubes through which the exhaust gas flows; a tubular shell which houses the plurality of tubes and is configured to allow the coolant to flow therethrough; and a header plate disposed at an end portion in the shell to prevent the coolant from flowing out of the shell. The header plate includes support holes in which end portions of the plurality of the tubes are fitted and supported, and each of axial end faces of the plurality of tubes is located in the corresponding support hole at a position between both ends of the header plate in a thickness direction of the header plate.
US09429101B2
A piston for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The piston includes an upper surface configured to at least partly face a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine. The upper surface includes a combustion bowl surface, and a squish face having an internal edge disposed a first distance from the longitudinal axis along a radial direction. The combustion bowl surface includes a planar surface extending radially outward from the longitudinal axis of the piston, a first concave surface disposed outside the planar surface in the radial direction, the first concave surface having a first radius of curvature, and a second concave surface disposed outside the first concave surface in the radial direction, the second concave surface having a second radius of curvature, the second radius of curvature being smaller than the first radius of curvature.
US09429094B2
A module for managing mass flow and dampening pressure pulsations in the supply line of a gaseous fuelled internal combustion engine comprises a hollow body defining an expanded volume that is fluidly connected directly to a pressure sensor and a temperature sensor. The module is placed along the supply line of a gaseous fuel engine between a fuel pressure increasing device and the fuel rail that supplies fuel to the engine. The module can comprise a filter that filters the impurities from the gaseous fuel supplied to the engine and an overpressure protection device that can vent some of the gaseous fuel from the module to protect it from over-pressurization.
US09429087B2
A controller performs switching between a compression ignition mode in which compression ignition combustion is performed to operate an engine body, and a spark ignition mode in which spark ignition combustion is performed to drive a spark plug to ignite and combust an air-fuel mixture in a cylinder. The controller reduces an EGR ratio to be lower than an EGR ratio set in the compression ignition mode to operate the engine body in a transitional mode in which the compression ignition combustion is performed in switching from the spark ignition mode to the compression ignition mode.
US09429081B2
An engine control system is described. A cylinder control module selectively activates and deactivates intake and exhaust valves of a cylinder of an engine. A fuel control module disables fueling of the cylinder when the intake and exhaust valves of the cylinder are deactivated and, when the intake and exhaust valves of the cylinder are activated after being deactivated for at least one combustion cycle of the cylinder, adjusts fueling of the cylinder based on a predetermined reactivation fueling adjustment set for the cylinder.
US09429077B2
Electric power from the low spool of a turboshaft engine is transferred to drive the compressor of an other turboshaft engine. This is used to assist in maintaining the other turboshaft idling while a single engine provides flight power or to increase acceleration for instance.
US09429074B2
A fuel nozzle for a gas turbine engine includes a nozzle body having a longitudinal axis. An elongated annular air passage is defined within the nozzle body. A plurality of circumferentially spaced apart axially extending swirl vanes is disposed within the annular air passage. Each swirl vane has an axially swept cross-sectional profile along the radial extent thereof.
US09429068B2
The purpose is to provide an engine generator 1 which can reduce noise and performs cooling efficiently. In the engine generator 1 having an engine 2, a generator 3, a cover 4 and a muffler box 13, external openings 412 and 414 formed in the cover 4 for sucking outside air into the cover 4 and intake ducts 7 for introducing the air sucked via the external opening 412 and 414 into the inside of the cover 4. An opening 71 is formed in the upper side of each of the intake duct 7, and the intake duct 7 is arranged along the side surface of the muffler box 13 and below the upper surface of the muffler box 13 for a predetermined distance. A sponge 17 is provided between the upper side of the intake duct 7 and the side surface of the muffler box 13 so as to cover a part of the opening 71. An air passage 18 is formed above the intake duct 7 by the side surface of the muffler box 13 and the sponge 17.
US09429042B2
An acoustic damping device is provided which includes at least one opening for a sealing gas to deflect a grazing gas flow away from the mouth of an acoustic damper.
US09429035B2
The invention refers to a process for the formation of a thermal barrier coating on a substrate, comprising the steps of: a) applying a bond coat on the substrate; b) subjecting the bond coat to a low activity aluminizing process, thus obtaining, above the bond coat, a temporary intermediate diffusion layer; c) applying, on the temporary intermediate diffusion layer, aluminum powder in suspension with a solvent or aqueous base, said aluminum powder having size distribution from 15 to 150 μm; d) performing a thermal treatment in a vacuum at a pressure from 10−3 to 10−5 bars, at a temperature from 800° C. to 1050° C. and with an active phase having duration in the range of 60 minutes to 4 hours, thus obtaining above the bond coat an enriched intermediate diffusion layer; and e) applying a definitive barrier layer on said enriched intermediate diffusion layer.
US09429031B2
A helical ring including a polygonal body and a plurality of cylindrical radial housings arranged in the body is provided. Each housing includes a surface adapted to receive a support of a blade of a helix. The surface of each housing is arranged on a radially internal surface of a corresponding hub. Each hub is a separate piece attached to the body of the ring, intended to be received in a radial housing of the body of the ring. The hub includes two projecting pins relative to its external surface to be fastened to the edges of a housing of the annular body, the two projecting pins forming a centering axis.
US09429023B2
In accordance with an exemplary embodiment, a method for manufacturing a component using additive manufacturing techniques includes providing a 3D design model for the component, adding one or more crack resistant features to the 3D design model of the component to produce an enhanced design model, and manufacturing the component using an additive manufacturing technique in accordance with the enhanced design model. The one or more crack resistant features are provided to reduce or eliminate the incidence of cracking in the manufactured component.
US09429021B2
The invention relates to a method for welding rotors for power generation such as gas turbines, steam turbines, and generators having a plurality of rotor discs arranged along a rotor axis. The method includes providing said discs with a weld seam preparation. The weld seam preparation includes a root, a first, gap-like welding section adjoining the root in radial direction, and a second, gap-like welding section adjoining the first welding section in radial direction. The method further includes melting the root by means of a first welding process; making a weld in the first welding section by means of a second welding process; and filling up the second welding section by means of a third welding process.
US09429017B2
The present application relates to a system for supporting a roof of a portion of a mine. The system includes a first plurality of stabilizing members disposed above the roof at a first elevation. The first plurality of stabilizing members originate from a first common location and terminate at a second elevation that is higher than the first elevation. The system further includes a second plurality of stabilizing members disposed above the roof and the first plurality of stabilizing members at a third elevation. The second plurality of stabilizing members originate from a second common location and terminate at a fourth elevation that is higher than the third elevation. The second plurality of stabilizing members are disposed generally perpendicular to the first plurality of stabilizing members.
US09429013B2
An optical window assembly of an optical sensor of a downhole tool positionable in a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation. The downhole tool has a housing with a flowline there through to receive downhole fluid therein. The optical sensor is positionable about the flowline to measure light passing therethrough. The optical window assembly includes a tubular sensor body positionable in the housing (the sensor body having a sensor-end and a flanged signal-end with a passage there through), an optical window positionable in the passage of the sensor body to pass the light from the flowline to the optical sensors, a seal disposed about the sensor body, and a backup ring disposed about the sensor body between the flanged signal-end and the seal to support the seal about the sensor body whereby the downhole fluid is prevented from leaking between the seal and the sensor body.
US09429010B2
A component of the hydrocarbon well system and a first supply line to the component can be isolated from other components of the hydrocarbon well system. The component and the first supply line can be pressurized to a test pressure with a test fluid. Then, a pressure and a temperature of the test fluid in the component that was pressurized can be measured over a period of time. The pressure and the temperature that were measured can be analyzed and a pressure integrity of the component can be determined based on the analysis.
US09429007B2
A method for maintaining pressure in a wellbore drilled from a drilling platform floating on a body of water includes pumping fluid at a determined flow rate into a drill string disposed in a wellbore and measuring fluid pressure within a fluid discharge line of fluid returning from the wellbore. The fluid discharge line has a variable length corresponding to an elevation of the floating platform above the bottom of the body of water. The wellbore pressure is determined at a selected depth in the wellbore or at a selected position along a drilling riser or variable length portion of the fluid discharge line using known parameters/methods. The determined wellbore pressure is adjusted for changes in length of the fluid discharge line corresponding to changes in the elevation of the floating platform relative to the bottom of the body of water.
US09429006B2
The method includes the introduction of a proppant-free stage and a proppant laden stage into the wellbore and/or subterranean formation. The method increases the effective fracture width and enhances fracture conductivity within the formation. Either the proppant-free stage or the proppant laden stage contains a breaker. At least one of the proppant-free stage or proppant laden stage contains a viscosifying agent to which the breaker has affinity. The viscosifying agent may be a superabsorbent, a viscosifying polymer (other than a superabsorbent) or a viscoelastic surfactant. The breaker has greater affinity for the viscosifying agent not present in the same stage as the breaker. Either the proppant-free stage or the proppant laden stage may be foamed.
US09429004B2
A method of producing hydrocarbons in situ from a fixed-bed hydrocarbon formation disposed below a ground surface and having a higher permeability zone substantially parallel to, and between a top lower permeability zone and a bottom lower permeability zone. The steps include providing at least one injection well and first and second production wells in the higher permeability zone, injecting a heated thermal-energy carrier fluid (TECF) into the injection well, circulating the carrier fluid through the zone and creating a substantially horizontal situ heating element (ISHE) between the injection well and the production wells for mobilizing the hydrocarbons.
US09428997B2
A gravel pack assembly includes screen sections with a packer between them. A first screen section communicates an uphole annulus with the assembly's interior passage, and a second screen section communicates a downhole annulus with the interior passage. A housing of the packer has an internal bore communicating with the assembly's interior passage and has an internal bypass communicating external ports with one another. A first packer element disposed between the external ports restricts gravel passage at least from the uphole to the downhole annulus. A second packer element disposed downhole from a second of the external ports is independently actuated to isolate fluid passage between the uphole and downhole annulus. One or more transport tubes communicate slurry from the uphole annulus to the internal bypass once the uphole annulus is packed with gravel.
US09428983B2
A top entry wireline apparatus may be used to insert or manipulate an electrical conduit into a wellbore. The top entry wireline apparatus may include a roller chain configuration that may include a plurality of roller bodies. A method of using the top entry wireline apparatus is also included.
US09428978B2
A method for automatically shortening an injection well liner for underground coal gasification is provided.
US09428977B2
An actuation tool uses a lock that when released allows a moving magnet to move into position to repel another magnet. Alternatively a magnetic field can be triggered in a stationary magnet such as one delivered on wireline, for example, to accomplish tool actuation. The repelling force on the second magnet moves it away from a locking position to allow another lock to retract and release the stored potential energy, where the release of the potential energy creates kinetic energy to drive an actuation assembly to set the tool. In a preferred application the tool can be a liner hanger. The release device can be a selectively energized electromagnet or a solenoid that shifts at least one magnet into alignment with at least one second magnet so as to defeat the second magnet from effectively supporting dogs that retain the potential energy whose movement can set the tool.
US09428976B2
A wellbore servicing system, comprising a sleeve system comprising a ported case, a sliding sleeve within the case and movable between a first sleeve position in which the sleeve restricts fluid communication via the case and a second sleeve position in which the sleeve does not, a radially divided segmented seat movable between a first seat position in which the seat restricts movement of the sleeve and a second seat position in which the seat does not, and a sheath covering a portion of the seat, the sleeve system being transitionable from a first, to a second, to a third mode, in the first mode, the sleeve is in its first position and the seat in its first position, in the second mode, the sleeve is in its first position and the seat in its second position, and, in the third mode, the sleeve is in its second position.
US09428974B2
A coiled tubing servicing system comprising a servicing cart comprising two or more support frames, a length of coiled tubing supported by the servicing cart, a servicing fixture disposed about a portion of the length of coiled tubing adjacent the servicing cart, wherein the servicing fixture is movable along a longitudinal axis of the length of coiled tubing and radially about the longitudinal axis of the length of coiled tubing; and a servicing tool coupled to the servicing fixture.
US09428972B2
A clamping system for making and breaking threaded connections between a first tubular and a second tubular comprises a clamp assembly. The clamp assembly includes a first cam gear, a first plurality of clamp members disposed within the first cam gear, and a torque gear. Each clamp member is pivotally coupled to the torque gear. Each clamp member is configured to pivot between a withdraw position radially spaced apart from the first tubular and a gripping position engaging the first tubular. In addition, the clamping system comprises a clamp actuator. The clamp actuator includes a mounting shaft, a first clamp drive gear rotatably coupled to the mounting shaft, and a torque drive gear rotatably coupled to the mounting shaft. The first clamp drive gear is configured to rotate the first cam gear and the torque drive gear is configured to rotate the torque gear.
US09428969B2
The present Invention concerns a clamp (20) for mounting upon an elongate member such as a riser (24) to be deployed underwater. The clamp may for example be intended to prevent movement of a buoyancy module along a riser. The clamp comprises a plurality of clamp bodies (22) to be placed at circumferential intervals about the elongate member. A strap (42) is provided which is to be placed around the clamp bodies and tensioned to urge the clamp bodies toward the elongate member, enabling the clamp to resist movement along it. The clamp bodies comprise respective spring elements (28) which are arranged, when the clamp is assembled and mounted, between the clamp bodies and the elongate member. The clamp bodies and the spring elements are shaped to permit them to be used in clamps having a range of different diameters and having a differing number of clamp bodies.
US09428957B2
The gate may be fixed within a doorway or into walls above stairs. The gate is constructed of two horizontal beams pivotally connected by vertical beams, joined by pivot pins. At one end, the horizontal beams are pivotally connected to a hinge so that they may pivot vertically relative to the hinge, which is connected to one side of a door frame and permits the gate to swing open and closed. When closed, the gate latches into saddles on the opposite side of the door frame. When open, the entire gate pivots vertically to incline in a direction of the stairs. When pivoting vertically, the vertical beams remain vertical and the horizontal beams incline.
US09428956B2
A drive arrangement (1) for actuating a roller sun blind (21) of a motor vehicle has an actuation rod (2) with external thread (3) and a hollow cylinder (4) with internal thread (5). The actuation rod (2) is arranged coaxially in the hollow cylinder (4). The external thread (3) of the actuation rod (2) meshes with the internal thread (5) of the hollow cylinder (4). Thus, relative rotation of actuation rod (2) and hollow cylinder (4) displaces the actuation rod (2) axially relative to the hollow cylinder (4). The actuation rod (2) is guided in non-rotatable fashion, and the hollow cylinder (4) can be rotated by a drive (6).
US09428954B1
The present disclosure describes a corner pad for an entryway. The corner pad may have a mounting surface configured for attachment to a frame member. The corner pad may also have a sealing surface opposite from the mounting surface. At least a portion of the sealing surface corresponds with a sealing region designed to seal against a stile of a door panel. A profile of the sealing surface within the sealing region is non-linear. Thus the profile creates a varied thickness of the corner pad within the sealing region to provide varying levels of compression when sealing with the stile, and to accommodate variations in a margin between the frame member and the stile.
US09428951B2
A tilt-up door for a building having an opening including a door frame with vertical track members, cam surfaces extending laterally from the vertical tracks at the upper portion of the tracks and a door sized to span the opening. The door can be pivotally coupled with rollers disposed within the vertical tracks and cam followers extending laterally from the upper portion of the door to contact the cam surfaces. The cams can include a first steep inclined segment, a second inclined segment and a third segment. When an upwardly directed motive force acts on the door the cam followers come into engagement with the cam surface to lift the door generally vertically and then rotate the door inwardly as the door is raised into an open raised position.
US09428946B2
Hinge for furniture, comprising at least one pair of leaves (6-7) mounted in a transverse housing in a supporting profile (1) by means of parallel independent rotation pins (14), which extend through the knuckles (9) of the leaves, said knuckles being equipped with teeth (18), parallel to the rotation pins (14), which mesh with one another.
US09428943B2
A modular latch for an automotive vehicle is provided. It includes a latch core (a housing and a ratchet and pawl rotatably mounted to the housing), a mounting plate that secures the latch core to the vehicle. The latch cure can use any of a plurality of different mounting plates for a lift gate latch, a decklid latch, and a sliding door latch; A latch module is mounted to the latch core to provide different functional including a manual release latch module, a power release latch module, a power lock and unlock latch module, and a power cinching and release latch module. The latch cure may fit a more or less universal envelope. The latch may employ one or more status sensors. Those status sensors may sense striker position, and may not necessarily include any sensors mounted to monitor ratchet position. The latch may include a layered latch core in which one or more sensor members move in different planes from the pawl and ratchet.
US09428940B1
A door latch for retaining a door to a door frame or floor at a plurality of locations adjacent a respective edge of the door includes a central latch disposed within the door and biased in an extended position, and at least one of an upper latch disposed within the door and biased in an extended position and a lower latch disposed within the door and biased in an extended position. The door latch further includes a lock set that is operable for simultaneously moving the central latch and the at least one of the upper latch and the lower latch from the extended position to a retracted position so as to release the door from the door frame. The door latch includes a rotatable central shaft operably coupled with a cam, and a connecting arm operably coupled with the cam and attached to an actuator rod. The actuator rod is connected to an inner sleeve moveably disposed within an outer housing of the upper latch or the lower latch. Movement of the actuator rod creates a tension force that is greater than the biasing force exerted on the inner sleeve to move the inner sleeve from the extended position to the retracted position.
US09428936B2
A lock that is inserted and fixed in a receiving body of a motor vehicle is disclosed. The lock includes a stator inside which a rotor rotatably moves. The stator is fixed to the receiving body and includes a cover plate of the rotor fixed to the front face of the stator, where the cover plate has an opening for a key. There is also an anti-pull-out mechanism borne by said cover plate and the stator to fix the cover plate to the stator and to retain the rotor axially in the stator. The anti-pull-out mechanism blocks the cover plate axially on the stator by the positioning of the cover plate and its subsequent pivoting on the stator into an assembled position. The anti-pull-out mechanism includes an element for blocking in rotation the cover plate on the stator interposed between the cover plate and the front face of the stator.
US09428913B2
The modular thermal insulating system based on a mixture of organic and inorganic compounds, constituted to reduce the transfer of heat between the interior and the exterior of a building. Said system, based on a mixture of organic and inorganic compounds, consists of a rigid planar container of prismatic form, formed of a plastic or metal material or a combination of both thereof, containing a first layer, in the form of a porous mixture of organic and inorganic compounds, being over a base and anchorage structure composed of at least a sheet of plastic resins installed above a thermal insulant, being the layer in contact with a rigid base, a set of anchorage elements and, a set of elements to increase the separation of the base element from the roof or wall.
US09428909B2
A mounting bracket (1, 41, 91, 121) for a roof window has a frame mountable member (2, 2a, 93, 123), a roof mountable member (3, 3a, 94, 124) and a hinge arrangement (22, 34, 95, 125) for mechanically coupling the roof mountable member (3, 3a, 94, 124) and the frame mountable member (2, 2a, 93, 123) together so that the roof mountable member (3, 3a, 94, 124) is movable between an out of use storage position and an in use mounting position. The location of the pivotal point of the hinge arrangement (22, 34, 95, 125) is movable.
US09428908B2
Movable partition systems include a vertical alignment structure including at least one roller element coupled to a portion of a movable partition and a ramp configured to abut against the at least one roller element to vertically align the portion of the movable partition to engage with a strike plate. Methods of vertically aligning the movable partition include coupling at least one vertical alignment structure to the movable partition including coupling at least one structural frame member to the movable partition and coupling the at least one roller element to the at least one structural frame member and installing at least one ramp to an overhead structure configured to abut the at least one roller element and vertically align a leading end of the movable partition.
US09428905B2
A sound panel includes a frame, the frame having a front end and a back end; an absorption member, the absorption member having a front end and a back end; a first board, the first board having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface of the first board facing the front end of the frame and the front end of the absorption member, the first board fastened to one of the front end of the frame or the front end of the absorption member; and a second board, the second board having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface of the second board facing the back end of the frame and the back end of the absorption member, the second board fastened to one of the back end of the frame or the back end of the absorption member.
US09428896B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to multi-port orbital valves for use in controlling the direction of fluids and mixed media, and find particular use in connection with toilet systems, such as vacuum toilet systems.
US09428889B2
The present invention relates to a household faucet spray (1) comprising a handle (2), the first end (3) of which is fixed mechanically to a water hose for supplying water inside the handle. The second end (6) is equipped with a sprayer head through which the water is arranged to discharge from the handle (2). The second end (6) is equipped with a water guiding piece (10, 110) which is provided with a plurality of apertures (13, 103). Around the guiding piece (10, 103) can be fitted a water-permeable washing piece (20, 20′, 120) for the object to be washed, the water discharging through the plurality of apertures (13, 103) and the washing piece (20, 20′, 120) being arranged to discharge in a controlled manner on the surface of the object to be washed.
US09428860B2
A method of dewatering a forming fabric in a paper making machine includes moving a forming fabric carrying a slurry stock through a dewatering area of the paper making machine; positioning a foil apparatus for supporting the forming fabric, the foil apparatus having a foil member defining a work surface and a pulse generator coupled to the foil member adjacent the work surface; and forming a nip between the work surface and the forming fabric by positioning the pulse generator relative to the work surface.
US09428853B2
A washing machine having an improved structure which increases washing capacity without increasing the size of the washing machine. The washing machine includes a cabinet including an outer part and a cylindrical inner part connected to the outer part, a spin basket rotatably disposed in the inner part and including a bottom and a side wall extending from the bottom, a pulsator rotatably disposed in the spin basket, a motor provided under the spin basket, a clutch to selectively transmit power of the motor to the spin basket or the pulsator, a base plate to fix the clutch and the motor, and suspension members connecting the base plate to the upper portion of the cabinet. Wash water is stored within the spin basket and is not stored outside the spin basket during a washing cycle.
US09428849B2
Electrospun nanofibrils and methods of preparing the same are provided. The electrospun nanofibrils comprise at least one polypeptide. A polypeptide can be dissolved in a solution, and the solution can be electrospun into a nanofibril. The solution can be added to a syringe or syringe pump, and an electric field can be applied to electrospin the at least one polypeptide.
US09428848B2
A method for melt spinning, stretching, and winding a multifilament thread to form an FDY-yarn as well as a device for performing the method are presented. Hereby, a plurality of filaments are first extruded from thermoplastic melt, cooled to a temperature below the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic material, and gathered to form a filament bundle without adding a preparation fluid. The filament bundle is then drawn-off at a speed above 1,500 m/min., heated to have a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the thermoplastic material, and stretched at a drawing speed above 4,000 m/min. Preparation of the filament bundle with a preparation fluid and winding the thread to form a spool is then performed. The device has the preparation device arranged in a zone of the thread course between the drawing device and the winding device, in which the thread has a thread-running speed above 4,000 m/min.
US09428847B2
A method comprises introducing a fluid composition into one or more electrically insulating emitters, and applying voltage to the fluid to cause ejection of the solvent from the fluid after it exits the emitter. The fluid composition comprises first material having a dielectric constant greater than ˜25 and polymer mixed into liquid solvent having a dielectric constant less than ˜15, or polymer mixed into solvent having a dielectric constant greater than ˜8. Voltage can be applied to the fluid composition via a conductive electrode immersed in the fluid, or positioned outside and adjacent to the emitters. Conductivity of the fluid composition can be less than ˜100 μS/cm. A composition of matter comprises nanofibers formed by the method.
US09428845B1
Disclosed herein are methods for identifying novel drug candidates.
US09428844B2
The present invention concerns a crucible for solidifying a silicon ingot from molten silicon, characterized in that it is coated at least partially on the inner surface thereof with an outer layer provided in the form of a stack of laminations, each lamination having a thickness varying from 5 to 150 μm, and being formed from a material obtained by thermal decomposition of polysilazane(s) and/or polysiloxane(s) and wherein inorganic particles are embedded having a size varying from 50 μm to 200 μm. The present invention further concerns a method for preparing such crucibles.
US09428843B2
The use of the effect of crystallographic axis orientation on the effectiveness in annealing in multiple atmospheres and chemical compositions of lutetium oxyorthosilicate crystals and other scintillator crystals is disclosed. By controlling axis orientation an favorable annealing condition can be selected to repair both internal interstitial and vacancy defects through the crystal lattice. Axis orientation can be further utilized to control the uniformity of surface finish of chemically etched crystal.
US09428837B2
The thermal barrier coating system comprises a matrix of a first chemistry with multiple embedded second phases of a second chemistry. The matrix comprises a stabilized zirconia. The second regions comprise at least 40 mole percent of oxides having the formula Ln2O3, where Ln is selected from the lanthanides La through Lu, Y, Sc, In, Ca, and Mg with the balance zirconia (ZrO2), hafnia (HfO2), titania (TiO2), or mixtures thereof. The second phases have a characteristic thickness (T6) of less than 2.0 micrometers (μm). The spacing between second phases has a characteristic thickness (T5) of less than 8.0 micrometers (μm).
US09428836B2
Electroless deposition of continuous cobalt layer using complexed Ti3+ metal ions as reducing agents
A solution for electroless deposition of cobalt is provided. A reducing agent of Ti3+ ions is provided to the solution. Co2+ ions are provided to the solution.
US09428835B2
A present invention provide a technique for easily forming a high-quality cobalt base film, which have a small specific resistance. The present invention comprises a transportation process of a Co[i-C3H7NC(C2H5)N-i-C3H7]2, and a film formation process by decomposition of the Co[i-C3H7NC(C2H5)N-i-C3H7]2. The film formation process comprises at least a first film formation process and a second film formation process. In the first film formation process, a film formation chamber is supplied with at least NH3 and/or NH3 product compound, and is not virtually supplied with H2. In the second film formation process, the film formation chamber is supplied with at least NH3 and/or NH3 product compound, and H2. An internal pressure of the film formation chamber in the first film formation process is higher than an internal pressure of the film formation chamber in the second film formation process.
US09428834B2
Forming an arrangement of two ceramic barrier layers (5, 10) on a polymeric substrate (1) includes the steps of applying a first ceramic barrier layer (5) on the substrate (1). The surface (5A) of the first barrier layer (5) is modified to introduce new nucleation sites on the surface of the first layer. A second ceramic barrier layer (10) is formed on the first barrier layer (5) using the new nucleation sites. The second ceramic barrier layer is deposited with independent nucleation sites such that a barrier stack of enhanced quality is formed.
US09428830B2
A reverse fluidized bed reactor (FBR) is separated by a thermally insulating vertical divider into a pre-reaction heating zone, a reaction zone, and a dehydrogenation zone. The dehydrogenation zone can be distinct, or the heating zone can serve as the dehydrogenation zone. Particles of polysilicon circulate upward through the heating zone and into the top of the reaction zone, where deposition of silicon occurs, and the grown particles slowly settle until they reenter the bottom of the pre-reaction heating zone. Dust formation, wall deposition, and hydrogen content in the product silicon particles are thereby minimized.
US09428829B2
A method of forming a high-quality graphene layer including forming a board layer; forming a stress reduction layer on the board layer; forming a metal catalyst layer on the stress reduction layer, the metal catalyst layer functioning as a catalyst for forming the graphene layer; and growing a graphene layer on the metal catalyst layer. The stress reduction layer reduces the stress of the metal thin film, thus, improving crystallinity and surface roughness of the metal thin film, and thereby effectively forming a high-quality graphene layer.
US09428801B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for rapidly amplifying target nucleic acid (e.g., using whole genome amplification) that allows small amounts of starting nucleic acid to be employed. In certain embodiments, the methods employ compositions that comprise: phi29 polymerase, exo- Klenow polymerase and/or Klenow polymerase, dNTPs, primers, and a buffering agent. In some embodiments, the target nucleic acid is amplified at a rate that would result in at least 1000-fold amplification in thirty minutes.
US09428792B2
The present disclosure relates to nucleic-acid based product authentication and identification by determining authentication codes comprising target nucleic acids using oligonucleotide probes associated with samples. The presence of the authentication code is determined using detection methods, such as flow cytometric methods, capable of particle discrimination based on the light scattering or fluorescence properties of the particle. Target-correlated fluorescence signal, originating from a target nucleic acid hybridized to labeled complementary oligonucleotides is determined as an indicator of the presence of the authentication code. In some embodiments, an intercalating dye is used to determine the presence of target nucleotide/oligonucleotide heterodimers and identify an authentication code.
US09428788B2
A method for transferring a quantity of analytes comprising at least stages of: predisposing a substantially homogeneous mixture of a predetermined initial quantity of at least an analyte and a liquid, obtaining a known concentration value or known amount of the analyte in the mixture; introducing into the mixture at least a collecting portion (3) of a sampling device (1) having a support body (2), the collecting portion (3) comprising a plurality of fibers (6) attached to and arranged on a first portion (2a) of the support body (2) by means of flocking, in order to define a flocked collecting portion (3) or a flocked tampon, such as to collect a part of the mixture on the collecting portion (3); and extracting the collecting portion (3) of the sampling device (1) of the mixture, retaining on the sampling portion (3) a predetermined known quantity of the mixture to be transferred.
US09428784B2
Methods for increasing the yield and N-glycosylation site occupancy of paucimannose or complex N-glycans of recombinant glycoproteins produced in a recombinant host cell lacking dolichyl-P-Man:Man5GlcNAc2-PP-dolichyl alpha-1,3 mannosyltransferase (Alg3p) activity are disclosed. In particular, recombinant host cells are provided that comprise a disruption of the expression of an OS-9 family gene in the host cell. These recombinant host cells may then be used for producing recombinant glycoproteins. In further embodiments, the recombinant host cells further overexpress at least one heterologous single-subunit oligosaccharyltransferase, which in particular embodiments is capable of functionally suppressing the lethal phenotype of a mutation of at least one essential protein of the yeast oligosaccharyltransferase (OTase) complex.
US09428783B2
The present invention describes novel bacterial L-amino acids α-ligases, which catalyzing reaction of dipeptide formation having an acidic L-amino acid such as L-Asp or L-Glu at the N-terminus. The method for producing dipeptides using said L-amino acids α-ligases and a bacterium of the family Enterobacteriaceae, particularly a bacterium belonging to the genus Escherichia, which has been modified to contain the DNA encoding said L-amino acids α-ligases, is described.
US09428769B2
A liposome comprising a region of a lipid bilayer membrane with different membrane thicknesses, wherein each lipid bilayer membrane region is composed of a different lipid, and a thick membrane side in the region of the lipid bilayer membrane is formed of lipid having a phase transition temperature higher than that of the lipid forming a thin membrane side in the region of the lipid bilayer membrane. A proteoliposome, wherein the above-described liposome includes membrane proteins. A biochip, wherein the above-described liposome or the above-described proteoliposome is spread on a substrate. The above-described biochip, wherein the substrate includes at least one kind selected from the group consisting of mica, SiO2, SiN, Au and Pt.
US09428767B2
The present invention provides polynucleotide vectors for high expression of heterologous genes, and methods for constructing such vectors. Some vectors further comprise novel transposons and transposases that further improve expression. Further disclosed are vectors that can be used in a gene transfer system for stably introducing nucleic acids into the DNA of a cell. The gene transfer systems can be used in methods, for example, but not limited to, gene expression, gene therapy, insertional mutagenesis, or gene discovery.
US09428765B2
The present invention provides a transgenic corn event MON89034, and cells, seeds, and plants comprising DNA diagnostic for the corn event. The invention also provides compositions comprising nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for said corn event in a sample, methods for detecting the presence of said corn event nucleotide sequences in a sample, probes and primers for use in detecting nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for the presence of said corn event in a sample, growing the seeds of such corn event into corn plants, and breeding to produce corn plants comprising DNA diagnostic for the corn event.
US09428758B2
Compositions and methods are disclosed for modulating disease resistance in plants.
US09428757B2
The invention in principle pertains to the field of recombinant manufacture of fatty acids. It provides novel nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleic acid sequences encoding fatty acid desaturases, elongases, acyltransferases, terminator sequences and high expressing seed-specific promoters operatively linked to the said nucleic acid sequences wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to said promoters.
US09428743B2
Provided are compositions comprising newly identified protein fragments of aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases, polynucleotides that encode them and complements thereof, related agents, and methods of use thereof in diagnostic, drug discovery, research, and therapeutic applications.
US09428734B2
A method and device for growing plant, animal or stem cells in a continuous manner.
US09428731B2
Pluripotent human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) hold great potential for restoring tissue and organ function, which has been hindered by inefficiency and instability of generating desired cell types through multi-lineage differentiation. This instant invention is based on the discovery that pluripotent hESCs maintained under defined culture conditions can be uniformly converted into a specific lineage by small molecule induction. Retinoic acid induces specification of neuroectoderm direct from the pluripotent state of hESCs and triggers progression to neuronal progenitors and neurons efficiently. Similarly, nicotinamide induces specification of cardiomesoderm direct from the pluripotent state of hESCs and triggers progression to cardiac precursors and cardiomyocytes efficiently. This technology provides a large supply of clinically-suitable human neuronal or cardiac therapeutic products for CNS or myocardium repair. This invention enables well-controlled efficient induction of pluripotent hESCs exclusively to a specific clinically-relevant lineage for tissue and organ engineering and regeneration, cell-based therapy, and drug discovery.
US09428715B2
The present invention relates to a composition for a cleansing agent comprising a component (A) in the form of an ionic surfactant and a component (B) in the form of one or more types of compounds selected from the group consisting of a hydroxystearic acid polymer and an esterification reaction product of a hydroxystearic acid polymer. According to the present invention, a composition for a cleansing agent can be provided that has favorable foaming power and foam quality, is easily rinsed during cleansing, is free of stickiness after cleansing and allows the obtaining of a moist feeling.
US09428709B2
The invention provides a lubricating composition containing an oil of lubricating viscosity and a block copolymer of a poly(olefin) block, such as poly(isobutylene) (PIB) and a polyvinyl aromatic) block, such as poly(styrene), wherein the copolymer is optionally functionalized or grafted. The invention further provides a method of using the block copolymer to control deposits in a lubricating oil composition.
US09428707B1
Methods for producing fuel compositions with predetermined desirable properties are disclosed. Feedback control can be employed to meter precise amounts of fuel composition components while monitoring fuel composition properties to obtain fuel compositions having specifically defined properties.
US09428705B2
A method is provided for preparing a product from a precursor material. The method includes the steps of (a) mixing a particulate material and a binder to form a precursor material and (b) irradiating that precursor material with microwave radiation so as to activate the binder and form the product.
US09428698B2
A process and an apparatus used in the catalytic reaction process with feed of petroleum hydrocarbons or alcohols for controlling catalyst in reaction zones, purifying, heat transferring and cooling regenerant are provided. The apparatus comprises a catalyst regenerator, an external heat exchanger, a purifying controller for regenerant, a reactor and catalyst conveying pipes. The regenerator is connected with the external heat exchanger and the purifying controller for regenerant respectively, and the purifying controller for regenerant is connected with the reactor via two conveying pipes. The process for controlling reaction and catalyst participating in the reaction comprises the following parts: controlling contact gasification reaction of liquid phase feed, controlling gas phase reaction, at first withdrawing the regenerant from the purifying controller and removing nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide and gaseous impurities carried with the regenerant, then feeding the regenerant into the reactor under the feeding point of feed and above the gasification contact zone after the control temperature reached the reaction requirement. The three-level control of the reactor, before reaction, after liquid phase gasification reaction and outlet reaction conditions of the reactor, is realized, while nitrogen and oxygen carried with the regenerant are limited to fed into the reactor. The yield of products is improved.
US09428695B2
A method of producing olefins and aromatic compounds from a feedstock is accomplished by introducing a hydrocarbon feedstock and a catalyst composition within a reactor. At least a portion of the reactor is at a reactor temperature of from 470° C. to 730° C. The catalyst composition is comprised of a fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) catalyst and a ZSM-5 zeolite catalyst, wherein the amount of ZSM-5 zeolite catalyst makes up from greater than 0 wt. % of the total weight of the FCC catalyst and the ZSM-5 zeolite catalyst. At least a portion of the feedstock is converted to products of at least one of olefins and aromatic compounds within the reactor, with at least some of the products being contained in a liquid product stream. At least a portion of the liquid product stream is directed to different downstream processes to increase production of at least one of olefins and aromatic compounds.
US09428689B2
A solid light-emitting device comprising a light-emitting semiconductor element and a phosphor dispersed in a sealant, in which the phosphor is exited by the light emitted by the semiconductor element to emit a visible light of a wavelength differing from that of the light emitted by the semiconductor element and is a silicate phosphor or a phosphor having a hydroxyl group on its surface, and the sealant is a condensation product of a prepolymer produced by condensation of polydimethyl-siloxane having a silanol group at both ends and an oligomer of an alkoxide of a metal or a semimetal or its derivative.
US09428686B2
This invention proposes a photo-luminescence coating and its applications. The photo-luminescence coating is a mixture of photo-luminescence phosphors, glass powder, macromolecule compounds and solvent. The photo-luminescence coating is coated on a substrate and, after a drying, de-binding and sintering process, a photo-luminescence glass layer is formed, and especially the pattern can be designed. The photo-luminescence glass is made from a solidifying procedure of a melt glass mixed with photo-luminescence phosphors, and especially can be made to have a specialized shape.
US09428683B2
Methods and compositions for stimulating the production of hydrocarbons from subterranean formations
Methods and compositions for stimulating of the production of hydrocarbons (e.g., formation crude oil and/or formation gas) from subterranean formations, and methods of selecting a composition for treating an oil or gas well. In some embodiments, the compositions are emulsions or microemulsions, which may include water, a terpene, and a surfactant.
US09428673B2
The invention discloses an adhesive composition suitable for bonding wood, in particular hardwood. The adhesive composition comprises a vinyl acetate-ethylene copolymer-based emulsion, a vinyl alcohol polymer, and a polyisocyanate. The process for preparing the adhesive composition and use of the same are also disclosed.
US09428670B2
The present disclosure relates to a process for forming a layer of a coating composition on a substrate wherein the coating composition comprises a waterborne film forming polymer, an isocyanate and a melamine. The process involves forming a mixture of the waterborne film forming polymer and the isocyanate and allowing the mixture to mature before adding the melamine component. The result is a layer of the coating composition with a high degree of gloss and gassing resistance.
US09428664B2
Disclosed herein are sacrificial coating compositions comprising at least one hydrophilic polymer; at least one hygroscopic agent; at least one surfactant; at least one non-reactive silicone release agent; and water. In certain embodiments, the at least one non-reactive silicone release agent is chosen from polyether modified polysiloxane and nonreactive silicone glycol copolymers. In certain embodiments, the at least one non-reactive silicone release agent may be present in an amount ranging from about 0.001% to about 2%, based on the total weight of the composition, such as from about 0.03% to about 0.06%. Also disclosed herein is a blanket material suitable for transfix printing comprising a sacrificial coating composition, as well as an indirect printing process comprising a step of applying a sacrificial coating composition to a blanket material.
US09428662B2
Disclosed is a hot melt ink composition containing a substantially non-aqueous carrier composition; at least one dye which comprises at least one salt of the anthrapyridone series; and an organic sulfonic acid compound. Also disclosed is a method of preparing the hot melt ink composition.
US09428653B2
A one part, storage stable polymerizable formulation is provided that includes an ethenically unsaturated polymerizable compound intermixed with a free radical polymerization initiator and an organic solvent. The organic solvent provides storage stability and upon evaporation of the solvent, the rate of polymerization of the compound accelerates independent of addition of a second part. The formulation includes at least 30 total weight percent solids upon cure. Optional additives to the formulation include at least one of a cure accelerator, a filler, a plasticizer, a colorant, and a cure inhibitor. A process for forming a polymerized coating on an article involves the application of this formulation to the substrate of an article and allowing sufficient time for the solvent to evaporate to form the polymerized coating on the article. The substrate of the article forms a corrosion barrier even without prior removal of a native corrosion layer on a surface of the substrate of the article.
US09428633B2
A reinforced polymer composite, and more particularly, a wool reinforced polymer composite is provided. The composition includes wool fibers combined with a polymer to form a reinforced polymeric matrix having at least one of improved Izod Impact Strength (ASTM D-256) or improved Tensile Strength (ASTM D-1708) as compared to the polymer without the fibers.
US09428632B2
A quaternary phosphonium salt, an epoxy resin composition including the quaternary phosphonium salt, and a semiconductor device encapsulated with the epoxy resin composition, the quaternary phosphonium salt being represented by Formula 1:
US09428627B2
The disclosure provides a method for recovering a dihydroxy aromatic compound and a dialkyl carbonate from a polycarbonate-containing composition comprising a polycarbonate and a phosphorus-containing flame retardant. The method comprises heating the composition in the presence of an alcohol and a transesterification catalyst having non-neutralizable groups at a temperature of 70° C. to 200° C. and a pressure of 50 mbar to 40 bar for a time sufficient to depolymerize the polycarbonate producing a dihydroxy aromatic compound and a dialkyl carbonate.
US09428626B2
An embodiment of this invention discloses a method for producing a network texture and the method comprises the steps of: formation of a porous structure as a template (matrix); formation of two coherent, independent, and separated robust continuous network structures within the matrix by using the matrix as the template; softening or removing the matrix to shift the two continuous network structures, leading to a novel network texture comprising two incoherent continuous network structures.
US09428624B2
A method for manufacturing a wide film comprises a casting operation, a stretching operation, and a trimming operation. The casting operation is a process of casting a film using a wide casting belt including a central belt, a left belt having a right end formed integrally with a left end of the central belt through a left joint in a length direction of the central belt, and a right belt having a left end formed integrally with a right end of the central belt through a right joint in the length direction of the central belt. The stretching operation is a process of stretching a film stripped off from the wide casting belt using a tenter. The trimming operation is a process of trimming predetermined parts of left and right sides of the stretched film. In the trimming operation, mark parts by the left and right joints are also trimmed.
US09428622B1
A phase inversion emulsification process includes dissolving a polyester resin and a styrene/acrylate resin in an organic solvent to provide a solution, neutralizing the solution with a neutralizing agent, forming an emulsion by adding water after the neutralizing step and removing a portion of the organic solvent from the emulsion to provide a latex.
US09428620B2
A hyperbranched polymer based on one or more repeating units of an ABx type monomer, wherein A and B are functional groups and x is greater than or equal to 2, wherein A reacts with, or substantially reacts with, B, wherein B is fractionally functionlized with a plurality of functional groups comprising a first functional group comprising a C6-C30 alkyl chain attached to the repeating unit through a carbonyl group (C═O) via an ester linkage, a second functional group comprising a partially fluorinated or perfluorinated C3-C20 alkyl chain attached to the repeating unit through a carbonyl group (C═O) via an ester linkage, and a third functional group comprising substantially one of a stabilized radical source attached to the repeating unit via a C0-C6 tether, or a 5 to 8 member chloroamide heterocycle of carbon and nitrogen that is attached to the repeating unit via a C2-C6 tether.
US09428617B2
An α,ω-functionalized polyoxyalkylene-siloxane polymer having the general structural Formula (I): provides improved hydrophilicity and hemocompatibility. The α,ω-functionalized polyoxyalkylene-siloxane polymer may be used to make various polycarbonate/α,ω-functionalized polyoxyalkylene-siloxane copolymers and polymer blends, as well as articles including such copolymers and blends.
US09428606B2
There is provided an epoxy resin composition having low viscosity and a high cationic curing property. An epoxy compound of Formula (1): (in Formula (1), A is an (n4)-valent C4-20 linear hydrocarbon group optionally containing an epoxy group, an (n4)-valent C4-20 cyclic hydrocarbon group optionally containing an epoxy group, or an (n4)-valent group of a combination of the linear hydrocarbon group and the cyclic hydrocarbon group; R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen atom or a C1-10 alkyl group; n1 is an integer of 2 to 6; n2 is an integer of 2; n3 is an integer of 1; and n4 is an integer of 3 to 8). For example, A is an (n4)-valent organic group formed by removing (n4) hydrogen atoms from butane, pentane, or hexane, or an (n4)-valent organic group formed by removing (n4) hydrogen atoms from cyclobutane, cyclopentane, cyclohexane, epoxycyclohexane, alkyl-substituted epoxycyclohexane, bicycloheptene, or bicyclooctene.
US09428604B1
A nanoparticle includes a copolymer comprising a vinyl-aromatic monomer and a heterocyclic monomer. The copolymer is crosslinked with a multifunctional crosslinking agent polymerizable through an addition reaction. A nanoparticle and elastomer composition is disclosed. Several methods of mixing heterocyclic and non-heterocyclic monomer nanoparticles into an elastomer are also disclosed. These methods include mixing in a multi-elements static mixer and an intermeshing mixer with venting, among others.
US09428597B2
An improved solution polymerization process wherein energy consumption is reduced comprising: i) injecting ethylene, solvent, catalyst, α-olefins and hydrogen into at least one reactor to produce a polyethylene in a single liquid phase solution; ii) deactivating the single liquid phase solution; iii) passing the deactivated solution into a vapor/liquid separator forming a bottom stream of polyethylene rich solvent and a gaseous overhead stream; iv) passing not more than 40% of the gaseous overhead stream to distillation; v) condensing the remainder of the gaseous overhead stream to form a recycle stream, while generating low pressure steam; vi) passing the recycle stream through a means for oligomer removal; vii) passing the recycle stream through a lights separator; viii) passing the recycle stream through a purification step; ix) collecting the recycle stream in a recycle drum, passing the recycle stream through a pump and injecting a high pressure recycle stream into said reactors.
US09428592B2
Provided are new partially hydrogenated nitrile rubbers which are distinguished by a specific ratio of viscosity to molecular weight, and also vulcanizable mixtures and vulcanizates based on said rubbers, and also the associated preparation processes. The partially hydrogenated nitrile rubbers lead to compounded formulations having advantageous processing properties in conjunction with excellent vulcanizate properties.
US09428586B2
The present invention, in at least some aspects, is of splice variants of heparanase, as well as diagnostic kits and methods of use, and therapeutic agents and methods of use based thereon, and antibodies specifically binding thereof.
US09428578B2
The invention relates to human targets of interest (TOI), anti-TOI ligands, kits compositions and method.
US09428575B2
An anti-granulysin antibody, or an scFv or Fab fragment thereof, capable of binding to an epitope region from R64 to R113 of granulysin and capable of neutralizing an activity of granulysin. The antibody may contain a sequence selected from the sequences of SEQ ID NO:82 to SEQ ID NO:195, or the antibody may contain a sequence selected from the sequences of SEQ ID NO:39 to SEQ ID NO:76. The antibody may be a monoclonal antibody. A method for treating or preventing an unwanted immune response disorder includes administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of an anti-granulysin antibody capable of neutralizing the activity of granulysin. The unwanted immune response disorder may be SJS, TEN, or GVHD.
US09428566B2
The present invention provides novel kinocidin peptides comprising a C-terminal portion of a kinocidin, wherein the C-terminal portion encompasses an α-helical secondary structure and further displays antimicrobial activity. The kinocidin peptides of the invention are derived from and correspond to a C-terminal portion of a kinocidin that includes a γκo core and that can be a CXC, CC, or C class chemokine. Structural, physicochemical and functional properties of this novel class of antimicrobial peptides and amino acid sequences of particular kinocidin peptides are also disclosed. The invention also provides related antimicrobial methods.
US09428561B2
The present invention provides polypeptide-polymer conjugates. A subject polypeptide-polymer conjugate is useful in a variety of applications, which are also provided.
US09428552B2
Stem cells are mobilized from bone marrow by administering an amount of Phe-Pro-His-Phe-Asp-Leu-Ser-His-Gly-Ser-Ala-Gln-Val-Ser-Asp-Lys-Pro (SEQ ID NO: 2) or Phe-Ala-His-Phe-Asp-Leu-Ser-His-Gly-Ser-Ala-Gln-Val-Ser-Asp-Lys-Pro (SEQ ID NO: 3) effective to mobilize the stem cells. This is useful for promoting bodily tissue regeneration in a patient in need of tissue regeneration treatment. Alternatively, the mobilized stem cells can be collected for transplant.
US09428550B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and uses of C-terminal peptides for inhibiting neuronal cell death or dysfunction, such as retinal ganglion cell death or dysfunction, treating retinal degenerative disorders, stroke, CNS and PNS insults. The disclosure also relates to the C-terminal peptides, fusion proteins and compositions thereof.
US09428549B2
The present invention relates to derivatives of N-urea substituted amino acids, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as pharmaceuticals as modulators of the N-formyl peptide 2 receptor.
US09428547B2
The invention generally relates to compositions that include sets of magnetic particles, members of each set being conjugated to an antibody specific for a pathogen.
US09428542B2
The present invention relates to a lupane triterpenoid derivatives and pharmaceutical use thereof, specifically relates to a lupane triterpenoid derivatives of formula (I)˜(III), a pharmaceutical composition and a combination preparation comprising a lupane triterpenoid derivatives or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof in a therapeutically-effective dose, particularly relates to the use in preparation of a medicament for the treatment of HIV-1/AIDS.
US09428537B2
The present invention features compositions and methods relating to tRNA-derived small RNAs (tsRNAs). Provided herein are oligonucleotide compositions that are complementary to tsRNAs, in particular leuCAGtsRNA, and methods of using the oligonucleotides for the regulation of respective tsRNA. Further provided are methods of inducing apoptosis through the inhibition of leuCAGtsRNA.
US09428534B2
A novel class of pharmaceuticals which comprises a Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA) which can be used in antisense therapy. These novel oligonucleotides have improved antisense properties. The novel oligonucleotides are composed of at least one LNA selected from beta-D-thio/amino-LNA or alpha-L-oxy/thio/amino-LNA. The oligonucleotides comprising LNA may also include DNA and/or RNA nucleotides.
US09428523B2
The present invention is directed to compounds, tautomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds which are disclosed, wherein the compounds have the structure of Formula I, and the variable R1 is as defined in the specification. Corresponding pharmaceutical compositions, methods of treatment, methods of synthesis, and intermediates are also disclosed.
US09428510B2
The present invention relates to a compound of following formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate of same, a tautomer of same, or a stereoisomer or mixture of stereoisomers of same in any proportions, such as a mixture of enantiomers, notably a racemic mixture, as well as pharmaceutical composition comprising such a compound, for use in the treatment of a cancer associated with the overexpression of at least one Trk protein.
US09428509B2
Provided herein are Pyrrolopyrimidine Compounds having the following structure: wherein R1, R2, R3, and L are as defined herein, compositions comprising an effective amount of a Pyrrolopyrimidine Compound, and methods for treating or preventing breast cancer, more particularly triple negative breast cancer, comprising administering an effective amount of such Pyrrolopyrimidine Compounds to a subject in need thereof.
US09428503B2
The specification generally relates to compounds of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, where Q, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 have any of the meanings defined herein. The specification also relates to the use of such compounds and salts thereof to treat or prevent ATM kinase mediated disease, including cancer. The specification further relates to crystalline forms of compounds of imidazo[4,5-c]quinolin-2-one compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and salts; kits comprising such compounds and salts; methods of manufacture of such compounds and salts; intermediates useful in the manufacture of such compounds and salts; and to methods of treating ATM kinase mediated disease, including cancer, using such compounds and salts.
US09428499B2
The present disclosure is related to heteroaryl compounds as MEK inhibitors. These compounds include heteroaryl compounds of formula I, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, combinations with suitable medicament and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The present disclosure also includes processes of preparation of the compounds and their use in methods of treatment. The compounds as disclosed herein are of Formula (I) below:
US09428497B2
The invention relates to a compound of formula Ia or Ib wherein R1 represents —CO2R3, —COR4 or —R5, wherein R3 represents unsubstituted or substituted C1-C6 alkyl, R4 represents hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C6 alkyl, and R5 represents hydrogen, unsubstituted or substituted C1-C6 alkyl, R2 represents —N+(R6)(R7)(R8)X− or a nitro group, wherein R6, R7, R8 independently of each other represent unsubstituted or substituted C1-C6 alkyl or unsubstituted or substituted —(CH2)n- with n=1 to 12 provided that at least two of the substituents R6R7R8 are C1-C6 alkyl, and X− represents a halide, sulphonate, unsubstituted or substituted acetate, sulphate, hydrogen sulphate, nitrate, perchlorate, or oxalate.
US09428492B2
The present invention is directed to secondary alcohol substituted triazole compounds which are useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of central nervous system disorders associated with phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10). The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, psychosis or Huntington's disease, and those associated with striatal hypofunction or basal ganglia dysfunction.
US09428486B1
Object of the present invention is an improved process for the preparation of Esomeprazole (S)-BINOL complex which is a key intermediate for the synthesis of Esomeprazole and salts thereof.
US09428482B2
The present invention provides synthetic processes for preparing racemic and/or optically pure epicatechin, epigallocatechin and related polyphenols as such or as their variously functionalized derivatives. A principle objective of the disclosure is to provide a new and useful method of synthesis to obtain polyphenols in isomerically pure and/or racemic forms.
US09428469B2
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I): wherein the variables in Formula I are defined as described herein. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and methods for using the compounds of Formula I in the prevention or treatment of HCV infection.
US09428467B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the treatment and/or prevention of neurodegenerative disorders, e.g., Parkinson's disease (PD). In particular, the present invention provides compositions comprising selective antagonists of calcium ion channels (e.g., cav1.3-type ion channels), and methods of use thereof to treat or prevent neurodegenerative disorders.
US09428460B2
The invention relates to N-[4-(quinolin-4-yloxy)cyclohexyl(methyl)](hetero)arylcarboxamides, intermediates and methods for their production, use thereof for treating and/or preventing diseases and use thereof for producing medicinal products and use thereof for treating and/or preventing diseases, especially of hyperproliferative diseases.
US09428455B2
Processes for annealing amorphous atorvastatin is described. Pharmaceutical compositions and formulations containing annealed amorphous atorvastatin are also described.
US09428454B2
A process for the complete or partial oxygenation of hydrocarbons comprises contacting a C1-C8 hydrocarbon, molecular oxygen, and hydrogen peroxide, in the presence of water and a heterogeneous catalyst, under conditions suitable to convert the C1-C8 hydrocarbon to at least one corresponding C1-C8 oxygenate product, wherein the heterogeneous catalyst provides confinement and contains both Brønsted-Lowry acid centers and Lewis acid centers. The reaction may be carried out at a temperature ranging from 2° C. to 90° C. The use of molecular oxygen increases the economic attractiveness of the process while also improving yield.
US09428445B2
Provided are compounds for use as neutralizing agents in aqueous formulations. The compounds are of the formula I: (Formula I should be inserted here.) wherein R, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are as defined herein.
US09428442B2
An improved process for the preparation of the active pharmaceutical ingredient Clomiphene and, in particular, trans-Clomiphene, using acetic acid or trifluoroacetic acid is disclosed.
US09428437B2
The present invention describes a process for preparing alpha-beta-unsaturated carboxylic acids by dehydration of hydroxycarboxylic or alkoxycarboxylic acids which are substituted in the alpha position, in particular 2-hydroxyisobutyric acid, while avoiding accumulation of by-products and additives.
US09428434B2
Processes for producing acetic acid are presented herein. One or more embodiments include processes for controlling downstream water concentration in acetic acid production process including contacting methanol and carbon monoxide in the presence of a reaction medium under carbonylation conditions sufficient to form a carbonylation product including acetic acid, wherein the reaction medium includes a carbonylation catalyst, water in an upstream water concentration of from 1 wt. % to 14 wt. % water, and a tertiary phosphine oxide; recovering acetic acid from the carbonylation product; and controlling a downstream water concentration by determining a target water concentration and introducing the tertiary phosphine oxide to the reaction medium at a rate, basicity, concentration or combination thereof sufficient to provide a downstream water concentration within 1 wt. % of the target water concentration.
US09428426B2
System for the bio-treatment of organic waste by means of insect larvae comprising a tank provided with removable cover and means for ventilation and temperature control able to induce migration of the larvae outside the waste mass when in a desired larval development stadium, means for distributing in many times the various waste layers and for removing the same at the end of the treatment and means for distributing the larvae inside the tank and for collecting and storing the larvae at the end of the treatment. Method for the bio-treatment of organic waste by means of larval stadium insects provided with the step of placing a first waste layer inside a tank (1), placing insect larvae or eggs on said layer and adding other waste layers at prefixed and shorter time intervals than the larvae development time, inducing the spontaneous migration of the larvae towards suitable collecting areas by means of temperature and humidity control and removing the treated waste from the tank.
US09428425B2
The present invention comprises methods and compositions comprising a microalgae consortium. A composition comprises at least one genera of microalgae flocculated by Paenibacillus polymyxa strain, Strain 2, deposited under the Budapest Treaty as ATCC Accession No. PTA-12841. Methods of treating the soil comprise adding a composition of the present invention to soil.
US09428423B2
Method and system for bonding two or more CVD SiC articles together without the use of interface materials using applied forces from about 0.0035 MPa to about 0.035 MPa. The articles are pretreated for bonding. Graphite or other fixtures are used to apply forces in a vacuum or inert gas environment. Temperatures from about 1900° C. to about 2200° C. are used to initiate a β→α transition in the SiC to create bonded CVS SiC articles.
US09428421B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a refractory material based on magnesia or magnesia spinel, and to a refractory material based on magnesia or magnesia spinel.
US09428418B2
Methods for producing construction material utilizing loose pieces of aggregate (30), enzyme producing bacteria, an amount of urea and an amount of calcium ions. A first solution is prepared which includes urease which is formed by enzyme producing bacteria. A second solution is prepared which includes urea and calcium ions. The first and second solutions are added to the loose aggregate (30). The calcium ions contribute to the formation of calcium carbonate wherein the calcium carbonate fills and bonds between at least some of the gaps between the loose pieces of aggregate forming a solid construction material (92).
US09428415B2
To provide glass having a favorable color tone, and its production process.Glass comprising, as represented by mass percentage based on oxides, at least 60% and at most 75% of SiO2, at least 8% and at most 20% of Na2O, at least 4.5% of MgO, at least 1% and at most 10% of CaO, and at least 0.01% and at most 0.5% of Er2O3.
US09428414B2
A composition for preparing high-performance glass fiber by tank furnace production comprising in preferred percentage by weight: 57.5˜62.5% of SiO2,14.5˜17.5% of Al2O3,13.5˜17.5% of CaO,6.5˜8.5% of MgO,0.05˜0.6% of Li2O,0.1˜2% of B2O3,0.1˜2% of TiO2,0.1˜2% of Na2O,0.1˜1% of K2O and 0.1˜1% of Fe2O3 and (CaO+MgO)/MgO>3, with the content of at least one of the three components, Li2O, B2O3 and TiO2higher than 0.5%, with the composition yielding glass fiber having improved mechanical property, causing the melting and clarification of glass and forming performance of fiber close to those of boron-free E glass, and facilitating industrial mass production by tank furnace processes with manufacturing costs close to those of conventional E glass.
US09428400B2
Titanium dioxide and an electro-conductive titanium oxide which each includes particles having a large major-axis length in a large proportion and comprises columnar particles having a satisfactory particle size distribution. A titanium compound, an alkali metal compound, and an oxyphosphorus compound are heated/fired in the presence of titanium dioxide nucleus crystals having an aspect ratio of 2 or higher to grow the titanium dioxide nucleus crystals. Subsequently, a titanium compound, an alkali metal compound, and an oxyphosphorus compound are further added and heated/fired in the presence of the grown titanium dioxide nucleus crystals. Thus, titanium dioxide is produced which comprises columnar particles having a weight-average major-axis length of 7.0-15.0 μm and in which particles having a major-axis length of 10 μm or longer account for 15 wt. % or more of all the particles. A solution of a tin compound and a solution of compounds of antimony, phosphorus, etc. are added to a suspension obtained by suspending the titanium dioxide. The particles are sedimented. Subsequently, the product obtained is heated/fired to produce an electro-conductive titanium oxide which comprises the titanium dioxide and an electro-conductive coating formed on the surface thereof.
US09428399B1
The synthesis of nanoparticles of metals and metal oxides using plant seeds extract involves providing a solution comprising a metal ion; providing a plant seeds extract solution that comprises a reducing agent; and combining the metal ion solution and the plant extract solution while stirring at room temperature to produce metal nanoparticles. The plant extract is obtained from Trigonella foenum-graecum seeds, and the metal ion is selected from the group consisting of silver (Ag), gold (Au) and zinc (Zn).
US09428394B2
A highly oxidized form of graphene oxide and methods for production thereof are described in various embodiments of the present disclosure. In general, the methods include mixing a graphite source with a solution containing at least one oxidant and at least one protecting agent and then oxidizing the graphite source with the at least one oxidant in the presence of the at least one protecting agent to form the graphene oxide. Graphene oxide synthesized by the presently described methods is of a high structural quality that is more oxidized and maintains a higher proportion of aromatic rings and aromatic domains than does graphene oxide prepared in the absence of at least one protecting agent. Methods for reduction of graphene oxide into chemically converted graphene are also disclosed herein. The chemically converted graphene of the present disclosure is significantly more electrically conductive than is chemically converted graphene prepared from other sources of graphene oxide.
US09428393B2
Graphite-based carbon material useful as graphene precursor, as well as method of producing the same
Provided is a graphite-based carbon material useful as a graphene precursor, from which graphene is easily exfoliated when the graphite-based carbon material is useful as a precursor and from which a highly-concentrated graphene dispersion can easily be obtained. The graphite-based carbon material is a graphite-based carbon material useful as a graphene precursor wherein a Rate (3R) based on an X-ray diffraction method, which is defined by following Equation 1 is 31% or more: Rate (3R)=P3/(P3+P4)×100 Equation 1 wherein P3 is a peak intensity of a (101) plane of the rhombohedral graphite layer (3R) based on the X-ray diffraction method, and P4 is a peak intensity of a (101) plane of the hexagonal graphite layer (2H) based on the X-ray diffraction method.
US09428386B2
Provided is a base substrate with which a Group-III nitride crystal having a large area and a large thickness can be grown while inhibiting crack generation. A single-crystal substrate for use in growing a Group-III nitride crystal thereon, which satisfies the following Z1>0 expression (1), wherein Z1 (μm) is an amount of warpage of physical shape in a growth surface of the single-crystal substrate and Z2<0 expression (2), wherein Z2 (μm) is an amount of warpage calculated from a radius of curvature of crystallographic-plane shape in a growth surface of the single-crystal substrate.
US09428385B2
The present invention relates to an exhaust gas expansion tank and an ozone generator system applying the same. The exhaust gas expansion tank includes a tank body and an automatic exhaust valve, and is provided at the top thereof with a gas outlet conduit, the lower end of the gas outlet conduit extending into the tank body and being at a distance from the bottom of the tank body, the automatic exhaust valve fixedly mounted on the upper end of the gas outlet conduit, and the tank body having a first water port and a second water port. The ozone generator system applying the exhaust gas expansion tank is simplified in system structure, can evacuate gas automatically and omit the manual exhausting of gas, thereby the operation procedure is simplified, the thermal expansion of the system is effectively controlled and the stability of the system operation is increased.
US09428380B2
One or more embodiments are directed to encapsulating structure comprising: a substrate having a first surface and housing at least one conductive pad, which extends facing the first surface and is configured for being electrically coupled to a conduction terminal at a reference voltage; a cover member, set at a distance from and facing the first surface of the substrate; and housing walls, which extend between the substrate and the cover member. The substrate, the cover member, and the housing walls define a cavity, which is internal to the encapsulating structure and houses the conductive pad. Moreover present inside the cavity is at least one electrically conductive structure, which extends between, and in electrical contact with, the cover member and the conductive pad for connecting the cover member electrically to the conduction terminal.
US09428379B2
A MEMS device is disclosed. The MEMS device comprises a first plate with a first surface and a second surface; and an anchor attached to a first substrate. The MEMS device further includes a second plate with a third surface and a fourth surface attached to the first plate. A linkage connects the anchor to the first plate, wherein the first plate and second plate are displaced in the presence of an acoustic pressure differential between the first and second surfaces of the first plate. The first plate, second plate, linkage, and anchor are all contained in an enclosure formed by the first substrate and a second substrate, wherein one of the first and second substrates contains a through opening to expose the first surface of the first plate to the environment.
US09428378B2
For the targeted influencing of the internal pressure within a cavity between two elements of a component, a getter material or an outgassing material is situated in an additional cavity between the two elements. After the two elements are bonded to one another, the additional cavity is still to be joined via a connecting opening to the cavity. The getter material or the outgassing material is then activated so that gasses are bound in the additional cavity and in the connected cavity, or an outgassing takes place. Only when the sought internal pressure has established itself in the connected cavity is the connecting opening to the additional cavity closed. In this way, the getter material or the outgassing material is only used for establishing a defined internal pressure, but no longer has any influence on the internal pressure within the cavity during ongoing operation of the component.
US09428373B2
A rotary-type filling machine includes a rotary body, a liquid distribution chamber, a plurality of filling flow path configuration units, each of which has a fluid path constituted by a liquid path connected to the liquid distribution chamber and a liquid valve and configured to individually introduce a liquid into a container, a filling control device, a liquid supply unit, a pressure difference information detection unit configured to detect pressure difference information between a liquid distribution chamber pressure, which is a pressure of the liquid in the liquid distribution chamber, and a filling atmospheric pressure detected as a pressure of a flow release unit in a filling flow path configuration unit at an arbitrary radial direction position of the rotary body, and a rotation information detection unit configured to detect rotation information of the rotary body.
US09428368B2
The invention relates to a device (2) for driving a handrail (6) for an escalator (40) or for driving a handrail (6) for a moving walkway, the device comprising a drive belt (1) guided along a contact zone (10) and deflected on a deflection roller (7) after passing through the contact zone (10). The handrail (6) can be guided resting against the drive belt (1) along the entire contact zone (10) and can be driven by the drive belt (1) by means of friction between drive belt (1) and handrail (6). The device (2) comprises a deflection element (16), which deflection element (16) ensures that a lift-off point (18) of the handrail (6) from the drive belt (1) delimiting the contact zone (10) is arranged upstream of the deflection region of the drive belt (1) on the deflection roller (7). According to the invention, an escalator (40) or a moving walkway can be modernized with such a device (2).
US09428365B2
An exemplary elevator assembly includes an elevator car having a frame member. At least one toe guard panel is moveable between a first position and a second position. In the first position the toe guard panel is situated to provide a vertical surface beneath the elevator car and the toe guard panel has an end spaced a first distance from the elevator car. In the second position the toe guard panel is situated with a second, shorter distance between the end and the elevator car. A moving mechanism coupled with the toe guard panel selectively moves the toe guard panel from the first position into the second position. An instigator member situated in a selected vertical position interacts with the moving mechanism to begin movement of the toe guard panel from the first position when the frame member of the elevator car is approximately at the selected vertical position.
US09428364B2
An elevator may include: drive machine, hoisting ropes, traction sheave, elevator car, counterweight, and elevator car and counterweight guide rails. The drive machine may engage the hoisting ropes using the traction sheave. The hoisting ropes may support the elevator car on the elevator car guide rails and the counterweight on the counterweight guide rails. The hoisting ropes may include coated hoisting ropes of substantially circular cross-section. The hoisting ropes may have a load-bearing part twisted from steel wires of circular, non-circular, or circular and non-circular cross-section. A cross-sectional area of the steel wires may be less than about 0.2 mm2. A strength of the steel wires may be greater than about 2000 N/mm2. A core of each hoisting rope may include the load-bearing part. The core may be coated with a substantially thin sheath that forms a surface of the hoisting rope. The sheath may be softer than the core.
US09428363B2
A winding system having at least one winding device for winding up at least one ribbon-form material to be wound onto at least one exchangeable tube that is drivable in rotation about a winding axis, and having at least one feed device which is provided to supply the at least one ribbon-form material to be wound, comprising at least one deflecting unit which is provided to deflect the at least one ribbon-form material to be wound coming from the at least one feed device, during at least one winding-up operation, as said ribbon-form material to be wound travels to the at least one winding device, about at least one axis which extends at least substantially parallel to a direction of the gravitational force.
US09428361B2
A device (1) for transporting planar elements along a given conveying path, which includes an endless transport member (10) that is movably guided over the entire length of the conveying path by a series of substantially adjacent guide members (20, 30), at least one movable guide member (30) being movably mounted separately from the static guide members (20) that are fixedly mounted, between a retracted position in which the movable guide member (30) is placed in direct alignment with the static guide members (20), and a deployed position in which the movable guide member (30) is spaced apart from the static guide members (20). Complementary guide members (40) are movably mounted to move between a reserve position, in which complementary guide members are spaced apart from the static guide members (20) and from the movable guide member (30) when the latter is in the retracted position, and a service position, in which the complementary guide members are continuously inserted between the static guide members (20) and the movable guide member (30) when the latter is in the deployed position.
US09428360B2
A system and method are provided for implementing an automated process that independently manipulates a plurality of span-wise discrete individual pressure actuators in a movable pressure assembly associated with a nip-based drive unit to drive tensioned web continuous feed image receiving media in web-based printing devices. The disclosed process varyingly adjusts a relative pressure of between the opposing rolls to address a detected wrinkling condition. A closed loop detection and control scheme is provided in which, based on a determination that wrinkling is occurring in tensioned web continuous feed image receiving media, and isolation of a spanwise location in which the wrinkling is occurring, differential signals may be sent to one or more of a plurality of span-wise discrete individual pressure actuators in a movable pressure assembly to varyingly adjust a relative pressure of the two opposing rolls across a spanwise pressure nip.
US09428356B2
A sheet skew feed correcting apparatus is provided which includes: a driving rotation member that is driven to rotate; a first driven rotation member that is pressure contacted against the driving rotation member; a first holder rotatably holding the first driven rotation member; a second driven rotation member that is pressure contacted against the driving rotation member; a second holder rotatably holding the second driven rotation member; and a shutter portion with which a leading end of a sheet comes into contact for skew feed correction, the shutter portion moving pivotally with one end portion thereof supported by the first holder and another end portion thereof supported by the second holder; wherein the shutter portion has abutting portions with which the leading end comes into contact, and a coupling portion extending so as to couple the abutting portions together between the first and the second driven rotation members.
US09428355B2
A printing apparatus has a conveyance control unit which controls conveyance of printing sheets so that a trailing edge of a preceding sheet as a printing sheet precedingly fed from the stacking unit and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet as a printing sheet succeedingly fed from the stacking unit overlap each other; and a skew correction unit which performs skew correction of the succeeding sheet while the succeeding sheet overlaps the preceding sheet by the conveyance control unit. The skew correction unit makes the leading edge of the succeeding sheet abut against the conveyance roller during a time from an end of a last line feed operation by the conveyance roller for printing on the preceding sheet by the printing unit to start of a next conveyance operation.
US09428351B2
There is provided a feeding device for feeding a sheet in which, when a user operates a knob of a second regulating portion disposed on a front side to move the second regulating portion, locking of a first regulating portion disposed on a rear side can be released.
US09428344B2
Method and apparatus for realizing a continuous and ordered flow (50) of containers (20), comprising the steps of:—providing a feed flow (30, 30′) of containers (20) arranged with the respective main axes (X-X) randomly oriented; detecting for each container (20) the position and the orientation of its main axis (X-X), and which of the two main faces (A, B) of the container lies on the transport surface (14, 14′); picking up (12, 12′) said containers (20) from said transport surface (14, 14′) and releasing said containers (20) in a first continuous and ordered output flow (40) in an advancing direction (MD), on a surface (18) of a first output transport system (15), wherein said containers are aligned, equidistant (P) from one another, with the respective main axes (X-X) parallel to each other and perpendicular to said advancing direction (MD), picking up (62) said containers (20) from said first continuous and ordered output flow (40), rotating the main axis X-X of each container (20) by 90° in a first direction, the containers which have a first main face (A) lying on the surface (18) of the first output transport system (15), and rotating in a second direction, opposite to the first direction, the containers that have a second main face (B) lying on the surface (18) of the output first transport system (15), and depositing (62) said containers (20) on a second output transport system (70), realizing a second continuous and ordered flow (50) in an advancing direction (MD″) wherein said containers (20) are aligned, equidistant from each other and with the respective longitudinal axes (X-X) perpendicular to the surface (72) of said second output transport system (70), with the filling openings (22) facing upwards and with the respective main faces (A, B) all oriented in the same direction.
US09428339B2
A conveyor belt system includes a conveyor belt extending in a conveying direction and support roller arrangements spaced apart from each other along the conveyor belt and each having six support rollers annularly distributed around the outer periphery of the conveyor belt, thereby imparting a tubular shape to the conveyor belt. The support roller arrangements each include a first group having support rollers and at least one support roller offset relative thereto in the conveying direction and peripheral direction. A distance determined along the conveying direction between the first group of support rollers and the at least one support roller of the same support roller arrangement offset relative thereto measures between 15% and 85% of a distance between the first group of the support roller arrangement and the first group of the next support roller arrangement in the conveying direction.
US09428337B1
According to a further exemplary embodiment, a wardrobe may be provided. The wardrobe may include a receiving element located in a housing that may be configured to receive and dispense clothing items. Each clothing item may include a unique RFID tag and a number of RFID readers may be connected to a computing means configured to obtain information held in each RFID tag. The wardrobe may further include a linear actuator proximate a top surface of the housing, the linear actuator may be controlled by the computing means. The linear actuator may be coupled to a gripper assembly on one end. Additionally, the wardrobe may include a number of hangers that may be disposed on one or more inner surfaces of the housing, each hanger may be configured to store one or more of the clothing items. A display screen may be embedded on the outer surface of the housing.
US09428334B2
An automatic control system for a refuse vehicle includes a mode select switch disposed within the vehicle that generates a mode select signal based on input from an operator of the vehicle, a control mechanism disposed within the vehicle that operates in response to the mode select signal, and a plurality of sensors adapted to sense a plurality of characteristics of the vehicle and adapted to communicate the plurality of sensed characteristics. The system further includes a control module that receives control instructions from the control mechanism and selectively controls at least one component of a plurality of components of the vehicle based on the mode select signal, at least one of the plurality of sensed characteristics, and the control instructions.
US09428332B2
The present invention relates to outdoor trash containers including motifs and/or details that can be attached or detached from the base or lid of the trash container to allow for customization of the container. The present invention also includes a bag holder within the container to stabilize a trash bag within the container.
US09428331B2
A waste container for disposing sanitary waste, such as soiled diapers, comprises a canister having a storage space, an opening at an upper end and a bottom at a lower end. A retainer frame is pivotally attached to the canister and has an aperture for inserting a trash bag through the aperture and folding an upper edge of the trash bag over the retainer frame. A retainer is pivotally attached to the canister and has a rim that inserts into the aperture of the retainer frame to retain the trash bag. A lid having a hole which aligns with the aperture of the retainer frame is pivotally attached to the canister for allowing the lid to pivot between a closed position covering the opening and an open position. A slid door is coupled to the lid and is slidable between a closed position and an open position.
US09428330B2
An interlocking container for intermodal transportation includes a plurality of storage chambers that are surrounded by a frame. The frame is configured to support multiple interlocking containers stacked on top of the interlocking container. Each of the storage chambers are configured to couple with a vertically adjacent storage chamber, so that materials stored within a particular storage chamber may travel to a different storage chamber. Each storage chamber uses a sealing member to couple with a vertically adjacent storage chamber to prevent loss of materials.
US09428319B2
The invention relates to a snowshoe and rucksack for its storage with an application in the sports sphere and in particular on snow covered and ice-frozen terrains. The inflatable snowshoe contains a corpus and fixing belts. The corpus consists of a cylindrical air chamber and protective case. The air chamber forms a closed contour having the form of an elliptical ring with a circular cross section and is placed in the protective case. The air chamber has a valve mounted on it the end of which passes through an opening formed in the rear part of the protective case. The protective case is made of separate sections of a strong, wear-resistant material. The frontal part of protective case contains three sections which are raised in relation to the horizontal axis under an angle of α, which falls within the interval between 35° to 40°. Over the entire internal circumference of protective case there is a zipper, ensuring quick and easy placing of the air chamber in casing. Fixing belts are provisioned respectively for the front and rear part of the shoe. To the lower part of the fixing belts for the frontal part of the surface metal spikes are mounted in a mobile way and they ensure a better grip of ice-frozen terrains. The rucksack has been especially designed for the storage of the snowshoe in its inflated state and under given conditions it also plays the role of a back protector. The profile of the rucksack corresponds completely to the profile of the snowshoe.
US09428313B2
A container holder assembly for a vehicle having a base wall and a sidewall defining a substantially cylindrical cavity. The cavity having a first side half and an opposed second side half. A resilient member extending across the cavity. The sidewall including a plurality of spaced slots and the resilient member including a first end attached to the sidewall at the first side half of the cavity and a free end configured to penetrate a selected one of the spaced slots for releasable attachment to the sidewall. The resilient member being configured to deform upon insertion of a container into the cavity.
US09428312B2
An enclosure system that can include an enclosure cover comprising a receiving feature. The enclosure system can also include an enclosure body mechanically coupled to the enclosure cover. The enclosure system can further include a cover release mechanism mechanically coupled to the enclosure body and disposed, at least in part, within the receiving feature, where the cover release mechanism is movable between a first position and a second position. The enclosure cover and the enclosure body can be mechanically coupled to each other when the cover release mechanism is in the first position. The enclosure cover and the enclosure body can be, at least in part, separated from each other when the cover release mechanism moves to the second position from the first position.
US09428296B2
Container (1) of thermoplastic material produced by blowing or stretch blowing of a blank, said container comprising a petaloid bottom (3) provided with projecting feet (4) separated by hollow valleys (8) that extend radially from a central zone (5) of the bottom (3), each foot (4) having two flanks (9), each of which laterally borders a valley (8). Each foot (4) is provided, on each of its flanks (9), with a cheek (18) that projects laterally from the side of the valley (8).
US09428291B2
A method is provided for preparing spray dried powder containing vancomycin hydrochloride. The method comprises providing a vancomycin hydrochloride solution with a chromatographic purity of at least 95%, adding an excipient to the vancomycin hydrochloride solution to form a mixture solution of the vancomycin hydrochloride solution and the excipient, concentrating the mixed solution of the vancomycin hydrochloride solution and the excipient to form a 20% to 30% vancomycin concentrate, filtering the vancomycin concentrate to form a final filtrate, and spray drying the final filtrate to form a spray dried vancomycin hydrochloride powder with EP impurity B level of not more than 1.5%.
US09428270B1
The method and system may be used to control the movement of a remote aerial device in an incremental step manner during a close inspection of an object or other subject matter. At the inspection location, a control module “stabilizes” the remote aerial device in a maintained, consistent hover while maintaining a close distance to the desired object. The control module may retrieve proximal sensor data that indicates possible nearby obstructions to the remote aerial device and may transmit the data to a remote control client. The remote control module may determine and display the possible one or more non-obstructed directions that the remote aerial device is capable of moving by an incremental distance. In response to receiving a selection of one of the directions, the remote control module may transmit the selection to the remote aerial device to indicate the next movement for the remote aerial device.
US09428264B2
Provided is a nose for a supersonic flying object, which has a natural laminar flow nose shape capable of suppressing laminar-turbulent transition and drastically reducing a frictional drag. The nose for a supersonic flying object has a low resistive body shape symmetrical about a central axis as a base shape, wherein the base shape is approximately a cone shape having a linear, simple convex curve, or simple concave curve generatrix and a deformation element having a wavy shape is added to the base shape.
US09428257B2
An air vehicle comprises a vehicle body and a propulsion assembly. The vehicle body has the shape of a wing airfoil to generate lift when air flows over the vehicle body. The vehicle body has a body longitudinal axis and substantially planar port and starboard sides of composite material, and includes first and second hulls that are secured together side-by-side, the hulls having longitudinal axes that are substantially parallel to the body longitudinal axis and two substantially planar side walls at least one of which is of composite material. Each hull defines a separate fluid chamber that is filled with a fluid that is at least partially buoyant. The propulsion assembly is secured to the vehicle body port and starboard sides. The propulsion assembly includes port front and rear engines and starboard front and rear engines, wherein at least two of the engines have independently controlled thrust vectors.
US09428252B1
The present invention relates to a pontoon boats that may couple and be driven by a PWC. The invention further relates to pontoon boats having a portion that moves into an open water recess at the rear of the pontoon boat. The invention further relates to an engagement assembly for securing a PWC to such a pontoon boat.
US09428249B2
The invention herein pertains to a modular water craft device and system wherein a plurality of individual navigable watercraft devices interconnects at their hull and deck. Each individual watercraft unit comprises the following elements: a deck, a hull with three or more sides, a steering wheel, and rudder. Each individual watercraft device detachably interconnects with another at their deck and hull at a common side. The interconnection creates a greater unitary deck and stable hull connection. Each modularized watercraft is defined as two or more individual water craft devices detachably interconnected between their sides to form a greater stable modular platform and unitary hull and deck system. The modularized watercraft device may convert between navigational and non-navigational roles.
US09428246B2
A bicycle generator or a shifting device has a base member, a rotation receiving member and a dynamo. The base member is configured to be mounted only in vicinity of a hub axle. The rotation receiving member is rotatably mounted on the base member and is rotated by a rotational part of a bicycle. The dynamo is coupled to the rotation receiving member to generate electrical energy in response to rotation of the rotation receiving member. In the case of the shifting device, a shifting unit is provided that includes an electric motor and an output member that engages a part of a bicycle hub transmission device.
US09428236B2
A lean-compensating motorcycle for balancing a user includes a lower frame with wide wheels and an upper frame supporting a rider. The lower and upper frames pivot on an axis substantially parallel to the motorcycle's line of travel, and a pivot drive governs pivoting movement. The pivot drive is controlled by a level-sensing control system that adjusts the pivot drive to maintain the upper frame upright by applying force against the lower frame, the lower frame counterbalancing the pivoting motion against the wide wheels. The wheels ideally include a central channel sized to accommodate raised pavement markers, such as dots and reflectors, to provide for smooth travel. The upper frame includes a housing in which the user sits, in a manner similar to a conventional automobile since propping the motorcycle up with the user's legs is largely unnecessary.
US09428230B2
A spoiler device includes a movable spoiler for a vehicle, the movable spoiler being movable between a retracted position and a deployed position, a link mechanism supporting the movable spoiler, a torsion bar connected to the link mechanism, and an actuation portion rotating the torsion bar.
US09428228B2
A side-view mirror assembly for a vehicle is disclosed. The mirror assembly may generally include a mirror housing configured to support a mirror. The mirror housing may define an airfoil shape have a first side surface and a second side surface extending between a forward edge and an aft edge. In addition, the mirror housing may be movable between a first position, wherein the mirror housing is aerodynamically aligned with an airflow flowing past the vehicle, and a second position, wherein the mirror reflects a rearwardly extending side-view of the vehicle.
US09428226B2
A vehicle headliner attachment system for mounting a headliner to a non-magnetic roof structure includes a headliner with an interior and an exterior surface, a magnet affixed to the exterior surface of the headliner, and a ferromagnetic clip mounted to the non-magnetic roof structure. The magnet and the ferromagnetic clip enable magnetic attachment of the headliner to the non-magnetic roof structure.
US09428225B2
A vehicle panel joint structure comprises a pair of vehicle panels formed of a first vehicle panel and a second vehicle panel that have different linear expansion coefficients to each other; a hemming portion that is formed by folding over an end portion at an outer edge portion of the first vehicle panel; a rib portion that is formed at a leading end of an end portion at an outer edge portion of the second vehicle panel, that projects out toward the hemming portion of the first vehicle panel, and that contacts the hemming portion; and an adhesive layer that is formed between the outer edge portions of the pair of vehicle panels, and that joins the outer edge portions together.
US09428224B2
A product comprising a drainable section stabilizer sleeve for a vehicle body structure.
US09428217B2
To suppress the loosening of a bush when an ambient temperature varies. A motor-driven power steering apparatus according to the present invention includes a rack shaft moving steered portions based on the steering in a steering wheel, an end case covering the rack shaft and having an inner peripheral groove along a circumferential direction of the rack shaft on an inner peripheral surface facing the rack shaft and a bush arranged inside the inner peripheral groove of the end case and supporting the rack shaft so as to slide. Here, an outer peripheral surface of the bush includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion protruding toward a bottom portion of the inner peripheral groove at different positions in an axial direction of the rack shaft. The bottom portion of the inner peripheral groove includes a first groove and a second groove receiving the first protrusion and the second protrusion.
US09428213B2
An energy absorbing device for a steering column assembly is provided. The device includes a first strap coupled to the steering column assembly, the first strap configured to absorb energy of an impact event on the steering column assembly, a second strap coupled to the steering column assembly. The second strap is also configured to absorb energy of an impact event on the steering column. A coupling device connects the second strap to the first strap such that both the first strap and the second strap absorb energy of a first impact event. The coupling device selectively uncouples the second strap from the first strap such that the only the first strap absorbs energy of a second impact event.
US09428207B2
A cup holder module is detachably mounted on a mount of a stroller and includes a cup holder, a mounting arm formed from the cup holder, and a first mounting latch. The mount has an engaging groove. The first mounting latch is disposed on the mounting arm and has a first button movably disposed on the mounting arm, a clamping base connected to the first button and disposed in the mounting arm, and an elastic member. The elastic member is disposed on the clamping base for biasing the clamping base to clamp the mount cooperatively with the mounting arm when the mounting arm is mounted on the mount and the first button is engaged with the engaging groove. When the first button is pressed to move the clamping base to an unlatched position, the clamping base is separate from the mount to make the mounting arm detachable from the mount.
US09428190B2
A vehicle includes a powertrain, a cruise control system, and a controller. The controller, in response to a brake temperature being greater than a threshold while the cruise control system is active and the vehicle being coupled to a trailer, operates the powertrain such that a speed of the vehicle decreases to decrease the brake temperature.
US09428184B2
A vehicle control device includes a friction brake orientation control device, a damping force control device, a state quantity detection device, and an orientation control device. The damping force control device calculates a brake orientation control amount for a friction brake to change the orientation of a vehicle body to a target orientation. The damping force control device calculates a shock absorber orientation control amount for a variable-damping-force shock absorber to change the orientation of the vehicle body to the target orientation. The state quantity detection device detects a state quantity indicating vehicle body orientation. The orientation control device controls vehicle body orientation when the value of the detected state quantity is less than a predetermined value, and controls vehicle body orientation via the friction brake orientation control device when the value of the detected state quantity is equal to or greater than the predetermined value.
US09428174B2
A method of forcibly charging a high-voltage battery using a motor and a Hybrid Starter Generator (HSG) is provided. The method forcibly charges the high-voltage battery with maximum charging power using the motor and the HSG simultaneously. Particularly, the method includes calculating maximum chargeable power for the high-voltage battery using three dimensional (3D) maximum charging power maps of the motor and the HSG and adjusting maximum charging power using energy integration during forced charging using the motor and the HSG simultaneously. Additionally, excessive temperature prevention logics are applied for protecting the motor and the HSG from an excessive temperature in a forced charging mode.
US09428168B2
Provided is a brake device that can increase energy efficiency. The present invention is provided with: a master cylinder (5) that generates fluid pressure alongside the operation of a brake by a driver; and a booster device that reduces the force of operation of the brake by the driver by means of an energy source (fluid pressure unit 86)). In a predetermined brake operation region, the operation of the booster device is suppressed.
US09428166B2
The present invention relates to a master cylinder assembly in a brake system and a piston stop. The master cylinder assembly comprises one or more piston assemblies. At least one of the piston assemblies comprises a piston (1), a piston stop (2) and a spring (3), wherein the piston stop (2) snaps into the piston (1), and the spring is retained between the piston (1) and the piston stop (2) and placed outside the piston stop (2). According to the present invention, on a circumferential wall of the piston stop (2) are provided deep slots (4) extending axially and running through the thickness of the circumferential wall, and these deep slots open towards one side of the piston stop where it snaps into the piston (1).
US09428162B1
Systems and methods of controlling a brake system are provided. The system may include the step of detecting, by a controller, a failure of a first load cell of a first electromechanical brake actuator (EBA). The method may further comprise estimating, by the controller, a force of the first EBA using a force output from a second load cell, and commanding, by the controller, the first EBA in response to the estimated force of the first EBA.
US09428161B2
In various embodiments, a method for utilizing a determined coefficient of friction along a portion of a runway is disclosed. The method may include receiving, by a brake control unit, friction estimation map data for a specific runway. The method may include setting, by the brake control unit, a condition of the braking control algorithm based on the received friction estimation map data. The method may include initiating, by the brake control unit, a brake control system to slow a wheel of an aircraft based on the braking control algorithm.
US09428159B2
An electronic controller for a brake system of a motor vehicle, having at least one interface to a control element, in particular a parking brake control switch, and at least two drive circuits for electric parking brake actuators. The electronic controller at least two independent arithmetic units, which are directly connected to each other via a data bus. A motor vehicle equipped with a controller according to the invention requires no transmission lock in an automatic gearbox.
US09428156B2
The present disclosure provides vehicle transportation and storage assemblies that can include a moving frame coupled to a loading frame and a support frame extending at an angle other than normal from the moving frame to the loading frame. Vehicle moving, storage, and/or maintenance methods are provided that can include supporting a vehicle with an assembly in a first position, with the first position supporting the vehicle substantially parallel to the road surface, and pivoting the assembly to support the vehicle in a second position, the second position supporting the vehicle substantially normal to the road surface.
US09428155B1
A jacking system for a utility vehicle comprises a telescopic beam suspended under the vehicle body which is extractable in a generally horizontal direction and tiltable by a tilting mechanism to lower the extracted outer support end to the ground, said tilting mechanism comprising a pivot support supporting the telescopic beam at the vehicle body pivotable around a horizontal axis and a support drive comprising an telescopic drive element of variable length, with a first end of the drive element being pivotably attached to the vehicle body and its opposite second end being supported at the telescopic beam at a position between the pivot support and the support end of the telescopic beam. This jacking system is characterized in that the tilting mechanism further comprises a lever arrangement for load transmission between the support drive and the telescopic beam, said lever arrangement comprising a first lever with a first end pivotably attached to the vehicle body at a first hinge point below the attachment point of the first end of the drive element at the vehicle body, and a second lever with a first end pivotably attached to a second end of the first lever at a second hinge point and a second end pivotably attached to the telescopic beam.
US09428150B2
A portable device includes: a reception unit which receives state information of a vehicle from the vehicle; a transmission unit which transmits a signal to the vehicle; a control unit which controls communication with the vehicle; and a storage unit which stores at least two signal transmission intensities including a signal transmission intensity during engine stop and a signal transmission intensity during engine operation higher than the signal transmission intensity during engine stop, the signal transmission intensities being able to be set by the control unit. The control unit sets a signal transmission intensity of the signal transmitted from the transmission unit based on the state information received by the reception unit and the signal transmission intensities stored in the storage unit. The transmission unit transmits the signal based on the signal transmission intensity set by the control unit.
US09428149B2
A vehicular emergency reporting device includes a voltage step-down unit, an auxiliary power source, a voltage step-up unit, a control unit, an emergency report executing unit, and a switching unit. When a decreased voltage decreased by the voltage step-down unit is lower than an increased voltage increased by the voltage step-up unit, the emergency report executing unit performs an emergency report using the increased voltage as the operation voltage. When the decreased voltage is lower than the increased voltage, the switching unit switches a power supply mode between a first mode in which the increased voltage is supplied to the control unit and the emergency report executing unit and a second mode in which an auxiliary power source voltage is supplied to the control unit and the emergency report executing unit without being increased by the voltage step-up unit.
US09428147B2
A linear drive, especially for a belt tensioner, includes a housing (10) including a piston seat (12), a piston element (16) accommodated in the piston seat (12) and a pyrotechnical drive element adapted to supply gas for displacing the piston element (16). The inner wall of the piston seat (12) includes a groove (30) extending in the displacing direction (R) of the piston element (16) through which gas can flow off the piston seat (12).
US09428142B2
The invention relates inter alia to a gas generator (10) for generating a driving gas for a vehicle safety device, wherein the gas generator has an ignition device (30) and propellant (50) which generates gas after being ignited by the ignition device (30). It is provided according to the invention that the gas generator (10) has a tube (20), to one tube end (21) of which the ignition device (30) is fixed by means of a moulded-in or moulded-on injection-moulded body (40).
US09428125B2
An apparatus for warning reduction in fuel efficiency of a vehicle includes a driving sensor configured to sense driving of the vehicle. A window position sensor is configured to sense an opened degree of each window in the vehicle. A controller is configured to enable a fuel efficiency reduction predictor when the window position sensor senses that a window of the vehicle is opened, in the state in which the driving sensor senses the driving of the vehicle, the fuel efficiency reduction predictor predicting reduction in fuel efficiency depending on the opened degree of each window sensed by the window position sensor.
US09428123B2
An elastically averaged alignment and retention system includes a first component having a first alignment member and an elastically deformable alignment and retention element, and a second component having a second alignment member and an alignment and retention feature. The first alignment member includes an electrical wiring harness, the elastically deformable alignment and retention element includes a hollow tube, the second alignment member includes a support for the electrical wiring harness, and the alignment and retention feature includes an aperture. The elastically deformable alignment and retention element is configured and disposed to interferingly, deformably and matingly engage the alignment and retention feature. Portions of the elastically deformable alignment and retention element when inserted into the alignment and retention feature elastically deform to an elastically averaged final configuration that aligns and retains the first component relative the second component in at least two of six planar orthogonal directions.
US09428109B2
A temperature-sensitive vehicle occupancy detection and alert system. The system alerts users when a young child is left unattended in a vehicle in order to prevent the young child from being exposed to dangerously high or low temperatures within the interior of the vehicle. The system utilizes sensor data captured by a plurality of different sensors, including at least one occupancy sensor, at least one temperature sensor, and at least one distance sensor. The system applies logic to the captured sensor data to determine whether to alert a user as to the fact that an occupant has been left unattended and to control various functions of the automobile that would allow individuals external to the vehicle to rescue the occupant from the dangerous conditions or provide relief to the child from the conditions, including by unlocking the vehicle's doors, lowering the vehicle's windows, and/or activating the vehicle's temperature control system.
US09428108B2
A vehicle environment monitoring system is disclosed which includes a people detection unit for detecting the presence of people in the environment of a vehicle and a danger signaler for generating danger signals of at least one first kind. A decision unit for deciding on the generation of a danger signal of the first kind when detecting a person by means of the people detection unit in dependence of the visibility of the person for the driver of the vehicle.
US09428103B2
A method for controlling a light emission of at least one headlight of a vehicle, which has a traffic sign recognition device. The method includes receiving at least one traffic sign recognition signal from an interface to the traffic sign recognition device. In this instance, the at least one traffic sign recognition signal represents a traffic sign recognized in a course of the road currently being traveled by the vehicle. The method also includes setting a debounce time and/or a debounce stretch for a change in the light emission of the at least one headlight between first and second radiation characteristics as a function of the at least one traffic sign recognition signal. Finally, the method includes delaying the change in the light emission of the at least one headlight by the debounce time set and/or the debounce stretch set, to control light emission of the at least one headlight.
US09428100B2
A portable solar light tower includes a trailer mounted extension tower outfitted with high output Light Emitting Diode (LED) flood lights. The portable solar light tower also includes a set of solar panels which fold up for travel mode and fold down for charging mode. A battery bank is housed in a locking compartment built into the trailer deck.
US09428095B2
A system, device and method for securing large glass sheets to a rack for transportation with improved safety and efficiency over existing systems and methods. The system utilizes a unique swivel cap which can be retrofitted to an existing glass transportation rack having vertical supports secured to a transportable base surface so as to be capable of retaining a plurality of large glass sheets in a substantially upright or angled position. The swivel cap is positioned atop each vertical support, each swivel cap including at least one stud for anchoring a tie-down cable such that each anchored tie-down cable is capable of pivoting about the stud. A plurality of the tie-down cables are pivotably anchored by a first end to a stud and configured to releasably couple by a second end to the transportable base surface.
US09428094B2
A transport apparatus for moving an elongated object includes a trailer frame with a tilting rear frame section pivotally attached to a front frame section. Rear wheels are mounted under the rear frame section rearward of the tilt axis, and an actuator pivots the rear frame section upward about the tilt axis from a horizontal lowered position to a vertical raised position. An engagement mechanism on a rear end of the rear frame section rearward of the rear wheels moves downward into engagement with a receiver on the object when the rear frame section moves upward. When the rear frame section moves upward to the raised position adjacent to the object, the rear wheels are raised above the ground. A lock secures the object to the tilting rear frame. Moving the tilting rear frame section downward moves the object downward to a horizontal transport position resting on the trailer frame.
US09428091B2
A seat pad is configured to be capable of, with an increased pressing from a top plate portion at a seating side, gradually shortening a distance between an outer side of a frame body portion and a separated part, and at the same time deflecting and deforming in a direction of immersing into a seat frame, and by a pressing from an edge portion at the seating side, an abutting part abuts against a supporting portion, so as to be supported on the seat frame.
US09428087B2
A vehicle seat comprises a seat bottom frame 2 as a frame of a seat bottom allowing an occupant to sit thereon, and a seat back frame 1 supported by the seat bottom frame 2. The seat back frame 1 includes right and left side frames SF laterally spaced apart from each other, and a lower connecting member 30 disposed and extending between lower portions of the right and left side frames SF and configured to connect the right and left side frames SF, and the lower connecting member 30 includes a rear wall portion connected to and supported by the side frames SF, and a front wall portion 31 disposed frontward of the rear wall portion and extending downward from an upper end of the rear wall portion, and a front surface 31A of the front wall portion 31 has an upper portion and a lower portion which is located frontward of the upper portion.
US09428083B2
The invention relates to a vehicle seat with a roller guide. The roller guide includes at least one guide rail, and at least one roller received in the guide rail. A roller cover part of the roller is rollable with a running surface of the roller. The roller cover part is divided into a first circumferential surface-like functional region and a second circumferential surface-like functional region which are arranged one behind the other in a direction of a shaft of the roller. The first region is deformable by pressurization by seat occupation. The first region is in contact with an inner wall on a lower side of the roller and with an inner wall on the upper side of the roller. An outer diameter of the second region has an undersize with respect to a spacing between the inner wall on the upper and lower sides of the roller.
US09428075B2
Disclosed is a battery charging management system of an automated guided vehicle that travels in an unpiloted manner by using a mounted battery as a driving source, the mounted battery being charged in a charging station, wherein a battery charging controller that monitors a remaining capacity of the mounted battery is mounted on the automated guided vehicle, the battery charging controller starts a charging operation for the mounted battery in the charging station when the remaining capacity of the battery is lower than a predetermined value, and a charging route of the vehicle is cut off when a charging amount of the mounted battery reaches a predetermined capacity during the charging operation.
US09428070B2
A vehicle charging system may include a charge receptacle and an alignment pin mounted to a vehicle and a ground station. The ground station may include a guide having a locating region configured to receive the alignment pin and in response to the alignment pin contacting the locating region translate along a track. An electrical connector may be configured to engage the charge receptacle. The electrical connector may be disposed within a housing associated with the guide.
US09428059B2
A vehicle comprising a vehicle body (2) and a battery (3) with energy storage devices (31) and a housing (32), which at least partially surrounds the energy storage devices (31), wherein a vehicle-body region (21) of the vehicle body (2) forms a part of the housing of the battery (3), wherein the vehicle-body region (21) is made from an electrically conductive material or comprises electrically conductive material in order to shield the vehicle against electrical and/or magnetic fields.
US09428058B2
A system and method for discharging a high voltage vehicle battery. The system includes a discharge circuit having a reference voltage source providing a reference voltage and a load for discharging the battery. A negative terminal of the voltage source is electrically coupled to a negative terminal of the battery so that upon initiation of the discharging sequence, the battery is discharged through the load to the reference voltage. The discharge circuit can be electrically configured so that the battery, the voltage source and the load are electrically coupled in series or the battery, the voltage source and the load are electrically coupled in parallel.
US09428045B2
A filler device to introduce fuel into a motor vehicle tank, and which includes a filler pipe and a vent pipe connected to the filler pipe via a crimp that extends therebetween.
US09428044B2
In at least some implementations, a fuel tank includes a tank body defining a chamber adapted to receive liquid fuel therein, a reinforcement for the tank body to permit the pressure within the chamber to exceed the vapor pressure of a fuel to be received within the chamber, and an inlet to the tank body through which fuel is added to the chamber. The inlet is configured to mate with a refueling nozzle through which fuel is added to the chamber to permit refueling the tank and maintaining the pressure in the chamber above atmospheric pressure.
US09428040B2
The stiffness in supporting an electric motor is increased in an electric motor mounting structure for mounting an electric motor for driving the wheels on the vehicle body. In an electric motor mounting structure for mounting an electric motor (60) for driving a wheel on a vehicle body (1) formed by combining a plurality of frame members, the electric motor is mounted on one of the frame members (front middle cross member) (43) via a first mount member (front mount member) (71), the one frame member is provided with a receiving hole (101), and at least a part of the first mount member projects into the receiving hole.
US09428032B2
A thermal management system includes a cooling circuit, a heat exchange circuit, a heat recovery cooling device and a passenger compartment temperature regulating device. The cooling device includes a condenser, a throttling element and an evaporator. The heat exchange device includes a first air cooled heat exchanger and a heater. The heat recovery cooling device includes a pump, a second air cooled beat exchanger and a cooler. The passenger compartment temperature regulating device includes an air flowing passage and a fan arranged in the air flowing passage, or a compartment heat exchanger. The first air cooled heat exchanger and the heater are in communication with the condenser through a first flow regulating valve. The cooler and the heat emission component heat exchanger are in communication with the evaporator through a second flow regulating valve. The second air cooled heat exchanger is selectively connected in series to the heat emission component heat exchanger.
US09428029B2
An air spring module including an air spring and a shock absorber for springing and damping vibrations of a motor vehicle chassis, including—at least two working chambers filled with compressed air and connectable via at least one valve, an air spring cover, a rolling bellows fixed to the air spring cover in an air-tight manner and at least partly delimits a first working chamber filled with compressed air, and a rolling piston, which is fixed to a cylindrical tube of the shock absorber and on which the rolling bellows rolls. A second and a third working chamber are arranged one above the other in the rolling piston so as to surround the cylindrical tube. The working chambers are separated from each other by an intermediate floor provided in the rolling piston and can be connected to the first working chamber via switchable valves arranged in the rolling piston.
US09428024B2
A bump shock absorbing device may include: a stopper member provided on a vehicle body and contacted and compressed against a chassis according to a bump of the vehicle body; and a magnetic force generation member including a pair of magnetic force generation members provided to face the chassis and the vehicle body, respectively, and generating a magnetic force to absorb shock caused by the bump of the vehicle body.
US09428018B2
A method for reducing vehicle bias when testing a tire for use with a market segment of vehicles by creating a vehicle model that is scalable by vehicle weight. A market segment of vehicles is defined, at least one of a vehicle model parameter is defined, data is collected for the at least one vehicle model parameter from at least one vehicle in the market segment, the at least one vehicle model parameter is characterized through regression analysis as a function of total weight of a scalable vehicle model, the scalable vehicle model parameter is applied to a multibody vehicle dynamics simulation, at least one maneuver is applied to the scalable vehicle model, and the tire load histories generated by the multibody vehicle dynamics simulation are provided to a tire test machine to obtain tire wear data representative of the vehicles in the market segment.
US09428013B2
A tire wear state estimation system includes as inputs an axle force estimation, a measured tire inflation pressure; a tire load estimation; a tire cornering stiffness estimation; and a tire identification by which a specific tire-based correlation model correlates tire inflation pressure, the tire load estimation, the tire cornering stiffness estimation, and the vehicle-based sensor axle force estimation.
US09428005B2
The invention relates to a bicycle component, for example a rim, comprising a body made from aluminium and a body made from composite material coupled with a first surface portion of the body made from aluminium. Such a first surface portion has been subjected to a deoxidation surface treatment. An adhesive substance has been then applied on at least part of said first surface portion for gluing the body made from aluminium to the body made from composite material. A second surface portion of the body made from aluminium has been subjected to an oxidation surface treatment with subsequent fixing of the oxide.
US09428001B2
A marking implement comprises a main body (2) for housing a marking element (3) that is movable by sliding therein; the main body (2) comprises a broad grip portion (4) and an elongated neck (5) axially contiguous to the grip portion (4); a mechanism for sliding (7) said marking element (3), a protective cap (6) housing the neck (5) completely therein and the broad grip portion (4) at least partially. The sliding mechanism (7) comprises a movement slider (8) that is slidable axially and in a controlled manner along the main housing body (2) so as to guide the advancement and retraction of the marking element (3).
US09427985B2
A printing apparatus includes a feeding unit configured to feed a printing sheet stacked on a stacking unit, a conveying unit configured to convey the printing sheet fed by the feeding unit, a printing unit configured to print the printing sheet conveyed by the conveying unit, and a control unit configured to control the feeding unit and the conveying unit. When continuously printing on the first surfaces of a plurality of printing sheets, the feeding unit forms an overlap state in which a trailing edge of a preceding sheet and a leading edge of a succeeding sheet overlap each other, and the conveying unit conveys the printing sheets while keeping the overlap state. When performing double-sided printing on the first surface and the second surface of the printing sheet, the feeding unit does not form the overlap state.
US09427978B1
A first roller is supported by the lid portion such that it can rotate. A second roller is provided such that it peels a label off of a release paper by nipping the release paper against the first roller. An elastic member is provided such that it switches a peeling mechanism from a first state to a second state. A moving portion is provided such that it switches the peeling mechanism from a second state to a third state by separating from a projecting portion in an open state and coming into contact with the projecting portion in a closed state. A first restricting portion is provided such that, when the peeling mechanism is in a fourth state, by coming into contact with the projecting portion and restricting the projecting portion from moving, it restricts the peeling mechanism from switching from the fourth state to the third state.
US09427977B2
An ink-jet recording apparatus includes a belt conveying unit, a recording unit, an end-portion position detection sensor, a background member, and a rotary driving unit. The end-portion position detection sensor is arranged in an upstream of the belt conveying unit in a recording medium conveyance direction, and uses a reflected light to detect a position of an end portion of the recording medium in a recording medium width direction intersecting with the recording medium conveyance direction. The background member is arranged facing a detection surface of the end-portion position detection sensor. The background member is rotatable around a shaft extending along the recording medium width direction. The background member has an outer peripheral surface at least in a region facing the detection surface of the end-portion position detection sensor. The outer peripheral surface has two or more regions having mutually different colors circumferentially dividing the outer peripheral surface.
US09427973B1
A module for mounting and use in a postage meter for printing postage includes a housing and two ink cartridges for ink-jet printing, each of the cartridges having a flexible electrical circuit member operatively attached thereto, with one of the electrical circuits including a microprocessor. The housing consists of two lateral components, each containing one of the ink cartridges, a central panel component interposed between the lateral components, and elements for maintaining the components in assembly. The ink cartridges are placed into cavities formed by the lateral components, which are then assembled on opposite sides of the central component with the flexible circuit members suitably arranged, to produce the inking module. The central panel includes features for applying laterally outward biasing force upon the seated ink cartridges, and structure is provided on the module to facilitate mounting and retention in a postage printing machine.
US09427963B2
A method of calibrating a printhead, for printing two-dimensional bit-mapped images having a number of pixels per row, is disclosed for printheads (1) having a row of printing channels (5). During printing, in order to cause volumes of charged particulate concentrations of one of a number of predetermined volume sizes to be ejected from selected ejection channels of the printhead to form printed pixels, control pulse values of respective predetermined amplitude and duration, as determined by respective image pixel bit values, are applied to the selected printing channels. The calibration method comprises providing an image (50) that causes each channel of the printhead to be driven with the same pulse value, and printing one or more test prints of the image. The pulse value for all channels is then varied (101) in a set of defined steps within the test print or between the test prints and the optical density of the test print or test prints measured (102) at positions arranged on a grid (51) to obtain data of print density and pulse value at positions across the printhead. A desired tone reproduction curve (52) is pre-selected for the print process represented by optical density versus image grey level. Then pulse values are calculated (104) from the measured test print or test prints that are estimated to produce the desired values of print density corresponding to selected values of image grey level and which may include non-printing pulse values, and the pulse value for each of said positions across the printhead for each of said image grey levels is recorded in memory (105,106).
US09427952B2
A predimensioned rectangular screen for silk screening having the edges folded back on the main body, forming pockets along each edge for receiving tensioning rods to secure the screen to the frame. The edges are secured to the main body with a bonding material which also forms a seal.
US09427951B2
A printing press includes an impression cylinder, a blanket cylinder, a collecting plate cylinder, a collecting blanket cylinder, a plurality of partial plate cylinders, a plurality of inking devices, and a dampening unit. The impression cylinder holds and transports a sheet. The blanket cylinder is in contact with the impression cylinder. The collecting plate cylinder is in contact with the blanket cylinder, and a lithographic printing plate is mounted on the collecting plate cylinder. The collecting blanket cylinder is in contact with the collecting plate cylinder. The plurality of partial plate cylinders are in contact with the collecting blanket cylinder. The plurality of inking devices supply ink to the plurality of partial plate cylinders, respectively. The dampening unit supplies dampening water to the collecting plate cylinder.
US09427950B2
An ink image is formed on the side of a gauze of a screen master by discharging ink by an ink discharge apparatus, and collected visible rays or infrared rays are irradiated onto the ink image to heat the ink. Then, a thermoplastic resin film is perforated to form a plate making image corresponding to the ink image. The minute ink drops discharged from the ink discharge apparatus are held inside minute opening portions (pixels) of fibers configuring the gauze, and are put on the thermoplastic synthetic resin film bent by gravity. Thermosensitive perforation is carried out in this state, and thus a high-definition plate making image corresponding to the image configured using the ink drops in units of pixels can be obtained.
US09427940B2
A composite panel includes a support layer including a first plurality of prepreg plies wrapped around at least one mandrel; a mid-plane impact layer including a second plurality of prepreg plies, the mid-plane impact layer adjacent to the support layer; a upper skin layer including a third plurality of prepreg plies, the upper skin layer adjacent to the mid-place impact layer; and a lower skin layer including a fourth plurality of prepreg plies, the lower skin layer adjacent to the support layer; whereby each of the first, second, third, and fourth plurality of prepreg plies are co-cured to form the composite panel.
US09427938B2
A multi-layered structure comprising an induction activation layer comprising a blend of (a) a first thermoplastic polymer, (b) a plurality of first particles, each said first particle comprising (i) a core comprising one or more magnetic materials and (ii) a shell comprising silicon dioxide; and (c) optionally a plurality of second particles, each said second particle comprising heat conducting particles; and a sealant, wherein the sealant exhibits a melting point equal to or lower than any other layer in the multi-layered structure, wherein the induction activation layer and sealant are in direct or indirect thermal contact is provided.
US09427924B2
Provided is a direct acting mechanism of a tire curing device which can sufficiently perform positional control of a bladder extension height and a shaping height, etc., and is applicable to tires of different sizes. A hydraulically-driven central mechanism 1 as an example of a central mechanism of a tire curing device to which the present invention is applied includes a bag head 2 and a hydraulic cylinder 3. A cylinder tube 4 is formed to be thick-walled, and near the outer circumferential surface thereof, a sensor hole portion 7 is provided. The sensor hole portion 7 penetrates to the bottom surface side of the cylinder tube 4, and a linear sensor 8 with heat resistance and flexibility is inserted therein.
US09427921B2
Polydimethylsiloxane sheet, optical element incorporating the same, and manufacturing method thereof
A PDMS sheet that ensures good adhesion, handleability and stability to metal thin films or metal patterns of any desired shape, an optical element that is kept against de-bonding or exfoliation of metal patterns and has high reliability as well as good handleability and stability, and manufacturing methods thereof. The inventive optical element comprises a polydimethyl-siloxane sheet having a pattern-formation surface defined by one surface and a base surface defined by another surface, and a plurality of metal patterns positioned on the pattern-formation surface. Given a low-molecular-weight siloxane of a cyclic structure represented by [—Si(CH3)2O—]k where k is an integer of 3 to 20 inclusive, polydimethylsiloxane sheet comprises a structure where the content of the low-molecular-weight siloxane at the pattern-formation surface is more than that of the low-molecular-weight siloxane at the base surface, and a spacing between the adjacent metal patterns is variable by deformation of the polydimethylsiloxane sheet.
US09427917B2
The present invention concerns a new intermediate material to be associated with a thermosetting resin for making composite parts, consisting of a unidirectional layer of carbon fibers with a weight of 100 to 280 g/m2, associated on each of its faces, with a web of thermoplastic fibers having a thickness of 0.5 to 50 microns, preferably 3 to 35 microns, the intermediate material having a total thickness of 80 to 380 microns, preferably from 90 to 320 microns, and a process for manufacturing composite parts from such a material and the resulting composite parts.
US09427902B2
A laminar structure (1) for providing foam within cavities such as those in automobile pillars and rails is provided comprising a metal foil (4) having a central section (2) and two end sections (3, 4), the central section carrying a foamable material (5) and the end sections being securable to the flanges (8, 9, 15, 16) of the cavity forming members (7, 14). The cavity containing the foam after foaming is also provided.
US09427899B2
A bow wave in a composite laminate generated during part consolidation is reduced by transmitting atmospheric pressure loads to a region of the part having low compaction pressure due to bridging of a vacuum bag at an edge of the part.
US09427896B1
A compression device, means for controlling the compression device, a drum having an inner chamber, means for rotating the drum, and first and second delivery devices for delivering first and second materials into the inner chamber of the drum while the drum is rotating. The compression device compresses the first and second material in the inner chamber of the drum while the drum is rotating about the center of the drum in response to the means for controlling the compression device. The apparatus may include a stirring device; and a means for controlling the stirring device; wherein the stirring device is configured with respect to the drum so that the stirring device can be moved up and down to a desired depth within the drum and rotates within the inner chamber of the drum to stir the first and second materials in the drum while the drum is rotating.
US09427891B2
A method for controlling the particle size of deposited fine particles in a fine particle production method is provided. The method introduces a fluid to be processed between at least two processing surfaces, which are disposed facing each other and are advancible and retractable, at least one of the two processing surfaces rotating relative to the other, to deposit fine particles in the thin fluid film formed between the two processing surfaces. The particle size of the fine particles is controlled by controlling the temperature of the fluid that contains the separated fine particles. The temperature control can be accomplished by providing a temperature adjusting apparatus and a jacket in the flow channel or receptacle for the fluid after outflow and controlling the temperature of the fluid that contains the deposited fine particles.
US09427889B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing colored plastics molding compositions with aqueous liquid colors, where an aqueous liquid color is added to a molten plastics molding composition.The present invention also describes a system for conducting the said process.
US09427888B2
A method resumes an interrupted process for sawing a workpiece into wafers using a wire saw that includes advancing a wire web into existing sawing kerfs of the workpiece with a forward movement of the sawing wire with a first speed in the presence of a liquid sawing medium until the wire web or workpiece has reached a position corresponding to the interruption of the wire sawing process. The sawing wire is moved in defined time intervals by a forward movement of a particular length with a second speed and a backward movement of another length with a third speed, where the backward length is less than the forward length and the forward and backward movement correspond to a cycle. The wire length that is unwound during the forward movements is increased until the length during the forward movement corresponds to the length of the forward movement before the interruption.
US09427887B2
A vibration drive assembly comprising two rotary servo motors and an electronic motor controller electrically coupled to the servo motors and configured to regulate the motors and operate them in synchronism with one another at a predetermined rotational speed. Two articulated drive trains are connectable between the servo motors and mold assembly vibrator shafts of a concrete product molding machine and are configured to mechanically transmit rotational motion from the servo motors to the vibrator shafts when the mold assembly is in an elevated vibration position with the vibrator shaft axes coaxially aligned with rotational servo motor axes. The drive trains remain connected between the servo motors and vibrator shafts when the mold assembly is in a rest position below the vibration position, with the vibrator shaft axes axially mis-aligned with respect to the servo motor axes.
