US09466471B2
Systems and methods are provided for analyzing a sample using overlapping measured mass selection window widths. A mass range of a sample is divided into two or more target mass selection window widths using a processor. The two or more target widths can have the same width or variable widths. A tandem mass spectrometer is instructed to perform two or more fragmentation scans across the mass range using the processor. Each fragmentation scan of the two or more fragmentation scans includes a measured mass selection window width. The two or more measured widths of the two or more fragmentation scans can have the same width or variable widths. At least two of the two or more measured mass selection window widths overlap. The overlap in measured mass selection window widths corresponds to at least one target mass selection window width.
US09466469B2
A plasma source is provided including a core element extending from a first end to a second end along a first axis. The plasma source further includes one or more coils disposed around respective one or more first portions of the core element. The plasma source further includes a plasma block having one or more interior walls at least partially enclosing an annular plasma-generating volume that is disposed around a second portion of the core element. The annular plasma-generating volume includes a first region that is symmetrical about a plurality of perpendicular axes that are perpendicular to a first point positioned on the first axis, the first region having a width in a direction parallel to the first axis and a depth in a direction perpendicular from the first axis. The first region has a width that is at least three times greater than the depth of the first region.
US09466462B2
A system for scanning a plurality of regions of interest of a substrate using one or more charged particle beams, the system may include: an irradiation module having charged particle optics; a stage for introducing a relative movement between the substrate and the charged particle optics; an imaging module for collecting electrons emanating from the substrate in response to a scanning of the regions of interest by the one or more charged particle beams; and wherein the charged particle optics is arranged to perform countermovements of the charged particle beam during the scanning of the regions of interest thereby countering relative movements introduced between the substrate and the charged particle optics during the scanning of the regions of interest.
US09466457B2
Ordinary charged particle beam apparatuses have each been an apparatus manufactured for dedicated use in making observations in a gas atmosphere at atmospheric pressure or at a pressure substantially equal thereto. There have existed no devices capable of simply making observations using an ordinary high-vacuum charged particle microscope in a gas atmosphere at atmospheric pressure or at a pressure approximately equal thereto. Furthermore, ordinary techniques have been incapable of observing the same spot of the sample in such an atmosphere using a charged particle beam and light simultaneously. This invention thus provides an apparatus including: a charged particle optical tube that irradiates a sample with a primary charged particle beam; a vacuum pump that evacuates the inside of the charged particle optical tube; a diaphragm arranged to separate a space in which the sample is placed from the charged particle optical tube, the diaphragm being detachable and allowing the primary charged particle beam to permeate or pass therethrough; and an optical microscope positioned on the opposite side of the charged particle optical tube across the diaphragm and the sample, the optical microscope having an optical axis thereof aligned with at least part of an extension of the optical axis of the charged particle optical tube.
US09466448B2
A high voltage relay sticking control system for a vehicle having at least one contactor, a high voltage battery pack interfacing with the contactor and a weld diagnostic detection system interfacing with the high voltage battery pack and the contactor includes an increment counter adapted to interface with the contactor, the high voltage battery pack and the weld diagnostic detection system. The increment counter is adapted to transmit at least one set of coil power cycles through the contactor if a weld exists at the contactor. A high voltage relay sticking control method is also disclosed.
US09466444B2
A system for maintaining integrity of a switch contact includes a first resistor-capacitor circuit, a second resistor-capacitor circuit, and a control switch. The first resistor-capacitor circuit is connected to an output of the switch contact and includes a first resistor and a first capacitor. Upon closing of the switch contact, a first wetting current flows through the switch contact. The second resistor-capacitor circuit includes a second resistor and a second capacitor. The control switch is connected between the output of the switch contact and the second resistor-capacitor circuit and is selectively closable to generate a second wetting current through the switch contact. The control switch may be operated as needed to maintain the integrity of the mechanical switch contact.
US09466441B2
An operating mechanism including a number of biasing elements and a number of linkage members is provided. The linkage members are operatively coupled to each other and each are movable between a second configuration, an initial tripped configuration, a rebound configuration, and a final tripped configuration. The biasing elements are operatively coupled to the number of linkage members and bias the number of linkage members to the final, first configuration. A stop member is coupled to one of the linkage members. The stop member moves with the associated linkage member. The stop member is positioned to contact a stop surface when the linkage members are in the rebound configuration. Contact between the stop member and the stop surface substantially arrests the motion of the linkage members.
US09466439B2
A laundry treating appliance and a method operating a laundry treating appliance having at least one automatic cycle of operation, a plurality of components selectively operable by a controller to implement the at least one cycle of operation on a load of laundry received within a treating chamber of the appliance with the controller having a user interface for receiving input from a user and a door for closing an open face of the treating chamber, the method comprising determining a movement of the door in a closing direction and actuating the user interface when it is determined the door is moved in the closing direction.
US09466435B2
A supercapacitor or electrochemical capacitor includes spaced apart electrodes which are separated from each other by a separator made of an electrical insulating material. Each electrode is formed of carbonaceous material and capable of being impregnated with a liquid electrolyte. Metal current collectors are provided on the sides of the electrodes opposite from the separator. The electrodes have holes extending through the electrodes to reduce ionic impedance in order to produce faster charging and discharging of the device.
US09466434B2
Provided is a dye-sensitized solar cell which includes a working electrode having a porous titanium oxide layer on a conductive substrate, and a photosensitizing dye supported on the porous titanium oxide layer, in which the porous titanium oxide layer contains an anatase crystal-type TiO2 and a rutile crystal-type TiO2, the porous titanium oxide layer includes a plurality of layers, an outermost layer disposed at a position farthest from the conductive substrate contains the rutile crystal-type TiO2, at least one intermediate layer provided between the outermost layer and the conductive substrate contains the anatase crystal-type TiO2, a first intermediate layer disposed at a position closest to the outermost layer contains the anatase crystal-type TiO2 and the rutile crystal-type TiO2, and a content of the rutile crystal-type TiO2 in the outermost layer is greater than that of the rutile crystal-type TiO2 in the intermediate layer.
US09466433B2
A refractory metal compound agglomerate powder having a product of a BET surface area in m2/g and a sliding coefficient of η of 0.33 to 0.95, wherein the refractory metal compound agglomerate powder is selected from niobium agglomerate powder, niobium suboxide agglomerate powder, and tantalum agglomerate powder.
US09466430B2
Variable capacitor and switch structures in single crystal piezoelectric MEMS devices using bimorphs
A micro-electrical-mechanical systems (MEMS) device includes a substrate, one or more anchors formed on a first surface of the substrate, and a piezoelectric layer suspended over the first surface of the substrate by the one or more anchors. A first electrode may be provided on a first surface of the piezoelectric layer facing the first surface of the substrate, such that the first electrode is in contact with a first bimorph layer of the piezoelectric layer. A second electrode may be provided on a second surface of the piezoelectric layer opposite the first surface, such that the second electrode is in contact with a second bimorph layer of the piezoelectric layer.
US09466425B2
A first paste film containing a metal powder and non-vitreous inorganic oxide is formed on a glass ceramic green sheet, and a second paste film containing a metal powder is formed on the first paste film to cover at least the edge portion of the first paste film. Then the glass ceramic green sheet and the first and second paste films are fired. As a result, a surface electrode is obtained, and then a plating layer is formed on the surface electrode. The second paste film contains less non-vitreous inorganic oxide than the first paste film and the abundance ratio of the non-vitreous inorganic oxide in the surface electrode is lower in a region bordering the plating layer than in a region bordering the glass ceramic layer at least in an edge portion of the surface electrode.
US09466422B2
A laminated electronic component whose internal electrode has sufficient cross-section area to achieve lower resistance, while also achieving a narrower pitch to accommodate more windings, is manufactured by forming a resist film on a conductive base plate; forming an opening of specified pattern in the resist film by photolithography; filling a conductor in the opening, by plating, to a level lower than the height of the resist film to form a conductor pattern; removing the resist film; transferring the conductor pattern from the base plate onto an insulation sheet; and laminating pattern-transferred insulation sheets obtained as above and then heating to obtain insulator layers from the insulation sheet, while obtaining internal electrodes from the conductor patterns.
US09466409B2
An electrical insulation system for a high voltage inductive device includes a cylindrical insulation barrier defining an axial direction, a longitudinal bar having a main extension in the axial direction, the longitudinal bar arranged to support the cylindrical insulation barrier along the axial direction and to provide spacing in a radial direction, and the longitudinal bar having a first side facing the cylindrical insulation barrier and a second side, opposite the first side, having a groove, and a spacer having a main extension in the radial direction, the spacer being arranged to provide spacing in the axial direction, the spacer having a groove fitting end portion. The longitudinal bar is adapted to receive the groove fitting end portion of the spacer in the groove, and wherein the spacer is dimensioned so relative to the groove that the groove captures any streamer propagating from the spacer towards the cylindrical insulation barrier.
US09466407B2
An electrical cable has an elongate electrical conductor having, in cross section, a plurality of mutually electrically insulated segments having a plurality of metallic wires, at least one of the metallic wires in at least one of the segments being covered by at least one electrically insulating layer. The electrically insulating layer is obtained on the basis of a composition A having at least one acrylic polymer and at least one transition metal salt.
US09466399B2
An expansion gap radiation shield is formed from a flexible container housing a radiation shielding fluid, that is located within a variable gap in permanent shielding. The invention reduces radiation dose rates outside the gap when the radiation sources are located on the opposite side of the gap. The device accommodates varying gap sizes with no loss of shielding capability.
US09466392B2
A memory array includes a first memory page and a second memory page. The first memory page includes a first word line, a first select gate line, a first control line, a first erase line, and a plurality of first memory cells each coupled to the first word line, the first select gate line, the first control line, and the first erase line, and for receiving a bit line signal and a source line signal. The second memory page includes a second control line, a second erase line, and a plurality of second memory cells each coupled to the first word line, the first select gate line, the second control line, and the second erase line, and for receiving a bit line signal and a source line signal.
US09466387B2
An operating method of a nonvolatile memory, which includes a plurality of cell strings, each cell string having a plurality of memory cells and a string selection transistor stacked on a substrate, includes detecting threshold voltages of the string selection transistors of the plurality of cell strings; adjusting voltages to be supplied to the string selection transistors according to the detected threshold voltages; and applying the adjusted voltages to the string selection transistors to select or unselect the plurality of cell strings during a programming operation.
US09466385B1
In a general aspect, a circuit can include a printed circuit board having an opening defined therein and an electrical write line disposed on the circuit board. The electrical write line can be connected to a semiconductor memory device, and be configured to transmit a write voltage signal to the semiconductor memory device to write data therein in a write mode of the circuit. The circuit can also include an input voltage terminal disposed on the circuit board. The input voltage terminal can be configured to receive a write-protection voltage. The circuit can also include a reversible closing element that, when inserted in the opening in the circuit board, electrically connects the electrical write line and the input voltage terminal to pass the write- protection voltage to the electrical write line connected to the semiconductor memory device to reversibly enable a write-protect mode of the circuit.
US09466383B2
A nonvolatile memory is organized into blocks as erase units and physical pages as read/write units. A host addresses data by logical pages, which are storable in corresponding physical pages. Groups of logical pages may be further aggregated into logical groups as addressing units. The memory writes host data in either first or second write streams, writing to respective blocks either logical-group by logical-group or logical-page by logical-page in order to reduce the size of logical-to-physical-address maps that are cached in a controller random-access memory (RAM). A group-level map may be used to track logical groups. A page-level map may be used to track logical pages. Only one block at a time needs be open in the second stream to accept logical pages from multiple logical groups that are active. Garbage collection is performed on the blocks from each write stream independently without data copying between the two streams.
US09466379B2
An operating method of a semiconductor device includes repeating an erase loop operable to lower threshold voltages of memory cells in a selected memory block by applying an erase voltage to the selected memory block and performing an erase verification to determine whether the threshold voltages of the memory cells in the selected memory block are less than or equal to a target level, wherein an erase voltage is increased by a voltage difference wherein the voltage difference is increased between successive applications of two or more of the erase loops, and repeating a program loop including applying a program voltage to a selected word line to increase threshold voltages of memory cells electrically coupled to the selected word line and performing a program verification to determine whether the threshold voltages are greater than or equal to a target level, wherein a program voltage is increased by a voltage difference wherein the voltage difference is increased between successive applications of two or more program voltages.
US09466377B2
A embodiment relates to a method for processing an erase counter comprising erase counter fields, the method comprising the steps of (i) determining an unused erase counter field; (ii) writing a selection code and an address information in the unused erase counter field, wherein the selection code and the address information are combined to determine at least one physical address of a memory.
US09466376B1
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells, a peripheral circuit for applying a program voltage and verifying whether a program of the memory cell array has been completed, and a control logic for controlling the peripheral circuit to apply an increased program voltage to the memory cell array while applying a reprogram permission voltage to a bit line coupled to the memory cells that previously passed a program verification but has failed a program re-verification.
US09466375B1
A memory device and a programming method thereof are provided, and the programming method for the memory device includes following steps. During a first period, a first voltage from a common source line is transmitted to first ends of a first memory cell string and a second memory cell string, and second ends of the first and the second memory cell strings are floated. During a second period, the first ends of the first and the second memory cell strings are floated, a second voltage and a third voltage are respectively transmitted to the second ends of the first and the second memory cell strings, and a programming voltage and a plurality of passing voltages are applied, so as to inhibit programming of the first memory cell string and sequentially program a plurality of memory cells in the second memory cell string from a second side of a memory array.
US09466374B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for implementing memory cells having common source lines. The methods may include receiving a first voltage at a first transistor. The first transistor may be coupled to a second transistor and included in a first memory cell. The methods include receiving a second voltage at a third transistor. The third transistor may be coupled to a fourth transistor and included in a second memory cell. The first and second memory cells may be coupled to a common source line. The methods include receiving a third voltage at a gate of the second transistor and a gate of the fourth transistor that may cause them to operate in cutoff mode. The methods may include receiving a fourth voltage at a gate of the first transistor. The fourth voltage may cause, via Fowler-Nordheim tunneling, a change in a charge storage layer included in the first transistor.
US09466363B2
An integrated circuit that does not involve increase in power consumption or decrease in switching probability during a write operation that occur when a latch circuit using STT-MTJ device, etc. of the prior art is operated at high speed is provided. The integrated circuit 1 includes: a memory element 1B where write occurs when a specified period τ has elapsed after a write signal is input; and a basic circuit element 1A, which is an elementary device constituting a circuit and has a data retaining function, and characterized in that an operation frequency f1 in a first operation mode in the process of memory access of the basic circuit element 1A satisfies the following relation: τ>λ1/f1(0<λ1≦1).
US09466361B2
Some embodiments include memory devices having a wordline, a bitline, a memory element selectively configurable in one of three or more different resistive states, and a diode configured to allow a current to flow from the wordline through the memory element to the bitline responsive to a voltage being applied across the wordline and the bitline and to decrease the current if the voltage is increased or decreased. Some embodiments include memory devices having a wordline, a bitline, memory element selectively configurable in one of two or more different resistive states, a first diode configured to inhibit a first current from flowing from the bitline to the wordline responsive to a first voltage, and a second diode comprising a dielectric material and configured to allow a second current to flow from the wordline to the bitline responsive to a second voltage.
US09466357B2
A circuit for mitigating write disturbance including a first and a second discharge control paths is provided and applied to the dual-port SRAM. The first discharge control path is connected to bit lines of the second port and the first port, and a first control line. The second discharge control path is connected to inverse bit lines of the second port and the first port, and the first control line. A first discharge current is generated when the bit line of the second and the first ports are respectively at a high level voltage, and a low level voltage, and the first control line operates. A second discharge current is generated when the inverse bit line of the second and the first ports are respectively at the high level voltage and the low level voltage, and the first control line operates.
US09466350B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a first interconnect, a second interconnect, a magnetoresistive effect element having first and second terminals, the first terminal being electrically connected to the first interconnect, a diode having first and second terminals, the first terminal being electrically connected to the first terminal of the magnetoresistive effect element, the second terminal being electrically connected to the second terminal of the magnetoresistive effect element, and a transistor having source and drain terminals, one of the source and drain terminals being electrically connected to the second terminal of the magnetoresistive effect element and the second terminal of the diode, the other of the source and drain terminals being electrically connected to the second interconnect.
US09466341B2
A sense amplifier circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a first resistive device, a second resistive device, a fifth transistor and a sixth transistor. A gate of the first transistor is coupled to a drain of the fourth transistor. A drain of the first transistor is coupled to a gate of the fourth transistor. A gate of the second transistor is coupled to a drain of the third transistor. A drain of the second transistor is coupled to a gate of the third transistor. The first resistive device is coupled to a first data line and at least the drain of the first transistor or third transistor. The second resistive device is coupled to a second data line and at least the drain of the second transistor or the fourth transistor. The sources of the third and fourth transistor are coupled together.
US09466336B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a first output control unit and a second output control unit. The first output control unit includes a plurality of non-inversion pipes and a plurality of inversion pipes. The non-inversion pipes non-invert input signals and output the non-inverted input signals to a signal transmission line as transmission signal, and the inversion pipes invert input signals and output the inverted input signals to the signal transmission line as the transmission signals. The second output control unit includes a plurality of non-inversion pipes and a plurality of inversion pipes. The non-inversion pipes non-invert the transmission signals and output the non-inverted transmission signals, and the inversion pipes invert the transmission signals and output the inverted transmission signals.
US09466335B2
A hermetic hard disk drive of the invention comprises: a housing comprising a base and a cover, wherein at least one of the base and the cover comprises a moldable material; at least one disk for storage of data within the housing; an actuator for reading and recording of the data on the at least one disk; and a filter comprising an integrally molded filter frame within the moldable material of the housing of the hard disk drive. Methods of forming such hard disk drives are also disclosed.
US09466321B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods use angular position tracking in mitigating data loss risks stemming from adjacent track interference (ATI), wide area track erasure (WATER), and/or other issues. A storage device includes a rotational magnetic storage medium divided into a group of tracks and a controller communicably coupled to the rotational magnetic storage medium. The controller is configured to: determine, based on an angular position of a write operation within a group of tracks, whether the angular position of the write operation overlaps a previously written area in the group of tracks; in the event the angular position of the write operation overlaps the previously written area in the group of tracks, increment a counter; and in the event the counter exceeds a counter threshold, perform a data loss risk mitigation procedure.
US09466312B2
A method for separating audio sources and an audio system using the same are provided. The method introduces the concept of a residual signal to separate a mixed audio signal into audio sources, and separates an audio signal corresponding to at least two of the audio sources as a residual signal and processes the audio signal separately. Therefore, audio separation performance can be improved. In addition, the method re-separates a separated residual signal and adds the separated residual signals to corresponding audio sources. Therefore, audio sources can be separated more safely.
US09466309B2
An audio signal processing method includes following steps: playing a fundamental frequency signal by a media player; calculating a first fundamental frequency sound pressure value and a first harmonic sound pressure value of the fundamental frequency signal, and calculating a second fundamental frequency sound pressure value and a second harmonic sound pressure value of the audio signal; calculating a threshold sound pressure value according to the first fundamental frequency sound pressure value, the first harmonic sound pressure value, and the second fundamental frequency sound pressure value; and comparing the second harmonic sound pressure value and the threshold sound pressure value to generate a comparing result, and adjusting the second harmonic sound pressure value according to the comparing result. An audio signal processing device is also disclosed.
US09466306B1
A method for generating a reconstructed audio signal having a baseband portion and a highband portion is disclosed. The method includes deformatting an encoded audio signal into a first part and a second part and extracting, from the first part, temporal envelope information and spectral components of the baseband portion. The method further includes decoding the first part to obtain a decoded baseband audio signal. The decoding includes filtering in a frequency domain at least some of the spectral components of the baseband portion with the reconstruction filter using the temporal envelope information to shape a temporal envelope of the baseband portion. The method also includes extracting, from the second part, a noise parameter and an estimated spectral envelope of the highband portion and obtaining a plurality of subband signals by filtering the decoded baseband audio signal. The method further includes generating a high-frequency reconstructed signal by copying a number of consecutive subband signals of the plurality of subband signals and obtaining an envelope adjusted high-frequency signal by adjusting, based on the estimated spectral envelope of the highband portion, a spectral envelope of the high-frequency reconstructed signal.
US09466305B2
In general, techniques are described for performing a positional analysis to code audio data. Typically, this audio data comprises a hierarchical representation of a soundfield and may include, as one example, spherical harmonic coefficients (which may also be referred to as higher-order ambisonic coefficients). An audio compression device that includes one or more processors may perform the techniques. The processors may be configured to allocate bits to one or more portions of the audio data, at least in part by performing positional analysis on the audio data.
US09466304B2
The present invention is a system and method for digital watermarking, which discloses a system for digital watermarking, to add a watermark to an audio signal generated by a signal source. The system comprises: a spectrum modulator configured to perform spectrum modulation to a watermark bit and a pseudo noise signal to be embedded into the audio signal to generate a modulated signal; a distortion controller coupled to the signal source and the spectrum modulator and configured to shape the modulated signal based on the audio signal, so as to generate a shaped signal satisfying a predetermined distortion constraint; and an interference compensator coupled to the signal source and the distortion controller and configured to generate a compensation signal based on the audio signal, the pseudo noise signal, and the shaped signal, wherein the compensation signal is for compensating for interference to watermark decoding caused by the audio signal.
US09466294B1
Techniques for facilitating transactions are described in which the system facilitating the transaction engages in natural language dialog with the user to achieve the desired result. Instead of treating successive input independently, the system maintains a dialog context in which information generated in response to recent input may be used to inform responses to further input.
US09466289B2
An electronic device with one or more processors and memory trains an acoustic model with an international phonetic alphabet (IPA) phoneme mapping collection and audio samples in different languages, where the acoustic model includes: a foreground model; and a background model. The device generates a phone decoder based on the trained acoustic model. The device collects keyword audio samples, decodes the keyword audio samples with the phone decoder to generate phoneme sequence candidates, and selects a keyword phoneme sequence from the phoneme sequence candidates. After obtaining the keyword phoneme sequence, the device detects one or more keywords in an input audio signal with the trained acoustic model, including: matching phonemic keyword portions of the input audio signal with phonemes in the keyword phoneme sequence with the foreground model; and filtering out phonemic non-keyword portions of the input audio signal with the background model.
US09466287B2
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented method for correcting words in transcribed text including receiving speech audio data from a microphone. The method further includes sending the speech audio data to a transcription system. The method further includes receiving a word lattice transcribed from the speech audio data by the transcription system. The method further includes presenting one or more transcribed words from the word lattice. The method further includes receiving a user selection of at least one of the presented transcribed words. The method further includes presenting one or more alternate words from the word lattice for the selected transcribed word. The method further includes receiving a user selection of at least one of the alternate words. The method further includes replacing the selected transcribed word in the presented transcribed words with the selected alternate word.
US09466282B2
A method of audio signal processing includes determining a difference between a first set of filter parameters of a first input frame of an active noise cancellation (ANC) filter and a second set of filter parameters of a second input frame of the ANC filter. The method further includes selectively modifying a duty cycle of adaptive ANC processing associated with the ANC filter based on the difference between the first set of filter parameters and the second set of filter parameters.
US09466279B2
A method and system for generating a synthetic simulation of a media recording is disclosed. One embodiment accesses a sound reference archive and heuristically creates a new sound that is matched against at least one sound in the sound reference archive. The media recording is analyzed and a synthetic sound based on the analyzing of the media recording is generated.
US09466278B2
Described herein are systems and method for providing an immersive audio experience in a computer-generated virtual environment. An audio-mixer is placed at a location in a domain of the virtual environment and receives a separate audio feed from each of the audio source nodes directly connected to the audio-mixer. The audio-mixer mixes the received audio feeds in dependence on corresponding location, position and intrinsic loudness information to generate a separate spatialized mixed audio feed for each of the directly connected audio listener nodes. The audio-mixer sends, to each of the audio listener nodes directly connected to the audio-mixer, the separate spatialized mixed audio feed generated for the audio listener. An audio-mixer also receives and sends non-spatialized mixed audio feeds to/from other audio-mixers. The location of the audio-mixer is preferably moved to account for audio source nodes moving and/or changes to which audio source nodes are directly connected to the audio-mixer.
US09466265B2
The present specification relates to a display device and a method for controlling the same, and more particularly, if an area in which an image is displayed includes a curved area, to a display device rotating the image according to a touch input in the curved area and providing additional information on the image together with the image and a method for controlling the same.
US09466260B2
A computer-implemented method for converting a first color space to a second color space is provided. The method includes generating a look-up table (LUT) using a non-square transformation matrix and a numerical solver, wherein the LUT comprises a target value in the first color space and an optimal value in the second color space, and using the LUT to convert the first color space to the second color space.
US09466258B2
A data processing apparatus has a compressor and an output interface. The compressor receives an input display data, and generates an output display data according to the input display data. The output interface packs the output display data into an output bitstream, and outputs the output bitstream via a display interface. The compressor adaptively adjusts a compression algorithm applied to the input display data according to at least one sensor input signal. For example, the at least one sensor input signal is generated from at least one of an ambient light sensor, a proximity sensor, a thermal sensor, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, and a receiver of a global navigation satellite system.
US09466250B2
A color display unit includes subpixels arranged in matrix form. Display pixels are formed from multiple subpixels, one for each of the display colors, grouped together across multiple subpixel rows. Drive units are formed including multiple rows of display pixels that are connected to a common power supply line. Common write scanning lines are provided, where the number of common write scanning lines per drive unit equals the number of rows of subpixels that are included in a display pixel. Each common write scanning line is connected to every pixel of at least one given color in its respective drive unit. The drive units are driven sequentially in a drive-unit-scanning direction. Within each individual drive unit, the write scanning lines thereof are scanned for the signal writing operation sequentially in a scanning direction opposite to the drive-unit-scanning direction.
US09466240B2
A local priority-based scanning scheme that focuses scanning to areas of a display panel whose measured characteristics are under continuous change (e.g., aging or relaxation). The algorithm identifies areas or regions needing compensation, using a current measurement from a single pixel in an area as a candidate to determine whether the rest of the region needs further compensation. The algorithm thus detects newly changed areas quickly, focusing time-consuming measurements on those areas that need high attention. Optionally, neighboring pixels sharing the same state (e.g., aging or overcompensated) as the measured pixel can be adjusted automatically given the likelihood that the neighboring pixels will also require compensation if the measured pixel needs compensation.
US09466232B2
An apparatus (1) for deploying and supporting a flexible object (7). The apparatus comprises an elongate support (3) comprising a longitudinal first guide (4), an elongate flexible member (5) longitudinally slidable relative to the first guide (4), a first connector (9), connected to the flexible elongate member (5) and adapted to be attached to the flexible object (7), a longitudinal second guide 6, and at least one sliding connector (9, 11, 13); (106, 111, 113; 209, 211, 213), longitudinally slidable relative to the second guide (6) and adapted to be attached to the flexible object (7). The flexible elongate member (5) is adapted to be pushed along the first guide (4) via an externally applied longitudinal force, transferred as a compressive internal force along the flexible member (5), to move the flexible object (7) from a first position to a deployed position.
US09466229B2
A document product includes a web having a transverse splice therein. A mask is formed near the splice and is subsequently used for automatically rejecting a spliced document.
US09466225B2
According to one embodiment, a speech learning apparatus includes a detection unit, a first calculation unit, a generation unit, an addition unit and a speech synthesis unit. The first calculation unit calculates a score indicating a degree of emphasis of a keyword based on a type of the marker and a manner of selecting the keyword. The generation unit generates a synthesis parameter to determine a degree of reading of the keyword in accordance with the score and the type of the marker. The addition unit adds to the keyword a tag for reading the keyword in accordance with the synthesis parameter. The speech synthesis unit generates synthesized speech obtained by synthesizing speech of the keyword in accordance with the tag.
US09466220B2
Standardized distance minima for longitudinal separation is ensured during flight of a second aircraft behind a first aircraft on take-off or landing of the aircraft on one runway or on two parallel runways located near to each other, or during flight one behind the other at near altitude levels in conditions where there is the risk of turbulence from the vortex wake of the first aircraft possibly being present along the direction of movement of the second aircraft. Continuous monitoring of the level of wake vortex flight safety of the second aircraft is carried out in a buffer zone which surrounds the aircraft and is selected on the basis of the direction of the aircraft outside the standardized distance minimum, taking into account pilot reaction time and the time for the system for controlling the second aircraft to respond to a command to change speed.
US09466212B1
An enhanced broadcast data service with reports locations of traffic enforcement camera locations (e.g., red light cameras and speed cameras) to users. Traffic enforcement camera information is aggregated, verified (e.g., particularly as to traffic enforcement camera type) and stored (e.g., at a server). A broadcast signal comprising program channels and at least one data channel having traffic enforcement camera information is transmitted to a plurality of receivers. Receivers store at least a subset of the traffic enforcement camera information available from the server and synchronize to it using periodic transmitted updates. Receivers compare receiver location data with stored camera location data, and display or generate audible alerts when the receiver is within a selected geographic range of a traffic enforcement camera. Alerts can be filtered as to camera type. A alerts can employ different color camera icons superimposed on a screen map depending on camera type or whether the camera is newly added.
US09466207B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for a remote control in a portable communication system. The portable communication system includes a remote-controlling terminal which is connected to a remote-controlled terminal using a message necessary for a remote control function to perform a remote control function; and the remote-controlled terminal which is connected to the remote-controlling terminal and performs an operation according to a request of the remote-controlling terminal.
US09466205B2
Impact detection mobile communication apparatus comprises; a portable wireless communication apparatus attached to or carried on by a person containing, a processor, an impact detection sensor used for detecting user bodily impact condition, a built-in positioning locator receiver used to determine the apparatus location, a cellular RF transceiver used for receiving cellular tower Doppler signals to determine the apparatus movement velocity, and a speaker and a microphone used for user two way voice communication through a cellular network with a monitoring station.The mobile communication apparatus processor in response to received user bodily impact condition signal, transmits a signal containing information to the apparatus ID, impact condition information and detected velocity, along with positioning location information to a monitoring station through the wireless communication network, and opens two way voice communication link between the communication apparatus user and a monitoring station operator, the operator based on received signals dispatch rescue personnel to the user location.
US09466192B2
A merchandise security device for displaying an electronic item of merchandise includes a strain relief block configured for attachment to the merchandise and an alarming power cable configured for being electrically coupled to a power input port provided on the merchandise. The alarming power cable is routed through the strain relief block for reducing strain applied to the alarming power cable, which may prevent damaging the power input port or the portion of the alarming power cable extending between the strain relief block and the power input port.
US09466190B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for an enclosure assembly for securely mounting an electronic component to an exterior surface of a door via attachment of a latching mechanism to the door.
US09466187B2
A system for managing a plurality of wearable devices on a user receives information to be conveyed using haptic effects and determines an intent of the information. The system then determines, for each of the plurality of wearable haptic devices, a location of the wearable haptic device on the user and a haptic capability. The system then maps the information as a haptic effect to one or more of the wearable haptic devices based at least on the determined locations on the user and the haptic capabilities.
US09466185B2
Provided is a medium handling apparatus. The medium handling apparatus comprises a guider to define a first space in which a medium to be deposited and a medium to be withdrawn are handled and a second space in which a rejected medium is handled and at least one pick-up roller to pick up the medium that is disposed in each of the first and second spaces.
US09466183B2
A gaming system including a multiple player persistent game, such as an ongoing community game. This ongoing community game includes a community game matrix which is continuously displayed to at least each of the players. The community game matrix includes a plurality of displayed positions which may be associated with an award or an award opportunity. In operation, at least each of the players playing the gaming devices of the gaming system are associated with a displayed participant that moves (either randomly or based on the player's control) to different of the displayed positions of the community game matrix. If a player moves their associated participant to a displayed position that is associated with an award or an award opportunity, the gaming system provides the player any associated award or enables the player to participate in any associated award opportunity to potentially win an award.
US09466182B2
Systems and methods coordinate requests to display content on one or more windows of a display screen of a wagering game machine. A display control process determines whether or not to honor a request to display content in accordance with an owner status of a window, a lock status of the window, a lock status of the wagering game machine, or a combination thereof.
US09466172B2
A slot management system including a download and configuration server-based sub-system and method is disclosed for use with game devices, systems, and methods is provided to enable users to monitor, control, and modify game devices and other related activities. A download and configuration system controller and method is provided for managing the download and configuration server-based sub-system.
US09466170B2
A system, method and apparatus for a gaming system is provided. The gaming system includes a rewards server and a separate gaming or slot accounting server. The system may further include a separate player tracking server. The system further includes one or more game machines. The game machines may include a base game, rewards tracking module, and a game management module. Further details will be apparent from the description, drawings and claims.
US09466165B2
An apparatus and system that ensures that defined equipment systems are monitored and checked before the equipment may be used is described. The invention includes apparatus that encourages the equipment operator to perform specified monitoring checks on specified systems at specified intervals, and requires that the check is done by the operator physically removing a check device such as a crankcase or transmission dipstick, radiator cap, air filter, and so on. Failure to perform the required monitoring task results in the equipment being disabled or locked out so that the operator is unable to use the equipment; for example, a starter motor may be locked out so that the engine cannot start until a specified monitoring check has been completed.
US09466163B2
A method and system that allows authorized individuals access into controlled access locations and the ability to grant temporary and limited access to guests into these locations. The method and system allows for navigational services to be provided to members and guests, and real-time tracking and confirmation to members and administrators that guests have arrived at their destination and did not enter any unauthorized areas. The method preferably can work through a system of wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons communicating with member and guest's electronic devices. Members and administrators can send one or more temporary electronic access keys to a guest's smartphone or other electronic device. Wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons provide an access control and location tracking system with real-time data about the member and guest whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking.
US09466160B2
A method for unlocking a door, a method for renting asset and a system thereof are provided in the present invention. The door includes an audio receiver, and the method includes the steps of: storing a unlock sequence into a mobile device; performing a audio modulation to generates a audio modulation voiceprint signal, wherein the frequency range of the audio modulation voiceprint signal is in the audio frequency; playing the audio modulation voiceprint signal by using the speaker of the mobile device; when the audio receiver receives the audio modulation voiceprint signal, the method further includes: performing a audio demodulation to obtain the unlock sequence; and determining whether the door is unlock or not according to the unlock sequence.
US09466158B2
Implementations of the present invention contemplate utilizing the communicative connections between a telematics service provider (TSP), a communication device, and a telematics unit in a vehicle to interactively provide information pertaining to various components of a vehicle. Implementations contemplate that an image capture device is communicatively connected to the telematics unit in a vehicle and an operations control center of the TSP. Image data pertaining to an image captured by the image capture device is analyzed and vehicle components included in the image are identified. Once vehicle components in the image have been identified, information pertaining to the identified components is presented as an overlay of the originally captured image.
US09466156B2
A device may receive multiple position data records. Each of the multiple position data records may identify a geographic position of a vehicle at a particular time. The device may determine, based on the multiple position data records: a first set of time periods during which the vehicle is in motion, and a second set of time periods during which the vehicle is not in motion; determine, based on behavior analysis data, a first type of motion associated with the first set of time periods and a second type of stop associated with the second set of time periods to form behavior metrics; and output the behavior metrics.
US09466144B2
A real time 3D survey site modeler is disclosed. One embodiment includes a survey data collector to collect survey data for a location and obtain information for each object that is surveyed. In addition, a 3D model creator receives the collected survey data and creates a 3D model of the world being surveyed in real time.
US09466142B2
Avatars are animated using predetermined avatar images that are selected based on facial features of a user extracted from video of the user. A user's facial features are tracked in a live video, facial feature parameters are determined from the tracked features, and avatar images are selected based on the facial feature parameters. The selected images are then displayed are sent to another device for display. Selecting and displaying different avatar images as a user's facial movements change animates the avatar. An avatar image can be selected from a series of avatar images representing a particular facial movement, such as blinking. An avatar image can also be generated from multiple avatar feature images selected from multiple avatar feature image series associated with different regions of a user's face (eyes, mouth, nose, eyebrows), which allows different regions of the avatar to be animated independently.
US09466137B2
The present disclosure discloses a spiral CT system and a reconstruction method thereof. In some embodiments, it is proposed that data missing due to a large pitch is compensated by weighting the complementary projection data of the projection data obtained using the spiral CT system. After the data is complemented, the projection data is rebinned as cone parallel beam data, cone-angle cosine weighting and one-dimensional filtering are implemented on the rebinned data, and parallel beam back projection is finally implemented on the filtered data, to obtain the reconstructed images. In some embodiments, with the above method, the speed of the belt can be increased by more than one time in a case that the existing area of the detectors and the existing speed of the slip ring are unchanged, thereby improving the pass rate of the luggage and maintaining the quality of the reconstructed images unchanged.
US09466134B2
A method of generating an image in one embodiment includes acquiring, with a computed tomography (CT) acquisition unit, CT projection data from at least a region of interest (ROI), and concurrently acquiring, with a magnetic resonance (MR) acquisition unit, MR imaging information of at least a portion of the ROI. The method also includes determining a motion of the at least a portion of the ROI using the MR imaging information, and reconstructing the image using the CT projection data. Reconstructing the image includes motion correcting the CT projection data based on the motion determined using the MR imaging information.
US09466122B1
Methods and systems are provided for estimating background spectral content in a hyperspectral imaging (HSI) scene. A HSI processor computes a scene covariance matrix for each of a plurality of sparsely sampled pixel sets, identifies and removes the spectral content of contaminating pixels from the covariance matrices, and checks the consistency among the plurality of decontaminated covariance matrices, iteratively re-sampling and re-computing said matrices until an acceptable consistency is achieved, and then computes a final decontaminated covariance matrix representative of the background spectral content of the scene. Alternate approaches to pixel sampling, and/or using fewer spectral dimensions than are available for the pixels are presented.
US09466121B2
In a particular embodiment, a method includes evaluating, at a mobile device, a first area of pixels to generate a first result. The method further includes evaluating, at the mobile device, a second area of pixels to generate a second result. Based on comparing a threshold with a difference between the first result and the second result, a determination is made that the second area of pixels corresponds to a background portion of a scene or a foreground portion of the scene.
US09466119B2
Provided is a method and apparatus of detecting a posture of a camera such as a surveillance or monitoring camera. The method includes acquiring an image captured by the camera, acquiring ground information about the ground in the image based on the image, and detecting the posture of the camera based on the ground information.
US09466115B2
One embodiment of the present invention includes techniques for rasterizing primitives that include edges shared between paths. For each edge, a rasterizer unit selects and applies a sample rule from multiple sample rules. If the edge is shared, then the selected sample rule causes each group of coverage samples associated with a single color sample to be considered as either fully inside or fully outside the edge. Consequently, conflation artifacts caused when the number of coverage samples per pixel exceeds the number of color samples per pixel may be reduced. In prior-art techniques, reducing such conflation artifacts typically involves increasing the number of color samples per pixel to equal the number of coverage samples per pixel. Advantageously, the disclosed techniques enable rendering using algorithms that reduce the ratio of color to coverage samples, thereby decreasing memory consumption and memory bandwidth use, without causing conflation artifacts associated with shared edges.
US09466107B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for determining camera parameters and three dimensional locations of features from a plurality of images of a geographic area. These include, determining a correlation between a pose of a first camera and a pose of a second camera, generating one or more constraints incorporating the correlation, and determining at least one of camera parameters and three dimensional locations of features using a plurality of constraints including the generated one or more constraints. The first camera and the second camera have substantially rigid positions and poses relative to each other. A strength of the correlation is based at least upon a time interval between respective image captures by the first camera and the second camera.
US09466092B2
According to implementations of this disclosure, image content is rotated in a content-aware fashion. In one implementation, a mesh is formed over an image and image lines in the image content are identified. The image is warped using an energy function that rotates a subset of the lines a predetermined rotation angle, while rotating other lines by an angle other than the predetermined rotation angle. In one example, lines that are intended to be horizontal or vertical after correcting are rotated by a rotation angle that will make them horizontal or vertical, whereas oblique lines are rotated by an angle other than the rotation angle.
US09466089B2
A signal processor of the invention includes a host processor, a command queue, a graphics decoding circuit, a video decoding circuit, a composition engine and two display buffers. The host processor generates graphics commands and sets a video flag to active based on graphics encoded data, video encoded data and mask encoded data from a network. The command queue asserts a control signal according to the graphics commands. The graphics decoding circuit generates the graphics frame and two surface mask while the video decoding circuit generates the video frame and a video mask. The composition engine transfers the graphics frame, the video frame or a content of one of two display buffers to the other display buffer according to the video mask and the two surface masks when the control signal is asserted or when the video flag is active.
US09466086B2
According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for affecting user associations in over the top (OTT) service platforms. The method includes receiving a first message for initiating associations or disassociations between a first user and a second user of over the top (OTT) service platforms. The OTT service platforms are controlled and operated by distinct entities. The method also includes determining, using at least one of information in the first message and stored information, the OTT service platforms in which associations are to be established or disestablished. The method further includes sending at least a second message for establishing or disestablishing an association between the first user and the second user in the OTT service platforms.
US09466076B2
Location-blocking and identity-blocking services that can be commercially offered by a service provider, e.g., a cellular service provider or a web advertiser. In the identity-blocking service, the service provider may disclose the current physical location of a mobile subscriber (i.e., a cellular phone operator) to a third party (e.g., a web advertiser) subscribing to the identity-blocking service. However, the service provider may not send any identity information for the mobile subscriber to the third party. On the other hand, in the location-blocking service, the service provider may disclose the mobile subscriber's identity information to the third party, but not the current physical location of the mobile subscriber. Blocking of the mobile subscriber's identity or location information may be desirable for privacy reasons, to comply with a government regulation, or to implement a telecommunication service option selected by the mobile subscriber.
US09466071B2
Each user is represented by a mixture of topics, e.g., one or more topics, and a probability of interest in each topic in the mixture, and given the target user, one or more other users can be recommended, each user that is recommended to the target user is determined to have a topical interest similarity with the target user, e.g., the target user's interest in one or more topics of the mixtures of topics is determined to be similar to a recommended interest in the one or more topics of the mixture of topics. The target user and the one or more recommended users can be said to have similar topical interests. The target user can use the user recommendation to establish an interactive dialogue, for example, with one or more users identified in the user recommendation.
US09466067B2
Systems and methods for providing games, challenges, and/or promotions to mobile devices are usable to provide incentives to customers. According to one embodiment, a system can be provided. The system can be operable to receive location information associated with a mobile device and additional information, such as but not limited demographic and/or purchase history information, associated with the mobile device. Additionally, the system can be operable to select content based on the received information, transmit the content to the mobile device, receive an event outcome indicator associated with the content, and provide a promotional offer to the mobile device.
US09466063B2
Using a computer, a database comprising a field is identified. A query relating to the field is identified. Prior to processing the query, the field is dynamically altered to conform to a desired bit size. The query is processed. The results of the query are returned.
US09466061B1
A mobile computerized apparatus configured to provide membership status in a roadside assistance program after occurrence of a roadside event is disclosed. The apparatus executes instructions that cause/allow the apparatus to receive input related to an electronic membership card, retrieve from a data store membership information associated with the vehicle, and dynamically update the electronic membership card for display on the apparatus.
US09466060B1
The present invention is directed to a system and method for validating a cardholder's identity for international use of an electronic debit card to perform banking transactions, comprising of: an international payment card configured for electronically storing thereon a biometric identifier; biometric verification means positioned on the international payment card, wherein the biometric verification means is configured for validating the cardholder's biometric sample with the biometric identifier stored on the international payment card; and an electronic card case including location determining means disposed within, operative for orienting itself and determining the absolute location of the electronic card case upon activation by the insertion and retaining of the international payment card, and communication means for electronically notifying the issuing bank of the absolute location of the electronic card case as determined, thereby facilitating authorization for international use of the international payment card.
US09466051B1
Permissions can be delegated to enable access to resources associated with one or more different accounts, which might be associated with one or more different entities. Delegation profiles are established that are associated with at least one secured account of at least one customer. Each delegation profile includes information such as a name, a validation policy that specifies principals which may be external to the account and which are permitted to assume the delegation profile, and an authorization policy that indicates the permitted actions within the account for those principals which are acting within the delegation profile. Once a delegation profile is created, the profile can be available for external principals or services that provide a user credential delegated access under the account, where that credential is provided by a trusted identity service. Access can be provided across accounts using the user credential.
US09466047B1
A storage array includes one or more tier including a plurality of roller pairs and at least one motor for spinning each roller pair. Plates are positioned between each roller pair. A horizontal nudger is positioned above each plate moves tires horizontally within the storage array. A tire is moved longitudinally within the storage array by causing a roller pair bearing the tire to spin followed by lifting the plate below the tire, thereby causing the tire to roll forward or backward within the storage array. A controller coupled to actuators for the plates and the horizontal nudger invokes movement of tires in and out of the storage array and within the storage array according to a storage, retrieval, and inventory management program. Tires may include electronically readable chips that are detected by sensors at a front edge of the storage array that are coupled to the controller.
US09466046B1
Systems and apparatuses (e.g., mobile robots) including sensor systems, and methods involving sensor systems are provided. In one method, a region of an environment is surveyed using a sensor system to provide survey data. This survey data may be indicative of one or more items located within the surveyed region of the environment. One of more of the items located within the surveyed region may be inventoried based on the survey data.
US09466037B2
Particular embodiments generally relate to the orchestration of an order fulfillment business process using effectivity dates and versioning. In one embodiment, a plurality of services in the order fulfillment business process are provided. A definition of a business process including one or more services is received from an interface. The one or more services may be defined in steps to be performed in the order fulfillment business process. An effectivity date associated with the definition is also received from the interface. For example, the effectivity date may be associated with the business process or individual steps in the business process and may specify a period of time during which the process or step can be used. The effectivity dates and versioning may then be enforced at run-time.
US09466030B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to implementing a probabilistic graphical model (PGM) using magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). One embodiment comprises a memory array of magnetic tunnel junctions and a driver unit for programming the memory array to represent a probabilistic graphical model. The magnetic tunnel junctions are organized into multiple subsets of magnetic tunnel junctions. The driver unit selectively applies an electrical pulse to a subset of magnetic tunnel junctions to program information representing a probabilistic belief state in said subset of magnetic tunnel junctions.
US09466026B2
Various implementations for assigning rules and creating rules using templates are described herein. In one example implementation, a model is determined, one or more components of the model are determined, a rule from a set of one or more predefined rules is determined, and the rule is assigned to the model. The rule has one or more parameters matching the one or more components of the model.
US09466024B2
A learning health system and associated methods are provided. Biochemical assays are conducted at scheduled intervals on blood samples taken from an individual to provide, for each of a plurality of biochemical parameters, a time series of values representing the individual. Clinical parameters associated with the individual are extracted from a knowledge base. Genomic parameters are determined for the individual. An expected time series is calculated for each of a plural subset of the plurality of biochemical parameters from at least the clinical parameters and the genomic parameters. For each of the plural subset of biochemical parameters, the time series of values representing the individual is compared to the calculated expected time series to determine a likelihood of each of a plurality of conditions for the individual. The likelihood of at least one of the plurality of conditions is communicated to a user.
US09466019B2
A transaction card having a first layer and a second layer, wherein the first layer is metal and the second layer is a polymer, polycarbonate, or carbon. The metal layer may be stainless steel plated with gold.
US09466004B2
A system and method for correcting colors in an image in order to identify pills. The system includes a surface that includes a background upon which pills are positioned and a border of known color adjacent to the background. The system also includes a digital camera and a processor. The processor is used to receive and process the image, use target objects on the surface to identify areas of the image that correspond to the known characteristics and features of the surface, perform image diagnostics to determine if the image can be used, and correct image color based on comparison of identified areas of the image that correspond with the known characteristics and features of the surface. Various graphical displays or cues can assist a user in obtaining a usable image.
US09465999B2
Methods and apparatus to count people in images are disclosed. An example method includes maintaining a history of instances in which a person is detected by a first image sensor and by a second sensor different than the first image sensor at approximately a same time, respective ones of the instances including a first coordinate at which a first person was detected via the first image sensor, and a second coordinate at which the first person was detected via the second image sensor; and, in response to first image data captured by the first image sensor including a second person at the first coordinate, determining whether second image data captured by the second image sensor includes the second person without comparing the first image data to the second image data.
US09465997B2
A method implemented using a processor based device is disclosed. The method includes receiving a video stream comprising a plurality of image frames having at least one moving object, determining a difference between at least two image frames among the plurality of image frames and generating a difference image comprising a plurality of image blobs corresponding to the at least one moving object. The method further includes generating a plurality of bounding boxes, each bounding box surrounding at least one corresponding image blob among the plurality of image blobs, and determining a subset of bounding boxes among the plurality of bounding boxes, associated with the corresponding moving object, using a fuzzy technique based on a perceptual characterization of the subset of bounding boxes. The method also includes merging the subset of bounding boxes to generate a merged bounding box enclosing the subset of bounding boxes to detect the moving object.
US09465995B2
Systems and methods of identifying unknown video content are described. An example method may include receiving a first fingerprint and a second fingerprint. The first fingerprint may be a color-based fingerprint derived from colors in a portion of the unknown video content, and the second fingerprint may be at least partially based on a feature other than the colors of the unknown video content. A reference database of reference fingerprints may then be queried using one of the first fingerprint or the second fingerprint to obtain a candidate group of fingerprints. The candidate group of fingerprints may then be queried using the other of the first fingerprint and the second fingerprint to identify at least one query fingerprint. The unknown video content may then be identified using the at least one query fingerprint. For example, the second fingerprint may be a luminance-based fingerprint derived from luminance in the unknown video content.
US09465993B2
A user's collection of images may be analyzed to identify people's faces within the images, then create clusters of similar faces, where each of the clusters may represent a person. The clusters may be ranked in order of size to determine a relative importance of the associated person to the user. The ranking may be used in many social networking applications to filter and present content that may be of interest to the user. In one use scenario, the clusters may be used to identify images from a second user's image collection, where the identified images may be pertinent or interesting to the first user. The ranking may also be a function of user interactions with the images, as well as other input not related to the images. The ranking may be incrementally updated when new images are added to the user's collection.
US09465992B2
A scene recognition method and apparatus are provided. The method includes obtaining multiple local detectors by training a training image set, where one local detector in the multiple local detectors corresponds to one local area of a type of target, and the type of target includes at least two local areas; detecting a to-be-recognized scene by using the multiple local detectors, and acquiring a feature, which is based on a local area of the target, of the to-be-recognized scene; and recognizing the to-be-recognized scene according to the feature, which is based on the local area of the target, of the to-be-recognized scene.
US09465991B2
Embodiments relating to determining characteristics of eyeglass lenses are disclosed. A head-mounted display device comprises a camera communicatively coupled to a computing device and including an optical axis having a center point. Light sources are configured to emit light rays toward the lens to produce lens glints. The light sources are in a light source plane that is spaced from a lens plane by an offset distance of between 8 mm and 12 mm. The light sources are either spaced vertically from a line perpendicular to the light source plane and extending through the center point by a distance between 13 mm and 53 mm, or spaced horizontally from the line by a distance of between 13 mm and 80 mm. Lens characterization program logic identifies an image location of each lens glint, and outputs an estimated lens shape model comprising the one or more lens characteristics.
US09465989B2
A user authentication apparatus and method using movement of a pupil is capable of rapidly and accurately performing authentication with high security by storing the respective frequencies of objects mechanically moving on a screen and security keys corresponding thereto, comparing a frequency detected from movement of a pupil gazing at any object with a frequency of the object, and performing the authentication based on a corresponding security key when the detected frequency is included in a predetermined range.
US09465976B1
Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for determining camera parameters and three dimensional locations of features from a plurality of images of a geographic area. These include, detecting features in the plurality of images where each of the images cover at least a portion of the geographic area, comparing the detected features between respective ones of the images to determine a plurality of matched features, selecting a subset of the plurality of matched features, and determining the camera parameters and the three dimensional positions of one or more of the detected features using the selected subset. The respective matched features are selected depending on a quantity of other matched features in proximity to the respective matched features.
US09465975B2
A three-dimensional data processing and recognizing method including scanning and re-constructing an object to be detected so as to obtain three-dimensional data for recognition of the object to be detected; and extracting data matching to features from the three-dimensional data, so that the extracted data constitutes an interested target in order to display and recognize the object to be detected. A quick method to recognize an object to be detected, such as the shapes of cuboid, cylinder, and cutting tool, and so on.
US09465973B1
An enhanced capacitive fingerprint sensing unit is disclosed. The enhanced capacitive fingerprint sensing unit includes a base structure and a fingerprint sensing structure. The fingerprint sensing structure has a first inter-metal dielectric layer, a second metal layer, a second inter-metal dielectric layer, a third metal layer, and a passivation layer. By connecting the third metal layer to Transient Voltage Suppressor (TVS) device, anti-Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) is available. By increasing the thicknesses of the first inter-metal dielectric layer and the second inter-metal dielectric layer, sensitivity of the enhanced capacitive fingerprint sensing unit can be improved.
US09465972B2
There are provided a fingerprint sensor and an electronic device including the same. The fingerprint sensor includes a glass panel; a plurality of transducers arranged on edge regions of the glass panel, the plurality of transducers emitting ultrasonic wave signals toward inner surfaces of the glass panel and receiving the ultrasonic wave signals reflected from the inner surfaces of the glass panel; and a fingerprint sensing unit sensing a fingerprint based on the ultrasonic wave signals received by the plurality of transducers, the fingerprint sensing unit sequentially driving the plurality of transducers.
US09465970B2
The invention features an image reader and a corresponding method for capturing a sharp distortion free image of a target, such as a one or two-dimensional bar code. In one embodiment, the image reader comprises a two-dimensional CMOS based image sensor array, a timing module, an illumination module, and a control module. The time during which the target is illuminated is referred to as the illumination period. The capture of the image by the image sensor array is driven by the timing module that, in one embodiment, is able to simultaneously expose substantially all of the pixels in the array. The time during which the pixels are collectively activated to photo-convert incident light into charge defines the exposure period for the sensor array. In one embodiment, at least a portion of the exposure period occurs during the illumination period.
US09465967B2
There is set forth herein an indicia reading apparatus comprising two or more light sensing assemblies. In one embodiment, the indicia reading apparatus can comprise a linear light sensing assembly and an area light sensing assembly, and can be operative to determine the range between the apparatus and the indicia. In one embodiment, the indicia reading apparatus can be operative to apply a range-assisted gain to the data output by one or more of the linear light sensing assembly and the area light sensing assembly to increase the likelihood of indicia reading and improve expected indicia read time.
US09465964B2
A radio frequency device utilizing an antenna having a single antenna structure resonant on multiple resonant frequency ranges. The antenna can be configured to operate within multiple frequency ranges for communication according to respective protocols associated with the respective frequency ranges.
US09465959B2
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.
US09465948B2
An isolation execution environment provides an application with limited resources to execute an application. The application may require access to secured resources associated with a particular trust level that are outside of the isolation execution environment. A trust activation engine determines the trust level associated with a request for a resource and operates differently based on the trust level. A broker process may be used to execute components providing access to resources having a partial trust level in an execution environment that is separate from the isolation execution environment.
US09465928B2
A device generates parameters identifying selectively revealed un-obfuscated information associated with administering and assessing a Turing test. The device provides, to a client device, a challenge based on the parameters. The challenge directs the client device to selectively reveal the un-obfuscated information for presentation to a user associated with the client device. The device receives a response, to the challenge, from the client device and determines, based on the response and the parameters, whether the user associated with the client device is human. The device selectively performs an action based on determining whether the user associated with the client device is human.
US09465924B2
An apparatus for preventing replay attacks and a method for preventing replay attacks are provided in this invention, wherein the apparatus for preventing replay attacks comprises: an acquisition unit for, when a request for operating a digital content is received, acquiring current location information of a set of placeholder files; a determination unit for determining whether the current location information is consistent with recorded location information of the placeholder file; a protection unit for, when inconsistent as determined by the determination unit, wherein there is a correspondence between the digital content and the set of placeholder files.
US09465922B2
A method for secure distribution of data in an interchange network, comprises having a network in which data records stored on at least one computer; and including an authorization service, where the authorization service grants a contractor access to at least a portion of the data records; and a watermarking module that adds one or more artificial records to said portion. The artificial records cannot be distinguished from the data records by the contractor and are valid for processing in the same way as the data records.
US09465915B2
Systems, methods, beds, supports surfaces and machine readable medium for associating beds and support surface of a healthcare facility are disclosed. A surface association system for a healthcare facility may comprise a plurality of beds. The system may further comprise a computing device and a plurality of support surfaces to be placed upon beds of the plurality of beds. The computing device may associate a support surface of the plurality of support surfaces with a bed of the plurality of beds. The computing device may make the association based upon status data received from the plurality of beds and the plurality of support surfaces. The support surface and/or bed to be associated may initiate a surface association request. The computing device, in response to the surface association request, may request performance of one or more actions on the bed and/or support surface to be associated to identify the bed and/or support surface from the beds and support surfaces of the healthcare facility.
US09465913B1
A method and system for securely storing and disbursing a first party's personal information to authorized requesters is described. Each information object is assigned a security classification level. When a second party requests information, based on the second party's status, an authorized portion of the first party's personal information is released to the second party. Changes to the first party's personal information are transmitted to designated entities. Also described is a method whereby changes are effective at a future date and information as to when the changes would be effective may be transmitted to designated entities.
US09465903B1
A method of implementing a circuit design in a circuit design tool for configuration in a programmable integrated circuit (IC) connected to components on a circuit board is described. The method includes processing a first file associated with the circuit board to obtain descriptions of circuit board interfaces of the components on the circuit board; displaying a graphic user interface (GUI) of the circuit design tool to connect a circuit board interface described in the first file with a circuit design interface in the circuit design; generating physical constraints on the circuit design interface with respect to input/outputs of the programmable IC described as being connected to the selected circuit board interface; and generating a bitstream to configure the programmable IC. The bitstream includes a physical implementation of the circuit design satisfying the physical constraints.
US09465899B2
A method of provisioning an integrated circuit with decoupling capacitance includes identifying in an initial design of the integrated circuit lacking decoupling elements, a standard cell instance satisfying a transient power or frequency switching criteria. Based on a transient power characteristic of the standard cell instance, a decoupling capacitance requirement for the standard cell instance is determined. The decoupling capacitance requirement indicates a capacitance sufficient to bring the standard cell instance into compliance with a stability constraint on a supply voltage node of the standard cell instance. A decoupling capacitor satisfying the decoupling capacitance requirement is provisioned by appending an appropriate sized decap transistor having one or more gate electrode elements to the standard cell instance. The size of the decap transistor may be derived from the required decoupling capacitance, the amount of decoupling capacitance contributed by each gate electrode element, and the area required for each gate electrode element.
US09465898B2
This application discloses an electronic design automation tool configured to identify combinational loops in a word-level netlist, and then modify the word-level netlist based on the presence of the combinational loops. The electronic design automation tool can analyze the word-level netlist to identify a portion of the word-level netlist having at least one characteristic associated with a combinational loop, translate the identified portion of the word-level netlist into a bit-level circuit representation, and utilize the bit-level circuit representation to determine whether the identified portion of the word-level netlist implements the combinational loop. The electronic design automation tool can modify the word-level netlist by replacing the identified combination loop in the word-level netlist with a description of a different circuit, such as a loop buffer, or annotate the presence of the identified combinational loop in the word-level netlist.
US09465896B1
A CoDec in a design for test integrated circuit. In embodiments described herein, portions of the CoDec are distributed over the area of the IC. In particular, both the compressor and the decompressor may be distributed over the IC. To this end, XOR gates are located locally to the scan chains over the area of the chip to reduce wire length back to the input/output test pins. The compressor and decompressor may be distributed in a 2-dimensional grid. The compressor may XOR each scan chain in two different directions such that a fault may be resolved back to a specific region of the IC.
US09465893B2
A system (200) for providing an exercise training plan for a patient is provided. The system includes a sensor (202, 204, 206, 208, 210, 212), and a processor (214) operatively connected to the at least one sensor. The sensor measures physiological parameter of the patient. The processor is configured to: a) receive health information data representative of patient information and patient symptoms; b) receive physiological data from the at least one sensor; c) devise the exercise training plan for the patient based on the health information data and the physiological data; d) monitor the physiological data, during the exercise training of the patient to determine if the physiological data is within a predetermined range; and e) modify the exercise training plan for the patient if the physiological data is outside the predetermined range.
US09465892B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, a method for associating metadata with a media object is provided. The method provides the ability to tag, or bookmark, a point in time for future use. The method includes receiving the metadata, an associated time condition, and an associated user identification. The method further includes storing at least the time condition. The at least stored time condition is used, at least in part, for associating the metadata with the media object. The media object is then provided to the user. In some embodiments the media object is not available for association with the metadata at the time the metadata is received. In other embodiments, the media object is provided by an external application.
US09465891B1
A data visualization system and related methods may include generating a multi-dimensional graphical object, in which a tessellated arrangement of columns represents an underlying hierarchical data set. Parent-child relationships may be represented by adjacency of columns with respect to an X-Y plane. Magnitudes of underlying values and/or expressions may be represented by Z-axis heights of the columns.
US09465889B2
A system and method for identifying relevant data and experts from a large data set that are relevant to a researcher, scientific project, or other analysis project using a recommendation algorithm utilizing distance metrics based on structural, annotation, and usage information associated with data elements.
US09465885B2
A method for providing information to a mobile handheld device from a database system is provided. The method embodiment includes receiving by a node hosting an information management service a request for data. The request is received from a network enabled mobile handheld device that has intermittent network connectivity. The information management service is configured for identifying unrequested anticipated data based on the requested data. In an embodiment, the anticipated data is identified based on a data request pattern associated with the requested data. Once identified, the requested data and the anticipated data is retrieved from a database system. The requested data and at least a portion of the anticipated data is sent to the network enabled mobile handheld device via a network. By providing anticipated data along with requested data, a mobile user has direct access to unrequested anticipated data when network connectivity is interrupted.
US09465883B2
A method and system for converting XML files to and from files in a data format based on hierarchies in real-time. A method for converting from XML to the data format based on hierarchies includes: applying a stylesheet to at least one XML file thereby generating at least one data record in an intermediate format and including information included in the at least one XML file; and, translating the at least one record in the intermediate format to the data format based on hierarchies. A method for converting from a data format based on hierarchies to XML includes: translating at least one record including information stored in the file format based on hierarchies to an intermediate format; and, applying a stylesheet to the at least one record in the intermediate format thereby generating at least one XML file being indicative of the information and suitable for transmission.
US09465881B2
Identifying a set of information sources from a plurality of N diverse information sources, then, responsive to user input, retrieving a first set of data items from a first information source after determining a first extent of information retrieval, and retrieving a second set of data items from the second information source after determining a second extent of information retrieval and so on for all of the N diverse information sources. The extents of the retrieval comprise at most a number of data items specified by a user (e.g., corresponding to a page size). The method continues by sorting all of the N set of data items fetched from the diverse sources in Round Robin fashion until at least a specific number of elements are merged for generating a paged, sorted set of data items to be displayed in a paginated format.
US09465879B2
Disclosed herein is use of a preview of content from a target document, as provided by a content preview source such as a Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feed, by a search engine. The content preview source includes the preview of the target document's content and a reference, e.g., a Universal Resource Locator (URL) or other link. A content preview document is generated using data extracted from the content preview source. The content preview document is made available in a searchable index used by a search engine to respond to a search query. A fetch operation is scheduled to fetch the target document using the reference provided in the content preview source. Once fetched, the data extracted from the content preview source can be associated with the target document, and can be used in presenting the target document in search results.
US09465877B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for implementing globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) in a multi-user network-based content management environment, from the perspective of a server creating a GUID for a content item, and serving requests based on the GUID. A content management system can identify a content item at a location within the data storage. Each user of the content management system can be associated with a respective user account having an amount of storage space within the storage environment. The content management system can model a user account as a collection of content item objects and globally unique identifiers that are independent of a directory-based hierarchy of content items.
US09465876B2
A computer identifies at least one common content element used by each of at least two users from at least one communication by each of the at least two users. Responsive to one of the at least two users constructing content for a potential communication to the other of the at least two users, the computer accesses the at least one common content element for use by at least one content prediction service enabled for presenting one or more possible content elements comprising the at least one common content element for user selection during construction of the content for the potential communication.
US09465875B2
A query is received to search data, where the query includes a search term. A search of the data is performed in response to the query, wherein the search produces result data based on the search term and an identifier of a searcher submitting the query.
US09465872B2
Exemplary techniques are provided which may be implemented using various methods, apparatuses, and/or articles of manufacture to provide or otherwise support segment sensitive query matching based on segmented portions of web pages and/or providing related information for use in information extraction and/or information retrieval systems. In certain example implementations techniques may be provided for determining whether a query match exists between a document and obtained query terms based, at least in part, on labeled portion information associated with a plurality of segmented portions of a document.
US09465869B2
A unified player interface executing at a user device may include a section that displays songs that are associated with a first Artist Specific Application (ASA) of a first artist installed at the user device. The unified player interface may include another section that displays other ASAs, each associated with a respective artist, installed at the user device. Selection of another ASA may cause music from the selected ASA to be played. Such selection may cause the selected ASA to be launched and its unified player interface to be launched, essentially replacing the unified player interface that was previously displayed at the user device. The unified player interface may include another section that displays music that is not associated with an ASA installed at the user device. For example, the unified player interface may search for locally stored music or streaming music source and display them for selection.
US09465866B2
A data store stores display content indexed to a word segment. The display content comprises a time stamp and a screen shot captured in response to entering the word segment using an input. A process module searches the data store for the word segment, presents the display content indexed to the word segment, and replays an action for the display content.
US09465865B2
Techniques for annotating an entity in a document corpus using cross-document signals. A method includes determining which documents in a document corpus mention an entity of interest, clustering the documents that mention an entity of interest according to a temporal signal, a structural signal and/or a content signal, thereby forming at least one cluster of documents, and annotating at least one document in the at least one cluster of documents by marking each occurrence of the entity in the at least one document.
US09465862B2
Implementing query classification includes executing a reductionist module on a query to extract a core term, which term is used to search a hash table that maps core terms to corresponding categories, deriving a first result including one of the categories from the search, and executing an enrichment module on the query to yield a second result. The enrichment module includes searching an index of terms that are mapped to documents and corresponding categories. Upon determining the core term is present in the hash table, a weighted average is calculated for values of the first and second results based on training data. Upon determining the core term from the query is not in the hash table, and also that a probability score of the category in the index for the second result meets a minimum confidence value, the core term and the corresponding categories are stored in the hash table.
US09465861B2
A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module traversing multiple index structures based on search criteria to identify an object retrieval structure. The method continues with the DS processing module retrieving a set of encoded data slices corresponding to the object retrieval structure from a dispersed storage network (DSN) and decoding the set of encoded data slices in accordance with a dispersed storage error coding function to recover the object retrieval structure. The method continues with the DS processing module identifying one of one or more data version records of the recovered object retrieval structure based on the search criteria to produce an identified data version record and determining DSN addressing information for at least a portion of data based on information of the identified data version record.
US09465859B2
A computer-implemented method of and a device, such as a base station for a headset, for arranging text items in a predefined order, comprising storing, in the memory of a peripheral device, a collection of multiple text items arranged in multiple sets of text items and in multiple groups of text items; storing a respective code item with a respective group of text items; and storing a sort key that has values that designate a predefined order of the text items in each set. The sort key is appended to the text items and comprises at least one character with a value within the Private Use range of the Unicode format.
US09465856B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for suggesting relevant documents to a local user. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising determining, at a local device, a set of selection criteria for suggestion of relevant documents to the local user, the suggestion criteria including at least one of keywords and document metadata; retrieving a plurality of file statistics from a remote server, wherein at least one of the file statistics has been created by a remote user; creating a table of suggestions from the plurality of file statistics and from the set of suggestion criteria; and suggesting at least one file to the local user based on the table of suggestion criteria.
US09465851B2
A search apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store indexes for searching for an object included in an image, link information indicating a function of providing a link for the object, and first supplementary information in association with each other; a receiving unit configured to receive a captured image through a network; a searching unit configured to search for an index for searching for an object included in the received captured image from among the indexes stored in the storage unit based on the object included in the received captured image and second supplementary information for the received captured image, the index being identified based on the first supplementary information and the second supplementary information for the received captured image; and a presenting unit configured to present the link information associated with the index searched for by the searching unit to a source that has transmitted the captured image.
US09465850B2
A database back end system includes a monitoring server operable to poll a first database for a first query running on the first database and add the first query to a query list in a second database, and a reporting server operable to normalize the first query, analyze the second database to find a second query in the query list, wherein the second query is found based upon the normalized first query, and report the second query to a user, wherein the reporting is based upon the analyzing of the second database to find the second query.
US09465849B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to gather, rank, categorize, and perform other processing of various types of content. In some embodiments, content items such as text, images, video, and other content are received from a variety of different sources and are processed to generate an article containing selected content items. While there may be hundreds or thousands of separate articles and stories regarding a particular topic, embodiments of the present disclosure help provide users with a single concise article that contains high-quality content items selected from among a potentially vast number of disparate sources.
US09465839B2
Systems and methods for dynamically integrating disparate computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems are disclosed. The systems and methods provide bi-directional interoperability between disparate CAD systems and maintain stateful ongoing interactions between interconnected CAD systems. Information objects in one CAD system are associated and bound to related objects in other CAD systems through a centralized information hub that transforms data items intelligently to facilitate communication and interaction between the CAD systems connected to the hub. The described systems and methods maintain complete and current perspectives of all relevant information for each CAD system connected to the information hub, thereby eliminating the need for point-to-point intelligence maintained by the CAD systems about the other interconnected CAD systems. As information updates are passed from CAD systems to the information hub and back out to other CAD systems, the information hub transforms and evaluates the information updates ensuring that only necessary information updates are forwarded.
US09465837B1
A server system having memory and one or more processors analyzes a first data request associated with a first application, where the analyzing includes determining whether the first data request is associated with a constraint-restricted portion of a schemaless datastore in which data operations are subject to a set of predefined constraints. In accordance with a determination that the first data request is associated with the constraint-restricted portion, the server system retrieves constraint information corresponding to the set of predefined constraints and processes the first data request in accordance with the constraint information, where the constraint information enables the set of predefined constraints to be applied to the first data request prior to execution of the first data request.
US09465829B2
A multi-level storage architecture and method of performing a partial merge are disclosed. A main store is partitioned into a passive main part and an active main part, the active main part being empty at a start of the partial merge, the passive main part storing encoded data records of the main store that are not subject to the partial merge. A values index corresponding to a sorted dictionary of the passive main part is set to a cardinality of n. The data records of a second level storage structure is merged into the active main part, the active main part having a dictionary that starts with a value of n+1, such that the merging into the active main part continues an encoding scheme according to the values index of the passive main part.
US09465819B2
A method of operating a database node of a distributed database is provided. The distributed database includes a plurality of database nodes each storing a set of data. A latency that occurs when the database node contacts a further database node in order to respond to one or more data requests that relate to a subset of data that is one of stored and intended to stored at the further database node is measured. An average latency value for communicating with each of the database nodes in the distributed database is calculated. Notifications reporting the average latency values to data distribution optimization functions in the distributed database are sent. A latency measure is reported to a further node of the distributed database.
US09465818B2
An electronic system may include a first electronic device comprising a first finger biometric sensor and a first processor. The first processor may be capable of collecting enrollment finger biometric data from the first finger biometric sensor. The system may further include a cloud computing device capable of uploading and storing the enrollment finger biometric data, and a second electronic device. The second electronic device may include a second finger biometric sensor, and a second processor capable of collecting to-be matched finger biometric data from the second finger biometric sensor, and downloading the enrollment finger biometric data from the cloud computing device based upon matching between the enrollment and to-be matched finger biometric data.
US09465807B2
A method and computer program product for managing a file cache with a filesystem cache manager is disclosed. The method may include installing the filesystem cache manager for the file cache by a mount command. The filesystem cache manager may include a specified time interval and a first cache elimination instruction. The method may further include starting a first timer upon the installation of the filesystem cache manager. The method may further include running the first cache elimination instruction when the first timer reaches the specified time interval.
US09465803B2
A screen sharing presentation system includes a presenter client system that leads a presentation and listener client systems that follow the presentation. A server facilitates communication between the presenter client system and the listener client systems. Users of the client systems may provide annotation information for the presentation. The annotation data is not visible to other users of other client systems, but is displayed on the respective user's personal views of the presentation. The presenter client system and the listener client systems are synchronized by communicating a current document location or other status indications.
US09465791B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for automatically detecting spelling errors in one or more documents, such as documents being processed for the creation of a lexicon According to one aspect of the invention, a spelling error is detected in one or more documents by determining if at least one given word in the one or more documents satisfies a predefined misspelling criteria, wherein the predefined misspelling criteria comprises the at least one given word having a frequency below a predefined low threshold and the at least one given word being within a predefined edit distance of one or more other words in the one or more documents having a frequency above a predefined high threshold; and identifying a given word as a potentially misspelled word if the given word satisfies the predefined misspelling criteria.
US09465789B1
Provided is a process of detecting spam in websites, the process including: obtaining text from a website; detecting an amount of transitions between character sets in the text, wherein the character sets each correspond to different alphabets; calculating, with a computer, a score indicative of the likelihood that the text is spam based on the amount of transitions; and labeling the text as spam based on the score.
US09465787B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of information processing by digital computers and, more particularly, to the entry and processing of information by application programs, particularly spreadsheets. The present invention is an electronic mathematical model builder that comprises a memory for storage of data, a processor for defining addressable sets of cells stored in the memory with a unique identifier, for entering data into the cells and for processing data stored in the cells, a user interface with a display for displaying sets of cells in a work area and means for creating and positioning sets of cells in the work area and inputting data to be entered into the cells, and a function builder for building mathematical relations between cells, comprising fields for user specification of a desired function by mathematical operators and input variables of the function, and set of destination cells containing values of the function.
US09465773B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include a system for providing data-driven distributionally robust optimization the system including a processor, the processor configured to perform a method. The method includes receiving a plurality of samples of one or more uncertain parameters for a complex system and calculating a distribution uncertainty set for the one or more uncertain parameters. The method also includes receiving a deterministic problem model associated with the complex system that includes an objective and one or more constraints and creating a distributionally robust counterpart (DRC) model based on the distribution uncertainty set and the deterministic problem model. The method further includes formulating the DRC as a generalized problem of moments (GPM), applying a semi-definite programming (SDP) relaxation to the GPM and generating an approximation for a globally optimal distributionally robust solution to the complex system.
US09465753B2
A memory management and protection system that manages memory access requests from a number of requestors. Memory accesses are allowed or disallowed based on the privilege level of the master, usually a CPU originating the request based on a Privilege Identifier that accompanies each memory access request. Deputy masters such as DMA controllers inherit the Privilege Identifier of the originating master. An extended memory controller selects the appropriate set of segment registers based on the Privilege Identifier to insure that the request is compared to and translated by the segment register associated with the master originating the request.
US09465751B2
An apparatus is described that contains a processing core comprising a CPU core and at least one accelerator coupled to the CPU core. The CPU core comprises a pipeline having a translation look aside buffer. The CPU core comprising logic circuitry to set a lock bit in attribute data of an entry within the translation look-aside buffer entry to lock a page of memory reserved for the accelerator.
US09465750B2
A memory protection circuit includes a memory access information register that stores memory access information related to memory areas which can be accessed by respective virtual machines, and an access determination circuit that determines whether to allow the virtual machines to access the memory areas based on a memory address when each of the virtual machines accesses a memory, information related to the virtual machines that access the memory, and the memory access information stored in the memory access information register. The memory access information register may comprise memory area setting registers and memory area allocation registers. A register access information register may indicate register areas which can be accessed by the virtual machines. A virtual machine scheduler or thread scheduler may determine an order of instructions to be executed.
US09465749B2
A system with a prefetch address generator coupled to a system translation look-aside buffer that comprises a translation cache. Prefetch requests are sent for page address translations for predicted future normal requests. Prefetch requests are filtered to only be issued for address translations that are unlikely to be in the translation cache. Pending prefetch requests are limited to a configurable or programmable number. Such a system is simulated from a hardware description language representation.
US09465745B2
Apparatus and associated method concerning managing access commands with a main storage space, a volatile buffer, and a nonvolatile buffer. The volatile buffer is configured to store a plurality of command nodes that are associated with data access commands received from a remote device and directed to the main storage space. The apparatus also has command prioritizing logic configured for using a prescribed rule in repeatedly identifying two or more candidate command nodes of the plurality that are at least individually favored for execution with respect to the main storage space, for selecting one of the candidate command nodes for the execution, and for transferring a nonselected one of the candidate command nodes from the volatile buffer to the nonvolatile buffer where the nonselected command node continues to be considered for execution with respect to the main storage space but is no longer considered by the prescribed rule when identifying subsequent candidate command nodes in the volatile buffer.
US09465724B2
To provide a technique for generating, at a high speed, a smaller-sized set that satisfies an intended property such as, for example, being pair-wise, and includes many test cases that match a set of existing test cases given as an input, candidates to be used from a set of existing input test cases are determined in the following manner: for some parameters, values to be held by test case candidates are determined; test cases having the determined values, among those included in the set of input test cases, are selected as the candidates. A test case having the highest score among one or more test case candidates generated with the method of the related art and one or more test case candidates selected from the set of input test cases is added to a set of output test cases.
US09465722B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, and computer program product for assessing error notifications associated with one or more application functions. An exemplary embodiment includes receiving an indication of an error associated with at least one function in an application; extracting information associated with the application from one or more sources; and initiating a presentation of a second user-interface to enable a user to resolve the error, wherein the second user-interface comprises at least one of an aggregation of the information extracted from the one or more sources.
US09465718B2
Automatic filter generation is used in a script for load testing a client application in a client/server managed environment. Filters are generated by recording managed libraries used in the client application and recording a flow of executable instructions of the client application. The recorded data is analyzed to identify classes that generate client/server communication. The filters are created with the identified classes that generate client/server communication.
US09465709B2
A method performed by a computer system, the method including maintaining a plurality of work-based counters, each of the work-based counters being associated with a respective functional entity of a plurality of functional entities, in response to determining that a first one of the work-based counters has reached a threshold, sampling a performance data of a first functional entity associated with the first one of the work-based counters, and presenting the sampled performance data to an analysis tool separate from an operating system of the computer system.
US09465705B2
A method is suggested for processing a target memory, the method comprising the steps of (i) checking the target memory subsequent to an erase operation directed to the target memory; and (ii) replacing the target memory with a spare memory in case a defect is detected.
US09465704B2
Techniques for virtual machine (VM) availability during management network failure and VM network failure in a first host computing system in a failover cluster are described. In one example embodiment, management network failure is identified in the first host computing system. The management network being coupled to a virtual management software in a management server and used for management functions. Migration of the VMs running on the first host computing system is then initiated to at least one other host computing system in the failover cluster via a migration network by a failover agent associated with the first host computing system. The migration network being isolated from the virtual management software and capable of handling live migrations.
US09465702B2
A system and method for auditing electronic devices to verify removal of customer personal information (CPI). An electronic device is received at a facility. An electronic device is tested utilizing a test device to determine whether there is CPI on the electronic device. An identification of the electronic device is recorded in response to determining the CPI is on the electronic device. An alert associated with the identification is stored to indicate that CPI is on the electronic device.
US09465689B2
Techniques for forward error correction synchronization are described herein. The techniques include receiving a bit stream over a transmission link and determining a starting location of a first code word within the bit stream. Determining the starting location of the first code word includes identifying an error correction block associated with a previously received second code word, and designating a bit subsequent to the error correction block as the starting location of the first code word.
US09465686B2
A pre-initialized value of contents of a memory location is identified. A load value of contents loaded from the memory location by execution of a first instruction that loads from the memory location is also identified. A comparison is made between the load value and the pre-initialized value. Based on the comparison, a determination is made that the load value and the pre-initialized value are the same. In response to this determination, it is indicated that the first instruction contains an uninitialized memory reference.
US09465685B2
An expert system extracts events associated with executing an application from log files generated by various topological resources in a distributed computing environment. The events are plotted as plot points on a time series graph. Patterns are identified in the plot points that are associated with application problems, along with the computing environment configurations both before the problem and after the problem was resolved. The difference in the configurations represents a corrective action for the application problem, and the expert system links the corrective action to the pattern. When a pattern repeats in conjunction with another application problem, the corrective action is identified as a possible solution to the new problem. A confidence level associated with the pattern/corrective action may be increased when a user accepts the corrective action and may be decreased when a user rejects the corrective action.
US09465682B1
A computing device may receive from a first application executing on at least one processor an indication of an action to be performed. The computing device may determine, based on at least the indication of the action to be performed, a plurality of deep links to a plurality of actions performable by a plurality of applications. The computing device may select a subset of deep links from the plurality of deep links. The computing device may output for display a graphical user interface including an indication of each deep link from the subset of deep links. The computing device may receive an indication of a user input, the user input corresponding to a selection of one of the deep links from the subset of deep links. A second application executing on the at least one processor may perform an action linked to by the selected deep link.
US09465675B2
An arithmetic processing device executes a program, and gives first sequence information to a first start time when a first process included in the program starts a first interprocess communication. Then, the first start time and the first sequence information are written in a main storage device. When second sequence information given to a second start time when a second process starts a second interprocess communication is newer than the first sequence information, an operational circuit in a communication control device does not carry out an operation using the first start time. On the other hand, when the second sequence information corresponds to the first sequence information, the operational circuit carries out an operation using the first start time and the second start time and outputs the operation result.
US09465672B2
A method for monitoring the coordinated execution of sequenced tasks by an electronic card including at least one first processor (PP1) and a second processor (PP2) synchronized to the same clock of determined time period, includes: recording in memory means by the first processor (PP1) of a first identifier (ID1) characterizing the time period (T1) in the course of which the first sequenced task has been executed; recording in the memory means by the second processor (PP2) of a second identifier (ID2) characterizing the time period (T1) in the course of which the first accessory task (N1) has been executed; comparing by the first processor (PP1) the first identifier (ID1) and the second identifier (ID2); and signaling by the first processor (PP1) in the case of failure of the comparison so as to signal a defect of coordination of the processors (PP1, PP2).
US09465670B2
Disclosed herein is a generational thread scheduler. One embodiment may be used with processor multithreading logic to execute threads of executable instructions, and a shared resource to be allocated fairly among the threads of executable instructions contending for access to the shared resource. Generational thread scheduling logic may allocate the shared resource efficiently and fairly by granting a first requesting thread access to the shared resource allocating a reservation for the shared resource to each other requesting thread of the executing threads and then blocking the first thread from re-requesting the shared resource until every other thread that has been allocated a reservation, has been granted access to the shared resource. Generation tracking state may be cleared when each requesting thread of the generation that was allocated a reservation has had their request satisfied.
US09465668B1
Methods, systems, and computer program products for cloud-based adaptive configuration and control of a network device include, detecting an access by a user through the network device to a cloud-based service; and responsive to the detected access, configuring the network device to be controlled by the user via a cloud-based configuration controller. Further implementations include, receiving a configuration request from the network device, wherein the configuration request includes access information pertaining to an access made by a user to a cloud-based service; determining a cloud-based identity of the user based upon the received access information; associating the cloud-based identity with an ownership identifier; forming one or more instructions to configure the network device with the ownership identifier as an owner of the network device; and transmitting the one or more instructions to the network device.
US09465667B1
Systems and methods provide an extensible, multi-stage, realtime application program processing load adaptive, manycore data processing architecture shared dynamically among instances of parallelized and pipelined application software programs, according to processing load variations of said programs and their tasks and instances, as well as contractual policies. The invented techniques provide, at the same time, both application software development productivity, through presenting for software a simple, virtual static view of the actually dynamically allocated and assigned processing hardware resources, together with high program runtime performance, through scalable pipelined and parallelized program execution with minimized overhead, as well as high resource efficiency, through adaptively optimized processing resource allocation.
US09465659B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for dynamic task completion scaling of system resources for a battery operated device are provided. Embodiments include determining, by task completion controller, availability of system resources; retrieving, by the task completion controller, historical user-specific task performance data corresponding to a user; and performing, by the task completion controller, a system action based on the determined availability of system resources and the retrieved historical user-specific task performance data.
US09465654B2
When a loss of connectivity between a first node in a cluster of nodes and a data store is detected, an input/output (I/O) request associated with an application that was executing on the first node is shipped to a second node in the cluster that is in communication with the data store. The application can be gracefully shut down on the first node, and the second node can execute the application and satisfy the I/O request.
US09465650B2
A method of transaction replication includes transmitting at least one transaction received during an epoch from a local node to remote nodes of a domain of 2N+1 nodes at the end of an epoch (N is an integer greater than or equal to 1). The remote nodes log receipt of the at least one transaction, notify the local node of the receipt of the at least one transaction, transmit the at least one transaction to all of the 2N+1 nodes, and add the at least one transaction to an execution order upon receiving at least N+1 copies of the at least one transaction.
US09465640B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a VM including a driver that is configured to perform data input/output using an input/output device; a hypervisor configured to manage the VM and perform a synchronization process between the information processing apparatus and another information processing apparatus which form a pair; a monitoring unit configured to monitor an access made between a memory and the input/output device; a notification unit configured to notify the hypervisor of detection of a reading access in a case where the reading access relating to data output from the memory to the input/output device is detected by the monitoring unit; and a suppression unit configured to suppress the data output in a case where the hypervisor is in the middle of execution of the synchronization process when the hypervisor receives the notification from the notification unit. Accordingly, the input/output access performance of the VM is improved.
US09465637B2
A method includes receiving a deployment template at a host system, partitioning a networking device of the host system with a virtual network partition based upon the deployment template, receiving attribute data that includes a first attribute associated with the first virtual network partition, loading the networking device with the attribute data, launching a virtual machine manager on the host system, reading the attribute from the networking device, and assigning a virtual network interface of a virtual switch associated with the virtual machine manager to the virtual network partition in response to reading the attribute.
US09465636B2
Described embodiments provide for controlling a plurality of virtual machines in a cloud computing system. At least one virtual storage allocated to the plurality of virtual machines may be monitored. Based on the monitoring result, a virtual storage in a service unable state may be detected among the monitored at least one virtual storage. A virtual machine associated with the detected virtual storage may be temporarily interrupted.
US09465629B2
A computer system may generate a plurality of component kernels, which are to be linked during the runtime. The system may determine whether a combined kernel K is present in response to receiving a first request to retrieve the combined kernel K. The system may compose the combined kernel K from the selected component kernels of the plurality of component kernels during the runtime if the combined kernel is not already present.
US09465628B2
An electronic device includes a processor coupled with at least two loaded media. The electronic device can work at a first working mode and a second working mode. When the electronic device works at the first working module, the processor selects one loaded media and controls the selected loaded media to execute a function according to a first manual operation received by an inputting unit of the electronic device. When the electronic device works at the second working module, the processor controls each of the at least two loaded media to execute a common function according to a second manual operation received by the inputting unit.
US09465624B1
A method and apparatus of performing a data transmission from an electronic device or a peripheral device of an electronic device to a peripheral device of a remote electronic device is disclosed. One example method of performing the data transmission may include transmitting data designated for the remote peripheral device to a local virtual device object. The data that is received by the local virtual device object is transmitted via at least one communication interface or peripheral device of the electronic device to at least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device. The data arriving at the least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device is received by a remote virtual device object and transmitted to the designated remote peripheral device.
US09465610B2
A semiconductor device includes an execution unit that executes an arithmetic instruction, and a scheduler including multiple first setting registers each defining a correspondence relationship between hardware threads and partitions, and which generates a thread select signal on the basis of a partition schedule and a thread schedule. The scheduler outputs a thread select signal designating a specific hardware thread, without depending on the thread schedule as the partition indicated by a first occupation control signal, according to a first occupation control signal output when the execution unit executes a first occupation start instruction.
US09465609B2
Approaches presented herein enable correction of source code that fails to comply with an established coding standard in a code base within an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Specifically, a non-compliant segment of code, which requires correction, and that was coded by a first developer, is assembled into a stand-alone artifact that is dispatched to a second developer. The code segment is then corrected by the second developer, and the artifact containing the corrected segment is merged back into the code base from whence the segment originated. In one approach, the artifact comprises the code segment, dependent code classes of the segment, unit tests results, and test data. In another approach, the second developer is identified utilizing a skill-matching algorithm. In yet another approach, the corrected segment is unit-tested prior to being merged back into the code base.
US09465607B2
Server(s) prepare requests to obtain user input indicative of at least one of approval or disapproval by conditionally including therein one or more regions based on rules. The rules are configurable, and each rule is associated with an identifier of a software code. On receipt of a message identifying a request, rules corresponding to regions includable in the request are evaluated to identify regions to be rendered. For a to-be-rendered region a software code identified in a rule action pair is executed to obtain one or more rows, each row including multiple name value pairs. The server(s) prepare content of the request, by including each name value pair in a single line among multiple lines for a row, the multiple lines being sequenced relative to one another in a specific sequence to be displayed by a mobile device, the specific sequence being configurable.
US09465604B1
Technologies are disclosed herein for displaying application content and additional content, such as advertisements, notifications, and other additional content. A first version of additional content may be received by a client device, for example, when the client device is connected to a network, and stored on the client device. The client device may determine if one or more conditions are satisfied for retrieving, over a network, a second version of the additional content. The second version may have a higher video fidelity than the first version. If the one or more conditions are satisfied, the client device may retrieve the second version and display the second version of the additional content. If the one or more conditions are not satisfied, the first version may be retrieved and displayed. Subsequent to displaying the first or the second version of the additional content, the application content may be displayed.
US09465602B2
Systems, methods, and computer storage media for upgrading a domain in a distributed computing environment are provided. Upgrading of the domain includes preparing for the upgrade, upgrading, and finalizing the upgrade. The preparation of the domain includes ensuring predefined quantities of role instances are available in domains other than the upgrade domain. The preparation also includes ensuring that a predefined number of extent replicas are available in domains other than the upgrade domain. The preparation may also include checkpointing partitions within the upgrade domain to facilitate faster loading once transferred to a domain other than the upgrade domain. The finalization may include allowing nodes within the upgrade domain to resume functionality that was suspended during the upgrade.
US09465597B2
A device is disclosed herein. In one embodiment; the device includes: a wireless transceiver; an interface for connecting with a terminal running one of the first and second operating systems; memory storing the driver software for installation on the terminal if running the second operating system; and processing apparatus operable to output a first definition of a configuration of the device and a second definition of a configuration of the device; wherein the first definition defines configuration of the device as a storage device for providing the driver software to the terminal; and on condition that the terminal is running the first version of the first operating system, the second definition defines configuration of the device as a modem.
US09465590B2
A code generating framework generates code for a model Application Program Interface (API). The framework comprises three components: an API code generator, a serialization code generator, and a deserialization code generator. The API code generator generates code for a model API. This model API produces a first model instance version in a first language. Code from the serialization code generator converts the model instance into a second version in a different language accessible to other applications (e.g., graphical modeling editors). Code from the deserialization code generator converts the second version of the model instance back into the original language. In a particular embodiment, the code generation framework generates JavaScript/XSJS APIs for manipulating model instances compatible with the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF). Serialization and deserialization code generated by the framework, converts the JavaScript/XSJS model instance into XMI recognized by other applications built on top of EMF, and back again into JavaScript/XSJS.
US09465584B2
A method for generating a random number, a memory storage device and a control circuit are provided. The method includes: writing data into a plurality of memory cells; reading at least one of the memory cells repeatedly according to a first read voltage to obtain a plurality of sensing currents; and generating the random number according to the sensing currents.
US09465580B2
A math circuit for computing an estimate of a transcendental function is described. A lookup table storage circuit has stored therein several groups of binary values, where each group of values represents a respective coefficient of a first polynomial that estimates the function to a high precision. A computing circuit uses a portion of a binary value, that is also taken from one of the groups of values, to evaluate a second polynomial that estimates the function to a low precision. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09465575B2
A fused floating-point multiply-add element includes a multiplier that generates a product, and a shifter that shifts an addend within a narrow range. Interpreting logic analyzes the magnitude of the addend relative to the product and then causes logic arrays to position the shifted addend within the left, center, or right portions of a composite register depending in the magnitude of the addend relative to the product. The interpreting logic also forces other portions of the composite register to zero. When the addend is zero, the interpreting logic forces all portions of the composite register to zero. Final combining logic then adds the contents of the composite register to the product.
US09465567B1
A method and system for printing comprises executing a formatter program on a removable Personal Computer (PC) card that controls printer controller functions of a printer. Printer formatter ready data is received from a host machine at a first interface of the removable PC card and print engine ready data is sent to the printer from a second interface of the removable PC card. A version of the formatter program is compared to a version of an updated formatter program. The updated formatter program is requested if the version of the formatter program is different than the version of the updated formatter program. The updated formatter program is downloaded from the host machine using the first interface when the second interface is coupled to the printer.
US09465566B2
A relay apparatus includes: a first transmission unit that transmits first information specifying the relay apparatus to the management apparatus through a network, in response to the relay apparatus being connected to the network; a collection unit that collects management information regarding a management target device, from the management target device connected to the network, in which the collection unit does not collect the management information from the management target device until an activation instruction is received from the management apparatus, and starts to collect the management information from the management target device only after the activation instruction is received from the management apparatus; and a second transmission unit that transmits the collected management information to the management apparatus.
US09465563B2
The present invention provides an apparatus (20) for defect detection in a printing system (1). The apparatus (20) comprises: a sensing unit (21) having at least one first sensor device (22) for sensing a surface geometry or topology of a sheet (S) to be printed as the sheet (S) travels on a transport path (P) of the printing system (1) and for generating data (I) representative of that surface geometry or topology; and a processor device (25) for processing the data (I) from the first sensor device (22) to detect and classify deformations (D) in the surface geometry or topology of the sheet (S) based on at least one predetermined criterion, wherein the at least one predetermined criterion is adjustable or variable to suit operating conditions in the printing system (1). Further, the invention provides a corresponding method of detecting defects in a printing system (1).
US09465556B2
A disk array system and a data processing method are provided. The data processing method is applied to the disk array system. The disk array system is a redundancy array of independent disk 0 (RAID 0) system. The disk array system includes a plurality of disks. The data processing method includes: receiving a reading command; determining whether to divide the reading command to a plurality of reading command segments according to the reading command; and assigning the reading command to a corresponding disk of the disks to read data stored in the corresponding disk accordingly when it is determined that the reading command is not divided.
US09465552B2
A method includes, in a memory controller that controls a memory, evaluating an available memory space remaining in the memory to write data. A redundant storage configuration is selected in the memory controller depending on the available memory space. Redundancy information is calculated over the data using the selected redundant storage configuration. The data and the redundancy information are written to the available memory space in the memory.
US09465549B1
An apparatus comprises a cluster file system, a burst buffer appliance coupled to the cluster file system, a high-speed memory pool configured for allocation between the cluster file system and the burst buffer appliance, and a controller associated with the high-speed memory pool and configured to dynamically adapt portions thereof between utilization as object storage servers of the cluster file system and utilization as burst buffers of the burst buffer appliance. By way of example, the high-speed memory pool comprises a plurality of flash servers that are reconfigurable between utilization as respective ones of the object storage servers of the cluster file system and utilization as respective ones of the burst buffers of the burst buffer appliance. The controller is configured to dynamically adapt the flash servers between utilization as respective object storage servers of the cluster file system and utilization as respective burst buffers of the burst buffer appliance.
US09465548B1
Methods and systems for managing resources in a networked storage environment are provided. One method includes using a queuing model for a resource that processes a plurality of requests at a networked storage environment for predicting a relationship between latency and utilization of the resource. The queueing model uses inter-arrival time and service time to determine latency, where inter-arrival time is a duration that tracks when requests arrive at the resource and the service time tracks a duration for servicing the requests by the resource. The method further includes identifying optimum utilization of the resource using the predicted relationship between latency and utilization, where the optimum utilization is an indicator of resource utilization beyond which throughput gains for a workload is smaller than increase in latency; and determining available performance capacity for the resource using the optimum utilization and actual utilization of the resource.
US09465541B2
An apparatus and a method for constructing a storage virtualization network are provided according to examples. The apparatus includes a storage module to store first area information. A management module determines whether a first apparatus belongs to the first area based on area information in a message sent by the first apparatus and the first area information. Second storage resources information of the first apparatus is obtained and first storage resources information is updated by utilizing the second storage resources information.
US09465528B2
A system and method is provided that manages book-related items via bookshelves in an electronic device such as a mobile device with an e-book reader function. The method includes: displaying one or more bookshelves; selecting one of the bookshelves; and editing the selected bookshelf according to a user's input information related to edit, and displaying the user information.
US09465510B2
A virtual environment is provided for displaying multidimensional models of data. Embodiments of the system provide an interface which allows a user to navigate intuitively and efficiently between alternative views of the data represented in the model, and to combine additional data categories with the existing model. Embodiments of the system draw upon cellular data stored in a database structure to represent the data in a graphical form on a visual display, wherein cellular data are data partitioned by at least two interrelated data categories into discrete ‘cells’. Models may be manipulated, viewed and compared using a user control device, such as a touch screen display. Alterations to the data stored in the database may be represented by commensurate changes to the objects displayed in the model, and the relational forms and shapes formed between the categories of data.
US09465507B2
Users may communicate an idea asynchronously by including contextual information. The contextual information may be presented in multimodal annotations, suggestions of logical idea progression, and a chronological history of the project creation. The contextual information may include content captured from the real-world including from the user's immediate environment or elsewhere.
US09465503B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for providing help content related to a software application to a user. The technique involves receiving a first discussion element associated with a first user and including textual input related to a first software application and first contextual information related to the first software application. The technique further involves receiving second contextual information associated with a second user and related to the first software application, determining a measure of correlation between the first contextual information and the second contextual information, determining that the first discussion element should be transmitted to the second user based on the measure of correlation, and transmitting the first discussion element to the second user.
US09465502B2
A multi-touch capacitive touch sensor panel can be created using a substrate with column and row traces formed on either side of the substrate. To shield the column (sense) traces from the effects of capacitive coupling from a modulated Vcom layer in an adjacent liquid crystal display (LCD) or any source of capacitive coupling, the row traces can be widened to shield the column traces, and the row traces can be placed closer to the LCD. In particular, the rows can be widened so that there is spacing of about 30 microns between adjacent row traces. In this manner, the row traces can serve the dual functions of driving the touch sensor panel, and also the function of shielding the more sensitive column (sense) traces from the effects of capacitive coupling.
US09465499B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a touch sensor that includes a mesh of conductive material configured to extend across a display. The mesh includes first lines of conductive material that are substantially parallel to each other and second lines of conductive material that are substantially parallel to each other. The first lines extend across the display at a first angle relative to a first axis, and the second lines extend across the display at a second angle relative to the first axis. First lines that are adjacent to each other are separated from each other along the first axis by a first separation distance, and second lines that are adjacent to each other are separated from each other along the first axis by a second separation distance.
US09465497B2
A touch sensing system includes a plurality of touch sensors, sensing lines connected to the touch sensors, a touch sensing integrated circuit (IC) sensing a touch input using signals received through a plurality of receiving channels, a plurality of differential amplifiers which are formed between the sensing lines and the receiving channels of the touch sensing IC and amplify a difference between touch sensor signals received through adjacent sensing lines, and a multiplexer which connects the adjacent sensing lines to input terminals of each differential amplifier in a forward sensing mode and switches the adjacent sensing lines connected to the input terminals of each differential amplifier in a reverse sensing mode.
US09465480B2
A position detection apparatus includes: a radiation section that radiates planar light along a target flat surface; a detection section that captures an image of an area irradiated with the light from the radiation section to detect the position of an object that reflects the light radiated from the radiation section; and an adjustment assistance section that transmits, when adjustment of installation of the radiation section is performed, a predetermined output based on a detection result obtained from the detection section when the detection section detects a reference object for the adjustment placed on the target flat surface.
US09465477B2
A resistive touch sensor system and method incorporating an interpolated sensor array is disclosed. The system and method utilize a touch sensor array (TSA) configured to detect proximity/contact/pressure (PCP) via a variable impedance array (VIA) electrically coupling interlinked impedance columns (IIC) coupled to an array column driver (ACD), and interlinked impedance rows (IIR) coupled to an array row sensor (ARS). The ACD is configured to select the IIC based on a column switching register (CSR) and electrically drive the IIC using a column driving source (CDS). The VIA conveys current from the driven IIC to the IIC sensed by the ARS. The ARS selects the IIR within the TSA and electrically senses the IIR state based on a row switching register (RSR). Interpolation of ARS sensed current/voltage allows accurate detection of TSA PCP and/or spatial location.
US09465472B1
A touch-sensitive display for an electronic device may include a touch sensor comprising a low birefringence substrate, ultraviolet (UV) stabilizers, and a metal mesh disposed on at least a portion of the low birefringence substrate. The low birefringence characteristic of the touch sensor substrate causes the touch sensor to exhibit low haze, high transmittance, and substantially no color, which provides improved optical properties over conventional touch sensor substrate materials used with metal mesh film. In some embodiments, the retardation value of the touch sensor substrate may be no greater than about 15 nanometers (nm). Additionally, the UV stabilizers prevent the substrate from yellowing and becoming brittle from exposure to UV radiation.
US09465468B2
A mobile terminal including a camera; a touchscreen; and a controller configured to start recording a video through the camera, display an editing region on the currently recording video including a time axis for a previously recorded part of the currently recording video and a plurality of thumbnail images listed on the time axis, receive an input of selecting a first point in the editing region for selecting a first portion of the previously recorded part while the video is currently being recorded, and overwrite the first portion of the previously recorded part with video currently being recorded.
US09465465B2
A touchpad apparatus extends, without having to be covered by a cover, up to an outer housing edge of an operating device. In two possible cases, not only touchpads and connections between the touchpads in the touchpad area are formed by patterns of conductive strips which cannot be resolved by the human eye, but also contact connection lines which connect contact elements to each other at two sides of the touchpad area.
US09465461B2
The technology disclosed addresses these problems by supplementing optical gesture recognition with the ability to recognize touch gestures. This capability allows the user to execute intuitive gestures involving contact with a surface. For example, in low-light situations where free-form gestures cannot be recognized optically with a sufficient degree of reliability, a device implementing the invention may switch to a touch mode in which touch gestures are recognized. In implementations, two contact microphones or other vibratory or acoustical sensors, that are coupled to an optical motion-capture and are in contact with a surface that a user touches, are monitored. When the contact microphones detect audio signals (or other vibrational phenomena) generated by contact of an object with the surface that the user touches, a position of the object traveling across and in contact with the surface is tracked.
US09465455B2
An information handling system (IHS) input system includes an IHS having an IHS processor and an IHS display screen coupled to the IHS processor. A pen is configurable to provide an input to the IHS. The pen includes a power supply system, a pen tip, a pen processor coupled to the pen tip, a pen memory that includes instructions that, when executed by the pen processor, causes the pen processor to provide a wake engine, and a motion activated device that is coupled between the power supply system and the pen processor. The motion activated device is configured, in response to movement of the pen, to couple the power supply system to the pen processor such that the wake engine activates the pen tip to configure the pen tip to provide inputs to the IHS processor through the IHS display screen.
US09465454B2
A mobile terminal device includes: a display; a display control module which displays an execution screen for an application program on the display; and a detection module which detects a posture of the mobile terminal device based on a gravity acceleration applied to the mobile terminal device. In this arrangement, the display control module controls a display direction of the execution screen with respect to the mobile terminal device according to the posture of the mobile terminal device, and performs suppression control so as to, even if the posture of the mobile terminal device is changed, suppress switching of the display direction corresponding to the changed posture, provided that a suppression condition for suppressing switching of the display direction is satisfied while the execution screen is displayed on the display.
US09465449B2
A pointing device is attached to a keyboard assembly. The pointing device includes an operation post; a sensor substrate that converts force applied to the operation post into an analog electric signal; a logic substrate that is attached to a rear surface of the keyboard assembly and generates a digital signal to move a cursor from the electric signal; and a cable that connects the sensor substrate and the logic substrate to each other. It is possible to reduce the area of a portion protruding to a lower side from the rear surface of the keyboard assembly in the vicinity of the operation post and to lower the height of the portion by separating the sensor substrate and the logic substrate from each other. Since the cable is separated from a motherboard, it is possible to reduce noise entering the cable which transmits an analog signal.
US09465448B2
A device and method to detect a gesture performed by an object in touch-less communication with the device are described. The device includes two or more ambient light sensors arranged at respective first surface locations of the device, each of the two or more ambient light sensors sensing light intensity at the respective first surface location. The device also includes one or more processors to operate one or more light sources at respective second surface locations of the device based on the light intensity sensed by the two or more ambient light sensors, and detect the gesture based on the light intensity sensed by each of the two or more ambient light sensors.
US09465443B2
An instruction point extraction unit extracts an instruction point of a user from an image in which a gesture of the user made while the user is looking at a display is captured. A distance calculation unit obtains a distance to the instruction point in the depth direction. A gesture recognition parameter adjustment unit adjusts a parameter related to detection sensitivity in the depth direction when operation input by the gesture of the user is recognized, based on at least one of resolution of distance measurement in the depth direction and three-dimensional display performance of a display. A gesture recognition processing unit recognizes the operation input by the gesture of the user based on the adjusted parameter in reference to the distance to the instruction point in the depth direction calculated by the distance calculation unit.
US09465442B2
A portable electronic device including a proximity sensing device having an emitter and a detector. The electronic device further including a housing for containing the proximity sensing device which includes an optical interface forming a face of the housing through which radiation between the emitter and the detector pass. The optical interface may include an oleophobic coating which is selectively modified such that optical interference from an optical interface near-field object on the proximity sensing device is reduced without reducing a sensitivity of the proximity sensing device to a target near-field object.
US09465438B2
A low-cost tactile feedback mouse device for providing haptic feedback to a user for enhancing interactions and manipulations in a graphical environment provided by a computer. The mouse device includes a sensor device able to detect the movement of the mouse in the planar workspace. An actuator is coupled to the housing of the mouse and applies an inertial force in a particular degree of freedom, preferably along an axis perpendicular to the planar workspace, where the inertial force is transmitted through the housing to the user. The actuator outputs the inertial force preferably by linearly moving an inertial mass along the Z-axis. The output force is correlated with interaction of a controlled graphical object, such as a cursor, with other graphical objects in a graphical environment displayed by the host computer. The inertial force can be a pulse, vibration, texture force, or other type of force.
US09465436B2
A method of image reconstruction is provided. The method includes capturing a stereoscopic pair of images of a scene, generating a disparity map for the pair of images, and defining a series of value ranges corresponding to disparity with each value range in the series having an end point corresponding to a greater disparity than an end point of preceding value ranges in the series. For each value range in the series, and progressing in order through the series from the first value range in the series, the method includes selecting points in the disparity map falling within the respective value range and generating a mesh responsive to those selected points. The method also includes subsequently merging the series of generated meshes to form a 3D model of the scene.
US09465434B2
Roughly described, different drawing regions are opened for different users on the same whiteboard. Each drawing region has its own set of line appearance properties, which the user can set with a toolbar. Lines drawn in a drawing region adopt the line appearance properties then in effect for that drawing region, which also apply to replications of the line on other devices in the collaboration session. As the user draws toward a boundary of the user's drawing region, the boundary automatically moves so that the drawing continues to contain the user's drawing activity.
US09465430B2
A memory with variable operation voltage is disclosed. The disclosed DRAM comprises a core memory module, a register, and a first voltage adjustment module. The core memory module operates with a first control voltage. The register is used for storing a plurality of control signals and selecting one among the control signals as a voltage control signal according to an input signal. The first voltage adjustment module is respectively electrically connected to the register, the core memory module, and an external voltage, so as to provide the first control voltage according to the voltage control signal and the external voltage.
US09465428B2
A computer device is disclosed. The computer device includes a central processing unit (CPU), a chipset, an input/output (I/O) chip, a general purpose I/O (GPIO) interface, and a smart battery. The chipset is electrically connected to the CPU. The I/O chip is electrically connected to the chipset. The GPIO interface is electrically connected to the CPU. The smart battery is electrically connected to the GPIO interface and the I/O chip. The CPU reads information of two bytes saved in the smart battery through the GPIO interface and determines a relative processing according to information of two bytes when a status of the smart battery is changed.
US09465424B2
In a particular embodiment, an electronic device includes a direct current (DC) voltage source coupled to a DC interface. The electronic device includes a receiver sense circuit configured to detect a connection of the electronic device to a sink device via a connector without consuming power from the DC voltage source. The electronic device further includes a controller coupled to a hot plug detect (HPD) interface. The controller is configured to receive a detection signal from the receiver sense circuit, selectively control a switch to enable and disable the DC voltage source based on the detection signal, detect an HPD signal at the HPD interface after enabling the DC voltage source, and disable the receiver sense circuit in response to detecting the HPD signal.
US09465420B2
Methods and devices for power cycling an electronic device are provided. Also provided are systems and kits.
US09465393B2
A power management circuit adapted for a portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device receives a supply voltage from a USB power supplying port through a built-in USB charging port. The power management circuit includes a USB detection unit, a voltage detection unit, and a control unit. The USB detection unit determines the type of the USB power supplying port. The voltage detection unit detects the supply voltage. The control unit configures the power consumption of the portable electronic device based on the type of the USB power supplying port and the supply voltage. When the portable electronic device initiates booting process with the USB power supplying port being the Dedication Charging Port and the supply voltage being lowered than a threshold, the control unit reduces the power consumption of the portable electronic device to maintain the supply voltage above the threshold for booting stably.
US09465387B2
The anomaly diagnosis system includes the state measure calculator acquiring sensor data from sensors in a machine facility as time series data; an approximation formula calculator calculating a state measure being an index indicating a state of the machine facility, such as anomaly and a performance by a statistical method in which the time series data is used as learned data; and a state measure estimating unit estimating the state measures until future time using the approximation formula. Whenever the latest time series data is acquired, the reference period in which the time series data corresponding to the state measure referred to calculate the approximation formula by the reference period setting unit, is successively extended by addition of time when the latest time series data is acquired. The approximation formula calculator calculates the approximation formula using the state measure of the time series data acquired in the reference period.
US09465386B2
A mobile robotic trolley-based processing system includes a conveyor platform including a conveying track, air supply valves arranged along the conveying track, a gantry support unit providing a catenary and a water supply unit, mobile robotic trolleys each including a wheeled trolley chassis movable along the conveying track, connectors connectable to the air supply valves for collecting compressed air, a pantograph kept in contact with the catenary for collecting electrical power, a robot arm for transferring profile materials individually, a cleaner having a water inlet pipe connectable to the water supply unit for collecting water or cleaning solution and a drive control system for controlling the operation of the robot arm and the cleaner, and machine tools for processing profile materials being transferred by the robot arm of each mobile robotic trolley.
US09465384B1
A method operable by a computing device is provided. The method may include receiving a request for a given task to be performed by a robotic system. The method may also determining one or more subtasks required to perform the given task, where the one or more subtasks include one or more parameters used to define the one or more subtasks. The method may also include determining an arrangement of the one or more subtasks to perform the given task, and providing for display an indication of the one or more undefined parameters for the given task. The method may also include receiving an input defining the one or more undefined parameters for the given task, and executing the one or more subtasks in the determined arrangement and in accordance with the one or more defined parameters to cause the robotic system to perform the given task.
US09465380B2
Optimized positioning paths for multi-axis CNC machining can be generated based on the machine tool kinematics, machine axes travel limits, machine axis velocity and acceleration limits, and machine positioning methodologies. Machine axes travel limits and machine positioning methodologies are incorporated in order to ensure that the developed positioning paths do not violate machine axes travel limitations. Multi-axis positioning paths are developed to avoid collisions with dynamically changing in-process stock and other surroundings, including fixtures and both moving and non-moving components of the machine. Positioning tool path customizations give the user the flexibility to apply safety based constraints to the automatically generated tool paths. The disclosed automatic positioning path planning and optimization methods are used to develop a process for part manufacturing using CNC machining in order to reduce the manufacturing cycle time.
US09465369B2
A consumer electronics (CE) device includes at least one processor and at least one computer readable storage medium accessible to the processor. The medium is programmed with instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute logic including detecting the position of the CE device and sending a command to at least one apparatus at a location distanced from the CE device to establish at least one configuration of the apparatus. The command is sent responsive to a determination that the CE device is passing a predefined distance from a location.
US09465360B2
A fixing device includes: first and second rotatable members configured to fix, at a nip therebetween, a toner image formed on a sheet by using a toner containing a parting agent; a casing provided with a sheet introducing opening and a sheet discharging opening and configured to include the first and second rotatable members; a fan; a duct configured to guide air from the fan toward one longitudinal end portion of the first rotatable member; and a cover member configured to cover an outer surface of the first rotatable member. The cover member extends inside the casing from a neighborhood of the sheet introducing opening to the duct.
US09465357B2
A cartridge that is attached to or detached from a main body of an image forming apparatus. The cartridge includes a memory unit that includes a contact portion via which the cartridge is connected to the main body and is connected to the main body to transmit information of the cartridge to the main body. The contact portion is moved to a first position at which the contact portion is hidden inside the cartridge and a second position at which the contact portions is protruded out of the cartridge to be connected to a connection portion provided in the main body.
US09465355B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body of the apparatus, a cartridge support member, an openable and closable member configured to open and close an opening portion, a linkage mechanism configured to link the openable and closable member and the cartridge support member to each other, and a locking portion configured to prevent the cartridge support member from being detached from the main body of the apparatus. The locking of the cartridge support member by the locking portion is released by releasing the linkage by the linkage mechanism to move the cartridge support member relative to the locking portion.
US09465353B2
A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a drum unit containing the drum, a developing unit containing the roller and being movable so the roller contacts and is spaced from the drum, and a first force receiver receiving a force from a main-assembly first force applier by movement of a door from open to closed positions when mounting the cartridge and a second force receiver movable from a stand-by position by movement of the first force receiver by a force received from the first force applier. The second force receiver takes a projected position receiving a force from the second force applier to move the developing unit so the roller moves out of contact with the drum, the projected position being higher than the stand-by position.
US09465348B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, a power supply device includes: a DC power supply that outputs a DC voltage; an AC power supply that outputs any one of the DC voltage and a superimposed voltage being the DC voltage with an AC voltage superimposed thereon; and a bypass capacitor that charges a part of a voltage that is output from the AC power supply. The DC power supply starts outputting the DC voltage in a constant voltage mode and, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, switches from the constant voltage mode to a constant current mode to output the DC voltage in the constant current mode.
US09465341B2
An image forming apparatus includes a rotating member; a forming unit for each of a plurality of colors used in image formation, configured to form a developer image of the corresponding color on the rotating member or on a recording medium on the rotating member; a driving unit configured to rotate the rotating member; a period detection unit configured to detect a rotation period of the rotating member; and a control unit configured to, according to a detection result detected by the period detection unit, obtain a variation in the rotation period of the rotating member due to a change in the driving unit, and perform correction control for misregistration in the developer image formed on the rotating member or on the recording medium on the rotating member by the forming unit.
US09465337B2
An image forming apparatus, upon receipt of an image formation request, controls execution of a second preparatory operation that needs to be performed so that the image forming unit is capable of performing image formation and, independently of the image formation request, controls execution of a first preparatory operation for preparation for the image forming unit before the second preparatory operation. The first and second preparatory operations are accompanied by driving of a photosensitive body. Further, the image forming apparatus, when the image formation request is received by the reception unit before completion of the first preparatory operation, determines whether the second preparatory operation is to be performed after the first preparatory operation without stopping driving of the photosensitive body or after the first preparatory operation by stopping driving of the photosensitive body, in accordance with content of image formation performed in response to the image formation request.
US09465334B1
A fixing device includes a fixing part in which an image on a recording material is fixed, and a guiding member provided on an upstream side with respect to the fixing part in a direction of transport of the recording material. The guiding member guides the recording material toward the fixing part while, if the recording material that is being transported is skewed, reducing a speed of movement of a preceding part of a leading end of the recording material. The preceding part is ahead of any other part of the leading end of the recording material.
US09465333B2
A recording material conveying device includes a stripping claw being in contact with one rotary body of a first pair of rotary bodies, and a supporting member supporting a recording material curved when a jam occurs. The supporting member includes a supporting section located more away from the stripping claw than an imaginary straight line (C) passing a nip portion of the first pair of rotary bodies and a surface on a conveying path's side of the stripping claw, and the supporting section supports the recording material curved when the jam occurs. The recording material conveying device further includes a conveyance guide that is disposed on the downstream side from the supporting member and is displaced toward a pressed direction by a pressing force acting when the curved recording material comes into contact with the conveyance guide.
US09465330B2
To remove toner, which is primarily transferred onto an intermediate transfer member, from the intermediate transfer member, a digital multifunction peripheral includes a first control unit that controls a second bias applicator to apply to a secondary transfer roller a bias of the opposite polarity to the charged toner when the toner passes through a position where the secondary transfer roller is placed, and a second control unit that, after the operation of the first control unit, controls a second bias applicator to apply to the secondary transfer roller a bias of the same polarity as the charged toner and controls a pre-brush bias applicator to apply to a pre-brush a bias of the opposite polarity to the toner.
US09465326B1
An image forming apparatus includes an intermediate transfer body, an image forming device including an image carrier (carrier), a developing device that develops an electrostatic latent image on the carrier into a toner image with a two-component developer (toner and carrier), a first transfer device that transfers the toner image onto the intermediate transfer body, and a first cleaning device that cleans the carrier's surface after the transfer process, a second transfer device that transfers the toner image onto a recording medium, a second cleaning device that cleans the intermediate transfer body's surface after the transfer process, a power-supplying device that supplies a developing bias, a first transfer bias, and a second transfer bias to the developing device, the first transfer device, and the second transfer device, respectively, and a controller that controls to perform a toner discharging operation of forming a toner image to be discharged on the carrier.
US09465325B2
An image forming apparatus and a method of controlling an image forming apparatus, and a non-transitory recording medium storing a program for controlling an image forming apparatus are provided. Each of the image forming apparatus, the method, and the program obtains and stores image identifiers, obtains and stores a passing image identifier for identifying an image to be output to a recording medium to which failure has occurred, transfers a developer image to the recording medium, holds the developer image, presses the recording medium against the holding member, generates and obtains a trigger signal used for determining timing at which a developer image reaches a transfer unit, detects an error in conveyance of the recording medium, and creates a gap between a holding member and a pressing member disposed opposite the holding member when an error is detected in conveyance of the recording medium.
US09465319B2
A toner container installed in an image forming apparatus includes a toner container main body having a predetermined length and in which toner is accommodated, a discharge port through which the toner is discharged from the toner container main body, a shutter which opens and closes the discharge port, a handle provided on the toner container main body, and a pressed portion provided on the toner container main body and which is pressed by the image forming apparatus to project the handle out from the image forming apparatus.
US09465318B2
A developer accommodating container for accommodating a developer includes: a toner seal member for unsealably sealing an opening of the developer accommodating container; an unsealing member, connected to an end portion of the toner seal member, for unsealing the opening by moving at least a part of the toner seal member; and an auxiliary unsealing member for assisting unsealing by changing a pulling direction of the toner seal member by the unsealing member. The auxiliary unsealing member includes a shaft portion or a projected portion. The shaft portion or the projected portion extends in a longitudinal direction of the developer accommodating container.
US09465317B2
A nozzle insertion member arranged in a powder container includes a nozzle insertion opening; an opening/closing member opening/closing the nozzle insertion opening; a supporting member supporting the opening/closing member; and a biasing member provided to the supporting member to bias the opening/closing member toward a closing position. When the powder is supplied to the conveying nozzle along with rotation of a rotary conveyor arranged inside the powder container, the supporting member rotates with the rotation of the conveyor. The opening/closing member is rotated by a drive transmitting mechanism with rotation of the supporting member. The mechanism includes an elongated member arranged on the opening/closing member and penetrating through an opening formed on the supporting member; and a drive transmitted portion formed on the elongated member; and a drive transmitting portion formed on an inner surface of the opening and configured to come into contact with the drive transmitted portion.
US09465297B2
In a method for fracturing or mask data preparation or mask process correction for charged particle beam lithography, a plurality of shots are determined that will form a pattern on a surface, where shots are determined so as to reduce sensitivity of the resulting pattern to changes in beam blur (βf). In some embodiments, the sensitivity to changes in βf is reduced by varying the charged particle surface dosage for a portion of the pattern. Methods for forming patterns on a surface, and for manufacturing an integrated circuit are also disclosed, in which pattern sensitivity to changes in βf is reduced.
US09465290B2
A curable liquid formulation comprising: (i) one or more near-infrared absorbing polymethine dyes; (ii) one or more crosslinkable polymers; and (iii) one or more casting solvents. The invention is also directed to solid near-infrared absorbing films composed of crosslinked forms of the curable liquid formulation. The invention is also directed to a microelectronic substrate containing a coating of the solid near-infrared absorbing film as well as a method for patterning a photoresist layer coated on a microelectronic substrate in the case where the near-infrared absorbing film is between the microelectronic substrate and a photoresist film.
US09465289B2
The present invention discloses a photosensitive resin composition for an insulating film of a display device including (A) an alkali soluble resin; (B) a photosensitive diazoquinone compound; (C) a color material having a maximum absorption wavelength of 400 to 550 nm; and (D) a solvent, an insulation film using the same, and a display device including the insulation film.
US09465283B2
An immersive dome includes a number of novel features designed to enhance the performance of the immersive dome over presently-known immersive dome environments. Projectors are mounted in a multi-tier tower, out of sight beneath a viewing platform positioned to provide optimal wrap-around viewing. The projection surface consists of open-cell foam that allows passage of behind-surface sound into the dome while allowing unwanted ambient noise within the dome to escape. A visually-reflective coating, in conjunction with the open cell structure, provides a textured surface that acts as a micro-baffle and suppresses cross-reflection of projected imagery.
US09465280B2
A projector apparatus includes a projector and a projector support table. The projector support table includes a turning unit and a fixed unit. The turning unit includes a projector support unit to which the projector can be attached. The fixed unit includes an intake port, and turnably supports the turning unit. The fixed unit also includes a first intake passage through which the intake air taken from the intake port passes. The turning unit also includes an intake air taking port for taking the intake air having passed through the first intake passage, a second intake passage through which the intake air taken from the intake air taking port passes, and an intake air discharging port for discharging, to the intake port of the projector, the intake air having passed through the second intake passage.
US09465278B2
Various embodiments provide for a telescoping monopod or a tripod with a telescoping pole that allows an imaging device to be mounted thereon and be remotely controlled via a mobile device. A mounting assembly on the monopod can include motors that facilitate pan and tilt functionality, and a controller that operates the motors and the imaging device. The controller can control the motors and imaging device based on instruction received wirelessly from a mobile device. A base enclosure in the monopod can include one or more batteries that power the imaging device and mounting assembly and also include memory for digital storage of the images recorded by the imaging device.
US09465273B2
A coherent extreme ultraviolet (XUV) radiation source is provided that includes a non-linear optical conversion material solid substrate disposed for nonlinear conversion of infrared (IR) coherent radiation into XUV coherent radiation, where the solid substrate includes an IR coherent radiation region, and an XUV coherent radiation waveguide region, where the IR coherent radiation region is optically coupled to the XUV coherent radiation waveguide region, where the XUV coherent radiation converted from the IR coherent radiation by the non-linear optical conversion material propagates in and outputs from the XUV coherent radiation waveguide region.
US09465272B2
The present disclosure relates to an electrically controlled fluorescent liquid crystal light valve and a display device thereof. The electrically controlled fluorescent liquid crystal light valve comprises a liquid crystal cell, a disubstituted phenylethylene photoluminescent material miscible with the liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal cell, and a control circuit for controlling the liquid crystal cell. By virtue of the electrically controlled fluorescent liquid crystal light valve and display device thereof according to the present disclosure, the disubstituted phenylethylene photoluminescent material used therein, as compared to a conventional liquid crystal light valve that uses a cyan-substituted-diphenylethylene photoluminescent material, has a better molecule planarity and a greater electron delocalization, which excites fluorescence more easily, exhibits more luminous efficiency and can effect a higher contrast; moreover, the disubstituted phenylethylene photoluminescent material used in the electrically controlled fluorescent liquid crystal light valve of the present disclosure has a fine compatibility with liquid crystal molecules, for which only a blending with the liquid crystal molecules is required before they can become homogenous, where the manufacturing process is simple.
US09465265B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) pixel includes a first substrate, a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the first substrate, an insulation layer configured to overlap at least a portion of the first electrode and the second electrode, a first slit electrode and a second slit electrodes disposed on the insulation layer, a second substrate disposed across from the first substrate, an upper-plate common electrode disposed on the second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the slit electrodes and the upper-plate common electrode. The LCD pixel driven by a plurality of regions in which different vertical electric fields are generated based on arrangements of at least one of the first electrode, the second electrode, the first slit electrode, the second slit electrode, and the upper-plate common electrode.
US09465264B2
An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are provided, and the array substrate comprises: a substrate (1); a thin film transistor, a passivation layer (5) and a transparent electrode (6), sequentially formed on the substrate, wherein a groove (51) is formed in an upper surface of the passivation layer (5), and the transparent electrode (6) is provided in the groove (51).
US09465263B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a gate line disposed on the first substrate, a data line disposed on the first substrate and intersecting the gate line, and a pixel electrode disposed in a pixel region at least partially defined by the gate line and the data line, and overlapping the data line, the pixel electrode including first and second sub-pixel electrodes separated from each other. Each of the first and second sub-pixel electrodes includes a horizontal stem extending in a direction intersecting the data line, and branches connected to the horizontal stem.
US09465258B2
A display panel having a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region is provided. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a sealant located in the non-display region, and a display medium. The first substrate includes a plurality of scan lines and data lines, a plurality of active devices, a plurality of pixel electrodes, and a common electrode located in the display region. The active devices are electrically connected to the scan lines and the data lines. The pixel electrodes are electrically connected to the active devices. The common electrode is disposed corresponding to the pixel electrodes. The first substrate further includes a shielding electrode located in the non-display region and is electrically connected to the common electrode. The shielding electrode is located between the sealant and the common electrode and surrounds the display region.
US09465256B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes a substrate, a thin film transistor array, a circuit, and a dummy circuit. One surface of the substrate is divided into a display region and a wiring region. The thin film transistor array is formed on the display region. The circuit and the dummy circuit are formed on the wiring region, the dummy circuit is adjacent to the circuit, and the circuit and the dummy circuit protrude from the substrate.
US09465255B2
A rubbing cloth, a roller, a method of forming an LC alignment angle and a method of cleaning debris are provided. The rubbing cloth is dyed by using a solution dissolved with a dye containing at least one of hydroxyl group and cyano-group. An outer surface of the roller is provided with the rubbing cloth. The method of forming the LC alignment angle forms the LC alignment angle by using a roller with an outer surface wrapped by the rubbing cloth of the present invention. The method of cleaning debris cleans debris by using the rubbing cloth or the roller under illumination condition. They present advantages of excellent cleaning effect, simple implementation and low cost.
US09465252B2
A dual-mode liquid crystal display device, a color filter substrate and an array substrate are provided. The display device comprises: a color filter substrate (10), an array substrate (20) assembled with the color filter substrate (10), and a liquid crystal layer (30) between the color filter substrate (10) and the array substrate (20). The pixel area of the array substrate (20) comprises red, green, blue and white sub-pixels; and the color filter substrate (10) or the array substrate (20) is provided with a fluorescent layer at the position corresponding to the white sub-pixels.
US09465241B2
The present invention discloses an apparatus for applying curing voltages to a liquid crystal substrate. The apparatus includes a plurality of probes, a detecting unit, and an alarm unit. The probes are utilized to apply a voltage to the liquid crystal substrate. The detecting unit is electrically coupled to the probes for determining whether the curing voltages are within a threshold range. The alarm unit is electrically coupled to the detecting unit for giving an alarm prompt when the voltage is not within the threshold range, so as to remind a person without delay. Therefore, the curing voltage applying apparatus of the present invention is capable of increasing product yield, so as to reduce production costs.
US09465230B2
A lens holding unit is held so that it can relatively move with respect to a base part to a direction vertical to an optical axis direction. The lens holding unit has a lens holder, a magnet part, and a spring. The lens holder has a first coil. The magnet part has a first magnet part which includes a first face facing to the first coil and a second magnet part which includes a second face vertical to the first face and constitutes a magnetic domain different from that of the first magnet part. These first magnet part and second magnet part are integrated.
US09465229B2
An image stabilizer includes a correction lens module including a correction lens and a correction lens supporting plate to which the correction lens is coupled, a plurality of drivers configured to move the correction lens module in a direction perpendicular an optical axis, each driver including a magnet member fixed to the correction lens supporting plate and a coil configured to react to the magnet member, and a plurality of location restoration units disposed to face the plurality of drivers, configured to restore the correction module to an initial location, and including magnetic bodies. The magnet member may include a first magnet, a second magnet, and a third magnet coupled in one body.
US09465224B2
If a detected orientation of a device is turned 180 degrees from the upright direction, a three-dimensional image that can be viewed normally as a stereoscopic view can be displayed regardless of the orientation in which the device is used, by turning images that are to be viewed respectively by the left and right eyes, and inverting the arrangement of the images that are to be viewed respectively by the left and right eyes.
US09465223B2
A crosstalk-reducing barrier panel is provided atop of a 3D-capable image panel where the image panel displays 3D imagery by alternatingly projecting left-eye imagery and right-eye imagery and where crosstalk may develop between leaked portions of the left and right-eye light rays produced by the image panel. The barrier panel includes a base substrate, odd-numbered barrier electrodes, even-numbered barrier electrodes, first through fourth signal delivering lines, and one or more signal generators that generate a first signal and a second signal. The first signal is respectively delivered to opposed ends of the odd-numbered barrier electrodes by way of a respective first “short-path” delivery route and also by way of a respective first “long-path” delivery route. The second signal is respectively delivered to opposed ends of the even-numbered barrier electrodes by way of a respective second “short-path” delivery route and also by way of a respective second “long-path” delivery route.
US09465216B2
A wearable display device is disclosed, which includes: a frame; a display unit configured to show an image in at least a partial area thereof and positioned in front of a user's eye in a first mode; a main unit coupled to the frame; and a hinge disposed at a coupling point of the display unit and the main unit to enable a rotation of the display unit, where the display unit is rotatable about the hinge by at least 180 degrees. With the device disclosed herein, it possible to prevent malfunctioning and damage even when the device is worn for extended periods, and it is also possible to resolve the problem of the wearable display device obstructing the field of vision when not in use.
US09465214B2
A vehicle recording event method and device to monitor one or more parameters at the vehicle based on a trigger condition during a vehicle drive event. The method may receive, via a vehicle computing system, a configuration from a handheld device to output at least a portion of one or more parameters at a heads-up display (HUD). The method may record the parameters during a vehicle drive event based on a trigger condition. The method may transmit the parameters to the handheld device for storage of the vehicle drive event.
US09465210B1
In an electro-optical device, a light-transmitting cover is disposed in mirrors, and when light is applied toward the mirrors through the light-transmitting cover, the temperature of the light-transmitting cover tires to increase due to the applied light. Here, in the electro-optical device, first metal portions that are in contact with the light-transmitting cover and the element substrate are formed. For this reason, it is possible to release the heat of the light-transmitting cover to a substrate through the first metal portions and the element substrate.
US09465209B2
An image display apparatus includes a light source unit, a scanning mirror unit that reflects and raster scans a light beam from the light source unit, a light source drive unit that drives the light source unit based on input image data, a microlens array that is arranged on an optical path between the light source unit and an eye of a user, and an optical sensor configured to detect the presence or absence of the microlens array. When the optical sensor fails to detect the presence of the microlens array, drive of the optical source is stopped.
US09465208B2
A facet mirror device includes a facet element, a support device and a clamping device. The facet element includes a first support section, while the support device comprises a second support section contacting the first support section to support the facet element. The clamping device includes a tensioning element, a first end of the tensioning element being connected to the facet element a second end of the tensioning element being connected to a counter unit. The counter unit includes a third support section, the support device including a fourth support section contacting the third support section to support the counter unit.
US09465199B2
An imaging optical system includes a bending optical element which bends an object-emanating light bundle, a post-bending lens system on a post-bending optical axis defined by the bending optical element, and an image sensor. An effective optical surface of a large-diameter lens element, having a greatest axial light bundle effective radius, is formed into a non-circular shape by making a length of the effective optical surface from the post-bending optical axis toward a side opposite from the object side smaller than the axial light bundle effective radius, with reference to the axial light bundle effective radius lying on a plane which extends orthogonal to a plane including both the post-bending optical axis and a pre-bending optical axis of the imaging optical system and includes the post-bending optical axis.
US09465195B2
An imaging lens substantially consists of a first lens-group, a stop and a second lens-group in this order from an object-side. The first lens-group substantially consists of three or less lenses including at least one negative lens and a positive lens. The second lens-group substantially consists of a 21st lens-group and a 22nd lens-group in this order from the object-side. The 21st lens-group substantially consists of three or less lenses and has positive refractive-power. The 22nd lens-group substantially consists of two lenses of a negative lens and a positive lens in this order from the object-side. Predetermined conditional formulas about distance on an optical-axis from a most-object-side lens surface in an entire system to an image-plane, maximum image height, distance on the optical-axis from a most-object-side lens surface in the first lens-group to a most-image-side lens surface in the second lens-group, and focal-length of the entire system are satisfied.
US09465194B2
An optical system includes a first lens having negative refractive power, of which an object-side surface is convex, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having negative refractive power, of which an object-side surface is concave, a fourth lens having positive refractive power, of which an image-side surface is convex, and a fifth lens having negative refractive power and having a meniscus shape in which an object-side surface thereof is convex. The first to fifth lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side. An aberration improvement effect may be increased and high resolution and a wide angle may be implemented.
US09465192B2
An imaging optical system, includes: in the order from an object side to an image plane side, a first lens group having a first lens which is formed as a negative lens; a second lens group having a second lens which is formed as a plano-concave lens, a third lens which is formed as a negative meniscus lens, and a fourth lens which is formed as a biconvex lens; an aperture stop; a third lens group having a fifth lens which is formed as a biconvex lens, and a sixth lens which is formed as a biconcave lens; and a fourth lens group having a seventh lens which is formed as a negative meniscus lens.
US09465188B2
A lens barrel includes a flexible printed circuit board, a moving unit, and a support frame. The moving unit is configured to support the flexible printed circuit board. The support frame is configured to allow the moving unit to move in an optical axis direction. The support frame is configured to house the moving unit. The support frame includes a guide groove for guiding the flexible printed circuit board. The moving unit includes a convex portion provided to its outer peripheral portion. At least part of the convex portion is disposed in the guide groove.
US09465180B2
A strain relief clamp system and method include a base with a plurality of plates arranged in a stack on the base. A fastener, such as a bolt having a nut threaded thereon, is situated to selectively draw the plates against the base so as to clamp a fiber optic cable strength member received between adjacent plates.
US09465175B2
An integrated optical coupling device may include a substrate, a coating layer disposed on the substrate, and a prism disposed on the coating layer. The prism may include a first surface and a second surface. The integrated optical coupling device may also include a first lens disposed on the first surface of the prism, a second lens disposed on the second surface of the prism, and an anti-reflection coating layer disposed on the first lens and the second lens.
US09465169B2
An optical device is described. This optical device includes optical components having resonance wavelengths that match target values with a predefined accuracy (such as 0.1 nm) and with a predefined time stability (such as permanent or an infinite time stability) without thermal tuning and/or electronic tuning. The stable, accurate resonance wavelengths may be achieved using a wafer-scale, single (sub-second) shot trimming technique that permanently corrects the phase errors induced by material variations and fabrication inaccuracies in the optical components (and, more generally, resonant silicon-photonic optical components). In particular, the trimming technique may use photolithographic exposure of the optical components on the wafer in parallel, with time-modulation for each individual optical component based on active-element control. Note that the physical mechanism in the trimming technique may involve superficial room-temperature oxidation of the silicon surface, which is induced by deep-ultraviolet radiation in the presence of oxygen.
US09465167B2
An optical-fiber-spliced portion reinforcing heating device of the invention includes: a pair of clamps that respectively grasp a coated portion of an optical fiber, the optical fiber including a fusion-spliced portion, the fusion-spliced portion being coated with a sleeve, the coated portion being exposed from the sleeve; at least two or more heaters that are arranged to face each other so as to sandwich the sleeve; a first force-applying member that presses at least one of the paired clamps so as to apply a tension to the optical fiber; and a second force-applying member that applies a pressing force to at least one or more of the heaters via the sleeve by use of one of an elastic member and a magnetic member in accordance with control of a drive source, the heaters being arranged to face each other with the sleeve interposed therebetween.
US09465164B2
Disclosed is an electronic apparatus including a circuit element including a first main surface, a first electrode provided in the first main surface, an optical element including a second main surface and being configured to either transmit or receive an optical signal, a second electrode provided in the second main surface, a window which is provided in the second main surface and through which the optical signal passes, a wiring layer provided on the first main surface and the second main surface, the wiring layer electrically connecting the first electrode and the second electrode, and an optical waveguide, which is provided on the second main surface and optically connected to the window, the optical signal passing through the optical waveguide.
US09465162B2
A package for an arcuate planar lightwave circuit (PLC) chip includes a heater plate coupled to a base by a thick and soft support layer. The arcuate PLC is attached to the heater plate by soft adhesive. A hard adhesive is applied to a multi-waveguide end of the arcuate PLC, to additionally strengthen the attachment of the arcuate PLC to the heater plate. The structure allows the mechanical stress due to fiber pull/shock/vibration to be dissipated in the support layer without introducing large wavelength shifts in the arcuate PLC. The support layer also serves as a heat insulator, facilitating uniform heating of the arcuate PLC.
US09465159B2
A light source unit includes light source substrates to emit light, a pair of first members arranged separately from each other, each provided with one light source substrates, a pair of light guide members having an outer circumferential surfaces where the light introduced therein is emitted therethrough, and a pair of second members to hold the pair of respective light guide members.Each of the pair of second members is made of a metal material and includes two projecting portions and an opening formed between the projecting portions where the light emitted from the light guide member passes, and end portions attached to the pair of first members respectively, to receive heat generated from the light source substrate through the first members.The pair of second members are arranged separately from each other forming a void portion therebetween to pass an optical axis of an image capturing device therethrough.
US09465154B2
To provide a light emitting device that makes it possible to form a surface light emitting apparatus of less unevenness in luminance. The light emitting device 10 of the present invention comprises a light emitting element 30, connecting terminals 21a, 21b connected with the light emitting element 30, a package 12 which has a recess 40 wherein the light emitting element 30 is mounted and from which a part of each connecting terminal 21a, 21b is projected outward, an opening 41 of the recess 40 being elongated in one direction, wherein both side walls of the recess 40 positioned in the longitudinal direction of the recess 40 are inclined surface 43, an angle θ between both the inclined surfaces 43 being 90 degrees or more. In the light emitting device 10 of the present invention, light emitted by the light emitting element 30 is spread sufficiently in the longitudinal direction of the opening 41 so as to produce a band-shaped beam. As a result, when a plurality of light emitting devices 10 are disposed along the longitudinal direction of the light receiving surface 72 of the light guide plate 71 for constituting the surface light emitting apparatus 70, unevenness in luminance can be suppressed from occurring as dark portions are less likely to be generated between adjacent light emitting devices 10.
US09465150B2
A protective film for polarizing plate contains a resin, an ultraviolet absorbing agent A having an absorption maximum in a wavelength range of from 350 to 400 nm and an ultraviolet absorbing agent B having an absorption maximum in a wavelength range of from 270 to 330 nm, and a content of the ultraviolet absorbing agent A is from 0.1 to 5% by weight relative to the resin, a content of the ultraviolet absorbing agent B is from 0.1 to 5% by weight relative to the resin, and the protective film fulfills the requirements (a) to (d) as defined herein.
US09465133B2
Downhole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methods that utilize oleophilic nanoparticle may allow for differentiation of light oil and oil-based filtrates. For example, a method may involve drilling a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation using an oil-based drilling fluid that comprises an oil base fluid and a plurality of oleophilic nanoparticles; performing a plurality of NMR measurements at a plurality of depths of investigation (DOI) of a near-wellbore portion of the subterranean formation; and producing an invasion profile of an oil-based drilling fluid filtrate into the near-wellbore portion of the subterranean formation based on the plurality of NMR measurements.
US09465131B2
Techniques involve determining the frequency-dependent dielectric permittivity spectrum of a rock sample. Determining the frequency-dependent dielectric permittivity may involve defining a series of electromagnetic measurement data having at least a measurement at a frequency from which a substantially frequency-independent value of dielectric permittivity ∈∞ can be obtained. The electromagnetic measurement data also includes measurements at different frequencies from which values for frequency-dependent dielectric permittivity ∈rock (f) can be obtained. Using these measurements, the frequency-dependent spectrum of the sample may be determined.
US09465130B2
An airborne electromagnetic survey system that monitors the dipole moment. A TDEM system includes a flexible transmitter loop and a receiver having three sensors with mutually perpendicular sensitive axes. In flight, mechanical and aerodynamic forces cause the transmitter loop to tilt and flex, which affects the direction and magnitude of the primary field dipole moment. The processing system measures the sign and amplitude of the primary field sensed by the receiver in each of its sensitive axes and calculates a vector which represents the orientation of the primary field in the receiver frame of reference at the receiver location. Using this vector, the processing system determines the orientation of the primary field dipole moment.
US09465127B2
Disposable antifouling covers for geophysical survey equipment. At least of example embodiments are methods including deploying marine geophysical survey equipment. The deploying may include: installing a disposable antifouling cover of plastic material on a portion of the marine geophysical survey equipment, wherein the disposable antifouling cover occludes a majority of an exterior surface of the portion of the marine geophysical survey equipment; and placing the marine geophysical survey equipment in a body of water.
US09465124B2
A wireless seismic data acquisition unit with a wireless receiver providing access to a common remote time reference shared by a plurality of wireless seismic data acquisition units in a seismic system. The receiver is capable of replicating local version of remote time epoch to which a seismic sensor analog-to-digital converter is synchronized. The receiver is capable of replicating local version of remote common time reference for the purpose of time stamping local node events. The receiver is capable of being placed in a low power, non-operational state over periods of time during which the seismic data acquisition unit continues to record seismic data, thus conserving unit battery power. The system implements a method to correct the local time clock based on intermittent access to the common remote time reference. The method corrects the local time clock via a voltage controlled oscillator to account for environmentally induced timing errors. The invention further provides for a more stable method of correcting drift in the local time clock.
US09465119B2
An apparatus is described. The apparatus comprising a gamma-ray spectrometer arranged to receive gamma-rays from a calibration source, the gamma-ray spectrometer comprising: a scintillator material optically coupled to two or more photomultipliers, the two or more photomultipliers being arranged to detect photons generated in the scintillator material associated with gamma-ray interactions between the scintillator material and gamma-rays received from the calibration source, wherein the two or more photomultipliers are operable to output respective detection signals associated with the gamma-ray interactions; the apparatus further comprising: a switch coupled to receive the respective detection signals from the two or more photomultipliers and operable to select detection signals from one of the two or more photomultipliers; and a stabilization circuit coupled to the switch and operable to receive the selected detection signal of the respective photomultiplier and to stabilize the gain of the photomultiplier that output the selected detection signal based on the detection signals.
US09465114B2
A module (software or ASIC) for use in a serving mobile Location Center (SMLC) or a mobile station having a GPS receiver (or an A-GPS receiver) for determining an ITOW for a CNAV-1 signal. Also provided is a module for a mobile with GPS (or A-GPS receiver) so that the mobile can use the ITOW (either the ITOW provided with the CNAV-2, or that calculated for the CNAV-1) to uniquely identify ephemeris information in a request for assistance message. Also provided is a module for a SMLC by which the SMLC can use the IOD fields in the assistance data messages in a way that uniquely identifies the associated ephemeris information.
US09465112B2
A three dimensional imaging camera comprises a system controller, pulsed laser transmitter, receiving optics, an infrared focal plane array light detector, and an image processor. The described invention is capable of developing a complete 3-D scene from a single point of view. The 3-D imaging camera utilizes a pulsed laser transmitter capable of illuminating an entire scene with a single high power flash of light. The 3-D imaging camera employs a system controller to trigger a pulse of high intensity light from the pulsed laser transmitter, and counts the time from the start of the transmitter light pulse. The light reflected from the illuminated scene impinges on a receiving optics and is detected by a focal plane array optical detector. An image processor applies image enhancing algorithms to improve the image quality and develop object data for subjects in the field of view of the flash ladar imaging camera.
US09465110B2
A detection apparatus and method for FMCW LIDAR employ signals that are modified so that low-cost and low-speed photodetector arrays, such as CCD or CMOS cameras, can be employed for range detection. The LIDAR is designed to measure the range to one or more targets and includes a single mode swept frequency laser (SFL), whose optical frequency is varied with time, as a result of which, a target beam which is reflected back by the one or more targets is shifted in frequency from a reference beam by an amount that is proportional to the relative range to the one or more targets. The reflected target beam(s) is/are combined with the reference beam and detected by the photodetector array. In the case of a sparse number of targets to be detected, Compressive Sensing (CS) techniques can be employed by a processor to reduce the number of measurements necessary to determine the range of each target.
US09465107B2
Wireless location identification systems, methods, and devices include a wireless device configured to transmit at least one sonic signal operating on at least one acoustic frequency and to receive at least one echo signal indicative of the at least one sonic signal being reflected by objects in a current location, an audio module configured to measure the received at least one echo signal and process the at least one echo signal to extract attributes of the echo signal and generate at least one echo profile characteristic; and logic configured to compare the at least one profile characteristic with previously-stored sonic characteristics that are correlated with pre-identified locations. The current location is then identified as a pre-identified location correlated to the previously-stored sonic characteristics that match the at least one profile characteristic.
US09465105B2
Disclosed herein are a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication-based vehicle identification apparatus and an identification method thereof. The V2V communication-based vehicle identification apparatus includes a radar sensor unit sensing radar information corresponding to relative distances to object vehicles, a GPS module unit generating GPS information from GPS satellites, a V2V communication unit transmitting the generated GPS information to the object vehicles and receiving GPS information of the object vehicles from the object vehicles through vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication, and a controller calculating probabilities that the GPS information of the object vehicles will be located at areas, set based on the sensed radar information, and identifying vehicles corresponding to the radar information and the GPS information of the object vehicles based on the calculated probabilities.
US09465104B2
The reliability and safety of Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) are improved by using the signals transmitted from an ADS-B unit as a radar transmitter with a receiver used to receive reflections.
US09465102B2
An apparatus for correcting an interpolation coefficient for stereo matching includes: an interpolation coefficient generator configured to generate an interpolation coefficient λ; a correction value calculator configured to calculate a parameter and a weight value based on a position of an object in an image; and an interpolation coefficient corrector configured to correct the generated interpolation coefficient by multiplying the calculated parameter and the calculated weight value by the generated interpolation coefficient.
US09465099B2
A method of measuring a position of a vehicle using a cloud computing includes obtaining surrounding information according to a driving of the vehicle and driving information of the vehicle. The obtained surrounding information and the driving information of the vehicle are transmitted to a server which is remotely located from the vehicle and equipped with map data. A position of the vehicle is calculated through the surrounding information and the driving information of the vehicle by the server. The calculated position of the vehicle is transmitted to the vehicle. The calculated position of the vehicle is outputted.
US09465087B2
The invention relates to a Hall effect sensor for recording the direction of a magnetic field, comprising a plurality of Hall effect sensor elements (10a, 10b) arranged in pairs, wherein each pair comprises a first Hall effect sensor element (10a) and a second Hall effect sensor element (10b) which are arranged parallel to one another. The Hall effect sensor has a first switch (34) for disconnecting the first Hall effect sensor element (10a) from a power supply (24).
US09465084B2
An apparatus for diagnosing a battery cell defect includes a battery having a plurality of battery cells, a sensing portion configured to sense the battery to generate sensing information, a calculation portion configured to calculate real used power and a cell voltage of each of the plurality battery cells using the generated sensing information, a monitoring portion configured to store information on whether the battery is overused in the form of a power monitoring set using the calculated real used power, and a determination portion configured to determine, when the calculated cell voltage reaches a preset lower limit voltage value, whether each of the plurality battery cells fails using the power monitoring set and a cell voltage deviation.
US09465083B2
In a voltage detecting device, a control unit turns on first switches and fifth switches corresponding to a plurality of unit batteries of an assembled battery to charge electric charge to first capacitors. The control unit simultaneously turns off at least one of the first switches or the fifth switches to hold the electric charge in the first capacitors. While selecting one of the unit batteries in a predetermined order as a target unit battery for voltage detection, the control unit temporarily turns off a fourth switch to reset electric charge of a second capacitor, and then turns of second switches and third switches in a state where one of the first switches and one of the fifth switches corresponding to the target unit battery are kept in an off state, thereby to detect a voltage of the target unit battery.
US09465075B2
A method of providing wetting current diagnostics for a load control switch includes changing test switch settings of a detection circuit from an operational configuration to a testing configuration. The test switch settings specify respective states of first and second test switches of the detection circuit. The first and second test switches are connected to a node of the detection circuit through which, in the operational configuration, a wetting current for the load control switch flows. The method includes determining whether a voltage at the node becomes no longer indicative of the operational configuration as a result of the changed test switch settings, returning the test switch settings to the operational configuration, and providing a wetting current fault indication if the voltage at the node fails to return to a level indicative of the operational configuration after returning the test switch settings to the operational configuration.
US09465074B2
A method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, controlling a vehicle using switching loss information of a semiconductor switching device, the switching loss information derived from a conduction loss and a combined conduction and switching loss.
US09465073B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes an on-chip logic that includes an input terminal, an output terminal, and a plurality of synchronizing circuits connected in a scan-chain; a test data in (TDI) line; a test data out (TDO) line connected to the output terminal; and a test access port (TAP) controller that transmits, to the input terminal, data output from one of a plurality of data sources, the data sources including the TDI line and the output terminal, in response to one or more selection signals.
US09465072B2
Embodiments of methods and systems for digital circuit scan testing are described. In one embodiment, a method for scan testing a digital circuit involves testing a digital circuit using a scan chain to generate scan data and distributing the scan data over a plurality of scan output terminals using a sample and hold device.
US09465048B1
The present invention provides a novel method of manufacturing the probe unit and a tip assemble and disassemble procedure for test tools, which includes a body with a joint portion and a base portion and a probe tip extending from one side of the base portion opposite to the joint portion, where the probe tip and the base portion are integrally made of same material different from the material of the joint portion.
US09465045B2
The invention relates to an aircraft (10) having a system for measuring a static reference pressure in flight, which system comprises: a pressure sensor (22) connected to the rear portion of the aircraft by a cable (16) and associated with a pressure intake (24) that is located, in flight, in an undisturbed zone downstream from the aircraft, the pressure signal (22) being suitable firstly for measuring a pressure coming from the pressure intake (24) and secondly for transmitting a signal representative of the measured pressure, e.g. an electric signal, to the aircraft; and a system (34) on board the aircraft, which system is suitable for determining a pressure measurement firstly from the transmitted signal and secondly from a position of the pressure sensor (22) relative to the aircraft (10). Pressure is measured dynamically while the aircraft is climbing or descending.
US09465042B2
A tape adaptor (8) includes a bottom plate (20) and a top plate (60) mounted to the bottom plate (20) with a space (40) defined between an upper side wall (26) of the bottom plate (20) and a lower face (68) of the top plate (60) for receiving a tape segment (100) remaining on or cut from a continuous array tape (10). The tape segment (100) includes an array of wells (54) between two edges (52). A slit (46) is formed between an end (62) of the top plate (60) and an end (22) of the bottom plate (20). The tape segment (100) is slideably extended through the slit (46) into the space (40) with the edges (52) sliding on two ridges (38) on two longitudinal edges (36) of the bottom plate (20). The bottom plate (20) can include at least one groove (30) to receive the array of wells (54) of the tape segment (100). The tape segment (100) is positioned relative to the tape adaptor (8) by the ridges (38) or the groove (30).
US09465034B2
A modular analyte measurement system having a removable strip port module. In one embodiment, the analyte measurement system includes: an analyte meter; a removable strip port module; and a connector linking the removable strip port module to the analyte meter. The analyte meter includes: a meter housing; a receptacle formed in the meter housing; a processing circuit disposed within the housing; and an input interface within the receptacle and electrically coupled to the processing circuit. The removable strip port module includes: a module housing sized to at least partially fit within the receptacle of the analyte meter; an analyte test strip port disposed within the module housing to receive an analyte test strip via an aperture formed in the module housing; and an output interface coupled to the analyte test strip port. The connector links the output interface with the input interface.
US09465029B2
This invention relates to methods for determining the activity of Lp-PLA2 in at least one sample from an animal. The invention also relates to methods for determining the inhibition of Lp-PLA2 activity in samples from animals that are administered an Lp-PLA2 inhibitor.
US09465028B2
The present invention provides surface plasmon resonance (SPR) based sensing systems and methods for rapid, sensitive, and real-time analysis of analyte secretion from living cells. In one embodiment, the SPR based sensing device of the present invention comprises at least one cell culture module for culturing living cells, wherein the cell culture module is configured so that analytes secreted from the living cells can be released onto a SPR sensing surface.
US09465020B2
The present inventions relate generally to methods, apparatus and systems for measuring snow stability and structure which may be used to assess avalanche risk. The disclosed apparatus includes a sensing unit configured to sense a temperature of a layer of snow as the sensing unit is being driven into the layer of snow. The disclosed apparatus may also be configured to take other environmental measurements, including resistance to penetration, humidity, grain size, slope aspect and inclination. Methods and apparatus are also disclosed for generating a profile of snow layer temperature according to depth based on the sensed temperature. Systems and apparatus are also disclosed for sharing the generated profiles among a plurality of users via a central server, and for evaluating an avalanche risk at a geographic location.
US09465018B1
A method for examining wear of a connector contact using atom transfer radical polymerization. Metals in the connector contact are involved in atom transfer radical polymerization. In the method, polymers are formed via atom transfer radical polymerization. A polydispersity index of the polymers are determined. The exposure of underlying metal layers of the connector contact is determined based on the based on the polydispersity index.
US09465009B2
An ultrasonic measuring device including: an ultrasonic transducer device; an emission unit for emitting an ultrasonic beam; a reception unit for receiving an ultrasonic echo reflected by a test subject; and a processing unit for processing reception, wherein the processing unit identifies a transfer function with respect to the ultrasonic transducer device and the test subject based on a first reception signal corresponding to an ultrasonic beam radiated to a first area in the test subject, a second reception signal corresponding to an ultrasonic beam radiated to a second area in the test subject, and a third reception signal corresponding to an ultrasonic beam radiated to a third area located between the first area and the second area in the test subject, and performs ultrasonic image generation processing including filter processing using a deconvolution filter including the transfer function performed on the reception signals.
US09465000B1
A system and method for measuring at least one property of a fluid includes a housing for receiving the fluid, a first and second spaced electrodes positioned in the housing, and an impedance modifier positioned between the first and second electrodes that changes an electrical impedance of the fluid between the electrodes. Electronic circuitry generates different waveform voltages across the electrodes and the fluid, monitors an output thereof to thereby obtain data related to impedance of the fluid for each waveform voltage; and combines data related to the outputs to create a unique identification signature for the fluid. Once signatures for known fluids have been created, they can be compared to a generated signature of an unknown fluid to identify the unknown fluid.
US09464986B2
A multiplex fiber optic biosensor including an optical fiber, a plurality of noble metal nanoparticle layers, a plurality of light sources and a light source function generator is disclosed. The optical fiber includes a plurality of sensing regions which are unclad regions of the optical fiber so that the fiber core is exposed, wherein the noble metal nanoparticle layers are set in each sensing regions. The light sources emit light with different wavelengths, and the noble metal nanoparticle layers absorb the lights with different wavelengths, respectively. The light sources emit the lights in different timing sequences or different carrier frequencies, wherein when the lights propagate along the optical fiber in accordance with the different timing sequences or the different carrier frequencies, a detection unit detects particle plasmon resonance signals produced by interactions between the different noble metal nanoparticle layers and the corresponding analytes.
US09464974B2
An automated in situ heat induced antigen recovery and staining method and apparatus for treating a plurality of microscope slides. The process of heat induced antigen recovery and the process of staining the biological sample on the microscope slide are conducted in the same apparatus, wherein the microscope slides do not need to be physically removed from one apparatus to another. Each treatment step occurs within the same reaction compartment. The reaction conditions of each reaction compartment for treating a slide can preferably be controlled independently, including the individualized application of reagents to each slide and the individualized treatment of each slide.
US09464968B2
A mobile sample collection system including housing enclosing a main influent peristaltic pump operatively connected to a main tubing line; a continuous flow centrifuge (CFC) operatively connected to the main tubing line, the CFC comprising a centrifuge bowl; and an elutriate collection tank receiving elutriate from the CFC. The main influent peristaltic pump is configured to continuously pump fluids from a liquid source through the main tubing line and into the CFC. The fluids, containing suspended solids and dissolved solids, are processed through the CFC so that the suspended solids are retained on the centrifuge bowl and the dissolved solids are pumped out of the CFC through the main tubing line and into the elutriate collection tank for sample collection and analysis. The elutriate collection tank includes a tank liner configured to prevent direct contact of pumped fluids with the tank. Excess fluids are returned to the liquid source.
US09464956B2
In a single-cylinder internal combustion engine fitted with a knock sensor, a temperature increase of the knock sensor is suppressed and prevented, and the reliability of the knock sensor is improved. The engine includes a crankcase, a cylinder block connected to the crankcase, a cylinder head connected to the cylinder block, a sensor mounting boss provided on the cylinder block, and a knock sensor mounted to the boss. Fins are provided on the cylinder block and the cylinder head. A heat insulation member is provided between the boss and the knock sensor.
US09464950B2
A capacitive pressure sensor includes a substrate wafer and a diaphragm wafer. The substrate wafer defines a substrate recess with a first recess. The diaphragm wafer defines a diaphragm recess with a second recess. The diaphragm wafer is bonded to the substrate wafer such that the substrate and diaphragm recesses form a height differentiated pressure chamber.
US09464949B2
A “semi-automated” device, method and/or system for the determination of line sag in a tensioned (e.g., power) line is described. A prescribed number of waves based on the waves required by a given sag-tension chart is input. After the device is directly or indirectly attached onto the line, the user then induces a wave on the line either by pulling/striking the tensioned line. The device automatically measures the acceleration/inflection of the passing waves and the time of arrival of waves, as well as ambient temperature, and signaling the user upon completion of the measurement. These recorded values can be used to determine the actual sag of the tensioned line, thus avoiding the current error-prone approach of using a manual stopwatch and visual deflection of the waves.
US09464944B2
An indicator or display that may be in the form of a label that can instantaneously provide confirmation that a product is in a good preservation state by making a simple visual check, and particularly to detect if the product temporarily went outside a determined temperature range and to memorize this event. Strict monitoring of a temperature range is essential to be able to guarantee quality of many products. The indicator or display may be applicable to any product or device for which the temperature has to be monitored between two thresholds.
US09464939B2
The detection device comprises a cold finger which performs the thermal connection between a detector and a cooling system. The cold finger comprises at least one side wall at least partially formed by an area made from the amorphous metal alloy. Advantageously, the whole of the cold finger is made from the amorphous metal alloy.
US09464934B2
The present disclosure provides for a correction filter that may be configured to comprise a predetermined arrangement of thin film layers. This arrangement of thin film layers may be such that it effectively enables a correction filter to generate a predetermined spectral response, wherein said predetermined spectral response is substantially the same as a determined instrument response correction associated with an instrument. The invention of the present disclosure therefore provides for effectively compensating for transmission inefficiencies associated with an instrument without the need for separate reference measurements to determine and correct for instrument response.
US09464930B2
A forklift scale to measure a load carried by a pair of forks of a forklift that includes a fork carriage to movably position the forks is provided along with a method to measure the load. The forklift scale may include a base coupleable to a fork carriage, a fork support system to receive the pair of forks, and a plurality of load cells configured to deform elastically in response to a load carried by the forks. The method to measure the load carried by the forks may include obtaining signals from the load cells and processing the signals to obtain a load value indicative of a load shared by the pair of forks. Other related forklift scales, load cells therefor and methods of measuring a forklift load are also provided.
US09464928B2
Disclosed is a holder for holding a liquid, which includes a supply chamber with a bottom surface, a peripheral wall standing from the peripheral edge of the bottom surface and a closing upper surface, wherein a passage opening is arranged close to or in the upper surface; a dosing chamber arranged on the passage opening of the supply chamber, wherein the dosing chamber further comprises a pouring opening for pouring the liquid out of the dosing chamber; and a closure for closing either the pouring opening or the passage opening as desired. At least a part of the dosing chamber extends below the level of the passage opening.
US09464924B2
A scale is used in a displacement detection apparatus (100) which detects a position of an object, the scale includes a pattern periodically formed in a measurement direction (an X direction), and the pattern is configured so as to change a physical property in a direction (a Y direction) perpendicular to the measurement direction without changing phase information in the measurement direction when a detector reading the pattern moves relative to the pattern in the direction perpendicular to the measurement direction.
US09464923B2
In order to make it possible to be readily attachable and detachable with respect to a motor and capable of realizing a lead-free encoder sensor mounting body, an encoder sensor is detachably or fixedly attached on a base, the base being pressedly in contact with an electrode terminal of the motor and including a pressing contact part that is electrically connected to a power line, and thus the base is detachably fixed to an end surface of the motor by a pressing force of the pressing contact part.
US09464913B2
An assistive vehicular guidance system for locating a spotter vehicle in a target location near a target machine. The guidance system has a positioning system including global positioning sensors on the spotter vehicle and target machine, and user interfaces providing visual and/or auditory cues. An assist module includes long-range and short-range network radios and an analyzer. The analyzer interfaces with the global positioning sensors, the long-range and short-range network radios, and the user interfaces, planning a path for the spotter vehicle and providing cues in guiding the spotter vehicle along the path to the target location. A communications system includes short-range and long-range networks, the short-range network connecting the short-range network radios of the spotter vehicle and the target machine. The long-range network includes a VPN and server, connecting the long-range radios of the spotter vehicle and target machine with the server via the VPN.
US09464910B2
A user can selectively download complete databases of selected favorite chains (or other selected destinations or collections of destinations) from a server and store them on a portable media device. The user can also create his own address book with locations that he selects. The user can also create trip plans, containing locations selected by the user that are associated with specific trips. The address books and trip plans can also be stored on the portable media device. The user can then access the portable media device with the navigation system to select destinations stored there. The destinations are both more efficiently accessible by the user and more up to date, since the information on the server can be updated more frequently.
US09464907B1
Dynamically establishing a temporary safe evacuation route away from an unsafe situation using unmanned vehicles. The temporary safe evacuation route is determined based on real-time information regarding the unsafe situation. A network of unmanned vehicles are deployed and positioned at determined points along the safe evacuation route. Guidance is provided to the network of unmanned vehicles for display along the safe evacuation route by the unmanned vehicle to aid people in evacuating from the unsafe situation. Information in real time regarding the unsafe situation may be received from the unmanned vehicles. Based on the information received, the safe evacuation route may be adjusted.
US09464906B1
Aspects generate customized routes that select between human-powered and motorized transport option segments to maximize well-being objective in navigating a traveler to a destination. Amounts of human-powered transport options that a traveler is willing, able or recommended to perform via the traveler's own physical exertions in reaching a destination are determined as a function of well-being or cost objectives and performance limits. Recommended routes to the destination having human-powered and/or motorized transport option segments are generated that meet well-being objectives without exceeding amounts that the traveler is currently able to perform, and excluding segments that require efforts that do not meet the well-being objective or exceed the amounts that the traveler is currently able to perform.
US09464901B1
A system, device, and method for generating an RNP-scaled waypoint symbology presentable to a pilot are disclosed. The symbology generating system may include a source of source of navigation data, a symbology generator (SG), and a presentation system. The SG may be configured to acquire navigation data representative of one or more distance measurements of an area navigation system or a required navigation performance system; and generate presentation data as a function of each distance measurement. The presentation data could be representative of waypoint symbology presentable to a viewer. In some embodiments, the waypoint symbology may be comprised of a two-dimensional object or a three-dimensional object having a plurality of shapes centered on a reference line, where a size of a first shape may be scaled to a first distance measurement, and a size of a second shape may be scaled to a second distance measurement.
US09464895B2
Systems and methods are provided herein that provide for remote leveling and positioning. An embodiment includes a leveling device assembly. Another embodiment provides a system including a leveling device assembly and a plurality of audio devices. Further embodiments provide for systems having a plurality of leveling device assemblies and appliances that are configured to couple with the leveling device assembly.
US09464890B2
A dynamic data acquisition system is disclosed for continuously recording, measuring and analyzing test cycle data of dimensional changes of a work piece before, during and after climatic changes. An optional climate chamber with an environmentally encapsulated camera system may be used to control the climate during the test cycle. A method of operating the dynamic data acquisition system is disclosed, as well as a business method for the new business model created by utilizing the system.
US09464889B2
A method comprises a calibration curve creation step in which a calibration curve is created on the basis of hardened surface layer depth. A destructive test is performed on one of two samples in pairs, and propagation time of a first peak of a first wave of waveform of a signal outputted with the other in pairs in a non-destructive test is determined, the samples in pairs being prepared such that carburization depth varies gradually from pair to pair. A waveform of a signal outputted with a to-be-inspected piece is obtained. The propagation time of a first peak of a first wave of the waveform of the signal output with the to-be-inspected piece is obtained, and the hardened surface layer depth of the to-be-inspected piece is obtained using the calibration curve, on the basis of the propagation time obtained with the to-be-inspected sample.
US09464888B2
A method and apparatus for sensing boundaries between materials are provided. The method for sensing boundaries between materials comprises the steps of: fixing sensing modules in place; transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals; and analyzing radio frequency signals. The method enables real-time detection of positions of the boundaries between materials and handling and monitoring of changes in the boundary positions. The apparatus for sensing boundaries between materials comprises at least two sensing modules, or a radio frequency transmitting unit and a plurality of radio frequency signals receiving unit, or a plurality of radio frequency transmitting unit and a radio frequency signals receiving unit. The radio frequency signals are transmitted, received and analyzed by the radio frequency transmitting unit and the radio frequency signals receiving unit to determine the boundary positions and changes therein.
US09464881B2
Disclosed herein are a displacement sensor and a displacement detection apparatus and method. The displacement detection apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a receiving unit for receiving a plurality of receiver signals dependent on displacement of a coupler element, an acquisition unit for acquiring information about the displacement of the coupler element and information about a gap between the coupler element and a transmitting coil or the plurality of receiver coils by using the plurality of receiver signals, and a compensation unit for compensating for the acquired displacement information using the acquired gap information. The acquisition unit acquires the displacement information of the coupler element using one of the plurality of receiver signals, and acquires a compensation signal, independent of the displacement of the coupler element including the gap information, using remaining receiver signals.
US09464879B2
A measuring device includes a housing and a caliper positioned inside the housing. The housing has a proximal end and a distal end and defines an axis from the proximal end to the distal end. The caliper includes a first measurement probe extending out of the housing in a first direction, a second measurement probe extending out of the housing in a second direction that is substantially opposite of the first direction, and measurement circuitry configured for transmitting a measurement signal based on the relative positions of the first and second measurement probes.
US09464872B2
According to the invention there is provided a protective material for dissipating the kinetic energy of a moving object including a plurality of layers of fibrous armor material in which at least some adjacent layers of fibrous armor material are separated by one or more separator layers for reducing inter-layer friction.
US09464869B1
A hybrid bracket assembly for mounting an archery sight or other accessory to an archery bow includes a core and a frame. The core has a plate constructed of a material having a first stiffness. The plate has a first side, an opposing second side, and a peripheral edge located between the first and second sides, and at least one set of mounting holes extending through a thickness of the plate for mounting the hybrid bracket assembly to the archery bow. The frame includes a moldable material with a second stiffness less than the first stiffness. The moldable material extends around at least a segment of the peripheral edge and overlaps an area of the first and second sides of the plate.
US09464863B2
A buttstock includes a mounting extension member attachable to a firearm receiver, an adjustable butt pad for varying the length of the stock, and an adjustable cheek rest for adjusting the height of the stock. The butt pad assembly is attached to the extension member by a laterally compressible clamping member operated by a double-acting cam lever having two locking surfaces and a non-locking release surface. At least one adjustment rail extends forward from the butt pad through opposing movable jaws of the clamping member. The rail can slide forward/rearward to adjust the stock length which is lockable via the cam lever locking surfaces. The cheek rest includes compressible opposing adjustment legs operated by a similarly configured cam lever in one embodiment. The height of the cheek rest may be adjusted and locked in position in a similar manner.
US09464860B2
A shotgun sound simulator comprises an elongated enclosed tube defining a combustion chamber into which an ignitable mixture can be combusted. The tube also includes at least one baffle and an open end having a smaller diameter than the tube. The open end permits ignited gases to escape. By controlling the ratios of the tube diameter (TI), the outlet port diameter (OP), baffle opening diameter (BH), combustion chamber length (CC); and the distance from the combustion chamber to the outlet port (RC), a simulated shotgun sound can be produced upon combustion of a gas in the combustion chamber. Conveniently, the outlet port can be made to receive a training bumper that is launched when the gas is ignited.
US09464859B2
A firearm with barrel extension comprises a receiver, a barrel supported by the receiver that defines an ammunition shell chamber, and a rotatable locking bolt having radial bolt lugs. The bolt is carried by a slide disposed in the receiver for forward and rearward movement. A barrel extension is mounted on a rear end of the barrel which includes radial bolt locking lugs that rotatably engage the bolt lugs when the bolt is in a closed locked breech position in battery with the head of a chambered shell. The barrel extension includes a rear facing annular rim seating surface formed integrally on the barrel extension as a unitary structural part thereof. The rim seating surface extends radially inwards from an interior surface of the barrel extension to engage and support the rear rim of the chambered shell. The headspacing is defined entirely by the barrel extension independently of the barrel.
US09464858B2
A compact silencer device for a firearm comprising of multiple chambers which trap the gases from a projectile exiting the barrel of a gun to slow down the gases and reduce the temperature, sound, and flash associated with the projectile. In one embodiment, the first chamber which attaches to the barrel of the firearm comprises of sound baffling materials or gas porting baffles which vent gases from the second chamber passing rearward. The second chamber comprises of a chamber which can accommodate a retractable third chamber of the device, the second and third chamber of the device can have sound baffles to slow down the gases from the projectile.
US09464854B2
A method that controls pressure within an immersion cooling tank having condensation fluid flowing through a condenser, includes: a controller receiving a signal that indicates a current level of vapor pressure within the tank; determining from the signal when the current level of vapor pressure exceeds or is below a first preset threshold pressure level; and in response to the current level of vapor pressure exceeding or being below the first preset threshold pressure level, signaling a flow control mechanism that modulates a flow rate of the condensation fluid through the condenser to increase or decrease the rate of flow from a current rate of flow. The controller receives the signal by a pressure sensor within the immersion cooling tank detecting the current vapor pressure, generating the signal and forwarding the signal to the controller. The pressure sensor can be a differential pressure transducer that measures a differential pressure internal to and outside of the immersion tank.
US09464851B2
A flooded heat exchanger of is described. The flooded heat exchanger has a primary tube bundle inside which a first operating fluid flows, a skirt surrounding the primary tube bundle and receiving a second operating fluid which flows over the primary tube bundle, and one or more extractable units, each in turn having a secondary tube bundle which receives an auxiliary operating fluid, and a secondary tube plate for performing a removable connection to the flooded heat exchanger.
US09464848B2
A method and apparatus for cooling hot gas streams in the temperature range 800° C. to 1600° C. using multi-stage circulating fluid bed (CFB) coolers is disclosed. The invention relates to cooling the hot syngas from coal gasifiers in which the hot syngas entrains substances that foul, erode and corrode heat transfer surfaces upon contact in conventional coolers. The hot syngas is cooled by extracting and indirectly transferring heat to heat transfer surfaces with circulating inert solid particles in CFB syngas coolers. The CFB syngas coolers are staged to facilitate generation of steam at multiple conditions and hot boiler feed water that are necessary for power generation in an IGCC process. The multi-stage syngas cooler can include internally circulating fluid bed coolers, externally circulating fluid bed coolers and hybrid coolers that incorporate features of both internally and externally circulating fluid bed coolers. Higher process efficiencies can be realized as the invention can handle hot syngas from various types of gasifiers without the need for a less efficient precooling step.
US09464847B2
Shell-and-tube heat exchangers that utilize one or more foam heat transfer units engaged with the tubes to enhance the heat transfer between first and second fluids. The foam of the heat transfer units can be any thermally conductive foam material that enhances heat transfer, for example graphite foam. These shell-and-tube heat exchangers are highly efficient, inexpensive to build, and corrosion resistant. The described heat exchangers can be used in a variety of applications, including but not limited to, low thermal driving force applications, power generation applications, and non-power generation applications such as refrigeration and cryogenics. The foam heat transfer units can be made from any thermally conductive foam material including, but not limited to, graphite foam or metal foam. In an embodiment, the heat exchanger utilizes tubes that are twisted around a central foam heat transfer unit.
US09464846B2
Embodiments of the present invention comprise a refractory delta made from a refractory material having a cold-face side and a hot-face side. One or more electrode apertures are located in the refractory delta for receiving one or more electrodes. One or more cooling apertures extend from the cold-face side of the refractory material to adjacent the hot-face side of the refractory material. The one or more cooling apertures may further comprise a copper tube. A cooling system delivers a cooling liquid to the one or more cooling apertures, and the cooling liquid draws heat from the adjacent refractory material, including the hot-face side, and evaporates to allow replacement cooling liquid to further draw heat from the adjacent refractory material.
US09464843B2
In one aspect, the present invention is directed to a shoe drier, comprising: a structure (16) having an enclosed space into which shoes (28) are placed for drying; a heating system (detailed in FIG. 4 and the description thereof), for heating air inside said structure, thereby drying said shoes; a first rack (36), disposed inside said enclosed space, onto which said shoes are placed for drying; a mechanism for lifting said first rack as a result of opening the top of said structure, and placing down said first rack as a result of closing the top of said structure (detailed in FIG. 3 and the description thereof); thereby facilitating the use thereof for a disabled user.
US09464842B2
In one embodiment, a carbon dioxide separating and capturing system includes an absorption tower to allow a gas containing carbon dioxide to contact with an absorption liquid and discharge a first rich liquid which is the absorption liquid having absorbed the carbon dioxide, and a regeneration tower to cause the absorption liquid to release a gas containing the carbon dioxide and discharge a lean liquid whose carbon dioxide concentration is lower than that of the rich liquid. The system further includes a reboiler to heat the absorption liquid in the regeneration tower by using steam, and a flow divider to divide the first rich liquid into second and third rich liquids. The system further includes a first heat exchanger to heat the second rich liquid by using the lean liquid, and a second heat exchanger to heat the third rich liquid by using water discharged from the reboiler.
US09464840B2
A gas defrosting system is disclosed for efficiently defrosting refrigeration units using fluid-cooled condensers. For each refrigeration unit in refrigeration mode, a cool condenser fluid is applied to the condenser to achieve a high thermodynamic efficiency. For each refrigeration unit in defrost mode, a warm defrost fluid is applied to the condenser to expedite the defrost process.
US09464833B2
A method for converting a refrigerant recovery unit from use with a first refrigerant to use with a second refrigerant includes the steps of opening, with a controller, solenoids along a refrigerant path to remove residue of the first refrigerant into a holding vessel, operating a vacuum pump, as indicated by the controller, to further remove the residue of the first refrigerant from the refrigerant path, introducing, via the controller, an amount of the second refrigerant into the refrigerant path, determining, with a refrigerant identifier, a purity of the second refrigerant in the refrigerant path. A kit is also provided to convert the refrigerant recovery unit for use with the first refrigerant to the second refrigerant.
US09464829B2
An air-conditioning apparatus including: a refrigerant circuit having a compressor, a refrigerant flow switching valve, a heat exchanger related to the heat transfer medium, an expansion valve, a heat source-side heat exchanger which is connected by a refrigerant pipe to form a refrigeration cycle, a heat transfer medium circuit having the heat exchanger related to the heat transfer medium, a pump, a plurality of use-side heat exchangers which are connected by a heat transfer medium pipe, and an opening and closing valve provided to the heat transfer medium supply pipe.
US09464825B2
A refrigerator includes a main body in which a first storage compartment is defined, and a heat exchange chamber defined in the main body. An evaporator received in the heat exchange chamber. A second storage compartment is provided in the first storage compartment and a quick cooling module to cool an inside of the second storage compartment is provided, where the quick cooling module heat-exchanges with a refrigerant pipe of the evaporator. The quick cooling module includes a thermal conductive unit in thermal conduction with the refrigerant pipe, and a thermoelectric device having a first surface in thermal conduction with the thermal conductive unit to heat-exchange with the thermal conductive unit when current is supplied and a second surface facing the second storage compartment.
US09464823B2
The invention is directed toward a vapor-liquid heat and/or mass exchange device that can be used in an integrated heat and/or mass transfer system. To achieve high heat and mass transfer rates, optimal temperature profiles, size reduction and performance increases, appropriately sized flow passages with microscale features, and countercurrent flow configurations between working fluid solution, vapor stream, and/or the coupling fluid in one or more functional sections of the desorber are implemented. In one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, a desorber section utilizes a heating fluid flowing in a generally upward direction and a concentrated solution flowing in a generally downward direction with gravity countercurrent to the rising desorbed vapor stream. To further increase the efficiency of the system, various types of column configurations can be used. Additionally, the surfaces of the microchannels can be altered to better transfer heat.
US09464821B2
This invention relates to a solar furnace. In particular, this invention relates to a solar furnace which is capable of raising the temperature of transfer medium. In use, the heated transfer medium can be used to generate electricity or put to other work, such as, for example, air conditioning, pasteurisation or desalination. In fact, for any situation that requires a source to generate work or power. The present invention describes a solar furnace for raising the temperature of a heat transfer medium, comprising a lens array for admitting incident thermal and solar energy onto a reflector portion and a pressure vessel. The reflector portion being generally shaped so as to concentrate said solar energy onto said pressure vessel. The pressure vessel having an inlet through which said heat transfer medium is injected and a central core which defines a continuous heat transfer path for said heat transfer medium to contact the surface of said pressure vessel and exit said pressure vessel at an outlet. The solar furnace described herein is totally self-contained, requiring no additional power and can be used at the most remote locations requiring very little maintenance.
US09464815B2
Systems, devices, and methods are presented for using a liquid desiccant to regulate a moisture content of air conditioned by a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system. The liquid desiccant is disposed within a processing volume, which is substantially-enclosed and substantially segregates the liquid desiccant from the conditioned air. A pair of vapor-permeable membranes define opposite surfaces of the processing volume. Water vapor diffuses through the vapor-permeable membranes, thereby enabling an exchange of moisture between the liquid desiccant and the conditioned air. The refrigerant circuit itself is used to cool desiccant in the absorber and heat desiccant in the desorber. Other systems, devices, and methods are presented.
US09464814B2
Cleaning apparatus for kitchen equipment, in particular combination streaming, baking and cooking equipment has a cooking space that is to be cleaned which is delimited by at least one wall and includes at least one outlet opening for a liquid. The apparatus comprises a ventilation fan associated with the cooking space having a drive motor; a collecting tank which at least temporarily collects the liquid that exits the cooking space via the outlet opening; a supply line that can be used to supply fresh water and/or a cleaning fluid that can be controlled through a valve in the line; a circulating pump provided at the collecting tank for the liquid sitting in the collecting tank; a circulation line by which the liquid sitting in the collecting tank and conveyed by the circulating pump can be supplied to the cooking space and a drain line for discharging the liquid that exits the cooking space. A drain pump is provided at the circulation container in addition to the circulating pump which is able to actively convey the liquid sitting in the collecting tank, together with solids that may be present therein, into the drain line.
US09464800B2
A light emitting module includes a light source board having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface and extending from one end to the other end, forming a spiral shape; at least one light source disposed on the first surface of the light source board; and a heat dissipation plate disposed on the second surface of the light source board and provided with a contact surface having a spiral shape corresponding to that of the light source board.
US09464797B1
The present invention discloses a lighting effect-controllable computer case, which comprises a computer case containing electrically-connected computer components, including a motherboard and a power source; a lighting controller electrically connected with the motherboard disposed inside the computer case; and at least one LED light strip disposed inside or outside the computer case, electrically connected with the lighting controller, including a plurality LEDs, and presenting different lighting effects according to at least one control signal generated by the lighting controller.
US09464791B2
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.
US09464789B2
A modular LED explosion-proof lamp usable in any environment includes a body, a wiring box assembly, an illumination unit and a positioning assembly. The body includes a first coupling port, a second coupling port and a third coupling port. The wiring box assembly is connected to the first coupling port, or the second coupling port or the third coupling port. The illumination unit is connected to the first coupling port, or the second coupling port or the third coupling port. The positioning assembly is connected to the first coupling port, or the second coupling port or the third coupling port. Hence the wiring box assembly, the illumination unit or the positioning assembly can be selectively connected to the first coupling port, or the second coupling port or the third coupling port. Thus the modular LED explosion-proof lamp can be assembled in a plurality of implementation fashions.
US09464784B2
The present disclosure describes embodiments of an optical system for use in a lighting device, e.g., replacements for MR/PAR/R directional lamps. In one embodiment, the optical system comprises optical elements (e.g., a lens element) with features that form light from a light source into a light beam. In one embodiment, the optical elements have a plurality of focus points, which do not all converge to a single focus point proximate the light source. Rather one or more of the focus points are spaced apart from the light source so the collective configuration of focus points causes the light beam to exhibit favorable characteristics.
US09464781B1
An appliance configured to uniformly illuminate features of a user interface of the appliance is provided. More specifically, a user interface assembly including a reflective surface for reflecting light from one or more light sources to uniformly and/or evenly illuminate one or more features of a user interface is provided. In particular, a user interface assembly configured to uniformly illuminate relatively large graphical and/or textual features of a user interface is provided. Moreover, a reflective surface designed to enhance and/or brighten the illumination of a sub-feature within a larger illuminated feature of a user interface is provided.
US09464771B1
A light bar assembly is disclosed which is configured to be placed adjacent at least one edge of a glass member such as a countertop, backsplash, or mirror. The light bar assembly includes a first support member having a second support member selectively secured thereto. An LED light strip is positioned in the lower support member so as to direct light into the glass member. If the light strip fails, the upper support member may be detached from the lower support member to provide ready access to the light strip for repair or replacement.
US09464767B2
A light emitting diode (LED) work light and associated method of controlling the LED work light. The LED work light includes a power source, a casing including a handle section, at least one LED mounted to illuminate light from the casing, at least one lens forward of the LEDs to focus light from the LEDs, a control switch designated to at least turn on and turn off the LEDs, and a controller. The controller may be configured to, in response to activation of the control switch, provide control of the power source to the LEDs to transition from a first illumination state to a second illumination state of the illumination of the LEDs, the transition being illumination defined by a specified function over time defined to slow a transition time of the transition.
US09464763B2
The invention relates to a safety valve for a cryogenic insulated gas cylinder, which comprises a valve body, and the valve body further comprises a gas inlet flow channel, a valve seat, a slide way, a valve core and a spring, a gas inlet connecting thread and an adjusting nut. An adjusting nut exhaust hole set on said adjusting nut, a spring set between the said adjusting nut and a spring bracket with an exhaust hole. A valve assembly further comprises the valve core, a plurality of guide rings, a positioning steel ball and a valve flap, a valve core exhaust hole is provided in the valve core. The safety valve has high stability in discharge pressure and return pressure, high repeatability and good sealing performance, and is firm in structure, difficult to be damaged and high in safety.
US09464759B2
Method and filling installation for filling a hydrogen gas into a vessel (1) having a first port (2) for passing the hydrogen gas and a second port (3) for passing a fluid, wherein the second port (3) is separate from the first port (2). In a first phase a hydraulic fluid is introduced into the vessel (1) through the second port (3) by applying pressure to the hydraulic fluid, such that the hydraulic fluid in the vessel (1) causes a hydrostatic pressure having a pre-determined value. In a second phase the hydrogen gas is introduced into the vessel (1) through the first port (2) by controlling a difference of pressure relative to a current pressure in the vessel (1) for controlling expansion of the hydrogen gas and thereby temperature inside the vessel (1), such that the vessel (1) is filled with the hydrogen gas. To that end the hydraulic fluid is removed from the vessel (1) through the second port (3).
US09464756B2
A head strap includes a head band and a pair of holders. The pair of holders are connected to two ends of the head band. Each of the pair of holders includes a receiving portion. The receiving portion defines a receiving cavity with a cutout. The disclosure also provides an earphone assembly.
US09464755B1
A wearable holder and method of using a wearable holder is disclosed for supporting a hand-held electronic device, such as a cell phone, smart phone, electronic tablet, or the like. The user mounts the handheld electronic device to the hand with at least two points of attachment, one being around one or more fingers and another being about the wrist. As such, the user has full use of his palm and fingers when holding the electronic device on the back of his hand. The wearable holder allows the user to easily reposition the electronic device to provide different modes of use, such as comfortable talking, texting, viewing in landscape and portrait without the need for a stand, or a monitoring or idle mode on his wrist. The wearable holder reduces the chance of the user dropping the portable electronic device.
US09464754B1
A system comprising a multi-functional boom subsystem integrated with a holonomic-motion boom base platform. The boom base platform may comprise: Mecanum wheels with independently controlled motors; a pair of sub-platforms coupled by a roll-axis pivot to maintain four-wheel contact with the ground surface; and twist reduction mechanisms to minimize any yaw-axis twisting torque exerted on the roll-axis pivot. A computer with motion control software may be embedded on the boom base platform. The motion control function can be integrated with a real-time tracking system. The motion control computer may have multiple platform motion control modes: (1) a path following mode in which the boom base platform matches the motion path of the surface crawler (i.e., integration with crawler control); (2) a reactive mode in which the boom base platform moves based on the pan and tilt angles of the boom arm; and (3) a collision avoidance mode using sensors distributed around the perimeter of the boom base platform to detect obstacles.
US09464749B2
A seismic bracing assembly has a first subassembly and a second subassembly that are connected by a sleeve. The first subassembly has a structural yoke used to secure the first subassembly to a structural member. The second subassembly has another yoke used to secure the second subassembly to an anchoring member. The first and second subassembly have a sufficient length to allow rough in assembly of the two subassemblies with the sleeve that couples them together.
US09464738B2
A crush resistant hose comprises a plurality of layers comprising a reinforcing carcass formed from a mixture of multifilament fibers including at least one of polyester, aramide, nylon and rayon.
US09464734B2
Provided is a cord-like member holder for holding a cord-like member inserted into a through-hole provided in a partition wall of an operator's cab of a working machine, including a grommet made of elastic material to have an inner peripheral surface surrounding a cord-like member insertion hole and a sealing surface, and a fixture. The fixture includes a clamp section to clamp the grommet to bring an inner peripheral surface of the grommet into close contact with an outer peripheral surface of the cord-like member, and a fixing section joined to the clamp section and fastened to the partition wall. The clamp section clamps the grommet while relative displacement of the clamp section to the grommet in a direction of approaching the partition wall is restrained, and the fixing section is fastened to the partition wall to bring the sealing surface into close contact with the partition wall.
US09464731B2
A pressure reducing valve comprises an open-close valve and a piston. The open-close valve makes switching between connecting and isolating a primary port and a secondary port. The piston makes sliding motion inside the cylinder according to a difference between force applied from the pressure regulating chamber and force applied from the pressure reducing chamber, thereby opening and closing the open-close valve. The open-close valve includes a valve stem and a valve seat fixing member. The valve seat fixing member restrains displacement of the piston toward a side upstream of the open-close valve by abutting on an end surface of the piston. The valve seat fixing member includes a channel hole communicatively connecting a housing part for the valve stem and the pressure reducing chamber.
US09464729B2
The disclosed embodiments include a pressure balance valve that solves one or more problems associated with existing designs. For example, in one embodiment, a pressure balancing valve assembly is disclosed that provides a low cost frictionless assembly that is constructed to not seal the leak path between an inlet port and an outlet port. Instead, this leak path is minimized with small angle tapered plunger and a precision bored annulus to provide a defined area for the pressure drop to occur and to limit the flow from the inlet to the outlet.
US09464721B2
A gate valve with secure sealing mechanism includes a main body having a valve opening, a driver disposed on the main body, a sliding seat slidingly disposed in the main body, a swing arm, and a valve member. Therein, two ends of the swing arm are connected to the driver and the sliding seat, respectively, whereby the driver drives the swing arm to move circularly between a first and second position, thereby triggering the sliding seat to slide. When the swing arm is at the first or second position, the swing arm is biased against the route direction of the sliding seat. The valve member is disposed on the sliding seat for moving in parallel or vertical to the valve opening, thereby preventing the sliding seat from swaying when the swing arm is at the first or second locking position.
US09464720B2
A sealing assembly comprises a first annular shield presenting an axial sleeve portion for the mounting angularly integral with one of said members, and a flange portion which radially extends from a first end of the sleeve portion, and a sealing member made of elastomeric material presenting an annular root portion, which overhangingly and radially extends from a peripheral edge of the flange portion and a first axially sealing annular lip, as well as a second radially sealing annular lip. The lips extend overhangingly and axially on the opposite side of the first end of the sleeve portion, from a same side as a thinned end of the root portion and are reciprocally and divergingly arranged to form in radial section a V-shape having a vertex facing towards the root portion and an axis parallel to the sleeve portion.
US09464715B2
While a vehicle is decelerating starting at a braking start time, start-off pre-shifting starts when speed falls to a predetermined speed. At a vehicle stoppage time, an idle stop permission flag is not set to on if start-off pre-shifting is incomplete, even if idle stop permission conditions have been met. The idle stop permission flag is set to on when start-off pre-shifting is completed, and an idle stop flag is set to on and the engine stopped when engine rotational speed falls below a set speed. The engine is restarted in response to braking being released, and the idle stop flag is set to off and the idle stop control ended when the engine rotational speed reaches or exceeds a set speed. The restarting of the engine causes an engine-driven oil pump to dispense oil to be used as a medium to manifest an automatic clutch command hydraulic pressure.
US09464712B2
A vehicle includes a motor, a resolver which detects a rotation angle of the motor, an automatic transmission which shifts rotation of the motor and transmits the shifted rotation to a drive shaft, and an ECU which performs learning control for correcting an error of the resolver and shift control of the automatic transmission. The ECU controls the automatic transmission such that, when the learning control is performed, a gear ratio becomes higher at a prescribed vehicle speed, than that when the learning control is not performed. By controlling the automatic transmission as described above, even when the vehicle is traveling at a low speed, a rotation speed of the motor easily reaches a rotation speed at and above which the learning control of the resolver can be performed. Accordingly, an opportunity to perform the learning control of the resolver can be obtained early.
US09464709B2
A transmission includes a transmission mechanism. The transmission mechanism includes a planetary gear mechanism and a fixing element. A ring gear is provided with a first gear meshing with an output gear on an output member and a second gear meshing with a plurality of pinion gears. The output gear and the first gear include helical gears meshing with each other. The second gear and the plurality of pinion gears include helical gears meshing with each other. Helix angles of the output gear and the first gear and helix angles of the second gear and the plurality of pinion gears are set so that a thrust force generated in a case where the output gear and the first gear rotate and a thrust force generated in a case where the second gear and the plurality of pinion gears rotate are directed towards each other.
US09464700B2
A tension roller or reel device for a torque transmission element. The device comprises at least one bearing having one inner race, one outer race and at least one row of rolling elements between the inner race and the outer race, a pulley on top of the outer race, and a retaining screw inserted into a central bore of the inner race. The bore of the inner race is provided with a circumferential cavity in which an elastic ring is fitted non-securely and integrally, the cavity having an axial length strictly greater than the axial dimension of the elastic ring.
US09464692B2
A family of transmission gearing arrangements provides ten forward speed ratios and one reverse speed ratios by selective engagement of shift elements in various combinations. Four simple planetary gear sets are provided, each having a sun gear, a planet carrier, and a ring gear. One carrier is coupled to the input. At least one planetary gear set provides an underdrive speed relationship between a shaft extending from the carriers of that gear set and the output. At least two brakes and four clutches provide selective coupling between other shafts in the transmission.
US09464691B2
An electromechanical device comprises a mechanical interface structure (101) for connecting to an external rotating element, for example a wind turbine. The device comprises an electrical machine (102-104), and one or more gear stages (105-112) on a power transmission path between the mechanical interface structure and a rotor of the electrical machine. The device further comprises mechanical structures (113-115) constituting a common lubricant oil room for both the gear stages and the electrical machine. The electromechanical device comprises oil channels (116a) for directing lubricant oil circulated in the device to flow via the gear stages and via bearings (118, 119) of the electrical machine. Therefore, a common lubricating system can be used for both the gear stages and the electrical machine.
US09464690B2
Chain links and methods for forming chain links are provided. A method may include inserting a pin into a pin hole defined in a boss insert, and introducing the boss insert to a mold cavity defined in a mold plate of a mold assembly. The method further includes flowing chain link substrate to the mold cavity, and cooling the chain link substrate such that a chain link is formed. The chain link includes a base portion, a platform extending from the base portion, and a rib assembly extending from the platform and including a plurality of ribs and defining a central pocket. The boss insert is disposed in the pocket, and the pin is disposed in the pin hole of the boss insert.
US09464683B2
A non-asbestos frictional material composition is provided, which is capable of provide a frictional material with excellent shear strength, anti-crack properties, and abrasion resistance, even with the reduced content of copper. Furthermore, a frictional material and a friction member formed by using this non-asbestos frictional material composition are provided. The non-asbestos frictional material composition containing a binder, an organic filler, an inorganic filler, and a fiber base material includes: copper in a content of 0.5 mass % or less as a copper element; a metal other than copper and copper alloy in a content of 0.5 mass % or less; an acrylic elastomer-dispersed phenol resin as the binder in a content of 7-15 mass %; and Ca(OH)2 and/or CaO as the inorganic filler in a content of 1-5 mass %.
US09464681B2
A parking brake apparatus may include: a housing; a gear unit installed in the housing, and rotated by operation of a motor unit; a nut screw part connected to the gear unit, and rotated by the rotation of the gear unit; a bolt screw coupled the nut screw part so as to pass through the nut screw part, and moved in a longitudinal direction inside the nut screw part in connection with the rotation of the nut screw part; a cable connected to the bolt screw; a piston unit installed to be slidably moved in the housing, and having one side through which the cable passes and the other side which is extended toward the nut screw part; and an elastic member arranged between an inner wall of the housing and the piston unit, and elastically deformed as the piston is slidably moved.
US09464678B2
Calliper body (4) for disk brake having two elongated elements (5 and 6) on opposite sides of the disk and suitable for supporting and pressing pads (13 and 14) against the disk (2), each of said ‘elongated bodies (5 and 6) comprising an exit portion (97) of thrust means suitable for facing one of said pads (13, 14), each of said exit portions (97) having a boundary (96) delimited on the opposite side to the rotation axis (9) by an upper boundary (98) which borders a radially outer portion (21, 22) of the elongated body, said calliper body (4) having at least one connection bridge (3) with an inner bridge side (30, 31) facing towards the calliper body, said radially outer portion being divisible, along its direct tangential extension parallel to the circumferential direction, into three substantially equal sections (23, 24, 25 or 26, 27, 28), of which two lateral sections (23 and 25 or 26 and 28) and one interposed central section (24, 27), wherein said calliper body (4) comprises at least one reinforcement element (41, 42, 43, 44) suitable for firmly connecting one said inner bridge side (30, 31) to one said central section (24, 27) of the adjacent radially outer portion (21, 22), said at least one reinforcement element at least partially surmounting said upper boundary (98) and said pads (13 and 14); and wherein the crossing of the projection in a direction parallel to the axial direction (9) of the central section (24, 27) of the radially outer portion (21, 22), with the projection in a circumferential direction of the central section (33, 36) of the bridge side (30, 31), defines a radial through aperture (20) which places the space between the elongated bodies (5,6) in communication with the outside of the calliper body (4) so as to permit the outflow of hot air from inside the calliper body (4) outwards.
US09464658B2
A hybrid fastener is provided in combination with a structural insert. The insert is disposed about a shank of the fastener at an unthreaded section. In another aspect, a sleeve surrounds the shank of the fastener and has apertures for receiving the insert therethrough. Methods of using the above-described hybrid fastener for securing workpieces are also disclosed.
US09464656B2
The self-drilling component includes a body with a cylindrical side wall, a self-drilling head at a first end of the body and a shank opening out at a second end. The self-drilling component includes a deformable area between the self-drilling head and the second end designed to form a flange when crimping is performed. The self-drilling head further includes a tip defined by three concurrent edges at least two of which are internal cutting edges, the tip enabling engagement of the self-drilling component, at least one external cutting edge placed at the end of the cylindrical side wall configured to cut the fibers of the composite material part, and a first surface parallel to and different from the axial plane containing the axis of rotation of the body, the first surface defining a first empty space in the self-drilling head to facilitate removal of the shavings when drilling is performed.
US09464646B2
A male inserter and a female receiver fixed to a toy bar and a child-support device for relative movement between upright locked and inclined unlocked positions. The male inserter includes a lock element and the female receiver includes a catch surface. In the upright unlocked position, the male inserter can pass through the female receiver. But in the inclined locked position, the lock element engages and locks against the catch surface. If a child in the child-support device pulls down and/or forward on the toy bar in the locked position, it does not move to the unlocked position. But an upward lifting force applied to the toy bar causes it to pivot from the locked position to the unlocked position and to then detach from the child-support device.
US09464636B2
A system for applying tension to a component for use in molten metal processing. Preferably, the component includes an outer core and at least one tension rod positioned partially within the outer core. The component is preferably elongated, such as a support post or an impeller shaft. The tension rod applies compression to the outer cover, which makes the outer cover more resistant to breakage if it strikes, or is stricken by, an object.
US09464634B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for facilitating air-cooling of, for instance, one or more electronics racks within a data center. The apparatus includes an air-moving assembly and one or more flywheels. The air-moving assembly includes a shaft, one or more mechanical fans coupled to the shaft to rotate, at least in part, with the shaft, and a motor coupled to the shaft to rotatably drive the shaft. The flywheel(s) is sized and coupled to the shaft of the air-moving assembly to store rotational energy, and to facilitate, for a specified period of time, continued rotation of the shaft during interruption in power to the motor. In one implementation, the flywheel(s) is sized and coupled to the shaft to facilitate, for the specified time period, continued rotation of the shaft at a specified percentage, or greater, rotational speed of the shaft compared with shaft speed when rotatably driven by the motor.
US09464627B2
A hydrogen storage container that stores hydrogen gas using a hydrogen storage material capable of storing hydrogen gas includes: a hollow liner that stores the hydrogen gas and includes a liner opening portion into which the hydrogen gas is introduced; a hollow sub-tank disposed inside the liner to house the hydrogen storage material; a heat exchange pipe which is disposed inside the sub-tank and through which a heat exchange medium passes; a sub-tank support portion that supports an end portion of the sub-tank relative to the liner opening portion and supports an end portion of the heat exchange pipe; and a heat exchange medium passage that is formed to penetrate the sub-tank support portion and leads the heat exchange medium to the heat exchange pipe.
US09464618B2
The invention relates to corona ignition device for igniting fuel in a combustion chamber of an engine by means of a corona discharge, comprising an insulator, a center electrode, which plugs into the insulator and carries an ignition head having a plurality of ignition needles, and a housing, into which the insulator plugs. In accordance with the invention, the ignition needles and the center electrode plug into the ignition head. The invention also relates to a method for producing an ignition head for a corona ignition device, wherein a green compact of the ignition head is produced by injection molding of metal powder, and the green compact is sintered while ignition needles and/or a center electrode plug thereinto.
US09464609B2
A fuel delivery system is provided to reduce the pressure pulsations and noise vibration and harshness of direct injection systems. The fuel delivery system includes an elastic fuel line positioned between a first fuel pump and a second fuel pump and a check valve positioned in the elastic fuel line near the inlet of the high pressure pump, the check valve including an external housing having a peripheral surface with a greater diameter than an unstretched inner diameter of the elastic fuel line.
US09464607B2
An engine cover system for joining a cover with an intake manifold body. A plurality of structural ribs project from an external surface of the body including a pair of parallel ribs. Each parallel rib carries an integrally-molded U-shaped receiver strip extending transversely from the parallel ribs to form slots having closed ends proximate a first edge of the body and slot openings defined by respective edges of the receiver strips. The engine cover is comprised of a shroud, first and second radial arms, and first and second hinge pins projecting from the first and second radial arms, respectively. The hinge pins are configured to slide into the slots via the slot openings into the closed ends. First and second elastomeric ferrules are installed on the first and second hinge pins, respectively, configured to be compressed by the receiver strips when captured at the closed ends.
US09464599B2
A cooling system for a diesel engine having a turbocharger, may include an intercooler which cools compressed air from the turbocharger, an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cooler which cools EGR gas in an EGR device of the diesel engine, a low-temperature radiator fluidly-connected to the intercooler and the EGR cooler and supplying a coolant to the intercooler and the EGR cooler, and a water pump fluidly-connected to the low-temperature radiator, the intercooler and the EGR cooler and circulating the coolant of the low-temperature radiator, to the intercooler and the EGR cooler, wherein the intercooler and the EGR cooler may be disposed in series so that the coolant in the low-temperature radiator sequentially circulates through the water pump, the intercooler, the EGR cooler, and then the low-temperature radiator.
US09464598B2
An exhaust gas cooling device, which cools exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine mounted on a vehicle through heat exchange between the exhaust gas and a coolant, includes: a plurality of tubes through which the exhaust gas flows; a tubular shell which houses the plurality of tubes and is configured to allow the coolant to flow therethrough; and a header plate disposed at an end portion in the shell to prevent the coolant from flowing out of the shell. The header plate includes support holes in which end portions of the plurality of the tubes are fitted and supported, and each of axial end faces of the plurality of tubes is located in the corresponding support hole at a position between both ends of the header plate in a thickness direction of the header plate.
US09464590B2
A variable stroke direct injection (DI) fuel pump system for an engine includes a DI fuel pump having a stroke member and configured to pump a quantity of fuel based on a stroke of the stroke member. The system includes a variable fuel pump actuator assembly comprising an actuator member configured to actuate the stroke member, a control valve configured to control a flow of hydraulic fluid to the actuator member, and a hydraulic fluid pump configured to pump the hydraulic fluid and be actuated by one or more lobes of a camshaft. The system also includes an engine control unit (ECU) configured to control a variable stroke of the stroke member by controlling the control valve based on one or more operating parameters of the engine.
US09464587B2
The invention discloses a method for operating a drive device (10), in particular in a motor vehicle, comprising an internal combustion engine (12) and at least one further drive assembly (28) which is not an internal combustion engine (12), wherein an exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine (12) is treated by means of an exhaust gas treatment system (16), and wherein it is checked whether the internal combustion engine (12) is in an operating point defined as favorable for the exhaust gas treatment, and wherein then if it is found that the internal combustion engine (12) is not in an operating point defined as favorable for the exhaust gas treatment, the operating point of the internal combustion engine (12) is brought using the further drive assembly (28) into a range defined as favorable for the exhaust gas treatment.
US09464584B2
A method for improving ignition of a spark ignited internal combustion engine by controlling the composition of recirculated exhaust gas. It is assumed that the engine has a spark ignition system and an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) loop such that at least one of the combustion cylinders is an EGR cylinder that generates an EGR stream carried by the EGR loop. Thus, the combustion charge is a mixture of air, fuel and recirculated exhaust. A first step is receiving combustibility data representing the current ignitability of the charge. It is then determined whether the energy of the ignition system is sufficient to ignite the charge. If not, the amount of hydrogen in the EGR stream is increased, which increases the ignitability of the charge.
US09464579B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that include operating an isothermal compression based combustion (IsoC) engine by injecting isothermally compressed air into a combustion engine immediately prior to a combustion event in order to increase the efficiency of the engine, improve emissions, and substantially eliminate autoignition and associated design constraints. The IsoC engine utilizes an intercooled compressor to isothermally compress air that is stored in a plurality of capacitance tanks prior to delivery of the compressed air to the combustion engine. The IsoC engine allows combustion to be selectively terminated to increase fuel efficiency, thereby resulting in a hybrid compressed air-motor and internal combustion operated IsoC engine.
US09464578B2
A control apparatus includes a means for detecting a position and a means for adjusting a reaction force of the accelerator, wherein the means for adjusting increases the reaction force of the accelerator by an increase amount in addition to a basic reaction force when the position of the accelerator is increased to satisfy a predetermined condition associated with a specific fuel consumption of the vehicle, the means for adjusting sets the increase amount to a first amount when the position of the accelerator is increased from a first accelerator position in a preload area to a second accelerator position that satisfies the predetermined condition, the means for adjusting sets the increase amount to a second amount when the position of the accelerator position is increased from an intermediate accelerator position that exceeds the preload area to the second position, and the first amount is greater than the second amount.
US09464577B2
A rotary position sensor for determining the rotary position of a rotary component may include a sensor and a magnet. The sensor may be responsive to a characteristic of a magnetic field that changes as the magnetic field moves. The magnet may be carried by the rotary component for rotation with the rotary component. A buffer may be provided around the magnet to limit distortion of the magnet field. The buffer is effective against objects normally located in the area of a device with which the sensor is used (e.g. adjacent components) as well as against foreign objects not normally in the area of the device.
US09464576B2
A system including a fuel-supply system including, an auxiliary-fuel-gas compressor configured to compress a fuel for use by a gas-turbine system, an expander configured to generate power by expanding an oxidant from the gas-turbine system, and a motor/generator configured to function in a motor mode and in a generator mode, wherein the motor/generator drives fuel compression with the auxiliary fuel-gas compressor in the motor mode, and the motor/generator generates power in the generator mode as the expander uses oxidant from the gas-turbine system to drive the motor/generator.
US09464572B2
An oil tank and scavenge pipe assembly of a gas turbine engine comprises a tank, and a scavenge pipe having a discharge portion disposed inside the tank. The discharge portion comprises a first portion having first and second ends. The first end is adapted to connect to an oil return line for receiving a mixture of oil and air. A bend extends from the second end downstream thereof relative to a flow of the mixture of oil and air through the scavenge pipe. The bend is configured to cause stratification of the mixture of oil and air as the mixture of oil and air flows through it. An outlet downstream of the bend delivers the mixture of oil and air to the tank. A method of delivering an oil and air mixture to a rotating oil volume of a tank of a gas turbine engine is also presented.
US09464571B2
A fossil fuel-fired power station having a removal apparatus for carbon dioxide which is located downstream of a combustion facility and through which an offgas containing carbon dioxide may flow is provided. The removal apparatus comprises an absorption unit and a desorption unit. The desorption unit is connected to a renewable energy source.
US09464566B2
An apparatus to deliver rotation power to a shaft delivering mechanical rotation power, by a cavity that is formed by a spherical or cylindrical housing. A Rotor attached to a shaft, centrally rotating inside the housing along the center line of the rotation of the housing. A combustion chamber is formed inside the housing by a blade like Blocker and the blade like Rotor to ignition takes place. The ignition chamber expands radially providing rotational power to the shaft.
US09464565B2
A wastegate valve includes, a valving element 13 that opens and closes an exhaust gas bypass path, a valve stem 17 that extends from the valving element, an operating lever 15 having an insertion hole 29 where the valve stem is inserted with play, a support plate 31 provided on an open end of the valve stem, and a spring member 19 provided between the support plate and the operating lever 15. The spring member has a large-diameter part and at least two small-diameter parts, the large-diameter part and the at least two small-diameter parts being arranged concentrically with an axial center of the valve stem, and the at least two small-diameter parts constitute a first contact part 35 in contact with an operating lever side and a second contact part 37 in contact with a support plate side.
US09464560B2
Example embodiments for reducing thermal load in one or more exhaust gas lines are provided. One embodiment includes an internal combustion engine with liquid cooling, comprising at least one exhaust gas line, at least one coolant jacket, and a common boundary wall separating the at least one exhaust gas line and the at least one coolant jacket, wherein the common boundary wall includes a surface structure provided on sides of the coolant jacket in at least one locally limited region. In this way, the surface structure on the sides of the coolant jacket may increase heat transfer to reduce thermal loading.
US09464557B2
In one or more embodiments, a muffler shield includes a shield body extending in a longitudinal direction and defining a middle portion positioned between first and second side portions along a transverse direction, a cross-section of the middle portion and at least one of the first and second side portions respectively defining a middle profile and a side profile shorter than the middle profile.
US09464555B2
A system for determining a regeneration phase of an exhaust gas particulate filter for an internal combustion engine may include a temperature sensor for detecting an elevated exhaust gas temperature, a sensor for detecting the particulate content in the exhaust gas stream exiting from the exhaust gas particulate filter, and a processing device for determining the regeneration phase on the basis of the detected values. A method for determining a regeneration phase of an exhaust gas particulate filter for an internal combustion engine may include detecting an elevated exhaust gas temperature, sampling a signal from a sensor for detecting the particulate content in the exhaust gas stream exiting from the exhaust gas particulate filter, detecting that the particulate content is elevated, and determining the regeneration phase.
US09464552B2
An exhaust system mixer (12) mixes a reactant with an exhaust gas flow (3) and includes a pipe section (13), which borders a flow cross section (16), through which the exhaust gas flows (3), in the circumferential direction (17), and which extends in an axial direction (18) from a first axial side (19) to a second axial side (20), and a plurality of guide blades (14, 15), which project from the pipe section (13) at least on one of the axial sides (19, 20), so as to protrude into the flow cross section (16). Guide blades (14, 15) on an axial side, which follow each other in the circumferential direction (17), include a first guide blade group (21), arranged on the respective axial side (19, 20), axially offset in relation to the guide blades (15) of the second guide blade group (22), to reduce a pressure drop.
US09464551B2
There is disclosed a honeycomb catalyst body including porous partition walls in which a plurality of cells that become through channels of a fluid are defined and formed, and a plurality of pores are formed, wherein a cell density is from 93 to 186 cells/cm2, and onto the partition walls, a catalyst containing the zeolite is loaded in an amount of 100 to 300 g/L, a porosity (A) of the partition walls before the catalyst is loaded thereonto is 50% or more, and a porosity (B) of the partition walls in a state where the catalyst is loaded thereonto is from 0.3 to 0.6 times as much as the porosity (A).
US09464543B2
In a valve opening/closing timing control device, a fluid pressure chamber formed by a drive-side rotating and a driven-side rotating body is divided into an advance chamber and a delay chamber. The valve opening/closing timing control device includes an intermediate lock mechanism; an electromagnetic valve; a phase detection sensor; and a control unit that issues a command to the electromagnetic valve to switch a working fluid supply destination to a working fluid supply destination at which the driven-side rotating body shifts to an intermediate lock phase, when a relative rotation phase at the startup of an engine is positioned toward a most delayed phase or a most advanced phase with respect to the intermediate lock phase in case of the electromagnetic valve that sets the working fluid supply destination to the delay chamber or the advance chamber when supply of electric power to the electromagnetic valve is stopped.
US09464538B2
A shroud block segment for a gas turbine includes a main body having a leading portion, a trailing portion, a first side portion and an opposing second side portion that extend axially between the leading portion and the trailing portion. The main body further includes an arcuate combustion gas side, an opposing back side and a cooling chamber defined in the back side. A cooling plenum and an exhaust passage are defined within the main body where the exhaust passage provides for fluid communication out of the cooling plenum. An insert opening extends within the main body through the back side towards the cooling plenum. A cooling flow insert is disposed within the insert opening. The cooling flow insert comprises a plurality of cooling flow passages that provide for fluid communication between the cooling chamber and the cooling plenum.
US09464532B2
A rotor blade includes an active flap and an airflow disturber configured to selectively alter airflow across the active flap.
US09464529B2
A blade, for a gas turbine, includes a blade airfoil, having a shroud segment arranged on its upper end. The shroud segment together with shroud segments of other blades of a blade row forming an annular shroud which delimits hot gas passage of the gas turbine, and said shroud segment, on sides on which it adjoins adjacent shroud segments of the annular shroud, is provided with upwardly projecting side rails which extend along a side edge, to improve sealing to the hot gas passage. The side rails include rail-parallel or essentially rail-parallel, upwardly open slots through which cooling air, which is introduced via the shroud segment from an interior of the blade airfoil, discharges into the space above the shroud segment.
US09464527B2
Liquid fuel from a rotary fluid trap is atomized by a sharp edge on an inside surface of an aft cavity of a bladed rotor of a gas turbine engine and directed into each of a plurality of associated hollow blades through corresponding blade inlet ducts that are in fluid communication with corresponding aft hollow interior portions of each blade. A radially-extending central rib within each blade partitions the hollow interior thereof into aft and forward hollow interior portions that are in fluid communication through an associated opening in the central rib and through a radially-extending gap between the central rib and the interior surface of the blade. A blade outlet duct provides for fluid communication between the forward hollow interior portion and a forward cavity of the bladed rotor, and a rotor outlet duct provides for discharging the fuel from a radially-inboard portion of the forward cavity.
US09464521B2
A fluid pressure pulse generating apparatus with a pulser assembly having a pulser assembly housing enclosing a pressure compensation device. The pulser assembly housing includes an interior wall with a plurality of primary apertures therethrough and an exterior wall with a plurality of secondary apertures therethrough, the exterior wall overlying the interior wall. The primary and secondary apertures are in fluid communication with a pressure compensation mechanism in the pressure compensation device such that drilling fluid contacts the pressure compensation mechanism for equalization of pressure of a lubrication liquid contained inside the pulser assembly housing with pressure of the drilling fluid when the fluid pressure pulse generating apparatus is positioned downhole.
US09464513B2
A heating system for a subterranean mineral formation according to embodiments of the present invention includes a casing positioned in a bore in the subterranean mineral formation, the casing having an outer surface and an inner surface, a heating element positioned within the casing, a surface connection system having a first end coupled to the heating element within the casing and a second end at a top ground surface above the subterranean mineral formation, a heat transfer fluid contained within the casing, the heat transfer fluid configured to transfer heat between the heating element and the inner surface of the casing, wherein at least a portion of the heat transfer fluid is undergoing phase changes between liquid and gas in order to regulate a temperature of the casing. Fins may be included on the outside of the casing to enhance heat transfer.
US09464510B2
A trigger mechanism for a ball activated device comprises a seat sleeve with seat defining members forming a fluid seal between the ball and the seat in an initial state and allowing the ball to pass through the seat in a final state. An alternating member can move radially in an aperture through an inner sleeve and abuts an outer surface on the seat sleeve in the initial state, is received in a recess on the seat sleeve in an intermediate state, and is received in a groove in the outer sleeve in the final state. A protective sleeve may extend axially from the seat sleeve over a seat receiving area. The mechanism is suitable for cementing and fracturing as particles cannot penetrate to its moving parts.
US09464508B2
A tool activation system and method includes receiving an authorization code of a user to verify access rights of a user to activate the tool. In one example, the authorization code is receive from a smart card. The environment around the tool, which can be in a wellbore, for example, is checked. In response to the authorization code and the checking of the environment, activation of the tool is enabled.
US09464505B2
Techniques and equipment to facilitate controlling flow of a fluid along a flow passage. A flow control assembly is placed along a flow passage, and a bypass is routed past the flow control assembly. Flow along the bypass is controlled by a flow bypass mechanism which may be operated via pressure increase within the flow control assembly. A shear device restricts the opening of the bypass, and a dampening device acts to limit the shear device to exposure of forces from the pressure increase.
US09464503B2
A secondary cementing apparatus includes a drill string, a coupling coupled to a distal end of the drill string, and a tool coupled to a distal end of the coupling, the tool having a distal portion offset from a central axis of the drill string, and the coupling configured to allow selective rotation of the tool with respect to the drill string. A method for plugging a hole includes rotating a drill string about a central axis of the drill string, wherein a distal end of the drill string is coupled to a tool, the tool having an offset distal portion from a central axis of the drill string; and flowing a fluid down the drill string and out of the offset distal portion of the tool as the drill string is rotated.
US09464500B2
Rapid swelling and un-swelling materials provide for rapid actuation of well tools. A well tool can include a swellable material, with the swellable material comprising a swellable glass material. A method of actuating a well tool in a subterranean well can include contacting a swellable material of the well tool with an activating fluid in the well, thereby causing the swellable material to swell. The well tool rapidly actuates in response to contacting the swellable material with the activating fluid.
US09464491B2
A system for manipulating a tubular about a drilling rig is provided. The system includes a swivel body rotatably coupled with a becket. The becket is configured to couple with a traveling block of the drilling rig. The system also includes an engagement feature rotatably coupled with the swivel body. The engagement feature is configured to be actuated to engage the tubular. In addition, the system includes a tilt mechanism configured to be actuated to transition the swivel body and the engagement feature between a tilted orientation and an upright orientation relative to the becket. Further, the system includes an actuator system configured to actuate the tilt mechanism and the engagement feature.
US09464479B1
An apparatus for stopping the descent of a rolling type barrier includes a stator ring having a brake slot and a rotor rotatably disposed within the stator ring. The rotor includes at least one stop pawl pivotally attached to the rotor and configured to pivotably engage the brake slot when the rotor reaches a pre-determined rotational velocity. The apparatus further includes a latch pivotably attached to the stator ring. In response to the at least one stop pawl entering the brake slot, the latch secures the pawl in the brake slot.
US09464477B2
A safety window grid assembly includes a hollow housing, a rotating shaft rotatably disposed in the housing, a cord and a locking mechanism. The cord is retractable and extendable relative to the rotating shaft between a retracted state and an extended state. The locking mechanism is disposed on the housing, and includes an operating member rotatable relative to the housing, a driving member connected co-rotatably to the operating member, and a locking member. The locking member is movable between a locking position where a portion of the cord is clamped between the rotating shaft and the locking member such that the cord is not movable, and an unlocking position where the locking member is spaced apart from the cord such that the cord is movable.
US09464469B2
A hinge assembly for pivotally connecting a lid to a receptacle of a container, comprises a first hinge half including a convex edge portion, and a second hinge half pivotally connected to the first hinge half for pivotable movement between a flattened position and a folded position of the hinge assembly. The second hinge half includes a concave nesting depression nestably engaging the convex edge portion of the first hinge half in the folded position of the hinge assembly.
US09464453B2
An improved cemetery experience whereby the cemetery and accompanying facilities may celebrate and demonstrate the passion and hobbies of the deceased individual. 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 may take a specific event, or commonly understood and loved location and memorialize that location in the theme of a cemetery where those with that common interest and enjoyment of the commonly understood location may desire to be buried. The cemetery would closely resemble both visually, and physically a replica of the theme being celebrated and may provide space for the deceased while still providing adequate income and revenue in the way of advertising for the operator.
US09464451B1
A concrete holding tank and related systems and methods, including a monolithic concrete sewage holding tank created with two separate pours of concrete where an encased-in-place seal (water stop) is positioned at a pour joint between a tub of the tank and a cover of the tank, and where in some aspects the second pour also forms a structural column contacting a bottom of the tank and supporting the cover. The structural column and resulting larger cover presents a tank having a low profile while still providing desired capacity.
US09464448B2
A tile aligning and lippage tuning system that uses an under tile base reusable upright connecting tab, which is detachably connected to said under tile base, a reusable flexible edge slotted cap, configured to slip over the connecting tab and latch thereto as the cap is slid further down the connecting tab. The cap has an edge slot so that the connecting tab can be separated from the cap, by merely sliding the cap, so that the connecting tab passes through the slot. A flexible spring-like portion of the cap provides increased force on the tile, even if undesired elongation of the connecting tab occurs.
US09464447B2
A handle assembly for a container dispensing a seaming compound comprises a connector plate configured for coupling to the container, a first handle, and a second handle, wherein each of the first handle and the second handle is coupled to the connector plate.
US09464429B2
The present invention relates generally to a waterproofing assembly (10) for a wet area such as a shower recess (12). The waterproofing assembly (10) comprises an elongate spacer element (24) and a waterproofing membrane or coating (26). The spacer element (24) is adapted to secure to a wall structure (14) which is associated with a wall panel (28). The wall panel (28) rests upon the spacer element (24) to raise the panel (28) above the level of a floor (16) and substantially clear of the wet area (12). The wall panel (28) is otherwise conventionally fixed to the wall structure (14).
US09464421B2
The disclosure provides a lock assembly to lock a flush valve system, the handle lock assembly configured for placement on a flushing valve handle of a urinal or toilet comprising a top component and a bottom component comprising first and second arm sections and a center support section situated there between, each arm section pivotally connected to the first end of the top component. The arm sections also comprise a locking element for releasably locking with a mating locking element on the top component. A major advantage of the methods, systems and apparatuses disclosed herein is the savings in water that can be achieved without having to replace the current water-based urinal with a no-water urinal or expensive urinal with automatic flushing devices that control flushing.
US09464414B2
A household electronic mixing-valve faucet for controlling a temperature of a mixed stream discharging from the faucet, including: (a) a faucet body; (b) a controller; (c) a first powered valve fluidly connected to the hot water flowpath; (d) a second powered valve fluidly connected to the cold water flowpath; (e) an arrangement adapted to determine extents of opening of the valves; (f) temperature sensors, operative to sense a temperature of fluids within the hot and cold water flowpaths; and pressure sensors; the controller adapted to maintain a difference between an actual temperature of the mixed stream and a setpoint temperature thereof within a particular range.
US09464412B2
According to one embodiment, a water demand optimization system includes a management terminal, a measuring apparatus, a demand information generating unit and a water-supply control apparatus. The management terminal drives customer equipment, which performs an operation using water, in a time zone in which a power unit rate is low. The measuring apparatus measures an amount of water used in a dwelling unit. The demand information generating unit generates water demand based on the amount of water. The water-supply control apparatus controls a pump in a manner to meet water demand and to minimize a treatment cost in a water purification plant and a cost for conveyance of clear water with reference to a variation in the power unit rate.
US09464402B2
An engine cover comprises a top surface part covering an engine from above and a rear surface part hanging down from a rear end of the top surface part and making contact with a top surface of a counterweight. A lock device is provided between the engine cover and the counterweight for locking the engine cover to the counterweight. The rear surface part of the engine cover is recessed toward the engine side to provide a lock device-accommodating recessed portion for accommodating the lock device. A camera opening is provided in an upper position of the lock device-accommodating recessed portion, and the rear-view camera is mounted to an inner surface side of the engine cover in a position corresponding to the camera opening.
US09464401B2
A system for preventing liquid infiltration into a sump having an opening defined by a sump collar includes a ring member adapted to be disposed about the sump collar, at least a portion of the ring member adapted to be in contact with a drainable material disposed below. The system also includes a lid member in engagement with the ring member. The ring member including a number of apertures disposed therein, each aperture of the number of apertures being adapted to allow liquid to pass from a top surface of the ring member to the drainable material below.
US09464388B1
The present subject matter relates to a method and system for synthetic turf and the installation thereof. Modular turf sections are formed by attaching a turf section to a corresponding base structure of any desired size and shape. The base section has smooth edges, and can be cut to any desired shape, angle or cutout. The modular turf sections are laid side by side to cover a surface having any size and shape. The modular turf sections are portable and can be individually lifted after having been installed, thereby allowing for cleaning, repair and/or access under one or more selected modular turf sections, or for the replacement of selected modular turf sections which become worn or damaged.
US09464383B2
A deacidification composition for use in for treating printed cellulosic materials is provided. A method of making the composition and a method of preparing components of the composition also are provided. The composition includes a single metal alkoxide and a double metal alkoxide.
US09464378B2
The present application relates to a water chamber (6) for a steaming appliance comprising a housing (8) having a base, an opening (15) in the housing through which water is able to be fed into the water chamber, and a wall (23) distending from the housing into the water chamber to define a passage (25) in the water chamber extending from the opening, the distance between the level of an upper edge of a lower end (24) of the wall and the base being less than the distance between the level of a lower edge (21) of the opening and the base so that water is restricted from flowing along the passage from the water chamber when the water chamber is tilted from its normal operating orientation. The present application also relates to a base unit for a steaming appliance, a garment steamer and a steam system iron.
US09464371B2
A rotating drum (1) has a collecting/stacking recess (2) in the outer peripheral surface thereof, and includes: a drum body (3); and an air-permeable porous member (4) that forms the bottom surface (2A) of the collecting/stacking recess (2). The porous member (4) is sandwiched between: an outer shaping member (6) arranged so as to oppose the bottom surface (2A); and an inner shaping member (7) arranged between the porous member (4) and the drum body (3). Both the shaping members (6, 7) are arranged so as to overlap the porous member (4). Each shaping member (6, 7) has a recess-bottom-surface corresponding section (6A, 7A) that overlaps the bottom surface (2A) of the collecting/stacking recess (2) in a planar view thereof, and that is constituted by: a plurality of openings (65, 75) that penetrate the recess-bottom-surface corresponding section (6A, 7A) in the thickness direction; and an opening defining section (60, 70) that partitions and forms the openings (65, 75). The opening defining section (70) of the inner shaping member (7) corresponds to the opening defining section (60) of the outer shaping member (6).
US09464368B2
Provided is a method of attaching a molecule-of-interest to a microtube, by co-electrospinning two polymeric solutions through co-axial capillaries, wherein a first polymeric solution of the two polymeric solutions is for forming a shell of the microtube and a second polymeric solution of the two polymeric solutions is for forming a coat over an internal surface of the shell, the first polymeric solution is selected solidifying faster than the second polymeric solution and a solvent of the second polymeric solution is selected incapable of dissolving the first polymeric solution and wherein the second polymeric solution comprises the molecule-of-interest, thereby attaching the molecule-of-interest to the microtube. Also provided is an electrospun microtube comprising an electrospun shell, an electrospun coat over an internal surface of the shell and a molecule-of-interest attached to the microtube.
US09464358B2
The present invention is directed to a method, system and equipment for the elaboration of electrolytic chlorine oxidants, hypochlorous acid and sodium hypochlorite substances, using elements that result in an ecological process and confers a high efficiency in the production of these substances, permitting the generation of a product of very high performance and efficiency.
US09464353B2
The present invention relates to a substrate processing apparatus: including a chamber comprising a body having an inner space and a top lid provided on an upper part of the body, the top lid having at least one gas input port; a substrate supporting unit rotatably installed inside the chamber to support a plurality of substrates; and a gas injection device comprising a central injection unit provided on an upper part of the substrate supporting unit to inject a gas into a central region of the substrate supporting unit, a source gas injection unit provided around the central injection unit to inject a source gas into the substrate supporting unit, a reaction gas injection unit provided around the central injection unit to inject a reaction gas into the substrate supporting unit and a purge gas injection unit disposed between the source gas injection unit and the reaction gas injection unit; wherein at least one of the source gas injection unit and the reaction gas injection unit comprises a main injection unit to inject a gas into the substrate supporting unit and a gas-injecting projection projecting in a intersectional direction to the main injection unit between the central injection unit and the main injection unit, the main injection unit and the projection are divided into a plurality of regions along a circumference, and the main injection unit or the projection in at least one region inject an amount of gas different than those of the other regions. The substrate processing apparatus according to the present invention can enhance uniformity and reliability of a thin film.
US09464345B2
In conventional Al coated steel sheet, with the Al coating as it is, black discoloration cannot be prevented at 550° C. or more. For this reason, post annealing is used to form a barrier layer and suppress the formation of Fe—Al intermetallic compounds. However, with this method, there were the problems that the steel sheet became poor in workability and, further, high temperature, long time heating was required, so there were problems from the workability, economy, and environmental aspect. The present invention provides steel sheet which has a heat black discoloration resistance even at a 550° C. or more high temperature without additional annealing after Al coating and further is excellent in workability.That is, it is hot dip Al coated steel sheet which comprises steel sheet which contains predetermined ingredients of C, Si, P, S, Al, N, and O plus one or both of furthermoreNi: 0.01 to 0.1% orCu: 0.01 to 0.1% andsatisfies 10×C+Ni+Cu>0.03 and an Al coating layer which contains Si: 4 to 11% on the surface of that steel sheet and which have a thickness 5 μm or less Al—Fe—Si alloy layer in the interface between the Al coating layer and the steel sheet.
US09464337B2
Disclosed is a high strength steel sheet having excellent hydrogen embrittlement resistance. The steel sheet has a tensile strength of 1180 MPa or more, and satisfies the following conditions: with respect to an entire metallographic structure thereof, bainite, bainitic ferrite and tempered martensite account for 85 area % or more in total; retained austenite accounts for 1 area % or more; and fresh martensite accounts for 5 area % or less (including 0 area %).
US09464336B2
A method of fabricating a martensitic stainless steel including: 1) heating steel to a temperature higher than austenizing temperature of the steel, then quenching the steel until a hottest portion of the steel is at a temperature less than or equal to a maximum temperature, and greater than or equal to a minimum temperature, a cooling rate being sufficiently fast for austenite not to transform into a ferrito-perlitic structure; 2) performing a first anneal followed by cooling until the hottest portion of the steel is at a temperature less than or equal to the maximum temperature and greater than or equal to the minimum temperature; 3) performing a second anneal followed by cooling to ambient temperature; and at the end of each of 1) and 2), performing: ω) as soon as temperature of the hottest portion of the steel reaches the maximum temperature, immediately heating the steel once more.
US09464334B2
Materials (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) are processed to produce useful intermediates and products, such as energy, fuels, foods or materials. For example, systems equipment, and methods are described that can be used to treat feedstock materials, such as cellulosic and/or lignocellulosic materials, using an array of vaults.
US09464329B2
Portable systems and methods for amplifying nucleotides and for detecting nucleotide sequences in a sample are provided. The portable instruments and methods use RPA techniques for DNA amplification and detect sample fluorescence in response to amplification and/or to the presence of specific DNA sequences.
US09464325B2
The present invention relates to oncogenes or tumor suppressor genes, as well as other genes, involved in prostate cancer and their expression products, as well as derivatives and analogs thereof. Provided are therapeutic compositions and methods of detecting and treating cancer, including prostate and other related cancers. Also provided are methods of diagnosing and/or prognosing prostate cancer by determining the expression level of at least one prostate cancer-cell-specific gene, including, for example, the ERG gene or the LTF gene alone, or in combination with at least one of the AMACR gene and the DD3 gene.
US09464321B2
The present invention provides a method of specifically detecting IFN-λ2 mRNA or IFN-λ3 mRNA. There is provided a qRT-PCR method specifically detecting, discriminating and quantifying IFN-λ2 and IFN-λ3 mRNA in a biological sample obtained from a human. There is provided qRT-PCR methods and primers and probes that specifically detect IFN-λ2 mRNA but not IFN-λ3 mRNA and vice versa in humans in order to detect, quantify and discriminate IFN-λ2 mRNA and IFN-λ3 mRNA.
US09464319B2
Multivolume devices, kits and related methods for quantification of nucleic acids and other analytes
Provided are devices comprising multivolume analysis regions, the devices being capable of supporting amplification, detection, and other processes. Also provided are related methods of detecting or estimating the presence nucleic acids, viral levels, and other biological markers of interest.
US09464302B2
The methods are disclosed for sustaining a population of microorganisms in an aqueous fermentation broth used in a process to convert syngas to alcohol when the supply of syngas is decreased or ceased. The methods involve supplying at least one reducible anion in a rate an amount sufficient to maintain the population of microorganisms.
US09464297B2
The present invention relates to p450 enzymes and nucleic acid sequences encoding p450 enzymes in Nicotiana, and methods of using those enzymes and nucleic acid sequences to alter plant phenotypes.
US09464296B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for producing transgenic plants. In specific embodiments, transgenic plants comprise a construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1, operably linked to a plant-specific promote, wherein the CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1 is ectopically overexpressed in the transgenic plants, and wherein the promoter is optionally a constitutive or inducible promoter. In other embodiments, transgenic plants in which express a lower level of CCA1, GLK1 or bZIP1 are provided. Also provided herein are commercial products (e.g., pulp, paper, paper products, or lumber) derived from the transgenic plants (e.g., transgenic trees) produced using the methods provided herein.
US09464295B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for improving the efficiency of Agrobacterium- and Rhizobium-mediated plant cell transformation by use of additional transformation enhancer sequences, such as overdrive or TSS sequences, operably linked to a T-DNA border sequence on a recombinant construct that comprises T-DNA.
US09464289B2
The presently-disclosed subject matter includes methods of identifying an Alu RNA inhibitor, and methods and compositions for inhibiting Alu RNA. Methods and compositions can be used for the treatment of geographic atrophy and other conditions of interest.
US09464275B2
Methods are provided for long term culture of mammalian intestinal cells. Cultures are initiated with fragments of mammalian intestinal tissue, which are then maintained embedded in a gel substrate that provides an air-liquid interface. Intestinal epithelium in cultures of the invention can be continuously grown for extended periods of time. Mammalian intestinal cells cultured by the methods of the invention recapitulate features of intestinal growth in vivo.
US09464272B2
The invention is directed to a cell-derived composition having bone growth, regeneration, and repair promoting properties. In particular, the invention is directed to a cell-derived composition having bone growth, regeneration, and repair promoting properties termed Amnion-derived Cellular Cytokine Solution-B (ACCS-B). The invention is further directed to the use of this composition to promote bone growth and/or regeneration and/or repair.
US09464269B2
The present invention relates to a method to enhance cell growth in culture comprising adding an alkyl-amine-n-oxide (AANOx), such as dodecyldimethylamine oxide (DDAO), into the culture medium in an amount sufficient to improve cell growth.
US09464268B2
A reusable composite paramagnetic particle may comprise a paramagnetic core encased by a protective material to which is grafted a tendril layer comprising a plurality of polymeric chains. The polymeric chains may be designed to interact with a microorganism. The interaction between the microorganism and the polymeric chain may be electrostatic. The nanoparticle may be used in a method to isolate or recover microorganisms from solutions using an externally applied magnetic field.
US09464264B2
A method and apparatus for making a laundry detergent sheet. Preferably, the laundry detergent sheet is capable of dissolving in a laundry cycle of an automatic washing machine. The method comprises the steps of preparing a first shelf-stable solution, preparing a second non-shelf-stable solution comprising a portion of the first shelf-stable solution, applying the second non-shelf-stable solution onto a surface, and drying the second non-shelf-stable solution on the surface.
US09464256B2
The present invention relates to a novel method for preparing stabilized oil formulations by means of certain carbodiimides.
US09464255B2
This disclosed invention relates to a maleinated ester derivative derived from an unsaturated linear aliphatic carboxylic acid methyl ester, maleic anhydride, and a monohydric alcohol. Lubricants and functional fluids containing the maleinated esters are disclosed.
US09464248B2
A three-stage quenching and scrubbing system for treatment of hot crude gases and liquid slag after an entrained flow gasification. In the first primary stage, cooling and scrubbing water is injected such that slag can no longer adhere to the wall of the central tube and the conversion reaction of the carbon monoxide with water vapor to give hydrogen can proceed to close to the equilibrium. A secondary quenching and scrubbing stage takes the form of a bubble column, and further cooling and the deposition of coarse dust and slag are effected in a water bath. The rest of the treatment is through intensive spraying in a tertiary quenching and scrubbing the gas stage, nozzle rings for deposition of fine slag and partly of fine dust. All three quenching and scrubbing stages enable cooling of the crude gas down to the water vapor dew point determined by the plant pressure.
US09464246B2
The invention relates to a method for purifying synthesis gas, in particular for ammonia synthesis, wherein a partial stream (26) of an H2-rich, CO-containing synthesis gas stream is burned, in particular to generate electrical energy, and wherein at least one component contained in the remaining H2-rich, CO-containing synthesis gas stream (26a), in particular in the form of carbon dioxide, methanol and/or water, is absorbed by an adsorber at low temperatures, after which said absorbed component is desorbed from the adsorber by flushing using nitrogen (33) at higher temperatures. According to the invention the H2-rich partial stream (26) is diluted using the nitrogen (35) used for the flushing before being burned. The invention further relates to a system (1) for purifying synthesis gas, in particular for ammonia synthesis.
US09464232B2
A liquid crystal composition containing a liquid crystal molecule, a compound represented by the formula (1), and a compound represented by the formula (2) can provide a film with a reduced haze.
US09464220B2
Technologies are generally described for forming a nanofluid coolant and structures including a nanofluid coolant. In an example, a method of forming a nanofluid coolant may comprise combining a compound with an acid and with purified water to form a solution. The compound may include manganese. The method may further include heating the solution and, after heating the solution, cooling the solution effective to form at least one precipitate that includes manganese and oxygen. The method may further include filtering the at least one precipitate to form a powder that includes manganese oxide nanotubes. The method may further include functionalizing the nanotubes by irradiating them with UV radiation. The method may further include combining the functionalized manganese oxide nanotubes with a polar solvent to form the nanofluid coolant.
US09464218B2
Disclosed is a (meth)acrylate polymer having a volume average primary particle size of 0.520 to 3.00 μm, a peak temperature of tan δ in the range of −100 to 0° C., determined with dynamic viscoelasticity measurement, of −40° C. or below, a peak height of tan δ in the range of −100 to 0° C., determined with dynamic viscoelasticity measurement, of 0.300 or more, and an acetone-insoluble component of 99% by mass of more.This polymer has excellent dispersibility of primary particles in a resin, excellent storage stability of a resin composition obtained, and excellent insulating properties and reduction in elastic modulus of a molded article obtained.
US09464214B2
Provided are methods of forming thermally conductive flexible bonds for use in electronic boards of unmanned spacecrafts and other types of aircraft. Also provided are methods of preparing adhesive materials to form these bonds including methods of preparing treated filler particles. In some aspects, an adhesive material includes filler particles having organofunctional groups, such as boron nitride particles treated in silane. These particles may be combined with a urethane modified epoxy to form the adhesive material. The weight ratio of the particles in the adhesive material may be about 40-60%. The adhesive material may be thermally cured using a temperature of less than 110° C. to prevent damage to bonded electronic components. The cured adhesive may have a thermal conductivity of at least about 2 W/m K measured in vacuum and may have a glass transition temperature if less than −40° C.
US09464212B2
An adhesive composition and an optical member using the same, the adhesive composition providing an adhesive having a storage modulus of about 8×105 to about 1×108 dyne/cm2 and a gel fraction of about 83% to about 95% as defined by Equation 1: Gel fraction (%)=(A/B)×100, [Equation 1] in Equation 1, A is a mass measured after dissolving the adhesive at 23° C. for 48 hours in a solvent and then drying for 24 hours, and B is an initial mass.
US09464205B2
The present invention is a composition comprising a) a stable aqueous dispersion of polymer particles functionalized with structural units of itaconic acid or a salt thereof and; b) a water-soluble polymer functionalized with structural units of a sulfonic acid monomer or a salt thereof as well as a method comprising mixing the stable aqueous dispersion of the itaconic acid functionalized polymer particles with the sulfonic acid functionalized polymer, and TiO2. The composition of the present invention is useful a coatings formulation that provides surprisingly good hiding.
US09464204B2
The present invention is a composition comprising a stable aqueous dispersion of polymer particles comprising structural units of a nonionic monoethylenically unsaturated monomer; 2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl phosphonic acid (MEP) or a salt thereof; and a sulfur acid monomer or carboxylic acid monomer or a combination thereof or a salt thereof, as well as a composite comprising the polymer particles adsorbed to the surface of a pigment particle such as TiO2. The composition and composite are prepared using the phosphorus acid monomer MEP, which can be prepared in high purity with low residual non-polymerizable phosphorus acid, thereby reducing the load of neutralizing agent required to achieve the targeted pH as compared with phophoethyl methacrylate (PEM).
US09464202B2
The UV curable ink jet recording ink composition contains a thioxanthone-based photopolymerization initiator and a hindered amine compound. The dissolved oxygen content in the ink composition is 20 ppm or less.
US09464189B2
An article and thermoplastic composition including polycarbonate, a polysiloxane-polycarbonate and an x-ray detectable or metal detectable agent having good magnetic permeability and/or electrical conductivity wherein the composition may be used in articles for food preparation. The thermoplastic compositions are useful in forming molds for manufacturing a food product, such as chocolate molds.
US09464182B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a rubber composition which can further improve abrasion resistance without deterioration in energy efficiency, and a pneumatic tire using the rubber composition. The rubber composition comprises a polymer mixture obtained by modifying a polymer composed of at least one of a conjugated diene compound and an aromatic vinyl compound with a compound having at least one of an ester group and a carboxyl group; at least one of tetraamines; and silica, the polymer mixture having a weight-average molecular weight of 1.0×103 to 1.0×105, and the tetraamines being a compound represented by the following formula (I): wherein each of RA, RB, RC, RD, RE, RF, RG and RH independently represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and ALK represents a tetravalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group.
US09464178B2
Disclosed herein are molded articles, foamed articles, and foamable resins comprising a polypropylene resin comprising at least 50 mol % propylene, an MWD (Mw/Mn) of greater than 5, a branching index (g′) of at least 0.95, and a melt strength of at least 20 cN determined using an extensional rheometer at 190° C. Methods of making a molded article and making a foamed article are also disclosed.
US09464172B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a polysiloxane compound that can be developed in an aqueous alkali solution and can yield a cured product or thin film having superior heat-resistant transparency and insulating properties, a curable composition thereof, and a thin film transistor provided with a passivation layer or gate insulator using the same, and the present invention relates to a polysiloxane compound having at least one photopolymerizable functional group in a molecule thereof, and having at least one member selected from the group consisting of an isocyanuric acid backbone structure, a phenolic hydroxyl group and a carboxyl group within the same molecule, to a curable composition containing the polysiloxane compound, and to a cured product thereof.
US09464171B2
Methods of synthesis and application thereof for peripherally aromatic silsesquioxanes featuring reactive functionality. A method, according to one embodiment of the invention, includes reacting a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane with an anhydride. The polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane has an inorganic core, a phenyl moiety or an anlyine moiety covalently coupled to the at least one T-type silicon atom; and a metal-aniline group or a para-aniline group covalently coupled to the at least one D-type or M-type silicon atom. The inorganic core includes 6-14 silicon atoms, at least one of the silicon atoms being an M-type silicon atom or a D-type silicon atom, and at least one of the silicon atoms being a T-type silicon atom, and 9-20 oxygen atoms.
US09464170B2
Disclosed is a composition having: a diphthalonitrile compound having at least two phthalonitrile groups; a reactive plasticizer; and an amine curing agent. Also disclosed is a composition having: a diphthalonitrile compound having at least two phthalonitrile groups; a nonreactive plasticizer; and an amine curing agent. Also disclosed is a method of: providing a composition having a phthalonitrile compound; heating the composition to a processing temperature until the composition has a viscosity of 30-40 Pa·s at the processing temperature to form a partially cured composition; placing the partially cured composition into a material chamber of an extrusion machine; heating the partially cured composition and the material chamber to within 10° C. of the processing temperature; and extruding fiber from the extrusion machine.
US09464165B2
The present invention provides a method of preparing a polyester-based polymer and a polyester-based polymer prepared by the method. The method of preparing the polyester-based polymer includes a prepolymerization step of polymerizing a dicarboxylic acid compound (A), a diol compound (B), and an aromatic branching agent (C) at 160-220° C. to produce a prepolymer; and a condensation polymerization step of performing a condensation polymerization of the prepolymer at 200-250° C., under a vacuum pressure of 0.1 to 2 Torr.
US09464164B2
Disclosed is a method for preparing polyesters, comprising reacting polyols with carboxylic acids and, optionally, a catalyst, wherein the polyols bear at least two hydroxyl groups, wherein, at least one of said hydroxyl group is bound to an aliphatic carbon atom and wherein the polyols comprise one or more compounds of the formula (I) or (II), where n is 1, 2, 3 or 4, m is 1, 2 or 3, p is 2, Q is sulphur or C1-C4-alkylene, and the radicals R1 are each, independently of any other radicals R1 present, C1-C8-alkyl or Ci-C8-alkoxy, where at least one ortho position of the two phenyl rings in the formula (II) or the phenyl ring in the formula (I) must be substituted by a secondary or tertiary radical.
US09464157B2
A polyurethane foam having excellent shape-following properties, which exhibits favorable comfort when worn on the human body, both during movement and at rest. The polyurethane foam contains a toluene diisocyanate and a polyether polyol as the main components, has a glass transition temperature, defined as the temperature corresponding with the peak value of the loss tangent, of not less than 0° C. and not more than 40° C., and in the temperature range from not less than 0° C. to not more than 40° C., the loss tangent in the frequency range from not less than 0.1 Hz to not more than 100 Hz is 0.4 or greater, and the average value of the loss tangent in the frequency range from not less than 0.1 Hz to not more than 1 Hz is not greater than the average value of the loss tangent in the frequency range from not less than 10 Hz to not more than 100 Hz.
US09464149B2
The present disclosure relates to a heat-shrinkable tube having tearability, which is made of a fluororesin, and particularly, to a heat-shrinkable tube having excellent tear straightness. Further, the present disclosure relates to a tube having high heat-shrinkage rate at low temperature. A tube including at least a fluororesin as a base resin, in which the thickness of the entanglement unit of a polymer observed on a cross-section in a longitudinal direction of the tube after being shrunk at 200° C. by 35% or more is 1 μm to 9 μm, has excellent tear straightness.
US09464144B2
Disclosed herein are processes for preparing procatalyst compositions and polymers, i.e., propylene-based polymers, produced therefrom. The present procatalyst compositions improve catalyst selectivity and also increase the bulk density of the formant polymer.
US09464136B2
The present invention features antibody-based constructs that include a combination of two or more of a tetrameric antibody, a single chain antibody, a diabody, a triabody, another immunoglobulin-based moiety, as described herein, or biologically active variants thereof.
US09464123B2
Peptides having activity of inhibiting infections of respiratory viruses and use of the same are disclosed. The peptides can be synthesized by chemical or genetic engineering methods, and they have functional domain capable of binding to surface glycoprotein of respiratory viruses and activity of inhibiting infections of respiratory viruses. The peptides are useful for blocking infections of respiratory viruses in target cells, for prevention/treatment of said infections, and for development of new prophylactic/therapeutic medicaments against respiratory viruses. Also disclosed are a kit for screening peptide capable of inhibiting said infections and the screening method. The invention also discloses the mechanism of the peptides in inhibition of said infections, which provides theory support for developing new prophylactic/therapeutic agents with broad-spectrum antiviral activities.
US09464118B2
The invention relates to novel multivalent polymeric amyloid-beta-binding substances composed of several interconnected substances which per se already have amyloid-beta-binding properties, and to the use of these substances, referred to hereinbelow as “polymers”, in particular in medicine.
US09464112B2
Provided are small peptide fragments derived from the NF-κB p65 subunit and a pharmaceutical or cosmetic composition comprising the same. The peptides have a NF-κB inhibitory activity, through controlling the transcription-activation of NF-κB. The peptides inhibit the expressions of pro-inflammatory mediators, which are induced by NF-κB, and also inhibit the transmigration of leukocytes, thereby exhibiting an anti-inflammatory activity. Especially, the peptides have excellent inhibitory activities against dermatitis and skin aging. And also, the peptides inhibit base membrane invasion of cancer cells, thereby exhibiting an inhibitory activity against the growth and/or metastasis of cancer cells.
