US09427886B2
A reset spring device for a one-log splitter single-action hydraulic cylinder comprises a spring guide, reset spring, bearing, curved transmission lever, and guide seal. The spring guide has a first end and second end, the reset spring housed within the spring guide, the bearing housed within a portion at the first end, the spring abutting the bearing, the guide seal disposed at the first end of the guide, the transmission lever positioned outside the spring guide and engaged with the bearing. The transmission lever having a curved protrusion operably engaged through a longitudinal opening on the spring guide and through a groove on the bearing. A push plate is connected to the lever. During operation, when a cylinder is pushing forward, the lever compresses the spring through the bearing; and when a handle is released, the log splitter ceases operating, the cylinder is reset by each reset spring device.
US09427882B1
A pocket safety saw that can be carried by a detention officer or psychiatric personnel without fear that it could do harm to another patient, inmate or guard is described. The pocket safety saw may be used to quickly cut down a suicidal patient or detainee from a hanging suicide attempt. An exemplary pocket saw comprises a handle, a saw portion, saw support, and safety saw element. A safety saw element is a saw element that will not cut human skin when pressed and reciprocated against the skin. The safety saw element may be used to cut fibrous material such as rope, cord, fabric and the like. A pocket safety saw may have one or more frangible features that cause the safety saw element to fracture when removed from the saw support. A frangible feature may be a removed portion of a safety saw element.
US09427868B1
A robot having the motion style of a character defined by animation data obtained from an animation movie or computer animation data files. The robot is generated using a robot development method that obtains animation data for a character walking or performing other movements. The character may be humanoid, and the method includes developing a bipedal robot with a lower portion having a kinematic structure matching the kinematic structure of the lower portion of the animation character as defined in the animation data. A control program is generated for the robot such as by using trajectory optimization. The control program may include an open-loop walking trajectory that mimics the character's walking motion provided in the animation data. The open-loop walking trajectory may be generated by modifying the motion of the character from the animation data such that the Zero Moment Point (ZMP) stays in the contact convex hull.
US09427861B2
According to one aspect, there is provided a bit tool having a bit storage member for housing a plurality of bits. The member includes an exterior which is at least partially transparent. A light assembly extends around the bit storage member and selectively illuminates the bit storage member to reveal the bits. According to another aspect, the tool has a pushrod for operatively selecting bits and a locking assembly that may be actuated for selectively coupling the pushrod and a respective one of the bits together to operate the tool. According to a further aspect, there is provided a ratcheting handle assembly which includes at least one catch member operatively connected to and linearly moveable relative to an inner core. A selector member actuates respective ones of the catch members for selectively causing the handle assembly to ratchetly drive the inner core in forward and reverse positions.
US09427860B2
An electric oscillating tool which actuates a tool around a spindle is provided. The electric oscillating tool comprises a motor, the spindle which is driven by the motor, and a driving transmission member which transmits a rotational output of the motor to the spindle. The driving transmission member includes an eccentric moving member, a driven arm, a spindle connecting arm, and a pin which connects the driven arm and the spindle connecting arm in a relatively rotatable manner. The eccentric moving member comprises an eccentric shaft which moves eccentrically around a rotational shaft of the motor, a first bearing, and a second bearing.
US09427844B2
A centering machine for, in particular, optical lenses has two centering spindles. The rotationally drivable centering spindle shafts are axially aligned with respect to a centering axis and constructed at the ends for the mounting of clamping bells. A stroke device axially adjusts one centering spindle shaft relative to the other centering spindle shaft along the centering axis for alignment of the lens between the clamping bells. A clamping device applies to a centering spindle shaft a clamping force clamping the aligned lens. At least one processing unit is movable relative to the centering axis, with a tool for edge processing of the clamped lens. In order to enable an optimized bell clamping process, the stroke device and the clamping device and/or a rotary drive for the axially adjustable centering spindle shaft are arranged coaxially with respect to the centering axis.
US09427842B1
Systems and methods for correcting read/write overlay errors in the manufacture of magnetic transducers for storage drives are provided. One such system includes a twisting tool configured to receive and secure a row bar having an elongated rectangular block shape and including a plurality of magnetic transducers spaced apart along a length of the row bar, and where the twisting tool is configured to twist the row bar at a plurality of areas along the length of the row bar.
US09427841B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for simultaneously polishing both surfaces of an optical substrate. An upper platen and a lower platen, each covered with a polishing pad material and at least one carrier having an aperture for holding the optical substrate between the platens are provided. The location of the aperture of the carrier is set such that the center of the optical substrate is offset from the center of the carrier and at least a portion of the outer perimeter of the optical substrate extends outwardly beyond at least a portion of at least one of the outer perimeter and the inner perimeter of the platens. The platens are rotated with respect to the carrier, and the carrier is rotated with respect to the platens to polish the optical substrate. The location of the aperture of the carrier is adjustable.
US09427837B2
A boot band for fixing a boot that is mounted to a constant velocity universal joint is clamped. The boot band and the constant velocity universal joint are aligned in phase with each other in a circumferential direction. An axial position of a clamping portion is thereafter aligned with an axial position of the boot band. Then, the boot band is clamped by the clamping portion.
US09427835B2
A method of manufacturing a vane component of a gas turbine engine is described, and includes forming a core of the vane component using a rapid manufacturing process, and applying a coating of nanocrystalline metal onto the core, the nanocrystalline metal fully encapsulating the core and defining an outer structural surface of the vane component.
US09427832B2
A processing method for a bearing is capable of shortening a lead time without the need for carrying out super finishing (mirror grinding). A component of a bearing is finished while chucking the component by a chucking device. Hardened steel cutting and grinding are carried out while chucking the component without releasing the chucking by the chucking device.
US09427830B2
The present invention is a copper-based bonding wire for use in a semiconductor element. The bonding wire of the present invention can be manufactured with an inexpensive material cost, and has a superior PCT reliability in a high-humidity/temperature environment. Further, the bonding wire of the present invention exhibits: a favorable TCT reliability through a thermal cycle test; a favorable press-bonded ball shape; a favorable wedge bondability; a favorable loop formability, and so on. Specifically, the bonding wire of the present invention is a copper alloy bonding wire for semiconductor manufactured by drawing a copper alloy containing 0.13 to 1.15% by mass of Pd and a remainder comprised of copper and unavoidable impurities.
US09427824B2
A laser processing system includes a metal platform having a metal surface wherein at least a portion of the platform surface is substantially planar with a substantially smooth topography. A laser source is configured to generate a laser beam having a focal point that is directed toward a substantially planar portion of the platform surface. A motion mechanism is configured to move at least one of the metal platform and the focal point along at least one axis. A restraining mechanism restrains a film against the platform surface such that an adjoining surface of the restrained film remains in intimate contact with the surface. A controller is configured to operate the laser source, the motion mechanism or both to cut the restrained film in a predetermined pattern with a generated laser beam such that the cut does not extend through the adjoining surface of the restrained film.
US09427813B2
An apparatus for cutting a window covering comprises a saw for cutting the window blind. A clamp assembly moves the window covering relative to the saw. A controller moves the clamp assembly to automatically position an end of the window covering relative to the saw. The saw is moved into engagement with the window covering to cut the window covering. A dust collection system comprises a shroud substantially surrounds the bottom of the saw blade where the shroud is connected to a vortex dust collector.
US09427810B2
Disclosed therein is an adapter-exchangeable type tool holder, which includes an adapter having fastening holes formed therein and a spindle having blocks and bolts detachably mounted to the fastening holes, wherein the blocks are respectively rotatable on hinge pins joined to the spindle, so that the spindle can be easily joined to and separated from the adapter.
US09427809B2
A boring bar fastening device for a single or double blade is provided with a body, a first fastening device releasably mounted to the body, a first boring bar fastening member releasably mounted on the first fastening device, a first blade releasably mounted on the first boring bar fastening member, a second fastening device releasably mounted to the body, and a second blade releasably mounted on the second boring bar fastening member. Alternatively, both the second boring bar fastening member and the second blade are replaced by a balance weight. Two configurations are provided for selection depending on applications.
US09427807B2
A clamp for holding a cutting insert on a tool holder and having a coolant passage therethrough to receive a coolant from a coolant supply conduit external to the tool holder and into an inlet of the clamp, and to impinge a coolant stream emerging from an outlet of the coolant passage onto a cutting interface between the cutting insert and a work piece. The flow of coolant through the coolant passage extends the life of the cutting insert by reducing heat generation at the cutting interface between the cutting edge of the cutting insert and the work piece. The coolant passage can be formed using conventional drilling tools. The clamp enables the extension of the service life of a cutting insert and can be used with conventional tool holders.
US09427806B2
A metal matrix composite using as one of the components a precious metal is described. In one embodiment, the precious metal takes the form of gold and the metal matrix composite has a gold mass fraction in accordance with 18 k. The metal matrix composite can be formed by blending a precious metal (e.g., gold) powder and a ceramic powder, forming a mixture that is then compressed within a die having a near net shape of the metal matrix composite. The compressed mixture in the die is then heated to sinter the precious metal and ceramic powder. Other techniques for forming the precious metal matrix composite using HIP, and a diamond powder are also disclosed.
US09427805B2
A method to prepare a core-shell-shell FeCo/SiO2/MnBi nanoparticle wherein the morphology of the MnBi shell is formed by synthesis of the MnBi layer in an applied magnetic field is provided.
US09427803B2
Apparatus for gravity flow and feeding of alloy in a casting operation has a supply vessel for holding a supply of alloy, a furnace in which the vessel is contained and in which the vessel is heatable to maintain the supply of alloy at suitable casting temperature, and a die mounted laterally outwardly from the vessel in relation to the furnace. A conduit provides communication between the vessel and the die. The apparatus further includes means for reversibly tilting an assembly including the furnace, the vessel and the die about a substantially horizontal axis to enable or prevent the flow of the alloy from the vessel to a die cavity defined by the die.
US09427801B2
Disclosed is a cylinder liner having a high bonding strength to a cylinder block. Further disclosed is a method for producing the same. The cylinder liner uses a silicon-aluminum alloy as a material; a plurality of protrusions are formed on the external surface thereof; and the protrusions each contain a pillar section extending from the external surface, and a head section formed at the end of the pillar section.
US09427800B2
A device for measuring pressures in a mold cavity of a casting mold that can be filled with melt, particularly a vacuum die-casting mold, includes a pressure sensor, a measurement channel, and a ring-shaped gap that runs in the axial direction between an inner body and an outer body disposed axially in the inner body. The ring-shaped gap stands in connection with the mold cavity at its one end and in connection with one end of the measurement channel at its other end. The pressure sensor is disposed at the other end of the measurement channel.
US09427796B2
Disclosed is a continuous casting method in which a melt obtained by melting titanium or a titanium alloy is poured into a bottomless mold and is drawn downward while being solidified, wherein: the surface of the melt in the mold is heated by horizontally moving a plasma torch over the surface of the melt; thermocouples are provided at a plurality of locations along the circumferential direction of the mold; if the temperature of the mold measured by one of the thermocouples is lower than a target temperature, then the output of the plasma torch is increased when the plasma torch comes close to the location where that thermocouple is installed; and if said temperature is higher than the target temperature, then the output of the plasma torch is decreased when the plasma torch comes close to the location where that thermocouple is installed.
US09427786B2
A method for the removal of semi-volatile organic compounds in soils, sludges, groundwater, process water, and wastewater is presented. Oxidation and biological attenuation processes utilize peroxide, persulfates, percarbonates, and/or other oxidants with trivalent metals, such as ferric iron (Fe3+) or manganic ion (Mn3+) as activators. The resulting chemical oxidation process yields degradation compounds which facilitate further attenuation via biological processes.
US09427784B2
The invention relates to a device for draining and rinsing containers filled with fluid, comprising an accommodating unit for accommodating the container and comprising a removal unit, which has a removal line, a coupling connected to the removal line for connecting the a removal opening of the container, and a pumping apparatus by means of which the fluid in the container can be pumped out of the container, and comprising a rinsing unit, which has a rinsing pin, a rinsing line connected to the rinsing pin, and a control apparatus, wherein the rinsing pin can be moved by means of the control apparatus in such a way that the rinsing pin automatically pierces a wall of the container and rinses out the container after the container has been drained.
US09427781B2
A vibratory apparatus including a trough having one or more decks, with an inlet end and an outlet end, a first plurality of isolation springs disposed between the trough and ground, and a two-mass, sub-resonant frequency exciter supported on the trough. The trough and the exciter move 180-degrees out of phase with each other. The apparatus also includes a dynamic balancer including a plurality of isolation springs disposed between the exciter and ground.
US09427778B2
A method and kit for restoration of a plastic headlight surface including the steps of conditioning a headlight surface by wet sanding with 600 grit sandpaper effective to remove a laminate coating, wiping the headlight surface with a lint free towel, cleaning the headlight surface with an alcohol treated towel, coating the headlight surface with an ultra violet light curable restoration formulation comprising aliphatic urethane acrylate in the range of 25% to 60%, a photoinitiator in the range of 1% to 5%, N-butyl acetate in the range of 5% to 25%, Toluene in the range of 3% to 15%, a Methyl isobutyl ketone in the range of 3% to 15%, a light stabilizer in the range of 1% to 5%, and includes a flow agent; and exposing the coated headlight surface to an ultra-violet light for at least 10 minutes. In the preferred embodiment, the formulation includes a hydrocarbon propellant and is applied from a spray can.
US09427776B2
Methods for reducing wafer bow induced by an anti-reflective coating of a cap wafer are provided. The method may utilize a shadow mask having at least one opening therein that is positioned opposite recessed regions in a cap wafer. The method may further include depositing at least one layer of an anti-reflective coating material through the shadow mask onto a planar side of a cap wafer to provide a discontinuous coating on the planar side.
US09427774B1
Ultraviolet-C (UVC) photochemistry for customizing an appearance of a wood product is described. In an implementation, a calculated amount of UVC radiation at a wavelength between 100-290 nanometers, for example, is applied to wood to achieve a desired appearance. The customized wood is free of the volatile organic compounds (VOCs) of stains, varnishes, and paints. The amount of UVC radiation to apply can be based on the tannin content of the wood or on other wood parameters or added photoactive agents. Photochemical interaction between the UVC radiation and various wood extracts, metal ion solutions, acids, bases, and oxidizers is also used to modify the color or lightness of a wood product. An example system includes multiple stations for programmatically spraying a wood product with various processing solutions, drying the wood, and irradiating the wood at one or more stages of the process with UVC radiation to interact with both the processing solutions and the wood surface, at programmed time intervals.
US09427771B2
An orbiting scroll is fixed on a rotating table and rotated about a spiral center. A spray nozzle is positioned in the spiral center or at an outside end of the orbiting scroll and caused to discharge a coating toward a side face of a wrap portion. The spray nozzle is moved along a straight line in a radial direction while discharging the coating. When a spraying start position is set as the spiral center, a rotation angle speed of the orbiting scroll is gradually reduced in accordance with the movement of the spray nozzle. When the spraying start point is set as the outside end, the rotation angle speed of the orbiting scroll is gradually increased in accordance with the movement of the spray nozzle. As a result, the coating can be applied to the wrap portion side face evenly.
US09427766B2
An apparatus for melting and dispensing thermoplastic material is provided that includes an un-heated hopper having an inlet for receiving particles of a thermoplastic material and an outlet for discharging the particles and a heated manifold including at least one cavity formed therein and having an inlet and an outlet the inlet communicating with the outlet of the hopper for receipt of the particles from the hopper. The hopper is disposed external of the heated manifold. The heated manifold is effective for melting the particles into molten thermoplastic material therein. The apparatus further includes a pump having an inlet in fluid communication with the cavity. An outlet of the pump is in fluid communication with an inlet of a dispenser and an outlet of the dispenser is effective for dispensing the molten thermoplastic material therethrough.
US09427761B2
A nozzle cap-equipped discharge container (10) includes a container body (11) that is to contain content liquid, and a nozzle cap (12) that is mounted on a mouth neck section (11a) of the container body (11) and includes a discharge section (13) discharging the content liquid fed by the pressurization of the inside of the container body (11). The nozzle cap (12) includes a longitudinal discharge flow passage (16) that sends upward the content liquid fed from the container body (11), and a tip-side discharge flow passage (17) that allows the longitudinal discharge flow passage (16) and the discharge section (13) to communicate with each other. The nozzle cap (12) includes a body part (12a) and a lid part (12b), and the body part (12a) includes the longitudinal discharge flow passage (16) therein. The lid part (12b) forms the upper part (20a) of a region including a portion directly above the longitudinal discharge flow passage (16), and the tip-side discharge flow passage (17) includes a flow passage that is formed by the body part (12a) and the lid part (12b).
US09427750B2
A device for distributing a fluid in a controlled manner, in particular for distributing a gas loaded with particles, the device comprising a pipe (1) provided with at least one inlet orifice (2) and with a series of outlet orifices (3) spread along the pipe (1) and cut in a side wall of this pipe, wherein at least one section (4) of the side wall, located downstream of at least one outlet orifice and limited by a section (5) of the edge of the outlet orifice (3), has a concave shape such that this section (5) of the edge of such outlet orifice (3) is positioned inside the pipe so that, when the device is in service, the flow direction of a fluid exiting such outlet orifice (3) and travelling along such deformed concave wall section (4) of the edge of this outlet orifice (3) is controlled by the shape of such section (5) of the edge.
US09427748B2
A centrifuge may include a bowl operative to rotate with respect to a stationary portion. The centrifuge may include at least one vibration sensor operative to generate vibration data representative of vibrational movement of portions of the centrifuge. The processor may monitor the vibration data as the bowl is being filled with a fluid. The processor may cause a drive device to increase the rotational speed of the bowl responsive to determining from the vibration data that the bowl has becoming substantially filled with a fluid.
US09427747B2
A centrifugal separator comprises a frame, a spindle and centrifuge rotor on the spindle. The centrifuge rotor comprises a rotor casing, which forms an inner separation space, an inlet for supply of a fluid and an outlet for discharge of a separated component. An electrical drive motor having a stator and a rotor drives the spindle and the centrifuge rotor. The rotor of the drive motor is supported by a first bearing and second bearing. A coupling member connects the rotor of the drive motor and the spindle for transmitting a rotary movement. A third bearing supports the spindle so that it is radially elastic in relation to the frame for transmitting a first part of radial forces between the spindle and the frame. The coupling member comprises a lamella coupling or a universal coupling, and transmits a second part of the radial forces, which exists between the spindle and the frame, to the frame via the rotor of the drive motor and at least one of the first and the second bearing.
US09427745B2
A material processing apparatus comprising: a base; a first material processing unit, for example a crusher and; a feed conveyor. The feed conveyor and the second material processing unit are both movable with respect to the first material processing unit and with respect to each other so that material can be fed into the first material processing unit directly from the feed coneyor, or indirectly from the feed conveyor via the second material processing unit. The second material processing unit can be stored beneath the feed conveyor when not in use.
US09427734B2
The present invention is embodied in a method for precisely dispensing fluid, including treating an orifice of a fluid dispensing apparatus during a fabrication process by applying a low surface energy material layer onto the orifice, adjusting a thickness of the low surface energy material coating to a predetermined threshold and limiting backpressure of a low dead volume fluid delivery system coupled to the orifice to reduce interference or interruptions for precisely dispensing the fluid.
US09427732B2
Disclosed are washcoats, coated substrates formed from such washcoats, and catalytic converters for use in diesel applications, such as heavy duty diesel applications. Methods of preparing the coated substrates are also disclosed.
US09427721B2
A cool hydrogen-propelled cyclone quench box comprises: a mixing chamber (7) arranged at the center of a lower support plate (11); swirl tubes (6) arranged above the lower support plate (11) and outside the mixing chamber (7), the tubes being in tangential communication with the body of the mixing chamber (7) along a horizontal direction; a gas-liquid downcomer (5) perpendicularly arranged outside each swirl tube (6), the bottom portions of the downcomers and the outer walls of the swirl tubes (6) being in tangential communication along a perpendicular direction, and the top portions of the gas-liquid downcomers (5) being connected to fluid inlets (4) arranged on an upper support plate (3). The bottom end of a cool hydrogen branch pipe (8) is arranged outside each swirl tube (6), and is tangentially connected to the swirl tube (6) along a horizontal direction. By means of a flange (2) arranged on the upper support plate (3), the top ends of the cool hydrogen branch pipes (8) connect to a cool hydrogen pipe (1) arranged outside the upper support plate (3). Upper-level cyclone blades (12) are installed within the mixing chamber (7). The bottom ends of the blades (12) are perpendicularly arranged on the upper-level blade support plate (13). Lower-level cyclone blades (9) are installed at the mixing chamber (7) outlet; the bottom ends of the blades (9) are perpendicularly arranged on the lower-level blade support plate (10).
US09427712B2
A home use carbonation machine includes a pronged clamp to fit a non-upright bottle to a flexible seal, thereby facilitating a closed carbonation environment in the bottle and a normally open safety valve to vent the bottle when the carbonation machine is not actively carbonating. A home use carbonation machine includes a carbonation assembly to carbonate liquid with pressurized gas, a pronged clamp and a centering ring with centering ribs to guide a non-upright bottle into the pronged clamp during insertion and to constrict prongs of the clamp when a user moves the non-upright bottle towards an upright position for operation.
US09427708B2
A hollow fiber membrane module comprising a bundling tube including a body part and head parts placed at both terminals of the body part and O-rings with which the bundling tube is fitted into a housing being attached to outer circumferential surfaces of the head parts, wherein at least one of the head parts are divided into two in a place closer to a terminal of the bundling tube than places where the O-rings are attached while maintaining a cylindrical shape of the head part, and the divided parts have a slidable structure while maintaining a coupled condition therebetween that forms the cylindrical shape. The hollow fiber membrane module is capable of preventing damage effectively on a hollow fiber membrane or the bundling tube due to expansion or contraction of the hollow fiber membrane to be caused by change of an external environment such as temperature.
US09427705B1
The method of solvent recovery includes using a plurality of solvent recovery units to recover solvent from a dilute solution. The solvent recovery units can include a plurality of reverse osmosis or forward osmosis membrane systems arranged in series. For reverse osmosis, at least some of the concentrate in a last reverse osmosis unit of the series is recycled back to the permeate of that unit to provide a mixed permeate. The mixed permeate is then passed successively to the permeate side of each preceding reverse osmosis unit in the series. For forward osmosis, a draw solution is passed sequentially from the permeate side of each unit to the permeate side of the preceding unit. The draw solution may be prepared by concentrating part of the concentrate stream by evaporation and recycling it back as a draw solution.
US09427703B2
Provided are CO2 separation and recovery equipment that yields a higher CO2 recovery rate, and a coal gasification combined power plant including the CO2 separation and recovery equipment with high plant efficiency. The CO2 separation and recovery equipment, has a CO shift reactor in which a gas containing as its main components of CO and H2O is introduced and converted into CO2 and H2, and includes: an inlet valve that is provided on the inlet side of the CO shift reactor; an outlet valve that is provided on the outlet side of the CO shift reactor; a steam control valve for applying high-temperature steam to a foregoing part of the inlet valve; and a gas composition analyzer that senses a gas composition of a stream flowing into the CO shift reactor.
US09427700B2
The present invention relates to a multilayer module for hydrogen separation using a pressure-resistant chamber so that unit cells using a metal separation membrane through which only hydrogen selectively passes are stacked to improve separation efficiency, and a mixed gas is uniformly supplied into each of the unit cells. In the multilayer module, the unit cells are stacked on each other, and the mixed gas is supplied into the chamber. Also, mixed gas input ports are each disposed in the side surfaces of the unit cells to supply the mixed gas.
US09427693B1
A vapor emission control system for recovering hydrocarbon vapors displaced as vessels are loading consisting of two stages of carbon adsorption vapor recovery units. The first stage with two or more parallel carbon beds recovers the heavier C4-C6+ hydrocarbons on a first carbon bed which are then removed as a gas via vacuum and then converted into a liquid product via a vapor-to-liquid conversion unit. Lighter C2-C3 hydrocarbon vapor discharged from the first stage is recovered on two or more parallel carbon beds of the second stage. The vapor is then removed via vacuum as a concentrated gas for use as fuel or sent to a flare. The hydrocarbon lean first portion of the off-gas from each vacuum desorption is recycled to the other in-parallel carbon bed. The load and regeneration cycles alternate for the two carbon beds in each of the two stages based on an optimized time cycle.
US09427691B2
A microbial resistant air filter is disclosed. The microbial resistant air filter has air filter media having first and second antimicrobial agents. The first antimicrobial agent is diiodomethyl-p-tolyl sulfone and the second antimicrobial agent is a combination of zinc omadine and thiabendazole.
US09427679B2
Embodiments discussed herein relate to systems and methods for separating two or more phases of an emulsion or other mixture. The methods include providing the mixture with a net and unipolar charge (e.g., such that adjacent droplets therein acquire net and unipolar charges), thereby enhancing coalescence of like-phase droplets therein and producing, or enhancing the production of, two or more consolidated phases; and collecting the two or more consolidated phases.
US09427675B2
The present invention is related to a hexagonal block and its stand consistent of various three-dimensional blocks and each of the blocks including one to multiply hexagonal elements constituted by multiply layers of connection in horizontal and vertical directions. Thereby the same blocks can be stacked in either vertical direction in accordance with the corresponding stand with a recess or horizontal direction in accordance with a switched stand with a recess. The blocks are in hexagonal forms at a fixed quantity such that a stacking sequence is required to complete a three-dimensional assembly without vacancy. Therefore certain difficulty is included in order to achieve the training of logic thinking.
US09427663B2
Methods and apparatus for controlling movement of a digital object displayed on a screen provide a virtual dynamic direction control pad based on zone detection and touch stroke direction to control customized animated character motion. A player wishing to move the digital object can use a stylus or other touch to indicate a first point on the screen. When the player first touches the stylus to the screen, the system analyzes the touch and divides the screen into multiple zones around the first point indicated by the player. To move the object, the player moves the stylus to a second point on the screen. Movement of the stylus to a second point within one of these zones causes the digital object to perform a predetermined action. Each zone has a predetermined associated action. Direct control of character motion by the game player is enhanced.
US09427662B2
Systems and methods for providing hot spots for mobile video games on mobile communication devices that receive hot spot information for mobile video games that operate on the devices. The hot spots may be hidden aspects of the game and promotional in nature, allowing game companies to generate extra revenue through selling non-permanent advertisement space to third parties. The game may contain instructions that cause the mobile communication device to contact an interface and/or server to receive hot spot information. After the hot spot information is received by the mobile communication device, the content may be displayed in-game. In addition, the server may track what hot spot information has already been received by the mobile communication device.
US09427659B2
A system for use in playing a video game, the system acting to measure the movement, motion, acceleration, orientation, and/or position of transponders while being guided by interactive and sensory feedback. A bidirectional communication link to a processing system supporting the video game provides functional movement assessment.
US09427656B2
A realistic professional team sports board game, including an On-The-Roll mechanism where, once play begins, real time play continues, generally against a clock, opposing teams continue to roll dice continuing sub-play actions or elements, until a play is completed, as by a touchdown, tackle and a series of rules and charts, based on statistical compilation that maps various combinations of offensive and defensive strategies and dice rolls into realistic game situations and the progression among them. Both teams: secretly choose a strategy, generally by selecting a card placed face down; roll dice; reveal strategy choices by turning cards face up; determine a situation chart to consult, and further determine which result is selected from within the chart, based on some combination of which cards were played and the results of the dice rolls. A variety of play cards affect the overall game momentum of either team.
US09427649B2
A mobile device which simulates player motion, the device includes a ball drive, omni-directional members, at least one motor, a controller and pads. The ball drive provides rolling motion to the device. The omni-directional members are positioned proximate to and in engagement with the ball drive. The at least one motor is connected to the omni-directional members, the at least one motor providing the motive force to drive the omni-directional members and the ball drive. The controller controls the motor. The pads are positioned on the device. The device accurately mimics the unpredictable motion of a live player to provide a safe alternative to live play to increase player safety and decrease the incidence of injuries during practice sessions.
US09427647B2
A climbing hold assembly is able to greatly reduce the compressive forces experienced in securing a climbing hold to a panel or sheet of polycarbonate or thermoplastic material. A region of a load dissipation element formed in the underside of the load dissipation element is in communication with a region of the climbing hold formed in the underside of the climbing hold via the polycarbonate or thermoplastic material, the regions being of substantially the shape.
US09427645B1
A hockey field goal training apparatus for partially blocking the opening of a hockey field goal. The hockey field goal training apparatus including a frame and a frame cover, the frame includes a pair of spaced apart and vertically oriented lateral leg members, wherein each lateral leg member has a top end, a bottom end and a plurality of curves there between, a horizontally oriented top member connectable to the top ends of the pair of lateral leg members via a first set of couplings, wherein the top member has a pair of hockey field goal engaging hooks, and a horizontally oriented bottom member connectable to the bottom ends of the pair of lateral leg members via a second set of couplings, the frame includes a pocket in which the frame is assembled, the frame cover constructed of a material in which a conventional hockey puck cannot penetrate.
US09427639B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable media for changing and controlling settings for adjustable golf clubs are described. Such setting adjustment systems may alter one or more of: lie angle, loft angle, face angle, shaft stiffness, shaft kickpoint location, weighting, weight positioning, face flexibility, maximum face flex location, etc. These systems and methods may use various types of information to determine the appropriate settings, such as: ball launch monitor data, swing path data, weather input data, course condition input data for a location of play, course design input data for a location of play, daily course layout input data for a location and a time of play, golfer past performance data (e.g., recent past performance, past performances at the location of play, past performance during an ongoing round of golf (i.e., on earlier played holes), etc.), current adjustable club setting information, and information indicating specific holes to be played.
US09427637B2
A golf club head comprises a sole, a recessed sole port in the sole; and a rotatably adjustable sole piece adapted to be at least partially received within the sole port and comprising a central body having a plurality of contact surfaces adapted to contact the sole port and being offset from each other along a central axis extending through the central body of the sole piece. The sole piece can be positioned at least partially within the sole port at five or more rotational and axial positions with respect to the central axis, wherein at each rotational position, at least one of said contact surfaces of the central body contacts the sole port to set the axial position of the sole piece. The sole port and/or the sole piece can be generally pentagonal in shape.
US09427636B1
Methods of bifurcating the material properties of golf club heads, and wedges in particular, are disclosed herein. The methods of the present invention preserve the bendability and feel of certain parts of the club heads, such as hosel regions, while selectively hardening and increasing the durability of other features, such as scorelines and texturing on the face.
US09427624B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods estimate the distance between a player and a ball by transmitting a chirp (sweep signal) to a radio tag located on the ball. During the chirp, the frequency of the transmitted signal is changed in a predetermined fashion. The radio tag doubles the transmitted frequency and returns the processed signal to a transceiver typically located on the player. The currently transmitted frequency is then compared with the received frequency to obtain a difference frequency from which an apparatus may estimate the distance. The apparatus may simultaneously receive the processed signal from the radio tag while transmitting the sweep signal.
US09427616B2
The invention consists of a flexible hexagonal array composed of rigid plastic rings, sized and shaped for convenient gripping with the hands, and or pinning against floor or wall by other body parts (feet, knees, elbows, trunk, bead, etc.) each connected to 3 to 6 lengths of bungee, or equivalent elastic material, located at 60 degree intervals around the ring circumference. The array is sized for convenient use for exercise purposes, and is light enough to be readily portable, and, by virtue of its uniform stretch resistance properties, which vary with the number of strands being stretched, and the distance between gripping and/or pinning points, which controls the length of bungee being stretched, gives the opportunity of exercising all of the skeletal muscles, at a variety of resistance levels.
US09427615B2
A training system includes a panel upon which a plurality of anchors are disposed. The anchors are adapted to connect to the proximal end of a resistance line, the distal end of each resistance line is attached to a user training a specific movement. The system includes a computer in electronic communication with a printer. The computer receives dimensional information for a particular user and instructs a printer to print a sheet. The sheet is adapted to overlay and be held by the panel. The anchors are accessible through the sheet. The printing on the sheet contains indication for the user of groupings of anchors to which to attach resistance lines to train a particular sport-specific movement. In an alternate embodiment, the computer is in electronic communication with a projector. The computer receives dimensional information for a particular user and instructs the projector to project a display on the panel. The display contains indication for the user of groupings of anchors to which to attach resistance lines to train a particular sport-specific movement.
US09427606B2
A descent assist device for powered ascenders is discussed herein. In one embodiment, the descent assist device can include a base plate having a first guide surface, a capstan peg, a second guide surface, and a retention loop extending from the first guide surface to the second guide surface configured to retain a rope on the descent assist device. Where the angle of wrapping of the rope around the first guide surface and the capstan peg is constant during use and the angle of wrapping of the rope around the second guide surface is adjustable by the user of the device to increase or decrease the frictional drag of the rope.
US09427605B2
A cosmetic treatment device includes a nitric oxide (NO) eluting polymer, a carrier, and a proton donor enclosed in a container that keeps the proton donor separate from the nitric oxide eluting polymer until the device is used. When the container is opened, proton donor contacts the polymer, causing the elution of nitric oxide from the polymer.
US09427604B2
The invention relates to the use of a compound of formula (I), or salts thereof, as a preserving agent, in particular in a cosmetic, dermatological or pharmaceutical composition: in which R1 and R2 represent H, methyl, ethyl, phenyl or benzyl. The invention also relates to a method of preserving a cosmetic, dermatological or pharmaceutical composition, consisting in incorporating said compound of formula (I) therein; and also to the compositions thus obtained.
US09427601B2
Methods for treating skin and subcutaneous tissue with energy such as ultrasound energy are disclosed. In various embodiments, ultrasound energy is applied at a region of interest to affect tissue by cutting, ablating, micro-ablating, coagulating, or otherwise affecting the subcutaneous tissue to conduct numerous procedures that are traditionally done invasively in a non-invasive manner. Methods of lifting sagging tissue on a face and/or neck are described.
US09427590B2
An implantable electrostimulation assembly, including an electrostimulation device and an electrode lead that is connected to the electrostimulation device when in use, wherein the electrode lead has an optically readable electrode identification and a cable adapter is provided for the temporary insertion between the electrostimulation device and the electrode lead, the adapter comprising an optical pick up device for reading the electrode identification and an electrode identification transmission stage for transmitting the same to the electrostimulation device and/or to an assembly-external receiver.
US09427584B2
The present disclosure involves a method of generating different stimulation waveforms as a part of sacral nerve stimulation therapy. A first stimulation waveform having a first stimulation waveform characteristic is generated. The first stimulation waveform is delivered to a first body part of a patient at least in part via a first channel. A second stimulation waveform having a second stimulation waveform characteristic is generated. The second stimulation waveform characteristic is different from the first stimulation waveform characteristic. The second stimulation waveform is delivered to a second body part of the patient at least in part via a second channel that is separate and independent from the first channel. The first body part and second body part correspond to different organs or different types of nerves.
US09427574B2
Anchoring devices and methods for affixing an implanted lead of a neurostimulation system at a target location in a patient are provided herein. Such anchoring devices includes a helical body having a plurality of tines extending laterally outward from the lead when deployed that engage tissue to inhibit axial movement of the implanted lead. The plurality of tines are biased towards the laterally extended deployed configuration and fold inward towards the lead to a delivery configuration to facilitate delivery of the lead through a sheath. The tines may be angled in a proximal direction or in both proximal and distal directions and may include various features to assist in visualization and delivery of the lead. The anchor may be formed according to various methods, including laser cutting of a tubular section along with heat or reflow to set the material with the anchor in the deployed configuration and injection molding.
US09427571B2
An implantable biomedical conductor assembly is configured for at least partial insertion in a living body. The implantable conductor assembly includes an inner tubular structure and an outer tubular structure generally surrounding the inner tubular structures such that a gap of less than about 0.030 inches exists there between. A dynamic coil is located in the gap. The dynamic coil includes a plurality of insulated conductors that are coiled generally at or below a yield point. The insulated conductors are permitted to expand within the gap to engage an inner surface of the outer tubular structure in an expanded coiled configuration. At least one mechanical restraint at each of a distal end and a proximal end retains the dynamic coil in the tubular structures. Free ends of the insulated conductors extend beyond the proximal and distal ends to facilitate attachment to electrodes and connectors.
US09427570B2
Devices, systems and methods are provided for stimulating a target tissue, particularly a dorsal root ganglion. The devices and systems have one or more electrodes, wherein the electrodes are positionable in disperse locations within the specific target area. In some embodiments, the position of at least some of the electrodes is adjustable and optionally independently positionable. Some or all of the electrodes may be used to stimulate the desired tissue, such as to stimulate a specific portion of the target area. Or, the one or more electrodes that fall near the target tissue may be used to stimulate the tissue while the other electrodes are not used. When stimulating the dorsal root ganglion, sensory pain signals are blocked providing relief to the patient.
US09427567B2
A stimulation lead includes a lead body having a longitudinal length, a distal portion, and a proximal portion; terminals disposed along the proximal portion of the lead body; an electrode carrier coupled to, or disposed along, the distal portion of the lead body; segmented electrodes disposed along the electrode carrier; and conductors extending along the lead body and coupling the segmented electrodes to the terminals. The electrode carrier includes a lattice region defining segmented electrode receiving openings. Each of the segmented electrodes extends around no more than 75% of a circumference of the lead and is disposed in a different one of the segmented electrode receiving openings of the electrode carrier.
US09427563B2
In a blood-flow-path switching device and a blood-bag system, a tube-shaped body (68) includes a body tube (69) extending in an axial direction and a branching tube (71) extending in a direction branching from the axial direction, and a blocking part (74) is provided in a hollow section (69c) of the body tube (69). A communicating part (70) movable in the axial direction is provided in the hollow section (69c). By moving the communicating part (70) in a pushing direction and creating an opening by penetrating the blocking part (74), a communication of a first port (86) and a third port (90) is blocked, and at the same time, the first port (86) and a second port (88) are communicated with each other.
US09427561B2
A method for operating a system for repetitive local puncturing of skin is provided. The system having a handheld applicator device provided with a puncturing device configured to repetitively puncture skin and a control device connected to the handheld applicator device and configured to control operation of the applicator device. The method includes receiving a user selection for a body skin part to which repetitive local puncturing is to be applied in the control device, responsively providing a set of operation parameters in the control device, the set of operation parameters defining a mode of operation of the applicator device for repetitive local puncturing, and operating the applicator device according to the mode of operation defined by the set of operation parameters with the operating of the applicator device being controlled by the control device. Also, a system for repetitive local puncturing a skin is provided.
US09427556B2
Methods and apparatus for the treatment of a body cavity or lumen are described where a heated fluid and/or gas may be introduced through a catheter and into treatment area within the body contained between one or more inflatable/expandable members. The catheter may also have optional pressure sensing elements which may allow for control of the pressure within the treatment zone and also prevent the pressure from exceeding a pressure of the inflatable/expandable members to thereby contain the treatment area between these inflatable/expandable members. Optionally, a chilled or room temperature fluid such as water may then be used to rapidly terminate the treatment session.
US09427551B2
Catheters, sheaths, or other tubular devices are provided that include a proximal end, a distal end sized for introduction into a patient's body, and a steerable distal portion. The tubular device includes a primary lumen extending between the proximal and distal ends; an auxiliary lumen adjacent the primary lumen; and one or more reinforcement members including windings extending helically along at least the distal portion, at least some of the windings passing between the primary and steering element lumens and at least some of the windings surrounding both the primary and steering element lumens. In one embodiment, a steering element is slidably disposed within the auxiliary lumen. Apparatus and methods for making such tubular devices are also provided.
US09427540B2
Provided is a high frequency oscillating ventilator comprising a housing assembly, a linear actuator, a linear coil, a piston mounted on a pushrod, a diaphragm dividing a housing into a first and second side and having an opening formed on the second side that is fluidly connected to the patient's airway for delivering gas thereto. The linear actuator is fixedly mounted to the housing assembly and has a linear coil coaxially disposed therewithin. A pushrod supports the linear coil on the linear actuator to allow relative axially sliding therebetween. The piston is directly mounted to the diaphragm such that reciprocation thereof as effectuated by the linear coil cooperating with the linear actuator alternately produces positive and negative pressure waves in the gas in the patient's airway.
US09427537B2
A pneumatic single-lumen medical gas conserver combines the advantages of typical single-lumen and dual-lumen conservers. In particular, a pneumatic single-lumen conserver can provide a rapid response to patient inhalations without the need for a more expensive dual-lumen cannula hose. In addition, after delivering oxygen the conserver has a specific pneumatically-implemented delay period before being able to detect the next inhalation to inhibit “double pulse” deliveries. In addition to a conserving or pulse flow mode, the conserver can provide a user-selectable gas flow at a continuous or constant flow mode.
US09427535B2
The invention relates to a trigger mechanism for a drug delivery device comprising at least one energy storing element, an actuation element and a series of cascaded trigger elements. The trigger elements are pre-stressed with increasing pre-stressing and coupled to the at least one energy storing element such that the trigger elements, upon exerting a sufficient actuation force (Fa, U) on the actuation element, cause a cascaded release of increasing portions of energy stored in the at least one energy storing device. At least one of the trigger elements is equipped with a latch element directly coupling at least two trigger elements such that the latch element restrains at least one of these trigger elements to its pre-stressed state before exerting the actuation force (Fa, U).
US09427532B2
An agent injection device is provided that is capable of injecting an agent to a known predetermined tissue depth. An injection member has an elongate injection shaft with an outlet port configured to dispense an agent at a controllable time. A controllable driver is coupled to the elongate injection shaft and is configured to drive the injection member into target tissue. A velocity control system is in communication with the controllable driver and is configured to control the velocity of the elongate injection shaft.
US09427529B2
In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a method of preparing a compound device for use. The device may include a sealed component and an active outer surface. The outer surface may be protected by a surface cover. Preparing the device may include activating the active outer surface by removing the surface cover and exposing an internal portion of the sealed component to the exterior of the device by unsealing the sealed component and synchronizing the activating and said unsealing using a coupler attached to the surface cover and the sealed component.
US09427527B2
A medicament delivery device is presented having a housing, a safety sleeve movable between an extended position and a retracted position relative to the housing, a guide sleeve rotatably disposed in the housing, a plunger slidably disposed in the safety sleeve, and a button coupled to the housing. When the safety sleeve is in the retracted position, translation of the button relative to the housing causes the guide sleeve to rotate relative to the safety sleeve. Rotation of the guide sleeve relative to the safety sleeve allows the plunger to translate a predetermined axial distance relative to the safety sleeve.
US09427507B2
The intracardiac pumping device has a pump (11) connected at its distal end (13) to a canula (15). At the distal end, the canula (15) has a suction head (16) for drawing blood. The suction head is extended by a non-sucking projection (20). The projection stabilizes the position of the pumping device in the heart. It extends the canula (15) mechanically without degrading the hydraulic conditions. It also serves as a spacer to prevent the suction head (16) from adhering to a wall of the heart.
US09427506B2
A system and method for determining location of a fluid leak at a drape of a reduced pressure delivery system being used on a tissue site of a patient may include applying a reduced pressure to the tissue site of the patient. The drape may be imaged to generate image data, and a determination of a location of a fluid leak of the drape may be made from the image data. As a result of the determination of the location of the fluid leak, the drape may be corrected. The imaging may be made in a non-visible spectrum. The non-visible spectrum may be in an IR spectrum or UV spectrum. In one embodiment, a fluid, such as compressed air, may be applied to the dressing via the interface between the drape and tissue of the patient to improve imaging in the non-visible spectrum.
US09427501B2
Coatings with crystallized active agent(s) and related methods are disclosed. One method includes selecting a solvent and a polymer, selecting a concentration of an active agent of at least a certain amount of saturation, forming a coating composition having the selected concentration of the active agent, and applying the coating composition to the medical device. Also disclosed is an elution control coating which includes an active agent that is at least about 80% crystallized within one week of being disposed on a medical device. One method enhances the formation of active agent crystals within a coating layer by adjusting the concentration of the active agent in the coating solution to reach some percentage of the active agent saturation point. Another method includes increasing the rate of active agent nucleation within the coating.
US09427490B2
The present invention is directed to a method for manufacturing a cross-linked gelatin sponge having a surface by providing a cross-linked gelatin sponge, wetting the surface of the sponge by applying a sufficient amount of liquid comprising a protein or peptide active ingredient, wherein a sufficient amount of liquid is one that retains the flexibility of the sponge even after drying. The sponge is then dried the sponge to obtain a flexible, dry and ready to use cross linked gelatin sponge having a layer of protein or peptide active ingredient on the surface thereof.
US09427488B2
A disinfection system of a contact lens comprising immersing the contact lens in a disinfecting solution containing hydrogen peroxide in a concentration of 1 to 10% and neutralizing the hydrogen peroxide in the disinfecting solution through contact with a metal catalyst, where the disinfecting solution contains an organic carboxylic acid or a salt of the organic carboxylic acid, the organic carboxylic acid having a structure in which a hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group are bonded to one carbon atom; the disinfecting solution is adjusted to have a pH of 6 to 8; and the disinfecting solution after the neutralization is adjusted to have an osmotic pressure of 250 to 350 mOsm.
US09427484B1
A household sterilizer for disinfecting fabric material that has become soiled. The unit involves an upright tub containing an electric heating element at its base. A suspension bar extends generally across at least part of the tub interior, for hanging clothing to be treated. An electric cord for the heating element has a switch and timer module in series, to control current flow to the heating element. The arrangement is such that a wide variety of garments, including miscellaneous fabrics in general, can be readily steam cleaned with a minimum of water being required. The tub occupies a minimum of space, suitable for a conventional home or apartment.
US09427483B2
The present invention is directed to a series of stable radioisotope trithiol complexes that provide a simplified route for the direct complexation of radioisotopes present in low concentrations. In certain embodiments, the complex contains a linking domain configured to conjugate the radioisotope trithiol complex to a targeting vector. The invention is also directed to a novel method of linking the radioisotope to a trithiol compound to form the radioisotope trithiol complex. The inventive radioisotope trithiol complexes may be utilized for a variety of applications, including diagnostics and/or treatment in nuclear medicine.
US09427480B2
The present invention relates to duocarmycin-containing antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for use in the treatment of human solid tumors expressing HER2, wherein the human solid tumor expressing HER2 is endometrial cancer, in particular uterine serous carcinoma (USC). In particular, the present invention relates to duocarmycin-containing ADCs for use in the treatment of endometrial cancer, notably USC, with HER2 IHC 2− or 1+ and HER2 FISH negative tumor tissue status.
US09427472B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for the treatment of otic diseases or conditions with free-radical modulating agent compositions and formulations administered locally to an individual afflicted with an otic disease or condition, through direct application of these compositions and formulations onto or via perfusion into the targeted auris structure(s).
US09427471B2
Method and improved pharmaceutical composition for enhancing transdermal delivery of PDE-5 inhibitor
The present disclosure relates to the use of an agent that enhances transdermal delivery of a PDE-5 inhibitor. More particularly, the present disclosure provides improved method and composition that promotes transdermal delivery of a PDE-5 inhibitor for the treatment of the PDE-5 mediated conditions and/or diseases.
US09427463B2
The invention provides methods for treating a malignant neoplastic cell proliferative disorder or disease, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of an mTOR inhibitor and an effective amount of a CD4 lymphocyte depleting agent. Such methods find utility in the treatment of certain subsets of malignant neoplastic cell proliferative disorders or diseases, e.g. renal cell carcinoma and melanoma. The invention also provides for pharmaceutical compositions comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an mTOR inhibitor and an effective amount of a CD4 lymphocyte depleting agent in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US09427459B2
A synergistic pharmaceutical composition for the preparation of topical formulations for use in prophylaxis and treatment of wounds, burn wounds, skin grafts, pressure ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers and other skin diseases is provided. The composition may include one or more synergistically active ingredients and one or more inactive ingredients. The synergistically active ingredients may include Recombinant Human Epidermal Growth Factor (rh-EGF) (REGEN-D™ of Bharat Biotech International Limited) and/or Platelet Derived Growth Factor (rh-PDGF-BB), silver sulfadiazine (SSD) and chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG). One or more inactive ingredients may comprise carriers, preservatives, emulsifiers, skin emollients and soothers and one or more other constituents.
US09427453B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided for lowering C-reactive protein levels in a mammal. The method comprises administering a composition containing an effective amount of Irvingia gabonensis seed to a mammal to reduce C-reactive protein levels in the mammal. Other embodiments include, among other things, lowering leptin levels, increasing adiponectin levels, reducing body weight, decreasing LDL and total cholesterol levels, increasing fat loss, and reducing waist size in a mammal using administering a composition containing an effective amount of Irvingia gabonensis.
US09427446B2
The invention relates to a stable injectable aqueous solution containing diclofenac and thiocolchicoside, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and the use thereof in the treatment of painful and inflammatory rheumatic or traumatic conditions of the joints, muscles, tendons and ligaments.
US09427438B2
The present invention provides compositions for reducing amyloid plaque burden associated with Alzheimer's disease and methods of using the same.
US09427437B2
This invention provides compositions and methods of inhibiting, suppressing, or treating a tendinous or musculoskeletal soft tissue injury. The invention further provides a method of ameliorating symptoms associated with a tendinous or musculoskeletal soft tissue injury. Additionally, the invention provides methods for evaluating the risk of developing a tendinous or musculoskeletal soft tissue injury.
US09427436B1
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the treatment of the Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and related disorders.
US09427433B2
Methods and compositions for enhancing fertility and/or inhibiting pregnancy failure, restoring glucose tolerance and/or preventing glucose intolerance and/or maintaining glucose homeostasis and/or inducing or enhancing weight loss, treating dyslipidemia, treating hypertestosteronism or hyperandrogenism, and/or treating type 2 diabetes in an individual in need thereof are provided. These involve compositions that inhibit expression of interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) or a downstream IFN-γ-stimulated gene, which is preferably a macrolide immunosuppressant compound.
US09427430B2
A compression therapy apparatus and a method for manufacturing and applying compression with the same may include a bandage and a tension indicator coupled to the bandage. A tension indicator may include a film having layers of liquid crystal droplets deposited on a polymer matrix. The tension indicator can be adapted to color shift under tension between the first end and the second end of the bandage.
US09427420B2
Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to acamprosate formulations, methods of use of the formulations, to methods of using the formulations in combination with at least one other medication, and to combination products and compositions comprising the formulations and at least one other medication, such as neuroleptic (antipsychotic) and/or antidepressant drugs.
US09427419B2
The invention relates generally to compositions comprising dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) and associated compounds in combination with one or more of the following: fructose 1,6-diphosphate, L-arginine, L-lysine, L-aspartate, and urea. Methods for treating traumatic brain injury, ischemic stroke, atherosclerosis, spinal cord trauma, and neurodegenerative illnesses are also provided.
US09427417B2
A process for reducing bacterial colonization in or around the area of a wound includes applying to the area a gel that includes at least one PEG and an aqueous composition which has a pH of from 2 to 4, a total solute concentration of from 1.8 to 4.0 Osm/L, and from 0.9 to 1.7 g/L of at least one cationic surfactant. The aqueous composition can include a buffer system that includes an organic acid and a salt of an organic acid. The gel is effective even when free of materials having antimicrobial properties other than those provided by the aqueous composition, such as sporicides, antifungals and antibiotics.
US09427414B2
The present invention concerns a method of enhancing milk production by a ruminant that includes providing a feed that contains sorbitol and at least one additional feed component, and orally feeding the feed to the ruminant, the ruminant ingesting about 100 grams, or less, of sorbitol per day.
US09427413B2
The present invention relates to treating a hematologic cancer using a Hypoxia-Inducible Factor (HIF inhibitor). The invention also relates to inducing acute myeloid leukemia remission using the HIF inhibitor. The invention further relates to inhibiting a maintenance or survival function of a cancer stem cell (CSC) using the HIF inhibitor.
US09427412B2
The invention features sublingual film formulations of dopamine agonists and methods of treating Parkinson's disease, tremors, restless leg syndrome, sexual dysfunction, and depressive disorders therewith.
US09427406B2
A substantially monodisperse assemblage of particles 10 having interconnected pores 20 and a core 30 with at least one shell 40, 60 disposed about the core 30 as well as a method for their synthesis is disclosed.
US09427405B2
Novel liposomes are described which are capable of effectively binding beta amyloid peptide and are useful for the treatment, prevention and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Binding ability is provided by the presence in the formulation of particular natural lipids identified by the Applicant. These comprise a constant component, made up of cholesterol and sphingomyelin, and an additional variable component, made up of selected lipids.
US09427400B2
The present invention provides improved intravaginal drug delivery devices, i.e., intravaginal rings, useful for the prophylactic administration of an antimicrobial compound, e.g., Dapivirine, to a human. The intravaginal rings of the invention address previous stability issues by utilizing a platinum catalyst (e.g., in the form of a platinum-siloxane complex) for the cross-linking reaction. The vaginal rings surprisingly achieve relatively high and steady release rates in vivo with a matrix ring containing a relatively small loading dose. While the matrix rings of the present invention have in vivo the steady release rates associated with reservoir rings, they are easier and less expensive to manufacture. The present invention also provides methods of blocking DNA polymerization by an HIV reverse transcriptase enzyme, methods of preventing HIV infection in a female human, methods of treating HIV infection in a female human, and methods of preparing platinum-catalyzed intravaginal rings.
US09427396B2
The invention provides a method of preparing a suspension of microbubbles for use in a carrier liquid, wherein the microbubbles have a gas core and a liquid shell, said liquid shell comprising magnetic nanoparticles, and wherein the microbubbles satisfy the following conditions: (i) the force due to buoyancy (FBW) of the microbubble in the carrier liquid is greater than the weight (W) of the microbubble; (ii) the magnetic force (FM) on the microbubble due to a magnetic field applied to the carrier liquid is greater than the combined weight (W) and force due to buoyancy (FBW) of the microbubble; (iii) said magnetic force (FM) on the microbubble is greater than the force due to viscous drag (FD) on the microbubble due to flow of the carrier liquid; and (iv) the scattering cross section (σscat) of the microbubble to ultrasound allows the microbubble to be detectable and rupturable on exposure to ultrasound.
US09427386B2
An aluminum salt composition comprising (a) an aluminum salt having an aluminum to chloride molar ratio of about 0.3:1 to about 3:1, an OH:Al molar ratio of about 2:1 to about 2.6:1, exhibiting a Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC) chromatogram having a SEC Peak 4 to Peak 3 intensity ratio of at least 7, and a Peak 4 intensity greater than a Peak 5 intensity in aqueous solution, and (b) at least one buffer chosen from an amino acid, glycine, and betaine, wherein a molar ratio of buffer to aluminum is about 0.1:1 to about 3:1.
US09427384B2
The invention provides the tools needed for a dental patient's caries risk assessment. Included is a complete turnkey system for caries risk assessment and treatment, including an ATP test and a plurality of rinses and educational and diagnostic materials. The system for the detection and treatment of the bacterial infection that causes dental caries in a patient comprises a disposable ATP Bioluminescence sampler to swab areas of the patient's mouth, a bioluminescent light meter which measures the amount of ATP present in the patient's mouth, a rapid culture test for the detection of Mutans streptococci and lactobacilli, a diagnostic testing component that includes a caries risk assessment questionnaire, a treatment component that includes a short term therapeutic oral rinse of at least two components, and a long term maintenance rinse.
US09427382B2
A dental adhesive composition has an adhesive component and an activator component. The adhesive composition has a volatile organic solvent component, one or more polymerizable (meth)acrylate compounds optionally containing fillers, and a polymerization photoinitiator. The adhesive component may also be a substantially homogeneous mixture of one or more polymerizable (meth)acrylate compounds and an effective amount of a photoinitiator, without a solvent. The activator component includes an aromatic sulfinate salt and an activator component solvent. A method for adhering a restorative to a dental surface includes preparing the surface for restoration; applying a mixture of an adhesive component and an activator component to the prepared cavity, thereby forming a coated cavity surface; and, applying a direct or indirect dental restorative to the coated cavity surface.
US09427373B2
A wearable action-assist device includes a biosignal detection unit detecting a biosignal from a wearer, an action-assist wearing tool having a drive source supplying a torque acting on the wearer around each joint of the wearer as an axis of rotation, a control unit controlling the drive source to generate the torque according to the detected biosignal, a drive torque estimation unit estimating a drive torque generated by the drive source, a joint-angle detecting unit detecting an angular displacement of the joint, and a parameter identification unit identifying kinetics parameters concerned by substituting the estimated drive torque and the detected angular displacement into an equation of motion of an entire system including kinetics parameters intrinsic to the wearer. The control unit is configured to control the drive source according to a predetermined control method based on the equation of motion into which the identified parameters are substituted.
US09427370B2
A kit for assisting a disabled person in rehabilitation is disclosed herein. The kit includes a frame. The kit also includes at least one loop mounted on the frame. The loop defines a first opening. The kit also includes a flexible elongate member extending between first and second opposite ends. The flexible elongate member is selectively receivable in the at least one loop. The kit also includes first and second attachment members. The first and second attachment members can be connected at one of the first and second opposite ends of the flexible elongate member or at some point between the first and second opposite ends. Each of the first and second attachment members is operable to form an opening of variable size to receive and releasably tighten around a limb of the disabled person.
US09427365B2
A patient support apparatus includes a patient support structure, such as a bed frame or mattress or both, that is configured to support a patient in a recumbent position. The patient support structure is configured to provide at least one therapy to a patient. A therapy enabler token is coupleable to the patient support structure. The at least one therapy is disabled when the therapy enabler token is decoupled from the patient support structure and the at least one therapy is enabled in response to the therapy enabler token being coupled to the patient support structure.
US09427358B2
Treatments to improve ocular conditions such as presbyopia are provided. Structural (mechanical) weakening of the sclera is accomplished through the formation of a 3-D pattern of laser foci in the sclera resulting in an increase in the range of ocular accommodation.
US09427357B2
Embodiments of the present invention encompass the manufacture of pre-cut lenses and the use of such lenses in combination with laser surgical techniques, including femtosecond laser photodisruption or photoalteration treatments. These techniques further expand the capabilities of lasers, and allow their use for both incising and refractively altering the eye. In many instances, embodiments disclosed herein are suitable for the treatment or correction of regular refractive errors and an irregular refractive alterations (such as correcting an irregular refractive error of the eye), without having to resort to two separate laser systems.
US09427355B1
A method of corneal transplantation with a cross-linked cornea is disclosed herein. In one or more embodiments, the method includes the steps of: (i) cross-linking a portion of a donor cornea so as to kill donor keratocytes in the donor cornea and make the cross-linked donor cornea less antigenic to an eye of a recipient patient; (ii) removing a scarred and/or diseased cornea or corneal portion from the eye of the recipient patient; and (iii) implanting the cross-linked donor cornea into the eye of the recipient patient in a location previously occupied by the scarred and/or diseased cornea or corneal portion, wherein the cross-linking of the donor cornea eliminates an immune response of the recipient patient to the transplanted donor cornea. Both penetrating keratoplasty transplant procedures and lamellar keratoplasty transplant procedures using a cross-linked donor cornea are disclosed herein.
US09427352B2
Occlusion devices and delivery systems are described in which a polymerizing oil is used to protect a hydrogel from premature swelling. In an embodiment, a delivery system includes an occlusion device releasably coupled within a catheter sheath. The occlusion device includes an expandable implant and a hydrogel. An at least partially oxidized polymerizing oil is inside a lumen of the catheter sheath between the distal end of the catheter sheath and the hydrogel.
US09427351B2
A method for promoting contraception by placing a contraceptive device within a uterus without blocking fallopian tubes may involve advancing a distal end of a delivery device through a cervix, advancing the contraceptive device comprising an elongate shape memory member out of the distal end of the delivery device and into the uterus, and limiting inferior migration of the contraceptive device within the uterus. Inferior migration may be limited by allowing the contraceptive device to assume a shape, when subjected to pressure that tends to cause a downward migration of the device within the uterus, in which an expandable middle portion of the device is expanded to contact the inner wall of the uterus and thus limit the downward migration of the device.
US09427348B2
An orthotic system and method for a knee ankle foot orthosis (KAFO) or ankle foot orthosis (AFO) capable of removing up to 100% of the weight-bearing forces at the knee and tibia and/or ankle and heel. The KAFO and AFO of the present invention utilize a fully adjustable compound closure system and compression liner to circumferentially compress the soft tissue of the thigh or calf to reduce loading forces on the leg at all points distal to the distal border of the compression liner. The degree of reduction in weight-bearing is adjusted by applying the orthosis with the heel of the individual raised above the foot platform, tightening the compound closure system, allowing the tissue to drop down within the compression liner, assessing the position of the heel above the foot platform, and adjusting the compound closure system to maintain the desired degree of elevation of the heel above the foot platform.
US09427346B2
Methods and devices for redirecting at least a portion of a fluid from the mesenteric lymphatic system for elimination from the body are disclosed. The fluid may be redirected for elimination through the urinary system or redirected outside the body. The methods and devices disclosed may prevent a portion of a patient's dietary lipids, including cholesterol, from being absorbed, thereby reducing the total caloric load to assist in weight management.
US09427344B2
In embodiments there is described a cardiovascular tube-shaped lockable and expandable bioabsorbable scaffold having a low immunogenicity manufactured from a crystallizable bioabsorbable polymer composition or blend.
US09427342B2
The disclosure relates to a woven fabric for use in an implantable medical device. The woven fabric comprises shape memory element strands woven with textile strands. At least one of the shape memory element strands has at least one float of at least five textile strands between binding points.
US09427341B2
A stent and method of exhibiting radiopaque properties in a stent are disclosed, which includes a stent main body that is made of a metal, and a radiopaque marker that is made of a complete solid solution alloy having a corrosion potential of ±200 mV of a corrosion potential of the metal of the stent main body.
US09427340B2
In at least one embodiment, a stent comprises a plurality of interconnected framework members defining a plurality of cells. A side branch structure comprises a first serpentine ring extending around an inner side branch cell, a second serpentine ring extending around the first serpentine ring and a plurality of side branch connectors. The first serpentine ring comprises a plurality of curved portions including convex curved portions and concave curved portions. The convex curved portions include first convex curved portions and second convex curved portions, wherein the second convex curved portions are located farther away from a side branch center point than the first convex curved portions. Each side branch connector extends between a concave curved portion of the first serpentine ring and a portion of the second serpentine ring.
US09427327B2
Methods and devices are provided for improving the stability, flexibility, and/or proper anatomical motion of a spinal column and more particularly, spinal implant devices are provided for use between adjacent vertebral bones. Intervertebral disc spacer devices may comprise two joined surfaces formed of compressible materials. The surfaces may be convex or any variety of shapes. Certain embodiments of intervertebral disc spacer devices include apertures through which nutrients may pass. Additionally, certain embodiments include a partial enclosure or open region between the two surfaces so as to provide an environment conducive to regrowth or stimulation of natural intervertebral disc material. In certain embodiments, the two surfaces may be attached by one or more springs. Alternatively, intervertebral disc spacer embodiments may be comprised of a coiled wire. Methods of introducing intervertebral disc spacer devices into patients are also provided.
US09427323B2
A knee prosthesis comprises a femoral component for securement to a femur, the femoral component defining medial and lateral condyles and an intercondylar groove; and a tibial component for securement to a tibia, the tibial component having respective bearing surfaces shaped to engage with said condyles both when the knee, in use, is extended and also over a range of flexion. At least one of the condyles is part-helical in shape and the respective bearing surface of the tibial component is correspondingly part-helical in at least a medio-lateral direction. In addition, the other bearing surface is incongruent with the other condyle in at least the antero-posterior direction so as to allow for antero-posterior movement of the femoral component relative to the bearing surfaces of the tibial component.
US09427316B2
Systems and methods for medical interventional procedures, including approaches to valve implant. In one aspect, the methods and systems involve a modular approach to treatment.
US09427312B2
An implantable intraocular lens and methods of manufacturing them provide a target degree of optical accommodation. In various embodiments, the lens includes at least one internal optic, an outer shell for enclosing at least a portion of the internal optic, and a fluid at least partially filling the outer shell.
US09427306B2
A stent assembly includes support rings each having interconnected circumferentially alternating inner prongs and outer prongs. The inner prongs define an inner diameter around a longitudinal axis. The outer prongs define an outer diameter greater than the inner diameter. A graft engages the support rings and follows a waving peripheral path. The graft may be a billowing graft. A second graft may surround the first graft such that tunnels are defined between the first graft and second graft. A method of making a stent assembly includes diametrically expanding the support rings onto a mandrel, engaging a graft with the support rings, and removing the support rings and graft from the mandrel permitting the stent assembly to contract to a neutral state.
US09427294B2
An electrical appliance with a resonant motor for driving a vibratory component is provided that has a control unit for driving the resonant motor with a predetermined driving frequency and for measuring the motion-induced voltage of the resonant motor and for determining whether the measured voltage value coincides with a predetermined target voltage value or whether the measured voltage value has crossed over the predetermined target value. The control unit measures the motion-induced voltage at a predetermined time of measurement (tm) within a driving cycle.
US09427286B2
A method, an imaging apparatus and a computer readable medium are enabled for automatically registering medical images. The imaging apparatus may be an amended C-arm. The image acquisition apparatus has a primary x-ray source and at least one auxiliary x-ray source, a detector for receiving radiation of the primary and auxiliary x-ray source, and an interface to a registration unit. The registration unit computes a 3D/2D registration of a provided 3D image and at least two acquired 2D images. An output interface is configured to provide an output and to display the registered images on a monitor.
US09427285B2
Systems, methods and devices for creating an effect using microwave energy to specified tissue are disclosed. A system for the application of microwave energy to a tissue includes a signal generator adapted to generate a microwave signal having predetermined characteristics, an applicator connected to the generator and adapted to apply microwave energy to tissue. The applicator includes one or more microwave antennas and a tissue interface, a vacuum source connected to the tissue interface, a cooling source connected to the tissue interface, and a controller adapted to control the signal generator, the vacuum source, and the coolant source. The tissue includes a first layer and a second layer, the second layer below the first layer. The controller is configured so that the system delivers energy such that a peak power loss density profile is created in the second layer.
US09427279B2
A surgical tool arrangement a handpiece which is capable of accepting and operating a number of different surgical tools or instruments adapted for use with the handpiece, each having one or multiple functions. The handpiece incorporates a coupling arrangement located at a distal end thereof which serves to attach the desired surgical instrument to the hand-piece via a locking mechanism, and also provides an electrical contact arrangement to support the functioning of an electrosurgical probe as well as a combined mechanical cutting and electrosurgical tool. Additionally, the handpiece accepts a conventional cutter which only requires power for driving a movable cutting element.
US09427278B2
An electrophysiology electrode having multiple power connections and electrophysiology devices including the same.
US09427274B1
A surgical cutting system has a rod cutting tool and a guide device. The rod cutting tool includes a housing containing a drive motor and a cutting element mounted on the housing connected with the drive motor. The guide device includes a guide body, an attachment mechanism for attaching the rod cutting tool to the guide body, an elongate body movably mounted on the guide body, a rod-clamping element operably mounted on the elongate body, to lockingly engage the rod during the spinal fusion surgery and position the cutting element adjacent the rod. The cutting system also includes an adjustment mechanism for moving the elongate body relative to the guide body thereby moving the cutting element to cut the rod.
US09427268B2
A porous tantalum rod is provided, which is a medical implantation used for treating collapsed articular surface of the femoral head or necrosis of the femoral head in phase I or phase II. The implantation includes a fastening structure formed on one end of the porous tantalum rod used for connecting with the osseous tissues and a through hole formed on the center of the porous tantalum rod. The porous tantalum rod is made of the porous tantalum material, which is produced by foam impregnation and had a foam structure with three-dimensional interconnecting pores, wherein the foam structure has a foam skeleton, tantalum particles located on the foam skeleton, and multiple sintering neck structures formed between the tantalum particles.
US09427264B2
An apparatus and method of performing a minimally invasive posterior spine fusion. More specifically an apparatus with a handle and a forked head on the distal end of the handle is used to grasp implant material and introduce the material to an implant site. The shaft of the apparatus is shaped so as to allow the affixation of a drill guide and drill while simultaneously holding the implant material in the implant site. After removal of the boring tools and assembly of the fusing element, the apparatus can be selectively removed from the implant site. A method of achieving facet joint fusion with near simultaneous fixation is also disclosed.
US09427262B2
Spine stabilization systems and integrated rods are disclosed. One spine stabilization system disclosed has at least four bone anchors and a stabilization member attached to the bone anchors. The stabilization member has first and second elongate portions interconnected by a connector portion. The first and second elongate members extend longitudinally and generally parallel to a central longitudinal axis and connector portion extends transverse to the central longitudinal axis from a first lateral end to a second lateral end. The connector portion is integrally connected to the first and second elongate portions such that there is no relative movement between the lateral ends and the respective elongate portion to which each end is attached.
US09427258B2
A total hip femoral prosthesis provides a shortened neck and more proximal coating level. Additionally, a means for strengthening the neck may be incorporated to increase stress transfer to the native bone. A method for reducing potential impingement that results from a high neck resection level includes instrumentation for cutting chamfered surfaces into the bone surrounding the proximal end of the implant. Instrumentation and methods of creating chamfered cuts are disclosed.
US09427255B2
A cannula assembly including a seal for an endoscopic internal magnetic camera tether. The seal may include stacked compliant membranes with an aperture in each membrane through which a camera tether may pass. The apertures may overlap. The at least one aperture may be arranged as a slit. Each of the apertures may comprise a wedge-shaped gap. The membranes may include engagement members that couple to engagement members on the cannula assembly. The cannula assembly may provide separate ports for the camera tethers and for a trocar or other endoscopic instrument passing through the cannula assembly. The cannula assembly also may include a rotating housing with two openings and a seal arranged in each opening. The cannula assembly may include a sleeve that encases a cannula tube. The sleeve may include a seal on its end and a channel on its periphery through which a camera tether may pass.
US09427253B2
A device for applying medical fluid to an area and for cutting within the area is provided. The device includes an inlet port, a fluid flow channel, an outlet and a blade. The inlet port is configured for receiving the medical fluid into the device. The fluid flow channel is configured for the fluid to flow through the device. A first end of the fluid flow channel is connected to the inlet port. An outlet is configured for the fluid to come out of the device. The outlet is positioned at a second end of the fluid flow channel. The blade is configured for cutting within the area.
US09427249B2
An ultrasonic surgical instrument includes a housing, an ultrasonic transducer assembly rotatably supported within said housing and communicating with a source of ultrasonic electrical signals, a motor within said housing and communicating with a source of motor drive signals, said motor coupled to said ultrasonic transducer assembly for applying rotational motion thereto, a horn coupled to said ultrasonic transducer assembly, an outer sheath coupled to said housing, said outer sheath including a distal portion, and a blade operably coupled to said horn, said blade rotatably supported relative to said outer sheath, wherein said blade includes an outer sheath contacting surface, wherein said distal portion of said outer sheath includes a blade contacting surface, and wherein at least one of said outer sheath contacting surface and said blade contacting surface includes a friction reducing material.
US09427248B2
An ultrasonic probe includes a probe body which includes an outer peripheral portion provided along a longitudinal axis, and a void defining surface defining a void, which is open to an outside along the longitudinal axis in at least one part of the outer peripheral portion, along the longitudinal axis. The void defining surface defines the void in the probe body from a first anti-node position of the ultrasonic vibrations to a second anti-node position of the ultrasonic vibrations different from the first anti-node position.
US09427245B1
An ambidextrous locking clamp system for providing a user the ability to use the right or left hand to engage and disengage a ratcheting means on the clamp. The locking clamp has hingedly connected first and second elongated members each with a finger engaging member, a working head, and a latching member featuring a flexible arm and ratcheting teeth. One of the latching members has its ratcheting teeth facing toward the working heads, and the other latching member has its ratcheting teeth facing away from the working heads. The ratcheting teeth are engaged by moving the finger engaging members toward each other thereby flexing the flexible arms. The ratcheting teeth are disengaged by sliding them in a motion perpendicular to a ratcheting teeth engaging motion thereby flexing of the first and second members away from each other with an opposing force applied to the finger engaging members.
US09427243B2
In one embodiment of the present invention there is provided a method of providing protection during a procedure performed in the vasculature using an open loop filter device comprising two elongate support members positioned to form at least one crossover location between adjacent open loops of the device. The method may also include placing the open loop device down stream of a location in the vasculature performing a procedure to treat the vasculature in proximity to the location; and capturing debris released during the procedure in a material capture structure suspended between the elongate support members and across the vessel. Additionally, there can be a step of maintaining the open loop filter device downstream of the location along the wall of the vasculature while permitting movement along the wall of the vasculature of the two elongate support members adjacent the material capture structure.
US09427239B2
An adjustable radial and ulnar vascular compression wristband assists in achieving partial or full occlusion of a blood vessel when applied to a patient's wrist during or following a medical procedure. At least two adjustably inflatable non-adjacent balloons on the wristband apply preferential compression to portions of the circumference of the wrist, including in particular those portions overlying the ulnar and radial arteries.
US09427238B2
A junctional and truncal tourniquet and hip-girdling pelvic sling device for maintaining a desired amount of tension surrounding a person's hips and pelvis to securely support and stabilize a pelvis that has been fractured and to secure a pressure applying device with a preferred amount of tension so that blood vessel-occluding pressure can be applied to stem hemorrhaging. The device may be wrapped around a patient's torso and may include inflatable pressure application bladders useful to occlude blood vessels proximal to an injury on a limb. A stabilizing support device may carry an inflatable pressure application bladder and a separate and removable pressure-concentrating member. An auxiliary strap may be connected to the stabilizing support device and used to keep the junctional and truncal tourniquet and the inflatable pressure application bladder in place on a patient's torso.
US09427235B2
Bleeding arising from the left atrial appendage (LAA) can have fatal consequences because it can result in cardiac tamponade. The present invention provides apparatuses and methods for treating and preventing bleeding arising from the LAA, at the pre-hemorrhage and post-hemorrhage stages. In particular, catheters having inflatable catheter balloons are advanced into the LAA and the inflatable catheter balloons are inflated in and around the LAA in a manner that occludes the LAA ostium and the LAA cavity. Additionally, electromagnetic coils are present within the inflatable catheter balloons to create electromagnetic forces that help to further occlude the LAA ostium firmly. When the catheter balloons are inflated, these electromagnetic coils also expand. Alternatively, the LAA ostium can be occluded using electromagnetic coils present in an inflated endocardial catheter balloon and electromagnetic coils present in an inflated epicardial catheter balloon deployed around the circumference of the LAA ostium epicardially.
US09427222B2
A die-cuttable retractor/stabilizer comprising a top layer having an adhesive applied one side thereof and a backing layer which covers the adhesive and which is removable from the top. The retractor/stabilizer includes a dividing cut in the backing layer which extends the width of the backing layer to separate the backing layer into an upper panel and a lower panel. A first lower panel back cut in the backing layer lower panel extends from the bottom edge of the backing layer to a point proximate the dividing cut to divide the lower panel in to at least a lower panel positioning portion and a lower panel second portion.
US09427220B2
A device for the repair of tissue and methods of use and manufacturing thereof are described herein. Applications for the use of the device include, e.g., repair of atrial septal defects (ASD), patent foramen ovale (PFO), left atrial appendage closure and stent graft fixation among other applications throughout the anatomy. The implant portion of the device is available in a variety of sizes and configurations to accommodate the vast complexity of the target anatomy.
US09427216B2
Vessel wound closure systems and method for sealing a puncture wound in a target vessel, such as those puncture wounds that occur from interventional procedures. The vessel wound closure system comprises at least a biocompatible, viscoelastic, self-sealing septum material injected onto the adventitia of the target vessel prior to performance of an interventional procedure. The prior injected septum material remains and seals the puncture wound of the target vessel even after various components associated with accessing the target vessel and the performance of the interventional procedure are removed from the target vessel and the puncture wound.
US09427215B2
A delivery device for an annular implant is provided, comprising an annular implant having an adjustable dimension; a plurality of movable elongated deployment members, each having a proximal end and a distal end and an annular implant deployment region therebetween; and a distal joining member for joining the distal ends of the deployment members, wherein the deployment members are expandable by an expansion means to a deployment configuration, and the implant deployment regions of the deployment members are substantially parallel in an expanded configuration. The annular implant can comprise an adjustment mechanism in communication with a releasably attached elongated adjustment tool, whereby the size or shape of the annular implant can be incrementally adjusted.
US09427213B2
A breast measurement apparatus comprises a receptacle for surrounding a breast; a plurality of optical fibers for irradiating the breast with examination light and detecting transmitted scattered light from the breast; an inner image generation unit for generating an optical CT image concerning the breast according to a detection signal of the transmitted scattered light; an ultrasonic probe, arranged so as to face the inside of the receptacle, for scanning the breast with an ultrasonic wave and receiving a reflected wave from the breast; an image generation unit for generating an ultrasonic image concerning the breast according to the reflected wave; and a mechanism for injecting and discharging a liquid interface agent into and from the inside of the receptacle.
US09427208B2
An ultrasonic observation apparatus includes: a region of interest setting unit capable of setting information on a region of interest; a focus point calculation unit that divides the region of interest into a plurality of partial regions of interest according to the number of focus points in the region of interest, calculates a focus point in each of the partial regions of interest, and determines a transmission timing according to calculation results; a transmitting and receiving unit that performs a transmission-and-reception of an ultrasonic wave which is focused on the focus point; a frequency analysis unit that calculates a plurality of frequency spectra by analyzing the received ultrasonic wave with reference to the focus point; a feature data extracting unit that approximates the frequency spectra to extract feature data thereof; and an image processing unit that generates display image data based on the feature data. The focus point calculation unit does not set a focus point according to the number of focus points in the partial regions of interest including the focus point for the B-mode image.
US09427204B2
In a C-arm system and a method for image acquisition of an x-ray projection image, wherein the projection region of the subject that is to be images is larger than the maximum projection region covered by a stationary x-ray beam, and to generate a complete exposure of the entire projection region to be imaged, at least two individual projection exposures are generated and combined. The generation of the at least two individual exposures takes place with a focus that is stationary relative to the subject and with a modified spatial angle of the emitted x-ray beam.
US09427203B2
A system and method for digital x-ray imaging. The method includes emitting a first and second collimated x-ray beam from an x-ray source disposed in a first and second position, respectively. The first and second collimated x-ray beam is directed onto an identified region of interest (ROI) wherein a first and second ROI image is captured, respectively, when the x-ray source is disposed in the first and second position, respectively. The first and second ROI images are processed to extract features from each of the first and second ROI images. The extracted features are analyzed, and an indicator of a disease is generated responsive to the extracted features. The indicator can be stored, displayed, or transmitted. The first and second x-ray sources can be the same or different x-ray sources.
US09427200B2
A method for determining physiological cardiac parameters as a function of a heart rate is provided. For at least two heart rates adjusted by a cardiac stimulation during the recording, in each case, a four-dimensional image data set of the heart showing the entire cardiac cycle is recorded using an X-ray device. The physiological cardiac parameters are determined by evaluation of the four-dimensional image data sets.
US09427199B2
A functional image generating section that generates a functional image that represents the functions of a subject, based on 3D medical image data obtained by imaging the subject; a projected 3D image generating section that generates a projected 3D image that represents the appearance of the subject, based on the 3D medical image data; a display control section that displays the functional image and the projected 3D image; and a specified position data obtaining section that obtains position data regarding a position specified within the functional image, are provided. The projected 3D image generating section generates the projected 3D image which is projected in a projection direction such that a position within the projected 3D image corresponding to the specified position faces forward, based on the position data. The display control section displays the projected 3D image having the projection direction.
US09427196B2
A patient table and a control device of a pallet of the patient table are provided according to the present application to facilitate achieving the switching between manual operation and automatic operation in controlling the pallet, and to improve the operation convenience. The control device includes a through-beam photoelectric switch, a shutter and a trigger connected to the shutter, the trigger is arranged on a push-pull portion of the pallet to allow the shutter to be driven to move when a hand acts on the push-pull portion, to block a light beam of the through-beam photoelectric switch. The through-beam photoelectric switch is in signal connection with the control board of the patient table and is configured to send a signal for releasing the pallet to the control board of the patient table once the light beam of the through-beam photoelectric switch is blocked.
US09427195B1
An emergency vehicle has a patient compartment and a motor, a generator cooperative with the patient compartment, and a Computerized Tomography (CT) scanner positioned in the patient compartment and connected to the generator so as to supply power to the CT scanner. The CT scanner is releasably affixed to the front wall of the patient compartment. The generator is operable independently of the motor. The front wall of the patient compartment has a receptacle affixed thereto. The CT scanner has at least one pin connector extending toward the front wall. The pin connector is releasably received by the receptacle so as to fix a position of the CT scanner against the front wall.
US09427194B2
Apparatus and methods for computed tomography (CT) imaging are provided. One method includes providing a patient table to move along an examination axis of a rotating gantry of a CT imaging system having at least one imaging detector. The imaging detector includes a pixelated detector array. The method further includes configuring the CT imaging system to perform an overlapping helical CT scan by controlling a speed of the moving patient table along the examination axis through a field of view (FOV) of the at least one imaging detector of the rotating gantry.
US09427181B2
A sensor that may be used to detect the presence, amount, and/or concentration of an analyte in a medium within an animal. The sensor may include a sensor housing, an indicator element embedded within and/or covering at least a portion of the sensor housing, and a membrane over the indicator element. The membrane may reduce indicator element deterioration by preventing immune cells, such as white blood cells, from contacting the indicator element, substantially prevent transmission of light of at least a specified wavelength or range of wavelengths through the membrane, and/or permit the analyte to pass through to the indicator element. The membrane may be an opaque diffusion membrane. The sensor may include a foil. The foil may block light and/or reduce indicator element deterioration. The membrane may reduce oxidation of the indicator element.
US09427177B2
A fall detection device includes a fall detection circuit to detect a fall by a user and a verification circuit to verify the initial indication of a fall from the fall detection circuit. The device is sized to be worn by the user and includes an orientation sensor to track the orientation of the device relative to one or more axes. The device averages the average inclination values for one or more axes for time periods before, during, and after the fall. A fall is determined to have occurred when differences in the average values of the inclination values exceed threshold values.
US09427175B2
System, methods, and media for finding and matching tremor signals that: receive a first piece of tremor signal content; identify a first plurality of tremor peaks that describe at least a portion of the first piece of tremor signal content using a Teager-Kaiser operator; form a first template of tremor peaks from at least a portion of the first plurality of tremor peaks, the first group of tremor peaks having a first group of parameters; compare the first template and the first group of parameters with at least one second template and a second group of parameters, wherein the second group of parameters is based on a second set of tremor peaks associated with a second piece of tremor content; and identify a match between the first piece of tremor signal content and the second piece of tremor signal content based on the comparing.
US09427160B2
A wearable device includes a wearable device structure. The wearable device has a first end and a second end each with a plurality of magnets. The first and second ends are coupled by overlapping of at least a portion of the first end magnets to at least a portion of the second end magnets. The wearable device structure includes an undercut structure for receiving at least a portion of the magnets. ID circuitry is provided at a surface or an interior of the wearable device.
US09427155B2
The optical apparatus includes an optical measurement module, a central processing module, and an air-puff module. The air-puff module is used for generating an air pressure to a surface of the cornea according a blow pattern to cause a deformation of the cornea. The optical measurement module includes a first unit and a second unit. The first unit is used for measuring an intraocular pressure (IOP) of the eye according to the deformation of the cornea. The second unit is used for measuring properties of the cornea in an optical interference way. The central processing module is coupled to the first unit and the second unit and used for receiving and processing the intraocular pressure and the properties of the cornea to provide a result.
US09427150B2
An optical tomographic imaging apparatus includes a first lens having a first focal length, a second lens having a second focal length longer that the first focal length, a scanning unit disposed at a focal position of the second lens, and an optical path branching unit disposed between the first and second lenses. An observation optical path located on a transmission optical path of the optical path branching unit, and an optical path of measurement light located on a reflection optical path of the optical path branching unit. The second lens is disposed on the optical path of the measurement light between the first lens and the scanning unit, such that an angle at which the measurement light scanned by the scanning unit is incident on the optical path branching unit is maintained substantially unchanged during scanning.
US09427149B2
An optical tomographic imaging apparatus includes a first lens, an optical path branching unit, a second lens and a scanning unit disposed on an optical path of measurement light with which an object to be examined is irradiated. The second lens and the scanning unit are disposed in such a manner that an angle at which the measurement light scanned by the scanning unit is incident on the optical path branching unit satisfies a wavelength separation characteristic of 90% or higher at a wavelength of observation light of the object to be examined in a wavelength band of the measurement light.
US09427137B2
A system (100) is provided for imaging a patient's interior. The system comprises an imaging sensor (120) for acquiring a series of images of a region of interest (020) in the patient's interior, and a plurality of light sources (140) for illuminating the region of interest in the patient's interior from different light source directions (152-156). A light controller (160) is provided for controlling individual ones (142-146) of the plurality of light sources (140) to dynamically vary the light source directions (152-156) during said acquiring. Moreover, a processor (180) is provided for obtaining lighting data (164) indicative of the dynamically varying light source directions. The processor (180) is further arranged for using the lighting data to apply a photometric stereo technique to the image data so as to establish a three-dimensional [3D] surface profile of the region of interest. The processor (180) is further provided to detect insufficiently illuminated areas of the region of interest (020-024) in the images acquired by the imaging sensor (120), using the 3D surface profile of the region of interest. Accordingly, the system is enabled to establish a 3D surface profile of the region of interest from a series of images in a convenient and cost-effective manner.
US09427125B2
A vacuum cleaner has a removable cyclonic separator that includes a cyclone chamber; a dirt-collection chamber, open at one end; and an outlet duct from the cyclone chamber. An open end of the outlet duct is arranged for connection to a motor intake duct on the cleaner, the outlet duct and dirt collection chamber sharing a common wall section which divides the open end of the outlet duct from the open end of the dirt collection chamber. A cover closes off the open end of the dirt collection chamber and can be opened to allow access to the dirt collection chamber for emptying. When the cover is in the closed position, a cover sealing member forms an air seal between the cover and the common wall section. When the outlet duct is connected to the motor inlet duct, an outlet duct sealing member forms an air seal between the ducts.
US09427116B2
A hammock tub assembly serves as both a hammock for leisure swinging, sleeping, or resting; and a tub for soaking, hydrotherapy, and pleasure. A suspended non-permeable panel conforms to the shape and weight of the loads. The non-permeable panel is defined by a body portion and a perimeter portion. The body portion supports the solid and liquid loads, conforming to the shapes and weight of each load. The perimeter portion includes fastening points that maintain a fixed position for the body portion for enabling the stretching of the body portion into a generally concave shape. When stretched between the fixed points, the body portion forms a generally concave shape that cradles the solid load and contains the liquid load. The liquid is circulated through a filtering portion. A lighting portion, a sound portion, and a data portion enhance the therapeutic effects.
US09427101B2
Interactive prayer systems are provided, which include a pad that is adapted to be repeatedly stepped upon by a user; a first detection means for detecting when the user steps on the pad; a second detection means for detecting, and for creating proximity event data based upon, when the user is standing in proximity of specific areas within the pad; a communications means for communicating touch event data and proximity event data to a computer and a computer program executing on the computer; a display means connected to the computer, which displays the scripture to the user during prayer; and a notification means embedded in the pad for notifying the user when, and if, an error in the user's performance of the one or more prayer rituals is detected by the computer program. Methods of using such interactive prayer systems are also provided.
US09427099B2
Consumer devices for providing feedback based upon the presence of a liquid in a detection zone, wherein the detection zone is the area in which a change in capacitance is can be detected by a non-contact capacitance sensor and the forms of feedback include the generation of sound, activation/deactivation of alight, a motion or other physical interaction, or display by way of an LCD or LED display panel.
US09427097B2
A temperature-controlled display device includes a temperature-controlled space and a refrigeration circuit configured to provide cooling for the temperature-controlled space. The refrigeration circuit is configured to operate in multiple cooling modes including a normal refrigeration mode and an anti-ingression mode. A proximity sensor is configured to detect an object such as a human hand or forearm within a detection zone adjacent to a door handle of the temperature-controlled display device. A controller estimates a distance between the handle and the detected object using an input from the proximity sensor. The controller causes the refrigeration circuit to transition between the multiple cooling modes based on the estimated distance.
US09427092B2
Methods and systems for no-glue pocketed spring unit construction. Rows of pocketed springs, preferably arranged into modules of more than two pocketed springs surrounding a central hole, are welded together when paired probes and anvils press layers of pocketed spring fabric from the rows of pocketed springs together and a welding pulse of current is transmitted through wires on the probes to heat the wire it is pressed against the fabric. Non-stick material interposed between the wires and the fabric prevents melted fabric from sticking to the wires.
US09427082B2
A rotating storage cabinet for corner installation includes: an inner cabinet, further including a bottom inner mounting plate, a first t-frame, a second t-frame, and a top inner mounting plate; upper and lower swivels; and a cabinet enclosure, further including a base enclosure board, a right side column, a left side column, a rear column, and a top enclosure board; such that the inner cabinet is rotationally mounted inside the cabinet enclosure, with a central cavity for storage between the t-frames, including a clothing bar and drawers, and shelves mounted on outer sides of the t-frames. Additionally, the rotating storage cabinet can be installed without a cabinet enclosure, directly between a ceiling and a floor.
US09427079B2
Disclosed are dental dispensing tips used to deliver dental solutions to a tooth surface. One dental dispensing tip includes a body having a first end, a second end, and a fluid passageway extending from the first end toward the second end, the fluid passageway being configured to receive a dental solution therein, a brush cup provided at the second end and having a brush barrel defined therein, a brush applicator configured to be secured within the brush barrel and including a plurality of bristles, wherein a portion of the plurality of bristles extends out of the brush barrel, and a delivery cannula arranged to provide fluid communication between the fluid passageway and the brush applicator and being configured to deliver the dental solution to the plurality of bristles.
US09427073B2
A modular component toothbrush includes a base portion, interchangeable hollow handle portion and a bristle brush portion that is selectively engageable with both handle portion and base portion for assembly. The modular component toothbrush may be personalization by interchangeability of the modular components of different colors and indicia provide for a variety of toothbrush configurations dependent on user's selection defining a custom build a brush toothbrush configuration.
US09427071B2
This disclosure relates generally to an apparatus having a strap system and housing for an electronic device. The apparatus can include a housing that is configured to receive an electronic device and protect the device from damage resulting from impact or exposure to liquids. The strap system can attach to the housing with connectors to provide easy handling of the housing and the electronic device therein without compromising the integrity of the housing. This disclosure also relates to a stand for an electronic device. The stand can be stored on the electronic device to provide additional protection when the electronic device is not being used.
US09427069B1
A drill holster including a base member, a sheath coupled to the base member forming a pocket with the base member for receiving a portable drill, and a securing mechanism for retaining a drill in the pocket, the securing mechanism being coupled to the exterior surface of the sheath and including an elastomeric member forming a loop, the elastomeric member being stretchable from a neutral, at rest, position where the elastomeric member is positioned and located below the top portion of the pocket to a secured position engaging at least a portion of a drill positioned within the pocket, and wherein the perimeter of the elastomeric member when in its secured position is greater than the perimeter of such member when in its neutral position.
US09427066B2
A stand for holding at least one wig having a base where one or more dowels may be stacked thereon to hold a dome upon which a wig may be placed, and in which base the dowels and dome may be stored for storage or transport.
US09427054B1
The inflatable coin bank is a decorative coin bank which grows in size with each coin inserted and stored therein. The inflatable coin bank includes a flexible housing with a coin receptacle received therein. The receptacle has a slot formed therethrough for receiving the coins. A sensor is mounted adjacent the slot formed through the receptacle for selectively generating an actuation signal when a coin passes through the slot. An inflatable bladder is further received within the flexible housing. An air pump is in communication with the inflatable bladder and the sensor, such that the air pump partially inflates the inflatable bladder with a pre-determined volume of air when the sensor generates the actuation signal. In this way, the inflatable bladder grows in volume with each insertion of a coin through the slot.
US09427050B2
A fastening system for mounting detachable covering components, like panels, on other components (17), like carriage parts (19), has at least one spacer (1) with a spacer body (3). One spacer body side can be attached to the covering component. The opposite side has an adhesive closure part (7) detachably engaged with a corresponding adhesive closure part (16) attached to the other component (17). At least on one border of the side of the spacer body (3) connected to the covering component, a flat mesh (21) abuts to enlarge the connection area between the covering component and the spacer (1).
US09427049B2
A latching system is operable to prevent inadvertent total release of two straps secured by the latching system as the two straps are being latched together. The latching system includes a buckle affixed to an end of a first strap and a plurality of fixed studs affixed to a second strap to be secured to the first strap. The plurality of fixed studs successively latch with the buckle as the second strap is pulled through a first section of the buckle. One of the fixed studs will catch in the buckle even if the first strap is pulled away from the second strap before latching is completed. Latching is completed by passing the second strap through a second portion of the buckle. In one embodiment, when latching is complete, two fixed studs engage the buckle to secure the second strap to the first strap.
US09427046B2
A flexible manufacturing system for an article of footwear includes a printing system for printing graphics onto the footwear. The flexible manufacturing system also includes a projection system for aligning a projected graphic with a predetermined portion of the article prior to printing the graphic to the article. The graphic can include a masked portion that corresponds to a design element on the article.
US09427043B2
A chamber for receiving a pressurized fluid may include a tensile member extending between a first chamber barrier layer and a second chamber barrier layer and including a plurality of tethers extending between the first tensile member layer and the second tensile member layer. The chamber may include stitching through the tensile member in a stitched region. When the chamber is pressurized with the pressurized fluid, a substantial majority of the first tensile member layer is separated from the second tensile member layer by a distance that corresponds to a length of the plurality of tethers. In addition, the first tensile member layer is held in contact with the second tensile member layer by the stitching in the stitched region, thereby forming an area of the chamber having a reduced thickness relative to adjacent portions of the chamber.
US09427033B2
A device for warming a first arm and shoulder of a wearer includes a single arm portion and a torso portion. The single arm portion is comprised of a substantially flexible material and is configured to substantially cover the first arm of the wearer from the shoulder to a position beyond an elbow of the first arm. The torso portion is connected to the single arm portion and includes at least one pocket. At least one weight is retained in the pocket of the torso portion.
US09427029B2
A garment that includes a first shape control material layer and a second shape control material layer fused to the first shape control layer. The first shape control material layer has a first degree of stretch and is shaped in a basic garment shape. The second shape control material layer has a second degree of stretch and is shaped to correspond to a portion of a wearer's body that is less than that covered by the first shape control material layer.
US09427028B1
A hosiery system for giving the appearance of well-groomed feet featuring a pair of stockings at least ankle-high wherein toenails are disposed on the stockings and are positioned to align with and lay atop the user's own toenails. Elastic surrounds the opening of the stockings and the elastic is concealed by a piece of jewelry such as an anklet.
US09427024B2
The invention provides an electronic cigarette casing and an electronic cigarette device, the electronic cigarette casing comprises a case body for accommodating electronic cigarettes, a first power supply configured in the case body and a charging control system for controlling the first power supply to charge the electronic cigarettes, the first power supply comprises a farad capacitor. The electronic cigarette casing using the farad capacitor instead of the traditional batteries to supply electrical power, can achieve the technical effects of safe and reliable charging/discharging, rapid charging, and more charging and discharging times.
US09427020B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for grinding and depositing ground material, the apparatus comprising a grinder configured to grind material and a chamber communicatively connected to the grinder, the chamber configured to receive the ground material. In use, the material is ground in the grinder then deposited in the chamber. In one embodiment, the chamber is configured to receive at least one pre-formed tube wherein, in use, the material is deposited in the at least one pre-formed tube in the chamber.
US09427019B2
Tobacco articles having tobacco disposed in a porous matrix. The tobacco articles can provide tobacco to an adult consumer in the form of particles, liquid, or vapor so as to furnish tobacco satisfaction to the consumer. The tobacco can be integrally molded with a plastic material so that at least a portion of the tobacco is disposed in pores of the matrix.
US09427012B2
A softgel capsule containing microencapsulated probiotic bacteria is manufactured such that the softgel capsule is stable for at least about 24 months at room temperature.
US09427007B2
The present invention is related to a multiple emulsion of the water-in-oil-in-water (W/O/W) type for stabilization of natural coloring agents, such as anthocyanin, phycocyanin, carthamus, huito, calcium carbonate, carmine and carminic acid, against changes in pH values, oxidation and light as well as against ingredient interactions.
US09426993B2
Antimicrobial compositions based on the synergistic combination of 2-methyl-3-isothiazolone and selected commercial microbicides where the compositions are substantially free of halogenated 3-isothiazolone, are disclosed. Particularly preferred are combinations of 2-methyl-3-isothiazolone together with benzoic acid, citric acid, sorbic acid, 1,2-dibromo-2,4-dicyanobutane, 1,3-dimethylol-5,5-dimethylhydantoin, phenoxyethanol, benzyl alcohol, zinc pyrithione or climbazole, that provide enhanced microbicidal efficacy at a combined active ingredient level lower than that of the combined individual 3-isothiazolone and commercial microbicide effective use levels.
US09426991B2
Disclosed herein are herbicidal compositions comprising a synergistically herbicidal effective amount of (a) aminocyclopyrachlor, or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof, and (b) picloram, or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof. Also disclosed herein are methods of controlling undesirable vegetation, which comprise applying to vegetation or an area adjacent the vegetation or applying to soil or water to prevent the emergence or growth of vegetation (a) aminocyclopyrachlor, or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof, and (b) picloram, or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof, wherein (a) and (b) are each added in an amount sufficient to produce a synergistic herbicidal effect.
US09426984B2
Fire-retardant powder comprising at least 30% by weight of Lewis acid, at least 5% by weight of alkaline bicarbonate, and at least 3% by weight of silica, and method of manufacturing such fire-retardant powder. A building material preferably comprising natural fibers and comprising at least 5% by weight and at most 30% of such powder.
US09426979B2
An apparatus according to an embodiment is configured to oxygenate and perfuse a bodily tissue for extracorporeal preservation of the bodily tissue. The apparatus includes a pneumatic system, a pumping chamber, and an organ chamber. The pneumatic system is configured for the controlled delivery of fluid to and from the pumping chamber based on a predetermined control scheme. The predetermined control scheme can be, for example, a time-based control scheme or a pressure-based control scheme. The pumping chamber is configured to diffuse a gas into a perfusate and to generate a pulse wave for moving the perfusate through a bodily tissue. The organ chamber is configured to receive the bodily tissue and the perfusate. The organ chamber is configured to substantially automatically purge excess fluid from the organ chamber to the pumping chamber. The pumping chamber is configured to substantially automatically purge excess fluid from the pumping chamber to an area external to the apparatus.
US09426976B2
A snare system includes a trap body including an aperture, a trigger plate assembly disposed within the trap body such that the trigger plate assembly is accessible through the aperture, a snare assembly placeable about the trap body, and at least one snare release assembly operatively linked with the trap body. The trigger plate assembly is movable between an armed position and an activated position. The snare release assembly normally biases the trigger plate assembly into the armed position. Furthermore, the snare release assembly disengages the snare assembly from the trap body when the trigger plate assembly moves from the armed position to the activated position. Upon disengagement from the trap body, the snare assembly moves to capture an animal's limb.
US09426973B2
A method for reducing drift of sprayed droplets includes storing a fluid to be sprayed in a reservoir carried by a vehicle, and providing a metered flow of the first fluid to a spray nozzle, from where the fluid is injected into an atmosphere as sprayed droplets. A drift of the sprayed droplets is reduced by causing the sprayed droplets to absorb moisture from the atmosphere after they are sprayed from the spray nozzle, such that a mass of each of the sprayed droplets increases sufficiently to reduce a drift of the respective sprayed droplet in the wind.
US09426969B1
Large number of animals and fowl are shielded against deleterious sun rays and heat by a transportable device equipped with a large sized canopy. The shielding device includes an elevated deploying unit which pivotally hinges canopy supporting arms for deployment to either an open shielding position or a closed position longitudinally aligned for highway transport by a wheeled vehicle.
US09426960B2
A novel maize variety designated PH1W6W and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PH1W6W with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH1W6W through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PH1W6W or a locus conversion of PH1W6W with another maize variety.
US09426946B2
A method and an apparatus for shaping of lawns and hedges into desired 3D patterns or shapes. The apparatus consists of a bStem and/or other computational device comprising storage, a motorized platform, and trimmer end effectors. The computational device instructs the end effectors to extend or retract as the platform moves along at a steady pace, thus producing a target pattern (e.g., a company logo) in a hedge, lawn, a wall or a ground-cover of any material suitable for such shaping. The apparatus may be configured to operate autonomously based on a pre-loaded pattern file. Software (e.g., such as BrainOS) may be used to provide real-time feedback to trimmers regarding the process and the results, and possibly to train the inverse model accordingly. The apparatus may learn to minimize predicted or current mismatches between the desired pattern and the one being produced. Users compete for the best designs.
US09426942B2
A stripper band for a crop pick-up includes a U-shaped plastic body having an upper leg and upper bight portion reinforced by a sheet metal strap so as to stiffen the band for being able to withstand downward forces applied by heavy windrows of crop being picked up and conveyed over a top surface of the band. The sheet metal strap has upstanding bosses located about upper rear mounting holes against which clamping forces are directed when securing the band to the pick-up frame. Front and lower regions of the band are constructed only of plastic and remain flexible enough to absorb impacts from hard objects without permanent deformation of the band.
US09426939B2
A vibrational seed-double eliminator (“VSDE”) for a seeding machine that moves seed along a seed path from a seed pool to a release position and a related planting unit are described. The VSDE may include a vibration strip extending along the seed path along the seed pool. As the seed is moved by the seeding machine along the seed path, the vibration strip may cause the seed to vibrate, thereby removing from the seed path one or more seeds from a seed double. The vibration strip may include a plurality of protrusions extending into the seed path, including rounded, cylindrical or other protrusions. The vibration strip may include various parallel ridges extending into the seed path, or a various recesses extending into the vibration strip and away from the seed path. An automated vibration device may impart vibrational motion to the vibration strip.
US09426938B2
A device for folding the working parts of agricultural machinery, in particular a device for folding the working parts of an agricultural machine consisting of at least one stationary part (1) and at least one, stored in the stationary part (1), swiveling folding part (2), where the stationary part (1) and the folding part (2) are connected by at least one swivel connection (3) stored in their outer edges, which contains, in the stationary part (1) stored a linear drive device (5) pivotally connected to a rod (4) which is pivotally connected to the folding part (2), where the linear drive device (5) is located below the frame (12) of the stationary part (1).
US09433129B2
It is impossible in a cooling device using a phase-change system, seeking high heat transport performance, to obtain sufficient cooling performance due to the increase in thermal resistance with a heating element to be cooled, therefore, a connecting structure of a cooling device according to an exemplary aspect of the present invention includes a connecting board with an opening; a pressing plate of thin plate elastically deformable; first fixing means for fixing the pressing plate to the connecting board with the pressing plate disposed covering heat receiving means composing the cooling device; and second fixing means for fixing the connecting board to a substrate with the heat receiving means abutting against a heating element mounted on the substrate and disposed in the opening.
US09433125B2
A heat-dissipating type of power converter comprises a support unit, at least one power module, at least one pair of rails and at least one main air duct module corresponding to the at least one power module. The pair of rails are fixed to the support unit and parallel to each other. The power module comprises a mounting plate module, a power unit and a radiator. wherein the power unit is fixed to the radiator, and the mounting plate module and the radiator are fixedly connected to each other. the main air duct module is fixed to the support unit and provided between the pair of rails, a second opening is defined in a side of the main air duct module toward the power module. The power module is assembled with or disassembled from the main air duct module by sliding along the pair of rails. Wherein after the power module is assembled with the main air duct module, the radiator is plugged into the main air duct module through the second opening, the power unit is positioned outside the main air duct module, and the main air duct with a sealed sidewall is defined by the mounting plate module, the radiator and the main air duct module.
US09433118B2
A mounting frame for a component of a computing system includes first supports and second supports. The first supports are to contact a top surface of the component at a first height relative to the mounting frame, and the second supports are to contact the top surface of the component at a second height relative to the mounting frame.
US09433113B2
Provided is a charger, wherein capability of storing codes connected to the charger is improved. The charger is provided with: a housing case for housing therein a charger body; a wind-around recess section that is formed on the outer circumference of the housing case, and around which a first code to be connected to the charger body can be wound; and a plug recess section that is formed on the housing case, and that is for storing a plug to be connected to the front end of the first code. A housing section that is opened in the upper direction, and that houses therein a second code to be connected to the charger body, is formed on the housing case.
US09433111B2
A display apparatus comprises a main body including a touch screen disposed on a front surface thereof; an accessory unit rotatably disposed with respect to the main body; a connecting rod disposed in a side surface of one of the main body and the accessory unit; and a connecting channel disposed in a side surface of the other of the accessory unit and the main body, the connecting channel being formed so that the connecting rod is inserted in or separated from the connecting channel in a lengthwise direction thereof.
US09433109B2
A wiring substrate includes an insulating layer that is an outermost layer of the wiring substrate and includes an external exposed surface, a pad forming part formed on a side of the external exposed surface, and a pad that projects from the external exposed surface. The pad forming part includes a recess part recessed from the external exposed surface, and a weir part that projects from the external exposed surface and encompasses the recess part from a plan view. The pad includes a pad body formed within the recess part and the weir part, and an eave part formed on the weir part. The pad body includes an end part that projects to the weir part. The eave part projects in a horizontal direction from the end part of the pad body. The end part of the pad body includes a flat surface.
US09433107B2
Provided is a printed circuit board, including a plurality of buried circuit patterns which are formed in an active area; and a plurality of buried dummy patterns which are uniformly formed in a dummy area except the active area. Thus, since when the circuit patterns are formed, the dummy patterns are also uniformly formed, a difference in plating can be reduced. Also, since the dummy patterns are uniformly formed in the dummy area, a difference in grinding between the dummy area and the active area can be reduced, thereby enabling the circuit patterns to be formed in the active area without the occurrence of over-grinding.
US09433098B2
A method of manufacturing a combined circuit board includes the following steps. First, through portions (TPs) arranged in a predetermined format are formed in a rigid substrate (RS) such that the RS is divided into a predetermined removed region (PRR1) and a predetermined reserved region (PRR2) according to the arrangement of the TPs. Next, a conductive bonding layer (CBL) and a flexible circuit board (FCB) are respectively laminated on two opposite sides of the RS and part of a dielectric bonding layer of the CBL fills the TPs. Next, the RS, the FCB and the CBL are bent according to the TPs such that the PRR2 is bent at the TPs relative to the PRR1. Finally, part of the RS located at the PRR1 and part of the CBL corresponding to the PRR1 are removed to form an indentation to expose part of the FCB.
US09433094B2
An electronic substrate 100 includes: a substrate member 110 which has a shape of plane plate and whose pair of main surfaces 110a and 110b are opposite each other; a plurality of connection terminals 130 which are formed so as to be arranged on an edge side of the substrate member 110 and on at least one surface out of the pair of main surfaces 110a and 110b of the substrate member 110; a plurality of wirings 120 which are connected with the plural connection terminals 130; and a plurality of openings 140A arranged in an area, which exists between connection terminals 130 adjacent each other out of the plural connection terminals 130 and in which the connection terminals 130 adjacent each other extend, in an extending direction of the connection terminals 130 adjacent each other.
US09433093B2
A component includes a support structure having first and second spaced-apart and parallel surfaces and a plurality of conductive elements extending in a direction between the first and second surfaces. Each conductive element contains an alloy of a wiring metal selected from the group consisting of copper, aluminum, nickel and chromium, and an additive selected from the group consisting of Gallium, Germanium, Indium, Selenium, Tin, Sulfur, Silver, Phosphorus, and Bismuth. The alloy has a composition that varies with distance in at least one direction across the conductive element. A concentration of the additive is less than or equal to 5% of the total atomic mass of the conductive element, and a resistivity of the conductive element is between 2.5 and 30 micro-ohm-centimeter.
US09433083B2
An electrical interface on a circuit board is disclosed for electrically connecting the circuit board to a connector to reduce reflections and impedance mismatch and increase power transfer from the connector to the signal path of the circuit board. The signal interface includes a signal conductor including a signal pad configured to connect to a connector pin and a waveguide section extending from the signal pad. The waveguide narrows from a signal pad width to connect to a microstrip conductor. A first ground section is spaced rightward from the signal conductor such that the inner edge of the first ground section, angles in correspondence with the narrowing of the waveguide to generally track an outer right edge of the waveguide. A second ground section is spaced leftward from the signal conductor and configured generally similarly to the first ground section.
US09433077B2
A substrate device for electronic circuits or devices includes a first substrate section including a first plurality of layers attached to each other having a first orientation (x2) and a second substrate section including a second plurality of layers attached to each other. The second plurality of layers have a second orientation (x3). The first orientation (x2) and the second orientation (x3) are angled (α) with respect to one another.
US09433074B2
A printed wiring board includes an insulator substrate, an electrical conductor at least partially embedded in the insulator substrate, and a thermal conductor at least partially embedded in the insulator substrate. The printed wiring board also includes a temperature-insensitive component mounting region and a temperature-sensitive component mounting region. The insulator substrate and the thermal conductor are arranged into a targeted heat transfer region proximate to the temperature-sensitive component mounting region and a bulk region at positions spaced apart from the temperature-sensitive component mounting region.
US09433071B2
A dielectric barrier discharge plasma generation devices that controllably produces uniform, non-equilibrium plasma and discharges a plasma plume at atmospheric pressure. The device has a gas source, a power source, and a plasma generator probe from which the plume of plasma is discharged. The probe has an elongate, dielectric ionization conduit arranged in coaxial relationship within the housing. An elongate inner electrode extends within the ionization conduit and connects to the power source. An outer electrode is slidably arranged on the outer surface of the ionization conduit, and is also electrically connected to the power source. The electrodes are constructed and arranged so that movement of the outer electrode relative to the inner electrode changes at least one property of the plasma plume. The inner electrode may include means for generating a plurality of separate, high-intensity electric fields along the length and around the perimeter of the inner electrode distal portion. In a preferred embodiment, the inner electrode has an elongate base extending generally parallel to the central axis of the ionization tube, and a plurality of bristles electrically-connected to and transversely-extending from at least a portion of the electrode base.
US09433056B2
The present invention provides a light string including at least one light series branch and a protecting circuit connected between the at least one light series branch and an AC power supply. The protecting circuit includes a switching circuit, a sample circuit and a control circuit for switching off the switching circuit and keeping the switching circuit at off-state when the sampled voltage is larger than or equal to a preset voltage, and controlling the switching circuit to turn on and turn off the at least one light series branch. When the number of the failed lamps and removed lamps reaches to a preset number, the current is opened to protecting the reminder light from been burned out. The light string can light on and off alternately like twinkling stars, or the colors can be changed alternately.
US09433053B2
There is provided a method of controlling solid state lighting (SSL) devices including receiving dimming information; translating the dimming information into SSL control information, the SSL control information including load/LED control information and dithering information; and transmitting the SSL control information to a current source for controlling the SSL devices for white light illumination. Furthermore, the SSL device may be one of lower power light emitting diodes (LEDs), organic LEDs, and high power LEDs.
US09433049B2
A controller for controlling a plurality of LED lighting strings is disclosed, the controller comprising, for each of the plurality of LED lighting strings: a frequency modulator configured to modulate a baseline frequency to generate a time-vary modulated frequency, wherein the frequency modulator is configured to modulate the baseline frequency by a jitter superposed on a regular repeating pattern which varies more slowly than the jitter, to result in the modulated frequency; and a modulated PWM signal generator configured to generate a modulated PWM signal having the modulated frequency and a predetermined duty cycle; wherein the regular repeating patterns for the PWM signals are spaced apart in phase. Associated drivers, LED lighting circuits and methods are also disclosed.
US09433040B2
Various embodiments of solid state transducer (“SST”) devices are disclosed. In several embodiments, a light emitter device includes a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) capacitor, an active region operably coupled to the MOS capacitor, and a bulk semiconductor material operably coupled to the active region. The active region can include at least one quantum well configured to store first charge carriers under a first bias. The bulk semiconductor material is arranged to provide second charge carriers to the active region under the second bias such that the active region emits UV light.
US09433037B2
A conventional induction heating cooker which operates two inverters at the same time, with only one input current detecting circuit provided, cannot measure each of input currents to each of the plurality of inverters, and cannot control input powers by feedback control on input currents. In the induction heating cooker which has a plurality of inverters, when the input power varies to the inverter which has less input power supplied, the variation hardly influences the cooking. The induction heating cooker according to the present invention fixes the operating frequency for the inverter which has less input power supplied and performs the feedback control of the input current for the inverter which has bigger input power supplied.
US09433036B2
A cooking device includes: first and second heating cooking units; a mode setting unit configured to set heating modes of the first and second heating cooking units; a receiving unit; a priority managing unit configured to store priorities which are given to the first heating cooking unit and the second heating cooking unit, respectively; and a power adjusting unit configured to adjust using power of a heating cooking unit to which a lower one of the priorities of the first heating cooking unit and the second heating cooking unit stored in the priority managing unit is given when the receiving unit receives a power adjustment request signal transmitted from a power controlling device. The priorities are different values for each heating mode.
US09433021B2
A mobile communications system includes a mobile communications network configured to transmit/receive data to/from communications terminals. The mobile communications network includes a virtual mobility manager configured to store at least part of context information of a communications terminal when the communications terminal enters an off-line state so that if a triggering event occurs when the communications terminal is in the off-line state, the virtual mobility manager can page the off-line communications terminal in the off-line state so that a communications bearer can be established with the communications terminal using the stored context information, for communicating the data after the communications terminal has moved to an attached state.
US09433013B2
A centralized scheduling method and apparatus is provided for minimizing inter-cell interference in the wireless communication system adopting femto-eNB-based service coverage expansion (range expansion). The method includes establishing, by a server, a connection with at least one base station, collecting channel information between the at least one base station connected to the server and terminals, determining interfering base stations causing interference to each terminal based on the channel information, and selecting the terminals to be scheduled in consideration of the interfering base stations.
US09433006B2
A method in which a first communication module of a terminal transmits channel measurement information to a base station in a wireless communication system and a device therefor are disclosed in the present invention. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: receiving a message indicating an operation start of at least one second communication module coexisting in the terminal from the second communication module; determining an unusable frequency due to in-device coexistence (IDC) interference on the basis of information on an operating frequency of the first communication module and an operating frequency of the second communication module; and transmitting an IDC interference indication message including channel measurement information corresponding to the determined unusable frequency to the base station.
US09433000B2
The present invention relates to processing that a single-card dual-standby terminal establishes a packet switch (PS) connection. In embodiments of the present invention, a single-card dual-standby terminal initiates a data service connection request through a currently used access network, and a packet switch core network performs processing on the data service connection request of the terminal according to a network resource and a data service requested by the terminal, so that a PS connection bearer of the single-card dual-standby terminal is established on a proper network, thereby fully utilizing an existing network resource and reducing electric energy consumption of a single-card dual-standby terminal.
US09432999B1
An airtime optimization module monitors each client's connection, and continually calculates airtime for each connection. Then, it shapes the Wi-Fi channel's bandwidth to provide equal airtime to each client connection. The process re-activates every N seconds, for example, every 2 seconds. The airtime optimization module with the optimization algorithm component can be incorporated in the AP firmware or it can reside on a command and control server of any WISP or Enterprise Networks. The airtime optimization module can also be embodied in a software application running under any desktop or mobile operating system. Therefore, the airtime optimization module can be installed to operate at the AP level or at the network level or as an application.
US09432995B2
A method is provided for arranging transmissions on a downlink carrier c, spanning a frequency range Fc, in a mobile radio communications system, wherein a bandwidth of Fc belongs to a set of predefined channel bandwidths in the communications system, and wherein the carrier c comprises a reference signal defined in the communications system. A configurable frequency range FRS comprising a set of time-frequency resources for comprising the reference signal of the carrier c is provided. Information associated with the configuration of said frequency range FRS is signaled to a receiver in the communications system, such that c can be deployed over a frequency range F smaller than Fc when the frequency range FRS is configured within F and any other transmissions on the carrier c are arranged to be within F.
US09432992B2
The present invention proposes a method for preventing, when two types of subframes (first subframe and second subframe) exist in a wireless communication system, a high version terminal from performing unnecessary operation for the second subframe. Through the present invention, the high version terminal skips unnecessary operation, resulting in reduction of unnecessary power consumption.
US09432988B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting, by a user equipment, a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) are provided. The method includes identifying power of the HARQ-ACK based on transmission power control information in first downlink control information for a primary cell; identifying, for a time division duplexing (TDD) and a plurality of configured cells, a resource for transmission of the HARQ-ACK based on transmission power control information in second downlink control information with a downlink assignment index (DAI) value greater than 1; and transmitting the HARQ-ACK based on the resource on the primary cell.
US09432982B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting control information in a wireless communication system which can support carrier aggregation (CA) are provided. In the method for transmitting control information from a terminal to at least one base station, the terminal receives at least one of a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) from the at least one base station through at least one serving cell configured in the terminal and transmits control information associated with reception of the PDCCH or reception of a PDSCH indicated by the PDCCH to the at least one base station, wherein each of the at least one base station uses a different uplink and downlink configuration (UL-DL configuration) and a uplink-downlink (UL-DL) configuration used in the at least one serving cell can be changed based on a timing determined according to a preset condition.
US09432981B2
Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving a signal in a mobile communication system are provided. The method for receiving a signal at a User Equipment (UE) in the mobile communication system includes receiving, from a Base Station (BS), configuration information indicating whether a Broadcasting Channel (BCH) and a Synchronization Channel (SCH) are allocated in at least one subband; receiving, from the BS, a downlink control channel; and receiving, from the BS, a downlink data channel, based on the configuration information and the downlink control channel.
US09432979B1
A method, a wireless terminal device, and a base station are disclosed. A receiving unit 408 may receive from a base station an antenna precoding instruction for an uplink transmission. A processor 304 may execute a modification of the antenna precoding instruction according to a transmit antenna adapter into a customized precoding. A transmitting unit 406 may perform the uplink transmission according to the customized precoding.
US09432978B2
Embodiments provide methods, systems, and apparatuses for multicast broadcast multimedia service (MBMS)-assisted content distribution in a wireless communication network. A proxy terminal may include an MBMS access client configured to receive and cache an MBMS transmission including media data and metadata. The proxy terminal may further include a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) server module configured to transmit at least a portion of the media data to a user equipment (UE) of the wireless communication network via an HTTP transmission. The media data and metadata may be in a dynamic adaptive streaming over HTTP (DASH) format. The proxy terminal may be included in an evolved Node B (eNB), the UE, or another UE of the wireless communication network.
US09432977B2
A wireless communication system is disclosed. A method and apparatus for allowing a user equipment (UE) to transmit uplink control information through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) are disclosed. A method for allowing a UE to transmit uplink control information through a PUSCH in a wireless communication system includes receiving configuration information about a plurality of PUSCH feedback modes, identifying information indicating a specific PUSCH feedback mode for the PUSCH by using uplink allocation information for the PUSCH, and transmitting the uplink control information through the PUSCH in accordance with the specific PUSCH feedback mode.
US09432971B2
A method and system for radio resource control are provided in the present document. The method includes: in a process of establishing a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection, a user equipment sending a RRC connection request message to a base station, and carrying information used for indicating an current access property in the RRC connection request message; and the base station judging whether to permit the user equipment to establish the RRC connection according to the information used for indicating the current access property. It enables the user equipment to report more accurate information related to call establishment types, so as to assist a network side to perform more flexible and precise admission control.
US09432970B2
A method and device for transmitting Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) notification messages are provided in the present invention. The method comprises: transmitting the MBMS notification messages in the Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) in an idle sub-frame or a sub-frame having a minimal impact on the scheduling of other services, which is selected in a period of time window starting from the time of transmitting the MBMS notification messages; or transmitting the MBMS notification messages in the PDCCH of a Multimedia Broadcast over Single Frequency Network (MBSFN) sub-frame. The device comprises: a MBMS notification message generating module and a MBMS notification message transmitting module. Compared with the prior art, the method and device of the present invention will not cause the problem that a PDCCH public searching area of the sub-frame does not have enough carrying capability and can save a Radio Network Temporary Identity (RNTI) for the system.
US09432968B1
Disclosed is a method and system for managing signaling in wireless communication network. Base stations in the network will be divided into groups, but each base station's coverage area will be deemed a separate respective tracking area, and, for each group of base stations, an intermediary will manage transmission of registration and paging signaling between a paging controller and the group of base stations. In practice, when a tracking-area update (TAU) arrives from a WCD in coverage of the group of base stations, the intermediary may forward the TAU to the paging controller only if the TAU represents the WCD's movement into coverage of the group of base stations. Further, when a paging message arrives for a WCD, the intermediary may forward the paging message to the appropriate base station in the group.
US09432967B2
According to one embodiment, provided is a method for user equipment reporting information based on location estimation in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: transmitting to a network an estimation result from a specific point in time; obtaining information based on a first location estimation from a first point in time; transmitting to the network the information based on the first location estimation; obtaining information based on a second location estimation from a second point in time; and transmitting to the network the information based on the second location estimation. A location related to the estimation result is estimated by the network on the basis of the information based on the first location estimation and the information based on the second location estimation.
US09432964B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for determining locations of access points (AP) are presented. Techniques are described for determining relative and absolute locations of APs. In one embodiment, a device may send and receive messages to one or more APs for from various locations for determining the distance between the device and the AP. The device may additionally keep track of its own displacement for the purposes of determining the location of the one or more APs. In one embodiment, the device also determines the turnaround calibration factor (TCF) for the AP that compensates for the processing time at the AP may also be used for increasing the accuracy of the determination of the location of the AP.
US09432961B2
A digitally stored map can indicate the signal quality for each of the map's regions. A device can determine its location, speed, and direction using global positioning system (GPS) and other sensors. Based on this information, the mobile device can predict a field of locations within which the device will probably be located within a specified future time frame. Based on both the information indicating signal quality and the probable future field of locations, the device can estimate a moment at which the device will probably begin to suffer from low-quality or absent signal. Using this prediction, the device can proactively perform a variety of anticipatory remedial actions. For example, the device can begin allocating a greater portion of currently available wireless network communication bandwidth to the reception of data packets that represent content that is being streamed to the device, so that the device can proactively buffer those packets.
US09432958B2
A method for continuous signal transmission and an electronic device thereof are provided. The continuous signal transmission method of the electronic device includes obtaining TA corresponding to each of the continuous plurality of radio frames, determining the transmission order of the continuous plurality of radio frames on the basis of the TA values, and transmitting the continuous plurality of radio frames in accordance to the determined order.
US09432948B2
A method of automatic transmit power control in a radio communication system employing a co-channel dual-polarized radio link between a first radio station and a second radio station. The method comprises receiving a horizontal polarized signal and a vertical polarized signal transmitted from the second radio station to the first radio station and in the first radio station estimating a received power level value from said received horizontal polarized signal, and a received power level value from said received vertical polarized signal. Determined power corrections values are transmitted to the second radio station during a transmission of the first radio station to adjust the transmit power of the second radio station. The determining of said transmit power correction values are independently determined from said estimated received power level values, a target power value, a cross polarization interference threshold level value, and said cross polarization interference level values.
US09432943B2
Adaptive out-of-service search behavior by a wireless user equipment (UE) device. The UE may perform cellular communications according to a radio access technology (RAT). It may be determined that cellular service according to the RAT is not available. A search algorithm may be selected from at least two possible search algorithms. A search for cellular service according to the RAT may be performed according to the search algorithm. The various possible search algorithms may specify different ratios of time spent scanning for cellular service to time spent sleeping. The selected search algorithm may be chosen based on any or all of an estimated remaining battery life of the UE, a user activity level, user input, or various other considerations.
US09432942B2
Systems, methodologies, and devices are described that can facilitate reducing power consumption associated with mobile devices. A mobile device can utilize a sleep mode controller that can facilitate selecting and/or switching to a desired sleep mode based in part on predefined sleep mode criteria. The sleep modes can include a non-sleep mode, light sleep mode, and/or deep sleep mode. The mobile device can employ an analyzer to evaluate information related to explicit signals, implicit signals, and/or the current sleep mode to determine whether a condition is met based in part on the predefined sleep mode criteria such that a transition to a different sleep mode is to be performed. If such a condition is met, the sleep mode controller can facilitate transitioning from the current sleep mode to a different sleep mode to facilitate reducing power consumption by the mobile device.
US09432937B2
A random access procedure between a mobile terminal and a network is performed based upon the characteristics of a RACH preamble. If the RACH preamble was explicitly signaled by the network, a downlink channel is monitored until a new transmission is indicated according to radio resource allocation information received from the network. If the RACH preamble was not explicitly signaled by the network, a contention resolution timer is started and the downlink channel is monitored until the contention resolution timer expires. Such monitoring of downlink channels in a more efficient manner, results in effective reduction in power consumption.
US09432920B2
Systems and methods for network curation are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises scanning, by a mobile device, an area to identify a network device for accessing a network, receiving, by the mobile device, a network identifier associated with the network device, providing a curation indicator request to a curation server, the curation indicator request comprising the network identifier, receiving a curation indicator from the curation server, the curation indicator being retrieved, based on the network identifier, from a database of a plurality of curation indicators, the curation indicator associated with a likelihood of intent to publicly share the network by the network device, comparing the curation indicator to an access setting, the access setting indicating acceptability of network access based on the likelihood of intent to publicly share the network by the network device, and accessing the network via the network device based on the comparison.
US09432918B2
Apparatus and methods of receive diversity (RxD) full cell search by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system are described. In an aspect, a first set of received energies of a first signal received at a first antenna and a second set of received energies of a second signal received at a second antenna may be separately determined. Based thereon, a set of peak energies and corresponding antenna indices, along with a slot timing of at least one cell corresponding to the set of peak energies and corresponding antenna indices, may be determined. A frame timing and a scrambling code for the at least one cell then may be determined using a respective one of the first antenna and the second antenna corresponding to each of the set of peak energies and the corresponding antenna indices, along with the respective slot timing of the at least one cell.
US09432915B2
The present invention relates to a broadband wireless access system; and more specifically to a method and apparatus for performing an efficient ranging procedure by mobile station and a base station, by distinguishing the dedicated ranging from the contention-based random access. A method for performing ranging with a mobile station in a broadband wireless access system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: transmitting a first ranging code for requesting ranging to a base station through a first ranging opportunity of a first frame; and receiving a first message including a response to the first ranging code, wherein if the first ranging code is a dedicated ranging code and the response to the first ranging code is “continue”, the first message may further include at least one of a dedicated flag field, a second ranging code, and the information on the second ranging opportunity.
US09432914B2
There is provided an improved solution for performing beacon broadcasting in a device-to-device communication network. The solution comprises selecting, by a node capable of entering a device-to-device communication network, a channel for broadcasting wherein the selection is based on at least one of the following: the characteristics of the node and the state of the node; and causing a broadcast of information related to at least part of the properties of the node on the selected channel.
US09432909B2
The present invention relates to a control node for a mobile communication network. The control node has means arranged to provide the IMSI of at least some of the currently set up connections and means arranged to allocate resources for the connections based on said IMSI information. The present invention also relates to a method for allocating resources for a connection in a mobile communication network.
US09432908B2
Systems, methods, and user interfaces are provided for customized communication routing and regulation thereof. The routing of an incoming communication to a device, wireless or wireline, is based on a routing preference and a presence condition of a mobile device in a home or visited wireless environment served by a confined-coverage access point (AP). The routing preference can be configured for a device that operates in the home or visited wireless environment. The confined-coverage AP can be owned or leased by a subscriber associated with the incoming call or by a third party. Provisioning of routing of incoming call based on a third-party confined-coverage AP can be event-based. Add-on services can be provisioned and configured; screening of incoming call(s) based on screening rule(s) specific to an confined-coverage AP is provided. Customized communication routing to equipment that operates in a confined-coverage area served by a third-party confined-coverage AP can be cancelled.
US09432905B2
Example embodiments presented herein are directed towards a user equipment, and corresponding methods therein, for handling a cell change from a first cell to a second cell in a wireless communications network. Some example embodiments may also be directed towards the user equipment altering a duration of a measurement time over which at least one measurement is performed, and altering a measurement bandwidth of the at least one measurement. The alterations may be performed based on associated bandwidths of the first and second cells. Other example embodiments may be directed towards a network node, and corresponding method therein, for sending, to the user equipment, a notification of a cell change and information associated with the cell change. Example embodiments may further comprise the network node receiving measurement data of at least one measurement performed over an altered measurement bandwidth and an altered duration of measurement time, where the alterations are based on the information associated with the cell change.
US09432898B2
A communication device for communicating with a plurality of terminals, the communication device being configured to determine that a network event will affect the plurality of terminals and could trigger each of those terminals to attempt to transmit information relating to the network event to the communication device and arrange so that only a subset of the plurality of terminals will attempt to transmit in response to the network event.
US09432895B2
Provided are a terminal apparatus, a base station apparatus, a communication apparatus, a cell selection method, and an integrated circuit in which a cell selection procedure between the mobile station apparatus and the base station apparatus are efficiently performed to improve communication quality. The terminal apparatus determines whether or not a cell detected by the terminal apparatus is suitable for a cell selection candidate on the basis of first cell restriction information indicating cell access restriction that is applied during cell selection, second cell restriction information that is determined by the terminal apparatus whether or not to apply, and a cell measurement result.
US09432889B2
The present invention aims to reduce the cost of planning and maintaining neighbor cell sets by requiring mobile terminals to make an additional effort to identify uniquely neighboring cells in the radio network. decided.
US09432888B2
A method of performing an uncontrolled handover data integrity of a target Base Station (BS) is provided. The method includes receiving an initial access request message from a Mobile Station (MS) by the target BS, performing a negotiation for establishing a handover data integrity path with a serving BS through a serving Access Service Network-Gateway (ASN-GW) by the target BS, and generating a main data path and a first handover data integrity path with the serving ASN-GW according to a result of the negotiation by the target BS.
US09432881B2
The present invention generally relates to cellular communication systems. More specifically, the present invention relates to load balancing in cellular communication systems. A method for load balancing in a cellular communication system comprise: receiving forward link load conditions in an area covered by a first sector and at least one second sector adjacent to the first sector, wherein the first and the second sectors belong to different cells; if it is determined that a distribution of the forward link load conditions deviates from a predetermined equilibrium, adjusting coverages of the first and the second sectors to make the distribution move toward the predetermined equilibrium.
US09432879B2
Systems, methods, and devices for compressing block acknowledgment (ACK) frames/packets are described herein. In some aspects, a method of communicating in a wireless network includes generating a compressed block acknowledgment frame comprising one or more local addresses. The method further includes transmitting the compressed block acknowledgment frame.
US09432877B2
An information sharing system is provided with multiple communication devices that wirelessly connect with other communication devices in order to communicate with them without going through an access point. Each communication device has: an internal deduction portion that, using a reception history of notification messages received from the other communication devices, deduces which information is currently being held by each of the other communication devices; a duplication determination portion that determines whether or not the information that is currently being held by another communication device and that was deduced by the internal deduction portion matches information held by its own host device; and an information exchange portion that, when the duplication determination portion determines that the information does not match, transmits a notification message that contains the information held by its own host communication device.
US09432872B2
Systems and methods are provided for allowing a multi-channel concurrent device to communicate timing information to a direct link peer, so that subsequent delivery of buffered traffic by the peer may be coordinated to minimize interference with operation of the device in another network context.
US09432865B1
A system for managing a cellular wireless communication network in near real time is disclosed. The system comprises a data store storing performance metrics in near real time and segmented according to base transceiver stations and record time. The system also comprises a computer and an application that receives a selection of a geographic area and a time period and identifies a predetermined quantity of base transceiver stations nearest the geographic area. The application also retrieves metrics associated with each of the identified base transceiver during the time period from the data store and retrieves the metrics most recently recorded for each identified base transceiver station. The application analyzes the metrics associated with each base transceiver station and compares the metrics associated with each base transceiver station with the most recently recorded metrics in order to identify that a value of a metric of a base transceiver station is outside a range.
US09432855B1
A method, system, and medium are provided for connecting Machine-to-Machine (M2M) components of trucks. The system includes at least one base station, a central computer, and trucks that are part of a wireless network. Each M2M component calculates metrics. The metrics are transmitted to a central computer that identifies M2M components that are suitable for communicating to a base station over the wireless network. The identified M2M components that are suitable are configured to send package delivery information stored by the M2M component on each truck over a wireless network to the central computer.
US09432853B2
Embodiments of the disclosure concern a mobile terminal positioning apparatus, method for establishing wireless LAN information of the apparatus, mobile terminal positioning server, and method for operating the server wherein mobility of access point is determined by using positioning information provided at the request of mobile terminal positioning, updating wireless LAN information in wireless LAN server based on stationary access point to make it available to providing mobile terminal positioning service. Exemplary positioning apparatus includes access point for performing local wireless communications; node information-based server for managing wireless environment information of a node in charge of the mobile terminal communications; wireless LAN server; positioning server for calculating distance between the access point and node or between access point and mobile terminal, and if a certain distance is exceeded, determining the access point to be transportable and deletable, and providing the positioning result on stationary access point basis.
US09432846B2
An image forming apparatus capable of returning from the power saving state and performing user authentication by one action of holding an authentication card over a card reader even when the apparatus is in the power saving state. The apparatus performs short-distance wireless communication with an external device. A controller performs control processing including at least authentication processing. When short-distance wireless communication with the device is started, a short-distance wireless communication section delivers a return-starting interrupt, to the controller, receives authentication data from the device to thereby store the authentication data during returning of the apparatus. The controller performs authentication processing based on the stored authentication data after returning of the apparatus from the power saving state, and notifies the device of an authentication processing result by a different channel.
US09432845B2
A system and method for automatically comparing obtained wireless device location information from a wireless network and comparing that location with another independent source geographic location is provided. Location information is derived from two or more sources in a multiplicity of ways and a comparison is made within a Location Comparison Engine. The Location Comparison Engine makes use of databases that assist in resolving obtained raw positioning information and converting that positioning information into one or more formats for adequate location comparison. Results of the location comparison are deduced to determine if the wireless device is in some proximity to some other activity source location, Other location information used for comparison may be obtained from a multiplicity of sources, such as another network based on some activity of the wireless device user, another wireless device via a wireless network, or any system capable of providing location information to the Location Comparison Engine.
US09432840B2
Methods and systems of managing radio based power may include a mobile platform having a plurality of radios and logic to detect changes in location for the mobile platform. The logic may also deactivate at least one of the plurality of radios in response to the changes in location. The changes in location may be detected based on location information obtained from one or more active radios in the plurality of radios and connection losses with respect to active radios in the plurality of radios.
US09432839B2
In some implementations, a mobile device can be configured to monitor environmental, system and user events associated with the mobile device and/or a peer device. The occurrence of one or more events can trigger adjustments to system settings. The mobile device can be configured to keep frequently invoked applications up to date based on a forecast of predicted invocations by the user. In some implementations, the mobile device can receive push notifications associated with applications that indicate that new content is available for the applications to download. The mobile device can launch the applications associated with the push notifications in the background and download the new content. In some implementations, before running an application or communicating with a peer device, the mobile device can be configured to check energy and data budgets and environmental conditions of the mobile device and/or a peer device to ensure a high quality user experience.
US09432836B2
An information notification method is applied in a network with separated identity identifier and location to notify the correspondent node to update the location identifier of the terminal. The method includes: a terminal establishes a communication with a correspondent node, a first access node which the terminal accesses reports to a home identity location register (ILR) of the terminal the mapping information about the identity identifier and location identifier of the correspondent node of the terminal, and the ILR stores the mapping information about the correspondent node of the terminal; and after having acquired a new location identifier of the terminal, the ILR sends a notification of updating the location identifier of the terminal to one or more access nodes which the correspondent node accesses according to the stored mapping information about the correspondent node of the terminal, carrying the identity identifier and new location identifier of the terminal.
US09432832B2
A method, system and computer program product for enabling mobile computing devices to track data usage among mobile computing devices that share a data plan. A threshold amount of data to be consumed over a period of time (e.g., billing period) by the mobile computing devices belonging to the shared data plan is received. Upon receiving a message from one of these mobile computing devices that contains an identifier that indicates that the message pertains to data usage information for the shared data plan, the current data usage metrics for the mobile computing device that sent the message is retrieved from the message. The value of the aggregate data usage is updated with the retrieved data usage metrics. Actions, such as throttling the data usage, are performed in response to the aggregate data usage being within a designated amount of data to the threshold amount of data to be consumed.
US09432826B2
Generating and updating event presentation user interfaces. Embodiments include identifying a first geographical location of a first computing device corresponding to a first invitee to an event, and a second geographical location of a second computing device corresponding to a second invitee. An event presentation user interface is generated, to include a first invitee presence indicator indicating that the first invitee is within a predetermined distance from a geographical location of the event, and a second invitee presence indicator indicating the second invitee is outside of the predetermined distance from the geographical location of the event. Based at least on the second computing device having moved to a third geographical location that is within the predetermined distance from the geographical location of the event, the second invitee presence indicator is updated to indicate that the second invitee is within the predetermined distance from the geographical location of the event.
US09432825B2
Systems and methods are described for integrating a gateway in a telecom network environment with charging and payment functionality. The gateway is provided with three points of integration with charging and billing servers. These three points include a payment service, a charging data record listener and a credit control interceptor. The payment service provides an interface for client applications that reside outside of the telecom network to invoke a charging request, to translate the charging request and to relay it to the billing server. The charging data record listener listens for charging data records generated within the gateway and issues offline charging requests to the billing server upon detecting that a particular charging data record has been generated. The credit control interceptor intercepts requests in the communication traffic flowing through the gateway and initiates online charging requests to the billing server upon intercepting said requests.
US09432824B2
A method and apparatus are provided for presenting multimedia content to caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call and/or post-call. Content presented to a party may be related to another party participating in the call or may be related to a third party (e.g., an advertiser that paid for the ability to have its content presented). Presented content may be actuable, and allow a caller to change the destination of a call, take advantage of an offer presented to him, redeem a coupon, schedule or queue a subsequent call, etc. To find a desired destination party, a caller may initiate a manual or automatic search of his local contacts (on his telephone) and/or a central or global directory or contact list. Calls to or from certain parties or numbers may be screened or filtered.
US09432822B2
A Mobility Management Entity (MME) having MSC functionality implemented therein, performs a scheme of MTC device triggering has been conceived. A PS and CS combined location update is sent to the HSS/HLR by means of piggybacking of CS domain information over an interface between the MME and the HSS/HLR as part of a “combined” EPS/IMSI attach procedure or a “combined” TA/LA update procedure. The, SMS signaling is received from an SMS-SC (GMSC/IWMSC) to transfer an SMS message for an LTE-only device or a single-mode E-UTRAN device. Here, the SMS signaling is received from the SMS-SC (GMSC/IWMSC) via an interworking function (IWF) that provides interworking between a MAP interface and a Diameter interface. As a result, M2M or MTC devices can be supported for an LTE network or the like.
US09432821B2
Adaptive message notification for mobile devices is disclosed. Notification messages, each with an attached or embedded Trace ID, are sent by a message service to one or more mobile devices. The message content and timing is controlled by a modifiable ruleset maintained by the message service. User action in response to a notification message results in session data and an embedded or attached Trace ID being sent by the mobile device(s) to the message service. The message service analyzes the session data and, if appropriate, modifies the ruleset.
US09432812B2
A tethered item is associated with an identifier that uniquely identifies the item, and one or more content processing devices execute obtaining an identifier of the item, and correlating the obtained item identifier with information related to the tethered item.
US09432806B2
One example embodiment relates to a method that comprises receiving, via a first portable electronic device, contextual information and a geolocation relating to a first user in a network-based system; receiving, via second portable electronic device, contextual information and a geolocation relating to a second user in the network-based system; identifying a common element in the received contextual information relating to the first user, and the received contextual information relating to the second user; and in response to an identification of the common element, defining a boundary for a geofence based on the geolocation of the first or second users.
US09432801B2
A location-based service system and method, which allows a location-based service server connected with a communication device and a cloud data server to perform registration authorization procedures and service authorization procedures using an international mobile subscriber identity of the communication device that cannot be easily modified or forged in the registration and service modes, so that a user may obtain a specific location-based service result via the communication device, and this distributed authentication technique reduces the risk of data theft while increasing the flexibility and convenience in obtaining services.
US09432791B2
A location aware self-configuring loudspeaker includes a plurality of ultrasonic receivers that each provide an associated received ultrasonic receiver signal. An RF receiver receives adjacent loudspeaker RF data from an adjacent location aware self-configuring loudspeaker and provides received RF data indicative thereof. A data receiver receives audio data and provides received audio data indicative thereof. The location aware self-configuring loudspeaker also includes a processor that receives and processes the received ultrasonic receiver signals and the received RF data to determine a location of detected adjacent loudspeakers and the location of the location aware self-configuring loudspeaker. The processor also provides data indicative of the determined location of the detected adjacent loudspeakers and the location of the self-configuring loudspeaker. In addition the processor receives and processes the received audio data based upon the determined location of the loudspeaker and radiates audio indicative thereof.
US09432786B2
This document discusses, among other things, a MIC audio noise filtering system configured to detect MIC audio noise at a pole of a four-pole audio jack using first and second comparators. The MIC audio noise detection system can include first and second comparators configured to compare a value of the pole to respective first and second thresholds and to provide an output indicative of the comparisons and a detection circuit configured to count changes in the output over a first period of time and to detect MIC audio noise at the pole of the four-pole audio jack using the count.
US09432781B2
A wireless asymmetrical control system for a personal communication device comprising a first receiver associated with the personal communications device, and a transmitter having an in-band (IE audible) signal device, the IE audible device being configured to generate and transmit a time modulated control signals, the time modulated control signals being generated by generating a first plurality of multi-frequency signals comprising a plurality of first time modulated frequency combinations, and applying the plurality of first time modulated frequency combinations to a first plurality of control signals in a first frequency domain, the receiver being configured to decode the time modulated control signals and generate and transmit response signals to the IE audible signal device in response to the time modulated control signals, each of the response signals comprising an ultra-wide band (UWB) electro-magnetic pulse.
US09432777B2
A hearing device is adapted to be arranged on or at least partly implanted in an individual's head and comprises: an input unit providing an input audio signal; a signal processing circuit adapted to process the input audio signal; an output unit adapted to provide an audible signal to the individual; one or more electrodes adapted to detect electric brain potentials of the individual; and a brainwave measurement circuit adapted to determine one or more EEG signals from electric signals received from the one or more electrodes. The hearing device further comprises: a first spectrum analyzer determining first audio spectra; a reconstructor adapted to repeatedly reconstruct second audio spectra; a first correlator to determine coherence between the first and the second audio spectra; and a control unit adapted to alter said processing in dependence on the coherence.
US09432774B2
A transducer having a housing defining a chamber, a bent armature with a first leg and a second leg, a magnet assembly for providing a magnetic field in an air gap, and a coil comprising a coil tunnel. The coil tunnel and the air gap extend substantially parallel or perpendicular to each other. Furthermore, the first leg extends in a first direction through the coil tunnel and the second leg extends in a second direction through the air gap.
US09432773B2
A speaker includes a diaphragm and a magnetic circuit, a plurality of acoustic paths that provide connection between a space formed on a side including the magnetic circuit with respect to the diaphragm and a space exterior to the speaker are formed in the magnetic circuit, and the plurality of acoustic paths include a first acoustic path and a second acoustic path that differs in acoustic impedance from the first acoustic path.
US09432770B2
A method for localizing one or more sound sources of interest placed within a sound environment comprising ambient noise by estimating the directions of arrival (θ,φ) of said one or more sound source of interest comprising the steps of: calculating the environment steered response power (SRP (t, f, θ, φ)) corresponding to the steered response power of said one or more source of interest for one or more orientations using said environment audio signals; obtaining, using said array of at least two microphones, noise audio signals corresponding to the audio signals emanating from said sound environment under particular reference conditions; calculating a noise steered response power (SRPn (t, f, θ, φ)) corresponding to the steered response power of the ambient noise for said one or more orientations using said noise audio signals; and estimating the direction of arrival of said sound source of interest.
US09432763B2
An easy-to-use, installation-free water leak warning device having a sturdy hollow body enclosing essential functioning elements including a power source, an amplifier, a speaker, and portions of two electrodes. The water leak warning device is preferably small in size and may be placed at potential water leak or flooding spots. The essential functioning elements are operatively connected with conductive material so that when leaked water flows to where the device is located, an audible signal can be emitted to remind the user of the device to prevent further leakage and mitigate any damage.
US09432751B2
A transparent clock converter is interposed between a non-precision time protocol (non-PTP) enabled network node and other portions of the network. The transparent clock converter effectively converts the non-PTP node into a transparent clock node. In some embodiments the transparent clock converter includes physical layer devices, but not media access controllers.
US09432750B1
Technology for a contentionless N×M wavelength cross connect (WXC) device is disclosed herein. The WXC device includes multiple input and output wavelength dispersive elements and a cross connect assembly. The cross connect assembly includes multiple rows of incoming ports. For each individual wavelength of different wavelengths, split optical beams of the individual wavelength from the input wavelength dispersive elements reach a row of incoming ports corresponding to the individual wavelength. The cross connect assembly further includes transmissive active switching elements and multiple rows of outgoing ports. The transmissive active switching elements configured to dynamically establish at least one optical path between an incoming port within the row of incoming ports corresponding to the individual wavelength and an outgoing port within a row of output ports corresponding to the individual wavelength.
US09432746B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods of providing content to a user via communications between a content provider and a user over a plurality of disparate communication channels are provided. Content is provided to a user via a first transmission channel for presentation. Metadata associated with the content identifies a content event trigger at a point in the content. The content is displayed using a first presentation system. When the content event trigger is reached, supplemental content is provided to the user via a second transmission channel. The supplemental content is provided to the user during continued presentation of the content, and the supplemental content is provided to the user using a content providing system that is wholly separate from the first presentation system.
US09432739B2
A method may be provided for displaying an image display apparatus. Channels may be changed on the image display apparatus based on a user channel change command. A channel change state may be determined, and a determination may be made when a total number of channels satisfies a prescribed criterion. Information regarding recommended content may be displayed when the determined number of channel changes satisfies the prescribed criterion.
US09432738B2
An interactive method includes displaying image content received through a television (TV) network, identifying an object of interest of a user among a plurality of regions or a plurality of objects included in the image content, and providing additional information corresponding to the object of interest.
US09432734B2
A method for multi-person and multi-device content personalization is described. The method includes receiving via a wireless network interface a first user identifier advertised by a portable client device; determining that the signal strength of the portable client device at the wireless network interface is greater than a threshold value; and selecting content items in a sequence based on consumption statistics of content associated with a second user identifier on the media device and consumption statistics of content associated with the first user identifier, wherein consumption statistics include records indicating one or more interactions with the content items of a plurality of content items by one or more users associated with user identifiers.
US09432725B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting content from a source device are provided. The method includes transmitting a message to a branch device and a second device inquiring whether a conversion function for converting content that is streamed to a first device, is installed on the branch device or second device; receiving a response to the transmitted message; transmitting a message requesting conversion of the content to the branch device or the second device, which includes the conversion function; and transmitting the content to the branch device. The content is relayed to the second device by the branch device, and is converted by the branch device or the second device according to performance capabilities of the second device.
US09432721B2
Social media content items and references to events that occur therein are aligned with the time-based media events they describe. These mappings may be used as the basis for sending messages to populations of authors of content items, where the populations are determined based on whether the author has written a content item that refers to a specific TV show or advertisement. TV streams are monitored to detect when and where a specific advertisement for a particular advertiser is shown. Concurrently, social media streams are monitored for content items that refer to or are about specific TV shows and advertisements. Responsive to a specific advertisement being detected as being shown during a specific TV show, a message associated with the advertisement is sent to the authors of the content items associated with that TV show or advertisement. The messages can be transmitted while the advertisement is being shown.
US09432713B2
The MEDIA CONTENT SYNCHRONIZED ADVERTISING PLATFORM APPARATUSES AND SYSTEMS (“AD-SURVEY”) transforms user advertisement exposure data via AD-SURVEY components, into ad effects data including user responses to survey questions. A system is disclosed, comprising: a memory; a processor disposed in communication with said memory, and configured to issue a plurality of processing instructions stored in the memory, wherein the processor issues instructions for obtaining TV program schedule listing data including a plurality of ad tags at a server: providing the obtained TV program schedule listing data to a user mobile device, receiving a user media program selection message from the user mobile device; retrieving an ad tag associated with the user selected media program from the TV program schedule listing data; extracting key terms from the ad tags based by parsing ad contents; querying a survey question list based on the extracted key terms; generating and sending a survey question from the query to the user mobile device; and obtaining a user reaction to the survey question.
US09432709B2
Example embodiments relate to a system to prevent manipulation of transmitted video data including an Integrated Receiver Decoder (IRD) receiving audio/video data and a display device. The IRD may include a device to transmit an HDMI compliant audio/video stream toward the display device. The system may further include a device to add an over-encryption layer to the HDMI/HDCP stream before reaching the display device and a device to remove the added encryption layer so as to recover the HDMI/HDCP stream, before processing the HDMI/HDCP stream by the display device.
US09432702B2
A method for video program recognition includes recording video sequences of each of a plurality of channels and obtaining a set of features of an image captured by a user device. The method also includes performing a camera registration operation on the video sequences to select video frames representing the recorded video sequences based on key video frames from a registered cameras associated with the recorded video sequences. Further, the method includes extracting features of at least some of the selected plurality of video frames of each channel, storing the extracted features, and comparing the obtained set of features with the stored features of each channel to determine whether there is a match between the obtained set of features of the image and features of a video frame from a specific channel and, when there is a match, determining the specific channel as a recognized channel number.
US09432699B2
There is disclosed apparatuses, methods and computer programs for video coding. The filtering process to be applied to intra predicted sample values is selected and adapted based on the characteristics of the sample prediction process. According to some embodiments an angularity information and pixel values for filtering by a filter are received. The angularity information is used to adapt the filter. The adapting may comprise selecting a filter algorithm and/or filter coefficients. The selected pixels are then filtered by the adapted filter.
US09432688B2
A device for parallel symbol decoding may include a first and second block. The first block is configured to convert a bitstream into a stream of binary symbols corresponding to motion vector data and other compressed image data, insert length fields into the stream of binary symbols that are each indicative of a number of consecutive binary symbols that correspond to motion vector data, and store the stream of binary symbols in a buffer. The second block is configured to retrieve the stream of binary symbols from the buffer, determine, based at least in part on the inserted length fields, consecutive binary symbols that correspond to motion vector data, decode the consecutive binary symbols that correspond to motion vector data via a first decode path, and to decode binary symbols that correspond to other compressed image data via a second decode path that is independent of the first decode path.
US09432686B2
Techniques and tools for video coding/decoding with motion resolution switching and sub-block transform coding/decoding are described. For example, a video encoder adaptively switches the resolution of motion estimation and compensation between quarter-pixel and half-pixel resolutions; a corresponding video decoder adaptively switches the resolution of motion compensation between quarter-pixel and half-pixel resolutions. For sub-block transform sizes, for example, a video encoder adaptively switches between 8×8, 8×4, and 4×8 DCTs when encoding 8×8 prediction residual blocks; a corresponding video decoder switches between 8×8, 8×4, and 4×8 inverse DCTs during decoding.
US09432685B2
A video coding device configured according to some aspects of this disclosure includes a memory configured to store a plurality of motion vector candidates. Each motion vector candidate can corresponding to at least one of a plurality of prediction units (PUs) partitioned in a parallel motion estimation region (MER). The video coding device also includes a processor in communication with the memory. The processor is configured to select a subset of the plurality of motion vector candidates to include in a merge candidate list. The selection can be based on a priority level of each motion vector candidate. The processor can be further configured to generate the merge candidate list to include the selected motion vector candidates.
US09432683B2
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for encoding and decoding video. A video decoding method comprises reconstructing a residual value by entropy-decoding received bitstream and dequantizing and inverse-transforming residual value information, generating a final prediction unit by performing inter prediction on a prediction unit which is partitioned from a coding unit into at least two prediction units by asymmetric motion partitioning (AMP), the two partitioned prediction units comprising a first partitioned prediction unit and a second partitioned prediction unit, and reconstructing a picture by adding the final prediction unit to the residual values.
US09432675B2
An image decoding method, according to the present invention, includes the steps of: deriving an MPM candidate mode from neighboring blocks adjacent to a target block to be decoded; generating an MPM list using the MPM candidate mode derived from the neighboring blocks; and deriving an intra prediction mode for the target block to be decoded using the generated MPM list. According to the present invention, image compression efficiency can be improved.
US09432669B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for intra prediction. The intra prediction method for a decoder, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of entropy-decoding a received bitstream, generating reference pixels to be used in the intra prediction of a prediction unit; generating a prediction block from the reference pixels on the basis of a prediction mode for the prediction unit and reconstructing an image from the prediction block and a residual block, which is obtained as a result of entropy encoding, wherein the reference pixels and/or the prediction block pixels are predicted on the basis of a base pixel, and the predicted pixel value can be the sum of the pixel value of the base pixel and the difference between the pixel values of the base pixel and the generated pixel.
US09432668B1
A hardware video encoder includes an intra search block operating on a source picture to produce pairs of intra prediction mode indices and rate-distortion values for different block sizes. The pairs of intra prediction mode indices and rate-distortion values for the different block sizes are computed in parallel based upon the source picture. An inter search block produces pairs of motion vectors and rate-distortion values for different block sizes. The pairs of motion vectors and rate-distortion values for the different block sizes are computed in parallel.
US09432659B2
A display apparatus which outputs a stereoscopic image and a control method thereof, the display apparatus includes: an image input part which receives left and right eye image frames; an image processor which generates a left eye image interpolation frame by using a gradation difference of areas between a previous right eye image frame of the left eye image frame and the left eye image frame and generates a right eye image interpolation frame by using a gradation difference of areas between a previous left eye image frame of the right eye image frame and the right eye image frame; a display which displays the left eye image interpolation frame, the left eye image frame, the right eye image interpolation frame, and the right eye image frame sequentially according to a preset order; and a controller which controls the image processor to generate the left and right eye image interpolation frames.
US09432655B2
A three-dimensional (3D) scanner including a light-source module, a screen, a rotary platform, an image capturing unit and a process unit is provided. The light source module is configured to emit a beam. The screen disposed on a transmission path of the beam has a projection surface facing the light source module. The rotary platform carrying a 3D object is disposed between the light source module and the screen. The 3D object is rotated to a plurality of object orientations about a rotating axis to form a plurality of object shadows on the projection surface. The image capturing unit is configured to capture the object shadows from the projection surface to obtain a plurality of object contour images. The process unit is configured to read and process the object contour images to build the digital 3D model related to the 3D object according to the object contour images.
US09432646B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided an image processing apparatus including a comparing unit to perform comparison using at least one of a maximum value and an average value of luminance signals of an input image, with a saturation level as a reference of comparison, the saturation level being a level of light accumulation performed for a predetermined time length which is one of a plurality of time lengths for accumulating light in imaging of the input image; a tone curve generator to generate a tone curve to be used for performing compression processing to luminance gradation of the input image, on the basis of a result of the comparison being made; and a luminance gradation compression processor to perform compression processing to luminance gradation of the input image, according to the tone curve being generated.
US09432644B2
An image display device for displaying an image based on an image signal input from a plurality of image supply devices via a network includes a storage section storing connection information used for the image supply device being connected to the image display device via the network, an encoding section encoding the connection information to generate a connection information code which can be recognized by the image supply device, a display section displaying the connection information code and the image based on the image signal input from the image supply device, and an image control section dividing an image display area of the display section into a plurality of divisional areas, and displaying the image based on the image signal input from respective one of the image supply devices in each of the divisional areas.
US09432634B2
An image generation device generates an output image including a road image based on plural input images that are captured by plural cameras mounted to a body to be operated. The image generation device includes a control part that arranges input image portions of two cameras that correspond to an overlapping area of the image capturing ranges of the two cameras to form a lattice pattern on the output image. The lattice pattern includes as a unit pattern a region that is defined by two circles having a center at the position of a first camera of the two cameras and two circles having a center at the position of a second camera of the two cameras.
US09432633B2
An example method for processing visual communications at a video camera according to the disclosure includes analyzing video content captured by the video camera to identify a visual command presented to the camera by a user in the field of view of the camera, executing the visual command identified from the video content captured by the video camera, wherein executing the visual command includes setting one or more operating parameters of the video camera, determining a command completion indication corresponding to whether the command was successfully executed, and providing a command completion indication, corresponding to the command completion indication, to the user.
US09432632B2
A surveillance system is provided that includes at least one sensor disposed in a security area of a surveillance region to sense an occurrence of a potential security breach event; a plurality of cameras is disposed in the surveillance region; at least one camera thereof has a view of the security area and can be configured to automatically gather biometric information concerning at least one subject person in the vicinity of the security area in response to the sensing of a potential security breach event; one or more other of the plurality of cameras can be configured to search for the at least one subject person; a processing system is programmed to produce a dossier corresponding to the at least one subject person to match biometric information of one or more persons captured by one or more of the other cameras with corresponding biometric information in the dossier.
US09432630B2
Disclosed is a system that optimizes transmission of content. Requests for a content type and an element within the content type is received Most frequently requested content types and most frequently requested elements within each of the most frequently requested content types are determined. A transmit rate for each of the frequently requested content types is determined, wherein the frequently requested content types with a higher request count receive a higher transmit rate than frequently requested content types with a lower request count. The most frequently requested elements within each of the most frequently requested content types are transmitted at the determined transmit rate.
US09432625B2
An immersive videoconference method wherein multiple participants (21, 22, 23, 24) in different locations (11, 12, 13) remotely interact with each other through a telecommunication network architecture (8, 31, 38), wherein the method comprises at the location (11, 12, 13) of a given participant (21, 22, 23, 24); —capturing video images of the participant by a pair of video cameras (4A, 4B); —detecting, tracking and determining size and position related parameters of the participant in the video images; —generating a single elementary video stream related to the participant; —associating a room identifier to the elementary video stream, the room identifier being uniquely associated to the given participant; —sending the elementary video stream, the size and position related parameters and the room identifier (41A, 42A, 43A) to a centralized entity (30); —repeating the above steps for each participant (21, 22, 23, 24) at the different location (11, 12, 13); wherein the method further comprises at the centralized entity (30): —creating a virtual room (70) by combining the elementary video streams (41A, 42A, 43A) for all the participants; —staging the elementary video streams of all the participants in said virtual room and computing a scene specification associated to the room identifier of each participant based on the size and position related parameters of all the participants; and —generating, for each participant, a single composite video stream (41B, 42B, 43B) of the virtual room (70) that displays the 2D video of the other participants sized and positioned as if the participants (21, 22, 23, 24) were in the same virtual room (70) based on the scene specification and a combination of the elementary video streams of the other participants.
US09432619B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a set-top-box (STB) having a controller to operate the STB coupled to an interactive television network as an audio visual answering machine using a digital video recorder forming a part of the STB, use at least one camera coupled to the STB to capture video, use at least one microphone coupled to the STB to capture audio, present video from at least a calling party on a television set coupled to the STB, and present audio from at least the calling party on speakers coupled to the STB. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09432615B2
An electronic device includes a display unit; a memory unit; and a processing unit electrically connected to the display unit and the memory unit, the processing unit capturing (N+M) frames displayed by the display unit, N and M being positive integers, the N frames having a first resolution, the M frames having a second resolution, the first resolution being larger than the second resolution, the processing unit converting a color space of the (N+M) frames and encoding the (N+M) frames, the processing unit magnifying a size of each of the M frames to be equal to a size of each of the N frames, the processing unit encapsulating and outputting the (N+M) frames.
US09432600B2
The present invention discloses a sensor device with dark current compensation and control method thereof. The sensor device includes: a sensor circuit, for sensing a physical property or a chemical property to generate an analog sensing signal; a dark current compensation circuit, which is coupled to the sensor circuit, for processing the analog sensing signal and generating an analog compensated signal according to a reference signal; and a convertor circuit, which is coupled to the dark current compensation circuit, for generating a digital sensing signal according to the analog compensated signal.
US09432597B2
An integrated-circuit image sensor generates, as constituent reference voltages of a first voltage ramp, a first sequence of linearly related reference voltages followed by a second sequence of exponentially related reference voltages. The integrated-circuit image sensor compares the constituent reference voltages of the first voltage ramp with a first signal level representative of photocharge integrated within a pixel of the image sensor to identify a first reference voltage of the constituent reference voltages that is exceeded by the first signal level.
US09432593B2
Disclosed are a target object information acquisition method and an electronic device. The target object information acquisition method comprises a first infrared transmitter transmitting scattered light to a target area comprising at least one object; a photoreceptor receiving first reflected light output after at least one object reflects the scattered light in a first time period, and generating a depth image corresponding to the target area, acquiring the target image information about a target object; a second infrared transmitter transmitting scattered light to the target area; the photoreceptor receiving second reflected light output after at least one object reflects the scattered light in a second time period, and generating a feature image corresponding to the target area; and acquiring feature information. By means of the time division, the present invention solves the technical problem of a low acquisition rate for target object information in the prior art.
US09432589B2
A method determines a pixel value in a high dynamic range image from two images of different brightness by obtaining corresponding input pixel intensities from the two images, determining combination weights, and calculating the pixel value in the high dynamic range image as a weighted average of the input pixel intensities. Another method determines a pixel value in a high dynamic range image from more than two images by forming pairs of corresponding input pixel intensities, determining relative combination weights for the input pixels intensities for each pair, applying a normalization condition to determine absolute combination weights, and calculating the pixel value in the high dynamic range image as a weighted average of the input pixel intensities. Systems for generating high dynamic range image generation from two or more input images include a processor, a memory, a combination weight module, and a pixel value calculation module.
US09432584B2
Systems and methods for previewing newly captured image content and reviewing previously stored image content using an electronic device are provided. The previously stored image content may include an individual distinct image or at least two consecutive video frame images.
US09432580B2
In a camera module for portable electronic equipment, a board holder includes a holder body extending transversely with an optical axis direction, and two support devices extending in the optical axis direction. A main circuit board (first circuit board) of a wiring board device with a flexible wiring board is supported on a rear surface of the holder body. A sub circuit board (second circuit board) is supported by the support devices. An image sensor for imaging and a signal processor are mounted on the main circuit board. An angle sensor, a controller and a driver are mounted on the sub circuit board. Thus, it is possible stably to position the angle sensor and to construct the camera module with a reduced size.
US09432577B2
Provided is an image joining apparatus that creates a joined image by joining multiple consecutive still images on a time axis, the image joining apparatus including: a past image confirmation unit that confirms whether there is a past still image located before the previous still image in terms of time in at least a part of a portion to be joined to the target still image; an angle calculation unit that calculates an angle formed between a motion vector associated with the target still image and a motion vector associated with the past still image, when the past image confirmation unit has confirmed that the past still image is present; and a stop processing unit that stops joining of the target still image when the angle calculated by the angle calculation unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined angle.
US09432575B2
An image processing apparatus includes an identification unit configured to identify a main subject region and a background region different from the main subject region with respect to a plurality of images captured by an image capturing unit, a composition unit configured to align the main subject regions of the plurality of images and to generate a composite image in which predetermined blur processing is applied to the background region, a detection unit configured to detect an amount of movement of the background region between the plurality of images based on an image of the background region or information about shaking of the image capturing unit with respect to the plurality of images, and a control unit configured to control an amount of blurring in the blur processing based on the amount of movement of the background region between the plurality of images detected by the detection unit.
US09432571B2
There is provided a storage medium having a computer program stored thereon and readable by a computer for an imaging terminal including an imaging unit, the program, when executed by the computer, causing the computer to perform operations including: acquiring captured image data generated by imaging a specific region on a target product with the imaging unit, the specific region including display lamps representing a state of the target product; specifying a display state of the display lamps in a captured image by analyzing the captured image data; acquiring identification information for identifying state related information according to the specified display state of the display lamps, the state related information relating to the state of the target product corresponding to the specified display state of the display lamps; acquiring the state related information based on the identification information; and outputting the acquired state related information on the imaging terminal.
US09432569B2
An imaging device, includes: a sensor including first phase difference detecting pixels arranged in a row direction and second phase difference detecting pixels arranged in the row direction; a defocus amount calculating unit which calculates a correlated amount of a first output signal group and a second output signal group while shifting the first output signal group and the second output signal group in the row direction by an arbitrary amount to calculate a defocus amount from a first shift amount of the first output signal group and the second output signal group when the correlated amount is at a maximum. The defocus amount calculating unit changes an upper limit of a shift amount of the first output signal group and the second output signal group in accordance with at least one of an F value, a focal distance, and a position of a focus lens.
US09432568B2
An image sensor may include a pixel array having image pixels for capturing image data and phase detection pixels for gathering phase information during automatic focusing operations. Phase detection pixels may form phase detection pixel pairs having first and second pixels with different angular responses. The first and second pixels may have color filters of the same color or may have color filters of different colors. The phase detection pixel pairs may be isolated from other phase detection pixel pairs in the array or may be arranged consecutively in a line. The phase detection pixels may, for example, be provided with color filters to match the color filter pattern of the pixel array. Processing circuitry may adjust red and green pixel signals from a phase detection pixel pair having a red and green color filter and may subsequently determine a phase difference using the adjusted pixel signals.
US09432563B2
Embodiments of imaging devices of the present disclosure automatically utilize sequential image captures in an image processing pipeline. In one embodiment, control processing circuitry captures a plurality of sub-frames, each of the sub-frames comprising a representation of a scene captured at a different focus position of a lens. A depth map of the scene may be generated comprising a depth of the portion of the scene based at least upon the focus position at which the one of the sub-frames was captured. An output frame of the scene may also be generated by utilizing pixel values of the sub-frame which are determined to be at optimal focus positions.
US09432560B2
An image capturing module for saving focusing time and increasing assembly flatness and a method of assembling the same are disclosed. The image sensing chip has a first horizontal top surface, the optical filter has a second horizontal top surface, and the first horizontal top surface and second horizontal top surface are obtained by a horizontal correction system using a laser light source. The distance from the second horizontal top surface to the first horizontal top surface is defined as a predetermined fixed focusing distance. Whereby, the movable lens assembly is directly disposed on the second horizontal top surface to save the focusing time of the movable lens assembly relative to the image sensing chip, and the first horizontal top surface and the second horizontal top surface are horizontal to each other for increasing the assembly flatness of the movable lens assembly relative to the image sensing chip.
US09432550B2
A server device is connected with a plurality of electronic devices in a communicable manner and configures a setting for a desired electronic device out of the plurality of electronic devices. The server device includes a device location management section and a setting determination section. The device location management section acquires location information representing current locations of the electronic devices. The setting determination section refers to settings for other electronic devices, out of the plurality of electronic devices, located at a short distance from the current location of the desired electronic device to determine the setting for the desired electronic device.
US09432547B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming section including a rotational member and configured to form an image on the long sheet; a density unevenness cycle acquiring section configured to acquire a cycle of a density profile that represents density variation in a sub scanning direction; a cycle control section configured to operate such that, in a case where a same image is continuously formed on the long sheet, a length of the image in the sub scanning direction is an integer multiple of a cycle length that corresponds to one cycle of the density profile; and a density correction section configured to form a patch image for correction that has a size greater than the cycle length of the density profile on the image bearing member, and perform density correction using correction data created based on a detection result regarding the patch image for correction.
US09432537B2
An image forming apparatus having a plurality of paper feed units and a control method thereof that displays a paper selection screen for displaying a page of items of information of the paper feed units and selecting a paper to be used in print processing by selecting an item of the items of information in the page displayed on the paper selection screen. Items of information of the plurality of paper feed units are divided into a plurality of pages. The apparatus and method control the display unit to display a page among the plurality of pages in accordance with a status of the image forming apparatus in a case that the display unit displays the paper selection screen.
US09432531B2
An input apparatus includes a command input unit to input a command, a key input unit having at least one key, a navigation key input unit having a rotatable navigation key, and a display panel unit to perform displaying according to manipulation of the command input unit, the key input unit, and the navigation key. In the input apparatus, the command input unit, the key input unit, the navigation key input unit, and the display panel unit are arranged in sequence according to a task flow, so a user-friendly input apparatus can be implemented.
US09432529B2
A portable handheld device includes a CPU for processing a script; a multi-core processor for processing images; and a flash memory connected to the CPU, the flash memory storing therein a table of micro-codes. The multi-core processor includes a plurality of micro-coded processing units. The CPU is configured to read one or more micro-codes from the flash memory and load the one or more micro-codes into the processing unit to execute the script being processed thereby.
US09432522B2
The present invention is directed to an improved operations method for a wireless communication system. The improved business method, operations method, network and system of the present invention includes the steps of delivering cellular services to the mass market, reducing peak capacity, increasing overall capacity utilization, improving capital utilization, providing an “all-you-can-eat” pricing model, and designing capacity based upon where the users live, work, and play.
US09432521B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for analysis of call detail records to determine unauthorized use of a cellular network are provided. The transferred data amounts from call detail records may be compared to categorized data usage associated with a portable user device to determine uncategorized data usage by the portable user device. The uncategorized data usage and the categorized data usage may be analyzed to determine unauthorized use of the cellular network.
US09432520B2
A method for tracking usage of a wireless device includes monitoring a communications trigger to initiate communication with a wireless device over a wireless network, determining an identifier of the communication, comparing the identifier of the communication with a database including two or more communication identifiers and two or more proxy identifiers, each communication identifier being associated with a corresponding proxy identifier, identifying, in response to a comparison of the identifier of the communication with the database, a proxy corresponding with the identifier of the communication, monitoring data from the wireless device to a destination through the identified proxy, and receiving usage of the wireless device from the identified proxy to track the usage of the wireless device.
US09432518B2
A method and an apparatus for completing a circuit switched service call in an Internet Protocol network are disclosed. For example, the method receives a session request and queries an tElephone NUmbering Mapping server for a called party, and determines if at least one Naming Authority Pointer resource record associated with the called party is received from the ENUM server. The method determines if a Session Initiation Protocol Universal Resource Identifier is returned, if the at least one NAPTR resource record associated with the called party is received, and processing the session request using the SIP URI, if the SIP URI is returned. The method determines if the processing of the session request using the SIP URI resulted in a successful call completion and processes the session request using a telephone URI, if the processing of the session request using the SIP URI resulted in an unsuccessful call completion.
US09432512B2
Disclosed is a cloud agent realizing method, including that: an agent is communicatively connected to a cloud agent server, acquires a parameter of the agent and a parameter of the cloud agent server from the cloud agent server, and logs in to the cloud agent server according to the acquired parameters. Also disclosed are a cloud agent realizing system and a cloud agent server. With the disclosure, cloud agent registration and management are realized in a Next Generation Call Center Cloud NGC3.
US09432508B2
An embodiment provides a modular framework for managing multiple router applications in an interactive voice response (IVR) system. In an embodiment, a single table-driven framework approach is taken in which multiple IVR router applications, including menu/response type call routing applications and/or frequently asked question (FAQ)/response applications, may be managed in a more streamlined fashion. In an embodiment, a menu is presented to the caller. The menu is part of the router application which references information stored in a database, e.g., voice files and grammars, defined in a format, e.g., in table format. An embodiment analyzes the caller's responses against the menu's information to determine the appropriate actions to take and the appropriate data to retrieve. An embodiment also provides a centralized authentication process that may be used for all self-service router applications that require or somehow make use of authentication.
US09432503B2
Phone calls may be tagged with the importance or the context of the call to be displayed along with the caller ID information on the display of a receiving phone. The context information is thus made available even before the call is answered to aid the user in determining whether or not to answer the call or how long thereafter it would be appropriate to wait before the call is returned.
US09432500B2
A method of management of a communication device in an aircraft may include transitioning the communication device from a normal mode to a disabled mode based on a calculated device sleep time based on data associated with transportation information of the device. One of these modes may be a state of the device in which a transceiver of the device is deactivated and the other mode may be a state of the device in which the transceiver is activated. Therefore, the device sleep time determines when the wireless device's transceiver may not be activated.
US09432499B2
Software and computer processor implemented system and method of providing customized automated responses to different types of incoming electronic messages from various contact sources, particularly useful for preventing distracted driving. Here the invention's software, often in the form of an app, runs on a smartphone or other computerized device configured to automatically connect to various peripherals, such as automobile associated Bluetooth peripherals. When operating, the app causes connected peripherals to automatically trigger auto response mode in response to incoming messages. Optionally, different automated responses to be assigned to different peripheral identification codes or different incoming message originators. Various prioritization schemes, such as last peripheral connected dominates, and various ways in which different contact specific automated responses may interact with various peripheral specific automated responses, are also discussed.
US09432495B2
Methods, systems, and products describe hands-free operation of automotive features. A user defines a command prefix that is recognized as preceding one or more voice commands. When the user speaks the command prefix, a processor identifies the spoken command prefix and treats a next spoken word as one of the voice commands. The voice command may then be executed for control.
US09432493B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus to detect a missing micro-filter. In embodiments, the detection is performed by measuring the distortion caused by an unfiltered telephone device using a SELT (Single Ended Line Test) technique. According to certain aspects, the signal used to perform the distortion measurement is designed such that it causes minimal impact on vectored lines within the same cable. Embodiments of the invention first determines the estimated loop length, then uses the loop length to select a set of signal parameters that will be used to perform the distortion measurement. The parameters to be selected include transmit frequency band and PSD level. According to further aspects, embodiments of the invention include automatically running a missing filter test immediately following a line drop to determine if the line drop was caused by a missing micro-filter.
US09432491B2
A waterproof structure includes a casing including a first case member having a first facing surface, and a second case member having a second facing surface. A water repellent slit is provided on at least either one of the first and second facing surfaces, extends in one direction perpendicular to a direction of liquid droplet ingress, and has unidirectional fine recesses and protrusions that make water repellency anisotropic.
US09432489B2
A method and system for efficient processing of encoded data streams communicated through a wireless network are disclosed. A system may include a receiver component, an iterator component, and a return component. The receiver component receives an encoded message including a plurality of objects. The message may be encoded according to a protocol. The iterator component traverses, without decoding the encoded message, the plurality of objects within the encoded message to locate a selected object of the plurality of objects. The selected object is selected by a client application. The return component returns data associated with the selected object to the client application.
US09432478B2
A mobile device that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, operations including requesting transport characteristics of a network coupled to a server and to the device according to a trajectory of the device. Data packets are transported to the mobile device according to a dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol. The operations include obtaining the current transport characteristics of the network and predicting a future transport characteristic of the network, according to the trajectory of the device. A time is scheduled for sending a request to the server for transmission over the network of a data packet. The time can be scheduled according to the current and future transport characteristics of the network, to avoid degradation in quality of media content presented by the device. The data packet received responsive to sending the request is buffered for a future presentation of the media content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09432469B2
A request for web content is received from a web client device at a web content server. At least one of a logging enablement status and a logging level associated with the web content is determined Client-side logging executable syntax is configured within the web content based upon the determined logging enablement status and logging level associated with the web content. The web content with the configured client-side logging executable syntax is sent to the web client device. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US09432467B2
An example apparatus includes a memory and a call session controller. The memory is to store a first public user identifier in association with a first nomadic service designator and a first operating mode designator, and to store a second public user identifier in association with a second nomadic service designator and a second operating mode designator. The call session controller is to determine whether a first call using the first public user identifier is eligible to be established based on the first nomadic service designator and the first operating mode designator, and determine whether a second call using the second public user identifier is eligible to be established based on the second nomadic service designator and based on the second operating mode designator.
US09432462B2
The distributed metering and monitoring service (DMMS) system provides a way to gather and maintain metrics data which remains distributed, until requested. The DMMS system uses messaging queues to scale the number of servers that may be monitored and metered to a hyperscale of greater than 10,000 servers. The DMMS system determines how many servers (nodes) to assign to a cluster, and uses a metric aggregator to collect and store metrics data for the nodes. The DMMS system creates message queues for the instances, injects instance identifiers into the cluster state data and metrics data, listens for request messages for metering information for instances, retrieves the metrics data for users identified by the instance identifiers stored locally at the nodes, and calculates the metering information for the instance.
US09432460B2
Multiple applications request data from multiple storage units over a computer network. The data is divided into segments and each segment is distributed randomly on one of several storage units, independent of the storage units on which other segments of the media data are stored. At least one additional copy of each segment also is distributed randomly over the storage units, such that each segment is stored on at least two storage units. This random distribution of multiple copies of segments of data improves both scalability and reliability. When an application requests a selected segment of data, the request is processed by the storage unit with the shortest queue of requests. Random fluctuations in the load applied by multiple applications on multiple storage units are balanced nearly equally over all of the storage units. This combination of techniques results in a system which can transfer multiple, independent high-bandwidth streams of data in a scalable manner in both directions between multiple applications and multiple storage units.
US09432458B2
An information handling system includes a transmission queue and a media client module. The media client module is in communication with the transmission queue. The media client module receives a disk command, stores a first number of packets in the transmission queue in response to the disk command, and transmits the first number of packets to a server associated with the disk command. The media client module also receives a restart message, stops transmission of the first number of packets in response to the restart message, calculates a delay between burst of packets and sets a second number of packets based on the restart message, stores a second number of packets in the transmission queue, and transmits the second number of packets to the server.
US09432456B2
A method and apparatus for synchronizing time between a master device and a target device arranged across a network, wherein the target device communicates to the master device through a PCIe interconnect includes transmitting a first message at a first time from the master device to the target device, the first message including a message indicator; and receiving a reply message at a subsequent time from the target device to the master device, the reply message including the message indicator.
US09432451B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for communicating media server capabilities and status information between a plurality of media servers and a media resource broker are disclosed. According to one method, messages are received at a media resource broker from a plurality of media servers, where the messages include information indicating capabilities and status of the media servers. The information regarding the capabilities and status of the media servers is cached at the media resource broker, which receives call setup requests and, in response, selects a media server from the plurality of media servers based on the cached media server capabilities and status information.
US09432444B1
Systems and methods for caching data and generating responses to data requests are disclosed. A content delivery system for sending requested data to a client based on a client request in accordance with one or more embodiments of the present invention comprises a server for compiling data into a data cache, and a headend, coupled to the server, for obtaining the data, categorizing and storing the data in groups in an object cache, receiving a client request, picking data from the object cache and generating a response, and returning the response while caching the response in a response cache that is used to directly respond to future client requests.
US09432442B2
Thin-client terminal systems allow server computer systems to be shared by multiple computer users. However, thin-client terminal systems that use analog signals can only be placed a limited distance from the main server computer system. On the other hand, thin-client terminal systems that rely purely on digital signals can be expensive to produce. A thin-client multiplier that combines the two different approaches communicates digitally with main server computer system such that it can be placed any distance from the main server computer system. The thin-client multiplier also provides output information received from the server system and electrical power to analog thin-client terminal systems and receives input information from the analog thin-client terminal systems. The received input information is provided to the server system for processing.
US09432441B2
A relaying device may be configured to communicate with an image processing device and a server device via a network. The server device may be configured to store uploaded data. The relaying device may receive, from the image processing device, selected data format instruction information. The relaying device may execute a conversion processing when the upload data is data in a first format and the data format identified by the selected data format instruction information is a second format, or when the upload data is data in a third format and the data format identified by the selected data format instruction information is not the third format. The relaying device may receive the upload data and convert the received upload data into converted data in the data format identified by the selected data format instruction information. The relaying device may transmit the converted data to the server device.
US09432439B1
In accordance with the invention, mobile phones and other electronic devices access content through links, rather than storing the content on the mobile phone or at a location under the control of a mobile phone operator. A user retrieves the content by accessing a link on the mobile phone, which results in transferring the content from a content-provider location directly to the mobile phone. In this way, the mobile phone operator does not have to reserve storage for the content, and the content provider, alerted that the user is restoring or otherwise requesting content, is able to offer the user upgrades, replacement content, and related content. To better offer a user relevant content, a history of purchases for the mobile phone, the user, or both is maintained.
US09432436B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a processing method, distribution server, client and system for streaming media. The method comprises: receiving content segment request information sent by a client; acquiring resource information of a wireless network where the client is located; predicting a data transmission rate of the wireless network according to the resource information; selecting a content segment matching the data transmission rate; and sending the content segment to the client. In embodiments of the present invention, a distribution server predicts the data transmission rate of the wireless network where the client is located and further selects the content segment with a bitrate matching the data transmission rate for the client, thereby making the bitrate of the content segment sent to the client more appropriate, realizing overall regulation of the bandwidth condition of the cellular wireless network, stable reduction of network congestion, and solving the problem of network congestion.
US09432433B2
A block-request streaming system provides for improvements in the user experience and bandwidth efficiency of such systems, typically using an ingestion system that generates data in a form to be served by a conventional file server (HTTP, FTP, or the like), wherein the ingestion system intakes content and prepares it as files or data elements to be served by the file server. The system might include controlling the sequence, timing and construction of block requests, time based indexing, variable block sizing, optimal block partitioning, control of random access point placement, including across multiple presentation versions, dynamically updating presentation data, and/or efficiently presenting live content and time shifting.
US09432431B2
A device is configured to receive a playlist identifying content assets to be played on a streaming video channel. Each of the content assets may include segments. The device may add segment addresses associated with a content asset into a queue. The segment addresses may identify memory locations at which the segments included in the content asset are stored. However, the segments themselves may not be stored by the device or added to the queue. The device may generate a batch of segment addresses from the segment addresses in the queue. The device may publish a channel manifest for the streaming video channel including the batch of segment addresses. The content assets may be accessible via the streaming video channel through a single network address. The device may periodically update the channel manifest based on the segment addresses in the queue.
US09432424B2
Presented herein is a method of blocking user-selected media content, such as, for example, audio and/or video content. In the method, at least one media content stream is presented to a user, wherein the at least one media content stream includes multiple showings of an identifiable contiguous segment of media content. One example of such a segment may be a commercial or advertisement. While presenting a current showing of the segment of media content to the user, a command is received from a user to block the segment of media content from presentation to the user. In response to receiving the command, information identifying the segment of media content is generated. The at least one media content stream is analyzed using the information to detect subsequent showings of the segment of media content. Presentation of at least one of the subsequent showings of the segment of media content is prevented when detected in the at least one media content stream.
US09432412B2
An improved system and method are disclosed for peer-to-peer communications. In one example, the method is for connecting an endpoint that is separated from another endpoint by a symmetric network address translation device.
US09432395B2
A method for performing an application search. The method includes receiving a search query from a remote device and determining a consideration set of applications based on the search query. The consideration set indicates one or more applications corresponding to the search query. For each application indicated in the consideration set, the method includes determining whether the application is a potential spam application based on one or more developer features indicating features associated with a developer of the application. When the application is determined to be a potential spam application, the method includes applying a penalty to the application. The method further includes generating search results based on the consideration set and any penalties applied to the one or more application indicated in the consideration set and providing the search results. The search results indicate one or more of the applications indicated in the consideration set.
US09432385B2
A method to mitigate attack by an upstream service provider using cloud mitigation services. An edge detection device, which located at the subscriber's network edge, is able to communicate information via status messages about attacks to an upstream service provider. The service provider is then able to mitigate attacks based on the status messages. There is a feedback loop whereby the amount of dropped traffic by the service provider is added to the network traffic to keep the mitigation request open and prevent flapping. Likewise, the detection device includes time-to-engage and time-to-disengage timers to further prevent flapping.
US09432384B2
A first data handling node (304) is configured to verify data received in a data distribution network with multiple data handling nodes forming a distribution path of a network topology, by obtaining tag information from a hash server (306). The first data handling node (304) receives data (D3) and a hash tag (H3) from a second data handling node (302). The received data (D3) and hash tag (H3) have been generated by the second node based on a previous hash tag (H1, H2) generated by a preceding third data handling node (300a, 300b). The third node has delivered data (D1, D2) to the second node, and the received data (D3) has been generated by the second node based on the data (D1, D2) delivered by the third data handling node. The first data handling node (304) verifies the received data (D3) based on the tag information from the hash server, which indicates whether the received hash tag (H3) corresponds to a “valid hash tag” (Hx) which is calculated by applying a predefined hash algorithm on the previous hash tag (H1, H2). When the received tag corresponds to the valid tag, the data is verified as trustworthy and not faked or manipulated.
US09432373B2
This is directed to providing access to content stored on a local cloud. In particular, a device can direct a librarian service overseeing the operation of a local cloud to provide another device with access to content stored on the local cloud. The librarian service can generate credentials for the other device, and provide the credentials to the other device. Using the credentials, the other device can connect directly to the local cloud and access the content. In addition, the local cloud can validate the credentials of the other before providing access to the content. The credentials can include, for example, a key to install or load on the device. The librarian may not require, however, the user to create credentials or register with the librarian before being permitted to access the content on the local cloud.
US09432366B2
A touch screen, now incorporated in most smart phones, presents an effective and transparent method to incorporate continuous active user verification schemes. The projected capacitive grid structure can be used to capture enough information to verify that a valid user currently has possession of the mobile device, even while the user is not consciously engaged in an active verification interface. Further processing, such as habitual gesture recognition, can augment the process.
US09432364B2
The present invention relates to an end-point terminal that uses authentication information of another mobile communication terminal comprising a communication unit for transmitting and receiving data through a short-range communication network, an input unit for receiving a user command, a playback unit for playing back service contents received from a service server, a storage unit for storing authentication information of first and second mobile communication terminals received from the service server, and a control unit for controlling operation of each constitutional component and controlling the communication unit to receive the authentication information of the first mobile communication terminal from the service server in response to the user command inputted through the input unit, transmit the authentication information of the first mobile communication terminal to the second mobile communication terminal if the second mobile communication terminal is connected, and transmit an authentication option inputted through the input unit to the second mobile communication terminal.
US09432351B2
In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving a request for a first user to access a loan from a lender, the request identifying a user identifier (ID) of the first user; determining whether the first user is authorized to access the loan based at least in part on a gray list comprising user IDs of the users who are not authorized to access loans, wherein the gray list is based on a black list; and permitting the loan to be accessed by the first user if the first user is authorized to access the loan based on the gray list.
US09432329B2
Network storage system configuration via a network is disclosed. A network address assignment component is configured to listen for network discovery requests over the network. Responsive to receiving a network discovery request from a network storage system, one or more candidate network addresses are (e.g., randomly) generated until an available candidate network address is generated. For example, if a first candidate network address is determined as available (e.g., not used by another device within the network), then the first candidate network address is offered and/or assigned to the network storage system as an initial configuration network address that may be used to provide configuration access to the network storage system, otherwise a second candidate network address is generated and/or evaluated for availability. As such, configuration access may be provided over the network to the network storage system regardless of whether the network comprises an IP address assigning (e.g., DHCP) server.
US09432326B2
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating contact or communication between users or participants. A profile matching process is performed to match a user profile of a first user to a user profile of a second user. A number of questions to ask the second user are automatically selected. In addition, an answer to one or more of the questions may be suggested to the second user. The questions and any suggested answers are then sent to the second user at an associated user device. A reward to be revealed to the second user in response to answering the questions may also be provided. A summary of the answers given by the second user may be provided to the first user. In response, the first user may choose to share his or her full or partial user profile, contact information, or the like with the second user.
US09432322B2
Provided is a technology enable to associate electronic sticky data with any application and to execute the application. An electronic sticky note system includes display means for displaying an electronic sticky note, storage means for storing sticky note information which includes header information to be displayed in a display area for the electronic sticky note, sticky note displaying position information indicating a position to be displayed the electronic sticky note, and application associating information corresponding to information for activating the application associated with the electronic sticky note, control means for displaying, by the display means, the electronic sticky note on the basis of the header information and the electronic sticky note displaying position information and for executing the application on the basis of the application associating information, and input means for inputting the sticky note information. In the electronic sticky note system, an application, which is associated with the electronic sticky note, includes other than the application which is indicated by the sticky note displaying position information.
US09432320B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for providing an information-centric application. The information-centric application enables a user to have access and delivery of information and services customizable according to the user's role and definition, preferences, and usage patterns. A user may receive information from one or more data sources, and the information is determined to be relevant based upon at least one of the user's role and definition, the user's preferences, and behaviors. An associated service is linked with the relevant information based upon at least one of the user's role and definition, the user's preferences, and behaviors. The relevant information and the associated service are presented in a feed item for inclusion into a user's news feed for display in a user interface.
US09432313B2
The invention provides a system and method for determining when a message is received by a recipient or an agent for the recipient. A link is activated at the recipient to provide an indication that the message has been opened by the recipient. The activation of the link may cause a server remote from the recipient to take some further action.
US09432308B2
Disclosed is a broadcast signal transmitting apparatus, a broadcast signal receiving apparatus, and a broadcast signal transceiving method in a broadcast signal transceiving apparatus. The broadcast signal transmitting method comprises the following steps: compressing the headers of data packets of an IP stream identified by IP address information, wherein the compressed data packets include a first packet, the header of which contains static field information, a second packet, the header of which contains dynamic field information, and a third packet, the header of which contains the compressed static field information and/or the compressed dynamic field information; signaling IP-PLP mapping information for mapping the IP stream and a component PLP for transmitting the IP stream, the IP stream compression information, and the header information of the first packet to L2 signaling information; and transmitting the header information of the second and third packets via the component PLP, and transmitting the L2 signaling information via a common PLP.
US09432305B1
Methods and apparatus for connection redistribution in load-balanced systems that include multiple load balancers each serving multiple nodes. In the connection redistribution method, each node estimates a connection close rate, which may be based on an estimation of the percentage of the overall client traffic received by the respective load balancer that is being handled by the node. The node generates close requests for connections between the respective load balancer and clients according to the connection close rate. The node sends the close requests to its load balancer, which forwards the close requests to the appropriate clients. Upon receiving a close request, a client may close the connection(s) indicated by the request, obtain a public IP address for a load balancer, and initiate new connection(s) to the respective load balancer via the public IP address.
US09432304B2
A system and method can support virtual machine live migration in a network. A fabric adaptor can be associated with a plurality of virtual host channel adapters (vHCAs), and wherein each said virtual host channel adapter (vHCA) is associated with a separate queue pair (QP) space. At least one virtual machine operates to perform a live migration from a first host to a second host, wherein said at least one virtual machine is attached with a said virtual host channel adapter (vHCA) that is associated with a queue pair (QP) in a said queue pair (QP) space, and wherein said queue pair (QP) operates to signal a peer QP about the live migration and provide said peer QP with address information after migration.
US09432301B2
Disjoint node groups are generated for a node cluster to guarantee hardware redundancy for each service group to be configured on the node cluster. Each service group includes service units, and each service unit is a unit of redundancy for services provided and protected by the service group. Hardware dependency is identified between virtual machines in the node cluster and hardware elements to host the virtual machines. A first node group set (NG set) is formed using a first criterion to select the virtual machines into different node groups based on the hardware dependency, such that there is no common hardware element between any two node groups in the first NG set. The first NG set is mapped to a first set of service groups. Different node groups of the first NG set are mapped to different service units in each service group of the first set of service groups.
US09432298B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for a memory system. The system includes a first semiconductor platform including at least one first circuit, and at least one additional semiconductor platform stacked with the first semiconductor platform and including at least one additional circuit.
US09432296B2
A method of initiating a new data transfer across a network, such as across a persistent network having historical data transfer performance information, is disclosed. Other embodiments of the invention comprise networks which implement methods of the invention. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, functional adjustments are made to an initial data window based upon an analysis of a historical data transfer performance and idle time since a last data transfer.
US09432294B1
In one embodiment a packet of data is received at a network element. At least one field is parsed from the packet of data. A forwarding entry is identified from a plurality of forwarding entries based on the at least one field. The forwarding entry of the plurality of forwarding entries is formed by merging information from at least one load balancing entry and at least one access control list (ACL) entry. The data packet is forwarded through a port of the network element in accordance with the identified forwarding entry.
US09432273B2
In one embodiment, one or more BitTorrent management pages, such as an index site or a Rich Site Summary (RSS) feed, may be scanned for indicia of a torrent file that is associated with one or more search terms. After the torrent file is located, information associated with the torrent file may be utilized to initiate the downloading of one or more portions of the content indicated by the torrent file over a network from swarm computers utilizing a BitTorrent Protocol. As the content is being downloaded from the swarm computers, identification information associated with each swarm computer may be obtained. Data associated with the torrent file and the identification information may be stored at a database. Thereafter, a client may search the database to locate one or more swarm computers that may be sharing, for example, unauthorized or illegal information.
US09432271B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for managing reports. In certain aspects, an apparatus for managing reports including a processing system is disclosed. The processing system is configured to receive a plurality of reports from a plurality of other apparatuses, filter out one or more of the plurality of reports, and forward the remaining plurality of reports to another apparatus, wherein each of the plurality of reports comprises data based on a sensor measurement at the respective one of the plurality of other apparatuses.
US09432266B2
Communication networks and methods are disclosed for performing Quality of Service (QoS) throttling for mobile devices. One embodiment comprises a network element that serves a mobile device for data services. The network element includes a control system that monitors usage of the mobile device that is accessing the data services. The network element further includes a policy system that identifies that the usage of the mobile device reaches a usage threshold, and determines a reduced QoS responsive to reaching the usage threshold. The control system then downgrades the QoS provided to the mobile device for data services based on the reduced QoS. The policy system may further send a notification to the mobile device that the QoS is reduced.
US09432264B2
In an implementation of component localization, control components are maintained that each define a localization format, such as a display format for a section of a display. A locale designation is received and a control component is obtained that corresponds to a locale. Display data is generated that includes the control component in a display format defined by the control component and which corresponds to the designated locale according the defined localization format.
US09432262B2
A system that facilitate broadcast of a device discovery beacon by a dynamic physical device wishing to bind to one or more control systems are provided. If the dynamic physical device comprises a server that is configured to bind to multiple master controllers, the dynamic physical device may include a device Type Flag and set the value of the device Type Flag to indicate the dynamic physical device comprises a server. On detection of the beacon, a master controller evaluates the device Type Flag if it is present in the device discovery beacon. If the device Type Flag is present and indicates the dynamic physical device comprise a server which may bind to multiple master controllers, the master controller may automatically load a device Module for the dynamic physical device and commence communications with the dynamic physical device with no manual intervention.
US09432261B1
A method for creating a secure network is provided. The method comprises establishing a controller for a plurality of edge nodes in the network; configuring each edge node to perform a discovery operation to discover Network Address Traversal (NAT) information for any NAT device associated with said edge node; and configuring each edge node to transmit any NAT information discovered through said discovery operation to the controller; and configuring the controller to distribute the NAT information received from the plurality of edge node to each edge node.
US09432258B2
Methods and apparatus to configure virtual private mobile networks for latency are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes provisioning logically a virtual private mobile network within a wireless network to reduce latency of a communication associated with a latency sensitive application, determining a mobile device is communicatively coupling to the wireless network via the latency sensitive application, and coupling the mobile device to the virtual private mobile network to reduce latency of the communication associated with the latency sensitive application.
US09432253B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for automated detection of multi-user computing devices such as kiosks, public terminals, and so on. Network resource requests are obtained from a client computing device. It is determined whether the client computing device is a multi-user system based at least in part on whether the network resource requests embody characteristics associated with multi-user systems. The resulting classification is stored and may be used to customize generation of requested network resources.
US09432246B2
Techniques are provided for managing communications from an external computer system to a gateway device on a home network. Content is downloaded to the home network, stored on the home-networking gateway and then made available to a device on the home network that is capable of using the stored content. Additionally, a home-networking gateway manages communications between external computer systems and the home network to give priority to human interactive communications over the downloading of entertainment content for future use.
US09432245B1
A distributed load balancer in which a router receives packets from at least one client and routes packet flows to multiple load balancer (LB) nodes, which in turn distribute the packet flows among multiple server nodes. Each LB node may serve in ingress, egress, and/or flow tracker roles. Each LB node may include a first network interface controller (NIC) that faces the router and a second NIC that faces the server nodes. Each LB node may implement a core packet processing architecture in which packets received at the NICs are distributed among non-blocking input queues of a set of worker cores by receiver cores for the NICs, processed from the input queues by the worker cores, and placed on non-blocking input queues of transmit cores for the NICs.
US09432233B2
An apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal includes an input formatting module configured to de-multiplex an input stream into at least one Data Pipe (DP); a BICM module configured to perform error correction processing on data of the at least one DP; a signal frame building module configured to map the data of the DP to symbols within a signal frame; and an OFDM generation module configured to generate a transmission broadcast signal by inserting a preamble into the signal frame and performing OFDM modulation. The OFDM generation module includes a pilot signal insertion module configured to insert a pilot signal including Continual Pilots (CP) and Scattered Pilots (SP) into the transmission broadcast signal, and the CPs are inserted into every symbol of the signal frame, and location and number of the CPs are determined based on a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) size.
US09432230B1
A passive equalizer includes a first resistive element coupled between a first input node and a first output node, a first capacitive element, a first variable resistor, and a first inductive element coupled in series between the first input node and the first output node, a first transistor having a first current electrode coupled to the first output node, and a first current source coupled to the first current electrode of the first transistor.
US09432229B2
One embodiment provides a network controller. The network controller includes a modulation module. The modulation module includes a high rate (HR) bit sequence generator configured to generate a first high rate bit sequence, encoder circuitry configured to encode a first low rate bit stream, the first low rate bit stream comprising backchannel information, and modulation circuitry configured to modulate the encoded first low rate bit stream onto the first high rate bit sequence. The network controller further includes transmit circuitry configured to transmit the modulated first HR bit sequence to a link partner during a link initialization period.
US09432227B2
A partial response decision feedback equalizer (PrDFE) includes a receiver including at least first and second comparators operative to compare an input signal representing a sequence of symbols against respective thresholds and to respectively generate first and second receiver outputs. A first selection stage is provided to select (a) between the first comparator output and a first resolved symbol according to a first timing signal, and (b) between the second comparator output and the first resolved symbol according to the first timing signal, to produce respective first and second selection outputs. A second selection stage selects between the first and second selection outputs according to a selection signal. The selection signal is dependent on a prior resolved symbol that precedes the first resolved symbol in the sequence.
US09432217B2
An email communication apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an email; and a transmitter configured to transmit an acknowledgement mail relating to a delivery confirmation of the email. The receiver includes: a first reception unit configured to receive a first type email through an email server, the first type email designating a mail address as a transmission destination of the acknowledgement mail, and a second reception unit configured to receive a second type email without through the email server. If the first reception unit receives the first type email, the transmitter transmits, through the email server, the acknowledgement mail in which a transmission destination is the designated email address. If the second reception unit receives the second type email, the transmitter transmits, without through the email server, the acknowledgement mail in which a transmission destination is a network address of a transmission source device.
US09432212B2
A data switching system is disclosed that allows for switching of packets through a plurality of top of rack switches utilizing a logical switching fabric that includes a local TOR switching fabric on a TOR switch and a Core switching fabric on a Core switch. A method of processing packets according to some embodiment can include receiving a packet from a source port into a top of rack switch, the source port being one of a plurality of ports on the top of rack switch, processing a packet header of the packet to determine a destination port; and switching the packet through a logical switching fabric that includes a local switch fabric on the top of rack switch and a Core switching fabric on a Core switch.
US09432206B2
A method and apparatus for testing network links bi-directionally and independently employ local test apparatus (1000) at one end of the link (1105, 1110, 1115) and remote test apparatus (1200) at the opposite end of the link. The local test apparatus transmits test traffic to the remote test apparatus which analyzes the test traffic to determine characteristics of the link in the local-to-remote direction. While the analysis is taking place, the remote test apparatus transmits interim test results to the local test apparatus, i.e., while the remote test apparatus is still running the test and without disrupting the test. Preferably, the remote test apparatus transmits test traffic to the local test apparatus which the latter analyzes to determine characteristics of the link in the remote-to-local direction. The local test apparatus may report the test results for both directions. The network may be a connected or connectionless network.
US09432205B2
A network device executes a method to forward a packet that is encoded using an explicit block encoding of multicast group membership information with Bit Index Explicit Replication. The method includes receiving a packet, where the packet includes a bitstring having a set of blocks, each block including a set identifier field and a SubBitString field. The method further includes selecting a block for processing, finding a first bit position of a SubBitString identifying a destination bit-forwarding router (BFR), looking up a forwarding bitmask for the destination BFR and a next-hop to reach the destination BFR in a bit index forwarding table, creating a copy of the packet, applying a bit-wise AND operation on the copy of the packet with the forwarding bitmask, forwarding the copy of the packet to the next-hop, and applying a bit-wise AND operation on the packet with an inverse of the forwarding bitmask.
US09432197B2
An authentication method is provided which is capable of performing message authentication within an allowable time regardless of the magnitude of the number of messages and performing message authentication high in accuracy within a range for which the allowable time allows. Upon transmission by wireless communications with another mobile or a fixed station, a message authentication code of communication data and a digital signature are generated (S200 and S300). The generated message authentication cod and digital signature are transmitted with being added to the communication data. Upon reception, whether authentication should be done using either one of the message authentication code and the digital signature included in received information is determined according to its own state for the authentication (S400 and S500). This state includes, for example, a load state of a central processing unit or the like that performs an authentication process.
US09432191B2
A public-key encryption system. Encryption of a k-bit plaintext m is performed by picking a random generating ciphertext and outputting the ciphertext. N is a non-prime integer (preferably the product of two primes p and q), y is an element in multiplicative group of integers modulo N, and k is an integer larger than 1, Decryption of ciphertext c using private key is performed by recovering such that holds and outputting plaintext m, wherein denotes the 2k-th power residue symbol modulo p, which is defined. Also provided are an encryption device and a decryption device. The encryption scheme provides better bandwidth than the Goldwasser-Micali encryption scheme.
US09432190B2
Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out receiving level-one encrypted data including at least one associated encrypted identifier; encrypting with a level-two encryption key at least a part of the level-one encrypted data to produce level-two encrypted data; receiving a hash of the at least one associated encrypted identifier; associating the hash with the level-two encrypted data; and transmitting the level-two encrypted data and associated hash of the at least one associated encrypted identifier.
US09432186B2
A data securing method, a data securing system and a data carrier are provided. The data securing method comprises an encryption procedure for encrypting a data or performing an authentication procedure. The encryption procedure includes the following steps. A first personal identification number is obtained. A first random number is generated. A first key is obtained according to the first personal identification number and the first random number. A first secure checksum is obtained according to the first key. The first random number and part of the first secure checksum are stored. The data is encrypted. The authentication procedure is performed according to the first key.
US09432179B2
A signaling system is disclosed. The signaling system includes a first integrated circuit (IC) chip to receive a data signal and a strobe signal. The first IC includes circuitry to sample the data signal at times indicated by the strobe signal to generate phase error information and circuitry to output the phase error information from the first IC device. The system further includes a signaling link and a second IC chip coupled to the first IC chip via the signaling link to output the data signal and the strobe signal to the first IC chip. The second IC chip includes delay circuitry to generate the strobe signal by delaying an aperiodic timing signal for a first time interval and timing control circuitry to receive the phase error information from the first IC chip and adjust the first time interval in accordance with the phase error information.
US09432171B2
a method and a board for high-speed link auto-negotiation, includes: setting, by a first board, a port rate to a public rate supported by both the first board and a second board; sending, by the first board, a first auto-negotiation packet to the second board according to the public rate, where the first auto-negotiation packet carries a rate supported by the first board, so that the second board determines, a highest rate supported by both the two boards, and sets the port rate to the highest rate; receiving, by the first board, a second auto-negotiation packet that is sent by the second board according to the public rate, which carries the rate supported by the second board; determining, by the first board, according to the rate supported by the two boards, the highest rate supported by both the two boards, and setting the port rate to the highest rate.
US09432168B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving channel status information (CSI) for supporting 256 QAM in a wireless access system are disclosed. A method for transmitting a Channel Quality Indication (CQI) index for 256 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) in a wireless access system includes: receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a message including a 256 QAM indicator indicating use of a 256 QAM scheme; performing channel measurement of a downlink channel through which downlink data is transmitted; and transmitting a CQI index in response to the channel measurement result to a base station (BS), wherein the UE simultaneously manages a first CQI feedback table for supporting a legacy modulation scheme and a second CQI feedback table for supporting the 256 QAM scheme.
US09432161B2
Fair sharing of physical resources (e.g., symbols, etc.) of a communication channel shared by multiple terminals associated with terminal-specific code-points. Fair sharing of symbols may include allocating amounts of at least a subset of symbols of the communication channel to at least a subset of terminals in amounts determined based on the amount of the subset of symbols in relation to the number of terminals of the subset of terminals. The respective re-allocated shares may be independent of respective spectral efficiency values associated with the respective code-points for the subset of the terminals. The subset of terminals may be identified according to code-point and/or a determined operating condition such as a location of the terminal within a service area, antenna pointing error, rain fade, and the like. Bit rate service thresholds may be applied to fair sharing of symbols.
US09432158B2
A User Equipment (UE) for handling a type-2 carrier is described. The UE includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. The instructions stored in the memory are executable to apply a configuration with one or more serving cells including at least one type-2 secondary cell (SCell). The instructions stored in the memory are also executable to obtain a measurement for each of the one or more serving cells except for the at least one type-2 SCell. The instructions stored in the memory are further executable to set a measurement list to include the measurement for each of the one or more serving cells except for the at least one type-2 SCell. The instructions stored in the memory are additionally executable to send the measurement list.
US09432151B2
An apparatus and a method for Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) in a broadband wireless access system are provided. The method includes driving a timer which operates by a preset period to synchronize ARQ between the transmitter and a receiver; after transmitting data to the receiver without error, when a driving time of the timer expires, checking whether there is data to transmit to the receiver; when there is no data to transmit to the receiver, initializing the timer; and transmitting an ARQ reset message to the receiver. Hence, the air resource consumption and the power consumption in ARQ reset can be lowered by reducing unnecessary ARQ reset.
US09432125B2
The present invention is directed, in part, to a receiver for an infrared light source. The receiver comprises a substantially transparent body; a sensor for receiving infrared light; and a substantially planar first surface on the transparent body. The first surface is configured to direct light from the infrared light source to the sensor. The substantially planar first surface comprises the end of the substantially transparent body. The substantially planar first surface provides an internally reflective surface that directs light into the interior of the substantially transparent body so it will make contact with the sensor.
US09432122B2
A bidirectional optical subassembly (BOSA) optical networking unit (ONU) generally includes a BOSA housing. A tunable laser is located in the BOSA housing and is configured to generate a first optical signal for transmission at a first selected wavelength based on temperature control. The tunable laser is a distributed feedback (DFB) laser diode. A thermal management device is also located in the BOSA housing and is configured to provide the temperature control. A photo diode is further located in the BOSA housing and is configured to receive a second optical signal at a second selected wavelength. The BOSA housing comprises an alloy of stainless steel or an alloy of Kovar.
US09432121B2
Various apparatuses, circuits, systems, and methods for optical communication are disclosed. In some implementations, an apparatus includes a package substrate and f first interposer mounted on the package substrate. The apparatus also includes a logic circuit and an optical interface circuit connected to the logic circuit via the first interposer. One of the optical interface circuit or the logic circuit is mounted on the first interposer. The optical interface circuit includes a driver circuit configured to receive electronic data signals from the logic circuit. The optical interface circuit also includes an optical transmitter circuit coupled to the driver circuit and configured to output optical data signals encoding the electronic data signals.
US09432110B2
A system and method include a modulator to combine satellite codes with a carrier signal on an I-Channel and a Q-Channel. A processor applies a code power fraction to the combined codes on the I-Channel and the Q-Channel to provide a unity amplitude while maintaining a phase angle so that a signal constant envelope transmission can occur without a balancing code.
US09432106B2
A communication method in relay nodes and destination nodes for neutralization of aligned interferences in an interference channel is provided. A communication method of a first relay node in a network including a first source node, the first relay node, a first destination node, a second source node, a second relay node, and a second destination node, includes receiving, from the first source node, streams X and Y. The communication method further includes receiving, from the second source node, a stream Z. The communication method further includes generating a signal in which the streams Y and Z are aligned in a space. The communication method further includes transmitting, to the first destination node and the second destination node, the stream X and the signal.
US09432103B2
A cellular communication system comprises a Multiple-In Multiple-Out, MIMO, transmitter and receiver. The MIMO transmitter comprises a message generator for generating MIMO messages comprising selected training sequences and transceivers transmitting the messages on a plurality of antennas. The training sequences are selected by a midamble selector from a set of training sequences in response to an associated antenna on which the message is to be transmitted. The set of training sequences is associated with the cell of the MIMO transmitter and comprises disjoint subsets of training sequences for each of the plurality of antennas. The receiver comprises a transmit antenna detector which determines which antenna of the MIMO transmitter the message is transmitted from in response to the training sequence of the received message.
US09432102B2
Provided is a device and a method for eliminating inter-cell interference in Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) wireless communication system. The method for operating a user equipment for eliminating the inter-cell interference includes determining one or more optimum bands among bands not requested to be restricted from a neighboring cell, determining at least one of band and Precoding Matrix Index (PMI) to be requested to be restricted to the neighboring cell among the determined one or more optimum bands, and feeding back at least one of the band and PMI to be requested to be restricted to the neighboring cell to a serving base station.
US09432096B2
The present invention addresses apparatuses, methods and computer program product for providing enhanced codeword re-transmission for multi-codeword in 4 antenna branch HSDPA MEMO wireless communication network, thereby preventing getting stuck in higher than rank 1transmissions. When a negative acknowledgement signaling is received from a terminal upon transmission including a first and a second codeword to the terminal, the codeword not associated with the negative acknowledgement signaling is replaced with a temporary codeword, and a transmission a re-transmission of the codeword associated with the negative acknowledgement signaling and the temporary codeword to the base station is caused.
US09432090B2
Various aspects of the subject technology include a wireless power transmission design based on extended range near-field resonance coupling induction, where magnetic near-field range may be extended by several orders of magnitude. One element that may help to accomplish the near-field extension, in one aspect, is the addition of a transformational magnetic lens to the transmitter. The magnetic lens may be made of metamaterials with refractive index of for example, −1. It may recover and collimate the near-field evanescent, magnetic flux, effectively extending the near-field coupling distance by several orders of magnitude.
US09432089B2
A configuration method of a multimedia system comprising a first device and at least one adjacent device having a mechanism to communicate with the first device. The first device comprises a mechanism to read/write data from/to an NFC data carrier. The method comprises a set-up phase and an exploitation phase.
US09432087B2
A communication system includes an HCE application module and a security module. The HCE application module can carry out NFC and transmit an NFC signal in software format. The security module can provide a secure storage for storing at least one NFC applet, receive the NFC signal from the HCE application module, and carry out a process corresponding to the NFC signal. A communication method includes the steps of activating the HCE application module; enabling connection between the HCE application module and the security module; waiting for an NFC signal from an NFC reader; receiving the signal; processing and transmitting the signal to the security module; storing at least one transaction-related key and transaction-related data of the NFC signal and executing a process corresponding to the signal by the security module; and transmitting a responsive signal to the NFC reader.
US09432083B2
According to an embodiment, a communication system includes a transmitting electrode, a first transmission line, a transmission circuit, a receiving electrode, a second transmission line and a reception circuit. The first transmission line includes one end connected to the transmitting electrode. The transmission circuit is connected to an other end of the first transmission line and configured to transmit a transmission signal. The receiving electrode is capacitively coupled to the transmitting electrode. The second transmission line includes one end connected to the receiving electrode. The reception circuit is connected to an other end of the second transmission line and configured to receive a reception signal via the receiving electrode and the second transmission line. Characteristic impedances of the first transmission line and the second transmission line are greater than an output impedance of the transmission circuit.
US09432082B2
Properties and the construction method of Orthogonal Differential Vector Signaling Codes are disclosed which are tolerant of order-reversal, as may occur when physical routing of communications channel wires causes the bus signal order to be reversed. Operation using the described codes with such bus-reversed signals can avoid complete logical or physical re-ordering of received signals or other significant duplication of receiver resources.
US09432074B2
A protective case for a mobile device having a co-molded multi-layered construction having a first layer that generally forms the external back face surface of the case. A second layer generally forms the perimeter bumper of the case. The first layer is comprised of material that has a hardness and/or rigidity that is greater than the second layer. The layers are configured to interact with one another so that they are capable of distributing impact forces to mitigate damage to the mobile device. One or more reinforcing support members in the form of a beam or rod are provided and extend internally and longitudinally near the sides of the case and preferably near the long sides of a rectangular shaped case. The reinforcing support members are formed of even harder or more rigid materials, such as metal alloy or cured fiber reinforced composite rods or beams, relative to the first and second layer and are capable of providing additional support and rigidity to the mobile device to stop or mitigate unintentional or undesired bending of the mobile device.
US09432068B2
A communication device for a vehicle includes: a transmit unit for wireless transmission of vehicle-related data; and a receive unit for receiving vehicle related data. The communication device is configured to be integrated into a lighting unit.
US09432066B2
A multi-channel communication terminal has at least two communication channels including a first communication channel and a second communication channel. The first communication channel is established by a first service provider system, and is configured to acquire subscriber identity information assigned by a remote server and provide service sharing. The second communication channel is established by a second service provider system according to the subscriber identity information, and is configured to acquire a service provided by the second service provider system. A subscriber acquires appropriate subscriber identity information according to actual requirements, and communicates with a corresponding service provider system according to the subscriber identity information to acquire a service provided by the service provider system, thereby acquiring an international, any-service provider, any-technology and mode, or any-service network access service.
US09432062B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for polar noise shaping. In one aspect there is provided a method. The method may include receiving a first error signal representative of a first noise including a first quantization noise carried by a quadrature signal; receiving a second error signal representative of a second noise including a second quantization noise carried by an in-phase signal; and determining one or more bits in a polar domain, wherein the one or more bits cancel a portion of the first noise and the second noise represented by the first error signal and the second error signal. Related apparatus, systems, methods, and articles are also described.
US09432055B2
A quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check (QC-LDPC) encoder includes a Fourier transform circuit configured to receive an input message and to generate a transformed message based on the input message. The transformed message includes leading symbols with indices corresponding to leading elements of cyclotomic cosets of a finite field with respect to a subfield. The QC-LDPC encoder further includes a matrix multiplier circuit configured to multiply the leading symbols of the transformed message by leading symbols of a transformed LDPC generator matrix to generate leading symbols of transformed parity symbols associated with an LDPC codeword. The QC-LDPC encoder is configured to provide the leading symbols of the transformed parity symbols to an inverse Fourier transform circuit to generate parity information of the LDPC codeword.
US09432050B2
A method of updating data compression software. The method comprises using real-time data to train upgraded compression/decompression software. A compressor and/or decompressor function processes and delivers the real-time data using an existing compression/decompression software. Following completion of the training process, the compressor and/or decompressor deactivates the existing compression/decompression software and activates the upgraded compression/decompression software to process and deliver the real-time data.
US09432048B2
A D/A conversion circuit includes a plurality of resistors connected to each other in series, a plurality of MOS transistors connected to each other so as to correspond to a plurality of contacts, and a plurality of dummy electrodes respectively disposed on sides opposite to the plurality of MOS transistors with a resistive element interposed therebetween when seen in a plan view of a semiconductor substrate. Each of the dummy electrodes is set to be in a second potential state when a gate electrode of the MOS transistor disposed on a side opposite thereto with the resistive element interposed therebetween is in a first potential state, and is set to be in a first potential state when the gate electrode of the MOS transistor is in a second potential state.
US09432045B2
A converter may include multiple converter stages connected in series. Each converter stage may receive a clock signal and an analog input signal, and may generate an analog output signal and a digital output signal. Each converter stages may include an encoder generating the digital output signal, a decoder generating a reconstructed signal, a delaying converter generating a delayed signal, and an amplifier generating a residue signal, wherein the delayed signal may be a continuous current signal.
US09432043B2
It is known to perform sample rate conversion. A sample rate converter is arranged to receive digital data at an input sample rate Fs and to output data at an output sample rate Fo, where Fo=Fs/N, and N is decimation factor greater than 1. A problem can arise with sample rate converters when a user wishes to change the decimation rate. Generally a sample rate converter needs to discard the samples in its filter when the decimation rate is changed, and the filter output is unusable until the filter has refilled with values taken at the new decimation rate. The sample rate converter provided here does not suffer from this problem. The sample rate converter includes at least Q channels. Each channel comprises a Qth order filter arranged to select input signals at predetermined intervals from a run of P input signals, and to form a weighted sum of the selected input signals to generate an output value, and where the runs of P input signals of one channel are offset from the runs of P signals of the other channels.
US09432034B2
An integrated oscillator circuit comprises an oscillator configured to be switched between a first frequency and a second frequency. A switching circuit receives an input representing a target frequency and switches the oscillator between the first and second frequencies at intervals determined by the input, so as to cause the average output frequency of the oscillator to approximate the target frequency.
US09432033B2
A system method of initializing operation of a semiconductor device including detecting de-assertion of an external reset signal while the semiconductor device in a reset state, monitoring a temperature level of the semiconductor device, and while the temperature level is below a predetermined minimum operating temperature level that allows the semiconductor device to operate at a maximum performance level, keeping the semiconductor device in the reset state and asserting at least one operating parameter on the semiconductor device at an elevated level to generate heat on the semiconductor device, and releasing the reset condition when the temperature level is at least the predetermined minimum operating temperature level. The operating parameter may be clock frequency or supply voltage level or a combination of both. Different elevated clock frequencies and/or different minimum operating temperature levels are contemplated. Additionally turning off an external cooling system during the heating process is contemplated.
US09432030B2
A phase locked loop (PLL) includes a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO), a loop filter, and a feedback control unit. The VCO is configured to generate a first oscillating signal and a second oscillating signal according to a VCO control signal. The loop filter is configured to output the VCO control signal by low-pass filtering a signal at an input node of the loop filter. The feedback control unit has an output node coupled to the input node of the loop filter, the feedback control unit is configured to apply a first predetermined amount of current, along a first current direction, to the first feedback control output node during a variable period of time; and to apply one of K second predetermined amounts of current, along a second current direction opposite the first current direction, to the first feedback control output node during a predetermined period of time.
US09432027B1
A frequency control system includes a power generating circuit and a frequency generating circuit. The power generating circuit includes an up transistor circuit, a down transistor circuit and a capacitor for generating a stable voltage. The frequency generating circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a current source/sink circuit, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and a digital controller. The DAC receives the stable voltage as a power, the current source/sink circuit receives an analog signal from the DAC, the VCO receives a control voltage from the current source/sink circuit, and the digital controller receives a frequency signal from the VCO and a reference signal, according to which a digital signal is generated and fed to the DAC.
US09432019B2
A control chip for power saving is provided. The control chip is configured to operatively receive a first voltage and a first bias voltage. The control chip includes a microcontroller unit and a low power module. The low power module is coupled to the microcontroller unit. The microcontroller unit receives the first voltage to control the operation of at least one component under an operating mode and to stop receiving the first voltage under a power saving mode. The low power module operatively receives the first bias voltage. When the microcontroller unit switches from the operating mode to the power saving mode, the low power module operatively generates a first control signal to cause the microcontroller unit to stop receiving the first voltage. When the low power module detects a trigger signal, the power module operatively generates a second control signal to cause the microcontroller unit to continue receiving the first voltage.
US09432016B2
Provided is a semiconductor device exemplified by an inverter circuit and a shift register circuit, which is characterized by a reduced number of transistors. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor. One of a source and a drain of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first wiring, and the other thereof is electrically connected to a second wiring. One of a source and a drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to the first wiring, a gate of the second transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor, and the other of the source and the drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to one electrode of the capacitor, while the other electrode of the capacitor is electrically connected to a third wiring. The first and second transistors have the same conductivity type.
US09432007B1
An out-of-band (OOB) detection circuit includes: a positive input node; a negative input node; a resistive circuit comprising a first resistor coupled between a first supply node and a first node, a variable resistor coupled between the first node and a second node, and a second resistor coupled between the second node and a ground; a first comparator configured to compare a difference between a positive input signal received at the positive input node and a negative input signal received at the negative input node against a positive threshold value, and a second comparator configured to compare the difference between the positive input signal received at the positive input node and the negative input signal received at the negative input node against a negative threshold value.
US09432006B2
A buffer circuit includes a power supply voltage detection block which may detect a voltage level of a power supply voltage, a bias generation block which may generate a constant bias signal and a plurality of enable bias signals based on the detection result of the power supply voltage, and an input buffer which may amplify an input signal in response to the constant bias signal and the plurality of enable bias signals.
US09431992B2
A method for designing a coupling-function based millimeter wave electrical element. The method comprises computing a length of a first metal line and a second metal line; computing a first number of turns for the first metal line and a second number of turns for the second metal line; determining a width value of each of the first metal line and the second metal line; determining a spacing value between the first metal line and the second metal line; winding the first metal line on a first metal layer according to the first number of turns and winding the second metal line on the first metal layer and, in part, on a second metal layer according to the second number of turns, thereby resulting in a spiraled structure; and setting ports for the spiraled structure to form a complete design of the millimeter wave electrical element.
US09431990B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a circuit including an antenna having a tunable component. The tunable component can be operable to receive a variable signal to cause the tunable component to change a reactance of the antenna. The tunable component can include a first conductor coupled to the antenna, a second conductor, and a tunable material positioned between the first conductor and the second conductor, where at least one of the first conductor or the second conductor, or both are adapted to receive the variable signal to cause the change in the reactance of the antenna. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09431987B2
A method for convolving an input signal with an impulse response function, the impulse response function being partitioned into a plurality of time segments of equal size, the method including transforming a segment of an input signal into the frequency domain to generate a frequency spectrum of the segment of the input signal; multiplying the frequency spectrum of the segment of the input signal with a frequency spectrum of each of the segments of the impulse response function; scaling the results from the multiplication of frequency spectra; accumulating the scaled results; and performing an inverse transform on the accumulated signals to generate a desired convolved signal in the time domain. The scaling includes performing a bitwise shift operation on the multiplication results, and performing the bitwise shift operation includes adding a bit to the multiplication results before the bitwise shift operation. Fast convolution of uniformly partitioned impulse response functions can be achieved by performing scaling of input signals, multiplication, and accumulation using fixed-point arithmetic.
US09431986B2
A sound processing apparatus includes an information acquisition unit which acquires control information including at least one of mode information for designating a reproduction mode of the sound processing apparatus and attribute information for designating an attribute of an audio content represented by a sound signal, a frequency band expansion unit which performs frequency band expansion processing for adding an expanded component generated from the sound signal to the sound signal, and a control unit which changes parameters to be applied to the frequency band expansion processing in accordance with the control information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
US09431981B2
In one example, a technique may include outputting, by a computing device associated with a user and for playback at a first volume level by an audio output device, first audio data, receiving, by the computing device, audio input data, and responsive to determining, by the computing device, that the audio input data includes speech associated with an entity different from the user, determining, by the computing device and based at least in part on the audio input data, whether to output second audio data. The method may also include, responsive to determining to output the second audio data: determining, by the computing device, a second volume level lower than the first volume level, and outputting, by the computing device and for playback at the second volume level by the audio output device, the second audio data.
US09431975B2
In some embodiments, circuits for providing Class-E power amplifiers are provided, the circuits comprising: a first switch having a first side and a second side; a first Class-E load network coupled to the first side of the first switch; a second Class-E load network: and a second switch having a first side and a second side, the first side of the second switch being coupled the second side of the first switch and the second Class-E load network. In some embodiments, the circuits further comprise: a third switch having a first side and a second side; a third Class-E load network coupled to the first side of the third switch; a fourth Class-E load network; and a fourth switch having a first side and a second side, the first side of the fourth switch being coupled the second side of the third switch and the fourth Class-E load network.
US09431967B2
A method of providing a power supply of an amplifier of a wireless transmission system comprising, determining the power at an antenna when transmitting a signal to be transmitted by the amplifier, determining the modulation scheme for transmitting the signal, determining the frequency allocation of the signal to be transmitted, determining a transmit channel characteristic, and adjusting a parameter of the power supply of the amplifier based on the determining steps to maintain amplifier linearity.
US09431965B1
A radio-frequency amplifier includes a matching network comprising a switching unit. The switching unit is operable in a first condition to provide a selected impedance at a first selected frequency. The switching unit is operable in a second condition to form a bandstop filter. A stop band of the bandstop filter includes a second selected frequency. The first selected frequency may be a second harmonic of a transmission frequency different from the second selected frequency. A multi-band transceiver is also described, as is a method of transmitting a first signal and a second signal.
US09431963B2
A dual stage LNA for use in multiband receivers is disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, an apparatus includes a plurality of first stage amplifiers having a plurality of first stage output ports, respectively, to output first stage amplified voltage mode signals. The apparatus also includes a plurality of second stage amplifiers having a plurality of second stage input ports, respectively, and second stage output ports to output amplified current mode signals. The apparatus also includes a switch apparatus having input terminals connected to the first stage output ports and output terminals connected to the second stage input ports, the switch apparatus to connect selected second stage input ports to selected first stage output ports.
US09431962B2
An RF reception system and method uses IF quadrature mixing, in which there is further mixing and channel filtering in the digital domain, to isolate a frequency of interest. A coefficient estimator is used for generating a phase correction coefficient and an amplitude correction coefficient from filtered in-phase and quadrature desired signals and from filtered in-phase and quadrature image signals.
US09431959B2
A crystal oscillator, including: a voltage stabilizing unit, a transconductance unit, a feedback resistor, a crystal resonator and at least two ground capacitors. The voltage stabilizing unit includes a current source and a first branch circuit including PMOS and NMOS connected in series, PMOS has its source connected to output of the current source, PMOS and NMOS have their gates connected to drains thereof, and NMOS has its source connected to ground. The transconductance unit includes a second branch circuit including PMOS and NMOS connected in series, PMOS has its source connected to output of the voltage stabilizing unit, PMOS and NMOS have their gates connected to input of the crystal resonator and one end of the resistor, and have their drains connected to output of the crystal resonator and another end of the resistor. The capacitors are connected to two ends of the crystal resonator respectively and ground.
US09431955B1
An integrated circuit device includes a pair of serially-connected crystal resonators arranged as a first crystal resonator, which is configured to preferentially support a fundamental resonance mode in response to an input signal, and a second crystal resonator, which is configured to preferentially support a third or higher overtone resonance mode in response to a signal generated at an output terminal of the first crystal resonator. A negative impedance converter (NIC) is also provided, which has an input terminal electrically connected to an input terminal of the first crystal resonator and an output terminal electrically connected to one of the output terminal of the first crystal resonator and the output terminal of the second crystal resonator. The NIC may be a CMOS-based NIC that is devoid of inductive reactance from a passive inductor.
US09431949B2
A method for estimating a speed of an induction motor includes applying a voltage to the induction motor and measuring a current of the induction motor. A current fast fourier transform (FFT) of the current is then determined and a slip of the induction motor is calculated based on the current FFT. A speed of the induction motor is then estimated based on the slip of the induction motor.
US09431934B2
An embodiment of a motor controller includes a motor driver and a signal conditioner. The motor driver is operable to generate a motor-coil drive signal having a first component at a first frequency, and the signal conditioner is coupled to the motor driver and is operable to alter the first component. For example, if the first component of the motor-coil drive signal causes the motor to audibly vibrate (e.g., “whine”), then the signal conditioner may alter the amplitude or phase of the first component to reduce the vibration noise to below a threshold level.
US09431929B2
Energy harvesting systems and devices are provided that harvest energy from external asynchronous force impulses using fluidic force transfer of the external force impulses to a plurality of compliant piezoelectric layers that seal a corresponding plurality of inner cavities. Each inner cavity can contain a compressible gas. Direct fluidic force transfer can be accomplished via a compressible or incompressible fluid between an external cover and the compliant piezoelectric layers.
US09431927B2
An electrical generation system for a doorway including a door includes a lock mechanism movable between an engaged position and a disengaged position to allow the door to move between a closed position and an open position and a cam coupled to the door. A piezo-electric generator is coupled to the cam. The cam is rotatable with respect to the piezo-electric generator. The piezo-electric generator is operable to produce an electrical current in response to rotation of the cam with respect to the piezo-electric generator, and the electrical current has a frequency that is greater than the number of revolutions made by the cam with respect to the piezo-electric generator.
US09431915B2
Provided is a power converter for converting electric power between a power source and a load, including: a boosting device including a boost rectifier configured to prevent a backflow of a current from the load side to the power source side, the boosting device being configured to change a voltage of electric power supplied from the power source to a predetermined voltage; a commutation device configured to perform a commutation operation of directing a current flowing through the boosting device to another path; and a controller configured to perform control related to the voltage change of the boosting device and control related to the commutation operation of the commutation device, in which the commutation device is configured to flow, when the commutation device performs the commutation operation, a current generating a voltage causing reverse recovery of the boost rectifier to the commutation device side.
US09431912B2
A control device controls a rectifier of a switching converter that is supplied with an input voltage and provides an output current. The rectifier is configured to rectify the output current of the converter and has at least one transistor. The control device, when the at least one transistor is turned off, provides a slow discharge path to ground in a normal operation condition and provides a fast discharge path to ground for discharging the control terminal of the at least one transistor in response to detecting a zero cross event of the current flowing through said at least one transistor.
US09431907B2
A switching regulator includes a first switching element and a second switching element in a pair to be switched over to convert an input voltage to a certain constant voltage, and an operation monitor to monitor an operation state of the first switching element, in which a switching of the second switching element is changed according to a result of the monitoring by the operation monitor.
US09431906B2
A converter circuit has an error amplifier to provide an error signal; a proportional amplifier to provide a gain signal according the error signal and an output voltage of the converter circuit; a first comparator, generating a pulse signal according to the gain signal and a comparison signal; and a timer, generating a timing signal according to the pulse signal to indicate the on time and the off time of the converter circuit; and wherein either the gain signal or the comparison signal comprises a ramp component, and wherein the on time of the converter circuit is constant.
US09431903B2
A DC-DC converter includes a first power source generator, the first power source generator including an input port and a first output port, the first power source generator being configured to receive an input power source to the input port, and being configured to generate a first power source, the first power source being output to the first output port, and a selecting unit, the selecting unit being configured to selectively transmit, to the first power source generator, one of: a feedback voltage, the feedback voltage being input from an external feedback wiring line via a feedback terminal, and a voltage of the first output port.
US09431901B2
A charge pump cell, comprising: an input node; an output node; Q channels, where Q is an integer greater than one, and where at least two of the channels comprise: a capacitor; a unidirectional current flow device; an output diode; and a channel drive signal node; and wherein a first current flow node of the unidirectional current flow device is connected to a first node of the capacitor at a channel node, a second node of the capacitor is connected to the channel drive signal node, a second current flow node of the unidirectional current flow device is connected to the input node, and the output diode is connected between the channel node and the output node.
US09431899B2
A power supply device may include: a standby power unit converting a direct current (DC) voltage to an operating voltage and a first standby voltage and providing the first standby voltage to a standby output terminal; a DC/DC converting unit receiving the operating voltage from the standby power unit, converting the DC voltage to a main voltage, and providing the main voltage to a main output terminal; and a main/standby power unit converting the main voltage from the DC/DC converting unit to a second standby voltage and providing the second standby voltage to the standby output terminal. The standby power unit varies a magnitude of the first standby voltage based on whether or not the second standby voltage is supplied to the standby output terminal.
US09431896B2
Power factor correction (PFC) apparatus, controllers, and methods for operating bridgeless totem pole power factor correction converters in which AC input voltage polarity is detected for designation of active and freewheeling switches of the totem pole circuit, a nominal freewheeling switch on-time is determined according to a Volt×Second balance relationship, and the voltage across the designated active switch is sensed and used to selectively modify or offset the nominal freewheeling switch on-time to provide a computed freewheeling switch on-time for the next switching cycle to facilitate zero voltage switching of the active switch.
US09431890B2
Apparatuses and methods for providing output power are disclosed. In an example method, a control signal is received at an output stage. The control signal may be provided by a control circuit. The method further includes providing a first power to a filter responsive to the received control signal having a first value, and providing a second power to the filter responsive to the received control signal having a second value. The method further includes decoupling the first power and second power from the filter responsive to the received control signal having a third value.
US09431886B2
A method for producing a magnet plate for a linear motor is provided. The magnet plate comprises a base plate and a plurality of magnets juxtaposed to one another on a surface of the base plate. The method comprises providing the plurality of magnets on a surface of the base plate at a certain interval, placing the base plate into a mold, supplying a resin material into the mold, so as to form a resin molding covering the plurality of magnets on the surface of the base plate by means of injection molding, and magnetizing the plurality of magnets.
US09431883B2
A method of manufacturing a laminated core, having a laminated core body 10a formed by laminating plural core sheets 11 and having magnet insertion holes 13, 14 with openings 17, 18 opening to a inner space 15 or an external side, inserting and resin-sealing permanent magnets 20, 21 in the magnet insertion holes 13, 14, with the openings 17, 18 blocked by a blocking member 23, the method including: temporarily connecting blocking member pieces 32 to be the blocking member 23 in each of the core sheets 11 and removing the blocking member 23 with the laminated core body 10a resin-sealed. By this, without a special blocking member, the permanent magnets 20, 21 are resin-sealed while the magnet insertion holes 13, 14, parts of which have the openings 17, 18, are blocked.
US09431882B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a machine component (1) for an electrical machine, wherein the machine component (1) is formed with a magnetically conductive material, in which one or more magnetically nonconductive separating regions (4) are provided, wherein the separating region (4) is formed by the introduction of austenite-forming material during a melting process of the magnetically conductive material of the machine component (1), such that an austenitic structure is formed in the magnetically conductive material of the machine component (1).
US09431879B2
To uniformly cool down armature windings along the circumferential direction of a stator in a generator motor. A generator motor includes a stator 1 fixed to the inner diameter side of a housing 18, a rotor 130 rotatably supported by bearings 5, and armature windings wound around the teeth of a stator core 110. Each of brackets 200 provided via the bearings 5 has a passage 201, 202 through which cooling oil flows and injection holes 204 which communicate with the passage and inject cooling oil at positions opposite to winding ends of the armature windings. Cooling oil is injected toward the winding ends of the armature windings from the injection holes 204 of the brackets 200 arranged on opposite axial sides of a shaft 6. In the flow rate distribution of the oil from the plurality of the injection holes 204, the flow rate of the oil from any of the injection holes 204 is set to be greater as the position of the injection hole 204 is higher above the level of the shaft 6. The arrangement pitch among the injection holes 204 provided on each of the brackets 200 is dense in a vertically upper portion of the bracket 200, and gradually sparser in a portion thereof closer to the level of shaft 6.
US09431875B2
A turbine generator uses a common bearing carrier to support a high-speed spool and a low-speed spool, thereby enabling a more axially compact turbine generator design. The high-speed spool includes a high-speed compressor assembly mechanically powered by a high-speed turbine, which receives power from a combustion chamber between the high-speed turbine and the high-speed compressor assembly. The low-speed spool includes a pre-combustion power turbine aerodynamically powered by the compressor assembly and upstream of the combustion chamber. The pre-combustion turbine mechanically powers an electrical generator, which includes coreless stators and a rotor assembly. The stators have a planar configuration to receive axial flux from magnets of the rotor assembly. Optionally, the low-speed spool may include a post-combustion turbine that is arranged downstream of the combustion chamber and that mechanically powers the electrical generator.
US09431874B2
A meter unit includes a step motor, a gear, a braking spring and a case. The gear has a gear body and a rotation shaft. The braking spring urges the gear in a direction of an axis of rotation of the gear. The case accommodates the step motor, the gear body, a part of the rotation shaft, and the braking spring therein. The braking spring has a shape through which the first part of the rotation shaft passes. A first face of the gear body is formed with a recessed portion which accommodates the braking spring. A first part of the case supports a second face of the gear body. A second part of the case is configured to press the braking spring so that entire part of the braking spring is accommodated in the recessed portion.
US09431872B2
A motor, which has a braking function and is used in a linear actuator includes a main body, a rotation shaft, a braking means and a stopping means. The rotation shaft penetrates the center of the main body. The braking means includes a braking ring and a helical ring. The braking ring includes a plurality of curved plates. The helical ring surrounds outer edges of the curved plates. Each curved plate is put on the outer periphery of the rotation shaft. The stopping means is disposed between the main body and the braking means for restricting the rotation of any of the curved plates. By this arrangement, a better braking and decelerating function can be achieved.
US09431871B2
A motor, which has a braking function and is used in a linear actuator includes a main body, a rotation shaft, a braking means and a stopping means. The rotation shaft penetrates the center of the main body. The braking means includes a braking ring and a helical ring. The braking ring includes a plurality of curved plates. The helical ring surrounds outer edges of the curved plates. Each curved plate is put on the outer periphery of the rotation shaft. The stopping means is disposed between the main body and the braking means for restricting the rotation of any of the curved plates. By this arrangement, a better braking and decelerating function can be achieved.
US09431864B2
An apparatus (structure) is provided to support a superconductor winding (61) of an electromotive machine. An assembly (110), such as a cradle, may define a recess to receive the superconductor winding. An elongated loop (74) provides radial support to the winding. Loop 74 may be made of a material resistant to heat flow, such as a fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) material. Assembly (110) may be arranged to support elongated loop (74) at a distal end (78) of the loop. A base assembly (130) may be arranged to anchor the elongated loop at a proximate end (76) of the loop. A support structure 120 may be arranged to provide tangential load support to the assembly.
US09431856B2
An improved device and system for power transmission. A power transmission device comprises a primary winding magnetically coupled to a resonant secondary which comprises a plurality of magnetic resonators, each magnetic resonator comprising a magnetic winding. The magnetic resonators are connected in series and arranged so that the magnetic axis of each magnetic resonator is coupled to the primary winding. In operation, a power source supplies alternating current at an operating frequency to the primary of a power transmission device used as a transmitter. A load is coupled to the primary of a power transmission device used as a receiver. Collectors may be coupled to either or both of the transmit or receive device. A return line may be coupled to either or both of the transmit or receive device.
US09431855B1
Exit and egress lighting, emergency lighting or emergency light fixture, having internal supercapacitor power sources are recharged after a power outage using a staggered power up process. For example, once an emergency light fixture detects a power-on transition from power being unavailable on a power source to power being available from the power source, the fixture waits a predetermined time to recharge a supercapacitor based on a charge time delay value. The predetermined time may be selected to be unique for one or several emergency light fixtures so as to distribute a combined peak power demand of the fixtures. After the predetermined time has expired, the supercapacitor is electrically coupled to a power source to in order to recharge the supercapacitor.
US09431851B2
Some embodiments provide a UPS including a non-current-commutated solid-state bypass switch. The bypass switch may include at least one transistor configured to control current to the load. Further embodiments provide a UPS including a converter including a first half-bridge circuit having an input port configured to be coupled to an AC source and an output port coupled to first and second buses and a second half-bridge circuit having an output port configured to be coupled to a load and an input port coupled to the first and second buses. The UPS further includes a control circuit configured to control the converter to provide a first mode wherein the first bridge circuit and the second bridge circuit operate as a rectifier and an inverter, respectively, and a second mode wherein the first and second bridge circuits operate as a pass-through switch from the AC source to the load.
US09431849B2
A method for controlling the temperature of at least one battery element, a battery, and a motor vehicle that has the battery includes specifying a temperature value, and determining the cool-down behavior of the at least one battery element beginning at a first temperature. A first point in time, at which the battery temperature will have reached or fallen below the temperature value, is determined by evaluating the cool-down behavior. Subsequently, a second point in time for a beginning of the charging or discharging of the at least one battery element is determined. If tmin
US09431839B2
Method, apparatus, and computer program product example embodiments provide device-to-device charging. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method comprises receiving, by a first device, a user's selection of a charging criterion for balancing stored charges in the first device's own battery and in a second device's rechargeable battery; determining, by the first device, that recharging of the second device's rechargeable battery is required; computing, by the first device, an amount of charging required for the second device's rechargeable battery, in order to satisfy the user's selected charging criterion; and transmitting, by the first device, power provided by the first device's own battery, to the second device, for charging the second device's rechargeable battery until the present level of stored battery charge in the second device's rechargeable battery reaches the computed amount of charging required.
US09431831B1
A charging device may include a computer plug, outlet plug, AC-to-DC converter, controller, and memory. The computer plug may provide power to a computing device and receive data from the computing device. The outlet plug may receive alternating current (AC) power from an electrical outlet. The AC-to-DC converter may convert the AC power into direct current (DC) power and provide the DC power to the computing device via the computer plug. The controller may control a voltage and/or current of the DC power based on data received from the computing device and instructions stored in a memory. The memory may include read-only instructions for the controller to modify a read-write portion of the memory based on data received from the computing device via the computer plug, and read-write instructions for the controller to set the voltage of the DC power based on the data received from the computing device.
US09431830B2
An apparatus and method for controlling a magnetic field when power is wirelessly transmitted are provided. According to one general aspect, a wireless power transmitter may include: a source resonator configured to wirelessly transmit power to a target device including at least one sub-resonator located there within; and a magnetic field distribution controller configured to control the distribution of the magnetic field within the resonator based the resonance frequency of the at least one sub-resonator and the resonance frequency of the source resonator.
US09431826B2
An information processing system includes an obtaining unit, a specifying unit, and an output unit. The obtaining unit obtains information indicating a state of the use of each of plural electrical apparatuses. The specifying unit specifies a power supply-and-receive relationship between the plural electrical apparatuses, on the basis of a change in power associated with the obtained information concerning each of the plural electrical apparatuses. The output unit outputs information indicating the power supply-and-receive relationship.
US09431819B2
An electrical network configured to suppress voltage transients is disclosed. The network includes a capacitor and an electrical impedance in parallel with a diode. The capacitor is in series with the parallel connected diode and electrical impedance, and the electrical network is configured to suppress voltage transients occurring across the series combination of the capacitor and the parallel connected diode and electrical impedance.
US09431817B2
Various embodiments relating to a battery isolation circuit for disconnecting a battery from a load are disclosed. In one embodiment, a battery isolation circuit includes a power switch, a protection circuit module (PCM), and a drive diverter. The power switch may be operatively intermediate a battery and a load. The PCM may be operatively connected to the power switch. The PCM may be configured to selectively drive the power switch to electrically connect the battery to the load. The drive diverter may be configured to interrupt the PCM from driving the power switch in order to electrically disconnect the battery from the load in response to activation of a user-operable switch.
US09431812B1
A circuit includes a signal line formed of at least one conductive element and a shield at least partially encompassing the signal line. The circuit further includes a first dynamic capacitor located between the shield and the signal line. The first dynamic capacitor is configured to provide a first variable amount of capacitance.
US09431802B2
A cable protector including a conduit having a top channel having at least one engaging edge and a bottom channel having at least one engaging edge adapted to be removably coupled to the engaging edge of the top channel. The pair of removably coupled engaging edges includes an outer portion having a profile including a projection extending from a step to a tip and an inner portion having a profile including a locking step. When urged against the inner portion, the outer portion is slidingly coupled to the inner portion until the step becomes locked in the locking step to form a cavity within the conduit to accommodate the cables. When pulled from the inner portion, the outer portion is slidingly decoupled from the inner portion after the step becomes dislodged from the locking step to provide access to cables disposed within the cavity.
US09431798B2
A method, apparatus, and system are described for a monolithic, pre-wired, pre-engineered, and pre-assembled integrated platform for a critical power supply and electrical distribution system that is scalable and modular. The skeletal framework of the integrated platform acts as an equipment support structure and includes an upper superstructure and a lower superstructure. Two or more cabinet enclosures are mounted onto the lower superstructure where their weight is supported by the skeletal framework. One or more National Electric Code approved (NEC-approved) electrical cable routing support systems are mounted onto the upper superstructure. The skeletal framework also includes one or more vertical columns that are connected between the upper superstructure and the lower superstructure. The skeletal framework and the cabinet enclosures are fabricated in place as a monolithic, pre-wired, pre-engineered, and pre-assembled integrated platform prior to being installed.
US09431796B2
A method for manufacturing a spark plug includes a transfer step of transferring a first tip to a joining position where the first tip is joined to a tip-mating member. The transfer step includes a step of performing positional correction for the first tip before the first tip reaches the joining position.
US09431793B2
A semiconductor laser device in an embodiment includes a compound semiconductor layer and a silicon layer. The compound semiconductor layer includes an active layer emitting laser light and has a first mesa structure. The silicon layer is bonded with the compound semiconductor layer. A diffraction grating is provided on a surface of the silicon layer which faces the compound semiconductor layer, and includes a main diffraction grating and two sub-diffraction gratings. The main diffraction grating extends in a longitudinal direction of the first mesa structure; the sub-diffraction gratings are disposed on both sides of the main diffraction grating.
US09431778B1
Methods and systems may provide for debris exclusion and removal apparatuses for connectors which have inverting end caps with a multi-axis lever configuration, inverting end caps with enlarged handle and/or side rail configurations, rotating end cap configurations, poppet valve configurations, O-ring configurations, filament barrier configurations, retractable cover configurations, clamshell end cap configurations, or any combination thereof. Apparatuses may also provide for an intelligent electrical connector system capable of detecting damage to or faults within a plurality of conductors and then rerouting the energy through a non-damaged spare conductor.
US09431775B2
A connector with built-in electronic circuit board includes an electronic circuit board for a sensor, the electronic circuit board including a first connection terminal, an inner case housing the electronic circuit board, and an outer case having a chamber housing the inner case. The connector further includes a second connection terminal extending from inside the chamber to outside the outer case, a third connection terminal disposed in the chamber, and a cable connected to the sensor at one end thereof at outside the outer case and connected to the third connection terminal at the other end thereof. The inner case is sealed by resin in a state of the first connection terminal being exposed. The first connection terminal is connected to the second and third connection terminals. The chamber is closed by a lid.
