US09466106B2
A medical image processing apparatus and a computer-readable storage medium are shown. The medical image processing apparatus includes an emphasizing processing unit, a positioning unit, and a difference image generating unit. The emphasizing processing unit performs processing to emphasize a specific structure among structures composing a subject on each of a first image and a second image obtained by capturing the same subject at different points in time. The positioning unit matches a position of the specific structure in the first image and the second image based on the first image and the second image with the specific structure emphasized. The difference image generating unit generates a difference image between the first image and the second image with the position of the specific structure matched.
US09466105B2
A magnetic resonance imaging white matter hyperintensities region recognizing method and system are disclosed herein. The white matter hyperintensities region recognizing method includes receiving and storing a FLAIR MRI image, a spin-lattice relaxation time weighted MRI image, and a diffusion weighted MRI image. Registration and fusion are preformed, and a white matter mask is determined. An intersection image of the FLAIR MRI image and the white matter mask is taken, a first region is determined after normalizing the intersection image, a cerebral infarct region is removed from the first image through the diffusion weighted MRI image, and then a determination is made as to whether to remove a remaining region in order to form a white matter hyperintensities region in the FLAIR MRI image.
US09466104B2
A method is provided for a computing device with an imaging device to detect a characteristic of an analyte in a specimen sample from a specimen test strip with reaction areas that have colors based on the characteristic of the analyte in different ranges of values. The method includes capturing images of the specimen test strip under different exposures or light intensities, selecting an image comprising captured reaction areas that have a proper exposure or a proper lighting intensity from the images, selecting a captured reaction area from the image, and correlating a color of the captured reaction area to a value of the characteristic of the analyte.
US09466101B2
Among other things, systems and techniques are provided for detecting defects on a wafer based upon non-correctable error data yielded from a scan of the wafer to determine a topology of the wafer. The non-correctable error data is reconstructed to generate a non-correctable error image map, which is transformed to generate a projection. In some embodiments, the non-correctable error image map is transformed via a feature extraction transform such as a Hough transform or a Radon transform. In some embodiments, the projection is compared to a set of rules to identify a signature in the non-correctable error image map indicative of a defect.
US09466100B2
A method for monitoring mask focus includes measuring profile asymmetries in a target feature including sub-resolution assist features and deriving a focus response based on a known correlation between the profile and focus of a corresponding mask. A computer system in a lithographic process may adjust mask focus based on such derived information to conform to a desired fabrication process.
US09466099B2
An image evaluation device includes an image acquisition section that acquires an input image to be evaluated, a noise image generation section that generates a noise image that emphasizes noise included in the input image and having a particular spatial frequency that correlates with human perception, a statistic value acquisition section that acquires a predetermined type statistic value from the noise image, and a noise amount specification section that specifies an amount of noise in the input image on the basis of the statistic value.
US09466097B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for removing fog in an image capable of providing a defogged image without a sense of difference by adaptively controlling defogging parameters in response to a density of fog to remove fog.
US09466095B2
Provided are an image stabilizing method and apparatus, which are capable of performing robust operations in a moving environment. The image stabilizing apparatus includes: an image pre-processor configured to receive a current image and a reference image corresponding to the current image; a feature point selector configured to select at least one feature point corresponding to a background from a plurality of feature points, comprising the background and at least one moving object, in the reference image; a motion estimator configured to estimate a motion of a current image, based on the selected feature point in the reference image and at least one corresponding feature point, corresponding to the selected feature point in the reference image, in the current image; and an image corrector configured to generate a stabilized current image by converting the current image by using the estimated motion.
US09466088B2
A fully-automated system suitable for use in a hospital setting for filling patient-specific liquid prescriptions to be administered by oral syringes on a just-in-time basis. The system enables hospital pharmacists to simplify and streamline their task, increasing the number of prescriptions that can be filled in a day, improving patient safety and care by minimizing medication errors and the consequences that ensue.
US09466084B2
Systems and techniques for structuring and analyzing a fixed-income security are disclosed. The fixed-income security includes a coupon that provides at least a variable rate of interest payment over a time interval. The variable rate of interest payment may be based at least in part on a set of environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) goals defined for an issuer over the time interval. A set of ESG values associated with performance of the issuer and corresponding to the set of ESG goals may be reported, independently audited, and used to determine the variable rate of interest payment provided by the security.
US09466080B2
A method includes creating a bulk order. The bulk order includes a plurality of action sets. Each action set represents a set of changes to a plurality of assets, and the bulk order represents, for a plurality of accounts, a plurality of services and assets. The method also includes validating the bulk order. The validating includes verifying a validity of a user name, which includes a validity of an association between the user name and the account and a validity of an association between the user name and the service. The validating also includes verifying the action set obeys a constraint of the product. The method also includes submitting the bulk order for execution of the set of changes. The submitting includes preparing the action set, executing the set of changes and changing a status of the bulk orders header to indicate a completion of the bulk order.
US09466073B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for providing content. A method includes receiving a request for an advertisement to be displayed in a slot associated with a third-party content site; identifying a relevant advertisement to be provided in the slot; determining information to be included in an annotation associated with the advertisement, the annotation including customized information to be presented along with the advertisement; providing the advertisement responsive to the request including providing the annotation along with a control for re-publishing the advertisement along with the relevant advertisement; receiving user input selecting the control and designating the advertisement for re-publishing to a group, the group being designated by the user; and targeting additional content to the group based on the received user input.
US09466069B2
One exemplary embodiment of the disclosure provides a method to publish campaign data in an electronic environment. The exemplary method includes querying a database to select campaign metadata ready to publish to a target channel system and determining a plurality of value users as a subset of all end users. The value users are determined so that one or more coupons are automatically generated and distributed to each of the value users. A value of the coupon is based on a set of pre-defined criteria including a volume of business generated by the value user or how negatively impacted the value user was based on a negative purchase experience (e.g., product not as described or never received). The target channel system is selected from a plurality of channel systems based on a target indicating attribute of the campaign metadata. The packaged campaign metadata is transferred to the target channel system.
US09466066B2
Content is obtained from a webpage accessed via a URI, which URI is obtained from a URI queue. The content is parsed for price and product information according to a parse map, with the resulting parse result being stored. The priority of URIs in the URI queue is adjusted based on analysis of the parse result for changes in price and product attributes and according to other criteria. The parse map may be one associated with the URI or a general purpose parse maps. The parse result may be validated by human- and machine-based systems, including by graphically labeling price and product information in the content for human confirmation or correction.
US09466065B2
Usage information relating to interaction with content is integrated with operation of a system, such as a content management system. The usage information is collected, stored and provided to the system. The usage information may be integrated with the operation of the system in many different ways (e.g. recommendations for other content, most viewed content, most “liked” content, content viewed by a type of user, and the like). The usage information may also be used to adjust different operations of the service. For example, the usage information may be used to adjust: a retention time of content (e.g. don't delete a recently viewed document), a crawl policy of content; a backup policy of content; restore schedules; identification of storage tier levels; and the like.
US09466059B2
An apparatus comprises a memory and a processor. The memory is operable to store information associated with a user account. The processor can receive a message indicating that a transaction associated with a card has occurred and receive a first input indicating that the transaction is fraudulent. The processor can receive a second input indicating that a report should be filed and present, on a display, a plurality of questions to determine whether the card has been stolen. The processor can receive a third input indicating an answer to each of the plurality of questions and present, on the display, an affidavit. The processor can receive a fourth input indicating the affidavit has been electronically signed and present, on the display, a confirmation message indicating that the report has been filed.
US09466056B2
Various embodiments of the present technology involve the delivery of digital content via a synchronized content management system (CMS) in return for a payment. For example, a first user could send a share link containing a content item to a second user. Upon attempting to open the content item, the second user could be prompted to input payment information. In response to providing the payment information, the second user could select the share link enabling the second user to download the content item.
US09466052B1
An application repository is provided. The application repository comprises a first computer having a processor and a memory, a data store, a plurality of applications stored in the data store, and a billing apportionment module stored in the memory. Each application contains an instruction to invoke a run-time license tracking application programming interface (API), the plurality of applications comprising a first application. The billing apportionment module, when executed by the processor, receives a first run-time license tracking report generated by invocation of the run-time license tracking application programming interface by the first application executing on one of a second computer and a mobile electronic device, determines a first application usage fee to bill to an account associated with a user of the first application, bills the first application usage fee to the account associated with a user of the first application, determines a first usage fee share based in part on the first application usage fee and on the first run-time tracking report, and transfers the first usage fee share to an account associated with the first application.
US09466048B2
Legal professionals often conduct online research as part of their efforts to produce documents, such as legal briefs. The present inventor recognized that online research tools and desktop applications, such as word processors, are functionally isolated from each other, forcing users to awkwardly switch between them as they work. Accordingly, the inventor devised, among other things, an exemplary toolbar that resides adjacent an active application window, such as a word processor. In operation, a user selects one or portions of text, such as a name or fact pattern, in the window, and activates the toolbar using a right-click command. Upon activation, a customizable menu is displayed, enabling the user to select from one or more listed workflow tasks and ultimately to cause an online research system to return search results based on the task and text selections.
US09466036B1
A resource manager can adjust the amount of capacity in each of a plurality of resource pools using a combination of proactive and reactive approaches. Targets such as an amount of total capacity and an amount of free capacity can be forecast and periodically compared against actual capacity and usage of the pools. A pool balancing algorithm can be used to shift capacity among pools as needed, in order to provide the targeted amount of capacity for each pool before the capacity is needed. When actual usage varies sufficiently from the forecasted usage on which the targets are based, the resource manager can react by reconfiguring resources as needed.
US09466031B1
This disclosure is directed to computational, closed-loop user feedback systems and methods for ranking or updating beliefs for a user based on user feedback. The systems and methods are based on a data-agnostic user feedback formulation that uses user feedback to automatically rank beliefs for a user or update the beliefs. The methods and systems are based on a general statistical inference model, which, in turn, is based on an assumption of convergence in user opinion. The closed-loop user feedback methods and systems may be used to rank or update beliefs prior to inputting the beliefs to a recommender engine. As a result, the recommender engine is expected to be more responsive to customer environments and efficient at deployment and reducing the level of unnecessary user recommendations.
US09466028B2
A system may be configured to receive performance information regarding a set of network devices; compare the performance information to a set of rule objects; and detect an occurrence of a particular network event. The detecting may include determining that the performance information, associated with a particular network device, of the set of network devices, meets the set of conditions associated with a particular rule object with which the particular network event is associated. The system may further present information regarding the particular rule object, such as information regarding the particular network event, and information regarding a recommendation regarding the particular network event.
US09466027B2
Ontologies are used to comprehend regular expressions, by selecting, based on a context relating to a domain of a regular expression, an ontology and an assertion base, parsing the regular expression to identify at least one fragment of the regular expression, identifying one or more assertions in the assertion base corresponding to one of the identified fragments, identifying, for each identified assertion, an associated node in the ontology, and returning, based on the associated nodes, a concept in the ontology as representing the associated fragment of the regular expression.
US09466023B1
Roughly described, a data mining arrangement for developing high quality classifiers using an evolutionary algorithm, includes a plurality of “mid-chain” evolutionary coordinators, down-chain of a main (top-chain) evolutionary coordinator and up-chain of evolutionary engines. Multiple levels of mid-chain evolutionary coordinators can be used in a hierarchy, and the various branches of the hierarchy need not have equal length. Each evolutionary coordinator (other than the top-chain evolutionary coordinator) appears to its up-chain neighbor as if it were an evolutionary engine, though it does not actually perform any evolution itself. Similarly, each evolutionary coordinator (including the top-chain evolutionary coordinator) also appears to its down-chain neighbors as a top-chain evolutionary coordinator. Each mid-chain evolutionary coordinator maintains its own local candidate pool, reducing the load on the top-chain evolutionary coordinator pool, as well as reducing bandwidth requirements. Only the evolutionary engines perform actual testing of candidate individuals on training data.
US09466018B2
A display may have an active area surrounded by an inactive border area. The display may be a liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a color filter layer and a thin-film transistor layer. An upper polarizer may have a polarized central region that overlaps the active area of the display. The upper polarizer may also have an unpolarized portion in the inactive border area overlapping the border structures. The border structures may include colored material such as a white layer on the inner surface of the thin-film transistor layer. Binary information may be embedded into an array of programmable resonant circuits. The binary information may be a display identifier or other information associated with a display. The programmable resonant circuits may be tank circuits with adjustable capacitors, fuses, or other programmable components.
US09466016B2
Image forming apparatus which forms image data indicating whether a pixel is for a character or line
An apparatus includes an image-processing-unit that generates tag information indicating whether each of pixels of a first-resolution image data is a pixel of a character or a line, a resolution-converting-unit that converts the first-resolution image data to image data with a second resolution higher than the first resolution, and a light-source-driving-unit that drives light-source according to the second-resolution image data. The resolution-converting-unit includes an image-matrix-acquiring-unit that acquires an image matrix being image data and tag information with the first resolution in an area containing a target-pixel and pixels around the target-pixel, a pattern-matching-unit that determines whether the target-pixel is a pixel of an edge of a character or a line based on the image matrix, and a first-converting-unit that, when the pixel is the edge pixel, converts the image data to image data with the second resolution of a pattern determined in accordance with a layout of the target-pixel.
US09466015B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer readable media are provided for generating an intermediate representation of a page description. The page description comprises graphic commands updating a graphics state. From graphic commands, a first sequence of graphic commands is determined. A graphics state is associated with at least one subsequent second graphic command being invariant under first sequence of graphic commands. A first display list representation is generated using first sequence of graphic commands. A second display list representation is generated using second graphic command concurrently with generating first display list representation. The second display list representation is generated independently from first sequence of graphic commands. The intermediate representation of the page description is generated using first display list representation and second display list representation. At least one portion in intermediate representation is affected by first sequence of graphic commands and second graphic command.
US09466009B2
A system capable of determining which recognition algorithms should be applied to regions of interest within digital representations is presented. A preprocessing module utilizes one or more feature identification algorithms to determine regions of interest based on feature density. The preprocessing modules leverages the feature density signature for each region to determine which of a plurality of diverse recognition modules should operate on the region of interest. A specific embodiment that focuses on structured documents is also presented. Further, the disclosed approach can be enhanced by addition of an object classifier that classifies types of objects found in the regions of interest.
US09466006B2
The present invention relates to a method for detecting visual saliencies of a video image based on spatial and temporal features, including: dividing an input image into image blocks and vectorizing the image blocks; decreasing dimensions of each image block through principal component analysis; calculating a dissimilarity between each image block and each of the other image blocks; calculating a visual saliency of each image block by combining a distance between image blocks, to obtain a spatial feature saliency map; imposing a central bias on the spatial feature saliency map; calculating a motion vector of each image block, extracting a temporal visual saliency of the current image by combining motion vectors of previous two frames, to obtain a temporal feature saliency map; integrating the spatial feature saliency map and the temporal feature saliency map to obtain a spatiotemporal feature saliency map, and smoothing the spatiotemporal feature saliency map to obtain a resulted image finally reflecting a saliency of each region on the current image. In the present invention, a saliency map integrating the temporal features and the spatial features, so that saliencies in different regions in a video may be predicted more accurately.
US09466005B2
An automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. The method includes the steps of arranging a digital camera on a vehicle body, operating the digital camera to provide an image file depicting an image of a scene related to vehicle operation on a road, in a computer memory, receiving from the memory the image file depicting pixels of an image of the scene related to vehicle operation on a road, and using an analysis of the pixels to generate an illumination invariant image of the scene. A further process step includes using the illumination invariant image to analyze the road scene for painted road markings.
US09466003B2
A system and method uses an image manipulating application to define in an object image a plurality of discrete cells. Predefined image information is substituted for image information in selected ones of the plurality of discrete cells to form a translated version of the object image. The translated version of the object image may then be provided to an image recognition capable search engine to obtain search results.
US09466000B2
A system and method for classification of passenger vehicles and measuring their properties, and more particularly to a stochastic multi-class vehicle classification system, which classifies a vehicle (given its direct rear-side view) into one of four classes Sedan, Pickup truck, SUV/Minivan, and unknown, and wherein a feature pool of tail light and vehicle dimensions is extracted which feeds a feature selection algorithm to define a low-dimensional feature vector, and the feature vector is then processed by a Hybrid Dynamic Bayesian Network (HDBN) to classify each vehicle.
US09465998B2
An object detecting device includes an image acquiring unit which acquires an image from a camera, a scanning interval calculating unit which calculates a scanning interval when a scanning window is scanned on the image based on a size on the image of a detection object that is detected by the detecting window, a scanning unit which scans on the image using the scanning interval that is calculated by the scanning interval calculating unit, and a detecting unit which determines whether the detection object is present within the scanned detecting window.
US09465984B2
There is provided a display control system including a plurality of display units, an imaging unit configured to capture a subject, a predictor configured to predict an action of the subject according to a captured image captured by the imaging unit, a guide image generator configured to generate a guide image that guides the subject according to a prediction result from the predictor, and a display controller configured to, on the basis of the prediction result from the predictor, select a display unit capable of displaying an image at a position corresponding to the subject from the plurality of display units, and to control the selected display unit to display the guide image at the position corresponding to the subject.
US09465981B2
Computer based systems, methods, and computer readable media for sensing and decoding a sequence of facial expression exhibited by an individual sender, in order to determine a message encoded by that sequence of the individual. Digital image sensor devices may capture facial images of a sending individual. An enrollment processes is used by which an enrolled message is associated with a sequence of facial expressions. A background model is used with relevant expression models to locate a region of interest of the individual's face, which models accommodate the stand-off placement of the image sensors relative to the individual. An expression identifier is used with the expression model to classify captured images as including an enrolled facial expression. The classified images may then be decoded to identify the message sent.
US09465958B2
A tamper resistant servicing Agent for providing various services (e.g., data delete, firewall protection, data encryption, location tracking, message notification, and updating software) comprises multiple functional modules, including a loader module (CLM) that loads and gains control during POST, independent of the OS, an Adaptive Installer Module (AIM), and a Communications Driver Agent (CDA). Once control is handed to the CLM, it loads the AIM, which in turn locates, validates, decompresses and adapts the CDA for the detected OS environment. The CDA exists in two forms, a mini CDA that determines whether a full or current CDA is located somewhere on the device, and if not, to load the full-function CDA from a network; and a full-function CDA that is responsible for all communications between the device and the monitoring server. The servicing functions can be controlled by a remote server.
US09465955B1
A system includes an application access manager driver and an operating system (OS) kernel module in a kernel-mode address space of an OS. The system also includes application modules, a public application whitelist, a public application whitelist manager, a user/group application whitelist, and a user/group application whitelist manager in a user-mode address space of the OS. A method includes receiving a request to launch an application, calling a “create process” function in the OS kernel module, calling a pre-registered “create process” callback function to the application access manager driver, and determining whether the application is allowed to execute based on whether the application access manager driver identifies the application as an allowable process in either public application whitelist or user/group application whitelist.
US09465950B2
An approach is provided for controlling access to social networking data for each of a plurality of members by issuing one or more first keys for at least one of data encryption or data decryption, based on a respective current trust level associated with a corresponding member and one or more context attributes corresponding to the social networking data. The one or more first keys expire at an expiration time determined with reference to a time clock. Based on a signal accepted from the time clock, one or more second keys for at least one of data encryption or data decryption are issued to one or more members of the plurality of members who are associated with a trust level above a predetermined threshold and/or who satisfy specified context attributes, prior to the expiration time of the first keys.
US09465944B2
A method capable of erasing a password from a BIOS automatically includes steps of the BIOS determining whether a password erasing flag has been set when an electronic device is booting; the BIOS erasing the password if the password erasing flag has been set; the BIOS displaying a password input window if the password erasing flag has not been set; inputting a comparison data in the password input window; the electronic device transmitting the comparison data to a server; the server comparing the comparison data with a registration data, generating a comparison result, and transmitting the comparison result to the electronic device; the BIOS determining whether the comparison result is correct; the BIOS setting the password erasing flag and rebooting the electronic device if the comparison result is correct; and the BIOS rebooting the electronic device directly if the comparison result is wrong.
US09465942B1
Techniques are described for identifying security credentials or other sensitive information by creating a dictionary of data elements included in documents such as source code files, object code files, or other types of files. The data elements may be identified for inclusion in the dictionary based on parsing the documents for delimiter characters, and based on the context of the data elements within the documents. The data elements may also be identified through an entropy-based analysis to detect portions of the documents exhibiting a high degree of entropy compared to a baseline entropy for the documents. The dictionary may be used in a dictionary attack against various systems to determine whether any of the data elements included in the dictionary enable access the systems. The data elements that enable access may be designated as sensitive information hard-coded into the documents.
US09465937B1
A computer-implemented method for securely managing file-attribute information for files in a file system may comprise: 1) identifying at least one file, 2) identifying file-attribute information that identifies at least one file attribute for the file, 3) identifying volatile metadata associated with the file that contains file-attribute information, 4) determining that the file has been modified, and 5) automatically deleting the volatile metadata. Corresponding systems and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US09465932B2
The present disclosure discloses an anti-peeping display system includes an anti-peeping display, anti-peeping glasses and a controller. The anti-peeping display includes a first polarizer and a first driving device driving the first polarizer to rotate. The anti-peeping glasses include a second polarizer and a second driving device driving the second polarizer to rotate. When judging that both of the obtained display password and the obtained glasses password are correct, the controller is configured to control the first polarizer and the second polarizer to rotate at a same angular velocity; otherwise, control the first driving device and the second driving device to rotate at different angular velocities.
US09465931B2
An online gaming registration system allows online gaming patrons to register once and use this registration to create online gaming accounts with gaming Web sites, thereby avoiding having to show proof of residency, age and other requirements set by regulatory entities multiple times. Residency rules and other requirements vary from one jurisdiction to another and the present invention addresses some of the issues that arise from this. An online gaming Web site receives a login from an online player over the Internet. The site determines that the player has an account with the online gaming site and that the account is linked to an online gaming registration system account. The online gaming site receives claims-based data relating to the online player and accepts the player as verified for online gaming at the gaming Web site.
US09465917B2
Methods and devices for retrospectively assessing continuous monitoring reference pattern data to determine a risk of a patient glucose level measurement taken in at least one data segment being outside a predetermined range. The methods and devices can include executing an algorithm to compare risk scores derived from reference pattern data in a currently collected data segment with risk scores of previously stored reference pattern data of previously collected data segments for a patient for assessing risk.
US09465905B1
A method in a computer-aided design system for generating a functional design model of a static random access memory is described herein. The method comprises generating a functional representation of a first local evaluation logic coupled to a first set of consecutive global bit lines (GBLs) and a first set of local bit lines (LBLs), the first local evaluation logic comprising a plurality of devices. The method further comprises generating a functional representation of a second local evaluation logic communicatively coupled to the first local evaluation logic via the devices; the second local evaluation logic is coupled to a second set of consecutive GBLs and a second set of LBLs. In addition, the second set of consecutive GBLs consecutive to the first set of consecutive GBLs, the first and second evaluation logics to generate signals from the LBLs such that one GBL is to be active at any point in a read or write cycle and the other GBLs are not concurrently active.
US09465888B1
A method and system are disclosed for allowing a user to suggest information about content that can be utilized in processing subsequent searches. The suggested information may be different from a fixed set of information about an item, such as keywords, attributes or characteristics of an item, generally provided by a manufacturer or seller of the item. Users can submit to a service the information that they feel is relevant to the item, such as a brief explanation of relevance and a detailed explanation that would help other users to make a decision about the item. The submitted information may be associated with the item information and stored in a data store and utilized as additional attributes of the item for a search. In addition, when a user requests detail information about an item, the user-submitted information may be displayed to the user.
US09465882B2
One embodiment involves receiving, by a web page authoring tool, presentation information in a markup language corresponding to a static graphical object. In this embodiment, the web page authoring tool receives animation information in a data interchange format corresponding to an adjustment for the static graphical object. In this embodiment, the web page authoring tool receives a runtime engine. In this embodiment, the web page authoring tool stores the presentation information, the animation information, and the runtime engine within a web page. The runtime engine may be configured to cause a web browser displaying the web page to render an animation. The animation can be based at least in part on the presentation information and the animation information.
US09465857B1
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for modeling multi-dimensional, dynamically evolving data using dynamic clustering. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a core group of clusters of objects, each object being represented by a corresponding instance of a multi-dimensional feature vector including a dimension k; receiving a stream of data points representing a group of objects, each data point respectively representing an instance of dimension k describing a feature of an object within the group of objects; and, for each data point, adding an object described by the data point to a first cluster of objects within the core group of clusters; updating properties of the first cluster of objects in response to adding the object; and determining whether to update the core group of clusters using the updated properties of the first cluster of objects.
US09465854B2
A method determines the connectivity components defined by a set of relations over a set of data elements. For each first data element of a selected subset of data elements, a second data element that is linked to the first data element by a path of relations is selected as its representative, using a randomization process. A new set of relations is created by replacing each first data element of the subset by its representative in at least part of the set of relations.
US09465852B1
A method and a system are provided for encoding and processing digital information. The digital information is encoded according to binary encoding formats corresponding to primitive data types. The primitive data types comprise scalar data types including Boolean, integer, float, decimal, time stamp, string, symbol, binary large object, and character large object data types. The primitive data types also comprise composite data types including structure, list, and S-expression data types. The binary-encoded digital information is stored in a message with a predetermined format for transmission. No metadata is included in the message.
US09465847B2
Search systems and methods for searching structured data and enhancing the relevancy of search results provided to a requesting user or application. Enhanced search results are provided by searching a cache of a user's most recently used items to eliminate or reduce search indexing latency. Also, more relevant search results are provided by re-ranking results based on use history, data security models and/or hierarchical user role models. Further, enhanced search results are provided by including user information in the search index.
US09465844B2
A system and method of query processing in a multi-level storage system having a unified table architecture. A query is received by a common query execution engine connected with the unified table architecture, the query specifying a data record. The common query execution engine performs a look-up for the data record based on the query at the first level storage structure. If the data record is not present at the first level storage structure, the common query execution engine performs separate look-ups in each of the second level storage structure and the main store.
US09465843B2
A hybrid database table is stored as both a row and a column store. One or more techniques may be employed alone or in combination to enhance performance of the hybrid table by regulating access to, and/or the size of, the processing-intensive column store data. For example during an insert operation, the column store data may be searched for a uniqueness violation only after certain filtering and/or boundary conditions have been considered. In another technique, a hybrid table manager may control movement of data to the column store based upon considerations such as frequency of access, or underlying business logic. In still another technique, querying of the hybrid table may result in a search of the column store data only after an initial search of row store data fails to return a result.
US09465841B2
The subject technology provides configurations for receiving a query for data stored across data systems in which the query is associated with a user. It is determined if the user has permission to execute an operation from the query at a data in which the operation is executed upon at least one table provided by the data system. The subject technology determines if the operation corresponds to a cache object in a cache registry if the user has permission. Each cache object is owned by a cache manager user. A view associated with the user is created that provides temporary access privileges to the cache object corresponding to the operation in which the cache object includes results of the operation executed in the query and the cache object is owned by the cache manager user. The results of the operation are then provided in the created view to the user.
US09465834B2
Methods and apparatus to manage virtual machines are disclosed. An example method includes determining that a deployment of a first virtual machine has halted because the first virtual machine is dependent on a second virtual machine that has not been fully deployed and in response to detecting that the second virtual machine has been deployed, notifying, via a processor, the first virtual machine that deployment of the first virtual machine may continue.
US09465833B2
A method of disambiguating user intent in conversational interactions for information retrieval is disclosed. The method includes providing access to a set of content items with metadata describing the content items and providing access to structural knowledge showing semantic relationships and links among the content items. The method further includes providing a user preference signature, receiving a first input from the user that is intended by the user to identify at least one desired content item, and determining an ambiguity index of the first input. If the ambiguity index is high, the method determines a query input based on the first input and at least one of the structural knowledge, the user preference signature, a location of the user, and the time of the first input and selects a content item based on comparing the query input and the metadata associated with the content item.
US09465828B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable storage media for identifying similar labels. In some implementations, one or more servers maintain a plurality of data entries in one or more database tables storing textual data, each data entry of a first portion of the data entries including: a text sequence, a label, and a text-to-label association score, and each data entry of a second portion of the data entries including: a first label, a second label, and a similarity score. The one or more servers analyze the data of the first portion of data entries to generate one or more pairs, each pair including information identifying a first label and a second label. The one or more servers calculate a similarity score for each of the one or more pairs and store the respective similarity scores in the second portion of the data entries.
US09465823B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer program products for processing a file which include using a computer system that is programmed for performing a process of receiving the file in response to a request for storing the file, determining whether a database already contains the file, and storing the file in the database if the database does not already contain the file. The process may alternatively include receiving the file in response to a request for storing the file, determining whether a database already contains the file, and storing the file without storing the received file if the database already contains the file. The process may also alternatively include receiving the file in response to a request for storing the file in a database, separating the file into a plurality of portions, and storing the plurality of portions so each of the plurality of portions can be individually accessed.
US09465821B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to, among other things, validating the integrity of received and/or stored data payloads. In some examples, a storage service may perform a first partitioning of a data object into first partitions based at least in part on a first operation. The storage service may also verify the data object, by utilizing a verification algorithm, to generate a first verification value. In some cases, the storage service may additionally perform a second partitioning of the data object into second partitions based at least in part on a second operation. The second partitions may be different from the first partitions. Additionally, the archival data storage service may verify the data object using the verification algorithm to generate a second verification value. Further, the storage service may determine whether the second verification value equals the first verification value.
US09465817B2
A system and method for tagging an image of an individual in a plurality of photos is disclosed herein. A feature vector of an individual is used to analyze a set of photos on a social networking website such as Facebook® to determine if an image of the individual is present in a photo of the set of photos. Photos having an image of the individual are tagged preferably by listing a URL or URI for each of the photos in a database.
US09465816B2
Program code on a mobile computing device and a server computer determines a location of a mobile computing device within a facility, based on coordinates associated to the location. The program code assigns a timestamp to the coordinates that are associated to the location. The program code stores location information in a database, wherein the location information includes the coordinates associated to the location, the timestamp that is assigned to the coordinates, and a unique identifier of the mobile computing device. The program code generates an image of a floor plan of the facility.
US09465815B2
A method and an apparatus for acquiring additional information of an electronic device including a camera are provided. The method includes displaying a preview image when the camera is driven and collecting information and situation information about a subject, extracting shutter attribute information according to the collected information; displaying a shutter button corresponding to the shutter attribute information, and storing the preview image received from the camera, the situation information, and the shutter attribute information in response to a selection of a user for the shutter button.
US09465813B1
A method for automatically generating photo albums is performed by a server computer. The server computer retrieves a set of images over the network interface before it retrieves metadata and a first set of tags from each image. The server computer also generates a second set of tags for each image, and stores the sets of tags into a database. The server computer further determines a set of search parameters and retrieves a second set of images from the database. A photo album is then generated from the second set of images.
US09465812B1
Systems and methods for managing interred remains including using a physical location of the remains and a computer database are disclosed. The systems and methods relate to interacting with the interment site of the remains of a person or animal, including virtual gravestones, memorials consisting of audio and/or visual data, and ways to interact with such data by survivors.
US09465799B2
A server computing system receives a request for a web page from a client that specifies a preferred language and searches mapping data stored in a local data store using a web page identifier in the request to locate one or more terms for the requested web page to be translated. The server computing system searches translations for web pages in the local data store for a sub-set of the translations that correspond to the terms for the requested web page in the specified language. The computer system generates a client-executable script to provide the sub-set of translations that correspond to the terms to the client and transmits the requested web page and the client-executable script having the sub-set of translations for the requested web page to the client. The client-executable script, when executed on the client, renders the web page in the specified language.
US09465792B2
The present disclosure includes techniques pertaining to computer automated learning management systems and methods. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed where information is represented in a learning graph. In one embodiment, a framework may be used to access different algorithms for identifying customized learning content for a user. In another embodiment, the present disclosure includes techniques for analyzing content and incorporating content into an organizational glossary.
US09465788B2
An authoring tool for authoring wrap packages of cards. The authoring tool includes a set of tools that enable an author to create a new card of a wrap selected from a variety of card templates. In various embodiments, the card templates include textual, video, image/photo, document, gallery, chat, widgets, global components, location/GPS, transact, appointment, and end-of-wrap card templates. When a particular card template is selected, the template is then duplicated to create the new card. Thereafter, the author may author the card to include various components, content, attributes, layouts, styles triggers and/or behaviors. As the cards of the wrap are created, the authoring tool provides the author with the ability to order the sequence of the cards. The authoring tool thus enables authors to selectively create wrap packages that include media that conveys a narrative story and application functionality.
US09465785B2
In embodiments of comic creation, a digital sketching system may provide various tools for creating and modifying comics consisting of one or more panels, and for creating, adding, and modifying text in the panels. This system, which may be referred to as a comic creation application, may be implemented according to a domain-specific digital sketchbook paradigm that is directed specifically to the needs of a comic artist. The comic creation application may be tailored for comics planning, may be designed with the structure of comic pages in mind, and may provide high-level editing tools and operations for this structure. The system may make a digital device (e.g., a touch- or multitouch-enabled device) an intelligent participant in the creative process, rather than a passive sketchbook, to facilitate story building in ways that pencil and paper cannot.
US09465781B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for obtaining captures of network pages from an electronic commerce system, wherein each of the captures comprises attributes of the respective one of the network pages and capture data of one of the network pages in a browser. The system identifies a correlated pair of the captures having a positive degree of correlation between the attributes of a respective pair of the network pages. The system generates a differential for the correlated pair, wherein the differential comprises distinctions between the capture data of the correlated pair of captures. The system generates a notice associated with the correlated pair, wherein the differential exceeds a predefined threshold.
US09465778B1
A method for regulating a plurality of collections of data includes analyzing collections of data to identify one or more deviations from a standard, guideline, or best practice governing the plurality of collections of data. The method further includes determining characteristics of the one or more deviations. Based on the characteristics, an action to be taken in response to the one or more deviations is determined and completed. Further, a record of the executed action is stored on a computer-readable medium.
US09465777B2
A method and system for performing domain name service (DNS) pre-fetching, content pre-fetching, or a combination thereof, are disclosed for a wireless portable computing device (PCD). The system and method may include rendering a web page on a display screen of the PCD and performing a DNS pre-fetch for any visible links within the web page. Further, the method may include determining whether a screen changing operation (i.e., a scrolling operation) is being performed and placing one or more DNS pre-fetch tasks in a queue for each link that is displayed on the display screen when the screen changing operation is performed. The method and system may reduce wait times for a wireless PCD when it is rendering webpages on its display screen.
US09465771B2
A server on a chip that can be a component of a node card. The server on a chip can include a node central processing unit subsystem, a peripheral subsystem, a system interconnect subsystem, and a management subsystem. The central processing unit subsystem can include a plurality of processing cores each running an independent instance of an operating system. The peripheral subsystem includes a plurality of interfaces for various configurations of storage media. The system interconnect subsystem provides for intra-node and inter-node packet connectivity. The management subsystem provides for various system and power management functionalities within the subsystems of the server on a chip.
US09465770B2
A server and/or a client stores a metadata hash map that includes one or more entries associated with keys for data records stored in a cache on a server, wherein the data records comprise a directed acyclic graph (DAG), and the directed acyclic graph is comprised of a collection of one or more nodes connected by one or more edges, each of the nodes representing one or more tasks ordered into a sequence, and each of the edges representing one or more constraints on the nodes connected by the edges. Each of the entries stores metadata for a corresponding data record, wherein the metadata comprises a server-side remote pointer that references the corresponding data record stored in the cache. A selected data record is accessed using a provided key by: (1) identifying potentially matching entries in the metadata hash map using the provided key; (2) accessing data records stored in the cache using the server-side remote pointers from the potentially matching entries; and (3) determining whether the accessed data records match the selected data record using the provided key.
US09465769B1
The present disclosure provides a link assist capability that may be added to a compiled design that includes a transceiver. The transceiver with the link assist capability may be dynamically reconfigured to operate in a link assist mode, which is a diagnostic and test mode. The link assist mode may interact with a HSSI link partner, or a design software tool, or a user-defined program. The link assist mode may also facilitate remote debugging. One embodiment relates to an apparatus for serial interface link assist. Another embodiment relates to a method of dynamic reconfiguration of transceiver settings. Another embodiment relates to a method of tuning a bidirectional serial link. Other features, aspects and embodiments are also disclosed.
US09465761B2
A hardware system comprises a digital signal generator, which generates a digital electrical signal that describes a first physical state of a first device; an analog electrical signal generator, which generates an analog electrical signal that describes a second physical state of the first device; a hybrid digital state signal generator, which generates a hybrid digital state signal that comprises the analog electrical signal overlaid onto the initial digital electric signal; and a hybrid signal transmitter, which transmits the hybrid digital state signal from the first device to a second device, wherein the second device comprises a hybrid signal receiver/decoder that extracts the analog electrical signal from the hybrid digital state signal.
US09465760B2
An apparatus for initialization. The apparatus includes a management I/O device controller for managing initialization of a plurality of I/O devices coupled to a PCI-Express (PCIe) fabric. The management I/O device controller is configured for receiving a request to register a target interrupt register address of a first worker computing resource, wherein the target interrupt register address is associated with a first interrupt generated by a first I/O device coupled to the PCIe fabric. A mapping module of the management I/O device controller is configured for mapping the target interrupt register address to a mapped interrupt register address of a domain in which the first I/O device resides. A translating interrupt register table includes a plurality of mapped interrupt register addresses in the domain that is associated with a plurality of target interrupt register addresses of a plurality of worker computing resources.
US09465757B2
A memory device used with a relaxed timing requirement specification according to temperatures, an operation method thereof, and a memory controller and a memory system using the memory device are provided. The memory device has a first timing characteristic at a first temperature and a second timing characteristic that is longer than the first timing characteristic at a second temperature. If a temperature of the memory device is higher than a reference temperature, the memory controller controls the first timing characteristic as a timing requirement specification of the memory device. If the temperature of the memory device is lower than the reference temperature, the memory controller controls the second timing characteristic as the timing requirement specification of the memory device.
US09465755B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to security parameter zeroization. Example embodiments include security parameter zeroization based on a remote security monitor.
US09465754B2
A circuit may include a queue, a monitor, and a controller. The queue may receive and store a plurality of commands from a plurality of buses to access a shared set of registers. The monitor may monitor the plurality of commands in the queue to determine whether a period of time needs to be reserved for selected commands from one of the plurality of buses. The controller, if the period of time needs to be reserved, based on the period of time determined by the monitor, may disable acceptance of commands from buses other than the one of the plurality of buses, may execute the selected commands for the one of the plurality of buses, and may allow more than one of the plurality of buses access to results of the selected commands.
US09465743B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for accessing a cache and a pseudo cache agent (PCA). The method of the present invention is applied to a multiprocessor system, where the system includes at least one NC, at least one PCA conforming to a processor micro-architecture level interconnect protocol is embedded in the NC, the PCA is connected to at least one PCA storage device, and the PCA storage device stores data shared among memories in the multiprocessor system. The method of the present invention includes: if the NC receives a data request, obtaining, by the PCA, target data required in the data request from the PCA storage device connected to the PCA; and sending the target data to a sender of the data request. Embodiments of the present invention are mainly applied to a process of accessing cache data in the multiprocessor system.
US09465734B1
One or more memory coalitions of software processes are created and used to decide whether to perform memory reduction operations on a data processing system. One method in one embodiment includes adding a newly launched second process to an existing memory coalition in response to determining that the second process should be part of a memory coalition that includes a first process. In response to determining that available system memory (e.g. DRAM) is low, the system determines which memory coalition of foreground applications uses the most amount of system memory and then performs one or more memory reduction operations on that memory coalition in order to make more system memory available to other processes.
US09465730B2
Different block management values that sequentially increase are set for a plurality of blocks to indicate active states of the blocks. For example, a first block management value “$1111” is stored in a first block, and a second management value “$1112” is stored in a second block. Thus, even when more than one block is in an active state, an updated value is read from the block that stores a larger block management value. This allows for the true updated value to be read.
US09465729B2
Technologies are generally described for methods and systems effective to implement a memory allocation accelerator. A processor may generate a request for allocation of a requested chunk of memory. The request may be received by a memory allocation accelerator configured to be in communication with the processor. The memory allocation accelerator may process the request to identify an address for a particular chunk of memory corresponding to the request and may return the address to the processor.
US09465727B2
A memory system method for controlling the same, and an information processing device using the same are provided. The system includes a plurality of memory chips electrically connected with one another by a bus (e.g. address bus, data bus, control bus, etc.), which are disposed in a stacked arrangement and extend through the plurality of memory chips in a stacking direction, and a memory controller connected to a plurality of processors and to the bus, and further to a chip select signal line for outputting a chip select signal to each of the plurality of memory chips. The memory controller converts an address signal from each of the processors into a set of the chip select signal and the address signal, which is outputted to the address bus, so as to relay inputs and outputs of data between each of the processors and each of the memory chips.
US09465725B2
Provided are approaches for software defect reporting. Specifically, one approach provides identifying a software defect; generating a software defect report, wherein the software defect report is generated in real-time as the software defect is identified during testing of the test case, wherein the software defect report is submitted by a testing entity to a software developer responsible for creating a software product having the software defect, and wherein the defect report contains information to identify the location of the software defect in the application code of the software product; determining if the software defect report information is complete; and if the software defect report information is not complete, the updating the defect report information, determining if the software defect is reproducible, and recreating the software defect in the case that the software defect is reproducible.
US09465723B2
Certain example embodiments described herein relate to techniques for observing an internal state of a software application executing in a runtime environment. For instance, certain example embodiments include traversing a structure of multiple live data objects in the executing software application; generating a graph of shadow data objects based on the traversing, with each shadow data object of the graph corresponding to a live data object of the executing software application; and providing access to the generated shadow graph via a user interface.
US09465717B2
Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer program products for dynamically hooking multiple levels of application code. A server receives identifying information that identifies a target function of a target application to hook. The server pauses a target process of the target application. The server locates the target function within the target application code based on the received identifying information. The server then hooks the located function outside of the target application, thereby creating hooked code during application runtime.
US09465715B2
A system optimizes a number of shared server processes executing on a processor. The system creates, in a memory, a data array for storing a plurality of performance metric values, each associated with a number of shared server processes. The system selects a value for an optimized number of shared server processes according to a first procedure based on the performance metric, observes a performance metric associated with the selected optimized number, and stores, in the data array, the observed performance metric. The system repeats the selecting, observing and storing until at least a predetermined number of contiguous data values are stored in the data array. The system selects the value for the optimized number according to a second procedure based on a slope of the performance metric. The system observes the performance metric associated with the selected optimized number, and stores, in the data array, the observed performance metric.
US09465701B2
A relay device for dividing a storage device into a plurality of unit areas, assigning an unused unit area from among the plurality of unit areas to received channel-specified data, and performing at least one of adjustment of a transmission timing of the data and conversion of the data by using the assigned unit area, is disclosed. The relay device includes an error detector configured to detect an error where the unit area from which the data is to be read is not specified; and an error control configured to recognize a channel of data stored in the unit area that is not specified due to the error detected by the error detector as a target channel, and to invalidate an assignment of the unit area to the recognized target channel.
US09465698B2
Certain example embodiments relate to techniques for recovering registry information and recreating the entire registry for all available tenants in a scalable, multi-tenant distributed environment, while also potentially looking into all of the running services where the most up-to-date data could exist. Dynamic real-time or substantially real-time recreation of connections between a web application and the latest instance of a tenant in such an environment (e.g., following a failure of one of the databases holding the tenant data, a corruption of the registry entry pointing to the tenant, and/or the like) is made possibly by, for instance, comparing the timestamps of the last written entities in order to examine the most current data and “re-bundle” the last master/replication instances, e.g., for restores in an environment where a rolling failover procedure is implemented.
US09465697B2
Exemplary embodiments provide various techniques for providing backup functionalities in a cloud computing system. In one exemplary method, a workflow that defines a set of actions associated with a backup functionality in a cloud computing system is accessed. A plug-in module that is configured to perform at least one of the set of actions associated with the backup functionality is identified from a number of plug-in modules. This identified plug-in module is then called to execute the action defined in the workflow.
US09465693B2
Self-describing data blocks of a minimum atomic write size may be stored for a data store. Data may be received for storage in a data block of a plurality of data blocks at a persistent storage device that are equivalent to a minimum atomic write size for the persistent storage device. Metadata may be generated for the data that includes an error detection code which is generated for the data and the metadata together. The data and the metadata are sent to the persistent storage device to store together in the data block. An individual atomic write operation may write together the data and the metadata in the data block. When accessed, the error detection code is applicable to detect errors. The metadata may also be applicable to determine whether the data is stored for a currently assigned purpose or a previously assigned purpose of the data block.
US09465691B2
A wrapping burst read determination unit determines whether or not a read request is a request of a wrapping read. If the read request is the request of the wrapping read, a memory address conversion unit extracts a plurality of addresses that includes an address in which payload data requested by the read request is stored, and designates a read out order of data from the plurality of addresses extracted. If the read request is the request of the wrapping read, a first data holding unit inputs first data read out from an address to which a forefront position in the read out order has been designated among the plurality of addresses, and stores the first data. If the read request is the request of the wrapping read, a data alignment unit, inputs trailing data read out from an address to which an end position in the read out order has been designated, and extracts payload data and an ECC which are correlated with each other from the first data and the trailing data.
US09465662B2
Work submitted to a co-processor enters through one of multiple input queues, used to provide various quality of service levels. In-memory linked-lists store work to be performed by a network services processor in response to lack of processing resources in the network services processor. The work is moved back from the in-memory inked-lists to the network services processor in response to availability of processing resources in the network services processor.
US09465660B2
Different types of hardware processing resources in a system are identified (102). In response to a request to perform a task, a respective one of the different types of hardware processing resources is selected (104) to perform the task.
US09465655B2
A method for managing threads and an electronic device using the method are provided. In the method, a current time is obtained. A time interval from now to a time for the processor to wake up next time is calculated. The processor is released until reaching the end of the time interval. When the end of the time interval is reached or a first notice signal of the processor is received, a first newest time is obtained to update a current time, and the current time is logged as a basis time. It is respectively checked whether the current time satisfies a plurality of predetermined time conditions of the registered threads against a plurality of registered threads in the threads. When the current time satisfies the predetermined time condition of a first registered thread among the registered threads, the first registered thread is waked up.
US09465651B2
A remote processor interacts with a transactional memory that has a memory, local BWC (Byte-Wise Compare) resources, and local NFA (Non-deterministic Finite Automaton) engine resources. The processor causes a byte stream to be transferred into the transactional memory and into the memory. The processor then uses the BWC circuit to find a character signature in the byte stream. The processor obtains information about the character signature from the BWC circuit, and based on the information uses the NFA engine to process the byte stream starting at a byte position determined based at least in part on the results of the BWC circuit. From the time the byte stream is initially written into the transactional memory until the time the NFA engine completes, the byte stream is not read out of the transactional memory.
US09465648B2
A system includes an initiator and processing nodes. The initiator distributes portions of a transaction among the processing nodes. Each processing node has at least one downstream neighbor to which the processing node sends commit messages. The commit messages include a commit status of the processing node. The downstream neighbor is also a processing node.
US09465641B2
The disclosure is related to selecting and allocating one of resources in a cloud computing system to create a virtual machine. A control server may determine a resource selection reference by selecting one of fault-tolerance and network efficiency upon receipt of a request message for creating a target virtual machine. The control server may calculate at least one of a fault-tolerance point and a network efficiency point of each candidate resource according to the selected resource selection reference. The control server may select one of candidate resources to create a requested virtual machine based on at least one of the calculated fault-tolerance point and the calculated network efficiency point of the candidate resources.
US09465638B2
Examples disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and software for minimizing Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) limitations on virtual machines are disclosed herein. In one example, a method of operating a volume combining system to combine volumes for a virtual machine includes identifying two or more volumes to be attached to the virtual machine. The method further provides combining the two or more volumes into a single volume, and attaching the single volume to the virtual machine.
US09465635B2
A technique for predictive distributed resource scheduling and distributed power management includes analyzing patterns in the workload, predicting future workloads, and making recommendations for changes to the virtual computing environment. In addition, a cost-benefit analysis can be performed to determine whether the recommended change would likely result in improved performance.
US09465634B2
A fault tolerant system includes a primary virtual machine that is formed on a primary machine in which a primary hypervisor runs, and is adapted to input virtual interrupt based on an external interrupt from the primary hypervisor to a primary guest OS, and a secondary virtual machine that is formed on a secondary machine in which a secondary hypervisor runs, and is adapted to input the virtual interrupt to a secondary guest OS on the basis of timing information on the virtual interrupt transmitted from the primary virtual machine. The primary virtual machine is adapted to collect operation performance information from the secondary virtual machine, and to configure an operation performance of the primary virtual machine and an operation performance of the secondary virtual machine so that the operation performance of the primary virtual machine becomes equal to the operation performance of the secondary virtual machine.
US09465631B2
An automatic caching system is described herein that automatically determines user-relevant points at which to incrementally cache expensive to obtain data, resulting in faster computation of dependent results. The system can intelligently choose between caching data locally and pushing computation to a remote location collocated with the data, resulting in faster computation of results. The automatic caching system uses stable keys to uniquely refer to programmatic identifiers. The system annotates programs before execution with additional code that utilizes the keys to associate and cache intermediate programmatic results. The system can maintain the cache in a separate process or even on a separate machine to allow cached results to outlive program execution and allow subsequent execution to utilize previously computed results. Cost estimations are performed in order to choose whether utilizing cached values or remote execution would result in a faster computation of a result.
US09465622B2
One embodiment includes a configurable computing system. The configurable computing system includes a broker module that receives information for one or more applications, obtains one or more attributes for an electronic device, and determines runtime configurations for one or more components for the electronic device. A controller communicates with applications for configuring the one or more components based on the runtime configurations.
US09465621B2
The techniques described herein implement an operating system that can reliably process time sensitive information in non real-time manner. Thus, the operating system described herein is capable of processing an instance of time sensitive input during a time period after the instance of time sensitive input is received (e.g., at a future point in time). To accomplish this, the techniques timestamp each instance of time sensitive input when it is received at a device. The techniques then store the timestamped instance of time sensitive input in a temporary queue, and make the timestamped instance available to the operating system at a time period after the time period when it is received, as indicated by the timestamp. Additional techniques described herein prioritize the activation of a driver configured to receive the time sensitive information during a bootup sequence or a reboot sequence.
US09465617B1
A computer system that does not natively support non-maskable interrupts (NMIs) implements NMI-like functionality in a secure monitor. The computer system detects a high priority interrupt and determines whether or not interrupts are enabled or disabled. If interrupts are enabled, the computer system injects an exception into a currently executing thread of system software operating at the second privilege level, and an exception handler processes the exception like a standard exception. If interrupts are disabled, the computer system saves the current system state (e.g., the current program counter and CPU state) and values of one or more exception handling registers in temporary storage and injects an exception into the currently executing thread of the system software, and the exception handler processes the exception in a special manner.
US09465616B2
A processor includes an instruction fetch unit and an execution unit. The instruction fetch unit retrieves instructions from memory to be executed by the execution unit. The instruction fetch unit includes a branch prediction unit which is configured to predict whether a branch instruction is likely to be executed. The memory includes an instruction cache comprising a portion of the fetch blocks available in the memory. The instruction fetch unit may use a combination of way prediction and serialized access to retrieve instructions from the instruction cache. The instruction fetch unit initially accesses the instruction cache to retrieve the predicted fetch block associated with a way prediction. The instruction fetch unit compares a cache tag associated with the way prediction with the address of the cache line that includes the predicted fetch block. If the tag matches, then the way prediction is correct and the retrieved fetch block is valid.
US09465596B2
A method and system for providing cross system installation of applications, include providing for installation, via a server, a natively operating application coded only with web technologies, and providing for installation a single runtime environment that provides the natively operating application access to computer system-level services that are not available to web applications. The single runtime environment controls the installation and uninstallation of the natively operating application, and the natively operating application is configured to execute independent of a web browser.
US09465595B2
A computing apparatus computes a performance value of a program which includes a specific code which is executed multiple times by the processor and an access instruction for instructing the processor to access a memory area. The computing apparatus includes: a determining unit that determines, whether or not a cache memory is available for use at a time of execution of the access instruction in a simulation of an operation in which the processor executes the program; a generating unit that generates, in a case where the first determining unit has determined that the cache memory is not available, a computational code for computing the performance value of the specific code for a case where the processor executes the specific code, based on performance values of individual instructions within the specific code for a case where the cache memory is not used, without depending on an attribute of the memory area.
US09465594B2
A distributed code including a plurality of programs is created based on a sequential code that includes at least one call of a first function associated with a future, where at least a first of the plurality of programs is to execute the first function associated with the future, and at least a second of the plurality of programs is to execute a second function in a present section of the sequential code. A normalization function is included in each of the plurality of programs to normalize virtual addresses accessed by the first and second functions.
US09465587B2
A computer system identifies a uniform resource identifier (URI) that corresponds to a resource of a RESTful web service. The URI contains elements. The computer system identifies a relationship between the elements of the URI and creates programming code for a method of a software development kit (SDK) client. The method reflects the relationships between the elements of the URI to facilitate communication with the resource of the RESTful web service.
US09465585B2
A method for detecting a correlation of a first ring oscillator with a second ring oscillator and a system for carrying out the method are provided. In the method, combinations of concatenations are compared to chronologically preceding concatenations.
US09465581B2
System and method for automatically and regularly predicting water level and currents in coastal areas, without operator intervention. The system and method can enable automated operational forecasts at regular time intervals without operator intervention by using a grid and a computer forecast model that allows accurate prediction of tidal heights and currents in complex shoreline and bathymetry regions, single or parallel processing capability, optimal available processor assignment based on the size of computing domain, standard and other tidal database forcing in the open boundary, missing data gap-filling, and wind, bathymetry, and model-derived boundary condition model integration.
US09465574B2
A system for controlling a sound wave-based touch recognition interface includes: an auditory user interface (AUI) pad configured to transfer a sound wave, a sound wave recognition member configured to convert the sound wave transferred from the AUI pad into an electrical signal, and an actuator member attached to one side of the AUI pad and configured to be deformed in response to the electrical signal converted by the sound wave recognition member.
US09465573B2
An assembly including a display configuration including presentation surface area juxtaposed within the conference space for viewing by an audience, the presentation surface area including at least first and second adjacent sub-spaces, a first processor linked to the display assembly and programmed to perform the steps of enabling a first interface that allows images to be presented via and moved among the sub-spaces by selecting images in the sub-spaces on the surface area and moving the images to different locations and a hand held device including a device display and a second processor programmed to present a second interface that presents instances of each image presented via the sub-spaces and enabling movement of the images among the different sub-spaces by moving representations of the images to locations on the device display, the second processor communicating wirelessly with the first processor to synchronize images.
US09465568B2
A printing management apparatus includes a storage unit, a confirmation unit, a changing unit, and a processor. The storage unit stores schedule information including a correspondence among a visit schedule for a user to visit a visit destination, a printing schedule of target print data associated with the visit destination, and a printing location for the target print data. The confirmation unit confirms whether or not the visit schedule is to be changed, in accordance with a positional relationship between the visit destination and the user. When the visit schedule is changed, the changing unit changes the printing schedule in accordance with the change. The processor causes the target print data to be printed by using a printer installed in the printing location, in accordance with the printing schedule.
US09465565B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus that is coping with the response and the energy-saving effect. The image forming apparatus has a host system and a proxy response system. The host system transmits response data for information request data in a normal mode. The proxy response system transmits the response data for the information request data in a sleep mode. The memory part of the proxy response system memorizes information of the response data from the host system, and sleep mode transit time. The sleep control part makes the host system shift from the normal mode to the sleep mode based on the sleep mode transit time. The sleep control part changes the sleep mode transit time according to quantity of the information of the response data memorized in the memory part.
US09465564B2
A printing control apparatus includes: an intermediate data generating unit that generates a piece of intermediate data; a judgment unit that, using attribute information, judges whether a piece of object data is a bitmap image; a first color/monochrome judgment unit that makes a color/monochrome judgment using the attribute information; and a second color/monochrome judgment unit that further makes the color/monochrome judgment for each individual pixel when the piece of object data is a bitmap image and is judged to be in color by the first color/monochrome judgment unit.
US09465559B2
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for emulating multiple-time programmable memory utilizing one-time programmable memory, the memory comprising a plurality of one time programmable (OTP) memory locations for storing information, the plurality of OTP memory locations configured to operate as a single emulated many time programmable (eMTP) memory location, wherein the plurality of OTP memory locations operating as an eMTP memory location are associated with one address, the one address readable and writable.
US09465551B1
Conditions are enforced to prevent unintended deletion of data stored by a data storage system. For example, to delete a collection of data, a condition on the collection of data's size may be enforced. The collection may be required to be empty, for example. In addition, a condition that there not exist a pending data processing operation that can affect fulfillment of the condition on the collection of data's size is also enforced.
US09465545B2
A memory card is attached to a host device, and includes a data control circuit which transfers data with respect to the host device in synchronism with a rise edge and a fall edge of a clock signal.
US09465539B2
Methods of operating a memory device include performing a first memory operation having an associated timing requirement; after completing the first memory operation, determining whether a timing margin between completion of the first memory operation and expiration of its associated timing requirement exceeds a length of time to perform a particular portion of a second memory operation; and performing the particular portion of the second memory operation between completion of the first memory operation and the expiration of its associated timing requirement if it is determined that the timing margin between completion of the first memory operation and expiration of its associated timing requirement exceeds the length of time to perform the particular portion of the second memory operation.
US09465536B2
Text input is corrected on a touch-sensitive display by presenting a list of candidate words in the interface which can be selected by touch input. The candidate list can include candidate words having two or more character types (e.g., Roman, kana, kanji). In one aspect, the candidate list can be scrolled using a finger gesture. When a user's finger traverses a candidate word and the touch is released, the candidate word is inserted into a document being edited. In another aspect, characters can be erased by touching a key (e.g., a backspace or delete key) and making a sliding, swiping, or other finger gesture. A number of characters proportional to a distance (e.g., a linear distance) of the finger gesture across the display are erased. If there are characters in a text input area, those characters are erased first, followed by characters in the document being edited.
US09465532B2
Methods and apparatuses for implementing gesture command recognition functionality is disclosed. The apparatuses may operate in a pointing mode and operate in an enhanced gesturing mode. While in the enhanced gesturing mode, the apparatuses may cause associated actions in response to recognizing sliding inputs as gesture commands. The gesture commands may be selectively associated with actions based on localities. The apparatuses may present overlays with information content independent of gesture command recognition. The apparatuses may change appearances of visual representations of sliding inputs in response to recognizing the sliding inputs as gesture commands.
US09465498B2
A touchscreen includes a plurality of X electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged in parallel in a second direction, a plurality of Y electrodes extending in the second direction so as to intersect the X electrodes and arranged in parallel in the first direction, and pedestal layers formed at respective intersections between the plurality of X electrodes and the plurality of Y electrodes, wherein an intersection portion of each Y electrode is formed under the pedestal layer, wherein a part of an intersection portion of each X electrode is formed on the pedestal layer and both ends thereof are electrically connected to adjacent electrode portions of the X electrodes, and wherein a profile of a portion of the pedestal layer intersecting the intersection portion of the X electrode has a nonlinear shape when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the substrate.
US09465494B2
An apparatus classifies touch events. The apparatus includes a touch sensitive surface configured to generate a touch event when an object touches the touch sensitive surface. The touch event entails a mechanical vibration upon contact with the surface. The apparatus includes a touch event detector configured to detect the onset of a touch, and a touch event classifier configured to classify the touch event to identify the object used for the touch event. The mechanical vibration is created via any one of finger parts including a tip, a pad, a fingernail, and a knuckle, each of which has a unique feature different from each other.
US09465492B2
A touch panel system prevents an incorrect operation caused by an unintended contact of an object with a touch panel while suppressing a decline in sensitivity of detection of presence or absence of a touch on the touch panel. The touch panel system includes a touch invalidating section which, in a case where a specific point of a touch panel is continuously touched for a predetermined period of time, invalidates an instruction that is given, in accordance with the touch, to an electronic device including the touch panel.
US09465475B2
A touch panel comprises a plurality of basic sensing-units arranged in a matrix. The basic sensing-unit comprises a pressure-sensing transistor and a selection transistor. The pressure-sensing transistor comprises a first terminal, a second terminal, a gate electrode, a mask layer, a channel connecting the first and second terminals, a dielectric layer formed on the channel, and a piezoelectric material deposited on the dielectric layer. The piezoelectric material may comprise PVDF, lead zirconate titanate, ZnO, BaTiO3, LiNbO3, or PbTiO3. The selection transistor comprises a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal. The first terminal of the selection transistor connects to a sensing electrode of the touch panel, the second terminal of the selection transistor connects to the first terminal of the pressure sensing transistor, and the third terminal of the selection transistor is a transistor gate and connects to a drive electrode of the touch panel.
US09465467B2
A flexible printed circuit board having enhanced peeling force and a touch panel including the same are provided. The flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) includes a first bonding portion and a second bonding portion respectively bonded to a first circuit unit and a second circuit unit. The first bonding portion includes a pad corresponding portion corresponding to pads of the first circuit unit and dummy portions outwardly extending from both end portions of the pad corresponding portion. An FPCB wiring formation portion includes FPCB wirings respectively connected to the pads and extending from the first bonding portion to the second bonding portion and concave portions respectively disposed to be adjacent to the dummy portions and having a curved surface.
US09465466B2
Examples of sensing a gesture with respect to a touch input device are described. For example, a method to sense a gesture may include acquiring a distance between a finger, which may not be in contact with the touch input device, and at least two heat sensing spots on the touch input device. The acquired distances may be compared to identify the shortest distance. The gesture of the finger toward the touch input device may be identified based on the shortest distance being less than a predetermined threshold. The described techniques and examples may improve overall performance of system that may be equipped with the touch input device.
US09465457B2
A computing device includes a touch screen displaying a graphical user interface (GUI) and a processing unit programmed to recognize gestures made on the touch screen and execute, in response thereto, a process associated with the gestures. The gestures include at least one of: a tap that causes an animation to be overlaid on the GUI at a location of the tap and, if a cursor is overlaid on the GUI, also causes the cursor to be moved to the location of the tap, a press-and-hold that causes a cursor overlaid on the GUI to be moved to a location of the press-and-hold, a press-and-hold in combination with a tap that causes a mouse right-click command to be executed, a press-and-hold that exceeds a predetermined amount of time in combination with a drag that causes a resizing of the GUI, a simultaneous three-tap that causes a keyboard to be launched and overlaid on the GUI to not obscure the portion of the GUI on top of which the simultaneous three-tap gesture was made, and a two-finger sweep that causes content within the GUI to be scrolled.
US09465453B2
A content display method of a user terminal device including a bended touch screen divided into a main area and a sub area, includes displaying, on the main area, a first main content provided by a first application, and displaying, on the sub area, a first sub content associated with the first main content, receiving a user gesture input on the main area, and in response to receiving the user gesture, displaying, on the main area, a second main content provided by a second application, and displaying, on the sub area, a second sub content associated with the second main content.
US09465433B2
An information processing device includes a capture section capturing an image of an object, an acquisition section acquiring the image captured by the capture section, a calculation section calculating vibration information on the basis of the image acquired by the acquisition section, a determination section determining a vibration command on the basis of the vibration information calculated by the calculation section, and a control section executing predetermined processing on the basis of the vibration command determined by the determination section.
US09465426B2
The present invention discloses a method for backing up data in a case of a power failure of a storage system including: when a power failure is detected, acquiring current refresh progress of a buffer in a storage system, an address, in the buffer, of data that is in the buffer and needs to be backed up to a non-volatile memory in the storage system, and a first time required for backing up the data; calculating, according to the current refresh progress of the buffer and the address of the data in the buffer, a second time for which the data can at least keep being not lost since a last refresh; and stopping refreshing the buffer, and backing up the data to the non-volatile memory, if the second time is greater than the first time.
US09465423B2
Various embodiments of methods and systems for thermal energy management in a portable computing device (“PCD”) based on power level calculations are disclosed. An exemplary method includes tracking instantaneous operating temperatures and active power supply levels to one or more components. With an estimate or measurement of ambient temperature, the instantaneous operating temperature values and active power supply level values can be used to calculate an instantaneous thermal resistance value. In the event that thermal energy generation should be managed, a target operating temperature may be used with the ambient temperature and the instantaneous thermal resistance value to solve for an optimum power supply level. The active power supply level may then be adjusted based on the calculated optimum power supply level.
US09465416B2
An electronic device including a first case, a first protrusion, a click pad and a frame is provided. The first case has an accommodating cavity, wherein the accommodating cavity is recessed from a surface of the first case and forms a bottom plate, first and second side walls which are erected on one pair of opposite sides of the bottom plate, and two third side walls which are erected on another pair of opposite sides of the bottom plate. The first protrusion is disposed on the bottom plate. The click pad has a switch. The frame is disposed between the first case and the clip pad, wherein the click pad is assembled in the accommodating cavity by the frame, and the switch directly faces to the first protrusion.
US09465411B2
An electronic device includes a housing assembly and an electronic module. The housing assembly includes a first housing and a second housing. The first housing includes a main body, an accommodation box and an assembly component. The main body, the accommodation box and the assembly component are formed integrally into a single unit. The main body is connected to the accommodation box which has an accommodating space, a first side and a second side. The first side is opposite to the second side. The assembly component is disposed at the second side. The second housing detachably covers the accommodation box and the assembly component. The electronic module includes a fastening structure and is movably disposed in the accommodating space via the first side of the accommodation box. Accordingly, the fastening structure is combined with the assembly component.
US09465408B2
A display apparatus includes a first panel, a display panel disposed at one side of the first panel, a film with a hallow region disposed between the first panel and the display panel, and an optical adhesive disposed in the hollow region of the film and between the first panel and the display panel.
US09465402B2
A pedal travel transducer has sensors and a pedal unit which has a pedal travel transducer. The pedal travel transducer has a transducer which experiences a movement of the pedal through an elastic driver that is connected to the pedal so that the sensors register this movement.
US09465398B2
Systems and methods for managing power on an electric power grid including a server for communicating IP-based messages over a network with distributed power consuming devices and/or power supplying devices, the IP-based messages including information including a change in state of the power consuming device(s), a directive for a change in state of the power consuming device(s), a priority message, an alert, a status, an update, a location with respect to the electric power grid, a function, device attributes, and combinations thereof.
US09465389B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described for moving a patient to and from various locations, care units, etc., within a care facility. For example a transport and support vehicle includes a body structure including a plurality of rotatable members operable to frictionally interface the vehicle to a travel path and to move the vehicle along the travel path, and a surface structured and dimensioned to support an individual subject. A transport and support vehicle can include, for example, an imager operably coupled to one or more of a power source, a steering assembly, one or more of the plurality of rotatable members, etc., and having one or more modules operable to control the power source, steering assembly, one or more of the plurality of rotatable members, etc., so as to maintain an authorized operator in the image zone.
US09465388B1
Example systems and methods enable an autonomous vehicle to request assistance from a remote operator when the vehicle's confidence in operation is low. One example method includes operating an autonomous vehicle in a first autonomous mode. The method may also include identifying a situation where a level of confidence of an autonomous operation in the first autonomous mode is below a threshold level. The method may further include sending a request for assistance to a remote assistor, the request including sensor data representative of a portion of an environment of the autonomous vehicle. The method may additionally include receiving a response from the remote assistor, the response indicating a second autonomous mode of operation. The method may also include causing the autonomous vehicle to operate in the second autonomous mode of operation in accordance with the response from the remote assistor.
US09465383B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for handling electronic components. The apparatus comprises: i) a rotary device and a plurality of pick heads arranged circumferentially around the rotary device, each pick head being operable to hold an electronic component; ii) a position-determining device for determining an arrangement of the electronic components as held by the respective pick heads; iii) a fiducial mark arranged in a position that is indicative of the arrangement of the electronic components, as determined by the position-determining device; iv) a first imaging device arranged relative to the fiducial mark; and v) at least one handling device for handling the electronic components. Specifically, the first imaging device is operable to capture at least one image comprising the fiducial mark and the at least one handling device so that a position of the at least one handling device is adjustable to align the at least one handling device with respect to the arrangement of the electronic components, based on an offset between the fiducial mark and the at least one handling device as derived from the at least one image captured by the first imaging device. A method of adjusting the position of at least one handling device of an apparatus for handling electronic components is also disclosed.
US09465381B2
A servo control device includes: a speed control loop including a speed command generating unit, a torque command generating unit, and a speed detecting unit; a sine wave disturbance input unit; a frequency response calculating unit estimating a gain and phase of speed control loop input/output signals; a resonance frequency detecting unit; a resonance mode characteristic estimating unit estimating resonance characteristics from the frequency response at a resonance frequency and frequencies therearound; a rigid-body mode characteristic estimating unit estimating rigid-body characteristics from the frequency response in a low-frequency band; a filter attenuating a component in a particular frequency band in a torque command; and a filter adjusting unit making setting so that the filter has specified characteristics. The filter adjusting unit further includes a filter adjusting part attenuating a component in a frequency band corresponding to a resonance mode estimated by the resonance mode characteristic estimating unit.
US09465377B2
A power control unit and method of use thereof for varying the supply of electricity to an electrical apparatus using a peer-to-peer wireless communications link between a controller and the power control unit. The communications link may be established using Wi-Fi Direct or Bluetooth communications technology.
US09465371B2
There is disclosed herein a building automation and control system and a method for operating the same. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, a building controller may process data using a plurality of protocols without using a BACnet gateway, thereby controlling devices in a building coexisting with two or more protocols. According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, sub-systems having different their own protocols, respectively, may be integrated to establish a building automation and control system, and data may be processed using a single building controller, thereby enhancing the scalability and stability of the system.
US09465367B2
Method for authenticating a timepiece including applying at least one external excitation to said timepiece using an external device, measuring acoustic vibrations at least one of emitted and absorbed inside the timepiece to obtain an electrical signal representative of the measured acoustic vibrations, wherein a magnitude of the electrical signal represents magnitude information of the measured acoustic vibrations as a function of time, comparing the magnitude information with at least one reference magnitude information, and determining an authenticity of the timepiece based on the comparing.
US09465366B2
The invention concerns a device for regulating the relative angular speed between a magnetic structure and a resonator magnetically coupled to each other and forming an oscillator which defines a magnetic escapement. The magnetic structure includes at least one annular magnetic path at least partially formed of a magnetic material and the resonator includes at least one element for magnetic coupling to the annular magnetic path, this coupling element being formed of a magnetic material having a physical parameter correlated to the magnetic potential energy of the oscillator. The radial dimension of the annular magnetic path is smaller than a corresponding dimension of the coupling element, and the magnetic material is arranged so that the physical parameter of said magnetic material gradually increases angularly or gradually decreases angularly in order to obtain an angularly extended magnetic potential energy area in each angular period of the annular magnetic path.
US09465365B2
An electronic device that includes: a housing; an attachment portion capable of coupling the housing to a bottom of a wristwatch to be worn by a wearer; one or more physiological sensors included in the housing that measure one or more physical phenomena corresponding to the wearer of the wristwatch and electronic device coupled to the wristwatch; a memory configured to store data corresponding to the one or more physical phenomena; and a wireless communication device included in the housing for communicating the data to a computing device in wireless communication with the electronic device.
US09465363B2
A timepiece oscillator comprising a structure and distinct, temporally and geometrically offset, primary resonators, each comprising a mass returned to the structure by an elastic return means, this timepiece oscillator comprises coupling means for the interaction of the primary resonators, comprising a wheel set subjected to a torque or drive force, this wheel set comprising drive and guide means arranged to drive and guide a control means articulated with transmission means, each articulated, remote from the control means, with a mass of a primary resonator, and the primary resonators and the wheel set are arranged such that the axes of articulation of any two of the primary resonators and the axis of articulation of the control means are never coplanar.
US09465344B2
An image formation apparatus includes: a conveyance unit provided to convey a long medium provided with conveyance indexes at a predetermined conveyance index spacing; a print unit provided to perform printing on the medium; a cutter unit provided to cut the medium; an index detector provided to detect the conveyance indexes; a print controller configured to drive the print unit to perform printing in response to detection of the conveyance indexes; a cut controller configured to cause the cutter unit to cut the medium in response to detection of the conveyance indexes; and a conveyance controller configured to form a slack in the medium by driving the conveyance unit. The print controller performs printing based on a virtual conveyance index when the medium having the slack is cut.
US09465339B2
A fixing device including a lubricant supply unit is provided. The lubricant supply unit supplies a lubricant between a fixing belt and a nip forming member and includes a lubricant storage member and an impregnation member. The lubricant storage member stores the lubricant, and the impregnation member impregnates the lubricant discharged from the lubricant storage member and supplies the lubricant to an inner surface of the fixing belt. The lubricant stored in the lubricant storage member includes base oil and a thickener, and a weight of the thickener is equal to or less than 20% with respect to a weight of the lubricant.
US09465336B2
A control device configured to control an image forming apparatus by replacing a fixing device mounted therein with another fixing device including a storing portion configured to store information corresponding to a width of a recording material. The control device includes: a reading portion configured to read the information corresponding to the width of the recording material stored in the storing portion; an obtaining portion configured to obtain information corresponding to a width of a recording material to be subjected to image formation; and a controller configured to control an operation of the image forming apparatus on the basis of the information read by the reading portion and the information obtained by the obtaining portion. The controller prohibits an image forming operation when the width of the recording material obtained by the obtaining portion is smaller than the width of the recording material read by the reading portion.
US09465332B1
Provided is a fixing device including a rotating body that comes into contact with a surface of a light-transmitting recording medium which holds a toner image obtained by developing with a developer liquid, and absorbs a carrier liquid on the recording medium and the toner image, the developer liquid including a toner and the carrier liquid and the surface holding the toner image, a light-transmitting pressure member that is in contact with the rotating body and forms a pressure contact area in which the recording medium is pushed on the rotating body and passes between the light-transmitting pressure member and the rotating body, and an irradiating unit that irradiates the toner image with a laser beam when the recoding medium is present in the pressure contact area after the laser beam is transmitted through a portion of the pressure member.
US09465329B2
A cleaning unit includes a first accommodating chamber, a first conveyer, a cleaner, and a developing agent conveyer. The accommodating chamber is configured to accommodate therein developing agent. The accommodating chamber has one end portion and another end portion. The first conveyer is configured to convey the developing agent from the one end portion toward the another end portion. The cleaner is configured to collect developing agent from a belt in contact with a photosensitive member. The developing agent conveyer has a collection opening through which developing agent collected from a component other than the belt. The developing agent conveyer is configured to convey the developing agent from the collection opening toward the first accommodating chamber. The cleaner and the developing agent conveyer are positioned at the one end portion.
US09465323B2
According to an example, a liquid electrophotography printing (LEP) apparatus includes a fluid chamber to store fluid to be used to form an image and a filtration assembly to filter the fluid of the fluid chamber. The filtration assembly may store a filtration material to filter the fluid received from the fluid chamber and may provide the filtered fluid to the fluid chamber. The LEP apparatus may also include a detector assembly to detect a fluid parameter of the filtered fluid in the fluid chamber and a filtration adder unit to add a predetermined amount of the filtration material to the filtration assembly in response to a detection of the fluid parameter by the detector assembly.
US09465322B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image bearing member; a charging member for electrically charging the image bearing member in contact with the image bearing member; and a developing member for supplying developer in contact with the image bearing member. The developer remaining on the image bearing member after transfer is collected by the developing member. A Martens hardness HMR of a surface of the charging member and a Martens hardness HMD of a surface of the developer satisfy the following relationship: HMD>HMR.
US09465321B2
Provided is a remanufacturing method of a developer accommodating unit including a frame member configured to accommodate a flexible container for accommodating developer. The remanufacturing method includes taking out the flexible container from the inside of the frame member, and refilling the developer into the flexible container.
US09465320B1
A developer supplier for delivering a developer in a supply pipe having a multi-curvature structure is provided. The developer supplier includes a rotation shaft including a rigid first rotation shaft. The developer supplier includes a flexible second rotation shaft that has a smaller bending strength than the first rotation shaft, and is connected to the first rotation shaft, and a spiral wing formed around the rotation shaft, and at least a portion of the spiral wing formed around the second rotation shaft is flexible.
US09465304B2
A system for making flexible circuit films includes an inelastic conveyor, a web handling apparatus configured to pass a flexible substrate around the inelastic conveyor, an image acquisition apparatus configured to measure positions of a first set of alignment marks on the flexible substrate at a first conveyor location, an exposure apparatus configured to patternwise expose a photosensitive material on the flexible substrate at a second conveyor location, and an image processor configured to receive the measured positions of the first set of alignment marks, and to compare the measured positions with reference positions of the first set of alignment marks. The exposure apparatus is configured to patternwise expose the photosensitive material based on the comparison between the measured positions and the reference positions.
US09465303B2
An exposure apparatus includes an atmosphere maintaining unit which maintains an exposure chamber in an air atmosphere, a gas supply unit which supplies air or a mixed gas containing air and an inert gas to a local space, between a final surface of a projection optical system and a substrate, a detector which detects an alignment mark and a reference mark formed on the substrate stage, and a controller. The controller controls the gas supply unit not to supply the mixed gas to the local space when the detector detects the reference mark, and controls the gas supply unit to supply the mixed gas to the local space when an instruction to detect the alignment mark upon setting the local space in a mixed gas atmosphere, and expose the substrate based on the detection results of the reference mark and the alignment mark is issued from the recipe.
US09465298B2
A pattern forming method, including: (A) coating a substrate with a positive resist composition of which solubility in a positive developer increases and solubility in a negative developer decreases upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation, so as to form a resist film; (B) exposing the resist film; and (D) developing the resist film with a negative developer; a positive resist composition for multiple development used in the method; a developer for use in the method; and a rinsing solution for negative development used in the method.
US09465291B2
A radiation-sensitive resin composition includes a polymer that includes a structural unit represented by a formula (1), and an acid generator. R1 is a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, or the like. R2 is a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbon group. R3 is a hydrogen atom, a monovalent chain hydrocarbon group, or the like. R4 is a hydrogen atom, a monovalent chain hydrocarbon group, or the like. R5 is a hydrogen atom, a monovalent chain hydrocarbon group, or the like. R6 is a monovalent chain hydrocarbon group. R6 is bonded to R3 to form a first alicyclic structure, or R6 is bonded to R5 to form a second alicyclic structure. At least one hydrogen atom of R2, R3, or R4 is optionally substituted with a fluorine atom.
US09465287B2
Methods of forming a pattern in a semiconductor device structure include deprotecting an outer portion of a first photosensitive resist material, forming a second photosensitive resist material, exposing portions of the first and second photosensitive resist materials to radiation, and removing the deprotected outer portion of the first photosensitive resist material and the exposed portions of the first and second photosensitive resist materials. Additional methods include forming a first resist material over a substrate to include a first portion and a relatively thicker second portion, deprotecting substantially the entire first portion and an outer portion of the second portion while leaving an inner portion of the second portion protected, and forming a second resist material over the substrate. A portion of the second resist material is exposed to radiation, and deprotected and exposed portions of the first and second resist materials are removed.
US09465271B2
An object is to provide a display device that performs accurate display. A circuit is formed using a transistor that includes an oxide semiconductor and has a low off-state current. A precharge circuit or an inspection circuit is formed in addition to a pixel circuit. The off-state current is low because the oxide semiconductor is used. Thus, it is not likely that a signal or voltage is leaked in the precharge circuit or the inspection circuit to cause defective display. As a result, a display device that performs accurate display can be provided.
US09465268B2
An LCD device includes a plurality of first vertical gate lines and a plurality of data lines vertically disposed in a liquid crystal panel, a plurality of second horizontal gate lines horizontally disposed in the liquid crystal panel, and a plurality of driving ICs disposed in an upper or lower non-display area of the liquid crystal panel. The plurality of horizontal gate lines and the plurality of vertical gate lines may be disposed on different layers. The plurality of vertical gate lines and the plurality of horizontal gate lines are electrically connected to each other in respective pairs through a contact in an overlapping area therebetween.
US09465267B2
A display device includes: a substrate; electrode terminals for external connection; an insulating film on the respective electrode terminals, the insulating film provided with openings which expose part of the respective electrode terminals, the insulating film covering the other portion of the respective electrode terminals; surface conductive films which are disposed so as to correspond to the respective openings, and are connected to part of the respective electrode terminals; and a circuit board disposed so as to oppose the substrate, the circuit board including circuit electrode terminals which are connected to the surface conductive films through a conductive bonding member so as to oppose the respective openings, the surface conductive films extending from an inside of an opening corresponding thereto to a surface of an insulating film corresponding thereto, peripheral edges of the respective surface conductive films being positioned beyond a peripheral edge of a circuit electrode terminal corresponding thereto.
US09465250B2
The present invention provides shutter glasses comprising lenses and a shutter configured to control on-state or off-state of the lenses, wherein, the shutter is capable of turning on the lenses of the shutter glasses according to a predetermined first timing. The present invention further provides a display device, a display system and a display method. The shutter glasses provided by the present invention and the display device provided by the present invention are operated cooperatively, only a wearer wearing the shutter glasses can view coherent target images, while a person who does not wear the shutter glasses cannot identify contents of the target images, and cannot obtain contents of target images even when the display screen of the display device is photographed. With the shutter glasses and the display device provided by the present invention, security can be improved when operating confidential files.
US09465246B2
An array substrate for an in-cell type touch sensor liquid crystal display device includes: a substrate; a gate line and a data line on the substrate; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a first passivation layer on the thin film transistor; a common electrode on the first passivation layer; an etching preventing pattern covering the drain contact hole; an x sensing line and a y sensing line on the common electrode; a second passivation layer on the x sensing line and the y sensing line; and a pixel electrode on the second passivation layer.
US09465244B2
There is provided a liquid crystal display including: a liquid crystal display element which includes a pair of alignment films which are provided on facing surface sides of a pair of substrates, and a liquid crystal layer which is provided between the pair of alignment films and is configured to have a liquid crystal composition containing liquid crystal molecules having negative dielectric anisotropy, in which at least one of the pair of alignment films contains a compound obtained by crosslinking polymer compounds each including a first side chain which interacts with the liquid crystal molecules and a crosslinkable functional group as a second side chain, with each other, the liquid crystal composition configuring the liquid crystal layer contains at least one kind of an alkenyl compound represented by the following general formula (AN-1), and pretilt is applied to the liquid crystal molecules by the crosslinked compound.
US09465242B1
The present invention provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises an array substrate and a color filter substrate assembled in an aligned manner, the array substrate comprises a display area and a lead wire area provided on the periphery of at least one side of the display area, a first boundary line of the color filter substrate close to one side of the lead wire area has an orthographic projection on the array substrate and the orthographic projection falls into a boundary area of the lead wire area adjacent to the display area, a protective layer is provided on one side of the boundary area facing the color filter substrate, and the protective layer covers parts of the boundary area corresponding to the orthographic projection of the first boundary line on the array substrate and lead wires surrounding the parts.
US09465235B2
Dental/medical/surgical loupes have an improved declination angle to reduce neck and back strain. Eyeglass frames are provided with carrier lenses having bottom edges. A hole is provided in each carrier lens, each hole having an outer periphery that extends below the bottom edge of the carrier lens, resulting in a pair of opposing pointed ends. A pair of ocular devices are cemented in a respective one of the holes, such that a portion of the ocular body also extends below the bottom edge of the carrier lens. Each ocular is then cemented or otherwise permanently affixed into position to achieve a desired declination angle. For added stability, a pair of holes may be formed into the body of each ocular, each pair of holes being physically aligned with the two opposing pointed ends of the carrier lens associated with that ocular.
US09465234B2
The present invention provides ophthalmic devices comprising at least one photochromic material which is an indeno-fused naphthopyran having a pi-conjugation extending group bonded to the 11-position of the indeno-fused naphthopyran, the pi-conjugation extending group having at least one pendent halo-substituted group bonded thereto. The pi-conjugation extending group extends the pi-conjugation system of said indeno-fused naphthopyran. The 13-position of the indeno-fused naphthopyran is substantially free of spiro-substituents. The invention further provides photochromic materials of specified structure, photochromic compositions, photochromic articles and optical elements that include the photochromic materials. Other non-limiting embodiments relate to methods of making the ophthalmic devices comprising photochromic materials.
US09465228B2
A synthetic aperture optics (SAO) imaging method minimizes the number of selective excitation patterns used to illuminate the imaging target, based on the objects' physical characteristics corresponding to spatial frequency content from the illuminated target and/or one or more parameters of the optical imaging system used for SAO. With the minimized number of selective excitation patterns, the time required to perform SAO is reduced dramatically, thereby allowing SAO to be used with DNA sequencing applications that require massive parallelization for cost reduction and high throughput. In addition, an SAO apparatus optimized to perform the SAO method is provided. The SAO apparatus includes a plurality of interference pattern generation modules that can be arranged in a half-ring shape.
US09465217B2
An optical unit housing section and a light guide device are supported by a frame. Durability of sections having an optical function in an entire apparatus is maintained. The frame is arranged on a side closer to the nose of an observer than the optical unit housing section and reduced in size. Consequently, a virtual image display apparatus can give an impression that the virtual image display apparatus is small in size in appearance as a whole. Further, it is possible to attain a reduction in the weight of the entire virtual image forming apparatus. Compared with a structure in which the entire apparatus is covered with a case-like member, the virtual image display apparatus can be formed in a shape closer to a form of eyeglasses. It is possible to attain design with apparent voluminousness suppressed.
US09465206B1
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to improving a contact diameter of an adhesive/sealing material on surfaces of substrates by altering rheological properties of the adhesive/sealing material. An electrowetting display device comprises a first substrate and a second substrate, a first fluid and a second fluid disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein the first fluid is immiscible with the second fluid. An adhesive/sealing material comprising UV curable epoxy glue is in contact with the second fluid and couples the second substrate to the first substrate. The adhesive/sealing material further comprises silica particles in a range of 1-6% mass fraction of silica that alter rheological properties of the UV curable epoxy glue.
US09465205B2
An optical lens includes a first optical surface located at a bottom thereof, a third optical surface located at a top thereof and arranged oppositely to the first optical surface, and a second optical surface extending between the first optical surface and the third optical surface. The third optical surface is recessed downwardly towards the first optical surface. The light from the LED light source enters into the optical lens through the first optical surface, most of the entering light is directly refracted out of the optical lens through the second optical surface, and a part of the entering light that strikes the third optical surface is first reflected by the third optical surface towards the second optical surface via total internal reflection and then refracted out of the optical lens through the second optical surface. A backlight module incorporating the optical lens is also provided.
US09465203B2
Provided is a zoom lens, including, in order from object side to image side: first and second lens units having positive and negative powers, respectively; and three or more lens units. An interval between adjacent ones of the lens units is changed during zooming. An N-th lens unit, where 5≦N holds, counted from object side has negative refractive power, and moves to image side during focusing from infinite object to a close distance object. The N-th lens unit includes, in order from object side to image side, negative, positive, negative, and positive lenses. A focal length (fN) of N-th lens unit, a focal length (fT) of an entire system at telephoto end, a distance (o1N) from a surface vertex of N-th lens unit on object side to a front principal point position of N-th lens unit, and a length (dN) on optical axis of N-th lens unit are appropriately set.
US09465202B2
A wide angle lens consists of a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, a stop, and a positive third lens group in order from the object side. The first lens group includes two negative meniscus lenses, each with a convex surface on the object side. The second lens group includes one pair of cemented lenses. The third lens group includes two pairs of cemented lenses and at least one aspherical surface.
US09465201B2
An imaging lens substantially consists of negative first lens, positive second lens, negative third lens, positive fourth lens, positive fifth lens, and negative sixth lens in this order from an object side. At least one of second lens through sixth lens satisfies the following conditional expression (1), and the imaging lens, as a whole, satisfies the following conditional expression (2): (1/τi)×(f/fi)<0 (1); and Σ(1/τi)×(f/fi)<0 (i=1 through 6) (2).
US09465200B2
An apparatus for adjusting a zoom lens that includes a mechanical structure having a plurality of lens assemblies and an actuator to adjust a zoom level or focus of the apparatus.
US09465196B2
An optical imaging lens set includes a first lens element with a concave image-side surface in a vicinity of its periphery, a second lens element with a convex object-side surface in a vicinity of the optical axis and a convex image-side surface in a vicinity of its periphery, a third lens element with positive refractive power, a concave object-side surface in a vicinity of the optical axis and a convex image-side surface in a vicinity of the optical axis and a fourth lens element with a concave image-side surface in a vicinity of the optical axis and a convex image-side surface in a vicinity of its periphery.
US09465187B2
Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide thermal despace compensation for optics assemblies, such as devices including one or more lenses and/or optical devices. A thermal despace compensation system may include one or more interfaces substantially situated between optical devices that expand and contract with changing temperature according to their coefficients of thermal expansion (CTEs). Each interface may be implemented with one or more shapes and/or interfaces adapted to provide a compensation despace to compensate for thermal expansion and contraction and/or reduce optical defects caused by changes in temperature of the various optical devices.
US09465186B2
Disclosed is lens module. The lens module includes a barrel and a lens group disposed in the barrel. The lens group includes a first lens element connecting with the barrel and a second lens element connecting with the first lens element. The first lens element connecting with the barrel makes the lens module have a first matching precision. The first matching precision makes the barrel and the lens group be concentric. The first lens element has a first arc surface and the second lens element has a second arc surface engaging with the first arc surface which makes the lens module have a second matching precision. The second matching precision makes the first lens element and the second lens element be concentric.
US09465185B2
A lens module includes a lens holder having a top wall that has a bottom surface, and a lens unit received by the lens holder. The lens unit includes a first lens adjacent to the top wall and a second lens attached to the first lens. The first lens includes a first object-side surface abutting against the bottom surface and a side surface abutting against an inner surface of the lens holder. The second lens includes a second object-side surface engaging with the first lens, and a jointing surface also abutting against the inner surface.
US09465176B2
A fiber optic transceiver that is compatible with packaging into standard semiconductor packages and for SMT packaging, using materials and fabrication procedures that withstand solder assembly processes. The SMT package can have electrical contacts on the exterior of the package for creating electrical conduits to a substrate, such as a PCB, interposer, or circuit card within a larger assembly. The fiber optic transceiver can be of a non-SMT package configuration, being formed with electrical connection technology that allows direct connection to a substrate with electrical wiring, such as a PCB, interposer, or circuit card within a larger assembly. The fiber optic transceiver may have solderballs, metal posts or other electrical conduit technology that allows direct electrical connection to the substrate.
US09465173B2
An improved connector assembly is disclosed wherein end segment portions of a male plug have increasing cylindrical wall cylindrical wall diameter from the outer-most segment to an intermediate segment to an inner segment. The female receptacle has its female receptacle dimensions arranged to accept the male plug such that increasing cylindrical wall diameters exist from its outer-most segment to an intermediate segment to an inner-most segment. The increased diameters enhance the sealing with a strong and sustainable sealing pressure wherein coupling forces between the male plug and female receptacle are minor until the end of the insertion of the male plug into the female receptacle.
US09465161B2
An indexing signal detection module is configured to index one or more signal detectors past each of a plurality of sources of detectable signal emissions to detect or measure a signal emitted by each source. A plurality of signal transmission conduits transmit signal emitted by the sources from a first end of each conduit to a second end of each conduit where the signal may be detected by a signal detector. A conduit reformatter is configured to secure the first ends of the respective signal transmission conduits in a first spatial arrangement corresponding to a spatial arrangement of the signal emission sources and to secure the second ends of the respective signal transmission conduits in a second spatial arrangement different from the first spatial arrangement.
US09465156B2
A backlight module and a display device comprise: a light guide plate; a LED light bar including a plurality of LED lamps arranged at intervals at a side of the light guide plate so as to emit the light to the light-entering surface of the light guide plate, and a gap provided between the LED light bar and the light guide plate; and a reflection member arranged outside the gap and reflecting the light from the LED light bar toward the light guide plate, wherein first regions and second regions are arranged on the reflection member at intervals, the first regions correspond to positions of the LED lamp, the second regions correspond to an interval between the plurality of LED lamps and/or a position outside the LED lamps at the end of the LED light bar, and the first region has a reflective index less than the second region.
US09465147B2
Retroreflective sheeting comprising cube corner microstructure and having channels substantially parallel to a longitudinal, peripheral edge of the sheeting.
US09465145B2
An optical diffuser layer includes a binder, a plurality of metal oxide particles dispersed in the binder, and a plurality of interconnected voids. A plurality of haze generating particles are dispersed in the binder. The optical diffuser layer has an effective refractive index of 1.3 or less.
US09465141B2
Waveguides and electromagnetic cavities fabricated in hyperuniform disordered materials with complete photonic bandgaps are provided. Devices comprising electromagnetic cavities fabricated in hyperuniform disordered materials with complete photonic bandgaps are provided. Devices comprising waveguides fabricated in hyperuniform disordered materials with complete photonic bandgaps are provided. The devices include electromagnetic splitters, filters, and sensors.
US09465134B2
A geomagnetic sensor includes: a core that constitutes a closed magnetic circuit; a pair of coils that are wound around the core in positions facing each other and are connected in series to generate magnetic flux in the same circumferential direction in the core; an excitation power supply that applies an alternating current with a superimposed direct current to the pair of coils; and a detection circuit that is connected to a connection point of the pair of coils. Unlike a conventional flux gate type geomagnetic sensor, it is not required to excite the core until the core is magnetically saturated, and it is therefore possible to reduce power consumption.
US09465125B2
Methods and systems for compensating for source and receiver ghost effects in a reverse time migration (RTM) equation are described. Boundary conditions associated with the RTM acoustic wave equations for the source and recorded wavefields are modified. The resultant modified RTM acoustic wave equations are solved to generate ghost compensated modeled seismic images. In another aspect an imaging condition is also modified and the resultant RTM acoustic wave equations are solved to generate velocity and impedance perturbation images.
US09465115B2
An apparatus is disclosed for processing a sequence of samples of a received signal R reflected by a target surface and having a delay and a frequency shift relative to a reference signal D to obtain a delay Doppler map for the reflected signal. A first correlation module can obtain partial correlations z(n′, k) between samples corresponding to the reflected signal R and a samples corresponding to the reference signal D, across a set of delays. An inverse discrete fourier transform (DFT) of a sequence of samples can be derived from at least DFTs of a first reflected signal sequence and second reference signal sequence.
US09465111B2
A time-of-flight camera, having a time-of-flight sensor, which has at least one receiving pixel and is configured as a photomixing detector, having an illumination means, and having a modulator, which is connected to the time-of-flight sensor and to the illumination means, wherein a control sensor is arranged in the region of the illumination means such that at least some of the radiation emitted by the illumination means can be received by the control sensor is provided.
US09465106B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed toward attenuation correction of radar data. Atmospheric attenuation is a function of atmospheric water drop size and temperature. A number of different theoretical models are available to mathematically describe the particle drop shape that influences attenuation estimation. Each of these models has proven effective in different scenarios. It can be difficult, however, to predict which theoretical model to use. The total differential phase gives an idea of the attenuation, but it depends on the model. Moreover, the total attenuation along a rain path must be apportioned to different parts of the radar path in order to correct for attenuation along a radar path. Embodiments of this invention allows for a system to apportion the attenuation to different parts of the radar beam. Embodiments of the invention also allow for optimization of a number of different theoretical models for both drop size and temperature.
US09465103B2
A method of detecting a physical target in a region-of-interest is disclosed. The method comprises: transmitting a pulse of radiation into the region-of-interest; receiving an echo signal from the region-of-interest; accessing a computer readable medium storing a dictionary defined over a plurality of dictionary atoms each describing a dictionary function corresponding to at least a time delay and a Doppler shift; calculating a coefficient for each dictionary function using the echo signal, thereby providing a plurality of coefficients, wherein a linear combination of all dictionary functions respectively weighted by the coefficients does not reconstruct the echo signal; and determining at least one of a range and a speed of the target based on the coefficients.
US09465101B2
Aberration estimation uses cross correlation of receive-focused transmit element data. A set of sequentially fired broad transmit beams insonify an object from different steering angles. Each transmit beam emanates from an actual or a virtual transmit element. For every firing, a receive beamformer forms a transmit element image of the insonified region by focusing the received signals. An estimator estimates aberration by cross correlating or comparing the transmit element images. Where a virtual transmit element is used, the virtual transmit element images are back propagated to an actual transmit element position before aberration estimation. The estimations are used to form corrected transmit element images which are then summed pre-detection to form a high-resolution synthetic transmit aperture. Alternatively, the estimations are used to improve conventional focused-transmit imaging.
US09465098B2
A method for mitigating low duty factor electronic attack (EA) includes taking M samples of each of N pulses of radar return energy. The method includes forming an M×N pulse sample data matrix (PSDM) using the M samples and N pulses of the radar return energy including in-phase and quadrature phase components of the radar return energy and jamming data from the low duty factor EA. The method includes defining a 2N×1 vector for each row of the PSDM. The method includes computing a 4N×1 vector separating the in-phase and quadrature phase measurements of the jamming data from the low duty factor EA into a respective half of the 4N×1 vector using the 2N×1 vector and a measurement matrix dictionary. The method includes extracting the jamming data from the 4N×1 vector and forming a clean M×N PSDM that is free of the jamming data using the 4N×1 vector.
US09465097B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose systems and methods for providing enhanced features using an ATC Overlay data link. Further, there are provided systems and methods for ADS-B Mode Control that enable a transponder to selectively transmit data on a desired link, such as the ADS-B or ATC Overlay link, based on the control inputs such as current active ADS-B applications, thus reducing RF interference while maximizing the amount of pertinent data being transmitted. In various embodiments, ADS-B Mode Control also offers a mechanism to include pilot-entered data onto the ADS-B or ATC Overlay link, thereby producing flexibility for future ADS-B In applications.
US09465096B2
A determining method includes obtaining by each monitoring apparatus among plural monitoring apparatuses disposed encompassing a given area having plural wireless communications apparatuses, hop count information that indicates a hop count of a wireless signal transmitted by one wireless communications apparatus among the wireless communications apparatuses and received by the monitoring apparatus via multi-hop communication by the wireless communications apparatuses; calculating by each monitoring apparatus, an estimated line that represents candidates of a position of the one wireless communications apparatus, the estimated line being calculated from an estimated distance between the monitoring apparatus and the one wireless communications apparatus, based on the hop count; correcting by each monitoring apparatus, the calculated estimated line based on information indicating a node-less area in which no wireless communications apparatus of the given area is present; and determining the position of the one wireless communications apparatus based on intersections of the corrected estimated lines.
US09465094B2
A method is disclosed for the automated classification of an image property of a magnetic resonance image. In an embodiment, the method includes determining at least the parameters T, T2 and proton density of at least two tissues imaged in the magnetic resonance image or prespecifying at least two sets of at least these parameters; calculating the signal intensity in the center of the k-space for each imaged tissue or each set of parameters; and classifying the image property as a function of the calculated signal intensities. A magnetic resonance device is also disclosed.
US09465092B2
A method and system for receiving magnetic resonance signals, and a magnetic resonance imaging system are provided. The method includes dividing coil units in a receiving coil array into different coil unit groups. For each of the coil unit groups, correlations are established between carrier frequencies and the signals received by each coil unit in the coil unit group. Low noise amplification is performed, and filtering and frequency mixing is performed on the signals received by all the coil units in the coil unit group according to the correlations to obtain intermediate frequency signals borne on the respectively corresponding carrier frequencies of an identical channel. After performing amplification and filtering on the intermediate frequency signals, the intermediate frequency signals are output to an analog-to-digital conversion unit to perform digital sampling so as to obtain digital domain signals.
US09465091B2
A system and method are provided for producing a magnetic resonance image of a subject with a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The method includes acquiring k-space image data from a subject arranged in an MRI system by performing a pulse sequence. To perform the pulse sequence the MRI system divides k-space into a plurality of radially-extending sectors extending along a radial direction away from an origin of k-space. The plurality of radially-extending sectors include a width transverse to the radial direction that is defined by a vane angle chosen to be greater than a floating point precision of the trigonometric functions that define the radially-extending sectors. The MRI system acquires imaging data from at least the radially-extending sectors to undersample the periphery of k-space by only sampling k-space within the plurality of radial sectors and reconstructs an image of the subject using the imaging data.
US09465079B2
A battery pack includes: a battery; a notification unit configured to notify that a fully charged state is reached; a determination unit configured to determine whether the fully charged state is reached; a processing unit configured to execute a full charge process if the fully charged state is determined, the full charge process being one of causing the notification unit to make a notification and maintaining a possible state, in which making a notification is possible; and a factor detection unit configured to detect occurrence of a predetermined increase factor during execution of the full charge process, the increase factor leading to increase in a chargeable capacity of the battery as compared with the time when the fully charged state is determined. The processing unit stops the full charge process if occurrence of the increase factor is detected during execution of the full charge process.
US09465071B2
An method of generating a featured scan pattern for scan test includes: providing a plurality of predetermined scan patterns to perform scan test on a plurality of devices under test (DUT) under a stress condition to generate a plurality of test responses of each DUT; grouping a plurality of specific test responses of each DUT from the test responses of each DUT to determine a feature value corresponding to a failure feature for each DUT; and generating at least one featured scan pattern according to the feature value of each DUT.
US09465060B2
An apparatus for connecting an electrical measurement system, which includes at least a first and a second conductor, to a movable object to measure at least one of a temperature and an electrical resistivity of the movable object includes a first and a second connector, and a first and a second contact wire. The first and the second contact wires are electrically communicable with the first and the second conductors, respectively, and are wound around at least a portion of the first and the second connectors, respectively, such that the first and the second contact wires are engageable with the movable object at a first and a second contact point, respectively. The first and the second contact wires each has a polarity. The first and the second connectors are made of a material having a higher electrical and thermal resistivity than the first and the second contact wires.
US09465055B2
An electronic circuit is described comprising a load, a power supply node, a first transistor coupled between the supply node and the load such that the input at a control terminal of the first transistor controls current flow from the supply node to the load through the first transistor, a current source, a second transistor coupled between the current source and the load such that the input at a control terminal of the second transistor controls current flow from the current source to the load through the second transistor, a control node coupled to the control terminal of the first transistor and the control terminal of the second transistor and a measuring circuit connected to the point of coupling between the current source and the second transistor configured to measure the difference between the current provided by the current source and the current consumed by the second transistor.
US09465047B2
In various embodiments, a dosimeter is employed to passively record a peak pressure (e.g., a peak blast pressure) and/or a maximum acceleration experienced by the dosimeter.
US09465046B1
A free-hand inspection apparatus for non-destructively inspecting a structure includes an array and an inertial sensor. The array includes a plurality of elements for transmitting and receiving inspection signals to/from a structure being inspected. The inertial sensor measures acceleration and angular rotation rate in three dimensions. A frame with a unique physical pattern on its edges, which are detectable by the system, is provided. In one embodiment, the frame comprises a special appliqué including a plastic sheet that has periodic edge features, or markings. The markings are detectable by the sensor and allow the system to correct the measurement distortions caused by the inertial sensors used for positioning while making scans. A computer-based process is provided to correct for drift when the sensor encounters one of these markings, thereby solving the problem of error accumulation and the resulting position inaccuracy.
US09465044B2
A system and method for estimating angular velocity are provided. The system and method use an accelerometer and magnetometer to estimate an angular velocity in place of a gyroscope in 9-axis sensor fusion to estimate angular orientation. The final angular velocity estimate is constructed from two partially independent angular velocity estimates, one using only magnetometer measurements and the other using only accelerometer measurements. The unobservable portion of each partial angular velocity estimate is provided by a projection from a third complete estimate that uses both accelerometer and magnetometer data.
US09465035B2
A nanodiamond particle including an NV center having ODMR intensity enhanced, of which surface is modified with a functional group containing a heteroatom, is provided. This nanodiamond particle as being chemically modified can serve for a fluorescent molecular probe which can be made use of in a biological system. By tracking a rotational motion of the NV center included in this fluorescent molecular probe, structural change of a protein can be analyzed in real time. The functional group containing a heteroatom can be at least any functional group of a hydroxyl group and a hydroxyalkyl group, or a carboxyl group.
US09465026B2
In conventional apparatuses for measuring blood cells and immunity from whole blood, the CRP cell is used for the final cleaning of a nozzle, and CRP measurement—cleaning of the CRP cell—final cleaning of nozzle are performed in this order in the CRP cell. In contrast, in the present invention, an exclusive cleaning chamber A for immunity measurement is further provided for the cleaning nozzle after completion of dispensing the specimen and the reagent(s) for CRP measurement to the CRP cell. Thus, a configuration is adapted wherein the outer surface and inner surface of the nozzle are cleaned in the cleaning chamber A for immunity measurement while the immunity measurement is performed in CRP cell. Since the final cleaning of the nozzle is performed in parallel with the CRP measurement, the time conventionally necessary for the final cleaning of the nozzle can be shortened.
US09465021B2
A method and device for metrologically differentiating material regions, namely majority regions and minority regions of a page-like, web-like or sheet-like material. At least one sensor receives a measuring signal of variable amplitude, the amplitude being variable depending on the material region located in a spatial detection range of the sensor. The amplitude is increased by a controllable amplifier. The material is moved relatively to the sensor such that majority regions are located in the spatial detection range of the sensor more frequently than minority regions. The method is characterized in that in phases, in which majority regions undergo examination by means of the sensor, by means of the amplifier regulation of the amplitude to a set point is carried out and the sensor generates a signal “majority region”, and that in situations, in which the amplitude undergoes a sufficient change, the sensor generates a signal “minority region”.
US09465014B2
The invention provides a sheath-flow interface for producing electrospray from a capillary. The electrospray generated by the interface can be used as the source of ions for mass spectrometry. Electrokinetic flow in the interface can move a sheath liquid past the end of a capillary so as to mix with an analyte effluent discharged from the capillary. The sheath liquid and analyte mixture can be directed to an electrospray emitter to generate an electrospray.
US09465013B2
HPLC methods for detecting, identifying and quantifying munitions compounds or munitions materials are disclosed. Insensitive munitions explosives (IMX) can be detected along with conventional munitions compounds such as 2,4,6-trinitrotolene (TNT) in a single column analysis. The methods are also useful to provide analytical evaluation of soil samples, aqueous samples such as ground water samples and tissue samples containing insensitive munitions explosives (IMX).
US09465012B2
Provided is a method for measurement of a change in environment at a sensor. The sensor has: a first layer formed of a piezoelectric material; a second layer formed adjacent the first layer and acoustically coupled with the first layer; and electrodes disposed to apply a driving signal to the first layer to generate bulk acoustic waves. The temperature coefficient of frequency of the first layer is different to that of the second layer. In the method, a first layer resonant frequency associated with the first layer and a combination resonant frequency associated with a combination of the first and second layers are detected. A shift in one or both of the first layer resonant frequency and the combination resonant frequency is detected. A portion of the shift caused by a temperature change at the sensor is identified. Another portion of the shift caused by an environmental change at the sensor other than the temperature change is identified. Also provided is a corresponding sensor and sensor system operable to carry out the method.
US09465010B2
A method to identify and manage recyclable materials provides a recyclable material with a quartz crystal identification element configured to oscillate at a predetermined frequency associated with the recyclable material. A mobile device detects the oscillation frequency of the quartz crystal, identifies the recyclable material based on the detected oscillation frequency, and sends that information to a controller.
US09465005B2
Analyte sensors for determining the concentration of an analyte in a sample. The sensors have a sample chamber having an inlet with a projection extending from an edge of the sensor for facilitating flow of sample into the sample chamber.
US09465003B2
A membrane electrode includes a novel sensor combining a filtering function of a membrane and a signal measuring ability of an electrode. A target material may be measured by filtration through the membrane. A small amount of target materials may be detected with high sensitivity using an amplified electrical signal by increasing electrical conductivity by reducing metal ions on the membrane, and thus the target material may be subject to quantitative analysis. In addition, only a target material selectively binding to a receptor may be filtrated by passing a sample through the membrane after a receptor material is fixed to the electrode, and thus may be used to detect an electrical signal. In addition, the sensor may measure a signal in various methods such as electrical conductivity, impedance, etc.
US09465002B2
A method and device for performing DNA sequencing and extracting structural information from unknown nucleic acid strands. The device includes a microwell structure, where identical DNA strands are immobilized within the microwell structure on a surface of a micro-bead, an active electrode or a porous polymer. The device further includes a CMOS-integrated semiconductor integrated circuit, where the CMOS-integrated semiconductor integrated circuit includes metal layers on a silicon substrate, where the metal layers form an active electrode biosensor. In addition, a sensing electrode is formed by creating openings in a passivation layer of the CMOS-integrated semiconductor integrated circuit to hold a single bead, on which the DNA strands are immobilized.
US09464999B2
Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for detecting an anomaly in a temperature sensor. In one or more embodiments an apparatus can include one or more computer processors configured to: (1) receive a series of temperature sensor readings from a temperature sensor, (2) determine if the temperature sensor is exhibiting behavior consistent with experiencing oscillations as a function of the received sensor readings, and (3) in response to determining that the temperature sensor is exhibiting behavior consistent with experiencing oscillations, recording in a memory data indicating that the temperature sensor is exhibiting behavior consistent with experiencing oscillations.
US09464997B2
Methods and apparatuses for measuring an effective atomic number of an object are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a ray source configured to product a first X-ray beam having a first energy and a second X-ray beam having a second energy; a Cherenkov detector configured to receive the first X-ray beam and the second X-ray beam that pass through an object under detection, and to generate a first detection value and a second detection value; and a data processing device configured to obtain an effective atomic number of the object based on the first detection value and the second detection value. The Cherenkov detector can eliminate disturbance of X-rays below certain energy threshold with respect to the object identification, and thus accuracy can be improved for object identification.
US09464996B2
A processing device and method for a spectrometric measurement in terms of energy of a photon flux that may be received by a photosensitive element of a detector comprises the following successive steps: converting each photon received by the photosensitive element into an electrical signal, a characteristic of which is representative of the energy of the photon considered; filtering each electrical signal with a first low-pass filter whose cutoff frequency is adjusted as a function of the photon flux, the bigger the flux, the higher the cutoff frequency; determining the characteristic of each filtered electrical signal; generating an energy spectrum for the photon flux received as a function of the characteristic of the filtered electrical signals; and filtering the energy spectrum with a second low-pass filter whose cutoff frequency is adjusted as a function of the photon flux, the bigger the flux, the lower the cutoff frequency.
US09464992B2
An automated defect inspection system has been invented and is used on patterned wafers, whole wafers, broken wafers, partial wafers, sawn wafers such as on film frames, JEDEC trays, Auer boats, die in gel or waffle packs, MCMs, etc., and is specifically intended and designed for second optical wafer inspection for such defects as metalization defects (such as scratches, voids, corrosion, and bridging), diffusion defects, passivation layer defects, scribing defects, glassivation defects, chips and cracks from sawing, solder bump defects, and bond pad area defects.
US09464991B2
A method for inspecting a polysilicon layer includes: radiating excitation light to the polysilicon layer; and detecting a photoluminescence signal generated by the excitation light, wherein average power of the excitation light has a range of 1 W/cm2 to 10 W/cm2, and peak power of the excitation light has a range of 100 W/cm2 to 1000 W/cm2.
US09464990B2
A method for quick and easy identification of layer thickness and uniformity of entire large-area graphene samples on arbitrary substrates utilizing fluorescence quenching microscopy in which a polymer mixed with fluorescent dye is applied onto the graphene, then viewing the sample under a fluorescence microscope. A large-scale, high-resolution montage image of the sample is obtained for histogram-based segmentation based on contrast relative to the substrates.
US09464987B2
A device and system for monitoring the sludge level in a septic system tank, wherein a plurality of monitoring devices are positioned within a septic tank being monitored. Each monitoring device preferably includes a base unit, and a probe arm extending down from the base unit into the septic tank, wherein each probe arm includes a light emitting diode arm and a dark sensor photocell arm.
US09464981B2
The present invention provides systems, devices, and methods for point-of-care and/or distributed testing services. The methods and devices of the invention are directed toward automatic detection of analytes in a bodily fluid. The components of the device can be modified to allow for more flexible and robust use with the disclosed methods for a variety of medical, laboratory, and other applications. The systems, devices, and methods of the present invention can allow for effective use of samples by improved sample preparation and analysis.
US09464979B2
There is described an apparatus for monitoring a conductive fluid conduit arranged to carry a fluid stream. The apparatus comprises a power supply, a plurality of electrical contact points connected to the fluid conduit, a voltage measurement device, and a processor. The power supply has a reference mode of operation and a sample mode of operation. In the reference mode of operation the power supply is operable to supply an alternating electric current through the fluid conduit at a high frequency such that the current is confined near the surface of the fluid conduit due to the skin effect. In the sample mode of operation the power supply is operable to supply an electric current through a full thickness of the fluid conduit. The voltage measurement device is operable to measure the voltage between pairs of said electrical contact points so as to obtain reference values of electrical resistance of the fluid conduit when the power supply is in the reference mode of operation and so as to obtain sample values of electrical resistance of the fluid conduit when the power supply is in the sample mode of operation. The processor is operable to modify the sample values of electrical resistance based on the corresponding reference values of electrical resistance so as to compensate for temperature variations.There is also described a corresponding method for monitoring a conductive fluid conduit arranged to carry a fluid stream.
US09464975B2
A particular composite test specimen includes a first tab, a second tab, and a gage section between the first tab and the second tab. The first tab, the second tab, and the gage section are machined from a composite test blank. The composite test blank includes a plurality of plies arranged with first ply layers having fibers oriented in a first direction and second ply layers having fibers oriented in a second direction, where the first direction is different than the second direction.
US09464973B2
A sample support (100, 101, 102, . . . ), in particular for cryopreservation of biological samples, is described and includes: a holder part (10) with a sample receiving chamber (11), a retaining device (12, 13) on which a sample can be disposed, and support connecting elements (14, 15) which are directed at opposite holder part ends (16, 17) and are formed to fit together so that a plurality of holder parts (16) can be put together. A sample store (200), which includes an assemblage of a large number of such sample supports, and a method for the cryopreservation of biological samples, are also described.
US09464971B2
A clearing agent and mounting solution for microscopy is disclosed comprising (a) trichloroethanol, (b) optionally, trichloroacetic acid, (c) optionally, glycerol and (d) optionally, water, where the refractive index of the solution is greater than or equal to about 1.3810. The solution can further comprise a C1-C6 alcohol, other acids, and/or a stain. The solution can also comprise derivatives and/or analogs of 2,2,2-trichloroethanol and/or trichloroacetic acid. Also disclosed is a method of preparing specimens for microscopy comprising (a) applying a specimen to a microscope slide or a cuvette, (b) applying a quantity of the above solution sufficient to mount the specimen, and (c) optionally applying a cover slip. The solution can be used effectively with stains or dyes, and with fresh, partially dry or dried materials, and for temporary or semi-permanent to permanent mounting. The solution can be used with specimens or tissues/cells/parts originating from animals, poultry, livestock, humans, higher plants, yeasts, molds, microorganisms, insects, mites, or reptiles.
US09464965B2
A method for creation of a non-destructive inspection (NDI) standard employs a coupon of bonded layers or a composite structure having a predetermined thickness. A predetermined pulse width is defined. The coupon and a laser source are positioned with respect to one another and the laser source is used to create a laser pulse having the predetermined pulse width to create a disbond or delamination in the bond layer at a predetermined location. The coupon may then be used as a standard for calibration of NDI inspection tools by scanning the coupon with the tool to provide an inspection output. The output is then examined to confirm that the disbond or delamination in the coupon is properly identified in the output.
US09464962B2
A method of compensating a Mura defect of a display apparatus, which includes a display area divided into an upper area and a lower area, includes calculating a sharp grayscale correction value of a predetermined sample grayscale displayed on the display apparatus, where the sharp grayscale correction value is configured to compensate a sharp horizontal Mura between the upper and lower areas, displaying a corrected sample grayscale on the display apparatus based on the predetermined sample grayscale and the sharp grayscale correction value, sensing the corrected sample grayscale displayed on each of a plurality of sample areas defined on the display area based on a Mura type, calculating an intensity profile of the sample grayscale and a target intensity profile configured to compensate the intensity profile of the sample grayscale, calculating a grayscale correction value of the sample area using the intensity profile and the target intensity profile.
US09464960B2
A liquid submerged portion fuel leakage diagnostic apparatus includes a tank internal pressure detection portion; a liquid level detection portion; a reference-state liquid level extraction portion configured to extract, as a reference-state liquid level, a liquid level detected by the liquid level detection portion, when a tank internal pressure detected by the tank internal pressure detection portion becomes equal to a reference internal pressure; a fuel consumption detection portion configured to detect consumption of fuel in a fuel tank; and a fuel leakage diagnostic portion configured such that if the fuel consumption is not detected by the fuel consumption detection portion during a period between extraction timings at which the reference-state liquid levels are extracted by the reference-state liquid level extraction portion, the fuel leakage diagnostic portion diagnoses presence or absence of fuel leakage from a liquid submerged portion based on comparison of the reference-state liquid levels.
US09464959B2
A leak detecting device for water filled vessel such as a swimming pool. An annular resilient seal having a central opening contacts the surface of the vessel under water and creates a seal between the resilient seal and the vessel. A rigid housing open in its interior is coupled to the resilient seal and has an opening for an inlet to deliver fluid into the interior of the housing, or couple a flow meter thereto to measure the fluid flow, or deliver a dye into the housing and through the central opening of the resilient seal.
US09464957B2
Systems and methods for estimating a base load in a combined cycle power plant with a steam turbine clutch are provided. According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a system may include a controller and a processor communicatively coupled to the controller. The processor may be configured to receive operating parameters associated with a combined cycle power plant. The combined cycle power plant may comprise a gas turbine permanently coupled to a generator and a steam turbine selectively coupled to the generator via a clutch. The processor may be further configured to receive an engagement status associated with the clutch and receive first data and second data. Based on the engagement status, the processor may select the first data or the second data and use that to estimate a base load. The base load estimation may be calibrated based on the operating parameters.
US09464954B2
Provided is a torque sensor. The torque sensor comprises a rotor section; and a stator section comprising a stator holder, wherein the stator holder comprises a plurality of coupling pieces protruding in an axial direction, and a hog ring coupled to pass through the plurality of coupling pieces, wherein the plurality of coupling pieces have through-holes formed in a circumferential direction and an inner wall of the through-hole is adhered to the hog ring.
US09464951B2
A method for electrically setting a gap for a piezoelectric pressure sensor. The method includes positioning a piezoelectric flex element on a tray; attaching a voltage source to the piezoelectric flex element of a piezoelectric pressure sensor; applying a voltage from the voltage source to the piezoelectric flex element; curing an adhesive between the piezoelectric flex element and the tray while the piezoelectric flex element is deflected by the voltage; and stopping the voltage from the voltage source to the piezoelectric flex element when the adhesive has been cured.
US09464948B2
In one aspect, wireless strain gauges are described herein. In some embodiments, a wireless strain gauge comprises a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag and a nano-composite backplane coupled to the RFID tag, wherein the resonant frequency of the RFID tag antenna demonstrates an exponential dependence or substantially exponential dependence on the strain sensed by the strain gauge.
US09464946B2
A method, apparatus, and system for protection from fires and electrical shock of components used in construction of electrical conduits is disclosed using non-electrical means to disrupt flow of electricity before an arc fault, with the purpose to disrupt flow of current before risk of arcing. The purpose of this invention is to remove the hazard before an electrical arc occurs.
US09464938B2
Systems capable of acquiring polarimetry data using a single camera with or without a polarizing filter. When a polarizing filter is used, the data acquisition method comprises: (1) maneuvering the aircraft (or other vehicle) to orient the polarizing filter (and camera) in various directions when images are captured, (2) registering the various images to each other, and (3) computing polarimetry values (such as the Stokes parameters) for points of interest in the images. When a polarizing filter is not used, the data acquisition method comprises maneuvering the aircraft (or other vehicle) to orient the camera in various directions when images are captured and then performing the same operations (2) and (3). These methods measure the amount of polarization in a given scene by taking multiple camera images at different angles.
US09464936B2
An etching apparatus calculates an emission intensity in the vicinity of each of a plurality of wavelengths, at which a specified element should emit light, from information indicating light emission measured by an optical emission spectroscope during etching processing and, if it is determined that the calculated emission intensity information and emission intensity information stored in a storage unit are similar, extracts a wavelength, corresponding to the calculated emission intensity, with the wavelength associated with the element.
US09464931B2
A combination weigher comprises hoppers divided into a first group and a second group; an inner funnel which collects objects discharged inward from the hoppers and discharges the objects through an opening; a first outer funnel which is placed along a first side of the inner funnel, and collects objects discharged outward from the hoppers in the first group; a second outer funnel which is placed along a second side of the inner funnel, and collects objects discharged outward from the hoppers in the second group; and a partition plate which separates an inner region of the inner funnel into a first region corresponding to the hoppers in the first group and a second region corresponding to the hoppers in the second group, and separates the opening into a discharge outlet corresponding to the first side and a discharge outlet corresponding to the second side.
US09464929B2
A liquid level transducer includes a mounting head for connection to the wall of a tank and a housing extending into the tank from the mounting head. A float rod is pivotally connected to the housing and a float is connected to the float rod for pivotal movement upon a change of liquid level in the tank. A proximal end of the float rod is connected to an actuator portion and constrained for pivotal movement about two parallel axes so that the actuator portion moves in a linear direction with respect to the housing. The interior of the housing includes a sensor assembly responsive to the linear movement of the actuator portion to thereby determine the level of liquid within the tank.
US09464917B2
A utility meter may be read by sending a request to read the meter from a meter reading application, which may be located on a utility server or on an access point to a network, to a communications module associated with the utility meter. The communications module initiates a session with the utility meter, makes requests for data from the associated utility meter, receives the responses to requests for data from the utility meter, and terminates the session after receiving all the requested data from the meter. It then formats the responses with the data received from the utility meter, and transmits the formatted response to the meter reading application.
US09464916B2
A method of calibrating an inertial unit is provided. During a first static stage, in which the inertial unit is in a first orientation, measurements are taken by means of the accelerometers and the inertial rotation sensors. During a dynamic stage, the orientation of the inertial unit is changed, at least in part in azimuth, from the first orientation towards a second orientation, while taking measurements by means of the inertial rotation sensors. During a second static stage, in which the inertial unit is in the second position, measurements are taken by means of the accelerometers and of the inertial rotation sensors. For each static stage, a direction, an amplitude, and a mean speed of rotation for apparent gravity in an inertial frame of reference is estimated, variation is calculated in orientation between the static stages, and the accelerometer biases is deduced therefrom.
US09464903B2
An identification is made as to when a device is at an anchor location, which can be a proximity zone along an edge of a dead zone or a location where a signal from a beacon is detected. In response to the device being at an anchor location, recording of crowd sourcing data based on dead reckoning starts. Recording crowd sourcing data based on dead reckoning includes identifying one or more signals received by a device while the device is at each of multiple positions. For each of the multiple positions, both an indication of the position determined based at least in part on dead reckoning and an indication of the one or more signals received while the device is at that position are recorded.
US09464897B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for driving a gyro sensor including a driving displacement signal processing unit, a sensing signal processing unit and an automatic quadrature signal controller configured to control the variable resistor through digital correction when a quadrature signal exists, and minimize an amplitude of the quadrature signal.
US09464880B2
A proximity transducer system including an eddy current effect proximity probe, a proximity electronics module coupled to the probe, a monitoring system and a two-wire, current interface connecting the proximity electronics module to the monitoring system is disclosed. The proximity transducer system is operative for measuring position and vibration of a component to be monitored. The current interface is made up of a pair of wires, e.g., a twisted pair, and is adapted for providing power to the electronics module and an electrical signal from the proximity electronics module that is representative of (e.g., proportional to) the length of the gap between the probe and the component being monitored. That signal has a DC component that represents a steady state distance and an AC component that represents active movement of the component, such as vibration.
US09464873B2
A weapon system includes a number of WAN components, each WAN component includes a warhead, a launch mechanism for launching the warhead, an aiming mechanism for aiming the launch mechanism to launch the warhead in a desired direction, and a controller that, upon receipt of a command to aim and launch the warhead, operates the aiming mechanism to aim the warhead in the desired direction and then operates the launch mechanism to launch the warhead. The weapon system also includes a WAN component deployment mechanism for deploying the plurality of WAN components in a defended area; and a command center for instructing the controller of one or more of the WAN components to aim and launch the warhead of the each WAN component at a target that has been detected in the defended area.
US09464868B2
There is provided a shooting training aid for a gun including a sight channel, a wing and connection member for connecting the shooting aid to the gun. The sight channel has a central vertical axis that extends substantially perpendicularly to an upper plane of the wing. There is also provided a gun mount training and gun-fit assessment methods using the shooting aid of the present invention.
US09464867B2
Disclosed is a holster configurable and reconfigurable to hold different objects. The holster includes a first flexible sheet with first and second surfaces and an aperture therein. One surface of the sheet is substantially covered with one fastener component of a hook-and-loop fastener material and the other surface is substantially covered with the other fastener component of a hook-and-loop fastener material. A retention member is attachable over at least a portion of the aperture and has a friction surface that, through the aperture, contacts a surface of the object being held in the holster. The holster may include an attachment panel for repositionably attaching the holster to a surface of a separate article.
US09464864B2
Fore-end half stock (hand guard) internal rail mounts for a rifle allows rifle accessories to be internally attached to the hand guard. Internal rails are positioned about the axis of the rifle barrel to align the rifle accessory.
US09464862B2
The present invention is directed to a ball feed mechanism and associated method for use in a paintball loader. The ball feed mechanism includes a feeder which conveys or impels balls toward a feed neck, and a drive member which is concentric with the feeder. The feeder is coupled to the drive member. An electric motor is used to rotate the drive member which in turn causes the feeder to rotate. The feed mechanism includes sensors which detect the motion of the feeder and the drive member. A controller determines the position of the feeder relative to the drive member and actuates a motor when necessary.
US09464852B2
Push-fit connector and method of heating a fluid in the push-fit connetor. The push-fit connector includes a housing, an accommodation space and a connecting piece connected by a channel, a heating zone located in an inside of the channel and a heat-conducting element being arranged between the heating zone and the accommodation space.
US09464849B2
A cooling device which is provided with an evaporator with a built-in wick, a condenser, and a loop type heat pipe which connects the evaporator and condenser in a loop and is provided with a liquid pipe and vapor pipe, wherein the evaporator is divided into a liquid-pipe-side case and a vapor-pipe-side case and wherein a plurality of discharge ports of working fluids and a wick in which the working fluid from the discharge ports is completely permeated are arranged between the two cases. The wick is provided with projecting parts which have recessed parts corresponding to the discharge ports, while the outer circumferential surfaces of the projecting parts are provided with grooves. The working fluid which permeates the wick is changed to a vapor inside the vapor-pipe-side case, collects in the evaporation chamber, and is discharged to the liquid pipe, and thus, dry out of the wick is prevented.
US09464844B2
Provided is an oven that includes an oven chamber with an oven wall that defines apertures through which the product passes to repeatedly enter and exit the oven chamber during treatment. A vestibule chamber is disposed adjacent to the oven wall and encloses a return air duct that draws in ambient air entering the vestibule chamber and the process gas entering the vestibule chamber from the oven chamber through at least one of the apertures in the oven wall. A nozzle is provided externally of the vestibule chamber and oven chamber in fluid communication with the return air duct. The nozzle receives gas drawn in by the return air duct and directs the combination generally toward at least one aperture formed in the vestibule chamber through which ambient air can enter the vestibule chamber to form an air curtain adjacent to the at least one aperture.
US09464831B2
The invention relates to a combined device (12) comprising a casing (26) made of an upper wall (27), a down wall (28) and a lateral wall (29). The said casing (26) accommodates an internal heat exchanger (5), a separation area (19) and an accumulation area (20). The casing (26) accommodates an internal component (30) which is made of: a partition wall (31) of the separation area (19) and the accumulation area (20), a confining wall (32) of the internal heat exchanger (5) versus the accumulation area (20), and a pipe (33) which is between the confining wall (32) and the partition wall (31).
US09464830B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes an outdoor unit, an indoor unit having an indoor heat exchanger, and a controller for executing a pump down operation. The outdoor unit has an accumulator of a capacity (Va), a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion valve, a large-diameter tube, which are joined by refrigerant pipes. The capacity (Vhi) of the indoor heat exchanger is greater than the capacity (Vho) of the outdoor heat exchanger. The large-diameter tube, which is larger in diameter than the refrigerant pipes, is provided so that the capacity (Vt) of the large-diameter tube satisfies the formula: capacity (Vt)>capacity (Vhi)−capacity (Vho)−capacity (Va).
US09464828B2
A natural coolant refrigerating plant includes a motor-driven compressor with two compression stages, at least one jacket for heating and/or cooling a product being processed, an intercooler located upstream of the second compression stage and a gas-cooler located downstream of an outlet from a second compression stage. A first branch connects an outlet of the gas-cooler with an inlet of the first stage of the motor-driven compressor for recovering a predetermined quantity of coolant.
US09464827B2
Embodiments of a TRS Controller to ECU interface are provided. The interface includes a TRS Controller connected to an ECU that is part of an engine. The interface includes a keyswitch connection that is configured to send a keyswitch message from the TRS Controller to the ECU, a run signal connection that is configured to send a run message from the TRS Controller to the ECU, and a CAN communication connection that is configured to provide two-way communication between the TRS Controller and the ECU.
US09464820B2
A surface mounted heater includes a universal seal fitting. A first aperture in the substrate secures the substrate to an inlet gas valve of the component. The first aperture has a scalloped radii with a first radii and a second radii. The first radii corresponds to a first type of component seal and the second radii corresponding to a second type of component seal.
US09464813B2
Device body (2) with heating chamber (4), and door (3) that opens and closes opening (5) of heating chamber (4). A door wireless communication unit (17) transmits a control signal from an operation unit provided on door 3 in the form of a wireless signal to main wireless communication unit (19). This configuration eliminates the need of wiring between the operation unit and device body (2). No wiring improves noise resistance and productivity.
US09464812B2
A gas supply module that includes an orifice element; a gas supply tube having an inlet end, an outlet end threaded to receive the orifice element, and an outer diameter; and a beaded element having an outermost dimension at least one and a half times larger than the outer diameter of the gas supply tube, wherein the beaded element is formed directly from the outlet end of the gas supply tube. The gas supply module further includes a support bracket comprising at least one mounting flange, an inlet surface, an outlet surface, and a support hole, wherein the gas supply tube is routed through the support hole; and a fastening element is configured to secure the beaded element to the support bracket. The beaded element may be formed directly from the gas supply tube and may further comprise various shapes, including circular and non-circular shapes.
US09464811B2
A wood fueled camping stove generally including (a) a stove chamber having an aperture, a tubular heat riser and a burn chamber, wherein the burn chamber extends perpendicularly from the heat riser; (b) a fuel feed drawer received in the aperture of the stove chamber, the fuel feed drawer having a forward portion and a drawer portion, wherein the drawer portion is sized and shaped to be received in and supported by the burn chamber; (c) telescopic legs extending from said stove chamber, adjustable by means of snap buttons and corresponding apertures; (d) a standoff grate, positioned on an interior ledge of said stove chamber; (e) a skillet having a short, hollow tube affixed to the side thereof, with corresponding apertures to receive the handle in a plurality of positions; (f) a pot having a short, hollow tube affixed to the side thereof, with corresponding apertures to receive the handle in a plurality of positions; (g) a tube affixed to the exterior of the stove chamber; and (h) a handle received in and removable from said tube; wherein the stove chamber, the skillet and the pot are sized and configured to form a unified unit for storage.
US09464803B2
A speaker is provided herein. The speaker includes a light source configured to emit inputted light. A diaphragm is configured to move as a magnet receives electrical signals. A first photoluminescent structure is disposed on the diaphragm. A second photoluminescent structure is also disposed on the diaphragm. The inputted light emitted from the light source is converted to outputted light by the first and second photoluminescent structures.
US09464802B2
A lighting system has a heat sink for removing the heat released by LED chips by means of natural convection and thermal radiation. A center opening formed between air and heat sink fins enables the transfer of heat generated by LEDs, electronic driver circuit and phosphor on said heat sink fins to the flowing air inside and removing from the system, and increases the contact surface of heat sink fins with the air that enables to transfer the heat effectively from heat sink fins to flowing air and also with effective radiative heat transfer. The heat sink has a chimney inlet where air enters into said center opening, on which the PCB and said LED package are positioned, and which interconnects LED package and heat sink, which has an optimized structure and base angle, that maximize the heat removal by natural convection and thermal radiation.
US09464801B2
A lighting device comprising at least a first light source and at least one heat sink element that is removable, that comprises an first inner region and an first outer region, that is identical in shape to another heat sink element, that is in thermal contact with a trim element, that is stacked, that is in thermal contact with at least a first portion of a first surface of the trim element, that has a cross-sectional area at a first distance from an axis of a trim element that is larger than at a shorter distance, and/or that maintains a junction temperature of a lighting device at or below a recommended junction temperature. Also, a lighting device comprising at least a first light source, a trim element, a driver sub-assembly and a spacer element positioned between the trim element and the driver sub-assembly. Also, methods of dissipating heat.
US09464799B2
A lighting device including one or more solid state light sources providing air cooling of the electronic driver is disclosed. The driver receives power and provides it to the light source(s). The device also includes a first and a second housing. The first housing contains, at least in part, the driver, and includes a support having an exterior and an interior, that provides mechanical support to the second housing connected thereto. The interior includes a first opening. The second housing is a heat sink for the device. The second housing has an interior portion, with a second opening corresponding to the first opening, and an exterior portion, having a plurality of external openings. Air entering an external opening is able to mix with air in the first housing by flowing through the first opening and the corresponding second opening, which cools the electronic driver.
US09464793B2
An elongate tubular lighting assembly having a body with a length between spaced first and second ends. The tubular lighting assembly has a source of illumination and first and second connectors respectively at the first and second body ends. The first connector has cooperating first and second parts having first and second surfaces. The first and second connector parts are configured so that the first and second surfaces are placed in confronting relationship to prevent separation of the first and second connector parts with the body in an operative state as an incident of the first connector part moving relative to the second connector part from a position fully separated from the second connector part in a substantially straight path that is transverse to the length of the body into an engaged position.
US09464787B2
A direction controllable lighting unit 10 for use in a lighting system is described. The light emission of the lighting unit 10 may be directed into different directions, e.g. by use of a mechanically movable element 14, 60. At least two ultrasound transmitters 20a, 20b, or ultrasound receivers 21a, 21b are disposed at the lighting unit 10 such that they differ in position, or in direction or shape of the spatial intensity distribution or spatial distribution of reception sensitivity. A mobile control element 46 has at least one corresponding ultrasound transmitter or receiver 50. A difference bebveen a signal from a transmitter received at multiple receivers, or a signal of multiple transmitters received at a single receiver is used to determine a relative direction of the direction controllable lighting unit 10 and the control element 46, and to control the direction of the lighting unit 10 in dependence thereof.
US09464782B2
Light panels, and methods of providing the light panels, are described. The described light panels are substantially transparent and can operate as an illumination device or as a solar panel. An example light panel includes a first optic layer for transmitting light; a second optic layer with a reflective surface configured for one of directing light from the first optic layer and directing light to the first optic layer; and a receiving assembly disposed between the first optic layer and the second optic layer. The receiving assembly includes a first receiving layer adjacent to the first optic layer; a second receiving layer adjacent to the second optic layer and separated from the first receiving layer; and a light device coupled to the first receiving layer. The light device can be configured to receive light from the reflective surface or to provide light to the reflective surface.
US09464774B1
The vehicular lamp comprises: an outer housing made of a heat dissipating material, opened at a front thereof, and having a circuit board received therein, the outer housing including a plurality of heat-dissipating fins formed on an outer surface thereof and including an engaging groove depressed rearwardly along an opened front edge thereof; a reflective housing including a reflective surface formed on a front side thereof and having a rearwardly recessed shape, with the reflective housing received in the opened front portion of the outer housing; an LED fixing member inserted into an inner lower portion of the outer housing through the reflective housing, and having an upwardly bently extending part and including an LED light module mounted at a rear surface thereof so as to be electrically connected to the circuit board; and a transparent cover including an engaging protrusion rearwardly protrudingly formed at a rear edge.
US09464773B2
The present disclosure provides a novel construction for an illuminated light splitter in a mirror-lined light duct. In particular, the present disclosure addresses the ability to split partially collimated light travelling through a light duct into two different light ducts using light diverters, while extracting a portion of the light from each of the light ducts and also from the common intersection region. In some cases, the visual appearance of the illumination in the intersection region can appear non-uniform due to the presence of the light diverters, and the present disclosure provides an illuminated light duct splitter (100, 200, 300) configuration that homogenizes the output from the illuminated duct within the intersection region (117, 217, 317).
US09464772B2
A lighting system having a general light source and directional light sources disposed on a light bar pendant, mounted, or extending from the general light source. The general light source is flush mounted to the ceiling and includes an array of LEDs, powered by an LED driver, all enclosed in a canopy having a light-transmitting lens, and one or more directional light sources containing LEDs are adjustably, and movably mounted to the light bar. Electrical conductor paths on or within the light bar connect the directional light sources to the main power supply or LED driver.
US09464764B2
Described embodiments include a system and a method. A described pipeline system includes a transportation conduit containing a gas hydrate flowing from a first geographical location to another geographical location. The pipeline system includes a cooling system in thermal contact with the flowing gas hydrate and maintaining the temperature of the flowing gas hydrate within a target temperature range predicted to maintain a selected stability of the flowing gas hydrate. In an embodiment, the pipeline system includes a controller configured to control a pressure or temperature of the flowing gas hydrate in response to a sensed pressure or temperature of the flowing gas hydrate.
US09464762B2
A hydrogen fuel dispenser includes a pre-cooling circuit, a hydrogen fuel storage for storing hydrogen fuel, a nozzle for dispensing hydrogen fuel to a receptacle, and a fueling line connecting the hydrogen fuel storage to the nozzle for communicating hydrogen fuel from the hydrogen fuel storage to the nozzle. The pre-cooling circuit is provided to cool hydrogen fuel in the fueling line, and includes a pre-cooling line connected to the fueling line downstream from the hydrogen fuel storage, and a flow-path selector provided at a connection between the fueling line and the pre-cooling line. The flow-path selector selectively: blocks hydrogen fuel flow between the fueling line and the pre-cooling line while opening hydrogen fuel flow between the fueling line and a nozzle line of the nozzle; and opens hydrogen fuel flow between the fueling line and the pre-cooling line.
US09464750B2
A tubular component is for a pipe system. The tubular component comprises an external shell and an internal wear element which is attached to the inner jacket surface of the shell by a bonding mass in a first annular space formed between the outer jacket surface of the wear element and the inner jacket surface of the shell, the bonding mass being constituted by a hyperelastic bonding mass. A method is for attaching the wear element to the tubular component. Use of a hyperelastic bonding mass is for such attaching.
US09464745B2
An adapter for a cylindrical polyethylene comprises a tubular body section, a saddle-shaped flange connected at a first end to the tubular body section, and adapted to mate with an outer surface of the cylindrical tank, the saddle-shaped flange including a bolt hole pattern having a first spacing. A circular flange connected to a second end of the tubular body section, the circular flange having a bolt hole pattern having a second spacing, wherein the first bolt hole spacing is one half the second bolt hole spacing.
US09464742B2
In a socket of the present invention, an incorporated plug part is disposed in a third base part. The socket is in an inserted state when an engaging portion of this incorporated plug part is engaged with a first engaged portion of an engaged part. In this state, an engaging portion of a plug is engaged with steel balls disposed in the incorporated plug part, thereby allowing the plug and the socket to be fitted to each other, so that an airtight condition is established in a pipe fitting.
US09464741B2
An integral button latch is formed for use in a female fluid connector housing. The button latch has a latch plate, a button actuator, and two or more cantilevered leg springs extending from beneath the actuation surface to interface with the connector housing. The latch plate, the button actuator, and the leg springs are all integrally formed. The leg springs bias the latch plate in a locked position and resist depression forces applied to either of the button actuator or the latch plate. By integrally forming the button latch structure, the separate costs associated with purchasing the springs, molding the lock latch, and the ensuing assembly of the three are significantly diminished.
US09464736B2
Non-limiting exemplary embodiment(s) of apparatus(es) and method(s) are described for the conveyance of fluid media and entrained materials between two or more locations, each possessing a different cross-sectional area. Equidistant pathways incorporated into uniquely designed conduits enable this transference to occur with minimal band spreading and separation resolution loss due to undesirable flow patterns that arise from end effects. The design enables the conduits to be employed with locations of almost any description including process channels, surfaces, or even open volume of any size and used for almost any purpose. The conduits and/or associated locations may be empty of any contents or filled with gelatinous, porous, granular, or particulated material. The design of non-limiting exemplary embodiment(s) of apparatus(es) and method(s) may be easily adapted or configured as necessary.
US09464725B2
An anti-flooding safety device for a user apparatus includes: a first connection body defining a first duct, the first duct having an inlet and an outlet, the inlet of the first duct being provided for connection to a supply point of a mains supply. An inner flexible hose and an outer flexible hose are impermeable to water, wherein the inner hose has a proximal end, which is sealingly fixed in a position corresponding to the outlet of the first duct, and a distal end for connection to the user apparatus, and wherein the inner hose extends longitudinally within the outer hose so that between at least part of the two hoses a gap is defined designed to convey to the user apparatus and/or to withhold inside it any possible leaking water. A valve arrangement on the first connection body can be switched from a position of opening of the first duct to a position of closing of the first duct following upon detection of a leakage of water. The axis of the inlet extends in a direction transverse to the axis of the outlet.
US09464723B2
A timing valve includes a moveable piston that has a solid end face at a first end that includes an orifice, an open second end, and side walls that define an enclosed space, a stepped region on an outer surface of the piston, complementary stepped region on an inner surface of a hollow body containing the piston, and an annulus that extends toward the second end defined by a space between the outer surface of the piston and the inner surface of the hollow body. Fluid flowing through the orifice pushes the piston into an open position that forms a space between the stepped and complementary stepped regions that fills with fluid seeping in through the annulus. When pressure on the piston falls below a threshold, the return of the piston to a closed position is slowed by expelling fluid from the space between the stepped and complementary stepped regions.
US09464722B2
A pipe switch having a setting system, a housing and a closure element. The housing includes an inner wall in which a feed opening and at least two discharge openings are provided. The position of the closure element is rotatably changeable relative to the discharge openings. The setting system including a control and a drive controls the closure element such that a plurality of positions of the closure element relative to the discharge openings are realized accordingly. The closure element may be in the form of a slide or a two-part element having flaps. The setting system in cooperation with the closure system provides the plurality of positions of the closure element relative to the discharge openings, in each of which the sum of the cross-sectional areas of a first and of a second discharge opening not covered by the closure element is substantially constant.
US09464717B2
Provided is a piston ring such that it is possible to sufficiently inhibit adhesive wear when the piston ring is mounted to a piston for a diesel engine in which at least the piston ring groove in the piston is formed from steel or cast iron. Disclosed is a piston ring mounted to a piston for a diesel engine, wherein the load length ratio (Rmr2) (in accordance with JIS B0601:2001) of the top surface and bottom surface of the piston ring satisfies each of the following conditions: Rmr2 (0.5%, 0.3[mu]m)=20% and Rmr2 (0.5%, 0.4[mu]m)=40%.
US09464713B2
A modular assembly is described for a power train. An assembly housing includes first and second cavities connected by an inter-cavity passage. An input shaft and an output shaft linked by a first clutch are disposed, at least in part, in the first cavity. A hydraulic control assembly provides hydraulic control signals to control, at least in part, the first clutch device. A hydraulic quill insert disposed, at least in part, in the inter-cavity passage, includes a plurality of control passages. The hydraulic quill insert receives the hydraulic control signals and directs the signals to control power flow from the input shaft to the output shaft.
US09464711B2
A hydraulic pressure supply system of an automatic transmission for a vehicle which generates a low hydraulic pressure and a high hydraulic pressure using oil stored in an oil pan and supplies the low hydraulic pressure and the high hydraulic pressure respectively to a low pressure portion and a high pressure portion may include a low-pressure hydraulic pump, a first switch valve, a low-pressure regulator valve, a high-pressure hydraulic pump, a second switch valve and a high-pressure regulator valve.
US09464704B2
An actuator is composed of a frame having a guide rail thereon and a slider movable relative to the frame by means of a ball lead screw. Lubrication of the ball lead screw is carried out by a lubricating member installed in the slider. A first lubricating member has an applicator nose which comes into sliding contact with a helical groove around the ball lead screw and a second lubricating member makes close contact with the first lubricating member to supply lubricant to the first lubricating member. The first and second lubricating members fit together in a recess made at one end of the slider major body. Both the first and second lubricating members have C-shaped contour. The first and second lubricating members lying in close engagement with each other are received in a recess in the end of the slider major body and held there with a presser plate which is secured using fastening screws.
US09464676B2
The present invention relates to a clutch actuated by torque capable of controlling a clutch device to perform operations of coupling or disengaging with the driving torque, characterized in that a relay transmission structure assembly (104) is installed between a rotary prime motive end (101) and an output-end clutch structure (1052), the relay transmission structure assembly (104) is installed with a relay coupling structure (204) having an active side of relay coupling structure and a passive side of relay coupling structure, a limit-torque sliding damping device (106) is installed between the relay transmission structure assembly (104) and the static housing (107).
US09464674B2
In a fixed type constant velocity universal joint, track grooves of an outer joint member include first track groove portions positioned on an interior side and second track groove portions positioned on an opening side. The first track groove portions each have an arc-shaped ball raceway center line having a curvature center that is prevented from being offset in an axial direction of the outer joint member with respect to a joint center. Planes each including at least the ball raceway center line and the joint center are inclined with respect to a joint axial line with their inclination directions alternately opposite to each other in the first track groove portions that are adjacent to each other in a peripheral direction of the outer joint member.
US09464665B2
A swivel attachment and/or branch line restraint device with angular versatility and mobility for facilitating connection of installation components to support a pipe or other load relative to a support surface is provided. Advantageously, embodiments of the device provide a plurality of rotational or swivel degrees of freedom, which are substantially independently controllable, for its mating portions, which respectively engage corresponding mating portions of other installation components. The device embodiments can desirably be configured in male-female, male-male or female-female arrangements to enhance device utility and/or versatility, thereby advantageously allowing for use in a myriad of applications and installations, such as construction, utilities and the like, among others, to reliably support loads.
US09464663B2
An improved ball joint for use in a motor vehicle steering or suspension system includes a housing, a bearing disposed in the housing, and a ball stud supported within the housing by the bearing. The bearing includes at least a first bearing member formed from a first material and a second bearing member formed from a second dampening material attached to at least a portion of an outer surface of the first bearing member. The first bearing member has a bidirectional slot formed therein which is configured to allow the ball stud to articulate in a first direction and restrict and dampen articulation in a second direction which is generally transverse to the first direction.
US09464660B2
A tamper-resistant fastener such as a nut for a bicycle has a smoothly rounded generally dome-shaped body and one or more recesses formed into the body. Each recess has a first and open ended portion which is bounded on radially inward side but not on the radially outward side, and a second and closed ended portion which is bounded on both the radially inward side and the radially outward side. Additionally, each recess can have an additional notch formed therein, the recess and notch together forming a major and minor recess. A wall which bounds the radially inward side of the recess decreases in radial distance from the central axis of the nut as the recess proceeds in the circumferential direction. A mating wrench has teeth that match the recesses and, if present, the notches.
US09464659B2
A tolerance equalizing element includes at least two support bodies (120, 122) which are in threaded engagement with one another such that the axial dimension of the tolerance equalizing element can be adjusted by relative rotation of the support bodies (120, 122), at least one of the support bodies (120, 122) including a helical spring which is wound from a wire having a rectangular cross-section, and the rectangle forming the cross-section of the wire is oriented such that its sides extend obliquely relative to the axis of the helical spring.
US09464640B2
A motor-pump unit includes an electric motor and a pump. The electric motor has a motor housing, on the outside of which a cooling channel is arranged. The pump has a suction inlet and a pressure outlet. Liquid to be pressurized can be fed by way of the cooling channel to the suction inlet. In order that the motor-pump unit can be produced and assembled more cost-effectively, the motor housing includes a first housing part and a second housing part, which are connectable to each other in a liquid-tight manner and between them form the cooling channel.
US09464637B2
A rolling bearing assembly for a rotor of a turbine includes a bearing housing and a bearing cartridge. The bearing cartridge may include an outer shell and an inner shell arranged concentrically thereto. The outer and inner shell may be rotatably mounted on one another about a concentric axis of rotation in two bearing sections axially spaced from one another via rolling bodies. The inner shell may be arranged on a rotor shaft and in the region of the bearing sections includes an inner press fit region. The outer shell may be arranged in the bearing housing and have axially spaced from the bearing sections at least one outer press fit region. In the respective bearing sections an oil damping ring channel may be radially formed between the bearing housing and the outer shell. The oil damping ring channel may extend coaxially to the axis of rotation.
US09464628B2
The invention relates to a pump for pumping a fluid, including an inlet, an outlet, and a pumping chamber, wherein a valve is arranged between the inlet and the pumping chamber or between the pumping chamber and the outlet. The valve includes a valve body having a valve seat pointing in the direction of the outlet, and a valve member that interacts with the valve seat, wherein the valve member is loaded under pre-loading against the valve seat into a closed position of the valve and allows fluid to pass through in a pumping direction due to the valve member lifting off against the pre-load, wherein the valve body is accommodated in a receptacle of a pump part. A pump for which the development of noises and vibrations is reduced in that the valve body can move axially relative to the receptacle that accommodates the valve body.
US09464622B2
A rotor blade assembly for a wind turbine having a rigid root insert is disclosed. The rotor blade assembly includes a blade root section having an end face with a substantially annular cross-section defined by an outer sidewall surface and an inner sidewall surface. The end face is configured to attach the rotor blade assembly to a hub. The rotor blade assembly includes a radial bore hole provided a predetermined span-wise distance from the end face and extending between the sidewall surfaces and a longitudinal bore hole provided between the sidewall surfaces and extending from the end face to the radial bore hole. The rigid root insert is disposed within the longitudinal bore hole and extends from the end face to the radial bore hole. As such, the rigid root insert is configured to increase the stiffness of the blade root section when the rotor blade assembly is attached to the hub with bolts that extend into and through the radial bore hole and the longitudinal bore hole.
US09464621B2
A trillium wind turbine can have a plurality of blades. Together, the swept-back, complexly-curved blades can be attached to an electricity-generating nacelle. Each blade has a main blade, and a trailing edge blade, and can optionally have a diversion blade. Wind is directed down the length of the blade and exits the tip. The main blade resembles a portion of a cylinder in form, the cylinder being twisted to change the angle of attack, thereby adding more lift throughout the length of the blade. The trailing edge and diversion blades are pitched relative to the wind and produce lift. Additionally, wind hitting the diversion blade is diverted behind the blade. Because the surface area and volume of the blade are larger near the base and smaller at the tip, the air traveling along the blade increases in velocity producing more thrust/lift. The turbine also automatically faces into the wind without the need for sensors or positioning motors.
US09464604B2
An intake system includes an intake passage for leading intake air to an internal combustion engine; an air cleaner connected to the upstream side end portion of the intake passage. A pressure sensor measures pressure of intake air in the intake passage. An air cleaner case includes a case main body mounted to the upstream side end portion of the intake passage. A cover portion closes the case main body. The intake system includes a throttle body constituting part of the intake passage and having a throttle valve. The pressure sensor is mounted to a support portion extending outward from the case main body and is connected to the downstream side of the throttle valve.
US09464592B2
An opposed-piston engine includes pistons, each piston having an annular cavity in the piston's sidewall and positioned between its crown and ring grooves to block transfer of heat from the crown to the piston body.
US09464585B2
An exhaust gas recirculation control device of an engine is provided. The device includes: an exhaust turbocharger having a turbine disposed in an exhaust passage and a compressor disposed in an intake passage; a low-pressure EGR passage connecting a part of the exhaust passage downstream of the turbine to a part of the intake passage upstream of the compressor; a low-pressure EGR valve disposed in the low-pressure EGR passage and for changing a cross-sectional area of the low-pressure EGR passage; an exhaust shutter valve disposed downstream of the connected part of the exhaust passage to the low-pressure EGR passage, and for changing a cross-sectional area of the exhaust passage; a valve control device for controlling openings of the low-pressure EGR valve and the exhaust shutter valve; and a gear range detector for detecting a gear range of a transmission of a vehicle in which the engine is installed.
US09464583B2
Systems and methods for controlling operation of dual fuel internal combustion engines in response to cylinder pressure based determinations are disclosed. The techniques control fuelling contributions from a first fuel source and a second fuel source to achieve desired operational outcomes in response to the cylinder pressure based determinations.
US09464575B2
A method and device for igniting a turbomachine combustion chamber including alternately: an intake phase of a fluid into a chamber through an intake port, during which a piston compresses an elastic mechanism under pressure of the fluid such that the elastic mechanism applies onto a piezoelectric element a force sufficient for the piezoelectric element to induce between the electrodes an electric voltage enabling an electric arc to be generated, until the piston reaches a predetermined position for closing a valve for sealing the intake port; and an exhaust phase of the fluid, during which the elastic mechanism pushes back the piston to induce a fluid ejection out of the chamber through an exhaust port, and the valve is open.
US09464570B2
A crank drive has a frame, which may be formed in particular by a housing, a rocker fixed on the frame, a crank that is fixed on the frame and which forms the drive output, and a coupler which connects the rocker and the crank. The coupler is articulately connected in each case to the crank and to an end, which is situated opposite the positionally fixed mounting, of the rocker. In order to drive the crank, a first cylinder is provided which has a movably mounted piston. The piston and the rocker are articulately connected to one another via a push rod such that the axial movement of the piston sets the rocker in an oscillating swinging motion. The rocker has a section that is remote from the fixed mounting of the rocker and which is inclined by a fixed angle towards the coupler.
US09464568B2
An outdoor power tool may include an engine, a carburetor configured to provide a fuel and air mixture to the engine based on operation of a throttle assembly, a selector and a throttle release actuator. The selector may be operably coupled to the throttle assembly to control a position of the throttle assembly in a selected one of a plurality of throttle positions. One of the throttle positions may be an idle position and each of the other throttle positions may be selectable by an operator via manual positioning of the selector. The throttle release actuator may be configured to return the selector from any one of the throttle positions to the idle position responsive to operator actuation of the throttle release actuator.
US09464564B2
A system according to the principles of the present disclosure includes a boost control module and a temperature estimation module. The boost control module generates a wastegate command signal to control a position of a wastegate and thereby adjust an amount of exhaust gas allowed to bypass a turbine of a turbocharger through the wastegate. The temperature estimation module estimates at least one of a first temperature downstream from the turbine and a second temperature upstream from the turbine based on the wastegate command signal.
US09464561B2
A cooling system for a hybrid powertrain of a motor vehicle comprising an internal combustion engine and an electric traction assembly, comprising a main circuit that can be traversed by a coolant in order to cool the internal combustion engine to a first temperature level and a secondary circuit that can be traversed by a coolant to cool the electric traction assembly to a second temperature level, lower than the first level, each of the circuits and comprising a radiator capable of cooling the coolant by means of heat exchange with an air flow, at least one hydraulic pump for circulating the coolant in the coolant circuits, and one electronic control unit capable of controlling the hydraulic pumps. The control unit comprises a module for recovering information on the dynamics of the vehicle and a module for controlling the flow from the hydraulic pumps on the basis of that information.
US09464554B2
In an exhaust gas purification system for an internal combustion engine provided with a filter supporting an SCR catalyst, the present invention is intended to suppress HC and CO from being discharged to the outside at the time of the execution of filter regeneration processing, and to carry out the filter regeneration processing in an efficient manner. In the present invention, a post-catalyst having an oxidation function is arranged in an exhaust passage at the downstream side of the filter. Then, when the temperature of the post-catalyst is lower than a predetermined activation temperature at the time the execution of the filter regeneration processing is requested, the temperature of the post-catalyst is raised by carrying out control of raising the temperature of the exhaust gas discharged from the internal combustion engine, and control increasing the flow rate of the exhaust gas, before the execution of the filter regeneration processing.
US09464547B2
An exhaust system for a vehicular lean burn internal combustion engine that emits oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) is disclosed. The system comprises a NOx reduction catalyst for reducing NOx in the presence of a reductant, means for introducing reductant into a flowing exhaust gas and a source of hydrocarbon reductant, a nitrogenous reductant, and/or hydrogen, a filter for removing PM from exhaust gas flowing in the exhaust system and a low pressure exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) circuit for connecting the exhaust system downstream of the filter to an air intake of the engine. The EGR circuit comprises a IMOx adsorber catalyst (NAC) comprising a NO adsorbent.
US09464546B2
The assembly for purification of exhaust gases comprises an upstream conduit and a downstream conduit positioned parallel to each other. A space has an exhaust gas inlet communicating with the upstream conduit and an exhaust gas outlet communicating with the downstream conduit. A middle line divides the inlet into first and second areas providing a same passage section to the exhaust gases.The assembly comprises a baffle covering at least 75% of the first area and covering less than 25% of the second area. The baffle and the space are laid out so that a portion of the exhaust gases penetrate through the first area of the inlet flows into the space along flow lines forming a cusp around the baffle.
US09464544B2
A variable valve lift apparatus of an engine includes a first body rotated at within a preset angle range by rotating a high-speed cam coupled to a camshaft, a second body coupled to the first body or decoupled from the first body and rotated within a preset angle range by rotating a low-cam coupled to the camshaft when the second body is decoupled from the first body, a latching pin provided retractably forward of the first body such that the first body is coupled to or decoupled from the second body, and an actuating unit to retractably actuate the latching pin. The degree of the lift of the valve is variably controlled in two stages of high-speed and low-speed modes through the rotary motion of the high speed cam or low speed cam by coupling or decoupling the first and second bodies to or from each other.
US09464541B2
Control device of internal combustion engine and variable valve device of internal combustion engine
A control device of an internal combustion engine includes: a variable valve device including: first and second rocker arms; a cam; a rocker shaft provided with a lubricating oil passage; a pin switching the first and second rocker arms between a coupling state and a non-coupling state; a biasing member biasing the pin; a switching oil passage capable of supplying oil pressure to the pin in a direction opposite to a biasing direction; a lash adjuster; and a supplying oil passage, capable of supplying oil pressure to the pin in the biasing direction of the biasing member and supplying oil pressure into the lash adjuster, a hydraulic pump; an oil pressure control valve; and a control unit controlling the oil pressure control valve to always supply the supplying oil passage with oil pressure higher than oil pressure within the lubricating oil passage, during driving of an internal combustion engine.
US09464536B2
A sealing arrangement for a turbine system includes a bucket having an outer tip and at least one bucket ridge extending radially outwardly from the outer tip, the at least one bucket ridge comprising an abradable material. Also included is a stationary shroud disposed radially outwardly from the outer tip of the bucket. Further included is at least one shroud ridge extending radially inwardly from the stationary shroud toward the outer tip of the bucket, the at least one shroud ridge comprising the abradable material.
US09464526B2
An assembly including an airfoil for a bladed wheel together with a platform, the airfoils in association with such platforms forming a bladed wheel. The platform surface presents a circumferential depression between a leading edge of an airfoil at 60% of the airfoil going downstream. A skeleton curve designates a curve plotting variations in a skeleton angle of the airfoil as a function of position along the axis of the wheel; and a linearized skeleton curve designates a curve that provides a straight line connection between points representing the skeleton angle respectively at 10% and at 90% of an axial extent of the airfoil from its leading edge, and, in a vicinity of the platform, a lowered portion of the skeleton curve lying under the linearized skeleton curve extends axially over at least half of an axial extent of the depression.
US09464522B2
A diffusion sampler includes an elongated tubular support structure, a top end cap, a bottom end cap, a first coupling device, at least a first membrane and a reservoir mechanism. The support structure has an outer wall that defines an interior space therein. The outer wall defines a plurality of openings. A membrane is disposed around the outer wall at least in the area of the upper portion of the support structure and is configured to allow at least one first selected type of molecule to pass therethrough. A reservoir mechanism is coupled to a bottom portion of the support structure and is configured to define a reservoir in the lower portion of the support structure that prevents a selected liquid from flowing out of the lower portion of the support structure.
US09464516B2
A system comprising a well drilled into an underground formation comprising hydrocarbons; a production facility at a topside of the well; a water production facility connected to the production facility; wherein the water production facility produces water by passing the water through a first and a second nanofiltration module, and then injects the water 5 into the well.
US09464515B2
A system for heating hydrocarbon resources in a subterranean formation having spaced-apart wellbores therein aligned in a plane may include radio frequency (RF) antennas to be positioned within respective ones of the spaced apart wellbores aligned in the plane. The system may also include a plurality of discrete RF sources each coupled to one of the RF antennas and configured so that the RF antennas are driven at a same frequency as each other RF antenna but at different phases.
US09464512B2
Methods for fluid monitoring in a subterranean formation can comprise: providing a diverting fluid comprising a diverting agent; introducing the diverting fluid into a subterranean formation comprising one or more subterranean zones; and monitoring a disposition of the diverting fluid within the subterranean formation using one or more integrated computational elements in optical communication with the subterranean formation.
US09464511B2
A downhole completion assembly for sealing and supporting an open hole section of a wellbore includes a sealing structure movable between contracted and expanded configurations, a truss structure also movable between contracted and expanded configurations, wherein, when in their respective contracted configurations, the sealing and truss structures are each able to axially traverse production tubing extended within a wellbore, a conveyance device operably coupled to the sealing and truss structures and configured to transport the sealing and truss structures in their respective contracted configurations through the production tubing and to an open hole section of the wellbore, and a deployment device operably connected to the sealing and truss structures and configured to radially expand the sealing and truss structures from their respective contracted configurations to their respective expanded configurations.
US09464507B2
A valve for use in a tubular string in a subterranean well includes a sleeve having first and second opposite ends, the sleeve being displaceable between open and closed positions to thereby selectively permit and prevent flow through a sidewall of a housing assembly, and a first and second pistons at the respective first and second ends of the sleeve. Pressure differentials applied to the first and second pistons are operative to displace the sleeve between its open and closed positions.
US09464504B2
Gel compositions include a high molecular weight water-soluble acrylamide polymer, a crosslinking system capable of crosslinking the polymer, a crosslink delay system and an aqueous solvent. The gel compositions are prepared at the surface and injected into a zone of a formation assessable by a wellbore to form a continuous single-phase gel. The gel compositions may be tailored to a specific formation by predetermining gelation rate, gel strength and/or gel stability to form gels having predetermined properties suitable for the zone.
US09464502B2
A method of preventing fluid flow past a tapered face of a mill diverter in a wellbore comprises: positioning the mill diverter in the wellbore, wherein the mill diverter comprises: a body; the tapered face, wherein the tapered face is located at one end of the body; and a swellable material, wherein the swellable material: is positioned circumferentially around the body of the mill diverter adjacent to the tapered face; swells in the presence of a swelling fluid; and prevents substantially all of a fluid from flowing past the swellable material after the swellable material has swelled; and causing or allowing the swellable material to swell. The swellable material can also prevent a loss of pressure in the wellbore above the swellable material or prevent a first fluid having a first density from mixing with a second fluid having a second density after the swellable material has swelled.
US09464499B1
A method and system for retrieving a fracturing ball in a wellbore casing. The system includes a wellbore retrieval tool comprising a tool body that is inserted into and transported along the wellbore casing. The tool is sized and configured to trap and hold the fracturing ball. When a hydraulic lock happens in the wellbore casing, the retrieval tool is lowered in a vertical section and the ball is flowed back along a horizontal section and captured by a trap in the retrieval tool. The retrieval tool may also be run in conjunction with a setting tool with a ball-in-place fracturing plug. In case of the hydraulic lock, the injection is tested following perforation with the retrieval tool still a location proximal to the ball, and the ball is immediately retrieved.
US09464498B2
The invention relates to an extrusion preventing supporting device (30) comprising interconnected chain elements (40; 50, 55). Outwardly curved ends (42; 57, 58) of the chain elements (40; 50, 55) are adapted to be received by inwardly curved ends (43; 52, 53) of adjacent chain elements (40; 50, 55). Each chain element comprises a through connection bore (44; 54, 59). The extrusion preventing supporting device (30) further comprises one continuous connection wire 70 provided through the respective connection bores (44; 54, 59).
US09464496B2
A packoff device is disclosed for sealing an annulus within a wellbore, and for bypassing the sealed annulus. The packoff device may include a mandrel having a bore formed axially therethrough and first and second ports extending radially from the bore. A sealing element that extends radially-outwardly from the mandrel may be positioned axially between the first and second ports, and may create a seal within an annulus between the mandrel and a casing, to isolate a portion of the annulus above the sealing element from a portion below the sealing element. A sleeve within the bore may, with the mandrel, form a channel providing fluid communication between the first and second ports. The sleeve may be movable between open and closed states. The first and second ports may be unobstructed by the sleeve in the open state, one or more may be obstructed in the closed state.
US09464489B2
A well logging instrument deployment device according to this aspect of the invention includes a housing configured to be coupled to a pipe string. A latch disposed in the housing and is configured to retain a well logging instrument in a first longitudinal position inside the pipe string. An actuator is configured to release the latch to enable longitudinal movement of the well logging instrument inside the pipe string. A signal detector is operatively coupled to the actuator and is the configured to detect a command signal for operating the actuator.
US09464487B1
A drilling system includes a cylinder body and drill bit assembly. The drill bit includes a plurality of drill bit blades, each having at least one drill bit element. A cylinder body is connected to the drill bit. A plurality of transmitters are mounted on each drill bit element and transmit data characterizing a degree of wear of the drill bit to a data transmitter and receiver of the cylinder body that is in communication with the plurality of transmitters.
US09464474B2
A pre-manufactured door buck or a kit of parts is used to install a pre-sized door buck in a wall that allows a standard sized door to be installed. The door buck can include a pair of side members and a header member. Each side member can have an aperture passing through the side member. The header member can have a first end with a first tenon and a second end with a second tenon. The door buck is constructed by inserting the first tenon and the second tenon through the apertures in the side members and secured in place. The assembled door buck defines a pre-determined sized opening in which a door can be installed.
US09464468B2
A locking mechanism includes a hooking component, an engagement structure, and an actuation component. The hooking component is disposed in a casing of a portable electronic apparatus. The engagement structure and the actuation component are disposed in another casing of the portable electronic apparatus. The actuation component is slidable relatively to the casing and includes a magnetic portion. When the magnetic portion approaches a hooking part of the hooking component, the hooking part is rotated out of the casing by a magnetic effect to hook the engagement structure; when the actuation component slides such that the magnetic portion is moved away from the hooking part, because a force generated by the magnetic effect to the hooking part decreases, a resilient part of the hooking component can drive the hooking part to disengaged from the engagement structure to rotate into the casing.
US09464467B1
A gate latch apparatus is disclosed for a residential safety gate. The gate latch apparatus includes a housing having opposable buttons. The buttons are squeezed to unlock opposing slides. The slides are slid to in turn slide a latch out of a latch receiver to permit the residential safety gate to be opened.
US09464465B2
A handle assemble is provided that includes a pivotable handle on a first side of a housing that when moved to an extended position is operative to cause a lever arm to move on a second side of the housing in order to operate a latch mechanism. To move the lever arm, the assembly includes a lock slide that in a first pivot position is operative to slide longitudinal and urge the lever arm to pivot responsive to either the handle causing a trigger to urge a first end of the lock slide to slide or an inside release member urging a second end of the lock slide to slide. However, when the lock slide is in a second pivot position, the trigger and the inside release member are not operative to engage the respective first and second ends of the lock slide.
US09464454B2
An improved cemetery experience whereby the cemetery and accompanying facilities may celebrate and demonstrate the passion and hobbies of the deceased individual, such as a love of sports. The contemplated themed cemetery may be a stand-alone cemetery that celebrates a common passion of a plurality of individuals, yet still maintains the traditional burial and memorialization process. The themed cemetery memorializes a specific event or a loved location and provides enjoyment to individuals having a common interest with an opportunity for burial and/or memorial with a common theme. The themed cemetery comprises a visual and physical replica of a venue, such as a sporting facility, e.g., the Los Angeles Sports Arena, the Los Angeles Coliseum, Angel Stadium, Wimbledon, and the like. The themed cemetery is configured to providing space for the deceased while also providing income and revenue by way of advertising for the cemetery operator.
US09464452B2
A support foot (10) for a vertical member (48) of a safety rail system includes an upper body section (14) which defines an upper surface region of the support foot and a lower body section (15) which defines a lower surface region, the two bodies having at least in part a substantially common outer periphery and each body section having extending there through a plurality of location formations (25) for supporting one or more vertical members (48) of the safety rail system.
US09464445B2
A composite structural element is provided herein, which comprises a basal member having voids of a predefined shape that are open to a surface thereof; and filling elements designed to fit into the voids. The predefined shape of the voids and/or an interface between the filling elements and the voids are arranged to maintain the filling elements within the voids.
US09464442B1
A wall cladding assembly is disclosed. The wall cladding assembly includes a wall cladding tile having a substantially flat surface, a mounting channel attached to the flat surface and at least one anchor secured to the mounting channel. The mounting channel includes a planar base plate, a pair of flanges along parallel edges of the base plate and a pair of lips at outer edges of the flanges. The base plate, the flanges and the lips define a first recess and a second recess. The at least one anchor includes an anchor plate and a pair of projections extending from the anchor plate. A first projection has a first securing lip and a second projection has a second securing lip, the first securing lip having a portion sized to fit in the first recess and the second securing lip having a portion sized to fit in the second recess.
US09464440B2
A safety rail system in some embodiments may include integrated ergonomic hand-grip projections, and structures for affixing the system for egress and ingress through an opening, such as roof or floor access holes. A self-closing gravity gate may be provided acting as additional hand-grip, support, and barrier. The safety rail system may be constructed and assembled using a unique continuous tubular structure of converging vertical and angular upright post with horizontal upper rail, forward protruding ergonomically effecting hand-grip and opposing directionally horizontal lower attachment support means reducing lateral motion and allows installation for new construction or retro fitting of existing openings.
US09464425B2
A portable personal hygiene device is detachably secured to a toilet bowl rim via an integral mounting bracket. The hygiene device controllably directs liquid, water, or other solution to the posterior portions of a user's body through a nozzle assembly. The hygiene device includes a housing which encloses a power source, a motor and a pump. An adjustable brace is included to facilitate enhanced secured attachment of the hygiene device to the toilet rim. A replaceable, reusable reservoir provides the water supply for the pump. The nozzle assembly is movable between retracted and extended positions.
US09464424B1
A toilet tool cleansing system employs a mixing eductor that disperses a disinfectant solution into a water stream that is sprayed onto the tool and thereafter collected and discharged into a toilet via a drain eductor. The cleansing system includes plumbing and a valve adapted to be in fluid communication with an existing water supply source. A housing receives the toilet tool. The housing has at least one spray nozzle in fluid communication with the mixing eductor for dispensing the water and disinfectant on the tool. The drain eductor propels waste liquids from the system into a toilet bowl.
US09464423B2
An emergency flush apparatus for a toilet includes a flush driver module, a battery, and a processing unit operatively connected to the battery and the flush driver module. The emergency flush apparatus further includes a flush switch operatively connected to the battery and the processing unit, and a primary power supply operatively connected to the flush driver module. When the flush switch is activated, the processing unit detects a state of the flush driver module. Power is then supplied to the flush driver module from one of either the primary power supply or the battery in response to the detected state.
US09464411B2
A ground engaging tool includes a ground engaging tool body, an excavating tooth, and an adapter. A fixed portion of the adapter is fixed to the ground engaging tool body, and an insertion portion of the adapter protrudes from the ground engaging tool body in a first direction. The excavating tooth has a tooth body, an insertion cavity and a supporting portion. The insertion cavity is formed in a base end face of the tooth body. The excavating tooth is attached to the adapter such that the insertion portion of the adapter is inserted into the insertion cavity of the excavating tooth. The supporting portion projects from an innermost part of the insertion cavity. The supporting portion of the excavating tooth opposes a front end of the insertion portion of the adapter such that a gap exists between the supporting portion and the front end of the insertion portion.
US09464409B2
A shovel includes a cabin in which a display monitor is provided, a main pump that generates a hydraulic pressure, an internal combustion engine that drives the main pump, and a display control part configured to generate display information to be displayed on the display monitor based on information communicated between the display control part and the internal combustion engine, and cause the generated display information to be displayed on the display monitor. The display control part is configured to cause the fuel efficiency of the internal combustion engine to be displayed simultaneously in multiple graphs having different time axes on a single display screen. The graphs show the fuel efficiency of the internal combustion engine over time.
US09464408B2
A system for locating a work vehicle at a job site, locating a topographic feature with respect to the work vehicle, and further characterizing the topographic feature from the work vehicle.
US09464407B2
A load-haul-dump (LHD) vehicle for constrained spaces such as underground mines. The LHD includes a front axle and a rear axle, and an articulation in the vehicle between the front and rear axles. A diesel engine is positioned to the rear of the rear axle, and powers a hydraulic pump. A hydraulic motor is positioned forwardly of the articulation, and is hydraulically driven by the hydraulic pump. A transmission is driven by the hydraulic motor, and drives the front axle and rear axle via respective drive shafts.
US09464406B2
A construction machine has a work implement and a work implement operating device. The work implement has a boom, arm, and bucket. A limit velocity determining unit determines a limit velocity of the boom from the limit velocity of the entire work implement, the arm target velocity, and the bucket target velocity. The distance when the blade tip of the bucket is positioned outside of the design plane is a positive value and the velocity in a direction from inside of the design plane toward outside of the design plane is a positive value. The first limit condition includes a condition that the limit velocity of the boom is greater than the boom target velocity. When the first limit condition is satisfied, a work implement control unit controls the boom to match the limit velocity of the boom and controls the arm to match the arm target velocity.
US09464405B2
A control system for an implement of a machine is disclosed. The control system may include a relative positioning system for providing relative positioning signals, where the relative positioning signals are representative of a position of the implement relative to a worksite. The control system may further include a controller for determining an implement control plan, where the implement control plan is based on, at least, the relative positioning signals and includes coarse control signals and fine control signals. The control system may further include a coarse control system and a fine control system that controls fine movements of the implement based on the fine control signals. The fine movements may have a fine range of motion, the fine range of motion being less than the coarse range of motion.
US09464391B2
A conveyor system is disclosed for use with a cold planer having a milling drum. The conveyor system may have a primary conveyor configured to receive material from the milling drum, a first motor configured to drive the primary conveyor, a secondary conveyor configured to receive material from the primary conveyor, and a second motor configured to drive the primary conveyor. The conveyor system may also have a controller configured to selectively adjust a speed of the second motor independent of a speed of the first motor.
US09464390B2
A self-propelled road construction machine, especially a road roller, comprising a service water tank with two tank bodies which are connected in parallel via a balancing line. The balancing line and the tank bodies are connected via a plug connection, in which the balancing line consists of a flexurally rigid connection pipe and the tank bodies respectively comprise sealed insertion openings for the pipe.
US09464389B2
A road repair vehicle has an engine for powering the vehicle, a plurality of wheels, and a shelter structure supported above a road by the wheels, the shelter structure forming an enclosure for providing shelter to one or more road repair workers, the shelter structure having an open bottom to enable the one or more road repair workers to access the road to be repaired. The vehicle may be used to repair potholes. The vehicle includes a sensor for detecting a worker in a work area of the shelter structure and for automatically disabling at least one vehicle system in response to detecting the worker in the work area.
US09464385B2
The invention relates to a security paper consisting of at least two paper fiber webs, wherein the first web is embodied in the form of an external we provided with at least one authentication element and the second web comprises a reinforcing element which is substantially absent in the first web and selected amongst materials improving mechanical strength, and/or another authentication element and the authentication element of said first web substantially absent in the second web. A method for producing the inventive security paper is also disclosed.
US09464377B2
The invention relates to a dryer which is of modular construction and comprises a process air guide (15, 15′) into which a first air conducting element (161) for forming a condensation dryer (1) or a second air conducting element (16′) for forming a extraction air dryer (1′) may be installed. In the process air guide (15, 15′) is formed an insertion region (15d, 15d′) in which the first (161) or the second air conducting element (16′) is arranged, wherein the two air conducting elements (161, 16′) are designed compatibly in respect of their insertion in the insertion region (15d, 15d′), at least in certain regions.
US09464376B2
A washing machine including an attachment groove on or in a top portion or surface of a cabinet; a joint member coupled to the cabinet and in the attachment groove; a door configured to open and close an inlet of the cabinet, and a damper connected to the joint member and configured to adjust or control a rotational speed of the door.
US09464375B2
A kit having a light housing having a source of light; and a container containing a photocatalyzable treatment composition having a photoactivator, wherein the light housing and the container are co-packaged with one another.
US09464364B2
An apparatus for growing a silicon crystal substrate comprising a heat source, an anisotropic thermal load leveling component, a crucible, and a cold plate component is disclosed. The anisotropic thermal load leveling component possesses a high thermal conductivity and may be positioned atop the heat source to be operative to even-out temperature and heat flux variations emanating from the heat source. The crucible may be operative to contain molten silicon in which the top surface of the molten silicon may be defined as a growth interface. The crucible may be substantially surrounded by the anisotropic thermal load leveling component. The cold plate component may be positioned above the crucible to be operative with the anisotropic thermal load leveling component and heat source to maintain a uniform heat flux at the growth surface of the molten silicon.
US09464360B2
A casing of an electronic device including a casing body and a sensing assembly is provided. The casing body includes a button portion. The sensing assembly includes a first conductive line and two first contacts. The first conductive line is disposed on an inner surface of the casing body, and the first conductive line forms a strain sensing pattern on the button portion. The first contacts are disposed on the inner surface of the casing body, and connected to two ends of the first conductive line, respectively. The strain sensing pattern is adapted to result a resistance variation accompanied with a deformation of the button portion when the button portion is deformed, so as to generate an electrical signal.
US09464356B2
Among other things, a device for use in electrolyzing water is described. The device comprises an electrolysis unit that includes a chamber, an ion exchange structure in the chamber, a cathode, an anode, a high pressure chamber, and a reservoir. The chamber is separated by the ion exchange structure into a first compartment and a second compartment. The cathode is in the first compartment and the anode in the second compartment. The reservoir is disposed in the high pressure chamber for storing water to be supplied to the chamber of the electrolysis unit. In some implementations, the ion exchange structure is a proton exchange membrane.
US09464344B2
According to a thermomechanical treatment process for a titanium alloy including between 23 and 27% niobium in atomic proportion, between 0 and 10% zirconium, and between 0 and 1% oxygen, nitrogen and/or silicon, the following steps are performed: a) an increase of a sample of the alloy to a temperature higher than 900° C., b) a fast quench, c) a severe cold strain, d) an ageing treatment at a temperature included between 200 and 600° C., the time of the ageing treatment being included between 10 seconds and 10 minutes. Alloy obtained by this process and prostheses made from such an alloy.
US09464341B2
A hydrostatic tower whose lower part communicates with a liquid phase space within a flash vessel, and whose upper part communicates with a gas phase space within the flash vessel is provided. A rising liquid level within the hydrostatic tower is detected by at least one maximum liquid level sensor provided at a position at the same level as a predetermined maximum liquid level within the liquid phase space. A dropping liquid level within the hydrostatic tower is detected by at least one minimum liquid level sensor provided at a position at the same level as a predetermined minimum liquid level within the liquid phase space.
US09464335B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for improving fatigue strength that is capable of improving the fatigue strength of cast iron, specifically spherical graphite cast iron, to the same level as that of carbon steel subjected 10 carburizing and quenching. To this end, this method contains a step for performing first, second and third shot peenings using shot of a prescribed diameter for each on spherical graphite cast iron on which a quenching and tempering heat treatment or austempering heat treatment has been performed and tensile strength made to be 1200 MPa or more, the spherical graphite cast iron containing the following elements in the following mass percentages: C=2.0-4.0%, Si=1.5-4.5%, Mn=2.0% or less, P=O.08% or less, 8=0.03% or less, Mg=0.02-0.1%, and Cu=1.8-4.0%.
US09464326B2
Toll-like receptors (TLR) are expressed by a variety of cancers, including melanoma and T-ALL. TLR signaling plays an important role in T cell malignancies and melanoma. The effects of stimulating or inhibiting the TLR/IL-1 receptor-associated kinases IRAK-1 and IRAK-4 in melanoma and T-ALL cells were evaluated. Pharmacological treatment with an IRAK-1,-4 inhibitor delays tumor growth and prolongs survival in vitro and in vivo, indicating that TLR signaling contributes to T-ALL and melanoma progression and interfering with this signaling is a novel therapeutic strategy to control T-ALL and melanoma proliferation.
US09464324B2
Methods are disclosed for determining the prognosis of a subject with an adenocarcinoma in an organ, such as the lung. The methods can include quantitating expression of a plurality of cytokines of interest, such as IL-1a, IL-1b, IL-2, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, IL-15, IFN-γ and TNF-a in the adenocarcinoma and in non-cancerous tissue in the organ. Altered expression of IL-1a, IL-1b, IL-2, IL-8, IL-10, IL-12, IL-15, IFN-γ and TNF-a in the adenocarcinoma as compared to a control and in non-cancerous tissue in the organ as compared to a control determines the prognosis for the subject. Methods for determining if a therapeutic agent is effective as an anti-cancer agent are also disclosed.
US09464316B2
A method of isolating nucleic acid from a sample is provided that includes contacting a sample that includes nucleic acid with a solid support, wherein the surface of the solid support includes groups that can complex with the nucleic acid, in the presence of a solution that includes an oligoethylene glycol having 10 or fewer ethylene oxide-units and a salt comprising a monovalent or divalent metal ion, whereby soluble nucleic acid in said sample binds to the surface of the support; separating the solid support with bound nucleic acid from the sample; and eluting the bound nucleic acid from the solid support, thereby isolating nucleic acid from the sample. Also provided is a method of washing nucleic acids bound to a solid support that includes providing a solid support, wherein nucleic acid molecules are bound to the surface of the solid support; and washing the solid support with a solution that includes an oligoethylene glycol having 10 or fewer ethylene oxide units.
US09464310B2
A method and kit related thereto are described for the collection and maintenance of detectability of a plurality of species of microbiological agents in a single clinical sample as well as an integral method for handling a plurality of the samples and managing information associated therewith for reporting a sum of diagnostic results for each sample.
US09464308B2
A method of transcriptional amplification includes: (a) obtaining a mixture by combining (i) a biological sample comprising nucleic acids, (ii) amplification primers, (iii) amplification reagents including enzymes required for amplification, and (iv) at least one polyol capable of stabilizing the enzymes required for amplification; (b) denaturing the nucleic acids by heating the mixture at a temperature above 41° C.; and (c) transcriptionally amplifying at least one target nucleic acid at a temperature above 41° C. when present in the mixture.
US09464305B2
An edible oil obtained by culturing a microorganism belong to the genus Mortierella subgenus Mortierella in a medium containing a nitrogen source derived from soybean is discussed. The oils obtained have a low 24,25-methylenecholest-5-en-3β-ol content.
US09464301B2
The invention features methods for producing isoprene from cultured cells using a feedback-resistant mevalonate kinase polypeptide, such as an archaeal mevalonate kinase polypeptide. The resulting isoprene compositions may have increased yields and/or purity of isoprene.
US09464299B2
An isolated nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence which encodes a polypeptide comprising both a steroidogenic acute regulatory protein-related lipid transfer (START) domain and a kinase domain is provided, as well as plant cells and transgenic plants comprising said nucleic acid molecule, said transgenic plants being resistant to plant diseases.
US09464294B2
The present invention relates to the production of heterologous polypeptides in a recombinant bacterial host cell, wherein the bacterial host cell is rendered inable to deactivate the promoter controlling the expression of the heterologous polypeptide in the absence of an inducer.
US09464281B2
Method for concentrating viruses, method for concentrating cells or bacteria, and magnetic composite
A method for concentrating viruses includes applying a magnetic force to a mixture containing: sugar chain-immobilized magnetic metal nano-particles each having a structure in which a sugar chain-immobilized metal nano-particle is bound to a first magnetic nano-particle; second magnetic particles with mean particle size larger than that of the sugar chain-immobilized magnetic metal nano-particles; and a specimen. Each sugar chain-immobilized metal nano-particle has a structure where a ligand-conjugate is bound to a metal nano-particle via sulfur atoms. The ligand-conjugate has a structure where a linker compound's amino group is connected to a sugar chain having a reducing terminal. The linker compound includes, in molecules thereof, an amino group, sulfur atoms, and a hydrocarbon chain having carbon-nitrogen bonds. This allows short-time concentration of viruses in a sufficient amount almost equal to that of centrifugation concentration, allowing safely and effectively concentrating target viruses, resulting in prompt, easy, and highly sensitive detection and identification of viruses.
US09464280B1
This invention relates to, in part, compositions of beta-lactamases and methods of using these enzymes in, for example, gastrointestinal tract (GI tract) disorders such as C. difficile infection (CDI).
US09464270B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing cells and in particular to a method of preparing breastmilk stem cells (BSCs) by isolation from breastmilk and subsequent culture. The invention further relates to BSCs prepared by the methods of the invention and to methods and uses thereof. The invention has been developed primarily as a method for preparing and culturing BSC.
US09464262B2
The invention relates to compositions, methods of use, and methods of manufacture for an intercalated bleach compound and compositions thereof. The intercalated bleach compound has the formula Mx(OCl)y(O)m(OH)n where M is an alkaline earth metal such as magnesium, calcium or mixture thereof. The values of x and y independently equal any number greater than or equal to 1 (e.g., 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.), and m and n independently equal any number greater than or equal to 0 (e.g., 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.), but m and n are not both 0. In addition, the molar ratio of the alkaline earth metal (e.g., magnesium or calcium) to hypochlorite is at least 3:1. In other words, x is ≧3y. The compounds exhibit excellent stability, little or no chlorine bleach odor, exhibit excellent pH buffering characteristics, and less reactivity with organic materials as compared to alternative chlorine bleach products.
US09464259B2
The invention relates to an aqueous alkaline cleaning composition for cleaning metal surfaces, containing at least one non-ionic surfactant having demulsifying action and based on ethoxylated alkyl alcohols having one or two alkyl groups, each comprising an average of 7.5 to 16.5 carbon atoms, and an average of 5.5 to 18.5 EO groups per alkyl group, and comprising an end group closure or two end group closures, of which at least one end group closure is an isopropyl, isobutyl, tertiary butyl and/or benzyl group, wherein the surfactant is not propoxylated.
US09464258B2
Methods are provided for refining natural oil feedstocks and partially hydrogenating polyunsaturated olefins and polyunsaturated esters. The methods comprise reacting the feedstock in the presence of a metathesis catalyst under conditions sufficient to form a metathesized product comprising olefins and esters. In certain embodiments, the methods further comprise separating the polyunsaturated olefins from the polyunsaturated esters in the metathesized product. In certain embodiments, the methods further comprise partially hydrogenating the polyunsaturated olefins in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst, wherein at least a portion of the polyunsaturated olefins are converted to monounsaturated olefins. In other embodiments, the methods further comprise partially hydrogenating the polyunsaturated esters in the presence of a hydrogenation catalyst, wherein at least a portion of the polyunsaturated esters are converted to monounsaturated esters.
US09464244B2
A system including a gasifier that may remove black water and includes a reactor and a quench chamber disposed downstream of the reactor. The quench chamber may cool a syngas generated in the reactor. The system also includes a syngas treatment system that may supply the gasifier with a first portion of a quench liquid via a first inlet and a second portion of the quench liquid via a second inlet; a lock hopper that may receive gasification by-products generated in the reactor and supply a third portion of the quench liquid to the gasifier via a third inlet, and a deaerator coupled to the syngas treatment system and the lock hopper. The deaerator may depressurize the lock hopper.
US09464235B2
The present invention provides a method for extracting bitumen from an oil sand stream, the method comprising at least the steps of, a) providing an oil sand stream; b) contacting the oil sand stream with a liquid comprising a solvent to obtain a solvent-diluted oil sand slurry; c) separating the oil sand slurry to obtain a first solids-depleted stream and a first solids-enriched stream; d) filtering the first solids-enriched stream obtained in step c) to obtain bitumen-depleted sand and at least a first filtrate; e) separating at least a part of the first filtrate to obtain a second solids-depleted stream and a second solids-enriched stream; and f) contacting at least a part of the second solids-enriched stream from step e) with solvent to obtain a solvent-diluted second solids-enriched stream; and g) separating the solvent-diluted second solids-enriched stream to obtain a third solids-enriched stream and a third solids-depleted stream.
US09464230B2
This liquid crystal composition includes at least one compound represented by general formula (i), and at least one compound represented by general formula (ii) (in the formulae: Ri1, Ri2, and Rii1 each independently represent a C1-8 alkyl group; one or at least two non-adjacent-CH2— groups in these alkyl groups may each independently be substituted with —CH═CH—, —C≡C—, —O—, —CO—, —COO—, or —OCO—; the hydrogen in these alkyl groups may be substituted with fluorine or chlorine; Xi1, Xi2, Xi3, Xi4, Xi11, and Xii2 each independently represent hydrogen or fluorine; and Aii1, Aii2, and Aii3 each independently represent a trans-1,4-cyclohexylene group, or a 1,4-phenylene group which may have the hydrogen therein substituted with fluorine or chlorine).
US09464229B2
There is provided an FFS mode liquid crystal display device that uses a liquid crystal composition which has a negative dielectric anisotropy and can achieve good display properties by being used for FFS mode liquid crystal display devices without degrading the image sticking property of display devices and various properties of liquid crystal display devices, such as dielectric anisotropy, viscosity, nematic phase upper limit temperature, low-temperature nematic phase stability, and γ1. The liquid crystal composition contains at least one compound selected from the group of compounds represented by general formula (I) below, at least one compound selected from the group of compounds represented by general formula (II) below, and at least one compound selected from the group of compounds represented by general formula (III) below.
US09464227B2
A concentrated aqueous composition may be prepared by from a formulation including: a. from 10 to 30% by weight (% wt) of a depolymerized carboxymethyl cellulose having a weight average molecular weight of from about 10,000 to about 80,000 dalton (Da); b. from 15 to 50% of a compatibilizer selected from the group consisting of glycerol and sodium xylene sulfonate; and c. from about 0.5 to about 20% by weight of a surfactant. The concentrated aqueous solution may be employed to prepare an aqueous solution which is useful for moisturizing soil.
US09464226B2
An Li-containing α-sialon-based phosphor represented by the formula (1): LixEuySi12−(m+n)Al(m+n)On+δN16−n−δ (wherein assuming that average valence of Eu is a, x+ya+δ=m; 0.45≦x<1.2, 0.001≦y≦0.2, 0.9≦m≦2.5, 0.5≦n≦2.4, and δ>0).
US09464221B2
Provided is an alumina sintered body which has a high heat conductivity and a high infrared ray emissivity and is excellent in electrical insulation property and chemical resistance.An alumina sintered body contains cubic aluminum nitride.
US09464215B2
The present invention relates to the use of a cyclic ketal, 2-methyl-2-ethyl-1,3-dioxolane as a solvent in adhesives, as well as an adhesive composition comprising said ketal. 2-Methyl-2-ethyl-1,3-dioxolane has high solubilization power of the polychloroprene polymer, forming solutions having high viscosity and having suitable drying time after application of a film onto a surface. Due to the good technical performance, the adhesive composition made according to the present invention is well accepted in the market, finding use to substitute compositions containing toluene or other aromatic and oxygenated solvents.
US09464210B2
A back sheet for a solar cell to be disposed in contact with a sealing material of a cell-side substrate in which a solar cell device is sealed with the sealing material, the back sheet including: a polymer base material; and a polymer layer that is provided on the polymer base material and contains a composite polymer that contains, in a molecule, 15% by mass to 85% by mass of siloxane structural units represented by the following formula (1) and 85% by mass to 15% by mass of non-siloxane structural units: wherein R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a monovalent organic group; R1 and R2 may be identical with or different from each other; and n is an integer of 1 or more.
US09464207B2
A curable aqueous composition is disclosed comprising a carbohydrate, a crosslinking agent, and an amine base, wherein the curable aqueous composition has a pH adjusted by the amine base. Further disclosed is a method of forming a curable aqueous solution.
US09464203B2
A curable composition comprising a polyene, a polythiol and an anhydride is disclosed.
US09464201B2
A non-aqueous ink jet ink composition according to an embodiment is stored in an ink storage body, in which a solvent contained in an ink composition is configured with an organic solvent, and a dissolved oxygen concentration in the ink composition is in a range of 30% to 80% of a saturated dissolved oxygen concentration in room temperature.
US09464192B2
An addition-curable silicone composition includes: a three-dimensional network organopolysiloxane having at least one alkenyl group and at least one aryl group in one molecule, having a siloxane unit represented by the following general formula, R2SiO, and SiO2, and not having a unit represented by RSiO3/2, wherein R represents an organic group; a linear organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups and at least one aryl group in one molecule; an organosilicon compound having at least two hydrogen atoms bonded to silicon atoms per one molecule, and not having an alkenyl group; and a hydrosilylation catalyst containing a platinum group metal. Thereby, there can be provided an addition-curable silicone composition which provides a cured product having high refractive index, transparency, and temperature cycling resistance, an optical device encapsulating material, and an optical device which is encapsulated with the optical device encapsulating material.
US09464187B2
Compositions of polymer blends of polyvinylchloride (PVC), a low molecular weight plasticizer and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) are described. In certain embodiments, the PHA is a poly-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-4-hydroxybutyrate copolymer having a weight percent 4-hydroxybutyrate of 30-45%. In other embodiments the PHA is a multiphase P3HB-4HB copolymer blend having one phase fully amorphous. The PHA is mixed with the PVC and low molecular weight plasticizer to optimize the PVC's optical, thermal and mechanical properties. In certain embodiments, the polymer is branched with optionally additives that improve properties. Methods of making the compositions of the invention are also described. The invention also includes articles, films and laminates comprising the compositions.
US09464179B2
A process and apparatus for producing a nanovoided article, a nanovoided coating, and a low refractive index coating is described. The process includes providing a first solution of a polymerizable material in a solvent; at least partially polymerizing the polymerizable material to form a composition that includes an insoluble polymer matrix and a second solution, wherein the insoluble polymer matrix includes a plurality of nanovoids that are filled with the second solution; and removing a major portion of the solvent from the second solution. An apparatus for the process is also described, and includes a webline, a coating section, a partial polymerization section, and a solvent removal section.
US09464175B2
Brominated organic polymer solutions from a bromination reaction are devolatilized in a devolatilizing extruder. A starting organic polymer is brominated in solution to form a brominated polymer solution. This solution is combined with a second thermoplastic polymer to form a concentrated solution. The solvent and other volatile compounds are removed from the concentrated solution in a devolatilizing extruder to form a devolatilized polymer blend.
US09464163B2
Disclosed is a novolak resin containing a repeating unit represented by the general formula (1). R1is a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group which is C1-4 straight-chain or C3-4 branched-chain, and some or all hydrogen atoms in the alkyl group may be replaced with a fluorine atom; R2 is a hydrogen atom, a phenyl group, an alkyl group which is C1-10 straight-chain or C3-10 branched-chain, or an alkyl group having a C3-10 cyclic structure, and some or all hydrogen atoms in the phenyl group and the alkyl group may be replaced with fluorine atoms; each of a and b is independently an integer of 1-3, and these are defined as 2≦a+b≦4; and d is an integer of 0-2. This novolak resin has high dissolution rate in the alkaline development solution in addition to the heat resisting property which is a property of phenolic resin.
US09464161B2
The masterbatch-type latent curing agent for epoxy resin comprised of (A) glycidyl ether type epoxy resin, (B) a fine particle of mixture containing (B-1) 50 to 99 mass % of adduct-modified amine obtained by reacting the glycidyl ether type epoxy resin with a polyamine compound and (B-2) 50 to 1 mass % of a phenol compound, (C) an active hydrogen compound and (D) an isocyanate compound; and a one-component curable epoxy resin composition containing the masterbatch-type latent curing agent and epoxy resin.
US09464153B2
A two-component premix for preparing a heat-expandable and heat-curable epoxy-based material, comprises an isocyanate, a diol or polyol, an epoxy prepolymer, a heat-activatable hardener for epoxy prepolymers, and a heat-activatable blowing agent.
US09464152B2
Disclosed is a method of preparing a bio-based thermosetting foam material with improved properties, in particular improved flame retardant properties, which method includes the steps of a) producing a prepolymer by condensation of at least one phenolic compound and formaldehyde in a ratio of 1:1.0 to 3.0 using 0.15 to 5 wt % of an alkaline catalyst in the temperature range of 50 to 100° C. until the refractive index of the reaction mixture is 1.4990 to 1.5020, b) adding 2 to 40 wt % of at least one natural polyphenol at a temperature of 50 to 100° C., c) adding 2 to 10 wt % of one or more emulsifiers and mixtures thereof, d) adding 2 to 10 wt % of one or more foaming agents and mixtures thereof and e) adding 10 to 20 wt % of a curing agent and f) curing. All wt % being related to the amount of the raw materials used.
US09464151B2
The invention provides lactamic polymers comprising an acetoacetate moiety. The lactamic polymers may be readily functionalized and the functionalized lactamic polymers may be further derivatized to provide a wide variety of useful polymers having desirable chemical and physical properties. The lactamic polymers of the invention may be employed in a wide variety of compositions. (A); (B) wherein R1-R6, w, x, y, z, and n are described herein.
US09464148B2
Vinyl terminated polyolefins with long chain branching produced with Salan catalysts having carbazole moieties.
US09464145B2
This invention relates to a novel group 4 transition metal metallocene catalyst compound that is asymmetric having two non-identical indenyl ligands with substitution at R2 having a branched C1-C20 alkyl group, R8 having a linear alkyl group and R4 and R10 having substituted phenyl groups, where at least one of R4 and R10 is a phenyl group substituted at the 3 and 5 position.
US09464143B2
The invention provides a method for producing a polymeric photoinitiator of the general formula I: Polymer-[CR2-CHR-Spacer (PI)n]m, (I) wherein m is an integer from 1-5000; n is a real number above 0 and below 5; each R group, independently, is a substituent independently selected from hydrogen, C1-C25 linear alkyl, C3-C25 branched alkyl, C3-C25 cycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, —OH, —CN, halogens and amines and PI is a photoinitiator moiety. The method comprises grafting one or more photoinitiator moieties (PI), each of which comprises at least one activated alkene functional group, onto the polymer. Polymeric photoinitiators are also provided.
US09464142B2
A process is disclosed for recovering pure cellulose from a cellulose-containing sludge, the process comprising treating a sludge cellulose source under conditions permitting dissolution of non-cellulose material and suspension of the cellulose, wherein said dissolution conditions do not alter cellulose morphology.
US09464139B2
Antigen binding proteins that activate GITR are provided. Nucleic acids encoding the antigen binding proteins and vectors and cells containing such nucleic acids are also provided. The antigen binding proteins have value in therapeutic methods in which it is useful to stimulate GITR signaling, thereby inducing or enhancing an immune response in a subject. Accordingly, the antigen binding proteins have utility in a variety of immunotherapy treatments, including treatment of various cancers and infections.
US09464133B2
Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of abnormal bone metabolism targeting a protein encoded by a gene strongly expressed in osteoclasts. Specifically provided is a pharmaceutical composition containing an antibody which specifically recognizes human Siglec-15 and has an activity of inhibiting osteoclast formation, and the like.
US09464130B2
The present invention relates to regulation of cold sensation and pain. More particularly, the present invention is directed to nucleic acids encoding a member of the transient regulatory protein family, CMR1, which is involved in modulation of the perception of cold sensations and pain. The invention further relates to methods for identifying and using agents that modulate cold responses and pain responses stimulated by cold via modulation of CMR1 and CMR1-related signal transduction.
US09464125B2
Compositions comprising peptide sequences with high cytotoxicity to cancer cell lines are provided. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising peptide sequences with high cytotoxicity to cancer cell lines are provided. A method for treating cancer is provided.
US09464124B2
Provided are compositions and methods for delivering biological moieties such as modified nucleic acids into cells to kill or reduce the growth of microorganisms. Such compositions and methods include the use of modified messenger RNAs, and are useful to treat or prevent microbial infection, or to improve a subject's heath or wellbeing.
US09464117B2
Some embodiments of the present invention can include herbicide-resistant proteins, coding genes, and uses thereof. Certain herbicide-resistant proteins can comprises: (a) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2; or (b) a protein consisting of an amino acid sequence at least 90% identical to that set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2. Other herbicide-resistant proteins of this disclosure can be suitable for expression in plants, can have resistance to herbicides (e.g., to phenoxy auxinherbicides), or both.
US09464113B2
Provided are anti-heparan sulfate peptides and methods that employ those peptides for the prevention or treatment of viral infections, including herpesviral infections such as α-herpesviral, β-herpesviral, and γ-herpesviral infections, which are exemplified by HSV-1. CMV, and HHV-8 viral infections, respectively. Peptides may comprise at least 10 amino acids of the amino acid sequences (SEQ ID NO: 2) XRXRXKXXRXRX, (SEQ ID NO: 8) XRXRXXKXRXRX, (SEQ ID NO: 4) XXRRRRXRRRXK, and/or (SEQ ID NO: 10) KXRRRXRRRRXX, wherein X represents any amino acid. In some embodiments, peptides comprise at least 10 amino acids of the sequence LRSRTKIIRIRH (SEQ ID NO: 1), HRIRIIKTRSRL (SEQ ID NO: 7), MPRRRRIRRRQK (SEQ ID NO: 3), and/or KQRRRIRRRRM (SEQ ID NO: 9). Peptides may be coupled to one or more therapeutic compound(s) to generate peptide-therapeutic compound conjugates, wherein the therapeutic compound may be one or more of a nucleoside analog, an oligosaccharide, and a small molecule.
US09464107B2
Labeled reactant compositions, and particularly labeled nucleic acid reaction compositions that include structural components including double-stranded nucleic acids. In some embodiments, the structural components maintain potentially damaging labeling components sufficiently distal from the reactant portion of the molecule such that damaging effects of the label group on other reaction components, such as enzymes, are reduced, minimized and/or eliminated.
US09464090B2
Pyrazolo-quinazoline derivatives of formula (Ia) or (Ib) as defined in the specification, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, process for their preparation and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them are disclosed; the compounds of the invention may be useful, in therapy, in the treatment of diseases associated with a disregulated protein kinase activity, like cancer.
US09464084B2
The present invention is directed to compounds of Formulas (I, IIa and IIb): The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formulas (I, IIa and IIb). Methods of making and using the compounds of Formulas (I, IIa and IIb) are also within the scope of the invention.
US09464078B2
The invention relates to a crystalline monohydrate of (4s)-4-(5-phenyl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yloxy)-1-azatricyclo[3.3.1.13,7]decane dihydrogen citrate, compositions comprising such compound, and a process for preparing such compound.
US09464075B2
Provided are compounds that are capable of modulating the activity of the influenza A virus via interaction with the M2 transmembrane protein. Also provided are methods for treating an influenza A-affected disease state or infection comprising administering a composition comprising one or more compounds that have been identified as being capable of interaction with the M2 protein.
US09464073B2
The present invention relates to pyrimidine hydroxy amide compounds, the use of such compounds in the inhibition of HDAC6, and the use of such compounds in the treatment of various diseases, disorders, or conditions related to HDAC6.
US09464071B2
The invention relates to new quinoxaline derivative compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, to processes for the preparation of said compounds and to the use of said compounds in the treatment of diseases, e.g. cancer.
US09464059B2
Disclosed are benzamide derivatives having the formula wherein X is selected from the group consisting of H, halo, —C1-C6 alkyl, aryl, —C3-C7 cycloalkyl, and -3- to 10-membered heterocycle, wherein the —C1-C6 alkyl, aryl, —C3-C7 cycloalkyl, and -3- to 10-membered heterocycle may be unsubstituted or substituted; Y is selected from the group consisting of H, —C1-C6 alkyl, and —C3-C7 cycloalkyl, the —C1-C6 alkyl, aryl, —C3-C7 cycloalkyl, and -3- to 10-membered heterocycle may be unsubstituted or substituted; Z is selected from the group consisting of —NHOH and phenylene diamine group (II) of structure and wherein Q is selected from the group consisting of H, F and Cl. These benzamide derivatives are useful in slowing the expansion of cancer cells.
US09464055B2
The present invention is directed to quinoline derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing said derivatives and their use in the treatment of disorders and conditions mediated by the CB-1 receptor; more particularly, in the treatment of disorders and conditions responsive to inverse agonism of the CB-1 receptor. For example, the compounds of the present invention are useful in the treatment of metabolic disorders.
US09464052B2
Compounds of formula (I) and pharmacologically acceptable salts and pro-drugs thereof wherein: Ar1 and Ar2 are aryl or heteroaryl; a is 0 to 5; R1 is alkyl, halogen, haloalkyl, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, carboxyl, hydroxyl, amino, monoalkylamino, dialkylamino, nitro, acylamino, alkoxycarbonylamino, alkylsulphonyl, alkylsulphonylamino or cyano and, where a is greater than 1, each substituent R1 may be the same or different; b is 0 to 5; R2 is alkyl, halogen, haloalkyl, haloalkoxy, alkoxy, alkoxycarbonyl, carboxyl, hydroxyl, amino, monoalkylamino, dialkylamino, nitro, acylamino, alkoxycarbonylamino, alkylsulphonyl, alkylsulphonylamino or cyano and where b is greater than 1, each substituent R2 may be the same or different; V is selected from the group consisting of (CR3aR3b)pCON(R3b)X and (CR3aR3b)pN(R3b)CO(X), wherein said groups are in the 3- (meta) or 4- (para) position with respect to the substituent Z; W is selected from the group consisting of NR4a, O, S, S═O, SO2 and C(R4aR4b)2; X is hydrogen, alkyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxyalkyl, haloalkoxyalkyl, aryloxyalkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, polyalkylene glycol, aminoalkyl, monoalkylaminoalkyl, dialkylaminoalkyl, alkyl that is substituted with a groups of formula of formula NR8R9 wherein R8 and R9 together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form a saturated or partially unsaturated heterocyclic group, carboxyalkyl, alkoxycarbonylalkyl, haloalkoxycarbonylalkyl or aralkyloxycarbonylalkyl; Y and Z are the same or different and each is a substituent selected from the group consisting of (CR5aR5b)n1, C═O, SO2, C(═O)NR5a; C(═O)NR5aSO2 and C═O(R5aR5b)n2; R3a, R3b, R4a, R4b, R5a and R5b are the same or different and each is selected from the hydrogen, alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl and heteroaryl; n1 and n2 are the same or different and each is 0 to 2; and p is 0 to 2; are potassium ion channel modulators, making them particularly useful in treating and preventing conditions such as pain, lower urinary tract disorders and the like.
US09464044B2
The present invention relates to a novel compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof inhibiting 11β-HSD1 enzyme activity, a preparation method of the same, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same as an active ingredient. Since the compound of the present invention selectively inhibits the activity of 11β-HSD1 (11β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1), the compound of the invention can be effectively used as a therapeutic agent for the treatment of diseases caused by the over-activation of 11β-HSD1 such as non-insulin dependent type II diabetes, insulin resistance, obesity, lipid disorder, metabolic syndrome, and other diseases or condition mediated by the excessive activity of glucocorticoid.
US09464034B2
Carbon-based fluorescent nano-agent tracers for analysis of oil reservoirs are provided. The carbon-based fluorescent nano-agents being inexpensive means of analyzing, among other properties, the porosity of a formation. The nanoagents are suitable for injection into a petroleum reservoir and can be subsequently recovered for determinations of flow rates and retention times.
US09464032B2
The present invention relates to the use of polyaminoisoprenyl derivatives in antibiotic or antiseptic treatment of bacteria including those presenting multiple drug resistance (MDR), in particular as efflux pump inhibitors. It also relates to novel polyaminoisoprenyl derivatives, compositions comprising the same, process for preparing the same, and use thereof in antibiotic or antiseptic treatment.
US09464020B2
In a process for separating a mixture comprising cyclohexanone and phenol, at least a portion of the mixture is distilled in the presence of a solvent including at least two alcoholic hydroxyl groups attached to non-adjacent saturated carbon atoms and at least one hemiketal defined by the formula (I) or the formula (II): wherein R1, the same or different at each occurrence, is independently an alkylene group having from 2 to 10 carbon atoms, R2 is an alkylene group having from 4 to 10 carbon atoms, and R3 is hydrogen or the following group: and/or an enol-ether derived from the hemiketal defined by the formula (I) or the formula (II), wherein the total concentration of the hemiketal and the enol-ether, expressed in terms of weight percentage on the basis of the total weight of the feed to the distilling step (a), is at least 0.01%.
US09464015B2
A process for the hydrogenolysis of glycerol to produce propylene glycol as the major product comprising contacting the glycerol with hydrogen in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst under conditions for the formation of propylene glycol is disclosed. In particular, propylene glycol is formed with a selectivity of greater than about 90%.
US09464000B2
The disclosure relates to cementitious binder compositions, related concrete compositions, and related methods. The cementitious binder includes a cement augmented with particulate glass (e.g., mixed color waste glass) and a reactive particulate mineral and/or metal salt such as sodium bicarbonate or calcium carbonate. The cementitious binder can be combined with aggregate and used to form corresponding (cured) concrete compositions. Inclusion of the reactive particulate material improves the set time and early-age strength development of the cured compositions.
US09463997B2
A composite oxide particle prepared from raw materials comprising: (1) a finely powdered silica having a BET specific surface area of 50 m2/g or greater or an alkoxysilane, and (2) a liquid metal alkoxide other than an alkoxysilane or a nano order metal oxide powder other than finely powdered silica, one of components (1) and (2) being a solid oxide and the other being a liquid alkoxide, wherein the composite oxide particle is prepared by mixing or kneading the raw materials to obtain a sol or gel-like substance, sintering the sol or gel-like substance at a temperature of 300° C. or higher to form a glass-like substance, and then crushing the glass-like substance is provided. Also, a resin composition containing the composite oxide particle, and a reflector for a light-emitting semiconductor device formed using the resin composition are provided. The invention is able to provide a resin composition which is ideal as a reflector material for a light-emitting semiconductor device that exhibits high light reflectance and minimal light transmission, and a composite oxide particle that is added to the resin composition.
US09463995B2
The invention relates to an alloy having high temperature mechanical strength in an oxidizing medium and comprising a carbide-precipitation-strengthened matrix containing chromium. The invention is characterized in that the alloy comprises carbides of at least one metal (M) selected from among titanium, zirconium and hafnium, said carbides also optionally containing (M′) tantalum. The invention is suitable for articles that require high temperature mechanical strength, such as for hot glass processing or production.
US09463993B2
A glass ribbon engagement system is described herein that includes a robot tooling device with suction cups configured to engage a first side of a glass ribbon, and a guidance device with one or more devices (e.g., air nozzles, cylinder-wheel units) which are configured to apply one or more local forces to a second side of the glass ribbon to shift the glass ribbon towards the suction cups to assist the suction cups in engaging and securing the first side of the glass ribbon.
US09463992B2
A laser material processing system which includes a pulsed fiber laser source having a continuous wavelength bandwidth of larger than 100 nm and pulse width of from 100 femtosecond to 1 microsecond, a broad band laser emitted from one core of an optical fiber, where the broad band laser is applied to a subject material to produce removal of the subject material and/or color change of the subject material.
US09463985B2
A composition comprising an aluminum chlorohydrate salt, the aluminum chlorohydrate salt having at least 50 mole % Al30 polyhydroxyoxoaluminum cation of all polyhydroxyoxoaluminum cations detectable by quantitative27 Al NMR within the aluminum chlorohydrate salt, and a buffer. The composition can optionally include zirconium. Also disclosed are a method of making an aluminum salt using an increased molar concentration of a starting aluminum salt with a buffer, a method of reducing perspiration with the aluminum chlorohydrate salt, and a method of treating water with the aluminum chlorohydrate salt.
US09463982B2
Embodiments of a method for reducing iron silicide and/or iron phosphide fouling and/or corrosion in a hydrochlorosilane production plant are disclosed. Sufficient trichlorosilane is included in a silicon tetrachloride process stream to minimize hydrogen chloride formation, thereby inhibiting iron (II) chloride formation and reducing iron silicide and/or iron phosphide fouling, superheater corrosion, or a combination thereof.
US09463977B2
A sacrificial limiter filter may include a substrate and a metal nano-coating and/or a polymer/carbon allotrope coating. The sacrificial limited filter may transmit optical radiation having desired frequencies and/or intensities while blocking optical radiation having undesired frequencies and/or intensities.
US09463974B2
The micro-electro-mechanical system is provided with at least two separate anchoring elements (F1, F2) designed to be bound to a support. A anchoring element (F1, F2) is solidly linked to at least one beam (P1, P2) that can be deformed in bending, and two beams (P1, P2) respectively linked to two distinct anchoring elements (F1, F2) have different directions. A beam has a length L, a thickness e, and a height h, such that the stiffnesses KL in the directions of the length and of the height Kh are large and the stiffness in the direction of the thickness Ke is small.
US09463973B2
A mechanism for reducing stiction in a MEMS device by decreasing an amount of carbon from TEOS-based silicon oxide films that can accumulate on polysilicon surfaces during fabrication is provided. A carbon barrier material film is deposited between one or more polysilicon layer in a MEMS device and the TEOS-based silicon oxide layer. This barrier material blocks diffusion of carbon into the polysilicon, thereby reducing accumulation of carbon on the polysilicon surfaces. By reducing the accumulation of carbon, the opportunity for stiction due to the presence of the carbon is similarly reduced.
US09463957B2
An elevator moving along an elevator shaft in a building, comprises a car for transport, a worm driving part moving together with the car, a rotating axis of which is parallel to a moving path of the car, and a worm support part including supporting teeth installed in the elevator shaft along the moving path of the car in accordance with worm teeth of the worm driving part. Using the worm driving part and the worm support part mutually interacting, the elevator can go up and down, and the worm driving part and the worm support part keep low frictional resistance to improve an efficiency of lifting.
US09463950B2
A tape holding wheel for a tape dispenser suitable for tape rolls of different size comprises a first engaging unit, and a second engaging unit. There are plurality of supporting ribs which protrudes from an external cambered surface of the tape holding wheel. A propping part is integrally and laterally formed and extended from a top end of each supporting rib, and a propping rib is axially extended on an external end of the propping part. The engaging units are disposed on the tape holding wheel for engaging with a sleeve of the tape dispenser firmly.
US09463946B2
A system for collating a plurality of media including a first bin, a second bin arranged adjacent to the first bin, a collated stack receiver arranged proximate the second bin opposite the first bin, first, second and third guides, the first and second guides positioned on opposing sides of the first bin, and the second and third guides positioned on opposing sides of the second bin, and a pusher. When the first, second and third guides are positioned in non-retracted locations, a first set of the plurality of media is deposited in the first bin and a second set of the plurality of media is deposited in the second bin. When the first, second and third guides are positioned in retracted locations, the pusher moves the first set to the second bin vertically above the second set to form a first combined set and moves the first combined set to the collated stack receiver.
US09463939B2
First imaging device collects first image data, whereas second imaging device collects second image data of a storage portion. A container identification module identifies a container perimeter of the storage portion in at least one of the collected first image data and the collected second image data. A spout identification module is adapted to identify a spout of the transferring vehicle in the collected image data. An image data evaluator determines whether to use the first image data, the second image data, or both based on an evaluation of the intensity of pixel data or ambient light conditions. An alignment module is adapted to determine the relative position of the spout and the container perimeter and to generate command data to the propelled portion to steer the storage portion in cooperative alignment such that the spout is aligned within a central zone or a target zone of the container perimeter.
US09463930B2
A conveyor belt includes a carrying-side cover plate and a running-side cover plate. The cover plates conjointly define a belt body having a plurality of reinforcement elements embedded therein. The belt body has edge zones and is closable so as to cause the edge zones to overlap and be in mutual contact engagement to form a tube conveyor belt or a pocket conveyor belt. The carrying-side cover plate has a chevron profile arrangement which includes a plurality of diagonal elements extending in both a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction of the conveyor belt. Each two of the diagonal elements conjointly defines a pair with multiple pairs defining a V-formation having a tip aligned in a direction opposite to the direction of movement of the belt.
US09463929B2
The present invention relates to a flexible closed belt conveyor (1) optimized for the requirements in the food industry, the belt comprising a flexible plastic sheet and edge bands welded to the longitudinal edges of the plastic sheet, wherein said endless element is adapted to form a pouch for carrying goods and wherein the maximum thickness of the plastic sheet is less than 1 mm. The invention also deals with a device for balancing the tension between the two edge bands by separating the edge bands in a portion of its pathway.
US09463928B2
A belt conveyor with a machine head rib. At a machine head of the belt conveyor, two annular ribs (1, 2) are sleeved from two sides of an upper supporting roller (5) near the machine head to two sides of a machine head roller (4). A conveying belt (3) is pressed on horizontal edges (1-1, 1-2) and between the two ribs from the upper supporting roller (5) near the machine head to the lowest point of the machine head roller (4) through the machine head roller (4). Protruding vertical sides (1-1, 2-1) of the ribs are higher than the conveying belt. The belt conveyor with a machine head rib has a simple structure, is easy to be installed, has low costs and large conveying capacity and is widely used. In addition to conveying minerals, it can be applied to a belt conveyor with ribs and a trough-type belt conveyor currently.
US09463926B2
The present invention relates to an automated storage cabinet for trolleys. It includes a device for automatically handling a single trolley with a handling basket including a vertical plate perpendicular to the waiting area, vertically movable between the floor of the waiting area and any one of the levels of the trolley storage cabinet, and two side flanks, connected to the vertical plate and provided with structure for supporting, on either side, two opposite sides of a trolley in the waiting area and for transferring the supported trolley through an opening of the predetermined compartment. The handling device can include structure for inserting the trolley into or extracting the trolley from the predetermined compartment.
US09463918B2
The present disclosure provides vacuum insulated articles having two—or more—insulated volumes at reduced pressure. An article may include a first vent communicating with a first insulating space, a second vent communicating with a second insulating space, a first circular insulation seal sealing the first insulating space at the first vent; and a second circular insulation seal sealing the second insulating space at the second vent. Also provided are methods of fabricating vacuum insulated articles.
US09463914B2
An apparatus for material storage and transport uses one or more bags, each constructed from one of more flexible plastic sheets and forming a chamber for holding material. A bag may be coupled to an adjacent bag by at least one strip of flexible material, which may optionally be perforated to allow adjacent bags to be separated from one another. Multiple bags may be arranged side-by-side, or end-to-end, in a line. The ends of the line may be removably coupled to one another to form a loop.
US09463912B2
A lid includes a cover plate and at least one date display device. The cover plate includes at least one mounting area having a plurality of through holes. The date display device includes a plurality of digital display units each having a plurality of flexible protruding membranes to form a digit pattern. The protruding membranes are able to be selectively bent upward or downward to change the digit pattern. Each flexible protruding membrane is foldedly connected to the mounting area, covers a respective through hole, and is convertible between a protruding configuration that protrudes upward from the respective through hole and an indenting configuration that indents downward from the respective through hole.
US09463910B2
A container closure device (20) for a container (10), in particular for a beverage can (10), comprises a lid (30) having an upper face (31), a lower face (32), and an opening (33). The container closure device (20) further comprises a closure (50) having a closure part (51) for opening and closing the opening (33) and an operating device (40) for actuating the closure part (51). The closure part (51) is arranged on the lower face (32) so as to be pivotable about a first axis (A) which extends substantially parallel to the lower face (32). The operating device (40) is arranged on the closure part (51) so as to be rotatable about a second axis (B) and be rotatable from a first position (S1) into a second position (S2). The opening (33) can be closed by rotating the operating device (40) into the first position (S1) and can be opened by rotating the operating device (40) into the second position (S2).
US09463909B2
A cap assembly for a container that includes an outer-shell and an inner-element that is received within the outer shell. The outer shell includes a recess on the interior surface of a top portion and the recess includes a top flange section that restricts the opening. The recess receives a complementary end wall that extends from the inner-element and which has a lip that mechanically locks within the recess thereby keeping the shell and liner together. In embodiments a clutch plate is positioned between the shell and liner.
US09463905B2
The present invention teaches a new apparatus and process for manufacturing mesh bags using a tube cloth. The apparatus and process involve supplying a continuous tube cloth and at least one band with preprinted labels, propping up the tube cloth with a dynamic guiding assembly, attaching the preprinted labels to the tube cloth using hot melted adhesive or heat sealing methods and manufacturing a product from the tube cloth with the horizontal preprinted labels, and attaching plastic film to the tube mesh cloth. The invention also teaches a dynamic guiding assembly which can be used to punch holes on the tube cloth with heating press and avoid attaching of two opposite sides of the tube cloth.
US09463902B2
An aquatic receptacle with a sectioned floating rim that, while floating, maintains an opening for receiving articles into the receptacle. Embodiments can include an escape barrier over the mouth of the receptacle to prevent loss of contents while floating. One embodiment has a lanyard that can attach the receptacle to a diver, allowing it to float and be pulled along by the diver. A lanyard can have a breakaway mechanism that can detach the receptacle from a diver or other structure if sufficient force is applied to the lanyard. There can also be a shock-arrest mechanism that reduces the amount of force exerted on a diver or structure before the lanyard breaks. Force exerted on the lanyard pulls the floatable rim at least partially beneath the water surface causing the sections of the floatable rim come together and close over the mouth of the container to prevent loss of articles within the container.
US09463898B2
Aspects of the invention include a reusable, collapsible container, which when in a disassembled state is completely contained in an area no larger than the base member thereof, is easy to assemble, and due to the interlocking features of a number of the component parts of the container, requires a minimal number of separate locking/fastening devices.
US09463884B2
Provided are a space debris removing device and a method which enable easy installation of a deceleration device to space debris undergoing a tumbling motion. The space debris removing device includes: a propulsion device (3) for performing approach and attitude control on target debris (1); a capture device (4) having a harpoon (41) which can be ejected toward the target debris (1); an observation device (5) for calculating a capture position (E) and a capture attitude at which the harpoon (41) can be driven into a tank (11) (hollow portion) of the target debris (1) by observing a motion of the target debris (1); a deceleration device (6) directly or indirectly connected to the harpoon (41), for decelerating the target debris (1); and a body part (21) on which the propulsion device (3), the capture device (4), the observation device (5), and the deceleration device (6) are mounted.
US09463875B2
In an approach to hazard detection, one or more computer processors determine whether an obstruction of view for a user in a first vehicle is detected. Responsive to determining the obstruction is detected, the one or more computer processors deploy a first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) associated with the first vehicle. The one or more computer processors determine whether one or more hazards associated with a path of the first vehicle are detected.
US09463874B2
A method of regulating the speed of rotation of at least one main rotor of a multi-engined rotorcraft, which rotor is driven at variable speed. In the event of a failure of one of the main engines of the rotorcraft, a control unit generates an NR setpoint that is not less than the nominal drive speed (NRnom) of the main rotor. Thereafter, a calculator acts iteratively to determine a target speed (NRobj) for driving the main rotor to obtain stabilized lift of the rotorcraft by balancing between the torque developed by the main rotor and the rate of increase of its drive speed. The autopilot then causes the pitch of the blades of the main rotor to vary so as to obtain the iteratively calculated target speed (NRobj) until stabilized lift of the rotorcraft is obtained.
US09463869B2
A wing includes a trailing edge, and a divergent trailing edge device slideable along an aft surface of the trailing edge between a stowed position and a fully deployed position. The trailing edge device is located entirely within the trailing edge when stowed, and it increases lift over drag of the wing when deployed.
US09463867B2
A device for attaching overheating detection cords, in particular to a pipe for hot gases drawn from the engine of an aircraft, including a bracket with slots into which the cords, surrounded by silicone coils, are placed. Overhanging portions on the edges of the slots and flanges projecting from the base of the slots hold the coils against accidental extraction forces.
US09463864B1
A radius filler for a composite assembly may include a pair of vertical ply stacks positioned in back-to-back relation. Each one of the vertical ply stacks may be formed of one or more thick plies of composite material formed in an L-shaped cross-section having a vertical leg and a lateral leg interconnected by a stack radius and defining a crescent region. At least one of the crescent regions may include one or more thin plies of composite material positioned adjacent to a stack radius inner surface. Each one of the thin plies may have a ply thickness that is less than the ply thickness of the thick plies.
US09463853B2
A floating structure has a hull and a propeller propulsion system having a gear arrangement that is connected via a first intermediate shaft to at least one electromotor, the electromotor being arranged onboard the floating structure, and via a second intermediate shaft to a propeller. The gear arrangement has an angular gear. The first intermediate shaft forms an angle relative to the second intermediate shaft. The gear arrangement is arranged as a separate unit in an appendage or addition to the hull of the floating structure. The appendage or addition is designed to allow an interior thereof to be accessed from within the vessel, whereby maintenance, replacement, or repairs of the gear arrangement can be carried out. The angular gear has at least one angled gearwheel set and one cylindrical gearwheel set.
US09463849B2
A flexible lifting tether system for lifting a marine vehicle or object is described which is capable of significantly improving the primary characteristics of an existing cable by enhancing load-carrying capabilities (e.g. in air), modifying the tether to have altered specific gravities in water, and relieving torsional stresses when in operation.
US09463840B1
A bicycle component with reinforced structure and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The bicycle component includes a hollow main body and a foam material. The main body is manufactured by stacking plural carbon fiber prepreg layers and provided with a force bearing area. The foam material is disposed on the force bearing area and wrapped by the carbon fiber prepreg layers. Therefore, the present invention improves the structural strength of the bicycle component, lightens the weight of a bicycle made of the bicycle components, and provides a greater controllability of the bicycle.
US09463835B2
A bicycle dynamo for a bicycle having a frame and a wheel has a stator, an internal stationary winding fixed on the stator, and an external rotor rotatable on the stator. This rotor has a rotatable cylindrical external casing surrounding the winding and formed with an outwardly open annular groove, a plurality of permanent magnets inside the casing that generate an electrical voltage in the internal stationary stator winding, and an elastic ring frictionally engageable with a rim of the bicycle wheel, set in the annular groove, and projecting from the outer casing. A holder carries the stator.
US09463831B2
An elastically averaged alignment system includes a first component having a first alignment member, an attachment element, and a support element, and a second component having a second alignment member, an alignment aperture, and an engagement surface that engages with the support element. The attachment element includes an attachment portion and an elastically deformable alignment element portion. The elastically deformable alignment element portion is configured and disposed to interferingly, deformably and matingly engage the alignment aperture. The attachment portion includes a hollow tube having a first wall thickness, and the elastically deformable alignment element portion includes a hollow tube having a second wall thickness less than the first wall thickness. Portions of the elastically deformable alignment element portion when inserted into the alignment aperture elastically deform to an elastically averaged final configuration that aligns the first alignment member with the second alignment member in at least two planar orthogonal directions.
US09463830B2
In one or more embodiments, a vehicle frame joint assembly includes a first frame portion including an adaptor, a second frame portion defining a cavity to receive at least a portion of the adaptor, and a first adhesive layer positioned between the adaptor and the cavity when the first frame portion is connected to the second frame portion.
US09463820B2
Pushchair which is moveable between an unfolded position and a folded position, comprising a structure with in particular two handle uprights (1, 1′), front legs (3, 3′), rear legs (5, 5′), seat supports (7, 7′), a backrest (2), and hinges (31-35, 41-47) for folding the pushchair flat. The pushchair also comprises a textile base (16), tensioners (18, 18′) for tensioning a front part (16a) of the textile base (16), a cover (19) with at least one main bow (20), and fixing elements (23, 23′) allowing each side of the main bow (20) to be fixed for example to a fixing point of the front part (16a) of the textile base (16) close to the tensioners. In the unfolded position, the backrest (2) is held against the seat supports (7, 7′) and can hold a child in the lying position facing the rear of the pushchair. In the unfolded position, the tensioners (18, 18′) are tensioned and allow deployment of the front part (16a) of the textile base (16) and the protective cover (19). On folding, the forward swivelling of the handle uprights (1, 1′) loosens the tensioners (18, 18′), causing the folding of the front part (16a) of the textile base (16) and the protective cover (19).
US09463814B2
An axle bearing device includes an inner ring fixed to an axle of a railway vehicle, an outer ring fixed to a journal box of the railway vehicle, and double row tapered rollers arranged between raceway surfaces of the inner ring and raceway surfaces of the outer ring. An opening portion between the inner ring and the outer ring is sealed by a labyrinth seal including at least one axial labyrinth extending in an axial direction and at least one radial labyrinth extending in a radial direction. At least one of the axial labyrinth and radial labyrinth which form the labyrinth seal is formed between an outer-ring-side sealing member mounted to the outer ring and the inner ring or between the outer-ring-side sealing member mounted to the outer ring and an inner-ring-side sealing member mounted to the inner ring.
US09463804B2
A curve length, a curve size, and a curve heading angle change of a roadway being traveled by a vehicle are determined. Each of the curve length, the curve size, and the curve heading angle are compared with one or more threshold values to obtain a driving mode request.
US09463794B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting and responding to stop signs. An object detected in a vehicle's environment having location coordinates may be identified as a stop sign and, it may be determined whether the location coordinates of the identified stop sign correspond to a location of a stop sign in detailed map information. Then, whether the identified stop sign applies to the vehicle may be determined based on the detailed map information or on a number of factors. Then, if the identified stop sign is determined to apply to the vehicle, responses of the vehicle to the stop sign may be determined, and, the vehicle may be controlled based on the determined responses.
US09463785B2
A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle drive system, which uses electric energy stored in a battery and includes a drive mode switching portion configured to bring a clutch or a brake into an engaged state, for switching the drive system from an EV drive mode, in which a vehicle drive force is generated by at least one of first and second electric motors when a crankshaft of an engine is connected to a housing, to a constant-speed-ratio drive mode, in which the vehicle drive force is generated by at least one of the first and second electric motors when a ratio of an output speed of the drive system to a speed of a rotary motion received from the engine is constant, when an operating speed of the first or second electric motor is at or greater than a predetermined threshold value in the EV drive mode.
US09463767B2
The invention relates to a bursting diaphragm (14) for an inflator (10) comprising at least one predetermined breaking contour (24) destroyable upon activation of the inflator (10), wherein a shock wave can be generated. In accordance with the invention, the predetermined breaking contour (24) includes a through hole (25) on at least one end point (27), especially on all end points (27).
US09463762B2
Disclosed herein is a landscaping machine that includes a protective rollover bar having a left bar portion extending from a left side of an operator seat, a top bar portion extending from the left bar portion above the operator seat, and a right bar portion extending from the top bar portion to a right side of the operator seat. The landscaping machine further includes an elongated rotatable member affixed to the protective rollover bar, the elongated rotatable member extending from the left bar portion to the right bar portion. The landscaping machine further includes a covering system attached to the elongated rotatable member configured to be rolled and unrolled with rotation of the elongated rotatable member. Further disclosed is a landscaping machine cover attachable to a landscaping machine, and a method of use thereof.
US09463753B2
A method of applying stitching to an interior component is provided herein. The method including the steps of: a) penetrating the outer skin layer, the substrate layer and the intermediary layer with an awl to form a piercing therethrough; b) retracting the awl from the outer skin layer, the substrate layer and the intermediary layer; c) inserting a needle of a robotic sewing head through the piercing through the substrate layer, the intermediary layer and the outer skin layer to grasp a thread positioned on the outer skin layer; d) pulling the thread through the outer skin layer, the intermediary layer and the substrate layer; e) looping the thread with a previous stitch passed through the outer skin layer, the intermediary layer and the substrate layer; f) advancing the robotic sewing head to another position with respect to the interior component, wherein a backside of the substrate layer is free of obstructions; and g) repeating steps a-f until a predetermined amount of stitches are applied to the interior component.
US09463749B2
There is disclosed a door-frame hook, for enabling a load strap, attached to a vehicle rooftop load carrier, to engage a door frame of the vehicle to secure the load carrier when the load strap is tightened. The hook may be anchored onto a frame ridge of the door frame and in part, covered by a sealer attached to the door frame. The door-frame hook of the invention may, advantageously, remain in position, between the frame-ridge of the door frame and the sealer potter, regardless of the degree of tightness of the load strap or the degree of its pull on the hook, as well as when the load strap is unattached. Moreover, it does not harm the door sealer nor does it interfere in any way with its sealing function or with the shutting action of the door.
US09463742B1
A safety system is provided that will (i) operate automatically, regardless of distraction or error by the driver or the backover victim; (ii) operate unaffected by the blindspots that block the driver's view or background noise that block audible alarms for the driver or the backover victim; (iii) operate through an external activation, intentional or unintentional, by the potential backover victim or passerby; and/or (iv) remove driver discretion by causing the vehicle to stop upon activation of the safety system by the potential backover victim or passerby.
US09463739B2
A vehicle lighting system is provided. The system includes a sun visor having a visor body movable between a stored position and a use position. A photoluminescent structure is coupled to a surface of the visor body and a light source is coupled to a headliner and oriented to excite the photoluminescent structure when the visor body is in the use position. A switch is included for activating the light source in response to a signal change.
US09463737B2
A lighting system for a vehicle seatbelt assembly is provided herein. The lighting system includes a first seatbelt component configured to couple to a second seatbelt component. A light source is disposed on the first seatbelt component. A photoluminescent structure is disposed on the second component and is configured to luminesce in response to excitation by the light source.
US09463726B2
A device for fixing/firmly holding an exterior covering against a seat backrest includes a backrest structure having a peripheral surround and a connector; padding covering the structure of the backrest; a covering attached to the peripheral surround of the structure of the backrest and covering the padding; an intermediate member of fastening stake type provided with an external head pressing against the covering and with a shank secured to said head and extending through the padding. A free end of the shank includes an end fitting which fixes into the connector in such a way that the member under-goes some excursion in the connector when pressure is applied to the covering and to the padding.
US09463724B2
A headrest structure and a headrest device, including a bottom plate provided at a lower face of a headrest, and provided with an elongated hole extending in a seat front-rear direction through which a stay is inserted, a guide sheet having the same width as that of the elongated hole, that is longer in length than the elongated hole, whose both end portions are slidably supported by the bottom plate, and that is provided with an elongated guide hole smaller than the elongated hole, a concealing sheet provided with an attachment hole to which the stay is attached, and that is overlapped slidably on an upper face of the guide sheet so as to cover the elongated guide hole, and a wall portion that is formed at the bottom plate, and that restricts movement of the guide sheet and the concealing sheet in a seat width direction, are provided.
US09463720B2
A child safety seat assembly includes a seat shell that is secured to a vehicle seat by way of a standard safety belt system, and a belt adjustment mechanism that facilitates adjusting the horizontal belt path taken by the standard safety belt through the safety seat assembly such that the horizontal belt path aligns with a child's center of gravity (CG). In a first fixed state, the belt adjustment mechanism generates a lower horizontal belt path that is a relatively short distance from the seat base portion, thereby optimizing the seat assembly for securing shorter children or infants having lower CGs. As a child grows, the belt adjustment mechanism is adjusted into a second fixed state that maintains the horizontal belt path at a relatively long distance from the seat base portion, thereby optimizing the seat assembly for securing taller children having higher CGs.
US09463718B2
A seat assembly is provided with a seat bottom adapted to mount to a vehicle. The seat assembly further includes a first seat back pivotally attached to the seat bottom defining a recline angle relative to the seat bottom, and a second seat back pivotally attached to the seat bottom proximate to the first seat back defining a recline angle relative to the seat bottom. A pin is pivotally connected to the second seat back, is sized to be received within a latch mechanism on the first seat back, and is operably connected to the second seat back to pivot to a stowed position when the first seat back is pivoted to a recline angle that is less than the second seat back recline angle.
US09463716B2
A vehicle slide rail device in which a rear portion of the front locking section and a front portion of the rear locking section each contact inner surfaces of corresponding lock grooves; and a forward/rearward distance between a front surface of the front locking section and a front surface of a corresponding said forward/rearward movement restriction groove, and a forward/rearward distance between a rear surface of the rear locking section and a rear surface of a corresponding said forward/rearward movement restriction groove, are narrower than a forward/rearward distance between a rear surface of the front locking section and a rear surface of a corresponding said forward/rearward movement restriction groove, and a forward/rearward distance between a front surface of the rear locking section and a front surface of a corresponding said forward/rearward movement restriction groove.
US09463713B2
A system and method for controlling a rotating E-machine and for correcting a rotational position signal output by an angular position sensor operatively connected to the E-machine in conjunction with a sensor digital converter is disclosed. For each angular operating speed of interest, a set of signals as a function of position is taken such that the harmonics (or sub-harmonics) related to the position sensor may be determined and isolated from errors due to an associated digital converter. From this information, the magnitude and phase of the position sensor harmonics is determined. The effects of the sensor digital converter (or other signal processing equipment) are then determined and accounted for, allowing the control system to apply the total position error signal to the position sensor output signal to determine a corrected position sensor signal for use in controlling the E-machine.
US09463709B2
A vehicle includes a controller. When a brake operation amount has increased, the controller calculates an estimated input value at the time when a main battery is charged in response to an increase in the brake operation amount, on the basis of a current speed and an amount of increase in brake operation amount. The controller discharges the main battery for charging an auxiliary battery at a current value that is calculated on the basis of the estimated input value by controlling an operation of a DC-DC converter before charging the main battery in response to an increase in the brake operation amount. Thus, it is possible to cancel a bias of salt concentration that is developed during charging by a bias of salt concentration that is developed during discharging, so, after the main battery has been charged, it is possible to suppress development of a bias of the salt concentration and suppress an increase in the internal resistance value of the main battery.
US09463706B2
A charging system for charging a vehicle includes a charging station and a vehicle. The charging station includes a wireless charging coil, an infrared receiver oriented to receive infrared signals generated proximate the coil, and a first wireless communications device. The vehicle includes a charge plate, a first emitter configured to generate a first infrared signal, a second wireless communications device in communication with the first wireless communication device, an in-vehicle display, and at least one controller. The vehicle can include a second emitter to emit a second infrared signal. The controller is configured to present positional information via the display. The positional information corresponds to a vehicle position detected in response to the first infrared signal being received by the infrared receiver.
US09463705B2
Apparatus, system, and method for adaptive charging compliance control are disclosed. A charging station wirelessly charges a vehicle in compliance with emissions regulations. A controller in the charging station obtains information regarding the characteristics of an incoming vehicle and accesses a maximum regulation-compliant power level database based on the vehicle information obtained and determines conditions of the vehicle parked at the charging station. The controller determines and delivers the maximum power level to wirelessly charge the vehicle while maintaining the level of field emissions no greater than the regulatory limit.
US09463704B2
A computationally implemented system and method that is designed to, but is not limited to: electronically tracking employment information at least in part associated with one or more employees as users of one or more electric vehicles and at least in part related to wireless electrical energy storage charging for vehicular propulsion of the one or more electric vehicles. In addition to the foregoing, other method aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
US09463699B2
A power control method of an electric storage apparatus that includes an electric storage device and an output terminal connected to the electric storage device via a power supply route, the output terminal being electrically connected to a system including an engine, the method includes detecting a variation value corresponding to an amount of charge of the electric storage device, determining whether the detected variation value is equal to or lower than an opening threshold, the opening threshold being larger than an engine activation low-threshold by a predetermined value, the engine activation low-threshold being a lowest level of the amount of charge at which the engine is able to be started, and shutting down the power supply route in the electric storage apparatus, which connects the electric storage device to the output terminal, if the variation value is equal to or lower than the opening threshold.
US09463696B2
Systems and methods for a mobile power conditioning platform are disclosed. According to one embodiment of the invention, a mobile power conditioning platform is positioned proximate to a power grid, coupled to the power grid via an offboard power coupling, coupled to an onboard electrical system of a vehicle via a vehicle power coupling, and transfers electric power between the power grid and the onboard electrical system. One or more onboard generators of the vehicle may modify operation at least partly in response to the transfer of electric power.
US09463695B2
A straddle electric vehicle comprises a battery case for storing a battery unit; an inverter for converting DC power stored in the battery unit into AC power; a plurality of electric components connected to the battery unit and the inverter; and an electric motor for generating driving power for rotating a drive wheel, by the AC power generated by conversion in the inverter; wherein the plurality of electric components are stored in the battery case such that the electric components are placed above the battery unit.
US09463694B1
A configurable vehicle cluster is described which extends down below a top of the steering column to provide a display of information. The display can display information to the driver through or around the steering wheel and the recess in the vehicle cluster through which the steering wheel column extends. An instrument cluster is positioned adjacent the steering assembly and includes a display having an edge that is non-linear and may at least partly wrap around the steering column to increase the viewing area of the cluster. The display may extend around the steering column behind the steering wheel. The vehicle cluster can be mounted lower in a vehicle while providing adequate viewing area and conserving space in the vehicle cabin.
US09463693B2
[Problem] To provide a display device able to visibly and clearly display a relationship between a moving condition of an indicating member and an indexes.[Means for solving problem] A display device 1 includes: a design pattern 31 on which a plurality of numerical markers 35 are arranged; a pointer 32 configured to move along the numerical markers 35, and display a position corresponding to a measured amount of a moving object; a display member 15 configured to display an afterimage 33 extending in a direction M′ opposite to a moving direction M of the pointer 32; and a CPU 10 configured to control the display member 15 to display the afterimage 33. A tip 32a of the pointer 32 is overlapped with an area 36 on which the numerical markers 35 are arranged. The CPU 10 makes the afterimage 33 extend from the tip part 32a of the pointer 32 to be overlapped with the area 36 on which the numerical markers 35 are arranged, and makes the numerical markers 35 visible through the afterimage 33.
US09463687B2
A method is provided for operating a drive unit for a hybrid vehicle. The drive unit includes a drive assembly with an internal combustion engine, and an electric motor, and a transmission featuring several sub-transmissions shifting between the drive assembly and an output. Through a planetary transmission, the electric motor is coupled to an input shaft of a first sub-transmission and an input shaft of a second sub-transmission shifted in parallel to the first sub-transmission. Through a frictional-locking separating clutch, the internal combustion engine couples to the input shaft of the first sub-transmission and, if the separating clutch is locked, is coupled to the same element of the planetary transmission together with the input shaft of the first sub-transmission. A positive-locking or frictional-locking bypass shift element works together with the planetary transmission such that, with a locked bypass shift element, a torque-proof connection between the electric motor, the input shaft of the first sub-transmission, and the input shaft of the second sub-transmission, and thus a mandatory equality of rotational speed between the same, exists. With an open bypass shift element, this torque-proof connection and thus the equality of rotational speed, do not exists. For the execution of a power shift, prior to the engagement of a positive-locking shift element to be locked for the power shift, the frictional-locking separating clutch is brought into slip for the decoupling of the inertial mass of the internal combustion engine.
US09463685B2
A tailgate on a vehicle and a method of forming a tailgate for a vehicle includes a tailgate frame, a tailgate liner secured to the tailgate frame and a tailgate liner insert fixedly secured to the tailgate liner. The tailgate liner is formed of a first material and the tailgate liner insert is formed of a second material that is different from the first material. The tailgate liner insert is adapted to be accommodated within an insert aperture defined in the tailgate liner. The tailgate liner insert having an integrally molded feature.
US09463679B2
A camber adjustment apparatus is provided for alignment of a vehicle wheel. The camber adjustment apparatus includes: a plate member configured to be bolted to the vehicle wheel; an adjuster plate member coupled to a bottom surface of the plate member and comprising a first end and a second end; an adjuster bolt coupled to the first end and the second end of the adjuster plate member; and an adjusting body movably coupled to the adjuster bolt and at least partially disposed between the first end and the second end of the adjuster plate member. The adjusting body is configured so that rotation of the adjuster bolt moves the adjusting body between the first end and the second end of the adjuster plate member such that the plate member is adjusted to a predetermined camber.
US09463673B2
A tire positioning method includes the following steps. Four wireless signals transmitted from four tires of a car are received by a wireless signal receiver. Each wireless signal includes a uniaxial acceleration. One of the tires which is located at a first location is identified according to the intensity of the wireless signals. The first location is the closest to the wireless signal receiver. When the car makes a turn, one of the tires which is located at a second location is identified according to the direction of each uniaxial acceleration. The second location and the first location are both located at one side of the car. The direction of the uniaxial acceleration of the tire which is located at the first location is identical to that of the tire which is at the second location. The side of the car is right side or left side.
US09463671B2
A vehicle pneumatic tire has a two-layer belt and a tread having profile grooves within width TW 45. The maximum depth of the profile grooves varies within TW 45 and the tread has an outer contour defined by reference to rolling radius differences. The maximum depth of the grooves within a center region of TW 45 is the same. The maximum depth of the grooves in the shoulder region is a maximum of 2 mm less than in the center region. The outer contour of the tread in the center region is made flat so that the outer contour radius difference (ArdM) between the zenith and the center region axial end is less than 1 mm, and the outer contour of the tread in the transition region is configured so that the outer contour radius difference (Ards) between the zenith and the transition is 3 mm to 5 mm.
US09463667B2
The invention relates to an axle mount for utility or commercial vehicles, comprising a carrier unit and a protective unit, wherein the carrier unit has a first fastening region for the fixing of a utility vehicle axle thereto and has, arranged adjacent to said fastening region, a receiving region for receiving chassis systems, and wherein the protective unit is arranged on the carrier unit such that the receiving region is enclosed transversely with respect to an axial direction by the carrier unit and by the protective unit, in such a way that the ingress of foreign bodies into the receiving region is prevented.
US09463658B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for stamping concrete. In one aspect, a method of creating a pattern in a surface is provided. The method includes placing a first stamp in a first position, the first stamp comprising a first engagement structure. The method further includes placing a second stamp in a second position, the second stamp comprising a second engagement structure, which engages with the first engagement structure so as to position the second stamp relative to the first stamp. The apparatus may include a separate coupling structure for attaching adjacent stamps to each other.
US09463655B2
A recording device includes: a recording section that records an image on a recording medium; a detecting section that detects an image defect in the image recorded by the recording section; and a repair recording section that is provided separately from the recording section and that performs repair recording for the image defect detected by the detecting section. With such a configuration of the recording device, an image defect in the image recorded on a recording medium is repaired.
US09463651B2
A inkjet printer calculates a print percentage indicative of a load on a pressurizing mechanism for each block, based on print data, and then factors in the print percentage for each block to determine the upper limit of a transport speed so that the upper limit becomes slower as the print percentage increases and becomes slower as a printing distance in a transport direction corresponding to the print data increases. This provides the upper limit of the transport speed in consideration for not only a spontaneous temperature increase in each block but also a temperature increase due to the influence of its surrounding blocks. This allows the blocks in a head to operate at temperatures within a permissible range.
