US09529815B1
A method and system for validating data in a data backup system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a compliance system, compliance and internal standards information. The method includes storing the received compliance and internal standards information. The method includes monitoring one or more events. The method includes collecting data associated with the monitored one or more events. The method includes determining whether the collected data deviates from the compliance and internal standards information. The method includes sending a notification, warning, alert and/or other message with in backup system as well as to compliance system in case of deviation from the compliance and internal standards.
US09529814B1
Techniques for implementing selective file system caching are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method including receiving an I/O request from an application such that the application provides a no-cache indication to a file system to implement a direct. I/O for the I/O request, comparing the I/O request and the no-cache indication with a configurable cache map such that the configurable cache map indicates a selective caching based on an I/O type and a file type, processing the I/O request to render a caching decision based on the comparison, and executing selective caching on the I/O request in accordance with the caching decision.
US09529811B2
Systems and methods for manipulating data records in a byte accessible format are provided. Records may be loaded into one of two byte accessible files or arrays, with a determined record length added to the beginning and/or end of each record. Records may then be slewed between the two files and records added, removed, or modified at the split between the two files.
US09529809B2
A request to write new data to a file is received. The file occupies a pre-determined size of storage space in a file-system. A determination is made whether an end location amount of space from an ending location value in an attribute up to the pre-determined size is insufficient to write the new data to the file. A second amount of space is computed. The first and the second amounts of space together are sufficient to write the new data. The second amount of space begins at a starting location value in a starting location attribute. The new data is written using the first and the second amounts of space. The ending location value is changed to indicate a location at the end of new data in the second amount of space. The starting location value is changed to indicate a location where existing data begins after new data.
US09529808B1
Storing data is disclosed, including: receiving a request to create a clone of a snapshot included in a first set of metadata associated with a source data; and generating a second set of metadata for the clone, wherein the second set of metadata associated with the clone includes, for at least some metadata values, a data associating with the second set of metadata one or more corresponding values in the first set of metadata associated with the source data.
US09529803B2
In one aspect, a request to alter a first image is received. The request includes a portion of the first image that is provided for display with a second image. The second image is associated with three-dimensional (3D) geometry data for an object depicted in both the first and second images and date information identifying when the second image was captured. Input identifying an area of the second image is received. A third image is identified based on the date information of the third image and the second image. The third image is associated with 3D geometry data for the object. An area of the third image is determined based on the 3D geometry data of the second image, the 3D geometry data of the second image, and the area of the second image. Information identifying the area of the third image is provided for display with the third image.
US09529797B2
A system, method, and computer code for a website administrator to order the translation of the strings within a website from the original language to “supported” language(s) by injecting computer code one time from a translation service website into the administrator's website template. The code subsequently analyzes, collects, and electronically transmits un-translated character strings via the Internet to the service's computer server for translation into one or more supported languages. When a user (visitor) of the administrator's website selects the supported language to view the website in, then the translated text immediately appears on the administrator's website. When the user visits the website in the future, the system automatedly displays the text in the supported language; and, it will determine if new un-translated strings appear on the website, and automatedly translate and store them, and/or store the identity of the supported language, on the user's device.
US09529793B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for resolving ambiguity in received voice queries. An original voice query is received following one or more earlier voice queries, wherein the original voice query includes a pronoun or phrase. In one implementation, a plurality of acoustic parameters is identified for one or more words in the original voice query. A concept represented by the pronoun is identified based on the plurality of acoustic parameters, wherein the concept is associated with a particular query of the one or more earlier queries. The concept is associated with the pronoun. Alternatively, a concept may be associated with a phrase by using grammatical analysis of the query to relate the phrase to a concept derived from a prior query.
US09529791B1
A method and apparatus for performing template and content aware document and template editing is provided. Template and content aware document and template editing may include identifying a current document template, the current document template including a plurality of rules, generating a current document based on the current document template, wherein generating the current document includes, identifying a rule from the plurality of rules, the rule indicating an object and an object definition for the object, the object definition including a dynamic content definition, and including dynamic content in the current document based on the dynamic content definition, and storing or transmitting the current document.
US09529787B2
A textual message processing system and method are described for use in a mobile environment. A user messaging application processes at least one user textual message during a user messaging session. A semantic annotation module identifies one or more semantically salient terms in the user textual message, and annotates the user textual message with annotation terms having a low semantic distance to the semantically salient terms. A user message history stores the annotated textual messages. The semantic annotation module may further annotate the user textual message with situational meta-data characterizing the user textual message. There may be a message search module for using one or more keywords to search the user message history including the annotation terms, and identifying as a search match any annotated textual messages within a semantic distance threshold of the one or more keywords.
US09529786B2
A facility for generating a graphic image is described. The facility receives from a user a body of text whose creation is not subject to any rules or prototypes. The facility discerns from the body of text a textual organization. The facility then generates a graphic image conveying the discerned textual organization.
US09529778B2
A computer executable method of processing a representation of a modal interval polynomial is provided. A representation of a modal interval polynomial is generally provided as input, more particularly, a representation comprising a modal interval function variable and an array of modal interval coefficients. Each modal interval linear interpolation of each of the modal interval coefficients of the array are recursively processed until a single modal interval coefficient remains in the array. For each iteration of the recursive processing, a modal interval linear interpolation operation is executed.
US09529770B2
Disclosed is a method of setting an interface in a communication modem supporting a plurality of interfaces. The method includes determining a first mode in which an interface to the device is set in advance when it is detected to receive a signal from a device connected to the communication modem. The method also includes waiting for a reception of data after integrated pins belonging to the communication modem is set to correspond to the first mode. The method also includes determining a change of the first mode according to a result of receiving the data for a predetermined time.
US09529762B2
The cable for a medical device is an optically isolated serial transmission cable, used to connect a base device with a serial port, or the like, to a medical device. In an alternate embodiment of the invention, the invention enables auto detection of the cable. The base device is used to power the cable electronics. In another embodiment of the present invention, the interface cable is also supported by graphical and text message display that assists users in connecting the cable to both the medical device and a base device.
US09529751B2
Aspects relate to methods and systems for processing requests and sending data in a bus architecture. At least one master device is connected to at least two slave devices via a bus. An allocator allocates incoming requests from the master device to a target slave device. Incoming requests are buffered for the respective slave device. The master device sends a read request for a first slave device to the bus; the allocator generates a current-state indicator associated with the read request. The allocator generates a priority indicator associated with the read request. If the initial value of the current-state indicator equals the value of the priority indicator, the read request is processed; or if the initial value of the current-state indicator does not equal the value of priority indicator, the read request is deferred until a later time.
US09529747B2
Memory address generation for digital signal processing is described. In one example, a digital signal processing system-on-chip utilizes an on-chip memory space that is shared between functional blocks of the system. An on-chip DMA controller comprises an address generator that can generate sequences of read and write memory addresses for data items being transferred between the on-chip memory and a paged memory device, or internally within the system. The address generator is configurable and can generate non-linear sequences for the read and/or write addresses. This enables aspects of interleaving/deinterleaving operations to be performed as part of a data transfer between internal or paged memory. As a result, a dedicated memory for interleaving operations is not required. In further examples, the address generator can be configured to generate read and/or write addresses that take into account limitations of particular memory devices when performing interleaving, such as DRAM.
US09529745B2
A system on chip, SoC, comprising two or more data sources, a memory unit, a memory control unit, and a processing unit. Each of the data sources is capable of providing a data stream. The memory control unit is arranged to maintain, for each of the data streams, a buffer in the memory unit and to route the respective data stream to the processing unit via the respective buffer. Each of the buffers has buffer characteristics which are variable and which comprise at least the amount of free memory of the respective buffer. The memory control unit is arranged to allocate and de-allocate memory regions to and from each of the buffers in dependence of the buffer characteristics of the respective buffer, thereby allowing for re-allocation of memory of the memory unit among the buffers.A method of operating a system on chip is also described.
US09529744B2
A second controller is communicated with from a first controller via an interface. Storage is also communicated with from the first controller via the interface. The first controller is configured to be a master on the interface and the second controller and the storage are configured to be targets on the interface.
US09529741B2
A multiport interface device and method of use in a patient data routing system for connecting peripheral devices to one or more patient monitors is provided. The multiport interface device is configurable to directly route data signals received in one or more of the input ports of the interface device to one or more specified output ports of the interface device. The routing of the data can be accomplished by port slicing of the interface device and/or by utilizing coded adapters engaged at the input and output ports of the interface to route signals from multiple peripheral devices to a patient monitor, as necessary.
US09529736B2
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to an apparatus comprising memory and a controller, such as a controller which determines block locking states in association with operative transitions between two or more interfaces that share at least one block of memory. The apparatus may support single channel or multi-channel memory access, write protection state logic, or various interface priority schemes.
US09529730B2
A method and apparatus for evicting cache lines from a cache memory includes receiving a request from one of a plurality of processors. The cache memory is configured to store a plurality of cache lines, and a given cache line includes an identifier indicating a processor that performed a most recent access of the given cache line. The method further includes selecting a cache line for eviction from a group of least recently used cache lines, where each cache line of the group of least recently used cache lines occupy a priority position less that a predetermined value, and then evicting the selected cache line.
US09529728B2
Updating contents of certain memory pages in a virtual machine system is deferred until they are needed. Specifically, certain page update operations are deferred until the page is accessed for a load or store operation. Each page within the virtual machine system includes associated metadata, which includes a page signature characterizing the contents of a corresponding page or a reference to a page with canonical contents, and a flag that indicates the page needs to be updated before being accessed. The metadata may also include a flag to indicate that a backing store of the memory page has contents of a known content class. When such a memory page is mapped to a shared page with contents of that known content class, a flag in the metadata to indicate that contents of the memory page needs to be updated is not set.
US09529722B1
A locality associated with a read request is identified based at least in part on a read address included in the read request. A predicted read address is generated based at least in part on the locality. It is decided whether to permit the predicted read address to be prefetched; in the event it is decided to permit the predicted read address to be prefetched, data from the predicted read address is prefetched and the prefetched data is stored in a prefetch cache.
US09529721B2
A control device that controls a reading process of information stored in a unit storage area under control of the control device and a unit storage area under control of a different control device in a distributed manner, the control device includes a processor. The processor executes a procedure including determining whether or not the reading process is a sequential reading process that reads information stored in a unit storage area under control of the control device in an order of logical addresses and whether or not a reading target area of the sequential reading process includes a last address in the unit storage area, and reporting to the different control device control information related to a sequential reading process including the last address determined by the first determination unit.
US09529705B2
A method of operating a memory controller controlling a nonvolatile memory device including a user area and a meta area is provided. The method includes selecting a source block among a plurality of memory blocks included in the user area, loading a mapping table stored in the meta area on the basis of a sub-bitmap of the selected source block, and generating a valid page layout constituted by valid pages among pages included in the source block on the basis of the loaded mapping table. The sub-bitmap includes information of a valid mapping table with respect to the selected source block.
US09529698B2
Embodiments are described for a system and method for testing a hosted application through a test framework that uses the same operational test code for any one of a plurality of application interfaces. A method under embodiments defines a set of test operations comprising a test for the hosted application, each test operation interacting with the application through an interface of a plurality of interfaces; defines a set of test scenarios, with each test scenario including a number of generic test steps and test operations, and wherein each test scenario includes a function call to the test operation corresponding to the interface to be tested; and executes one or more of the test scenarios to implement a test on the interface to be tested for the hosted application.
US09529695B2
Testing computer software applications is performed by identifying first and second executable portions of the computer software application, where the portions are configured to access a data resource, and where at least one of the portions is configured to write to the data resource, instrumenting the computer software application by inserting one or more instrumentation instructions into one or both of the portions, where the instrumentation instruction is configured to cause execution of the portion being instrumented to be extended by a randomly-determined amount of time, and testing the computer software application in multiple iterations, where the computer software application is executed in multiple parallel execution threads, where the portions are independently executed at least partially in parallel in different threads, and where the computer software application is differently instrumented in each of the iterations.
US09529693B2
Managing software performance debugging based on a distributed VM system is provided. In response to determining a debugging state of a software system running on a VM, a timing of a system clock of the VM is controlled. A data packet sent to the VM from another VM is intercepted, and an added system time and reference time that indicate when the packet was sent by the other VM is extracted from the packet. Based on the system and reference times, as well as a reference time of when the packet is intercepted, a timing at which the packet is expected to be received by the VM is calculated. The packet is forwarded to the VM as a function of a comparison of the timing at which the packet is expected to be received and a system time of the VM when the packet is intercepted.
US09529690B2
An anomaly detection system for detecting an anomaly within a network as a first embodiment in order to provide an anomaly detection system, anomaly detection method, and program for the same. An anomaly detection system which has a plurality of industrial control systems (hereinafter “ICS”s) which are connected to the network, an integrated analyzer which receives the operational status of each ICS as monitoring data in order to identify an ICS for which an anomaly is suspected so as to perform an anomaly assessment, a receiving unit provided for each ICS which receives data from other ICSs, a transmission unit which transmits data to other ICSs and transmits the monitoring data to the integrated analyzer, a security policy which includes recording of data and generation rules, and a wrapper which refers to the security policy in order to control the data so as to transmit the same to other ICSs.
US09529689B2
A monitoring system can provide monitoring services to users of cloud computing environment. The monitoring system can receive access information from users subscribing to the monitoring services. Once received, the monitoring system can access clouds utilizing the access information and monitor the computing processes instantiated in the clouds and associated with the user. The monitoring system can monitor the computing processes and collect information such as usage of cloud resources, number and type of computing processes instantiated, software programs utilized by the computing processes.
US09529688B2
A performance evaluation device includes: a workload controlling unit that sequentially generates, for each of plural single workload types, plural workloads having different sizes on an evaluation target computer, and sequentially generates, for a combined workload type formed by combining at least two different single workload types, plural combined workloads on the evaluation target computer; a data acquiring unit that acquires primary performance data on each of currently running workloads and combined performance data on each of currently running combined workloads; a data analyzing unit that models the acquired primary performance data to generate a primary performance model corresponding to each of the single workload types; and a model generating unit that generates a combined performance model corresponding to a combined workload type on the basis of the combined performance data and the primary performance model.
US09529674B2
A host processing system includes a processor, a RAID controller, and a data storage device coupled to the RAID controller and operable to detect first unrecoverable data at a first logical block address (LBA) of the data storage device, log the first LBA in an unrecoverable LBA table of the data storage device, provide the unrecoverable LBA table to the RAID controller, and in response to receiving a write to the first LBA, remove the first LBA from the unrecoverable LBA table.
US09529668B2
A page data (e.g., upper page data) received from a host is stored in a transfer buffer of a controller of a solid state drive. Another page data (e.g., lower page data) is read from a non-volatile memory (e.g., a NAND memory) to store in the transfer buffer as an error corrected page data. The error corrected page data and the page data are written to the non-volatile memory. In additional embodiments, a controller loads a page data (e.g., upper page data) received from the host in one or more NAND page buffers. The controller reads another page data (e.g., lower page data) from a NAND memory to store in a transfer buffer as an error corrected page data. The error corrected page data stored in the transfer buffer is loaded to the one or more NAND page buffers.
US09529661B1
A multi-core processor system and a method of operating the system allocates fault queues in a shared system memory for each virtual machine of a partitioned guest operating system running on a core or partition of the processor system. Health monitors of the partitioned guest operating system log faults in the fault queue corresponding to the appropriate virtual machine. The health monitors may take additional action in response to warning-level or virtual machine-level faults. A health monitor of the multi-core processor resource then polls each fault queue, as well as the partition-level and module-level event logs maintained by the module operating system, for available faults and logs all faults in a single nonvolatile event log of the multi-core processor resource.
US09529638B2
A computer determines that a utilization level of a resource has satisfied a threshold. The computer scales the allocation of the resource to the furthest of the current allocation of the resource plus a parameter and of a historical limit. The computer determines if the scaled allocation of the resource is outside the historical limit and if so, sets the historical limit equal to the scaled allocation of the resource. The computer determines whether the scaling of the allocation of the resource will result in an allocation oscillation. The computer determines if the scaled allocation of the resource is outside a boundary parameter and if so, sets the allocation of the resource equal to the boundary parameter.
US09529636B2
Techniques for effectuating a virtual Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA) for virtual machines and adjusting memory in virtual NUMA nodes are described. The virtual NUMA node topology may include a plurality of virtual NUMA nodes. The memory may be adjusted based on pressure in a specific virtual NUMA node of the plurality and an amount of guest memory assigned to the specific virtual NUMA node.
US09529634B1
Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to evaluating resource loads to determine when to transform queues and to specific techniques for transforming at least part of queues so as to correspond to alternative resources.
US09529631B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to automatic task execution on a mobile device. Aspects include identifying, by a processor, one or more hardware resources on the mobile device, identifying one or more patterns for each of the one or more hardware resources, and generating one or more composite patterns recognizable by the mobile device based on the one or more patterns. Aspects further include identifying one or more operations that can be performed via the mobile device and receiving, via a user-interface, an association between at least one of the one or more patterns and the one or more composite patterns and an execution of at least one of the one or more operations.
US09529625B2
A method and system for providing memory management in a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) based system are provided. The method includes creating a plurality of tasks with a two level stack scheme comprising a first level stack and a second level stack, scheduling a first task for execution by moving a stack pointer from the first level stack to the second level stack, determining whether the first task is pre-empted, allocating the second level stack to the first task in a second state if the first task is not pre-empted, changing an active task for execution, determining whether the first task relinquishes control from the second state and is waiting for a resource, moving the stack pointer back from the second level stack to the first level stack if the first task relinquishes itself and providing the second level stack for use by a second task.
US09529622B1
Various systems and methods to generate automatically a procedure operative to divide a processing task between two or more compute elements. A first compute element converts a code sequence into a sequence of executable instructions, which direct a second compute element to perform a first processing sub-task on a data set, and which also direct a third compute element to perform a second processing sub-task on the data set modified by the first processing sub-task. A memory module storing the data set may be embedded in a server with at least one of the compute elements. In some of the embodiments, all of the compute elements are part of a single system, whereas in alternative embodiments, at least some of the compute elements are part of two or more sub-systems.
US09529618B2
A process can be scheduled between first and second hosts that using a virtual file system that is shared between the hosts can be used. The process, running on a first hypervisor of the first host, can be scheduled to run on a second hypervisor of the second host. A file can be created that includes the data content of the process address space for the file. The file can be mapped address space of the virtual file system. Data from the physical memory of the first host can be transferred to physical memory of the second host using page fault routines.
US09529611B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs for managing memory in a host where virtual machines (VMs) execute are presented. In one example, a method includes an operation for determining which amount of heap memory has been reserved in a Java virtual machine (JVM) that is in excess of the heap memory needed by the JVM. If there is excess heap memory, a Java balloon agent reserves a Java object in the heap memory. Typically, the Java object will be the size of one or more memory pages in the host. Further, the Java balloon agent loads the Java object with a certain value, for example, by zeroing out the page of memory. When a virtual machine monitor (VMM) in the host detects that a machine physical memory page associated with the Java object has the first value, then the VMM frees the machine physical memory page to make the memory available to other VMs or to other processes executing in the host.
US09529608B2
Methods, systems, and products are provided for thread-agile dynamic programming language (‘DPL’) program execution. Thread-agile DPL program execution may be carried out by receiving, in a message queue, a message for an instance of a DPL program and determining whether the host application has a stored state object for the instance of the DPL program identified by the message. If the host application has a stored state object for the DPL program, thread-agile DPL program execution may also carried out by retrieving the state object; preparing a thread available from a thread pool for execution of the instance of the DPL program in dependence upon the state object and an execution context for the instance of the DPL program; providing, to an execution engine for executing the DPL program, the state object and the prepared thread; and passing the message to the execution engine.
US09529606B1
Testing correct mirroring of a GUI. Two GUI specifications are received, a reference GUI specification and a mirrored GUI specification that corresponds to a horizontally mirrored version of the reference GUI specification. For each child element in the reference GUI specification, a start position, width, and width of the parent GUI element are determined from the reference GUI specification; for the corresponding mirrored GUI element, a mirrored start position and a mirrored width are determined from the mirrored GUI specification; and for the mirrored GUI element, a calculated mirrored start position, based on the start position, width, and width of the child GUI element's parent GUI element are determined. If the mirrored start position or the mirrored width is not within a predefined tolerance of the calculated mirrored start position or the width, respectively, the mirrored GUI specification is updated with the calculated mirrored start position or the width, respectively.
US09529600B2
Provided are an application booting system and method that control a booting time and booting order of each application installed in a terminal (for example, an AVN) according to an importance of each application. The application booting system and method generate or update priority information of each application on the basis of an execution time and the number of executions of each application installed in the terminal, and when power is supplied to the terminal, the application booting system and method control an application to be booted according to the priority information while a system of the terminal is being booted. Accordingly, the application booting system and method enhance a booting speed of a whole system, and provide an execution convenience of an application having a high importance after booting of the system is completed.
US09529598B2
A TRANSACTION ABORT instruction is used to abort a transaction that is executing in a computing environment. The TRANSACTION ABORT instruction includes at least one field used to specify a user-defined abort code that indicates the specific reason for aborting the transaction. Based on executing the TRANSACTION ABORT instruction, a condition code is provided that indicates whether re-execution of the transaction is recommended.
US09529595B2
A method for branch processing is provided. The method includes determining an instruction type of an instruction written into a cache memory and recording the instruction type. The method also includes calculating a branch target instruction address of the branch instruction and recording target address information corresponding to the branch target instruction address when the instruction is a branch instruction, where the target address information corresponds to one instruction segment containing at least the branch target instruction. Further, the method includes filling the instruction segment containing at least the branch target instruction into the position corresponding to the target address information in the cache memory based on the branch target instruction address when the branch target instruction is not stored in the cache memory, such that before a CPU core executes the branch instruction, a next instruction following the branch instruction in a program sequence and the branch target instruction of the branch instruction are stored in the cache memory.
US09529584B2
Implementations of the present disclosure contemplate utilizing the communicative connections between a telematics service provider (TSP) and a telematics unit in a vehicle to schedule a remote reflash event, issue instructions to the vehicle to prepare for the remote reflash event, and to administer the remote reflash event. A TSP may determine that the vehicle is presently running software for which an update is desirable. Thereafter, the TSP may transmit instructions to the vehicle to make preparations for the remote reflash event. In some implementations, the instructions may cause the vehicle to obtain a higher level of battery charge during its next drive cycle or charging event in anticipation of the remote reflash event.
US09529582B2
A distributed system manager may identify updates to perform, identify devices to update, and perform the updates while maintaining service availability. The manager may consist of an orchestrator that uses a plug in architecture to interface with different update systems. The plugins may interface with an update system and respond to scan, download, and install commands from the orchestrator. The orchestrator may prepare each device within the distributed system for updating, then cause the updates to be performed via the plugins. In some embodiments, the logic for selecting devices to update and managing the workloads on the devices may be contained in a second type of plugin.
US09529576B2
Systems and methods are provided for automatically provisioning resources based on application characteristics. In accordance with an embodiment, a system can include a computer, including a computer readable medium and processor. The system can further include one or more servers executing on the computer and an extensible application deployed to the one or more servers, wherein the application includes a plurality of real properties. A plurality of tenants can each utilize the application at the one or more servers. The extensible application is configured to be customized for each tenant, wherein customizing includes for each tenant, defining one or more virtual properties for the application in a metadata file, and mapping the one or more virtual properties to the application using the metadata file.
US09529572B1
Developer-composed custom application session parameters are disclosed. In various embodiments, a definition of a custom application session parameter is received via a software development tool user interface. Application code to store and manage the custom application session parameter, including by making the custom application parameter available across a plurality of application user interface pages, is generated programmatically based at least in part on the definition.
US09529570B2
Apparatus and method for generating random numbers. In accordance with some embodiments, the apparatus comprises a random number generator circuit that generates a random number responsive to a total number of programming pulses used to transition a solid-state memory cell from a first programming state to a second programming state.
US09529569B2
A Method and Apparatus for Randomizer has been disclosed. In one implementation a sequence of randomized connections then exclusive-OR operations and then an adder produce a randomized output.
US09529562B2
There is provided an image display apparatus that configures, together with another image display apparatus, a multi-screen display system. The image display apparatus includes a light emitting unit, an acquiring unit configured to acquire information concerning light emission brightness of the light emitting unit of the image display apparatus and the other image display apparatus, and a correcting unit configured to correct, on the basis of the information acquired by the acquiring unit, at least one of the light emission brightness of the light emitting unit of the image display apparatus and the other image display apparatus to thereby determine the light emission brightnesses of the light emitting units of the image display apparatus and the other image display apparatus.
US09529554B2
A printer driver device includes: an ink-based maximum tone level determination unit configured to determine maximum tone levels for respective types of ink for raster data on an image generated by a layout setting section, based on contents of a print setting information of the image; and a data volume determination unit configured to generate tone datasets on the respective types of ink for each pixel of the image based on the maximum tone levels determined by the ink-based maximum tone level determination unit, and transfer the generated tone datasets as the raster data by connecting the generated tone datasets by use of a line-interleaved format or a band-sequential format.
US09529549B2
A data processing method that is executed by a first data processing apparatus included among plural data processing apparatuses, includes producing a copy of data, and restoration information that includes a first address of memory to which the copy of the data is stored; transmitting any one among the data and the copy of the data to a second data processing apparatus that is included among the data processing apparatuses; and storing the restoration information to shared memory that is memory of at least one data processing apparatus among the data processing apparatuses, and shared among the data processing apparatuses.
US09529542B2
A system for data storage includes multiple servers, which are configured to communicate over a network with multiple multi-queue storage devices and with at least one storage controller, to store on the storage devices compressed data belonging to a user volume, to specify storage locations, in which the compressed data is stored on the storage devices, in a shared data structure that is shared and modified by the servers using remote direct memory access, and to coordinate access to the compressed data by the servers by querying the shared data structure, without executing code on a processor of the storage controller.
US09529540B1
Accesses to a number of data blocks stored in a distributed storage are observed. Following observation of the accesses, the stored data blocks are redistributed. In one aspect, redistribution of the data blocks includes determining the access patterns for one or more of the data blocks based on the observed accesses, and determining the storage sizes for the one or more data blocks. Thereafter, based on the determined access patterns and determined storage sizes, the one or more data blocks are sorted. Subsequently, the one or more data blocks are redistributed or rebalanced across a number of storage devices of the distributed storage based on the sorting. In one aspect, the one or more data blocks are redistributed according to either a uniform distribution scheme or a proportional distribution scheme.
US09529536B2
A semiconductor memory device may include a memory cell array, and a program and verify circuit configured to perform a write operation on the memory cell array by repeating a plurality of program and verify operations. When the write operation is stopped after a first program operation is performed according to a first program condition, the PNV circuit may perform a first verify operation corresponding to the first program operation according to a first target value, after the write operation has resumed.
US09529533B1
An apparatus for modifying a voltage level of a memory array power supply is disclosed. A first column may include a first plurality of data storage cells coupled to a first local power supply signal and a second column may include a second plurality of data storage cells coupled to a second local power supply signal. A first switch may be configured to selectively coupled the first local power supply signal to either a first power signal or a second power supply signal dependent upon a value of a first selection signal, and a second switch may be configured to selectively couple the second local power supply signal to either the first power supply signal or the second power supply signal dependent upon a value of a second selection signal.
US09529532B2
According to at least one example embodiment, a multi-chip system includes multiple chip devices configured to communicate to each other and share resources. According to at least one example embodiment, a method of memory allocation in the multi-chip system comprises managing, by each of one or more free-pool allocator (FPA) coprocessors in the multi-chip system, a corresponding list of pools of free-buffer pointers. Based on the one or more lists of free-buffer pointers managed by the one or more FPA coprocessors, a memory allocator (MA) hardware component allocates a free buffer, associated with a chip device of the multiple chip devices, to data associated with a work item. According to at least one aspect, the data associated with the work item represents a data packet.
US09529525B2
A method for reducing line display latency on a touchpad device is disclosed. The method comprises storing information regarding a plurality of prior touch events on a touch screen of the touchpad device into an event buffer. It further comprises determining an average speed and a predicted direction of motion of a user interaction with the touch screen using the plurality of prior touch events. Next, it comprises calculating a first prediction point using the average speed, the predicted direction, and a last known touch event on the touch screen. Subsequently, it comprises applying weighted filtering on the first prediction point using a measured line curvature to determine a second prediction point. Finally, it comprises rendering a prediction line between the last known touch event on the touch screen and the second prediction point.
US09529518B2
This information processing device enables a user to easily move objects between applications simultaneously displayed on touch panels. The information processing device is provided with touch panels on which applications are simultaneously displayed. A touch panel coordinate management unit detects that an application object has existed for a prescribed time in a defined area of the touch panel when the object is being dragged. An application control unit and a display control unit move the display of the application to a position that allows the object to be dropped as a trigger for detecting the existence of the object in the defined area.
US09529511B1
Systems and methods are provided for manually finding a view for a geographic object in a street level image and associating the view with the geographic object. Information related to a geographic object and a first image related to the geographic object is displayed. User inputs indicating a presence of the geographic object in the image and user input indicating a viewpoint within the image are received and processed. An association of the viewpoint, the image and the geographic object is made and the association is stored in a database. A second image is determined, based on the association, as a default initial image to be displayed for the geographic object in a mapping application.
US09529508B2
A system for alerting a user to a region of interest within an image of interest, the image of interest being one of a sequence of medical images from a patient, the system sequentially displaying the sequence of medical images for enabling the user to navigate through the sequence of medical images. The system includes an input for receiving a sequence navigation command from the user for requesting the system to display images from the sequence of medical images as part of pixel data shown on a display, and a signal generator for providing a sensory signal to the user in separation from the pixel data and in dependence on a difference between a position of a currently displayed image of the sequence of medical images in the sequence and a position of the image of interest in the sequence.
US09529496B2
A display control device includes an operation-display unit and a controller. The operation-display unit hierarchically displays multiple functions using multiple screens and accepts an operation performed through an approach or touch of an object. The controller performs control so that, when the object approaches a function displayed on an original screen, a next screen associated with the function selected as a result of the approach of the object is temporarily displayed using a display mode corresponding to a relationship between the original screen and the next screen.
US09529489B2
Embodiments of the disclosure may provide a method and apparatus of testing a computer program. The method may include acquiring first display data of a character region in a Graphical User Interface (GUI) of the computer program. The method may also include reducing display size setting of an original character string associated with the character region. The method may also include acquiring second display data of the character region in refreshed GUI. The method may further include generating a message indicating character truncation when there is a difference other than actual display size of character between the first display data and the second display data. With the technical solution provided by embodiments of the disclosure, character truncation existing in a GUI may be automatically detected.
US09529488B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatus, systems, and computer readable storage media for interacting with one or more data objects in an online social network. A user interface includes a publisher with a custom action. The custom action is defined in accordance with custom action instructions provided by a first entity via an application programming interface (API). Such custom action instructions may declaratively or programmatically define the data object, the interaction to be performed with the data object, and other attributes associated with the custom action. A user may request to interact with the data object via selection of the custom action by a second entity. Information may be submitted through the publisher to interact with the data object to update a database system associated with the data object. A feed item may be presented for inclusion in the information feed based on the update.
US09529483B2
The present invention provides a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, a touch panel comprising the display substrate, and a display device. The display substrate comprises: a first substrate; a thin film transistor, a first electrode and a second electrode formed on one side of the first substrate; and a black matrix and a color filter layer formed on the other side of the first substrate, wherein at least one of the black matrix and the color filter layer is made of conductive material, a display electric field is formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a touch-control electric field is formed between the first electrode and the black matrix and/or the color filter layer. The solution of the invention can improve accuracy of determination of location where touch occurs and display quality, and reduce thickness of the display substrate.
US09529479B2
A touch sensing method to be implemented by a sensing unit of a touch sensing device is disclosed. The sensing unit is coupled to a plurality of conductor lines of the touch sensing device that extend in a same direction. The method includes: using the sensing unit to provide a sensing signal to at least one of the conductor lines for radiation thereby; and using the sensing unit to receive the radiated sensing signal from at least another one of the conductor lines for sensing a feature parameter associated with the sensing signal received from the at least another one of the conductor lines.
US09529476B2
In a low-latency touch-sensitive device, post-processing is performed to convert a two-dimensional map of signal strengths into usable touch events. Four such post-processing procedures are disclosed: field flattening, touch point detection, interpolation and touch point matching between frames. The field flattening procedure subtracts an offset to remove crosstalk between rows and columns, and compensates for differences in amplitude between particular row/column combinations due to attenuation. The touch point detection procedure computes coarse touch points by finding local maxima in the flattened signal. The interpolation procedure computes fine touch points from the coarse touch points. In an embodiment, such interpolation is done by fitting the coarse touch points to a paraboloid. The frame matching procedure matches the calculated touch points to each other across frames.
US09529469B2
A touch substrate and a display device are provided. The touch substrate comprises: a base; an insulation layer, a common electrode layer, and a common electrode signal line and a plurality of touch drive electrode signal lines in the same layer, the common electrode layer comprises a plurality of touch drive electrodes, a plurality of common electrodes and a common electrode connection strip, each of the touch drive electrodes comprises a plurality of touch drive sub-electrodes, the common electrode connection strip is connected with the common electrode signal line through a plurality of first via-holes, each of the touch drive sub-electrodes is connected with one of the touch drive electrode signal lines through a second via-hole, semi-holes are provided at positions of the insulation layer corresponding to positions of the common electrodes and/or the touch drive sub-electrodes.
US09529468B2
The present disclosure provides a touch driving circuit, a liquid crystal panel and its driving method, so as to prevent the occurrence of an error due to non-uniform parameters of elements in the touch driving circuit, thereby to improve the reliability of a touch screen panel. The touch driving circuit includes a photoelectricity generation unit, an amplification unit, an output control unit and an amplification control unit.
US09529466B2
A display apparatus is disclosed. First and second conduction terminals are respectively arranged on inner sides of upper and lower substrates. The first and second conduction terminals are electrically connected, and first conduction terminals are respectively electrically connected with first signal traveling lines. In addition, second conduction terminals are respectively electrically connected with second signal traveling lines on the inner side of the lower substrate and pairs of alternative conduction terminals. First and second alternative conduction terminals are respectively arranged on the inner sides of the upper and lower substrates. Furthermore, the first and second alternative conduction terminals are respectively electrically connected through first repair lines, which are arranged on the inner side of the upper substrate. In addition, the first and second alternative conduction terminals are respectively electrically connected with the first repair lines and with alternative wires.
US09529465B2
Methods of obtaining input on a physical input device are provided. A virtual input device is superimposed over the physical input device. The virtual input device has a different layout than the physical input device, such that a first input on the physical input device is mapped to a different input on the virtual input device. In another aspect, methods of securing a transaction according include displaying a first input screen to a user, encrypting a scrambling key using a public key, the scrambling key defining a second input screen that has a different layout from the first input screen, transmitting the encrypted scrambling key to a user device, receiving an input from the user device, and mapping the input to the second input screen.
US09529453B2
A method is described for controlling a television. While receiving and displaying a broadcast signal on a screen of the television, the television receives a first signal from a remote controller and displays a control icon corresponding to the remote controller on the screen. The screen is partitioned into a first and second partition, the first partition being a broadcast signal display region continuing to display the broadcast signal, and the second partition being a television control region that includes television control icons and/or subregions. A second signal is wirelessly received from the remote controller, the second signal representing a movement of the remote controller. The control icon is moved across the screen of the television in response to the movement of the remote controller. A channel list is displayed based on whether the second sign is recognized within or out of the second partition.
US09529452B2
A touch input device includes a touch end, a sensing module, and a receiving module. The sensing module includes a sensing unit and a signal operation unit. The sensing unit detects a relative angle between the touch end and a display touch surface to generate a motion signal. The signal operation unit is coupled with the sensing unit and generates a result signal according to the motion signal. The receiving module includes a receiving end and a demodulator unit. The receiving end receives the result signal; the demodulator is coupled with the receiving end, wherein the receiving end transmits the result signal to the demodulator unit, and the demodulator unit generates a function signal according to the result signal.
US09529443B2
The present invention relates to a method for enabling motion recognition without recognizing a hand and a remote controller for motion recognition which can suggest an efficient motion and can be implemented at a low cost in a more stable manner. The remote controller for motion recognition, according to the present invention, comprises: an image acquisition unit for acquiring consecutive images of a hand; a difference image configuration unit for obtaining difference images of the acquired consecutive images; a hand trajectory analysis unit for analyzing a moving trajectory of the hand from the difference images; a motion recognition unit for recognizing a hand motion by analyzing the hand trajectory; and a remote signal transmitter for transmitting a remote signal corresponding to the recognized hand motion such that a device to be controlled can be controlled.
US09529441B2
A display apparatus that provides user interactions is provided, which includes a display main body configured to have an image display surface; and a photographing unit configured to include a camera module that photographs a user to sense a user's gesture, the photographing unit being arranged at a first position where the photographing unit is accommodated in the display main body during non-photographing and being arranged at a second position where the photographing unit projects out of the display main body during photographing, where the camera module is arranged closer to the image display surface if the photographing unit is at the second position rather than at the first position.
US09529439B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to multi device pairing and sharing via non-touch gestures. In an embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by a parent device, an initiating non-touch gesture performed by a user towards the parent device. The method also comprises initiating an action based on the detecting. The method further comprises triggering, by the parent device, a gesture recognition mode on one or more secondary devices based on the detecting. And the method further comprises completing the action upon a positive gesture recognition by the one or more secondary devices.
US09529437B2
A device comprising a motion context logic that receives data from at least one motion sensor is described. The motion context logic determines a user's motion context. Context based action logic manages the device based on the user's motion context.
US09529433B2
A flexible smart glove detects fine hand and finger motions while permitting the wearer to make hand gestures with dexterity. The flexible smart glove has a thickness of less than about 100 μm and incorporates capacitive micro-sensors positioned at finger joint locations. The micro-sensors are thin film devices built on substrates made of a pliable material such as polyimide. Interdigitated serpentine capacitors monitor strain in the back of the hand, while parallel plate capacitors monitor contact pressure on the palm. Thus the smart glove responds electrically to various types of hand motions. Thin film resistors responsive to changes in body temperature are also formed on the flexible substrate. Motion and temperature data is transmitted from the glove to a microprocessor via a passive RFID tag or an active wireless transmitter. An ASIC is embedded in the smart glove to relay real time sensor data to a remote processor.
US09529432B2
A reader's position of progression on a current page of an e-book is tracked. The current page is progressively transitioned to next page based on the reader's position on the current page.
US09529430B2
The invention relates to a display, in particular an autostereoscopic or holographic display, for representing preferably three-dimensional information, wherein the stereo views or the reconstructions of the holographically encoded objects can be tracked to the movements of the associated eyes of one or more observers in a finely stepped manner within a plurality of zones of the movement region. In this case, the zones are selected by the activation of switchable polarization gratings.
US09529428B1
Various embodiments provide methods and systems for presenting content to users on a computing device. In some embodiments, the computing device is configured to determine content or object of interest on the display screen of the computing device by using head position information of the user. For example, the content or object of interest can be extrapolated and determined from a 3D head position of the user and the relative position of the computing device. Depending on the content or object of interest, one or more actions (e.g., zooming in or out, rendering advertisement, or auto-focusing) related to the content or object of interest can be performed on the computing device.
US09529425B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for device hold determination using bone conduction. According to one aspect, a device side transducer of a user device can receive a bone conduction signal from a user side transducer. The bone conduction signal can propagate through one or more bones of a user, such as one or more finger bones. An application can be executed by a processor of the user device to analyze the bone conduction signal to determine how the device is being held. In some embodiments, data regarding how the user device is being held by the user can be exposed to an application that is executable by the processor of the user device, an application external to the user device, an operating system that is executable by the user device, and/or a website.
US09529418B2
An electronic device includes a power supply system and a load circuit connected to the power supply system. The load circuit mutually switches between the first mode and the second mode. In the first mode, the load circuit operates with electric power supplied from the power supply system. On the other hand, in the second mode, the load circuit is brought into the state where the electric power does not need to be supplied from the power supply system. In response to the fact that the mode of the load circuit is switched from the first mode to the second mode, a power supply control device causes an AC/DC converter to stop.
US09529408B2
A touch screen terminal and an alarm method thereof are provided. The method includes that: a terminal detects whether the touch screen receives a touch event; if so, the terminal sends an alarm. The solution solves the problem that due to the poor applicability of an anti-theft alarm method, alarm fails to really work, eventually the terminal is stolen. The solution provides a more reliable anti-theft method of high practicability, thereby enhancing system performance and improving user experience.
US09529407B2
A method of controlling an apparatus including a processor including a plurality of cores, the method includes, when a number of the cores to be activated is M, determining whether or not a first power consumed by the M activated core is within a range of a second power to be consumed when the number of the cores to be activated is M+N, and when the first power is out of the range of the second power, prohibiting to increase the number of the cores to be activated from M to M+N.
US09529406B2
Interface management techniques provide reduced power consumption along with reducing heat and EMI generation in a computer system having multiple interconnected processing units. Physical link layers of external interfaces that interconnect the processing units have dynamically adjustable bandwidth provided by an adjustable width and adjustable operating frequency. The bandwidths may be dynamically adjusted by predicting interface bandwidth requirements. From a required bandwidth, an active width and an operating frequency for the physical link layers are determined and set. The interface is operated according to the determined width and operating frequency.
US09529403B2
A method and apparatus for providing telemetry for use in power control functions is disclosed. A system includes an integrated circuit (IC) having a first power management circuit. The IC also includes a number of functional circuit blocks within a number of different power domains. A second power management circuit is implemented external to the IC and includes a number of voltage regulators. Each of the power domains is coupled to receive power from one voltage regulators. During operation, the first power management circuit may send commands requesting the change of one or more voltages provided to the IC. The second power management circuit may respond by performing the requested voltage change(s), and may also provide telemetry data to the first power management circuit. The second power management circuit may also provide telemetry data responsive to receiving a no operation command from the first power management circuit.
US09529402B2
A step down unit steps down an external power supply voltage Vcc. A bias current control circuit controls the magnitude of bias current flowing through an auxiliary path connecting an output node and the ground. A system controller increases the magnitude of the bias current, prior to a change of the operation state of a load circuit by which a relatively large change occurs to the amount of current consumed by the load circuit including a central processing unit.
US09529397B2
Some implementations provide a method for performing thermal management of an electronic device. The method determines a sensation value based on (i) a temperature of the electronic device, and (ii) a temperature rate change of the electronic device. The method associates a discomfort level from a plurality of discomfort levels, based on the determined sensation value, to the electronic device. At least one discomfort level is dynamically adjustable. The discomfort level specifies a maximum allowed activity for a processing unit of the electronic device. In some implementations, the discomfort level specifies how thermally uncomfortable the electronic device is for a user of the electronic device. In some implementations, each discomfort level from the several discomfort levels is associated with a particular range of sensation values. The sensation value is based on a user adjustable sensation model. The user adjustable sensation model is based on one of several thermal coefficient constants.
US09529396B2
A heat dissipation structure of intelligent wearable device includes a wearable mobile device main body and a hard wearable body. The wearable mobile device main body has a receiving space for receiving therein multiple electronic components. The electronic components have at least one heat source. The hard wearable body is made of thermosetting polymer material or thermoplastic polymer material. The hard wearable body has a chamber having a capillary structure. A working fluid is contained in the chamber. The hard wearable body has a heat absorption section and a heat dissipation section. The hard wearable body is connected with the wearable mobile device main body. The heat absorption section is in contact with the electronic components or the heat source to conduct heat to the heat dissipation section to dissipate the heat at a remote end. Accordingly, the heat dissipation efficiency of the intelligent wearable device is greatly enhanced.
US09529384B1
An electronic device includes a main body, a display, a stand, a height-adjusting module and an angle-adjusting module. The display is slidably disposed on the main body. The stand pivots to the main body. The height-adjusting module is disposed on the main body and connected to the display. The angle-adjusting module includes a first sliding element, a linkage, two angle-adjusting transmission units and an angle-adjusting motor. The first sliding element is slidably disposed on the main body. Two opposite ends of the linkage are pivoted to the first sliding element and the stand. The two angle-adjusting transmission units are disposed on the main body and the first sliding element, and engaged with each other. The angle-adjusting motor is connected to the second angle-adjusting transmission unit.
US09529382B2
A display device may be mounted at a predetermined angle via a free-standing display housing. In one example, the display device bracket may include at least two spring loaded tabs and a display monitor affixed to the display device bracket. A base mount may be on a resting surface with at least one side that is configured to make contact with the display device. A rear housing cover may also be included with at least two receiving tabs form-fitted to receive the spring loaded tabs and provide a secure spring-loaded locking position that maintains the display device bracket in a locked position and in an upright predefined angled viewing position.
US09529372B2
Mixers are described which allow for information sharing in redundant systems, while providing sufficient isolation between redundant system components to enable fault-tolerant operation.
US09529367B2
A method for controlling a haptic accelerator pedal in a motor vehicle includes determining a current rate of change of the pedal at which a pedal lever of the pedal changes its position between a first position of rest and a second position of maximum activation when the pedal lever is moved in an activation direction. The determined current rate of change of the pedal is compared with a predefined limiting value for the rate of change of the pedal. The actuator is activated if the determined current rate of change of the pedal is lower than the limiting value for the rate of change of the pedal. The pedal is excited by means of the actuator by applying an opposing force counter to the activation direction to generate a haptically perceptible signal if the actuator is activated when an activation condition occurs.
US09529358B2
The invention relates to a remote control system (195) comprising mobile units (190, 1102, 1105), and a by control means (106, 110) provided controller unit for these. Said units are equipped with a function performing means (161) and transferring means (207, 270) that generates information signals (301) respectively transmits the same. Signal processing means (261, 268) and their exerting function (314) for controlling the functions of the respective mobile unit are placed respectively takes place only in the current mobile device. In accordance with the proposed use in connection with the present invention object, a controller area network type of system is constructed with a distributed and integrated network structure (1751). Only signal processing means (1753) and their function exertion means (1754) for controlling of a mobile unit, which is positioned in the actual unit, is used for its control. According to the method establishes a structure of a controller area network type with modular units (1753′), nodes (1753) and a communication protocol (501) for the node communication. All messages transmitted by the nodes are received by the modular units (1754, 1792). A information comparison (1755, 176) is used to select respective message or part thereof.
US09529354B2
A machine tool includes a tool attachment device, a workpiece attachment device, a controller, a mode selector, an axis selector, a cover, a window, and a manual operation auxiliary display device. The controller is configured to control movements of at least one of the tool attachment device and the workpiece attachment device with respect to a target axis. The mode selector is configured to select a manual operation mode or an automatic operation mode. The axis selector is to select the target axis among a plurality of axes in a case where the mode selector selects the manual operation mode. The manual operation auxiliary display device is configured to display directions of the plurality of axes included in the machine tool as an axis configuration model in the window in a case where the manual operation mode is selected.
US09529344B1
A method for providing automatic control of one or more devices in an environment including assessing information for the devices being paired with a hub or with a central server where the hub and the central server are configured to receive status messages from the devices and to issue commands to the devices; determining device-type handlers to use with the devices; installing the device-type handlers at the hub or the central server; installing an automation application on the hub or on the central server where the automation application responds to an event and issuing a command in response to the event; receiving a device-specific message from a source device at the hub or the central server; generating, using a device-type handler associated with the source device, a normalized event message; and providing the normalized event message to a processor in the hub or the central server.
US09529342B2
An actuator system for operating a flap valve in a motor vehicle, comprising: a drive system having an electronically commutated electric motor; a movable actuating member; a mechanism that couples the drive system to the actuating member so that a displacement of the actuating member is brought about upon activation of the drive system; a position sensor for sensing a position of the actuating member on the actuating member or in the mechanism, and for making available a corresponding position indication; a control unit to activate the drive system to move the actuating member, the electric motor of the drive system being electronically commutated, the control unit being configured to make available to the electric motor, in order to move the actuating member, activation signals dependent on the position indication made available, which signals bring about a predefined drive torque or a predefined rotation speed of the electric motor.
US09529331B2
A solar cell module includes a first segment as a first solar cell segment and a second segment as a second solar cell segment disposed adjacent to each other, and each having electrodes respectively on both of obverse and reverse sides, and a conductive member including a base member having flexibility, a first conductive layer disposed on one surface of the base member, and a second conductive layer disposed on the other surface of the base member, and the base member is bent so as to connect the first conductive layer to the obverse side electrode of the first segment, and connect the second conductive layer to the reverse side electrode of the first segment and the obverse side electrode of the second segment.
US09529326B2
The present invention relates to a light modulator device with a spatial light modulator, a structured polarizer means, a controllable polarization means and a light wave multiplexing means. The spatial light modulator comprises discretely addressable modulator cells. Two modulator cells each are combined to form a modulation element. The modulator cells modulate light waves which are capable of generating interference of a propagating light wave field with holographic information in a spatially structured way such that a specifiable spatial distribution of object light points of a three-dimensional scene is holographically reconstructed. The modulator cells of each modulation element are adjacently arranged regarding the direction of propagation of the light wave field. The light which is modulated by adjacently arranged modulator cells is given different polarization states by the structured polarizer means.
US09529325B2
A modular routing node includes a single input port and a plurality of output ports. The modular routing node is arranged to produce a plurality of different deflections and uses small adjustments to compensate for wavelength differences and alignment tolerances in an optical system. An optical device is arranged to receive a multiplex of many optical signals at different wavelengths, to separate the optical signals into at least two groups, and to process at least one of the groups adaptively.
US09529323B2
A video display device is provided with a light source, a display element, and an eyepiece optical system (14). The light source emits light which has at least one emission peak wavelength and has a wavelength width including one emission peak wavelength. The display element modulates the light emitted from the light source and displays video. The eye-piece optical system (14) comprises a volume phase reflective HOE (23) with diffracts and reflects video light from the display element and leads the light to a viewing pupil. An HOE surface (23a) is divided into a plurality of flat surfaces (31, 32, 33) disposed so as to be recessed on the viewing pupil side, and the plurality of flat surfaces (31, 32, 33) are continuous so as to have a common ridge line at a boundary between the flat surfaces adjoining to each other.
US09529322B2
An image forming apparatus includes an exterior member attached to an apparatus body in such a manner as to cover an opening of the apparatus body. The opening allows air in the apparatus body to be exhausted to an outside. The exterior member has a vent hole that allows the air to flow through the exterior member. The exterior member is invertible upside down.
US09529307B2
A system comprises an electro-wetting subsystem, a transfer subsystem, an imaging member, and an inking subsystem. The electro-wetting subsystem comprises a photo-responsive photoreceptor, a charging mechanism, an image definition material reservoir, a charge erase mechanism, and an exposure subsystem, such as a light source and rotating polygon forming a raster output scanner (ROS) disposed for exposure of the photoreceptor through the image definition material reservoir. The imaging member comprises a reimageable surface having certain properties, such as having a low surface energy to promote ink release onto a substrate. In operation, the photoreceptor is charged areawise. An exposure pattern is formed by the exposure subsystem on the surface of the charged photoreceptor, which is developed with image definition material. The image definition material pattern is transferred to the reimageable surface. The pattern is developed with ink. The inked image may be transferred to a substrate.
US09529306B2
A cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an image forming apparatus, includes: a rotatable member; a blade member contacted to the rotatable member; a frame, formed of a resin material, for supporting the blade member; and a seal member provided on the frame to be contacted to a portion of the blade member, opposite from a portion where the blade member is contacted to the rotatable member, in each of one end side and anther end side of the blade member with respect to an axial direction of the rotatable member, wherein the seal member is formed on the frame by injection molding for sealing a gap between the blade member and the frame.
US09529299B2
A developer supply container includes a developer accommodating chamber; a discharge opening; a fluid communication path connecting with the discharge opening; a pump portion having a volume changing with reciprocation and actable at least on the discharge opening; a regulating portion configured to regulate flow of the developer into an entrance region of the fluid communication path; a movable portion configured to move the regulating portion toward and away from the entrance of the fluid communication path; an air flow path provided inside the regulating portion to permit fluid communication between the pump portion and the discharge opening; and an elastic member provided between the regulating portion and the chamber adjacent to the entrance of the fluid communication path.
US09529298B2
A developing cartridge includes a developing roller 210d that develops, by way of a developer, an electrostatic latent image that is formed on an image bearing member 207; a developer regulating member that regulates the thickness of a developer carried on the developing roller 210d; and a frame 214a that rotatably supports the developing roller 210d and supports the developer regulating member. The frame 214a has a developing roller support section 214a1 that rotatably supports an outer peripheral face 210d6 of at least one end of the developing roller 210d. The developing roller support section 214a1 has a clearance at a position that, when viewed in the axial direction of the developing roller 210d, overlaps a contact region at which the developing roller 210d is in contact with the image bearing member 207.
US09529293B2
Provided is a toner for electrostatic charge image development which satisfies both low temperature fixability and an excellent storage stability and realizes excellent chargeability, fixing separation property, and flowability. According to the present invention, there is provided a toner for electrostatic charge image development comprising toner particles which comprises a binder resin including a crystalline polyester resin and a release agent, in which the crystalline polyester resin has a lamellar structure and the lamellar structure is present only on the inside of the toner particle when a cross-section of the toner particle subjected to ruthenium staining is observed with a transmission electron microscope.
US09529286B2
Antioxidants used for overcoat layers and processes for making the same. The present process for making the antioxidant has proven to be repeatable, cheaper, faster and safer than conventional processes. In particular, the present process uses a different solvent system where crude bis(4-diethylamino-2-methylphenyl)-(4-diethylaminophenylmethane) is dissolved in methylethyl ketone at room temperature, followed by product precipitation in a warm mixture of ethanol and water.
US09529279B2
A method and apparatus for inspection and review of defects is disclosed wherein data gathering is improved. In one embodiment, multiple or segmented detectors are used in a particle beam system.
US09529270B2
A lithography apparatus includes: a shield including a shield member having an aperture formed therein and having a first edge and a second edge defining the aperture; a driving mechanism including a rotation mechanism configured to rotate the shield member and a translation mechanism configured to translate the shield member; and a controller configured to control the driving mechanism so as to sequentially perform patterning.
US09529265B2
Provided in one embodiment is a method that includes selecting a photoresist that is one of a positive-tone photoresist and a negative-tone photoresist. A first additive or a second additive is selected based on the photoresist. The first additive has a fluorine component and a base component attached to a polymer and is selected if the a positive-tone resist is provided. The second additive has the fluorine component and an acid component attached to the polymer and is selected with a negative-tone resist is provided. The selected photoresist and the selected additive material are applied to a target substrate.
US09529262B2
A cleaning device (10) for a linear coating machine table comprising a vacuum suction device (1) having a plurality of first suction ports (11) facing a surface of an object to be cleaned; and at least one sticky roller (12) pivoted to the vacuum suction device (1) and being rotatable, the sticky roller (12) configured to adhere impurities on the surface of the object to be cleaned is provided. By sucking small particles on the linear coating machine table by the vacuum suction device (11) and by adhering relative large particles by the sticky roller (12), the cleanness of the linear coating machine table is improved, and hence the coating effect of a substrate is improved. A linear coating machine is also provided.
US09529260B1
The present invention provides a photosensitive insulated resin composition and method of producing an insulated film thereof. The photosensitive insulated resin composition, which comprises the following components, can be evenly coated on a surface step of a substrate in order to form a fully covered insulate film. an alkali soluble resin containing a phenolic group; a quinone diazide-group-containing compound; a crosslinking agent; a high-boiling-point solvent having a boiling point of over or equal to 130° C.; and a low-boiling-point solvent having a boiling point of equal to or lower than 130° C., wherein a difference of the boiling points of the two high-boiling-point solvent and the low-boiling-point solvent is in a range of 30° C.˜100° C., and a ratio of the high-boiling-point solvent to the low-boiling-point solvent in weight is in a range of 8:92˜40:60.
US09529258B2
The present invention provides an energy-sensitive resin composition, a method of manufacturing a polyimide film or a polyimide molded product in which said composition is used, and a method of forming a pattern in which said composition is used. The composition supplies a polyimide resin exhibiting exceptional thermal resistance and low permittivity even by a heat treatment at a low temperature. The composition contains polyamic acid obtained by reacting tetracarboxylic dianhydride and diamine, a solvent, and a compound (A) decomposing by the action of light and/or heat and generating a base and/or an acid. The method of manufacturing a polyimide film or a polyimide molded product includes forming a coating film or molded product comprising the composition and decomposing the compound (A) in the film or product through exposure or heating. The method of forming a pattern sequentially includes forming, selectively exposing, developing and heating the film or product.
US09529257B2
Disclosed are a polymer represented by the Chemical Formula 1, a monomer represented by the Chemical Formula 2, and a solvent, wherein the monomer is included in the same or a higher amount than the polymer, and a method of forming patterns using the same.
US09529253B2
A method for predicting pattern critical dimensions in a lithographic exposure process includes defining relationships between critical dimension, defocus, and dose. The method also includes performing at least one exposure run in creating a pattern on a wafer. The method also includes creating a dose map. The method also includes creating a defocus map. The method also includes predicting pattern critical dimensions based on the relationships, the dose map, and the defocus map.
US09529252B2
A mask plate is used for implementing a graphic structure with a narrower line width on a target substrate. The mask plate includes a slit-shaped photic area and a lightproof area. An edge of the slit-shaped photic area is in a curve shape.
US09529250B2
The present disclosure also provides a photolithography mask. The photolithography mask includes a substrate that contains a low thermal expansion material (LTEM). A reflective structure is disposed over the substrate. A capping layer is disposed over the reflective structure. An absorber layer is disposed over the capping layer. The absorber layer contains an indium tin oxide (ITO) material. In some embodiments, the ITO material has a SnO6 crystalline structure.
US09529245B2
Provided is an image pickup apparatus including a lens apparatus and a focus operating apparatus. The lens apparatus includes a focus lens unit, a focus driving unit for driving the focus lens unit, and a drive control unit controlling to drive the focus driving unit and having a autofocus function. The focus operating apparatus includes a manual focus (MF) operating unit for manual focus adjustment and an MF command unit for outputting a command value based on an operation amount of the MF operating unit. When the MF operating unit is in operation, the drive control unit controls the focus driving unit based on the command value from the MF command unit. When the MF operating unit is not in operation, the drive control unit controls the focus driving unit to perform autofocus adjustment.
US09529228B2
An optically active structure (100) is provided, comprising at least two different groups (G1, G2) of optically active nanorods (104A, 104B). The groups of nanorods differ from one another in at least one of wavelength and polarization of light emitted thereby in response to pumping light. The nanorods of the same group are homogeneously aligned with a certain axis of alignment being substantially parallel or substantially perpendicular to an axis of alignment of the nanorods of at least one other group, such that the nanorods of said at least two groups have one or two axes of alignment. The optically active structure is used as color polarized light source for displays.
US09529221B2
A liquid crystal display includes a substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on and connected to the thin film transistor, and a liquid crystal layer disposed in a first microcavity. The first microcavity is disposed on the pixel electrode and includes an injection hole. The liquid crystal display further includes a roof layer disposed on the first microcavity, an injection hole formation region disposed between the first microcavity and a second microcavity adjacent to the first microcavity, and a liquid crystal transmission layer disposed in the injection hole formation region.
US09529220B2
In the electro-optical device, a pillar-shaped protrusion is formed on an insulating film (a first insulating film) provided below a pixel electrode in the downward direction, and thus a conduction section of a second electrode layer (a conductive layer) overlaps the highest surface of the pillar-shaped protrusion. An inter-layer insulating film (a second insulating film) is provided between the second electrode layer and the pixel electrode, but the conduction section is exposed on a surface of the inter-layer insulating film. For this reason, the pixel electrode is electrically connected to the conduction section, when the pixel electrode is laminated on the inter-layer insulating film.
US09529219B2
An electro-optical device includes a frame including a conduction part and a resin part, an electro-optical panel that is housed in the inner side of the resin part, and an exposure part that is formed by exposing the conduction part from the resin part. The exposure part is disposed to face at least a part of an end face of the electro-optical panel or protrude from a surface of the electro-optical panel over the end face.
US09529217B1
A display device includes: first and second panels facing each other, each of which includes a display area and a non-display area; and a driving unit connected to the first panel. The first panel includes a first flexible layer on a first substrate and in the display and non-display areas; a thin film transistor on a portion of the first flexible layer in the display area, the thin film transistor including gate, source an drain electrodes and a semiconductor layer; a wiring unit on a portion of the first flexible layer in the non-display area; and a second flexible layer on the wiring unit in the non-display area, the second flexible layer in the non-display area being elongated to define a portion thereof extended further than a terminal edge of the first substrate. The wiring unit connects the driving circuit unit to the first panel.
US09529214B2
An electro-optic element comprises a first substrate, including first and second surfaces. The first substrate contains at least a first layer of electrically conductive material that is deposited on the second surface and is substantially transparent. The element also comprises a second substrate including third and fourth surfaces, the second substrate containing a second layer of electrically conductive material deposited on the third surface. The first and second substrates are disposed in a parallel and spaced-apart relationship to define a gap between the second and third surfaces, the gap containing an electro-optic medium, and each substrate with a width and a height such that the ratio of width to height is less than or equal to 2. In addition, the element is configured such that a relative darkening timing factor substantially across the element is less than a factor of 3.
US09529205B2
An image processing apparatus and method in which not only a partial image in a stereo image but also an image in a large range of near and far sides can be viewed are provided. First to twelfth viewpoint images are generated so that no disparity occurs in a portion specified as a principal object image. First to third viewpoint images viewed at a left end of viewing positions among the first to twelfth viewpoint images are shifted to set disparity of the object image specified as a sub target point at “0”. The tenth to twelfth viewpoint images viewed at a right end of the viewing positions are shifted to set disparity of the object image specified as a sub target point at “0”. The viewing positions are moved in a horizontal direction, to change an object distance of a stereo view image viewed on a lenticular sheet.
US09529196B1
An image processing guide comprising: a solid body comprising: a plurality of surfaces defining an optical pathway from an input surface to an output surface, where the optical pathway connects the plurality of surfaces successively; wherein the plurality of surfaces comprises at least one curved reflective surface configured to receive light from the optical pathway and to return light to the optical pathway; wherein the optical signal is not focused to an image plane within the solid body.
US09529192B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for imaging, recognizing, and tracking of a user's eye that is wearing a HWC. Aspects further relate to the processing of images reflected from the user's eye and controlling displayed content in accordance therewith.
US09529183B2
A surface light source device includes substrate, a plurality of light emitting devices disposed at constant intervals on substrate, and light diffusion plate disposed substantially parallel to substrate over the plurality of light emitting devices. Light emitting device includes light emitting element and light flux controlling member. A luminous intensity of light from light emitting device is gradually increased as an angle relative to optical axis becomes larger in an angular range from a direction along optical axis of light emitting device to a direction of emission of light with the highest luminous intensity from light emitting device. An angle of the light with the highest luminous intensity from the light emitting device is more than 78.7° relative to the optical axis. Surface light source device satisfies two Equations of H/P≦0.2, and I1/2/I0>6.
US09529182B2
An improved solid-state laser for generating sub-200 nm light is described. This laser uses a fundamental wavelength between about 1030 nm and 1065 nm to generate the sub-200 nm light. The final frequency conversion stage of the laser creates the sub-200 nm light by mixing a wavelength of approximately 1109 nm with a wavelength of approximately 234 nm. By proper selection of non-linear media, such mixing can be achieved by nearly non-critical phase matching. This mixing results in high conversion efficiency, good stability, and high reliability.
US09529180B2
Provided is a projection lens including a first lens, a reflective optical device, a second lens, a third lens and a fourth lens from an image side to an object side in turn. The first lens is of a negative focal power, an image side of the first lens is of a convexity, an object side of the first lens is of a concavity; the reflective optical device enables light to be bended; the second lens is of a positive focal power, an object side of the second lens is of a convexity; the third lens is of a positive focal power, an image side of the third lens is of a convexity, an object side of the third lens is of a concavity; and the fourth lens is of a positive focal power. A diaphragm is arranged between first lens and second lens, meeting 0.25
US09529174B2
The present invention provides a diffuser plate assembly. The diffuser plate assembly includes a first diffuser plate and a second diffuser plate located under the first diffuser plate, and a gap is formed therebetween. Correspondingly, the present invention also provides a backlight comprising the diffuser plate assembly and a display device comprising the backlight. Compared with the prior art, the diffuser plate assembly provided by the present invention can enable light emitted by a light source to irradiate a display panel more uniformly, and the thicknesses of the backlight and the display device can be reduced.
US09529155B2
Gradient index (GRIN) lens chips and associated small form factor optical arrays for optical connections, and related fiber optic connectors are disclosed. By aligning GRIN lenses within a GRIN lens chip, a more precise and reliable alignment may be achieved with respect to optical fibers than if a single conventional ferrule is utilized to align and secure both GRIN lenses and optical fibers. The GRIN lens chip may include a GRIN lens received and thereby aligned within a groove disposed between a fiber end and a terminal end of a GRIN lens holder body. The optical fibers may also be received and thereby aligned within a groove of a ferrule body. In this manner, when the GRIN lens chip containing the GRIN lenses is aligned with a ferrule body containing the optical fibers, then the GRIN lenses may be precisely located relative to the optical fibers.
US09529154B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a method of optically coupling a photonic integrated circuit and an external optical component. In one aspect, a method comprises: providing a photonic integrated circuit comprising at least one integrated optical waveguide, the photonic integrated circuit having a cover layer; providing at least one optical component external to the photonic integrated circuit, the at least one optical component having an optical coupling facet and configured to be optically coupled to the at least one integrated optical waveguide, thereby forming an assembly; determining a position of the optical coupling facet of the at least one optical component in the assembly; determining a position of the at least one integrated optical waveguide; designing an optical interface pattern between the optical coupling facet of the at least one optical component in the assembly and the at least one integrated optical waveguide; and writing the interface pattern in the cover layer of the photonic integrated circuit by means of a femtosecond laser, thereby forming an optical interface for optically coupling the optical coupling facet and the at least one integrated optical waveguide.
US09529150B2
Conventional approaches to integrating waveguides within standard electronic processes typically involve using a dielectric layer, such as polysilicon, single-crystalline silicon, or silicon nitride, within the in-foundry process or depositing and patterning a dielectric layer in the backend as a post-foundry process. In the present approach, the back-end of the silicon handle is etched away after in-foundry processing to expose voids or trenches defined using standard in-foundry processing (e.g., complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) processing). Depositing dielectric material into a void or trench yields an optical waveguide integrated within the front-end of the wafer. For example, a shallow trench isolation (STI) layer formed in-foundry may serve as a high-resolution patterning waveguide template in a damascene process within the front end of a die or wafer. Filling the trench with a high-index dielectric material yields a waveguide that can guide visible and/or infrared light, depending on the waveguide's dimensions and refractive index contrast.
US09529147B2
An optical-to-optical inline spatial domain multiplexing (SDM) de-multiplexer for SDM communication comprising a plurality of concentric core layers each having a beveled output end and a cladding layer concentrically surrounding each core layer. The cladding layer has an index that is lower than the index of the core layer it surrounds. Also included is a system for SDM communication comprising at least one optical source to transmit optical energy, an SDM optical carrier fiber to receive optical energy from the source and output a plurality of SDM signals, a SDM de-multiplexer as described above wherein the SDM signals output from the carrier fiber are each incident upon one of the core layers, optical output fibers positioned to couple SDM signals from each cladding layer, and a photodetector communicatively coupled to the outputs of the optical output fibers to couple the SDM signals output from the optical output fibers.
US09529142B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of light source packages each having a light-emitting portion for emitting light, a light guide plate which light emitted from the light source packages enters through the incidence surface, having a height and a width, and from which the light exits through the exit surface, and a liquid crystal display panel for controlling, for each pixel, the orientation of a liquid crystal material to control the transmission of the light exiting through the exit surface. Each light source package has two opposing long sides and two opposing short sides when viewed from the direction of the light emitted by the light-emitting portion. The plurality of light source packages are arranged long side to long side in the direction along the width.
US09529134B2
The light emitting device according to the present invention comprises a laser diode; a wavelength converting member which is configured to convert a wavelength of a light emitted from the laser diode; and a support member which is configured to support the wavelength converting member so that the light passes through two surfaces of the wavelength converting member. The wavelength converting member comprises a fluorescent material and a binder. At least one light transmissive member is disposed on at least one of these two surfaces of the wavelength converting member. The binder has a melting point higher than a melting point of the light transmissive member. The light transmissive member is fixed to the support member by fusion bonding.
US09529133B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a LED device, a light guide plate and a backlight module, which are capable of generating red light, green light and blue light under excitation of ultraviolet light, and reducing damages of human eyes due to blue light by attenuating or eliminating light intensity of the blue light having a wavelength of 460 nm. The LED device comprises an ultraviolet illuminant and a quantum dot film located on a light emitting side of the ultraviolet illuminant. The quantum dot film includes a quantum dot material capable of generating the red light, the green light and the blue light under excitation of ultraviolet light. The wavelength of the generated blue light is within a wave band of 450˜470 nm, and a wave crest of the generated blue light is located within the wave band excluding 460 nm.
US09529129B2
The present invention in one aspect relates to a low-cost, nano-graphene based broadband optical limiter with limiting properties superior to current standards, carbon fullerenes (C60) solutions and carbon black suspensions. The broadband optical limiter includes a plurality of graphene nano-sheets, and a base material in which the plurality of graphene nano-sheets is distributed. The base material can be liquid or gel matrix.
US09529128B2
A system includes a non-uniform grating having a first region with a first refractive index and second regions with a second refractive index. A pattern of the second regions varies with an angular coordinate such that phase shifts of an incident beam created by the grating cause destructive interference that creates an intensity minimum within an output beam from the grating.
US09529126B2
A Fresnel zone plate is provided for encountering incident light having a wavelength. The Fresnel zone plate has a focal length and a wafer including alternating transparent and opaque zones, and a mourning surface. A plurality of silicon nanowires extend into opaque zone of the wafer. A mechanically stretchable tuning structure is mounted to the mounting surface such that stretching of the tuning structure varies the focal length of the Fresnel zone plate.
US09529125B2
One aspect of the present disclosure provides microprismatic retroreflective film that includes a substrate and metalized microprisms located on the substrate. At least a portion of the metalized microprisms are forward-tilted microprisms, and at least a portion of the forward-tilted microprisms are aligned with the plane of optical axis tilting aligned at an angle ranging from about 10 to 80 degrees with an edge of the microprismatic retroreflective film.
US09529121B2
The present invention provides an antiglare film having an excellent antiglare property and being capable of suitably preventing an occurrence of scintillation and a decrease in contrast. The film includes a light-transmitting substrate and a diffusion layer. The diffusion layer has a surface roughness and is formed on at least one side of the light-transmitting substrate, wherein the diffusion layer contains organic fine particles (A), organic fine particles (B), and a cured product of a binder component, and satisfies the expressions: (1) rA>rB; (2) ΔA<ΔB; and (3) rB/rA>CB/CA, where CA and CB represent a content ratio of the organic fine particles (A) or the organic fine particles (B) in the diffusion layer, respectively, rA and rB represent an average particle size thereof, respectively, and ΔA and ΔB represent a refractive index thereof relative to the cured product of the binder component, respectively.
US09529120B2
The present invention relates to a light-shielding coating including a resin composition containing at least an epoxy resin, a coloring agent including a dye, and titania fine particles having an average primary particle diameter of 1 nm or more and 100 nm or less and including an organic solvent dissolving or dispersing the resin composition. The concentration of the titania fine particles is 20% by mass or more and 60% by mass or less of the resin composition.
US09529116B2
A photosensitive resin composition and application of the same are provided. The photosensitive resin composition comprises an alkali-soluble resin (A), a compound (B) containing vinyl unsaturated group(s), a photo initiator (C), an organic solvent (D), a pigment (E) and a metal chelating agent (F). During a pixel process with an omission of a prebake step, the photosensitive resin composition, which is added with the metal chelating agent (F), can be formed to pixels that is adhered tightly to a substrate.
US09529111B2
A well detection system includes a signal generator module and a detector module. Signal generator module is coupled to a well structure, and causes the well structure to emit a signal. The emitted signal is measured by the detector module. Based on measurements of the signal, the detector module can determine information pertaining to the source of the emitted signal and can, for example, determine the location of the well structure relative to the detector module.
US09529108B2
A method for marine seismic surveying includes determining at least an initial depth of a plurality of spaced apart seismic sensors on streamers towed in a body of water. The sensors each include a substantially collocated pressure responsive sensor and motion responsive sensor. A ghost time delay is determined for each sensor based on the at least an initial depth. Seismic signals detected by each motion responsive sensor and each pressure responsive sensor are cross ghosted. The at least initial depth is adjusted, and the determining ghost time delay and cross ghosted seismic signals are repeated until a difference between the cross ghosted motion responsive signal and the cross ghosted pressure responsive signal falls below a selected threshold. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
US09529105B2
Acoustic logging systems and methods are provided with multi-mode inversion for at least vertical shear slowness and shear anisotropy. At least some method embodiments acquire waveforms for multiple acoustic wave modes as a function of tool position in a borehole, derive position-dependent mode dispersion curves from the waveforms, match the derived dispersion curves with parameterized dispersion curves to determine a vertical shear slowness and a shear anisotropy as a function of position, and displaying a borehole log that represents at least one of the vertical shear slowness and the shear anisotropy as a function of position. The objective function employed for the inversion is evaluated across multiple wave propagation modes and mud slownesses and may employ an adaptive, frequency-dependent weighting based on distance between the derived dispersion curves and the parameterized dispersion curves.
US09529100B2
The present disclosure relates to a positron emission tomography detector and a positron emission tomography system using the same. More particularly, the positron emission tomography detector includes: a lower detecting unit configured to have a plurality of detector modules disposed in a ring or polygonal shape; and an upper detecting unit configured to have a plurality of detector modules which are spaced apart from each other by a predetermined distance, or of which at least some are in contact with each other to be formed on the lower detecting unit, and formed in a conical shape which is tilted by a preset angle. By the configuration as described above, since the positron emission tomography detector and the positron emission tomography system using the same according to the present disclosure have a large number of effective lines of response (LOR) and increase geometric efficiency, it is possible to improve sensitivity.
US09529094B2
A radiation imaging apparatus for sensing a radiation image, includes a radiation imaging panel including a plurality of imaging substrates and a scintillator having a first face and a second face which oppose each other, a housing configured to house the radiation imaging panel and including a first plate-shaped portion and a second plate-shaped portion, a first support member located between the first face of the scintillator and the first plate-shaped portion of the housing so as to support the scintillator via the plurality of imaging substrates, and a second support member located between the second face of the scintillator and the second plate-shaped portion of the housing so as to support the scintillator.
US09529086B2
A dust detection apparatus includes a dust measuring unit that measures an amount of dust in air, a controller that determines a moving direction of the dust detection apparatus based on the measured amount of dust or a predetermined dust accumulation position candidate, a flight controller that controls a flight of the dust detection apparatus to the determined moving direction, and a communication unit that sends, to a server, location information of a dust accumulation position determined based on the measured amount of dust and the amount of dust measured by the dust measuring unit at the dust accumulation position.
US09529083B2
A laser scanner that determines three-dimensional points in an environment further includes a spectrometer for determining the wavelength spectrum of chemical substances in the environment.
US09529074B2
A ranging method, executed in a ranging device, comprising steps of: obtaining a trip time of a received wireless signal, wherein the received wireless signal is a wireless signal from an object; calculating a statistical value of a rising time of the received wireless signal; correcting the trip time according to the statistical value of the rising time; and estimating a distance between the object and the ranging device according to the corrected trip time.
US09529072B2
A search system for searching buried persons is provided including a radio device with a receiving device including at least one receiving antenna and adapted to receive the field of a transmitter antenna, wherein the radio device is adapted to determine the direction of the field vector of the transmitter antenna relative to the at least one receiving antenna; as well as a user interface device with at least one interface for interfacing with the radio device, as well as at least one output device for outputting search information derived from the direction of the determined field vector and perceivable by a user; wherein the radio device and the user interface device are each formed as separate units, which are each encompassed by an own housing, and wherein the search system includes determining means for determining the relative orientation of the user interface device to the radio device. Moreover, it relates to a corresponding method for search a buried person.
US09529064B2
A magnetic resonance (MR) generating a static (BO) magnetic field of 5 Tesla or higher controller is configured to control an MR scanner to perform an MR sequence (14) including: performing an excitation/localization sub-sequence (30) on a subject disposed in the static (BO) magnetic field generated by the MR scanner to excite 1H polarization in a selected spatial region of the subject; performing 5 a polarization transfer sub-sequence (32) to transfer localized 1H polarization generated by the excitation/localization sub-sequence to a selected species of non-proton nuclei; and performing a magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) readout sub-sequence (40) to acquire MRS data for the selected species of non-proton nuclei in the selected spatial region of the subject. The polarization transfer sub-sequence includes a pair of phase 10 distortion canceling trapezoidal 180° refocusing pulses (36, 37) operating on the selected species of non-proton nuclei.
US09529059B2
An electronic measuring device is described that can include first and second input inductors connected in series. A shunt inductor is connected in parallel with the second input inductor. Optionally, an additional shunt inductor may also be used in parallel with the first input inductor. The first and second input inductors are inductively coupled to first and second SQUIDs which are in turn inductively coupled to first and second feedback inductors. First and second SQUID controllers are connected, respectively, to the first and second SQUIDs as well as the first and second feedback inductors. The first and second SQUID controllers are also connected to a processor. The processor is operable to process the output of the first and second SQUID controllers to detect unlocking events in the output of the first SQUID controller.
US09529055B2
An impedance measuring device for outputs an alternating current to an impedance measurement object, the impedance measurement object including at least a laminated battery and computes an impedance of the laminated battery on the basis of an alternating current applied to the impedance measurement object and at least one of a positive-electrode side AC potential difference and a negative-electrode side AC potential difference. This device includes a filter configured to remove a signal with a frequency of an AC signal to the AC signal, the AC signal indicating the AC potential difference on one electrode side opposite to that of the AC potential difference used by impedance computation, and an adding unit configured to add a filtered signal to the AC signal, the filtered signal being a signal after passing through the filter, the AC signal indicating the AC potential difference used by impedance computation.
US09529053B2
A method for determining the charge state of battery cells or battery modules of a battery includes monitoring several battery cells or at least one battery module using a plurality of cell monitoring units. The respective electric current of the battery cells or battery modules is measured by the cell monitoring units, the battery current is measured, and the measured current value is transmitted to the plurality of cell monitoring units. A charge state is calculated in each of the cell monitoring units for the respective monitored battery cells, or respectively, the at least one battery module. A battery management system is configured to carry out the method for determining the charge state of the battery cells or battery modules of the battery. A battery and a motor vehicle include the battery management.
US09529049B2
An electric vehicle battery arrangement includes a current sensor. The current sensor has a core and a magnetic field detector. An N-turn coil is wrapped around the core. A controller is configured to adjust an output of the detector indicative of current according to a comparison between a magnetic field caused by a given current in the coil as detected by the detector and a magnetic field expected to be caused by the given current in the coil.
US09529045B2
Topology discovery of a target system having a plurality of components coupled with a scan topology may be performed by driving a low logic value on the data input signal and a data output signal of the scan topology. An input data value and an output data value for each of the plurality of components is sampled and recorded. A low logic value is then scanned through the scan path and recorded at each component. The scan topology may be determined based on the recorded data values and the recorded scan values.
US09529043B2
The disclosure describes novel methods and apparatuses for controlling a device's TCA circuit when the device exists in a JTAG daisy-chain arrangement with other devices. The methods and apparatuses allow the TCA test pattern set used during device manufacturing to be reused when the device is placed in a JTAG daisy-chain arrangement with other devices, such as in a customers system using the device. Additional embodiments are also provided and described in the disclosure.
US09529042B2
A technique capable of estimating an error point in a logic diagram appropriately. A logic diagram display device includes: a signal line correctness/incorrectness determining unit that determines for each test whether each signal line in the logic diagram is correct or incorrect based on a signal line status value of each signal line and a test table; and a signal line correctness/incorrectness result summarizing unit that calculates a correctness/incorrectness result summarized value of each signal line based on a result of determination about the correctness or incorrectness of each signal line. The logic diagram display device further includes: an error signal line estimating unit that estimates an error in each signal line based on the correctness/incorrectness result summarized value of each signal line; and a display that displays each signal line in the logic diagram in a display style responsive to the error in each signal line.
US09529040B2
Described are various embodiments of methods and systems for tracing circuitry on integrated circuits using focused ion beam based imaging techniques. In one such embodiment, a method is provide for identifying functional componentry associated with a switchable power interface on an integrated circuit, wherein the switchable power interface comprises a source and a drain with a control switch therebetween, said control switch being controllable by a control signal during operation of the integrated circuit. The method comprises connecting, with deposited conductive material, the source and the drain; applying an external voltage bias to a power input of the switchable power interface via one of the source and the drain; exposing the integrated circuit to a focused ion beam; and gathering an image of the integrated circuit during exposure to determine areas of high contrast indicating functional componentry in operative connection with the switchable power interface.
US09529038B2
An electronic control circuit for an electronically commutated motor (ECM) is disclosed. A plurality of power transistors controls the ECM, and a reference transistor is formed together with the power transistors on a common support. A control unit is configured to, in a test mode: apply a test current to the reference transistor and one of the power transistors respectively; measure a saturation voltage of the reference transistor and one of the power transistors; evaluate a saturation voltage difference between the measured saturation voltages of the reference transistor and the respective power transistor; evaluate a rate of change of saturation voltage differences between a first iteration of the test mode and a second iteration of the test mode; and determine an expected remaining service life of the power transistors based on the temperature of the support during the test mode and the rate of change of the saturation voltage differences.
US09529035B2
Non-destructive localization of open defects in electronic devices is performed with a DC SQUID based RF magnetometer capable of sensing coherent magnetic fields up to 200 MHz and higher. RF magnetic fields (or RF current) images are correlated to conductive paths layout of the electronic device, and the open defect is pinpointed at a location of RF current disappearance on the current image. The bandwidth limitations associated with transmission line delays between SQUID circuit and readout electronic, as well as with near-field coupling between different parts of the measurement scheme, are overcome by superimposing the RF flux emanating from device under study on the modulation flux to produce at the SQUID output a binary phase modulated RF voltage, which is processed to lock the static flux, and to control modulation regime by producing an AC bias for the RF flux. RF readout electronics is based on a double lock-in through sequential demodulation of the RF component of the output SQUID voltage at the modulation flux frequency ωm and the RF flux frequency ωRF.
US09529031B2
There is provided a grounding detection device and method. The grounding detection device may include an insulation tester and a grounding resistance providing unit. The insulation tester may be mounted in a first cabinet, electrically connected to a positive busbar and a negative busbar to detect an equivalent busbar-to-ground resistance, and grounded via the first cabinet. The grounding resistance providing unit may be mounted at least in part in a second cabinet different from the first cabinet, electrically connected to at least one of the positive busbar and the negative busbar to provide a grounding resistance, and grounded via the second cabinet. The insulation tester may determine, based on resistance values of the equivalent busbar-to-ground resistance and the grounding resistance, whether there is a ground fault or not for the insulation tester, the first cabinet, and the second cabinet.
US09529027B2
A method for estimating PCB radiated emissions includes providing a BCI probe and a vector network analyzer; performing a calibration step; performing a measurement step; and performing an estimation step. A transfer impedance of the BCI probe is measured via a clamping device in the procedure of performing a calibration step. A measurement-input transfer function of an object and an output-input transfer function of the object are measured via the BCI probe in the procedure of performing a measurement step. Eventually, radiated emissions of the object can be estimated according to the measurement-input transfer function, the output-input transfer function and the transfer impedance in the procedure of performing an estimation step. The present invention accurately estimates radiated emissions of the object with low cost and high speed.
US09529026B2
An angle detector includes a first signal level detector to detect a sensor processed signal having a maximum signal level of a first set of sensor processed signals obtained by signal processing of multiple sensor signals, each of the multiple sensor signals having a signal level corresponding to a rotational position of a rotor of a motor having multiple coils, a signal level adjuster to adjust each signal level of the first set of the sensor processed signals to match the sensor processed signal having a maximum signal level with a first adjustment level, a signal selector to single out a selection signal from a second set of sensor processed signals adjusted by the signal level adjuster, and a phase detector to output a phase information signal in which the signal level of selection signal selected by the signal selector corresponds to a phase of the rotor.
US09529020B2
A circuit and a method for sensing differential capacitance involve using plural storing capacitors to repeatedly sample charges of the differential capacitance in an over-sampling manner, and storing the charges sampled in different transfer rounds into different storing capacitors instead of repeatedly transferring charges for a single storing capacitor, so as to collect charge averages about both inputs and noises and in turn effectively reduce RF interference and source noises.
US09529018B2
A current sensor includes: a magneto electric conversion element; and a magnetic field concentrating core applying a magnetic field caused by a measurement object current to the magneto electric conversion element. A planar shape of the magnetic field concentrating core perpendicular to a current flowing direction is a ring shape with a gap. The magneto electric conversion element is arranged in the gap. A part of a conductor for flowing the current is surrounded by the magnetic field concentrating core. The magnetic field concentrating core includes two first magnetic members and at least one second magnetic member, which are stacked alternately in the current flowing direction. Parts of the two first magnetic members adjacent to each other via the one second magnetic member are opposed to each other through a clearance or an insulator.
US09529016B2
A transistor arrangement is disclosed. The transistor arrangement includes at least first and second sets of sense cells and at least one set of main cells. Each set of sense cells shares drain and gate connections with an associated set of main cells, with a different ratio of number of sense cells to associated main cells for the first set as for the second set.
US09529013B2
A current sensor comprises a housing of plastic, a current conductor with integrally shaped first and second electrical terminals, through which a current to be measured is supplied and discharged, third electrical terminals, and a semiconductor chip having at least one magnetic field sensor, which is sensitive to a component of the magnetic field generated by the current flowing through the current conductor running perpendicularly to the surface of the semiconductor chip. The first and second electrical terminals are arranged at a first side of the housing, the third electrical terminals are arranged at a side of the housing opposite to the first side. The semiconductor chip is mounted as flip chip. The semiconductor chip comprises first bumps, which make electrical connections to the third terminals, and second bumps located above the current conductor and electrically separated from the semiconductor chip by an isolation layer.
US09529002B2
A method for the risk detection, early diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease in an individual by measuring the amount of specific biomarkers present in a bodily fluid and comparing them to a reference level of biomarkers in a sample from a healthy person, a person previously diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, or an earlier sample from the individual of interest.
US09529001B2
The present invention provides diagnostic methods for determining the risk of developing an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a fetus or child by detecting in a biological sample from the mother antibodies that bind to one or more biomarkers selected from the group consisting of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), guanine deaminase (GDA), collapsin response mediator protein 1 (CRMP1), stress-induced phosphoprotein 1 (STIP1), alpha subunit of the barbed-end actin binding protein Cap Z (CAPZA2), Y Box Binding Protein 1 (YBX1), eukaryotic translation and elongation factor 1A1 (EEF1A1), microtubule-associated protein Tau (MAPT), dihydropyrimidinase-like protein 2 (DPYSL2), dynamin 1-like protein (DNM1L), radixin (RDX), moesin (MSN), and ezrin (EZR). The invention further provides methods of preventing or reducing the risk of a fetus or child developing an ASD by administering to the mother an agent that blocks the binding of maternal antibodies to the one or more fetal biomarkers listed above or by removing from the mother antibodies that bind to the one or more fetal biomarkers.
US09528997B2
The invention concerns an in vitro method for determining if an individual is infected by a bacterium of the Propionibacterium genus comprising: (i) detecting antibodies directed against at least one protein of sequence SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 6 or SEQ ID NO: 8, in a biological sample of the individual, and (ii) deducing therefrom that the individual is infected by a bacterium of the Propionibacterium genus. The invention further concerns the kit for diagnosing of such an infection.
US09528994B2
The present disclosure generally relates to tyrosine phosphorylation sites of an Akt enhancer, and methods for the detection of the phosphorylated tyrosine residues. In particular, anti-phosphotyrosine antibodies and binding proteins find use in the compositions and methods of the present disclosure.
US09528986B2
The invention concerns a test element for carrying out an immunological sandwich test for determining an analyte from a liquid sample containing a reagent zone or conjugate zone which contains a conjugate of an analyte binding partner and a label which can be detected directly or indirectly by visual, optical or electrochemical means (e.g. an enzyme, fluorescent or direct label etc.) wherein said conjugate can be dissolved by the liquid sample, a detection zone which contains a permanently immobilized (i.e. which cannot be detached by the liquid sample) binding partner for the analyte or for complexes containing the analyte; and a control zone which contains a permanently immobilized binding partner for the conjugate of analyte binding partner and label characterized in that the control zone additionally contains one or more permanently immobilized binding partner(s) for the analyte or for complexes containing the analyte.
US09528980B2
The present invention is directed generally to eukaryotic cells comprising single-celled organisms that are introduced into the eukaryotic cell through human intervention and which transfer to daughter cells of the eukaryotic cell through at least five cell divisions, and methods of introducing such single-celled organisms into eukaryotic cells. The invention also provides methods of using such eukaryotic cells. The invention further provides single-celled organisms that introduce a phenotype to eukaryotic cells that is maintained in daughter cells. The invention additionally provides eukaryotic cells containing magnetotactic bacteria.
US09528979B2
The present invention provides a unique profile of volatile organic compounds as breath biomarkers for lung cancer. The present invention further provides the diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of lung cancer or predicting the response to an anti-cancer treatment through the detection of the unique profile of volatile organic compounds indicative of lung cancer at its various stages.
US09528978B2
A blood analyzer comprises a flow cell, a first light source, a second light source, a first light receiving part, a second light receiving part, and a processing unit. The processing unit obtains values related to the number of red blood cells, the number of white blood cells, and hemoglobin based on a first scattered light information based on the signals output from the first light receiving part, and a second scattered light information based on the signals output from the second light receiving part.
US09528973B2
A system and method for a beverage container configured to test for a contaminated beverage in the beverage container comprises a base of the beverage container, an upper portion of the beverage container, and a sidewall with an inner surface and an outer surface that extends from the base to the upper portion, and a testing material. A portion of the beverage container is the testing material configured to visibly react when the portion of the beverage container is contacted with the contaminated beverage.
US09528971B2
The particulate matter detection element is constituted of a laminated body including first and second electrode layers each having a plate-like shape and a thickness between 50 μm and 500 μm laminated on each other through an intermediate insulating layer having a plate-like shape and a thickness between 3 μm and 20 μm. A cross-sectional surface of the laminated body in the lamination direction is used as a detection surface of the particulate matter detection element.
US09528970B2
The multiplexed connection circuit (100) comprises a plurality of channels furnished with p channels (101), in particular configured so as to detect at least one particle, and a plurality of output pathways furnished with n output pathways (102), with p>n, each channel being connected to a lone output pathway (102). The circuit furthermore comprises groups of adjacent channels, each channel (101) of the connection circuit (100) belonging to at least one group of adjacent channels and each group of adjacent channels being defined by an assembly formed by the connections of the channels (101) of the group of adjacent channels to the corresponding output pathways (102), this assembly forming a group of output pathways which is associated with the group of adjacent channels, and each group of adjacent channels is associated with a single group of output pathways, different from that of the other groups of adjacent channels.
US09528966B2
Noninvasively imaging biological tissue using a handheld device. A light pulse is focused into a predetermined area inside an object using a flexibly mounted cantilever beam, acoustic waves emitted by the object in response to the at least one light pulse are detected by a transducer, and an image of the predetermined area inside the object is generated based on a signal generated by the transducer representative of the acoustic waves.
US09528924B2
A photodetection device has an optical module (4) that includes a light source (7), an excitation optical system, and a detection optical system and that two-dimensionally and relatively scans a transparent stage (5) in a first sampling direction and a second sampling direction intersecting the first sampling direction. A scan length in the first sampling direction is longer than a scan length in the second sampling direction. A data sampling unit in the detection optical system performs sampling for a distance of a second sampling interval during scanning in the second sampling direction, and performs sampling for a distance of a first sampling interval shorter than the distance of the second sampling interval during scanning in the first sampling direction. An aperture (10) of the excitation optical system sets a size in the first sampling direction of a spot shape of excitation light from the light source (7) to be smaller than a size in the second sampling direction.
US09528922B2
The disclosure relates to a system and method for determining the specific gravity of a fuel used in a dual fuel engine. The system includes a fuel rail, at least one sensor, and a processor. The method includes sensing and recording, with the at least one sensor and the at least one memory, a first pressure profile of a first fuel in the fuel rail and a second pressure profile of a second fuel in the fuel rail. The first fuel has a known specific gravity and the second fuel has an unknown specific gravity. The method further includes calculating the second specific gravity of the second fuel, with a processor, based on the first pressure profile, the second pressure profile, and the first specific gravity.
US09528905B2
A portable test device and related method are disclosed for conducting integrity testing of flexible containers. The test is particularly useful for testing aseptic flexible film bags in a manner that maintains the sterile nature of the container and removes crinkles by inflating the containers to remove crinkles and establish an inflation set point. The decay in pressure is measured over a predetermined period of time; if pressure loss does not exceed a predetermined threshold the integrity of the bag is confirmed and it can be filled without further manipulation of the container that may result in introducing flaws.
US09528901B2
In a method or device for quantifying a leakage flow on a process control valve, an intact reference control valve is used to determine several reference flow values in advance by placing the reference control valve in several reference opening positions and measuring the respective reference flow value for each of the reference opening positions. When determining the respective reference flow value, a reference mechanical vibration acquired in an environment of the reference control valve is allocated to the respective reference flow value. An instantaneous mechanical vibration is determined on the process control valve when it is closed. The reference mechanical vibration coming closest to the determined instantaneous mechanical vibration is identified by an identity or approximation comparison. The leakage flow is equated with the reference flow value allocated to the identified reference mechanical vibration.
US09528899B2
A tire pressure decrease detection apparatus comprising: rotation speed information detection means, rotation acceleration information calculation means, resonance frequency estimate means for time-series estimating a torsional resonance frequency of the rotation speed information, correlation calculation means for, regarding front and rear right wheels and front and rear left wheels, respectively calculating time series correlations of the rotation acceleration information, and judgment means for judging a decrease in pressure of the tires based on the estimated torsional resonance frequency. In a case where the correlations exceed predetermined threshold values, the resonance frequency estimate means takes that a periodic noise from a road surface is generated in the vicinity of the torsional resonance frequency and stops estimating the torsional resonance frequency of the front and rear wheels of the side exceeding the threshold value.
US09528896B2
A cylindrical quartz crystal transducer that exhibits a low probability of twinning, and uses a combination of resonator signal inputs at the B-mode and C-mode frequencies to calculate resonator temperature. Crystallographic orientations are disclosed where combinations of B-mode and C-mode resonant frequencies exist that are sufficiently independent of pressure to enable accurate calculation of temperature under transient conditions. Such a transducer is usable at higher pressures and temperatures than conventional quartz pressure transducers. Furthermore, because the structure allows a choice of crystallographic orientation, other characteristics of the transducer, such as increased pressure sensitivity and activity dip-free operation, may be optimized by varying crystallographic orientation.
US09528880B2
A temperature measurement system includes a plurality of filaments. The plurality of filaments are configured to emit thermal radiation in a relatively broad and substantially continuous wavelength band at least partially representative of a temperature of the plurality of filaments. A first and second portion of the filaments has a differing first and a second diameter and/or emissivity, respectively. The system also includes a detector array configured to generate electrical signals at least partially representative of the thermal radiation received from the filaments. The system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the detector array configured to transform the first electrical signals to a first temperature indication at least partially as a function of the first diameter and/or first emissivity and transform the second electrical signals to a second temperature indication at least partially as a function of the second diameter and/or emissivity.
US09528877B2
A spectrometer, in particular for being installed in a sensor module of a fluid analysis system, including a radiation source and the following components defining a beam path or being arranged along the beam path: a sample chamber for a fluid to be examined, a first lens, a diffraction element, a second lens and a detector. A restriction aperture for restricting the effective diameter of the light beam incident on the diffraction element is provided between the sample chamber and the diffraction element.
US09528875B2
Embodiments of the invention provides methods and systems for synthesizing optical signals with high frequency stability. Using a set of external optical signal manipulators and control systems, embodiments of the invention enhance the resolution of any frequency reference and thereby alleviates the needs for ultra-high-Q cavities in frequency-stable optical signal synthesis. The invention consequently improves the performance of any optical signal generator by a substantial margin, while maintaining the system complexity and power dissipation at levels comparable to the original systems.
US09528868B2
A fluid flow or liquid level switch providing a high level of reliability. Dual reference sensors in a single thermowell operates with two active, independent sensors, which operate with independent electronics having dual signal outputs, to provide constant and continuous redundancy in operation.
US09528856B2
The present invention relates einen energy-self-sufficient multiturn rotary encoder for detecting a number of complete 360° revolutions of an encoder shaft, rotating about a rotational axis and to which an excitation magnet is mounted in a rotationally fixed manner for generating an external magnetic field, as well as for determining an absolute rotational angle indicating a fine-resolved position within one 360° revolution of the encoder shaft, wherein the multiturn rotary encoder for energy-self sufficiently detecting the number of the complete 360° revolutions of the encoder shaft several functional blocks comprises. Further, a corresponding method is taught.
US09528850B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to generating and providing route options for an autonomous vehicle. For example, a user may identify a destination, and in response the vehicle's computer may provide routing options to the user. The routing options may be based on typical navigating considerations such as the total travel time, travel distance, fuel economy, etc. Each routing option may include not only an estimated total time, but also information regarding whether and which portions of the route may be maneuvered under the control of the vehicle alone (fully autonomous), a combination of the vehicle and the driver (semiautonomous), or the driver alone. The time of the longest stretch of driving associated with the autonomous mode as well as map information indicating portions of the routes associated with the type of maneuvering control may also be provided.
US09528846B2
A map information creation device for presenting information at an appropriate time includes: an operation obtaining unit which obtains operation information indicating (i) each of positions passed through by a movable body that is moved by a user and (ii) a frequency of an operation performed on a device by a user of the movable body when the movable body is at the position; a determining unit which determines, for each of positions on a map, whether or not information presentation is allowed, based on the frequency at the position indicated by the operation information; and a creating unit which creates the map information indicating a result of the determination by the determining unit for each position on the map.
US09528841B2
In a method for controlling provision of traffic informational data for updating traffic information, traffic information that was previously valid on a route section, and that was provided by a traffic service provider, for example, is allocated a first added value. A second time value is determined for traffic information on the route section updated virtually by traffic informational data generated from a vehicle. From a comparison of the first and second time values, a priority ratio may be obtained as a measured value for the benefit of transferring the traffic informational data generated in the vehicle to a traffic service provider for updating traffic information that was previously valid at the traffic service provider.
US09528840B2
Disclosed are a method, system, and recording medium for connecting a public transportation route service and a map service. A map providing method includes providing a mode switching function at a first service that provides a public transportation map and a second service that provides a road map, and switching a service mode to the public transportation map or the road map through interconnection between the first service and the second service in response to executing the mode switching function.
US09528839B2
An approach for providing mapping information and route information based on exception information received from various users travelling within a common area is described. A navigation system processes travel information associated with one or more devices for comparison against predetermined route information. The navigation system also determines one or more exceptions based, at least in part, on the comparison. The predetermined route information, mapping information, or a combination thereof it then caused to be updated based, at least in part, on the processing of the one or more exceptions.
US09528837B2
Various techniques are provided for identifying a position uncertainty of a mobile device, such as, based, at least in part, on a measure of potential hindrance of an estimated trajectory. For example, an example method may comprise estimating a trajectory of the mobile device within a particular environment, determining a measure of potential hindrance for at least a portion of the trajectory based, at least in part, on an electronic map that is indicative of a presence or an absence of one or more obstacles, and presenting an indication of a position uncertainty to a user of the mobile device. The position uncertainty may be based, at least in part, on the measure of potential hindrance.
US09528833B2
A navigation apparatus 100 includes a current position information acquisition unit (a self-position acquisition unit 42) that acquires current position information, and a travel direction determination unit (for example, a route search unit 44) that determines a travel direction based on the acquired current position information and destination position information. The navigation apparatus 100 further includes a sound unit that outputs a sound (for example, a parametric speaker 30), and a sound control unit 41 that controls the sound unit so that the sound can be heard to the user from the travel direction.
US09528829B2
Gyroscopes based on optomechanical designs to provide sensitive sensing while providing relatively large bandwidth and dynamic range with enhanced noise performance.
US09528828B2
A method for determining position and orientation of a first measuring instrument is disclosed. A second MI and at least one reflective target including a retroreflector unit are arranged in the vicinity of the first MI. At least one imaging module is arranged in the first MI for determining orientation thereof. The at least one imaging module in the first MI can be used in a similar manner as a tracker unit of an optical total station, by way of detecting optical radiation emitted from the second MI and reflected by the at least one TGT.
US09528822B2
A calibration fixture for use during a calibration procedure of a machine vision vehicle wheel alignment system. The calibration fixture consists of a pair of support legs, and a rotating transverse bar supported within an outer support tube secured between the support legs. The rotating transverse bar is supported within the outer support tube by a pair of annular bearings adjacent each end of the outer support tube, and is isolated from external influences which may result in deflection or distortion. A hub for receiving a sensor or optical target is secured to each end of the rotating transverse bar, such that optical targets mounted to each hub are maintained in axial alignment at opposite ends of the rotating transverse bar.
US09528816B2
A position sensor attachment band configured to secure a position sensor on an outer periphery of the cylinder tube includes a thin plate band, the thin plate band has one or more projections that project from the inner peripheral surface of the thin plate band which are disposed at least at the end positions among the end positions located in proximity to one end and the other end of the thin plate band in the length direction and the intermediate position, and the projections are disposed at positions completely within the width of the thin plate band and accordingly at positions completely away from the both side edges of the thin plate band on both sides in the width direction, and the projections are symmetrically arranged with respect to the center in the length direction of the thin plate band.
US09528812B2
A system and method for incorporating presence-sensing technology into furniture is provided. More particularly, the invention relates to detecting presence using a metal, adjustable bed frame. The bed frame is pulsed with a voltage to provide a charge, against which capacitance is measured. A controller determines the corresponding response based on presence detection by the frame. Conductive bushings may also be used to measure capacitance using the bed frame. In further embodiments, capacitance is measured by a foil tape surrounding a perimeter of the adjustable bed. The foil tape has a voltage based on proximity of an object to the tape, and may be embedded with a capacitive wire. A processor receives information regarding changes in capacitance and determines when a change in voltage satisfies a threshold. Based on a determination of presence, or lack of presence, a variety of corresponding features of the adjustable bed may be activated.
US09528809B1
A setback switch device is provided which, upon launch, can arm an explosive or pyrotechnic device for military gun launched applications. An included bridgewire shunt feature can also prevent the unintended arming, or accidental arming by a stray voltage before any launch is undertaken, of such explosive or pyrotechnic device.
US09528807B1
A grenade pouch lid has a rim engagement feature, and the rim engagement feature is operable to secure the planar body to an object having a disc-shaped rim when the rim engagement feature is urged against the rim. The rim engagement feature may include at least two spaced apart elements defining a space therebetween for receiving the rim. The planar body may include a slot, the slot being operable to receive one end of a strap. The planar body may include a wedge shaped portion, the wedge-shaped portion being opposed to the rim engagement feature. The rim engagement feature and the rim may have the same radius. The planar body may cover the center of the rim when the planar body is secured to the object. The object having a disc-shaped rim may be a 40 mm grenade. A grenade pouch is also disclosed.
US09528803B1
An incendiary grenade's casing has a fuze with a portion extending into the casing. Thermite disposed in the casing encases the portion of the fuze that extends into the grenade casing. Insulating material is disposed in the casing adjacent to the thermite. Layers of a titanium-boron intermetallic and an oxidizer are disposed in the casing. One layer of the titanium-boron intermetallic is adjacent to the layer of insulating material. This one layer of the titanium-boron intermetallic and a layer of the oxidizer adjacent thereto have a common-axis hole formed therethrough that is aligned with the portion of the fuze. A separating material is disposed at each interface between the titanium-boron intermetallic and the oxidizer.
US09528791B2
In some embodiments, an archery bow axle comprises a first portion and a second portion. The second portion is configured for fixed attachment to said first portion in one of a plurality of positions. The axle will have a different length in each of the positions. In some embodiments, an axle comprises a shaft and an end cap having a cavity, wherein a portion of the shaft is received in the cavity.
US09528789B2
A crossbow is provided which has a frame, a firing assembly, and a sighting device. The frame has a forward end and a rear end. The firing assembly is operatively associated with the frame. The firing assembly has a string latch which is positioned between the forward and rear ends of the frame. The sighting device has an eyepiece and is connected to the crossbow in a manner which provides that the eyepiece is positioned in alignment with, or forward of, the string latch.
US09528788B2
In at least one embodiment, an archery bow comprises a limb and an axle assembly supported by the limb. The axle assembly comprises a shaft having a threaded portion and a fastener arranged to engage the threaded portion.
US09528785B2
Disclosed are examples of an apparatus for cooling a barrel 12 of a firearm 10 and examples of a cooled barrel assembly 32 for installation into an existing firearm 10. When assembled with the barrel 12, a contact surface 16 of a shell 14 is proximate to, and in thermal communication with, the outer surface of the barrel 18. The shell 14 is formed of commercially available or modified graphite foam.
US09528784B2
A drum magazine assembly and methods are described. A drum assembly has a follower assembly, a drum body, a spring assembly, and a feed tower assembly. The follower assembly biases cartridges towards an exit of the feed tower assembly. The follower assembly has a plurality of dummy cartridges, the plurality of dummy cartridges having a leading dummy cartridge and a last dummy cartridge, and a plurality of links including a leading link and a last link. The last dummy cartridge rotates relative to the last link and the leading link, and the leading dummy cartridge has a bolt catch engagement feature.
US09528774B2
A heat dissipation apparatus including multiple heat exchange sheets. A first path and a second path are formed between the multiple heat exchange sheets, and the first path includes a first countercurrent channel, a guide channel, and a first-outlet cross-flow channel; the second path includes a second countercurrent channel and a second-inlet cross-flow channel. One part of a first fluid that enters the first path enters the first countercurrent channel and mainly performs countercurrent heat exchange with a second fluid that is in the second countercurrent channel, and the other part passes the guide channel and rapidly performs cross-flow heat exchange.
US09528767B2
The present invention generally relates to a cooling tower for a hybrid cooling system. The cooling tower may include a tower shell, a wet cooled segment arranged inside the tower shell, and a dry cooled segment arranged outside the tower shell. The wet cooled segment may include wet cooling cells arranged at a distance from the tower shell with fans arranged thereon for inducing upwards humid air exhaust flow. The dry cooled segment is disposed generally above the air intakes for the wet cells and includes air coolers arranged as vertical cooling deltas around the tower shell. The cooling deltas are equipped with louvers for controlling a cooling air inlet. The cooling tower further includes dry fans arranged in at least some of the inlet openings of the tower shell for inducing mechanical draft for the dry cooled segment.
US09528764B2
A plurality of substantially identical, thermally and/or atmospherically isolated modules can be employed to effect a treatment process. Each module can include a thermal system and/or atmospheric control system to effect a step of a treatment process, such as a heat treatment process for metal articles, particularly heat treatment and/or welding of parts made from so-called “super allows.” The module control systems can communicate and/or cooperate to carry out a process.
US09528763B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to an equipment space that is a closed space provided with electrical equipment and an air dryer condensing the moisture of the air in the equipment space into water. A system for removing water from the equipment space includes a porous element having a capillary structure and being located in an outlet opening of the equipment space. The porous element is connected such that water condensed by the air dryer is directed to a first inner surface of the porous element. The capillary structure of the porous element is configured to propogate water from the inner surface of the porous element to an outer surface of the porous element. The outer surface of the porous element is configured to release water to ambient air outside the equipment space.
US09528756B2
A refrigerator includes a storage compartment formed in a cabinet of the refrigerator by a fixed insulation wall, the storage compartment provided with an access opening, a door rotatably provided to the cabinet to open and close the access opening, a drawer provided in the storage compartment, a camera fixed to a ceiling of the storage compartment to photograph both a first region for storing of food arranged in an external space of the drawer in the storage compartment and a second region for storing of food arranged in an internal space of the drawer, and a controller. The controller is configured to separate, through a capturing time of a picture containing both the first region and the second region, a first region picture and a second region picture from the picture to individually divide and store the first region picture and the second region picture.
US09528754B2
A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet having a temperature-controlled compartment defined therein and a plurality of electrical connectors disposed at a plurality of shelf mounting positions within the temperature-controlled compartment. The refrigerator appliance also includes a plurality of adjustable shelves each carrying at least one light emitting diode (LED), where each of the plurality of adjustable shelves is removably mounted in one of the plurality of shelf mounting positions such that the at least one LED is electrically coupled to one of the plurality of electrical connectors. The refrigerator appliance further includes a power supply circuit that is electrically coupled to the plurality of electrical connectors and that is configured to selectively supply power to only a subset of the plurality of electrical connectors.
US09528753B1
A refrigerator is provided with rotatable shelves for easy food/item access and cleaning. In one embodiment a stationary or fixed shelf includes a rotatable disk mounted on a bearing retainer having bearings therein for manual, three hundred sixty degree (360°) rotation as desired. In another embodiment a quarter-round pivotable shelf is attached to a stanchion to enable the shelf to be manually pivoted ninety degrees (90°) for withdrawing and returning the shelf to the refrigerator food storage compartment as needed. In another embodiment a rotatable disk is in communication with a drive motor for rotation by a control switch.
US09528746B2
A heat exchanger for use in a refrigeration system and including a heat transfer coil and fins coupled to the coil to facilitate heat transfer between the coil and a surrounding ambient environment. The heat exchanger also includes a printed heater element that is disposed on one or more of the fins in a non-linear pattern to defrost the coil.
US09528742B2
A refrigerating device has an evaporator, a fan, a fan housing for generating an air flow on the evaporator, and a bearing shell for retaining the fan housing on the evaporator in a vibration-decoupled manner. The fan housing has at least one first bearing pin and a second bearing pin. The bearing shell has at least one first receiving recess for receiving the first bearing pin in a pivotal manner and a second receiving recess for receiving the second bearing pin, and a pivotal locking element is provided for locking the second bearing pin in the second receiving recess.
US09528741B2
A control system for an automatic icemaker including an icemaker module and a control module. The icemaker module includes a DC motor to drive rotation of a twist-type ice cube tray. The control module incorporates an integrated circuit with a programmable digital microprocessor for controlling the functions of the icemaker module. The control module accesses AC power and converts the AC power to DC power for powering a DC motor, an integrated circuit, and a microprocessor.
US09528733B2
An air-conditioning apparatus, including a refrigerant circuit connecting a compressor, a heat source side heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and a use side heat exchanger in order with a refrigerant piping. A compressor heater is provided for heating the compressor when the compressor is not in operation. A compressor temperature sensor is provided for detecting a compressor temperature. A refrigerant temperature detection sensor is provided for detecting a refrigerant temperature in the compressor. A controller is configured to estimate an amount of liquid refrigerant in the compressor by integrating the temperature difference between the compressor temperature and the refrigerant temperature during a period in which the compressor temperature becomes lower than the refrigerant temperature, and control the heating operation, which is carried out by the compressor heater, on the basis of the estimated liquid refrigerant amount when the compressor is not in operation.
US09528724B1
The present invention relates to apparatus and methods for configuring and arranging heliostats for use in a solar power system. The present invention seeks to improve the overall energy harvesting capacity of a heliostat system while using minimal land area and providing maximum access paths. The present invention teaches that, instead of raising the height of the tower or spacing heliostats according to a rigid schedule, it may be advantageous to vary the height of individual mirrors within a heliostat group, thus mitigating blocking while nonetheless permitting adjacent rows of heliostats to be placed close to one another.
US09528719B2
Disclosed is a cooling blower control device and method for a high-voltage battery, by which a cooling blower used in a high-voltage battery is efficiently controlled using fuzzy control. To this end, the cooling blower control device includes a temperature (or first) sensor configured to sense an internal temperature of a battery pack assembly, and a current sensor configured to sense an output current of the battery pack assembly. A fuzzy controller performs fuzzy control by using outputs of the temperature sensor and the current sensor as inputs to output a cooling blower's duty ratio, and a pulse-width modulation (PWM) controller performs PWM control by using an output of the fuzzy controller as an input to output a control signal for driving the cooling blower.
US09528714B2
Apparatus, systems and methods of generating 70 (seventy) CFM (cubic feet per minute) from ventilation fans for bathrooms with flush mount lights and having the motor partially inside and beneath the blower wheel. A one piece or multipiece housing for the bath fan can be attached to joists in the ceiling by a long telescoping mounting bracket, and a short telescoping mounting bracket that are each directly mounted on opposite outer side walls of the housing. A decorative pan about the light can have vents that receive the incoming air into the fan, which is exhausted therefrom by the motor driven blower.
US09528708B2
Provided is a burner. The burner includes a burner body receiving a gas and air, a burner head seated on the burner body, the burner head including an inner burner head and an outer burner head, and a burner cap seated on the burner body to cover the burner head. An outer flame hole through which a mixture gas is discharged and a flame spread space for spreading flame into the inner burner head are defined on the outer burner head, and an inner flame hole through which the mixture gas is discharged and an ignition hole defined under the inner flame hole are defined on the inner burner head.
US09528698B2
A fuel burner includes an outer tube that extends along a central axis and has an outer surface and an inner surface defining a passage. An inner tube positioned within the passage of the outer tube has an outer surface and an inner surface defining a central passage. A fluid passage is defined between the outer surface of the inner tube and the inner surface of the outer tube. The fluid passage is supplied with a mixture of air and combustible
US09528695B2
An illuminated makeup mirror set includes: a mirror unit; a surface light source with adjustable color that is used to illuminate a makeup subject; a setting unit for setting illumination conditions with the surface light source according to an input operation; an adjustment unit for adjusting color and brightness of the surface light source according to the illumination conditions set by the setting unit; a speaker; and a playback unit that stores a plurality of musical pieces as data, plays a musical piece selected from the plurality of musical pieces according to the illumination conditions and time of illumination with the surface light source, and causes the speaker to output the selected musical piece as a reproduced sound.
US09528691B2
A lighting device has a carrier with a mounting face. A number of light-emitting diodes include at least two of the light-emitting diodes suitable for emitting light of different colors during operation. At least one color sensor, during operation, detects the light of at least one of the light-emitting diodes. At least one light-measuring face is illuminated by light of at least one of the light-emitting diodes and reflects and/or scatters at least a portion of this light. The light-emitting diodes and the at least one color sensor are arranged on the mounting surface, the at least one light-measuring face is arranged at a distance from the carrier, and the at least one color sensor; detects for the most part light reflected by the at least one light-measuring face from at least one of the multiplicity of light-emitting diodes.
US09528685B2
A color conversion substrate includes a main plate having a first main surface and including a transparent substrate, and a fluorescent material layer including a light scattering layer formed at the first main surface for scattering incident light and emitting the light outside, and having a hole formed, and a fluorescent material body formed in said hole, exhibiting luminescence emission when light of an incident wavelength region is incident. The inner surface of the light scattering layer defining the hole reflects the light from the fluorescent material body output from the fluorescent material body towards the main plate.
US09528682B2
A light conductor with an input coupler which couples in light in such a way that inside the light conductor it is distributed into a first layer, parallel layers and into second layers, whereby each second layer is spanned by a perpendicular of the first layer and by a line located in the first layer, and with a light emitting area. Light is coupled such that it has a lower divergence in the second layers than in the first layers. There is a first deflection area between the input coupler and the light emitting area, which redirects light emitted from the input coupler incident on it in an angle bigger than the double of the critical angle of the total internal reflection. Further deflection areas are illuminated with light emitted from the first deflection area and direct the incident light into a preferred common direction for the further deflection areas.
US09528674B2
Disclosed is a head lamp for a car having asymmetric magnifications for upper, lower, left, and right lens standards, and the head lamp includes: a light source; and an aspheric lens disposed in a front direction of the light source, and configured to have different horizontal and vertical magnifications.
US09528670B2
An electronic lighting device simulating real fire comprising a flame sheet (1), a supporting frame (2), a light emitting element (3) and a drive mechanism; the flame sheet (1) comprises a flame section (1.1), a balance section (1.2) and a supporting point (1.3); the supporting point (1.3) is positioned between the flame section (1.1) and the balance section (1.2); the drive mechanism is positioned corresponding to a middle part of the flame sheet (1); the drive mechanism exerts driving force to the middle part of the flame sheet (1). The electronic lighting device simulating real fire has a compact design. When the flame sheet swings, the ferromagnet is always positioned within the strong magnetic field of the electromagnetic coil. Therefore, the magnetic force can be much better utilized and thus a weaker current should be sufficient to drive the flame sheet to swing reciprocally.
US09528660B2
A supercritical fluid extraction system including a housing, motor, linkage assembly, and carriage coupled to the linkage. A piston assembly includes a piston housing with a chamber, back check valve, and piston coupled to the carriage and movable within the piston housing. The piston assembly includes a fluid inlet fluidly communicating with the chamber, and receives, compresses, and expels fluid into an exit fluid line. An intake manifold receives fluid and provides an inlet pathway to the fluid inlet. A single-pass flow path fluidly connects the exit fluid line and a collection chamber, extending through the exit fluid line, a compression chamber, a flow modulator assembly, and the collection chamber. The fluid extracts liquid from solid material within the compression chamber when at a minimum pressure within the compression chamber, passes through the flow modulator assembly and precipitates the extracted liquid into the collection chamber when below the minimum pressure.
US09528659B2
A stand for supporting a pressure vessel includes a support body having an upper wall and a sidewall extending downwardly from the upper wall. A locking aperture is defined in the upper wall to permit passage of pressure vessel components therethrough. A plurality of locking latches is disposed along an inner dimension of the locking aperture. The locking latches are configured and adapted to couple with a pressure vessel retaining ring passing through the locking aperture.
US09528650B2
This female quick-coupling element for a quick-connect coupling is able to cooperate with a male coupling element. A control ring is able to move in translation along a longitudinal axis between a first position and a second position. A blocking member prevents translation of the control ring as far as its second position. An element for the elastic return of a piston, integral in transverse movement with the blocking member, to its internal position is mounted in a housing of the first coupling element situated outside the housing of the piston, and fluidically isolated from the fluid-flow conduit. The first coupling element comprises transmission means, disposed between the return element and the piston, to return the piston to its internal position.
US09528640B2
A tightness-indicating tube fitting is disclosed. The tightness-indicating tube fitting includes a tube inserted into a body, at least one ferrule disposed around the tube, a nut fastened onto the body to deform the ferrule for providing a seal between the body and the tube, and a check ring having a pressure-receiving section protruding from a side of the check ring facing the nut. The pressure-receiving section has an inner diameter part which is provided with a slope. When the nut is fastened onto the body by the amount of nut rotation corresponding to a predetermined length as the nut moves forwards after having made an initial contact with the slope of the pressure-receiving section, a pressing force of the nut acts on the slope and the check ring is detached from the body by a pressing force of the nut such that a fastened state of the nut is checked.
US09528636B2
A system for dynamically sealing an opening through which at least one pipe, cable or duct extends via a conduit sleeve which is fittingly and sealingly fixed to the circumference of the opening or which corresponds to the opening. The system comprises at least an elastically deformable plug which is fittingly and sealingly insertable in the conduit sleeve. The plug has two ends, an outer side and an inner side. Each end has dimensions that allow for fitting of that end in the conduit sleeve. The outer side comprises a number of outer ribs having tops spaced apart in a longitudinal direction of the plug for realizing annular contact surfaces between the plug and an inner circumferential wall of the conduit sleeve. The inner side comprises a number of inner ribs having tops spaced apart in the longitudinal direction of the plug for realizing annular contact surfaces between the plug and the at least one pipe, cable or duct. The inner side and/or the outer side is provided with at least one hingeable surface area for facilitating compression of the plug in the longitudinal direction and a transverse movement of at least one of the inner or outer ribs.
US09528624B2
A shutoff valve according to the present invention includes: a motor configured to cause a rotating shaft to rotate; a lead screw formed on the rotating shaft; a lead nut into which the lead screw is screwed; and a valve element configured to block a passage, the valve element being configured to move in an axial direction in accordance with rotation of the rotating shaft. A dry lubricating coating is formed on a contact surface where the lead screw and the lead nut come into contact with each other. A thread pitch of the lead screw is set such that a current applied to the motor, the current being in relation to an inductance of the motor, is in a range that does not cause explosion of the fuel gas and that allows thrust force necessary for moving the valve element to be obtained.
US09528609B2
A valve seat has an inner passage and outer passages. A suction valve member has first passages and a first projection portion that guides, to the first passages, the fuel that flows from a pressure chamber at the time of valve opening. Therefore, an action force by the dynamic pressure applied to the suction valve member in the valve closing direction is reduced. An action force by the pressure of fuel that flows into pressure equalization grooves counterbalances the action force by the dynamic pressure of the suction valve member. Therefore, self-closing by the dynamic pressure can be inhibited, and the maximum output of an electromagnetic driving unit can be reduced. Fuel flow through a passage radially outside the suction valve member and the first passages. A fluid passage area is securable even when a lift amount of the suction valve member is small.
US09528607B2
A stuffing box flow diverter including a body including first, second, and third connector portions. The third connector portion is configured for connection to a stuffing box. A first passage extends from the first connector portion to the third connector portion and a second passage extends from the first connector portion to the third connector portion. The first and second passages are coaxial, wherein the second passage includes an annular portion extending along at least a portion of the first passage. The first passage is defined by a tube extending from the first connector portion and through a bore formed in the third connector portion, the bore having a bore diameter larger than an outer diameter of the tube. The second passage includes the annular region defined by the bore diameter and the outer tube diameter.
US09528599B2
A method and electronic control unit are provided for controlling an automatic transmission by way of the electronic control unit in a motor vehicle during a skidding turn, during which the motor vehicle first travels straight with a velocity above a predefined threshold value or within a predefined range with the reverse gearspeed engaged and, subsequently, experiences a defined steering jolt, by means of which a rotational movement is initiated. When a defined rotational angle is exceeded, the automatic transmission is automatically shifted from the reverse gearspeed into a neutral position.
US09528595B2
A V-belt type continuously variable transmission is provided with a transmission case attached to an engine and forms an outer shape, comprising: an air intake duct provided with an air intake port arranged on an engine side; and an air intake duct connection port arranged in a side wall on the engine side of the transmission case and connected to the air intake duct, the air intake duct connection port being inclined relative to the side wall.
US09528582B2
An internal-circulation-type ball screw includes a nut, a screw shaft, and two returning members. The nut has an internal-thread groove. The screw shaft passes through the nut and has an external-thread groove. The internally and external-thread grooves are aligned to form a helix channel. The screw shaft has a returning channel and two opposite receiving recesses. Each of the receiving recesses is radially communicated between the external-thread groove and the returning channel. The returning members are received in the receiving recesses of the screw shaft and each have a redirecting channel. The redirecting channel is connected between the helix channel and the returning channel, so that balls are allowed to circulate along the helix channel, the redirecting channel and the returning channel. Thereby, the internal-circulation-type ball screw provides good durability, reliability and smoothness in use.
US09528580B2
A linear actuator includes a housing (100), a base plate (200) disposed in the housing (100), and two actuating mechanisms (310, 320) disposed on the base plate (200) and received in the housing (100). Each actuating mechanism (310/320) comprises a motor (311/321), a transmission assembly (312/322), a screw rod (313/323), and a supporting block (314/324). Two motors (311, 321) and two transmission assemblies (312, 322) are disposed on the base plate (200). Two motors (311, 321) are kinetically connected to two assemblies (312, 322), respectively. One end of the screw rod (313/323) is connected to and rotated by the transmission assemblies (312/322). The other end of the screw rod (313/323) is screwed to the supporting block (314/324). Thus, two supporting blocks (314, 324) are driven to move in the housing (100).
US09528572B2
A gear unit for a compound transmission has a planetary stage that couples an input and an output shaft for different transmission ratios. The planetary stage includes a sun gear, a ring gear and planet gears rotatably supported at a planet carrier. The planet gears have a region with two different toothings arranged axially offset with respect to an axis of rotation of the planetary stage. A meshing engagement with a first sun gear and/or a first ring gear is produced via the first toothing. The planet gears mesh at the second toothing with a second sun gear and/or a second ring gear, and one component of the planetary stage is connected to the input shaft to be fixed with respect to rotation and one component is fixed at a housing, while the rest of the components can be coupled with the output shaft, respectively.
US09528569B2
An internal combustion engine includes a crankcase, a case cover for covering a side of the crankcase, a crankshaft and a balancer shaft. A balancer has a balancer driven gear and a balance weight provided on the balancer driven gear and is acted upon and driven by a driving force of the crankshaft to rotate. An oil pump is accommodated in the crankcase and has an oil pump driving shaft disposed in parallel to the crankshaft and the balancer shaft. The oil pump includes a pump driven gear. The balancer has a pump driving gear which has a diameter smaller than that of the balancer driven gear and rotates together with the balancer driven gear. The pump driving gear meshes with the pump driven gear. The oil pump driving shaft is disposed within a range of rotation of the balance weight as viewed in an axial direction thereof.
US09528566B2
A hydraulically damping bush bearing has an elongated inner part, and outer bush, an elastomeric damping member disposed between the inner part and outer bush and a pair of axial chambers offset from one another in an axial direction. The axial chambers communicate with one another via at least one axial channel. The bush bearing also has a pair of radial chambers that communicate via at least one radial channel. The radial chambers are disposed between the pair of axial chambers and are offset from each other in a circumferential direction. One of the pair of axial chambers has at least two separated first axial chambers spaced at a distance from one another in the circumferential direction.
US09528554B2
A bearing assembly, including: an axis of rotation; an outer bearing ring; an inner bearing ring; and a seal. The seal includes: an annular-shaped body made of a flexible material and including a radially outermost segment in contact with the outer bearing ring and sealed against the outer bearing ring, a radially innermost segment in contact with a first portion of the inner bearing ring and sealed against the first portion of the inner bearing ring and a lip segment. The lip segment extends from the body in a first axial direction parallel to the axis of rotation, is located between the radially outermost and innermost segments in a radial direction orthogonal to the axis of rotation, and, is in contact with and sealed against a second portion of the inner bearing ring. The seal includes a reinforcing brace at least partially embedded in the body.
US09528553B2
An oil passage obstruction wall member (W) is configured to obstruct an oil passage having plural pathways configured to communicate plural oil supply openings (6) at plural locations on an outer circumference of an end cap (1) included in a linear guide device arranged such that a bottom face of a guide rail is arranged on a face slanted at an angle ranging from 0 degrees to 180 degrees with respect to a plane face, with a direction change passage (4) configured to communicate a rolling element rolling passage formed between the guide rail and the slider body with a rolling element return passage included in the slider body. The oil passage obstruction wall member (W) is selectively opened depending on the angle of the face on which the bottom face of the guide rail is arranged to selectively communicate the direction change passage (4) and the oil supply openings (6).
US09528549B2
A porous compact impregnated with lubricant fits into a lengthwise hole in the carriage to apply the lubricant around balls rolling through a return passage to realize maintenance-free lubrication. The carriage has a flat upper portion which has threaded holes lying midway between the widthwise opposed bulges to fasten counterparts to the carriage. The carriage has widthwise opposed corners where the flat upper portion merges the respective bulges. The corners each have therein a lengthwise hole in which the cylindrical porous compact impregnated with lubricant is inserted to extend across the overall length of corners. The bulges of the carriage have threaded holes which are used to fasten the end caps to the fore and aft ends of the carriage.
US09528543B2
A portable flash drive with snap hook for attaching the drive to an object such as a key, key chain, etc. is disclosed herein. The portable flash drive includes a housing defining a chamber, a memory unit disposed in the chamber of the housing, and a slot hook attached to an end of the housing. The slot hook includes an interior aperture, a blocking end, a pivoting end, and an opening therebetween, and a spring lever having a first arm and second arm of staggered lengths extending parallel from opposite ends of an abutment segment therebetween, the first and second arms attached to the hook at the pivoting end of the hook such that the spring lever is biased to a closed position across the opening.
US09528541B2
A holder in particular for fastening a lining, for at least partially casting into a concrete element which is cast using a formwork, wherein the holder is aligned by an outer surface with the surface of the concrete element pointing towards the formwork, in particular for use in tunnel-building and engineering construction. The holder for casting into a concrete element is made available which can be handled simply for preparation purposes and during the concreting operation and using which a lining can be fastened simply to the concrete element. This is achieved in that a fastening device for releasably fastening the holder to the formwork is provided, wherein the fastening device has a holding part interacting with the formwork and a clamping element arranged on the outer surface of the holder, wherein the clamping element interacts with the holding part.
US09528540B2
A pin and grommet fastener is assembled into a shipping configuration in which the pin is retained in a first position relative to the grommet with longitudinally extending leg members of the grommet in an unexpanded state. Cooperating members are provided on the pin and the grommet to engage each other in a locking configuration in which the pin is retained in a second position relative to the grommet causing the longitudinally extending leg members to be in a laterally expanded state. A driving member is provided on the pin to engage a periphery of an aperture of a joining part to cause the joining part to automatically drive the pin from the first position to the second position simultaneously with the insertion of the assembled pin and grommet into the aperture of the joining part.
US09528533B2
An apparatus for lifting motor vehicles includes a first lifting device which is movable in a vertical direction and which is suitable for supporting a first region of the motor vehicle to be lifted, and a second lifting device which is arranged at a distance from the first lifting device and which is suitable for supporting a second region of the motor vehicle to be lifted. A first supply line supplies an hydraulic medium to the first lifting device, and with a second supply line supplies an hydraulic medium to the second lifting device.
US09528525B2
A vacuum pump includes a rotor shaft 33 that is rotatably supported by a bearing and driven by a motor 36 to rotate at a high speed, and a rotor 30 that is fastened to one end of the rotor shaft 33 in axial direction thereof and is provided with an evacuating function portion. An engagement portion, in which the rotor shaft 33 and the rotor 30 are fastened, includes an engagement hole 330 formed on one of the rotor shaft 33 and the rotor 30 and an engagement shaft 300 formed on the other of the rotor shaft 33 and the rotor 30. A filling member 40 is provided in a gap between the engagement hole 330 and the engagement shaft 300, having shear strength lower than respective shear strengths of the rotor 30 and the rotor shaft 33.
US09528518B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed for diverting a portion of intake airflow from a pressure source in an internal combustion engine system. The intake airflow is diverted to, for example, an air compressor at the intake of the pressure source before the airflow is pressurized by the pressure source.
US09528508B2
A pump has power and fluid ends wherein one or more of the drive rods are offset from the plungers. An offset coupler connects a drive rod to an offset plunger. A method includes connecting the offset power end to the standard fluid end using the offset coupler. A repair and maintenance system includes inventories of standard fluid ends, power ends including offset power ends, and adapters, and a population of in service pumps, whereby the pumps can be repaired by removing and replacing the power ends from inventory using the adaptor where the replacement power end unit is offset. Another method includes removing and replacing the power end with one from the inventory, wherein the adapter is used in the case of an offset power end, whereby the offset and standard power ends may be used interchangeably.
US09528504B2
The outer periphery of the outer part of a substrate is a chamfer, and the outer part of the substrate is covered by a resin film layer. The thickness of the resin film layer at the chamfer is thicker than the locations radially further inwards from said chamfer. The surface of the resin film layer on the outer peripheral edge of the outer part is coplanar with the surface of the resin film layer further inwards. These locations act as the sliding surface (the surface of the swash plate) that slides on a shoe, and compared with conventional techniques, because the resin film layer in the outer peripheral edge is thick, attrition of the portion being pressed against the shoe is suppressed. For that reason, the outer peripheral edge of the substrate and the vicinity thereof are prevented from being exposed, and seizure of the swash plate can be prevented.
US09528495B2
The present invention is directed to a method of reducing a mechanical load on the occurrence of voltage dip in the wind turbines. The wind turbine generator controller and the converter control unit work in combination to control the oscillation generated due to voltage dip in the wind turbine 100. The method applies a ramp in power recovery to allow the enhanced DTD damp oscillations before the peak in torque happens. The method involves the step of: delivering a maximum active power value by the converter control unit to the wind turbine generator controller. Next step is setting a saturation value for the set points to enhance the drive train limits. In the next step, ramping is applied to the power set points of the wind turbine generator. And finally an enhanced drive train damping s applied to the ramped value of the power in order to reduce the mechanical load in the wind turbine and to damp the oscillation in the wind turbine generator.
US09528488B2
A method and a system for controlling idle stop of a vehicle that can reduce braking noise and prevent startup delay may be included, wherein the method for controlling may include estimating a disk temperature, determining whether the estimated disk temperature may be lower than or equal to a first predetermined temperature, and prohibiting engine stop according to the idle stop when the estimated disk temperature may be higher than the first predetermined temperature.
US09528486B2
An automobile fuel system pressurization apparatus includes an inflatable bladder having a proximal end, a distal end, an exterior surface, and an inlet accessing an interior. The inflatable bladder being deformable between an expanded state and a deflated state. In the expanded state, the exterior surface of the inflatable bladder is configured to provide an air-tight seal in a filler neck of a fuel tank. A pump is coupled to the inlet of the inflatable bladder and is configured to supply air pressure to the interior of the inflatable bladder. A pressure relief valve is disposed at the distal end of the inflatable bladder and is in fluid communication with the interior of the inflatable bladder. When the inflatable bladder is in the expanded state, the pressure relief valve is configured to release a portion of the air pressure from the interior of the inflatable bladder into the fuel tank.
US09528485B2
A coupling device is provided for hydraulically and mechanically coupling a fuel injector to a fuel rail of a combustion engine. The coupling device comprises a fuel injector cup hydraulically coupled to the fuel rail and configured to engage a fuel inlet portion of the fuel injector, a plate element coupled to the fuel injector and fixedly coupled to the fuel injector cup to retain the fuel injector in the fuel injector cup in direction of a central longitudinal axis of the fuel injector, wherein the plate element comprises a groove, and a snap ring arranged in the groove and designed to fixedly couple the plate element to the fuel injector. The plate element comprises a main body and a ring element. The ring element comprises the groove and is at least limited rotatable around the central longitudinal axis relative to the main body of the plate element.
US09528483B2
A fuel delivery pipe assembly for direct injection of fuel includes a fuel delivery pipe, a plurality of fuel injector sockets for containing a fuel injection valve, and a mounting bracket of sheet metal fixedly assembled with the fuel delivery pipe at a position adjacent each fuel injector socket. The mounting bracket has a mounting plate portion formed with a mounting hole for insertion of a bolt and a through hole for insertion of each fuel injector socket spaced from the mounting hole in the longitudinal direction of the delivery pipe. A reinforcement bracket is integrally assembled with the mounting bracket at the opposite side of the fuel injector socket in the longitudinal direction of the delivery pipe, and a reinforcement rib extended from an arm portion of the reinforcement bracket is provided on the mounting plate portion between the mounting hole and the through hole for the fuel injector socket.
US09528479B2
An injector for mixing two propellants upstream of a combustion chamber. The injector includes: at least one injection element with a tricoaxial structure installed between two plates which between them delimit a space; and coaxial ducts including an internal coaxial duct and an external coaxial duct that are supplied in parallel with a same propellant, for example via the space.
US09528477B2
A soundproof cover for a fuel pipe includes a cover body and a clip. The cover body covers a fuel pipe. The clip is coupled to the cover body and configured to hold the fuel pipe. The clip includes a clamp portion and a grip portion. The clamp portion is disposed inside the cover body and configured to hold the fuel pipe. The grip portion is coupled to the clamp portion and exposed to an outside of the cover body.
US09528471B2
A nozzle of variable throat section for an aerospace vehicle thruster, the nozzle including a cylindrical housing presenting a throat of aperture diameter less than the diameter of the housing, and a needle suitable for sliding inside the housing between a high discharge rate front position in which the nose is set back from the throat of the housing, and a low discharge rate rear position in which the nose is in abutment against the throat, the needle including a rod for sliding inside the housing of the nozzle, the rod terminating in a nose of decreasing diameter. The nose of the rod is suitable for coming into abutment against the throat of the nozzle housing forming a seat and includes at least two axial grooves formed in its outer periphery to allow gas to pass when the nose is axially in abutment against the throat of the housing of the nozzle.
US09528469B2
A thrust reverser drive arrangement is described for use in driving a thrust reverser cowl for movement relative to first and second guide tracks, the drive arrangement comprising a first actuator located, in use, close to the first guide track, and a second actuator located, in use, close to the second guide track, the actuators being arranged to be driven in synchronism and at the same speed by a drive motor to drive the cowl for movement, wherein at least one of the first and second actuators is provided with a load limiter to limit the transmission of loads through that actuator in the event that that actuator is subject to a compressive loading greater than a predetermined level.
US09528455B2
An internal combustion engine includes an Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) system having an EGR valve and a reed valve in an EGR passage, and a control device that expresses a relationship between an opening degree of the EGR valve and a mass flow rate of an EGR gas by using a first volume flow rate of the EGR gas that can be expressed by using an isentropic flow equation of a nozzle of the EGR valve and a second volume flow rate of the EGR gas pumped out by the reed valve. Even if the reed valve (check valve) is provided in the EGR passage, the mass flow rate of the EGR gas can be calculated accurately.
US09528451B2
A method for improving performance of a system that controls a intermediate lock position continuously variable valve may include: obtaining a cam position using an engine Electronic Control Unit (ECU) that has started controlling a position of a intermediate lock position Continuously Variable Valve Timing System (CVVT); determining, using the ECU, whether the cam position corresponds to parking of the intermediate lock position CVVT; compensating an engine ignition timing to prevent cam undershoot, if it is determined that the cam position corresponds to the parking of the intermediate lock position CVVT; and returning to ignition timing control according to an engine operation condition after compensating the engine ignition timing.
US09528449B2
A method and system is disclosed for blending between different torque maps of a vehicle in a smooth and progressive manner. Blending is delayed if the vehicle driver cannot detect that blending is taking place, for example when the difference between a source map and target map is below a predetermined threshold.
US09528444B2
A system includes a multi-tube fuel nozzle. The multi-tube fuel nozzle includes an end cover, a first plate, and multiple tubes. The multiple tubes are disposed and supported in a floating arrangement between the end cover and the first plate. Each tube includes a forward end adjacent the end cover and an aft end adjacent the first plate.
US09528442B2
An aircraft engine anti-icing barrier assembly having a slip joint subassembly, a barrier subassembly, and a vapor barrier subassembly. The slip joint subassembly has a forward end for fixed attachment at a forward bulkhead of an aircraft engine, and has an aft end having a sliding joint. The barrier subassembly is attached to an aft side of an aft bulkhead and inserted through the aft bulkhead. The barrier subassembly has two mount pads with an upper mount pad and a lower mount pad configured for joined sealed attachment around the slip joint subassembly to form a barrier between an engine fan case compartment and an aft compartment in an engine inlet. The vapor barrier subassembly is attached to the aft side of the aft bulkhead and adjacent the barrier subassembly, has a boot element and a boot element retainer, and forms a vapor barrier to the slip joint subassembly.
US09528440B2
A diffuser strut fairing includes a top portion, a bottom portion, a pressure side portion, a suction side portion, an inner surface and an outer surface. The pressure side portion and the suction side portion extend between the top portion and the bottom portion. The exhaust diffuser strut faring further includes a flow manifold that is at least partially defined between the pressure side portion and the suction side portion. A plurality of openings is disposed along the suction side portion and are in fluid communication with the flow manifold.
US09528438B2
A method of using a kit to clean an injection combustion engine while the engine is running comprising removing a vacuum hose attached to the engine, inserting a tube attached to a compartment containing a liquid cleaning chemical inside the hose, introducing the chemical into the engine's fuel system in a controlled fashion, removing the tube from the hose after the recommended amount of chemical is in the engine's fuel system and reattaching the hose.
US09528436B2
A hybrid drive device having an engine coupling shaft member, a speed change mechanism, a rotating electrical machine, and an engine connecting clutch. A first lubricating oil passage scatters lubricating oil from radially inside to radially outside of first and second friction plates. A first one-way clutch is interposed between an engine coupling shaft member and a coupling member, and is configured to not be engaged when rotation of the engine coupling shaft member becomes lower than rotation of the coupling member. A second one-way clutch is configured not to be engaged when rotation of the rotating electrical machine becomes lower than rotation of the coupling member. An engine driven oil pump generates an oil pressure to be supplied by a driving force of the internal combustion engine or a driving force of the rotating electrical machine regardless of engagement or disengagement of the engine connecting clutch.
US09528431B2
An energy recovery system and method is provided for the compressor stage of a turbocharger during surge avoidance operation. The compressor stage includes a housing defining an inlet, an inlet chamber, a diffuser and a volute. A flow amplifier is provided in the compressor housing or in a separate element. If the compressor stage is operating near a surge condition, charge air from a system charge air source is routed to the flow amplifier which discharges the air substantially along the inner peripheral surface of the inlet chamber in a downstream direction relative to the air intake flow direction. The charge air is supplied in a substantially annular manner at an increased velocity such that at least a portion of the intake air flow is entrained by the charge air so as to increase the velocity of the air toward the compressor wheel and recovering energy of the charge air.
US09528422B2
An exhaust gas treatment system to treat exhaust gas includes a particulate filter, a second temperature sensor and a control module. The particulate filter includes a PF substrate configured to trap particulate matter contained in the exhaust gas. The second temperature sensor is configured to output an outlet temperature signal indicating an outlet temperature at the outlet of the particulate filter. The control module is in electrical communication with the second temperature sensor to receive the outlet temperature signal. The control module determines a maximum substrate temperature of the PF substrate based on the outlet temperature. The control module is further configured to determine whether the particulate filter includes an active washcoat disposed thereon based on the maximum substrate temperature.
US09528419B2
Disclosed is a method for correcting characteristic variation of a PM sensor and improving detection accuracy of the sensor. The PM sensor has a pair of electrodes for capturing the PM in an exhaust gas, and a sensor output changes in accordance with a captured amount of the PM. If the sensor output gets close to a saturated state, the PM combustion control for combusting and removing the PM is executed. If a zero-point output of the PM sensor is to be corrected, first, a sensor output at a point of time when predetermined time required for combustion of the PM has elapsed after electrical conduction to the heater is started by the PM combustion control is obtained. Then, the sensor output at an arbitrary point of time is corrected. As a result, correction of the sensor can be made smoothly by using existing PM combustion control.
US09528412B2
An exhaust gas purification catalyst is recovered from the sulfur poisoning more appropriately. For this purpose, an exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine selectively executes first control in which an air-fuel ratio of an exhaust gas allowed to flow into an exhaust gas purification catalyst is set to be not more than a theoretical air-fuel ratio to remove a sulfur component from the exhaust gas purification catalyst; and second control in which the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas allowed to flow into the exhaust gas purification catalyst is set to an air-fuel ratio that is lower than the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas set in the first control to remove the sulfur component from the exhaust gas purification catalyst; wherein the exhaust gas purification apparatus for the internal combustion engine comprises a control unit which executes any one of the first control and the second control on the basis of at least one of purification performance of the exhaust gas purification catalyst, a travel distance of a vehicle that carries the internal combustion engine, and a number of times of removal of the sulfur component from the exhaust gas purification catalyst.
US09528406B2
Methods and systems are provided for improving purge air-fuel ratio control. Fuel vapors from a canister and the crankcase are selectively purged to a group of cylinders and not to remaining engine cylinders. Exhaust is recirculated from the selected group of cylinders to the engine intake wherefrom the EGR is ingested in the remaining engine cylinders and the selected group of cylinders.
US09528402B2
Energy to speed heating of a catalyst associated with an internal combustion engine can be provided in the form of sensible energy (heat) via hot combustion products. In some variations, timing of opening and/or closing of an exhaust valve can be manipulated to increase sensible heat delivered to the catalyst in the exhaust gases.
US09528396B2
An auxiliary burner configured to heat exhaust gas on an upstream side of any one of heat exchangers, and a fuel supply system configured to supply fuel to the auxiliary burner. To avoid damage of a heat-transfer pipe by exhaust gas of high temperature, a reference value on which the restriction on the charging quantity to be supplied to the auxiliary burner is based is set, and the charging quantity of fuel to the auxiliary burner is restricted so as not to exceed a limit defined by the reference value.
US09528393B2
The method for removing an inner casing from a machine such as a turbine or compressor includes providing supports between the outer casing and the inner casing of the machine, removing a top part of the outer casing, then removing a top part of the inner casing, then connecting a ring sector to a bottom part of the inner casing to replace the removed top part of the inner casing, then rotating the reciprocally connected ring sector and bottom part of the inner casing around the longitudinal axis to make the bottom part of the inner casing accessible, then removing the bottom part of the inner casing, guiding the reciprocally connected ring sector and bottom part of the inner casing during rotation, to prevent movement along the longitudinal axis.
US09528388B2
A method and system to prevent the equipment corrosion in an offshore wind turbine by minimizing the humid ambient air entry into the turbine. The method uses the fact that the ambient air entry into or the inside air leakage out of the turbine can be minimized by lowering the air pressure difference across the outside and inside faces of the seals. The proposed system includes a slotted, streamlined plenum over each of these interfaces that helps moderate the air pressure on the outside of the seals. On the inside, the air pressure over the seals is controlled by a variable air flow resistance system that consists of two circular, coaxial perforated plates that can rotate relative to each other.
US09528381B2
A turbine blade having an airfoil defined by a concave shaped pressure side outer wall and a convex shaped suction side outer wall that connect along leading and trailing edges and, therebetween, form a radially extending chamber for receiving the flow of a coolant. The turbine blade may include a rib configuration that partitions the chamber and defines a flow passage having a first and a second side. The flow passage may include a port formed through the first side. A projection of a center axis of the port through the flow passage may define a strike point on the second side of the flow passage, and a backstrike recess may be positioned on the second side of the flow passage so to contain the strike point.
US09528377B2
A system for cooling an angelwing coupled to a rotor blade in a gas turbine engine is provided. An angelwing coupled to a shank of a rotor blade includes at least one cooling passage extending from at least one inlet opening coupled in flow communication with a gas turbine engine inner wheelspace to at least one outlet opening coupled in flow communication with a gas turbine engine outer rotor/stator cavity. The at least one outlet opening is located in an upper surface of the angelwing. The at least one cooling passage receives pressurized cooling air channeled from the inner wheelspace, such that the pressurized cooling air is channeled into the at least one inlet opening and discharged from the at least one outlet opening.
US09528376B2
A compressor fairing segment includes a body having an upstream surface, a downstream surface, and opposing side surfaces between the upstream and downstream surfaces. A first detent on the upstream surface is shaped to conform to a first complementary fitting inside a compressor. A second detent on the downstream surface shaped to conform to a second complementary fitting inside the compressor.
US09528373B2
A rotary drive system includes a cylinder wall, a piston axially slidable along a longitudinal axis within the cylinder wall and a piston rod extending along the longitudinal axis and projecting at a drive side of the system axially beyond the cylinder wall. The piston rod is at the drive side attached to a carrier support member. A rotatable annular cam member extends at an axial cam position that is spaced at a distance from the drive side, coaxially around the cylinder wall. A carrier carries at a support side a pair of rollers engaging on opposed cam surfaces of the cam member, the carrier extending radially outwardly from the cylinder wall from the cam position to the carrier support member and being with a connecting end detachably connected to the carrier support member. The carrier includes an arm provided with a flexible section.
US09528369B2
Disclosed are a production logging tool and method for evaluating fluid produced from a formation of an oilfield. The fluid is measured by a water sensor to determine if the fluid is water, and a chloride sensor to determine chloride levels of the fluid. Based on the chloride levels of the fluid, it can be determined whether the fluid is naturally occurring water, or if the fluid is an injection fluid.
US09528367B2
A system for providing geological trends and real time mapping of a geological basin. The system provides in real time, information from a mass spectrometer on fluid samples from a wellbore, and forms a geochemical surface well log with graphical tracks. The system uses a dataset that includes geochemical, engineering, and geological information. The geochemical surface well log is viewable on a client device connected to a network. The geochemical well log provides information on well fluids and rocks, and displays data in graphical tracks. The mass spectrometer receives samples from a total hydrocarbon analyzer or a gas trap connected to the wellbore. The mass spectrometer performs analysis on fluid samples, and communicates in real time to the geochemical surface well log.
US09528357B2
A system and method is used to protect a motor of a submersible pumping system. A variety of motor protector features are provided to facilitate operation of the motor protector and submersible pumping system in multiple wellbore environments and applications.
US09528355B2
There is provided a system for producing oil from a well bore extending through a fossil fuel reservoir. The system includes a plurality of perforations defined in the casing proximate the fossil fuel reservoir. A gas flow tube is in communication with the annulus volume of the casing proximate the wellhead. A gas valve is coupled to the gas flow tube, with the gas valve configured to selectively open and close the gas flow tube. A controller, is coupled to the gas valve, with the controller configured to control the opening and closing of the gas valve. The opening and closing of the gas valve maximizes the volumetric rate of oil flow into the annulus volume through the perforations from the reservoir by displacing liquid in the annulus volume with a gas volume between the gas valve and the perforations.
US09528342B2
A method of setting and maintaining a tool in a set position for a period of time includes the following. Causing a component of a device to move relative to another component of the device, interengaging one or more features of at least one of the components with the another component, creating a set condition of a tool engaged with the component and the another component with the causing and interengaging. A method of dissolving at least the one or more features when removal of the tool is desired.
US09528329B2
A tensioner for maintaining a tensile force in a riser extending from a subsea wellhead assembly to a deck of a floating platform includes a hydro-pneumatic assembly having a first section secured to the deck and a second section secured to a support frame. A pivot joint is coupled to the riser and to the support frame, so that the riser is retained axially static with respect to the support frame and is pivotable with respect to the support frame. A guide assembly has at least two guide elements, the guide elements being axially spaced from each other so that when the deck and the support frame move axially relative to each other, the guide assembly restricts relative rotational movement between the deck and the support frame.
US09528319B1
An ice auger reversal attachment which couples in-line with an ice auger to selectively reverse direction of the ice auger blade. The ice auger reversal attachment generally includes a mounting assembly adapted to be mounted to an ice auger motor. The mounting assembly includes a locking assembly which is adapted to selectively engage/disengage with an auger reversal assembly which is secured between the ice auger motor and the ice auger blade. Using the locking assembly and auger reversal assembly, the direction of rotation of the ice auger blade may be efficiently transitioned between a forward and reverse direction to aid in removal of slush when drilling a hole through a layer of ice.
US09528316B1
A tornado door comprises a door body having spaced first and second exterior panels and a window panel sized to be oriented within an opening in the door body exterior panels. The door includes a plurality of S-shaped stiffeners spacing the interior sides of the door body first and second exterior panels and positioned about the periphery of the window panel forming a frame. A sealant establishes a seal between the window panel and the plurality of S-shaped stiffeners and between the window panel and the door body first or second exterior panel. The door further includes a cover ring placed on an exterior surface of one of the door body first or second exterior panels and juxtaposed with the plurality of S-shaped stiffeners. The cover ring and plurality of S-shaped stiffeners are intersecured using a plurality of fasteners which pass between the cover ring mounting holes through the door body first or second exterior panel and into the stiffener mounting holes.
US09528304B2
A latch and a method for preventing a latch from failing to open while a connected handle is lifted are provided. The latch includes a primary pawl pivotally mounted to the latch. An end piece having a protrusion extending from it is fixed to the primary pawl. An inner lever is rotatably coupled to the end piece. The inner lever includes a tail adjacent the protrusion of the end piece. The inner lever is movable between a first position and a second position. A secondary pawl is pivotally mounted to the latch and is movable between a first position and a second position. A blocking lever is also coupled to the latch and movable between a first position and a second position. When the inner lever is in a second position, the tail abuts the protrusion and the blocking lever limits movement of the inner lever and the primary pawl.
US09528290B2
The present invention includes a prosthetic apparatus for reinforcing a top of a rotted/deteriorating upstanding pole. The prosthetic ensleeves the pole at its uppermost end to provide an elongate support on which insulators and other various equipment can be mounted in a secure fashion. The present invention may include diametrically opposed support stringers to increase support and rigidity. An embodiment may include pole access apertures, insulator cutouts, and bolt receiving channels. The present invention provides a simplistic and inexpensive fix to preexisting rotting utility poles while also enabling a safe and efficient installation.
US09528288B2
An improved pool skimming net apparatus has a net member including a frame and a net held by the frame. The frame has parallel elongated top and bottom frame portions, an elongated handle member pivotally attached to the top frame portion by an articulated joint member, an elongated retainer member pivotally attached to the top frame portion at a distance from the articulated joint member, a handle clamp member attached to a distal end of the retainer member and adapted to releasably hold a portion of the handle member, and a secondary handle clamp member fixedly attached to the top frame portion at a distance from the articulated joint member and adapted to releasably hold a portion of the handle member, such that when the handle member is held by the handle clamp member an acute angle is formed between the handle member and the top frame portion.
US09528284B2
A tool for breaking and removing the outer end of a snap tie, which has an area of weakness and a button outer end, includes a tubular barrel containing a first jaw and a lever extending into the barrel having a second jaw in opposition to the first jaw. The lever is pivotally connected to the barrel for rotating the second jaw toward the first jaw so that the button can be clamped and the snap tie twisted to break the tie bar at the area of weakness.
US09528283B2
A preassembled display system is assembled at a first location by attaching a plurality of display panels to a frame. The preassembled display system is loaded onto a transportation vehicle. Next, the preassembled display system is moved to a second located in a transportation vehicle. The display unit is installed at the second location by attaching the preassembled display system to a mounting unit. A receiver box for providing media to display at the plurality of display panels is attached. The attaching of the receiver box may be performed at the first location and/or at the second location. The plurality of display panels are electrically connected to the receiver box. Again, the electrically connecting may be performed at the first location and/or at the second location.
US09528282B2
A system useful for dressing out or performing maintenance or other work on a structure in a vertical position includes an elevator system emplaced around the perimeter of the structure, the elevator system including at least three elevators, each having an elevator mast and an elevator cab, the elevator masts interconnected such that the elevator system is freestanding; a control station for controlling and maintaining the elevation of the elevator cabs; a scaffolding/platform system attached to the elevator cabs and providing a work surface that may travel to an elevation proximate an upper portion of the structure, the elevation of work surface controllable using the control station and determined by the elevation of the elevator cabs; the elevator cabs being positionable at various elevations to allow for work to be performed on the structure. The systems may be used for construction, modification, and repair of various vertical structures.
US09528279B2
An entangled net having a crumb dispersed therein may be used as a sound deadening material in a flooring system. The crumb may be adhered to said entangled net. The entangled net may include a first barrier layer affixed to an upper surface of said entangled net and/or a second barrier layer affixed to a lower surface of said entangled net. The crumb may be selected from the group consisting of: rubber; foam; natural elastic materials; synthetic elastic materials; fibers; and combinations thereof. The method of use and manufacture are also disclosed.
US09528271B2
A rooftop support block is provided having tapered outside surfaces that terminate at a top surface. The top surface will carry another item that will be secured to the support block. The bottom of the block has a larger surface than the top to provide stability. The block further contains a hole that will allow a bolt or other fastener to secure the item to the support block.
US09528264B2
Collapsible support structures and methods of making collapsible support structures which interconvert between a deployed condition and a collapsed planate condition which allows extensible retractable deployment of the collapsed structure from a reduced volume rolled condition.
US09528261B2
An insulation product includes a fibrous layer and a facing layer. The fibrous layer includes synthetic fibers, has first and second opposing major surfaces, and has an average denier of less than about 3.0. The facing layer includes a paper-backed facing adhered to one of the first and second major surfaces of the fibrous layer. The insulation product has: a flame spread index of no greater than 25 and a smoke developed index of no greater than 50 as measured in accordance with ASTM E84; a thickness of between about 0.5 and 2 inches; and a thermal conductivity of less than about 0.3 Btu-in./ft2-hr-° F.
US09528242B2
A front loader includes a mechanical posture maintaining mechanism for maintaining the posture of an implement, regardless of swing displacement of a boom. The boom is formed in a curved shape in which a longitudinal central side thereof is located above. The posture maintaining mechanism includes a swing link member having an inner free-end part and an outer free-end part and disposed at a longitudinal center location of the boom so as to be swingable about a third horizontal pivot as a fulcrum. A base-end link member extends between a fixed bracket and the inner free-end part and a free-end link member links the outer free-end part to the implement.
US09528229B2
A lattice truss includes two upper beams (20, 53) and two lower beams (20, 53); an upper horizontal frame (21, 50) fixed to the two upper beams (20, 53); a lower horizontal frame (22, 50) fixed to the two lower beams (20, 53); two side frames (23) respectively connected to one of the two upper beams (20) and to one of the two lower beams (20); characterized in that the upper horizontal frame (21, 50) and, the lower horizontal frame (22, 50) are connected together by way of truss segments (24, 26, 35, 37, 52, 54) connected together in a Y shape with angles equal to one-third of the round angle.
US09528227B2
A pavement diamond grinder used for grinding and/or grooving pavement surfaces as the grinder carriage with a rotating arbor supporting radio blades. A cooling and dust control system delivers water to the arbor. The system includes a spray bar with nozzles that atomizes the water prior to engagement with the blades. The system utilizes a wiper debris removal device to clean the blades. In addition, a device that is utilized to effect turbulence adjacent to the blades and improve contact of the atomized water with the blades.
US09528220B2
Provided herein are a convertible iron and methods of manufacturing and converting the same. The iron may include a first adjustable wing and a second adjustable wing joined to a pivoting hub, such that the adjustable wings are configured to pivot about the hub with respect to each other. The iron may include a heating plate connected to at least the first adjustable wing. At least a portion of each adjustable wing may be configured to rotate between a detailing position and an ironing position. In the detailing position, the portions of each adjustable wing may be substantially parallel, such that the adjustable wings are substantially opposing one another and may be configured to receive an article therebetween for ironing. In the ironing position, the portions of each adjustable wing may be substantially coplanar and may be configured to engage a same side of a surface of an article for ironing.
US09528219B2
A domestic appliance for drying a damp product by means of a process air stream that is conducted in a process air channel. The appliance has a treatment chamber that includes the damp product. A cooling assembly cools and condenses the process air stream after it flows through the treatment chamber. A first heat exchanger supplies heat from the process air stream to a working fluid. A heating assembly heats the process air stream before it flows through the treatment chamber and a second heat exchanger supplies heat from the working fluid to the process air stream. The working fluid is conducted in a heat pump that has at least two mechanically coupled displacement pistons. The heat pump operates according to a regenerative gas cycle process that includes a Vuilleumier gas cycle process.
US09528215B2
Systems and methods for supplying a variety of chemical products to a plurality of utilization points such as to washer extractors or washing machines includes utilizing an auxiliary flush mechanism that operates independently of a product supplying manifold so that the wash machines may be flushed in order to free the manifold to supply product to an otherwise waiting washing machine. The flush mechanism includes flush lines associated with respective washing machines and each line having an auxiliary flush valve and associated flow sensor which are configured to flush water through delivery lines leading to respective washing machines. The systems are configured such that a flushing of a washing machine or machines may occur while product is being supplied to a different washing machine via the central supplying manifold. A programmable controller is included with the system to control the various functions including receiving data from sensors and operating valves and pumps in accordance with the disclosed methods.
US09528205B2
A braiding machine and methods of braiding are described. The braiding machine includes first and second annular members having inclined surfaces, the second annular member being concentric with the first annular member. The inclined surfaces are inclined at a non-zero angle formed between an axis of the outer ring and a horizontal axis that lies perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the mandrel. Each of the annular members has a plurality of tubular guide wires slideably mounted thereon and a plurality of wires extend from the mandrel through each of the tubular wire guides. One of the first and second annular members rotates circumferentially relative to the other. The first plurality of tubular wire guides slides radially inward so as to align with the second annular member, and the second plurality of tubular wire guides slides radially outward so as to align with the first annular member.
US09528195B2
Provided is an apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor or metal oxide ingot by sequentially inducing a liquid-to-solid phase transition of a liquid raw material following a solidification direction, the apparatus including: a crucible containing a semiconductor or metal oxide raw material; a cooling unit spaced apart from the crucible at a predetermined distance in a vertical direction, when a height direction of the crucible is designated by the vertical direction and a direction perpendicular to the vertical direction is designated by a horizontal direction; a first heating unit spaced apart from the crucible at a predetermined distance in the horizontal direction and surrounding a circumferential surface of the crucible; and an insulating member provided between the crucible and the cooling unit in the horizontal direction, a position of the insulating member being shifted by a shifting unit.
US09528194B2
Structures, devices and methods are provided for forming nanowires on a substrate. A first protruding structure is formed on a substrate. The first protruding structure is placed in an electrolytic solution. Anodic oxidation is performed using the substrate as part of an anode electrode. One or more nanowires are formed in the protruding structure. The nanowires are surrounded by a first dielectric material formed during the anodic oxidation.
US09528185B2
The present invention provides an apparatus having a plasma profile control plate disposed in a plasma processing chamber so as to locally alter plasma density to provide uniform plasma distribution across a substrate surface during processing. In one embodiment, a process kit includes a plate configured to be disposed in a plasma processing chamber, a plurality of apertures formed therethrough, the apertures configured to permit processing gases to flow through the plate, and an array of unit cells including at least one aperture formed in the plate, wherein each unit cell has an electrode assembly individually controllable relative to electrode assemblies disposed in at least two other unit cells.
US09528179B2
The content of phosphorus in polycrystalline silicon prepared by the Siemens process is reduced by treating phosphorus-containing steel surfaces with an α-amino-functional alkoxysilane. The treated surface exhibits less corrosion in an atmosphere of moist hydrogen chloride, and less loss of phosphorus as a result.
US09528177B2
A novel FeMnAlC alloy, comprising 23˜34 wt. % Mn, 6˜12 wt. % Al, and 1.4˜2.2 wt. % C with the balance being Fe, is disclosed. The as-quenched alloy contains an extremely high density of nano-sized (Fe,Mn)3AlCx carbides (κ′-carbides) formed within austenite matrix by spinodal decomposition during quenching. With almost equivalent elongation, the yield strength of the present alloys after aging is about 30% higher than that of the optimally aged FeMnAlC (C≦1.3 wt. %) alloy systems disclosed in prior arts. Moreover, the as-quenched alloy is directly nitrided at 450˜550° C., the resultant surface microhardness and corrosion resistance in 3.5% NaCl solution are far superior to those obtained previously for the optimally nitrided commercial alloy steels and stainless steels, presumably due to the formation of a nitrided layer consisting predominantly of AlN.
US09528170B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a high-purity nanometer zinc oxide from steel plant smoke and dust by ammonia decarburization. The method comprises: leaching with an ammonia water-ammonium carbonate solution as a leaching agent, adding 0.3-0.5 kg of sodium fluorosilicate to per cubic meter of the leaching agent to obtain a leaching solution, then adding 50-60 kg slaked lime to per cubic meter of the leached solution to carry out decarburization with heating, and carrying out purification and impurity removal and then refining treatment. According to the method, the ammonia process is used for treating smoke and dust, and the existing ammonia process is adaptively improved, the leaching speed and the leaching rate of zinc in the smoke and dust are improved, and the zinc oxide with the purity of more than 99.7% can be obtained; the treatment method of the present invention is characterized by low energy consumption and high efficiency, the leaching agent can be recycled, and thoroughly solves the problem of zinc load of steel plant furnace smoke and dust, thereby meeting the requirement of the steel plant on purification of the harmful components comprising zinc and alkali metals and achieving good production circulation.
US09528169B2
A method for separating an amount of osmium from a mixture containing the osmium and at least one other additional metal is provided. In particular, method for forming and trapping OsO4 to separate the osmium from a mixture containing the osmium and at least one other additional metal is provided.
US09528165B2
In an apparatus for the continuous thermal treatment of metal continuously cast material having a heating section, the metal continuously cast material having a heating section, the metal continuously cast material is led over two contact rollers, wherein the first contact roller is arranged at a first end and the second contact roller is arranged at a second end of said heating section. Both contact rollers are connected to a voltage source in such a way that a current flows through the metal continuously cast material between the first and the second contact roller. Here, electrical contact is made with one of the contact rollers via a sliding contact element, which is in electrical contact with a slip-ring disk arranged concentrically with the axis of said contact roller. The sliding contact element is arranged on a current-carrying element using a plug-in connection which can be detached by pulling and which has at least one resilient and electrically conductive fixing element.
US09528161B2
Described herein are materials, methods, and kits enabling accurate and reproducible two-color reverse-transcription real-time quantitative PCR (RT-qPCR) for quality-controlled molecular diagnostic testing of samples that may contain degraded RNA. In certain aspects described herein are materials, methods, and kits for use in the molecular diagnostic testing of lung cancer in FFPE samples and/or fresh-frozen samples. Also described herein are materials and methods to control for inter-experimental variation occurring during two-color RT-qPCR amplification arising from variation in fluorescence specific activity, use of different thermocyclers, and inter-laboratory differences.
US09528160B2
The invention is directed to a method of selecting disease-correlated clonotypes that have a reduced likelihood of producing a false positive signal of relapse when, used to monitor minimal residual disease. In accordance with the invention, candidate correlating clonotype are obtained from a patient, the rarity of each is determined either by comparison with a clonotype database or a clonotype model, and one or more of the rarest of such clonotypes are used to monitor the minimal residual disease.
US09528156B2
A method for determining a predisposition of a patient to the development of muscular diseases and/or to changed biotransformation in a treatment of the patient with atorvastatin is disclosed. The presence of at least one single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the UGT1A3 gene (uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase gene 1A3) and/or an increased UGT1A3 gene expression is determined in a biological sample of the patient. The disclosure further relates to oligonucleotides that can be used in the method and to diagnostic kits that use the oligonucleotides.
US09528152B2
In some embodiments, an analyte detection system is provided that includes a nanochannel, an electrode arrangement, and a plurality of nanoFET devices disposed in the nanochannel. A plurality of nucleic acid base detection components can be used that include a plurality of nanopores, a plurality of nanochannels, a plurality of hybridization probes, combinations thereof, and the like. According to other embodiments of the present teachings, different coded molecules are hybridized to a target DNA molecule and used to detect the presence of various sequences along the target molecule. A kit including mixtures of coded molecules is also provided. In some embodiments, devices including nanochannels, nanopores, and the like, are used for manipulating movement of DNA molecules, for example, in preparation for a DNA sequencing detection. Nanopore structures and methods of making the same are also provided as are methods of nucleic acid sequencing using the nanopore structures. Surface-modified nanopores are provided as are methods of making them. In some embodiments, surfaced-modified nanopores for slowing the translocation of single stranded DNA (ssDNA) through the nanopore are provided, as are nanopores configured to detect each of a plurality of different bases on an ssDNA strand.
US09528151B2
Four-color DNA sequencing by synthesis using cleavable fluorescent nucleotide reversible terminators
This invention provides a process for sequencing single-stranded DNA employing modified nucleotides.
US09528139B2
Method of functionalizing microspheres comprising immersing the microspheres in an aqueous dispersion of a construct of the structure F-S-L; and then washing the microspheres with an aqueous vehicle to provide the functionalized microspheres. The construct is of the structure: where F is a functional moiety, M is a monovalent cation, R1 and R2 are independently a C14-20 acyl, alkyl or alkenyl group, and S is a spacer selected to provide a construct that is dispersible in water.
US09528130B2
High conversion efficiency processes are disclosed for the anaerobic bioconversion of syngas to alcohol. The processes use bioreactors that have a non-uniform gas composition and a substantially uniform liquid composition such as deep tank bioreactors. By maintaining certain electron to carbon mole ratios in the syngas feed to the bioreactors and certain partial pressures of carbon dioxide in the off gas from the bioreactors, at least about 80 percent of the hydrogen and at least about 95 percent of the carbon monoxide in the feed can be consumed.
US09528127B2
The present disclosure identifies methods and compositions for modifying photoautotrophic organisms as hosts, such that the organisms efficiently produce alkanes, and in particular the use of such organisms for the commercial production of alkanes and related molecules. Other materials, methods, and compositions are also described.
US09528124B2
Methods, uses, and animals for introgression of alleles between animals, including SNPs. One embodiment involves introducing a targeted targeting endonuclease system and a HDR template into a cell with a mismatch in the binding of the targeting endonuclease and the targeted site.
US09528118B2
There is described a mutant, non-naturally occurring or transgenic plant or plant cell comprising (a) a polynucleotide selected from the group consisting of: (i) a polynucleotide comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of a sequence having at least 71% sequence identity to SEQ ID NOs: 1, 2, 27, 28 or 29 or 51; or (ii) a polynucleotide comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of a sequence having at least 65% sequence identity to any of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 23 or 30 to 50; or (iii) a polynucleotide encoding a NtMRP polypeptide comprising, consisting or consisting essentially of a sequence having at least 65% sequence identity to any of SEQ ID NOs. 24 to 26 or 52, and wherein the polypeptide has heavy metal transporter activity; or (b) a polynucleotide construct of at least 15 contiguous nucleotides in length that is at least 65% identical to a region of any of SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 23 or 27 to 51; or (c) a double-stranded RNA comprising at least two sequences that are at least partially complementary to each other and wherein a sense strand comprises a first sequence and an antisense strand comprises a second sequence and wherein at least one of the sequences comprises at least 10 contiguous nucleotides of NtMRP RNA; or (d) an expression vector comprising the polynucleotide as set forth in (i), (ii) or (iii) or the polynucleotide construct as set forth in (b).
US09528100B2
The present invention relates to novel subtilase variants exhibiting alterations relative to the parent subtilase in one or more properties including: Wash performance, thermal stability, storage stability or catalytic activity. The variants of the invention are suitable for use in e.g. cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dishwash compositions, including automatic dishwash compositions.
US09528095B2
The present invention relates to non-naturally occurring polypeptides useful for preparing armodafinil, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and methods of using the polypeptides. The non-naturally occurring polypeptides of the present invention are effective in carrying out biocatalytic conversion of the (i) 2-(benzhydrylsulfinyl)acetamide to (−)-2-[(R)-(diphenylmethyl)sulfinyl]acetamide (armodafinil), or (ii) benzhydryl-thioacetic acid to (R)-2-(benzhydrylsulfinyl)acetic acid, which is a pivotal intermediate in the synthesis of armodafinil, in enantiomeric excess.
US09528094B2
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is the etiological agent of a contagious and often lethal viral disease of domestic pigs. Control of ASF has been hampered by the unavailability of vaccines. Experimental vaccines have been derived from naturally occurring, cell culture-adapted, or genetically modified live attenuated ASFVs; however, these vaccines are only successful when protecting against homologous viruses. Among viral genes reported to be involved in virulence are components of the multi gene family (MGF). Here we report the construction of a recombinant ΔMGF virus derived from the highly virulent ASFV Georgia 2007 (ASFV-G) isolate. In vivo, ASFV-G ΔMGF administered intramuscularly (IM) to swine at either 102 or 104 HAD50 are completely attenuated; the inoculated animals are completely asymptomatic. Animals infected with 102 or 104 HAD50 of ASFV-G ΔMGF are protected against the presentation of clinical disease when challenged at 28 days post infection with the virulent parental strain Georgia 2007.
US09528093B2
The invention provides a recombinant polynucleotide comprising a truncated glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gpd) promoter and a modified HBV S protein gene and a transgenic Flammulina velutipes carrying the recombinant polynucleotide. The invention surprisingly found that after administering the transgenic Flammulina velutipes to a subject, the subject can successfully generate an antibody against HBV. Therefore, the transgenic Flammulina velutipes can be used as a vaccine against HBV.
US09528088B2
The present invention relates generally to methods for stimulating T cells, and more particularly, to methods to eliminate undesired (e.g., autoreactive, alloreactive, pathogenic) subpopulations of T cells from a mixed population of T cells, thereby restoring the normal immune repertoire of said T cells. The present invention also relates to compositions of cells, including stimulated T cells having restored immune repertoire and uses thereof.
US09528084B2
A method to treat biomass, e.g., lignocellulosic material, including: performing a pretreatment step on the biomass and discharging the pretreated biomass; in at least a first enzymatic hydrolysis reactor producing a liquefaction material, recirculating at least a portion of the liquefaction material from the at least first reactor to a location upstream of the addition of the enzymes as at least a portion of the coolant for the hot pretreated biomass.
US09528082B2
The systems and methods disclosed herein are generally related to a cell culture system. More particularly, the systems and methods enable the culturing and interconnecting of a plurality of tissue types in a biomimetic environment. By culturing organ specific tissue types within a biomimetic environment and interconnecting each of the organ systems in a physiologically meaningful way, experiments can be conducted on in vitro cells that substantially mimic the responses of in vivo cell populations. In some implementations, the system is used to monitor how organ systems respond to agents such as toxins or medications. The system enables the precise and controlled delivery of these agents, which, in some implementations, enables the biomimetic dosing of drugs in humans to be mimicked.
US09528075B2
A process for increasing oil yield from grain that includes passing a grain-based liquid stream of an alcohol production process through a cavitation apparatus to apply cavitational energy to the grain-based liquid stream, wherein the cavitational energy is applied to the grain-based liquid stream prior to a distillation phase of the alcohol production process.
US09528070B2
The invention provides a lubricating composition containing (a) 0.1 to 15 wt % of a polymer with (i) a weight average molecular weight of 100,000 to 500,000; and (ii) a shear stability index of 10 to 60; (b) a phosphorus-containing acid, salt, or ester; (c) a dispersant; and (d) an oil of lubricating viscosity. The invention further provides a method for lubricating a mechanical device with the lubricating composition.
US09528061B2
The present methods deal with the solubilization of coal and lignocellulose biomass using pyrophosphates, polyphosphates, or derivatives thereof.
US09528056B2
A system includes an integrated vessel that extends along a longitudinal axis. The integrated vessel includes a gasifier portion and a syngas cooler portion. The syngas cooler portion is disposed axially adjacent to the gasifier portion along the longitudinal axis. The integrated vessel also includes platen tubes that extend from the syngas cooler portion into the gasifier portion. The platen tubes are configured to route coolant through the integrated vessel.
US09528050B2
The reduction of viscosity of petroleum products and hydrocarbon emulsions and the like is effected by applying electrodynamic shocks unto a foaming streamflow of the high viscosity emulsion to create a densely whirled streamflow by agitation with a high radial gradient of pressure. Chemical bonding breakup and destruction of long structured molecules of paraffin occur in the emulsion to result in the formations of free radicals and carbamides, and separation of a processed mixture into light and heavy fractions. The process alters the physiochemical properties of the emulsion to cause decrease of density, and the reduction of viscosity.
US09528049B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing a paraffin product from a carbonaceous feedstock comprising (a) partial oxidation of the carbonaceous feedstock to obtain a mixture comprising hydrogen and carbon monoxide, (b) performing a Fischer-Tropsch reaction using the mixture as obtained in step (a) and recovering an off-gas from the Fischer-Tropsch reaction and a paraffin product, (c) subjecting at least a part of the off-gas from the Fischer-Tropsch reaction to conversion using a catalyst comprising iron, or a catalyst comprising iron and chromium, followed by a hydrogenation step (d) using a steam/off-gas mol ratio in the range of between 0.5 and 1.5 and a catalyst comprising copper and zinc, followed by a conversion step (e) using a nickel based catalyst, and (f) preparing a hydrogen comprising gas from at least a part of the off-gas from the Fischer-Tropsch reaction.
US09528048B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing hierarchically ordered structures of inorganic phosphate particles, homogeneously deposited on the surface of a phyllosilicate, which is characterized in that it comprises the following steps: a) obtaining an acid solution of precursor compounds of an inorganic phosphate; b) preparing a dispersion of particles of a phyllosilicate in aqueous medium and acidifying the phyllosilicate dispersion by adding at least one acid, thereby obtaining an acid dispersion; c) mixing the acid solution obtained in step a) with the dispersion obtained in step b); and d), with stirring, adding a base to the mixture obtained in step c) until the required pH value for precipitating the corresponding inorganic phosphate on the phyllosilicate particles has been achieved, resulting in a hierarchically ordered structure of homogeneously distributed submicrometric or nanometric inorganic phosphate particles supported on the phyllosilicate surface.
US09528047B2
Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device having an improved picture quality by overcoming a problem of residual images through the use of a liquid crystal layer including an additive therein. The liquid crystal display device may include a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and the liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates, wherein the liquid crystal layer includes liquid crystal molecules, and the additive for preventing a reaction between the liquid crystal molecules and impurities.
US09528044B2
Methods comprising providing a drill-in fluid including an aqueous carrier fluid, a surfactant; and a self-degradable filter cake-forming agent which includes a plurality of degradable particulates which are operable to form an acid upon degradation, and a plurality of acid-degradable particulates. Drilling a wellbore through a reservoir section of a subterranean formation with the drill-in fluid, forming a thin internal filter cake within the wellbore from the self-degradable filter cake-forming agent. Releasing an acid derivative from at least a portion of the plurality of degradable particulates, interacting the acid with the filter cake so as to at least partially degrade the acid-degradable particulates therein. Thereby at least partially removing the filter cake allowing quick lift off of the remaining particulates, and producing a hydrocarbon fluid or gas from the subterranean formation.
US09528038B2
Provided are compositions, preferably azeotrope or azeotrope-like compositions including 1,1,1,4,4,4-hexafluoro-2-butene and chlorotrifluoropropene, particularly 1-chloro-3,3,3-trifluoropropene (HCFO-1233zd), and uses thereof of the compositions. The composition may be a heat transfer composition. The composition may be a blowing agent composition. The composition may be a solvent composition. The composition may be a sprayable composition.
US09528023B2
The present invention relates to a stable aqueous dispersion of multiphase amphoteric polymer particles comprising a crosslinked polymer phase comprising structural units of a phosphorus acid monomer, a carboxylic acid monomer, a multiethylenically unsaturated monomer, and an ethylenically unsaturated nonionic monomer; and a second polymer phase comprising a carboxylic acid monomer and an ethylenically unsaturated nonionic monomer. The present invention also relates to composites of the particles and pigment particles such as TiO2. The composition is useful for preparing dried coatings with improved hiding.
US09528021B2
A waterless high-solids basecoat material having a solids content of at least 35% by weight, comprising (a) 1% to 10% by weight of at least one polyester binder with an acid number of at least 20 mg KOH/g, (b) 10% to 30% by weight of at least one acrylate binder, (c) 12% to 30% by weight of at least one kind of polymer microparticles, (d) 9.5% to 30% by weight of at least one crosslinking agent selected from free isocyanates, blocked isocyanates, and amino resins, (e) 1% to 3% by weight of at least one sulfonic acid catalyst, (f) 1% to 35% by weight of at least one pigment, (g) 30% to 65% by weight of at least one organic solvent, and (h) 0.5% to 47% by weight of at least one auxiliary or additive, based in each case on the total weight of the basecoat material.
US09528016B2
A phase change ink composition suitable for high speed ink jet printing, including printing on coated paper substrates. In embodiments, the phase change ink composition comprises both a crystalline compound and an amorphous compound, and optionally, a colorant, which provides for a robust ink. The crystalline compound is an amide and the amorphous compound is an ester of tartaric acid.
US09528012B2
The present disclosure provides an electron beam ink comprising a radiation curable material selected from the group consisting of a curable monomer, a curable oligomer, and mixtures thereof; and a surfactant, which is suitable for use in an indirect printing method. The present disclosure also provides a method of printing using an electron beam curable ink.
US09528001B2
The present invention relates a novel approach to prepare Polymer Modified Bitumen by using terephthalamide additives, derived from PET, for improving bitumen quality. Particularly, the present invention provides a process to utilize waste PET, which is a threat to environment and is available commercially in different physical forms, for conversion into industrially useful additive for bituminous product.
US09527998B2
Flame retardant compositions that include a thermoplastic polyurethane, a metal hydrate flame retardant and a phosphorus-based flame retardant are provided. The compositions are characterized by good flame retardant properties, as well as high insulation resistance.
US09527995B2
A polyester AB is disclosed comprising moieties derived from di- or polyfunctional organic acid compounds A and moieties derived from di- or polyfunctional organic hydroxy compounds B, wherein the compounds A comprise “hard” acid compounds Al selected from the group consisting of isophthalic acid, trimellithic acid anhydride, hexahydrophthalic acid, cyclohexane-1,4-dicarboxylic acid, and tetrahydrophthalic acid, and soft acid compounds A2 selected from the group consisting of adipic acid, dimer fatty acids, and sebacic acid, and the compounds B comprise “hard” hydroxyfunctional compounds selected from the group consisting of trimethylolpropane, 1,2-bishydroxymethyl cyclohexane, and 1,2-dihydroxy-propane, and soft hydroxyfunctional compounds B2 selected from the group consisting of 1,4-butanediol, 1,6-hexanediol, 2,2′-dihydroxydiethyl ether, and 1,2-bis(2-hydroxypropoxy)-propane, and coating compositions prepared from this polyester together with crosslinkers selected from the group consisting of isocyanates, capped isocyanates, aminoplast crosslinkers, and phenoplast crosslinkers, as well as their application in coating of metal substrates.
US09527990B2
Disclosed is a polypropylene resin composition having superior mechanical properties. More particularly, the polypropylene resin composition includes glass fiber and talc as fillers under an optimized condition and includes an ethylene-butene elastomer. The polypropylene resin composition exhibits no cracking, even when exposed to aromatic compounds or various chemicals, because of its superior chemical resistance, is easily processable because of its excellent mechanical properties such as impact strength, rigidity, etc., and is useful for use in automotive interior parts because of its superior scratch resistance, molding shrinkage, etc.
US09527982B2
This invention relates to compositions and methods for improving the adhesion of resin compositions to substrate materials. More particularly, the invention relates to compositions and methods for improving the adhesion of ROMP compositions to substrate materials using an adhesion promoter composition, where the adhesion promoter composition comprises a pre-reacted mixture comprising at least one compound containing at least two isocyanate groups and at least one compound comprising a heteroatom-containing functional group and a metathesis active olefin, where the adhesion promoter composition possesses in-resin storage stability when added to a resin composition, particularly a cyclic olefin resin composition, such as a ROMP composition. The polymer products produced via ROMP reactions of the invention may be utilized for a wide range of materials and composite applications. The invention has utility in the fields of polymer and materials chemistry and manufacture.
US09527981B2
The present invention provides a granulated resin additive composition which comprises an aromatic metal phosphate salt and a phenolic antioxidant and, when blended in a resin, allows the resulting resin composition to have excellent mechanical strengths and transparency. The granulated resin additive composition is characterized by comprising a phosphate salt compound represented by the Formula (I), a phenolic antioxidant and a fatty acid calcium salt, in which granulated resin additive composition the content of the fatty acid calcium salt is 1 to 6 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the granulated resin additive composition.
US09527979B2
A resin composition of the present invention contains a mixture (A) of at least two of cyanate ester compounds selected from the group consisting of cyanate ester compounds (A1) to (A3) having a specific structural unit, an epoxy resin (B), and an inorganic filler (C). A prepreg of the present invention is obtained by impregnating a base material with the resin composition or applying the resin composition to a base material. Furthermore, a metal foil-clad laminate of the present invention is the laminate comprising the prepreg. Furthermore, a printed wiring board of the present invention contains an insulating layer and a conductor layer formed on a surface of the insulating layer, in which the insulating layer contains the resin composition.
US09527969B2
The invention provides non-spherical resin particles with a novel shape capable of improving light diffusion, adhesion, oil absorption, and other properties, as well as a manufacturing method and use of the particles. Each non-spherical resin particle includes a concave portion and a convex portion formed in the concave portion, wherein the convex portion has a quasi-spherical surface. The method of manufacturing non-spherical resin particles involves a step of polymerizing 100 parts by weight of a first monomer mixture containing 77 to 99.99 parts by weight of a branched alkyl methacrylate, 0.01 to 3 parts by weight of a polyfunctional monomer, and 0 to 20 parts by weight of a monofunctional (meth)acrylate which is not a branched alkyl methacrylate, in the presence of 0.1 to 0.9 parts by weight of a chain transfer agent and 0 to 100 parts by weight of a (meth)acrylate polymer, to obtain resin particles.
US09527951B2
Epoxy resin hardener compositions and epoxy resin compositions containing such hardener compositions
An epoxy resin hardener composition including a reaction product of (i) a compound having at least one vicinal epoxy group, and (ii) an amino alcohol; an epoxy resin composition including the epoxy resin hardener composition and a compound having at least one vicinal epoxy group; and a powder coating composition including particles of the epoxy resin hardener composition and particles of a compound having at least one vicinal epoxy group.
US09527949B2
The present invention typically provides one-component polyurethane grout compositions and more specially to grout composition useful for seepage control and quick stoppage of water leakage under high water pressure environment, wherein the composition comprises a isocyanate prepolymer and auxiliary components selected from a plasticizer, a silane coupling agent, a catalyst, a cell stabilizer, an anionic surfactant, a filler, a blowing agent or a mixture thereof. The invention also provides the isocyanate prepolymer composition, obtained by reacting a polyfunctional isocyanate, with a polyfunctional polyol comprising at least one polyether polyol containing relatively low amount of ethylene oxide units, and optionally other polyfunctional polyols such as polyester polyols, biorenewable polyols or a mixture thereof, and at least a monofunctional hydroxyl containing compound, wherein the NCO content of said prepolymer is 3%˜18%. The resulting grout composition can cure into a solid under water pressure from 1 MPa to 20 MPa.
US09527947B2
A semi-crystalline shape memory polymer with transition temperature near body temperature and the production method thereof is disclosed. The shape memory polymer comprises a polymer chain which further comprises a plurality of prepolymers and a plurality of chain extenders bonding the prepolymers together in which each prepolymer further comprises a plurality of synthesized units. The above mentioned synthesized unit is obtained by reacting polymer diol with first diisocyanate. The obtained synthesized units are polymerized together with second diisocyanate and chain extender to form the shape memory polymer.
US09527943B2
There is provided a polymer including a structural unit represented by the following Formula (1a), a structural unit represented by the following Formula (1b) and a structural unit represented by the following Formula (1c) (In Formula (1a), n represents 0, 1 or 2. Each of R1, R2, R3 and R4 independently represents a hydrogen atom or an organic group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms. In Formula (1c), R5 represents an organic group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms.
US09527939B2
In an example, a polyacrylate is disclosed. The polyacrylate includes a ring-closed portion and a ring-opened portion. The ring-closed portion includes a set of pendant lactide groups. The ring-opened portion includes a set of pendant (O—X) groups, where X is hydrogen (H) or a non-lactide group.
US09527931B2
A hydrophobic self-etch dental adhesive composition including a hydrophobic, surfactant-type acidic monomer. The composition may further include hydrophilic and hydrophobic monomers, preferably in a ratio of less than 1:1, and may include a solvent that is an azeotrope.
US09527924B2
Disclosed is a humanized monoclonal antibody that binds to the human immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region germline gene VHI-69. The antibody is derived from Mab G6 and recognizes the same epitope. Moreover, the antibody is used in combination with vaccines to augment an immune response to the antigen.
US09527913B2
The invention relates to humanized recombinant antibodies targeting the EGFR family receptors EGFR, HER2 and HER3, compositions comprising at least one humanized anti-EGFR antibody, at least one humanized anti-HER2 antibody and at least one humanized anti-HER3 antibody, and use of the antibody compositions for treatment of cancer. The invention also relates to the use of antibodies targeting multiple EGFR-family receptors to treat cancer (e.g., pancreatic cancer) and cancer that has acquired resistance to previous therapies.
US09527908B2
The present disclosure provides an isolated, engineered or non-naturally occurring protein comprising an antibody light chain variable domain (VL) which may comprise at least one negatively charged amino acid positioned between residues 49 to 56 according to the numbering system of Kabat, the protein capable of binding specifically to an antigen.
US09527904B2
Disclosed herein are compositions, systems and methods for delivery of proteins of interest using adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors.
US09527902B2
The invention relates to neutralizing antibodies, and antibody fragments thereof, having high potency in neutralizing hCMV, wherein said antibodies and antibody fragments are specific for one, or a combination of two or more, hCMV gene UL products. The invention also relates to immortalized B cells that produce, and to epitopes that bind to, such antibodies and antibody fragments. In addition, the invention relates to the use of the antibodies, antibody fragments, and epitopes in screening methods as well as in the diagnosis, prevention, and therapy of disease.
US09527901B2
A recombinant bi-functional fusion protein, comprising an Ig region of an extracellular domain of a signal-regulator protein (SIRP), linked via a Fc fragment of an Ig, to an Ig region of an extracellular domain of VEGFR, wherein the protein can bind to CD47 and VEGF simultaneously, blocking the binding of CD47 with the SIRP on the cell surface of macrophages to stimulate the phagocytosis of tumor cells by macrophages, and inhibiting the growth of vascular endothelial cells induced by VEGF. The present application also provides a nucleic acid molecule encoding the recombinant bi-functional fusion protein and an expression vector expressing the protein, a method for producing the protein and a method for treating a disease over-expressing CD47 or VEGF.
US09527894B2
Disclosed herein are methods for identifying an agent for treating or preventing neurogenerative disease and to methods for recapitulating tauopathies using a tau protein that includes at least four different mutations that cause the condition frontotemporal dementia and parkinsonism linked to chromosome 17 (FTDP-17), and to nucleic acids encoding the tau protein.
US09527892B2
The present invention relates to methods of inducing an immune response to Staphylococcus comprising administering a composition comprising an SA2451-related polypeptide from Staphylococcus aureus as well as derivatives or fragments thereof. The present invention also encompasses methods of treating and/or reducing the likelihood of a Staphylococcus infection by administering a composition comprising an SA2451-related polypeptide or an antibody that specifically binds to an SA2451 polypeptide, derivative or fragments thereof. Compositions administered in the methods of the invention can include one or more additional antigens. Compositions used to practice the methods of the invention are also encompassed.
US09527891B2
The present invention relates to novel peptide compounds derived from flagellin originating from Salmonella enterica that exhibit an in vivo immune adjuvant activity.
US09527887B2
The present invention provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating lower gastrointestinal disorders, including irritable bowel syndrome and constipation.
US09527885B2
Hepatitis C virus inhibitors having the general formula (I) are disclosed. Compositions comprising the compounds and methods for using the compounds to inhibit HCV are also disclosed.
US09527884B2
The presently disclosed and claimed inventive concepts include inhibitors of antiplasmin cleaving enzyme (APCE) and fibroblast activation protein alpha (FAP) which can be used in various therapies related to disorders of fibrin and α2-antiplasmin and abnormal cell proliferation. The presently disclosed and claimed inventive concepts also include substrates of APCE and FAP, which may be used, for example, in screening methods for identifying such inhibitors. The presently disclosed and claimed inventive concepts further include, but are not limited to, methods of treating or inhibiting atherosclerosis and thrombus disorders by altering the ratios of types of plasma α2-antiplasmin and to methods of treating conditions involving abnormal cell proliferation such as cancers.
US09527860B2
The present invention relates to certain chromane-like cyclic prenylflavonoids, in particular the compounds of formulae (I), (II) and (III) as described and defined herein, for use in the treatment or prevention of a neurological disorder, as well as their use in promoting neuronal differentiation, neurite outgrowth and neuroprotection.
US09527858B2
The invention relates generally to anti-angiogenesis agents and related methods of using to anti-angiogenesis agents for biomedical applications including direct monotherapy and combination therapy for treatment of an angiogenesis related condition. In an embodiment, the invention provides a class of opioid compounds and structurally related opioid derivatives exhibiting anti-VEGF activity for use in therapeutic procedures, including phototherapy. Opioid compounds and structurally related opioid derivatives of the invention may be administered alone or in combination with administration of a phototherapy agent and/or other therapeutic agent.
US09527857B2
This invention is in the area of improved compounds for and methods of treating selected RB-positive cancers and other Rb-positive abnormal cellular proliferative disorders while minimizing the deleterious effects on healthy cells, for example healthy Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Progenitor Cells (HSPCs), associated with current treatment modalities. In one aspect, improved treatment of select RB-positive cancers is disclosed using specific compounds disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, the compounds described herein act as highly selective and, in certain embodiments, short, transiently-acting cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK 4/6) inhibitors when administered to subjects.
US09527847B2
Provided herein are methods, kits, and pharmaceutical compositions that include a PI3 kinase inhibitor for treating lupus, a fibrotic condition, or inflammatory myopathies and other conditions (e.g., skin conditions).
US09527846B2
Compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: wherein R2, W, A, Y and R1 are as defined in the specification, are p38 MAPK inhibitors, and are useful as anti-inflammatory agents in the treatment of, inter alia, diseases of the respiratory tract.
US09527844B2
The invention relates to new naphthyridine derivative compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, to processes for the preparation of said compounds and to the use of said compounds in the treatment of diseases, e.g. cancer.
US09527828B2
An expansion agent for hematopoietic stem cells and/or hematopoietic progenitor cells useful for improvement in the efficiency of gene transfer into hematopoietic stem cells for gene therapy useful for treatment of various hematopoietic disorders is provided.A method for expanding hematopoietic stem cells and/or hematopoietic progenitor cells, which comprises culturing hematopoietic stem cells and/or hematopoietic progenitor cells ex vivo in the presence of a compound represented by the formula (I) (wherein X, Y, X, Ar1, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6 and R7 are defined in the description), a tautomer or pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound or a solvate thereof.
US09527825B2
Disclosed is a method of crystallizing docetaxel comprising combining docetaxel and at least one solubilizing solvent to obtain a solution, wherein the solubilizing solvent is methylene chloride and adding an anti-solvent to the solution to obtain a crystalline docetaxel, wherein the anti-solvent is water.
US09527824B2
Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating a cognitive impairment-related disease, the pharmaceutical composition including N-(2-hydroxyethyl)piperazine-N′(3-propane sulfonic acid), a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a derivative thereof, and donepezil, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a derivative thereof. The composition may be used in preventing or treating a cognitive impairment-related disease.
US09527820B1
The diethylammonium salts of phenyl-substituted thiobarbituric acid as anti-diabetic agents include compounds having the formula: wherein X is: and wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen, halogen, methyl, trifluoromethyl, methoxy, and nitro, and R2 is either halogen or hydrogen, the R1 and R2 substituents being independently bonded to an ortho-, meta-, or para-carbon of the phenyl substituent.
US09527817B2
Compounds and methods for treating or preventing a neurodegenerative disease, disorder or condition associated with the overall activity of hsp90 but not with the ATPase activity of hsp90, including peripheral neuropathy, such as peripheral neuropathy caused by chemotherapy or diabetes, disorders 5 of the central nervous system, such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinsons disease, and motor neuron diseases, such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), in a subject are provided.
US09527808B2
Continuous process for preparing ortho-substituted anilines of the formula in a flow reactor in the presence of a nitrogen base not having an NH group, and multistage process for preparing herbicidal N-alkyl-N-[2-(1,3,5-triazin-2-ylcarbonyl)-phenyl]alkansulphonamides of the formula (4-1) wherein the continuous process for preparing ortho-substituted anilines of the formula (4) in a flow reactor constitutes the first process step of the multistage process for preparing the herbicidal active ingredients of the formula (4-1).
US09527806B2
The present disclosure provides novel poly(phenylene ethynylene) (PPE) compounds, methods for synthesizing these compounds, and materials and substances incorporating these compounds. The various PPEs show antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal activity.
US09527790B1
A bis(aryl)acetal has structure (1) wherein Ar1 and Ar2 are each independently an aryl or heteroaryl group. R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen, or an alkyl, cycloalkyl, aryl, or heteroaryl group, and R1 and R2 can connect directly with each other. Y is a leaving group or a boron-containing functional group bonded to Ar2 via a boron atom. The bis(aryl)acetal is useful as a monomer that can be polymerized to yield a polymer with an acid-sensitive backbone.
US09527779B2
Generally, the instant disclosure relates to fertilizer compositions and methods of making and using the same. More specifically, the instant disclosure relates to blast suppressant and/or blast resistant ammonium nitrate fertilizer compositions, as well as methods of making and using the same.
US09527776B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include methods of modifying synthetic garnets used in RF applications to reduce or eliminate Yttrium or other rare earth metals in the garnets without adversely affecting the magnetic properties of the material. Some embodiments include substituting Bismuth for some of the Yttrium on the dodecahedral sites and introducing one or more high valency ions to the octahedral and tetrahedral sites. Calcium may also be added to the dodecahedral sites for valency compensation induced by the high valency ions, which could effectively displace all or most of the Yttrium (Y) in microwave device garnets. The modified synthetic garnets with substituted Yttrium (Y) can be used in various microwave magnetic devices such as circulators, isolators and resonators.
US09527774B2
High strength transparent corundum ceramics using corundum powder and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method of forming transparent corundum ceramics includes milling corundum powder in aqueous slurry with beads. The method further includes processing the slurry by a liquid shaping process to form a gelled body. The method further includes sintering the gelled body in air and pressing the gelled body by hot isostatic pressing to form a ceramic body.
US09527770B2
Compound material based on water, cement, rice husk and polymeric resin modified with carbon nanostructures, in which variation of the ratios in which said components are combined together with production pressure and temperature results in a consistency suitable for said material to be used as paint, coating paste or panel-production conglomerate.
US09527769B2
Borosilicate glasses are disclosed having (in weight %) 66-76% SiO2, 0-8% Al2O3, 10-18% B2O3, 0-4% Li2O, 0-12% Na2O, 0-12% K2O, 1-1.5% Ag, 1.5-2.5% Cl− and 0.01-0.06% of a summed amount of CuO and NiO, wherein the glass composition is bleachable upon exposure to ultraviolet irradiation from a stable state color or shade to a lighter color or shade. Such reverse photochromic borosilicate glass compositions may be thermally darkenable. The borosilicate glasses may be strengthened via ion-exchange strengthening treatment. The borosilicate glasses may retain their reverse photochromic and thermally darkenable properties even after ion-exchange strengthening treatment.
US09527759B2
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for treating and/or pre-treating liquid manure or biogas plant reject for eliminating harmful substances, particularly nitrogen, phosphorus, and odor molecules. Process tanks (5), which include inlet means (4) for supplying a process tank (5) with a substance to be treated, outlet means for passing a post-treatment matter out of the tank, and air inlet means (2) for supplying the process tank with air required by a biological process, are used for conducting a biological treatment on the matter to be treated. The process tanks (5) are first provided with a microbe population adapted for treating the matter to be treated. The matter to be treated is supplied gradually into the first process tank and then further into a subsequent process tank, such that the microbe population initially provided in the process tanks displaces in a step-by-step manner the original microbe population present in the matter to be treated. The matter, which is substantially free of the original microbes and has been expelled from the final process tank, is returned into the first process tank for diluting the matter to be treated. Downstream of the process tanks is conducted a nitrogen removal treatment by feeding the matter to be treated from the process tank (5) of a stripping tower (22A), in which the pH of a matter to be treated has been raised by means of a biological treatment to a level sufficient from the standpoint of nitrogen removal.
US09527756B2
A process removes radioactive contamination from wastewater obtained in the decontamination of a cooling circuit of nuclear reactors or of parts thereof or in the course of operation of a nuclear reactor. A MnO2 precipitate is exclusively produced in the wastewater with the aid of permanganate ions added thereto as an oxidizing agent and of one or more organic reducing agents present in and/or metered into the wastewater, and the MnO2 precipitate is separated from the wastewater.
US09527754B2
The present invention relates to the preparation of a mesoporous substantially pure anatase titanium oxide (meso-TiO2) and its use in electrochemical devices, in particular lithium-ion batteries.
US09527741B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to compositions comprising a graphene oxide species. In some embodiments, the compositions advantageously have relatively high oxygen content, even after annealing.
US09527733B2
A compliant apparatus for nano-manufacture, including a stage for supporting the objects to be nano-manufactured. The stage includes at least one flexural beam and at least one actuator coupled to the flexural beam; and the actuator is configured to generate and apply axial loads onto the flexural beam, such that a natural frequency of the flexural beam is shifted in response to the generated axial loads, so as to allow trade-offs between the natural frequency and a stroke of the stage for nano-manufacturing the objects.
US09527731B2
A method for testing a plurality of pressure sensors on a device wafer includes placing a diaphragm of one of the pressure sensors on the device wafer in proximity to a nozzle of a test system. A pneumatic pressure stimulus is applied to the diaphragm via an outlet of the nozzle and a cavity pressure is measured within a cavity associated with the pressure sensor in response to application of the pneumatic pressure stimulus. The pneumatic pressure stimulus within the cavity corresponds to the pressure applied to the diaphragm. Methodology is executed to test the strength and/or stiffness of the diaphragm. Additionally, the methodology and test system can be utilized to determine an individual calibration factor for each pressure sensor on the device wafer.
US09527730B2
Methods and devices for preparing microscale polymer relief structures from a thin polymer layer on an absorbing substrate are described. The described methods are ultrafast (about 8 nanoseconds) and allow formation of patterned microstructures having complex morphologies and narrow line widths that are an order of magnitude smaller than the masks used in the methods.
US09527724B2
Embodiments of methods for sealing a glass microstructure assembly comprise providing one or more side retainer members on a base plate adjacent the glass microstructure assembly, the side retainer members having a height less than an uncompressed height defined by the glass microstructure assembly. The methods also comprise compressing the glass microstructure assembly via a load bearing top plate in intimate contact with the top glass layer while heating the glass microstructure assembly and the top plate to a glass sealing temperature, the glass sealing temperature being a temperature sufficient to make glass viscous, wherein the glass microstructure assembly is compressed until the load bearing top plate contacts the side retainer members, and wherein the lower surface of the top plate maintains adhesion to the upper surface of the top glass layer at the glass sealing temperature while the load bearing plate is supported by the side retainer members.
US09527722B2
A MEMS sensor including: a base structure; at least one component formed from the base structure which moves relative to the base structure; and one or more locking mechanisms for locking the at least one component in a predetermined stationary position in response to external stimuli exceeding predetermined thresholds in at least first and second directions, where the first direction is different from the second direction.
US09527717B2
A method and apparatus for dispensing a beverage from a beverage forming machine with reduced gas bubbles or foam. An outlet chamber may be arranged to separate beverage flow into a liquid component and a gas/liquid component such that the liquid component flows downwardly to a first outlet opening and the gas/liquid component flows upwardly and/or through a tortuous path to condition the gas/liquid component and reduce foam prior to the gas/liquid component exiting a second outlet opening.
US09527710B1
Embodiments herein are directed to an inventory system having multiple inventory holders and drive units for moving the inventory holders. Features herein are directed to moving inventory items relative to a bin of an inventory holder or between inventory holders in the inventory system. The inventory system may include actuation units or some other mechanism on the drive units for assisting in moving inventory items relative to a bin of an inventory holder or between inventory holders. The inventory holders each include one or more inventory bins. A mobile drive unit is included, which includes an actuator configured for selectively actuating at least one of the inventory bins for moving at least one inventory item relative to the bin.
US09527704B2
Each jack stand includes a rectangular bottom plate having a pair of rectangular openings therein. The rack has a rectangular platform having a lateral loading side, a width a little larger than the jack-stand-length, and a length equal to a multiple of the jack stand widths. A plurality of L-shaped fingers are located on the platform at points corresponding to the opening in the bottom plate, and extends upwardly and laterally toward the non loading side of the platform. Each finger has a rectangular upper surface thereon having a width and length slightly smaller than the width and length of the openings in the bottom plates; and creates an opening between the platform and the finger that is slightly greater that the thickness of the bottom plates of the jack stands. Each finger is for receiving one of the rectangular openings of the respective bottom plate onto the platform; and a lateral movement of the bottom plate in the direction of the lateral loading side of the platform is for locking the bottom plate under the respective finger and onto the platform of the mobile rack. The rack includes a pair of wheels attached to the rearward end of the platform, so that the platform engages the horizontal surface when the forward end of the platform is horizontal, and so that the pair of wheels engage the horizontal surface when the forward end of the platform is lifted at an acute angle.
US09527700B2
In one aspect of the invention, a telescopic boom includes a plurality of boom sections, and a sheave assembly disposed between two adjacent boom sections. The sheave assembly includes two sheave assembly sets. Each sheave assembly set includes a plurality of sheaves having different diameters. The plurality of sheaves is arranged abreast along a lengthwise direction of the adjacent boom sections and the diameters of the plurality of sheaves increase successively along the lengthwise direction of the adjacent boom sections. Each sheave is wound with one or more cables. The invention also discloses engineering machinery having the telescopic boom.
US09527695B2
A recording apparatus includes a recording unit which performs recording on a sheet which is transported along a transport path, a printer unit which accommodates the recording unit, a medium discharging port from which the sheet on which recording is performed by the recording unit is discharged, and a placing table which is located at a higher part of the recording unit, receives and supports the sheet which is discharged by the medium discharging port, and is provided in an openable-closable manner with respect to the printer unit. In addition, an access path through which it is possible to access the recording unit from the higher part by causing the placing table to be opened is formed.
US09527692B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a sheet stack face disposed in an upper portion of the apparatus body, a pair of sheet ejection rollers to eject a sheet onto the sheet stack face in an ejection direction toward a front side of the apparatus body, a hinge secured to the apparatus body, and a control panel disposed higher than the apparatus body and supported by the hinge rotatably around the hinge. The control panel is rotatable within a movable range positioned higher than a trajectory drawn by the sheet ejected onto the sheet stack face.
US09527685B2
A feeding apparatus and an image forming apparatus capable of appropriately detecting sheets stacked on a stacking plate are provided. The feeding apparatus includes a sheet contact portion configured to make contact with a sheet stacked on a stacker. The sheet contact portion is arranged between a position where a feed roller makes contact with the sheet and a position where a conveyance roller makes contact with the sheet, in a feeding direction, and within an area of the feed roller in an axial direction of the feed roller.
US09527682B2
In a device for removing planar objects (2), such as glass panes, from a frame (1) on which the objects (2) are stacked in abutment, wherein spacers (3) are arranged between objects (2), and wherein holding devices (5) are arranged on a support (4) in order to remove the objects (2), at least one removal device (7) for spacers (3) is arranged on the support (4) in the region above the holding devices and preferably has at least one penetration body (8) for spacers (3).
US09527679B2
Various embodiments provide systems and methods for providing a desired gap between articles within a continuously flowing train of articles. Various embodiment methods may include operating a material handling system including a plurality of conveying units, by generating motion profiles for a plurality of articles to provide a pre-determined gap between the articles, and controlling the plurality of conveying units to move each article in accordance with its motion profile as the plurality of articles move through the material handling system.
US09527677B2
The containers (B) comprised in an incoming flow of containers advancing in a given direction along an axis (XB), wherein the containers (B) may present with a first orientation or else a second orientation with respect to the direction of advance and with a first posture or else a second posture, are oriented so as to generate an outgoing flow of containers (B), in which, for example, the containers all present in a vertical position with an identical orientation.
US09527676B2
A grouping method and unit for forming a line of products on a packing machine; a first feed conveyor feeds a succession of spaced products along a straight, horizontal grouping path at a first speed; a first compacting conveyor moves a first compacting member along the grouping path, downstream from the first feed conveyor and ahead of a first product in the line, at a second speed slower than the first speed, so as to slow down the first product and compact the intermediate products in the line against the first product; and a second compacting conveyor moves a second compacting member along the grouping path, downstream from the first feed conveyor and behind a last product in the line, at a third speed higher than the first speed, so as to compact the last product against the intermediate products in the line.
US09527671B2
A platform member for a knuckle-linked conveyor belt includes a stabilizer for pushing a conveyed product towards a side rail to stabilize the product during conveyance. The platform member may include an upper portion forming a conveying surface and a lower portion stepped down from the upper port for receiving the forward end of an adjacent platform member. A connector on the lower portion connects the platform member to a corresponding body member in the conveyor belt. The upper portion overlies and protrudes forward from the front of the lower portion. Shaped side rails on the platform member are configured to allow overlapping between adjacent side rails to minimize gaps.
US09527666B1
A portable tool transports and manipulates disposable trash bags with a pair of cooperating, displaceable jaws coupled to a rigid, peripheral frame. The substantially circular frame conceals the jaws when retracted within suitable peripheral grooves in which the jaws nest. A manual activator compressively attached to the frame midsection supports a pistol-grip handle and associated trigger mechanism. Each jaw has a pivoted hub portion with integral, projecting levers concealed within a clutch mechanism. A trigger deflects a cable to pivot the hub levers and deploy the jaws. When the jaws are displaced outwardly, upper edges of a bag may occupy the space between the jaws and the frame. When the trigger is released, the jaws retract in response to spring pressure, nesting within the frame peripheral grooves. The jaws thus securely grasp and captivate a bag, the upper periphery of which is sandwiched between the frame and the seated jaws.
US09527665B2
A variable gate with control for grain elevator applications utilizes a sliding gate panel. Two proximity sensors are arranged to provide full sensing and control functions of the gate remotely located. A first proximity sensor confirms gate is shut, and a second proximity sensor outputs a serial pulse train signal for detecting movement of the gate panel. The second proximity sensor can be operatively coupled with gear teeth inherent to the drive mechanism (e.g., rack and pinion mechanism), or with a passive device such as a free sprocket on the motor shaft to sense the passage of each sprocket teeth, or may be placed at a linear portion that moves with the gate that has sequential indicating positions, such as metal or no metal positions. In one embodiment, the controller tracks the direction of the gate as pulses are receive, allowing the subsequent positioning of the gate.
US09527658B2
A metering valve has an elongate axially moveable stem having a discharge passage. A flexible bag for containing a formulation to be discharged surrounds the lower end of the metering valve. The valve is fillable through a fill passage having one end opening to the ambient and the other end opening into the bag. A one-way valve in the fill passage prevents liquid in the bag from escaping through the fill passage but allows the bag to be filled after the lower end of the valve and the bag are inserted into a container and the container pressurized with a propellant.
US09527652B2
A cork-insulated cooler having reversible skid plates and a transparent inner basin is described. The cooler is comprised of an outer basin having an open top, a plurality of cork panels lining the outer basin, a transparent inner basin having an open top which is constructed and arranged to hold and maintain the plurality of cork panels against the outer basin, a lid hingedly connected to the inner and outer basin such that the inner basin and lid cooperate to define a compartment, and at least one pair of reversible skid plates removably fastened to the bottom surface of the outer basin. The reversible skid plates include a skid side for easy sliding of the cooler and a non-skid side to keep the cooler in place.
US09527649B2
A mask storage device for storing a mask used in lithography comprises a desiccant retainer for receiving a desiccant, the desiccant retainer comprising one or more passages. The mask storage device also comprises a first shell and a second shell, the second shell removably attached to the first shell and arranged to form a sealed space with the first shell in a closed state. The desiccant retainer is positioned in the sealed space. The mask storage device also comprises a gasket positioned between the first shell and the second shell. The gasket is configured to create a sufficiently airtight seal between the first shell and the second shell in the closed state. The one or more passages of the desiccant retainer comprise one or more membranes.
US09527642B2
A carton (90) for packaging one of more articles (A) comprising a plurality of walls including a top wall (16), a first side wall (14), a second side wall (18), a first end wall (22a, 24a, 26a, 28a), a second end wall (2b, 24b, 26b, 28b) and a bottom wall (12), the carton having an access device (D) for accessing said one or more articles, the access device comprising a plurality of primary lines of severance (36a, 34a, 32a, 30a, 36b, 34b, 32b, 30b) which are defined in the first side wall, the second side wall, the first end wall and the top wall so as to define a detachable corner (C) of the carton, wherein the access device comprises a fold line (40) extending transversely across the top wall for enabling folding of the detachable corner when in a partially detached condition.
US09527639B2
A dip tube insertion member adapted to be used with a liquid dispensing apparatus. The dip tube insertion member facilitates insertion of a dip tube into a liquid storage container without removing the sealing cap of a liquid storage container. The dip tube insertion member includes a probe having a hollow cavity for receiving a dip tube. The probe further includes an upper opening and a lower opening for facilitating insertion of a dip tube into the liquid container. Preferably, the dip tube insertion member takes the form of a cap that is mounted on and about at least a portion of the sealing cap of a liquid storage container of the liquid dispensing apparatus. The dip tube insertion member preferably includes a sealing member forming an air chamber surrounding the probe.
US09527635B2
The present disclosure relates to a pull/push type closure or cap assembly, which is compatible with a number of plastic bottles for providing two different types of fluid flow therethrough.
US09527624B1
A case includes a first container, a second container, and a connector. The first container includes a first moveable door and a skirt. The first moveable door moves to selectively provide access to a first storage compartment in the first container. The skirt is made from a first material. The second container is made from a second material that is more pliable than the first material. The second container defines a second storage compartment. The second material is folded over the connector and connected with itself to attach the connector with the second container. An opening is provided in the skirt or in the connector. A barb protrudes from the skirt or from the connector. The barb is received in the opening to connect the connector and the second container with the first container.
US09527619B2
A biodegradable pharmacy container and safety cap includes a biodegradable material that includes a bioplastic resin and a plasticizer; a container that includes the biodegradable material, adapted to store medicine; a first locking element on an exterior side of the container; a cap that includes the biodegradable material; a resilient inner member in the cap that engages with the container so as to form a seal; a second locking element in the cap that cooperates with the first locking element so that the cap is safely held to the container. The bioplastic resin may be polylactic acid (PLA), PHA, PHB, or PHBH. The acrylate may be cured with ultraviolet light, and may include a silicone.
US09527617B2
A packaging system for the storage of an ionic, hydrogel contact lens employs an aqueous packaging solution including a phosphorylcholine polymer. Preferably, the solution has an osmolality of at least about 200 mOsm/kg, a pH of about 6 to about 8 and is heat sterilized.
US09527615B2
A packaging material for a retortable package provided with decorative artwork includes a paper layer and outer, heat-resistant plastic coatings. In order to improve the printability of the paper layer, the surface of the paper layer intended for printing is coated with a composition of pigment, adhesive or binder and a substance possessing the capability of modifying the rheological properties of the coating.
US09527613B2
The present invention provides a container for holding product therein during shipment and being returned for reuse that has a body, tracks attached to opposite sides of the body, and a plurality of support members extending between the tracks. Sliders are located at the ends of tubular supports, the sliders being slidable in the tracks to move the support members. The support members support dunnage for supporting products for storage or shipment.
US09527612B2
An example embodiment of an apparatus includes a housing with an opening at a first end and a plurality of holes at a second end, a plurality of hollow tubes attached to the plurality of holes, a plurality of containers removably attached to the hollow tubes, and a plurality of elastic fasteners, each elastic fastener clamping each container to a corresponding hollow tube, such that when the containers are filled with fluid and detached from the corresponding hollow tubes, each elastic fastener seals each container with the fluid inside.
US09527609B2
A vehicle ablator system (“VAS”) is described that includes a reinforcing core and ablative material that has been packed and cured into the reinforcing core. In general, the VAS includes the reinforcing core that is attached to a vehicle structure such as, for example, a reentry vehicle or hypersonic vehicle prior to the ablative material being packed into the reinforcing core.
US09527602B1
A system and method can provide an enhanced or other sensed image on a display. The system and method can sense an environment using an enhanced vision sensor or other sensor and provide an enhanced vision image or other image in response to data from the enhanced vision sensor. The enhanced vision or other vision system adjusts the sensing operation when an aircraft light is on to reduce back scatter effects.
US09527598B2
In an embodiment the invention includes an aircraft engine mounting system (20) for mounting an aircraft engine to an aircraft. The aircraft engine mounting system preferably includes an airframe structure member having a first engine end (28) and a distal second engine end (30), with an aircraft attachment between the first engine end and the distal second engine end, the aircraft attachment for interfacing the airframe structure member with the aircraft, the airframe structure member having an airframe structure member length (YL) from the first engine end to the distal second engine end. The aircraft engine mounting system preferably includes a first engine attachment structure member (36), the airframe structure member first engine end (28) contained by the first engine attachment structure member, with the first engine attachment structure member having an outer engine mount member (38) grounded to the aircraft engine. The aircraft engine mounting system preferably includes a second engine attachment structure member (40), the airframe structure member second engine end (30) contained by the second engine attachment structure member, with the second engine attachment structure member having an outer engine mount member (42) grounded to the aircraft engine. The aircraft engine mounting system preferably includes the first engine attachment structure member (36) and the second engine attachment structure member (40) grounded to the aircraft engine with a mounts spacing (MS) between the first engine.
US09527596B1
A remotely controlled UAV is disclosed. The UAV includes a parachute, with a cylindrical power and control module suspended vertically below the parachute. In one embodiment, a propulsion source is mounted on top of the power and control module with control lines connected to the module below the propulsion source, and in another embodiment the power and control module is suspended from a point above a propulsion source. The UAV may be flown under a parachute and guided by remote control, or the control module (fuselage) may be released from the parachute and extendable fixed wings deployed to enable the UAV to be flown as a fixed wing vehicle.
US09527595B2
A method of monitoring the accumulation of matter on an external surface of an aircraft involves applying varying electric fields to the aircraft surface, and a sensor monitor receiving a time-series of measurements of a temperature of the aircraft surface and a phase and a magnitude of a current induced in an electric field sensor unit from the varying electric fields. The electric field sensor unit is mounted proximate the aircraft surface. The time-series of the measurements varies in accordance with the instantaneous accumulation of matter on the aircraft surface. The sensor monitor generates an assessment of the accumulation of matter on the aircraft surface from a correlation of the time-series of the measurements with at least one predetermined matter accumulation profile. Each predetermined matter accumulation profile comprises a corresponding time-series of current phase, current magnitude and temperature measurements.
US09527587B2
Disclosed herein are example embodiments for unoccupied flying vehicle (UFV) coordination. For certain example embodiments, at least one machine, such as a UFV, may: (i) obtain one or more theater characteristics; or (ii) coordinate at least one behavior of at least one UFV based, at least partially, on one or more theater characteristics. However, claimed subject matter is not limited to any particular described embodiments, implementations, examples, or so forth.
US09527586B2
Disclosed herein are example embodiments for inter-vehicle flight attribute communication for an unoccupied flying vehicle (UFV). For certain example embodiments, at least one machine may: (i) obtain at least one indication related to imparting at least one flight attribute corresponding to a UFV; or (ii) transmit to a remote UFV at least one indicator of at least one flight attribute corresponding to a UFV based at least partially on at least one indication related to imparting at least one flight attribute. However, claimed subject matter is not limited to any particular described embodiments, implementations, examples, or so forth.
US09527580B2
A no-back assembly includes a first disc coupled to a first shaft and arranged radially outward of the first shaft. Also included is a first brake arranged radially outward of the first disc. Further included is a spring adjacent the first brake. Yet further included is a second disc coupled to a second shaft and arranged radially outward of the second shaft. Also included is a second brake arranged radially outward of the second disc. Further included is at least one pin operatively coupling the first brake and the second brake to a housing of the no-back assembly, a gain reduction spring disposed within a recess of the housing, and a piston disposed in contact with the gain reduction spring and a first side of the pin, wherein the gain reduction spring biases the piston against the first side of pin, wherein the pin is biased against the housing.
US09527579B2
A propeller system includes at least one propeller hub having a plurality of hub arms formed therein. The plurality of hub arms are arranged circumferentially on the at least one propeller hub and are spaced apart from one another by a hub distance. The propeller system further includes a plurality of propeller blades. Each propeller blade includes a base portion rotatably disposed in a respective hub. At least one counterweight is coupled to the base portion of a respective propeller blade. The counterweight includes a hinge configured to pivot a portion of the at least one counterweight.
US09527575B2
Apparatus and methods provide for the construction of wing sections having multi-box wing spars. According to one aspect of the disclosure provided herein, an aircraft wing may be constructed by applying one or more layers of composite material onto a plurality of wing mandrels. The wing mandrels, when placed together, form the shape of the wing. After the layers of composite material are applied to each individual mandrel, the mandrels are abutted together. Thereafter, the mandrels are compressed using wing surface tooling applied to the plurality of wing mandrels. The composite material is thereafter cured. After curing, the wing surface tooling and mandrels are removed, resulting in a wing having multi-box wing spars and skin.
US09527566B2
A throttle device for personal watercraft includes a body portion having an arch shape with a central axis extending perpendicular to a top of the arch shape. A first arm extends from the body portion away from the central axis, where the first arm has a first arm end portion for engaging a throttle lever of the watercraft. A second arm extends from the body portion away from the central axis in a spaced-apart relation to the first arm, where the second arm has a second arm end portion for engaging a handgrip of the watercraft. The throttle device is resilient, thereby allowing the arms to be spread apart during installation and biased to return towards a resting position with a resiliency sufficient to maintain a hand-operable throttle lever of the personal watercraft in a desired throttle position.
US09527563B2
A rigid wing sail fitted to a water-borne vessel. The rigid wing sail includes a pair of elongate rigid panels, and a hinge element designated generally as coupled to the panels to permit pivotal movement of the panels relative to one another. Each of the pair of panels includes an adjoining edge and an opposing lateral edge. The hinge element is coupled to the panels at the respective adjoining edges to form either a closed configuration of the wing with lateral edges of respective panels positioned adjacent one another wherein the rigid wing sail is closed or an open configuration of the wing with the lateral edges of the respective panels separated from one another wherein the rigid wing sail is set at a variable camber.
US09527559B2
A boat brush tool for cleaning a boat pontoon, the boat brush tool having a generally J-shaped tubular support member with an upper section for manipulating the tool and a lower section carrying a plurality of brush bristles and having a curved shape corresponding to the outer surface of the pontoon.
US09527548B2
A bicycle crank arm including a support member. The support member includes a first end sized and shaped to receive a pedal and a second end opposite the first end. The second end is sized and shaped to receive a spindle and a middle portion extends between the first and second ends, wherein the middle portion includes at least one recess. An insert is disposed in each of the one or more recess and an outer shell that covers the support member and insert, wherein the outer shell is made of fiber reinforced composite.
US09527547B2
There is provided a drive assembly for converting the motion of a person running or jogging into mechanical motion to drive a machine or apparatus, such as self propelled apparatus like a bicycle, or stationary exercise apparatus. The drive assembly comprises a rotatable member, such as a crank arrangement, coupled to a frame of the machine and to stirrups, and where foot pedals are pivotally attached to each of the stirrups. A first pivot is connected between a stirrup and the rotatable member, and a second pivot is connected between the same stirrup and the frame. Preferably, a pivot axis of a foot pedal remains below the first pivot and the second pivot during motion of the foot pedal. Preferably, the pivot axis of the foot pedals trace asymmetric ovate paths during motion of the foot pedals. Motion of the foot pedals drive the rotatable member.
US09527545B2
A bicycle includes a frame having a plurality of frame members that includes a first frame member, and a suspension system. The suspension system includes a first portion and a second portion fluidly coupled via hydraulic fluid to the first portion. The first portion is disposed external of the first frame member, and the second portion is disposed internal to the first frame member.
US09527544B2
A vehicle body frame structure of a motorcycle includes: a head frame including right and left frame parts that extend downward and rearward while widening at a rear of a head pipe; right and left tank rails that are joined to rear ends of the frame parts and extend downward and rearward; and a body frame that is joined to rear ends of the right and left tank rails and supports swing arms. The head frame has a hollow closed cross section structure from the rear end of one of the frame parts to the rear end of the other of the frame parts via a coupling part, and has an engine bracket part having an open cross section structure integrally molded at a lower portion of the frame part. Further, the tank rail has a hollow closed cross section structure from its front end to its rear end, and a lower portion of the tank tail has an open cross section structure in a region except the front and rear ends of the tank rail and is also integrally molded with an engine bracket part having an open cross section structure.
US09527541B2
An improved carrier system mounting method is provided for easy attachment and detachment of the carrier from a wheeled conveyance such as a bicycle or motorcycle. The method includes providing a rigid container with handle and wheels, engaging connector members on the carrier to points on opposing sides of the conveyance wheel, rotating the container along the circumference of the conveyance wheel, and securing the container to the conveyance frame at a quick release upper connector.
US09527540B2
Systems and methods for providing adequate lighting and sighting for a bicycle are disclosed. A lighting system that includes an illumination ring configured to be coupled to a wheel is also disclosed. The illumination ring is configured to simultaneously project light forward and to the side of a front wheel and to project light rearward of and to the side of a rear wheel. The illumination ring may be mounted to or integrated with the bicycle wheel. Methods of controlling light sources on the illumination ring are also disclosed. The lighting system can include an inductor module 5320 for powering lights of the illumination ring.
US09527531B2
An absorbing bracket can be coupled to a vehicle body and can absorb energy from an external force applied to the vehicle body. In an embodiment, the energy absorbing bracket includes a bracket body at least partly made of a rigid material. The bracket body includes a deformable wall defining a first edge and a second edge opposite the first edge. The first edge is parallel to the second edge. The bracket body defines a plurality of slots extending through the deformable wall. Each slot extends along a slot axis. Further, each slot axis is obliquely angled relative to the first edge.
US09527529B2
A method is provided for operating a driver assistance system, and a driver assistance system. The method includes the steps: determination of a current position of an object in an environment surrounding the vehicle; determination of a first current state of motion of the object; determination of a second current state of motion of the vehicle; calculation of a sojourn probability distribution of the object, the sojourn probability distribution being a function of time and of space and being based on an object motion model in connection with the determined current position of the object and the determined current state of motion of the object; calculation of a trajectory, based on the calculated sojourn probability distribution of the object and on the second current state of motion of the vehicle, having a minimum collision probability for the vehicle and the object; and operation of the driver assistance system of the vehicle based on the calculated trajectory.
US09527528B1
A method of preventing damage to a vehicle or trailer maneuvering through a forward moving curve. The steps of providing a forward moving vehicle having a vehicle length, a vehicle velocity, a vehicle yaw rate, vehicle lateral acceleration and two or more wheels of the vehicle that cause the vehicle to move or turn around a curve along a current forward path of travel. The method involves determining the current path of the vehicle and determining if the current path is unsafe. Alerting the driver that the current path is unsafe and providing a suggest path to correct the current unsafe path of forward travel.
US09527524B2
A power steering apparatus of the disclosure includes a rack shaft; a steering wheel-side pinion shaft that rotates as a steering wheel is turned; an assist side pinion shaft that is driven to rotate by a drive unit, thereby assisting the rotation of the steering wheel-side pinion shaft; and a gear housing that accommodates the rack shaft, and has a second leg portion fixed to a vehicle. The gear housing includes a first housing that accommodates a meshing portion between the rack shaft and the steering wheel-side pinion shaft; a second housing that accommodates a meshing portion between the rack shaft and the assist side pinion shaft; and a third housing that is provided with the second leg portion.
US09527521B2
An adjustable steering column assembly comprises a column support bracket fixed to a vehicle structure and disposed about a steering column. A position lock selectively prevents or facilitates movement of the steering column relative to the column support bracket in an adjustment plane and defines an adjustment range of the steering column along a non-adjustment direction intersecting the adjustment plane. A lateral stabilizer biases the steering column toward a stabilized position lying within the adjustment range of the steering column along the non-adjustment direction.
US09527514B2
Methods and systems are described for conserving energy used by an energy consuming device. In certain embodiments, an energy conservation system can be configured to deliver energy to the energy consuming device for a period, followed by a period where energy delivery is dampened and/or cut. By cycling the delivery of energy in this fashion, the energy conservation can achieve a pulsed efficiency.
US09527511B2
A control system for controlling speed of an engine of a work machine having a hydrostatic transmission is disclosed. The control system may include a power source and a hydrostatic transmission operatively coupled to the power source. The control system may also include a controller capable of receiving information from the power source and the transmission and actively controlling an engine speed of the work machine to reduce the engine speed below a threshold value to emulate an engine lug during a stall condition.
US09527510B2
Provided is a driving force control apparatus (10) configured to control driving forces applied to four wheels by controlling a driving force application apparatus (in-wheel motors (16FL to 16RR) and friction braking apparatus (24)) configured to apply driving forces to front left and right wheels (12FL and 12FR) and rear left and right wheels (12RL and 12RR) independently. The driving force control apparatus (10) is configured to: calculate vehicle body speeds Vj at positions of the four wheels, vertical loads Fzj of the four wheels, and a driving force Fx required by a driver (S30 to S50); calculate, based on those values, target driving forces Fxj for the four wheels to set tire sliding vectors of the four wheels to be the same (S60); and control the driving force application apparatus such that the driving forces of the four wheels are equal to corresponding target driving forces, respectively (S70).
US09527507B2
An electronic control unit included in a hybrid vehicle is configured to switch between first limp home travel control and second limp home travel control based on a first temperature difference, a second temperature difference, and a state of charge when abnormality occurs to a cooler. The first temperature difference is a value that is obtained by subtracting an element temperature of a first inverter from a first load rate limit temperature at which load rate limitation is applied to a first motor. The second temperature difference is a value that is obtained by subtracting an element temperature of a second inverter from a second load rate limit temperature at which the load rate limitation is applied to a second motor.
US09527505B1
Systems and methods for operating a transmission of a hybrid vehicle's driveline are presented. In one example, the systems and methods estimate a driveline disconnect clutch stroke pressure and gain via extending a line from a non-zero driveline disconnect clutch torque capacity to a zero driveline disconnect clutch torque capacity.
US09527501B2
A control device is configured to control an engine to be started and stopped such that when a hybrid vehicle is required to output a vehicular required power smaller than an engine starting threshold value the control device operates to stop the engine and use only a motor generator to cause the vehicle to travel and when the vehicular required power exceeds the threshold value the control device operates to start the engine and use both the engine and the motor generator to cause the vehicle to travel. The engine starting threshold value is set to be higher when at least one of an amount of lifting the intake valve and a working angle on the intake valve controlled by a VVL device provided to the engine is small than when at least one of the amount and the angle is large.
US09527496B2
An industrial vehicle that includes an engine, a hydraulic actuator, a hydraulic pump, and an instruction member operated to instruct operation of the hydraulic actuator. A supply passage supplies hydraulic oil to the hydraulic actuator. A return passage returns return the hydraulic oil to an oil tank. A controller compares an engine speed and a predetermined comparison threshold value. When the engine speed is less than the comparison threshold value, the controller opens the return passage. The comparison threshold value includes a first threshold value and a second threshold value that is lower than the first threshold value. In response to the operation of the instruction member, the controller opens the return passage, performs revving control to increase the engine speed, and changes the comparison threshold value from the first threshold value to the second threshold value.
US09527486B2
The present invention provides a brake device that can improve the pressure-increasing response of wheel cylinder hydraulic pressure. The invention is provided with: a master cylinder (5) actuated by the driver operating the brake, the master cylinder (5) being connected to a wheel cylinder (8) via a first oil channel (11), and capable of increasing the wheel cylinder hydraulic pressure; and an auxiliary pressure-increasing part (auxiliary pressure-increasing part (106) and stroke simulator (27)) for assisting in the increasing of the wheel cylinder hydraulic pressure by the master cylinder (5) of the pump (7).
US09527480B2
The invention relates to a control device (160) for a drive unit (120) of a vehicle windshield wiper system (100) comprising at least one wiper arm (140). The control device (160) is designed to determine a load quantity (L) of the drive unit (120) and to set the wiping frequency (WH) of the wiper arm (140) on the basis of the ratio of the load quantity (L) to at least one load threshold value (LS). Furthermore, the control device (160) is designed to set the wiping frequency (WH) depending on the current speed (v) of the vehicle.
US09527474B2
A webbing take-up device including: a take-up shaft on which a webbing is taken up; a lock mechanism including a lock gear disposed at one axial direction end portion of the take-up shaft and formed with ratchet teeth, and a lock plate formed with lock teeth engaging with the ratchet teeth; and a frame including a pair of leg plates disposed at both axial direction end portions of the take-up shaft, an opening portion being formed at a leg plate of the pair of leg plates disposed further to the other axial direction end portion of the take-up shaft than the ratchet teeth and the lock teeth, and the opening portion passing through the leg plate at a position that faces towards a range including a mutual engagement position between the ratchet teeth and the lock teeth and the periphery of the engagement position along the take-up shaft axial direction.
US09527460B2
A modular rack intended for an aircraft includes a set of electrical machines each equipped with a position sensor including inverters, a supervision member, a first communication channel to transmit to each of the inverters the inverter setpoint determined by the supervision member, and a second communication channel to transmit a position information item to each of the inverters, each of the inverters including a way to generate an electrical signal as a function of the inverter setpoint and of the position information transmitted by the supervision member. The first and second communication channels include a single link for the supervision member and the inverters, and transmitting both the inverter setpoints and the position information items.
US09527456B2
A device for retaining flat, approximately rectangular appliances such as tablet computers or mobile telephones in the interior of a motor vehicle, has a fastening apparatus for fastening the device to a vehicle component, a retainer for accommodating the appliances, and a transfer assembly, which is provided between the retainer and the fastening apparatus and with which the retainer can be moved into different positions in relation to the vehicle component. The transfer assembly has a support element, which is arranged on the fastening apparatus and which has a first revolute joint having an axis of rotation oriented approximately vertically, and a pivot arm, which is arranged near the upper end of the support element and which has a second revolute joint having an axis of rotation oriented approximately horizontally. The pivot arm is connected to the retainer.
US09527439B2
A multi-frequency alarm (10) generates a narrow band noise (MFA-87, -97, 102, -107) warning of a presence of a vehicle. The alarm includes noise signal circuitry (30) generating a pseudorandom bit stream to produce a noise signal that exhibits a multi-frequency spectrum; an active low-pass filter (40) receiving the noise signal and producing a narrow band noise signal, the active low-pass filter configured to establish for the narrow band noise signal spectral characteristics exhibiting a high-frequency noise signal magnitude roll-off that attenuates frequencies greater than 4 kHz; an audio amplifier (50) producing an amplified narrow band noise signal; and an audio speaker (60) responsive to the amplified narrow band noise signal and configured to emit narrow band noise sound derived from the narrow band noise signal.
US09527429B2
A method for controlling a light emission of at least one headlight of a, includes determining structure information which represents the presence of a structure which at least partially encloses a roadway traveled by the vehicle. The method also includes generating a control signal for controlling the light emission, using the structure information.
US09527417B2
A vehicle seat includes a cushion having a coverstock defining a seat surface with a flexible central region and a flexible edge region. The vehicle seat further includes a compressible edge bladder beneath the coverstock edge region and a first compressible inflation bladder positioned beneath the coverstock central region and in fluidic communication with the edge bladder. A first fixed quantity of a flowable medium is contained in and partially transferrable between the edge bladder and the inflation bladder.
US09527416B2
A vehicle seat suspension comprises a scissors assembly connecting lower and upper housings and permitting vertical movement of the upper housing; reciprocating means; an elongated guide member; and guide engaging rollers. Laterally extending front and rear cross members engage upper ends of the scissor links. The reciprocating means allows the upper housing to move fore and aft, and includes horizontally disposed rollers supported by the scissors assembly and received within side tracks forming part of the upper housing. The guide member is mounted to the upper housing and oriented parallel to the fore and aft travel path. Two vertically disposed guide engaging rollers are mounted to the scissors assembly cross members. The guide engaging rollers cooperate with the guide member at spaced locations to stabilize the upper housing in a direction generally perpendicular to its fore and aft travel path.
US09527410B2
Hinge mechanism comprising a first frame and a second frame mounted to rotate relative to one another and bounding an interior space, an adjustment device adapted to allow adjustment of the angular position between the first frame and second frame, a stop member integral with the first frame and arranged within the interior space, the stop member cooperating in abutment with the second frame to limit the relative rotation of the first frame and second frame between first and second angular end-of-travel positions. The stop member protrudes from the first frame.
US09527402B2
A 12 volt automotive battery system includes a first battery coupled to an electrical system, in which the first battery include a first battery chemistry, and a second battery coupled in parallel with the first battery and selectively coupled to the electrical system via a first switch, in which the second battery includes a second battery chemistry that has a higher coulombic efficiency than the first battery chemistry. The first switch couples the second battery to the electrical system during regenerative braking to enable the second battery to capture a majority of the power generated during regenerative braking. The 12 volt automotive battery system further includes a variable voltage alternator that outputs a first voltage during regenerative braking to charge the second battery and a second voltage otherwise, in which the first voltage is higher than the second voltage.
US09527399B2
A device and a method for controlling a battery SOC of a hybrid vehicle that utilizes a 3D map database navigation system includes: checking a gradient condition of a road ahead and soliciting feedback from the driver as to an intended driving direction, and determining whether to control to charge or discharge a battery of the hybrid vehicle in accordance with the gradient condition of the road ahead so that the predictive energy management control of the hybrid vehicle is performed even when the driver does not set the driving route using the navigation.
US09527388B2
A regenerative control capable of realizing a comfortable operation, along with an efficient collection of a regenerative energy of a motor generator and an effective regenerative braking control. A regenerative control device for a motor generator generates a regenerative braking power for decelerating a motor vehicle at a time of collecting regenerative energy generated by driving of the motor vehicle. The arrangement includes a driving state detection unit for detecting a driving state and a deceleration level acquisition unit for acquiring a deceleration level. A braking force setting unit sets the regenerative braking force of the motor generator at a time of detection of a deceleration operation by the driving state detection unit. A braking force adjustment unit adjusts and suppresses the regenerative braking force set by the braking force setting unit, according to acquired deceleration level.
US09527387B2
An electric motor control unit for controlling the operation of an electric motor. The unit comprises: an electric motor controller comprising a processor having at least one input and at least one output, wherein an output of the processor is coupled to a power provider for controlling power to an electric motor; a tilt accelerometer system comprising a tilt accelerometer for determining a measure of the tilt of the electric motor unit relative to a reference orientation, wherein the tilt accelerometer system comprises an output for providing a signal based on the determined measure of the tilt; wherein the output of the tilt accelerometer system is coupled to an input of the processor of the electric motor controller; wherein the power provider comprises a power output for controlling the operation of an electric motor based on the output of the tilt accelerometer system.
US09527383B2
A pedal effort adjusting apparatus for vehicles may include a fixed part rotatably coupled with a pedal member, a moving part configured to linearly move with respect to the fixed part, an elastic member configured to support the fixed part and the moving part, and a lever protrusion coupled to a hinge shaft of a pedal and configured to rotate together with the pedal and have an end rotatably coupled to the moving part to linearly move the moving part at a time of the rotation of the pedal.
US09527351B2
A tire detection data transmission system and the setting method thereof include at least one monitoring device, for detecting the condition of vehicle tires and generating tire information, which is transmitted via a RF signal to a transfer device. The transfer device then uses a Bluetooth signal to transmit the received tire information to a mobile communication device. The RF signal emitted by the monitoring device includes at least the tire information and the identification code of the monitoring device. The identification code makes subsequent updates to the settings of the monitoring device simpler and more convenient.
US09527349B2
A pneumatic tire including a closed sipe in a land portion 3 formed in a tread surface, provided with at least three cuts extending in a radiation direction from an imaginary axis that extends in a depth direction of the land portion, and that terminate in the land portion. The cuts are provided with a spiral-like twist in the depth direction, centered on the imaginary axis, and a twist angle thereof is not less than 10° and not more than 135°. Additionally, a length in the radiation direction of the cuts or a width of the cuts is formed larger at a tread surface side than at a bottom surface side.
US09527342B2
A vehicle wheel spinning device comprising a ring shaped housing having a front and back ring forming a cavity therein is disclosed. The front ring has a series of decorative apertures formed therein. A spinning ring is rotatably mounted within said cavity. Various visual effects are produced by providing on the surface of the spinning ring facing the front ring of said housing at least one section of a contrasting color to the remainder of the surface. When the spinning ring rotates the colors show through said apertures during rotation of the spinning ring. The spinning device is attached to the front of a vehicle wheel in a manner that the housing rotates with the wheel and the spinning ring rotates separately from the rotation of the housing and continues to rotate for a time after the wheel stops rotating.
US09527340B2
A method for the manufacture of a composite laminate assembly that includes decorative, functional, security, reflective, diffractive, holographic elements for liquid transfer onto the surface of a variety of base materials or work piece having a flat or complex three dimensional shape.
US09527339B2
A process for the production of a textile product includes placing a flat motif template on a textile substrate, sewing the motif template onto the textile substrate in such a way that a perforation defining a desired motif in the motif template is produced, removing the part of the motif template, that is outside the motif defined by the perforation, and permanently fixing the remaining part, having the motif, of the motif template to the textile substrate.
US09527333B2
An in-line process is provided for economical manufacture of attractive flat paper substrate transaction cards with or without an RFID chip embedded therein. In the user-friendly process, one or more continuous webs from roller paper are automatically fed and sequentially advanced through a series of operations and stations in a single pass.
US09527321B2
An electronic device comprises: a shielding object that is arranged at least in a plurality of directions and shields noise; and a Helmholtz silencer that is arranged in a direction where the shielding object does not exist, the shielding object and the silencer being arranged with respect to a noise source causing noise such as a driving source that is arranged inside an apparatus body, wherein a neck portion of the Helmholtz silencer is directed to the noise source, a plurality of such Helmholtz silencers are provided to correspond to at least two kinds of frequencies, and installed number of the Helmholtz silencers corresponding to at least two kinds of the frequencies respectively, is made different depending on a distance from the noise source.
US09527320B2
A print head protection system is used in connection with an inkjet printer having a print head adapted for elevating, and a belt moving over a platen. A plurality of acoustic sensors is arrayed transversely to the process direction. The acoustic sensors measure a combined thickness of the belt, the platen, and the media sheet. An analyzer will detect if the media sheet is in contact with the media transport. An error signal is created when the thickness is below a predetermined value, indicating the media sheet is not in contact with the media transport. A mitigation control is operative to mitigate print head damage in response to the signal. Printing is halted in response to the signal to preclude damage to the print head. The sheet is discarded.
US09527316B2
In a printing apparatus, an end of a destaticization section in a definition direction is positioned further on an outer side than an end of a transport belt in the definition direction. In addition, the printing apparatus is provided with an operation mechanism section that changes a location of the destaticization section that comes into contact with a sheet of paper, which is electrostatically adsorbed to the transport belt, by operating the destaticization section.
US09527314B2
An ink jet recording method includes forming first and second liquid composition aggregated layers by respectively applying first and second liquid compositions containing resin to a recording medium using an ink jet recording head; performing heating and pressurization of the medium in a first fixation step using a first fixing unit; and performing heating and pressurization of the medium in a second fixation step using a second fixing unit followed by cooling to separate the medium from the second fixing unit. MFT1>MFT2 and T1>MFT1≧T2>MFT2≧T3 are satisfied, where MFT1, MFT2 are, respectively, minimum film forming temperatures of the first and second liquid composition aggregated layers, and T1, T2, and T3 are temperatures of the first and second liquid composition aggregated layers upon heating and pressurization in first and second fixation steps and upon separation in second fixation step, respectively.
US09527311B2
There is provided a drying device. A drying unit is configured to dry a recording medium having an image formed thereon by an image forming unit. A detection unit is configured to detect a moisture content ratio of a print part having predetermined density and size and formed on the recording medium and a moisture content ratio of a blank part, which is a region of the recording medium on which an image is not formed, before the recording medium having the image formed thereon is conveyed to the drying unit by a conveyance unit. A control unit is configured to control at least one of a drying strength of the drying unit and a conveying speed of the conveyance unit on the basis of the moisture content ratio of the print part and the moisture content ratio of the blank part.
