US09495968B2
In general, techniques are described for obtaining an indication of whether spherical harmonic coefficients are representative of a synthetic audio object. In accordance with the techniques, a device comprising one or more processors may be configured to obtain an indication of whether spherical harmonic coefficients representative of a sound field are generated from a synthetic audio object.
US09495967B2
Disclosed in some examples are systems, methods, devices, and machine readable mediums which may produce an audio recording with included verification from the individuals in the recording that the recording is accurate. In some examples, the system may also provide rights management control to those individuals. This may ensure that individuals participating in audio events that are to be recorded are assured that their words are not changed, taken out of context, or otherwise altered and that they retain control over the use of their words even after the physical file has left their control.
US09495950B2
There is provided an audio signal processing device including a feature amount extraction unit configured to extract, from an audio signal obtained by a sound collection unit, a feature amount that indicates a pulsed operation sound generated from a sound generation unit provided in a same housing as the sound collection unit, and a noise determination unit configured to determine whether or not the operation sound is included in the audio signal based on the feature amount.
US09495944B1
A drum frame fixer provided for fastening at least one drum rim to a drum body includes: a main body, for being arranged on a circumferential face of the drum body, formed with at least one assembling hole, an inner wall of each assembling hole being formed with a first internal threaded portion; at least one screwed portion, each screwed portion having a first external threaded portion screwed in each first internal threaded portion and a second internal threaded portion; at least one fixing portion, each fixing portion having an abutting head and a second external threaded portion, each fixing portion provided for being disposed through the drum rim, the abutting head abutting against a side of the drum rim, the second external threaded portion being screwed to a second internal threaded portion of the screwed portion located by the other side of the drum rim.
US09495943B2
A musical instrument is disclosed which comprises a tubular member having an inlet end, an outlet end having a circumferential lip, an exterior surface; and an interior surface having a rib, a movable stopper member having an indentation and a rod connected to the movable stopper member, the movable stopper member and the rod for insertion within the tubular member and the movable stopper member movable between the inlet end and the circumferential lip of the tubular member along the rib.
US09495939B2
An information processing apparatus, method and computer program product determine an object range to be displayed on a display based on a detected user-related action. For the apparatus, a control unit determines content to be displayed within an object range on a map. An action recognition processing unit that detects a user-related action. The control unit determines the content to be displayed within the object range. The object range includes a current position of the information processing apparatus, and a coverage area of the object range is based on the user-related action detected by the action recognition processing unit.
US09495936B1
Images to be projected onto a projection surface are modified prior to projection based on color values sampled from the projection surface. A camera samples color values from the projection surface and a processor generates a modified source image based at least in part on pixel color values in an original source image and the color values sampled from the projection surface. A projector then projects the modified source image onto the projection surface.
US09495935B2
The present invention discloses a capacitive touch module, a capacitive in-cell touch screen panel and a display device, in which an integrally connected common electrode layer in an array substrate is split to form touch sensing electrodes and touch driving electrodes which are insulated from each other; and the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes are subjected to time-sharing drive to achieve the touch function and the display function. Moreover, each touch sensing electrode includes a plurality of touch sensing sub-electrodes; each touch driving electrode includes a plurality of touch driving sub-electrodes; and opposing sides of adjacent touch sensing sub-electrodes and touch driving sub-electrodes are broken lines. Therefore, the opposing area between the adjacent touch driving electrodes and the adjacent touch sensing electrodes can be increased, and hence the mutual capacitance between the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes within the unit area can be increased, and consequently the sensing sensitivity of the touch screen in the touch-control process can be improved.
US09495934B2
A liquid crystal display device and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The device includes a gamma voltage generation circuit for generating first to ith positive gamma reference voltages having different levels, and first to ith negative gamma reference voltages having different levels, and a plurality of data drive chips, each of the data drive chips converting digital data input thereto into a positive data voltage and a negative data voltage and supplying the positive data voltage and negative data voltage to a liquid crystal display panel, and adjusting a level of the positive data voltage based on a positive gamma reference voltage supplied thereto, among the first to ith positive gamma reference voltages, and adjusting a level of the negative data voltage based on a negative gamma reference voltage supplied thereto, among the first to ith negative gamma reference voltages.
US09495933B2
An analog data transmitter applied in a LCD apparatus includes an output pad, a channel operational amplifier, an initial switch, an auxiliary switch module, and a detection unit. The detection unit selectively starts a first switch unit or a second switch unit of the auxiliary switch module according to a pulse width modulation corresponding to a data conversion amplitude of an output data signal outputted from the output pad. During a period of the first switch unit or the second switch unit operating from a first time to a second time, transistors in an output stage of the channel operational amplifier operate in a linear region of smaller resistance instead of a saturation region of larger resistance, and the initial switch is turned-off during the period and not started until the second time. The length of the period corresponds to the pulse width modulation.
US09495931B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register, a display device, and a method for driving the display device. A pull-down module and a stop module are added in the shift register. When a full screen picture is displayed, the signal output port outputs a high-level signal to the gate line connected with the signal output port, such that the gate line scans the display panel of the display device normally. The pull-down module may maintain the pull-up node and the signal output port at a low-level during the non-working time of the shift register, so as to prevent the shift register from outputting noise. When a local picture is displayed, under the control of the stop signal input port Stop, the stop module outputs the low-level signal to the gate line connected with the signal output port, such that the gate line stops scanning the display panel.
US09495925B2
A display device includes display panel includes a first source driver including a first input terminal and a first output terminal connected to the display panel; a first gate driver including a first input-output terminal, a second input-output terminal connected to the first input-output terminal, and a second output terminal connected to the display panel; a timing controller including a first terminal for outputting or inputting a first signal to or from the first input-output terminal and a second terminal; a first signal line connected to the first terminal; a second signal line connected to the second terminal; and a third signal line connected to the first source driver and the timing controller for transmitting a second signal indicating a display direction of the image data. The first source driver operates according to the first signal from the first terminal or the second terminal selected.
US09495922B2
Disclosed herein is a display device including: a display section configured to have a plurality of scanning signal lines to which respective scanning signals are applied, the display section performing line-sequential scanning by repeating interruption and resumption of the line-sequential scanning on a basis of the plurality of scanning signals, and displaying an image; and a scanning section configured to generate the plurality of scanning signals such that transition times on a pulse termination side of the respective scanning signals are equal to each other.
US09495918B2
A method is provided for driving electro-optic displays, especially bistable displays, to avoid edge effects when driving a limited area of the display. Pixels in an edge elimination region, at least one pixel wide and substantially surrounding the limited area, are driven from their original gray level to an intermediate gray level, and then back to their original gray level.
US09495910B2
A circuit is provided to drive a controlled current from a drive transistor into one electroluminescent element of a pixel array. The circuit is operable to compensate for threshold voltage variation of the drive transistor, thereby providing improved image quality. The circuit is suitable for implementation with p-channel MOSFETs and a conventional geometry having in order: substrate, TFT layer(s), anode, electroluminescent layer(s), cathode. A driving method for this circuit is provided. A display incorporating this circuit is provided. The circuit is operable to provide an inspection function prior to fabrication of the electroluminescent layer(s). An inspection method is provided.
US09495908B2
A pixel circuit, an organic electroluminescent display panel and a display device are provided. The pixel circuit includes a drive sub-module (1), a data write sub-module (2), a touch detection sub-module (3) having a photosensitive device and a light-emitting control sub-module (4) having a luminous device. Under the control of the reset signal terminal (Reset), the scan signal terminal (Scan) and the data signal terminal (Data), a data signal is transmitted to the first terminal (1a) of the drive sub-module (1) by the data write sub-module (2). Under the control of the touch control signal terminal (Select), the touch detection sub-module (3) controls output of a touch detection signal from the drive sub-module (1) to the touch signal read terminal, the touch detection signal being decreased as the light intensity irradiated onto the photosensitive device is increased, so as to realize a touch function. Under the control of the light-emitting control signal terminal (EM), the light-emitting control sub-module (4) controls the drive sub-module to drive the luminous device (1) to give off light, so as to realize a display function. Touch and display functions are integrated in the pixel circuit, so that the production cost involved in arranging a display driving circuit and a touch circuit separately can be saved.
US09495907B2
The present invention provides a pixel driving circuit and a pixel driving method of an organic light emitting diode, the pixel driving circuit comprises: a first transistor (T1), a second transistor (T2), a third transistor (T3), a fourth transistor (T4), a fifth transistor (T5), a sixth transistor (T6), a storage capacitor (C1) and an organic light-emitting diode (OLED); which also comprises a scanning control terminal (Scan), a data signal terminal (Data), a constant current source (Iref), a control light emitting signal terminal (Em), a power supply voltage (VDD) and a power supply negative electrode (VSS); the first transistor (T1) is a driving transistor. The present invention uses 6T1C compensation circuit to compensate the threshold voltage of the driving transistor of each pixel, grabbing the threshold voltage through the constant current source, and the data writing and the threshold voltage (Vth) grabbing are simultaneous, which effectively compensate the threshold voltage (Vth) variation of the driving transistor, improving the display quality.
US09495903B2
A display device including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area. The non-display area includes a test data line (TDL) which receives a test data signal from an external source, a plurality of connection line units (CLUs) which connect the data lines and the TDL, and a dummy line unit which is formed in the non-display area. Each of the CLUs includes a test switch having an input terminal connected to the TDL, an output terminal connected to one of a plurality of data lines disposed in the display area, and a control terminal connected to a test switch control line which receives a test switch control signal from an external source. At least one of the CLUs includes a disconnection portion which interrupts the TDL, wherein both ends of the disconnection portion are connected to the dummy line unit by bypass connection lines, respectively.
US09495902B2
An electro-optical device including: first display elements divided into at least a first region and a second region, for displaying a first image, and second display elements each divided into at least a third region and a fourth region, for displaying a second image, the first and second display elements being arranged such that each third region is disposed between the first region and the second region of the adjacent first display element and each second region is disposed between the third region and the fourth region of the adjacent second display element; a parallax barrier layer provided on a side of the display elements adjacent to a viewer, the parallax barrier having light transmitting regions at positions thereof corresponding to boundaries between adjoining first and third regions as well as between adjoining second and fourth regions; and a spacer layer separating the display elements from the parallax barrier layer.
US09495898B2
The present invention provides a self-compensating gate driving circuit, comprising: a plurality of GOA units which are cascade connected, and a Nth GOA unit controls charge to a Nth horizontal scanning line G(n) in a display area, and the Nth GOA unit controls charge to a Nth horizontal scanning line G(n) in a display area, and the Nth GOA unit comprises a pull-up controlling part, a pull-up part, a transmission part, a first pull-down part, a bootstrap capacitor part and a pull-down holding part; the pull-up part, the first pull-down part, the bootstrap capacitor part and the pull-down holding circuit are respectively coupled to a Nth gate signal point Q(N) and the Nth horizontal scanning line G(n), and the pull-up controlling part and the transmission part are respectively coupled to the Nth gate signal point Q(N), and the pull-down holding part is inputted with a DC low voltage VSS. The present invention is designed to have the pull-down holding part with self-compensating function to promote the reliability of the long term operation for the gate driving circuit. The influence of the threshold voltage drift to the operation of the gate driving circuit is diminished; the pull-down holding part can be designed to be controlled by a set of DC signal source. The design space of the circuit patterns can be saved and the overall power consumption of the circuit can be decreased.
US09495892B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) airfield guidance sign is disclosed herein. The sign can include a waveguide having a first face and a first fastening mechanism disposed on a first outer perimeter of the waveguide adjacent to the first face. The sign can also include a front panel coupled to the first outer perimeter adjacent to the first face of the waveguide. The sign can further include at least one first LED array disposed adjacent to an edge of a plurality of edges of the waveguide, where the edge of the waveguide is substantially orthogonal to the first face of the waveguide. The sign can also include a pair of side frame supports that secures two opposing edges of the plurality of edges of the waveguide and the front panel. The sign can further include a power source that provides power to the at least one first LED array.
US09495889B2
A tamper evident seal includes a wire hasp, an insert and a body for receiving the insert and the wire hasp. One leg of the wire hasp is received in a channel in the insert through an opening having a length slightly greater than the thickness of the wire hasp. The one leg of the wire hasp must be located in the channel in the insert prior to the insert being located in the body. A coupling structure for coupling the insert in the body includes extension tabs extending from the sides of the insert and located proximal a bottom of the insert and engagement members supported on angularly extending supports located proximal a top end of the insert and extending angularly outwardly upwardly from the sides of the insert and including teeth extending outwardly and for engaging reversely formed teeth (indentations) in the sides of the body for preventing removal of the insert and the wire hasp once they are fully inserted in the body and in the insert, respectively.
US09495887B2
A target of unitary construction comprises a self-supporting sign having a middle portion that has a first side, a second side, an upper side, and a lower side. A first foldable flap extends from the first side and is configured to be folded along the first side in a use configuration. A second foldable flap extends from the second side and is configured to be folded along the second side in the use configuration. A front foldable portion of the sign extends from the lower side and is configured to be folded along the lower side in the use configuration. The front foldable portion is configured to be secured to a surface when the self-supporting sign is being used as a target. In the use configuration, each of the first foldable flap directly and the second foldable flap directly touch only the middle portion and the surface.
US09495885B2
A method and apparatus for illuminating and recording an internal cavity of a medical simulator and integrating simulator data is disclosed. An apparatus for illuminating and recording an internal cavity of a medical simulator and integrating simulator data comprising: at least one light source configured for illuminating the internal cavity with light outside of the visible spectrum during an operator session, at least one video camera having a field of vision including at least part of the internal cavity for video recording an operator session; and a synchronizing system receiving and storing the at least one video recording of the at least one video camera and the at least one data output of the medical simulator.
US09495884B2
An assignment sharing device includes an assignment-related information storage unit configured to store assignment-related information including assignment information, challenger identification information, assignment approval information, and assignment achievement status information; an assignment information receiving unit configured to receive the assignment information and so forth; an assignment-related information accumulating unit configured to accumulate the assignment information and so forth as a single piece of assignment-related information; an assignment information transmitting unit configured to transmit corresponding assignment information to a challenger; an assignment approval receiving unit configured to receive assignment identification information identifying an assignment approved by the challenger; an assignment approving unit configured to set assignment approval information; and an assignment result information receiving unit configured to receive assignment result information, which is information regarding an execution result of an assignment represented by the assignment information corresponding to the set assignment approval information.
US09495882B2
The present invention is directed to interactive training, and in particular, to methods and systems for computerized interactive skill training. An example embodiment provides a method and system for providing skill training using a computerized system. The computerized system receives a selection of a first training subject. Several related training components can be invoked, such as reading, watching, performing, and/or reviewing components. In addition, a scored challenge session is provided, wherein a training challenge is provided to a user via a terminal, optionally in video form.
US09495864B1
Techniques are described for handling an event where a control panel or an alarm signaling device is tampered with or destroyed by a disablement tactic, e.g., a “crash and smash intrusion.”
US09495856B2
The invention relates to a device for securing objects against unauthorized removal. To this aim, the device (26) comprises an alarm electronics unit (1) having a motion sensor (3), an environmental brightness sensor (4), and an alarm signal transmitter (5). The alarm electronics unit (1) is designed so that the ambient brightness sensor (4) is activated by the detection of a movement. However, alarm release occurs only if the ambient brightness measured at the ambient brightness sensor (4) exceeds a predetermined brightness threshold, and the movement last continuously for a predetermined time span. The alarm activation occurs only if the ambient brightness falls below a predetermined darkness threshold and the movement continues to persist.
US09495849B2
In one embodiment, a monitoring system is provided. The system includes one or more monitoring devices configured to generate respective video signals, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to allow a user remote access to the video signals in response to a request for remote access by the user via the WAN interface and the control circuit operating in an alarm state. The control circuit is configured to deny the user access to the video signals in response to a request for remote access by the user via the WAN interface and the control circuit operating in a non-alarm state.
US09495847B2
A wireless device includes a sensor module that generates sensor data in response to motion of protective headgear, wherein the sensor data includes acceleration data. A device processing module includes an event processing module that analyzes the sensor data to generate power data that represents power of impact imparted to the protective headgear and that generates event data that includes the power data. A short-range wireless transmitter transmits a wireless signal that includes the event data.
US09495846B2
A tactile feedback apparatus is provided, which includes a signal generator and a tactile feedback structure. The signal generator provides a driving signal. The tactile feedback structure is connected to the signal generator and provides a tactile feedback signal in response to the driving signal when an object surface is touched or a housing of the tactile feedback apparatus is touched. The tactile feedback signal is related to a tactile sensation. The tactile feedback signal is related to an electrical property of the driving signal.
US09495844B2
The money handling machine (banknote depositing and dispensing machine 1) includes a unique-code generating unit 80 configured to generate a unique code that is used for a receiver of a journal in judging whether the journal is authentic or counterfeit based on at least a part or all of the deposit information printed on the journal by a printing unit (printer 6). The printing unit is configured to print on the journal the unique code generated by the unique-code generating unit 80 as well as the deposit information that is information regarding money deposited into the money handling machine.
US09495842B2
An embodiment of a gaming device includes a game having at least three choices, wherein each of the choices either trumps or is trumped by one of the other choices, and a processor programmed to determine if an outcome enhancing condition is satisfied, enable a player to elect to enhance an outcome if an outcome enhancing condition is satisfied, enable the player to select one of said choices, select one of said choices, determine an outcome based on a comparison of the player's choice with the processor's choice, provide a win outcome if the player elected to enhance an outcome and the comparison of the player's choice with the processor's choice results in a draw determination, provide a draw outcome if the player elected to enhance an outcome and the comparison of the player's choice with the processor's choice results in a lose determination.
US09495827B2
A reel assembly for a gaming machine includes an inner drive ring defining an annular inner rim, an outer ring, and a support substrate. The outer ring is spaced from and coaxially positioned relative to the inner drive ring, and the outer ring defines an annular outer rim. The support substrate has opposing side edges each coupled to a different one of the annular inner rim and the annular outer rim. The support substrate extends substantially unsupported between the annular inner rim and the annular outer rim in a substantially continuous manner maintaining the annular inner rim spaced from the annular out rim.
US09495820B1
Disclosed herein is an electronic combination lock mainly characterized by miniature size and easy-to-use electronic identification access-gaining method that enables a vast variety and type of access codes for user setting and choice. Another battery operated electronic key unit, incorporated with programmed access code to provide as an alternative choice for locking, unlocking and backup power, can be used in conjunction with the electronic combination lock.
US09495816B2
A mobile device includes a first communication device that transmits a first transmission signal to a vehicle side, a second communication device that transmits a second transmission signal in response to an electromagnetic field received from the vehicle side, a control unit that controls the first communication device and second communication device, and a circuit board. The first communication device includes a loop antenna that is formed by a conductive wire formed on the circuit board. The second communication device includes a transponder coil, which is substantially rectangular, on the circuit board. One shorter edge of the transponder coil is placed near an edge, of the circuit board, that faces the vehicle. The conductive wire is configured so as to enter a projected area, on the circuit board, of the transponder coil from one longer edge of the projected area and exit the projected area from the other longer edge.
US09495811B2
A method of and apparatus for creating record data for an authorizing body of, for example, skips and other waste containers is disclosed. Such a system includes receiving data from a telemetry system attached to a skip lorry. This data includes, vehicle identification data, location data identifying a location of the vehicle and loading/unloading data identifying when an object is loaded onto and/or unloaded from the vehicle. This data is then processed to determine locations where waste containers have been loaded and unloaded from vehicles and compare this to a permit booking system to ensure compliance with the booking system.
US09495800B2
Using as a texture of an image to be placed in a virtual world an image included in a predetermined area in a captured image captured by a real camera, a virtual world image is generated, in which the object placed in the virtual world is viewed from a virtual camera. Then, the captured image captured by the real camera is combined with the virtual world image, and the combined image is displayed on a display device.
US09495777B2
A system and method for illustrating enterprise data. An example method includes accessing data from an enterprise application, wherein the data is organized into one or more objects; categorizing the one or more objects based on a grouping criterion, resulting in one or more groups of one or more categorized objects in response thereto; displaying representations of the one or more categorized objects as nodes of a visualization such that each node is positioned in a section of the visualization according to a group associated with the node, resulting in one or more sections of nodes corresponding to the one or more groups; and adjusting a luminance of each node based on a node-appearance criterion. The visualization may be automatically sectioned based on a select combination of user-specified data attributes or criteria, where the selected combination yields a visualization with the most dark nodes in a given section.
US09495775B2
Distribution displays for categories are provided which illuminate the distribution of continuous attributes over all cases in a category, and which provide a histogram of the population of the different states of categorical attributes. An array of such displays by attribute (in one dimension) and category (in another dimension) may be provided. Category diagram displays are also provided for visualizing the different categories, and their distributions, populations, and similarities. These are displayed through different shading of nodes and edges representing categories and the relationship between two categories, and through proximity of nodes.
US09495769B2
A method is disclosed for the reconstruction of image data of an object under examination from measured data, wherein the measured data has been acquired during a relative rotational movement between a radiation source of a computed tomography system and the object under examination. A delimited area between the radiation source and a detector represents a field of view, in respect of which measured data can be acquired. During the measured data acquisition, parts of the object under examination were located at least partly outside of the field of view. A reconstruction is carried out of first image data from the measured data. The first image data is modified via a threshold value comparison, and the modified data is processed with a morphological filter, and projection data is calculated. The measured data is modified using the projection data, and, second image data is reconstructed.
US09495760B2
A mobile platform efficiently processes sensor data, including image data, using distributed processing in which latency sensitive operations are performed on the mobile platform, while latency insensitive, but computationally intensive operations are performed on a remote server. The mobile platform acquires sensor data, such as image data, and determines whether there is a trigger event to transmit the sensor data to the server. The trigger event may be a change in the sensor data relative to previously acquired sensor data, e.g., a scene change in an image. When a change is present, the sensor data may be transmitted to the server for processing. The server processes the sensor data and returns information related to the sensor data, such as identification of an object in an image or a reference image or model. The mobile platform may then perform reference based tracking using the identified object or reference image or model.
US09495759B2
The mobile, wearable, automated target tracking system is designed to enable an image and/or sound recording device, such as a video camera or directional microphone, to automatically follow a subject (or target) in order to keep that subject within the image frame or sound range that is being recorded. The automated target tracking system makes it possible to capture both the action and subject simultaneously without requiring a cameraman to manually operate the equipment. The indoor/outdoor, automated tracking system is designed to be independent of the video/sound recording device and may utilize a smartphone for location sensing and control. Both the target (or subject) and the tracking device may be moving, so the tracking device is designed to adjust position on 3 axes, azimuth (pan), elevation (tilt) and horizon (roll). Since the compact, battery-operated tracking device is mobile and wearable, it enables the user to capture the subject and all the action while also participating in the activity at the same time.
US09495756B2
A system and method for active contour segmentation where an image for a structure and an initial position on the image are received, a multi-scale image representation comprising successive image levels each having associated therewith a representation of the image is computed, a representation of the image at a given level having a different image resolution than that of a representation of the image at a subsequent level, a given one of the levels at which noise in the image is removed is identified, the initial position is set as a current contour and the given level as a current level, the current contour is deformed at the current level to expand into an expanded contour matching a shape of the structure, the expanded contour is set as the current contour and the subsequent level as the current level, and the steps are repeated until the last level is reached.
US09495749B2
A pose detecting system includes: a marker using a microlens array; a camera; and a computer receiving a marker image. The marker includes: a lens area constituted of the microlens array and a mark array having a plurality of marks arrayed with a pitch similar to that between a plurality of lenses constituting the microlens array so as to produce a moiré pattern; and four reference points. The computer performs: determining the pose of the marker based on the four reference points; analyzing the moiré pattern so as to calculate an angle formed by the marker and a straight line connecting the center of an integrated mark that emerges at the lens area as the moiré pattern and is similar in shape to each of the plurality of marks to a viewpoint at the marker; and correcting the pose of the marker by using the angle.
US09495748B2
A system and method for segmentation of content delivery is described. A virtual object model is divided into a plurality of segments. An order of the plurality of segments is arranged in a delivery queue. Each segment of the virtual object model is delivered in the order of the delivery queue to a device that is configured to recognize a physical object that is associated with the virtual object model.
US09495743B2
Systems and methods are described for cataract intervention. In one embodiment a system comprises a laser source configured to produce a treatment beam comprising a plurality of laser pulses; an integrated optical system comprising an imaging assembly operatively coupled to a treatment laser delivery assembly such that they share at least one common optical element, the integrated optical system being configured to acquire image information pertinent to one or more targeted tissue structures and direct the treatment beam in a 3-dimensional pattern to cause breakdown in at least one of the targeted tissue structures; and a controller operatively coupled to the laser source and integrated optical system, and configured to adjust the laser beam and treatment pattern based upon the image information, and distinguish two or more anatomical structures of the eye based at least in part upon a robust least squares fit analysis of the image information.
US09495734B2
An information processing apparatus may include a memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to process the instructions to receive an input image. The input image includes either a first image or a provisional image created by iteratively image processing the first image. The instructions further provide for the processor to calculate a local variation of a focused pixel in the input image based on a difference in pixel value between the focused pixel and a surrounding pixel of the focused pixel, to calculate a filter coefficient for suppressing a variation between neighboring pixels in the input image based on the local variation, to create a degraded image by degrading the input image, to calculate a reconfiguration error between the input image and the degraded image, and to create the provisional image based on the filter coefficient and the reconfiguration error.
US09495728B2
A pixel interpolation method for interpolating a pixel value of a target pixel in a target picture is disclosed. The pixel interpolation method includes performing up-sampling upon the target picture for generating an up-sampled picture corresponding to the target picture, and interpolating the target pixel according to the up-sampled picture. The step of performing up-sampling upon the target picture includes interpolating and generating a third pixel in between a first pixel and a second pixel that are a pair of two adjacent pixels of each pixel line of the target picture, whereof a pixel value of the third pixel is an average of pixel values of the first pixel and the second pixel.
US09495720B2
A method and apparatus for compiling and executing an application including Central Processing Unit (CPU) source code and Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) source code. The apparatus includes a hardware device including a CPU and a GPU; a compiler that compiles the GPU source code into a GPU virtual instruction; and a hybrid virtualization block that executes an execution file by translating the GPU virtual instruction into GPU machine code.
US09495719B2
A method and system for transferring an image. A user-selected image is received. Displayed are: (a) a graphic object representing a web page, (b) a first destination point within the graphic object and first text which is adjacent to the first destination point and describes the first destination point, and (c) a second, different destination point within the graphic object and second, different text which is adjacent to the second destination point and describes the second destination point. A user mouse selection of one of the destination points within the graphic object is received, and in response, the image is copied into the web page at the selected destination point. The first destination point, the first text, the second destination point, and the second text are stored in the transfer map. The selected image is mapped to the one of the destination points in the transfer map.
US09495718B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media are disclosed for responding to requests. A method of responding to requests may include receiving requests comprising callback functions. The one or more requests may be received in a first memory associated with processors of a first type, which may be CPUs. The requests may be moved to a second memory. The second memory may be associated with processors of a second type, which may be GPUs. GPU threads may process the requests to determine a result for the requests, when a number of the requests is at least a threshold number. The method may include moving the results to the first memory. The method may include the CPUs executing the one or more callback functions with the corresponding result. A GPU persistent thread may check the number of requests to determine when a threshold number of requests is reached.
US09495717B2
A Plant safety design assistance device (100) is configured by a communication device (140), a diagnostics and monitoring device (110), a fault inspection management device (120), and a design and manufacturing device (130) being interconnected via network (150). The diagnostics and monitoring device (110) receives plant status information (dc) from a plant control system (1) and carries out monitoring and diagnostics an the plant. The fault inspection management device (120) maintains fault inspection information (D2) of an apparatus which is used in the plant. The design and manufacturing device (130) maintains design and manufacturing information of the apparatus which is used in the plant. The design and manufacturing devise (130) receives the fault inspection information (D2) from the fault inspection management device (120), and carries out a plant safety design which takes the fault inspection information into account. The plant safety design is thus assisted, with the plant monitoring and maintenance activities being linked therewith.
US09495716B2
Techniques for creating a social network are provided. Private relationships that are established (e.g., in the context of instant messaging) may become public by the action of a single user. Each user determines whether they want to be “social” to (or discoverable by) friends of the user's friends. For example, user A is a friend of (i.e., has established a relationship with) user B and user B is a friend of user C, but user A and user C are not friends of each other (i.e., user A and user C have not established a relationship with each other). If user C unilaterally takes an action, then user A is able to see that user C is a friend of user B. User A may then take further actions to attempt to establish a relationship with user C or otherwise contact user C.
US09495715B2
Embodiments described herein disclose a system and method for providing an improved user experience for purchasing a product within an information feed. An information feed is displayed which includes an information post having a product link or otherwise referencing a product. A selection of the product link or the referenced product is received, and product information for a product associated with the product link or referenced product is retrieved. The product information and a purchase selector are displayed within the information feed, in association with the information post. A selection of the purchase selector is received. User payment information is retrieved and displayed in association with the information post in the information feed. User payment information is transmitted, based on a received confirmation from a user. The purchase is then executed, and a confirmation message may be displayed.
US09495710B2
A social media management server (MS) provides a single authentication point for a client device to log in to multiple social networking accounts. Through the MS, the client device can pull social networking updates to it or have them pushed to the client device. Also, the MS provides a set of APIs for all enabled client devices to interact with social networking sites/services. The MS updates APIs between itself and the social networking sites/services without changing the APIs between itself and client devices in that only mandatory changes in the MS-to-social networking servers APIs are propagated to the APIs between the MS and client devices to reduce the API update requirements on the client side.
US09495703B1
Provided is a software application containing instructions to receive an identifier associated with an item to be purchased by a user. The software application provides the identifier associated with the item to an associated database. The item is then assigned a classification which, along with the price of the item, is provided to an authorization entity associated with at least one account of the user. A notice is then received as to whether a purchase of the item using the account will be authorized at the time of purchase. The authorization is determined as a function of the price of the item and the classification of the item.
US09495701B2
A system for decentralized ordering of goods and/or services such as food and/or drinks at a venue such as a hotel or restaurant is disclosed. The venue uploads a venue menu to an internet site via the venue's data device or computer. An order application is downloaded by prospective customers from the internet site to the mobile data device of each customer. In addition, the venue allocates a customer identification code to each customer which is stored in the customer's mobile data device. Therefore the customer can use his mobile data device to access the venue's menu and order items from the menu. Preferably the customer notifies his location within the venue and the order is delivered to the customer's location.
US09495700B2
The present invention employs branded virtual characters to engage and educate users regarding an array of health-related insurance, financial, and other benefits, enabling informed decision-making during this complex process. Information is collected gradually on an “as-needed” basis to avoid overwhelming users with lengthy and redundant requests for information, while still providing a safe environment for users to freely discuss personal, health, financial and related sensitive issues. Throughout the process, the system employs a portfolio-driven approach to identify inter-dependencies among different benefit products and plans, and prioritize and recommend “portfolio-level” benefit solutions. Back-end components enable users to complete transactions (e.g., via third-party quoting and enrollment systems and employer HRIS systems, as well as via access to external medical and claims data), and provide third parties with access to the educational, decision-making and transactional aspects of this process, including various authoring and other tools to generate and modify system content over time.
US09495699B2
A method for facilitating an image-based transaction includes: capturing, by a first input device, an image of a product to be sold; receiving, by a second input device, product data corresponding to the product to be sold; identifying, by a processing device, a transaction identifier; encoding, by the processing device, the captured image with at least the identified transaction identifier; adding, to the encoded image, an indication of availability of the product to be sold such that user interaction with the encoded image will initiate a payment transaction for the product to be sold based on at least the encoded transaction identifier; and transmitting, by a transmitting device, at least the received product data, the identified transaction identifier, and the encoded image including the indication of availability.
US09495692B2
Described herein are methods and systems allowing a company to market and advertise its brands, products and/or services in a mobile platform by use of an application converting a user input into a corresponding branded icon, logo or image and displaying the same. The user input is in the form of a text entry from the device keyboard, e.g., a brand name or a generic search word, or a voice or sound input or audio demand from the device speaker. By providing various menu functions associated with the displayed icons, logos or images, the application combines mobile texting with online search or browsing to provide for a much simpler and more convenient mobile experience.
US09495690B2
A system, configured to integrate the processing of transactions and offers applicable to the transactions, includes: a data warehouse storing an offer in association with a financial payment account; a gateway configured to receive an authorization request that is transmitted from a transaction terminal without going through an acquirer processor, the gateway coupled with the data warehouse to determine whether the offer is applicable to the authorization request and if so, apply a benefit of the offer to the authorization request; and a transaction handler coupled with the gateway to process the authorization request submitted from the gateway, provide an authorization response corresponding to the authorization request, and communicate with the acquirer processor to credit funds according to the authorization request to a merchant account associated with the transaction terminal.
US09495688B2
The system provides a method and apparatus for preference generation that allows, for example, geographic boundaries to be easily implemented by a user. The system permits a user and other participants to manually and/or automatically constrain options to specific user and participant defined criteria, including geographic, categorical, economical, temporal, and other preference metrics.
US09495681B2
Systems and methods are provided for web page optimization. In accordance with one implementation, a system for web page optimization is provided, wherein the system comprises a computing device configured to provide at least one of user data, content categories, and page performance metrics, and receive, from the module server, a bid to include at least one proposed module on a page, the bid including an impact score of the at least one proposed module based on the page performance metrics. The system also includes a feedback component configured to provide performance feedback indicative of how the page performed based in part on the page performance metrics, and a page assembler coupled configured to select for display on the page a module combination comprising the at least one proposed module, wherein the module combination is selected based in part on the impact score and the performance feedback.
US09495679B2
A method for leveraging email to complete an online transaction from a third party vendor, the method comprising: storing customer information, the customer information including a customer name, customer email address, customer shipping address, and customer billing information. The method further comprises receiving an authorization request from an application programming interface associated with a third party vendor requesting access to a portion of the customer information and receiving confirmation from a customer to allow the third party vendor to access the portion of the customer information. The method further comprising transmitting an access code to the third party vendor and receiving a request message from the third party vendor, wherein the request message comprises the access code, and wherein the request message requests an authorization token. The method may further comprise confirming the received access code and transmitting an authorization token to the third party vendor.
US09495677B2
A decoding system with a decoding engine running on a mobile device. The decoding engine decodes signals produced from a read of a buyer's financial transaction card, accepts and initializes incoming signals from a read of a buyer's financial transaction card until the signals reach a steady state, detects the read of the buyer's financial transaction card once the incoming signals are in a steady state, identifies peaks in the incoming signals and digitizes the identified peaks in the incoming signals into bits. A transaction engine runs on the mobile device and is coupled to the decoding engine. A payment system is in communication with the transaction engine.
US09495676B2
A method of transmitting information to a mobile device includes providing a read head with a slot for swiping a magnetic stripe of a card, a power supply coupled to wake-up electronics and a microcontroller. The wake-up electronics are powered by a microphone bias of a mobile device.
US09495673B2
The present invention provides a solution to the needs described above through a system and method for a wireless universal mobile product interface (WUMPI). Generally, products/objects have their own interface, or man-machine-interface (MMI). Technically, the wireless universal mobile product interface of the present invention (WUMPI) innovates this space by replacing the product's MMI by implementing reverse software control via wireless transmission channel and or Bluetooth wireless technologies to control the mobile device's screen—replacing the local software component on the mobile device which controls what is shown on the screen in terms of a man-machine interface (MMI). This enables a product/object within the area of the mobile device to take over control via the wireless transmission channel or other wireless capability of the mobile device and to “extend” the product interface to the mobile device that came within its control range, or the product/object's personal area network (PAN).
US09495670B2
Techniques are disclosed for enabling more efficient tipping by providing a merchant the ability to reduce the time used on manually entering tip amounts. In one embodiment, a method includes automatically generating, by a point-of-sale (POS) system, a transaction receipt that indicates a plurality of selectable tip options, wherein said automatically generating the transaction receipt is based on one or more rules specified by a user of the POS system. The method further includes causing the transaction receipt to be printed as a printed receipt. The method further includes identifying, by the POS system, a one of the plurality of selectable tip options specified by a customer on the printed receipt. Among other benefits, the disclosed techniques reduce the time and effort the merchant needs to spend on collating the tipping at end of the business day.
US09495660B2
Software authenticates the user of a social networking service which maintains one or more lists of contacts associated with the user that can be used by the user to selectively share content. The software ascertains a proposed group of contacts from at least one of the lists. The user and members of the proposed group are related by a plurality of communications and the communications are associated with one or more attributes including at least one of geographic locations associated with the communication, time of communication, or medium of communication. The software presents the proposed group of contacts to the user, with a recommendation that the user create a new list of contacts associated with the user from the proposed group of contacts. The software creates the new list of contacts from the proposed group, if the user indicates acceptance of the recommendation.
US09495657B1
Systems and methods are disclosed associated with processing information involving terminal operating systems. According to one illustrative implementation, an exemplary method for processing information involving terminal operating system herein may include processing data in a TOS format associated with a TOS type, converting the data into a TOS agnostic format, and performing processing using the TOS agnostic data.
US09495640B1
Operational characteristic I/O patterns of each storage volume of a storage volume group, and at least one operational characteristic of each storage volume associated with an application, are determined. Unsupervised learning is used to form clusters of storage volumes of similar characteristics. Labels are generated, assigned, and aggregated for each characteristic of each storage volume. Templates are received that includes labels of storage volume characteristics of known application types. An application type associated with the storage volume group is inferred, based on a best-fit match of the aggregate labels of the storage volumes of the storage volume group to the labels included in the templates of storage volume characteristics of known application types.
US09495626B2
An identity card, comprising a card body and a physical unclonable function are arranged within the card body, wherein the physical unclonable function comprises a first light influencing layer and a second light influencing layer.
US09495624B2
Provided is an estimation apparatus including a storage unit that stores an estimation model for estimating transport failure information pertaining to a transport failure based on information pertaining to a transit time in which each of plural papers with different characteristics passes through a certain transport section in a transport path and information pertaining to a utilization of each of the plural papers for each of plural image processing apparatuses, an acquisition unit that acquires the characteristics of the paper, information pertaining to the transit time of the paper, and information pertaining to the utilization of the paper for the image processing apparatus that is the estimation target, and an estimation unit that estimates the transport failure information using the estimation model based on the acquisition results of the acquisition unit.
US09495623B1
Methods, systems, and computer-program products for optimizing SRE (Super Resolution Encoding) patterns. A hierarchical self-organizing pattern map (HSOPM) of SRE patterns can be derived, which illustrates interrelationships between consecutive SRE patterns. Such a hierarchical self-organizing map provides a first level of hierarchy, a second level of hierarchy, etc. Different weights can be assigned to different synthesis of traversal (SoT) according to the second level of hierarchy. The likelihood of the SRE patterns can then be calculated based on a fitness of continuity and the different weights, so as to subsequently select and encode an allowed number of the SRE patterns while replacing other patterns with a lower likelihood value with an immediate root and thereby adaptively optimize any number of the SRE patterns with respect to any number of values.
US09495620B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media related to a technique for providing handwriting input functionality on a user device. A handwriting recognition module is trained to have a repertoire comprising multiple non-overlapping scripts and capable of recognizing tens of thousands of characters using a single handwriting recognition model. The handwriting input module provides real-time, stroke-order and stroke-direction independent handwriting recognition. User interfaces for providing the handwriting input functionality are also disclosed.
US09495618B1
Techniques for object detection include training a first classifier to detect an object based on textural features and a second classifier to detect the object based on textural features and spectral features. A classifier relationship between the two classifiers is learned and used with the first classifier to detect other objects. If desired, the performance of the object detector can be improved by comparing the results of detecting objects with the first classifier and the classifier relationship versus detecting objects with the first and second classifier together, and modifying the classifier relationship based upon the comparison.
US09495612B2
A method for recognizing an object (120) in an image (100), in which the recognition of the object (120) comprises a first scaling stage of a scaling region of the image (100), and at least a further scaling stage of the scaling region of the image (100); and in which the image (100) is subdivided into at least one image segment (110); a first decision being taken for the at least one image segment (110) on the first scaling stage of the scaling region as to whether the at least one image segment (110) is considered on the at least one further scaling stage of the scaling region for the recognition of the object (120).
US09495609B2
A method for identifying a best item among a plurality of respective different items includes selecting a current best score, identifying a set of attributes associated with each of the items, and for each of the sets of attributes: determining a best possible score for a subset of the set of attributes, if the best possible score is greater than the current best score, determining an actual score for the set of attributes, and if the actual score for the set of attributes is greater than the current best score, setting the current best score as the actual score for the set of attributes. After both of the determining steps and the setting step for each of the sets of attributes, the item associated with the current best score is identified.
US09495608B2
The invention is directed to systems, methods and computer program products for determining a mood and a strength of an image. An exemplary method comprises: determining a mood of an image based on a color tone and a color saturation of the image; determining a strength of an image based on a brightness of the image; determining a mood-strength distribution of the image based on the mood of the image and the strength of the image; and selecting a music piece based on the mood-strength distribution of the image.
US09495604B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically managing how and when computerized advanced processing techniques (for example, CAD and/or other image processing) are used. In some embodiments, the systems and methods discussed herein allow users, such as radiologists, to efficiently interact with a wide variety of computerized advanced processing (“CAP”) techniques using computing devices ranging from picture archiving and communication system (“PACS”) workstations to handheld devices such as smartphone and tablets. Furthermore, the systems and methods may, in various embodiments, automatically manage how data associated with these CAP techniques (for example, results of application of one or more computerized advanced processing techniques) are used, such as how data associated with the computerized analyzes is reported, whether comparisons to prior abnormalities should be automatically initiated, whether the radiologist should be alerted of important findings, and the like.
US09495602B2
A system, device, and methods for image and map-based detection of vehicles at intersections. Once example computer-implemented method for detecting objects includes receiving, from the one or more sensors disposed on a vehicle, image data representative of an image and detecting an object on the image. The method further includes identifying a path extending from the vehicle to the detected object on the image and retrieving map data including lane information. The method further includes comparing the path to a representation of the lane information and determining the position of the detected object based on a comparison of the path, representation of the lane information, and the image.
US09495598B2
An advertisement detection system based on fingerprints, including a content stream storage unit storing broadcast content in real time, a section selection unit selecting a reference section and a test section from broadcast content stored by the storage unit, a fingerprint extraction unit extracting fingerprints from the reference section and test section selected by the selection unit, a fingerprint matching unit comparing fingerprints from the test section and reference section, extracted by the extraction unit, with each other and then performing matching between the fingerprints, an advertisement section determination unit determining advertisement segments from the test section based on results of the matching performed by the matching unit, an advertisement DB management unit storing segment information about the advertisement segments determined by the determination unit in an advertisement DB and managing the DB, and a section update unit changing the reference section and test section selected by the selection unit.
US09495593B2
Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, and storage mediums associated with controlling content capture of prohibited content on remote devices, are disclosed. In embodiments, components of a remote device may receive image data of an image captured by the remote device and analyze the image data to determine whether the image includes prohibited content. In embodiments, the remote device may conditionally display or persistently store the image data, based at least in part on a result of the analysis.
US09495592B2
An information providing device according to the exemplary embodiment includes an object recognizing unit, a retrieving unit, an obtaining unit, and a transmitting unit. The object recognizing unit extracts an image of a specific object which appears in an image of a moving image content to be distributed to a terminal device. The retrieving unit requests a retrieval device to retrieve a similar image with the image of the specific object as a retrieval key and obtains a retrieval result from the retrieval device. The obtaining unit obtains recommend information related with an image of the specific object which appears in an image of a moving image content based on the retrieval result. The transmitting unit transmits the recommend information to the terminal device.
US09495589B2
A gaze-point detection system includes at least one infrared (IR) signal source to be placed in a test scene as a reference point, a pair of eye glasses to be worn by a person, and a data processing and storage unit for calculating a gaze point of the person wearing the pair of eye glasses. The pair of eye glasses includes an image sensor, an eye-tracking unit and a camera. The image sensor detects IR signals from the at least one IR signal source and generates an IR signal source tracking signal. The eye-tracking unit determines adapted to determine the gaze direction of the person and generates an eye-tracking signal, and the camera acquires a test scene picture. The data processing and storage unit communicates with the pair of eye glasses and calculates the gaze point relative to the test scene picture.
US09495588B2
Methods and systems for securing biometric templates and generating secret keys are provided. One or more images are received. Interest points are identified based on the received images, and a plurality of obfuscating data points are generated based on the interest points. An obfuscated template based on the interest points and the obfuscating data points is created and stored. A secret key can be encoded using a subset of at least one of the obfuscating data points and the interest points in the template.
US09495586B1
A method for identity verification using biometric data is disclosed herein. The method comprises receiving, by a processor, an image of an identification document and receiving a video associated with a face of a user. A predefined number of frames are selected in the video. Based on the selection, it is determined whether the video depicts a live person. Additionally, the face of the user in the video is compared with the image of the identification document and, based on the comparing, results of the identity verification are provided.
US09495585B2
The present invention relates to the field of computation and covers methods to find one to one mapping between fiducial markers on a tracked object and fiducial marker projections on the image plane captured by a camera in optical object tracking systems. A method for solving correspondence problem is realized to find correspondences between 3D points of an object and 2D projection of that object onto the image plane so that this can be used to find the object's 3D location and orientation. It is designed to work without current pose of the tracked object thus it is equally efficient on initial correspondence problem as correspondence problem. Furthermore, a method for selecting LED groups to be used for solving correspondence problem is also presented, which uses pose data representing possible poses of tracked object under working conditions thus LEDS groups are selected to satisfy use case requirements.
US09495583B2
A computer-implemented method for organizing images including receiving an image that includes a representation of a human face; generating a correlation value indicating a likelihood that the human face corresponds to a stored facial profile associated with one or more profile images including a human face; evaluating the received image and the generated correlation value to determine, depending on a result of the evaluating, whether the image corresponds to the stored facial profile; associating the received image with the stored facial profile; and storing an indication of the associating.
US09495582B2
A system for processing an image of a human face, the system including a data processing and analyzing utility including a high-pass filtering module outputting a high-pass signal indicative of edges or contours of the face in the input image data; at least one band-pass filtering module outputting a bandpass signal indicative of low-contrast slowly-varying qualitative features of the face; a low-pass filtering module outputting a low-pass signal in which low-contrast regions are smoothed and high-contrast regions are preserved; a feature computation module calculating a localized feature of the image for a plurality of pixels of the image; a strength computation module determining a localized operand using the localized feature to determine a strength of filters to be used in the high-pass, band-pass, and low-pass filtering modules at the pixels, and transmitting the localized operand to the filtering modules; at least one transformation module altering a portion of the high-pass, the bandpass, or the low-pass signals; and an addition module adding the various signals together, thus yielding an output signal indicative of a characteristic of an altered image.
US09495577B2
A method for processing, saving and viewing a digital image of a microscope slide includes inserting a microscope slide into a digital slide scanner connected to an acquisition computer. A pre-scan formed from a plurality of image tiles uploaded to a network server while the pre-scan is being generated. The network server analyzes the image tiles in realtime to identify an area of interest. The acquisition computer generates a high magnification local scan of the area of interest. The local scan is formed from a plurality of local image tiles that are uploaded to the network server while the local scan is being generated. Each local image tile is viewable by a client computer in communication with the computer network while the plurality of local image tiles is being uploaded. A raw final image is then saved on the network server independent of the acquisition computer.
US09495575B2
A ring-type terminal including a main body configured to be placed on and surround a user's finger and including an insertion region in which the finger is inserted; a fingerprint sensor provided on at least one region of an inner circumferential surface of the main body and configured to recognize a fingerprint of the finger; a guide module provided on the inner circumferential surface such that the finger comes in contact with the fingerprint sensing module while the finger is inserted in the insertion region; and a controller configured to execute a function based on the fingerprint sensed by the fingerprint sensing module.
US09495563B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to integrate signals. Some embodiments include an integrator comprising an active input; a passive input; a first integrator having a first integrator input and a first integrator output; a second integrator having a second integrator input and a second integrator output; a first plurality of switches coupled with the first integrator input, the second integrator input, the active input, and the passive input; a second plurality of switches coupled with the first integrator output and the second integrator output; and a controller. The controller may be configured to control the operation of the first plurality of switches to switch the active input between the first integrator input and the second integrator input, and control the operation of the first plurality of switches to switch the passive input between the first integrator input and the second integrator input.
US09495554B2
A system and method is disclosed for providing role based notifications to users of the modular learning system (MLS). The modular learning system includes a variety of types of users interacting with the modular learning system and with one another. The MLS enables users to create learning applications, purchase learning application, perform learning applications, and interact with one another to accomplish these tasks. The MLS maintains activity items related to these actions on the MLS. These activity items include a description of the activities performed as well as user roles entitled to view information about the activity item. When a user requests a notification from the MLS, the MLS identifies the user's role in the MLS and activity items that may be viewed by that user role.
US09495552B2
The subject disclosure is directed towards encryption and deduplication integration between computing devices and a network resource. Files are partitioned into data blocks and deduplicated via removal of duplicate data blocks. Using multiple cryptographic keys, each data block is encrypted and stored at the network resource but can only be decrypted by an authorized user, such as domain entity having an appropriate deduplication domain-based cryptographic key. Another cryptographic key referred to as a content-derived cryptographic key ensures that duplicate data blocks encrypt to substantially equivalent encrypted data.
US09495546B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for generating digital signatures are disclosed. An apparatus may present itself to a host computer as a mass storage device to provide cryptographic processing results through a standard mass storage access mechanism for exchanging files.
US09495541B2
Systems, methods, and media for detecting the presence of return-oriented programming (ROP) payloads are provided, comprising; identifying a potential gadget address space; determining if a piece of the data corresponds to an address of the potential gadget address space; and in response to determining that the piece of the data corresponds to an address of the potential gadget address space: determining whether a plurality of operations, each associated one of a plurality instructions beginning at the address, indicates that an ROP payload is present in the data, and indicating that an ROP payload is present in the data in response to making a determination that a plurality of operations indicates that an ROP payload is present in the data a given number of times.
US09495539B2
A system and method for identifying infection of unwanted software on an electronic device is disclosed. A software agent configured to generate a bait and is installed on the electronic device. The bait can simulate a situation in which the user performs a login session and submits personal information or it may just contain artificial sensitive information. Parameters may be inserted into the bait such as the identity of the electronic device that the bait is installed upon. The output of the electronic device is monitored and analyzed for attempts of transmitting the bait. The output is analyzed by correlating the output with the bait and can be done by comparing information about the bait with the traffic over a computer network in order to decide about the existence and the location of unwanted software. Furthermore, it is possible to store information about the bait in a database and then compare information about a user with the information in the database in order to determine if the electronic device that transmitted the bait contains unwanted software.
US09495528B2
A wearable device includes a communication unit that wirelessly communicates with a first external device; a motion sensor that senses the user's motion; and a control unit. The wearable device collects a first motion data generated by the user's motion and transmits the first motion data to the first external device, receives a first security level data and a second security level data from the first external device, and receives only the first security level data from the first external device when the wearable device is converted into a non-wearing state from a wearing state.
US09495521B2
Embodiments of the invention provide methods and systems for enforcing system self integrity validation policies. The method includes accessing, by a policy enforcer, a plurality of policies configured to enforce system integrity, monitoring system performance to determine actions executed by the system, and based on at least one of the plurality of policies, comparing the system performance with system performance required by the at least one or the plurality of policies. The method further includes, based on the comparison, determining that the system has performed in a manner contrary to the requirements of the at least one policy, and in response, prohibiting access of the system to services provided by a service provider.
US09495514B2
A multi-variable statistical predictive leading-indicator approach is employed for identifying newborns at risk of clinically significant hyperbilirubinemia and for determining to administer interventions to at-risk newborns. In embodiments, a multi-variable logistic regression statistical model capable of calculating a probability of clinically significant hyperbilirubinemia is generated. Using an input data set for a newborn and the multi-variable logistic regression statistical model, a probability of clinically significant hyperbilirubinemia is determined for the newborn and presented to a clinician.
US09495511B2
A remote monitoring system for monitoring a plurality of medical devices at a patient care or home care facility. The system includes a device integration server in communication with wireless relay modules for receiving data packets from the medical devices including an identifier and data for each medical device. The system also includes an outbound web server. The web server is configured to provide webpages including the data of the medical devices for display on first and second remote monitoring devices, subject to authentication of an associated data request from the monitoring device.
US09495506B2
Methods for verifying the layout for standard cells using finFET standard cell structures with polysilicon on cell edges. Standard cells are defined using finFET transistors. Polysilicon dummy structures are formed on the edges of the active areas of the standard cells. Where two standard cells abut a single polysilicon dummy structure is formed. In a design flow, a pre-layout netlist schematic for the standard cells is formed that does not include devices corresponding to the polysilicon dummy structures. After an automated place and route process forms a device layout using the standard cells, a post layout netlist schematic is extracted including MOS devices corresponding to the polysilicon dummy structures. A layout versus schematic comparison is then performed, but during the comparison MOS devices corresponding to the polysilicon dummy structures are filtered from the post-layout netlist and are not compared. Additional methods are disclosed.
US09495505B2
Techniques include receiving a design of an integrated computational element (ICE) including (1) specification of a substrate and multiple layers, their respective target thicknesses and refractive indices, adjacent layer refractive indices being different from each other, and a notional ICE fabricated based on the ICE design being related to a characteristic of a sample, and (2) indication of target ICE performance; forming one or more of the layers of an ICE based on the ICE design; in response to determining that an ICE performance would not meet the target performance if the ICE having the formed layers were completed based on the received ICE design, updating the ICE design to a new total number of layers and new target layer thicknesses, such that performance of the ICE completed based on the updated ICE design meets the target performance; and forming some of subsequent layers based on the updated ICE design.
US09495498B2
An apparatus, program product and method facilitate the design of a multi-layer circuit arrangement incorporating a universal, standardized inter-layer interconnect in a multi-layer semiconductor stack to facilitate interconnection and communication between functional units disposed on a stack of semiconductor dies. Each circuit layer in the multi-layer semiconductor stack is required to include an inter-layer interface region that is disposed at substantially the same topographic location such that when the semiconductor dies upon which such circuit layers are disposed are arranged together in a stack, electrical conductors disposed within each semiconductor die are aligned with one another to provide an inter-layer bus that is oriented vertically, or transversely, with respect to the individual circuit layers.
US09495494B2
The circuit simulating method according to an embodiment includes obtaining a first electrical characteristic value of a circuit element that operates under a predetermined operational condition. The circuit simulating method includes correcting the first electrical characteristic value based on a period in which application of an electrical stress equal to or higher than a reference value is stopped during operation of the circuit element.
US09495485B2
An information processing device includes target object information obtaining unit configured to obtain target object information indicating a position and an area of a target object in a virtual space, surface information obtaining unit configured to obtain surface information indicating a position and an area of a thickness area that is defined by a surface in the virtual space and a predetermined thickness imparted to the surface, and collision determining unit configured to carry out collision determination, based on the target object information and the surface information, so as to determine whether the target object has collided against the surface.
US09495477B1
Data are maintained in a distributed computing system that describe a directed graph representing relationships among a set of items. The directed graph models a condition having an associated problem. The directed graph has graph components having associated data fields. The relationships are analyzed to identify a solution to the problem. As part of the analysis, a new value for the data field associated with a graph component is identified responsive to an operation performed during the analysis. The new value is compared with an existing value of the data field, and the data field is modified. The modification may include inserting the new value into an overflow vector of data, and replacing the existing value in the data field with exception information identifying the location of the new value. An exception flag associated with the data field is set to indicate that the exception information is being used.
US09495474B2
A computer implemented method and system include executing a search against both a client cache associated with a client and data sources remotely coupled to the client over a network connection. Results from the search against the client cache are rendered on a client UI. The client cache and the client UI are updated with the results from the search against the data sources.
US09495465B2
A system and method of searching for physical media articles available from article dispensing machines within a geographic proximity is provided. Searching may include matching keywords in search criteria or using predefined search criteria for browsing of static or dynamic listings of media content. The method includes receiving a search request including search criteria, and searching the metadata database for a physical media article matching the search criteria. The method also includes determining the availability of the matching media article at an article dispensing machine. The geographic location of article dispensing machines with available matching media articles is determined, based on personally identifying information such as an IP or MAC address. The geographic location may be limited by a proximity from an audio/visual display interface. A search result set with the matching media articles is provided, based on their availabilities.
US09495463B2
A first candidate answer to a time-sensitive question received by a question answering (QA) system is identified using a first document. A first temporal confidence subscore of the first candidate answer is then calculated using a first temporal confidence rule. A first general confidence score is then generated based on at least the first temporal confidence subscore. A second candidate answer to the question is identified using a second document. A second temporal confidence subscore of the second candidate answer is then calculated using a second temporal confidence rule. A second general confidence score is then generated based on at least the second temporal confidence subscore. The first general confidence score and the second general confidence score are then compared. Based on this comparison, a final answer is selected from the first candidate answer and the second candidate answer.
US09495462B2
Search results obtained from a ranking model are re-ranked based on user-configured ranking rules. For example, a user may desire to: place certain search results at a top/bottom of a ranking of search results; remove some search results; and/or adjust a ranking of some of the search results. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) allows a user to configure the ranking rules (e.g. enter key/value restrictions and to set a boost value) and to preview an application of one or more of the ranking rules. Query language operators that follow a standard operator syntax are created based on the inputs (e.g. a ranking query operator is created that may include multiple user supplied parameters). The user may also specify a portion of the results from which statistics (e.g. standard deviation, average score) are calculated. For example, a user may specify to calculate statistics for the top N number results.
US09495450B2
According to some aspects, a method of providing an interactive audio presentation, at least in part, by traversing a plurality of audio animations, each audio animation comprising a plurality of frames, each of the plurality of frames comprising a duration, at least one audio element, and at least one gate indicating criteria for transitioning to and identification of a subsequent frame according to one or more probabilities, and/or a subsequent animation is provided. The method comprises rendering a first audio animation, receiving input from the user associated with the presentation, selecting a second audio animation based, at least in part, on the input, and rendering the second audio animation. Some aspects include a system for performing the above method and some aspects include a computer readable medium storing instructions that perform the above method when executed by at least one processor.
US09495448B2
A method of generating a combined profile of a terminal, and an apparatus to perform the method, the method including collecting a profile of one or more content playback devices connected to the terminal, and generating a combined profile of the terminal according to a profile of the terminal and the collected profile of the one or more content playback devices.
US09495430B2
Systems and methods are provided for batch processing of data records in an on-demand system. A marker is stored that identifies a node in an on-demand system and identifies a most recent data record processed in a relational database management system by the node. The marker is used to query the database management system to identify a batch of records for the node to process. The batch of records is processed by the node to update a client of data changes reflected by the batch of records.
US09495418B2
Embodiments include methods, systems and computer program products for offloading multiple processing operations to an accelerator. Aspects include receiving a database query from an application, performing an analysis on the query, and identifying a plurality of available accelerators. Aspects further include retrieving cost information for one or more templates available on each of the plurality of available accelerators, determining a query execution plan based on the cost information and the analysis on the query, and offloading one or more query operations to at least one of the plurality of accelerators based on the query execution plan.
US09495417B2
One or more processors apply rules to a first query to generate a modified query such that processing of the modified query is optimized for a first set of processing conditions. One or more processors measure a degree of latency experienced during processing of the modified query under a second set of processing conditions. One or more processors generate other rules to be applied to queries based, at least in part, on the measured degree of latency.
US09495416B2
A method, apparatus, and system are configured to recommend content using metadata including an event metadata unit, a searching unit, and a control unit. The event metadata generating unit is configured to generate event metadata regarding content selected by a user. The searching unit which, on the basis of the generated event metadata and social metadata regarding content uploaded to an SNS server associated with the user, is configured to search the content uploaded to the SNS server to recommend content to be provided to the user. The control unit is configured to provide the recommended content to the user using the social metadata regarding the searched recommended content.
US09495402B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for managing a database are disclosed. Managing the database includes managing a table of the database, the table having a set of fields including a first field in a first row of the table. Managing the table includes selecting, in the first field, a first input value configured to identify a first dynamic data function utilized to determine a first output value for the first field. Managing the table includes determining the first output value for the first field using the first dynamic data function. Managing the table includes returning (for a read request) the first output value for the first field.
US09495399B1
An aspect of providing augmented reality model comparison and deviation detection includes receiving a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object that is associated with a domain, determining a set of characteristics of the object from the 3D model, and searching a domain-specific database for data matching the set of characteristics. The domain-specific database corresponds to the domain associated with the object. An aspect also includes determining an identification of the object from data in the domain-specific database that matches the set of characteristics. For each characteristic in the set of characteristics, and aspect further includes comparing each value of the characteristic to a corresponding value in the matching data of the domain-specific database, and calculating any variation between the corresponding value of the characteristic and the value of the matching data. Another aspect includes creating a searchable index of the matching data and corresponding variations.
US09495398B2
Providing an index for a database table that includes a first portion of rows stored in a memory device and a second portion of rows stored in a disk device. A request is received relating to a specific row of the database table. An index that includes entries for each row of the database table stored in the memory device and entries for a subset of the rows of the database table stored in the disk device is accessed. A connection is made to the memory device if the specific row is stored in the memory device, and a connection is made to the disk device if the specific row is stored in the disk device. An action related to the specific row is performed based on the received request.
US09495395B2
Data can be categorized into facts, information, hypothesis, and directives. Activities that generate certain categories of data based on other categories of data through the application of knowledge which can be categorized into classifications, assessments, resolutions, and enactments. Activities can be driven by a Classification-Assessment-Resolution-Enactment (CARE) control engine. The CARE control and these categorizations can be used to enhance a multitude of systems, for example diagnostic system, such as through historical record keeping, machine learning, and automation. Such a diagnostic system can include a system that forecasts computing system failures based on the application of knowledge to system vital signs such as thread or stack segment intensity and memory heap usage. These vital signs are facts that can be classified to produce information such as memory leaks, convoy effects, or other problems. Classification can involve the automatic generation of classes, states, observations, predictions, norms, objectives, and the processing of sample intervals having irregular durations.
US09495393B2
A system for reviewing role definitions includes a database that stores a plurality of roles. Each of the plurality of roles associates an identifier with at least one entitlement. The system also includes a second database that stores role review definitions. The review definitions define role review processes for the plurality of roles. The system further includes a processor that is in communication with the role database and the review definition database. The processor executes the role review processes defined by the review definitions at the appropriate times.
US09495391B1
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes receiving a request from a first user to browse a pool of date requests, where each of the date requests is associated with a potential match in a computer-implemented matching system and includes at least one of a calendar date and a location. The method further includes presenting to the first user information regarding the potential match associated with one of the date requests, and sending a date invitation to the potential match associated with the particular one of the date requests.
US09495384B2
A method for determining latitude and longitude coordinates for geographic addresses input into an address book on a mobile device is provided. For each geographic address received for storing in a contact record, latitude and longitude coordinates are automatically determined and associated with the geographic address in a database of contact records. In some embodiments, for each geographic address to be input, the method first searches existing contact records for the geographic address and if the latitude and longitude coordinates for the geographic address are in an existing contact record, the contact record for the contact is cross-referenced to the existing record for accessing the latitude and longitude coordinates.
US09495382B2
Systems and methods for performing intelligent replication of production data on a source storage device. In certain examples, a full backup of the production data is first performed and stored on a destination system. A journal module on the storage device (e.g., a shared storage device), or on at least one source system, tracks files on the storage device that change during a particular period of time. Following this period, a snapshot is taken of the production data. Upon mounting the snapshot, the replication system uses the journal information to identify modified files, conduct a block-level comparison of only the modified files with corresponding files on the destination system, and identify the particular data blocks that changed. The replication system then replicates only the changed blocks to the destination system. Certain systems further store information indicating a source system time of a known good state of the production data.
US09495373B2
A request to access to a logical location in a file stored in a content addressable storage (CAS) system can be processed by retrieving first tree data from a first node in a first hash tree that represents a first version of the file. Based on the first tree data, a second node is selected from which a CAS signature is compared to a reserved CAS signature to determine the proper file version. In response to a match, a third node is accessed in a second hash tree that represents a second version of the file. Tree data is retrieved from a third node.
US09495372B2
A module provides an interface between a multi-tenant database and a non-tenant-specific application instance such that the application instance sends data access commands to the module as if it is communicating with a single-tenant database. The module translates the non-tenant-specific data access command from the non-tenant-aware application into a multi-tenant data access command, as needed, without needing to alter the non-tenant specific application instance in any way. In this manner, a single-tenant application could be used by multiple tenants in a multi-tenant environment.
US09495371B2
Architecture that provides a unified interface to access resources in different formats and in disparate resource locations for a process (e.g., consuming application). The unified interface is extensible such that users can add additional components to the unified interface to provide access to new resources and new resource references. The interface provides the capability to create a single comprehensive index of all available resources regardless of the resource format. Format-specific indexers are provided for the resources to find, enumerate, and process the resources into a structure suitable for processing by an indexing component into the index. A user can introduce new format-specific indexers for new resources and new resource references for processing by the indexing component into the index. The unified interface now provides access to the new resources and new resources references as well.
US09495370B1
Technologies for providing recovery point review within a continuous data protection system can support a data storage operator in a data recovery procedure. A snapshot image can be chosen that was made prior to a data loss event. A new writable snapshot can be created from this logged snapshot. The new writeable snapshot can become the target for recovering the data volume. Review can be performed in a forward direction by reading a journal of I/O operations that have occurred since the prior snapshot was made. Review can be performed in a backward direction by deriving a dirty data list of changes made to the data volume and then removing the changes as requested. The operator can continue forward and backward review operations to refine the selected recovery point. Upon establishing the desired recovery point, the new writable snapshot can be committed, or rolled back, onto the data storage volume.
US09495367B2
A system and method for performing software verification for one or more electronic devices. A memory of an electronic device is scanned for electronic references. The electronic references of the electronic device are determined in response to the scanning. The electronic references of the electronic device are compared against standard electronic references to determine results. The electronic device is processed in response to the results.
US09495362B2
According to embodiments of the invention, systems, methods and devices are provided for a plurality of participants speaking different languages to participate in a singing event by using pre-determined song samples of different languages. In one embodiment, a system is provided that includes a storage that identifies songs by using samples from the song. The storage contains a song including both text and melody, wherein the song contains a plurality of versions of different languages. The system also includes devices allowing superiors and subordinates speaking different languages to sing at the same time. The collaboration may then be recorded and stored remotely via a cloud-based server.
US09495343B2
A vertical and horizontal line detection method for document images includes generating multiple binary images from the input grayscale document image based on multiple binarization thresholds, detecting horizontal and vertical lines in each of the multiple binary images independently, and merging the detection results from the multiple binary images. The line detection process for each binary image include applying an opening operation using a vertical or horizontal line as the structuring element, and removing connected components that are not vertical or horizontal lines based on a stroke width analysis. The boundaries of the detected lines are obtained using horizontal and vertical projections.
US09495342B2
Methods and systems are provided for automatically correcting escaping functions in a module of page rendering code. The method includes: providing an HTML escaping schema and a script escaping schema; identifying a first character sequence having a first escaping function; determining whether the first character sequence is coded in HTML or coded as a scripted element; correcting the first escaping function using the HTML escaping schema if the first character sequence is coded in HTML; and correcting the first escaping function using the script escaping schema if the first character sequence is coded as a scripted element.
US09495332B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a method where a file is displayed on a display screen of a mobile device; and, a pop-up is identified outside of the visible area on the display screen of the mobile device. The identification of the pop-up includes detecting a document object model change in the file, the presence of one or more non-active elements in the file, and/or a change in luminance in an area outside of the visible area on the display screen. A controller moves the pop-up to the visible area on the display screen, or the visible area on the display screen is moved to the pop-up.
US09495330B2
A method providing an analytical technique introducing label information into an anomaly detection model. Effective utilization of label information is based on introducing the degree of similarity between samples. Assuming, for example, there is a degree of similarity between normally labeled samples and no similarity between normally labeled and abnormally labeled samples. Also each sensor value is generated by the linear sum of a latent variable and a coefficient vector specific to each sensor. However, the magnitude of observation noise is formulated to vary according to the label information for the sensor values, and set so that normal label≦unlabeled≦anomalously labeled. A graph Laplacian is created based on the degree of similarity between samples, and determines the optimal linear transformation matrix according to a gradient method. A optimal linear transformation matrix is used to calculate an anomaly score for each sensor in the test samples.
US09495326B2
Providing communication path information in a mixed communication network. A first message may be provided from a first device to a second device. The first message may request notification of characteristics of at least one communication path between the second device and a third device. The first device, the second device, and the third device may be coupled together in a mixed communication network. Accordingly, the first device may receive at least one message from the second device regarding the characteristics of the at least one communication path between the second device and the third device.
US09495325B2
A method, system and computer program product for remote direct memory access (RDMA) optimized producer-consumer message processing in a messaging hub is provided. The method includes initializing a shared memory region in memory of a host server hosting operation of a messaging hub. The initialization provides for a control portion and one or more data portions, the control portion storing an index to an available one of the data portions. The method also includes transmitting to a message producer an address of the shared memory region and receiving a message in one of the data portions of the shared memory region from the message producer by way of an RDMA write operation on a network interface of the host server. Finally, the method includes retrieving the message from the one of the data portions and processing the message in the messaging hub in response to the receipt of the message.
US09495323B2
This document describes a method for synchronizing files on an expandable memory card coupled to a first computing device with an application running on a second computing device, where downloading of files is performed wirelessly without user involvement.
US09495314B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, devices, methods, and/or processes described can send, via an interconnect, a rate master command to at least one of multiple processing nodes; determine that a message indicating a dropped command, associated with the rate master command, is received; determine that a count, associated with dropped commands, satisfies a threshold; and provide, to the processing nodes via the interconnect, a signal indicating a command rate, in response to determining that the count satisfies the threshold. Moreover, the count can be incremented in response to determining that the message is received. The at least one of multiple processing nodes can receive, via the interconnect, the signal indicating the command rate and can utilize the command rate in issuing speculative commands, via the interconnect.
US09495312B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, devices, methods, and/or processes described can send, via an interconnect, a rate master command to at least one of multiple processing nodes; determine that a message indicating a dropped command, associated with the rate master command, is received; determine that a count, associated with dropped commands, satisfies a threshold; and provide, to the processing nodes via the interconnect, a signal indicating a command rate, in response to determining that the count satisfies the threshold. Moreover, the count can be incremented in response to determining that the message is received. The at least one of multiple processing nodes can receive, via the interconnect, the signal indicating the command rate and can utilize the command rate in issuing speculative commands, via the interconnect.
US09495305B1
A method, a processing system, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium configured with instructions to carry out a method of determining access permission for or during dereferencing a memory address in an allocated portion of memory of a processing system. The method comprises: providing a pointer that has a tag field and a control-structure-pointer field; and entering content in the control-structure-pointer field to point to a control structure for the allocated portion of memory. The control structure's location or content indicates the portion of memory. The method assigning a tag value for the portion in the tag fields of the pointer and of the control structure. Determining access permission including ascertaining whether the contents of the tag fields of the pointer and of the control structure match.
US09495299B2
Part of a plurality of ways are selected from among the ways according to a value of select data created based on tag address information which is part of address information, and cache tags are read. Further, when performing cache fill, the cache memory performs the cache fill on a cache entry selected from part of the ways according to the value of the select data. For select data used for selecting a way, e.g. parity data in connection with tag address information is used. A way to read a cache tag from is selected based on a value of parity data and further, the way of a cache entry to perform cache fill on is selected.
US09495290B2
A method, apparatus, and system are described, which generally relate to an integrated circuit having an interconnect that implements internal controls. The interconnect in an integrated circuit communicates transactions between initiator Intellectual Property (IP) cores and target IP cores coupled to the interconnect. The interconnect implements logic configured to support multiple transactions issued from a first initiator IP core to the multiple target IP cores while maintaining an expected execution order within the transactions. The logic supports a second transaction to be issued from the first initiator IP core to a second target IP core before a first transaction issued from the same first initiator IP core to a first target IP core has completed while ensuring that the first transaction completes before the second transaction and while ensuring an expected execution order within the first transaction and second transaction are maintained. The logic does not include any reorder buffering.
US09495286B2
The invention relates to a method and arrangement for processing transactions in a flash type memory device, wherein the transaction is a data update and/or changing operation consisting of one or more suboperations, all of which must be successfully executed in order to regard the discussed transaction as having been successfully completed in its entirety. In the solution according to the invention, memory-block specific status information (131) of a memory block present in a flash type memory device is utilized not only for managing payload data (141) present in the memory block but also for the management of an entire transaction. Consequently, there is no need for a separate status bookkeeping of transactions, thus reducing the number of reading and writing operations required in transactions.
US09495276B1
In an embodiment, a model is analyzed and a metric is generated based on the analysis. An indication of the metric is displayed on a Human Machine Interface (HMI) associated with a model. The analysis may involve executing one or more tests of one or more functions in the model. The metric may be generated based on the executing. The one or more functions may be associated with a widget implemented by the HMI and the indication of the metric may be displayed on the widget. The widget may be coded to indicate the metric.
US09495273B2
Systems and methods for displaying blade chassis data are provided. One system includes a memory for storing computer code comprising a blade chassis information module and a processor capable of being in communication with a blade chassis. The processor, when executing the computer code comprising the blade chassis information module, is configured to receive the blade chassis data, create a user interface for the blade chassis data, and display the blade chassis data on the user interface. One method includes receiving blade chassis data, creating a user interface for the blade chassis data, and displaying the blade chassis data on the user interface. Also provided are physical computer storage mediums including a computer program product for performing the above method.
US09495272B2
A system for generating a power consumption model of at least one server includes one or more computers configured to obtain n time series telemetry signals indicative of operating parameters of the at least one server, obtain a time series power signal indicative of power consumed by the at least one server, and correlate each of the n time series telemetry signals with the time series power signal. The one or more computers are further configured to select a set of the n time series telemetry signals having an overall correlation with the time series power signal greater than a predetermined threshold, and generate a power consumption model of the at least one server based on at least the set of the n time series telemetry signals.
US09495261B2
Methods and systems for an in-system repair process that repairs or attempts to repair random bit failures in a memory device are provided. In some examples, an in-system repair process may select alternative steps depending on whether the failure is correctable or uncorrectable. In these examples, the process uses communications between a system on chip and the memory to fix the failures during normal operation.
US09495251B2
An information management system according to certain aspects may determine whether snapshot operations will work prior to executing them. The system may check various factors or parameters relating to a snapshot storage policy to verify whether the storage policy will work at runtime without actually executing the policy. Some examples of factors can include: availability of primary storage devices for which a snapshot should be obtained, availability of secondary storage devices, license availability for snapshot software, user credentials for connecting to primary and/or second storage devices, available storage capacity, connectivity to storage devices, etc. The system may also check whether a particular system configuration is supported in connection with snapshot operations. The result of the determination can be provided in the form of a report summarizing any problems found with the snapshot storage policy. The report can include recommended courses of action or solutions for resolving any identified issues.
US09495246B2
The disclosure presents examples of a RAID storage system, method and computer program product where a stripe is logically partitioned into two or more sub-stripes and at least one RAID erasure code is applied to each sub-stripe independently of any other of the sub-stripe(s). Consequently, in some of these examples, a larger packet size may be used than if the stripe had not been partitioned. A larger packet size may in some cases allow for accelerated encoding and/or decoding.
US09495238B2
An approach is provided to provide a high availability (HA) cloud environment. In the approach, an active cloud environment is established in one cloud computing environment using a primary set of resources and a passive cloud environment is established in another cloud computing environment, with the passive cloud environment using fewer resources than are used by the active cloud environment. A workload is serviced by the active cloud environment. While servicing the workload, cloud commands are processed that alter the primary set of resources and the commands are stored in a queue. When a failure of the active cloud environment occurs, the workload is serviced by the passive cloud environment in the second cloud computing environment and the cloud commands stored in the queue are used to alter the resources used by the passive cloud environment.
US09495233B2
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided methods, systems, mechanisms, techniques, and apparatuses for implementing an error framework for a microprocessor and for a system having such a microprocessor. The error framework may alternatively be implemented by a hardware component, such as a peripheral device for integration into a system. In one embodiment, an error framework of a microprocessor or a hardware component includes an error detection unit to capture an error within the hardware component; a state detection unit to capture error context information when the error is detected within the hardware component; an error event definition unit to define a unique error event representing a combination of the error and the error context information; and a configuration unit to define an error event response based on the unique error event. The error context information may include, for example, a known state of a system at the time the error occurs or a known state of the hardware component or microprocessor within which the error is detected at the time the error occurs.
US09495229B2
Described are methods, apparatus and computer programs for managing persistence within a data processing system such as a messaging system, database system or file system. The method for managing persistence includes a deferred evaluation (230,330,430) of at least one criterion associated with costs and/or benefits of saving to persistent storage, instead of persistence behavior being fully predefined. The evaluation may be performed when a disk write is about to be performed (240,340,440), or at various times during processing of a data update and at various points within a data processing network. In a messaging solution, the method for managing persistence includes a dynamic evaluation (230,330,430) of costs and/or benefits of saving to persistent storage, with the evaluation being performed at various points in the messaging network after the message has been created and sent by the originating entity. The method includes determining whether message data and/or log records relating to the message require saving to persistent storage, in accordance with the costs and/or the benefits of saving to persistent storage. The benefits of persisting may be determined with reference to a message value (400).
US09495224B2
A mechanism is provided for switching a locking mode of an object in a multi-thread program. The mechanism acquires, during execution of the program, access information related to accesses to the object by a plurality of threads. The object supports a single-level locking mode and a multi-level locking mode. The single-level locking mode is a mode capable of locking the object. The multi-level locking mode is a mode capable of locking the object and fields in the object respectively. The mechanism switches the locking mode of the object between the single-level locking mode and the multi-level locking mode based on the access information.
US09495216B2
Optimizing job scheduling in a data processing system includes determining a time factor associated with a report, determining one or more jobs that contribute to the report, and narrowing execution frequency of the one or more jobs based on the time factor of the report. The time factor provides information about timing details for data included in the report. The jobs are executed in a computing environment according to a time schedule.
US09495208B2
A multitask workflow is proactively identified based upon user context information. For discrete tasks of the multitask workflow, modules directed to such tasks are identified from among other modules also directed to the same task, and are proactively presented to the user. Modules are selected based upon predetermined values associated with such modules, which can be indicative of capabilities, relationships, incentives associated with presentation of the modules to the user, and other like valuations. The modules offer visually enticing experiences to aid the user in performing a task, of the multitask workflow, and thereby increasing the user's interaction performance. Additionally, the modules exchange information to increase user efficiency in performing the multitask workflow. Multiple computing devices associated with a user can execute different modules of the multitask workflow, enabling two or more users to collaborate on the multitask workflow or otherwise research and perform tasks associated with the multitask workflow.
US09495206B2
An apparatus for scheduling includes a receiving unit, configured to receive a task of a job; a configuration unit, configured to configure resource amounts for the task in at least two resource dimensions respectively, wherein each of the resource dimensions represents a resource available for configuring; and an interface unit, configured to distribute the task along with information about the resource amounts configured for the task in the resource dimensions.
US09495204B2
Constructing a logical tree topology in a parallel computer that includes compute nodes, where each compute node includes a hardware acceleration unit and executes an identical number of tasks and the tasks of each node have a rank, includes: creating hardware acceleration groups, with each hardware acceleration group including one task from each node, where the one task from each node has the same rank; assigning one task of a root compute node as a global root of the logical tree topology; assigning tasks of the root compute node other than the global root as local children of the global root; and assigning each of the global root and local children of the root compute node as a root of a subtree of tasks, wherein each subtree comprises the tasks of a hardware acceleration group.
US09495199B2
Management is provided for threads of a database system that is subject to a plurality of disparate bottleneck conditions for resources. A monitor thread retrieves, from a first thread, first monitor data for first bottleneck condition of a first type. The monitor thread compares the first monitor data to a trigger level for the first bottleneck condition and then determines, in response to the comparison of the first monitor data to the trigger level, a potential source of the first bottleneck condition. A potential blocker thread is identified based upon the potential source of the first bottleneck condition. The monitor thread retrieves, from the potential blocker thread, second monitor data for a second type of bottleneck condition that is different from the first type of bottleneck condition. Based upon monitor data, a blocking thread is identified, and a particular blocking solution is applied to the blocking thread.
US09495195B2
The integrated resource management unit 202 manages some of the resources 311a, 311b, 311c and prepares a plurality of containers 310 provided as virtual resources, with respect to the application programs. In response to a predetermined request that is issued with respect to a tenant 300a or 300b that is configured to divide a resource to be used, the integrated resource management unit provides a request-source tenant with a container selected from among the plurality of containers. In the container that is provided to the request-source tenant by the integrated resource management unit, a resource, which is allocated beforehand to an application program designated by the predetermined request, is occasionally configured to have usage lower than a designated usage.
US09495194B1
A method for storing data from an electronic device at a plurality of storage devices of a dispersive storage area network includes communicating, from the electronic device via a virtual network connection, one or more packets to a splitting server. The method further includes splitting, at the splitting server, the data for storage on the dispersive storage area network, and communicating, from the splitting server to each of a plurality of storage servers over each of a plurality of virtual network connections, portions of the split data. The method further includes storing, at each of the storage servers, the received portions of the split data for later retrieval.
US09495191B2
Systems and methods for implementing lazy disk I/O in virtual machine live migration. An example method may comprise: determining, by a first computer system, that contents of a memory page mapped into an address space of a virtual machine undergoing live migration from a second computer system to the first computer system is stored on a network-accessible virtual disk; storing, in a memory data structure, a mapping of an address of the memory page to an identifier of a location of the memory page on the virtual disk; and responsive to detecting an access to the memory page by the virtual machine, storing in a memory mapped into the address space of the virtual machine the memory page retrieved from the location of the memory page on the virtual disk.
US09495188B1
Techniques for synchronizing a honey network configuration to reflect a target network environment are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system for synchronizing a honey network configuration to reflect a target network environment includes a device profile data store that includes a plurality of attributes of each of a plurality of devices in the target network environment; a virtual machine (VM) image library that includes one or more VM images; and a virtual clone manager executed on a processor that instantiates a virtual clone of one or more devices in the target enterprise network using a VM image selected from the VM image library that is customized based on one or more attributes for a target device in the device profile data store.
US09495182B2
A method and architecture of reconfiguring software mode management for a system. A prior status mode of a subsystem is identified. The primary controller includes a primary software algorithm for maintaining operations of the subsystem. A mode determination logic function is retrieved in a table for determining whether a mode change occurred. The mode determination logic function associated with the prior mode is executed. A current mode is determined from the table based on results from the execution of the mode determination logic function. An action list associated with the identified current mode in the table is identified. The action list identifies functions for transitioning the nodes from the prior mode to the current node. An action list associated with the current mode including a list of action functions for transitioning the previous mode to the current mode is executed. The table is independently modifiable from the primary software mode management algorithm.
US09495164B2
Branch prediction is provided by generating a first index from a previous instruction address and from a first branch history vector having a first length. A second index is generated from the previous instruction address and from a second branch history vector that is longer than the first vector. Using the first index, a first branch prediction is retrieved from a first branch prediction table. Using the second index, a second branch prediction is retrieved from a second branch prediction table. Based upon additional branch history data, the first branch history vector and the second branch history vector are updated. A first hash value is generated from a current instruction address and the updated first branch history vector. A second hash value is generated from the current instruction address and the updated second branch history vector. One of the branch predictions are selected based upon the hash values.
US09495157B1
Embodiments relate to fingerprint-based branch prediction. An aspect includes based on encountering a branch instruction during execution of software on a processor of a computer system, determining a fingerprint of the software, the fingerprint comprising a representation of a sequence of behavior that occurs in the processor while the software is executing. Another aspect includes based on determining that a match for the fingerprint and the branch instruction is located in an entry in the prediction table: predicting the branch instruction according to the associated prediction field. Another aspect includes based on determining that no match for the fingerprint and the branch instruction are located in an entry in the prediction table: creating a new entry in the prediction table for the fingerprint and the branch instruction.
US09495147B2
Aspects are directed to obtaining context information for a software development task. A method includes finding, in response to designating any one tool component associated with the software development task as a root component, at least one other tool component having an at least one-level link with the root component. Context information is extracted n from the root component and the at least one other tool component. A context set is generated based on the extracted context information.
US09495139B2
Elastic computing is an optimization framework that combines standard application code with specialized elastic functions and corresponding optimization tools. The elastic functions provide a knowledge-base of implementation alternatives and parallelization strategies for a given function. When an application calls an elastic function, the elastic computing tools analyze available devices and resources (e.g., cores, GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) and current run-time parameters, and then transparently select from numerous pre-analyzed implementation possibilities to optimize for performance, power, energy, size, or any combination of these goals.
US09495125B2
An electronic device and a display method includes a main body apparatus with a processing unit which generates a first image and performs display control; a first fixing apparatus connected with the main body apparatus, which maintains a relative location relationship between the electronic device and at least a part of body of a user when the user wears the electronic device; and a first display unit arranged on the main body apparatus and/or the first fixing apparatus, which outputs the first image; wherein the first display unit comprises a first display component which displays the first image, and a first optical component which receives light corresponding to the first image emitted from the first display component, and changes the light path of the light corresponding to the first image to form a magnified virtual image corresponding to the first image.
US09495121B2
A device control system has a terminal 3 with an application 31, and a printer 5 that controls a device. The terminal 3 sends a request written in XML generated by the application 31. The printer 5 receives the XML request, the terminal 3 sends an XML response, and if the terminal 3 requested control of the device in the XML request, controls the device.
US09495115B2
Systems and methods are provided to automatically analyze performance of an automatic memory management system. One example embodiment involves automatically gathering, using at least one processor of the server, garbage collection information associated with the garbage collection process and storing the garbage collection information in a garbage collection output file of a file system. The garbage collection output file may be analyzed to identify a plurality of flags associated with a performance of the server system that does not meet one or more performance thresholds. In certain embodiments, a first flag of the plurality of flags is associated with a first portion of the garbage collection information, and a second flag of the plurality of flags is associated with a second portion of the garbage collection information that is different from the first portion of the garbage collection information.
US09495111B2
A system and method includes a processing unit connected with a memory, the processing unit configured to access data from the memory. A memory transaction unit is added between the processing unit and the memory. The memory transaction unit is configured to perform dummy read- and write-operations at random memory locations at random times and/or insert random delays before real accesses by the processing unit from the memory.
US09495103B2
Provided are a device and computer readable storage medium for programming a memory module to initiate a training mode in which the memory module transmits continuous bit patterns on a side band lane of the bus interface; receiving the bit patterns over the bus interface; determining from the received bit patterns a transition of values in the bit pattern to determine a data eye between the determined transitions of the values; and determining a setting to control a phase interpolator to generate interpolated signals used to sample data within the determined data eye.
US09495101B2
Data is received at a computer memory to be programmed in single-level-cell mode. A stress level of a first section of the computer memory is determined. A stress level of a second section of the computer memory is determined. The stress levels of the first and second sections of the computer memory are compared to determine which one of the first and second sections is a less stressed single-level-cell mode section of the computer memory. The data received at the computer memory is programmed in the less stressed single-level-cell mode section of the computer memory.
US09495098B2
Detecting user input based on multiple gestures is provided. One or more interactions are received from a user via a user interface. An inferred interaction is determined based, at least in part, on a geometric operation, wherein the geometric operation is based on the one or more interactions. The inferred interaction is presented via the user interface. Whether a confirmation has been received for the inferred interaction is determined.
US09495093B2
A mobile terminal includes a communication unit, a sensor to sense a first body signal from a first body part and a controller. The controller determines a first target device corresponding to the first body signal and generates a signal for output to the first target device through the communication unit. The first body signal includes information indicative of a characteristic of the first body part. Alternatively, the first target device may be determined by a server coupled to the mobile terminal.
US09495092B2
A method and apparatus configured to control the level of detailed information displayed for a selected area using a dynamic touch interaction in a mobile terminal including a touch screen, are provided. The apparatus include a memory that stores contents to be output through the touch screen as data, a touch interaction module that analyzes a user's touch input through the touch screen and recognizes a stipulated touch interaction, and a control unit that controls an overall operation of the apparatus according to the user's input through the touch screen. The control unit also controls the level of subordinate detailed information displayed in an area, which is designated by the user through a stipulated touch input, to be displayed when the stipulated touch input is recognized through the touch interaction module, based on the data stored in the memory.
US09495090B2
A touch control section (5) includes: an operation accepting section (51) which accepts a touch operation conducted with respect to an icon or the like; and an accepting operation control section (52) which controls the operation accepting section (51) to forbid an accepting operation in a case where screen scroll is started. In a case where screen scroll is started, the accepting operation control section (52) controls the accepting operation control section (52) to lift the forbiddance of an accepting operation before the screen scroll automatically stops.
US09495085B2
A method of operating a device comprising connecting to an external data source via a network, determining that the network connection has been broken, determining that the network connection has been restored, detecting that a user is accessing an application that requires access to the network connection, and prioritizing the accessed application with respect to the required access to the network connection.
US09495082B2
Methods, apparatuses and storage medium associated with a multi-media service configured to support a browser for rendering multi-media content are disclosed. In various embodiments, a method may include receiving, by the multi-media service of a device, from a render engine of a browser operating on the device, through a browser engine of the browser, multi-media rendering commands associated with rendering the multi-media content on a display unit of the device. The multi-media service may be operating outside the browser. Further, the method may include processing, by the multi-media service in conjunction with a graphics processing unit and/or a media processor of the device, the multi-media rendering commands to render the multi-media content on the display unit, and emitting and returning signals to the render engine, through the browser engine. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US09495080B2
In order to configure a graphical user interface (6′) for displays of various terminals, a graphical configuration interface (81′) is presented, which comprises a miniaturized presentation of a desktop for the graphical user interface (6′). Configuration instructions are received in order to select widgets (W′) and in order to arrange the widgets (W′) on the desktop by positioning miniaturized presentations of the widgets on the desktop presented in miniature. Further configuration instructions selectively associate one or more defined parts of the desktop with the terminals, and the graphical user interface (6′) is defined for a particular terminal on the basis of the associated parts of the desktop and the widgets (W′) arranged thereon.
US09495072B2
A system and method for sharing content is provided. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a housing and a wide area network (WAN) connector extending from the housing. The system may also include a graphical user interface (GUI) engine located within the housing. In practice, the GUI engine may be operable to initiate an outputting of a first list navigable with a remote control and a second list navigable with the remote control. The remote control may be a Set Top Box (STB) remote control and the first list may be configured to facilitate remote control-based navigation. The first list may contain an identifier for at least one piece of selectable content, which may be, for example, photographs, videos, songs, etc. The second list may include an alias for at least one available share partner. In practice, a user of the system may want to give a share partner revocable access to some portion of selectable content.
US09495064B2
An information processing method is performed using an electronic device, which includes a touch-sensitive display unit and is capable of executing at least one application. The touch-sensitive display unit is capable of displaying at least one window, which includes a full-screen window and/or a non-full-screen window smaller than the full-screen window. In the method, a first window is displayed on the touch-sensitive display unit according to a first operation, and a first application is started and executed in the first window; a second window is displayed on the touch-sensitive display unit according to a second operation, and a second application is started and executed in the second window; in response to detecting that the first window and the second window are in a predetermined relationship and/or that the first application and the second application are in a predetermined relationship, interaction between the first window and the second window is enabled.
US09495060B2
A mechanism for displaying a single focus on a device is provided. A piece of content is displayed in a first application on a display of the device. The piece of content is enlarged to create a single focus on the piece of content on the display. Parameters of the piece of content are passed to a second application. The piece of content is duplicated as an identical piece of content in the second application, and the identical piece of content is visually exactly positioned behind the piece of content on the display. The piece of content is seamlessly swapped with the identical piece of content of the second application, so that the identical piece of content is visually positioned to be viewable by the user. Tools of the second application are visually presented in an incremental transition until the tools are viewable and available to the user.
US09495057B1
A computer-implemented method for accessing multiple data-protection applications from a single interface. The method may include providing, in a portion of a web browser, a graphical toolbar interface for interfacing with a plurality of data-protection applications. The graphical toolbar interface may comprise at least one user input region for receiving input from a user and at least one data-display region for displaying representations of data received from the plurality of data-protection applications. The method may also include receiving, at the user input region, a request directed to at least one data-protection application of the plurality of data-protection applications and sending the request to the at least one data-protection application.
US09495054B2
A touch control system includes first and second sensing regions. At least one sensor monitors the first sensing region to generate a first sensing amount. At least one second sensor monitors the second sensing region to generate a second sensing amount. An initial coordinate generating module generates an initial coordinate according to the first and second sensing amounts, and determines whether a touch point is in an intersection region. When the determination result of the initial coordinate generating module is affirmative, a correction value generating module generates a correction value according to the first and second sensing amounts. A corrected coordinate generating module multiplies the initial coordinate by a first weight to generate a first weighted result, multiplies the correction value by a second weight to generate a second weighted result, and adds the first and the second weighted results to generate a corrected coordinate.
US09495051B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a capacitive touch panel, which is provided with an electrostatic protection touching layer, the electrostatic protection touching layer comprises a touching array pattern and an electrostatic protection discharging pattern, and the electrostatic protection discharging pattern is disposed in a space of the touching array pattern, complementing with the touching array pattern. The capacitive touch panel of the embodiment of the present invention, reduces the thickness of touch panel, and saves the material by forming the electrostatic protection layer and the touch sensing layer on one layer, which realizes the touching sense as well as the electrostatic protection, eliminates the capacitance between the electrostatic protection layer and the touch sensing layer, and improves the sensitivity of touching sense.
US09495039B2
A coordinate input device includes: a coordinate input unit having a plurality of first detection electrodes and a plurality of second detection electrodes; an electrode drive circuit that applies a drive signal to one or more of the detection electrodes; a detection circuit that detects a signal of the first and/or second detection electrode; a selection circuit for selecting one or more of the detection electrodes to which the drive signal is not applied from among the detection electrodes which are disposed in parallel to the detection electrodes to which the drive signal is applied, as a reference electrode; a detection circuit for detecting a signal of the selected reference electrode; an input coordinate computing circuit for correcting a detection result of the detection circuit on the basis of the detected capacitance of the reference electrode and for calculating an input coordinate from the corrected detection result.
US09495036B2
An input system includes a touch panel, a control circuit, a stylus pen, and a connection link. The control circuit generates an electrical signal. The stylus pen is external to the control circuit. The connection link is coupled between the control circuit and the stylus pen, and transmits the electrical signal to the stylus pen, wherein the electrical signal is coupled to the touch panel via the stylus pen. The connection link may be a wired link or a wireless link.
US09495035B2
A user input apparatus and method may measure, using a first sensor, surface input information that is applied to a surface of a user input apparatus, may measure, using a second sensor, orientation information that is input based on a physical quantity associated with a pose or a rotary motion of the user input apparatus, and may generate a content control signal, by combining the surface input information and the orientation information.
US09495021B2
The use of a uni-pressure and dual-pressure augmented mouse permits users to simultaneously control cursor positions as well as multiple levels of discrete action modes for common desktop application tasks. One, two or more independent pressure sensors can be mounted onto several locations on the body of the mouse. Various selection techniques are described to control many discrete levels and to simultaneously control different variable functions with pressure sensors on an input device for an electronic device.
US09495019B2
The present invention provides a display method of a mobile device selection and a terminal device. The method includes: receiving a location movement signal sent by a mobile device; determining a location, of a cursor focus of the mobile device, on a screen according to the location movement signal; and determining that the cursor focus moves toward a target icon, and if a distance between the cursor focus and the target icon is greater than zero and is less than or equal to a first threshold, determining that the cursor focus selects the target icon, thereby improving user operation efficiency, reducing operation complexity, and ensuring desirable interaction experience of a user.
US09495005B2
Systems and methods for processing data from a motion sensor to detect intentional movements of a device are provided. An electronic device having a motion sensor may process motion sensor data along one or more dimensions to generate an acceleration value representative of the movement of the electronic device. The electronic device may then determine whether the acceleration value changes from less than a low threshold, to more than a high threshold, and again to less than the low threshold within a particular amount of time, reflecting an intentional movement of the electronic device by the user. In response to determining that the acceleration value is associated with an intentional movement of the electronic device, the electronic device may perform a particular event or operation. For example, in response to detecting that an electronic device has been shaken, the electronic device may shuffle a media playlist.
US09494997B2
In some embodiments, a system may include a sub-hierarchy clock control. In some embodiments, the system may include a master unit. The master unit may include an interface unit electrically coupled to a slave unit. The interface unit may monitor, during use, usage requests of the slave unit by the master unit. In some embodiments, the interface unit may turn off clocks to the slave unit during periods of nonuse. In some embodiments, the interface unit may determine if a predetermined period of time elapses before turning on clocks to the slave unit such that turning off the slave unit resulted in the system achieving greater efficiency. In some embodiments, the interface unit may maintain, during use, power to the slave unit during periods of nonuse. The interface unit may maintain power to the slave unit during periods of nonuse such that data stored in the slave unit is preserved.
US09494987B2
An integrated circuit includes an input/output pad, an input circuit, and an output circuit. The input circuit is coupled to the input/output pad that receives input signals including a wake-up signal that indicates when the integrated circuit is to switch from a power-down mode to an active mode. The output circuit is coupled to the input/output pad that provides output signals to the input/output pad. The output circuit includes a first P channel transistor in a well having a drain coupled to the input/output pad, and a source coupled to a power supply terminal. The power supply terminal receives a first power supply voltage during the active mode and is decoupled from any power supply during the power-down mode. The well is coupled to the wake-up signal in response to the wake-up signal indicating a change from the power-down mode to the active mode.
US09494984B1
A fixing structure of a removable electronic device adapted for fixing an electronic device to a bay includes a handle body, a backplane, a screw member, and an elastic member. The handle body has front and rear faces, the front face is formed with an opening, and the opening is formed with a stopping mechanism. The backplane is disposed at the rear face of the handle body, the backplane is formed with a perforation, and the perforation corresponds to the opening. The screw member is disposed inside of the handle body, the screw member is stopped by the stopping mechanism, and the screw member extends passing through the backplane via the perforation. The elastic member is disposed between the screw member and the backplane. The backplane is fixed at the electronic device, the screw member is connected to the bay, and the electronic device is fixed to the bay.
US09494964B2
A gate drive circuit includes: a modulation circuit that generates a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal; an isolator including a first electromagnetic resonance coupler that isolatedly transmits the first modulated signal, and a second electromagnetic resonance coupler that isolatedly transmits the second modulated signal; a first rectifier circuit that generates a first signal by rectifying the first modulated signal; a second rectifier circuit that generates a second signal by rectifying at least a part of the second modulated signal; a third rectifier circuit that generates charging voltage by rectifying a second radio-frequency wave; a capacitor that charges a charge in accordance with the charging voltage; and an output circuit which selects whether or not to supply the charge charged in the capacitor to a gate terminal of the semiconductor switch, in accordance with at least one of the first signal and the second signal.
US09494961B2
A feedback device for a constant current driver controls a power supply module in the constant current driver to generate an output voltage. The constant current driver drives an electrical load with an output current. The feedback device includes a feedback control module and a feedback output unit. The feedback control module is utilized for receiving a load driven voltage related to the electrical load and generating a control voltage accordingly. The feedback output unit is utilized for generating a feedback current via an equivalent resistor of the feedback output unit according to a voltage difference between the control voltage and a feedback voltage of the power supply module. The power supply module controls the magnitude of the output voltage according to the feedback current, allowing the constant current driver to drive the electrical load with the output current.
US09494960B2
A programmable linear voltage regulator and system for programming the regulator that improves the speed, power usage, and stability over conventional linear voltage regulators is disclosed. A controller that has knowledge of the current or expected activation of various loads sends bias control signals to a programmable biasing circuit of an error amplifier in the voltage regulator to adjust the bias current in accordance with the load current the regulator produces or is expected to produce. A look up table associated with the controller can be used to correlate the bias control signals with current or expected load conditions. Programming of the programmable biasing circuit may precede the enablement of a new load condition to ready the voltage regulator to handle the upcoming change in load current.
US09494947B2
A pressure type flow control system with flow monitoring includes an inlet side passage, a control valve comprising a pressure-type flow control unit connected downstream of the inlet side passage, a thermal-type flow sensor connected downstream of the control valve, an orifice installed on a fluid passage connected downstream of the thermal-type flow sensor, a temperature sensor provided near the fluid passage between the control valve and orifice, a pressure sensor provided for the fluid passage between the control valve and orifice, an outlet side passage connected to the orifice, and a control unit comprising a pressure-type flow rate arithmetic and control unit to which a pressure signal from the pressure sensor and a temperature signal from the temperature sensor are input, and which computes a flow rate value of fluid flowing through the orifice, and outputs a control signal to a valve drive unit of the control valve.
US09494945B2
A device and method for flight management of an aircraft along a flight plan comprises a plurality of waypoints comprising a computation of the temporal predictions determining the temporal situation of the aircraft for each waypoint of the flight plan, a temporal situation of the aircraft being defined by at least one set of information from among the group comprising the target time of transit at each waypoint the estimated minimum and maximum times of arrival at each waypoint, the estimated time of transit at the waypoint, and a formatting and display simultaneously presenting the temporal situations of the said plurality of waypoints.
US09494938B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to protecting the privacy of a user of a dispatching service for driverless vehicles. For example, a request for a vehicle identifying user information is received. A client computing device may be identified based on the user information. In response to the request, a driverless vehicle may be dispatched to the location of the client device. Signaling information may be generated based on a set of rules including a first rule that the signaling information does not identify, indirectly or directly, the user as well as a second rule that the signaling information does not identify, indirectly or directly, the user information. The location of the client computing device and the signaling information may be sent to the driverless vehicle for display. In addition, the signaling information may also be sent to the client computing device for display.
US09494933B1
A method, data processing system, and computer program product for processing packets in an aircraft network data processing system. A number of first packets of data are received from each redundant network in a plurality of redundant networks in the aircraft network data processing system. A number of second packets of data generated by a redundancy manager are received in communication with the plurality of redundant networks. Then, a configuration of the plurality of redundant networks is identified using the number of first packets and the number of second packets.
US09494927B2
A motor control device has a communication unit that receives a control command comprising a motor type identification signal and a rotation signal, wherein the motor type identification signal indicates whether a control object motor is a stepping motor or a DC motor, and wherein the rotation signal designates a target rotation amount and a target rotation speed of the motor, a sensor interface that receives a detection signal from a rotation angle sensor when the control object motor is the DC motor, wherein the rotation angle sensor outputs the detection signal every time the motor rotates by a first rotation angle, a DC motor drive signal generator that generates and outputs a first drive signal rotating the DC motor at the target rotation speed, and a stepping motor drive signal generator that generates and outputs a second drive signal rotating the stepping motor at the target rotation speed.
US09494924B2
According to one embodiment, a system includes control apparatus and server. Control apparatus includes collector, transmitter, receiver and main controller. Collector collects sensing data concerning control targets in social infrastructure. Transmitter transmits collected sensing data to server. Receiver receives control instruction from server. Main controller controls control targets based on control instruction. Server includes acquisition unit, database, generator and instructor. Acquisition unit acquires sensing data from control apparatus. Database stores sensing data. Generator generates control instruction by processing sensing data. Instructor transmits generated control instruction to control apparatus.
US09494921B2
Device for protecting a timepiece balance spring (1) against interfering magnetic fields comprising a balance (2) made of amorphous ferromagnetic material.
US09494920B2
An indicator including a housing, a movement lodged in the housing, a watch glass above the housing, a fluid pump driven by the movement for pumping a fluid, and a channel. The channel is arranged so that the fluid circulated by the pump reaches the channel in order to fill the channel for displaying indications.
US09494906B2
A driving force transmission device that transmits a driving force to a rotation body includes a flange member provided in the rotation body, a through shaft that is connected to the flange member to transmit the driving force to the rotation body via the flange member, and an intermediate transmission member that is provided in the through shaft to transmit the driving force to the flange member from the through shaft.
US09494902B2
A fixing belt for a fixing device of an image forming apparatus includes a base layer including a heat-resistant resin and a mesh member embedded in the heat-resistant resin and including a metal member, in which the mesh member includes an opening. The heat-resistant resin fills in the opening. A thickness of the thinnest portion of the mesh member is 40% or more of the thickness of the base layer. A fixing device includes a heating member; a pressure member; and the fixing belt as described above. Further, an image forming apparatus includes an image forming section and the fixing device including the above described fixing belt.
US09494901B2
A fixing device includes a nip formation pad pressing against a pressure rotator via a fixing rotator to form a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. The nip formation pad includes a base and a first thermal conductor sandwiched between the base and the fixing rotator at the fixing nip and having a first thermal conductivity greater than a basic thermal conductivity of the base. A first heater and a second heater are disposed opposite an inner circumferential surface of the fixing rotator to heat the fixing rotator. A rotatable light shield moves to a shield position where the light shield is interposed between the second heater and the fixing rotator to shield the fixing rotator from the second heater. The second heater is disposed at a location where the light shield screens the second heater more readily than the first heater.
US09494885B2
A method for producing a developing agent including preparing a dispersion liquid containing first fine particles containing a binder resin and second fine particles containing a color developable compound, a color coupler, and a color eraser, and aggregating the first and second fine particles in the dispersion liquid to form aggregated particles.
US09494878B2
An EUV optical apparatus includes a number of adjustable mirrors (22x) on mirror bodies (120). Each mirror body is supported on an actuator (100x) comprising a moving part (132, 134, 136) and a fixed casing part (128, 130). The actuator provides a resilient support (140, 142) for the mirror body so that it is tiltable with two degrees relative to the casing. An electromagnetic motor (166, 170-178) applies first part, under the influence of an applied motive force, the resilient mounting being arranged to provide a biasing force that resists said motive force. A magnetic coupling (102, 104a, 104b) is arranged between the moving and fixed parts so as to provide a counter-biasing force. The counter-biasing force partly opposes said biasing force and thereby reduces the motive force required to effect a given displacement. The actuator can thus be made with reduced size, weight and heat dissipation.
US09494875B2
A chuck, chuck control system, lithographic apparatus and method of using a chuck are disclosed. In an embodiment, there is provided a chuck (43) for use in holding a patterning device (MA) or a substrate (W) onto a supporting table (MT, WT) of a lithography apparatus (100) by electrostatic force, in which the patterning device is for imparting a radiation beam (B) with a pattern in its cross-section to form a patterned radiation beam, and the substrate is for receiving the patterned radiation beam; said chuck comprising: a dielectric member (45); a temperature conditioning fluid channel (48) formed within the chuck; a drive electrode (40, 42) for applying a potential difference between the drive electrode and the patterning device or substrate across the dielectric member in order to electrostatically attract the patterning device or substrate towards the drive electrode; and a first shield electrode (60) for reducing or preventing the development of an electric field across temperature conditioning fluid in the temperature conditioning fluid channel due to a voltage applied to the drive electrode, in order to reduce or prevent electrolysis in the fluid.
US09494872B2
The present invention relates to an inspection apparatus and method which include projecting a measurement radiation beam onto a target on a substrate in order to measure the radiation reflected from the target and obtain information related to properties of the substrate. In the present embodiments, the measurement spot, which is the focused beam on the substrate, is larger than the target. Information regarding the radiation reflected from the target is kept and information regarding the radiation reflected from the surface around the target is eliminated. This is done either by having no reflecting (or no specularly reflecting) surfaces around the target or by having known structures around the target, the information from which may be recognized and removed from the total reflected beam. The reflected beam is measured in the pupil plane of the projector such that the information obtained is related to diffraction orders of the reflected beam and profile, critical dimension or overlay of structures on the substrate may be determined.
US09494867B2
Disclosed are a rinse solution for lithography comprising water and a nonionic surfactant represented by the formula (I) (R1 and R2 may be the same as or different from each other and represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R3 and R4 may be the same as or different from each other and represent a hydrogen atom, a methyl group or an ethyl group, R5 represents a hydrocarbon group having 2 to 5 carbon atoms, in which one or more of a double bond or triple bond are contained, or a phenylene group, and R6 and R7 may be the same as or different from each other and represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group) and a method for forming a resist pattern by rinsing the resist pattern obtained by exposing and developing a photosensitive resist with the rinse solution for lithography described above.
US09494863B2
A chemically amplified negative resist composition comprising a silicone structure-bearing polymer forms a film which can be readily patterned. The patterned film is tightly adherent to various substrates and suited as protective film on electric/electronic parts because of improved alkali resistance and reliability.
US09494854B2
During a calculation technique, a modification to a reflective photo-mask is calculated. In particular, using information specifying a defect associated with a recessed area on a top surface of the reflective photo-mask, the modification to the reflective photo-mask is calculated. For example, the calculation may involve an inverse optical calculation in which a difference between a pattern associated with the reflective photo-mask at an image plane in a photo-lithographic process and a reference pattern at the image plane in the photo-lithographic process is used to calculate the modification at an object plane in the photo-lithographic process. Note that the modification includes a negative feature in which one or more pairs of layers in a multilayer stack in the reflective photo-mask are removed using a subtractive fabrication process. Moreover, the modification is proximate to the recessed area.
US09494846B2
In at least one embodiment, a projection display device comprises an image projection section, an imaging section, a location specifying section, and a display control section. The image projection section is configured to project an image toward a projection surface. The imaging section is configured to capture an image of the projection surface. The location specifying section is configured to specify a location of a position indication light emitted from an electronic pen which is operated on the projection surface based on an image captured by the imaging section. The display control section is configured to set a projection range of the image based on the location specified by the location specifying section, and to alter the projection range of the image in accordance with the set projection range.
US09494845B2
An electronic device having a securing member for a camera module is disclosed. The securing member may include several flexible spring elements extending around the camera module to maintain the position of the camera module during an assembly process of the electronic device. The securing member and the housing may be made from an electrically conductive material or materials. In this manner, the securing member may further provide the camera module with an electrical ground to prevent excessive electric charge within the camera module. In some embodiments, an alignment member is positioned on the housing and aligns the camera module and/or securing member with an aperture of the housing.
US09494843B2
A SMD type Fresnel LED micro flash light structure, which is adapted to a camera of a mobile phone, includes a housing, an array-type light source and a micro-cylindrical Fresnel lens. The housing has a bottom wall and a plurality of side walls, and defines a longitudinal direction and a width direction. The array-type light source is disposed on the bottom wall along the longitudinal direction. The micro-cylindrical Fresnel lens covers the housing, and includes a cylindrical plano-convex lens, and two teeth-shaped lens sections respectively arranged at two sides of the cylindrical plano-convex lens. Each teeth-shaped lens section has a plurality of bar teeth-shaped lenses. The cylindrical plano-convex lens and the bar teeth-shaped lenses are parallel to each other along the width direction. A central axis of the cylindrical plano-convex lens is corresponding to a central position of the array-type light source.
US09494840B2
Provided are an electrochromic mirror and a method of manufacturing the same, the electrochromic mirror including: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; and an electrochromic layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and containing an electrochromic material and an electrolyte, wherein at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate is a transparent film, whereby an entire thickness and weight of the electrochromic mirror can be reduced, and as a result, the degree of design freedom can be improved, and since the electrochromic layer containing the electrochromic material and the electrolyte is formed by a coating method, the efficiency of a manufacturing process can be improved, and a production cost can be reduced.
US09494832B2
Provided is a liquid crystal display device having excellent viewing angle characteristics and high contrast in a display mode using both a vertical electric field and a horizontal electric field. This liquid crystal display device is provided with a first substrate and a second substrate disposed facing each other, and a liquid crystal layer held between said first and second substrates. The liquid crystal layer contains liquid crystal molecules having a negative dielectric anisotropy. The first substrate is provided with a flat plate first electrode, a first insulating layer, and a second electrode provided in a layer other than that of the first electrode and provided separated from the first electrode by the first insulating layer. The second electrode has multiple comb-tooth sections and multiple slits, and the second substrate has a flat plate third electrode. Defining V1 as the potential difference between the first electrode and the third electrode, V2 as the potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode, and V2_B as the potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode when the lowest gradation is showed, V1, V2 and V2_B satisfy 0<|V2_B|≦|V2|<|V1|.
US09494829B2
The number of photolithography steps used for manufacturing a transistor is reduced to less than the conventional one and a highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. The present invention relates to a semiconductor device including a circuit including a transistor having an oxide semiconductor layer over a first substrate and a second substrate fixed to the first substrate with a sealant. A closed space surrounded by the sealant, the first substrate, and the second substrate is in a reduced pressure state or filled with dry air. The sealant surrounds at least the transistor and has a closed pattern shape. Further, the circuit is a driver circuit including a transistor having an oxide semiconductor layer.
US09494819B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes two base substrates disposed spaced apart from each other, a pixel, and at least one polarizer. The liquid crystal display panel includes a transmitting area and a light blocking area disposed adjacent to the transmitting area. The polarizer includes a reflection part overlapped with the light blocking area and a polarization part overlapped with the transmitting area. The polarization part includes lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal dye molecules aligned in a predetermined direction.
US09494815B2
A twisted nematic liquid crystal display device integrated with a touch control function is disclosed. The device includes an array substrate, a color film substrate disposed opposite the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the color film substrate. The device also includes a common electrode layer disposed on a surface of the color film substrate facing the liquid crystal layer. The common electrode layer includes a plurality of sensing electrodes, a plurality of driving electrodes, and a plurality of dummy electrodes located between the sensing electrodes and the driving electrodes. In addition, the sensing electrodes, the driving electrodes, and the dummy electrodes are insulated from one another.
US09494811B2
A display substrate has first and second conductive layers separated from one another by an insulation layer. The first and second conductive layers are used to integrally form on the display substrate, pixel units in a relatively central display area of the substrate and integrated gate driving circuitry as well as associated wirings thereof in one or more peripheral areas. The first and second conductive layers are covered by a first protection layer made of a first electrically insulative material. A second and supplementing protection layer is provided on top of the first protection layer. The supplementing protection layer (buffer layer) is formed of a material different from that of the first protection layer so as to provide supplemental resistance against corrosive chemical agents and supplemental resistance against formation of cracks. In one class of embodiments, the supplementing protection layer is made of a same material as used form at least one of an alignment layer, sealing layer and spacer layer of the display substrate.
US09494806B2
A disk made of glass or plastic, which is suitable for transparency. On the disk, reflective surface patterns are provided for advertising purposes. The disk is designed as a composite of multiple individual disks, and one or more reflective regions are provided on each of the individual disks. A method produces the disk.
US09494802B2
An adapter system for displaying and recording stereoscopic images from a single lens optic device and methods of producing stereoscopic images using such an adapter are provided herein. The adapter system utilizes an active stereoscopic shutter mounted along the optical path of the single lens optic device, such as, for example, a microscope or an endoscope, to provide a stereoscopic image to a video or still camera mounted along the same optical path.
US09494800B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for the see-through computer display systems with a wide field of view.
US09494794B2
Split exit pupil (or split eye-box) heads-up display (HUD) systems and methods are described. The described HUD system methods make use of a split exit pupil design method that enables a modular HUD system and allows the HUD system viewing eye-box size to be tailored while reducing the overall HUD volumetric aspects. A HUD module utilizes a high brightness small size micro-pixel imager to generate a HUD virtual image with a given viewing eye-box segment size. When integrated together into a HUD system, a multiplicity of such HUD modules displaying the same image would enable such an integrated HUD system to have an eye-box size that is substantially larger than the eye-box size of a HUD module. The resultant integrated HUD system volume is substantially volumetrically smaller than a HUD system that uses a single larger imager. Furthermore, the integrated HUD system can be comprised of a multiplicity of HUD modules to scale the eye-box size to match the intended application while maintaining a given desired overall HUD system brightness.
US09494789B2
A colored composition for use in electrowetting displays includes a non-polar solvent and a dipyrromethene dye having a solubility in n-hexane of 1% by mass or higher at 25° C. and 0.1 MPa. In a particular embodiment, an electrowetting display device that employs the colored composition exhibits increased responsiveness, and exhibits suppressed backflow at the time of image display.
US09494784B2
A three-dimensional direction drift control apparatus and a microscope apparatus that correct misalignment of a relative position between an object lens and a sample. A near-infrared light emitted from a light source is irradiated onto a surface of a glass cover holding a sample on a stage. When the near-infrared light is irradiated onto the glass cover, a regular reflection light and scattered light of the near-infrared light are generated, and the regular reflection light and the scattered light enter a half-mirror via lenses from an objective lens to an offset lens group. A clamp processing unit detects misalignment in the lateral direction of the object lens with respect to the sample based on the image of the scattered light, which has been reflected by the half-mirror and entered a two-dimensional photoelectric converter, and controls a drive unit according to this detection result, whereby the stage is moved.
US09494777B2
A multi-foci laser scanning microscope generates a set of time-multiplexed beams that are simultaneously scanned over multiple scan areas of the sample to be observed. A photodetector array associated with the beams detect fluorescence signals from the sample. A processor processes output signals from the photodetector array based on the time-multiplexing of the beams to provide a much wider field of view and reduced crosstalk between neighboring scan areas for more accurate imaging.
US09494775B2
A zoom lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having positive refractive power, a second lens unit having negative refractive power, a third lens unit having positive refractive power, an aperture stop, a fourth lens unit having positive refractive power, and a fifth lens unit having negative refractive power. The distance between adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The third lens unit includes at least one positive lens and further includes at least one negative lens at the image side of the positive lens. A focal length of the second lens unit, a focal length of the fifth lens unit, a combined focal length of lenses disposed at the object side of the aperture stop at a wide-angle end, and a combined focal length of lenses disposed at the image side of the aperture stop at the wide-angle end are suitably set.
US09494774B2
The present invention relates to an imaging lens, the imaging lens including, in an ordered way from an object side, a first movable lens having a positive (+) refractive power, a second lens having a negative (−) refractive power, a third lens having a positive (+) refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive (+) refractive power, and a fifth lens having a negative (−) refractive power.
US09494768B2
Provided is an image capturing module including a microlens array that collects light from a subject, which is imaged at an image plane; a filter that allows light in specific wavelength bands in the collected light to pass therethrough; and an image capturing device that acquires images of the light passing through the filter, wherein the filter is formed by arraying a plurality of RGB filter portions and a plurality of narrow-band filter portions, the image capturing device includes a plurality of color-wavelength obtaining regions and a plurality of narrow-band-wavelength obtaining regions, and the microlens array includes a plurality of first microlenses corresponding to the respective color-wavelength obtaining regions and a plurality of second microlenses corresponding to the respective narrow-band-wavelength obtaining regions, and the first microlenses are each disposed so that the light from the subject imaged at the image plane reaches at least one of the color-wavelength obtaining regions.
US09494766B2
An image-capturing device includes: a plurality of micro-lenses disposed in a two-dimensional pattern near a focal plane of an image forming optical system; an image sensor that includes a two-dimensional array of element groups each corresponding to one of the micro-lenses and made up with a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements which receive, via the micro-lenses light fluxes from a subject having passed through the photographic optical system and output image signals; and a synthesizing unit that combines the image signals output from the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements based upon information so as to generate synthetic image data in correspondence to a plurality of image forming areas present on a given image forming plane of the image forming optical system, the information specifying positions of the photoelectric conversion elements output image signals that are to be used for generating synthetic image data for each image forming area.
US09494765B2
A method for securing a fiber optic component includes: providing a holding medium having a tack and mounted on a substrate; and placing the fiber optic component in intimate contact with the holding medium to thereby secure the fiber optic component to the substrate. The tack of the holding medium releasably bonds the fiber optic component to the holding medium and the holding medium retains its tack upon removal of the fiber optic component to permit re-placement of the fiber optic component or placement of a further fiber optic component on the holding medium to secure said fiber optic component or further fiber optic component to the substrate.
US09494759B2
The present invention relates to an optical fiber organizer (1) comprising at least one fiber storage means (4, 10, 19), a first support (3) for supporting the storage means, whereby the storage means (4, 10, 19) are rotatable connected to the first support (3), a second support (2) with at least one cable termination retention means for securing an incoming or outgoing cable having at least one optical fiber, characterized by the first support (3) being rotatably connected to the second support (2).
US09494750B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to optical connector assemblies are described. In some embodiments, the connector assemblies may include an optical assembly, having an optical interconnect and an optical module, to be coupled with a host electrical connector. The connector assembly may further include springs, disposed on the optical interconnect or the host electrical connector, to facilitate a coupling of the optical interconnect with the optical module. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09494748B2
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) may be optically aligned to a plurality of optical components (e.g., an optical fiber array). Optical alignment may be facilitated by the use of an optical impedance element coupled between a first input/output (I/O) optical waveguide and a second I/O optical waveguide of the PIC. The optical impedance element me be configured to be transmissive during optical alignment and to be non-transmissive during the regular operation of the PIC.
US09494731B2
The present invention provides a light bar, a backlight and a display device, the light bar comprises light emitters, a substrate and a connector. Both the light emitters and the connector are provided on the substrate, and the connector comprises an input port configured to be connected to a driving circuit and an output port connected to the light emitters, wherein a through hole penetrating through the substrate in a thickness direction of the substrate is provided in the substrate, and the connector is inserted into the through hole, so that a first end of the connector protrudes from a first side of the substrate while a second end thereof protrudes from a second side of the substrate opposite to the first side. The present invention can reduce the occurrence of dark region and improve the display effect of a display device.
US09494728B2
A liquid crystal display includes a display panel receiving light to display an image, and a backlight assembly emitting the light to the display panel, the backlight assembly including a light emitting unit emitting the light, a light guide plate coupled to the light emitting unit, the light guide plate guiding the light emitted from the light emitting unit to the display panel, and a reflective adhesive member including a light reflective material, the reflective adhesive member surrounding the light emitting unit and coupling the light emitting unit to the light guide plate.
US09494723B2
Disclosed is a display device. The display device includes: a light source; a light guide plate into which light is incident from the light source; a light conversion member on the light guide plate; and a display panel on the light conversion member, wherein a plurality of scattering parts having a diameter in a range of 90 μm to 300 μm are provided in the light guide plate.
US09494711B2
Method for adaptive weighting of geophysical data types in iterative joint inversion to speed convergence and aid escape from local minima of the penalty (objective) function. Two or more geophysical data sets (11) representing a region of interest are obtained, and are jointly inverted to infer models of the physical properties that affect the particular types of data used. The misfit for each data type is a weighted tem in the penalty function (13). The invention involves changing the weights (51) as the iteration cycles progress when the iteration convergence criteria are satisfied (15), to see if they remain satisfied (52) with the modified penalty function.
US09494707B2
A method can include providing borehole data organized with respect to a cylindrical surface, defining one or more bedding planes based at least in part on the borehole data, and transforming at least a portion of the borehole data to a planar slab format for a plane interior to the cylindrical surface. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed.
US09494706B2
Omnidirectional electromagnetic signal inducer (omni-inducer) devices are disclosed. The omni-inducer device may include a housing, which may include a conductive base for coupling signals to ground, and an omnidirectional antenna node including a plurality of antenna coil assemblies, where the node may be disposed on or within the housing. The omni-inducer device may further include one or more transmitter modules for generating ones of a plurality of output signals, which may be generated at ones of a plurality of different frequencies, and one or more control circuits configured to control the transmitters and/or other circuits to selectively switch the ones of the plurality of output signals between ones of the plurality of antenna coil assemblies.
US09494703B2
A marine geophysical deflector for towing seismic arrays includes a float main body with one or more deflector wings extending downwards into the sea, and one or more slender top float elements arranged generally in a longitudinal direction on top of the main body. The number of the top float elements may be two or more. There may be arranged two or more distance floats below the float main body and an upper horizontal plate at the top of the one or more deflector wings.
US09494699B2
A seismic source signal apparatus for generating a seismic source signal may include a seismic source component for coupling a reaction mass to the earth; a controllable valve operatively connected to the seismic source component; and a controller controlling the controllable valve with a primary control signal generated by using a model of a response of the controllable valve over a selected operating range. The model is used to reduce nonlinearity in flow versus displacement response of the controllable valve.
US09494698B2
Method and system for improving offset/azimuth distribution. The system includes plural streamers towed by a streamer vessel; a central source towed by the streamer vessel; first and second front sources located in front of the plural streamers along a traveling direction of the streamer vessel; and first and second large offset front sources located in front of the first and second front sources along the traveling direction. The offset distance between the first and second large offset front sources, along a cross-line direction, is larger than an offset distance between the first and second front sources.
US09494697B2
Embodiments relate to detector imaging arrays with scintillators (e.g., scintillating phosphor screens) mounted to imaging arrays or radiographic detectors using the same. For example, the detector imaging arrays can include a scintillator, an imaging array comprising imaging pixels, where each imaging pixel comprises at least one readout element and one photosensor; and a first dielectric layer formed between the scintillator and the imaging layer, wherein the dielectric constant of the insulating layer is very low. Embodiments according to the application can include a second dielectric layer formed over at least a portion of the non-photosensitive regions of the array and/or a first dielectric layer, each with a dielectric constant.
US09494692B2
Methods and systems for power optimization of a global navigation satellite system may comprise receiving LEO RF satellite signals utilizing a LEO satellite signal receiver path (LEO Rx) in a wireless communication device (WCD). Circuitry in the LEO Rx may be configured in a powered down state based on a sleep schedule. A location of the wireless communication device may be determined utilizing LEO signals received by the LEO Rx. The sleep schedule may be based on a desired accuracy of the determined location, the relative strengths of signals received from a plurality of LEO satellites, a relevance factor generated by a position engine and communicated to the sort module, or a desired power level of the WCD. The relative strengths of received signals may be compared utilizing a sort module in a LEO demodulator in the LEO satellite signal receiver path.
US09494678B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a distance sensor (10). In the method, a transmission signal (S1) is radiated as transmission radiation (S2), reflected as reflection radiation (S3) by an object (16), the distance (D) of which is to be measured, and received as a reflection signal (S4). The reflection signal (S4) present at a receiver input (28) and a reference signal likewise occurring at the receiver input (28) are controlled to a specified ratio, the distance (D) being determined during the adjusting process. The invention further relates to devices for performing the method. The method is characterized in that microwaves are used as the transmission radiation (S2) and a cross-talk signal (S5, S6) from the transmission signal (S1) directly to the receiver input (28) with suppressed radiation of the transmission signal (S1) is used as the reference signal.
US09494676B2
A pulse running time filling level sensor includes a sampling device for sampling an IF signal at discrete instants and for converting the sampling values into digital sampling values, and a digital signal processing device for subsequent processing of the digital sampling values by calculating at least one new value characterizing the IF curve from respectively exactly two digital sampling values.
US09494674B2
A personal locator beacon system including at least one individual locator device and a plurality of battery powered wireless beacons installed at different locations within a facility. Each individual locator device is worn by a corresponding individual and has a local wireless transceiver and a GPS receiver. The plurality of beacons include at least a subset of reed switch beacons installed at different doorway locations within the facility. Each reed switch beacon is configured to transmit an identification signal with a predetermined signal strength for reception by the local wireless transceiver of the individual locator device within a designated area of the facility, as well as to selectively acquire a perimeter mode for detecting opening of a respective door of the facility.
US09494673B2
A system for providing positioning information within a wireless communication signal. An apparatus may determine whether to provide information usable for positioning in a packet. If it is determined that positioning information will be provided in the packet, header information in the packet may be configured to indicate that the packet includes positioning information. The positioning information may then be included in the packet, which may then be transmitted. When the packet is an advertising packet, the packet may be transmitted on an advertising channel. A scanning apparatus may then receive the packet and may determine, based on the header information in the packet, whether the packet includes positioning information. If it is determined that the packet includes positioning information, positioning in the scanning apparatus may be configured based on the header information, and positioning may be performed in the scanning apparatus based on the positioning information in the packet.
US09494672B2
The present invention relates to a deployment method for high-concentration photovoltaic power generation system, According to the present invention, after acquiring the location parameters of a solar tracker array, the surface images of the receiving surface of the solar trackers are acquired subsequently. Afterwards, the numbers of the white and grey pixels in the surface images are analyzed for giving the shadowing ratio. According to the shadowing ratio, the estimated power generation can be calculated. Thereby, the related supplier can refer to the simulated data for improving the deployment. By adjusting to a better deployment for constructing the high-concentration solar tracker array, high power-generation benefit can be utilized given the existing land condition.
US09494669B2
Determining diffusivity of multiple diffusion components within a tissue using diffusion magnetic resonance data representing a volume of the tissue. A plurality of candidate fibers having a direction is defined within the volume. A possibility coefficient is calculated by a processor for each candidate fiber of the plurality of candidate fibers based on the magnetic resonance data and the direction of the candidate fiber. The possibility coefficient represents a likelihood that the candidate fiber exists in the volume. Candidate fibers associated with a possibility coefficient greater than a threshold value are selected by the processor to create one or more probable fibers. For each probable fiber of the one or more probable fibers, an axial diffusivity indicating a diffusion of water in the direction of the probable fiber and a radial diffusivity indicating a diffusion of water perpendicular to the direction of the probable fiber are calculated by the processor. The diffusivity of isotropic diffusion component and the volume ratios of each fiber component and isotropic components are calculated.
US09494667B2
An imaging method comprises: acquiring magnetic resonance data of a subject using a magnetic resonance component (30, 30′) disposed with the subject; acquiring nuclear imaging data of the subject with the magnetic resonance component disposed with the subject; determining a position of the magnetic resonance component respective to a frame of reference of the nuclear imaging data; and reconstructing the nuclear imaging data (60) to generate a nuclear image (62) of at least a portion of the subject. The reconstructing includes adjusting at least one of the nuclear imaging data and the nuclear image based on a density map (46) of the magnetic resonance component and the determined position of the magnetic resonance component respective to the frame of reference of the nuclear imaging data to correct the nuclear image for radiation absorption by the magnetic resonance component.
US09494666B2
Methods, computer program products, NMR assays and automated/semi-automated systems measure concentrations of ionized calcium and/or magnesium or other metabolites in clinical biosamples using NMR data obtained from an NMR spectrometer, such as a clinical NMR Analyzer.
US09494655B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for diagnosing a state of a fuel cell stack with high accuracy by reducing the deviation of a harmonic component although the voltage variation of the fuel cell stack is substantial. According to the present invention, a harmonic component is detected by converting the difference between the voltage of the fuel cell stack and a moving average voltage to a frequency and the state of the fuel cell stack is diagnosed based on the size of the detected harmonic component.
US09494654B2
A semiconductor device has a first and a second external terminals coupled to power supply wiring that couples one end of a current detecting resistance and a power supply terminal of a battery, a third external terminal coupled to an other end of the current detecting resistance, and a control circuit for controlling an output of a second measurement current destined to the third external terminal, and measures a voltage difference between the first external terminal and the second external terminal.
US09494651B2
Functional diagnostic testing of an electronic circuit board assembly with one or more embedded channels to be tested includes steps of: (a) connecting a channel under test; (b) imposing a known digital or analog voltage, as appropriate for a channel under test, that is generated by a digital or analog output of the electronic circuit board assembly; and (c) comparing data read by the channel under test with the stored value of the imposed voltage and required tolerance to determine whether the channel under test is within specifications. Diagnostic test implemented by digital logic and software residing onboard the electronic circuit board assembly. Execution of software or firmware code segment controls the diagnostic test sequence. Signal switching is facilitated by digital and analog multiplexers.
US09494645B2
The present invention relates to a method for testing cryptography circuits. It also relates to a secure cryptography circuit capable of being tested. The cryptography circuit includes registers and logic gates, and a test thereof performs a differential power analysis on the registers of the circuit. A cryptography circuit being secure and including a first half-circuit associated with a second half-circuit operating in complementary logic, the electric power supply of the first half-circuit is separated from the electric power supply of the second half-circuit, the differential power analysis being carried out in parallel on each half-circuit, the two power supplies being combined into one and the same electric power supply after the test.
US09494643B2
The present disclosure describes using the JTAG Tap's TMS and/or TCK terminals as general purpose serial Input/Output (I/O) Manchester coded communication terminals. The Tap's TMS and/or TCK terminal can be used as a serial I/O communication channel between; (1) an IC and an external controller, (2) between a first and second IC, or (3) between a first and second core circuit within an IC. The use of the TMS and/or TCK terminal as serial I/O channels, as described, does not effect the standardized operation of the JTAG Tap, since the TMS and/or TCK I/O operations occur while the Tap is placed in a non-active steady state.
US09494641B2
A degradation detector for an integrated circuit (IC), a method of detecting aging in an IC and an IC incorporating the degradation detector or the method. In one embodiment, the degradation detector includes: (1) an offline ring oscillator (RO) coupled to a power gate and a clock gate, (2) a frozen RO coupled to a clock gate, (3) an online RO and (4) an analyzer coupled to the offline RO, the frozen RO and the online RO and operable to place the degradation detector in a normal state in which the offline RO is disconnected from both the drive voltage source and the clock source, the frozen RO is connected to the drive voltage source but disconnected from the clock source and the online RO is connected to both the drive voltage source and the clock source.
US09494639B2
An inspection apparatus includes a first tester and a second tester each of which tests a substrate loaded therein, a first stage on which the first tester is mounted, the first stage being movable to a first loading and unloading position and a first test position, the first test position being provided above the first loading and unloading position, a second stage on which the second tester is mounted, the second stage being provided below the first stage and being movable to a second loading and unloading position and a second test position, the second test position being provided below the second loading and unloading position, and a lift mechanism that moves the first stage up and down to the first loading and unloading position and the first test position and moves the second stage up and down to the second loading and unloading position and the second test position.
US09494638B2
The device for checking electronic cards includes a base in which conductive nails are arranged pointing upwards, and a cover, also fitted with nails pointing downwards in the closed cover position. The cover is mobile in horizontal translation between an open position and an intermediate position. The device can also include a vertical translation mechanism capable of bringing the nails arranged in the cover closer to the nails arranged in the base so as to allow contact of the nails on the two faces of an electronic card. The invention also relates to a method of opening and a method of closing such a device.
US09494637B2
A method and an arrangement are disclosed for detecting islanding operation of a distributed power generator. The method can include determining a frequency of a grid to which the distributed power generator is connected, measuring a rate of change of the frequency of the grid at an output of the distributed power generator, determining a threshold value for an alteration speed, comparing the rate of change of the frequency of the grid with the threshold value, and detecting islanding operation when the measured rate of change of the frequency exceeds the threshold value for a certain time period.
US09494633B2
Provided is an electromagnetic interference (EMI) measuring device. The EMI measuring device according to the present invention includes an electromagnetic wave eliminating unit eliminating remaining electromagnetic waves from a DUT in response to an eliminating control signal of the control unit. The control unit may calculate EMI of the DUT on the basis of a measured result measured before the elimination of remaining electromagnetic waves. The EMI measuring device according to the present invention may compensate for an error due to remaining electromagnetic waves and measure EMI at high accuracy.
US09494630B2
The present application provides a method for adjusting an electric field intensity, comprising: when detecting that a probe capacitance threshold generated by a capacitor plate group reaches a preset critical value, changing relative positions of or a connection relationship between capacitor plates in the capacitor plate group, and adjusting an electric field intensity generated by the capacitor plate group. By using the method for adjusting an electric field intensity of the present application, when an electric field intensity generated by a capacitor plate group cannot cover an object to be detected, the electric field intensity generated by the capacitor plate group is increased by changing relative positions of or a connection relationship between capacitor plates, so that the electric field intensity generated by the capacitor plate group can continue to cover the object to be detected.
US09494625B2
A management system for managing measurement information on power consumption in at least one electrical appliance which is associated with at least one meter includes a first storage module configured to store measurement information transmitted from each of the at least one meter associated with the at least one electrical appliance, on power consumption in the at least one electrical appliance, in correspondence with the at least one meter. The management system also includes a second storage module configured to store history information on association between each of the at least one meter and the at least one electrical appliance. An information output module may be configured to output, in response to selection of an electrical appliance, as electric power information on the selected electrical appliance, information on power consumption in the selected electrical appliance brought in correspondence with a time period regardless of a meter associated with the selected electrical appliance, which is based on the measurement information in the first storage module and the history information in the second storage module.
US09494624B2
A method of real-time monitoring of the operation of a wind turbine in an operational region of theoretically constant power coefficient is disclosed. The method comprises measuring the electrical power generated by the wind turbine, a representative wind speed, and an ambient temperature. The wind power available to the wind turbine for a given moment in time may be calculated based on the measured ambient temperature and measured representative wind speed. The aerodynamic power captured by the wind turbine at the same moment in time may be determined based on the measured electrical power generated. And the practical power coefficient may be calculated by dividing the aerodynamic power captured by the calculated available wind power.
US09494604B2
A method of characterizing the coagulation or sedimentation dynamics of a fluid such as whole blood, a blood fraction, or blood plasma is provided. The method includes illuminating a sample of the fluid with a beam of coherent light; acquiring a time series of images of a speckle pattern generated by interaction between the sample and the spatially coherent light beam; and processing the time series of images. The processing step includes calculating a function representative of the variation in the speckle pattern between two or more images of the series. The invention also provides a device for implementing such a method.
US09494595B2
A method for detecting an interaction between a first protein and a second protein comprises the steps of: expressing in a cell a first fusion protein comprising the first protein and an association-inducing protein, and a second fusion protein comprising the second protein and a fluorescent protein having a multimerization ability; detecting a fluorescent focus formed by an association between the first fusion protein and the second fusion protein in the cell; and determining an interaction between the first protein and the second protein according to the detection of the fluorescent focus.
US09494592B2
Reaction-based fluorescent probes are provided which detect, for example, biologically important sulfane sulfur species (persulfide, polysulfide, and elemental sulfur) in, for example, complex and living systems. The probes are high in selectivity and sensitivity to sulfane sulfurs. Moreover, probes are suitable for bioimaging sulfane sulfurs in living cells.
US09494590B2
Disclosed are methods for detecting, diagnosing or monitoring a renal cancer in a subject. The methods include detecting quantity of one or more polypeptides or fragments thereof comprised by body fluid such as urine, wherein the one or more polypeptides or fragments thereof, can be present at elevated levels in a subject with, a kidney cancer, as compared to a subject without a kidney cancer. Non-limiting examples of such polypeptides include aquaporin-1, adipose differentiation-related protein, and paired box protein-2. Antibody probes can be used to detect or quantify the polypeptides. In some embodiments, mass spectroscopy can be used to detect or quantify the polypeptides, or to identify a polypeptide in a body fluid sample from a subject with a kidney cancer.
US09494587B2
The present invention relates to the field of prevention and treatment of tumors and gastrointestinal disorders. The present invention relates to the prevention and treatment of Core-1-positive carcinomas. The invention relates to coreotics and a method of producing the same and to a method of prevention and treatment of core-1 positive disorders using the same. The invention relates to microorganisms or fractions thereof capable of activating cellular immunity against carbohydrates.
US09494586B2
Contemplated compositions, devices, and methods are drawn to various antigens from the pathogen M. tuberculosis and their use in vaccines, therapeutic agents, and various diagnostic tests. In particularly preferred aspects, the antigens are immunodominant and have quantified and known relative reactivities with respect to sera of a population infected with the pathogen, and/or have a known association with a disease parameter.
US09494581B2
A Raman spectroscopy technique allows an analyte, a paramagnetic particle, and a spectral enhancement particle to combine in solution and for the combination product to be localized by a magnetic field for analysis. The spectral enhancement particle may be comprised of an active SERS metal particle with or without a material coating. The spectral enhancement particle may function as a reporter for the presence of the analyte or merely increase the magnitude of the Raman spectrum of the analyte. The technique is applicable to both immunoassays and chemical assays. Multiple spectral enhancement particle reporters may be measured in a single assay that can detect multiple analytes using the SERS effect.
US09494562B2
Methods and apparatus for non-destructive testing of a composite structure utilizing sonic or ultrasonic waves. In response to a wideband chirp wave sonic excitation signal transmitted from a probe to the composite structure, a probe signal received is correlated with a library of predetermined probe signals and a graphical representation of defects detected is generated. The graphical representation provides detailed information on defect type, defect location and defect shape. Also contemplated is a probe for non-destructive testing of a composite structure comprising three or more transducers wherein each transducer is separately configurable as a transmitter or as a receiver; and a controller coupled to each of transducer for providing signals thereto and receiving signals therefrom, wherein the signals provided thereto include signals for configuring each transducer as either a transmitter or a receiver, and signals for providing an excitation signal from each transducer which is configured as a transmitter.
US09494561B1
The present disclosure relates to a system for testing a structure of an object. According to one embodiment, the system includes a vibration initiator that imparts an acoustic shockwave to an object. The system also includes an acoustic detector array that senses the acoustic shockwave as it propagates through the object, in which the acoustic detector array comprises a plurality of quantum microphones. The system further includes a reporting unit that receives sensed acoustic shockwave data from the acoustic detector array and produces a structural integrity report.
US09494556B2
A force measurement sensor for measuring an applied force onto an object is provided. The force measurement sensor includes a sensing unit including a concentrator, a generator, a detector, and an evaluator. The concentrator points towards the object. The generator generates a magnetic field. The detector detects a magnetic field generated by the generator and influenced by the applied force to be measured. The detector outputs a first signal of the detected magnetic field. The evaluator evaluates a signal strength of the signal and determines the applied force based on the signal. A longitudinal axis of the detector is arranged for a lateral offset between the longitudinal axis of the detector and a central axis of the concentrator that is perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the concentrator.
US09494553B2
An electrophoresis chip that can be small and simple and that can analyze a sample with high accuracy is provided. The electrophoresis chip includes an upper substrate 4, a lower substrate 1, an introduction reservoir 2a, a recovery reservoir 2b and a capillary channel for sample analysis 3x. The introduction reservoir 2a and the recovery reservoir 2b are formed in the lower substrate 1. The introduction reservoir 2a and the recovery reservoir 2b are in communication with each other via the capillary channel for sample analysis 3x. The introduction reservoir 2a receives a sample to be measured. The sample is electrophoretically introduced directly into the capillary channel for sample analysis 3x by creating a potential difference between the introduction reservoir 2a and the recovery reservoir 2b, and is also analyzed in the capillary channel for sample analysis 3x during the separation of the sample while the sample is being continuously supplied.
US09494547B2
A gas sensor control apparatus (1) includes a gas sensor (8) having an oxygen pump cell (14); a sensor drive circuit (52) which energizes the gas sensor; terminal voltage output means (54) which detects and outputs a terminal voltage of the oxygen pump cell; anomaly detection means (58) which compares the terminal voltage and a first threshold value, and when the terminal voltage exceeds the first threshold value, outputs a short circuit anomaly signal informing of a short circuit; a controller (55) which compares the terminal voltage and a second threshold value less than the first threshold value, and when the terminal voltage exceeds the second threshold value, generates a cell voltage anomaly signal informing of an application of an overvoltage to the oxygen pump cell; and command means (9) which, when receiving the short circuit anomaly signal or cell voltage anomaly signal, outputs a de-energization command.
US09494535B2
Methods and systems for performing measurements of semiconductor structures and materials based on scatterometry measurement data are presented. Scatterometry measurement data is used to generate an image of a material property of a measured structure based on the measured intensities of the detected diffraction orders. In some examples, a value of a parameter of interest is determined directly from the map of the material property of the measurement target. In some other examples, the image is compared to structural characteristics estimated by a geometric, model-based parametric inversion of the same measurement data. Discrepancies are used to update the geometric model of the measured structure and improve measurement performance. This enables a metrology system to converge on an accurate parametric measurement model when there are significant deviations between the actual shape of a manufactured structure subject to model-based measurement and the modeled shape of the structure.
US09494532B2
Systems and methods for inspecting a device include arranging the device in a known position relative to a plurality of movable cameras mounted on a controllable actuator controlled by a computing device and pointed at the device by controlling the controllable actuator to position a camera with a user interface on the computing device with a display, and the display displays a virtual image from the camera into CAD model of the device and an image of the device generated by the camera in a side-by-side or in an overlay fashion or both.
US09494528B2
To facilitate adjusting of a distance from an inspection target to an illumination section by providing a movable illumination section that is movable independently of the imaging section. An illumination apparatus has a plurality of LEDs arranged in a substantially annular form, a light diffusion member for diffusing light emitted from the plurality of LEDs, and a lighting control part for lighting the plurality of light sources in accordance with a predetermined lighting pattern when designated to start lighting. In particular, the illumination apparatus moves independently of a camera to adjust a distance to a workpiece.
US09494525B2
Provided is technology for blood clotting reactions capable of analyzing a blood clotting reaction with a high degree of precision, by precisely detecting and removing noise, regardless of the location where the noise is generated in the light intensity data. This automated analyzer approximates, with an approximation curve, time series data for transmitted light intensity or scattered light intensity of light emitted onto a sample, and, in this process, removes abnormal data points that deviate from the approximation curve (see FIG. 2).
US09494524B2
The present invention relates to compositions, assay devices, kits and methods for detecting the presence, amount and/or activity of an analyte in a sample. In particular, the present invention relates to the detection of enzymes. The present invention also relates to methods of diagnosing diseases associated with dysregulation of enzymes, screening for modulators of enzymatic activity, candidate antimicrobial peptides and toxins.
US09494514B2
In systems and methods for analyzing traces of airborne compounds, the air to be analyzed is circulated for a given length of time through a small-diameter analysis tube while lowering the temperature of the air at the entrance to the analysis tube. Condensation and deposits of compounds are formed on the inner walls of the analysis tube. A scraping liquid is circulated through the analysis tube to scrape off the deposits. The compounds in the deposits are concentrated at the front of this liquid. The front of the liquid is then analyzed to identify the compounds.
US09494513B2
A method of detecting a transmission laser beam is disclosed. A laser beam of a wavelength having a transparency to a plate-shaped workpiece having a first face and a second face is irradiated upon the workpiece from the first face side with a focal point of the laser beam positioned in the inside of the workpiece. The laser beam is detected after it has passed through the workpiece to the second face side. A photosensitive sheet is positioned to hold the workpiece on a holding face of a chuck table. A photosensitive layer between the sheet and the workpiece is opposed to the second face of the workpiece. The laser beam is irradiated from the first face side of the workpiece, and the state of the transmission laser beam from a photosensitive reaction region formed in the photosensitive layer of the photosensitive sheet is confirmed.
US09494512B2
Systems and methods for remotely detecting nuclear and non-nuclear materials such as chemical agents and gas-phase explosives are disclosed. Nuclear and non-nuclear materials may be detected by transmitting electromagnetic energy toward a remote target area, collecting scattered electromagnetic energy reflected from the remote target area, analyzing an absorption spectrum of the collected scattered electromagnetic energy, and detecting a presence of at least one nuclear or non-nuclear material in the remote target area based on the analyzed absorption spectrum.
US09494507B2
An apparatus to determine the blood sedimentation rate and other parameters connected thereto, carried out by emitting, by means of emitter means, a beam of radiations which passes through a sample being examined, and by detecting, by means of receiver means, the beam of radiations after they have passed through said sample, comprising a reading chamber associated to at least a tube connected to a feed of the sample to be analyzed. Said reading chamber is at least partly transparent to radiations in a certain range of wavelengths, and has at least a substantially rectilinear segment of reduced size into which the sample to be analyzed is introduced. The reading chamber consists of a tube made of plastic material, or glass, defining a capillary channel coupled to said tube in fluidic continuity.
US09494502B2
A device for fixing a rock sample, the device including: a lower clamp and an upper clamp. The lower clamp includes: a lower connector connected to a bottom loading base, a lower end cap for fixing samples, a lower chain connecting the lower connector and the lower end cap, a first spiral spring, a first central position-limit mechanism, and a second central position-limit mechanism. The lower end cap includes: a first sample fixing groove and a first connecting segment. The upper clamp includes: an upper connector connected to a top loading base, an upper end cap for fixing the samples, an upper chain connecting with the upper connector and the upper end cap, a second spiral spring, a third central position-limit mechanism, and a fourth central position-limit mechanism. The upper end cap includes a second sample fixing groove and a second connecting segment.
US09494489B2
An internal combustion engine inner-cylinder pressure estimation apparatus includes a detection unit that detects an operation condition of an internal combustion engine, a calculation unit that calculates an ignition delay that is an interval from an ignition timing to a starting timing of heat generation by combustion, based on an operation condition detected by the detection unit, and a combustion velocity calculation unit that calculates a combustion velocity, based on the operation condition. There is simulated a phenomenon that after an ignition delay period following an ignition timing has elapsed, a flame generated at the gap portion of an ignition plug expands up to the inner-cylinder wall surface at the combustion velocity and in the shape of an ellipsoid whose center is the gap portion of the ignition plug.
US09494487B2
Turbine engine rotor corresponding thru-bolts and disc cavities are inspected with a camera inspection system that includes one or both of a thru-bolt male threads inspection apparatus and a rotor disc cavity inspection apparatus. The thru-bolts threads inspection apparatus engages the male threads and advances along the bolt threads pattern, selectively capturing camera images at desired spatial positions along the threads pattern. The plural camera threads images are desirably combined to form a composite image of a desired portion of or the entire thru-bolt male threads profiles, which aids their inspection evaluation and provides an archived composite image of the profiles.
US09494486B2
A method for inspecting impacts present on an internal face of a fan casing, the method including: spotting a first impact present on the internal face of the fan casing; delimiting an inspection area containing the first impact; spotting the various impacts present in the delimited inspection area, the various spotted impacts forming a set of impacts to be considered; measuring, for each impact that is to be considered, the depth of length of the impact; for each impact to be considered, determining a harmfulness value, using at least one chart relating the depth and length of each impact to be considered to a level of harmfulness; determining, for the inspection area containing the first impact, a total harmfulness value by adding together the harmfulness level determined for each impact to be considered.
US09494479B2
A drive shaft balancing machine for dynamic balancing of drive shafts includes two pedestals. Each pedestal includes a spring-mounted upper part receiving a rotary spindle, a support receiving an end of a drive shaft to be balanced and a first vibration sensor detecting upper part vibrations resulting from an unbalance of the drive shaft and further involved forces in at least a first degree of freedom of motion normal to the spindle axis. On the upper part of at least one pedestal a second vibration sensor is mounted which detects the vibrations of the upper part in at least a second degree of freedom of motion. An evaluating circuit analyzes and links the vibration signals of the first and the second vibration sensors so that pitch vibration excitations of the upper part not caused by the unbalance of the drive shaft do not enter the drive shaft unbalance value computed.
US09494474B2
This invention pertains to a low cost, low noise strain sensor based on a web of continuous core-shell nanofibers with conductive shell and mechanically robust core that can be attached or embedded on a variety objects for directional monitoring of static or dynamic changes in mechanical deformation and pressure. This is a low cost, highly sensitive strain sensor, with low noise and ease of integration for different applications from synthetic tactile skins, to vibrational and health monitoring.
US09494466B2
A temperature measurement device is provided with: light collection means; extraction means; optical intensity calculation means; and temperature measurement means. The light collection means collects the emission spectrum of a measurement subject. The extraction means extracts light having the wavelength of the atomic spectral lines and light having a wavelength in a wavelength region where there are no atomic spectral lines, from the emission spectrum collected by the aforementioned light collection means. The optical intensity calculation means calculates the optical intensities of the light extracted by the aforementioned extraction means. The temperature measurement means calculates the temperature of the aforementioned measurement subject, based on the intensities of the beams calculated by the aforementioned optical intensity calculation means.
US09494457B2
A tank liquid depth measurement method includes the steps of: a) providing a sensor capable of detecting a liquid pressure, b) providing a main unit for receiving data from the sensor, c) mounting the sensor under the liquid level in a water tank and mounting the main unit in the car, d) initiating the sensor and the main unit so as to cause the sensor to measure the internal liquid pressure and to enable the main unit to store the identification code and communication code of the sensor, and e) enabling the main unit to receive data from the sensor for matching and recording. By means of the operation of the sensor to transmit the detected data to the main unit for warning or informing the driver, the expected effects and objectives of the present invention are achieved.
US09494451B1
A support and alignment apparatus for a traversing pitot tube is provided. The apparatus includes a support strut, an insertion fitting and a termination fitting. The support strut spans within the duct, with each end of the strut being attached to one of the fittings. The pitot tube is routed through the insertion fitting and into the support strut. The strut supports the pitot tube as it traverses the duct. A slot cut along the length of the strut allows the pitot tube to extend away from the strut, into and parallel to the flow. The slot aligns the end of the pitot tube with the flow and prevents unwanted rotation, vibration, and flexing of the pitot tube to increase measurement accuracy.
US09494445B2
A system and method for planning fueling during a travel. The method comprises receiving information identifying a starting point and a destination for the travel; determining a route between the starting point and the destination; identifying one or more candidate fuel stations that are accessible from the route; determining scores for the one or more candidate fuel stations; and outputting information identifying the one or more candidate fuel stations along with their scores. Identifying one or more candidate fuel stations may include determining a search corridor; and identifying the one or more candidate fuel stations within the search corridor. Determining the search corridor may comprise selecting a search point located on the route; selecting a search radius; drawing a search circle with a radius equal to the search radius and centered at the search point; and including the search circle in the search corridor.
US09494443B2
Methods for dynamically varying label density and label placement on a map display used in mapping and/or navigation solutions. Label density and label placement on a map display are adjusted dynamically based on: a function class of a road being navigated, a function class of a road to be navigated following an upcoming maneuver, a distance to an upcoming maneuver, and/or a speed a device receiving mapping/navigation services is travelling.
US09494425B2
A gyroscope having a mechanical resonator, a plurality of electrodes located around the resonator, and a thin gap being located between the resonator and the plurality of electrodes. The resonator is axi-symmetric and may be at least partially toroidal in shape or composed of concentric rings. Piezoelectric electrodes or transduction may be used to drive or detect displacements of the resonator. The resonator may be fabricated using a fused silica flowing process.
US09494417B2
A method for determining a shape correction value F for a laboratory liquid-analysis cuvette comprising a cuvette body with a circular cross-section for a photometric liquid analysis includes optically measuring an inside diameter d1 or an outside diameter d0 of the cuvette body to obtain a measured cuvette body diameter d1;d0. A shape correction value F is calculated from the measured cuvette body diameter d1;d0. The shape correction value F for the cuvette body is stored.
US09494409B2
The invention relates to a test device for testing a bonding layer between wafer-shaped samples and a test process for testing the bonding layer. The test device comprises a measuring head for an OCT process that is configured to direct an optical measuring beam at a composite comprising at least two wafer-shaped samples with a bonding layer positioned between them. An optical beam splitter is configured to divert an optical reference beam as a reference arm for distance measurements. An evaluation unit is configured to evaluate layer thickness measurements without a reference arm and distance measurements with a reference arm. An optical switch device is configured to connect and disconnect the reference arm.
US09494399B2
The present disclosure relates to structures that are adapted to facilitate the retention, storage, and transport of arrows. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, for example, an arrow retainer is described that includes a resilient portion having a plurality of passageways extending therethrough for retaining a plurality of arrows therein. Each passageway is resiliently expandable upon insertion of an arrow to maintain the position of the arrow. In another embodiment of the present disclosure, for example, an arrow storage device is disclosed that provides an efficient and secure means of storing arrows. The presently disclosed arrow retainer and arrow storage device may be used in conjunction with one another as part of an arrow storage system.
US09494386B1
A system to facilitate a visually impaired person's ability to actively participate in target shooting and hunting. The system elevates a scope and moves it rearwardly to allow the shooter to shoulder the rifle, while a spotter behind the shooter uses the scope and guides the shooter to move the rifle until it is on target and ready to be shot.
US09494385B2
A target marking system includes a light source emitting a thermal beam having a predetermined temporal modulation, and an optics assembly directing the thermal beam to impact a target, the target directing radiation to the optics assembly in response to the impact. A portion of the radiation having the predetermined temporal modulation. The target marking system further includes a detector configured to distinguish the portion of the radiation having the predetermined temporal modulation from a remainder of the radiation, the portion of the radiation passing to the director through the optics assembly. The system also includes a readout integrated circuit, the detector directing an input signal to the readout integrated circuit, and the readout integrated circuit producing a digitally enhanced output signal in response to receipt of the input signal.
US09494382B2
A handguard mount assembly and method of forming a handguard mount assembly that includes a mount clip that is defined by a body having a first portion constructed to be received in a slot defined by hand guard and define a smallest diameter associated with a receiver end of the hand guard. The body of the mount clip preferably includes a second portion that radially indexes the mount clip, and a hand guard associated therewith, relative to a receiver associated with the underlying firearm such that the mount clip defines a maximum compression associated with the hand guard and prevents rotation of the hand guard relative to the receiver when assembled.
US09494374B2
A firearm 10 having a selectively movable slide portion 12 which includes at least one serrated radius or shoulder edge 14, 16 and which allows the firearm 10 to be selectively cycled by engaging the at least one serrated edge 14, 16 with a surface, such as table edge 32, thereby allowing for selective and relative movement between the frame 7 and the slide portion 12.
US09494369B2
The invention relates to a heat exchanger for exchanging heat between a first (HP) and a second (BP) fluids. According to the invention, said exchanger comprises a plurality of modules (15,15a,15b,15c) respectively including an upper plate (17) and a lower plate (19) assembled so as to define, between said plates (17,19), an inner cavity (21) forming a first circulating channel for the first fluid (HP), wherein said exchanger further comprises a housing (3) in which said modules (15,15a,15b,15c) are assembled in order to form said exchanger while defining spaces (33) between said modules, said spaces forming second circulation channels for the second fluid (BP).
US09494366B1
A system for pumping molten metal and melting metal scrap in a furnace that includes a first well that is separated from a second well by a refractory separating wall. The first well and the second well are in fluid communication with a main vessel, the separating wall including a passageway for molten metal. The system includes a pump disposed in the first well for pumping molten metal. A scrap charging vessel is disposed in the second well into which the scrap is added to molten metal contained therein. A conduit extends from the pump over the separating wall. Molten metal pumped from the pump travels from the conduit into the scrap charging vessel.
US09494365B2
Embodiments of a self-cleaning jet tube may include an elongate hollow body that is generally rectangular in cross-section and tapered from an open first end to a second end generally opposite the first end. The elongate hollow body may have an upper wall, a lower wall, side walls, a plurality of apertures arranged along the upper wall, an end plate coupled with the walls at the second end, and at least one through-slot. A through-slot may be disposed through the end plate or a wall, between the end plate and a wall, or between two walls. The jet tube may be configured for use with the through-slot(s) open and unblocked, thereby allowing debris to be expelled from the jet tube during operation of the jet veneer dryer. Corresponding systems and method are also provided herein.
US09494359B2
A cryogenic system includes a superconducting magnet (20) in a reservoir of liquid helium (LH). Helium vapor (VH) rises and contacts a recondenser surface (50, 50′, 50″) on which the helium vapor (VH) condenses into liquid helium and flows by gravity off a lower edge of the recondenser surface. A plurality of fins (52) extend from the recondenser surface or a plurality of grooves (52′, 52″) are cut into the recondenser surface to disrupt the film thickness and to provide a path by which droplets of the liquid helium leave the recondenser surface without travelling a full vertical length of the recondenser (30).
US09494356B2
A climate control system is provided and may include a compressor, a first heat exchanger in fluid communication with the compressor, a second heat exchanger in fluid communication with the compressor and the first heat exchanger, and a third heat exchanger disposed between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and including an inlet and an outlet. A conduit may be fluidly coupled to the third heat exchanger and the compressor and may selectively supply fluid to the compressor. A valve may control a volume of fluid supplied to the compressor via the conduit. A controller may control the valve based on a temperature difference between the outlet of the third heat exchanger and the inlet of the third heat exchanger.
US09494351B2
A method and apparatus for improving refrigeration and air conditioning efficiency for use with a heat exchange system having a compressor, condenser, evaporator, expansion device, and circulating refrigerant. The apparatus includes is a liquid refrigerant containing vessel having a refrigerant entrance and a refrigerant exit with the vessel positioned in the heat exchange system between the condenser and the evaporator, and means for creating a turbulent flow of liquefied refrigerant. The apparatus further preferably includes a refrigerant bypass path to sub-cool a portion of the refrigerant within the vessel; a disk positioned at the liquid refrigerant entrance to develop a low pressure area on the back side and create a turbulent flow of refrigerant entering the vessel; and a refrigerant valve incorporated into the refrigerant path downstream of the expansion valve and before the coil which develops a vortex that continues through the refrigerant coil.
US09494349B2
A fluid heater employs a vapor compression cycle system. The vapor compression cycle system includes an evaporator, at least one condenser and a working fluid. The fluid heater includes a fluid conduit which forms a tube-in-tube heat exchanger with the condenser to effect heating of the fluid. A sensor is positioned at the condensing zone of the working fluid, to determine the temperature of the working fluid at the condensing phase of the vapor compression cycle. The output of the sensor is used to control the flow rate of fluid through the fluid conduit in order to achieve a desired target temperature of the fluid leaving the conduit.
US09494341B2
The present invention relates to a highly-available and fault-tolerant solar tracking system and the process required to manage such a system. A fleet of multiple, redundant mobile robots managed by a task coordinator is deployed to track solar panels in a solar farm in alignment with the sun. Each robot has a control unit for engaging with a coupler connected to one or multiple solar panels and adjusting their orientation, as well as communicating with the task coordinator to receive tasks. The task coordinator senses various events such as robot failure/deterioration, as well as various environmental conditions, and sends tasks reconciled with event types. The system is highly-available and fault-tolerant as it remains operational as long as there is one operational robot. The task coordinator assigns tasks to the mobile robots so as to optimize battery life or other factors, such as, e.g., overall maintenance costs across the fleet.
US09494339B2
A solar collector comprises a solar absorbing tube comprising enclosure enclosing an absorbing section, comprising a radiation absorbing plate and a tube, containing a working fluid in thermal contact with the plate. The tube extends out of one end of the tube and connects with a condenser wherein the thermal transfer fluid when in a vapor phase communicates with a fluid to be heated within an end fitting. The condenser of a tube is inserted into a thermal pocket sealingly engaged with a gasket within the pipe receiving portion of the fitting, whereby heat transfer can take place between the condensers of the pipes and a fluid flowing via path in the fitting. The pocket is sealed against ingress of heat exchange fluid flowing through the fitting.
US09494321B2
A wake reducing structure includes a combustor liner having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surface defining a combustor chamber. Also included is an airflow path located along the outer surface of the combustor liner. Further included is a wake generating component disposed in the airflow path and proximate the combustor liner, wherein the wake generating component generates a wake region located downstream of the wake generating component. Yet further included is a wake generating component boss operatively coupled to the combustor liner and disposed within a combustor liner aperture. Also included is a cooling channel extending through the wake generating component boss, the cooling channel having an air inlet on an upstream region of the wake generating component boss and an air outlet on a downstream region of the wake generating component boss, the cooling channel configured to supply air to the wake region.
US09494319B2
A system for detecting a combustion-related condition in a pulverizer includes a pulverizer configured to receive coal chunks via an inlet, to grind the coal chunks into coal powder and to output the coal powder via an outlet. The system includes sensors configured to detect heat input characteristics supplied to the pulverizer and heat output characteristics emitted from the pulverizer. The system also includes a controller configured to determine, based on signals from the sensors, whether a combustion-related condition exists in the pulverizer based on a heat balance function including the heat input characteristics and the heat output characteristics.
US09494297B1
An exemplary embodiment of a solar-powered lighting fixture includes a solar panel electrically connected to a control circuit, a rechargeable battery to store electrical energy generated by the solar panel, and a LED module with a lens, wherein the lens has a plurality of integral optical elements comprising an inner refracting surface and an outer refracting surface, and the control circuit is capable of charging the battery by adjusting the charge current from the solar panel to the battery, automatically powering the at least one light-emitting diode on and off, and automatically adjusting the level and duration of electrical current provided to the at least one light-emitting diode. In at least one embodiment, the control circuit includes a microprocessor to calculate an operational profile based on the charge stored in the battery and an anticipated power requirement.
US09494294B2
A modular troffer-style lighting fixture. The fixture is particularly well-suited for use with solid state light sources, such as LEDs. Embodiments comprise a pan structure designed to house one or more modular light engine units within a central opening. Each light engine unit includes a reflective cup that can house several light sources on an interior mount surface. The cup is positioned proximate to a back reflector such that its open end faces a portion of the back reflector. The back reflector is shaped to define an interior chamber where light can be mixed and redirected. At least one elongated leg extends away from the reflective cup toward an edge of said back reflector. The leg(s) are used to mount the reflective cup relative to the back reflector and may also be used as a heat sink and/or an additional mount surface for light sources.
US09494289B2
A coupling member has a first driven portion and an output shaft to be coupled to a lamp unit, and is rotatable in the horizontal direction about the shaft center of the output shaft. A driven member has a second driven portion and a follower portion, and is rotatable relative to the coupling member. An acting portion is engaged with the follower portion. A first driving unit is engaged with the first driven portion to rotate the coupling member relative to the driven member. A second driving unit is engaged with the second driven portion to rotate the driven member relative to the coupling member. When the second driving unit rotates the driven member, the acting portion engaged with the follower portion causes the rotation center to move, and the coupling member is moved together with the driven member.
US09494284B2
In a light emitting section, a phosphor layer including a first phosphor particle which receives excitation light and emits fluorescence with a first peak wavelength and a phosphor layer including a second phosphor particle which receives the excitation light and emits fluorescence with a second peak wavelength are stacked. In the light emitting section, when an upper surface is a surface from which illumination light is mostly emitted, the illumination light including the fluorescence emitted from the first phosphor particle and the fluorescence emitted from the second phosphor particle, a reflective member to reduce leakage of fluorescence is provided on a side surface of the light emitting section.
US09494283B2
A light source, for example a light emitting diode, can emit light and have an associated optical axis. The source can be deployed in applications where it is desirable to have illumination biased laterally relative to the optical axis, such as in a street luminaire where directing light towards a street is beneficial. The source can be coupled to an optic that comprises a cavity. At least a portion of the cavity can have an outline that is egg-shaped in cross section. A backside of the cavity (or a backside portion of the optic) can have an irregular shape for receiving the light emitting diode, for example to form a receptacle shaped to fit a circuit.
US09494280B2
A condensate drain for pressurized gas systems, having a condensate collecting chamber, which can be connected to the pressurized gas system via a condensate inflow and has a condensate outflow that can be closed by means of an electrically operable valve, at least one electronic fitting level gauge, with which the condensate filling level in the condensate collecting chamber can be detected, and an electronic control unit, with which the condensate filling level detected by means of the filling level gauge can be evaluated and the valve can be operated, where the condensate drain has at least one battery, which provides the power supply for at least the control unit, the fitting level gauge and the valve.
US09494273B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a casing tensioner platform frame kit. The kit comprises frame components, corner connectors, rod components and rod connection components. The frame components and the corner connectors form a hexahedral frame. The rod components are fixed on the front planes and lateral planes of the hexahedral frame via the rod connection components. The frame components, corner connectors, rod components and rod connection components are all removable. Embodiments of the present invention also disclose a casing tensioner platform frame. The casing tensioner platform frame kit and the casing tensioner platform frame assembled by the kit provided by the present invention may be easily assembled or disassembled. The assembly or disassembly is implemented via prefabricated mounting components without any welding. The casing tensioner platform frame kit may be transported in the manner of components and be assembled at field. The cost of transportation and installation is significantly reduced while the quality and safety of the product is ensured.
US09494239B2
A plurality of circumferentially separated sealed-fluid-accommodating blocks are formed on either of the sealing faces of a stationary ring or rotating ring so as to communicate with a sealed fluid-containing space; pumping areas for generating a pumping action due to the sliding of the stationary ring and the rotating ring in relative rotation are formed on the bottom of the plurality of sealed-fluid-accommodating blocks; the pumping areas formed on the bottom of the plurality of sealed-fluid-accommodating blocks are provided with intake pumping areas operating in a direction so as to draw in the sealed fluid and outflow pumping areas operating in a direction so as to expel the sealed fluid; and a plurality of dimples are disposed on a seal dam area on a side of the sealing face on which the sealed-fluid-accommodating blocks are formed, the seal dam area being on the opposite side of the sealing face relative to the sealed-fluid side.
US09494229B2
A hydraulic system includes a main modulation control scheme which relies in part on the use of a VBS solenoid and the multiplexing of that solenoid. The hydraulic system is associated with a hybrid module and by controlling the main pressure at a reduced level, the fuel economy and reliability of that hybrid module are improved. The system pressure is controlled by the multiplexed VBS solenoid in order to maintain adequate clutch pressure based on torque requirements. The overall system cost is reduced by the multiplexing of valves and solenoids.
US09494228B2
A shifter assembly (20) for a transmission of a vehicle. The shifter assembly includes a shaft (36) defining a longitudinal axis (LA) and having a knob (42) mounted to a first end (38) of the shaft. A selector plate (46) is mounted to a second end (40) of the shaft. The selector plate is movable as a unit with the shaft. The shifter assembly includes a guide plate (54) coupled to the housing (24). The guide plate defines a first path (56) and a second path (58) spaced from the first path. A portion (52) of the selector plate is movable through the first path during an automatic mode for facilitating automatic selection of the gear positions within the transmission. The selector plate is rotatable about the longitudinal axis into a manual mode. In the manual mode, the portion of the selector plate is movable through the second path for permitting manual selection of gear positions within the transmission.
US09494227B2
A power take-off that significantly reduces the amount of undesirable noise that is transmitted therethrough during operation includes a housing, an input mechanism, and an output mechanism. The input mechanism is disposed within the housing and is adapted to be connected to a source of rotational energy. The output mechanism is also disposed within the housing and is adapted to be connected to a driven device. The output mechanism is adapted to be rotatably driven by the input mechanism. At least one of the input mechanism and the output mechanism includes a shaft having at least one portion that is supported on the housing by a vibration damping material.
US09494224B2
A circular wave drive system, and a method for use of a circular wave drive, are provided. In one embodiment, a circular wave drive is provided, the circular wave drive comprising: a substantially enclosed housing having a chamber therein, a ring-shaped wheel residing in the chamber, a wave generator having a wheel-driving portion that is oriented within the hollow central portion of the ring-shaped wheel; and an output element having a wheel-driven portion that is oriented within the hollow central portion of the ring-shaped wheel opposite the wheel-driving portion of the wave generator.
US09494222B2
A hydrostatic driveline is provided. The hydrostatic driveline comprises a power source, a hydrostatic pump, a hydrostatic motor, a direct drive link, and a transmission portion. The power source is drivingly engaged with an input member. The hydrostatic pump is in driving engagement with the input member. The hydrostatic motor is in fluid communication with the hydrostatic pump. The direct drive link is in driving engagement with the input member. The transmission portion is in driving engagement with a vehicle output and at least one of the hydrostatic motor and the direct drive link The transmission portion includes at least one engagement device and a drive ratio. The hydrostatic pump, the hydrostatic motor, and the transmission portion form a first power path for the hydrostatic driveline and the direct drive link forms a second power path for the hydrostatic driveline.
US09494218B2
In a power plant, the rotational speeds of four rotary elements, formed by a rotatable carrier that rotatably supports first and second pinion gears which are in mesh with each other, first and second gears which are in mesh with one of the two pinion gears, and a third gear, which is in mesh with the other of the two pinion gears, satisfy a collinear relationship in which the rotational speeds are aligned in a single straight line in a collinear chart. The first and second outer rotary elements, which are positioned at opposite outer sides of the straight line in the collinear chart, respectively, are connected to first and second energy input/output units, respectively. First and second quasi-outer rotary elements positioned adjacent to the first and second outer rotary elements, respectively, are connected to one and the other of two driven parts.
US09494217B2
A transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, at least three planetary gear set assemblies, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the planetary gear set assemblies include first, second and third members. The torque transmitting devices include clutches and brakes actuatable in combinations of three to establish a plurality of forward gear ratios and at least one reverse gear ratio.
US09494210B2
An vehicle/engine mount can include a first connection device for connecting to an engine power system, a second connection device that is configured to connect to either the vehicle frame or the vehicle body, a stopper system, and a damper system. The damper system can be configured to prevent transmission of vibration or movement between the first connection device and the second connection device. The stopper system can include a liquid-filled bladder device located adjacent one of the first connection device and second connection device and configured such that it provides an ultimate limit for one of axial and radial movement/vibration of the first connection device relative to the second connection device.
US09494200B2
A clutch for a power tool includes an adjustment ring configured to move axially relative to the housing while being rotated relative to the housing. A spring retainer is disposed axially rearward of the adjustment ring. The spring retainer is coupled for rotation together with the adjustment ring and configured to remain substantially axially stationary relative to the housing when rotated. A spring is disposed between the adjustment ring and the spring retainer. A clutch face is coupled to a portion of the transmission. A locking member is disposed between the spring retainer and the clutch face. The locking member is configured to transfer a holding force exerted by the spring to the clutch face. Rotation and axial movement of the adjustment ring alters the holding force exerted by the spring. When an amount of output torque exceeds the holding force, torque transmission to the output spindle is effectively interrupted.
US09494197B2
This method is for replacing sealing elements on a rolling bearing assembly comprising a rotatable element, a fixed element, and at least one bearing mounted between the rotatable element and the fixed element, at least one used sealing element being rotatably fastened to at least one of the rotatable element and the fixed element and having at least one sealing lip adapted to lay on a first surface of the element with respect to which the used sealing element rotates. The method comprises a step of mounting at least one replacement sealing element so that at least one sealing lip of the replacement sealing element lays on a second surface of the element with respect to which the used sealing element and the replacement sealing element rotate, this second surface being located at a predetermined distance of the first surface.
US09494190B2
A bearing assembly is described that includes a shaft and an inner race affixed to the shaft. An outer race is disposed radially around the inner race defining a bearing run space with rolling elements between the inner and outer races. An axial bore in the support or the rotor has a radial gap between the bore wall and the outer race, and the assembly is configured to provide a radial displacement between a portion of the outer race and the axial bore wall in response to a radial overload force applied to the rotor.
US09494184B1
The present invention relates to a rail-type vacuum fixer, and more specifically relates to the rail-type vacuum fixer with a two-piece structure composed of a suction plate, on which a screw bar is installed at the center of the top surface and a hard rotary rail is installed in the circumferential direction in the areas of the top surface, and a rotary cap, which has a screw pipe inserted by the said screw bar at the center of the inside and is equipped in the border area with a sliding rim corresponding to the said rotary rail.
US09494176B2
The invention disclosed herein generally relates to an improved clamp assembly for attaching two or more objects, such as furniture, tables, desks, dividers or other panel elements together of variable thicknesses. The elements of the clamp assembly invention generally include a clamp body with a clamp stop and clamp spine, a cross-dowel, an actuating screw and a clamp lever. The clamp assembly imparts a compressive clamping force by utilizing a fulcrum-lever arrangement whereby the clamp lever is moved in an arcuate trajectory by rotating the actuating screw in the desired direction as the clamp lever pivots about a fulcrum point. This allows the user to easily place and connect various objects, such as tables, desks, courtesy and privacy panels and another desired object that the user desires to secure in a desired arrangement by imparting a compressive force to the panel element that is to be connected to another panel element.
US09494170B2
A hydraulic system for a vehicle includes a variable displacement pump configured to pressurize a fluid based on a pump stroke, a clutch, and a controller that is coupled to the variable displacement pump and the clutch. The clutch is positioned to selectively couple the variable displacement pump with an engine when engaged and selectively decouple the variable displacement pump from the engine when disengaged. The controller is configured to generate a first command signal to decrease the pump stroke and thereafter generate a second command signal to disengage the clutch.
US09494165B2
A flow machine (1) has an outer housing (2) with an inner housing (6), particularly a guide blade carrier, arranged therein and a rotor shaft (10) which is situated in the latter, a cover (4; 8) which is fastened to the outer housing (2) and separates an inlet pressure (p1) in the interior of the outer housing (2) from an ambient pressure (pu) outside the outer housing, and a compensating piston seal (22) for sealing an outlet pressure (p2) in a work space, particularly compression space (16), defined between the rotor shaft (10) and the inner housing (6) against the inlet pressure (p1) in a noncontacting manner. The compensating piston seal (22) is fastened to the cover (4; 8).
US09494162B2
An axial fan, having an inner electric motor and a fan wheel connected to the electric motor so as to rotate with it and has a plurality of wheel blades defining a blade length and extend outwardly from the electric motor. A fan housing surrounds the fan wheel. The fan housing is connected to the motor via holding struts which extend to the outside from the motor to the fan housing. A motor housing is provided on the motor behind the fan wheel and accommodates a motor electronics system. A flow duct having an inflow opening and an outflow opening is fastened to the motor behind the fan wheel such that the inflow opening is arranged offset to the outside with respect to the outflow opening. The outflow opening is oriented in such a way that an air flow which exits the outlet opening is guided onto the motor housing.
US09494150B2
The present invention involves, in some embodiments, medical systems for pumping fluid using a medical-grade cartridge configured for use in a reusable fluid medical apparatus to move liquids through the cartridge. The cartridge includes a membrane defining a chamber. The system includes a pressure source able to be placed in pneumatic communication with the chamber to adjust gas pressure therein. The system further includes a processor configured to perform a dry integrity test based on adjustment and measurement of fluid pressures in the chamber in which neither side of the member is exposed to liquid during test to determine whether a fluid leak exists through the membrane.
US09494148B2
A reciprocating compressor is provided. Bearing holes of a fluid bearing of the compressor may be positioned correspond to a full reciprocating region of a piston, to reduce/eliminate frictional loss and/or abrasion between a cylinder and the piston. The bearing holes may be concentrated at certain regions of the cylinder to stably support the piston through a full reciprocating range. Compression coil springs may maintain concentric alignment of the cylinder and the piston. Gas through holes may be radially formed at the piston to lower a pressure of a bearing space and allow refrigerant to be smoothly introduced into the bearing space through a gas pocket. A casing of the compressor may include an outer shell and an inner shell to attenuate vibration generated due to friction generated by operation of the reciprocating compressor.
US09494140B2
A system for transporting wind turbine blades includes a first support structure for supporting a cylindrical root section of a first wind turbine blade and a second support structure aligned with and spaced from the first support structure for supporting a tip section of the first wind turbine blade. A third support structure is included for supporting a tip section of a second wind turbine blade. A fourth support structure is spaced from and aligned with the third support structure for supporting a cylindrical root section of the second wind turbine blade. The first and second wind turbine blades extend with an edge-vertical orientation in opposing directions such that a tip of the first wind turbine blade is disposed horizontally adjacent the cylindrical root section of the second wind turbine blade and a tip of the second wind turbine blade is disposed horizontally adjacent the cylindrical root section of the first wind turbine blade.
US09494136B1
A turbine rotor assembly having a rotor core formed by three reflex camber surfaces disposed symmetrically about an axis, each reflex camber surface being identical and having an aerodynamic shape producing positive torque through a large portion of its upwind travel while rotating about the axis. The trailing edge of each reflex camber surface joined to the leading edge of the adjacent reflex camber surface creating an envelope shielding the rotor core from the fluid driving the rotor.
US09494134B2
Rotor blade assemblies and methods for constructing rotor blade assemblies are provided. A rotor blade assembly may include a rotor blade having exterior surfaces defining a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge and a trailing edge each extending between a tip and a root, the rotor blade defining a span and a chord. The rotor blade assembly further includes an extension plate mounted to one of the pressure side or the suction side, the extension plate extending in the chord-wise direction between a first end and a second end, the second end extending beyond the trailing edge. The rotor blade assembly further includes a filler substrate provided on an inner surface of the extension plate and the trailing edge, the filler substrate tapering from the trailing edge towards the second end.
US09494132B2
A method and assembly for aligning airflow modifying elements on a rotor blade is disclosed. The airflow modifying assembly may be mounted onto a suction side surface or a pressure side surface of the rotor blade. Further, the airflow modifying assembly includes an alignment structure having a chord-wise extending face that may be fixed relative to the rotor blade at a predetermined position. The airflow modifying assembly further includes a first base having a root end, a tail end having an interconnecting profile, and a first plurality of airflow modifying elements. The root end is aligned with the chord-wise extending face such that the first base extends span-wise along the rotor blade. Additionally, the airflow modifying assembly includes at least one second base having a connector end with a complementary interconnecting profile and a plurality of airflow modifying elements, wherein the connector end is coupled to the tail end.
US09494129B2
A multiple oscillation-type generator includes: a first reciprocating member arranged inside a fluid and configured to reciprocate by lifting force, lowering force, or flow energy resulting from the fluid; a second reciprocating member arranged inside the fluid at a distance from the first reciprocating member and configured to reciprocate by lifting force, lowering force, or flow energy resulting from the fluid; a first conversion unit connected to the first reciprocating member and configured to convert reciprocating movements into rotational movements; a second conversion unit connected to the second reciprocating member and configured to convert reciprocating movements into rotational movements; a main power shaft configured to make rotational movements by rotational movements of the first conversion unit and the second conversion unit; and a generation unit configured to produce electric power using transferred rotational movements of the main power shaft.
US09494127B2
A pumped storage power plant performs a pumping operation by using a pump turbine, upper and lower regulating reservoirs. An upper space of one of the reservoirs is sealable. The pumped storage power plant detects an air pressure in the upper space, first and second water levels of the one and the other reservoirs. A controller of the pumped storage power plant obtains information of the detected air pressure, first and second water levels, and an electrical energy input from an external grid and used during the pumping operation. A calculation water level of the one reservoir is calculated by using the first water level and the air pressure. The controller adjusts the air pressure such that a difference between the second water level and the calculation water level becomes a desired difference that is determined by a characteristic of the pump turbine depending on the input electrical energy.
US09494124B2
An aircraft electrical apparatus includes an engine starter motor control unit configured to provide an AC input voltage to a transformer rectifier unit. The apparatus includes a transformer rectifier unit for supplying power to an aircraft DC supply bus. The engine starter motor control unit provides the AC input voltage to the transformer rectifier unit.
US09494123B2
In a system for driving a starter with a pinion so that the starter rotates a ring gear coupled to a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine to crank the internal combustion engine during a drop of a rotational speed of the crankshaft by automatic-stop control of the internal combustion engine, a predictor predicts a future trajectory of the drop of the rotational speed of the crankshaft based on information associated with the drop of the rotational speed of the crankshaft. A determiner determines a timing of the driving of the starter based on the future trajectory of the drop of the rotational speed of the internal combustion engine.
US09494122B2
The invention relates to a method for meshing a starter pinion (19) of a starting device (16) into a ring gear (13) of an internal combustion engine (10). The internal combustion engine (10) has a driveshaft (22), and the starting device (16) has a starter motor (25), said driveshaft (22) having a variable rotational speed (n). The internal combustion engine (10) is switched off in a method step (S1), and the starter pinion (19), which is not being rotationally driven by the starter motor (25), is then advanced in the direction of the ring gear (13) by a toe-in actuator (28) by means of a toe-in force (FV) in a method step (S2) until the starter pinion contacts the ring gear. A meshing force (FE) is then exerted onto the starter pinion (19) in a controlled manner in an additional method step (S3) in order to mesh the starter pinion (19) into a tooth gap (34) of the ring gear (13).
US09494118B2
A fuel delivery system for an internal combustion engine having a fuel pump with a high pressure outlet. A fuel rail defining an internal fuel chamber is fluidly connected to the fuel pump outlet. Additionally, at least two fuel injectors are fluidly connected to the fuel rail internal fuel chamber. At least one fluid check valve is fluidly positioned within the fuel rail in between two of the fuel injectors which reduces fuel pressure pulsations.
US09494108B2
A nacelle may comprise a thrust reverser. The thrust reverser may comprise a translating sleeve, a cascade array, and a TRAS actuator. The TRAS actuator may pass through an aperture in an aft cascade ring of the cascade array. A retainer may be coupled to the aft cascade ring. A damper may be coupled to the retainer. The damper may circumscribe the TRAS actuator. The damper may be configured to damp vibrations in the TRAS actuator. As an amplitude of vibration or deflection of the TRAS actuator increases, a reaction force applied by the damper on the TRAS actuator increases, which prevents the TRAS actuator from contacting the aft cascade ring.
US09494099B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a drive unit, wherein the drive unit has an internal combustion engine, which is provided with at least one fuel pump, which is controlled and/or regulated by a pump control unit and which is intended for introducing fuel into a pressure accumulator; a metering system for introducing fuel, which has been metered by means of a lambda function unit, from the pressure accumulator into the internal combustion engine; and a pressure sensor for determining the pressure in the pressure accumulator; and wherein the output variables of the pump control unit and the lambda function unit are evaluated in order to determine a malfunction of the internal combustion engine. In this case, it is provided that additionally the pressure sensor is subjected to at least a defined test pressure for at least a short period of time and that the pressure that is measured with the pressure sensor is compared with the defined test pressure, in order to determine or rule out a malfunction of the pressure sensor. Furthermore, the invention relates to a drive unit.
US09494098B2
Although a method for changing a combustion method taking place in an internal combustion engine depending on running condition is proposed, it can be considered that conditions under which a combustion noise occurs naturally differ with different methods. A detection method of prior art is not compatible with different combustion methods and the accuracy of combustion noise detection was low. Accurate combustion noise detection is enabled by identifying a combustion mode taking place in the internal combustion engine, selecting a sensed frequency or frequency band of a combustion noise sensor that detects a combustion noise in a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine according to the combustion mode, and detecting a combustion noise.
US09494096B2
A method for determining the efficiency of an exhaust gas purification device of a diesel internal combustion engine for motor vehicles, having a first NOx sensor, arranged ahead of an oxidation catalyst and/or a particulate filter, and a second NOx sensor, arranged downstream of a reduction catalyst, and having a device for the metered supply of a reducing agent, wherein the method includes feeding the signals from the two NOx sensors are fed to a control unit, by means of which at least one feed quantity of the reducing agent is specified. To determine an efficiency of the oxidation catalyst and/or of the particulate filter, the NO and NO2 concentration and/or the NO2/NO ratio of the exhaust gas flow at the measurement position of the second NOx sensor and/or downstream of the reduction catalyst is determined by the control unit solely of the signal values acquired by the two NOx sensors.
US09494090B2
A system according to the principles of the present disclosure includes a misfire detection module and a fuel control module. The misfire detection module detects misfire in a cylinder of an engine. The fuel control module controls a first fuel system to deliver a first fuel to the cylinder and controls a second fuel system to deliver a second fuel to the cylinder. The first fuel and the second fuel are different types of fuel. The fuel control module selectively switches from delivering the first fuel to the cylinder to delivering the second fuel to the cylinder when misfire is detected in the cylinder.
US09494085B2
A control system for a gas turbine engine including a power turbine is disclosed. The control system may also include an outer loop control module to determine a torque request. The outer loop control module may include a feedback control component operative to provide regulation of the power turbine, a feed-forward component operative to anticipate a load on the power turbine, and a hybrid control component operative to prevent output of a torque request that cannot currently be delivered by the power turbine. The control system may also include an inner loop control module to receive the torque request from the outer loop control module, to determine fuel flow and inlet guide vane schedules based at least in part on the received torque request, and to send signals to control a gas generator of the gas turbine engine according to the determined fuel flow and inlet guide vane schedules.
US09494074B2
An arrangement and method for a combustion engine with direct injection and in particular to switching between two types of fuel is disclosed. A high-pressure pump (10) is connected to a combustion engine and the high-pressure rail for the direct injection of a fuel. At least two fuel storages (21,27) containing petrol and liquefied gas are present. The arrangement allows for switching from one fuel to another. Switching occurs by purging a fuel from the high-pressure pump (10) and the fuel supply line connected thereto by temporarily collecting the fuel in a purge unit (28). The purge unit (28) is arranged for purging the high-pressure pump (10), thus forcing out the prevailing fuel and replacing it with the new fuel.
US09494064B2
This disclosure relates generally to vehicles with reduced emissions. More particularly, this disclosure relates to systems, methods, and apparatuses related to vehicles with reduced carbon dioxide emissions. The carbon dioxide emissions may be stored in a carbon dioxide clathrate.
US09494063B2
An exhaust gas system includes an exhaust gas pipe with an integrated evaporator. In order to make the evaporator independent of the site of installation and the mounting position, a capillary structure is arranged between the outer sleeve pipe and the exhaust gas pipe. For increasing the efficiency of the evaporator, vapor grooves are provided in an area of an outer sheath surface of the exhaust gas pipe and fluid grooves are provided in an area of an inner mantle surface of the sleeve pipe.
US09494058B2
This invention provides an improved variable cam phaser for an automobile engine equipped with a controller capable of enabling execution of a given phase angle varying command in a shortened response time. The variable cam phaser has two control rotors which are arranged coaxial with a camshaft and rotatable relative to each other under the influence of two electromagnetic actuators and driven by the crankshaft of the engine. The variable cam phaser also has a relative phase angle varying mechanism for varying the relative phase angle of the camshaft relative to the crankshaft. When the two electromagnetic actuators are simultaneously energized, the two control rotors are held mutually unrotatable. However, when the braking torque of one actuator is reduced, the control rotor associated with that actuator is rotated relative to the other control rotor to immediately start the execution of the command.
US09494057B2
A variable valve lift system includes a camshaft, a high lift cam, a low lift cam, a valve lift apparatus including a high lift body driven by the high lift cam, a low lift body driven by the low lift cam, and a first coupling part to selectively couple the high lift body and the low lift body, a valve provided at one end of the low lift body and opened and closed by the low lift body, a hydraulic lash adjuster including an adjuster housing installed in a cylinder head, an adjust unit to support the other end of the low lift body, slidably provided within the adjuster housing, and to adjust clearance of the valve, and a second coupling part to selectively couple the adjust unit and the adjuster housing, and a hydraulic pressure supply unit to selectively supply hydraulic pressure to the first and second coupling parts.
US09494052B2
A borescope plug configuration is disclosed. The borescope plug configuration comprises an inspection path defined through a bore in a first engine structure, a second engine structure, and an opening into the gas path of an engine. The borescope plug configuration further comprises a removable plug for sealing the inspection path. The removable plug is adapted to couple the first engine structure to the second engine structure.
US09494051B2
A counter plate for a turbo machine, including: a first external surface and a second external surface, which are substantially parallel; the first external surface of the counter plate creates a continuous ring or continuous ring segment and includes a first series of holes through which fasteners can pass; the second external surface of the counter plate including a plurality of surfaces for supporting heads of the fasteners, the support surfaces including a second series of holes, positioned facing the first series of holes, so that the fasteners can pass through the holes in the counter plate.
US09494050B2
An article for mixing ambient fluid with a motive fluid comprises a conduit, and thermally conductive concentric inner and outer nozzles extending from the conduit. The conduit is configured to supply the motive fluid to the outer nozzle and the ambient fluid to the inner nozzle. The inner nozzle extends further downstream from the conduit than the outer nozzle.
US09494049B2
A turbocharger includes a semi-floating metal. The semi-floating metal is provided with a supply opening configured to supply oil to an inner bearing section. The turbocharger is provided with: an oil supply path which extends from inside of a bearing housing to the supply opening, and feeds the oil to be supplied to the inner bearing section; a removal section which changes a flowing direction of the oil supplied from an upstream side to separate minute foreign matter in the oil; and a conveyance path and a retaining region which collect the minute foreign matter separated by the removal section so as to prevent the minute foreign matter from mixing again with the oil flowing toward the supply opening.
US09494044B1
The present invention is a turbojet design that integrates power generation into the turbojet itself, rather than use separate generators attached to the turbojet for power generation. By integrating the power generation within the jet engine, the weight of the overall system is significantly reduced, increasing system efficiency. Also, by integrating the power generating elements of the system within the air flow of the jet engine, the present invention can use the heat generated by the power generating elements (which is simply expelled waste heat in current designs) to increase the engine performance.
US09494037B2
In an inclined layered solid-filling mining method in an ultrathick coal layer, tunnels and equipment are arranged according to a solid-filling mining method. An artificial roof for a lower layer is formed by metal meshes and bamboo fences of a first layer a solid-filling mining method. The method is repeated, until the entire ultrathick coal layer is finished. The method is repeated forming additional roofs for subsequent layers.
US09494029B2
An electric submersible pumping system has an electric motor, a pump assembly driven by the electric motor and a sensor module. The sensor module preferably includes a detachable sensor array that can be selectively released from the sensor module. In preferred embodiments, the detachable sensor array includes a self-propelled sensor array vehicle that has a drive motor, a drive mechanism driven by the drive motor and a sensor array. The detachable sensor array provides a wellbore condition signal that can be used to automatically adjust the performance of the electric submersible pumping system.
US09494020B2
A tubular expansion system is configured to expand a tubular in a wellbore. The expansion system may include an expandable tubular having a lower section and an upper section; a first expansion member configured to expand the lower section; and a second expansion member configured to expand the upper section. The upper section may be expanded to have an inner diameter greater than an inner diameter of the expanded lower section. The second expansion member may be engaged and moved by the first expansion member and/or one or more support members to expand the upper section.
US09494018B2
A completion tool for gravel packing screens incorporates an added position to allow redirection of flow to a signal transmission tool at the needed flow rates to optimize signal to noise ratios by creation of a discrete flow path that channels the desired flow directly to the device and using the production tubing and upper annulus as the balance of the flow circuit. The Smart Collet® has a landing location for this position which is preferably between the circulation and reverse positions of the crossover tool. The wash pipe assembly can have a shifting tool that closes the sleeve over the gravel exit ports for the information transmittal such ports can thereafter remain closed because the gravel packing is complete but for the reversing out of excess gravel which happens above the gravel exit ports.
US09494016B2
The invention relates to a collecting tank for multi-phase mixtures from a hydrocarbon source, having at least one inlet (20) for introducing multi-phase mixtures into the collecting tank (10), and having a plurality of outlet connectors (30), which can be connected to pumps (3) via which multi-phase mixtures are pumped, the outlet connectors (30) being assigned inwardly directed internals (40) which project upwards beyond the collecting-tank base (11) and have a first, upper opening (42) and a second, lower opening (41), wherein the flow cross section of the lower opening (41) is smaller than that of the upper opening (42).
US09494011B1
A platform is formed in a well below a target plug zone by lowering a thermite reaction charge into the well and igniting it, whereby the products of the reaction are allowed to cool and expand to form a platform or support in the well. A main thermite reaction charge is placed above the platform and ignited to form a main sealing plug for the well. In some embodiments an upper plug is formed by igniting an upper thermite reaction charge above the main thermite reaction charge. The upper plug confines the products of ignition of the main thermite reaction charge.
US09494006B2
Implementations described herein are directed to a pressure pulse well tool, which may include an upper valve assembly configured to move between a start position and a stop position in a housing. The pressure pulse well tool may also include an activation valve subassembly disposed within the upper valve assembly. The activation valve subassembly may be configured to restrict a fluid flow through the upper valve assembly and increase a fluid pressure across the upper valve assembly. The pressure pulse well tool may further include a lower valve assembly disposed inside the housing and configured to receive the fluid flow from the upper valve assembly. The lower valve assembly may be configured to separate from the upper valve assembly after the upper valve assembly reaches the stop position, causing the fluid flow to pass through the lower valve assembly and to decrease the fluid pressure across the upper valve assembly.
US09493997B2
A floating clamping device for an injection head of a continuous oil pipe, including a drive sprocket, a transmission chain, a supporting plate, a pushing plate, clamping oil cylinders and a clamping assembly. At least two clamping oil cylinders are installed on the supporting plate fixedly. The pushing plate is fixed on the supporting plate through a pin shaft. The clamping assembly includes a saddle-shaped clamping block, a clamping block seat and rollers which are mounted on the clamping block seat. The clamping assembly is mounted on the transmission chain. A piston rod of the clamping oil cylinder is pressed on one face of the pushing plate, while the other face of the pushing plate is pressed on the rollers. The pushing plate has a simple structure and is convenient for maintenance; the clamping device has a compact structure and a reduced volume.
US09493995B2
The present invention is an add-on tool to the standard barrel wrench that comprises a heavy duty T-shaped member and a foot ring where the operator fits their foot into the ring and applies force. Using the device of the present invention the operator no longer needs to stand on an angled surface and hope the barrel will instantly snap open after a few bounces without slipping and falling. The interior diameter (ID) of the foot ring of the device is about 6.5 inches which offers plenty of room for the operator to insert their foot in and apply pressure to the Barrel.
US09493992B2
A cutting device includes, at least one stack of cutting elements attached to a cutter surface having, a first element and a second element attached to the cutter surface. A third element is attached to the first element and the second element. The three elements are sized and shaped such that prior to attachment to the cutter surface the three elements are restable in a stable manner on the cutter surface due to gravity alone. A plane-defined-surface defined by one of the two planes of a modified gilmoid of the third element positioned further from the cutter surface is oriented at an angle of about 35 to 55 degrees relative to the cutter surface.
US09493987B2
A technique facilitates control over the orientation of a bottom hole assembly. The bottom hole assembly comprises an orienting tool having a dual-spline drive which, in turn, comprises a first lead screw portion and a second lead screw portion having threads of a first pitch and a second pitch, respectively. A motor is connected to the dual-spline drive to impart rotational motion with respect to the first threads having the first pitch. A difference in pitch between the first pitch and the second pitch enables the rotational motion imparted by the motor to be converted to a slower, higher torque, output via the second lead screw portion. As a result, the orienting tool is able to provide a selective, high torque, low-speed adjustment to the drilling orientation of the bottom hole assembly.
US09493975B1
An elastic abutting device disposed on one link of a two link mechanism includes a base member, a bearing member, a latch member, and an elastic member. The base member has an accommodating groove. The bearing member is disposed in the accommodating groove, wherein the bearing member has a first propping portion, a second propping portion, and a through hole. The latch member defines a central axis, and the latch member has an abutting portion which is partly exposed out of the through hole and a retaining portion which is disposed correspondingly to the abutting portion. The elastic member is disposed between the first propping portion and the second propping portion, wherein two opposite terminal ends of the elastic member respectively have a first side end portion and a second side end portion disposed correspondingly to the first side end portion.
US09493967B2
The invention relates to a lock for a fuel tank or tailgate in a vehicle, comprising a locking bolt (1) which can be adjusted between an open and closed position by opening and closing the cap or the tailgate. Said cap lock, in the housing (2) of the locking device, is positively driven counter to the force of a compression spring (4) in the direction of its longitudinal axis (6) and counter to the force of a torsion spring (3) about its longitudinal axis (6).
US09493959B2
An apparatus for use in erecting a temporary guardrail on a stair, having a stair stringer. The apparatus has an elongated stanchion. A first jaw assembly is operatively attached to the stanchion for engaging one side of the stringer, proximal the bottom edge thereof, and includes a first compression assembly to operatively urge the stanchion against the stringer. A second axially spaced, jaw assembly is operatively attached to the stanchion for engaging the one side of the stringer proximal a top edge thereof, and includes a second compression assembly to urge the stanchion against the stringer, and a bracket attached to the stanchion, and being adapted to receive a temporary guardrail member.
US09493951B2
An embodiment is directed to a duct coupler for joining two segments of conduit. The duct coupler includes a coupler body. The coupler body is generally tubular and has an inner diameter generally corresponding to the outer diameter of a section of conduit measured at an annular locking rib positioned on the section of conduit. The duct coupler further includes one or more protrusions formed on the interior surface of the coupler body. Each protrusion is generally wedge shaped. The one or more protrusions are positioned to engage with at least one annular locking rib to retain the section of conduit within the coupler body. The duct coupler further includes a body gasket. The body gasket is generally tubular and positioned on the interior surface of the coupler body. The body gasket is positioned to form a seal between the inner wall of the coupler body and the outer wall of the section of conduit.
US09493948B1
A self-supporting panel is used to form building components, including roofs that have no independent supports for the panels between the ends of the panels. The panel system includes a base support or structural component having a top face sheet supported by longitudinally load carrying webs and a layer of insulation on the exterior of the face sheet. The insulation spans the entire face sheet to overlie connectors between the edges of adjacent panels when the panels are assembled to form a wall or roof, to eliminate thermal shorts.
US09493946B2
An insulated concrete panel comprising an insulation layer having one or more openings extending therethrough, a first concrete layer adjacent to a first surface of the insulation layer, a second concrete layer adjacent to a second surface of the insulation layer, and a wall tie received within one or more of the openings. The wall tie includes a central section received within the one or more openings of the insulation layer, a first concrete engaging at least partially embedded within the first concrete layer, and a second concrete engaging section embedded within the second concrete layer. The second concrete engaging section has a maximum width that is larger than a maximum width of the central section. The central section of the wall tie is configured to transfer shear forces and resist delamination forces between the first and second concrete layers.
US09493944B1
An insulation system that includes opposing panels with a partial dead air space in equilibrium with outside air. In one embodiment, two panels are supported parallel to one another separated by a distance. Each of the panels has a plurality of openings. The openings on facing panels are offset from one another so that openings on the two sides are not aligned. The openings are small enough so that a small amount of diffusion can occur allowing the panel to breathe. The panels can be used in attics, over windows or part of a building. In an alternate embodiment, they can be made from flexible sheets and be used to prevent fire hydrants or other objects from freezing. When used in attics, the panels will support weight allowing them to be walked on or used to store objects.
US09493938B2
Light weight fiber-reinforced polymeric (FRP) structural building panels and panel assemblies, sized and configured for construction of non-portable wall structures permanently fixed to the ground. Fibers in the panel are typically oriented within 15 degrees of a top-to-bottom, e.g. axial, direction in the panel providing, in part, enhanced top-to-bottom crush strength of a panel/wall. The panels typically have a bias to deflect toward the surface of the panel which faces outwardly of the building, toward the backfill soil which faces the panel on the outside the building. Panels of the invention typically have mass of no more than 18 pounds per foot height per linear foot length of the building panel, and vertical crush resistance capacity of at least 2000 pounds per linear foot length of the building panel, using a safety factor of 3.
US09493937B2
A recycling flush toilet has a receptacle for human waste, a liquids holding tank, a base, a toilet pipe whose upper end is in fluid communication with the base of the toilet and extends downwards, a waste separation pipe extending out from the lower end of the toilet pipe, having a first end, wherein the lower end of the toilet pipe extends into the separation pipe near the first end, a filter at the lower end of the toilet pipe for separating solids and liquids, a solids container axially aligned, and in fluid communication, with the toilet pipe, and a liquids container in fluid communication with the separation pipe and adjacent to the solids container. The filter separates the waste into liquid and solid components that are disposed into the liquids and solids containers, respectively. Liquids within the liquids container are used to flush the toilet.
US09493934B2
A foldable sink cover is presented. The sink cover comprises a foldable substrate having a base section and at least one foldable section in mechanical communication with the base section, wherein the foldable substrate is capable of being unfolded to cover a sink, and capable of being folded for storage when not being used to cover a sink.
US09493927B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to controlling a swing body of construction equipment. Disclosed methods may include selecting a representative signal vs. speed curve, receiving an operating signal value from the operating input device, obtaining a reference speed value by applying said operating signal value to the selected curve, transmitting a command for rotational speed equivalent to said reference speed to the swing motor making the swing body rotate, obtaining rotational speed of said motor, determining whether a value obtained by subtracting rotational speed from reference speed exceeds the maximum permissible errors, obtaining a new signal vs. speed curve equivalent to rotational speed when a value obtained by subtracting rotational speed from reference speed exceeds the maximum permissible errors, obtaining a new reference speed value from an operating signal value using said new curve, and transmitting a new command for rotational speed equivalent to said new reference speed to said motor.
US09493925B2
An apparatus for stabilizing a slab foundation comprises a narrow, vertical moisture barrier assembly spaced outside and surrounding the perimeter grade beam of the slab foundation by a predetermined distance, and extends to preferably five feet below surface grade. The narrow trench for the barrier is preferably less than three inches wide. A membrane formed of a synthetic composition forms a moisture barrier against one wall of the narrow trench, and is held in place by back fill. The moisture barrier is intended for use in expansive soils that are subject to shrinking and swelling.
US09493924B2
The invention concerns a recoverable gabion for use in protecting military or civilian installations from weapons assault or from elemental forces, such as flood waters, lava flows, avalanches, soil instability, slope erosion and the like. The gabion comprises opposed side walls comprising a plurality of side wall elements connected together at spaced intervals by a plurality of partition walls such that spaces between neighboring pairs of partition walls define, together with the side walls, individual compartments of the gabion, adjacent side and partition walls being connected to one another by pivotal connections enabling the gabion to be folded between fully flattened and deployed configurations, wherein at least one of the pivotal connections is a releasable connection which when released allows a side wall element to open with respect to the gabion to allow access from the side of the gabion to any contents of the gabion compartments.
US09493919B2
A traffic barrier assembly alerts motorists to a hazardous road condition and helps guide the flow of traffic around the hazardous condition. The assembly includes a base member having a top end, a bottom end and a perimeter wall attached to and extending between the top end and the bottom end. A top member has a top edge, a bottom edge and a peripheral wall attached to and extending between the top edge and the bottom edge. The top edge defines an opening extending into an interior of the top member. The top member is telescopic relative to base member.
US09493914B2
An economical, permanent construction of traffic surfaces that does not require an extensive use of resources and that is cost-effective to produce, and in particular that of protecting the parts of the bound and unbound layers of the traffic surface construction that lie beneath the surface layer of the carriageway from the ingress of water. A construction comprising at least one base layer, at least one asphalt surface layer and at least one intermediate layer applied to the at least one base layer, said at least one intermediate layer comprising a material that contains at least one silane-terminated polymer.
US09493913B2
The present invention relates to a method for increasing the whiteness stability of fluorescent whitening agent(s) (FWA) included in surface-treatment size/coating slip for paper and of the surface-treatment layers formed thereof. The method is characterized in that sorbitol is charged to the size/coating slip as a carrier.
US09493912B2
The present invention relates to [1] a process for producing a lignin degradation product, including the following steps (1) to (3), and [2] a lignin degradation product produced by the process as described in the above [1]: Step (1): subjecting a lignocellulose raw material to enzymatic saccharification treatment to obtain a saccharification residue; Step (2): subjecting the saccharification residue obtained in the step (1) to heat treatment in a mixed solvent containing water and an organic solvent having a solubility in 20° C. water of not less than 90 g/L to obtain a heat treatment solution containing the lignin degradation product; and Step (3): subjecting the heat treatment solution obtained in the step (2) to solid-liquid separation to remove insoluble components from the heat treatment solution, thereby obtaining the lignin degradation product. The present invention provides a process for producing a novel lignin degradation product having a low degree of denaturation, a high solubility in solvents and a high versatility with a high yield.
US09493909B2
Provided in one embodiment is a method for producing a composition, comprising: heating a first material comprising an amorphous alloy to a first temperature; and contacting the first material with a second material comprising at least one fiber to form a composition comprising the first material and the second material; wherein the first temperature is higher than or equal to a glass transition temperature (Tg) of the amorphous alloy.
US09493901B2
The invention relates to a rinsing arrangement (8) for a domestic appliance (1) for the care of laundry items, comprising a rinsing dish (8a) that has an upper portion (8b) and a lower portion (8c) connectable to thereto, wherein a water supply device (8d) having a water receiving tray is formed in the lower portion (8c), and an outlet connector (8e, 8f) is formed on the lower portion (8c), which opens into the water receiving tray, wherein a dividing wall (31) that is separate from the lower portion (8c) and can be attached to the lower portion (8c) is formed, and in the arranged state of the dividing wall (31), a siphon (8n) is formed between the outlet connector (8e, 8f) and a water receiving space (8j) formed in the lower portion (8c). The invention further relates to a domestic appliance (1) having a rinsing arrangement (8).
US09493899B2
Disclosed herein are a motor usable with a washing machine to assure interchangeability of constituent elements thereof and a washing machine having the same. The motor includes a stator mounted to a tub of the washing machine, and a rotor to rotate a drum of the washing machine. The stator includes a stator core, first and second insulators arranged to cover the stator core, and a plurality of mounts to couple the stator to the tub. The plurality of mounts is selectively provided at one of the first insulator and the second insulator.
US09493898B2
A drum type washing machine includes a main body including a cabinet, a drum in the cabinet having a rotational axis thereof parallel with the ground, and a motor configured to drive or rotate the drum; and an angle adjusting unit configured to adjust an angle of the main body from the ground and/or tilt the main body up to the angle, wherein the angle adjusting unit includes a base configured to support the main body and a driver on the base configured to tilt or raise the main body, and the angle adjusting unit is configured to tilt the main body at a rear lower end of the cabinet.
US09493891B2
A method for producing an undrawn polyglycolic acid-based resin yarn, including: a discharge step of discharging a molten polyglycolic acid-based resin through a spinneret, to thereby form a fibrous polyglycolic acid-based resin; a keeping step of keeping the fibrous polyglycolic acid-based resin for 0.0012 seconds or more after the discharge in an atmosphere having a temperature of not lower than 110.5° C. but not higher than a melting point of the polyglycolic acid-based resin; and a cooling step of cooling the fibrous polyglycolic acid-based resin obtained in the keeping step, to thereby obtain an undrawn polyglycolic acid-based resin yarn.
US09493890B2
Growth of GaP and III-V GaP alloys in the wurtzite crystal structure by vapor phase epitaxy (VPE) is provided. Such material has a direct band gap and is therefore much more useful for optoelectronic devices than conventional GaP and GaP alloys having the zincblende crystal structure and having an indirect band gap.
US09493881B2
A method including electrolysis processing using sulfate-based electrolytes includes precipitating sodium sulfate decahydrate from a salt solution and then redissolving sodium sulfate decahydrate to prepare feed of electrolyte solution for the electrolysis processing. Front-end processing may be used to treat mixed salt solutions, including brine solutions. Calcium sulfate reagent may provide a sulfate source to regenerate electrolyte solution following carbon capture, and with carbon dioxide being sequestered in the form of calcium carbonate.
US09493872B2
The present invention provides a vapor deposition apparatus capable of preventing abnormal film formation due to scattering in vapor deposition streams; and a method for producing an organic electroluminescent element which includes forming a patterned thin film with the vapor deposition apparatus. The present invention relates to a vapor deposition apparatus that includes a vapor deposition source equipped with a nozzle that ejects vapor deposition particles; an integrated limiting plate equipped with a first limiting plate including an opening that is in front of the nozzle, and with second limiting plates placed in the opening in the first limiting plate; and a mask including slits. The present invention also relates to a method for producing electroluminescent elements that includes a vapor deposition step of forming a patterned thin film with the vapor deposition apparatus.
US09493866B2
An amorphous alloy powder is composed of an amorphous alloy material containing Fe, Cr, Mn, Si, B, and C as constituent components, and in the amorphous alloy material, Fe is contained as a main component, the content of Cr is 0.5 at % or more and 3 at % or less, the content of Mn is 0.02 at % or more and 3 at % or less, the content of Si is 10 at % or more and 14 at % or less, the content of B is 8 at % or more and 13 at % or less, and the content of C is 1 at % or more and 3 at % or less. By using such an amorphous alloy powder, a dust core which reduces iron loss and decreases magnetostriction can be obtained.
US09493861B2
The present invention provides a method for producing AlMn strip or sheet for making components by brazing, as well as the products obtained by said method. In particular this method is related to fin materials used in heat exchangers. The fins can be delivered with or without a cladding depending on application.Rolling slabs are produced from a melt which contains 0.3-1.5% Si, ≦0.5% Fe, ≦0.3% Cu, 1.0-2.0% Mn, ≦0.5% Mg, ≦4.0% Zn, ≦0.3% each of elements from group IVb, Vb, or VIb elements, and unavoidable impurity elements, as well as aluminum as the remainder in which the rolling slabs prior to hot rolling are preheated at a preheating temperature of less than 550° C., preferably between 400 and 520° C., more preferably between 450 and 520° C. to control the number and size of dispersoid particles, and the preheated rolling slab is hot rolled into a hot strip. The strip is thereafter cold rolled into a strip with a total reduction of at least 90%, and the cold rolled strip is heat treated to obtain a 0.2% proof stress value that is 50-90% of its proof stress value in the as cold rolled condition to a proof stress value in the range between 100 and 200 MPa. The strip may alternatively be produced by twin-roll strip casting.The composition of the melt tailors the microstructure development during the complete processing to give the desired post braze properties and performance during brazing in combination with adequate delivery properties of the strip. In particular the high post braze strength combined with a good sagging resistance and low susceptibility to liquid core penetration during brazing, as well as a relatively good formability in the delivery condition prior to fin forming.
US09493849B2
The present invention provides processes for deconstructing biomass using a solvent produced in a bioreforming reaction.
US09493848B2
The invention provides novel mutant thermostable DNA polymerases having desirable properties such as increased polymerase efficiency and speed, increased affinity to DNA substrates and/or increased resistance to DNA polymerase inhibitors. In certain embodiments, the invention provides methods of producing, amplifying and/or sequencing nucleic acid molecules (particularly cDNA molecules) using kits, compositions and/or reactions mixtures containing such novel DNA polymerases.
US09493841B2
This invention concerns pathological angiogenesis and cancer, related treatment methods, and related compositions. Also disclosed are related diagnosis kits and methods.
US09493837B2
Isolated nucleotides encoding polypeptides with mutations leading to amino acid substitutions linked to hereditary kidney disease or malformation of the urinary tract are provided herein. Constructs, cells, probes and inhibitory molecules comprising these mutations are also provided and may be used in screening assays for candidate agents to treat or reverse these diseases or alternatively to provide diagnostic tests. Methods of diagnosing subjects likely to develop these diseases or to be carriers of these diseases are also provided.
US09493835B2
Provided herein are methods, kits, and compositions related to nucleic acid detection assays that allow discrimination of multiple target sequences with a single probe. In particular, provided herein are methods kits, and compositions that include single-probe target sequence discrimination where different target amplicons may have identical probe hybridization sequences by employing multiple temperature end-point signal probe detection. Also provided herein are methods, kits, and compositions for distinguishing between two or more target amplicons using multiple-temperature end-point probe detection. In certain embodiments, asymmetric PCR amplification methods are employed (e.g., LATE-PCR amplification).
US09493831B2
Methods and kits for selectively enriching non-random polynucleotide sequences are provided. Methods and kits for generating libraries of sequences are provided. Methods of using selectively enriched non-random polynucleotide sequences for detection of fetal aneuploidy are provided.
US09493826B2
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.
US09493822B2
The present invention relates to a device for the specific selection of target molecules, wherein immobilized capture molecules can be organized in a microarray in the form of spots or lines. In a further aspect the present invention relates to a method of specifically selecting target molecules in a reaction zone, as well as the use of such a device for specifically selecting target molecules, e.g. for target enrichment, or microarray based genome selection (MGS).
US09493821B2
A DNA library, and a preparing method thereof, a method of determining DNA sequence information, an apparatus and a kit for detecting SNPs, and a method for genotyping may be provided. The method for preparing the DNA library may comprise the steps of: digesting a genomic DNA sample using a restriction endonuclease to obtain a digested product, wherein the restriction endonuclease comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of Mbo II and Tsp 45I; separating the digested product to obtain DNA fragments having a length of 100 bp to 1,000 bp; end-repairing the DNA fragments to obtain an end-repaired DNA fragments; adding a base A to the end of the end-repaired DNA fragments to obtain DNA fragments having a terminal base A; and ligating the DNA fragments having the terminal base A with sequencing adaptors to obtain the DNA library.
US09493820B2
The invention relates to a method for the high throughput identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms by performing a complexity reduction on two or more samples to yield two or more libraries, sequencing at least part of the libraries, aligning the identified sequences and determining any putative single nucleotide polymorphisms, confirming any putative single nucleotide polymorphism, generating detection probes for the confirmed single nucleotide polymorphisms, subjection a test sample to the same complexity reduction to provide a test library and screen the test library for the presence or absence of the single nucleotide polymorphisms using the detection probe.
US09493817B2
A method for decomposing a target nucleic acid polymer, comprising: bonding a probe nucleic acid polymer and a microparticle to form a probe nucleic acid polymer-bonded microparticle, adding a target nucleic acid polymer to the probe nucleic acid polymer contained within the probe nucleic acid polymer-bonded microparticle to form an addition microparticle, and energizing the microparticle contained within the addition microparticle into a high-energy state and then using energy transfer from this high-energy state microparticle to decompose the target nucleic acid polymer.
US09493815B2
A microarray assembly for detection of a target molecule is disclosed. The microarray assemblies comprise an array chamber having a microarray located therein and features that facilitate liquid movement within the array chamber. Also disclosed are methods for making the microarray assembly using rollable films and methods for detecting microarray spots using an internal control fluorophore in the array spot.
US09493808B2
This invention discloses a reagent composition for a biosensor having high sensitivity which is capable of improving analysis linearity of an analyte such as glucose by reacting an oxidoreductase, a metal-containing complex, and Naphthol Green B, and minimizing blood necessary for measuring blood glucose since it is possible to detect a concentration of a small amount of the analyte, and a biosensor having the same. The reagent composition for a biosensor includes at least two kinds of electron transfer mediators including Naphthol Green B, and an enzyme.
US09493795B2
A metabolically enhanced cyanobacterial cell for the production of ethanol is provided. The metabolically enhanced cyanobacterial cell for the production of ethanol comprises at least one recombinant gene encoding a pyruvate decarboxylase enzyme (Pdc) converting pyruvate to acetaldehyde, and at least one recombinant gene encoding a first Zn2+ dependent alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme (Adh) converting acetaldehyde to ethanol. The invention also provides a method for producing the metabolically enhanced cyanobacterium, a method for producing ethanol with the metabolically enhanced cyanobacterium, and a method for screening of alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme expressing cyanobacterial strains for the presence of NADPH-dependent native alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes.
US09493794B2
A metabolically enhanced cyanobacterial cell for the production of ethanol is provided. The metabolically enhanced cyanobacterial cell for the production of ethanol comprises at least one recombinant gene encoding a pyruvate decarboxylase enzyme (Pdc) converting pyruvate to acetaldehyde, and at least one recombinant gene encoding a first Zn2+ dependent alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme (Adh) converting acetaldehyde to ethanol. The invention also provides a method for producing the metabolically enhanced cyanobacterium, a method for producing ethanol with the metabolically enhanced cyanobacterium, and a method for screening of alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme expressing cyanobacterial strains for the presence of NADPH-dependent native alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes.
US09493793B2
The present application discloses the identification of novel I. orientalis ADH1, ADHa, and ADHb genes, and the production and characterization of genetically modified yeast cells in which these genes were altered. Provided herein are isolated I. orientalis ADH1, ADHa, and ADHb polynucleotides and polypeptides, genetically modified yeast cells that overexpress I. orientalis ADH1 and/or contain deletions or disruptions of ADHa and/or ADHb, and methods of using culturing these modified cells to produce ethanol.
US09493792B1
The process for the production of the yellow pigment can include the steps of (a) culturing Bacillus sp. GSK07 bacteria; and (b) extracting the yellow pigment from the bacterial culture using a solvent. The solvent for extraction can be an alcohol, e.g., ethanol, methanol, or both ethanol and methanol. The pigment includes D-limonene.
US09493785B2
Provided are isolated polynucleotides encoding a polypeptide at least 80% homologous to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs: 799, 488-798, 800-813, 4852-5453, 5460, 5461, 5484, 5486-5550, 5553, and 5558-8091; and isolated polynucleotide comprising nucleic acid sequences at least 80% identical to SEQ ID NO: 460, 1-459, 461-487, 814-1598, 1600-1603, 1605-1626, 1632-1642, 1645-4850 or 4851. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs comprising same, isolated polypeptides encoded thereby, transgenic cells and transgenic plants comprising same and methods of using same for increasing yield, biomass, growth rate, vigor, oil content, fiber yield, fiber quality, abiotic stress tolerance, and/or nitrogen use efficiency of a plant. Also provided are isolated polynucleotides comprising the nucleic acid sequence set forth by SEQ ID NO:8096, wherein the isolated polynucleotide is capable of regulating expression of at least one polynucleotide sequence operably linked thereto.
US09493784B2
The present invention concerns Capsicum annuum plants producing pepper fruits, exhibiting new physicochemical characteristics of the pepper fruit in relation with chlorophyll A & B, lutein as well as violaxanthin. The pepper fruits of the plants according to the present invention also exhibit a characteristic extreme dark green color at immature stage which color is linked to the content in pigment of the said fruit. The present invention also relates to QTL alleles directing the expression of the pigment content of those pepper fruits as well as molecular markers associated with these QTL alleles.
US09493783B2
The invention relates to isolated nucleic acids encoding a feruloyl-CoA:monolignol transferase and feruloyl-CoA:monolignol transferase enzymes. The isolated nucleic acids and/or the enzymes enable incorporation of monolignol ferulates into the lignin of plants, where such monolignol ferulates include, for example, p-coumaryl ferulate, coniferyl ferulate, and/or sinapyl ferulate. The invention also includes methods and plants that include nucleic acids encoding a feruloyl-CoA:monolignol transferase enzyme and/or feruloyl-CoA:monolignol transferase enzymes.
US09493774B2
The invention relates to various PCSK9 RNAi constructs with gene silencing activities, and uses thereof. The construct has a double-stranded region of 19-49 nucleotides, preferably 25, 26, or 27 nucleotides, and preferably blunt-ended. The construct has selective minimal modifications to confer an optimal balance of biological activity, toxicity, stability, and target gene specificity. The sense strand may be modified such that the construct is not cleaved by Dicer or other RNAse III, and the entire length of the antisense strand is loaded into RISC. In addition, the antisense strand may also be modified by 2′-O-methyl groups at the 2nd 5′-end nucleotide to greatly reduce off-target silencing. The constructs of the invention largely avoid the interferon response and sequence-independent apoptosis in mammalian cells, exhibits better serum stability, and enhanced target specificity.
US09493770B2
Provided herein are methods, and related compositions for identifying a putative essential gene which serves as an antibiotic target in a bacterium, the method, in some embodiments, comprising (a) generating an antibiotic resistant mutant of the bacterium by a method comprising the step of selecting for growth in the presence of an antibiotic to produce an antibiotic resistant mutant clone (AbR mutant); (b) transforming the AbR mutant with one or more essential genes of the bacterium and a transposon which insertionally inactivates bacterial DNA to produce a pool of transposon mutants which are merodiploid for the one or more essential genes; (c) growing bacteria from the merodiploid pool in the presence of different amounts of the antibiotic to produce two or more test cultures; and (d) comparing the distribution of transposon insertions between the test cultures to identify a putative essential gene serving as a target of the antibiotic in the bacterium.
US09493764B2
Provided is an electronic sheet including a graphitic material and a phage which displays a peptide having a binding ability to the graphitic material on its coat protein or a fragment thereof.
US09493756B2
Described herein are methods and genetically engineered cells useful for uncapping a mannose-6-phosphate residue on an oligosaccharide.
US09493751B2
Described herein is a fusion polypeptide that contains (a) a first segment containing a Fibrobacter succinogenes 1,3-1,4-β-D-glucanase (Fsβ-glucanase) or a fragment thereof; (b) a second segment containing a first Thermotoga maritima 1,3-β-D-glucanase (TmLam) or a fragment thereof; and (c) an optional third segment containing a second Thermotoga maritima 1,3-β-D-glucanase (TmLam) or a fragment thereof; wherein the fusion polypeptide has a glucanase activity. Also described are a nucleic acid molecule encoding the fusion polypeptide and a method of using the polypeptide.
US09493750B2
Disclosed herein are polypeptides, polynucleotides encoding, cells and organisms comprising novel DNA-binding domains, including TALE DNA-binding domains. Also disclosed are methods of using these novel DNA-binding domains for modulation of gene expression and/or genomic editing of endogenous cellular sequences.
US09493745B2
Novel hexon isolated from simian adenovirus serotype 19 encoded in the polynucleotide defined as SEQ ID NO: 3, hepervariable region thereof, chimeric adenovirus comprising the same, and therapeutic use thereof provides a solution to the problem of safety and effective systemic treatment for developing gene therapeutic agents using adenovirus.
US09493735B2
A method of producing organized skeletal muscle tissue from precursor muscle cells in vitro comprises: (a) providing precursor muscle cells on a support in a tissue media; then (b) cyclically stretching and relaxing the support at least twice along a first axis during a first time period; and then (c) optionally but preferably maintaining the support in a substantially static position during a second time period; and then (d) repeating steps (b) and (c) for a number of times sufficient to enhance the functionality of the tissue formed on the support and/or produce organized skeletal muscle tissue on the solid support from the precursor muscle cells.
US09493728B2
A process for producing micronized dispersed micro-particles and to micro-particles produced by this process. In the process a combination of a dispersion liquid, an active ingredient and a wax is passed at a temperature at which the wax is molten into a high energy micro-particle producing machine operating at a temperature at which the active ingredient and wax are kept molten and producing a composition comprising a plurality of micro-particles dispersed in said dispersion liquid by cooling said combination to a temperature below the solidification temperature of each of said micro-particles before each said micro-particle leaves said micro-particle producing assembly.
US09493720B2
A gasoline composition comprising, as an additive, one or more quaternary ammonium salt(s) (i) formed by the reaction of a compound of formula (A): and a compound formed by the reaction of a hydrocarbyl-substituted acylating agent and an amine of formula (B1) or (B2): wherein R is an optionally substituted alkyl, alkenyl, aryl or alkylaryl group; R1 is an alkyl, aryl or alkylaryl group having up to 36 carbon atoms; R2 and R3 are the same or different alkyl groups having from 1 to 36 carbon atoms; X is an alkylene group having from 1 to 20 carbon atoms; n is from 0 to 20; m is from 1 to 5; and R4 is hydrogen or a C1 to C36 alkyl group.
US09493716B2
Disclosed herein is a fuel oil composition comprising a renewable fuel or a blend of petroleum based fuels with renewable fuels, also containing an additives composition to enhance the base and combined fuel's resistance to forming insoluble particulates upon storage at diminished operating temperatures. Further described is the additive package used to inhibit particulate formation.
US09493711B2
Processes and compositions for scavenging hydrogen sulfide from hydrocarbon streams are disclosed that reduce, if not substantially eliminate, the formation of crystalline or amorphous solids even under cold conditions. The compositions used in the processes comprise a hexahydrotriazine component and an amphiphilic component that form a hydrophobic micelle when the hexahydrotriazine component becomes spent.
US09493710B2
A process for stabilization of heavy hydrocarbons to reduce sludge formation in storage tanks and/or transportation lines and to enhance the hydrocarbon yield includes mixing a paraffinic or heavy naphtha solvent having carbon numbers in the range 10 to 20 with the feedstock to solvent-flocculate a relatively small, predetermined portion of asphaltenes present in the feedstock, separating and flashing the sediment to recover a light hydrocarbon fraction, flashing the heavy hydrocarbon/solvent phase and recycling the solvent to stabilize the heavy hydrocarbons without significantly affecting the yield of valuable products.
US09493705B2
A polymerizable liquid-crystal compound of formula (I) effective for preventing crystal deposition after coating with polymerizable liquid crystal (II) or a polymerizable liquid crystal similar thereto. P represents a polymerizable functional group; Sp represents a spacer or a single bond; Z1 and Z2 each represent —CO—O—; R0 represents a linear alkyl group having 1-15 carbon atoms; R2, R3 and R4 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1-4 carbon atoms, an alkoxy group having 1-4 carbon atoms, an alkoxycarbonyl group having 2-5 carbon atoms, an acyloxy group having 2-5 carbon atoms, an acyl group having 2-4 carbon atoms, an amide group having 2-5 carbon atoms, a cyano group, an amino group, a hydroxyl group, or a halogen atom; r1, r2 and r3 indicate an integer from 0-4; when r1, r2 and r3 each are 2 or more, then R2, R3 and R4 each may be the same or different; however, when R0 is a methyl group, then r2 is not 1.
US09493695B2
Storage systems based on latent heat storage have high-energy storage density, which reduces the footprint of the system and the cost. However, phase change materials (PCMs), such as NaNO3, NaCl, KNO3, have very low thermal conductivities. To enhave the storage of PCMs, macroencapsulation of PCMs was performed using a metal oxide, such as SiO2 or a graphene-SiO2, over polyimide-coated or nickel-embedded, polyimide-coated pellets The macro encapsulation provides a self-supporting structure, enhances the heat transfer rate, and provides a cost effective and reliable solution for thermal energy storage for use in solar thermal power plants. NaNO3 was selected for thermal storage in a temperature range of 300° C. to 500° C. The PCM was encapsulated in a metal oxide cell using self-assembly reactions, hydrolysis, and simultaneous chemical oxidation at various temperatures.
US09493694B2
Provided is a lubricant composition for a refrigerator having the following characteristics: the composition being used for a refrigerator using a refrigerant having a specific structure such as an unsaturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound serving as a refrigerant having a low global warming potential and usable particularly in current air-conditioning system for cars; the composition having excellent stability as well as excellent compatibility with the refrigerant; the composition including a base oil containing a polyoxyalkylene glycol derivative as a main component and 1 to 20% by mass of a monoepoxy compound based on the total amount of the composition; and the refrigerator using a refrigerant containing at least one kind of fluorine-containing organic compound selected from compounds represented by the molecular formula (A) CpOqFrRs or including a combination of the fluorine-containing organic compound and a saturated fluorinated hydrocarbon compound.
US09493689B2
Moisture curable silicone adhesives used for sealing joints and for the bonding of substrates such as PVC, concrete, mineral substrates, metals, glass, ceramic, wood, or painted surfaces are prepared from crosslinkable compositions containing both hydrophilic and hydrophobic fumed silicas in a mass ratio of 1:10 to 10:1.
US09493686B2
Compositions containing an adhesive material and a release additive are suitable for temporarily bonding two surfaces, such as a wafer active side and a substrate. These compositions are useful in the manufacture of electronic devices where a component, such as an active wafer, is temporarily bonded to a substrate, followed by further processing of the active wafer.
US09493682B2
The present invention relates to curable compositions which are capable of safely and sufficiently bonding components of electrical devices. In particular, the invention relates to electrically conductive, curable compositions, which are capable of rapidly curing at room temperatures as well as at elevated temperatures.
US09493680B2
A double-sided adhesive tape useful for adhesively bonding articles composed of thermoplastic polymer, of EPDM, or of another rubberlike material is provided, having a first outer, pressure-sensitive adhesive side and a second outer, thermally-activatable side, and that comprises an at least dual-layered product construction consisting of layers A and B, layer A being a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer that is chemically cross-linked by thermal initiation, or being a pressure-sensitively adhesive carrier layer chemically cross-linked by thermal initiation, layer B being a thermoplastic synthetic material-based layer, layers A and B being in direct contact with one another, and the surface of layer A, which is in direct contact with layer B, having been corona or plasma pre-treated. The corona or plasma pre-treatment takes place in an atmosphere of nitrogen, carbon dioxide or a noble gas, or a mixture of at least two of these gases.
US09493676B2
A formulation composition for preparing a print head face plate coating includes a sol containing a mixture of monomers including at least one fluoroalkyl alkoxysilane monomer; a solvent; a catalyst; and water. The formulation composition is stable towards gelation for more than 1.5 hours. A method of preparing a print head involves preparing a formulation composition containing a sol prepared from a mixture of monomers including at least one fluoroalkyl alkoxysilane monomer, a solvent, a catalyst, and water; applying the formulation composition as a sol on a surface of the print head; and curing the formulation composition to form a crosslinked siloxane layer on the print head. A method of printing involves using the print head to apply inkjet ink to a substrate.
US09493671B2
A UV cured varnish, and a process for preparing the same, said UV cured varnish including an epoxy acrylic resin, a polyurethane acrylic resin, a polymerizable monomer, a filler, a photoinitiator, and an adjuvant, wherein the polymerizable monomer comprises a fluorine containing polymerizable monomer and a silicon containing polymerizable monomer. The UV cured varnish can significantly improve the film forming performance. The formed film has a significantly improved performance including hardness, perspiration resistance. The UV cured varnish thus obtained is especially suitable for touch screen and can greatly extend the life of the touch screen.
US09493665B2
An ink set for inkjet contains a white ink and one or more color inks other than the white ink, wherein the ink set satisfies the following I to III: I. each ink comprises water, a pigment, resin particulates, a water soluble organic solvent, and a silicone-based surfactant accounting for 1% by weight to 3% by weight of the ink, II. the pigment contained in each of the one or more color inks is a reformed pigment reformed by at least one of a geminal bisphosphonic acid group or a geminal bisphosphonic acid salt group, and III. the water soluble organic solvent of the white ink comprises glycol ether having a boiling point of from 200 degrees C. to 250 degrees C.
US09493662B2
Provided is an active energy ray-curable inkjet ink containing at least photopolymerizable compounds. The photopolymerizable compounds include: at least one monofunctional monomer selected from the group consisting of a monofunctional monomer of which homopolymer has a glass transition temperature of 90° C. or higher, a monofunctional monomer having a ring structure, and a monofunctional monomer of which homopolymer has a glass transition temperature of 90° C. or higher and that has a ring structure; and urethane (meth)acrylate.
US09493659B2
The invention relates to carbon black having a C-14 content greater than 0.05 Bq/g and a ratio ΔD50/Dmode of the aggregate size distribution of less than 0.7. The carbon black is produced by thermal oxidative pyrolysis or thermal cleavage of the carbon black raw material in that the carbon black raw material contains renewable carbon black raw materials and an oxygen deficiency is present in the pyrolysis/cleavage reaction. The carbon blacks can be used in rubber and rubber mixtures, plastic, printing inks, inks, inkjet inks, toners, lacquers, paints, paper, adhesives, batteries, pastes, bitumens, concrete, and other building materials and as reducing agents in metallurgy.
US09493655B2
A composition comprises a quantity in the range of about 2.5% by weight to about 22% by weight of at least one elastomer selected from a group consisting of styrene-butadiene copolymers, styrene-butadiene-styrene (block) copolymers, styrene-isoprene (block) copolymers and/or styrene-isoprene-styrene (block) copolymers, synthetic and/or natural rubbers; a quantity in the range of about 12% by weight to about 35% by weight of at least one pulverulent mineral filler; a quantity in the range of about 0.5% by weight to about 5% by weight of at least one fibrous anti-flow additive to adjust strength, selected from the group consisting of cellulose, glass fibers and/or synthetic fibers; and a quantity in the range of about 0.1% by weight to about 8% by weight of at least one polymer produced from an olefin and from an α, β-unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or α,β-unsaturated carboxyclic anhydride, where each of the percentages by weight is based on the entire quantity of the composition.
US09493650B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball traveling a great flight distance on driver shots and a golf ball resin composition. The present invention provides a golf ball wherein at least one constituting member therefore is formed from a golf ball resin composition containing: (A) a polyamide resin, (B) at least one member selected from the group consisting of (b-1) a binary copolymer composed of an olefin and an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, (b-2) a metal ion-neutralized product of a binary copolymer composed of an olefin and an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms, (b-3) a ternary copolymer composed of an olefin, an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms and an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester, and (b-4) a metal ion-neutralized product of a ternary copolymer composed of an olefin, an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid having 3 to 8 carbon atoms and an α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acid ester, and (C) an organically modified layered silicate, wherein a mass ratio ((A)/(B)) of (A) component to (B) component ranges from 15/85 to 80/20.
US09493646B2
Components formed of blow molded thermoplastic compositions are described. The blow molded thermoplastic compositions exhibit high strength and flexibility. Methods for forming the thermoplastic compositions are also described. Formation methods include dynamic vulcanization of a composition that includes an impact modifier dispersed throughout a polyarylene sulfide. A crosslinking agent is combined with the other components of the composition following dispersal of the impact modifier. The crosslinking agent reacts with the impact modifier to form crosslinks within and among the polymer chains of the impact modifier. The compositions can exhibit excellent physical characteristics at extreme temperatures and can be used to form, e.g., tubular member such as pipes and hoses and fibers.
US09493641B2
This invention pertains to polyethylene extrusion compositions. In particular, the invention pertains to ethylene polymer extrusion compositions having high drawdown and substantially reduced neck-in. The compositions comprise from 40 to 90% by weight of the composition of a first polyethylene composition, said first polyethylene composition comprising a linear low density polyethylene having a density in the range of from 0.90 to 0.96 g/cm3, and a melt index (I2) of from 5 to 15 g/10 min; and from 1 to 10% by weight of the composition of a second polyethylene composition, said second polyethylene composition comprising a high pressure low density polyethylene having a density in the range of from 0.915 to 0.930 g/cm3, and a melt index of from 0.1 to 3 g/10 min; and from 10 to 50% by weight of the composition of a third polyethylene composition, said third polyethylene composition comprising a high pressure low density polyethylene having a density in the range of from 0.915 to 0.930 g/cm3, and a melt index of from 5 to 15 g/10 min.
US09493632B2
An ester mixture of dianhydrohexitol, a composition comprising the ester mixture and a polymer composition comprising the ester mixture or the composition, the use thereof, and a process by which the ester mixture can be prepared, where the proportion of C8 based on the sum of C8 and C10 in the overall ester mixture is 45 mol % to 85 mol %.
US09493631B2
A cured product obtainable by impregnating a glass cloth with an epoxy resin composition that is suitable for producing optical sheets. The epoxy resin composition includes a polyvalent carboxylic acid (A) represented by formula (I): wherein, R1's each independently represent a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 15 carbon atoms, or a carboxyl group; q represents the number of substituent R1's, and represents an integer from 1 to 4; and P represents the following X: wherein there may be a plural number of R2's per ring, and R2's each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; and * represents a bonding site linked to the oxygen atom; and an epoxy resin (B) having an aliphatic cyclic structure in the molecule. The cured product has a refractive index at 25° C. of 1.51 or higher.
US09493629B2
An object of the present invention is to improve, in the raw material rubber compound particularly using a silica-based filler, which is used for tire tread, the balance between the rolling resistance and the skid resistance on a wet road surface and at the same time, improve the wear resistance is enhanced. The present invention provides an oil-extended polymer composition comprising 100 parts by weight of (A) a polymer having a number average molecular weight Mn of 500,000 to 700,000 and a content of a functional group-containing polymer component to be adsorbed to silica of 50 wt % or more, and from 20 to 60 parts by weight of (B) an extender oil.
US09493626B1
This present invention relates to the carbon nanotubes as composites with materials such as elastomers, thermosets and thermoplastics or aqueous dispersions of open-ended carbon nanotubes with additives. A further feature of this invention relates to the development of a concentrate of carbon nanotubes with an elastomer wherein the concentrate can be further diluted with an elastomer and other polymers and fillers using conventional melt mixing equipment.
US09493624B2
Prepare extruded polymer foam comprising at least 50 weight-percent alkenyl aromatic polymer, a brominated flame retardant providing 0.8 to 1.4 weight percent bromide, 0.05 to 0.5 weight-percent hydrobromic acid scavenger, at least 1.5 weight-percent graphite and less than 0.1 weight-percent C—C and O—O labile organic compounds using a blowing agent composition comprising at least 0.3 weight-parts per 100 weight parts polymer and that consists of blowing agents having an ozone depletion potential of zero and a global warming potential that is less than 1000.
US09493621B2
A rigid polyurethane or polyisocyanurate foam includes 1 to 50 weight percent of a particulate poly(phenylene ether) having a mean particle size of 1 to 40 micrometers. The particulate poly(phenylene ether) imparts reduced flammability and reduced water absorption to the foam. The foam is useful as a thermally insulating material in articles including domestic appliances, building materials, tanks, pipelines, heating pipes, cooling pipes, cold stores, and refrigerated vehicles.
US09493613B2
Disclosed is a crosslinkable light-emitting composition comprising at least one host material, at least one phosphorescent light-emitting dopant, a first crosslinker comprising an unsaturated carbon-carbon bond group and a second crosslinker comprising a ring system capable of undergoing ring-opening crosslinking.
US09493611B2
A polyamide resin composition includes 100 parts by weight of a (a) polyamide resin; and 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of a (b) hydroxyl group- and carboxyl group-containing compound, wherein the (b) hydroxyl group- and carboxyl group-containing compound has a ratio (COOH/OH) of 0.01 to 5.0 of a rate (percentage) of a carboxyl group-derived peak area to a total peak area in a 13C-NMR spectrum to a rate (percentage) of a hydroxyl group-derived peak area to a total peak area in a 1H-NMR spectrum and has a degree of branching of 0.05 to 0.35.
US09493603B2
A binder comprising a polymeric binder comprising the products of a carbohydrate reactant and nucleophile is disclosed. The binder is useful for consolidating loosely assembled matter, such as fibers. Fibrous products comprising fibers in contact with a carbohydrate reactant and a nucleophile are also disclosed. The binder composition may be cured to yield a fibrous product comprising fibers bound by a cross-linked polymer. Further disclosed are methods for binding fibers with the carbohydrate reactant and polyamine based binder.
US09493602B2
The present invention relates to a polyurethane-based binder using isocyanates containing uretonimine and/or carbodiimide groups for producing cores and casting molds, to a mold material mixture containing the binder, and to a method using the binder for producing casting molds.
US09493601B2
Compositions and methods are included for preparing a hairy polymeric nanoparticle including first and second shell block polymer arms are at least partially phase-separated and surround a polymeric core. One type of polymeric arm can have a greater polarity than the other type(s) of polymeric arms. A rubber composition including the hairy nanoparticles is also provided.
US09493595B2
The invention relates to a copolymer composition of poly(vinylidene fluoride-trifluoropropene) copolymers. The copolymers formed have excellent optical properties, with very low haze, as well as high melting points, excellent flexibility and toughness.
US09493594B2
A cationic polymerization process for the synthesis of nano-structured polymers containing graphene which comprises reacting graphite oxide dispersed in a solvent by means of ultrasounds, with at least one vinyl monomer and at least one vinyl aromatic monomer, in the presence of at least one strong inorganic acid and suitable for activating a cationic polymerization, wherein: —said graphite oxide contains from 5% to 60% by weight of bound oxygen, —said vinyl monomer contains at least one carboxylic group wherein the ratio between oxygen bound to the oxide and carboxylic groups ranges from 1:10 to 10:1 in moles per mole, and—the ratio between said vinyl aromatic monomer and the sum of the quantity of graphite oxide and vinyl monomer containing carboxylic groups ranges from 50% to 99% by weight.
US09493589B1
Disclosed herein are ethylene-based polymers generally characterized by a density greater than 0.954 g/cm3, high load melt index ranging from 10 to 45 g/10 min, a ratio of high load melt index to melt index ranging from 175 to 600, a rheological slope parameter ranging from 0.15 to 0.30, and an ESCR in 10% igepal exceeding 800 hours. These polymers have the beneficial processability and die swell features of chromium-based resins, but with improved stiffness and stress crack resistance, and can be used in blow molding and other end-use applications.
US09493588B2
The present invention relates to a diblock copolymer that may facilitate formation of a finer nano pattern, and be used for manufacture of an electronic device including a nano pattern or a bio sensor, and the like, a method for preparing the same, and a method for forming a nano pattern using the same,The diblock copolymer comprises a hard segment including at least one specific acrylamide-based repeat unit, and a soft segment including at least one (meth)acrylate-based repeat unit.
US09493586B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a spherical or ellipsoidal magnesium alcoholate having a narrow particle size distribution even when the particle size is small.The present invention provides a method for producing a magnesium alcoholate by adding in a portionwise manner to a reaction system and reacting, metallic magnesium, an alcohol, and at least one of a halogen or a halogen atom-containing compound in the reaction system under alcohol reflux, which is a method for producing a magnesium alcoholate characterized in that a mixture of metallic magnesium, an alcohol, and at least one of a halogen or a halogen atom-containing compound is added to the reaction system at each portionwise addition.
US09493584B2
Poly (pentabromobenzyl acrylate) having weight average molecular weight (Mw) in the range from 4,000 to 120,000 and polydispersity index of less than 10 as determined by high temperature gel permeation chromatography, wherein the glass transition temperature of the poly (pentabromobenzyl acrylate) is not more than 150 C.°, the poly (pentabromobenzyl acrylate) includes chains which are terminated by an end group derived from a chain length regulator, wherein the end group is a thiol group —SR1, and wherein R1, is a linear or branched alkyl group composed of not less than 8 carbon atom.
US09493577B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods relating to or derived from antigen binding proteins activate FGF21-mediated signaling. In embodiments, the antigen binding proteins specifically bind to (i) β-Klotho; (ii) FGFR1c, FGFR2c, FGFR3c or FGFR4; or (iii) a complex comprising β-Klotho and one of FGFR1c, FGFR2c, FGFR3c, and FGFR4. In some embodiments the antigen binding proteins induce FGF21-like signaling. In some embodiments, an antigen binding protein is a fully human, humanized, or chimeric antibodies, binding fragments and derivatives of such antibodies, and polypeptides that specifically bind to (i) β-Klotho; (ii) FGFR1c, FGFR2c, FGFR3c or FGFR4; or (iii) a complex comprising β-Klotho and one of FGFR1c, FGFR2c, FGFR3c, and FGFR4. Other embodiments provide nucleic acids encoding such antigen binding proteins, and fragments and derivatives thereof, and polypeptides, cells comprising such polynucleotides, methods of making such antigen binding proteins, and fragments and derivatives thereof, and polypeptides, and methods of using such antigen binding proteins, fragments and derivatives thereof, and polypeptides, including methods of treating or diagnosing subjects suffering from type 2 diabetes, obesity, NASH, metabolic syndrome and related disorders or conditions.
US09493574B2
The present invention relates to therapeutic immunoconjugates comprising SN-38 attached to an antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment. The antibody may bind to EGP-1 (TROP-2), CEACAM5, CEACAM6, CD74, CD19, CD20, CD22, CSAp, HLA-DR, AFP or MUC5ac and the immunoconjugate may be administered at a dosage of between 4 mg/kg and 24 mg/kg, preferably 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16 or 18 mg/kg. When administered at specified dosages and schedules, the immunoconjugate can reduce solid tumors in size, reduce or eliminate metastases and is effective to treat cancers resistant to standard therapies, such as radiation therapy, chemotherapy or immunotherapy.
US09493573B2
The present invention relates to therapeutic immunoconjugates comprising SN-38 attached to an antibody or antigen-binding antibody fragment. The antibody may bind to EGP-1 (TROP-2), CEACAM5, CEACAM6, CD74, CD19, CD20, CD22, CSAp, HLA-DR, AFP or MUC5ac and the immunoconjugate may be administered at a dosage of between 4 mg/kg and 24 mg/kg, preferably 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 16 or 18 mg/kg. When administered at specified dosages and schedules, the immunoconjugate can reduce solid tumors in size, reduce or eliminate metastases and is effective to treat cancers resistant to standard therapies, such as radiation therapy, chemotherapy or immunotherapy.
US09493568B2
The invention relates to anti-epidermal growth factor (EGFR) antibodies and antibody drug conjugates (ADCs), including compositions and methods of using said antibodies and ADCs.
US09493562B2
Antibodies and antigen binding fragments that specifically binds to Siglec-15 are described herein. These antibodies or antigen binding fragments may have the ability of inhibiting differentiation of osteoclasts and/or the ability of inhibiting the bone resorption activity of osteoclasts. Compositions and cells expressing anti-Siglec-15 antibodies or antigen binding fragments are also disclosed herewith. Anti-Siglec-15 antibodies may also be useful for the treatment of bone loss, or bone diseases. Methods for the detection or diagnosis of bone loss or bone-related diseases are also described.
US09493561B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for modulating Toso activity and treating diseases and disorders in which Toso is implicated. Such methods and compositions include the use of one or more antibodies that bind to a Toso protein or to a ligand of a Toso protein.
US09493557B2
Novel polypeptides comprising a chemokine-binding peptide and an Fc fragment are disclosed. The polypeptides are capable of binding to certain chemokines so as to modulate their activity. These polypeptides can be used to modulate in vivo chemokine-dependent processes such as inflammation and autoimmunity, and to treat associated conditions.
US09493556B2
The disclosure provides, among other aspects, neutralizing antibodies and portions thereof that bind to ActRIIA and uses for same.
US09493555B2
C1q is shown to be expressed in neurons, where it acts as a signal for synapse elimination. Methods are provided for protecting or treating an individual suffering from adverse effects of synapse loss. These findings have broad implications for a variety of clinical conditions, including Alzheimer's disease.
US09493554B2
This disclosure relates to apelin antigen-binding proteins and methods of using the apelin antigen-binding proteins. The antigen-binding protein may comprise an antibody to apelin and can be used to treat pathological conditions involving angiogenesis. The pathological conditions can comprise cancer or retinopathy and/or retinopathy-related complications.
US09493551B2
The present disclosure features therapeutic antibodies (e.g., TPO mimetic antibodies) and therapeutically-active fragments thereof as well as methods for preparing and using the antibodies and fragments. For example, the therapeutic antibodies and their fragments are useful in a variety of diagnostic and/or therapeutic applications such as methods for increasing platelet levels in a subject.
US09493550B2
Provided is a human antibody having a neutralization activity against a human influenza virus. More specifically, provided is a human antibody which recognizes a highly conserved region in a human influenza A virus subtype H3N2 or a human influenza B virus and has a neutralization activity against the virus. The human antibody is a human anti-human influenza virus antibody, which has a neutralization activity against a human influenza A virus subtype H3N2 and binds to a hemagglutinin HA1 region of the human influenza A virus subtype H3N2, or which has a neutralization activity against a human influenza B virus, and includes, as a base sequence of a DNA encoding a variable region of the antibody, a sequence set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOS: 5 to 12.
US09493549B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to compositions and methods for anti-HIV (anti-CD4 binding site) potent VRC01-like (PVL) antibodies targeted to gp120 having an amino acid substitution in the heavy chain at a residue in the anti-CD4 binding site PVL antibody that is equivalent to Phe43 in CD4 and an amino acid substitution in the light chain, these antibodies having improved potency and breadth.
US09493547B2
The present invention provides polypeptides that bind to immunoglobulin G and methods for their use.
US09493525B2
The invention relates to kinase ligands and polyligands. In particular, the invention relates to ligands, homopolyligands, and heteropolyligands that modulate AKT activity. The ligands, homopolyligands, and heteropolyligands are utilized as research tools or as therapeutics. The invention includes linkage of the ligands, homopolyligands, and heteropolyligands to a cellular localization signal, epitope tag and/or a reporter. The invention also includes polynucleotides encoding the ligands, homopolyligands, and heteropolyligands.
US09493523B2
Provided is an antigen-binding protein prepared merely by a method of in vitro selection using the RNF8-FHA domain, which has no intramolecular disulfide bond and functions in cells as it is. One to four loops extending from the FHA domain are randomized, and a recognition site for a target molecule is artificially created on the FHA domain surface to construct an RNF8-FHA domain library. Using the library, an antigen-binding protein is efficiently selected in vitro.
US09493522B2
Discovery of candidate biomarkers of in vivo apoptosis by global profiling of caspase cleavage sites
The present invention relates to the discovery of novel biomarkers of in vivo apoptosis based on a large number of caspase-like cleavage sites. These biomarkers are useful for detection and quantification of apoptosis in a biological sample. The invention also provides synthetic peptides and proteins corresponding to neo-epitopes created by proteolytic processing of these cleavage sites. The synthetic peptides can be used as standards to enable identification and quantitation of these biomarkers using mass spectrometry. The synthetic proteins can be used to generate antibodies and other binding reagents specific for these biomarkers. Methods for detecting apoptosis as well as for diagnosing or for providing a prognosis for a disease or disease state characterized by apoptosis are also provided herein. Finally, the invention provides compositions and kits for performing the methods of the invention.
US09493497B2
The invention provides a compound effective as an antitumor active agent or vaccine adjuvant and an intermediate useful for the synthesis of the compound, as well as production methods thereof, and a medicament containing the novel compound. The compound is a carbamate glycolipid represented by the formula (I) wherein each symbol is as defined herein. The invention also provides a dendritic cell pulsed with the glycolipid.
