US09506385B2
A fuel fired burner defines an axially extending flow path. An airless fuel nozzle sprays fuel droplets within the fuel fired burner in a direction generally along the axially extending flow path. An exhaust gas inlet directs exhaust gases from a vehicle exhaust system toward the airless nozzle in a direction that is transverse to the axially extending flow path. The exhaust gas mixes with the fuel droplets resulting in an exhaust gas/fuel mixture.
US09506384B2
There is disclosed a plugged honeycomb structure. A plugged honeycomb structure includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls defining a plurality of cells which become through channels for a fluid and extend from a first end face to a second end face, and plugging portions disposed in open ends of predetermined cells in the first end face and open ends of residual cells in the second end face, and the partition walls are constituted of a porous body including α-Al2O3 as a main phase and further including aluminum titanate and glass.
US09506375B2
There is provided a fan guard for mounting on an electrically-operated axial-flow fan. The fan guard comprises a plurality of fasteners for extending into a plurality of respective holes on the fan and further comprises a projection projecting outwardly from the fan guard from a central support which, in use, is coincident with a central region of the air flow from the axial-flow fan. The fasteners secure the fan guard on the fan by a friction fit between the fasteners and the holes, thereby rendering installation of the fan guard on a fan, and removal of the fan guard from the fan quick and straightforward.
US09506369B2
An arrangement for heating and cooling a turbine casing of a gas turbine engine, the arrangement comprising an inboard duct, adjacent to an inboard surface of the turbine casing, an outboard facing wall of the inboard duct having a plurality of impingement holes opening towards the inboard surface of the casing, through which temperature control fluid can pass from within the inboard duct to impinge upon the inboard surface of the turbine casing.
US09506368B2
A housing structure for a turbomachine having a stationary blade ring annularly surrounding a flow channel, and having a seal carrier ring which also annularly surrounds the flow channel, the stationary blade ring and the seal carrier ring being connected to each other, and either the stationary blade ring or the seal carrier ring having a one-sidedly open receptacle in the radial direction in relation to the flow channel and a radially projecting engagement area which corresponds to the connected seal carrier ring or stationary blade ring and which is held in a form-fitting manner in the axial direction and in the radial direction in the direction of the closed side of the receptacle but is freely movable with respect to the connected receptacle and the seal carrier ring or stationary blade ring having this receptacle in the radially opposite direction in the direction of the receptacle opening.
US09506359B2
The present application provides a combustion system for use with a cooling flow. The combustion system may include a head end, an aft end, a transition nozzle extending from the head end to the aft end, and an impingement sleeve surrounding the transition nozzle. The impingement sleeve may define a first cavity in communication with the head end for a first portion of the cooling flow and a second cavity in communication with the aft end for a second portion of the cooling flow. The transition nozzle may include a number of cooling holes thereon in communication with the second portion of the cooling flow.
US09506358B2
Disclosed is a variable pitch propeller having a blade pivoted rotatably to a cylindrical propeller casing, a drive shaft, coupled to a propulsor and positioned coaxially inside the propeller casing, a kinematic mechanism coupled to the drive shaft, or to the propeller casing, and to the blade, for adjusting the rotary motion of the blade about its axis of pivoting to the propeller casing, and means for coupling in rotation the drive shaft to the propeller casing. The propeller provides a non-null angular range of relative rotation of the blade about its axis of pivoting, with respect to the propeller casing, or vice versa. The means for coupling in rotation the drive shaft to the cylindrical propeller casing include an elastic element interposed between the drive shaft and the cylindrical casing.
US09506356B2
A retention feature for use in a gas turbine engine is disclosed herein. The retention feature includes a ceramic post, an insert, and a braze layer coupling the insert to the ceramic post. The ceramic post includes a body adapted to be coupled to a turbine engine component and a head coupled to the body. The insert is arranged in a space formed in the head and the braze layer extends from the ceramic post to the insert to bond the insert to the ceramic post.
US09506354B2
A turbine rotor blade of the embodiment is made up of plural rotor blades each including: a blade effective part, a blade planting part, and a cover part, in which the cover parts adjacent in a turbine rotor circumferential direction are engaged with each other to make up an annular blade cascade. From among the rotor blades, a cover part of a stopping blade implanted to a planting part of the turbine rotor or the cover part of at least one of the rotor blades engaged with the cover part of the stopping blade is formed at the blade top part of the rotor blade so as to be able to be fitted when the rotor blade is installed in the turbine rotor.
US09506350B1
A turbine rotor blade of the spar and shell construction, where a one piece shell is secured to a hollow spar using a plurality of chordwise extending shear ties that are cast into a space formed between the shell interior and the spar exterior. A fill pipe is inserted into the hollow spar and is used to deliver the liquid retainer material to the hard to reach slots formed in which the shear ties solidify.
US09506346B2
The present invention is directed to a molten metal pump comprising an elongated pumping chamber tube with a base end and an open top end. A shaft extends into the tube and rotates an impeller therein, the impeller rotates proximate the base end. The tube has a diameter at least 1.1 times the diameter of the impeller. The pumping chamber tube preferably has a length at least three times the height of the impeller. The base end includes an inlet and the top end includes a tangential outlet. Rotation of the impeller draws molten metal into the pumping chamber and creates a rotating equilibrium vortex that rises up the walls of the pumping chamber. The rotating vortex adjacent the top end exists the device cia the tangential outlet.
US09506336B2
A method of drilling a subterranean bore hole comprising a) pumping a drilling fluid down a drill string, the drill string having a drill bit at an end thereof, b) rotating the drill string about its longitudinal axis to that the bit forms bore hole in the ground, the method further comprising the steps of: c) changing the rate of pumping of the drilling fluid into the drill string in response to a change in the speed of rotation of the drill string, and/or changing the speed of rotation of the drill string in response to a change in the rate of pumping of the drilling fluid into the drill string.
US09506334B2
A method for cleaning a ceramic membrane used in an oil recovery process. The cleaning method includes online and offline modes. In the online mode, the method includes periodically backflushing the ceramic membrane with an aqueous media. In the offline mode, the method includes backpulsing or statically cleaning the ceramic membrane by utilizing an aqueous alkaline media, an aqueous acidic media, and a liquid hydrocarbon solution.
US09506331B2
A reciprocating pump jack employs a crank arrangement to drive a polish rod carrier up and down, and employs guide slots in side walls of a frame structure at both ends of the carrier in order to maintain tight control over the orientation of the polish rod.
US09506326B2
A rotationally independent wellbore ranging system includes a housing which is attached to a rotary component positioned in a first wellbore and remains substantially stationary relative to the first wellbore when the rotary component rotates in the first wellbore. Multiple sensors affixed to the housing are operable to receive multiple ranging signals from a second wellbore while the rotary component rotates in the first wellbore, and provide the multiple ranging signals to a processor to determine a position of the first wellbore relative to the second wellbore.
US09506317B2
A barrier onto the surface of a subterranean formation may be formed by pumping into a wellbore within a well hydrophobically modified polysaccharides. A pressure differential is created between the reservoir pressure and formation pressure within the well. The micellular hydrophobically modified polysaccharides self-align onto the face of the formation to form the barrier. Flow of fluids into the subterranean formation is thereby prohibited.
US09506308B2
An example whipstock assembly includes a whipstock providing a ramped surface and a longitudinal groove defined in the ramped surface. A lead mill is coupled to the whipstock with a shear bolt and having a slot defined therein, and a torque key is movable between an extended position, where the torque key is partially positioned within both the slot and the longitudinal groove, and a retracted position, where the torque key retracts into the slot. When the torque key is in the extended position, the torque key prevents the lead mill from rotating with respect to the whipstock.
US09506305B2
A method of drilling a subterranean wellbore using a drill string including the steps of estimating or determining a reduced static density of a drilling fluid based on the equivalent circulating density of the drilling fluid in a section of the wellbore, providing a drilling fluid having substantially that reduced static density, introducing the drilling fluid having said reduced static density into the wellbore, and removing the drilling fluid from the wellbore via a return line.
US09506304B2
A rotational driver for driving a connector through adjacent tubulars is provided. The adjacent tubulars are positionable in a wellbore of a wellsite for passing fluid therethrough. The rotational driver includes a gearbox housing positionable about the connector, a socket carried by the gearbox housing to receivingly engage the connector, and a plurality of gears driven by at least one motor. The gears are operatively connectable to the socket to transfer torque from the motor thereto, and have interlocking teeth defining a plurality of contacts therebetween whereby load on the gears is distributable therebetween.
US09506302B2
A system for connecting a gullwing to a catwalk comprising a gullwing pin movable in an indexer groove that enables a foot pad of the gullwing to remain stationary relative to the catwalk when the gullwing is raised or lowered.
US09506291B2
An automatic reset device for curtain pull bar is fixed on a rod of a curtain fabric and comprises a fixed base, a pull bar having a handle, and a torsion-supplying element. One end of a rotation axis of the pull bar is located at the fixed base, and the pull bar can be rotated relative to the fixed base. The torsion-supplying element that preserves torsion is connected between the pull bar and the fixed base. When the curtain fabric is furled and the pull bar is released, the pull bar is automatically rotated and reset by the preserved torsion force of the torsion-supplying element. The handle of the pull bar will not collide with the door trim of a vehicle, and the abutting pressure forced against the door trim by the handle of the pull bar can be efficiently controlled.
US09506285B2
A sealing system for doors and windows includes a reservoir device, a sealing tube configured to expand and to contract, and a transfer valve configured to couple the reservoir device to a first end of the sealing tube. Responsive to either of a door or window closing, a medium may be transferred from the reservoir device via the transfer valve to the sealing tube. Responsive to receiving the medium, the sealing tube may expand to substantially seal a gap between an edge of either of the door or the window and a surface in proximity to the edge. Responsive to either of the door or window opening, the medium may be discharged from the sealing tube via the transfer valve. The sealing tube may contract in response to discharging the medium.
US09506280B2
An adjustable corner fitting for a door element is disposed on a center of rotation and/or an axis, including first and second fitting elements, which, at least sectionwise, each include a locating portion for the abutment against the door element and are interconnectable while restraining the door element.A restraining area is formed between the two fitting elements, into which the door element is insertable, and the fitting elements are formed such that a holding element is disposed between the two fitting elements, which is displaceable in relation to the fitting elements. A holding element is non-positively and/or positively connectable to at least one fitting element, wherein the holding element is in operative connection with the connecting element, which serves for supporting the door element on the center of rotation and/or the axis.
US09506276B2
A closing device pivots on a vehicle body between a closing position and an opening position, such as a rear flap of a motor vehicle, with a closing element on the body side and an opposite closing element on the flap side for locking and unlocking the flap and with at least one ejection element. A plunger can be moved in a guide at least between a working position and a rest position, which upon movement into a working position can be tensioned against the force of a tensioning device. The plunger interacts with the flap for the manual opening and closing through the at least partial relaxing of the plunger. The plunger is lockable and unlockable through a locking device in a locking position in which it is tensioned at least as far as to the working position.
US09506274B1
Locks, lock mechanisms, lock assemblies, retro fit kits, and methods of using locks with cables and chains inside of strengthened flexible sleeves can conform to shape surfaces to which they are mounted, for preventing thefts of bicycles, motorcycles and other applications, such as but not limited to securing gates and doors, and other objects together. The flexible sleeve can include a series of ball and socket segments arranged next to one another, having a hollow conduit through which the cable or chain can pass through.
US09506272B2
A key assembly is disclosed. The key assembly may have a blade with a head portion, a shank, and a transition region connecting the head portion to the shank. The key assembly may also have a head configured to receive the blade. The head may have a shoulder located at the transition region to limit engagement of the head with the blade, and at least one tang located at an end of the head opposite the shoulder. The at least one tang may be configured to engage a recess located within a side of the head portion and inhibit removal of the head from the blade.
US09506271B2
A frame is supported for vertical movement by a vehicle and has an inclined shaft supporting a roll of silt fence material. The frame also supports a vertical plow plate having a forward edge surface and an inclined rearward edge surface spaced adjacent an inclined foldover member to define a narrow gap which receives fence material directly from the roll. The plow supports a removable, flexible and resilient panel which projects rearwardly to extend within a slit formed in the ground by the plow plate to prevent debris from snagging the material. The inclined shaft is adjustable vertically, and the roll is adjustable axially on the shaft to maintain an edge of the fence material adjacent the bottom of the plow plate. The frame may also support a rotatable and vertically movable boom from which depends an impact hammer for installing stakes in the ground adjacent the fence.
US09506270B2
A fence panel can include a plurality of modular fence panel components that can be assembled modularly to form the fence panel. The fence panel components can include a system of keys and keyways that allow the components to interlock with one another when the fence panel is assembled to lock the components to one another to simplify the assembly process and to minimize the number of mechanical fasteners needed to assemble the fence panel.
US09506266B2
Embodiments of a deck assembly module for a steel framed building include a modular concrete deck platform. The modular concrete deck platform includes a concrete slab having a top major surface and a bottom major surface and a structural grid pattern of reinforcing bar within the concrete slab. The concrete slab further includes sleeve openings located around a perimeter of the concrete slab, the sleeve openings surrounded by sleeve structures, the sleeve structures surrounded by concrete. Each sleeve opening extends from the top major surface of the concrete slab to the bottom major surface of the concrete slab.
US09506264B1
A ramped garage draining system is provided having a parking area that is designed to receive a vehicle or other moveable object that may drip liquids. The draining system is designed to reside inside a garage or other structure and direct the liquid outside of the structure. The parking area is bordered on three sides with walls that extend above the parking area to contain the fluids. The ramp slopes toward a draining portion to direct the liquid towards a seal in the door to the structure. Seal interrupters extend under the seal and displace the seal upwards, creating a gap for the liquid to drain.
US09506257B2
A portable fencing track that is readily assembled and disassembled at different venues includes a series of modular panels disposed adjacent to one another and interconnected to form an elongated central fencing floor. A piste or strip of electrically conductive material is placed and positioned with respect to the elongated central floor, and a perimeter floor is arranged so as to surround the central floor and the piste or strip. A threshold, preferably adjoining each of the modular panels located adjacent to the perimeter flooring, has lateral and end sections overlying adjacent portions of the strip and the perimeter floor, and at least one of the threshold sections defines a channel to receive wiring. Support elements are mounted to each of the floor panels and the perimeter floor to resiliently support the floor panels and the perimeter floor on a base surface and minimize damage over time to the ankles or hips of fencers. A process of assembling the track is also discussed.
US09506235B2
The invention relates to a drainage trench unit (10) which comprises at least one drainage trench sub-unit (12), the at least one drainage trench sub-unit (12) having a base wall (16) and a plurality of hollow pillars (18), said pillars (18) being connected integrally to the base wall (16) and tapering, preferably conically, away from the base wall (16), i.e. tapering from their base end (18a) to their top end (18b). The invention also relates to a transport unit for transporting a plurality of such drainage trench units (10).
US09506234B2
A device for a trench drain system includes an elongate frame, and the elongate frame is configured to detachably connect to a plurality of channel sections, to longitudinally and laterally align each channel section of the plurality of channel sections with adjacent channel sections, and to interconnect the plurality of channel sections such that the plurality of channel sections is moveable as a single unit.
US09506232B2
A toilet bowl lid actuated linkage toilet flushing system wherein a conventional toilet-flushing flapper is actuated by a drain pull chain controlled relative to the positioning of the toilet bowl lid to the toilet. The toilet bowl lid must be moved from an upward position to a downward position to flush the toilet, which a magnetic plastic ribbon actuator mechanism is provided for completion of the toilet flush even when the toilet bowl lid remains in the downward position. Movement of the lid actuates a magnetic flush pull of a plastic ribbon that is linked to a drain pull chain connected to the flapper. An alternate version of the toilet bowl lid actuated linkage toilet flushing system is compatible with flushometer toilets and enables an opening and closing of a valve controlling outflow of a pressurized water source.
US09506231B2
In one aspect, a waste disposal system for receiving waste discharged from a drain having a drain flange is disclosed. The system may generally include a waste disposal having a housing extending axially between a top and a bottom. In addition, the system may include a mounting bracket configured to couple the waste disposal to the drain. The mounting bracket may be configured to extend circumferentially around at least a portion of the top of the housing and may include a body and at least one tooth extending radially inwardly from the body. When the waste disposal is moved axially towards the drain, the at least one tooth is configured to move both radially outwardly as the at least one tooth contacts the drain flange and back radially inwardly when the at least one tooth is positioned axially above the drain flange so as to overlap the drain flange.
US09506230B2
A wall mount for a shower system at a wall connection emerging from a wall, whereby the shower system has at least one overhead shower head, a hand shower, and a shower rod. The attachment has at least one bracket with at least one conduit connected thereto and at least one adapter piece, whereby the bracket is configured to accommodate the adapter piece and a seal is provided between bracket and adapter piece, the seal allowing a relative movement between the bracket and adapter piece. The adapter piece is connectable to the wall connection by a first connecting component and the bracket is connected to the wall by a second connecting component. The bracket together with the adapter piece forms at least one conduit path between the wall connection and the conduit.
US09506229B2
A faucet is provided. The faucet has a spout and a sprayhead releasably coupled to the spout. A hose having a magnetically responsive collar thereon provides fluid through the spout to the sprayhead. A magnet is located in the faucet such that when the sprayhead is coupled to the spout, the collar magnetically couples to the magnet, thereby applying sufficient magnetic force to the hose to retain the sprayhead against the spout.
US09506221B2
A method of controlling a digging operation of an industrial machine, the industrial machine including a dipper and an actuator. The method including determining a force associated with the actuator; determining a dig force vector for the dipper based on the force associated with the actuator, the dig force vector including a dig force angle and a dig force magnitude; determining a characteristic of the industrial machine; and controlling, using a processor, the dig force vector based on the characteristic of the industrial machine, the dig force vector being controlled by controlling at least one of the force associated with the actuator and an angle of the dipper.
US09506219B2
A support rail for a swing gear assembly having a thrust rail coupled to a swing gear includes a substantially horizontal first surface configured to be coupled to the swing gear such that the first surface engages a substantially horizontal top face of the swing gear, and a substantially vertical second surface intersecting the substantially horizontal first surface such that the second surface is substantially perpendicular to the first surface. The second surface is configured to engage a substantially vertical face of the thrust rail when the first surface is coupled to the swing gear. The first surface and the second surface are configured to inhibit a rotation of the thrust rail relative to the swing gear by engaging the top face of the swing gear and the vertical face of the thrust rail simultaneously.
US09506218B2
An underwater trenching apparatus comprising a soil cutting arrangement having a forwardly disposed cutting portion and a rearwardly disposed non-cutting portion, a soil removal device configured to remove soil from a location forward of the soil cutting arrangement and barrier device located and configured substantially to prevent passage of soil to the non-cutting portion of the soil cutting arrangement. The soil cutting arrangement is typically a rockwheel or chain cutter. The soil removal device is typically a dredge pump or eductor.
US09506217B2
A loader toolbar that can be attached to loaders, skid steer or tractor front end loaders that are compliant with the standard industry interface. The loader toolbar is designed to be a platform from which an array of agriculture and construction tools can easily and quickly be attached. The tools are pinned to the tool bar and can be installed or removed in minutes. The tool bar is designed to take advantage of the mechanical leverage of a fulcrum or pivot point for those tools such a tree extractor when prying or pulling tree by its roots. The loaded toolbar does not rely entirely on the hydraulics of the skid steer. The non-reliance on hydraulics, combined with the inherent maneuverability of a skid steer, allows operator to position tools to accomplish task safely and efficiently.
US09506216B2
A method and apparatus for selectively removing fine sediments from a water body bottom using a dredging head with one or more intake openings situated to accelerate flows through the interior of the head and across the water body bottom causing fine particles to become suspended in a slurry outflowing from the head for disposal, while coarser, heavier, bottom gravels remain in place. The stream cleaner dredging head includes a main body having at least one intake, at least one plate attachment feature, a discharge point, and an at least partly open bottom; a flow-adjusting plate that is adjustably connected to the at least one plate attachment feature and configured to adjust a fluid flow through the main body from the at least one intake, and a hose attachment connected to the discharge point of the main body.
US09506213B2
The present invention includes an interlock having an elongate male plug and an elongate female socket. The socket has an open rectangular cross-section with a receiving cavity designed to receive and ensleeve the plug, which also has a rectangular cross-section. The socket includes a back wall, top wall, bottom wall, and a discontinuous front wall creating an upper and lower flange with an opening existing between the free ends of the flanges. The bottom, top, and back walls are planar in shape providing three planes on which the socket can mate to a planar portion of a structure, such as a sheet pile. The plug includes a flange-contacting surface with a pile receipt disposed inwardly from the flange-contacting surface. The inwardly set pile receipt allows an end of a plate to be secured to the plug within the outer perimeter of the plug resulting in an obstruction free flange-contacting surface.
US09506211B2
The invention relates to a concept for controlled containment of oil and condensate and possibly other types of liquids and chemicals in constructions as a possible failure of the conventional prior art barriers used in offshore petroleum exploration and production activities, intended for use at several water depths. The concept comprises a support structure (10) and a deck structure (14) positioned on top of the support structure (10), from where drilling may be performed, and where possible spillage of hydrocarbons from the drilling or production activities, in case of failure of the conventional barriers, will be contained and directed in a controlled manner to collecting storage tanks (46) integrated in the support structure (10).
US09506205B1
A rotary mixer has a mixing chamber with a rotor to reclaim the work surface. The rotary mixer has a supply container located on the frame adjacent to the front end thereof. The supply container contains an additive for mixing with the reclaimed work surface. A transport assembly connects the supply container to a distribution assembly. The distribution assembly is located in front of the mixing chamber and receives the additive from the transport assembly and deposits the additive on the work surface.
US09506203B2
A multi-layer through air dried tissue including a first exterior layer comprised substantially of hardwood fibers, an interior layer comprised substantially of softwood fibers, and a second exterior layer comprised substantially of hardwood fibers. The interior layer includes a first wet end additive comprising an ionic surfactant and a second wet end additive comprising a non-ionic surfactant.
US09506200B2
Process for manufacturing a sheet of paper and/or of paperboard and the like, according to which, the cellulosic material is brought into contact with at least one dry strength aid, characterized in that said dry strength aid is a cationic or amphoteric (co)polymer derived from the reaction between at least one aldehyde and at least one base (co)polymer comprising at least one nonionic monomer, said base copolymer being modified with at least one polyfunctional compound comprising at least three heteroatoms chosen from N, S, O and P, in which at least three of these heteroatoms each have at least one mobile hydrogen.
US09506194B2
The general inventive concepts relate generally to carbon enhanced reinforcement (CER) fibers, and more particularly, to the controlled dispersion of CER fibers within aqueous or non-aqueous media. The general inventive concepts particularly relate to the controlled dispersion of CER fibers within aqueous or non-aqueous media for forming a nonwoven chopped CER fiber mat. The general inventive concepts also relate to the controlled dispersion of CNSs harvested from CER fibers within aqueous or non-aqueous media for forming a nonwoven CNS mat. Methods for dispersing the CNSs or the CER fibers in aqueous or non-aqueous media are also provided.
US09506193B2
Methods for making a molded non-woven carbon fiber containing mat are provided, along with the resulting mats. Furthermore, methods are generally provided for using the molded non-woven carbon fiber containing mat to form a molded product, along with the resulting molded products.
US09506192B2
A doctor blade cartridge for use in a doctor blade holder is disclosed. The doctor blade cartridge is for receiving a doctor blade, and includes at least one blade supporting member, wherein the blade supporting member is sufficiently stiff to support the doctor blade and includes load indication means for providing a signal indicative of at least one of blade supporting member strain and blade supporting member deflection.
US09506185B2
A laundry treating apparatus is disclosed. The laundry treating apparatus includes a laundry support unit provided in a receiving space, in which laundry is received, to support the laundry and a machinery compartment located at a bottom of the receiving space to define a space separated from the receiving space, the machinery compartment being provided with at least one selected from between an air supply unit to supply air to the receiving space and a water supply unit to supply water to the receiving space. The machinery compartment has a smaller width than the receiving space to define a space to receive the laundry held by the laundry support unit between an outer circumference of the machinery compartment and an inner circumference of the receiving space.
US09506182B2
A clothes treating apparatus includes a laundry keeping unit including at least one tray with a plurality of through holes formed thereon. A steam generator is detachably installed in the laundry keeping unit and configured to jet steam to the at least one tray. When the laundry is partially contaminated, steam may be concentratively jetted to the contaminated portion.
US09506180B2
A transmission controller for an automatic washing machine incorporates an accelerometer to provide for sophisticated out-of-balance detection. Speed sensing and water moisture sensing may optionally be also incorporated into the transmission controller, the former providing a more sophisticated out-of-balance detection and the latter permitting overflow detection.
US09506174B2
A differential feeding mechanism for a sewing machine employs a differential mechanism to move first and second toothed bars. The differential mechanism includes a first link member to drive a first toothed bar, a second link member, and a third link member to drive a second toothed bar. The third link member is provided with an adjustment groove, in which being slidably disposed a slide member which can be adjusted in position with respect to the third link member. Adjusting the position of the slide member can change the fulcrum of the third link member and the swing amplitude of the two ends of the third link member, which consequently adjusts the differential feed of the first and second toothed bars.
US09506167B2
Systems, methods, libraries, kits, and computer software tools are provided for designing and producing engineered cells. Such engineered cells can be used for cell state quantification, such as genome, transcriptome and/or proteome quantification. In one aspect, an engineered cell having a plurality of artificially designed oligonucleotides introduced into the genome of the cell is provided. The oligonucleotides are each located in proximity of a gene of interest encoding a protein of interest, and are different from one another. The oligonucleotides can each encode a unique peptide tag for each protein of interest, wherein each peptide tag has a unique quantitatively measurable value such as mass-to-charge ratio which can be quantified by a mass spectrometer. The engineered cell is capable of expressing a plurality of proteins of interest each fused to its corresponding unique peptide tag, wherein each peptide tag is capable of being released therefrom.
US09506149B2
A process for depositing a metal includes disposing a liquid deposition composition on a substrate, the liquid deposition composition including a metal cation; a reducing anion; anda solvent; evaporating the solvent; increasing a concentration of the reducing anion increases in the liquid deposition composition due to evaporating the solvent; performing an oxidation-reduction reaction between the metal cation and the reducing anion in response to increasing the concentration of the reducing anion when the reducing anion is present at a critical concentration; and forming a metal from the metal cation to deposit the metal on the substrate.
US09506148B2
A method for forming a flexible transparent conductive film includes steps of: (a) electrospinning a first solution, which contains a polymer, a solvent and a metal ion-containing precursor, to form an polymeric fiber onto a soluble substrate; (b) providing energy to reduce the metal ion-containing precursor of the polymeric fiber, so as to form metal seeds on the polymeric fiber; and (c) placing the polymeric fiber together with the soluble substrate into a second solution, such that the soluble substrate dissolves in the second solution to form an electroless-plating bath and such that the polymeric fiber is subjected to electroless plating to form a metal coating from the metal seeds.
US09506147B2
An apparatus for depositing a thin film on a substrate using atmospheric pressure atomic-layer deposition includes a chamber having an atmosphere and a moveable substrate. A stationary support is located in the chamber that supports the moveable substrate. A pressurized-fluid source provides a compound fluid flow including an inert fluid surrounding a reactive fluid that flows simultaneously through the stationary support and impinges on at least a portion of the moveable substrate to fluidically levitate the moveable substrate and expose the moveable substrate to the compound fluid flow to deposit a thin film on the moveable substrate.
US09506145B2
A cleaning method for a UV chamber involves providing a first cleaning gas, a second cleaning gas, and a purge gas to one or more openings in the chamber. The first cleaning gas may be an oxygen containing gas, such as ozone, to remove carbon residues. The second cleaning gas may be a remote plasma of NF3 and O2 to remove silicon residues. The UV chamber may have two UV transparent showerheads, which together with a UV window in the chamber lid, define a gas volume proximate the UV window and a distribution volume below the gas volume. A purge gas may be flowed through the gas volume while one or more of the cleaning gases is flowed into the distribution volume to prevent the cleaning gases from impinging on the UV transparent window.
US09506144B2
A method for atomic layer deposition includes providing a substrate in a reaction chamber; and performing at least one atomic layer deposition cycle to form a film on a surface of the substrate. The atomic layer deposition cycle includes passing first precursors into the reaction chamber to let first atoms included in the first precursors combine with reaction sites of the substrate; and passing second precursors into the reaction chamber to let second atoms included in the second precursors combine with the reaction sites uncombined with the first atoms or substitute at least part of the first atoms to combine with the reaction sites of the substrate. The above-mentioned method for atomic layer deposition is capable of preparing large area and uniformity of doping film without annealing process or with low temperature annealing process.
US09506143B2
The problems in accordance with the present invention are: to provide a DLC film, wherein a protective film having a segmented shape is easily formed, quality control of the protective film is improved, segmented shapes with a high degree of freedom (that are complicated) are possible, and the application of the DLC film is possible not only to two-dimensional shapes but also to three-dimensional shapes; and to provide a method for forming the DLC film. As solutions to the problems, there are provided a protective film and a method for producing the protective film, characterized by, when forming on a substrate the protective film having a segmented shape formed by depositing a film so that the film is formed divided into segments, masking the substrate using a drawing material so that segments having predetermined shapes are obtained, thereafter depositing the protective film, and then removing the masked part to form a spacing between segments.
US09506137B2
The present invention provides a steel product for gas carburizing used for manufacturing a carburized steel part. In the above steel product for gas carburizing, a composition of a base metal contains, in mass %, C: 0.1 to 0.4%, Si: exceeding 1.2 to 4.0%, Mn: 0.2 to 3.0%, Cr: 0.5 to 5.0%, Al: 0.005 to 0.1%, S: 0.001 to 0.3%, N: 0.003 to 0.03%, and O: limited to 0.0050% or less, and P: limited to 0.025% or less, and when the contents of Si, Mn, and Cr (mass %) are set to [Si %], [Mn %], and [Cr %], Expression (1) below is satisfied, and an alloy shortage layer satisfying Expression (2) below exists in a range from its surface to 2 to 50 μm in depth. 32≧3.5[Si %]+[Mn %]+3[Cr %]>9 (1) 3.5[Si %]+[Mn %]+3[Cr %]≦9 (2)
US09506130B2
A steel, namely for marine applications, comprises by weight percent: carbon: 0.05 to 0.20; silicon: 0.15 to 0.55; manganese: 0.60 to 1.60; chromium: 0.75 to 1.50; aluminum: 0.40 to 0.80; niobium and/or vanadium: 0.01<[Nb]+[V]<0.60; sulphur: up to 0.045; and phosphorous: up to 0.045.
US09506129B2
A device for dispersing gas into molten metal includes an impeller, a drive shaft having a gas-transfer passage therein, and a first end and a second end, and a drive source. The second end of the drive shaft is connected to the impeller and the first end is connected to the drive source. The impeller includes a first portion and a second portion with a plurality of cavities. The first portion covers the second portion to help prevent gas from escaping to the surface without entering the cavities and being mixed with molten metal as the impeller rotates. When gas is transferred through the gas-transfer passage, it exits through the gas-release opening(s) in the bottom of the impeller. At least some of the gas enters the cavities where it is mixed with the molten metal being displaced by the impeller. Also disclosed are impellers that can be used to practice the invention.
US09506123B2
A refractory device, such as a replacement purge plug containing a refractory material, is configured to be inserted in the bottom of a ladle for introducing purging gas through a heat of molten metal in a ladle. One or more geometrical features on the lateral surface of the purge plug facilitate the installation of the purge plug into a housing block that has been subjected to erosion.
US09506120B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for rapidly identifying and ranking nucleases for specific cleavage of a target sequence.
US09506108B2
The invention relates to nucleic acid substrates for catalytic nucleic acid enzymes and methods utilizing the substrates.
US09506107B2
The present invention relates to an improved method for isolating nucleic acids, particularly genomic desoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from blood.
US09506099B2
The invention concerns a cultured savory base with increased umami power comprising: up to 80% of naturally derived compounds taken in the group consisting of glutamate, IMP and GMP, naturally food derived compounds such as organic acids, amino acids, peptides and aroma compounds.
US09506096B2
The present invention relates to the field of biology, in particular to a sugar preparation method by using biomass sweet potato dregs for microbial fermentation as a sugar source. The liquid sugar product prepared with the method of the present invention essentially comprises the ingredient of glucose. The method of the present invention is of simple process, high specificity, good product quality and high yield, and solves the serious environmental pollution problem of the sweet potato dregs, thus having a good industrial application prospect.
US09506095B2
Process for the enzymatic synthesis of the compound of formula (I): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group. Application in the synthesis of ivabradine and addition salts thereof with a pharmaceutically acceptable acid.
US09506092B2
The present invention is related to a recombinant microorganism for improved methionine production comprising modifications to produce methionine from glucose as main carbon source by fermentation, and modifications to improve glucose import, wherein the glucose import is improved by modifying the expression of at least one gene selected from ptsG, sgrT sgrS and dgsA.The invention is also related to a method for the fermentative production of methionine or methionine derivatives comprising the steps of: culturing the recombinant microorganism as described above in an appropriate culture medium comprising a fermentable source of carbon containing glucose and a source of sulphur, and recovering methionine or methionine derivatives from the culture medium.
US09506091B2
The disclosure provides a method for creating a transformant having significantly improved glucaric acid-producing capability and a method for efficiently producing glucaric acid using the transformant.
US09506087B2
The present invention provides host cells having improved sugar utilization or co-utilization, methods of producing host cells having improved sugar utilization or co-utilization, and methods of using host cells having improved sugar utilization or co-utilization. The present invention provides E. coli strains that co-utilize glucose and xylose in the presence of glucose and xylose, wherein the cell produces the product.
US09506085B2
A device comprising at least one electrode and at least one cell such as Anabaena variabilis cyanobacteria disposed on said electrode for producing ammonia. A layer of polymer, such as ion exchange polymer, can be used to help immobilize the cells. Whole cells or partially disrupted cells can be used. A method and a system for producing ammonia, comprising contacting at least one cyanobacteria such as Anabaena variabilis cyanobacteria with a media with an electrochemical perturbation is disclosed. The potential enhances ammonia production.
US09506084B2
Various embodiments of the present invention pertain to methods for biological production of hydrogen. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention pertain to a modular energy system and related methods for producing hydrogen using organic waste as a feed stock.
US09506078B2
The present invention discloses gene targets and methods for the genetic control of lipid accumulation in vegetative (non-seed) portions of plants. Enhanced lipid, e.g. triacylglycerol (TAG), accumulation in vegetative portions of plants may be obtained by down-regulation of activity of At4g24160 or a homolog thereof. Plants, plant parts, seeds comprising down-regulated AT4G24160 activity, or activity of a homolog thereof, are also provided, as well as products prepared therefrom.
US09506075B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to a transgenic bioluminescent plant including an expressible heterologous nucleotide sequence comprising a bacterial LUX operon, which includes LUX A, LUX B, LUX C, LUX D, LUX E, and LUX G genes, wherein the heterologous nucleotide sequence is expressed to render the plant bioluminescent.
US09506071B2
Methods for the fermentative production of four carbon alcohols is provided. Specifically, butanol, preferably isobutanol is produced by the fermentative growth of a recombinant bacterium expressing an isobutanol biosynthetic pathway.
US09506067B2
The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) for inhibiting the expression of the HAMP gene (HAMP gene), comprising an antisense strand having a nucleotide sequence which is less that 30 nucleotides in length, generally 19-25 nucleotides in length, and which is substantially complementary to at least a part of the HAMP gene. The invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising the dsRNA together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; methods for treating diseases caused by HAMP gene expression and the expression of the HAMP gene using the pharmaceutical composition.
US09506066B2
The present invention is directed to the identification of a novel repressor located between ˜1.2 kb to ˜1.6 kb from the translation start site of the IFN-λ1 promoter. The present invention provides a method of using siRNAs against ZEB1 (binds to the repressor region) and BLIMP-1 (binds outside the repressor region) and increases the promoter activity of IFN-λ1 (i.e., increases the production of IFN-λ1 protein). siRNAs against ZEB1 mRNA or BLIMP-1 mRNA increase IFN-λ1 gene activity. There is provided a therapeutic application of siRNAs against ZEB1 and BLIMP-1 mRNAs in treating a mammal (including a human) by increasing the production of IFN-λ1 protein that promotes an anti-viral response as well as treats asthma diseases and colon diseases.
US09506063B2
The invention provides siRNA compositions that (1) interfere with viral replication of human papillomavirus (HPV), herpes simplex virus (HSV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in mucosal tissues, such as genital tissues, and (2) treat fungal infections. The compositions include siRNA molecules that target HPV, complexed with a dendrimer that treats and prevents genital herpes (HSV) and HIV. The compositions also include siRNA molecules that target HPV, complexed with a histidine-lysine (HK) polymer that treats and prevent fungus infection. The combined formulations of siRNA and dendrimer provide treatment of the infections from HPVs, HSVs, and HIVs. The combined formulations of siRNA and HK polymer provide treatment of HPVs and fungus infections.
US09506062B2
Provided herein are methods for the treatment of liver cancer. These methods encompass the administration of a compound comprising a modified oligonucleotide, wherein the modified oligonucleotide is targeted to a miRNA. Also provided herein are compositions for the treatment of liver cancer. Such compositions include compounds comprising a modified oligonucleotide, wherein the modified oligonucleotide is targeted to a miRNA. Certain miRNAs have been identified as overexpressed in liver cancer, such as, for example, hepatocellular carcinoma, and are thus selected for targeting by modified oligonucleotides. Further, certain miRNAs have been identified as overexpressed in hepatocellular carcinoma cells exposed to dioxin, and are thus selected for targeting by modified oligonucleotides. Antisense inhibition of certain of these miRNAs has been found to inhibit cell proliferation and induce apoptosis.
US09506059B2
The invention pertains to modifications for antisense oligonucleotides, wherein the modifications are used to improve stability and provide protection from nuclease degradation. The modifications could also be incorporated into double-stranded nucleic acids, such as synthetic siRNAs and miRNAs.
US09506056B2
Materials and methods for modulating cellular uptake of functionalized nanoparticles are provided. Also provided are materials and methods for modulating the effectiveness of a therapeutic agent with a functionalized nanoparticle.
US09506052B2
The present invention relates to a modified and optimized Factor VIII or Factor IX nucleic acid for inclusion in a chimeric virus vector. Use of such vector can be used for treatment of hemophilia.
US09506047B2
The present invention relates to alpha-amylases, nucleic acids encoding the alpha-amylases, methods of producing the alpha-amylases, and methods of using the alpha-amylases.
US09506045B2
Disclosed are DNA polymerases having increased reverse transcriptase efficiency relative to a corresponding, unmodified polymerase. The polymerases are useful in a variety of disclosed primer extension methods. Also disclosed are related compositions, including recombinant nucleic acids, vectors, and host cells, which are useful, e.g., for production of the DNA polymerases.
US09506043B2
A novel diaphorase; a method for producing the diaphorase; and use of the diaphorase are provided. The diaphorase comprises any one of the following polypeptides (a) to (c): (a) a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, (b) a polypeptide having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 in which one or several amino acid residues are substituted, deleted, inserted, added, and/or inverted, and having diaphorase activity, and (c) a polypeptide having an amino acid sequence with 80% or more identity to the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, and having diaphorase activity.
US09506034B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods comprising cell surface markers for hES-derived cells, in particular, endoderm lineage cells including pancreatic endoderm-type cells, derived from hES cells.
US09506027B2
A hydrogel tissue engineering scaffold having microbubbles dispersed therein is disclosed. Also, a system for cell culturing including a controller and actuator to apply dynamic deformational loading to a hydrogel is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for producing hydrogels with microbubbles and for culturing cells using hydrogels with microbubbles.
US09506024B2
A self-contained circulation system, which supports the formation of capillaries in capillary growth sections and allows the formation of micro organoids and/or micro tissue sections for monitoring the effect of one or more test compounds and determining efficacy, side-effects, biosafety, metabolites, mode of action or organ regeneration as well as methods of establishing such micro organoids and/or micro tissue in the self-contained circulation system.
US09506022B2
A soaped paper which will disaggregate in aqueous liquids comprising: a. cellulose-based fiber pulp: 50-90% by weight; b. disaggregating agent: 30-3% by weight; c. at least one detergent; is described. The preferred disaggregating agent is the sodium salt of carboxymethylcellulose. This paper can be used to wash parts of the body of people or animals; it is also dry, may be available in the form of rolls, does not leave residues which have to be disposed of and is produced using automatic industrial processes.
US09506019B2
Silicone nanoemulsions that include alkylene glycol alkyl ethers. Treatment compositions that include such silicone nanoemulsions. Methods of making such nanoemulsions and treatment compositions.
US09506018B2
An aqueous composition comprising at least one surfactant; a suspending agent comprising micro fibrous cellulose; 10 to 600 ppm of an alkaline earth metal ion, and water. The composition can be used to structure surfactant systems to suspend material in the composition.
US09506010B2
A lubricating oil composition is provided by mixing a lubricant base oil with components (A) to (C) as follows: (A) a tertiary amine represented by a formula (1) below, where: R1 is a hydrocarbon group having 16 to 22 carbon atoms and R2 and R3 independently represent a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 2 carbon atoms, R2 and R3 being adapted to form a heterocyclic ring with terminal ends thereof being bonded; (B) at least one of acid phosphate and acid phosphite; and (C) at least one of metal sulfonate, metal phenate and metal salicylate.
US09506006B2
The present invention provides a composition and a concentrate, comprising: (a) a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity, (b) a quaternary ammonium salt of a hydrocarbyl-substituted acylating agent condensation product, and (c) an optional amount of a succinimide dispersant different from (b), and a use of the composition or concentrate for lubricating an engine. In a further embodiment, the invention provides the use of a quaternary ammonium salt of a hydrocarbyl-substituted acylating agent condensation product as a dispersant in a lubricating composition, and as a synergistic dispersant combination with a different succinimide dispersant.
US09506001B2
The invention provides an emulsification technique which permits the formation of functional oil/water or functional granules/water emulsion systems excellent in thermal stability and long-term stability and which can attain the emulsification independent of required HLB of the functional oils, and the dispersion independent of surface properties of the functional granules. In the technique is used an emulsifying dispersant comprising, as the main component, vesicles formed from an amphiphilic substance capable of self-assembly or an emulsifying dispersant comprising single particles of a biopolymer as the main component. The particles made from amphiphilic substances capable of self-assembly are used. The amphiphilic substances are selected from among polyoxyethylene-hydrogenated castor oil derivatives represented by the general formula (1) wherein the average number of added ethylene oxide molecule is 5 to 15, dialkyldimethyl-ammonium halides wherein the chain length of the alkyl or alkenyl is 8 to 22, and phospholipids or phospholipid derivatives. According to the invention a three-phase structure composed of an aqueous phase, an emulsifying dispersant phase and an oil phase is formed on the surface of an emulsion to give an emulsion (such as emulsion fuel) excellent in thermal stability and long-term stability.
US09505995B2
A slag discharge system that includes: a gasification furnace which thermally decomposes and gasifies a pulverized raw material composed of a carbonaceous solid; a slag hopper which is provided at a bottom portion of the gasification furnace and receives slag produced from the pulverized raw material and in which cooling water is stored; a lock hopper which temporarily stores the slag outside of the gasification furnace; and a slag discharge line which makes the slag hopper communicate with the lock hopper. The lock hopper is disposed to the side of the gasification furnace, and the slag discharge system is provided with a water flow forming apparatus for forming a flow of the cooling water which allows the slag to be led to the lock hopper in the slag discharge line.
US09505994B2
An effective amount of at least one antifoulant may be added into a hydrocarbon fluid having at least one potentially fouling causing-component for reducing the fouling by the potentially fouling causing-component(s) as compared to an otherwise identical hydrocarbon fluid absent the antifoulant(s). The hydrocarbon fluid may be present within a location, such as but not limited to an ebullated bed hydrocracking unit feed, a separator, a vacuum distillation column, an atmospheric distillation column, and combinations thereof. The antifoulant(s) may have or include a hydrocarbon backbone attached to at least a first functional group. The hydrocarbon backbone may be or include, but is not limited to, an poly(alpha-olefin), a polyisobutylene, an ethylene-propylene copolymer, a styrene-butadiene copolymer, a polymethyl acrylate, a polyacrylate, and combinations thereof. The first functional group(s) may be polar functional group(s).
US09505993B2
A process for the concomitant production of at least two hydrocarbon cuts with low sulphur contents from a mixture of hydrocarbons having a total sulphur content in the range 30 to 10000 ppm by weight, by a) hydrodesulphurization in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrodesulphurization catalyst; b) separating hydrogen sulphide from the partially desulphurized effluent obtained from a); c) hydrodesulphurization of the partially desulphurized mixture obtained from b) in the presence of hydrogen and a hydrodesulphurization catalyst, the temperature of the second hydrodesulphurization being higher than that of the first hydrodesulphurization; d) fractionating the desulphurized mixture obtained in c) into at least two desulphurized hydrocarbon cuts.
US09505989B2
A bitumen stream is upgraded by heating to near-critical or super-critical conditions in the stream. The bitumen stream may be from a water-based extraction process, an in situ bitumen recovery process, or a solvent-based bitumen extraction process. To achieve an appropriate feed stream composition, water and/or clay may be added. The clay offers a catalytic effect. To achieve an appropriate feed stream composition, water may alternatively be removed.
US09505983B2
An adjustable chargehole closure for adjusting the closure cover of a charging hole in a coking oven chamber. The adjustable chargehole closure has as an inner frame for a closure cover, and the frame can be rotated both with respect to the closure cover and with respect to an outer frame, designed asymmetrically with respect to a vertical plane, so that the closure cover is displaced along a longitudinal axis when the inner frame is rotated in the horizontal plane. The position of the charging hole opening and the closure cover present therein on the ceiling of a coking oven chamber can thereby be changed without requiring construction measures on the ceiling of a coking oven chamber. The capability is in particular advantageous in order to match the position of the charging hole cover to the precise charging position of the charging machine.
US09505975B2
Provided is a color filter array panel. The color filter array panel according to exemplary embodiments of the present invention includes: a substrate; a color filter disposed on the substrate and including a colorant including at least one of a pigment and a dye, and a solid fluorescent material; and a light source unit supplying light to the color filter, in which the solid fluorescent material is an aggregation induced emission enhancement (AIEE) material of which a liquid state is solidified to increase fluorescence efficiency.
US09505971B2
The current invention provides a method to form a stable blend of polyacrylamide water-in-oil emulsion and breaker surfactants such as silicon polyether copolymer and linear or branched alcohol ethoxylate surfactants. The composition can be employed, for example, as a friction reducing additive for water based fracturing fluid, or a drilling mud additive.
US09505968B2
Compositions containing 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and to the uses thereof as heat transfer fluid, expansion agents, solvents and aerosol. Compositions essentially containing between 10 and 90 wt. % of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, between 5 and 80 wt. % of HFC-134a and between 5 and 10 wt. % of HFC-32. Compositions essentially containing from 10 to 45% by weight of 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, from 50 to 80% by weight of HFC-134a and from 5 to 10% by weight of HFC-32.
US09505955B1
The present invention will provide adhesive technology adapted to adhere indefinitely to a surface without leaving a residue or sticky mess after removal. The self-preloading force provided by the electrostatic adhesion enables the present invention to be used in applications where directly applying a preload is not possible. Furthermore, the combination of electrostatic forces and Van der Waals forces allows electro-dry-adhesives to adhere to surfaces where traditional dry adhesives and electrostatic devices fail.
US09505951B2
[Problem] Provided is a polishing composition that can sufficiently maintain a high polishing rate for a barrier layer and an insulating film and suppress the occurrence of a surface defect such as erosion or fang.[Solution] Provided is a polishing composition which is used in the application to polish a polishing object having a barrier layer, a metal wiring layer and an insulating film, the polishing composition including abrasive grains, an oxidant, a metal corrosion inhibitor, a pH adjusting agent and water, in which an aspect ratio of abrasive grains is 1.22 or less and a ratio D90/D10 of a diameter D90 of particles when a cumulative particle weight from the fine particle side reaches 90% of the total particle weight to a diameter D10 of particles when the cumulative particle weight from the fine particle side reaches 10% of the total particle weight of the entire particles is 1.5 or more in a particle size distribution of the abrasive grains determined by a laser diffraction scattering method.
US09505950B2
A polishing composition includes a water-soluble polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 1000000 or less and a molecular weight distribution represented by weight average molecular weight (Mw)/number average molecular weight (Mn) that is less than 5.0. The polishing composition is mainly used in an application for polishing a substrate, preferably in an application for performing final polishing on a substrate.
US09505948B2
A thermally decomposable polymer composition comprising a polyester containing repeating units of an ester of diglycolic acid and difunctional tertiary alcohol are disclosed, which are useful in the forming of microelectronic assemblies. A representative example of a composition comprises a thermally decomposable polymer of the formula: wherein n is at least about 20, which provides both tackiness and solder fluxing, among other benefits.
US09505945B2
The present invention relates to a novel diblock copolymer comprising a repeat unit (1) and a repeat unit (2), where R1 is hydrogen or C1-C4 alkyl, R2 is selected from a group chosen from hydrogen, C1-C4 alkyl, C1-C4 alkoxy and halide, R3 is selected from a group chosen from hydrogen, C1-C4 alkyl and C1-C4 fluoroalkyl, and R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R11, and R12 are independently chosen from a C1-C4 alkyl and n=1-6. The invention also relates to a novel composition comprising the novel polymer and a solvent. The invention further relates to a process utilizing the novel composition for affecting directed self-assembly of the block copolymer.
US09505940B2
An ink composition that performs recording by being attached on a heated non-absorbent recording medium or a heated low absorbency recording medium, the ink composition including a pigment; a core polymer and a shell polymer that covers at least a portion of the core polymer, and polymer particles in which the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the core polymer is more than 10° C. lower than the glass transition point of the polymer that configures the shell polymer, and in which the polymer that configures the shell polymer includes a polymer having a (meth)acrylate monomer unit and a carboxylic acid monomer unit, and the content of the polymer particles is 3.0 mass % or more with respect to the total amount of the ink composition.
US09505936B1
Several low observable aqueously dispersed polymeric materials with dual cure properties utilizing both ambient and UV curing modalities are provided. Compositions are suitable for coating a substrate such as those used in military, hunting, or other applications for which low visibility is desired. A water dispersible low observable curable composition includes an aqueously dispersed hydroxyl functional polyurethane resin, an aqueously dispersed urethane acrylate resin; and one or more low solar absorbing pigments. In some embodiments, the acrylate resin present at less than 50% total resin weight. Preferred pigments include those that are cobalt free, do not absorb significant UV radiation during cure, and provide reduced surface temperature resulting in low IR signature. Illustrative pigments include chromium oxide green, magnesium ferrite, red iron oxide (Fe2O3), black iron oxide (Fe3O4), zinc ferrite (ZnFe2O4), or combinations thereof.
US09505934B2
A super-hydrorepellent coating composition including a nano structure, polyorganosiloxane, a cross-linker, and a catalyst; a super-hydrorepellent coating layer including a cured product of the super-hydrorepellent coating composition; and a heat exchanger including the super-hydrorepellent coating layer.
US09505929B2
Disclosed is a polycarbonate-based thermoplastic composition comprising (A) a polycarbonate resin, (B) a rubber-modified acrylic graft copolymer resin and (C) a copolymer resin comprising a silicone-based compound. The polycarbonate based thermoplastic resin composition has superior fluidity without decrease of impact strength and heat resistance due to introduction of a copolymer comprising a silicone-based compound into a polycarbonate resin.
US09505928B2
A fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin molded article includes 5 to 40 parts by weight of carbon fibers (A), 1 to 40 parts by weight of organic fibers (B), and 20 to 94 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin (C) based on 100 parts by weight of the total amount of the carbon fibers (A), the organic fibers (B), and the thermoplastic resin (C), wherein the carbon fibers (A) have an average fiber length (LA) of 0.3 to 1.5 mm, and an average straight-line distance between two edges of a single fiber (DA), and the organic fibers (B) have an average fiber length (LB) of 1.5 to 4 mm.
US09505916B2
In a gel-like mass having natural or synthetic polymers, preferably polygalactomannans, at least one cross-linking agent and further ingredients, according to this invention that the at least one cross-linking agent is of amphiphilic core-shell nanoparticles. This invention further refers to a method for producing a gel-like mass, a composition for producing a gel-like mass comprising natural or synthetic polymers, preferably polygalactomannans and amphiphilic core-shell nanoparticles and the use of a gel-like mass as drug delivery system for topical medication.
US09505908B2
Disclosed are a plasticizer that, when used for a heat-resistant resin composition, improves elongation retention, enhances aging resistance and heat resistance, and exhibits superior tensile strength, tensile strength retention, heating loss or the like before and after heating, thus contributing to enhancement in physical properties of the heat-resistant resin, a plasticizer composition, a heat-resistant resin composition and a method for preparing the same.
US09505906B1
A polymer composition may include polyolefin having a molecular weight distribution of greater than or equal to 8 as measured by GPC and a metallic acrylate salt. The polymer composition may be characterized by one or more of: a melt flow rate of from 0.1 g/10 min to 10 g/10 min; a melt flow viscosity between 2,000 Pa·s and 6,000 Pa·s; a die swell of between 2 and 8; and a die swell characteristic time of between 0.3 seconds and 1.2 seconds. The polymer composition may be in the form of foam. A process of forming foam may include supplying polymer composition including metallic acrylate salt and polyolefin resin, and mixing the polymer composition with foaming agent. A foam may include a polymer composition that includes polyolefin and polar polymer and does not include an ionomer. The foam may have a foam density of less than 0.25 g/cc.
US09505899B2
The present invention discloses a method for preparing a microporous polyolefin film comprising: a step of injecting a composition comprising polyolefin 30 to 60 wt % and a diluent, which can make liquid-liquid phase separation with the polyolefin thermodynamically 40 to 70 wt %, into an extruding machine, and melting and kneading thereof to prepare a single phase melt; and a step of extruding the melt while conducting liquid-liquid phase separation by passing through a section having the temperature below the liquid-liquid phase separation temperature and forming thereof in the form of a sheet, and a microporous polyolefin film prepared according to the method.
US09505895B2
The present invention relates to the use of nitrogenous compounds of formula (I) or of corresponding quaternized, or protonated compounds, for producing polyurethanes, to compositions containing these compounds and also to polyurethane systems obtained using the compounds.
US09505893B2
This disclosure relates to caps and closures manufactured from an ethylene interpolymer product, or a blend containing an ethylene interpolymer product, where the ethylene interpolymer product has: a Dilution Index (Yd) greater than 0; total catalytic metal ≧3.0 ppm; ≧0.03 terminal vinyl unsaturations per 100 carbon atoms, and; optionally a Dimensionless Modulus (Xd) greater than 0. The ethylene interpolymer products have a melt index from about 0.4 to about 20 dg/minute, a density from about 0.948 to about 0.968 g/cm3, a polydispersity (Mw/Mn) from about 2 to about 25 and a CDBI50 from about 54% to about 98%. Further, the ethylene interpolymer products are a blend of at least two ethylene interpolymers; where one ethylene interpolymer is produced with a single-site catalyst formulation and at least one ethylene interpolymer is produced with a heterogeneous catalyst formulation.
US09505882B2
Hydroxypolyamides, hydroxypolyamide products, and post-hydroxypolyamides are disclosed as gel forming agents. Hydroxypolyamides and post-hydroxypolyamides are prepared from known methods. Hydroxypolyamide products are produced from a modified polymerization procedure which utilizes strong base for deprotonation of ammonium salts from the esterification of stoichiometrically equivalent polyacid:polyamine salts. The hydroxypolyamide products are capable of gel formation at lower concentrations than hydroxypolyamides and post-hydroxypolyamides from the known methods of preparation, and are therefore superior gel forming agents.
US09505880B2
A method of synthesizing urethane-free polyfunctional acrylate compounds. The method includes reaction of a polyol with acrylic acid in the presence of an inhibitor. A catalyst may also be present. The catalyst may be an acid and the inhibitor may be a substituted phenol compound. Excess acid may be removed by adding a salt and excess water may be removed by adding a drying agent. The reaction converts alcohol groups of the polyol to acrylate groups to provide a radiation-curable polyfunctional acrylate compound. The reaction is applicable to polyols generally and provides a scalable high yield process for forming urethane-free polyfunctional acrylates over a wide range of molecular weights. Coatings made from the acrylate products exhibit modulus and tensile strength characteristics favorable for primary fiber coatings.
US09505872B2
A polymerizable composition for an optical material containing tolylene diisocyanate, hexamethylene diisocyanate, and one or more polythiol compounds selected from the group consisting of 4-mercaptomethyl-1,8-dimercapto-3,6-dithiaoctane, 4,8-, 4,7- or 5,7-dimercaptomethyl-1,11-dimercapto-3,6,9-trithiaundecane, pentaerythritol tetrakismercaptoacetate, pentaerythritol tetrakismercaptopropionate, 2,5-bis(mercaptomethyl)-1,4-dithiane, bis(mercaptoethyl)sulfide, 1,1,3,3-tetrakis(mercaptomethylthio)propane, 4,6-bis(mercaptomethylthio)-1,3-dithiane and 2-(2,2-bis(mercaptomethylthio)ethyl)-1,3-dithietane.
US09505867B2
The invention features a triblock copolymer including a hydrophilic block; a hydrophobic block; and a positively charged block capable of reversibly complexing a negatively charged molecule, e.g., a nucleic acid, wherein the hydrophobic block is disposed between the hydrophilic block and the positively charged block. Desirably, the triblock copolymer is capable of self-assembling into a supramolecular structure, such as a micelle or vesicle. The invention further features methods of delivering negatively charged molecules and methods of treating a disease or condition using the polymers of the invention.
US09505847B2
Compositions and methods for the treatment or prevention of Clostridium difficile infection in a subject are provided. The compositions comprise antibodies to Clostridium difficile toxin A. The methods provide for administering the antibodies to a subject in an amount effective to reduce or eliminate or prevent relapse from Clostridium difficile bacterial infection.
US09505845B2
The present invention provides isolated monoclonal antibodies, particularly human monoclonal antibodies, that specifically bind to PTK7 with high affinity. Nucleic acid molecules encoding the antibodies of the invention, expression vectors, host cells and methods for expressing the antibodies of the invention are also provided. Immunoconjugates, bispecific molecules and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies of the invention are also provided. The invention also provides methods for detecting PTK7, as well as methods for treating various diseases, including cancer and infectious diseases, using anti-PTK7 antibodies.
US09505831B2
The disclosure provides novel antibodies against growth and differentiation factor-8 (GDF-8), including antibody fragments, which inhibit GDF-8 activity in vitro and in vivo. The disclosure also provides methods for diagnosing, preventing, or treating degenerative disorders of muscle, bone, or insulin metabolism.
US09505830B2
The present invention reveals human recombinant antibodies that recognize the human Vascular Endothelium Growth Factor A (VEGF-A), block its interaction with the VEGFR2 receptor, and interfere with its proliferative effect in vitro and pro-angiogenic effect in vivo. The antibodies identify an epitope on human VEGF-A different from any other previously reported, and were obtained by combining one immunoglobulin light chain variable region with other three heavy chain ones. The antibodies were obtained by human immunoglobulin variable region mutagenesis, and can be employed for the immunotherapy of pathological entities associated with an increase in vasculature, such as age-related macular degeneration, cancer, and others.
US09505827B2
The invention discloses methods for the generation of chimaeric human-non-human antibodies and chimaeric antibody chains, antibodies and antibody chains so produced, and derivatives thereof including fully humanized antibodies; compositions comprising said antibodies, antibody chains and derivatives, as well as cells, non-human mammals and vectors, suitable for use in said methods.
US09505825B2
Improved delivery of zinc using haptocorrin or intrinsic factor modified to include a zinc binding sequence that can outcompete dietary zinc inhibitors such as phytin. Known zinc binding sequences can be assayed to determine competitiveness with respect to phytin and, if successful, incorporated into the B12 binding site of haptocorrin or intrinsic factor. Thus a method of producing functional human haptocorrin or intrinsic factor which binds to zinc includes the steps of modifying human TCN1 or GIF to comprise one or more zinc-binding site sequences, constructing a vector containing the modified human TCN1 or GIF sequence, and introducing the vector into a host cell for a time and under conditions sufficient for expression of the functional human haptocorrin or intrinsic factor. The resulting zinc binding complex can be orally administered to zinc deficient individuals to improve the amount of dietary zinc available to the individuals.
US09505821B2
Disclosed herein are nucleic acid sequences that encode pro-apoptotic polypeptides. Also disclosed are polypeptides encoded by these nucleic acid sequences, and antibodies, which immunospecifically-bind to the polypeptide, as well as derivatives, variants, mutants, or fragments of the aforementioned polypeptide, polynucleotide, or antibody. The invention further discloses therapeutic, diagnostic and research methods for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of proliferative disorders and bacterial infections using the nucleic acids and proteins of the invention.
US09505819B2
Disclosed is a panel of biomarkers associated with angiogenesis, and the use of such biomarkers (genes, proteins, homologues and analogs thereof) to regulate angiogenesis. Methods for identifying compounds useful for regulating angiogenesis and conditions related thereto are disclosed.
US09505811B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for manipulating the exchange of water and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) through plant stomata by controlling CO2 sensor genes. The invention provides compositions and methods for enhancing or optimizing biomass accumulation in a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for opening or closing a stomatal pore on a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant. The invention provides compositions and methods for increasing or decreasing oxygenation efficiency and/or carbon fixation in a guard cell in the epidermis of a plant by manipulating expression of a ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase. The invention provides promoters for regulating expression of a nucleic acid in a plant guard cell.
US09505804B2
Provided herein are peptidomimetic macrocycles containing amino acid sequences with at least two modified amino acids that form an intramolecular cross-link that can help to stabilize a secondary structure of the amino acid sequence. Suitable sequences for stabilization include those with homology to the p53 protein. These sequences can bind to the MDM2 and/or MDMX proteins. Also provided herein are methods of using such macrocycles for the treatment of diseases and disorders, such as cancers or other disorders characterized by a low level or low activity of a p53 protein or high level of activity of a MDM2 and/or MDMX protein.
US09505803B2
The invention provides a washing method for affinity chromatography in which a wash solution comprising arginine, or an arginine derivative, and a nonbuffering salt, preferably at high pH, greater than 8.0, is effective in removing impurities, such as high molecular weight species and host cell proteins, while also increasing product concentration in the eluate and maintaining a high percent yield of recovered product.
US09505801B2
The present invention provides novel stabilized crosslinked compounds having secondary structure motifs, libraries of these novel compounds, and methods for the synthesis of these compounds libraries thereof. The synthesis of these novel stabilized compounds involves (1) synthesizing a peptide from a selected number of natural or non-natural amino acids, wherein the peptide comprises at least two moieties capable of undergoing reaction to promote carbon-carbon bond formation; and (2) contacting the peptide with a reagent to generate at least one crosslinker and to effect stabilization of a secondary structure motif. The present invention, in a preferred embodiment, provides stabilized p53 donor helical peptides. Additionally, the present invention provides methods for disrupting the p53/MDM2 binding interaction comprising (1) providing a crosslinked stabilized α-helical structure; and (2) contacting the crosslinked stabilized α-helical structure with MDM2.
US09505800B2
The present invention concerns novel pharmaceutically active triterpene derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, their use as medicaments, and the use of the compounds for the manufacture of specific medicaments. The present invention also concerns a method of treatment involving administration of the compounds. Specifically, the compounds are derivatives of betulinic acid having substitutions at one or more of the C-3, C2-8 and C-19 positions as further described herein. The novel compounds are useful as antiretroviral agents. In particular, the novel compounds are useful for the treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
US09505793B2
The present invention relates to azine metal phosphates, compositions containing the same, a process for preparing the same and their use as flame retardants. Typical representatives are (A-H)(+)[MtPO4](+).2H2O and (Mel-H)(+)[AlP2O7](+) (where A=melamine or guanidine, Mel=melamine and Mt=Mg or Zn).
US09505790B2
The invention relates to novel silane compounds corresponding to the following formula (I): A-E-X (I) in which: X represents a silylated group which makes possible the covalent attachment of the silane compound to the hydroxyl or hydride functional groups of a support; E represents an organic spacer group; A represents a group capable of releasing an —OH functional group by acid hydrolysis, the said —OH functional group, after the said hydrolysis, being covalently bonded to E. Use of these silane compounds for functionalizing solid supports and for immobilizing biological molecules on these supports.
US09505780B2
The invention relates to methods of treating diseases including but not limited to, cancer, non-cancer proliferative disease, sepsis, autoimmune disease, viral infaction, atheroscleosis, Type 1 or 2 diabetes, obesity, inflammatory disease, or Myc-depenent disorder including by modulating biological processes by the inhibition of PI3 kinase and/or bromodomain protein binding to substrates composing the administration of a compound(s) of Formula I-IX (or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof) as defined herein.
US09505777B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing anhydrous sugar alcohol, and more particularly, to a cheap and highly efficient method for preparing anhydrous sugar alcohol having a high final purity of at least 99%, and having good ion content, pH, conductivity, and color properties. According to the method, a hydrogenated sugar is dehydrated so as to be transformed into anhydrous sugar alcohol, and a series of processes including distillation, crystallization, decoloration, and ion exchange resin treatment are conducted.
US09505774B2
Provided are Icotinib maleate (the compound of Formula I) and polymorph forms thereof, and methods of preparing and using them.
US09505773B2
Novel rapamycin analogues and methods for their production with FKBP and/or MIP inhibitory activity with reduced mTOR inhibitory activity with therapeutic potential e.g. as bacterial virulence inhibitors.
US09505768B2
Provided herein, inter alia, are methods and compositions for modulating TLR-4.
US09505760B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula 1 as potential phosphodiesterase3 (PDE3) inhibitory agents and a process for the preparation thereof. The derivatives of formula 1 can be employed as therapeutics in human and veterinary medicine, where they can be used, for the treatment and prophylaxis of the following diseases: heart failure, dilated cardiomyopathy, platelet inhibitors, cancer and obstructive pulmonary diseases.
US09505754B2
A compound is disclosed that has a formula represented by the following: This compound may be prepared as a pharmaceutical composition, and may be used for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, inflammatory conditions, autoimmune diseases, proliferative diseases, transplantation rejection, diseases involving impairment of cartilage turnover, congenital cartilage malformations, and/or diseases associated with hypersecretion of IL6.
US09505751B2
Provided herein are substituted triazolopyrazine phosphodiesterase inhibitors, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, useful for the treatment of, for example, central nervous system and metabolic diseases and disorder.
US09505750B2
The invention relates to antibacterial compounds of formula I wherein one or two of U, V, W, and X represent N, the rest represent CH or, in the case of X, may also represent CRa wherein Ra is fluorine; R1 represents alkoxy, halogen or cyano; R2 represents H, CH2OH, CH2N3, CH2NH2, alkylcarbonylaminomethyl or triazol-1-ylmethyl; R3 represents H, or, when n is 1, R3 may also represent OH, NH2, NHCOR6 or triazol-1-yl; A represents CR4; K represents O, NH, OCH2, NHCO, NHCH2, CH2NH, CH2CH2, CH═CH, CHOHCHOH or CHR5; R4 represents H or together with R5 forms a bond, or also R4 can represent OH when K is not O, NH, OCH2 or NHCO; R5 represents OH or together with R4 forms a bond; R6 represents alkyl; m is 0 or 1 and n is 0 or 1; and G is as defined in the description; and to salts of such compounds.
US09505748B2
Compounds having the following formula I: or a stereoisomer or pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, where R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are as defined herein, are useful in the modulation of IL-12, IL-23 and/or IFNa, by acting on Tyk-2 to cause signal transduction inhibition.
US09505747B2
The invention described herein pertains to processes for preparing tubulysin derivatives, conjugates of tubulysins, and intermediates therefore. In one illustrative embodiment of the invention, processes for derivatives or analogs of natural tubulysins including compounds of formula (T). In another embodiment, vitamin receptor binding conjugates of tubulysins are described. The processes include one or more steps described herein. In another embodiment, a process is described for preparing a compound of formula B, wherein R5 and R6 are as described in the various embodiments herein, such as each being independently selected from optionally substituted alkyl or optionally substituted cycloalkyl; and R8 is C1-C6 n-alkyl; wherein the process comprises the step of treating a compound of formula A with a silylating agent, such as triethylsilyl chloride, and a base, such as imidazole in an aprotic solvent.
US09505745B2
This invention relates to novel compounds according to Formula (I) which are inhibitors of Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 (EZH2), to pharmaceutical compositions containing them, to processes for their preparation, and to their use in therapy for the treatment of cancers.
US09505730B2
The present invention is directed to compounds of the Formula I as well as pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are potentially useful for treating aldosterone-mediated diseases. The invention furthermore relates to processes for preparing compounds of the Formula I, to their possible use in the treatment of the abovementioned diseases and for preparing pharmaceuticals for this purpose, and to pharmaceutical compositions which comprise compounds of the Formula I.
US09505729B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to N-((arylamino)alkyl)-5-arylisoxazole-3-carboxamide analogs, derivatives thereof, and related compounds, which are useful as mediators of transcriptional induction of E-cadherin; synthesis methods for making the compounds; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating disorders associated with E-cadherin activity using the compounds and compositions. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US09505725B2
Disclosed is (S)-2-(4-chlorophenyl)-1-(4-((5R,7R)-7-hydroxy-5-methyl-6,7-dihydro-5H-cyclopenta[d]pyrimidin-4-yl)piperazin-1-yl)-3-(isopropylamino)propan-1-one monohydrochloride, forms, formulations, pharmaceutical compositions, processes of manufacturing and methods of use thereof.
US09505722B2
Provided herein are compounds useful for the treatment of HBV infection in a subject in need thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of inhibiting, suppressing, or preventing HBV infection in the subject.
US09505715B2
Methods and systems for on-site generation of peracid chemistry, namely peroxycarboxylic acids and peroxycarboxylic acid forming compositions, are disclosed. In particular, an adjustable biocide formulator or generator system is designed for on-site generation of peroxycarboxylic acids and peroxycarboxylic acid forming compositions from sugar esters. Methods of using the in situ generated peroxycarboxylic acids and peroxycarboxylic acid forming compositions are also disclosed.
US09505711B2
The invention relates to a method for purifying mixtures comprising 4,4′-methylenediphenyl diisocyanate, which comprises purifying by distillation a mixture I comprising 4,4′-methylenediphenyl diisocyanate having a hydrolyzable chlorine content as specified in ASTM D4663-10 of greater than 100 ppm by means of a column K1, wherein the gaseous stream comprising the mixture I is brought into contact in the column K1 with at least one liquid compound A which has the same or higher boiling point than 4,4′-methylenediphenyl diisocyanate and which has a hydrolyzable chlorine content as specified in ASTM D4663-10 of a maximum of 100 ppm, and wherein the gaseous stream O obtained at the top of the column comprises 4,4′-methylenediphenyl diisocyanate has a hydrolyzable chlorine content as specified in ASTM D4663-10 of a maximum of 100 ppm.
US09505710B2
Compounds of formula I are provided: R1 is an alkoxy or O(CH2)pX, p is an integer from 2 to 3 and X is OH, NH2, or CO2H, m is an integer from 0 to 5, n is an integer from 0 to 5, each R2 is independently selected from hydrogen, alkenyl, hydroxyalkyl, alkoxymethyl, heterocyclyl, hetereocyclylmethyl, amino, amido, hydroxamido, any of which may be optionally substituted with one or more of acyl, alkyl, alkoxy, hydroxyalkyl, or halogen, each R3 is independently selected from hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkenyl, carboxy, hydroxymethyl, amido, and at least one of R2 and R3 is not hydrogen.
US09505708B2
The invention relates to a new process for the production and/or purification of the salt of the compound (S)-2-[4-(2-fluorobenzyloxy) benzylamino]propanamide, i.e. ralfinamide, or the respective R-enantiomer, with methane sulfonic acid in high yields and very high enantiomeric and chemical purity in the form of the crystalline anhydrous polymorph identified as form A, wherein said salt is substantially free from impurities having genotoxic effect, such as (C1-C5)alkanylmethanesulfonates, and residual solvents known as potential precursors thereof, such as (C1-C5)alkanols or esters thereof with lower alkanoic acids.
US09505701B2
Alkyl esters (butyl, hexyl, or other) of full composition palm fatty acids, palm fatty acid distillates (PFAD), and palm kernel fatty acid distillates (PKFAD) can be used to generate polyurethane and lubricant products. The alkyl esters of the present invention can be produced via ozonolysis. The improved method for producing alkyl esters includes reacting at least one substance having at least one carbon-to-carbon double bond with ozone in the presence of least one monoalcohol that azeotropes with water. In particular, the method may comprise reacting with at least one first mole of ozone and at least one second mole of ozone, and further comprises refluxing before addition of the second mole of ozone.
US09505688B2
A process for the preparation of a variety of high purity norbornene alkanol monomers and their derivatives is disclosed and claimed. Specifically, a process for the preparation of industrial scale high purity norbornene methanol and its silyl ether derivative is disclosed and claimed. The high purity monomers prepared in accordance with the process of this invention are useful in a variety of applications including but not limited to the preparation of high quality and high purity polynorbornenes having utility in a variety of electronic applications, among various other applications.
US09505685B2
The invention provides an olefin oligomerization process comprising the steps of: i) reducing the level of nitriles in an olefin feed by contacting the feed with a guard bed comprising gamma alumina having a surface area greater than 250 m2/g; and ii) contacting the olefin feed obtained in step i) with an oligomerization catalyst under conditions suitable to oligomerize the olefins in the feed; wherein the gamma alumina used in step i) has been obtained from needle shaped boehmite.
US09505680B2
An apparatus and method are provided for processing hydrocarbon feeds. The method enhances the conversion of hydrocarbon feeds into ethylene. In particular, the present techniques expose feed containing hydrocarbons to high-severity operating conditions in a pyrolysis reactor and separate the reactor product from the reactor into a first product having hydrogen and a second product including ≧90 mole percent of the acetylene in the reactor product. Then, the second product is reacted with a catalyst in a converter to form ethylene.
US09505672B2
Olefins are produced by the reductive dehydroxylation of vicinal polyols or esters thereof, or a combination thereof, in a liquid reaction medium, under a hydrogen atmosphere, at a temperature from 50° C. to 250° C., in the presence of a halogen-based, preferably iodine-based, catalyst. Examples of the catalyst, which may be included independently or generated in situ, are iodine (I2), hydroiodic acid (HI), iodic acid (HIO3), lithium iodide (LiI), and combinations thereof.
US09505670B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of an olefinic product comprising ethylene and/or propylene from an oxygenate comprising: a) an oxygenate conversion step wherein a gaseous effluent comprising olefins is obtained; b) separation of water from the effluent; c) compression of the effluent; d) acid gas removal from the effluent wherein the water-depleted compressed gaseous effluent is treated with a caustic solution in a caustic tower and a non-aqueous liquid stream comprising one or more aromatic C7+ hydrocarbons is added to the caustic solution to control the formation of red oil; and e) separating the olefinic product from the gaseous effluent treated in step d).
US09505668B2
The present invention provides a process for producing a fuel and a byproduct from biomass or biomass derived material. The invention comprises providing a processed biomass feedstock and carrying out or causing one or more parties to subject the processed biomass feedstock to gasification to produce carbon monoxide and hydrogen and cresylic acid and recovering the cresylic acid or a portion thereof. The processed biomass feedstock may be co-gasified with coal. The hydrogen from the gasification may be recovered or the carbon monoxide and hydrogen may be further reacted to produce a fuel or fuel intermediate. One or more products obtained from the process are provided, for use as, or to produce a transportation or heating fuel. The invention may allow for advantaged fuel credit generation.
US09505664B2
The present invention relates to an inorganic liquid nutritive composition comprising at least one aqueous phase, a polyphosphate and at least one source of iron as micronutrient, having a Ppoly/Fetotal molar ratio of between 5 and 50.
US09505655B2
A coating composition including a reinforcing agent. The coating composition may include one or more radiation-curable monofunctional monomers, one or more radiation-curable multifunctional monomers or oligomers, a photoinitiator, and a reinforcing agent. The monofunctional monomers, multifunctional monomers, and multifunctional oligomers may include acrylate groups. The reinforcing agent may be an acrylic co-polymer that includes two or more repeat units. At least one of the repeat units includes chemical groups that enable self-association of the acrylic co-polymer. Self-association of the acrylic co-polymer may improve the tensile strength of coatings formed from the coating compositions.
US09505654B2
A method for strengthening a glass article. The method includes exposing a selected area of the glass article to a beam of electromagnetic radiation in order to diffuse first alkali metal ions in the selected area out of the glass article and to diffuse second alkali metal ions on a surface of the glass article and in the selected area into the glass article. The second alkali metal ions are larger than the first alkali metal ions. The beam of electromagnetic radiation heats first alkali metal ions and the second alkali metal ions to a temperature that is greater than that of a glass network of the glass article.
US09505645B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a vacuum degassing apparatus configured so as to be capable of carrying out more simply exchange operation for an extension pipe made of heat-resisting metal and immersed in molten glass.The present invention includes a vacuum housing, a vacuum vessel, an introduction pipe and a discharge pipe which are assembled by a plurality of bricks, and an extension pipe connected to at least one of the introduction pipe and the discharge pipe and made of heat-resisting metal. The extension pipe is constituted by a base end portion, a body portion formed so as to be continuous to the base end portion, and a sealing flange extending from an outer peripheral side of the body portion.
US09505644B2
Methods and systems are provided for treating wastewater to simultaneously remove nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorus. The process includes an anoxic tank that receives at least two streams, including plant influent wastewater and return activated sludge. These streams are mixed in the anoxic tank to promote phosphorus release and fermentation of particulate and dissolved organic matter. The mixed liquor is transferred to an aerated tank having low dissolved oxygen concentrations to promote development of phosphorus-release bacteria that is eventually recycled to the anoxic tank by way of the return activated sludge. Simultaneous nitrification, denitrification, and phosphorus release occur in the aerated tank. A membrane tank separates treated effluent from activated sludge in a membrane tank.
US09505641B2
A method for decontaminating a liquid having sulfides includes preparing a stabilized sodium percarbonate solution. In an embodiment, the method includes decontaminating a liquid. The liquid comprises reactive sulfides. The method also includes preparing a stabilized sodium percarbonate solution, which includes adding sodium percarbonate to a liquid solution. The liquid solution comprises a peroxide stabilizer and an acid. The method further includes dosing the liquid into the stabilized sodium percarbonate solution to decontaminate the liquid by oxidizing at least a portion of the reactive sulfides, wherein at least a portion of the reactive sulfides comprise solids.
US09505634B2
The present invention provides a “warning device dedicated for replacing aged-filter in a handheld showerhead”, which comprises a showerhead stem, an impeller mount, an impeller, a signal circuit device and a transparent lid. The showerhead stem includes an upper adapting section, a lower adapting section, and a mounting cavity for containing parts of impeller and signal circuit device. With upper adapting section and lower adapting section, the warning device can be easily sandwiched between showerhead and filter cylinder of conventional “handheld showerhead with built-in filter”. Other than inherent measuring display for quantity of shower water and alerting function for timely replacing filter cartridge, the warning device also solves all issues of “top-heavy awkwardness”, “quickened aging fatigue” and “redundant purchase waste”, which happened in the prior arts of “handheld showerhead with filter replacing pre-alarm device” or “handheld showerhead with filter replacing pre-display device” and conventional “handheld showerhead with built-in filter”.
US09505632B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to using cobalt (Co) to fine tune the magnetic properties, such as permeability and magnetic loss, of nickel-zinc ferrites to improve the material performance in electronic applications. The method comprises replacing nickel (Ni) with sufficient Co+2 such that the relaxation peak associated with the Co+2 substitution and the relaxation peak associated with the nickel to zinc (Ni/Zn) ratio are into near coincidence. When the relaxation peaks overlap, the material permeability can be substantially maximized and magnetic loss substantially minimized. The resulting materials are useful and provide superior performance particularly for devices operating at the 13.56 MHz ISM band.
US09505628B2
This disclosure provides a facial green method for metal cyanides preparation, including the following steps: 1) supported metal nanoparticles and Fenton's reagent are mixed with nitrile and then stirred to obtain suspension, wherein metal nanoparticles are selected from a nano metal, nano metal oxide and nano metal salt; 2) centrifuging the suspension to obtain a product and drying the product after stirring to obtain the metal cyanides. As prepared metal cyanides have broad application prospects in the fields of sensor, battery, medicine, electroplating and catalysis. This Fenton-improved cyanation (FIC) method may effectively exclude the toxicity from free cyanide anions and get rid of UV-light, being more energy-saving and more feasible for large-scale industrial production of MCs.
US09505621B2
A method for producing carbon nanotubes having specific lengths, said method comprising: producing carbon nanotubes having at least two types of zones along their lengths, wherein each zone type has a characteristic structure that confers specific properties; and processing said carbon nanotubes to selectively attack one zone type more aggressively than another zone type.
US09505618B2
Semiconductor materials offer several potential benefits as active elements in the development of harvesting-energy conversion technologies. In particular, lead selenide (PbSe) semiconductors have been used and proposed to design solar energy harvesting devices, IR sensors, FET devices, amongst others. The present disclosure provides a simple, low cost synthesis of lead selenide using benzoic acid as the capping ligand in an opened environment. The use of an aromatic ligand, and mores specifically benzoic acid, provides robustness and more durability to the lead selenide, and therefore prevents the lead selenide from breaking or cracking easily. Also the aromatic ligand prevents the degradation and oxidation of the lead selenide, without affecting any of the lead selenide electronic and chemical characteristics.
US09505616B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus that produces a high-purity gas of producing a high-purity gas using the apparatus. An apparatus for producing a high-purity gas according to an embodiment of the invention may include a column configured to perform a sorption-enhanced reaction for removing a reaction by-product produced through a catalyst reaction by using sorption, wherein the column is divided into a plurality of sections, and the plurality of sections have decreasing proportions of a catalyst and increasing proportions of an adsorbent from a front end towards a rear end along a reaction path, and wherein the sorption-enhanced reaction is a sorption-enhanced steam methane reforming (SE-SMR) reaction for producing hydrogen by a methane reforming reaction and removing a by-product of carbon dioxide.According to an embodiment of the invention, a multi-section column may be applied to obtain an increased amount of gas production compared with the conventional sorption-enhanced reaction, even with the same amounts of catalyst and adsorbent.
US09505610B2
Techniques and mechanisms for providing precisely fabricated structures of a semiconductor package. In an embodiment, a build-up carrier of the semiconductor package includes a layer of porous dielectric material. Seed copper and plated copper is disposed on the layer of porous dielectric material. Subsequent etching is performed to remove copper adjacent to the layer of porous dielectric material, forming a gap separating a suspended portion of a MEMS structure from the layer of porous dielectric material. In another embodiment, the semiconductor package includes a copper structure disposed between portions of an insulating layer or portions of a layer of silicon nitride material. The layer of silicon nitride material couples the insulating layer to another insulating layer. One or both of the insulating layers are each protected from desmear processing with a respective release layer structure.
US09505608B2
A microvalve includes a displaceable member having an elongated arm portion, a plurality of actuator ribs connected through a central spine to the elongated arm portion, and a hinge portion. Each of the actuator ribs has a first portion and a second portion, the first portions each having an end connected to the central spine, the second portions each having an end connected to the central spine. A channel is formed in the plate. A plurality of elongated openings is formed in the plate and define the actuator ribs, each elongated opening having longitudinally extending side edges. One of the elongated openings separates each rib in the second portion of ribs from an adjacent rib or the plate. The channel and a longitudinally extending side edge of one of the elongated openings separate the second portion of the actuator ribs from the plate and define an electrical isolation region.
US09505603B2
A two-part key coded device that can be added to existing container and dispense stations. The key coded device includes a female key ring that is retrofitted to an existing bung and a compatible male key ring that is retrofitted to an existing or new dispense head. The key code system can enable only a specific or compatible type of chemical to be connected to the dispense head, and provides a measure of safety against inadvertently connecting the wrong type of chemical.
US09505598B2
A sterilizing machine for sterilizing bottle seals includes a rotor with vertically-oriented seal holders disposed on its periphery. Each seal holder accommodates a seal stack. As the rotor rotates, the seal holder carries the stack from a seal input, past first and second stations, to a seal output. The first station has a sterilizing-agent sprayer with successive outlets spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction by one seal diameter. The sprayer is directed toward a seal holder for applying sterilizing agent onto individual seals held therein. The second station is an activating and/or drying station downstream of the first station in the rotation direction.
US09505589B1
A cradle for lifting pipelines has a base with wheels supporting the pipeline. Lifting arms connect the base to a spreader bar for lifting the base. The lifting arms can have pivotable connections to the base and to the spreader bar. The connection of the lifting arms to the spreader bar can have an adjustable position to accommodate different pipeline sizes. The lifting arms can also have side wheels with adjustable position.
US09505585B2
A method for modernizing a hydraulic elevator including an elevator car guided by car guide rails for moving in an essentially vertical direction in the elevator hoistway, a hydraulic system including a lifting cylinder having a cylinder part essentially vertically supported on the base of the elevator hoistway and a piston rod moving in relation to the cylinder part and a hydraulic powerpack and a control center. The hydraulic system of the hydraulic elevator is modernized to include a function for preventing unintended starting at a floor, in such a way that the hydraulic powerpack is retained and an electrically-operating valve that is monitored with a control and that acts on the flow of hydraulic fluid of the lifting cylinder is added to the hydraulic system. The control controls a valve to prevent movement of the piston rod of the lifting cylinder downwards and/or upwards, if predetermined criteria are fulfilled.
US09505584B2
An exemplary method of controlling an elevator system includes determining that a new passenger requests elevator service from a departure floor to a destination floor. Any candidate elevator cars are ranked. A number of stops for each assigned passenger for a ranked candidate elevator car is determined if the new passenger were assigned to that car. A determination is made whether any ranked candidate elevator car is a qualified car that can accept the new passenger and limit a number of stops for each passenger assigned to that car to a desired maximum number of stops. The new passenger is assigned to a qualified car that has a most favorable ranking of any qualified cars.
US09505583B1
A nozzle holder for a fuel hose reel including an upstanding support having its lower end positioned on a support surface. A hose reel is rotatably mounted on the upper end of the support and has a fuel hose wound thereon. An upstanding bracket is secured to the support at one side thereof and has a fuel containment assembly secured to the upper end thereof. The fuel containment assembly includes an inclined base tube having an elongated slot formed in the front wall thereof. An inclined fuel containment tube has its lower end selectively removably inserted into the open upper end of the base tube. The containment tube has an elongated opening formed in the front wall thereof. The nozzle of the fuel hose may be inserted into the opening in the containment tube and the hand guard of the nozzle may be inserted into the opening in the base tube.
US09505577B2
Systems, devices and methods for receiving an item in a receptacle are disclosed. Features are disclosed for receiving and guiding an item in a receiving space of a receptacle so as to attenuate or remove the impact force of the item on the receptacle. Some embodiments of the disclosure include a bumper having an impact surface which absorbs most or all of the impact force of the item and thereby mitigates or removes the imposition of cyclic impact loads on the receptacle from repeated receipt of items. The bumper may be structurally and/or functionally de-coupled or otherwise physically separated from the receptacle such that an advantageous division of labor is created between absorbing the impact and receiving the item. This disclosure may be useful, for example, in modern industrial operations where a high volume of items are received daily, such as in mail sorting and handling operations.
US09505561B2
A conveyor system for transporting articles in a checkout counter is provided. The system comprises a loading conveyor (24) on which articles may be placed by a customer, a second conveyor (25) arranged in series with the loading conveyor (24) which second conveyor (25) is operated at a higher speed than said loading conveyor (24) for increasing the distance between adjacent articles, wherein the loading conveyor (24) is tilted with respect to a horizontal plane in a lateral direction, and wherein said conveyor system further comprises an intermediate acceleration device (26) being arranged between the loading conveyor (24) and the second conveyor (25) for accelerating the articles when moving from the loading conveyor (24) to the second conveyor (25).
US09505559B1
A dedicated network delivery system may avoid congestion experienced by traditional transportation networks and enable the delivery of objects from an origin to a destination using one or subterranean or aboveground elements. The network delivery system may be specifically configured to transport a particular type of object, such as an item, or a parcel or container having one or more items therein, in both vertical and horizontal directions along one or more of such elements, and in one or more item carriers such as carts, bags or boxes. The elements may be driven by or along one or more conveyors or rails, and may comprise one or more pressure-controlled carriers within a vacuum environment or among any type of fluid, including liquids or gases. A path between the origin and destination may be defined based on any factor, including travel time or cost, and any actual or predicted congestion.
US09505556B2
A storage system having multiple storage sections, each configured for storing containers in storage cells arranged in multiple rows at various horizontal levels with respect to ground. Multiple sets of lifting transportation devices are configured for moving in a first horizontal direction along pairs of rails arranged at respective first predetermined horizontal levels in passages between adjacent storage sections. Multiple container carriages corresponding to respective sets of the lifting transportation devices are configured for moving in a second horizontal direction substantially perpendicular to the first horizontal direction. A lifting sequencer is configured for moving in a vertical direction to receive containers from the multiple container carriages and provide a sequence of containers arranged in a predetermined order.
US09505551B2
The product of invention is to attach a removable, disposable pouch to pencil sharpeners. Each pouch is stretched over the body of a pencil sharpener to catch pencil shavings.A stretch band is placed over the pouch at the top edge of the pouch and sharpener to secure pouch and show product branding.When the pouch is full of shavings the pouch is removed and disposed of. A new pouch is then attached to the pencil sharpener. Pouches will be offered in a variety of designs and colors.
US09505550B2
Systems and methods for a protective casing are provided. In at least one embodiment, a protective casing includes a flexible insulation layer configured to inhibit thermal energy from conducting from an external side of the flexible insulation layer to an internal side of the flexible insulation layer. The protective casing also includes a microlattice layer abutting the internal side of the flexible insulation layer, the microlattice layer configured to distribute thermal energy that passes through the flexible insulation layer substantially throughout the microlattice layer. Further, the protective casing includes a heat absorbing material that impregnates the microlattice layer, the heat absorbing material configured to absorb the thermal energy in the microlattice layer.
US09505547B2
An extendable and retractable earpiece cable assembly for mobile communication or sound devices including a housing integrally formed with or detachably connected to a casing for protecting a mobile electronic device. The housing receives a mechanism around which at least one earpiece cable is removably wound. The earpiece cable is extendable from and retractable into the housing.
US09505543B2
A hermetically sealed package, for example a freezable microwavable package containing a food product, has a sealing film that includes a vent system that is scored by a laser into the package.
US09505541B2
An oxygen-scavenging composition containing (I) a polymeric resin, (II) an organic oxidation additive based on a cyclic oxyimide, (III) a metal salt, preferably a transition metal salt, (IV) a sacrificial oxidizable substrate, and optionally, (V) an additional component; wherein components (I) and (IV) are different.
US09505532B2
An article includes a vessel, a vent connected to the vessel, and a heat flux-responsive plug disposed in the vent and thermally isolated from the vessel. The heat flux-responsive plug has a material selected based on a phase change characteristic.
US09505526B2
A portable bag is provided, comprising: a plurality of surfaces constructed of a foldable material and comprising at least a front surface and a rear surface connected relative to each other by a pair of side surfaces, a bottom surface, and a top surface opposite the bottom surface; at least two handling openings, the at least two handling openings being integrally defined on at least one of the plurality of surfaces, the at least two handling openings being positioned substantially adjacent opposing sides of the at least one of the plurality of surfaces; and an interior liner further defining the interior compartment of the portable bag, the interior liner being positioned intermediate the interior compartment and the plurality of surfaces, at least two portions of the interior liner being inset relative to the plurality of surfaces to define respective cavities substantially aligned with the at least two handling openings.
US09505520B2
A slide and pour container blank and method of assembly. The initially assembled slide and pour container can be in a sealed state with no access to the interior of the container. A detachable cover can include a tear strip that is removed to provide access to a slidable door. The slidable door can be detached from its guide track and can slide within its guide track. The slidable door can open and block a passageway providing access to the interior of the container, such as to dispense contents of the container.
US09505518B2
The invention relates to a container and a blank for forming a container. In particular, the invention relates to a container for receiving a food product and having an improved hermetic seal to allow modified atmosphere packaging techniques to be used to extend the life of the container contents. The improved seal is achieved by avoiding or sealing gaps which can be present around the closure of the container. The container may comprise a container body with a plurality of walls formed by body panels of a folded blank such that each corner of the container opening is formed at the end of a fold line between two adjacent body panels of the blank. The invention also relates to a method for forming such a container.
US09505516B2
A food tray formed of a unitary sheet of material includes a bottom wall, a front wall, a rear wall, first sidewall, and a second sidewall that define an opening through which an item is placed in the food tray. First and second flaps extend from respective top edges of the first and second sidewalls and are configured to be folded toward an interior of the food tray. The first and second flaps each define slots. First and second lid members extend from respective top edges of the front wall and the rear wall and are configured to be folded toward the interior of the food tray. The first and second lid members define a pair of tabs on respective side edges that are configured to engage the slots defined by the first and second flaps.
US09505515B2
A packaging construction being formed by multi-layer board material includes a middle layer, a first outer layer attached to the middle layer and a second outer layer attached to the middle layer. The packaging construction defines a bottom side, a top side, and a plurality of side panels joining the bottom side and the top side so as to form a closed structure. At least one edge is defined between adjacent side panels. The packaging construction is arranged so that the second outer layer has a lower bending stiffness according to ISO 5628 than the first outer layer such that the board is outwardly bendable only in a direction towards which the second layer faces, and in that the packaging construction is formed with at least one side panel being curved and/or at least one edge being rounded.
US09505510B2
A beverage carbonation system, container, carbonator and method for carbonating a beverage are provided. The beverage carbonation system has a container that is removably engageable with a carbonator. The container has a container outlet valve and a container inlet valve that are fluidly engageable with a carbonator outlet port and carbonator inlet port, respectively. At least one pump transfers liquid and carbon dioxide gas between a container chamber and a carbonation chamber when the container is engaged with the carbonator, thereby carbonating the liquid. When the container is disengaged from the carbonator, the container outlet valve and the container inlet valve are closed to fluidly seal the container containing the carbonated liquid.
US09505509B2
A method of pressurizing a container usable for an aerosol dispenser. The method comprises providing a pressurizeable outer container and complementary valve cup, at least one having a channel into the container. A manifold is brought into sealing relationship with the channel of the container. Propellant is supplied from the manifold, goes through the channel and into the container. While the manifold is still sealed to the container, the channel is sealed shut to maintain the pressure. Sealing may be accomplished by sonic or ultrasonic welding.
US09505504B2
The apparatus, for filling a flexible pouch having a bottom end, an opposite top end, and a pair of side edges extending between the bottom and top end, includes a filling station, a supply of compressed purging gas, and a gas purging station. The filling station includes a feeder that dispenses an amount of product into the pouch. The gas purge station is positioned subsequent to the filling station and includes a pair of gas lances. Each of the pair of gas lances have an outlet to discharge the purging gas into the pouch. The pair of gas lances being moveable between an inserted position and a withdrawn position. In the inserted position the pair of gas lances are disposed within the pouch a predetermined distance above the amount of product, and in the withdrawn position the pair of gas lances are provided above the top end of the pouch.
US09505500B2
Inerting fuel systems and methods for inerting fuel tanks are disclosed. An inerting fuel system may include an air inlet passage to receive inlet air, air separation modules to separate oxygen from the inlet air when received, and air separation module valves coupled between the air inlet passage and the air separation modules. The air separation module valves are associated with the air separation modules such that opening of one of the air separation module valves passes a portion of inlet air from the air inlet passage to the air separation module associated with that air separation module valve. A controller selectively opens the air separation module valves such that each of the air separation modules receives a substantially equal level of wear.
US09505499B2
Methods and apparatus for supporting engines and nacelles relative to aircraft wings are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a nacelle; a first support structure coupled between a wing and a first side of the nacelle along a thrust axis of an engine; a second support structure coupled between the wing and a second side of the nacelle along the thrust axis, the first support structure spaced apart from the second support structure on the wing, a longitudinal plane to extend through the first support structure, the second support structure, and the thrust axis, the first support structure to be rigidly fixed relative to the wing to substantially prevent movement of the engine by the first support structure, the second support structure to be rigidly fixed relative to the wing to substantially prevent movement of the engine by the second support structure, the first and second support structures to be coupled to opposite sides of the engine to enable thrust loads to be reacted through the first and second support structures to the wing.
US09505496B2
An apparatus to aerially dispense payload containers from an aircraft is provided. The apparatus includes an outer portion, including an opening to allow a payload container to leave the apparatus when the payload container is in alignment with the opening. The apparatus also includes an inner portion, configured to rotate within the outer portion. The inner portion has one or more cutouts that retain the payload container. The apparatus further includes an actuator, coupled to the inner portion, and a processor circuit. The processor circuit commands the actuator to rotate the inner portion to cause the payload container to align with the opening.
US09505494B1
Systems and methods for performing insurance damage inspection by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are provided. A computing device may receive a request to inspect a vehicle, the request comprising a location of the vehicle. The computing device may identify a UAV from a plurality of UAVs that is located closest to the location of the vehicle from other UAVs in the plurality of UAVs. The computing device may instruct the UAV to travel to the location of the vehicle. The computing device may instruct the UAV to collect damage information on the vehicle using one or more onboard sensors of the UAV. The computing device may determine an amount of insurance payout to approve for repairs to the vehicle based on the damage information collected by the UAV.
US09505487B2
In one aspect, an aircraft instrumentation system for a cockpit instrument panel of an aircraft is provided. The system includes a first display operable to display at least one of flight mission data or aircraft systems monitoring data, and a second display operable to control a plurality of display options of the first display. The first display and the second display are positioned outside an ejection envelope of the aircraft.
US09505484B1
The modular aircraft system includes a single fuselage having a permanently installed empennage and plural sets of wing modules and engine modules, with each wing and engine module optimized for different flight conditions and missions. The fuselage and each of the modules are configured for rapid removal and installation of the modules to minimize downtime for the aircraft. Short wings having relatively low aspect ratio are provided for relatively high speed flight when great endurance and/or weight carrying capacity are not of great concern. Long wings having high aspect ratio are provided for longer range and endurance flights where speed is not absolutely vital. A medium span wing module is also provided. Turboprop, single turbojet, and dual turbojet engine modules are provided for installation depending upon mission requirements for any given flight. The aircraft is primarily adapted for use as an autonomously operated or remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicle.
US09505469B2
A controlling system is used for controlling a state of a floating arrangement comprising plurality of containers, such as shipping or standard freight containers, especially consistent with ISO standard. At least some of the containers comprise a float arrangement having e.g. intra-container water-displacing volumes, such as an inflatable bag, which can be used for displacing water from the container when the inflatable bag is filled or for letting more water entering into the container when the inflatable bag is emptied, and thereby manipulating the buoyancy or draft of the container and thus also the same of the pontoon platform comprising said container(s). The state of the container and thus the floating arrangement can be controlled by operating the float arrangement by the controlling system, such as manipulating the inflatable bags or other state changing means of the float arrangement, such as propellers or supporting means.
US09505465B2
The present invention provides an apparatus for attaching a first watercraft to another structure such as another watercraft or a fixed structure. The apparatus comprises a spacing member and attachment members. The spacing member has two ends and outer edges that define a width of the spacing member. An attachment member is connected to each end of the spacing member at the outer edges. The attachment members are releasably attachable to the watercraft and the attachment members are freely rotatable about each end of the spacing member. Another example of the apparatus provides two spacing members, first and second attaching loops and a tension system. The first attaching loop extends from a first end of the two spacing members. The second attaching loop extends from a second end of the spacing members. The attaching loops are releasably attachable to the watercraft and it is freely rotatable about the ends of each of the spacing members.
US09505463B2
A bicycle control device includes a housing member, a control lever member, a shift-operating mechanism and a hydraulic fluid pressure generator. The housing member has an attachment part for attachment to a handlebar, and a grip part extending longitudinally between first and second ends of the grip part. The control lever member pivots relative to the housing member. The shift-operating mechanism is coupled to a shifting device by a control cable. The hydraulic fluid pressure generator has a cylinder, a piston movably disposed within the cylinder by movement of control lever member to generate fluid pressure for controlling a braking device, a piston position adjustment mechanism adjustably coupling the piston with respect to the cylinder to change an initial position of the piston with respect to the cylinder.
US09505461B1
The bicycle with adjustable pedaling resistance using magnetorheological-based fluid is a bicycle that includes a pedaling resistance member. The pedaling resistance member is optionally used to increase the resistance of the bicycle pedals when in use. The pedaling resistance member is integrated into the frame of the bicycle, and includes a hollow cylinder that is partially filled with a magnetorheological fluid. A paddle is affixed to a crankshaft that extends between the bicycle pedals, and across the hollow cylinder. A powering member is in wired connection with an electromagnetic coil, which is in fluid connection with the magnetorheological fluid. The powering member is able to apply electricity to the magnetorheological fluid, which in turn increases viscosity of the magnetorheological fluid thereby increasing pedaling resistance to the bicycle pedals via the paddle rotating within the hollow cylinder.
US09505455B1
A track chain assembly for an undercarriage system is provided. The track chain assembly includes a plurality of adjacent offset link sets connected to each other through a pin provided between oppositely disposed offset links wherein an axis of rotation is defined by the pin. The track chain assembly also includes a connection assembly coupled to a pair of the plurality of offset link sets. The connection assembly is configured to connect two ends of the track chain assembly together to form an endless loop. The connection assembly includes a first pair of straight links coupled to one of the pair of the plurality of offset link sets. The connection assembly also includes a second pair of straight links coupled to the first pair of straight links and the other of the pair of the plurality of offset link sets.
US09505449B2
Examples of drag reduction apparatuses and assemblies for land vehicles, and particularly for attachment to a roll-up door of a land vehicle, are described. A drag reduction apparatus may include a plurality of panels foldably coupled together and automatically deployable into an unfolded configuration in which the panels define a cavity therebetween. The panels may be made from a semi-rigid material so that the panels generally conform to a roll-up door when the door is rolled up and/or down. The apparatus may be attached to the roll-up door using any of a variety of attachment mechanisms, for example a slidable keder-type device and/or one or more spring-loaded members.
US09505445B2
Provided is a carrier for a vehicle of which a replacement cost is minimized at the time of collision of the vehicle at a low speed by configuring head lamp mounting parts of the carrier in which head lamps are to be mounted in a separable form and allowing the head lamp mounting parts to be coupled through both ends of a bumper beam coupled to the carrier.
US09505440B2
Embodiments include a support member for an extendable trailer with one or more flange members and one or more web members. In an embodiment, the web members include tabs and the flange members define slots. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US09505425B2
In a position adjustment device of a steering wheel, a step forming surface is provided in a portion close to one axial end of an adjustment rod. A nut is threadedly fixed to one end portion of the adjustment rod in the axial direction. An adjustment lever is connected to a driving cam of a cam mechanism. The driving cam is sandwiched between the step forming surface and the nut.
US09505422B2
Disclosed is a dolly for transporting or presenting goods, including a braking member (8) that includes a flexible body, that is positioned near a tread of a wheel (6, 7) and that is fixedly connected with a first body part with a bottom part (3) or a suspension system of the wheel (6, 7) and with a second body part is connected to an end of an activation member (15), wherein, upon movement of an operating member (9) arranged on the dolly to a braking position, the second body part is bent towards the tread of the concerned wheel (6, 7) by the activation member (15) for engagement of the flexible body on the tread.
US09505417B2
A folding table and chair device has a chair assembly and a table assembly. The chair assembly has a supporting bracket, a seat mounted securely on a top of the supporting bracket, a backrest mounted pivotally on a rear end of the seat, and a footrest mounted pivotally on a front end of the seat and being capable of pivoting forward to a horizontal position. The table assembly is mounted in front of the chair assembly and has a wall board mounted in front of the chair assembly, and a folding table mounted pivotally on the rear of the wall board and being capable of pivoting downward to a horizontal position. The folding table and chair device allows a user to lie completely down thereon.
US09505407B2
A driving support apparatus for a vehicle includes an actual longitudinal acceleration specifying section which specifies actual longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle, a target longitudinal acceleration specifying section which specifies target longitudinal acceleration of the vehicle, an acceleration and deceleration instruction section which allows acceleration and deceleration control so that the actual longitudinal acceleration specified by the actual longitudinal acceleration specifying section coincides with the target longitudinal acceleration specified by the target longitudinal acceleration specifying section. The target longitudinal acceleration specifying section specifies the target longitudinal acceleration so that traveling stability of the vehicle, which is represented by a Lissajous curve of a circle or an ellipse, is maintained, and a relationship between longitudinal acceleration and lateral acceleration, in which lateral acceleration of the vehicle is advanced or delayed in phase with respect to longitudinal acceleration, is satisfied.
US09505397B1
A system includes a computing device with memory configured to store instructions and a processor to execute the instructions for operations that include receiving information representative of an amount of energy stored over a first period of time in an energy storage device of a vehicle that includes a first propulsion system. Operations include receiving information representative of a performance measure of the vehicle for a second period of time, shorter than the first period of time, and, determining an assistance adjustment from an estimated value of stored energy from the information representative of the amount of energy stored over the first period of time. Operations include determining a level of assistance for a second propulsion system included in the vehicle from the received information representative of the performance measure, and, adjusting the level of assistance using the assistance adjustment determined from the estimated value of the stored energy.
US09505395B2
An industrial vehicle includes an accelerator, an accelerator opening sensor which detects an opening of the accelerator, a loading unit, an engine and a torque restriction releasing unit. When the torque restriction releasing unit is set in an Eco-mode in which torque of the engine is restricted, if the opening of the accelerator detected by the accelerator opening sensor is a first predetermined value or greater and at least one of conditions that a speed of the vehicle is a second predetermined value or greater and that the loading unit is in a lifting operation, is satisfied and such conditions of the accelerator and the vehicle speed and/or lifting operation are continued for a predetermined period of time, the torque restriction releasing unit releases the torque restriction.
US09505392B2
An air brake lock assembly helps to prevent air brake actuation knobs from being actuated. The air brake lock in accordance with the present invention is a theft-prevention device that mounts over the air brake knobs on the dash of a semi-truck cab. It is installed between the dash and the knobs and, when locked, the assembly prevents the knobs from being pushed in. If the air brake knobs cannot be pushed back in, the air brake will remain locked and the truck and trailer will remain immobile. In one embodiment of the present invention, the assembly includes a base and an enclosure for each brake knob. An air brake lock is disposed between the knobs such that the knobs can be selectively locked and unlocked. In one embodiment, the assembly is spring-loaded. In another embodiment, the assembly is not spring-loaded.
US09505389B2
A power-assisted braking system for a vehicle is described, including: a brake master cylinder having a chamber which is hydraulically connected to a wheel brake cylinder for braking a wheel of the vehicle; a hydraulic actuator which activates a piston of the brake master cylinder in order to pressurize the hydraulic fluid in the chamber; a low-pressure accumulator which stores the hydraulic fluid under pressure, and the actuator for activating the piston of the brake master cylinder; a pump which supplies the hydraulic fluid from the tank to the low-pressure accumulator; and a drive device which drives the pump. A method for controlling a power-assisted braking system is also described.
US09505386B2
A traction-slip controlled vehicle brake system having a) a service-brake valve, which generates an actuation-dependent pressure at an outlet port; b) a valve device, in a first operating position, establishes a connection from a pressure medium reserve and, in a second operating position, from a 2/2 solenoid valve to a brake actuator; c) the solenoid valve being connected to the outlet port of the service-brake valve and to a first connection of the valve device. The solenoid valve and valve device are controllable by a control device to d) allow the solenoid valve to switch open and the valve device to switch to the first operating position for traction-slip control; e) and a brake pressure generated at a predetermined level based on the pressure medium from the pressure medium supply in the brake actuator; the solenoid valve being switched closed and the valve device to the first operating position.
US09505379B2
The invention relates to a belt retractor with an electromotive winding aid (4) comprising a belt shaft (1) which is pretensioned in the winding-up direction by a spring and is mounted rotatably in a frame (3) of the belt retractor on which a belt strap (2) can be wound up. The electromotive winding aid (4) can be activated as a function of the belt-strap-retraction speed (BRS).
US09505376B2
A pressurized fluid-powered actuator includes a housing and a striker movably coupled to the housing. Resilient sealing means are positioned between the striker and the housing. The sealing means are compressible so as to seal an end of the housing responsive to a force exerted on the sealing means by the striker in a first direction toward the housing. Releasable retaining means are operatively coupled to the striker and are structured to prevent motion of the striker in a second direction opposite the first direction prior to activation of the actuator, and responsive to a reaction force in the second direction exerted on the striker by the sealing means when the sealing means is compressed.
US09505375B2
A side airbag device having a side airbag that can slide between an occupant and a vehicle side section, and allows occupant restraint by reaching. The side airbag can be inflated with the thickness of the portion that protects the peripheries of the occupant shoulder and waist is small and the thickness of the portion that protects the periphery of the chest region is large. Inside a side airbag, a rapid chamber extends from a seat back region over a top region and a bottom region and tapers towards the vehicle front; a delay chamber is positioned between the top region and bottom region, and a partitioning member partitions the interior of the side airbag into the delay chamber and the rapid chamber. An inflator is provided inside the rapid chamber.
US09505367B2
A plurality of pads are configured to be arranged in a vehicle seat. A plurality of passive movement devices are provided to be respectively arranged behind, and to cause movement of, the plurality of pads. The passive movement devices are configured to be actuated independently of one another.
US09505366B2
A method for detecting accidents is described. The method has the following operating steps: obtaining at least two axial accelerations; integrating at least one first axial acceleration and one second axial acceleration of said at least two axial accelerations for obtaining at least two axial acceleration integral values; calculating an energy modulus according to the at least two axial acceleration integral values; and comparing the energy modulus with an energy threshold. An apparatus and a system which can carry out the method is also described. Furthermore, vehicles that have the apparatus are described as well.
US09505363B2
A bumper guard assembly for protecting a vehicle bumper from damage resulting from a low speed collision is provided. The bumper guard assembly includes a flexible elongated body, a rigid terminal brace positioned on each opposing end of the elongated body, and a fender strap mounted on each terminal brace for securing the bumper guard to a fender of the vehicle.
US09505359B2
It is aimed to provide a sound-absorbing material and a sound-absorbing-material equipped wiring harness capable of absorbing sound in a wide frequency range from a low frequency to a high frequency. A sound-absorbing material 1 is a laminated sheet in which a base material sheet 3 and a skin material sheet 2 having a smaller basis weight than the base material sheets 3 are laminated, the base material sheet 3 includes at least a first base material sheet 31 and a second base material sheet 32 and the skin material sheet 2 is arranged between the first and second base material sheets 31, 32. The sound-absorbing material 1 and a wiring harness 7 are integrated into a sound-absorbing-material equipped wiring harness 6.
US09505358B2
A wire harness for which an exterior member can be maintained in a desired shape is provided. A flexible, tubular corrugated tube (16) which covers electric wires (18) and a route keeping tape (17) which is more difficult to extend or buckle in the widthwise direction than the corrugated tube (16) are included, and the route keeping tape (17) is wound helically around a bent part (20), which is formed by bending the corrugated tube (16), along the longitudinal direction.
US09505342B2
A multifunction lighthead for mounting to a vehicle includes several groups of LEDs arranged to provide distinct light emission patterns. Each group of LEDs and associated optics are selected and positioned to produce light emission patterns needed to meet lighting standards applicable to the vehicle. Such standards may require wide angle light emission, which is enhanced by supporting groups of LEDs that project away from the vehicle body, enhancing visibility of the lighthead from directions close to a plane defined by the body panel. The projecting support for the LEDs and optics for a wide angle light emission pattern may be employed to support LEDs arranged for ground illumination. Other groups of LEDs in the same lighthead may be arranged with optics to provide area illumination in support of arrest, search, triage or other emergency functions.
US09505335B2
An anchor and an attachment base assembly comprises a base having at least one base aperture, and an anchor selectively operatively connected to the base. The anchor is selectively inserted at least partially into the at least one base aperture and optionally into an aperture of an accessory. The anchor has a base part movable between a locked position where the anchor is secured to the base and an unlocked position where the anchor is free from the base. An accessory part is operatively connected to the base part. The accessory part is adapted to selectively connect at least partially to a brim of the aperture of the accessory for bracing at least partially the accessory to the base when the anchor is in the locked position. The anchor has other features. A vehicle having an anchor and an attachment base assembly is also presented.
US09505333B2
The invention is generally directed to a motorcycle rack for a pickup truck. The motorcycle rack includes a frame with a long, narrow slot for receipt of a generally horizontal tongue of a curved wheel wedge. The frame is removably installed in the truck bed by anchoring fasteners on opposing sides of the frame to provide proper fit in the truck bed. The slot has a plurality of spaced apertures to allow for optional positioning of the wheel wedge. The tongue of the wheel wedge is slidably secured within the slot to distribute the weight of the motorcycle laterally across the width of the truck bed. The tire of the motorcycle is held by the wheel wedge, and can be secured by strap(s) and clip(s) attached to the motorcycle rack.
US09505331B2
A number of variations may include a container handling system for an automotive vehicle having a generally horizontal cargo bed area including a container for holding cargo. The container may have an alignment surface. A power unit for imparting vertical and horizontal movement to the container may also be provided. The power unit may be connected on the vehicle. A latching mechanism connecting the power unit with the container may be provided. A guide structure connected on the vehicle may guide vertical and horizontal movement of the container by interacting with the container alignment surface.
US09505329B2
A vehicle seat and a seat back board are obtained in which a seat cover can easily be anchored to a resin spring. In a seat back board, clips attached on a cover side are engaged with vertical clip engagement portions of the seat back board, thereby enabling the cover to be anchored to a back spring section of the seat back board. An anchoring operation of the cover to the back spring section can accordingly be made easier than in conventional anchoring structures employing for example hog rings. Moreover, since only pairs of openings are formed to the back spring section of the seat back board in order to provide the vertical clip engagement portions, any detriment to the moldability of the back spring section can be avoided.
US09505325B2
A vehicular armrest assembly includes a laterally collapsible substrate having a gap defined between inner and outer substrate portions. A tunable stiffening feature is disposed on the collapsible substrate and has an aperture positioned over the gap, and engagement tabs that engage the inner and outer substrate portions. The stiffening feature provides lateral support to the collapsible substrate to selectively allow the inner and outer substrate portions to deflect toward each other after a predetermined lateral load is placed on the collapsible substrate and an elastic bed disposed on the tunable stiffening feature and covering the aperture. The elastic bed vertically supports a cover member at the aperture and the lateral support provided to the collapsible substrate is solely provided by the stiffening feature.
US09505323B2
Adjustable boat seat handles are described. A described apparatus comprises a handle including a first portion rotatably coupled to a second portion via a pin disposed through corresponding bores of the first and second portions, where the first portion includes a hand grip, and the second portion is operatively coupled to an adjustment mechanism, where the first portion rotates in a first direction to fold relative to the second portion and the first and second portions rotate together in a second direction to operate the adjustment mechanism.
US09505320B2
Provided is an apparatus for adjusting a seat height, including: a fixed member fixedly installed at a seat cushion, the fixed member including a plurality of first stoppers at predetermined radial positions from a center of an axial direction; an input member rotatably installed on an axis concentric with the fixed member, the input member having hook parts formed to protrude at radial positions facing the first stoppers; an output member rotatably and concentrically installed with respect to the input member, the output member having a friction flange part formed to protrude along a circumferential direction at a predetermined radial position facing an inner circumferential surface of the input member; and a frictional rotation means rotatably installed between the inner circumferential surface of the input member and an outer circumferential surface of the friction flange part to be flexibly rotated along the circumferential direction.
US09505313B2
A vehicle-side connector (10) is provided for connection to a battery mounted in a vehicle. The vehicle-side connector (10) includes a housing (20) configured so that a charging connector (90) is connected thereto. Vehicle-side terminals (40) individually are accommodated in cavities (28) in the housing (20) and are configured to be connected individually to charging terminals (93) in the charging connector (90) when the housing (20) and a charging connector (90) are connected. A retainer (50) is configured to retain the vehicle-side terminals (40) in the cavities (28). A resistance circuit unit (70) is assembled into the retainer (50) and has a relay terminal (73) arranged on a left side connected to a vehicle-side signal terminal (40B) and a relay terminal (73) arranged on a right side is connected to a vehicle-side ground terminal (40C) out of the vehicle-side terminals (40).
US09505311B2
Vehicles that are capable of connecting to the AC grid are described that comprise a prime mover and at least one motor generator. In one embodiment, a vehicle may be constructed as a plug-in hybrid system and using the powertrain under controller instruction to either place power on an AC power line (to service AC grids) or to draw power from the AC power line to add electrical energy to the batteries on the vehicle. In some aspects, vehicles may test whether the power needed to service the AC power line may be satisfied by the on-vehicle batteries or, if not, whether and how much power to extract from the prime mover. In some aspects, vehicles may have a thermal management system on board to dynamically supply desired heat dissipation for the powertrain, if the powertrain is using the prime mover to supply power to the AC grid.
US09505294B2
A weather strip is formed by joining a first sealing body, a second sealing body, and a resin joint portion, which is arranged between the sealing bodies, to each other. The resin joint portion includes a rib portion, which has a shape that bulges outward from between the opposed faces of the first sealing body and the second sealing body. The rib portion has a shape to be joined to the outer surface of the end of the first sealing body and the outer surface of the end of the second sealing body and to extend along the joined parts of the first sealing body and the second sealing body.
US09505283B2
A lower arm has a first arm main part having a U-shape and a first vehicle-body-side front joint and a first vehicle-body-side rear joint provided at the tip parts of the first arm main part. An upper arm has a second arm main part having a U-shape and a second vehicle-body-side front joint and a second vehicle-body-side rear joint provided at the tip parts of the second arm main part. At least part of the second vehicle-body-side rear joint is overlapped with the first vehicle-body-side rear joint in plan view. The second vehicle-body-side front joint is offset to the rear side relative to the first vehicle-body-side front joint. A cushion unit disposed on the front side of the second arm main part is provided between a vehicle body frame F and the lower arm.
US09505282B2
The present invention provides an amphibious flying car, comprising: a casing, a chassis, a ship bottom body, a vehicle wheel, a drive system and an operating system; an upper airfoil and a rotor wing which are arranged on the top of the casing, are fixed on a bearing carrier located at the orthocenter of the fuselage; a strake wing is provided at the position where the casing, the chassis and the ship bottom body are combined; the horizontal wing comprises a stabilizing plane and an elevator, which are respectively located at the front end and the rear end of the fuselage; the vertical twin fins are arranged at both sides of the rear end of the fuselage, and its root segments are fixedly connected to the strake wing.
US09505265B2
A power generation system is provided configured for installation within a wheel of a vehicle. The system includes a stator having a plurality of face-mounted permanent magnets; and a rotor having a plurality of windings configured to rotate, with rotation of the wheel, in proximity to the permanent magnets thereby generating a current. The stator is mounted to a brake caliper of the vehicle. Also provided is a wheel-based vehicle display system including a light emitting diode (LED) array arranged on or within a wheel of a vehicle; a power source connected thereto; and a controller connected to the LED array. The display system is configured to display at least one of: textual information, visual images or full-motion video.
US09505259B2
A grip used with a hand-held tool that includes a top, a bottom, a right side, a left side, a rear side, a right finger guide and a left finger guide. The right finger guide can be formed on the right side of the grip and the left finger guide can be formed on the left side of the grip so that the right finger guide and the left finger guide are adjacent to one another thereby forming a pinch grasp area.
US09505257B2
An erasing apparatus includes a sheet feeding unit from which a sheet is fed into the erasing apparatus, an erasing unit configured to perform an erasing processing on both surfaces of the sheet, a scanning unit configured to scan and generate image data of a bottom surface and a top surface of the sheet, a first storing unit, a second storing unit, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine, based on the image data, whether the bottom surface of the sheet is reusable and whether the top surface of the sheet is reusable. Further, the controller is configured to cause, if both the bottom and top surfaces have been subject to the erasing processing and are determined to be reusable, the sheet to be conveyed to one of the first and second storing units based on a both-sides-erased criteria.
US09505252B2
A recording apparatus includes a recording head having nozzles ejecting ink onto a recording medium, a conveying unit that conveys the recording medium, and a carriage. A sensor is mounted on the carriage for detecting image density. A detection controller that performs control to record test patterns on the recording medium and read densities of the test patterns using the sensor to thereby detect a non-ejection nozzle of the recording head. The test patterns are formed by recording a line including a predetermined number of dots in predetermined areas for respective nozzles every plurality of times of conveyance of the recording medium. The detection controller reads the test patterns using the sensor, calculates a position of a non-recorded portion in the test patterns, and specifies a position of the non-ejection nozzle based on the calculated position of the non-recorded portion and positions of the nozzles that record the test patterns.
US09505244B2
There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus including: a platen, a contact portion disposed between a pair of first ribs of the plurality of first ribs with respect to a scanning direction. A lower end of the contact portion is located lower than each upper end of the pair of first ribs. The platen includes a second rib disposed between one first rib of the pair of first ribs and the contact portion with respect to the scanning direction, and an upper end of the second rib is located lower than the upper end of the one first rib of the pair of first ribs and higher than the lower end of the contact portion.
US09505241B2
A conveyor belt for conveying plate elements in a machine for converting the elements that includes a belt body with longitudinal edges, joining edges, and a support surface for supporting the elements, and at least one assembly member arranged to join the joining edges, and extending in a direction of assembly which is oblique to the longitudinal direction, the belt body having a plurality of perforations for obtaining a vacuum on the support surface to immobilize the elements.
US09505237B2
There is provided a drying device. A controller is configured to control a laser intensity so that the laser intensity becomes lower than a drying intensity set as an intensity for drying a liquid droplet when a printing part printed in advance on a recording medium is included in an illumination range of a laser element on an image formation surface of the recording medium, the laser element configured to illuminate laser to the liquid droplet ejected on the image formation surface of the recording medium in accordance with an image.
US09505235B2
A recording method includes ejecting an ink on an recording medium, wherein the ink includes a colorant, polymer particles, water, and an aqueous organic solvent, has a static surface tension of equal to or less than 30 mN/m, and has a fluctuation range of a dynamic surface tension from after 1 millisecond to after 1 second of from 0.2 mN/m to 2.0 mN/m when measuring the dynamic surface tension by a maximum bubble pressure method, and wherein the recording medium has a maximum liquid absorption amount of the ink within a contact time of 500 milliseconds measured by a dynamic scanning liquid absorption meter of equal to or greater than 5 ml/m2.
US09505231B2
A system for printing on a three-dimensional object includes: a recording head; a three-dimensional object supporting device supporting a three-dimensional object rotatively with a shaft member as a center; a print control section causing the recording head to print an image on the three-dimensional object while rotating the three-dimensional object by the three-dimensional object supporting device, and causing the three-dimensional object supporting device to support the three-dimensional object at a designated angle, for each of designated angles, and causing the recording head to print divided images on the three-dimensional object, the divided images being set with respect to the designated angles; an image accepting section that receives the print image; and an image dividing section that divides the print image received by the image accepting section in association with the designated angles to set the divided images to the designated angles.
US09505227B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head that includes a nozzle opening which ejects liquid and a valve unit that is connected to the liquid ejecting head and opens and closes a flow passage of the liquid, in which the valve unit includes a valve seat which is provided in the flow passage and a valve body which opens and closes the flow passage by coming into contact with or being separated from the valve seat, the valve seat includes a contacting member coming into contact with the valve body and a supporting member which supports the contacting member, the contacting member is assembled with the supporting member in a state in which the supporting member is subjected to a water repellent treatment more than the inner surface of the flow passage, and the valve body includes an elastic member coming into contact with the valve seat and a fixing member which fixes the elastic member.
US09505219B2
A droplet ejection apparatus includes: a number of droplet ejection units each of which has a nozzle connected to a liquid chamber and an actuator for expelling droplets of a process liquid; a cleaning station; and a control system arranged to control a relative movement of the droplet ejection units and the cleaning station and to immerse the nozzles into a cleaning liquid, wherein a heater is provided for heating the droplet ejection units, and the control system is adapted to activate the heater when the droplet ejection units and the cleaning station are moved or have been moved towards one another, and to deactivate the heater to allow the droplet ejection units to cool down while the nozzles are immersed in the cleaning liquid.
US09505218B2
An inkjet image forming apparatus includes inkjet heads each of which has two or more nozzle rows from which ink of different colors is injected (each of the nozzle rows includes nozzle holes), a wipe unit that includes wipers and carries out a wipe process to wipe away ink remained on a surface on which the nozzle rows are formed by the wipers, and a flush unit that carries out a flush process after the wipe process by injecting ink from nozzle holes into which ink of different color from color of ink that is injected from the nozzle holes flows during the wipe process. According to the apparatus, an amount of ink consumed in the flush process can be reduced and a replacement cycle of a mist-absorbing material for absorbing ink mists generated during the flush process can be prolonged.
US09505200B2
A method of manufacturing an acoustic structure is disclosed. An adhesive material and a septum forming material may be deposited on a first honeycomb ribbon. A second honeycomb ribbon may be adhered to the adhesive material and the septum forming material. The first honeycomb ribbon and the second honeycomb ribbon may be expanded to form a honeycomb structure. The septum forming material may stretch or expand to form a septum cap in a cell of the honeycomb structure. The septum forming material may be inherently porous, and/or the septum cap may be cured in order to introduce pores into the septum cap.
US09505197B2
Provided are a system and a method for manufacturing an optical display device and a material roll, which can effectively prevent the production of defective optical display devices even in a process including drawing a long sheet material from a material roll and bonding an optical film to an optical display unit, and which is a roll of a laminate of a first base film, a first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, an optical film, a second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and a second base film, which are wound in the roll in this order from the outside, and has a width corresponding to the length of any one side of a rectangular optical display unit, wherein the adhering strength A of the first base film-side interface of the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the adhering strength B of the optical film-side interface of the first pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, the adhering strength C of the optical film-side interface of the second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, and the adhering strength D of the second base film-side interface of the second pressure-sensitive adhesive layer satisfy the relations A
US09505191B2
Various device embodiments perform a sealing operation on a moving web, and comprise, among other things a plate assembly with an air cylinder assembly. The air cylinder assembly comprises a mount, a back plate, at least one air cylinder positioned between the mount and the back plate. The first plate assembly further includes a linear servo motor for linearly moving the air cylinder assembly with respect to the first base, and a first tooling plate with a sealing surface area. The first tooling plate coupled to the back plate.
US09505188B2
A method of fabricating a wind turbine blade tubular spar, wherein the tubular spar extends along a designated axis, is made of reinforced polymer material having fibers arranged in at least two directions, and a polymer matrix incorporating the fibers, and has two caps and two webs; the method including the steps of: molding and cross-linking at least part of a cap or web in composite material; molding and cross-linking an L-shaped structure, which has two opposite parallel flanges, and at least partly incorporates the previously molded, cross-linked cap or web of composite material; repeating the above steps to mold and cross-link a further L-shaped structure; and joining the two cross-linked, L-shaped structures, with the flanges positioned facing in pairs.
US09505185B2
A lens mold includes a bottom mold and a top mold joining with the bottom mold. The bottom mold defines a first through hole. The top mold defines a second through hole. The lens mold further includes a bottom mold core and a top mold core. The bottom mold core is detachably received in the first through hole of the bottom mold. The top mold core is detachably received in the second through hole of the top mold. A plurality of microstructures is formed on a top surface of the bottom mold core near the top mold core to form a plurality of microstructures on a bottom surface of a lens formed by the lens mold. A method for manufacturing the lens with the lens mold is also provided. The lens is used as a secondary optical element for an LED.
US09505183B2
A process for rolling and stretching of a sheet into a tape is provided. A sheet may be rolled into a rolled sheet in the nip between two rolls of the calender and the rolled sheet is stretched immediately thereafter into a tape on the surface of one of the two calender rolls. The speed of the rolled sheet on the surface of the calender roll may be higher than the speed of the calender roll. The position of the start of the neck-down of the rolled sheet and the rate of neck-down can be easily controlled by the proposed process.
US09505178B2
Production method for a multilayer lining for thermal and sound insulation with the steps of blending reinforcement fibers and polyamide matrix material, in the form of fibers, flakes or powder, and forming a web of said blend; layering said blended web and at least an additional layer chosen from an open cell foam layer, a heat reflective layer, or another of said blended web inside a mold; treating the stacked multilayer material with pressurized saturated steam, such that the polyamide matrix material in the blended web is melting at a temperature under steam pressure that is lower than the melting temperature of the polyamide matrix according to DSC, thereby binding the reinforcement fibers together thus consolidating the blended web forming a porous reinforcement layer, and all layers of the multilayer are laminated together.
US09505177B2
A method is provided for producing a metal composite. The composite includes a metal material and a resin curing layer provided along the metal material, and is obtained by using heat and pressure to mold a preform. The preform includes a sheet-shaped base material containing a thermosetting resin, and a metal material arranged or layered so as to contact the sheet-shaped base material. The method for producing a metal composite includes heating the sheet-shaped base material and semi-curing the thermosetting resin while the metal material in the preform arranged inside a mold is heated to a temperature exceeding 180° C., and molding the preform into a composite using pressure, wherein the thermosetting resin is at least one type selected from the group consisting of epoxy resins, phenol resins, benzoxazine resins, and unsaturated polyester resins.
US09505174B2
A printing head module including a body, a feeding roller assembly and a feeding sensor is provided. The body includes a material-supplying channel and a nozzle connected to the material-supplying channel. The feeding roller assembly is disposed at the material-supplying channel to transmit the modeling material to the nozzle. The feeding sensor is disposed at the feeding roller assembly to detect whether the feeding roller assembly rotates. The feeding sensor is coupled to a control unit, such that the control unit generates a notice according to a detection result of the feeding sensor.
US09505165B2
A nanoimprinting mold includes: a mold main body having a fine pattern of protrusions and recesses on a surface thereof; and a mold release layer formed on the surface of the mold main body. The mold release layer is formed within a mold release layer forming region, which is a region of the mold main body that includes a patterned region where the fine pattern of protrusions and recesses is formed and has an outer edge positioned outside the outer edge of the patterned region. An outer peripheral mold release layer has a thickness distribution in which the thickness of the outer peripheral mold release layer is locally maximal at positions outside the outer edge of the patterned region, substantially continuously along the entire periphery. Thereby, it becomes possible to restrict the region in which resist flows during nanoimprinting, without employing a mesa type substrate.
US09505164B2
Helically reinforced, flexible tubing or hose is formed from continuously extruded thermoplastic material helically circumferentially wound at a wrapping station around an array of bearing-supported rods that are concurrently but individually turned and are canted relative to an imaginary center axis. The tubing or hose being formed has a continuous reinforcing rib helically wound therearound and continuously integrally connected thereto. The positions of the rods are progressively altered during formation of at least a contiguous portion of the length of tubing or hose, causing the resulting tubing or hose portion to exhibit a progressive continuous change in diametrical size. The resulting tubing or hose may be transversely severed at intervals along its length, and may be flattened to form cuffs near where severed.
US09505163B2
A method for forming a container with an integral handle includes heating a preform having an integral handle in a first oven, stretching the preform, closing a first mold having a first mold recess and a second mold having a second mold recess around the preform, and blowing air into the preform. A handle pocket wedge block is inserted into a handle pocket of the integral handle of the preform within the first mold and the second mold.
US09505155B2
A small sized injection molding machine by which a molded product can be produced with a desired level of precision with simple control. An injection molding machine with: a longitudinal injection cylinder to which stick-shaped molding materials are sequentially supplied in line from the upper side, the lower end of which is formed into a nozzle shape, and the lower side of which is constituted by a material having a good heat retaining property; a heater which heats the lower portion of the injection cylinder; and a pressing shaft which presses the stick-shaped molding materials downward. When the stick shaped-molding material located at the uppermost side is pressed by the pressing shaft, the molding material located at the lowermost side which has already been completely melted, is injected into a cavity, and the heat from the heater is transmitted to the die side through a nozzle touch portion.
US09505141B2
A folding knife has dual operational mode. In a first modality, the knife is opened and closed manually. In a second modality, the knife is fully automatic. The user is able to switch between modalities with manipulation of a slider bar in the space between handle halves. The user is able to switch from the automatic mode into the manual mode, and vice versa, only when the blade is in the open position. A torsion spring around the pivot shaft connects the blade to the handle. The spring drives the blade open in the automatic operational mode and a switch mechanism is used to alternately engage and disengaged the spring from the blade. One end of the spring is fixed to the handle and the other end interacts with a groove in the tang of the blade when the switch mechanism is in the automatic position. A spacer bar that is part of the switch mechanism has a surface that is operable to laterally displace the spring relative to the blade groove when the switch is in the manual position. The knife also has dual modes of closed-stop functionality.
US09505139B2
A robot for handling loads, comprising an end effector, three actuators, each with a single degree of freedom, three arms, each of them pivotably connected to an actuator and on the other side pivotably connected to the end effector, a frame carrying the actuators; and a control unit connected to the actuators. Also, an assembly of plural of these robots.
US09505133B2
A joint driving unit driving a joint of a robot arm includes a motor, a speed reducer transmitting rotation of the motor in a variable speed, an input side encoder detecting a rotation angle of a rotation shaft of the motor, and an output side encoder detecting a rotation angle of an output shaft of the speed reducer. When positioning the end effector at a working start position at which predetermined work is started, operation of the robot is set to an output based control mode in which an angle of a joint is feedback controlled based on an angle detection value from the output side encoder. When the robot performs the predetermined work, the operation of the robot is changed to an input based control mode in which the angle of the joint is feedback controlled based on an angle detection value from the input side encoder.
US09505126B2
An industrial robot includes a parallel kinematics mechanism that provides three degrees of freedom to a ring structure while maintaining the ring structure substantially in a fixed orientation relative to a reference plane established by a stationary base plate. A pivot sleeve is suspended within the stationary base plate and may pivot on two perpendicular axes of an intermediate gimbal. An elongate boom is mounted within the pivot sleeve and extends from an upper end through the pivot sleeve to a lower end. An end effector is mounted at the lower end of the elongate boom and is arranged for carrying a work element. Gimbal rings are located at the upper and lower ends of the elongate boom and are interconnected by a control linkage to maintain the end effector substantially parallel to the ring structure during movement of the end effector through a three-dimensional work envelope.
US09505122B2
The present invention includes an open-top sheath case for receiving a chainsaw blade and a planar sheath cover detachably secured to the sheath case to cover the open-top of the sheath case. The sheath cover includes an inwardly extending “L” shaped lip along the longitudinal edges of the sheath cover. An open-top tool kit box includes a floor, a pair of side walls and a front and rear end walls extending upwardly from the floor. The tool kit box further includes an outwardly extending lip provided on the upper edges of the sidewalls and the front end wall. The outwardly extending lip of the tool box kit is sized to be slidably received by the inwardly extending lip of the sheath cover.
US09505120B2
A power tool includes a housing including: a body part having a substantially cylindrical shape and extends in a front-rear direction; and a handle part connected to the body part. The body part includes: a driving source; a power transmission mechanism part configured to transmit a driving force of the driving source; and a tip tool holding part to which the driving force of the driving source is transmitted from the power transmission mechanism part. The handle part includes a switch. A top part protruding from a surface of the handle part is formed on a side surface of the handle part along a longitudinal direction of the handle part. At least a portion of the top part is arranged at a position deviating rearwards from a center of the handle part in the front-rear direction.
US09505113B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus having a base with at least one guide formed along a length thereof. A fitting clamp and a tube clamp are coupled to the base and spaced apart from one another. A drive mechanism is operable for moving at least one clamp relative to the other clamp along the guide of the base so as to slidingly assemble a tube and fitting together.
US09505111B2
Embodiments described herein are configured to release and remove window belt molding.
US09505110B2
A torque wrench with double drive ends includes a handle having at least two hollow tubular bodies coaxially connected with each other, two drive heads respectively disposed at two ends of the handle, and a double torque adjustment mechanism including at least one adjustment member, two slide blocks and two elastic members. The two slide blocks are movable within the two tubular bodies. The adjustment member is positioned between the two slide blocks for driving the two slide blocks. The two elastic members are respectively positioned between the two slide blocks and the tubular bodies. By means of the adjustment member, the elastic force applied by the elastic members to the drive heads the can be adjusted to set the torque values thereof.
US09505097B2
A power tool enabled to detect an inadvertent rotation at higher accuracy includes a first sensor that detects a first driving information corresponding to a kinetic movement state of the tool body when the tool body is rotated around a longitudinal axis of the tool bit in the event of a working operation of the power tool, a second sensor that detects a second driving information corresponding to an output torque of the tool bit driven by the motor, and a controller connected to the first sensor and the second sensor for controlling the power tool. The controller is configured to calculate holding information corresponding to a holding force of a user to hold the tool body based on the first driving information and the second driving information and control the driving of the power tool based on the holding information.
US09505093B2
A router guide having a work surface frame that defines upper and lower work surfaces. The guide further includes a tilting mechanism for tilting the router motor to a desired orientation with respect to a work piece, and a circular disc that is rotatably supported to the work surface to facilitate rotation of the circular disc. The router guider further includes multiple adjustments, including, a first adjustment for frictionally rotating the work surface with respect to the router bit; a second adjustment for slidably positioning the work surface along a first and second range of motion; and, a third adjustment for positioning the work surface along a third range of motion.
US09505081B2
A manufacturing method for an outer joint member of a constant velocity universal joint includes forming a cup member and a shaft member, forming a joining hole in a thickness of a bottom portion to prepare the cup member as a finished component, and forming a joining outer surface on an end portion of the shaft member to be joined onto the bottom portion of the cup member to prepare the shaft member as a finished component. The method also includes fitting the joining hole of the cup member and the joining outer surface of the shaft member as the finished components to each other, and welding a fitting portion between the joining hole and the joining outer surface through irradiation of a beam from an inner side of the cup member, a diameter of the fitting portion being an equal dimension for each joint size.
US09505078B2
A spot welding method and a spot welding apparatus are provided. A stacked assembly of at least three workpieces is gripped between first and second welding tips. An inner workpiece positioned inside of the stacked assembly, of two of the workpieces that exhibit a maximum contact resistance in the stacked assembly, is electrically connected to a ground electrode, or to an electrode having the same polarity as the second welding tip near an outer workpiece positioned adjacent to the inner workpiece and facing outwardly from the stacked assembly, of the two workpieces. Then, electric current is applied from the first welding tip toward the second welding tip. In this case, first, the stacked assembly is pressed under a first pressing force, and then, the stacked assembly is pressed under a second pressing force which is greater than the first pressing force.
US09505075B2
A TIG welding method for a ferrite stainless steel sheet is disclosed, wherein a first shield gas is used wherein the gas is a mixture of argon gas and helium gas, 20 to 90% by volume of helium is included in the mixture, and the flow rate S1 of the first shield gas is set in a range of 0.175 m/sec≦S1≦1.75 m/sec, and a second shield gas is used wherein the gas is argon gas, and the flow rate S2 of the second shield gas is set in a range of 0.05 m/sec≦S2≦1.51 m/sec.
US09505063B2
A drill bit has a shank portion having a plurality of SDS-type slots, a cutting portion comprising at least one cutting flute, and an intermediate portion connecting the shank to the cutting portion, the intermediate portion including at least one longitudinal slot. A depth gauge includes a body configured to receive the drill bit, a retention mechanism coupled to the body and having an inward projection to removably couple the body to the at least one additional slot in the drill bit, and a cap coupled to the body such that the cap contacts a workpiece surface to prevent the drill bit from entering the workpiece more than a predetermined depth, wherein the cap is movable relative to the body among a plurality of positions, wherein each of the plurality of positions corresponds to a different predetermined drilling depth.
US09505057B2
The present invention relates to a method for forming a three-dimensional article through successive fusion of parts of at least one layer of a powder bed provided on a work table. Said method comprising the steps of: providing at least a first and second powder tank, providing a first type of powder in said first powder tank having a first particle size distribution, providing a second type of powder in said second powder tank having a second particle size distribution, providing a first sub-layer of said first type of powder on said work table, providing a second sub-layer of said second type of powder on top of said first layer of said first type of powder, fusing said first and second sub-layers simultaneously with a high energy beam from a high energy beam source for forming a first cross section of said three-dimensional article.
US09505044B2
Produced or flowback water from an underground reservoir having been treated with a fluid containing a viscosifying polymer and a vitamin B1 and/or ylide breaker may be recycled by deactivating the vitamin B1 and/or ylide breaker with a sulfur or phosphorus containing nucleophilic agent.
US09505038B2
An endoscope cleaning tube according to the invention includes a housing portion; a movable portion adapted to divide an inner part of the housing portion into a side of the fluid introduction port and a side of the fluid lead-out port and placed between a first position and a second position in the housing portion, the second position being located closer to the side of the fluid lead-out port than the first position; a pressure-receiving portion which, being equipped with a pressure-receiving surface placed at a position facing the fluid introduction port and adapted to receive pressure of the fluid, is adapted to pivot according to fluid pressure on the pressure-receiving surface; and a linking portion adapted to connect the movable portion and the pressure-receiving portion with each other and move the movable portion from the second position to the first position when the pressure-receiving portion receives the fluid pressure.
US09505037B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture for portable coil cleaning and vacuum systems are provided.
US09505036B2
A particle removal tool having a sound field transducer, a cleaning chamber, and an open sealing face. The cleaning chamber having a cleaning fluid guiding chamber extending from the sound field transducer to the open sealing face, a cleaning fluid delivery channel in fluid communication with the cleaning fluid guiding chamber, and a cleaning fluid return channel. The open sealing face has a cleaning portal disposed contiguous with a plane formed by the open sealing face and a chamber-to-surface interface seal which forms a fluid tight seal with a cleaning surface plane. The sound field transducer is disposed within a line-of-sight of the cleaning portal and generates acoustic waves with a frequency between approximately 20 kHz and approximately 2 MHz.
US09505032B2
Systems and methods involving reconfigurable rotating masses are disclosed. One embodiment may take the form of a system having a motor and coupled weights attached to the motor. Operation of the motor rotates the coupled weights and the weights are dynamically reconfigurable to change the location of the center of mass relative to an axis of rotation.
US09505031B2
An ultrasonic transducer with housing contains a transducer assembly, an outer housing surface being fixed against a barrier surface for transferring ultrasonic waves to and from a barrier. The housing has an inner surface with plateau. A cap closes the housing and the transducer assembly has a piezoelectric transducer with a pressure surface around its outer perimeter and an opposite vibration surface engaging the plateau. A ring engages the pressure surface for biasing the vibration surface against the plateau. A holder engages the cap, transducer and ring for positioning and a plurality of springs are spaced around the transducer perimeter and between the cap and ring for biasing the vibration surface toward or against the raised plateau. A viscous couplant is between the vibration surface and plateau for enhancing transmission of the ultrasonic waves.
US09505021B2
A facility for depositing a film of ordered particles onto a moving substrate, the facility including: a transfer area including an entry of particles and an exit of particles spaced apart from each other by two side edges facing each other, retaining a carrier liquid on which the particles float, a capillary bridge ensuring connection between the carrier liquid contained in the transfer area and the substrate, and a plurality of suction nozzles capable of attracting the particles towards its two side edges.
US09505017B2
A method of monitoring a rotary paint atomizer includes determining a target rotational speed, a target air flow rate, a target torque, and a target electrostatic current; and measuring an operating rotational speed, an operating air flow rate, an operating torque, and an operating electrostatic current. The method includes detecting at least one of a first condition in which the operating rotational speed differs from the target rotational speed, a second condition in which the operating air flow rate differs from the target air flow rate, a third condition in which the operating torque differs from the target torque, and a fourth condition in which the operating electrostatic current differs from the target electrostatic current. After detecting, the method includes producing an indicator signal indicative of at least one of the first, second, third, and fourth condition. A rotary paint atomizer system is also disclosed.
US09505008B2
A method for dry operation of an agitator bead mill, with a mill housing that includes a grinding chamber, in which a rotatable agitator shaft extends horizontally between an input side and an output side and in which grinding media are situated. An output gas is fed into the grinding chamber on the output side, goes together with ground grist through the separation system radially with respect to the transport direction, and thus leaves the grinding chamber together with ground grist through the separation system and onward through the product output. Also disclosed is an agitator bead mill for executing the method, such that the separation system has a static sieve with a free perforated surface that is chosen in such a way that the pass-through speed of the gas leaving the agitator mill through the separation system and the product outlet amounts approximately to 10 m/s to 30 m/s.
US09504995B2
An aspect of the invention relates to a method of synthesizing a crystalline molecular sieve having an MSE framework type, the method comprising crystallizing a reaction mixture comprising a source of water, a source of an oxide of a tetravalent element, Y, selected from at least one of silicon, tin, titanium, vanadium, and germanium, optionally but preferably a source of a trivalent element, X, a source of an alkali or alkaline earth metal, M, a source of a tetraethylammonium cation, Q1, and optionally a source of a second organic cation, Q2, which can include a cyclic nitrogen-containing ammonium cation.
US09504990B2
The invention concerns a thioresistant catalyst which comprises an active phase deposited on a support, said active phase comprising at least one noble metal from group VIIIB and at least one metallic oxide from group IB or from group IIB, said support being selected from the group formed by refractory oxides, coal, clays, silica-alumina and/or their mixtures, and said support having a specific surface area in the range 110 to 300 m2/g. The invention also concerns the process for the preparation of said catalysts and their uses in the selective hydrogenation of hydrocarbons comprising acetylenic, dienic and/or alkenylaromatic functions. The invention is applicable to the refining field, and more particularly to the treatment of gasolines obtained by steam cracking (pyrolysis gasoline).
US09504988B1
The present disclosure provides Molecularly Imprinted Polymer (MIP) technology for selectively sequestering one or more target molecules from chemical mixtures. Also disclosed herein are MIP beads and methods of making and using thereof.
US09504987B2
A hydrogel matrix and an osmotically active material immobilized in the matrix can be combined into superabsorbent preparations that are capable of adsorbing large amounts of water. The superabsorbent preparations of the invention have advantages in the use of absorbent materials for physiological fluids, such as diapers, incontinence products, wound dressings and the like, as well as agricultural and environmental applications. In addition, biodegradable superabsorbents of the invention can be prepared.
US09504984B2
Techniques for generating elemental sulfur are provided herein. The disclosed methods may include a gas processing system including a processed feed gas. The methods may include a distillation column configured to receive the processed feed gas and to generate a high-pressure acid gas stream. The methods may include a reactor configured to partially combust the high-pressure acid gas stream to generate a limiting reactant. The methods may include a plurality of reactors configured with a shell side and a plurality of reaction tubes, where a reaction between the high-pressure acid gas stream and the limiting reactant produces a partially-reacted high-pressure acid gas containing elemental sulfur. The methods may include a plurality of condensers configured to condense the elemental sulfur. The methods may include a plurality of separators configured to separate out the partially-reacted high-pressure acid gas stream to recover elemental sulfur.
US09504981B2
A nucleic acid purification device includes a housing and an adapter operatively attached to the housing. The adapter is configured to receive at least one well plate which includes a plurality of wells for receiving contents including at least a sample and a plurality of paramagnetic particles. The device also includes a motor disposed within the housing and configured to selectively move at least the adapter to thereby disrupt or shake the contents of the plurality of wells when the at least one well plate is received by the adapter. The device further includes at least one electromagnetic feature configured to selectively receive an electrical signal and thereby magnetize at least a portion of the plurality of paramagnetic particles when the plurality of paramagnetic particles are received by the plurality of wells and the at least one well plate is received by the adapter.
US09504979B2
The present invention comprises an axial radial catalytic reactor with a shell (as gas tight seal to maintain process gas flows within it) and a feed tube (passing from a source of process gas flow through the shell and into it do deliver feed gas to one or more levels of two annularly sequential catalyst beds), where one end of the feed tube is used as an inlet for feeding reaction mass. In one embodiment of the invention, an interior end of the feed tube is sealed.
US09504975B2
A preferred embodiment of a system for loading catalyst and/or additives into a fluidized catalytic cracking unit includes a bin for storing at least one of the catalyst and/or additives, and a loading unit in fluid communication with the storage bin and the fluidized catalytic cracking unit on a selective basis. The loading unit is capable of being evacuated so that a resulting vacuum within the loading unit draws the catalyst and/or additive from the bin. The loading unit is also capable of being pressurized so that the catalyst and/or additive is transferred from the loading unit to the fluidized catalytic cracking unit.
US09504974B2
The present invention relates to a system and process for a nutracuetical beverage compounding system and methods for the same. Provided is a customizable supplement beverage system and method for personalizing and operating the same to a particular user and optionally for operative tracking. Proposed additionally is an operative system for receiving and individually identifying a concentrate or supplement combinations, for mixing the same prior to a use, and for dispensing the same for use, and for tracking control factors relating to the same.
US09504968B2
The present invention provides a foamed-water generating aerator which is capable of generating good-quality foamed water containing fine, homogeneously distributed air bubbles. The foamed-water generating aerator (100) is fitted to a water discharge pipe to turn water being discharged into foamed water. A circumferential water flow curtain forming portion (110) includes a gap (111), through which water flows, and forms a three-dimensional circulating water flow curtain (112) in which an accelerated water-flow issuing downstream from the gap (111) is continuous in the circumferential direction. An air cavity (120) is provided at some intermediate point in a water-flow path as a place for forming the circulating water flow curtain (112) and sustains an air-filled condition even when a water-flow of the circulating water flow curtain enters therein. Air is drawn through an air ventilation hole (140) into an enclosed space, the enclosed space being defined by the circulating water flow curtain (112) formed in the air cavity (120) and a surrounding wall surface, is mixed with the circulating water flow curtain (112) to thereby form the foamed water.
US09504967B2
A polymeric membrane includes an active layer on a support. The active layer includes at least two chemically distinct crosslinked, polyamide films, and the films are crosslinked with each other at an interface.
US09504965B2
Disclosed is a filtering apparatus capable of minimizing the relative vibration of the filtering membrane module within the frame structure during the aeration cleaning process, thereby preventing the damage of the filtering membrane module which might be caused due to the relative vibration as well as the separation of the filtering membrane module from the frame structure. The filtering apparatus comprises a frame structure including a cross bar and a filtering membrane module installed in the frame structure. The cross bar comprises a first rib inserted into a receiver of the header of the filtering membrane module. The filtering apparatus further comprises a stopper fastened to an end of the first rib passing through a through-hole of the receiver so as to prevent the filtering membrane module from being separated from the frame structure.
US09504959B2
Hexachlorodisilane and residues formed therefrom are disposed of without generating pyrophoric compositions by reaction with urea and alcohol in nonpolar solvent.
US09504953B2
The invention relates to a method of separating oxygen from an oxygen comprising gas, the method comprising the steps of: performing at least a first and a second period of oxygen separation, the first and the second period of oxygen separation each comprising the steps of guiding an oxygen comprising gas to the primary side of an oxygen separation device (12, 14), the oxygen separation device (12, 14) comprising an oxygen separation sorbent (16, 18), and generating a flow of oxygen enriched gas out of the oxygen separation device (12, 14) by creating a pressure difference between the primary side and the secondary side of the oxygen separation device (12, 14), and performing a cooling period between the first and the second period of oxygen separation, wherein the cooling period comprises the steps of guiding a flushing sorbate through the oxygen separation device (12, 14), the flushing sorbate having an adsorption energy e1 with respect to the oxygen separation sorbent (16, 18), and guiding a cooling sorbate through the oxygen separation device (12, 14), the cooling sorbate having an adsorption energy e2 with respect to the oxygen separation sorbent (16, 18), wherein the adsorption energy e2 is lower with respect to the adsorption energy e2. Such a method provides an improved oxygen separation behavior especially with respect to high temperatures. The present invention further relates to an oxygen separator (10).
US09504951B2
Separation of dust in a quenching device arranged downstream of an entrained-flow gasification system is increased by a baffle with a double deflection system for deflecting the crude gas at approximately 180° angle. An additional spraying element is provided. The arrangement can be single-sided or double-sided, or can include an additional weir.
US09504948B2
A filter element includes a media pack of Z-media having first and second opposite flow faces and a side wall extending between the first and second flow face. A gasket is secured to the side wall. The gasket has a sealing portion and an attachment portion. The sealing portion has a flat surface at least one inch long and is located between being planar with and 0.5 inches recessed from the first flow face, inclusive. The filter element can be used in a dust collector.
US09504934B2
For an n-component mixture (n≧3), an array of new distillation columns is disclosed with vertical partitions that allow independent control of the vapor flowrates in each partitioned zone, while operating the columns to produce constituent product streams. Specifically, all such more operable columns with vertical partitions for ternary and quaternary feed mixtures are illustrated. For a ternary feed, through extensive computation, the minimum heat duty for each of the new columns is same as for the FTC configuration. The new columns with vertical partitions become even more attractive when the vapor split between column sections must be controlled within a narrow range. Finally, it is disclosed how a new column with vertical partition(s) drawn for an n-component mixture can be adapted to distil feed mixtures that contain more than n-components.
US09504928B2
A system and method for providing a child activity device is disclosed. The system may comprise a child activity device. The child activity device may comprise a main portion; one or more playthings for engaging children; and one or more attachment mechanisms to couple the one or more playthings with the main portion. In some embodiments, the main portion may be a headpiece comprising at least one of a hat, a cap, a visor, a headband, or a bonnet. In other embodiments, the main portion may be a garment comprising at least one of an apron, a shirt, a jacket, a vest, or a belt. In yet other embodiments, the main portion may be a stand-alone structure comprising at least one of a tent, a blanket, a pillow, a wallpiece, a stroller, a stroller attachment, a crib, a crib attachment, a carseat, or a carseat attachment.
US09504920B2
Natural three-dimensional (xw, yw, zw, tw) gesture player interaction with a two-dimensional game application rendered on a two or three dimensional display includes mapping acquired (xw, yw, zw, tw) gesture data to virtual game-world (xv, yv, zv, tv) coordinates or vice versa, and scaling if needed. The game application is caused to render at least one image on the display responsive to the mapped and scaled (xw, yw, zw) data, where the display and game interaction is rendered from the player's perception viewpoint. The (xw, yw, zw) data preferably is acquired using spaced-apart two-dimensional cameras coupled to software to reduce the acquired images to a relatively small number of landmark points, from which player gestures may be recognized. The invention may be implemented in a handheld device such as a smart phone or tablet, which device may include a gyroscope and/or accelerometer.
US09504919B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to an electronic gaming device including one or more processors, a memory, and one or more display devices. The electronic gaming device further includes a left surround audio device, a right surround audio device, a dialog enhancing center channel speaker, a low frequency effects device, a left speaker, and a right speaker. The combination of the left surround audio device; the right surround audio device; the dialog enhancing center channel speaker; the low frequency effects device; the left speaker; and/or the right speaker produce one or more sound effects in a vertical direction.
US09504915B2
A wireless communication game system includes a plurality of mobile game apparatuses, which function as a parent device or a child device and are capable of making a communication with each other, and broadcasts from the parent device a parent device packet including a parent device PID, a user name UserName, a game name GameName, an OC flag, an E slot, a U slot, and a payload. All the parent device packets are received from the parent device existing within a communicationable range of a user's own apparatus, and the user's own apparatus creates a parent device list, and displays the parent device list on an LCD. Therefore, a user or a player of his own apparatus looks at the game name of the parent device list, for example, and operates a cross key included in an operation key so as to select one desired parent device. Then, transmitting a child device number CID of the user's own apparatus at the E slot designated by the parent device packet, the user's own apparatus transmits a connection request to the parent device.
US09504914B2
Various systems, game controllers, and methods for simulating various objects such as weapons are provided. For example, a game controller may include a trigger, a processor within the body that receives a trigger signal when the trigger is activated by the user. The processor may communicate with a computer running a software program such as a gaming application, and an actuator coupled to the trigger, the actuator configured to output a haptic effect to the trigger in response to receiving a control signal from the processor. The game controller may simulate a gun and generate a recoil effect. In some embodiments, the recoil effect may be generated by impacting a moving mass from a discharge end of the gun to a handle end of the gun. In some embodiments, the recoil effect may be generated by using a body part of a user as a tether.
US09504910B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a first peripheral device having a controller to store operational settings tailored for a gaming application, interact with the gaming application using the operational settings and user inputs, and share the operational settings with a second peripheral device for use with the gaming application. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US09504908B2
A method including receiving a broadcast of an event comprising a plurality of frames; receiving, from a plurality of users, a corresponding plurality of inputs, each of the inputs relating to a characteristic of an object depicted in one of the frames of the broadcast; and analyzing the plurality of inputs to determine a best guess of the characteristic of the object in the frame.
US09504906B2
A game set which includes a plurality of cards upon which at least one of words and images are displayed in an other than normally recognizable format, a mirror by which a reflection of the words and/or images on the plurality of cards can be viewed in their corresponding normal recognizable format, and a timer for measuring the time it takes a player of the game to correctly recognize the words and/or images displayed on the plurality of cards without the use of the mirror.
US09504905B2
A playing card handling device comprises an elevator platform configured to receive one or more cards from an input platform to form a shuffled set of cards, a card gripper positioned above the elevator platform, and configured to grip cards from the shuffled set of cards, and a processor configured to control the elevator platform to have a grip position for the card gripper grip the shuffled set of cards, wherein the grip position is adjusted based, at least in part, on a correction value associated with a particular card insertion. A related method includes determining a grip position of an elevator platform of a card handling device based, at least in part, on a desired insertion location within a stack of shuffled cards as adjusted based on a corrective value that is different for a plurality of different insertion locations.
US09504900B2
A goaltender glove including a finger portion, a thumb portion and a webbed pocket extending therebetween to collectively form a catching area. The webbed pocket can include a rigid support element that extends into at least one of the finger portion and the thumb portion, and is connected to the same via an interface element. The support element pivots about the interface element, with a free end of the element pivoting away from or through a portion of the main shell to prevent excessive bending and stress on the element. The glove can include a selectively manually replaceable mitt, which can be replaced with another mitt, or removed for servicing the mitt or glove. The mitt can be attached to the main shell via an elastic member joined with the finger portion to enable fingers in the finger portion and the mitt to move together.
US09504885B2
A golf club head of this invention is a wood type golf club head including a face portion, a crown portion, and a sole portion. A plurality of grooves arrayed in the vertical direction of the face portion are formed in the face portion. The depth of the plurality of grooves is less than 0.025 mm. When pitches between, out of the plurality of grooves, grooves adjacent in the vertical direction of the face portion are represented by P1, P2, . . . , Pn sequentially from the upper side to the lower side of the face portion, P1≧P2≧ . . . ≧Pn, and P1>Pn.
US09504883B2
A multiple-material golf club and a method for forming said golf club is disclosed herein. The multiple-material golf club preferably is a driver that has a metal face cup and a thin-walled, compression molded, composite aft body with precise IML and OML geometry. The molding composite used to form the compression molded aft body preferably comprises a plurality of randomly oriented, pre-spread carbon fiber bundles and a thermoset or thermoplastic matrix material.
US09504878B2
Golf ball comprising a non-dissolvable layer having a spherical outer surface; and a dissolvable tie layer or dissolvable layer, dispersible in water heated to a heating temperature of about 80° C.-90° C. or greater, disposed concentrically about the spherical outer surface and being bonded with the first non-dissolvable layer at an interface there between. The dissolvable tie layer/dissolvable layer may be formed from a composition consisting of a 1-50 percent aqueous mono-valent high acid ionomer dispersion, or, from an ionomer resin composition. The ionomer of either composition has an acid level greater than 18%; has more than 45% of acid groups that are neutralized with a monovalent cation; and is formed from an acid copolymer having a starting melt index of greater than 180 g/10 min. @ 190° C. with a 2160 g load. The dissolvable tie layer/dissolvable layer may have a thickness of less than about 0.010 inches, and up to about 0.090 inches in some embodiments.
US09504876B2
A scuba mask structure includes at least one window section, a mounting seat for receiving an attachable device to removably attach thereto, and an integrally formed supporting section. The supporting section is insert molded around a periphery of the window section and an end of the mounting seat so that the mounting seat is at one side of the supporting section and the window section is at another side of the supporting section so as to form a seamless scuba mask. Such a structure is formed by first placing the window section and the mounting seat in a mold and forming through injection the support section to be insert molded with the mounting seat and the window section for wrapping around a periphery of the window section so that a seamless scuba mask that, in the entirety thereof, has an integrally formed configuration.
US09504873B2
A rehabilitation equipment includes a main frame, a rotating mechanism, a linking mechanism and a resistance mechanism. The rotating mechanism is disposed on the main frame. The linking mechanism is linked up with the rotating mechanism. The resistance mechanism is for providing a resistance.
US09504872B2
An example exercise device includes an arm structure configured to pivot in response to a movement of at least a portion of a head of a user. An example method of exercising includes moving a portion of a head to pivot a weight arm that resists the moving.
US09504870B2
A exercise machine with an air filled bladder or other resilient member which provides a support surface for a user exercising thereon. The exercise machine providing many of the benefits of a traditional weight bench, while also providing the potential upside of incorporating an instability thereby engaging the user's core during exercise. A resilient member can be shaped according to the needs of the exercise to be performed. The resilient nature of the cushion limits bottoming out providing a true cushion support rather than a hard surface.
US09504866B2
An exercise device capable of being used in multiple configurations with a plurality of accessories comprises a flat base, sidewalls extending upwardly from the base and spaced from each other, and a handle spanning the sidewalls for grasping by a user of the device. The base has a central hole therethrough to which weights can be mounted, and the handle is hollow for accepting a bar therein to which weights can also be mounted. The undersurface of the base can be coated with a non-friction material to facilitate gliding of the device. An elastic exercise band or rope pulley can be attached to the base at the hole, and a foot strap can be attached at the hollow handle. A bar can extend through the hollow handles of two devices to secure them together to provide even greater versatility.
US09504865B2
A trapeze bar assembly provides an elongated support member that can be removably coupled with first and second coupling mechanisms. The coupling mechanisms can couple the support member to flexible suspension members to suspend the support member in the air. The coupling mechanisms can be infinitely positionable along the suspension members. The coupling mechanisms also each include a frame member with an opening that receives one end of the support member. Retention features on the support bar and the frame member can removably retain the end of the support bar within the frame member. The support member can also be rotatably fixed relative to the frame members via cooperating engagement features. A trapeze system is also provided including a support member, coupling mechanisms, and first and second flexible suspension members for suspending the support member. A method for assembling a trapeze apparatus is also provided.
US09504851B2
A medical apparatus includes a magnetic resonance imaging system for acquiring magnetic resonance data from an imaging volume, a processor for controlling the medical apparatus, and a memory containing machine executable instructions and a pulse sequence. The magnetic resonance data acquired using the pulse sequence comprises free induction decay data and multiple gradient echo data. Execution of the instructions causes the processor to acquire the magnetic resonance data using the magnetic resonance imaging system in accordance with the pulse sequence, and reconstruct an in-phase image, a fat-saturated image, a water-saturated image, and an ultra-short echo time image from the magnetic resonance data, wherein the ultra-short echo time image comprises bone image data.
US09504840B2
One aspect relates method of forming an electrical bushing for an implantable medical device, including generating at least one base body green compact for at least one base body from an insulating composition of materials. At least one cermet-containing conducting element green compact is formed for at least one conducting element. At least one conducting element green compact is introduced into the base body green compact. The insulation element green compact is connected to the at least one base body green compact in order to obtain at least one base body having at least one conducting element. A connecting layer is applied onto the at least one conducting element.
US09504839B2
An implantable lead anchor includes a first anchor shell having a first hinge element and a second anchor shell, disposed opposite the first anchor shell, having a second hinge element. The first and second anchor shells define a lead channel and the first and second hinge elements form a hinge. The lead anchor includes at least one tensioning element that is configured and arranged to increase in tension upon elongation. The first and second anchor shells, and the tensioning element provide an open position and a closed position. In the open position, a lead can be side loaded side loaded into the lead channel. In the closed position, the first and second anchor shells grip a portion of the lead disposed in the lead channel and, in combination with the at least one tensioning element, resist disengagement of the lead from the lead anchor.
US09504835B2
Devices and methods for providing pacing in multiple modes are provided. One device operates in a dual chamber (DDD or biventricular) mode and in a pacing mode favoring the spontaneous atrioventricular conduction such as an AAI mode (10) with a ventricular sensing or a mode with hysteresis of the atrioventricular delay. The device controls (10-18) the conditional switching from one mode to the other. The device comprises a hemodynamic sensor, including an endocardial acceleration sensor, derives a hemodynamic index representative of the hemodynamic tolerance of the patient to the spontaneous atrioventricular conduction. The device controls inhibiting or (20) forcing the conditional switching of the device to the DDD (or biventricular) mode according to the evolution of the hemodynamic index.
US09504834B1
Methods of threshold testing and setting a voltage on an artificial pacemaker based on the output of a plethymograph, such as an oximeter, are disclosed herein. This is accomplished by determining blood volume in a limb or area of the body, and its change over time. As voltage is decreased in the pacemaker, a change in blood volume of the limb being measured by the oximeter is determined. This change can be a change in how often the blood volume level rises to its peak level and/or the blood volume level no longer rises substantially. Such changes, or lack thereof, can be based on a backup heart rate or no heart rate at all. Once the threshold voltage is determined where the artificial pacemaker ceases to cause a heartbeat, the voltage of the pacemaker can be set accordingly.
US09504831B2
A method of treating motor deficits in a stroke patient, comprising assessing a patient's motor deficits, determining therapeutic goals for the patient, based on the patient's motor deficits, selecting therapeutic tasks based on the therapeutic goals, performing each of the selected therapeutic tasks repetitively, observing the performance of the therapeutic tasks, initiating the stimulation of the vagus nerve manually at approximately a predetermined moment during the performance of the therapeutic tasks, stimulating the vagus nerve of the patient during the performance of the selected therapeutic tasks, and improving the patient's motor deficits.
US09504822B2
A system includes a medical device lead including a connector at a proximal end of the lead, a conductor electrically connected to the connector at a proximal end of the conductor, and at least one electrode coupled to a distal end of the conductor. The system further includes a device securable to the proximal end of the lead including an inductive element. The device includes a port configured to receive the connector and position the inductive element around at least a portion of the connector.
US09504811B2
Inflatable medical devices and methods for making and using the same are disclosed. The inflatable medical devices can be medical balloons. The balloons can be configured to have a through-lumen or no through-lumen and a wide variety of geometries. The device can have a high-strength, non-compliant, fiber-reinforced, multi-layered wall. The inflatable medical device can be used for angioplasty, kyphoplasty, percutaneous aortic valve replacement, or other procedures described herein.
US09504807B2
A valvuloplasty catheter has a dog-bone shaped balloon with semi-compliant smaller diameter waist and non-compliant larger diameter bulbous end regions. The balloon centers across the valve with the waist adjacent to the annulus. One bulbous region serves to hyperextend the valve leaflets and the other assists in stabilizing the balloon position to reduce migration. The semi-compliant waist increases in diameter as fluid enters the balloon until it comes into contact with the valve annulus. The pressure within the balloon per unit of volume delivery has a greater slope after contact with the annulus than before resulting in a change in slope for the pressure versus volume curve. The diameter of the balloon and annulus are determined at this inflection point when the balloon contacts the annulus.
US09504802B2
Guiding catheter support devices, systems, and methods for stabilizing a guiding catheter while positioned in a vessel of a patient are disclosed. The device comprises a stabilizing wire with an elongate portion and a fortified end, wherein the fortified end is more rigid than the elongate portion. The stabilizing wire is inserted into a guiding catheter while it is positioned in a vessel of a patient and increases the rigidity of at least a portion of the guiding catheter thereby providing support and stabilizing the catheter. A standard guiding catheter may be used or a guiding catheter with a primary lumen and a stabilization lumen having a blind distal end may be used, wherein the stabilizing wire is inserted into the stabilization lumen.
US09504798B2
A mask system for use between a patient and a structure to deliver a breathable gas to the patient includes a mask assembly including a frame, a cushion provided to the frame, and optionally an elbow provided to the frame. Headgear is removably attached to the mask assembly to maintain the mask assembly in a desired position on a patient's face. The headgear includes a top strap, crown straps which cooperate to form a round shape adapted to accommodate a crown of the patient's head, and bottom straps.
US09504794B2
A nebulizer kit includes a case body having a compressed air introduction tube in an upper end portion of which a nozzle hole that expels compressed air is formed, a suction channel formation member that forms a suction channel for sucking a liquid toward the upper end portion and that forms an atomizing area in an exit region of the nozzle hole, and a flow channel formation member having an aerosol discharge port. The suction channel has a first suction channel extending upward along an outer circumferential surface of the compressed air introduction tube, and a second suction channel that extends from the first suction channel toward the nozzle hole at a leading end area of the compressed air introduction tube and has a liquid suction port that expels the liquid. An upper sloped surface region that slopes toward the suction channel is provided above the liquid suction port.
US09504790B1
A method and apparatus are provided for locating a target region which is situated in a body of a subject, for example for the delivery of drugs. The system cooperates with a reservoir for receiving an injection fluid, a needle in fluid communication with the reservoir, and a sensor operable to detect a characteristic indicative of the fluid pressure in the needle. A signal generator supplies a success signal to an operator that indicates when the needle is present in the target region. A central controller controls the signal generator in response to signals received from the sensor.
US09504784B2
A multi-channel peristaltic pump in which each channel can be operated independently of the others. A peristaltic pump includes a plurality of motors, each of which drives a rotor shaft which is independently rotatable around an axis and which rotates a roller head having a plurality of rollers. The rotor shafts are disposed in a concentric manner. The peristaltic pump further can include a control system allowing an operator to selectively determine the speed and direction of rotation of each of the roller heads of the pump.
US09504779B2
A system and methods are described for improving the management of ischemic cardiac tissue during acute coronary syndromes. The system combines a catheter-based sub-system which allows for simultaneous balloon dilation of a coronary artery and infusion of a carefully controlled perfusate during percutaneous coronary intervention. The system allows for modulation of levels of oxygen at the time of percutaneous intervention. In addition, catheters and systems are provided for administration of fluids with modified oxygen content during an intervention that incorporate upstream flow control members to compartmentalize the perfusion of the target coronary artery and the remainder of the heart.
US09504777B2
Dialysis systems and methods are described which can include a number of features. The dialysis systems described can be to provide dialysis therapy to a patient in the comfort of their own home. The dialysis system can be configured to prepare purified water from a tap water source in real-time that is used for creating a dialysate solution. The dialysis systems described also include features that make it easy for a patient to self-administer therapy. For example, the dialysis systems include disposable cartridge and patient tubing sets that are easily installed on the dialysis system and automatically align the tubing set, sensors, venous drip chamber, and other features with the corresponding components on the dialysis system. Methods of use are also provided, including automated priming sequences, blood return sequences, and dynamic balancing methods for controlling a rate of fluid transfer during different types of dialysis, including hemodialysis, ultrafiltration, and hemodiafiltration.
US09504771B2
The present invention relates to materials having therapeutic compositions releasably contained within the materials. The materials are configured to release therapeutic compositions at a desired rate. The present invention also relates to devices incorporating the materials.
US09504770B2
Tissue fillers derived from decellularized tissues are provided. The tissue fillers can include acellular tissue matrices that have reduced inflammatory responses when implanted in a body. Also provided are methods of making and therapeutic uses for the tissue fillers.
US09504769B2
Described are packaged, sterile medical graft products containing controlled levels of a growth factor such as Fibroblast Growth Factor-2 (FGF-2). Also described are methods of manufacturing medical graft products wherein processing, including sterilization, is controlled and monitored to provide medical graft products having modulated, known levels of a extracellular matrix factor, such as a growth factor, e.g. FGF-2. Preferred graft materials are extracellular matrix materials isolated from human or animal donors, particularly submucosa-containing extracellular matrix materials. Further described are ECM compositions that are or are useful for preparing gels, and related methods for preparation and use.
US09504765B2
The dispensing device comprising an active substance dispensing element (1) and adjustment means of the dispensing of said active substances, said active substance dispensing element (1) being housed inside a casing (2) formed by a first body (3) and a second body (4) that can be coupled to each other and that can rotate with respect to each other, said adjustment means comprising an opening (5) provided in said first body (3) and at least one tab (6), such that the relative position between said first (3) and second (4) bodies determines the degree of closure of said opening (5) by means of said tab (6), and in that said first body (3) comprises holes (7) supplementary to a protrusion (8), the position of said protrusion (8) inside one of said holes (7) determining varying adjustment positions of the degree of closure of said opening.
US09504759B2
An aspect of embodiments of the invention relates to surface modified proteinaceous spherical particles (SMOP). SMOPs according to an embodiment of the invention may comprise a protein layer and an amyloid-binding moiety bound to the protein. In an embodiment, the protein layer is spherical in shape and comprises proteins linked to each other by disulfide bonds. It is suggested that SMOPs are effective in preventing formation of amyloid and aggregation of Aβ when administered to a patient in need thereof.
US09504753B2
The present invention describes nanoprodrugs of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAIDs) and nanoprodrugs of α-lipoic acid-containing and NSAIDs. These nanoprodrugs have antioxidant properties and stimuli-responsiveness, which can be used to treat various disease conditions.
US09504750B2
Dry stabilizing compositions for bioactive materials include sugars and hydrolyzed proteins, and may be formed into tablets or other forms providing enhanced stability for the bioactive material. Compositions containing the bioactive materials may be produced by a method that includes (a) combining the bioactive material with other ingredients in an aqueous solvent to form a viscous slurry; (b) snap-freezing the slurry in liquid nitrogen to form solid frozen particles, beads, droplets or strings; (c) primary drying by water removal under vacuum of the product of step (b) while maintaining it at a temperature above its freezing temperature; and (d) secondary drying of the product of step (c) at maximum vacuum and a temperature of 20° C. or higher for a time sufficient to reduce the water activity to below 0.3 Aw.
US09504747B2
This invention provides for a compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1-R4, L and X are defined herein. The compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are cationic lipids useful in the delivery of biologically active agents to cells and tissues.
US09504743B2
This invention describes novel adjuvant compositions and formulations with excellent stability at refrigerated and room temperatures and up to and about 37° C. that can be produced at remarkably low costs. This invention describes novel vaccine compositions and formulations to treat and prevent urinary tract infections caused by gram-negative bacteria including Escherichia coli and multi-drug resistant E. coli. This invention also describes methods of administration of said novel vaccine compositions and formulations and methods of treatment to prevent and treat urinary tract infections caused by gram-negative bacteria including E. coli and multi-drug resistant E. coli.
US09504741B2
The invention provides a method of preventing the spreading of influenza viruses, and the factors making up the said method, and especially provides one type of combinatorial vaccine and the immunization method thereof. Two of more influenza vaccines are inoculated by a certain sequence, and each influenza vaccine vaccines is inoculated at least once, and the inoculation take place two or more times; wherein each influenza vaccine includes one or more antigens, the immunogenic fragments thereof, or the coding genes thereof, and further includes a different antigen, the immunogenic fragments or the coding gene of the different antigen.
US09504735B2
Compositions and methods of modulating cellular function and treatment of disease in mammals comprising locally administering a regulated SNARE inhibitor and a translocating agent to the mammal. Regulated SNARE inhibitors include clostridial neurotoxins, tetanus neurotoxin and their free light chain portions and IgA protease. Translocating agents include acids, encapsulating vectors, and transduction domains.
US09504727B2
Bioavailability of peptide active agents to be administered orally is enhanced by a pharmaceutical composition providing targeted release of the peptide to the intestine by combining the composition with an absorption enhancer. Bioavailability is further significantly increased by administering the composition in an acid-resistant protective vehicle which transports components of the invention through the stomach. The composition may optionally further include a sufficient amount of a pH-lowering agent to lower local intestinal pH. All components are released together into the intestine with the peptide.
US09504726B2
Disclosed are compositions that include extracts from a Lonicera maackii and Polygonum hydropiper.
US09504708B2
The object of the present invention relates to the new and surprising use of sulfated hyaluronic acid (HAS) as regulator agent of the cytokine activity (pro- and anti-inflammatory) and consequently the use of HAS for the preparation of a new medicine for topic use in the prevention and treatment of pathologies associated with the activation and/or deficiency of cytokines of a pro- and anti-inflammatory nature. The Applicant has in fact discovered the exclusive capacity of HAS in modulating the activity of these particular proteins, it has studied the action mechanism and demonstrated the substantial difference between the different sulfated types known in the state of the art, but above all it has demonstrated an unexpectedly high activity of HAS vs different types and strains of Herpes virus, Cytomegalovirus and the virus of vesicular stomatitis. Finally, a further object of the present invention is the use of HAS as a skin absorption promoter of drugs of an anti-inflammatory nature.
US09504699B2
The present invention refers to the treatment of a rheumatic disease and/or osteoarthritis by administering a delayed-release dosage form of a glucocorticoid to a subject in need thereof.
US09504698B2
Flowable compositions and methods are provided for delivering a therapeutic agent at or near a target tissue site beneath the skin of a patient, the flowable composition comprising (i) a solvent, (ii) a polymer and (iii) an effective amount of the therapeutic agent, the flowable composition being capable of setting to form a substantially non-flowable composition at a physiological temperature or as the solvent contacts bodily fluid at or near the target tissue site, wherein the substantially non-flowable composition is capable of releasing the therapeutic agent over a period of at least one day and the target tissue site comprises at least one muscle, ligament, tendon, cartilage, spinal disc, spinal foraminal space near the spinal nerve root, facet or synovial joint, or spinal canal.
US09504697B2
Described herein are therapeutic methods using progesterone and progesterone analogs to improve sleep quality. The methods may be particularly useful to treat subject with perturbed sleep patterns, such as subjects who suffer from mid-sleep period awakenings.
US09504696B2
Described herein are intracameral implants including at least one therapeutic agent for treatment of at least one ocular condition. The implants described herein are not anchored to the ocular tissue, but rather are held in place by currents and gravity present in the anterior chamber of an eye. The implants are preferably polymeric, biodegradable and provide sustained release of at least one therapeutic agent to both the trabecular meshwork and associated ocular tissue and the fluids within the anterior chamber of an eye.
US09504688B2
The present invention relates to chemical compounds, methods for their discovery, and their therapeutic and research use. In particular, the present invention provides compounds as therapeutic agents against bacterial infections (e.g., biofilms).
US09504683B2
The present invention relates to modulators of ATP-Binding Cassette (“ABC”) transporters or fragments thereof, including Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (“CFTC”), compositions thereof, and methods therewith. The present invention also relates to methods of treating ABC transporter mediated diseases using such modulators.
US09504679B2
The invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising PPAR agonists and Nrf2 activators and methods of using combinations of PPAR agonists and Nrf2 activators for treating diseases such as psoriasis, asthma, multiple sclerosis, inflammatory bowel disease, and arthritis.
US09504674B2
Compounds and methods related to the activation of the TrkB receptor are provided. The methods include administering a 7,8-dihydroxyflavone derivative with modified flavone or heterocyclic ring to a subject in need thereof. Methods and compounds for the treatment of disorders including neurologic disorders, neuropsychiatric disorders, and metabolic disorders (e.g., obesity) are provided.
US09504671B2
This invention is directed to pharmaceutical compositions for topical administration to a mammal, wherein the pharmaceutical compositions comprise a spiro-oxindole compound, as an enantiomer, a racemate or a non-racemic mixture, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. These pharmaceutical compositions are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of sodium channel-mediated diseases or conditions.
US09504670B2
Disclosed are compounds having enhanced potency in the modulation of NMDA receptor activity. Such compounds are contemplated for use in the treatment of conditions such as depression and related disorders. Orally available formulations and other pharmaceutically acceptable delivery forms of the compounds, including intravenous formulations, are also disclosed.
US09504664B2
The present specification discloses pharmaceutical compositions, methods of preparing such pharmaceutical compositions, and methods and uses of treating a chronic inflammation and/or an inflammatory disease in an individual using such pharmaceutical compositions.
US09504660B2
Retinaldehyde mimetics and inhibitors of retinaldehyde dehydrogenase I in the treatment of disorders
The technology described herein is directed to methods of treating, e.g. obesity by administering retinaldehyde increasing agents.
US09504659B2
The invention relates to a thermoreversible oil-in-water emulsion comprising: a TLR4 agonist, the chemical structure of which does not comprise a sugar ring, squalene, a nonionic surfactant belonging to the polyoxyethylene alkyl ether chemical group, a hydrophilic surfactant, an aqueous solvent, and which shows immunostimulating properties.
US09504656B2
Described herein are pharmaceutical compositions for the delivery of poorly soluble active pharmaceutical ingredients. In particular, a substantially clear fexofenadine HCl solution in a soft gelatin capsule is described.
US09504649B2
An inventive method for treatment or prevention of vascular diseases of the retina is provided. A Norrin compound is optionally administered to a subject either directly and/or as expressed by a cell. The presence of the compound is either protective of or therapeutic for a pathological condition of the retina. Preferred pathological conditions are those linked to the absence of or mutation of norrin protein and are preferably Norrie disease, FEVR, or macular degeneration.
US09504636B2
The invention relates to a surfactant solution containing: (a) 28 to 65 wt.-% of a mixture of (a1) 5 to 20 wt.-% of N-methyl-N-oleylglucamine, (a2) 50 to 93 wt.-% of N-methyl-N—C12-C14-acylglucamines, (a3) 0 to 30 wt.-% of other N-methyl-N-acylglucamines, components (a1), (a2) and (a3) adding up to 100 wt.-%, (b) 0 to 20 wt.-% of one or more alcohols, (c) 20 to 72 wt.-% of water, and (d) 0 to 5 wt.-% of additives, components (a), (b), (c) and (d) adding up to 100 wt.-%.
US09504634B2
The invention includes a dentifrice composition that comprises a zinc ion source, a polyphosphate ion source, an anethole, and a silica. The silica has a mean particle size of about 5 to about 12 microns, an Einlehner hardness of about 1 to about 20, and an oil absorption of about 40 to less than about 100 cc/100 g. The composition contains zinc ions and polyphosphate ions in a weight ratio of about 0.1:1 to about 10:1 and has a RDA value of about 100 to about 200 and a PCR value of about 75 to about 110. Related methods are also included.
US09504628B2
Embodiments generally relate to a pill box adapted for dispensing medication. In one embodiment, the pill box includes a base member, a carousel coupled to the base member and configured to rotate about the base member, one or more compartments, each compartment formed within the carousel and configured to store a single dose of medication with a lid configured to enclose the base and the carousel. The pill box ratchet advancement mechanism includes a resilient member and a stop member configured to facilitate motion of the carousel in a first direction and to restrict motion in a second direction, and a locking component configured to permit a pre-determined displacement of the carousel in the first direction and to limit further displacement in the first direction by locking the carousel.
US09504626B2
A mechanical chest compression device is secured to a gurney, transport stretcher or ambulance cot while engaging a patient's thorax to provide mechanical CPR during transport. The mechanical chest compression device compresses the patient's thorax against the gurney deck. The mechanical chest compression device may engage the side rails on the gurney, the gurney deck or any suitable structural elements of the gurney.
US09504611B2
A method of protecting sensitive tissue from damage during a surgical procedure using at least one medical tool having a rotatable bit capable of removing tissue, including selecting a multilayer sponge having (i) a tissue-compatible layer with a tissue contact surface capable of being placed against the sensitive tissue, and (ii) a low-friction layer having a lower coefficient of friction than that of the tissue-compatible layer, being affixed to the tissue-compatible layer, and having an outward-facing surface including biocompatible material not easily worn away by brief contact with the rotatable bit during the surgical procedure. The method further includes placing the tissue contact surface of the biocompatible layer against sensitive tissue such that the outward-facing surface of the low-friction layer is positioned between the sensitive tissue and the rotatable bit to protect the sensitive tissue from damage and prevent the sponge from being drawn around the bit when it rotates.
US09504595B2
A compression wrap for the lumbar spine region includes an elongate longitudinally stretchable belt for wrapping around the lumbar region of a person, a fastening device for securing the belt, a pressure pad extending transverse to the belt longitudinally along the spinous process and extending laterally in the hollow between the para-vertebral spinal muscles for applying support directly to the lumbar spine.
US09504594B2
A device and method are provided for positioning an infant's hips, and for maintaining the hip joint in a physiological position, during early months of life. The hip-positioning device includes a flexible base having a pair of opposed, outwardly extending side portions. The side portions are dimensioned for supporting thighs of an infant at an acute angle greater than zero relative to a dorsal plane of the infant, with knees of the infant in a flexed position. The base further has a downwardly extending, generally central portion that is adapted for positioning between the infant thighs and dimensioned for retaining the infant thighs in an abducted position. The device additionally includes an element for retaining the base on the infant.
US09504593B2
Toe cushioning device for protecting a patient's toes. A toe cushion device includes two tubular cushions positioned in a transverse plane on the plantar side of a patient's toes during use. The toe cushion relieves foot or toe pain and conforms to the changing contour of the patient's foot and toes during use.
US09504584B1
The present invention relates generally to medical devices and methods for use in spinal surgery. In particular, the disclosed devices relate to a spinal fixation system and an intervertebral spinal implant assembly sized and dimensioned for the lumbar spine implantable via an anterior or anterolateral approach. The devices include an implant, bone screws, and an improved locking mechanism to prevent the back out of screws.
US09504573B1
A subcutaneous prosthesis for a penis provides two sides of an elongated cylinder, the sides hinged along a top longitudinal edges of the sides. One end of the prosthesis has a gauze sheath providing a means to secure the prosthesis from moving relative to the corpora cavernosa around which it is placed. When the penis is erect it grows in girth thereby causing the two sides of the cylindrical prosthesis to spread divergently and forcing a press-rib against the deep dorsal vein of the penis, thereby restricting blood flow.
US09504571B2
Disclosed systems for implanting annuloplasty rings and other prosthetic devices can comprise a plurality of microanchors, sutures threaded through the microanchors, the sutures passing through the prosthetic device, individual microanchor guides, such as tubes or spears, for each microanchor that contain the microanchors during delivery and allow for positioning and deployment of the microanchors into annular tissue. The systems can also comprise a bracket that is temporarily coupled to the prosthetic device, holds the plurality of microanchor guides in position relative to one another and relative to the prosthetic device, and/or guides the sutures passing through the prosthetic device. The prosthetic device can include suture locking mechanisms to secure the prosthetic device to the sutures and to the implanted microanchors after the deployment devices have been removed.
US09504569B2
A delivery device for a stented heart valve that includes a handle, an inner catheter shaft extending from the handle and having an enlarged bumper element at a distal end, an outer catheter shaft extending from the handle and slidably coupled around the inner catheter shaft, and a retraction mechanism for controlling longitudinal movement of the outer catheter shaft relative to the inner catheter shaft. The outer catheter shaft includes a generally cylindrical housing at a distal end that is structured to receive the bumper element therein.
US09504568B2
A replacement prosthetic heart valve for engagement with a structure of a previously implanted prosthetic heart valve. The replacement heart valve includes a stent structure including a generally tubular body portion with an interior area and a series of wire portions arranged in a mesh-like configuration, and at least one stent post engaging structure extending radially outwardly from the body portion for engaging with an outer surface of a stent post of the previously implanted prosthetic heart valve. The stent structure further includes at least two leaflets attached within the interior area of the tubular body portion of the stent structure.
US09504567B2
A method of implanting a collapsible prosthetic heart valve is disclosed. The prosthetic heart valve includes three biological leaflets mounted within a self-expanding tubular leaflet frame formed of nitinol. The method comprises loading a collapsed prosthetic heart valve into a distal end of a delivery tube. The distal end of the delivery tube is inserted into a vasculature of a patient and positioned proximal to an aortic valve. The prosthetic heart valve is expelled into an annulus of the aortic valve and expanded. The prosthetic heart valve includes cusp positioners that engage sinus cavities above the valve annulus and rotationally orient the prosthetic valve. Preferred embodiments of the cusp positioners do not occlude the coronary arteries.
US09504566B2
A prosthetic heart valve configured to replace a native heart valve and for post-implant expansion and having a valve-type indicator thereon visible from outside the body post-implant. The indicator communicates information about the valve, such as the size or orifice diameter of the valve, and/or that the valve has the capacity for post-implant expansion. The indicator can be an alphanumeric symbol or other symbol or combination of symbols that represent information about the characteristics of the valve such as the valve size. The capacity for post-implant expansion facilitates a valve-in-valve procedure, where the valve-type indicator conveys information to the surgeon about whether the implanted valve is suitable for the procedure and informs the choice of the secondary valve.
US09504562B2
The present invention provides a modular prosthetic valve device having two or more device modules for percutaneous delivery unassembled at or near the valve implantation site and assembly at least in part using a self-assembly member, and a system and method of folding, delivering and assembling the device. The device modules may include a support structure and a valve module. The valve module has an unassembled, folded delivery configuration, and an unfolded, assembled (via the self-assembly member) working configuration. The valve module may be a single-piece leaflets substructure or a plurality of valve sections. The self-assembly member has a delivery configuration and may be reverted to a preset configuration for valve module assembly. The unassembled valve module may be rolled along its circumferential axis towards its height to a folded diameter equivalent to one rolled leaflet, providing a percutaneous valve device having a smaller delivery diameter than pre-assembled valve devices.
US09504557B1
There is disclosed an apparatus and method of manufacture relating to a pre-sutured, high-strength allograft tendon construct. One embodiment of the allograft tendon construct includes first and second tendon lengths that are positioned longitudinally in parallel to one another. A whip stitched pattern secures the first and second tendon lengths at a free end, forming a stitched end portion that abuts an unstitched middle portion. The whip stitched pattern includes a plurality of sutures that originate adjacent to the free end and progress or advance inward toward the unstitched middle portion. A multiple knot bundle is applied immediately prior to a final suture, such that the final suture loops about the multiple knot bundle and locks the multiple knot bundle in place beneath the final suture. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US09504552B2
A graft is used to interconnect two vessels, such as an artery and a vein for hemodialysis. The graft includes a body having first and second ends, and a wall to define a passageway formed in the body. The wall includes a plurality of tubular layers, such as a first layer and one or more second layers disposed radially inward relative to the first layer. Each second layer has first and second ends that can be enclosable. The second layer is removable from the graft body from within the passageway of the graft body after clot formation. A grasper can be used to attach with at least one of the ends of the second layer. In response to withdrawal of the grasper, the corresponding end of the second layer gathers radially inward away from a layer adjacent to the second layer.
US09504535B2
A drill guide employs multiple layers of materials with different mechanical properties in order to achieve concurrent goals of rigidity, fit and retention. For example, a rigid exterior shell and a soft interior may be used together to securely and precisely fit a drill guide to a surgical site.
US09504533B2
A dental surgical drill guide assembly and method includes a surgical guide housing and a base frame that fits to both gum tissue and one or multiple small areas of jawbone. The apparatus may be configured to accurately place dental implants according to planned positions. Such apparatus may increase the stability of the surgical guide by clasping and/or contacting the jawbone, while improving the overall fit and minimizing the need of invasive surgery and flapping by also clasping and/or contacting selected areas of the gum tissue at the same time. Self-locking alignment members aid in easy removal, and re-installation, of the surgical guide housing to the base frame.
US09504532B2
An apparatus for controlling asymmetrical coasting of an endodontic reciprocating motor includes a controller operatively connected to the endodontic motor. The controller may include a processing unit that is configured to direct the rotation of the endodontic motor in the forward direction for a coast time and configured to direct the rotation of the endodontic motor in the reverse direction for a coast time. The forward coast time is separately calculated from the reverse coast time. A method for asymmetrically coasting a reciprocating endodontic motor includes rotating an endodontic motor in a forward direction and calculating a forward coast time for the forward direction and coasting the endodontic motor in the forward direction for the calculated forward coast time. After coasting the endodontic motor in the forward direction, the endodontic motor is rotated in a reverse direction. The reverse coast time is different than the forward coast time.
US09504531B2
A system and method for a procedure that can be performed on any appropriate subject. Procedures can include assembling any appropriate work piece or installing members into a work piece, such as an airframe, autoframe, etc. Regardless of the subject, generally the procedure can have a selected result that is efficacious. The efficacious result may be the desired or best result for the procedure. The system and method can be used in confirming a selected result that can be efficacious.
US09504527B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for controlling a telesurgical system are disclosed. In accordance with a method, a first tool connected to a first manipulator of the system, and a second tool connected to a second manipulator of the system, are controlled. A swap of the tools such that the first tool is connected to the second manipulator and the second tool is connected to the first manipulator is then detected. The first tool connected to the second manipulator and the second tool connected to the first manipulator are then controlled.
US09504526B2
Navigation instruments and guides for targeting a subchondral region of bone and subchondral bone defects are provided. The instruments and guides may be used in reference to an anatomical landmark of a joint.
US09504522B2
Methods and systems of catheterization include a flexible catheter adapted for insertion into a heart of a living subject. The catheter has a lumen for passing an electrically conductive fluid therethrough with the fluid exiting the catheter at the distal portion. The lumen is connectable to an irrigation pump to form a fluid communication therewith. A fluid reservoir connected to the lumen supplies the fluid to the catheter. Electrocardiogram circuitry is connectable to the subject for monitoring electrical activity in the heart. An electrically conductive cable diverts induced charges in the fluid from the catheter electrodes, for example by connection to an isolated ground of the electrocardiogram.
US09504506B2
The invention relates to a method of creating a curvilinear cavity within a vertebral body or other body structure. The invention also relates to devices that may be used to perform the steps to create the curvilinear cavity. One such device is a curved drill including a lever and cam sub assembly. The curved drill can include a spring assembly that controls the curvature of the drill. The lever and cam sub assembly can be provided to allow tension to be reduced in the spring assembly.
US09504505B2
Device for selective biological synthesis of a bone tissue including a screw for the stabilization of a fracture or of a porotic bone tissue, wherein said screw is arranged along an axis (X), substantially longitudinal with respect to said screw, and it is constituted by an extended body, from a first end or tip and from a second end or head, wherein at least said extended body and said second end or head include a longitudinal channel, wherein said extended body has at least one hole or slot, wherein said device includes a pin inserted into the longitudinal channel and provided with means for releasable connection with said screw, for reinforcing the device and for the releasable closure thereof.
US09504501B2
Systems and methods for reducing pressure within a spinal disc are described. In accordance with one implementation, a spinal disc system comprises an aperture within a spinal disc body, and the aperture is configured to permit nucleus pulposus to flow from the disc body through the aperture. In accordance with another implementation, a method of reducing pressure within a spinal disc comprises forming an aperture within a spinal disc body, and permitting at least a portion of the nucleus pulposus to flow from the disc body through the aperture.
US09504499B2
A fastener assembly for a spinal fixation system that is particularly useful in treatment of pediatric and small-statured patients includes a fastener, an attachment member, and a locking member. The fastener has a lower portion for contacting a bone and an upper portion integral with the lower portion. The upper portion has two open channels. Each channel is configured and dimensioned to receive a portion of a longitudinal or connecting member along its circumference. The attachment member is positionable on the fastener and at least partially covers the channel that receives the longitudinal or connecting member. The locking member is operatively associated with the upper portion of the fastener and secures the attachment member and the longitudinal or connecting member to the fastener.
US09504486B2
Devices, systems, and methods for valve removal. In an embodiment of an umbrella device for removing a valve of the present disclosure, the umbrella device comprises an elongated shaft having a distal end, a first umbrella comprising a first mesh, the first umbrella coupled to the shaft at or near the distal end of the shaft, a second umbrella comprising a second mesh, the second umbrella coupled to the shaft proximal to the first umbrella, and a mechanical drill rotatably coupled to the shaft and positioned between the first umbrella and the second umbrella.
US09504476B2
A catheter is described having one or more markers and one or more marker sections.
US09504475B2
A delivery wire assembly for delivery of an occlusive device to a location in a patient's vasculature includes a delivery wire conduit having a proximal tubular portion connected to a distal coil portion, and a conduit lumen extending through the proximal tubular portion and the distal coil portion. The delivery wire assembly also includes a core wire disposed in the conduit lumen and having a distal end coupled to an occlusive device. The distal coil portion of the delivery wire assembly includes a plurality of zones and the plurality of zones decrease in stiffness distally along the length of the distal coil portion of the delivery wire assembly.
US09504473B2
A catheter system for treating lesions is provided. The system is suitable for treatment of bifurcation lesions, has a low profile and provides substantially predictable translational and rotational positioning. In one embodiment, the system includes a fixed wire balloon catheter and a partially attached guidewire lumen, wherein the guidewire lumen is attached to the catheter at a crotch point. The location of the crotch point is predetermined so as to provide substantially predictable positioning. Several embodiments of the system are described for various types of lesions and vessel configurations.
US09504471B2
Embodiments shown and described herein relate, in general, to systems and methods for driving ultrasonic transducers and, more particularly, to systems and methods for controlling the output of high power ultrasonic transducers and improving performance of ultrasonic systems.
US09504469B2
Techniques associated with a vascular anastomosis device are described, including a lower flange having a lower gripping surface and an interior surface, a diversion conduit attached to the lower flange, the diversion conduit having a lumen extending between an inlet and an outlet, the inlet forming an opening in the interior surface, an upper flange having an upper gripping surface, and being configured to move from a first position to a second position with respect to the lower flange, the first position being characterized by the upper flange being separated from the lower flange, the second position being characterized by the upper gripping surface being in contact with the lower gripping surface, and a biasing structure configured to exert a force on the upper flange in a direction from the first position toward the second position.
US09504454B2
The transoral repair of choanal atresia is a method for the surgical repair of choanal atresia that uses a transoral approach. The procedure includes the use of a curved drill, a curved shaver, curved grasping forceps, and a suction irrigator. After endotracheal intubation, a retractor is inserted to retract the tongue. A 120° angled telescope is inserted behind the soft palate into the nasopharynx to visualize the posterior choanae. A curved drill is used to drill the atretic plate from the vomer medially to the lateral pterygoid plate laterally. The drilled section of the atretic plate is removed to clear the obstruction.
US09504447B2
The control panel (14) and display (16) of a cart-borne ultrasound system (10) are support by a lift (30) which can be controlled to allow the control panel and display to be raised, lowered, and rotated. The lift has a first pivot elbow (70) mounted to the ultrasound system cart and a second pivot elbow (70) on which the control panel and display are mounted. A four-bar linkage is coupled between the pivot elbows which enables to control panel and display to be raised and lowered while maintaining the inclination of the control panel. When a control button (26) on the handle (24) of the control panel is depressed the control panel and display can be freely raised, lowered and rotated. When the control button is released the pivot elbows and four-bar linkages are locked in their current positions.
US09504443B2
An apparatus for performing measurements in an artery includes a Doppler catheter, comprising a Doppler transducer and a wire connected to the Doppler transducer; and an elongated catheter body having a conduit therein for housing the wire of the Doppler catheter. The body has a proximal end and a distal end; wherein the wire is movable in the conduit relative to the catheter body so that the Doppler transducer and the wire are capable of being threaded into said conduit at the proximal end after the distal end of the catheter has been inserted into the artery, until the Doppler transducer emerges outside the conduit at the distal end of said body for performing ultrasound measurements in the artery. Another embodiment employs at least an additional side transducer for measuring the cross-sectional dimension of the artery useful for computing blood flow.
US09504442B2
Method and system for determining a volume of a placenta in utero. The placenta in utero may be modeled as having a convex-concave shape (e.g., like that of a portion of a spherical shell). Volume of the placenta may be determined based on the width (or height) and thickness of the placenta, or based on width, height and thickness of the placenta. Placenta size characteristics may be measured using imaging techniques, such as ultrasound. In one aspect of the invention, a volume of a placenta in utero may be compared to the volume of other placentas for similar gestational age, and a determination regarding whether the placenta volume poses a risk to fetal health may be made.
US09504420B2
Reference imagery of dermatological conditions is compiled in a crowd-sourced database (contributed by clinicians and/or the lay public), together with associated diagnosis information. A user later submits a query image to the system (e.g., captured with a smartphone). Image-based derivatives for the query image are determined (e.g., color histograms, FFT-based metrics, etc.), and are compared against similar derivatives computed from the reference imagery. This comparison identifies diseases that are not consistent with the query image, and such information is reported to the user. Depending on the size of the database, and the specificity of the data, 90% or more of candidate conditions may be effectively ruled-out, possibly sparing the user from expensive and painful biopsy procedures, and granting some peace of mind (e.g., knowledge that an emerging pattern of small lesions on a forearm is probably not caused by shingles, bedbugs, malaria or AIDS). A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US09504410B2
This invention provides a physiological monitoring garment having a band-like configuration and incorporating respiratory, cardiac and temperature sensors. The garment is designed so that it is easily constructed from a few number of separate elements, and so that one garment design can be adjusted to subjects of a range of sizes and shapes. The design is further adapted to require little on no wearer effort during donning or wearer attention during use.
US09504406B2
A method for determining biological indicators, the method including, in a processing system causing at least one radiation attenuation measurement to be performed and determining at least one first biological indicator using determined radiation attenuation. In addition to this, method includes causing at least one impedance measurement to be performed and determining at least one second biological indicator using a determined impedance measurement.
US09504405B2
A method for modulating a response signal includes introducing functionalized magnetic particles configured to interact with target analytes into the body, applying a magnetic field sufficient to draw the functionalized magnetic particles towards a surface of the lumen of subsurface vasculature closest to an internally or externally applied mask having a spatial arrangement, and detecting a response signal, which includes a background signal and an analyte response signal, transmitted from the subsurface vasculature. The analyte response signal related to interaction of the functionalized magnetic particles with the target analytes and is modulated with respect to the background signal due, at least in part, to the spatial arrangement of the mask. The target analytes may be non-invasively detected by differentiating the analyte response signal from the background signal due, at least in part, to the modulation of the analyte response signal.
US09504403B2
Sensor arrangement for sensing activity in a nerve or muscle, the sensor arrangement being arranged to be secured to an insertion member for insertion into a body cavity, the sensor arrangement (2) comprising a support for supporting one or more sensing elements, the support comprising a first zone (10a) and a second zone (10b) spaced apart longitudinally from the first zone, where each of the first and second zones are arranged to be secured to the insertion member to define a fixed spacing therebetween, wherein a plurality of strips (16) comprising one or more sensing elements bridge at least part of the spacing between the first and second zones, the strips being moveable laterally relative to the longitudinal length of the support.
US09504401B2
An atrial fibrillation analyzer includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a detected waveform signal indicating a detection result of a pulse wave or an electrocardiogram; an RR interval calculation unit that calculates, on the basis of a spectrum of each unit period obtained by frequency analysis performed on the acquired detected waveform signal every unit period longer than 4 seconds and equal to or shorter than 16 seconds, a parameter corresponding to an average RR interval of the unit period every unit period; a power calculation unit that calculates power of a frequency band determined in advance in an RR waveform signal indicating a temporal change of the average RR interval calculated by the RR interval calculation unit; and an analysis unit that determines whether or not the power satisfies specific conditions and outputs information indicating presence of atrial fibrillation from the determination result.
US09504390B2
A method includes receiving cardiac data and determining a cardiac index based upon the cardiac data; determining an increased risk of death associated with epilepsy if the indices are extreme, issuing a warning of the increased risk of death and logging information related to the increased risk of death. A second method comprises receiving at least one of arousal data, responsiveness data or awareness data and determining an arousal index, a responsiveness index or an awareness index, where the indices are based on arousal data, responsiveness data or awareness data respectively; determining an increased risk of death related to epilepsy if indices are extreme values, issuing a warning of the increased risk of death and logging information related to the increased risk of death. A non-transitory computer readable program storage device encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform a method is also provided.
US09504385B2
A probe for intermittent contacting a patient body with a predetermined speed and force. Initially, the probe is recessed inside the device which is brought in contact with the patient body, while keeping the probe from making a contact with the patient. On a command from an operator or control circuit, the probe is deployed moving toward the patient body surface with a substantially consistent force and rate of motion, thus making a contact in a consistent fashion.
US09504370B2
Embodiments include a dispenser for dispensing a product. The dispenser has a housing, a container, a container holder and a first holder magnetic element positioned on the container holder. The first holder magnetic element and a first stationary magnetic element interact to create a first magnetic force. The first magnetic force can induce the container holder to move. The position of the container holder along an axis of the container holder is correlated with the weight of the product remaining in the container. An indicator may alert user regarding the amount of product remaining in the container based on the position of the container holder.
US09504363B2
A wet/dry sheet dispenser. The dispenser has an elongate refill which holds a liquid and fits into a complementary base. Liquid is selectively dispensed from the refill by longitudinal activation of a pump. The pump may be disposed on either the refill or base. Liquid flows from the refill, upwardly to a dispensing cup. The user may then, optionally, take a sheet and wet it with liquid from the cup at the point of use. This arrangement allows for convenient and selective one hand pump operation, so the other hand is free to grasp the sheet. The sheet may be used wet or dry as desired at the point of use.
US09504358B1
A utensil can remove a food product such as toast from the slot of an appliance. The utensil has an opposing pair of longitudinally disposed tongs that are interconnected at their proximal ends. Each tong has a distal paddle that is wider than the interconnected proximal ends. Each paddle has a tapered distal edge that is sloped to increase clearance at the inside face of the paddle. Each paddle has on its inside face a number of projections, with the ones adjacent to the paddle's distal edge having a distal flank that is sloped to facilitate ingressive passage across them. The tongs can be held with a single hand and kept in a substantially parallel orientation that allows insertion into the slot around either side of the food product. The tongs can be manually pressed together to embed the projections into the food product before lifting and removing it.
US09504356B2
A fry basket including a frame for supporting individual inserts for receiving food items and a locking bar for retaining the inserts within the frame.
US09504352B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of a barbecue utensil and discloses a barbecue grill including a barbecue grill body having a cavity with an opening in an upper end, a heating furnace head and a hot plate are disposed in the cavity, and a barbecue wire mesh is disposed on the opening of the cavity, the hot plate covers the whole top of the heating furnace head and is provided with a plurality of ventilation holes, and an upper surface of the hot plate is inclined and is provided with a plurality of covering plates on the positions corresponding to the ventilation holes, each covering plate covers the whole top of the ventilation hole, one end of the covering plate is connected to an upper surface of the hot plate and the other end extends slantwise downwards and a gap is disposed between the upper surface of the hot plate and the other end of the covering plate.
US09504351B2
Double oven appliances are provided. In one embodiment, a double oven appliance includes a cabinet that extends between a top portion and a bottom portion along a vertical direction, an upper cooking chamber defined adjacent the top portion of the cabinet, the upper cooking chamber including a top wall and a bottom wall spaced apart along the vertical direction, and a lower cooking chamber defined adjacent the bottom portion of the cabinet, the lower cooking chamber including a top wall and a bottom wall spaced apart along the vertical direction. The double oven appliance further includes a baking gas burner disposed adjacent the bottom wall of the upper cooking chamber and configured to heat the upper cooking chamber, at least a portion of the baking gas burner spaced from a center point of the upper cooking chamber along a lateral direction.
US09504347B2
A portable nested cook-set includes a cook pot having a pot sidewall with a retention projection and defining an upwardly opening pot interior chamber, a press-pot piston having a piston sidewall and a lower end portion defining an upwardly opening piston interior chamber, and a storage container having an exterior portion and a selectively sealable interior storage chamber. The piston sidewall has a sidewall opening and a retention notch positioned to removably receive the retention projection therein. The press-pot piston sidewall is dimensioned to be selectively storable at least partially within the cook pot. The storage container having an exterior portion with a lower portion dimensioned to be selectively storable at least partially within the piston interior chamber. The storage container and the press-pot piston being releasably threaded together.
US09504337B2
A child carrier for carrying two children of the same or different sizes has a first and second child carrier portions including first and second carrier pouches, respectively, each pouch attached at its bottom to a waist support, and shoulder straps. The first and second child carrier portions are configured to be secured between the shoulder straps and directly opposite one another. At least one of the child carrier pouches is configured to extend behind the shoulder straps, such that a heavy weight in the opposite child carrier pouch that presses the shoulder straps tightly against a wearer does not compress a child therein against the wearer. Each of the child carrier pouches is curved towards a wearer to prevent a child inserted therein from facing away from the wearer and is configured to hold a child in a seated straddle position.
US09504326B1
A reclinable chair featuring a weight-sensitive recline mechanism is disclosed. The reclinable chair can comprise a base a support frame pivotally mounted to the base, and a support surface mounted to the support frame. The support frame can include a seat frame portion disposed between and pivotally connected to both a front frame portion and a back frame portion. The back frame portion of the support frame can also be pivotally attached to a rear end of the base, while the front frame portion can also be pivotally attached to a front end of the base. In this arrangement, the support frame and the base can cooperatively function as a linkage system capable of providing a weight-sensitive recline mechanism in a low-profile, stackable chair. The reclinable chair of the present invention can also feature a support surface featuring a pattern of openings shaped by a plurality of higher pitch curvilinear segments to provide greater flexibility and a pattern of openings shaped by a plurality of lower pitch, straighter segments to provide less flexibility.
US09504320B2
A cabinet for the storage of files, books or papers comprising a floor panel, a vertically-arranged back panel fixed to the rear edge of said floor panel, vertically-arranged side panels fixed to the side edges of both said floor and back panels, a plurality of divider panels fixed to said floor and back panels and positioned parallel to and intermediate of said side panels, and a roof panel fixed to said side panels, said divider panels and said back panel; locating and releasable fixing means being provided along each panel edge abutting another panel; zones of said side and divider panels being provided with ribbing to stiffen them; the lower surfaces of said floor panel and upper surfaces of said roof panel being made with complementary shapings which cooperate to provide a locating function when multiple said cabinets are in stacked arrangement.
US09504312B2
An oral hygiene implement includes a cleaning element carrier and a body. The body has a proximal end and a distal end. The cleaning element carrier has a first area and a second area wherein the second area is disposed inboard of the first area. The first area is attached to the body while the second area is unattached to the body. A bending element is disposed between the first area and the second area, thereby allowing the second area to bend/flex while the first area stays fixed to the body.
US09504310B2
A dispenser for storing and dispensing a rolled support strap, including but not limited to hanger straps (sometimes referred to as “plumber's tape”) such as those sold under the trade name TAB TAPE®, as well as assemblies that include a dispenser and a rolled support strap therein, and associated methods. A holster for holding the dispenser, as well as a system including a holster and a dispenser, are also disclosed.
US09504309B2
A connector apparatus, system, and method of use comprising a reusable connector that when attached to gear may be used without tools to removably and adjustably attach the gear securely to a base unit such as belts having different widths or a MOLLE/PALS attaching system. Connectors may comprise disengageable uni-directional teeth on mating slide and engagement members. In various example embodiments each connector can simultaneously engage with multiple rows of straps in a MOLLE/PALS attaching system, the connectors can be used to mount gear alternatively either high or low, and multiple connectors can be used on a single piece of gear. A user can adjust the connection of gear while wearing the gear using certain example embodiments of the connector.
US09504292B2
A method for bonding PEBA plastic composition with dissimilar materials. Also, composite articles made in accordance with the method. The method uses only water-borne adhesive compositions.
US09504289B2
Sole structures for articles of footwear, including athletic footwear, include a relatively soft and lightweight foam midsole component partially covered by at least one more rigid and/or dense cage (protective) component(s) and/or other protective component(s).
US09504274B2
Flavor encapsulation is generally performed by mixing flavor with a prolamin solution and drying the mixture into powdered forms of encapsulated flavor. In one embodiment, flavor and zein are separately dispersed in an alcohol-water mixture of appropriate ratio prior to mixing. In another embodiment, an aqueous food comprising bioactive components is mixed with the prolamin solution, thereby initiating precipitation of the prolamin and concentration of the bioactive components in said aqueous food. Resulting powdered forms of encapsulated flavor comprise the bioactive components from the aqueous food. In another embodiment, a two-phase drying process may be employed comprising removal of alcohol for evaporation-induced-self-assembly of zein microstructures, followed by removal of remaining water to produce said powdered form.
US09504269B2
A weatherized mineral mixture is produced by heating a digestible fat or fatty acid and spraying a mineral mixture with the heated digestible fatty acid to form a protective layer over the mineral mixture. The weatherized mineral mixture may be free of salts of fatty acids, namely soaps. The weatherized mineral mixture sheds water and is wind-resistant. Upon ingestion by livestock animals, the protective coating is digested and the minerals within the mineral mixture are absorbed by the livestock animal.
US09504268B2
A filling means for filling an edible cone with a frozen confection comprising: a tubular housing which surrounds and is coaxial with a piston; the piston having a longitudinal passage which has an outlet at the lower end and an inlet at the upper end; and means for supplying the frozen confection to the inlet of the longitudinal passage of the piston, wherein the tubular housing has an outlet at the lower end which is a nozzle having vertical slits and the outlet of the longitudinal passage of the piston is a nozzle having a rounded aperture and wherein the piston is longitudinally movable within the tubular housing such that when the piston is seated within the tubular housing the piston covers the vertical slits, and when the piston is raised within the tubular housing the vertical slits are uncovered is provided. Also provided is a process for the production of a composite frozen product comprising the steps of: Providing an edible cone; Coating the internal surface of the cone with a fat-based coating; Filling the cone with a frozen confection; and then Adding a further portion of a frozen confection onto the frozen confection in the filled cone characterized in that step c) is carried out using a nozzle which has a rounded aperture and in that step d) is carried out using a nozzle which has an aperture capable of forming a fluted shape.
US09504263B2
The invention relates to a device (2) for transferring longitudinally supplied elongate food products (4), such as for instance sausages. The sausages are placed here in a recess (10) of a rotatable holder body (9) and subsequently set down in lateral direction. The invention further relates to an assembly (1) of such a transfer device and a feed conveyor (3) for sausages connecting to the transfer device. The invention moreover relates to a method for transferring elongate food products such as sausages.
US09504258B1
An improved spiral oven and method for its use includes the step of using a forward/reversing fan to produce a first airflow and a second inverted airflow in the cooking chamber. The proportion of time each airflow occurs may be unbalanced within an oven residence time or cook cycle, and either airflow may begin the cycle. In addition, the fan velocity may vary so that the speed of the first airflow is different from the speed of the second airflow. A braking resistor allows the fan to quickly changeover between full-forward and full-reverse directions, while a programmable delay limits adjustments to the heat output control method until temperature variations caused by alternating between the first direction of rotation and the second direction of rotation have stabilized. Because of the reversing airflow pattern, the product cooks more evenly across the cook belt.
US09504253B2
The present invention relates to liquid pesticide compositions which contain at least one N-phenylsemicarbazone of the formula A wherein R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen, halogen, CN, C1-C4alkyl, C1-C4 alkoxy, C1-C4 haloalkyl or C1-C4 haloalkoxy and R3 is C1-C4 alkoxy, C1-C4 haloalkyl or C1-C4 haloalkoxy. The invention also relates to a process for preparing the liquid pesticide compositions and to spray liquors of the invention, respectively, and to their use for plant and material protection.
US09504250B2
Disclosed is an arthropod pest control composition having an excellent controlling effect on arthropod pests, which comprises an amide compound represented by formula (a): a spinosin compound represented by formula (1): wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a C1-C4 alkyl group, R2 represents a C1-C4 alkyl group, and X1 and X2 each represents a hydrogen atom, or X1 and X2 are taken together to form a single bond, and one or more compounds selected from Group (A): Group (A): the group consisting of fipronil, pymetrozine, a compound represented by formula (b): and a neonicotinoid compound containing a nitroguanidine structure.
US09504248B2
The present invention relates to an antimicrobial composition and a method for disinfection involving the antimicrobial composition. It particularly relates to an antimicrobial composition for personal cleaning, oral care or hard surface cleaning applications. It was found that compositions comprising one or more monosubstituted phenols, terpineol and a carrier provide synergistic antimicrobial action. In a preferred aspect the composition also comprises 1 to 80%-wt of one or more surfactants.
US09504241B2
Disclosed herein is a trap for flying pests that does not require the use of chemicals and can be packaged in such a way that it can be present in public areas without being unsightly or intrusive. The trap is reusable, easy to set up, easy to clean, and easy to operate. An example trap includes an outer wall containing a solution, an inner wall extending into the solution, and a space formed between the outer wall and the inner wall. The trap also includes an air pump and one or more air supply conduits that supply air from the air pump to the solution. The air forms bubbles in the solution that rise in the space formed between the outer wall and the inner wall and that cascade downward within the inner wall and into the solution. The cascading bubbles serve to capture flies that land on the bubbles and retain the flies within the trap.
US09504239B2
Disclosed is an improved fishing rod adapted to increase the durability of the fishing rod and fishing line and to improve casting distance and accuracy. The fishing rod comprises an elongated cylindrical rod blank having a working end and a terminal end, wherein the working end is attached to a handle. The rod blank further comprises a plurality of fishing line guides disposed in a gradual spiral configuration along the length of the rod blank. The fishing line guides are adapted to receive a fishing line therethrough. The guides are also low profile so as to minimize snagging. When in use, the fishing line wraps around the rod blank, thereby evenly distributing the weight of the fishing line around the rod. In this way, the present invention eliminates line memory and increases the tensile strength of the rod blank and the fishing line.
US09504237B2
A weedless rubber or soft plastic fishing spoon lure.
US09504236B2
The invention pertains to a transgenic non-human mammal which contains a chimeric immunoglobulin locus containing human variable region gene segments at an endogenous Ig locus operatively linked to non-human mammalian constant region genes, and methods to produce chimeric antibodies therefrom.
US09504233B2
An electromechanical horn having a sound generating system including a piezoelectric speaker generates a series of short, audible sound signals in a repetitive pattern, the generated sound signals having fundamental frequencies with associated harmonic component frequencies and decibel levels that fall within a frequency range of greatest hearing sensitivity of the animal to disperse or deter an aggressive animal in a non-detrimental manner. The generated sound signals have fundamental frequencies with associated harmonic component frequencies that fall within a frequency range of from about 3 kHz to about 10 kHz, and decibel levels in a range of from about 75 dB to about 115 dB (SPL) at 1 meter. The horn device can be hand-held, attached to a user's belt or clothing, or removably attached to a bicycle, motorcycle, stroller, or other conveyance or object and can be actuated while attached or quickly removed and actuated when needed.
US09504232B2
A lick deterrent device to deter animals from biting or chewing. The deterrent device has a flexible substrate physically conformable in three directions with conductive traces thereon. The lick deterrent device is configured for electrical connection to a removable power source. The traces are configured so that they may be contacted by an animal's tongue or saliva, so that upon contact, an electrical circuit is completed thereby delivering a mild electric shock to the animal. The lick deterrent device may be stretchable in at least one direction.
US09504222B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated XB15R14R2. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety XB15R14R2. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety XB15R14R2 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety XB15R14R2 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09504220B2
A novel maize variety designated X03F652 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X03F652 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X03F652 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X03F652, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X03F652. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X03F652.
US09504215B2
The present invention relates to a novel Eustoma having cytoplasmic male sterility and a method for breeding the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to a novel Eustoma having cytoplasmic male sterility, wherein the Eustoma substantially lacks pollen production functions due to insufficient stamen or pollen formation, and a method for breeding the same.
US09504210B2
A watering device comprising an inlet valve operably to be connected into fluid communication with a water source, a primary manifold coupled to and in fluid communication with the inlet valve wherein the primary manifold divides the water flow into at least two closed channels. The watering device further includes at least two flexible tubing portions wherein each of the flexible tubing portions may be connected to and in fluid communication with one of the closed channels. The watering device further includes at least two distribution manifolds wherein each of said distribution manifolds may be connected to and in fluid communication with one of the flexible tubing portions. Each distribution manifold includes a plurality of water orifices to facilitate the flow of water therethrough.
US09504207B2
This light emitting device is provided with: a light emitting element which emits excitation light; and a far-red phosphor which is excited by the light of the light emitting element and emits light that has a peak wavelength within the range of 700-800 nm. The far-red phosphor has a median diameter within the range of 1-20 μm.
US09504205B2
A cleaning section of an agricultural harvester including a sieve and at least one variable stroke sieve drive wherein the sieve is positioned in the harvester to receive crop material from a threshing section and the at least one variable stroke sieve drive is coupled to the sieve wherein the variable stroke sieve drive has a first shaft and a second shaft concentric with the first shaft and the relative angular position between the first shaft and the second shaft establishes an amount of eccentricity of the variable stroke sieve drive.
US09504198B2
An agricultural device associated with reduced tillage techniques in a field includes a frame and a separator supported by the frame. The separator is configured to form a strip of exposed soil in residual plant matter in the field. A crimping device associated with the separator is configured to at least partially crush stems of residual plant matter while maintaining the strip.
US09510493B2
There is provided a method of providing an electric insulating and/or electric arc extinguishing gaseous medium within a sealed enclosure of a medium-voltage electrical device comprising electrical components, the method including enclosing the gaseous medium in the sealed enclosure, wherein the gaseous medium includes a hydrofluoroolefin comprising three carbon atoms and a fluoroketone comprising five carbon atoms. There is also provided a medium-voltage electrical device, including a sealed enclosure comprising electrical components; and a gaseous medium provided within the sealed enclosure, the gaseous medium being an electric insulating and/or electric arc extinguishing medium, wherein the gaseous medium comprises a hydrofluoroolefin comprising three carbon atoms and a fluoroketone comprising five carbon atoms.
US09510489B2
The device includes a body and a plurality of contact portions. The body is substantially planar. The plurality of contact portions are associated with the body so as to form ports. The plurality of contact portions are in electrical communication with the body. The port of each contact portion having an inside diameter substantially equal to ID1. The body and the contact portions are constructed of a conductive metallic material.
US09510486B1
A data center cooling system having electrical power generation, which utilizes heat generated by servers to simultaneously cool the data center and generate electrical power. Taking into account the design of the data center and cooling allows heat to dissipate naturally, which by design permits a turbine to rotate thereby generating electrical power from a generator. Using the fundamental phenomena of compressed hot air rising and cool air sinking in a cyclical approach is a force multiplier using the heat energy of the data center against the natural use of elevation temperatures. Variations between the differences in energy amount in the looping cycle of the close loop system allows for a negative power usage effectiveness.
US09510471B2
An electronics cabinet having a cabinet frame, a front equipment rail, and a structural air dam. The cabinet frame includes a first pair of front-to-back beams connected to a pair of top side-to-side beams to form a top frame, a second pair of front-to-back beams connected to a pair of bottom side-to-side beams to form a bottom frame, and a plurality of vertical post connected to the top frame and the bottom frame. The front equipment rail is removably connected to one of the first pair of front-to-back beams and to one of the second pair of front-to-back beams. The structural air dam is connected to the front equipment rail and to one of the plurality of vertical posts.
US09510465B2
An electronic album includes a housing, and the housing includes a front housing and a rear housing, where the front housing and the rear housing are fixed, and are installable or disassembled. When a component in the electronic album malfunctions, inspection and maintenance can be carried out in time by disassembling the front housing and the rear housing.
US09510461B2
There is provided an electronic component module capable of increasing a degree of integration by mounting electronic component on both surfaces of a substrate, the module including: a first substrate having mounted electrodes formed on both surfaces thereof; a plurality of electronic components mounted on both surfaces of the first substrate; at least one second substrate bonded to a lower surface of the first substrate; and an insulating part formed in at least one position in a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate and bonding the first substrate to the second bonding substrate.
US09510459B2
An environmental sensitive electronic device package including a first substrate, a second substrate, an environmental sensitive electronic device, a side wall barrier structure, a first adhesive, and a second adhesive is provided. The environmental sensitive electronic device is located on the first substrate. The first adhesive is located on the first substrate. The side wall barrier structure is located on the first adhesive, and the side wall barrier structure is adhered to the first substrate through the first adhesive. The second adhesive is located on the side wall barrier structure. The side wall barrier structure is adhered to the second substrate through the second adhesive, and the side wall barrier structure, the first adhesive, and the second adhesive are located between the first substrate and the second substrate. A manufacturing method of an environmental sensitive electronic device package is also provided.
US09510452B2
An electromagnetic shielding member comprises: a shielding portion, including a metal material, for sealing an electronic component on an electronic circuit board, between the shielding portion itself and the electronic circuit board; a dielectric portion between a conductive portion of the electronic component, and the shielding portion, the dielectric portion including a dielectric material having a relative permittivity of 6 or more; and a laminated portion around the electronic component, the laminated portion being a laminate of the shielding portion and the dielectric portion.
US09510448B2
A circuit board has a first side and a second side opposite thereto. The board includes vias extending through the substrate from the first side to the second side, and via contact pads on the second side, each of which surrounds a corresponding via. The board includes a pair of surface mount contact pads on the second side. Each surface mount contact pad has a surface area and edges, each of which can have a shape to maximize the surface area while maintaining predetermined minimum separation distances. Each edge except one or more edges that are opposite another surface mount contact pad have a curved shape, and each edge opposite another surface mount contact pad have a linear shape. Curved edges adjacently opposite corresponding via contact pads can have curved shapes can have concave shapes, and curved edges not adjacently opposite via contact pads can have convex shapes.
US09510446B2
A printed circuit board is disclosed having a substrate with an insulating layer, aluminum foil layers disposed on both sides of the insulating layer, and a through-hole formed in the insulating layer and aluminum foil layers. A metal layer is disposed over an exposed surface of the insulating layer positioned along an inner surface of the through-hole. A zinc film is positioned on a surface of the aluminum foil. A metal film is disposed over the zinc film. A plating film is disposed on a surface of the metal film. A circuit pattern is etched through the aluminum foil and the plating film.
US09510444B2
The present invention aims to provide a substrate having an ITO with a low ITO pattern visibility, which substrate is formed by a method utilizing a simple technique such as coating, printing or the like, and which method is less burdensome from the viewpoints of cost and process; and to provide a touch panel member using the substrate. The present invention provides a substrate including a region where thin layers are laminated on a transparent ground substrate, which thin layers are, in the order mentioned from the upper surface of the substrate: an ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) thin layer (I); an organic thin layer (II) having a film thickness of from 0.01 to 0.4 μm and a refractive index of from 1.58 to 1.85; and a transparent adhesive thin layer (III) having a refractive index of from 1.46 to 1.52.
US09510442B2
An LED light source unit for a backlight of a liquid crystal display is provided. The light source unit includes a plurality of LED chips, an insulating substrate, and a metal film covering a principal surface of the substrate. The LED chips are mounted on the metal film. With this arrangement, brightness of the light source unit is enhanced.
US09510440B2
A display device includes a flexible display substrate and a curvature variation device. The curvature variation device is disposed on a rear surface of the flexible display substrate. A length of the curvature variation device is varied in response to an operation of a user to the curvature variation device, to vary a curvature of the flexible display substrate.
US09510436B2
In some aspects, plasma torch cutting systems can include a housing and a plasma torch power supply within the housing and configured to generate a signal that initiates generation of a plasma arc in a torch head, the power supply including an integrated circuit comprising a plurality of electronic components used to generate the signal that initiates generation of the plasma arc, at least one of the electronic components being at least partially formed of a wide bandgap semiconductor material.
US09510433B2
An apparatus for generating extreme ultraviolet light used with a laser apparatus and connected to an external device so as to supply the extreme ultraviolet light thereto includes a chamber provided with at least one inlet through which a laser beam is introduced into the chamber; a target supply unit provided on the chamber configured to supply a target material to a predetermined region inside the chamber; a discharge pump connected to the chamber; at least one optical element provided inside the chamber; an etching gas introduction unit provided on the chamber through which an etching gas passes; and at least one temperature control mechanism for controlling a temperature of the at least one optical element.
US09510419B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for adjusting the correlated color temperature (CCT) reflecting the warmth of emitted light for a non-tungsten based lighting device as intensity of the lighting device is modified. The CCT of the non-tungsten based lighting device is determined at a lighting control device that can provide fixture-dependent driver levels to various lighting devices of varying types. A lighting controller engine can determine a white component color temperature value based on a desired intensity level and a default CCT value received via a user interface of the lighting control device. The lighting control device can determine the driver levels for controlling characteristics of light emitted from the non-tungsten based lighting device based on the white component color temperature value and a user defined color level. The lighting control device can scale the white component color temperature to reflect variations of warmth as the intensity level is adjusted.
US09510418B2
A dimmer circuit (100) and a dimming method for an event based integrated driver system for a light emitting diode lighting application is disclosed. Dimmer circuit (100) includes a front end module for receiving an external dimming input in an analog domain, a digital domain or software domain and for operating a dimming output; an event generator for generating a plurality of events in a prioritized manner to trigger a respective response through front end module; and a firmware module configured for storing instructions for processing the plurality of events in the prioritized manner and for processing each response to implement a functionality in dimming output, where front end module, event generator and firmware module communicate with each other to generate dimming output of the one or more LEDs, and the dimming output has at least one of a linear profile, a non linear profile, a custom profile or combinations thereof.
US09510414B2
A light emitting diode (LED) driving circuit includes a flicker elimination unit configured to perform a flicker removal for LED modules and a driving control unit configured to pause a procedure of the flicker removal based on an AC input voltage that is regulated through a Triode for Alternating Current (TRIAC) dimmer, so as to cause a brightness of the LED modules to be dimmed. Therefore, the LED driving circuit selectively adjusts an LED brightness level and removes LED flicker by using a TRIAC dimmer and controls the brightness level of the LED module based on a dimming level.
US09510413B2
A solid state lighting apparatus can include a substrate having first and second opposing surfaces, where at least one of the opposing surfaces is configured to mount devices thereon. A string of chip-on-board light emitting diode (LED) sets, can be on the first surface of the substrate and coupled in series with one another. An ac voltage source input, from outside the solid state lighting apparatus, can be coupled to the first or second surface of the substrate.
US09510412B2
The invention relates to a lighting system comprising: —a substrate comprising a resistive sheet (RS) comprising multiple electrodes (A, B, C, D), each electrode being suitable for connection to a respective voltage source, —a plurality of lighting elements (LEI, LE2, LE3, LE4), each element comprising a light source (LED) and at least two contact pins (CP1, CP2) for electrical connection to respective electrical connection terminals and a control circuit for controlling the light output and/or the color of the light generated by the light source in dependence on the voltage between the contact pins, wherein the electrical connection terminals are distributed over the resistive sheet such that the lighting elements can be connected in different positions and in different orientations, wherein the voltage present between the contact pins depends on the position and orientation of the lighting element and wherein the light output and/or the color of the light generated by the lighting element depends on the magnitude of the voltage between the contact pins of the lighting element.
US09510410B2
An electric driver circuit for driving a light-emitting diode may be operated in a regulation operation mode to generate an output voltage to drive a predefined current through the light-emitting diode. The electric driver circuit is operated in a start-up operation mode before the regulation operation mode. The operation of the electric driver circuit in the start-up operation mode enables that a coil current generated in an inductor can be completely discharged before starting the regulation operation mode.
US09510407B2
An LED drive circuit includes a rectification circuit configured to rectify an alternating-current voltage that is input via a dimmer circuit, a delay circuit having a switch, and a light emitting unit including an LED array including LEDs connected in series, wherein the delay circuit turns on the switch when a predetermined time elapses after the alternating-current current is input, and the rectification circuit and the LED array are directly connected when the switch is on.
US09510402B2
A high efficiency LED lighting system with four LED modules. Each module has heat sink assemblies arranged in rows. The heat sink assemblies comprise an LED package mounted on a heat sink reflector. The LED package has a flat find diffusing lens positioned over the diode. A diffusing lens is spaced apart from the heat sink assemblies. A switch mode power supply controller provides power to a pair of light sources. The controller includes a low voltage programmable current source and adjusting elements for independently adjusting the current to the LED light sources. The controller also includes a first communication port for receiving a communication from an external device and a second communication port for sending a communication to a third power supply controller. These ports provide an upstream and downstream communication capability through a chain of controllers so that input from a device can be communicated upstream and downstream.
US09510397B2
A high-frequency induction heating apparatus is provided with a high-frequency oscillation apparatus, a heating coil, a high-frequency transformer and the like, the heating coil has a first coil through which prescribed current outputted by the high-frequency oscillation apparatus is flown, a second coil through which current different from the predetermined current is flown by the high-frequency transformer, and the first coil heats a trunk part and a bottom side part of the can body, and the second coil heats the trim side part of the can body.
US09510391B2
A method includes receiving a wireless beacon from an ad hoc network at a wireless device, wherein the wireless beacon includes a data structure that encodes at least a portion of a wireless identifier of an access point. The method includes configuring the wireless device from the data structure received from the wireless beacon. The method also includes establishing a wireless network between the access point and the wireless device utilizing at least a portion of the wireless identifier encoded in the data structure.
US09510377B2
The present invention includes creating a session in response to a session setup request for a general packet radio service (GPRS) application service, receiving GTP packet data using GPRS tunneling protocol (GTP) tunnel, performing decoding on the GTP packet data, determining whether there is an attack attributable to malicious behavior based on a predetermined management DB, identifying the type of the GTP packet data as the type of GTP packet for attacked GTP packet data and the type of GTP packet for non-attacked packet data based on a result of the determination, carrying out a predetermined policy for the identified type of GTP packet, performing the standardization of the packet data of each GTP version, determining whether the standardized packet data has been registered with a hash buffer in accordance with the type of pairing message for each command, and processing a session based on a result of the determination.
US09510373B2
A method and a device for allocating a radio network temporary identifier are provided. According to the utilization of radio network temporary identifier resources, a gateway sends an update message for radio network temporary identifier resources to a micro cell, or a micro cell notifies a gateway of updating an allocation situation of radio network temporary identifier resources of the micro cell so as to avoid waste or insufficiency of resources.
US09510371B2
A method and a device for controlling service transmission can implement service forwarding. The method includes: receiving a connection request message, where the connection request message includes user information; determining value-added service system VAS information according to the user information; receiving a first data packet of the service that is sent by a sending end; obtaining, according to the VAS information, a second data packet from the at least one destination VAS; and sending the second data packet to a receiving end. A VAS performs value-added processing on a data packet, and returns the data packet to a gateway device, allowing the gateway device to perform service arrangement flexibly according to dynamic information about a user.
US09510363B2
A wireless user equipment device transmits a control channel and a data channel. Each of the control channel and the data channel include a plurality of time slots. The control channel is configured to transmit control information and includes both transmission time slots and non-transmission time slots. The data channel is configured to transmit data packets. The device further includes a processor configured to schedule at least one data packet for transmission in at least one data channel time slot that is concurrent to at least one control channel transmission time slot, and a transmission module configured to transmit the at least one data packet in the at least one data channel time slot that is concurrent to the at least one control channel transmission time slot.
US09510357B1
A method includes receiving wireless communication device usage trend data for a plurality of available wireless communication devices associated with a recipient and detecting, via an application processor executing instructions for a pan device communication optimization agent, a plurality communication paths with the plurality of wireless communication devices associated with the recipient. The method further includes an end-to-end quality score for a wireless communication device associated with the user, wherein the end-to-end quality score is based on selection of a communication type, wireless communication device usage trend data, wireless link quality for available communication paths with the wireless communication devices associated with the recipient and selecting at least one preferred communication path between the wireless communication device associated with the user and at least one wireless communication device associated with the recipient based on comparison of end-to-end scores.
US09510352B2
The disclosure relates to methods and arrangements wherein a user equipment (UE) supporting a first frequency band HB is enabled to communicate with a network utilizing a second frequency band. The second frequency band is a sub-band of the first frequency band or overlaps with the first frequency band. The UE, which supports the first frequency band, implements 32 the channel numbering scheme of the second frequency band SB which overlaps with the first frequency band HB. This enables the UE supporting the first frequency band HB to recognize the second frequency band SB and communicate 33 with the network when the UE is camped or connected to a cell operating in the second frequency band SB.
US09510346B2
Embodiments of a master station and method for high-efficiency Wi-Fi (HEW) communication using traveling pilots are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the master station is arranged for communicating with a plurality of HEW and may be configured to transmit, during an initial portion of an HEW control period, a master-sync transmission that includes a multi-device HEW preamble arranged to signal and identify data fields for a plurality of scheduled HEW stations. The master station may transmit during the HEW control period the data fields with traveling pilots to the scheduled HEW stations. The master station may also receive data fields with traveling pilots transmitted by the scheduled HEW stations during the HEW control period. The traveling pilots may comprise pilot signals that are shifted among orthogonal-frequency multiplexed (OFDM) subcarriers during transmission of one or more of the data fields.
US09510344B2
Provided is a cognitive radio system CRS, a base station and a method for controlling a neighbor relationship, including: a serving base station actively notifies a neighbor base station of transport layer configuration information after resource reconfiguration, the neighbor base station thus performs a maintenance operation on locally saved neighbor cell information of the serving base station, which can solve the problem that the change in the neighbor relationship affects terminal services.
US09510343B2
Systems and methods are disclosed by which base stations with overlapping service areas allocate frames within superframes of a channel in a cognitive radio communication network. The frames are assigned for sole use by a base station on a frame-by-frame basis using a Frame-Based, On-Demand Spectrum Contention process. The process resolves contentions for use of frames using equally probable random numbers. The results of the process are transmitted and received between base stations using vector messages. Applications of the methods and systems include Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs), including those using the standards of IEEE 802.22.
US09510341B2
A method, a base station, a User Equipment (UE) and a system for sending and receiving Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) signaling are disclosed. A method includes determining locations of a first search space and a second search space of a User Equipment (UE). A method also includes sending PDCCH signaling with no Carrier Indication Field (CIF) to the UE in a physically overlapped region between the first search space and the second search space if the physically overlapped region exists and a length of the PDCCH signaling with no CIF in the first search space is equal to a length of PDCCH signaling with the CIF in the second search space.
US09510340B2
The present invention provides a method and a user device for receiving a downlink signal, and a method and a base station for transmitting a downlink signal. The method for a user device receiving the downlink signal in a wireless communication system, comprises: encoding downlink control channel candidates, each of which comprise at least one control channel element (CCE); and detecting the downlink control channel of the user device, wherein each of the downlink control channel candidates is encoded in accordance with a first downlink control information (DCI) format and a CCE type for the user device, or a second DCI format and a predetermined CCE type.
