US09633307B2
An intelligent method is designed for predicting the effluent ammonia-nitrogen concentration in the urban wastewater treatment process (WWTP). The technology of this invention is part of advanced manufacturing technology, belongs to both the field of control engineering and environment engineering. In order to improve the predicting efficiency, a recurrent self-organizing neural network, which can adjust the structure and parameters concurrently to train the parameters, is developed to design this intelligent method. This intelligent method can predict the effluent ammonia-nitrogen concentration with acceptable accuracy and solve the problem that the effluent ammonia-nitrogen concentration is difficult to be measured online. Moreover, the online information of effluent ammonia-nitrogen concentration, predicted by this intelligent method, can enhance the quality monitoring level and alleviate the current situation of wastewater to strengthen the whole management of WWTP.
US09633306B2
A method and system for approximating a deep neural network for anatomical object detection is discloses. A deep neural network is trained to detect an anatomical object in medical images. An approximation of the trained deep neural network is calculated that reduces the computational complexity of the trained deep neural network. The anatomical object is detected in an input medical image of a patient using the approximation of the trained deep neural network.
US09633303B2
In various embodiments, a smart card module arrangement is provided. The smart card module arrangement includes a carrier, in which a depression is formed, a smart card module, which is arranged in the depression, and a smart card antenna. The smart card antenna can be coupled to the smart card module in a contactless manner.
US09633302B1
Embodiments are directed to an RFID tag integrated circuit (IC) having antenna contacts separated by a channel. The channel has a smaller cross-section at its center than at its ends, which facilitates fluid flow from the channel center to the channel ends. During attachment of the IC to an inlay or strap, the channel facilitates the flow of liquid adhesive so as to reduce the turbulence and the propagation velocity associated with the liquid adhesive, thereby reducing misalignment caused by the movement of the IC with respect to the inlay or strap.
US09633278B2
Disclosed is an object identification device and the like for reducing identification error in a reference image which presents an object that is only slightly difference from an object presented in an input image. The object identification device includes a local feature quantity matching unit for calculating geometric transformation information for transformation from a coordinate in a reference image to a corresponding coordinate in an input image, and matching a local feature quantity extracted from the reference image and a local feature quantity extracted from the input image, an input image different area determination unit for transforming the different area in the reference image on a basis of the geometric transformation information about the input image determined to be in conformity by the matching, and determining a different area in the input image corresponding to the different area in the reference image, an input image different area feature quantity extraction unit for correcting a different area in the input image, and extracting a feature quantity from the corrected different area of the input image, and a feature quantity matching unit for matching a feature quantity extracted by the input image different area feature quantity extraction unit and a feature quantity extracted from the different area in the reference image, and outputting a matching result.
US09633277B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure include apparatus and methods for identifying bright spot indications observed through optical coherence tomography. The indications can be evaluated, for example, to link risk factors or other conditions to clinically relevant outcomes.
US09633263B2
An approach for re-identifying an object in a first test image is presented. Brightness transfer functions (BTFs) between respective pairs of training images are determined. Respective similarity measures are determined between the first test image and each of the training images captured by the first camera (first training images). A weighted brightness transfer function (WBTF) is determined by combining the BTFs weighted by weights of the first training images. The weights are based on the similarity measures. The first test image is transformed by the WBTF to better match one of the training images captured by the second camera. Another test image, captured by the second camera, is identified because it is closer in appearance to the transformed test image than other test images captured by the second camera. An object in the identified test image is a re-identification of the object in the first test image.
US09633256B2
The current document is directed to methods and systems for identifying symbols corresponding to symbol images in a scanned-document image or other text-containing image, with the symbols corresponding to Chinese or Japanese characters, to Korean morpho-syllabic blocks, or to symbols of other languages that use a large number of symbols for writing and printing. In one implementation, the methods and systems to which the current document is directed carry out an initial processing step on one or more scanned images to identify, for each symbol image within a scanned document, a set of graphemes that match, with high frequency, symbol patterns that, in turn, match the symbol image. The set of graphemes identified for a symbol image is associated with the symbol image as a set of candidate graphemes for the symbol image. The set of candidate graphemes are then used, in one or more subsequent steps, to associate each symbol image with a most likely corresponding symbol code.
US09633255B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide font substitution based on a custom font. In one example, a custom handwritten font may be generated based on a comparison between handwritten sample text and training text. In another example, handwritten original text may be converted to unique machine text based on a substitution of the handwritten original text with the custom handwritten font. Thus, a user's handwriting may be converted to the user's own best or preferred handwriting.
US09633247B2
An electronic device may have electrical components such as sensors. A sensor may have sensor circuitry that gathers sensor data using a conductive structure. The sensor may be a touch sensor that uses the conductive structure to form a capacitive touch sensor electrode or may be a fingerprint sensor that uses the conductive structure with a fingerprint electrode array to handle fingerprint sensor signals. Near field communications circuitry may be included in an electronic device. When operated in a sensor mode, the sensor circuitry may use the conductive structure to gather a fingerprint or other sensor data. When operated in near field communications mode, the near field communications circuitry can use the conductive structure to transmit and receive capacitively coupled or inductively coupled near field communications signals. A fingerprint sensor may have optical structures that communicate with external equipment.
US09633240B2
A radio frequency electronic tag reader/writer device including a housing, an antenna, a processing unit connected to the antenna and intended to exchange data with a radio frequency electronic tag presented within the range of the reader/writer device, at least one communication interface intended to be connected to a programmable logic controller and controlled by the processing unit for exchanging data with the programmable logic controller, a signalling unit for indicating one or more operating statuses, the signalling unit being connected to the processing unit, the processing unit being arranged for controlling the signalling unit on the basis of a control frame received from the programmable logic controller.
US09633234B2
A system for a secure display module includes a display element array, a driver controller, a communication interface, a host controller and a cryptographic engine. The display element array includes one or more segments, and the driver outputs are configured to drive the one or more segments, respectively. The host controller is configured to send commands and data to the driver controller via the communication interface and the cryptographic engine is configured to encrypt communication data between the display element array and the host controller.
US09633233B2
The following embodiments generally relate to the use of a “swap area” in a non-volatile memory as an extension to volatile memory in a computing device. These embodiments include techniques to use both volatile memory and non-volatile swap memory to pre-load a plurality of applications, to control the bandwidth of swap operations, to encrypt data stored in the swap area, and to perform a fast clean-up of the swap area.
US09633230B2
Techniques are disclosed for processing rendering engine workload of a graphics system in a secure fashion, wherein at least some security processing of the workload is offloaded from software-based security parsing to hardware-based security parsing. In some embodiments, commands from a given application are received by a user-mode driver (UMD), which is configured to generate a command buffer delineated into privileged and/or non-privileged command sections. The delineated command buffer can then be passed by the UMD to a kernel-mode driver (KMD), which is configured to parse and validate only privileged buffer sections, but to issue all other batch buffers with a privilege indicator set to non-privileged. A graphics processing unit (GPU) can receive the privilege-designated batch buffers from the KMD, and is configured to disallow execution of any privileged command from a non-privileged batch buffer, while any privileged commands from privileged batch buffers are unrestricted by the GPU.
US09633226B2
Prior art attempts to manage authority designation in GUI-based computer systems have set up various “handshaking” schemes between a graphics management system, such as a window server, and the various processes that are attempting to offer and accept access to each other. However, these schemes have certain limitations. In particular, when windows are used as the “fundamental basis” for implementing authority designation, events that should treat all content within a window identically can't do so because, even though all content in the window may appear to be “owned” by the window, there may be some other process that is actually rendering the content to some portion of the window. Thus, described herein are systems and methods to manage authority designation and event handling within “hierarchical” GUIs using “handshaking” schemes that are secure, sub-window granular, and that generalize recursively when applied to the various graphical layers used to construct the windows.
US09633225B2
A portable terminal and a method for controlling the provision of data are provided. The method includes analyzing information received or generated in response to an event; selecting a module that provides the analyzed information to a user of the portable terminal; and configuring data including the analyzed information, anthropomorphizes the configured data and providing the anthropomorphized data, through the selected module to the user.
US09633223B1
A method facilitating searching of data containing protected date information includes generating one or more randomly escalating dateID values for each date during a time period and storing such generated dateID values in a lookup table together with an encrypted, associated date value. Such generated dateID values can be stored in a datasource in place of protected dates in order to safeguard protected health information. In one or more preferred implementations, a de-identified date is stored in the lookup table in association with a dateID, and utilized for searching operations.
US09633220B2
Provided is a method of preventing an unauthorized publication of a media object. On receipt of a user request to prevent an unauthorized publication of a media object, a video link is established with the user. An image of the user is received from the video link and a determination is made whether the image of the user correspond with an image in the media object. Based on said determination an action is performed with regard to the unauthorized publication of the media object.
US09633219B2
Providing an encrypted search index for performing searches on encrypted documents, the method comprising: (i) providing a set of documents, the documents comprising a plurality of unencrypted phrases; (ii) providing a master key; (iii) providing, based on the master key, for each phrase a set of encryption keys comprising one or more encryption keys; (iv) selecting, for each phrase, one encryption key of the set of encryption keys; (v) encrypting each phrase with the selected encryption key; and (vi) building an index based on the encrypted phrases, the index comprising information regarding which encrypted phrase is comprised within a certain document.
US09633217B2
A system may be provided for dynamically serving a content file with embedded content objects over the Internet to an end user system. A content object request function may receive a request for a webpage defined by the content file, the content file comprising embedded content objects. A content-file modifier may modify the content file to inject a reporting code that instructions to generate one or more reports comprising information relating to the content objects. A report receiver may receive the reports, the reports indicating where the content objects were rendered within the webpage. An object prioritizor may prioritize the content objects based on where the content objects were rendered. A delivery controller may adapt protocols for delivering the content objects to improve access to high-priority content objects.
US09633205B2
A method and a device for obtaining virus signatures in the field of computer security have been disclosed. The method includes: obtaining text strings contained in each virus sample within a virus sample set; selecting text strings for use as virus signatures candidate according to a first frequency at which each text string occurs in a non-virus sample set and a second frequency at which each text string occurs in the virus sample set; calculating an information entropy of the virus signatures candidate according to a quantity of virus samples containing the virus signatures candidate and a quantity of non-virus samples containing the virus signatures candidate; and selecting virus signatures from the virus signatures candidate according to the information entropy. The present disclosure may timely identify the latest virus signatures and ensure that the obtained virus signatures are optimal signatures and may identify a wide range of virus variants.
US09633200B2
A computer-implemented method can include creating a sandbox responsive to a sandbox creation request from a user, wherein the sandbox represents an alternate version of a base version and is accessible only by the user. The method can also include visually presenting to the user information pertaining to the sandbox and information pertaining to the base version, saving changes to the information pertaining to the sandbox, and publishing the sandbox responsive to a publish request from the user.
US09633196B2
An electronic system, an electronic apparatus, and an access authentication method thereof are provided. The electronic system includes a master apparatus and a slave apparatus. The slave apparatus is coupled to the master apparatus through a serial transmission interface. The slave apparatus includes a data storage unit protected by the slave apparatus with a predetermined key. The master apparatus sends an access request to the data storage unit through the serial transmission interface. The slave apparatus determines whether the master apparatus is allowed to access the data storage unit according to the predetermined key and a key inputted by the master apparatus for authentication.
US09633195B2
A method of and an apparatus for verifying authenticity of a target authentication device comprising a reference pattern having a characteristic frequency and a security pattern, the security pattern comprises an embedded security device that is coded with phase modulation information. The method comprises extracting frequency domain data from an image of the target authentication device to facilitate verification of authenticity of the target authentication device. The method provides a very effective end expedient mechanism for verifying authenticity of a moiré or moiré like authentication device to combat counterfeiting.
US09633192B2
Systems and methods for presenting a request are disclosed. The systems and methods may include one or more steps, such as receiving, by an electronic device, request information from an entity. The request information may include a request for approval by a user. The steps may further include transmitting, by the electronic device, data containing the request information to a computing device, receiving, by the electronic device, a symbology corresponding to the request information from the computing device and presenting, by the electronic device, the symbology to the user.
US09633189B2
An information processing apparatus determines whether a device accesses a box region of the information processing apparatus. When it is determined that the box region is accessed, a box ID entry screen is displayed on the device. The information processing apparatus determines whether a box ID is entered by a user of the device. If it is determined that a box ID is entered, then device information about the device is obtained. After the device information is obtained, the information processing apparatus determines whether the device possesses a hardware keyboard. If it is determined that the device possesses a hardware keyboard, a password authentication screen is displayed on the device. If it is determined that the device does not possess a hardware keyboard, an image authentication screen is displayed on the device.
US09633188B2
A device, information processing system, and control method that perform authentication to determine whether a user is an authorized user, permit both an authentication-type application program that performs user authentication and a non-authentication-type application program that does not perform user authentication to access an authentication device when an authentication result indicates that the user is an authorized user, and permit each application program to access the authentication device when an authentication result indicates that the user is an authorized user for the each application program.
US09633187B1
A content access request from a first computing device for a digital content can be received. The content associated with request can be a digital content associated with a second computing device. A facial biometric identification challenge can be conveyed to the first computing device. The conveying can trigger the capture of a digital self-portrait photograph of a portion of a face of a user associated with the first computing device. A facial biometric of the face of a user within the digital self-portrait photograph can be compared to facial features of human faces within historic digital media associated with a different user. When the facial biometric matches a facial biometric within historic digital media, the digital content associated with the content access request can be conveyed to the first computing device.
US09633176B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are described for the handling of biological specimens for analysis. The systems, methods and apparatus are designed to reduce errors in misidentification, incorrect processing, and recordkeeping and reporting. The systems, methods, and apparatus can also provide real time tracking of samples at any stage, from collection to processing to analyzing to storage.
US09633174B2
System, method and computer program product for providing a healthcare user interface and incentives
Actively engaging members in managing their own healthcare, improving their health, and reducing healthcare costs to the payer involves providing a unified interface for member engagement. The interface may be communicatively coupled with a healthcare system, may be personalized to the member, and may offer multiple possible rewards to the member to encourage member behavior to effectively reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of healthcare plans. The interface may provide the member with a pathway guiding the member to engage in activities to achieve short-term, intermediate and long-term goals for which actions are presented. Goals or actions may be predefined and may additionally be selected by the member. When member-engagement in the actions is verified, rewards may be granted to the member's account. In connection with such member engagement, the healthcare system collects member information, applies rules to that information, and generates alerts from those rules.
US09633167B2
An information processing apparatus, method, and program are provided that control display of an image. The information processing apparatus, method, and program designate a first point and a second point on an image, determine a zoom direction based on a position of the first point relative to a position of the second point, and zoom the image in the zoom direction.
US09633159B1
Disclosed is an improved approach to implement timing signoff and optimization. Integrated MMMC timing closure functionality is provided in a single software session. The system provides the capability to perform signoff analysis, debugging, ECO, and TSO optimization for a large number of MMMC views in single software session.
US09633154B2
A method and apparatus for structure analysis of a circuit design are described. In one exemplary embodiment, a functional specification of a circuit design is received, where the functional specification is defined based on a behavior layer abstraction. In addition, design codes for the circuit design are received, wherein in each design code of the design codes is defined based on the behavior layer abstraction. Furthermore, the design codes are searched, which is performed in the behavior layer abstraction, for one or more of the design codes that satisfy the functional specification. Each of the design codes that satisfy the functional specification is therefore recognized.
US09633151B1
Various mechanisms and approaches identify a first electronic design component at least by traversing at least a portion of the electronic design and generate a representation of the electronic design by interconnecting one or more duplicated electronic design components within the representation. The first electronic design component may include a destination electronic design component with a backward traversal of the electronic design. One or more fan-in electronic design components may be duplicated into the one or more duplicated electronic design components. One or more CDC effect models are automatically injected into the representation by adding the one or more CDC effect models along one or more paths in the representation. Proof results are generated at least via proving or disproving one or more checkers for the electronic design by verifying or simulating the representation with the one or more CDC effect models that are automatically injected into the representation.
US09633149B2
A computer implemented system comprises a processor programmed to analyze a circuit to determine a response of the circuit to an input radio frequency (RF) signal, for at least one of designing, manufacturing, and testing the circuit. An interposer model is tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine readable storage medium to be accessed by the processor. The interposer model is processed by the computer to output data representing a response of a though substrate via (TSV) to the radio frequency (RF) signal. The interposer model comprises a plurality of TSV models. Each TSV model has a respective three-port network. One of the ports of each three-port network is a floating node. The floating nodes of each of the three-port networks are connected to each other.
US09633137B2
A system, a method, and a computer program product for managing questioning in a Question and Answering (QA) system are disclosed. An input question received by the QA system is analyzed to determine the set of answer-types. A set of answer-types is determined. Prompting for clarifying data associated with the input question happens. A set of candidate answers of the answer-type is determined. The clarifying data is used to determine the set of candidate answers. At least one candidate answer of the set of candidate answers of the answer-type is provided.
US09633126B2
Methods and systems for synchronizing browser bookmarks are provided herein. In an exemplary method, a server can receive a bookmark collection sent by a first terminal browser. The bookmark collection can contain one or more bookmarks. The server can push the bookmark collection to a second terminal browser for the second terminal browser to simultaneously add the one or more bookmarks contained in the bookmark collection as bookmarks of the second terminal browser.
US09633109B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a search query from a user through a user interface of a user computing device, identifying a search term within the search query, the search term including at least a portion of the search query, generating, based at least in part on the search term, one or more alternative search terms that are each different from the search term, and sending, over the communication network, the one or more alternative search terms to the user computing device.
US09633105B2
A system for data aggregation and representation, comprising a data aggregator that may request or receive input from a plurality of data sources, a visualization engine that may generate representations of data, and an interaction manager that may handle interactions from an analyst, and a method for multidimensional representation of data.
US09633102B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method, system, and computer program product for processing data such as a stream of tuples. Each tuple can contain one or more attributes. The method can include processing the attributes of the stream of tuples using stream operators operating on one or more computer processors and corresponding to one or more processing elements. The method can also include detecting an indicative element from a plurality of stream operators. The method can also include transmitting, in response to detecting the indicative element, a passthru command to a processing element corresponding to the indicative element. The method can also include altering, in response to receiving the passthru command at the processing element, a portion of attribute processing for the indicative element.
US09633098B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for maintaining coherency between different entities in a distributed system. A coherency module automatically detects a change in state in a first entity, wherein the change in state relates to a change in functional code in the first entity. A synchronization message is transmitted to a second entity to synchronize data in the second entity with data in the first entity as a result of the change in state. The second entity is configured to synchronize the data in the second entity with the data in the first entity after receiving the synchronization message.
US09633072B1
An approach for synopsis guided scan processing of MIN/MAX data queries where a minimal or maximal data query operation and a synopsis store are received. The synopsis store includes at least one of tuple range identifiers, column minimal and maximal metadata values. The synopsis store is sorted, where the column minimal or maximal metadata values search order is created for the tuple range identifiers. Dataset data associated with the tuple range identifiers is searched in the search order for a minimal or maximal value result until the minimal value result is less than or equal to a next column minimal metadata values or the maximal value result is greater than or equal to a next column maximal metadata values respectively and the minimal or maximal value result associated with the respective minimal or maximal data query operation is output.
US09633071B1
A computer method and system for providing information results in response to a natural language information request. The system and method include receiving a natural language information request from a user and compiling a computer executable query from the natural language information request from a user wherein the query is formatted to extract data from one or more computer databases. The query is then presented to the user prior to execution of the query so as to enable the user to change the query prior to its execution. The query is then executed to extract data from one or more computer databases whereby extracted data is presented to the user in a certain presentation format.
US09633056B2
An information management system can modify working copies of database entries residing in a local database of a secondary storage computing device in response to instructions to modify the database entries residing in a deduplication database. If the working copy does not already reside in the local database, a copy of the database entry, or portion thereof, from the deduplication database can be used to generate the working copy. Based on a desired policy, the working copies in the local database can be merged with the actual database entries in the deduplication database.
US09633055B2
A migration framework includes a migration status data store that stores the migration status of a variety of different databases that are being migrated. A migration manager monitors the migration status of the different databases and invokes migration scripts to perform migration steps on the various databases, based upon their migration status. As the migration steps are completed, a status update component updates the migration status of the various databases that are being migrated.
US09633045B2
Images are retrieved and ranked according to relevance to attributes of a multi-attribute query through training image attribute detectors for different attributes annotated in a training dataset. Pair-wise correlations are learned between pairs of the annotated attributes from the training dataset of images. Image datasets may are searched via the trained attribute detectors for images comprising attributes in a multi-attribute query. The retrieved images are ranked as a function of comprising attributes that are not within the query subset plurality of attributes but are paired to one of the query subset plurality of attributes by the pair-wise correlations, wherein the ranking is an order of likelihood that the different ones of the attributes will appear in an image with the paired one of the query subset plurality of attributes.
US09633037B2
Techniques for monitoring local and/or remote file systems by a synchronization component (e.g., client/server) of a cloud-based platform are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of building synchronization events by a synchronization component (e.g., a synchronization server/client) includes obtaining a set of items that have been changed and their new states and retrieving last known states of the set of items that are stored in a reference snapshot inside a filesystem scanner. The method further includes generating differences between the new states and the last known states of the set of items as item changes and utilizing information provided by the item changes to translate the item changes into synchronization events for execution on the opposing file system. A method of handling failed synchronization events by a synchronization component of the cloud-based platform by collapsing a subsequent event with the failed synchronization event is also disclosed.
US09633033B2
A high availability distributed, deduplicated storage system according to certain embodiments is arranged to include multiple deduplication database media agents. The deduplication database media agents store signatures of data blocks stored in secondary storage. In addition, the deduplication database media agents are configured as failover deduplication database media agents in the event that one of the deduplication database media agents becomes unavailable.
US09633028B2
Collaborative and personalized storage and search in hierarchical abstract data organization systems
A method in a data processing system and apparatus for organizing files, data items, web site members, or web pages, structured or unstructured, of multiple users stored across one or more server computers into hierarchical file structures on a recordable medium of a data processing system. A user-defined metalabel is assigned to each of the electronic files, data items, web site members, or web pages. The electronic files, data items, web site members, or web pages are organized as a function of the metalabels into the hierarchical file structures. The method includes automatically forming personalized hierarchies, such as a shadow copy for a second user, from the user-defined metalabels of a first user according to a user profile. The method includes automatically forming keywords of strings of at least two user-defined metalabels or a portion thereof, and automatically forming search structures of the keywords existing simultaneously with the plurality of hierarchical structures.
US09633021B2
A social media content management system coupled to a social media network includes database files and execution instructions to assemble, manage and transmit social media content. The database files store a feed content file, a social content management file, and management tables including a schedule file and an export content file. Execution instructions include a feed channel content system for receiving and storing feed content items in the feed content file. A selection subsystem is used for selecting and storing export content as social media posts in the social content management file A scheduling subsystem enables a user to create and store schedules, to select a schedule and to merge the selected schedule with the stored content in the management file to form the export content file. An export system transmits the stored content as social media content posts to the social media network according to the selected schedule.
US09633020B2
The present disclosure provides a method and terminal device for playing media synchronously. The method comprises: triggering a function of playing media synchronously, acquiring a preset identification (ID) corresponding to an end user, obtaining a media history playlist including a history of an address and a play location of a media file that is listened or viewed by the end user corresponding to the end user according to the preset ID, and resuming the media file that is chosen by the end user according to the media history playlist.
US09633019B2
An electronic device comprises a microphone for receiving an oral request for information about an unspecified object. A sensor receives augmentation information about the unspecified object. Combination logic combines information from the oral request with the augmentation information into a combined format information request. Information retrieval logic then retrieves an answer to the combined format information request.
US09633000B2
A method is provided in a computer processing system that reads and displays a social media stream accessible by a plurality of users. A system is also provided that reads and displays a social media stream accessible by a plurality of users. The method includes receiving, by a processor-based dictionary manager, at least one dictionary configuration. Each dictionary configuration specifies at least one dictionary from a set of dictionaries and respective settings for the at least one dictionary. The method further includes filtering, by a filter, the social media stream using the at least one dictionary configuration to provide at least one filtered social media stream. The respective settings for the at least one dictionary include a respective dictionary influence polarity and a respective polarity magnitude for the respective dictionary influence polarity.
US09632999B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a semantic analyzer translates a text segment into a structured representation that conveys the meaning of the text segment. Notably, the semantic analyzer leverages a semantic network to perform word sense disambiguation operations that map text words included in the text segment into concepts—word senses with a single, specific meaning—that are interconnected with relevance ratings. A topic generator then creates topics on-the-fly that includes one or more mapped concepts that are related within the context of the text segment. In this fashion, the topic generator tailors the semantic network to the text segment. A topic analyzer processes this tailored semantic network, generating a relevance-ranked list of topics as a meaningful proxy for the text segment. Advantageously, operating at the level of concepts and topics reduces the misinterpretations attributable to key word and statistical analysis methods.
US09632998B2
A method comprising using at least one hardware processor for: receiving (a) a proposition and (b) a plurality of claims; identifying a local claim polarity of each claim of the plurality of claims with respect to the proposition; calculating a pairwise claim polarity agreement score for each pair of claims of the pairs of claims reflecting the likelihood of said each pair of claims to have the same claim polarity, wherein the pairwise claim polarity agreement score is associated with each claim of the pair of claims; and determining a global claim polarity for each claim of the plurality of claims based on the local claim polarity of the claim and pairwise claim polarity agreement scores associated with said each claim.
US09632997B1
According to at least one embodiment, a system for generating a plurality of caption frames is provided. The system comprises a memory storing a plurality of elements generated from transcription information, at least one processor coupled to the memory, and a caption engine component executed by the at least one processor. The caption engine component is configured to identify at least one element sequence as meeting predetermined criteria specifying a plurality of caption characteristics, the at least one element sequence including at least one element of the plurality of elements, and store the at least one element sequence within at least one caption frame. The at least one element sequence may correspond to at least one sentence. The transcription information may be time-coded.
US09632996B2
A method for maintaining conversational cadence may include determining, by a processor, a conversational cadence associated with a user in a social network. The conversational cadence may be determined based on a plurality of messages previously transmitted by the user. The method may also include detecting, by the processor, a reduction in the conversational cadence of the user. The method may further include providing, by the processor, a set of fill-in messages that create an appearance to another user in the social network that there is no reduction in the conversational cadence.
US09632994B2
A graphical user interface that facilitates annotating documents is described herein. The graphical user interface includes a first field that displays a document to a user. The graphical user interface includes a second field that displays an annotation that has been assigned to a portion of the document, wherein the annotation includes a defined structure. The annotation is in the form of a tuple, wherein the tuple includes a first word or phrase, a second word or phrase, and a third word or phrase that relates the first word or phrase to the second word or phrase. The graphical user interface also includes a third field that facilitates user-editing of annotations.
US09632978B2
A reconfigurable processor based on mini-cores (MCs) includes a plurality of MCs, each MC of the MCs including a group of function units (FUs), the group of FUs having a capability of executing a loop iteration independently. The MCs include a first MC configured to execute a first loop iteration, and a second MC configured to execute a second loop iteration.
US09632976B2
Embodiments related to managing lazy runahead operations at a microprocessor are disclosed. For example, an embodiment of a method for operating a microprocessor described herein includes identifying a primary condition that triggers an unresolved state of the microprocessor. The example method also includes identifying a forcing condition that compels resolution of the unresolved state. The example method also includes, in response to identification of the forcing condition, causing the microprocessor to enter a runahead mode.
US09632972B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining influence in a social community. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a user in a community; determining an influence score to be associated with the user in the community for a particular topic, including: determining a reach of one or more communications that relate to the particular topic that have been distributed from the user to other users in the community, and evaluating the reach as compared to the reach of one or more communications distributed from other users in the community for the particular topic; and storing the influence score in association with the user.
US09632963B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and a method for transmitting data based on Peripheral Component Interconnect Express 9PCIe). The system includes: a PCIe switching network, multiple switch terminal devices, a managing unit, multiple host processing units, multiple terminal processing units, multiple hosts, and multiple terminal devices. After a PCIe data packet sent by a host is processed by a host processing unit, a new PCIe data packet that can be transmitted in a PCIe switch is constructed, and is transferred, by using a switch terminal device and a terminal processing unit, to a terminal device. The embodiments can break through a limitation about a single root node of PCIe and implement sharing of a PCIe switching network by multiple hosts.
US09632962B2
A processing apparatus includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to acquire first data that indicates correspondence relationship between a first address given to a first adapter of a first device and a first bus number given to a first bus coupled to the first adapter, acquire second data that indicates correspondence relationship between a second address given to a second adapter of a first device and a second bus number given to a second bus coupled to the second adapter, acquire third data that indicates correspondence relationship between the first address and a port number given to a port of a second device, the port being coupled to the first adapter with the first bus, and when the second bus number is identical to the first bus number, generate fourth data that indicates that the second adapter is coupled to the port.
US09632948B2
Disclosed is an address translation system. The apparatus includes a memory management unit (MMU) that is operable to receive a translation request for an original address and translate the original address to a translated address as a second-level address translation service (ATS). The apparatus also includes an address translator having an associated cache to store the original address and the first translated address. The address translator is to translate memory addresses as a first-level address translation service (ATS). The address translator determines whether the transaction is to be processed using either the first-level ATS or the second-level ATS. The address translator translates a current memory address of the transaction to a current translated address using the first-level ATS or the second-level ATS based on the determination, The address translator also dispatches the transaction with the current translated address to a memory device where it may be further processed.
US09632946B1
A multi-queue cache is configured with an initial configuration, where the initial configuration includes one or more queues for storing data items. Each of the one or more queues has an initial size. Thereafter, the multi-queue cache is operated according to a multi-queue cache replacement algorithm. During operation, access patterns for the multi-queue cache are analyzed. Based on the access patterns, an updated configuration for the multi-queue cache is determined. Thereafter, the configuration of the multi-queue cache is modified during operation. The modifying includes adjusting the size of at least one of the one or more queues according to the determined updated configuration for the multi-queue cache.
US09632940B2
The disclosure discloses an intelligence cache and an intelligence terminal, wherein the intelligence cache comprises: a general interface, configured to receive configuration information and/or control information, and/or data information from a core a bus, and return target data; a software define and reconfiguration unit configured to define a memory as a required cache memory according to the configuration information; a control unit, configured to control writing and reading of the cache memory and monitor instructions and data streams in real time; a memory unit, composed of a number of memory modules and configured to cache data; the required cache memory is formed by memory modules according to the definition of the software define and reconfiguration unit; and an intelligence processing unit, configured to process input and output data and transfer, convert and operate on data among multiple structures defined in the control unit. The disclosure can realize an efficient memory system according to the operating status of software, the features of tasks to be executed and the features of data structures through the flexible organization and management by the control unit and the close cooperation of the intelligence processing unit.
US09632931B2
In a computer system in which a virtualization control unit controls a plurality of virtual machines, if memory is collected regardless of a memory usage status of the virtual machine, cache miss increases and an IO performance of overall system deteriorates. In order to solve this problem, a usage status of a cache region within a memory which is utilized by each OS that the plurality of the virtual machines has, and based on a monitoring result, the virtualization control unit decides an allocation region of the memory as a collection target among the allocation region of the memory already allocated to each OS, and collects the allocation region of the memory as the collection target from the OS as a current allocation destination.
US09632923B2
An approach for dynamic test topology visualization is provided. The approach retrieves test data from one or more databases. The approach retrieves test data from an application under test. The approach creates a visual diagram, wherein the visual diagram includes one or more topological elements, one or more topological relationships between the one or more topological elements, the test data, and a screen snapshot of an application under test. The approach overlays the visual diagram with user interaction information. The approach associates the visual diagram to the test execution performed on the application under test.
US09632921B1
The automated validation of one or more test cases in a validation pass. The validation pass is enabled using a plurality of scenario runners, which are executable components that respond to instructions to run one or more scenarios of a validation pass by beginning to run through such scenarios during the validation pass. The validation pass may be associated with a maximum time such that upper limits on how long the scenario runners may run is set. This likewise limits the time it takes to validate the results of the scenario. The scenario runners provide events that occur during the running of their respective scenarios into an event collector. The events of the validation pass may then be evaluated against one or more test cases to determine whether or not the events have a state indicative of a success or failure of each test cases.
US09632917B2
Software testing uses a plurality of test cases, where each of the test cases includes a plurality of test tasks. The test cases are analyzed to obtain at least one reusable test task sequence between at least two test cases. The reusable test task sequence includes at least one identical test task. The test cases are divided into at least one test case group according to the reusable test task sequence, where the test cases in each of the test case groups has at least one reusable test task sequence. For each of the test cases of the at least one test case group, an execution script of each test case is generated by using an execution script of a reusable test task, where the execution script of each test case includes at least one of backup or restore for the reusable test task sequence.
US09632915B2
A diagnostic tool can dynamically instrument an application to collect program control flow information using one or more non-stopping production breakpoints. Analyzed program control flow information can be displayed. Dynamic code rewriting techniques can be used to change the production software without deploying new source code. The information collected at the non-stopping breakpoint can include the actual control flow that an instance of the production application took to reach the breakpoint in addition to information about the data. The analyzed control flow information can be visualized in a diagnostic tool allowing a user to see the path an execution of the program took to arrive at a particular breakpoint.
US09632911B2
A system and a method are disclosed for stack trace clustering. In one example, the method includes receiving a first stack trace and a second stack trace, normalizing, by a processing device, the first and second stack traces, determining a distance between the normalized first and second stack traces, and determining whether the normalized first and second stack traces are equivalent based on the determined distance.
US09632910B2
This disclosure provides software that identifies a variable in a computer program as a target variable. The software automatically processes a first source code statement in the computer program for the target variable. The software determines if the target variable is not found in the particular processed statement and progresses through preceding statements until the target variable is found. The software determines if the particular statement involves an indirect assignment to the target variable and can return that particular statement as the origination statement. Additionally, the software determines if the particular statement involves a direct assignment to the target variable from a second variable. If the particular statement involves a direct assignment to the target variable from a second variable, the software can change the target variable to the second variable and can progress through preceding statements until the new target variable is found in a particular of the statements.
US09632904B1
A method, system, and computer program product for raising an alert when some subject process is impacted by performance degradation of a software application are disclosed. The real word process may be modeled and executed on a computing device. Service dependencies in the modeled process are correlated to services provided by a managed application. An APM system monitors the managed application to determine when the services it provides may have some degradation. When a degradation of performance of the managed application is determined, a modeled process that has a service dependency that correlates to the degraded performance is determined. Then, an alert is generated to indicate that the process being modeled may be comprised. Therefore, instead of simply reporting that the managed application has some degradation, the alert provides a warning that some broader process outside of the managed application may be compromised.
US09632900B1
An active workstation is provided and includes a first support element, a computing device to which peripheral devices, which are movably disposed on the first support element, are coupled and a second support element movably disposed proximate to the first support element. The computing device includes a processing unit and a memory having executable instructions stored thereon. When executed, the executable instructions cause the processing unit to facilitate respective operations and movements of the peripheral devices and the second support element in accordance with a user profile.
US09632897B2
A solution is proposed for monitoring usage of bundles in the OSGi environment. For this purpose, an event notification interface of the OSGi environment is exploited. Particularly, each event relating to a change of state of a bundle (such as its addition, removal, starting and stopping) is detected by an auxiliary bundle—which previously subscribed to the event notification interface. The auxiliary bundle can then forward the detected events to a licensing agent, which identifies the bundle by means of a software catalog. In this way, the desired result is achieved without requiring any instrumentation of the bundles to be monitored.
US09632895B2
A system and method for a common unified debug architecture for integrated circuits and System on Chips (SoCs) are provided. A system consistent with the present disclosure may comprise of an integrated circuit or SoC which includes a display port, plurality of logic blocks, and debug logic. The debug logic may receive debug data from one or more of the plurality of logic blocks in response to the integrated circuit or SoC operating in a debug mode. In addition, control logic coupled to the debug logic. The control logic provides display data to the display port in response to the integrated circuit operating in an operational mode. The control logic further directs high-speed debug data to the display port in response to the integrated circuit or SoC operating in the debug mode. The high-speed debug data is to be based on the debug data.
US09632894B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for computing an error rate comprising: a first circuit interface being connected to a first sub-circuit receiving data and computing output data through a predetermined computation process; a second circuit interface and being connected to a first test circuit receiving the same data, which is inputted to the first sub-circuit, and computing output data through the predetermined computation process; an error injecting part injecting an error to the first test circuit; an error detecting part comparing output data of the first sub-circuit to output data of the first test circuit; and an error rate computing part computing input node error probability of the first sub-circuit by statistic processing of the compared result. The apparatus and method for computing error rate of the present invention is able to shorten the time required to obtain error probability, compared to the direct simulation of the full circuit.
US09632885B2
A fault detection method and a related device and stack system. The fault detection method is applied in a stack system, where a first communications device includes a first service board and a second service board, the first service board includes a first processor and a first component, the second service board includes a second processor and a second component, where the second component receives a first signal from the first component, updates the current total number of abnormal ports of the second communications device based on the number, which is indicated by the first signal, of abnormal ports of the second communications device, and if the updated current total number of abnormal ports of the second communications device satisfies a failure confirmation condition corresponding to the second communications device, informs the second processor that the second communications device partially or entirely fails.
US09632871B2
A problematic disk within a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) data storage system can be reused. A first disk within the RAID data storage system can be formatted, initialized, and validated in response to the first disk experiencing a recoverable data storage error. The first disk can be designated as a second-level redundant disk within the RAID data storage system in order for the RAID data storage system to access the first disk in response to success of the validating operation on the first disk. Problematic disks experiencing media errors and/or slow disk errors can be isolated from the RAID data storage system to ensure high reliability of the RAID system.
US09632869B1
In approaches for correction of errors introduced in an interconnect circuit, an ECC proxy circuit is coupled between a first interconnect and the second interconnect, and generates for each of the write transactions from a bus master circuit, a first ECC from and associated with data of the write transaction, and transmits the write transaction and associated first ECC on the second interconnect. The ECC proxy circuit also supplements each of the read transactions from the bus master circuit with a reference to a second ECC associated with data referenced by the read transaction. The ECC proxy circuit transmits the read transaction that references the second ECC on the second interconnect. At least one random access memory (RAM) is coupled to the ECC proxy circuit through the second interconnect. The RAM stores data of each write transaction and the first ECC.
US09632862B2
Data is sent from a memory buffer device to a host device over a link. An error in the data is determined. A read response cancellation signal is sent to the host device to indicate the error to the host device, where the read response cancellation signal is to be sent subsequent to the data being sent from the memory buffer device to the host device.
US09632860B2
A method for multicore processor fault detection during execution of safety critical software applications in a multicore processor environment involves dedicating the complete resources of at least a part of at least one processor core to execution of diagnostics software application whilst dedicating remaining resources to execution of a safety-critical software application, thereby enabling parallel execution of the diagnostics software application and the safety-critical software application. There is also provided a controller for multicore processor fault detection during execution of safety critical software applications in a multicore processor environment. The controller includes a multicore processor environment. The controller may be part of a control system. The method may be provided as a computer program.
US09632858B2
The technology disclosed relates to organizing network performance metrics into historical anomaly dependency data. In particular, it relates to calculating cascading failure relationships between correlated anomalies detected in a network. It also relates to illustrating to a network administrator causes of system failure by laying out the graph to show a progression over time of the cascading failures and identify root causes of the cascading failures. It also relates to ranking anomalies and anomaly clusters in the network based on attributes of the resources exhibiting anomalous performances and attributes of the anomalous performances. It further relates to depicting evolution of resource failures across a network by visually coding impacted resources and adjusting the visual coding over time and allowing replay over time to visualize propagation of anomalous performances among the impacted resource.
US09632857B2
Various embodiments for intelligent dump suppression in a computing environment following an error are provided. A plurality of historical information is considered in view of a current alert level to generate an output decision. The current alert level is one of an available plurality of alert levels configurable by a user. The current alert level is selectable by the user for a predetermined data collection restrictiveness. Data capture is performed according to the output decision.
US09632856B2
A memory controller includes a controller input/output circuit configured to output a first command to read first data, and output a second command to read an error corrected portion of the first data. A memory device includes: an error detector, a data storage circuit and an error correction circuit. The error detector is configured to detect a number of error bits in data read from a memory cell in response to a first command. The data storage circuit is configured to store the read data if the detected number of error bits is greater than or equal to a first threshold value. The error correction circuit is configured to correct the stored data.
US09632854B2
A method for managing a configuration of an electronic system having a plurality of locations configured to receive hardware units is disclosed. The method may include receiving hardware unit parameters corresponding to hardware units currently installed and pending installation in the electronic system and retrieving configuration data for the electronic system. The method may also include generating a plurality of hardware unit times to failure (TTFs) for the plurality of locations by applying, to a failure prediction model, the hardware parameters for hardware units currently installed and pending installation and the configuration data for the electronic system. The method may also include using a selection criteria to select the plurality of hardware unit predicted TTFs corresponding to the plurality of locations and reporting at least one recommended hardware unit installation location from the plurality of locations within the electronic system.
US09632848B1
A system and method for allocating commands in processing is disclosed. The system and method includes an application running on a computer system that provides commands to be executed on one of a plurality of processors capable of executing the commands, the commands provided through an application programming interface, a device driver that buffers the streamed commands and converts the streamed commands into a format used by a GPU, and an operating system that builds a command buffer by grouping a plurality of converted commands based on an allocation for an available processor, wherein the available processor is determined in the interface between the device driver and the operating system. The available processor is one of the plurality of processors capable of executing the commands that receives the command buffer from the operating system, queues the command buffer and performs an asynchronous submission of the command buffer to the GPU, and the GPU executes the command buffer.
US09632830B1
A system and method for ensuring a minimum required availability of a Hosted Function (HF) may retain an entirety of a cache content between separate instances of one or more HF which may share a cache resource. Based on controlling a relationship between an unavailability of cache memory desired by the HF to a probability of the available cache being unusable by the HF, each activation period may be variable within a tolerance to achieve a certification strategy. The approach may statistically characterize a best case, expected case, and worst case of cache availability. The system and method may determine a quality of the cache state at the activation of a particular HF and, based on the statistical analysis of that quality over time, determine a desired derated activation period for each HF to achieve a minimum level of computational availability for successful activation of the HF.
US09632828B1
Distributed systems that maintain data items or state on multiple server nodes (e.g., a storage system or lock service) may receive transaction requests from clients that include read requests and/or write requests. If a transaction request includes a read request, a server node may determine a node staleness value for the requested data from the server's perspective, and may return a transaction response to the client that includes the requested data and the node staleness value. The client may compute a client staleness value for the requested data dependent on the node staleness value in the transaction response, rather than on a separate heartbeat process. If the transaction also includes a write request, the server may return the transaction response for the read request before the write commits. In this case, the client may not use the requested data until it receives another response indicating that the write committed.
US09632825B2
A method for performing instruction scheduling in an out-of-order microprocessor pipeline is disclosed. The method comprises selecting a first set of instructions to dispatch from a scheduler to an execution module, wherein the execution module comprises two types of execution units. The first type of execution unit executes both a first and a second type of instruction and the second type of execution unit executes only the second type. Next, the method comprises selecting a second set of instructions to dispatch, which is a subset of the first set and comprises only instructions of the second type. Next, the method comprises determining a third set of instructions, which comprises instructions not selected as part of the second set. Finally, the method comprises dispatching the second set for execution using the second type of execution unit and dispatching the third set for execution using the first type of execution unit.
US09632813B2
Techniques for providing high availability to virtual machines executing in a nested hypervisor. A high availability agent executing within a slave computer in a cluster detects when a master server becomes unavailable and restarts virtual machines from the master server in response. The high availability agent detects whether any of the virtual machines were executing a nested hypervisor within the master server and starts a high availability agent within such hypervisors. The high availability agent within the nested hypervisor is a modified high availability agent with respect to the high availability agent executing in physical servers. The modified high availability agent does not participate in master election and also cannot elect the virtual machine on which it runs as master.
US09632812B1
Collecting data associated with virtual machines from various data sources is disclosed, including: collecting data associated with a virtual machine from a data source of virtual machine data, where the data associated with the virtual machine is not currently tracked by a hypervisor; determining a set of related data associated with the virtual machine based at least in part on the data associated with the virtual machine collected from the data source of virtual machine data; storing associating data that associates the set of related data associated with the virtual machine; and providing access to the set of related data associated with the virtual machine based at least in part on the associating data.
US09632784B2
A processor includes a decoder logic to decode a compare instruction, and an execution unit to execute the compare instruction. The compare instruction is to cause the processor to determine whether each 32-bit floating point data element of first and second SIMD floating point operands is valid, compare only valid 32-bit floating point data elements of the first 64-bit SIMD floating point operand with only valid 32-bit floating point data elements of the second 64-bit SIMD floating point operand in the same data element position, and store indicators of whether the compared valid 32-bit floating point data elements of the first and second 64-bit SIMD floating point operands are equal.
US09632783B2
Techniques are described for determining whether execution of an instruction would require reading more values from a memory cell of a general purpose register (GPR) than a read port of the memory cell would allow. In such a case, the techniques may store, prior to execution of the instruction, one or more values from the memory cell in a separate conflict queue. During execution of the instruction to implement an operation defined by the instruction, one value that is an operand of the operation would be read from the memory cell and another value that is an operand of the operation other would be read from the conflict queue.
US09632782B2
A processor includes an instruction decoder to receive a first instruction to process a secure hash algorithm 2 (SHA-2) hash algorithm, the first instruction having a first operand associated with a first storage location to store a SHA-2 state and a second operand associated with a second storage location to store a plurality of messages and round constants. The processor further includes an execution unit coupled to the instruction decoder to perform one or more iterations of the SHA-2 hash algorithm on the SHA-2 state specified by the first operand and the plurality of messages and round constants specified by the second operand, in response to the first instruction.
US09632773B2
A method for cleaning memory space includes marking an application of a terminal device when that application is launched in response to a launching operation, loading each marked application to an application resource pool of the terminal device, counting a total number of marked times of each application in the application resource pool, determining if the total number of marked times of each application in the application resource pool is greater than or equal to a predetermined number of times, determining the applications, which have a total number of marked times greater than or equal to the predetermined number of times, in the application resource pool, as non-removable applications and determining other applications of the terminal device as removable applications, and cleaning the memory space occupied by the removable applications when available memory space of the terminal device is not enough.
US09632768B2
Techniques are described for exchanging data between software applications, such as project-related data between a project management software application (“PMSA”) and an unaffiliated organizational project tracking software application (“OPTSA”). A computing architecture with multiple interacting computer systems, such as a client-server architecture, can be used to allow users of remote computing systems to access project-related data and/or functionality from other computing systems, such as a thin client computing system with limited or no local capabilities to execute software applications and/or store associated application data accessing a remote central server computing system in order to interact with a PMSA executing on the server, to interact with an OPTSA executing on the server, and/or to invoke data exchange functionality available at the server for exchanging project-related data between the PMSA and OPTSA.
US09632767B2
A solution providing tools for developing an application of an image forming apparatus is stored in the image forming apparatus, and functions of the image forming apparatus are displayed according to execution of the solution. An application corresponding to input information of a user is generated by combining functions of the image forming apparatus based on the input information of the user and is stored in the image forming apparatus.
US09632765B1
A system and method including: receiving an initial application package including at least one binary file of an application; generating an application token, wherein the application token is operable to identify a context; and assembling a customized application package including the initial application package and the application token, wherein: the customized application package and the initial application package share a common hash value according to a predefined hashing algorithm, and the application can be configured based on the application token.
US09632759B1
A device may receive model information that describes a model and external system information that describes an external system that is different than the model. The model information may identify a first set of signals, associated with the model, that are incompatible with the external system. The external system information may identify a second set of signals, associated with the external system, that are incompatible with the model. The device may generate interface code based on the model information and the external system information. The interface code, when executed, may permit the model and the external system to interact using the first set of signals and the second set of signals. The device may execute the interface code to transform the first set of signals to the second set of signals and to transform the second set of signals to the first set of signals.
US09632755B1
A computer-implemented method includes receiving an invocation of an invoked interface associated with a class, identifying, based on the class, a plurality of interface lookup artifacts and a cached interface lookup artifact, and comparing the invoked interface with a cache interface. The cache interface is associated with the cached interface artifact. The computer-implemented method further includes, responsive to the invoked interface matching the cache interface, returning the cached interface artifact, and responsive to the invoked interface not matching the cache interface, searching the plurality of interface lookup artifacts until finding a matching interface lookup artifact. The matching interface lookup artifact is associated with a matching interface that matches the invoked interface. Responsive to finding the matching interface lookup artifact, returning the matching interface lookup artifact and updating the cached interface lookup artifact to the matching interface lookup artifact. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed.
US09632744B2
An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code is configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform: associating at least one user interface visual display element and at least one user interface audio display element with a data representation; determining a user interface position for the data representation determining whether the user interface position for the data representation is within a visual display region; outputting the at least one visual display element when the user interface position is within the visual display region; and outputting the at least one audio display element with the user interface position wherein the outputting of at least one audio display element is generated based on the user interface position relative to the visual display region.
US09632740B2
Present embodiments include a system and method for providing an input-driven, switching-enabled display device for an automation controller. The display device may include a communication interface port, such as a universal serial bus (USB) port, which is installed in the display device so that it may be easily accessible by a user. The port may increase a user's productivity and efficiency by reducing the time it takes to connect a PC to the automation controller. The display device may also include an interface switch that performs display functionality or port adapter functionality based upon whether a port connection and/or port communication traffic are detected. Thus, embodiments may enable the display device to act as both a text display and a gateway to configure the automation controller with a personal computer (PC) through the use of the easy access port.
US09632737B2
In the case where display contents are converted according to a set value in a pixel data process, even in the case where there is a limitation in the number of instructions or the number of instructions suitable to be handled for one pixel data process is exceeded, setting contents are reflected on displayed pixel data. Conversion processing to be executed is divided into a plurality of pixel data processes so that the number of instructions falls within an appropriate range. The display controls are overlappingly arranged in the number same as the divided pixel data processes in an area to be processed, and by assigning the divided pixel data processes in a processing executing order to the display controls from the display control in the upper layer, the plurality of pixel data processes is reflected on display.
US09632728B2
A method to configure a storage library, comprising the steps of establishing a logical configuration for said storage library comprising a plurality of physical objects, by configuring a plurality of logical objects using a plurality of logical configuration commands, and adding that plurality of logical objects to the logical configuration. The method further adds the plurality of logical configuration commands to a Configuration Library, and saves that Configuration Library for later use.
US09632722B2
A method begins by a processing module determining to move a range of encoded data slices from a first storage unit to a second storage unit of a plurality of storage units, where data objects are dispersed storage error encoded to produce pluralities of sets of encoded data slices, and where the pluralities of sets of encoded data slices are stored in the plurality of storage units. The method continues with the processing module transferring the range of encoded data slices from the first storage unit to the second storage unit. In response to the transferring the range of encoded data slices from the first storage unit to the second storage unit, the method continues with the processing module transferring a corresponding range of second encoded data slices from a third storage unit to a fourth storage unit.
US09632719B2
A storage device includes a primary storage extension chip, a plurality of secondary storage extension chips, and a plurality of resistors. Each of the storage extension chips includes two data pins, a plurality of general purpose input/output (GPIO) pins, and a firmware. Each of the GPIO pins is connected to a power terminal through one resistor, and is grounded through a resistor, for setting a firmware version number of storage extension chips. The primary storage extension chip determines whether the version number of each secondary storage extension chip is same as that of the primary storage extension chip. If the version number is different from that of the primary storage extension chip, the firmware version number of the primary storage extension chip is applied to the secondary storage extension chip.
US09632710B2
Dynamically manages a creation and a destruction of a plurality of Flashcopy resources and the target volumes using configurable high-water marks and maximum values.
US09632706B2
A method includes, in a memory system that includes multiple memory units, holding information indicative of respective programming durations of the memory units. Data is stored in a stripe that includes a plurality of the memory units, by programming the memory units in the stripe in an order that is set based on the information.
US09632700B2
A method, system, and computer program product for managing a storage facility are disclosed. A potential file overlay may be detected when performing a file transfer. When a file is common to multiple systems and resides on a shared system storage volume, potential file corruption due to a data transfer request is detected and then able to be prevented. Hardware identifiers such as Universal Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) are used in managing a write of a file to shared system storage. By comparing multiple hardware identifiers, a determination is made as to whether to process the write of the file. If the hardware identifiers mismatch, the write is processed. If the hardware identifiers match, a potential file overlay is detected. Because of the potential file overlay, the write is aborted and a failure notification is returned. A successful overwrite prevention notification may also be returned.
US09632691B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a selected character specification program that causes a computer to execute a process including detecting a character region indicating a region, in which each character of the displayed character string is displayed on a screen, based on character string display information, specifying a stroke of a closed curved line designated on the screen based on input operation information, and specifying one or a plurality of successive characters, in which a ratio of an area of a selected region based on uppermost, lowermost, leftmost, and rightmost points of the stroke of the closed curved line in the character region to an area of the character region exceeds a threshold, as selected character among a respective character of the displayed character string overlapped with the stroke of the closed curved line.
US09632686B1
A method implemented on an electronic computing device includes displaying a document. An image of a person is received. The image of the person is overlaid onto at least a portion of the image of the document. One or more movements are received from the person. The image of the person is moved to indicate a specific area of the document. The movement of the image of the person to the specific area of the document is based on the one or more movements from the person.
US09632682B2
A method and device for executing an object on a display. The method of executing an object includes receiving a user input to an object displayed on a display; gradually enlarging and displaying the object; and executing the application corresponding to the object as the object is enlarged.
US09632681B2
A mobile terminal includes a display unit on which a tiled object corresponding to a function is displayed and a touch panel located on the display unit. The mobile terminal further includes at least one processor. The at least one processor displays, when a plurality of tiled objects are stored in a folder, display the folder on the display unit. The at least one processor displays an image representing a tiled object stored in the folder on the display unit in association with the folder. The at least one processor performs, when a touch operation is performed on the folder, a function corresponding to the tiled object represented by the image displayed on the display unit.
US09632680B2
An electronic device and a method for controlling zooming of a displayed object are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a single-point slide operation performed by a user on a displayed object of a touch screen, and generating a slide signal; parsing the slide signal to obtain a slide track and a feature value of the single-point slide operation; determining whether the feature value of at least one point in the single-point slide operation is greater than a preset value; and when the feature value is greater than the preset value, controlling zooming of the displayed object according to the slide track. A slide track and a feature value of a single-point slide operation of a user are identified, and when it is determined that the feature value is greater than a preset value, zooming of a displayed object of the touch screen is controlled.
US09632673B1
An application program window for a graphical user interface is provided that can include a geospatial data view panel adapted to display a geospatial view based on one or more data sources selected for display, the geospatial view being updated in real-time based on updates received for the one or more data sources selected for display. The window can include a data source panel adapted to display a plurality of available data sources and, for one or more of the available data sources, one or more hyperlinks that, upon user selection, serve to update the geospatial view. The window can include a timeline panel adapted to display one or more controls that, upon user selection, serve to initiate playback of a timeline enabled geospatial view by the geospatial data view panel, the timeline enabled geospatial view comprising a sequence of views spanning a period of time.
US09632661B2
Various embodiments are disclosed that relate to serially displaying text on an electronic display. In some embodiments, a user device displays a notification marker/icon representing a notification event associated with an application by displaying the notification marker/icon with an icon representing the application. The notification marker/icon further represents a presence of content that is displayable using RSVP. The communications device receives a user interface action to select the notification event, and in response to the user interface action, displays textual content associated with the notification event in a designated display area using RSVP.
US09632651B2
A mobile terminal using a plurality of message services and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a display unit configured to display list information including a plurality of identification items corresponding to a plurality of message windows, respectively, when the plurality of message windows are open for message communication between or among a plurality of conversation participants; and a controller configured to invite at least some of conversation participants of a first message window corresponding to a first identification item to a second message window corresponding to a second identification item when the first identification item, among the plurality of identification items, partially overlaps with the second identification item according to a touch input applied to the display unit.
US09632640B2
Provided is a transparent laminate which does not have a problem in which a transparent electrode pattern is visually recognized, a capacitance type input device having the transparent laminate, and an image display device provided with the capacitance type input device as a constituent element. The transparent laminate of the invention includes a region where a transparent substrate, a first transparent film which contains a metal oxide and has a film thickness of 55 nm to 110 nm, a transparent electrode pattern, and a second transparent film which contains 5 mass % to 80 mass % of metal oxide particles and has a film thickness of 55 nm to 110 nm are laminated in this order in a plane.
US09632636B2
The present invention provides a manufacture method of a touch panel, comprising: step 1, forming a black matrix (2) on one side (11) of a color filter substrate (1); the black matrix (2) is positioned corresponding to a sensor pattern to be set to form gaps at portions of the black matrix (2) corresponding to the sensor pattern to be set; step 2, deposing a conductive film (3) on the other side (13) of the color filter substrate (1); step 3, coating photoresistor (4) on the conductive film (3); step 4, employing the black matrix (2) as a mask to implement exposure process and development process to the photoresistor (4) from the one side (11) of the color filter substrate (1) formed with the black matrix (2); step 5, implementing etching to the conductive film (3) by utilizing the photoresistor (4′) remained after the development to obtain the sensor pattern (3′) to be set; step 6, forming a protective layer (5) on the color filter substrate (1) and the sensor pattern (3′). The method saves manufacture times and the cost is low.
US09632635B2
An arrangement of a touch panel is provided that prevents corrosion of the lines and improves reliability. A touch panel includes: a substrate (10); a sensor electrode located on the substrate (10) and formed of an oxide conductive film; a line (161) electrically connected with the sensor electrode; and a protection film (14) provided over the line (161). The protection film (14) includes: a first protection sub-film (141) formed of silicon nitride; a second protection sub-film (142) located on the first protection sub-film (141), formed of silicon nitride and having a lower refractive index than the first protection sub-film (141); and a third protection sub-film (143) located on the second protection sub-film (142), formed of silicon nitride and having a higher refractive index than the second protection sub-film (142), wherein the second protection sub-film (142) has a thickness that is no smaller than the total thickness of the first protection sub-film (141) and the third protection sub-film (143).
US09632616B2
An interactive system includes a transmitter (light-emitting pen) configured to transmit an optical signal and a projector. The projector includes a signal-intensity setting unit in which intensity information of a synchronization signal is set, a signal-intensity control unit (light-emission control unit) configured to control the intensity of the synchronization signal on the basis of the setting of the signal-intensity setting unit, a synchronization-signal transmitting unit (infrared-light emitting unit) configured to transmit the synchronization signal, and an image pickup unit configured to pick up an image of the optical signal transmitted from the transmitter. The transmitter includes a receiving unit (pen reception unit) configured to receive the synchronization signal and an optical-signal transmitting unit (pen control unit and a light-emitting diode) configured to transmit the optical signal in synchronization with the synchronization signal received by the receiving unit.
US09632612B2
A method of sensing at least one object in proximity to an array of sensors can include making a determination that an object greater than a predetermined size has been detected; defining an ignore zone that includes sensor locations of the object and sensor locations surrounding those of the object; and removing the ignore zone after a predetermined duration; wherein the proximity of objects outside of the ignore zone are processed differently than the proximity of objects inside of the ignore zones.
US09632611B1
The invention discloses a GOA circuit for in-cell type touch display panel; during black screen, using a first global control signal to make a thirteenth N-type TFT conductive to raise a scan driving signal of each stage to high, using the first global control signal to make a twelfth N-type TFT conductive to pull down a voltage level of a second node, and pulling down a voltage level of a first node to avoid ineffective all-gate-on function; using a reset signal and a fourteenth N-type TFT to reset the second node to realize the normal output after awaking from black screen; during stop, setting a negative voltage as a pulse signal having same amplitude, phase and frequency as a touch signal, using a second global control signal to make the fifteenth N-type TFT conductive to output the negative voltage in pulse form to reduce cross-talk between the touch signal and a scan output end.
US09632607B2
A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the mobile terminal are disclosed. According to the embodiment of the present invention, when a touching event for a touch input to a touch screen is generated, a writing sound source corresponding to the generated touching event is selected from a memory, and a feedback sound is output in real time, that is generated by changing a sound property of the writing sound source that is selected according to a pressure of a touch applied to the touch screen and a moving speed of the touch. This enables the user to feel as if he/she performed the writing input in the actual analog environment, and provides the use with a yearning for the analog environment and a pleasure to experience it.
US09632606B1
Apparatuses and methods of touch location interpolation using iterative emulated touches are described. One method measures touch data on a sense array. The method determines that the touch data represents two or more touches proximate to the sense array and sequentially estimates touch geometries of the two or more touches based on two or more estimated touches that correspond to the two or more touches proximate to the sense array. The touch geometries comprise estimated touch sizes and estimated touch positions of the two or more touches. The method outputs the touch geometries of the two or more touches when an error between the two or more estimated touches and the two or more touches is less than a specified threshold.
US09632602B2
Techniques for fabric laminated touch input device are described. In at least some embodiments, a touch input device is mounted to a chassis of an apparatus. The touch input device and the chassis are laminated with a fabric layer, such as by adhering a portion of fabric over the chassis and the touch input device to enclose the touch input device beneath the fabric layer. According to one or more embodiments, a touch input device laminated with fabric can support different types of touch input, such click input for object selection, touch input for object movement, and so forth.
US09632596B2
A micro touch pen structure includes a casing unit, a circuit unit, a first electromagnetic unit, a pen core unit, a second electromagnetic unit and an elastic unit. The circuit unit is disposed inside the pen-shaped casing structure. The first electromagnetic unit includes a first hollow electromagnetic body inside the pen-shaped casing structure and an electromagnetic coil wound around the first hollow electromagnetic body and electrically connected to the circuit unit. The pen core unit includes a first movable portion passing through the first hollow electromagnetic body, a second movable portion partially exposed from the pen-shaped casing structure, and a stop portion connected between the first and the second movable portions. The second electromagnetic unit includes a second hollowing electromagnetic body fixed inside the pen-shaped casing structure and disposed around the first movable portion. The elastic unit is disposed between the first movable portion and a fixed structure.
US09632591B1
Disclosed herein is an input device having variable make points. More specifically, the various embodiments described herein are directed to an input device having a key, a first button member and a second button member. A dielectric may be positioned between the first button member and the second button member. The key is also associated with a capacitive sensor that is configured to determine a change in capacitance as a distance between the first button member and the second button member changes.
US09632590B2
A vision system for a vehicle includes a camera having a field of view that encompasses a front seat of the vehicle so as to capture images of an occupant of the vehicle. An image processor is provided with image data captured by the camera and the image processor image processes image data captured by the camera. The image processor, responsive at least in part to image processing of image data captured by the camera, recognizes movement representative of a hand gesture made by the occupant of the vehicle. The image processor is a system-on-a-chip image processor. The control may control a device of the vehicle responsive at least in part to the recognition of the hand gesture.
US09632561B2
Embodiments of a system that reduces power consumption by power-gating media decoders are described. During operation of the system, a decoder circuit receives encoded audio data and outputs corresponding decoded audio data to a memory, which is electrically coupled to the decoder circuit. Moreover, control logic, which is electrically coupled to the memory and the decoder circuit, provides commands to the memory and the decoder circuit that selectively disable at least a portion of the memory based on an amount of decoded audio data in the memory.
US09632555B2
Examples may include routing power between a Universal Serial Bus (USB) host and a USB device. In some examples, the power may be routed from a power source at the USB device while the USB host is in a dead battery condition. Various switches at the USB host may be capable of selectively switching to route power from the power source to provide operating power to circuitry at the USB host.
US09632551B2
Circuitry and methods related to switching power are provided. One of a plurality of current-limited power distribution switches is enabled in accordance with a hierarchical scheme depending upon the respective states of plural power sources. The power source having the greatest available load carrying capacity is thus coupled to a power node for provision to load entities. Servers, computing devices, printers, and other apparatus can include such selective power provisioning.
US09632548B1
An improved structure of a power input end and a power output end of a power supply device is provided. The power supply includes a casing and a main body. A rear side of the casing is provided with a back plate having first heat dissipation holes. One side of an inner wall of the casing is provided with a power input end and a protection cover. A rear side of the protection cover is provided with an upright plate having a threaded hole and second heat dissipation holes parallel to the first heat dissipation holes. The interior of the casing is provided with two power output ends each in the form of a plate perpendicular to the back plate. The present invention lowers the sheltered area of the back plate to form a better heat dissipation structure. The protection cover can be disassembled easily.
US09632543B2
Disclosed is a mobile device comprising an acceleration detection unit for detecting acceleration relative to the device; a condition identification unit; and a power supply controller which determines, from a combination of the output of the acceleration detection unit and the output of the condition identification unit, whether or not to begin to supply power to the device.
US09632538B2
The disclosure provides a positioning frame for a touch pad. The positioning frame includes a main frame and a positioning wall. The positioning wall is located at a side of the main frame and is connected to the main frame. An inner surface of the main frame and the positioning wall define an opening. An area of the opening is approximately the same as an area of a film to be adhered to the touch pad. The positioning wall is configured to insert into a gap between the touch pad and a front cover of a system body.
US09632528B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including a virtual clock controller configured to update a first virtual clock on the basis of a system clock, and a synchronization part configured to perform given data synchronization processing with another information processing apparatus on the basis of the first virtual clock and a second virtual clock that is updated by the another information processing apparatus.
US09632526B2
A microcontroller has a numerical controlled oscillator receiving a primary clock signal and is configured to provide an internal system clock of the microcontroller. A method for operating a microcontroller performs the following steps: Selecting a primary clock signal from a plurality of clock signals; feeding the primary clock signal to a numerical controlled oscillator; configuring the numerical controlled oscillator to generate a numerical controlled clock signal; and providing the numerical controlled clock signal as an internal system clock for the microcontroller.
US09632521B2
A voltage generator is provided which is reliable, self starting and only requires a few components. The voltage generator comprises a first stage that provides a current to a second stage. The first stage has a temperature coefficient of one sign, such as positive, and the second stage has an opposing temperature coefficient, e.g. negative. The responses are summed such that the overall temperature coefficient is reduced.
US09632520B2
A method for controlling a voltage based on a temperature and a terminal supporting the same are provided. The terminal includes a temperature sensor for detecting a temperature of at least one location of the inside and of the outside of at least one system and a voltage control unit for adjusting the voltage supplied to the at least one system according to the temperature detected by the temperature sensor.
US09632519B2
A driver circuit for a PNP power transistor in an LDO regulator uses a Class AB (push-pull) buffer to supply the necessary base current to an NPN driver transistor, where the NPN driver transistor has its collector connected to the base of the PNP power transistor. A front end circuit of the driver, coupled to drive the Class AB buffer, uses a current diverting transistor, where a first portion of the current is used to control the pull-up transistor in the Class AB buffer, and the remainder of the current is used to control the pull-down transistor in the Class AB buffer, so the driver is very efficient. The portion of the driver circuit between the input of the driver circuit and the base of the NPN driver transistor is an inverting circuit. The driver can properly operate with an input voltage within two diode drops of ground.
US09632518B2
A thermostat having a hollow body, wherein the hollow body is at least partly filled with a thermosensitive medium. A heating element is provided for heating the thermosensitive medium. The heating element is located outside of the hollow body and is at least partially insulated electrically from the hollow body. The element is connected to the hollow body in a thermally conductive manner.
US09632507B1
A control system is provided for platooning a plurality of vehicles, each of which equipped with vehicle braking control systems and V2V communication system components. The system determines nominal following distances for each of said following vehicles relative to an immediately preceding vehicle, based in part on brake performance capabilities. Vehicle sensors throughout the platoon are implemented to monitor target vehicles positioned relative to the platoon, and some or all of the nominal following distances are dynamically adjusted to account for braking event risks associated with the target vehicles. Adjustment to following distances for trailing vehicles may be proactively applied even before braking reaction is determined or applied for a lead vehicle, and control signals are simultaneously generated implementing vehicle movement adjustments based on the following distance adjustments. Adjustments may be based on threshold violations associated with target vehicles in front, laterally merging into, or tailgating behind the platoon.
US09632504B1
An example method includes determining a depth map of at least one static surface of a building, where the depth map includes a plurality of surface contours. The method further includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors on a robotic device that is located in the building. The method also includes determining a plurality of respective distances between the robotic device and a plurality of respective detected points on the at least one static surface of the building. The method additionally includes identifying at least one surface contour that includes the plurality of respective detected points. The method further includes determining a position of the robotic device in the building that aligns the at least one identified surface contour with at least one corresponding surface contour in the depth map.
US09632502B1
A system, an apparatus or a process may be configured to implement an application that applies artificial intelligence and/or machine-learning techniques to predict an optimal course of action (or a subset of courses of action) for an autonomous vehicle system (e.g., one or more of a planner of an autonomous vehicle, a simulator, or a teleoperator) to undertake based on suboptimal autonomous vehicle performance and/or changes in detected sensor data (e.g., new buildings, landmarks, potholes, etc.). The application may determine a subset of trajectories based on a number of decisions and interactions when resolving an anomaly due to an event or condition. The application may use aggregated sensor data from multiple autonomous vehicles to assist in identifying events or conditions that might affect travel (e.g., using semantic scene classification). An optimal subset of trajectories may be formed based on recommendations responsive to semantic changes (e.g., road construction).
US09632491B1
A reconfigurable drive current system includes drive stages, each of which includes a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor in a totem pole configuration. A current monitor is coupled to an output of each drive stage. Input channels are provided to receive input signals. A processor is coupled to the input channels and to each current monitor for generating at least one drive signal using at least one of the input signals and current measured by at least one of the current monitors. A pulse width modulation generator is coupled to the processor and each drive stage for varying the drive signals as a function of time prior to being supplied to at least one of the drive stages.
US09632484B2
A timepiece comprises a chiming device including at least one pivoting toothed sector called rack (1) intended to cooperate with at least one first part (2), driving a second part (3) secured to a pin (32) cooperating with an eccentric (41) for actuating at least one hammer (4) characterized in that the hammer (4) chimes a gong (5) extending substantially in a plane A by being displaced along a plane B which intercepts the plane A of the gong (5).
US09632482B2
A sub-hologram generation method and an apparatus for a hologram display are provided, the apparatus including at least a first calculation unit configured to calculate a size of a first sub-hologram area corresponding to a first hologram object using a user viewing window, a second calculation unit configured to calculate a size of a second sub-hologram area corresponding to the first hologram object based on a size of a display pixel, and a determiner configured to compare the size of the first sub-hologram area and the size of the second sub-hologram area, and to determine a sub-hologram area corresponding to the first hologram object based on a result of the comparing.
US09632472B2
A support member is supported in a cylinder included in an image carrier and includes a separation-space-defining portion that is arranged at a certain position in a circumferential direction and extends in an axial direction of the cylinder so that the support member has an arc shape; and a groove-defining portion having a groove depth that changes along the axial direction. A bottom plate of the groove-defining portion is elastically deformed so that the support member presses an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder at least at both ends in the axial direction and is thereby supported in the cylinder.
US09632469B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a detection unit configured to detect a detection pattern on a first region in a first misregistration state and the detection pattern on a second region in a second pattern in a second misregistration state, and a control unit configured to perform misregistration correction by obtaining a misregistration amount in the main scanning direction based on a detection result of the detection pattern. The detection pattern has a first edge that is tilted by a first angle with respect to the main scanning direction on the first region, and has a second edge that is running in the main scanning direction or tilted by a second angle, which is smaller than the first angle, with respect to the main scanning direction on the second region.
US09632458B2
A developing device includes a developer agitation portion including a plurality of trap agitation blades arranged in an axis direction of the developer agitation portion. A plurality of agitation blade portions is arranged with being shifted from one another in a circumferential direction and a longitudinal direction of the developer agitation portion. Two adjacent trap agitation blades constituting the agitation blade portion are arranged at an angle so as to make a space between the two adjacent trap agitation blades gradually wider upstream with respect to a rotation direction of the developer agitation portion.
US09632421B2
An arrangement for a lithography apparatus has a component and a weight compensating device to compensate for a weight of the component. The weight compensating device includes a first magnetic device and a second magnetic device. The first magnetic device is designed to exert a first magnetic force on the component. The first magnetic force exceeds the weight of the component. The first magnetic force acts counter to the weight of the component. The second magnetic device is designed to exert a second magnetic force on the component. The second magnetic force acts in the direction of the weight of the component. The first magnetic force corresponds to the sum of the second magnetic force and the weight. The second magnetic device is designed to reduce the second magnetic force at the same time and by the same absolute value as the first magnetic force.
US09632417B2
A shrink material is provided comprising a polymer comprising recurring units of formula (1) and a solvent containing an anti-vanishing solvent. A pattern is formed by applying a resist composition comprising a base resin and an acid generator onto a substrate to form a resist film, exposing, developing in an organic solvent developer to form a negative resist pattern, applying the shrink material onto the pattern, and removing the excessive shrink material with an organic solvent for thereby shrinking the size of holes and/or slits in the pattern.
US09632410B2
There is provided an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition containing: a resin (A) containing a repeating unit represented by a specific formula (1), and an ionic compound (B) represented by a specific formula (2), a resist film formed by using the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition, a pattern forming method including: (a) a step of forming the resist film, (b) a step of exposing the film, and (c) a step of developing the exposed film using a developer to form a pattern.
US09632409B2
The present disclosure relates to novel fullerene derivatives, positive and negative photoresist compositions prepared therefrom and methods of using them. The derivatives, their photoresist compositions and the methods are ideal for high speed, fine pattern processing using, for example, ultraviolet radiation, extreme ultraviolet radiation, beyond extreme ultraviolet radiation, X-rays, electron beam and other charged particle rays.
US09632401B2
A projector includes a lens shift mechanism that is capable of lens shift of shifting the lens in an upward/downward direction or a leftward/rightward direction, a distortion correction information input section that allows input of distortion correction information used to correct distortion of projected image light projected on a projection surface, a shift correction information input section that allows input of shift correction information relating to the lens shift, and an image generation section that generates the image based on the distortion correction information. The shift correction information input section has an input menu image. The input menu image contains choices for inputting the shift correction information. The choices include a maximum amount of lens shift of the lens in at least one of the upward/downward direction and the leftward/rightward direction. The image generation section generates the image based on the distortion correction information and the shift correction information.
US09632400B2
A projector includes a projection lens having a plurality of lenses and projects modulated light from a light modulator, a receiver that externally receives an optical signal, and an exterior enclosure that forms the exterior of the projector. The projection lens has a front-side lens disposed in a most downstream position in an optical path among the plurality of lenses and having a diameter larger than the diameters of the other lenses. The exterior enclosure has an upper surface portion. The upper surface portion has a swelling portion that swells in such a way that the swelling portion covers part of a circumferential edge portion of the front-side lens. The receiver is disposed in the swelling portion and so oriented that the receiver receives the optical signal incident from a side opposite to a side where the light is projected through the projection lens.
US09632396B2
A camera lens storage and exchange device according to the present invention includes a body having a first end and an oppositely disposed second end, where both ends are disposed along a longitudinal axis of the body. The device further includes a coupling mount disposed at each of the first and second ends, where each of the coupling mounts may be configured to, with respect to the body, receive thereto, retain therein, and release therefrom, a camera lens. The device further includes a rotational member connected at a mid-point of the body, where the rotational member may be configured to freely rotate the body about a rotational axis of the rotational member. The longitudinal axis of the body may be disposed orthogonal to and intersecting with the rotational axis of the rotational member.
US09632392B1
A lens assembly for a camera or a camera including a first lens mounted to a base portion, and a second lens mounted to a lens frame, where the first lens and the second lens are positioned co-axially along a central axis. The lens assembly includes a linear guide system for maintaining alignment of the first and second lenses. An embodiment of the linear guide system includes a first elongated element elongated along a longitudinal axis extending therethrough, parallel to and offset from the central axis. The elongated element may support and guide the lens frame for linear movement along a linear path parallel to the central axis. Some embodiments of the lens assembly include a second elongated element or rotation restriction element.
US09632387B2
A display unit includes: a display layer including a plurality of pixels each including an electrophoretic device; and a color filter provided on a display side of the display layer and including filter layers each having one of a plurality of colors, the filter layers facing the respective pixels, in which a distance between the display layer and the color filter is not more than 25 percent of a pixel pitch in the display layer.
US09632385B2
Disclosed is an electrochromic display device including a display substrate, a display electrode provided on the display substrate, a first electrochromic layer provided on the display electrode, an intermediate display electrode provided above the first electrochromic layer separately from the first electrochromic layer, a second electrochromic layer provided on and contacting the intermediate display electrode, an opposed substrate, an opposed electrode provided on the opposed substrate, and an electrolyte solution provided between a surface of the display substrate on which the display electrode is formed and a surface of the opposed substrate on which the opposed electrode is formed, wherein the intermediate display electrode contains a rod-shaped, whisker-shaped, or long-fiber-shaped electrically conductive fine particle, and at least a portion of a space in the electrically conductive fine particle is filled with a material forming the second electrochromic layer.
US09632379B2
A display device includes: a first substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on the first substrate; a common electrode including a plurality of common electrode plates disposed on the first substrate, where the common electrode plates cover the pixel electrodes and are arranged substantially in a matrix form; and a plurality of common electrode line groups which applies a common voltage to the common electrode plates, in which laterally adjacent common electrode plates of the common electrode plates are connected to different common electrode line groups.
US09632375B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a switch including a gate, an active layer disposed on the gate, a source electrode connected to the active layer, and a drain electrode connected to the active layer. In particular, the distance between the edge of the gate electrode and the edge of the active layer is 1.2 to 3 μm. The drain electrode includes a connection portion, an oblique portion, and an extension portion, wherein the oblique portion is disposed between the connection portion and the extension portion, and wherein at least a part of the oblique portion overlaps with the gate electrode.
US09632367B2
A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a display medium. At least one spacer is formed on the top surface of the first substrate and is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. An alignment film is formed on the first substrate and covers the spacer. The spacer has a first width and a second width in a direction perpendicular to a normal vector of the first substrate. The location of the second width is nearer to the first substrate than that of the first width. The second width is smaller than the first width. The alignment film has a first thickness at the location of the spacer having the first width and has a second thickness at the location of the spacer having the second width. The second thickness is greater than the first thickness.
US09632364B2
A display apparatus includes a first substrate having a pixel region and a peripheral region surrounding the pixel region, the first substrate including a pixel disposed in the pixel region, a second substrate opposite to the first substrate, and a sealing member including a plurality of seals disposed on the peripheral region, the sealing member encapsulating the pixel region between first substrate and the second substrate.
US09632363B2
The present disclosure provides a method for rubbing an alignment layer and a liquid crystal display panel. The method includes: performing a first rubbing on the alignment layer of a liquid crystal display panel in a first rubbing direction; and performing a second rubbing on the alignment layer of the liquid crystal display panel in a second rubbing direction. The second rubbing direction is an arrangement direction of liquid crystal molecules when the liquid crystal molecules are arranged correctly on the alignment layer. The second rubbing direction is different from the first rubbing direction.
US09632358B2
A display apparatus capable of improving distortion of an image displayed on a video wall by having the display apparatus provided with an ultra-slim bezel. The display apparatus includes a display panel on which an image is displayed, a light source positioned at a rear of the display panel, a bottom chassis in which the light source is accommodated, and a fixing mold configured to fix a front surface of the display panel and formed of transparent material, wherein the fixing mold is provided at an inner surface thereof with an accommodation portion into which a side end of the display panel is inserted so that the display panel is fixed.
US09632350B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a backlight assembly including a light source that generates a light and an optical sheet that transmits the light, and a display panel disposed on the backlight assembly. The optical sheet includes a light-transmitting portion and an extending portion that are formed as a unitary single unit, and further includes a side light-blocking portion that is combined with the extending portion. The light-transmitting portion extends in a first direction, and the extending portion extends continuously from an end of the light-transmitting portion in a second direction that is different from the first direction.
US09632342B2
A display device includes a liquid crystal module to display an image at a front surface thereof, a cover to encase at least a portion of the liquid crystal module, and at least one fastening unit to couple the cover to the liquid crystal module, wherein the fastening unit is provided at a rear surface of the liquid crystal module.
US09632337B2
A manufacturing device for a liquid crystal display panel includes a stage including a first stage part and second stage part. The stage is configured to support a substrate laminate. A knife includes an entrance portion and a rigidity securing portion. The knife is configured to peel a support substrate of the substrate laminate. The stage is configured to rotate in a direction parallel with a surface of the stage. The rigidity securing portion of the knife is thicker than an entrance portion of the knife.
US09632333B2
The present invention will provide a vision correction device which utilizes the movements of the eye to correct the focus of the user without the need of surgical procedures. More specifically, the present invention will detect the movement of the ciliary muscle and adaptively modify the shape of an artificial lens positioned inside or outside of the eye to adjust the focus of the lens. This adjustment will occur very rapidly and coincide with the ciliary muscle's attempt to focus the crystalline lens of the eye.
US09632327B2
Some embodiments include an image sensor and a zoom lens assembly including a plurality of movable lens elements arranged to be moved independent of one another. In some embodiments, the plurality of movable lens elements share an optical axis. Some embodiments include a lens and mirror assembly for admitting light to the miniature camera. The lens and mirror assembly includes a folded optics arrangement such that light enters the lens and mirror assembly through a first lens with an optical axis of the first lens orthogonal to the plurality of moveable lens elements. The lens and mirror assembly includes a mirror for folding the path of light from the optical axis of the first lens to the optical axis of the plurality of movable lens elements, and the lens and mirror assembly further includes an actuator for tilting the mirror.
US09632319B2
An illuminating magnifier has an annular housing with an underside, an inner edge defining an opening and an outer edge. A magnifying lens fills the opening, which lens has an optical axis. Light emitting diodes are distributed about the axis at the underside of the housing, each diode, when energized, producing a relatively wide angle conical light beam with a central hot spot cone which cart illuminate a viewing field below the lens. Special mounting surfaces at the housing underside aim the diodes in the diode array at selected angles relative to the lens axis so that the conical light beams therefrom overlap and all points in the viewing field are illuminated by the light beam from each diode and a center region of that field around the axis is illuminated by the hot spot cones of all the diodes.
US09632318B2
A head-mounted display includes a main body and an input operation unit. The main body includes a display unit configured to be capable of presenting an image to a user, and is configured to be mountable on a head of the user. The input operation unit includes an operating element having a longitudinal direction in a direction of a first axis, is configured to be capable of electrostatically detecting a first operation on the operating element along the direction of the first axis and detecting a second operation on the operating element along a direction of a second axis orthogonal to the direction of the first axis, and is provided to the main body.
US09632312B1
An optical apparatus includes a first optical element having an eye-ward facing surface and an external world facing surface substantially opposite of the eye-ward facing surface. The optical apparatus also includes a diffractive optical element (“DOE”) disposed to substantially follow a curvature of the eye-ward facing surface of the first optical element. The DOE includes a partially reflective diffraction grating configured to direct a portion of image light in an eye-ward direction where the image light is incident through an eye facing side of the DOE. The curvature of the eye-ward facing surface of the first optical element has an optical power configured to collimate the image light within an eyebox sized area.
US09632307B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for providing compact shutter assemblies. Shutter assemblies can be formed in a more compact fashion, allowing for higher pixel-per-inch displays, by incorporating shutters that during actuation pass over or under portions of the actuators that control those shutters.
US09632306B2
The present inventive concept relates to an electrowetting display device including a lyophobic colloid material and a polymer resin such as an organic layer or a polyimide (PI), and a lyophobic layer including a supporting layer supporting the lyophobic colloid material and using a photoreactive fluorine-based surfactant for a fluorine-based material to be positioned above and for a hardened photoreactive material layer to be positioned below through exposure in a single step without separately performing a hydrophilic treatment and then a water-repellent treatment, thereby reducing the number of processes, the manufacturing time, and the cost.
US09632304B2
A direct view optical sight including an integrated laser rangefinder. One example of the sight includes an eyepiece, an objective providing an optical aperture and configured to direct electromagnetic radiation from a viewed scene to the eyepiece, an erector tube assembly coupled between the eyepiece and the objective, the laser rangefinder configured to transmit and receive laser radiation, and a beam combiner assembly mounted to the erector tube assembly and positioned between the erector tube assembly and the objective, the beam combiner assembly configured to combine the laser radiation and the electromagnetic radiation to allow the laser rangefinder to transmit and receive the laser radiation via the optical aperture of the objective, and to maintain optical alignment of the laser rangefinder and the viewed scene during movement of the erector tube assembly.
US09632302B2
A solid state illumination system is provided as a replacement for conventional arc light, metal halide and Xenon white-light sources for applications in life sciences including, microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and endoscopy. The solid state illumination system generates high quality white light output from LED light sources. In an embodiment, the solid state illumination system is coupled to a microscope using a liquid light guide. The liquid light guide is coupled to a microscope using an adjustable collimator which optimizes the light output for input to the optical train of the microscope.
US09632286B2
The present disclosure discloses an optical image capturing system, sequentially arranged from an object side to an image side, comprises a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; and a fourth lens with refractive power; and an image-side surface and an object-side surface of the fourth lens element are aspheric. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for applying to compact cameras.
US09632278B2
An image-capturing and light-sensing optical apparatus has both of an image capturing function and a light sensing function. The image-capturing and light-sensing optical apparatus includes a first optical lens module, a second optical lens module and a casing. The casing has a first opening. The first optical lens module includes a first optical lens and a first optical sensor. According to the working distance or the equivalent focal length of the first optical lens module, the size of the first optical lens and the size of the first optical sensor, the maximum field of view is acquired. Consequently, the size of the first opening is determined, and the casing is slim. Under this circumstance, the image-capturing and light-sensing optical apparatus complies with the purpose of miniaturization.
US09632275B2
A secured cable system for protecting an inner cable is disclosed. The secured cable system includes a cable security system having a first security tape including a tape portion upon which a plurality of detection lines are arranged. The security system may also include a detection box in electrical or optical communication with each of the detection lines in the first security tape. In one embodiment, the security tape is spiral wrapped about the inner cable in a first direction along a length of the inner cable, the security tape being overlapped upon itself at a predetermined overlap factor. The secured cable system may also include a second security tape including a tape portion upon which a plurality of detection lines are arranged in a pattern wherein the second security tape is wrapped about the first security tape in a second direction opposite the first direction.
US09632272B2
In one embodiment, the system comprises: (a) a chassis; (b) one or more cards mounted in the chassis, each card having a plurality of switch ports, the plurality of switch ports being aligned in one or more columns; (c) an aggregator mounted adjacent the chassis, the aggregator having a plurality of bays, each bay being aligned with a card in the chassis, at least one of the bays having a faceplate comprising at least first and second aggregator ports aligned in a column; (d) at least first and second hydras, wherein each hydra comprises at least (i) a first connector; (ii) a plurality of second connectors; (iii) a plurality of conductors, each conductor connecting the first connector to one of the second connectors, the plurality of conductors being bundled together to form a trunk portion from the first connector to a breakout point, the plurality of conductors being separated into breakout portions from the breakout point to the second connectors; (iv) wherein the trunk portion of the first cable is longer than that of the second cable; and (e) wherein the first connector of the first hydra is connected to the first aggregator port and the second connectors of the first hydra are connected to a first set of switch ports, and the first connector of the second hydra is connected to the second aggregator port and the second connectors of the second hydra are connected to a second set of switch ports, wherein the first set of switch ports are further away from the aggregator than the second set of switch ports.
US09632266B2
The present disclosure includes an optical fiber ribbon, using polymer optical fibers and an extremely thin adhesive coating to provide adhesion between the fibers. The external surfaces of the optical fiber ribbons are precisely placed with respect to the optical cores of the constituent fibers, and the optical cores of the fibers are precisely placed with respect to each other. Therefore, the external surface of the ribbon is used as a reference surface for aligning the array of optical fiber cores to arrays of optical emitters or detectors at the ends of the ribbon. Thus, the optical fiber ribbon of the present disclosure is cut, either by a sharp blade or other tool as suitable to expose a cross-section of the ribbon, and inserted as a single unit into a receptacle that aligns the outer surface of the ribbon with respect to the array of optical emitters or detectors.
US09632256B2
An optical fiber adapter according to the present disclosure includes a main body, an inner housing, a movable member, an elastic shutter member, a spring and a cover plate. The main body has an axial accommodation room and an access opening is provided on a first wall of the main body. The inner housing is placed within the accommodation room and includes a hollow cylinder extending from the front surface of a flange. The movable member is positioned within the accommodation room and is configured to be moved toward a second opening of the accommodation room. The shutter member is positioned within the accommodation room and includes a fixed portion, a shutter plate and a connecting portion. The fixed portion is fixed at the movable member and is moved with the movable member. The connecting portion connects the fixed portion with the shutter plate. The shutter plate extends from the connecting portion and arrives in front of an opening of the hollow cylinder. The spring is positioned within the accommodation room to push the movable member toward a first opening of the accommodation room. The cover plate is placed to cover the access opening on the first wall.
US09632255B2
A communications connection system includes an adapter module defining at least first and second ports and at least one media reading interface mounted at one of the ports. The first adapter module is configured to receive a fiber optic connector at each port. Some type of connectors may be formed as duplex connector arrangements. Some types of adapters may include ports without media reading interfaces. Some types of media reading interfaces include contact members having three contact sections.
US09632254B2
An optical fiber positioner having an elongated base with sidewalls and a longitudinally extending throughbore. A flexible optical fiber extends through the throughbore and has one end protruding outwardly from an end surface of the base. A plurality of actuators are secured to the sidewalls of the base so that an end of each actuator is positioned adjacent the end of the base. A crossbeam is then connected to the ends of each actuator so that the crossbeam moves laterally relative to the base in unison with the deflection of the actuators. The crossbeam has an opening through which the optical fiber extends so that the optical fiber deflects in unison with the lateral movement of the crossbeam. Various fixtures for assembly of the optical fiber positioner are also shown.
US09632251B2
According to an aspect of the present principles, methods are provided for fabricating an integrated structure. A method includes forming a very large scale integration (VLSI) structure including a semiconductor layer at a top of the VLSI structure. The method further includes mounting the VLSI structure to a support structure. The method additionally includes removing at least a portion of the semiconductor layer from the VLSI structure. The method also includes attaching an upper layer to the top of the VLSI structure. The upper layer is primarily composed of a material that has at least one of a higher resistivity or a higher transparency than the semiconductor layer. The upper layer includes at least one hole for at least one of a photonic device or an electronic device. The method further includes releasing said VLSI structure from the support structure.
US09632239B2
A linear light source emits light beams for illuminating a target. The linear light source includes a light guide, and a light-emitting unit. The light guide has a bottom surface, first and second reflecting surfaces extending from opposite side edges of the bottom surface, and a light converging convex surface extending between the first and second reflecting surfaces, curved outward, and having multiple radii of curvature. The light-emitting unit emits light beams that exit through the light converging convex surface to converge at multiple points distributed at distinct positions in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the target, such that the target to be disposed within a range defined by the multiple points is evenly illuminated.
US09632237B2
An illumination device, including: a light source; a light guide plate having a light-entering face into which light from the light source enters and a light-exiting surface; a reflective sheet covering at least a portion on a light-entering face side of a bottom surface of the light guide plate; a chassis on a side of the reflective sheet opposite to the light guide plate, including at least a plate-shaped portion along the bottom surface of the light guide plate and a cut-out in the plate-shaped portion on the light-entering face side; and an opposite-side member on a side of the chassis opposite to the light guide plate, including a protrusion protruding from a light guide plate-side of a top surface of the opposite-side member through the cut-out towards the light guide plate, a top of the protrusion supporting a portion of the reflective sheet on the light-entering face side.
US09632235B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a light source unit including a light source configured to generate light and a light source supporting unit on which the light source is disposed, and a light guide plate disposed at a rear portion of the display panel and transmitting the light generated by the light source toward the display panel. The light source supporting unit is disposed to support at least one portion the front surface of the light guide plate.
US09632215B2
There is provided a lens module including: a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens having positive refractive power; a third lens having negative refractive power; a fourth lens having refractive power; a fifth lens having positive refractive power; and a sixth lens having refractive power and a shape in which an image side surface thereof is concave toward an image side.
US09632213B2
A copolymer for optical compensation film showing a negative orientation birefringence, having excellent transparency, heat resistance, film strength, and optical properties, and is capable of obtaining a beautiful film suitable for an optical compensation film is provided. A copolymer for optical compensation film, containing: 45 to 80 mass % of an aromatic vinyl monomer unit; 5 to 45 mass % of a (meth)acrylic acid ester monomer unit; and 5 to 20 mass % of an unsaturated dicarboxylic acid anhydride monomer unit; wherein the copolymer has an average number molecular weight (Mn) of 5.5×104 to 9×104 and a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 14×104 to 20×104; and the copolymer has a haze of 1% or less, the haze being measured with a 2 mm thick sample in accordance with ASTM D1003, is provided.
US09632207B2
A seismic survey is conducted by positioning an array of remote acquisition units (RAUs). Each of the RAUs records seismic data derived torn one or more geophones in digital form in local memory. The data is collected by a harvester unit traversed across the survey territory as by an aircraft using point-multipoint communications, and subsequently transferred from the harvester unit to a central control unit.
US09632205B2
The present specification discloses a covert mobile inspection vehicle with a backscatter X-ray scanning system that has an X-ray source and detectors for obtaining a radiographic image of an object outside the vehicle. The systems preferably include at least one sensor for determining a distance from at least one of the detectors to points on the surface of the object being scanned, a processor for processing the obtained radiographic image by using the determined distance of the object to obtain an atomic number of each material contained in the object, and one or more sensors to obtain surveillance data from a predefined area surrounding the vehicle.
US09632203B2
Methods and systems are provided for tools having non-resonant circuits for analyzing a formation and/or a sample. For example, nuclear magnetic resonance and resistivity tools can make use of a non-resonant excitation coil and/or a detection coil. These coils can achieve desired frequencies by the use of switches, thereby removing the requirement of tuning circuits that are typical in conventional tools.
US09632202B2
Magnetic locators for detection of buried objects, such as ferromagnetic objects, are disclosed. Outputs provided from two or more magnetic sensors, such as three three-axis magnetic sensors, as well as optionally from other sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopic sensors, may be used to determine magnetic field distortion indicative of ferromagnetic objects and/or provide output information corresponding to the detected objects based on the sensor outputs.
US09632192B2
The method processes input including, for each of a plurality of shots at respective source locations, seismic traces recorded at a plurality of receiver locations. Offset-modulated data are also computed by multiplying the seismic data in each seismic trace by a horizontal offset between the source and receiver locations for said seismic trace. A depth migration process is applied to the seismic data to obtain a first set of migrated data, and to the offset-modulated data to obtain a second set of migrated data. For each shot, offset values are estimated and associated with respective subsurface positions, by a division process applied to the first and second sets of migrated data.
US09632186B2
A radiation detector system is provided including a semiconductor detector, plural pixelated anodes, and at least one processor. The plural pixelated anodes are disposed on a surface of the detector. At least one of the pixelated anodes is configured to generate a collected charge signal corresponding to a charge collected by the pixelated anode and to generate a non-collected charge signal corresponding to a charge collected by an adjacent anode to the pixelated anode. The at least one processor is configured to determine a collected value for the collected charge signal in the pixelated anode; determine a non-collected value for the non-collected charge signal in the pixelated anode corresponding to the charge collected by the adjacent anode; use the non-collected value for the non-collected charge signal to determine a sub-pixel location for the adjacent anode; and use the collected value to count a single event in the pixelated anode.
US09632178B2
An apparatus and method for removing noise of an ultrasonic system to improve robustness against noise by removing external noise from a reception signal reflected from an object are provided. The method includes transmitting, by a sensor, a transmission signal to a medium and receiving a reception signal reflected from the medium. A controller is configured to remove noise from a frequency range recognized as a normal signal from the reception signal and calculate a correlation between the transmission signal and a signal in the frequency range recognized as the normal signal in the reception signal. In addition, the controller is configured to determine whether the signal in the frequency range recognized as the normal signal is the normal signal or noise based on the calculated correlation.
US09632176B2
A driver assistance method includes: sensing whether a vehicle enters a slope road; detecting information of the slope road using sensors which are equipped in the vehicle; confirming whether the slope road is a curved road based on the information of the slope road; measuring a curvature of the slope road when the slope road is confirmed to be a curved road; and assisting a driving operation of the vehicle based on the curvature of the slope road.
US09632173B2
An embodiment relates to a method for processing radar signals. The radar signals may include digitized data received by at least two radar antennas. The method may include determining CFAR results on FFT results based on data received by a first antenna, and applying the CFAR results to FFT results based on data received by a second antenna.
US09632168B2
Aspects of the disclosed subject matter involve airborne-based systems, methods, and computer program products for optimizing a laser-based visual disruption countermeasure scan pattern. The scan pattern can be comprised of a plurality of lasers each with their own scan pattern and may be used to disrupt an optical system of a weapon or an individual. Based on the scan patterns and/or data used to generate the scan patterns, the shape or intensity of the scan pattern or patterns can be modified.
US09632165B2
A 3-dimensional (3D) precast locating system for identifying and tracking 3D location, that includes ground elevation and geographical location, of a precast, is provided. The system comprises an RFID tag embedded within the precast, a precast lifting machinery having a hook for lifting the precast, wherein a 3D location of the lifting machinery is predetermined as a reference, and an RFID reader attached to the lifting machinery for identifying the precast by operationally reading the RFID tag of the lifted precast. The system further comprises a sensor assembly for detecting an instant 3D location of the hook with reference to the predetermined 3D location of the lifting machinery and a position translational controller for deriving an instant 3D location of the lifted precast based on the 3D location of the hook detected by the sensor assembly, with reference to the predetermined 3D location of the lifting machinery.
US09632160B2
In a method and a pulse sequence determination device to determine a pulse sequence for a magnetic resonance system, control protocol parameter values are initially acquired. A determination of k-space trajectory node points within k-space then takes place in a processor on the basis of the control protocol parameter values. The determination of the pulse sequence then takes place on the basis of the k-space trajectory node points. A method for operating a magnetic resonance system uses such a pulse sequence, and a magnetic resonance system embodies such a pulse sequence determination device.
US09632158B2
A novel MRI contrast technique enables to observe tissue properties not observable by previously known MRI methods. A difference between two disclosed pulse sequences is used to measure magnetization exchange time between water molecules and macromolecules such as proteins, thereby producing a measure highly sensitive to tissue changes resulting from coagulation, yet relatively insensitive to temperature fluctuations. This result is applied to an imaging method and provides direct visualization of the effects of surgical thermal ablation procedures.
US09632155B2
An apparatus, a method, and a recorded medium for conductivity and susceptibility reconstruction are disclosed. The apparatus for conductivity and susceptibility reconstruction includes: a susceptibility reconstruction part configured to reconstruct a susceptibility from a change in phase according to an increase in time of a multi-echo gradient echo image; a zero echo phase estimation part configured to estimate a phase at zero echo time based on a linearity of the phase change; and a conductivity reconstruction part configured to reconstruct a conductivity from the estimated zero echo phase. According to an embodiment of the invention, a multi-echo gradient echo sequence is used to not only obtain in vivo susceptibility but also obtain conductivity simultaneously. Also, an embodiment of the invention can improve the accuracy of the susceptibility measurements.
US09632154B2
Small and inexpensive probeheads for use in nuclear magnetic resonance systems, in particular, magnetic resonance relaxometry systems are provided. The design of the magnet-radiofrequency coil configurations within the probeheads is guided by an excitation bandwidth associated with radiofrequency pulses to be applied to a sample.
US09632153B1
A magnetic resonance imaging configuration, system and method to straighten and otherwise homogenize the field lines in the imaging portion, creating improved image quality. Through use of calibrated corrective coils, magnetic field lines can be manipulated to improve uniformity and image quality. Additionally, when the apparatus is composed of non-ferromagnetic materials, field strengths can be increased to overcome limitations of Iron-based systems such as by use of superconductivity. A patient positioning apparatus allows multi-positioning of a patient within the calibrated and more uniform magnetic field lines.
US09632151B2
A magnetic resonance measuring equipment capable of detecting a nuclear magnetic resonance signal with a higher sensitivity and a higher resolution in comparison with related magnetic resonance measuring equipment. The magnetic resonance measuring equipment modulates a nuclear magnetic resonance signal by applying a vibration (sonic wave) of a known frequency, which is higher than the frequency of the nuclear magnetic resonance signal, to an examination object, and detects the modulated signal by performing lock-in detection, which makes it possible that the magnetic resonance measuring equipment detects the nuclear magnetic resonance signal with a high sensitivity. In addition, after irradiating a local area of the object with an ultrasonic wave, and modulating the nuclear magnetic resonance signal derived from the irradiated local area, the magnetic resonance measuring equipment can detect the nuclear magnetic resonance signal with a high resolution.
US09632146B2
A PC executes a control process including the steps of: calculating an internal pressure increase amount P; calculating an internal pressure fluctuation amount ΔP; calculating a deterioration evaluation value D1; calculating a deterioration evaluation value D2; determining that a battery can be shipped as a secondhand battery when D1+D2 is equal to or smaller than a threshold value A; and determining that the battery cannot be shipped as a secondhand battery when D1+D2 is larger than the threshold value A.
US09632144B2
In a voltage monitoring system, a voltage monitoring module includes an adjusting current control circuit to generate an adjusting current so that the operating current consumed by the voltage monitoring modules reaches a specified value corresponding to a first operation current setting command, and stops generating the adjusting current according to an operating current switching command; and an operating current measurement circuit to measure the operating current according to the operating current measuring command following the operating current switching command; and in which a module control circuit sends a second operation current setting command based on the operating current that was measured, and the adjusting current control circuit generates an adjusting current so that the operating current reaches a specified value corresponding to the second operating current setting command.
US09632133B2
A circuit board testing system includes a testing fixture and a computer system. The testing fixture includes a contact element, a switching circuit, and a data acquisition unit. The contact element is connected with a circuit board. The switching circuit is connected with the contact element. By enabling the switching circuit, the data acquisition unit acquires a real voltage value corresponding to the electronic component. The computer system is connected with the testing fixture for converting the real voltage value into a real resistance value corresponding to the electronic component. According to the real resistance value, the computer system judges whether the electronic component passes the test.
US09632132B2
A test device for testing a flat module includes a test station and a cover movable relative to the test station between a test position and a removal position. At least two holding devices are arranged and formed on the cover in such a way that, when the cover moves from its removal position into the test position, they releasably connect to the flat module arranged in the test station in such a way that, when the cover moves from its test position into the removal position, the flat module is held by the at least two holding devices.
US09632129B2
Provided is an electronic device capable of checking whether a sub unit is connected to a main controller. The electronic device includes a main controller including a pulse width modulation (PWM) port, and at least one sub unit configured to receive a PWM signal from the main controller and to operate according to the PWM signal. The main controller checks whether the at least one sub unit is connected to the main controller via the PWM port.
US09632128B2
An apparatus for performing measurements on a utility power device that shares a common ground with the apparatus selectively sends a first high voltage signal via a first lead to a first terminal of the utility power device, measures a first corresponding signal returned via a second lead of the apparatus from a second terminal of the utility power device. While the corresponding first lead and the second lead of the apparatus remain electrically coupled to the corresponding first and the second terminal of the utility power device. The apparatus selectively sends a second high voltage signal via the second lead to the second terminal of the utility power device, and measures a second corresponding signal returned via the first lead of the apparatus from the first terminal of the utility power device.
US09632125B2
A vehicle may include a traction battery, a harness electrically connected with the battery, and a controller programmed to generate harness anomaly output based on data indicative of historical resistances associated with the harness and temperature and state of charge data for the battery indicative of a current resistance associated with the harness.
US09632118B2
A current sensing apparatus includes: a temperature sensor configured to sense a temperature of a power converter; a current sensing unit configured to sense an input current of the power converter; and a central processing unit (CPU) configured to control an operation of the power converter in response to the sensed temperature of the power converter and the sensed input current of the power converter. The CPU includes a compensation unit configured to store, upon receiving an indication of the sensed temperature of the power converter from the temperature sensor, an operation voltage of at least one diode included in the current sensing unit in a map, and to compensate for an error of a sensing current based on the stored operation voltage when the current sensing unit senses the input current.
US09632116B2
For inspecting polarities of poles of DC voltage sources, each pole being individually connected to one of separate input terminals of a combiner circuit, an inspection apparatus includes electric contacts each provided for one of the input terminals such that one of the poles of each DC voltage sources is each connected to one of the electric contacts, respectively. A signaling element when subjected to an electric signal emits a matching signal. One switching element per each of the at least two electric contacts forwards the electric signal if a polarity of a voltage present at the respective electric contact matches a polarity pre-set for the respective electric contact with regard to a reference potential, and blocks the electric signal if the polarity of the voltage does not match the pre-set polarity. The switching elements are electrically connected in series.
US09632114B2
This present inversion provides a digital closed-loop fiber optical current sensor. The modulation signal of the optical wave “phase modulator” of the fiber optical current sensor system is modulation square wave, signal processing system extracts any harmonic wave of the photoelectric converter output modulation square waves, and extracts the measured current information from it. The preamplifier of signal processing system is transimpedance amplifier TIA, the bandwidth is extracted 1/650 instantaneous amplitude square wave directly from the modulation square wave (existing), thus the thermal noise of the preamplifier output and shot noise level is reduced to the existing technology of below 1/650; the current-voltage gain of transimpedance amplifier TIA does not depend on the feedback network resistance, thus it can have high current-voltage conversion gain and use low resistance in the feedback network TIA at the same time. So it can reduce resistance thermal noise to negligible that is accounted for a large proportion of TIA output noise.
US09632110B2
A semiconductor inspection device (1) equipped with a contacting unit (7) having a contacting side surface (7a) electrically contacting a semiconductor element (3), and which inspects the semiconductor element (3) by making the contacting unit (7) electrically contact the semiconductor element (3). The contacting side surface (7a) is provided with a plurality of projecting units (13), and the semiconductor element inspection device (1) is equipped with a hitting mark detecting unit (11) configured to detect hitting marks of the projecting unit (13) transferred to the semiconductor element (3) when the contacting side surface (7a) contacts the semiconductor element (3), and a control unit (17) configured to determine whether or not an inspection of the semiconductor element (3) is performed appropriately, on the basis of the hitting marks detected by the hitting mark detecting unit (11).
US09632105B2
An inertial force sensor that can suppress fluctuation of detection sensitivity even if an external stress is applied to the inertial force sensor. Angular velocity sensor (1), that is, an inertial force sensor includes ceramic substrate (6), lower lid (4) adhering to ceramic substrate (6) with adhesives (11a and 11b) (first adhesives), and sensor element (2) adhering to lower lid (4) with adhesives (10a and 10b) (second adhesives). The elastic moduli of adhesives (11a and 11b) are smaller than those of adhesives (10a and 10b).
US09632087B2
The present invention relates to a method of quantifying the amount of Mock Virus Particles (MVP) removed from a solution as a result of processing that solution through a purification technique. This method involves the steps of adding MVP to a solution, processing the solution through a purification technique, quantifying the amount of MVP removed from the solution. The present invention also relates to a kit that can be used in conjunction with the method. This kit will comprise at least one stock solution of MVP and at least one quantification solution.
US09632084B2
Antibodies against citrullinated protein antigens (ACPA) have shown their relevance for the diagnosis and possibly pathogenesis in arthritis. Described are means and methods for determining antibodies against homocitrulline-containing proteins or carbamylated proteins/peptides (anti-CarP) for the classification of individuals suffering from, or at risk of suffering from, arthritis.
US09632080B2
A diagnostic multi-layer dry phase test strip with integrated biosensors for use in measuring more than one analyte in a fluid sample includes a body having a port for introducing a fluid sample. Within the body is a spreader layer configured to evenly spread the fluid sample received through the port. The test strip further includes at least one enzyme reaction layer in fluidic communication with the spreader layer. The test strip also includes a first electrode layer in fluidic communication with the at least one enzyme reaction layer. The first electrode layer includes a set of electrodes for each of the at least one enzyme reaction layer. Each set of electrodes is capable of electrically interacting with the fluid sample.
US09632078B2
The invention discloses a method for detecting at least one antigen, comprising the following steps: providing magnetic beads, which are coated with antibodies specific for at least one antigen to be detected; bringing the magnetic beads in contact with a washing buffer that comprises at least 8% BSA and incubating the mixture with a sample; isolating the magnetic beads by means of magnetic separator; and detecting the antigens bound to the magnetic beads by the antibodies. Washing buffers, primers, kits and devices that can be used for said methods are also disclosed.
US09632073B2
Described are devices and methods for forming one or more nanomembranes including electroactive nanomembranes within a nanowell or nanotube, or combinations thereof, in a support material. Nanopores/nanochannels can be formed by the electroactive nanomembrane within corresponding nanowells. The electroactive nanomembrane is capable of controllably altering a dimension, a composition, and/or a variety of properties in response to electrical stimuli. Various embodiments also include devices/systems and methods for using the nanomembrane-containing devices for molecular separation, purification, sensing, etc.
US09632072B1
A machine fluid testing probe is disclosed having a handle, a shaft connected to the handle, and a plurality of indicators supported by the shaft. The shaft has a first end, a second end opposite the first end, a first portion extending from the first end toward the second end, a second portion extending from the first portion toward the second end, and a shoulder defined by the second portion. The second portion has a continuous arcuate external surface having a second cross-sectional axis greater than a first cross-sectional axis of the first portion. The shaft is configured to contact a machine fluid. The plurality of indicators are supported by the first portion of the shaft between the first end and the second end. Each of the plurality of indicators is configured to test for one or more contaminants in the machine fluid.
US09632068B2
A system for controlling an atmospheric condition. The system includes: an exhaust conduit, external to a first test computing device, configured to channel exhaust from the first test computing device. Further, the system includes a primary atmospheric conditioner, external to the first test computing device, configured to generate test air comprising the atmospheric condition for the first test computing device by modifying the exhaust. Further still, the system also includes an intake conduit, external to the first test computing device, configured to channel the test air to the first test computing device.
US09632054B2
Methods for determining a concentration of an analyte in a sample, and the devices and systems used in conjunction with the same, are provided herein. In one exemplary embodiment of a method for determining a concentration of an analyte in a sample, a sample including an analyte is provided in a sample analyzing device having a working and a counter electrode. An electric potential is applied between the electrodes and a first analyte concentration is determined. A second analyte concentration value is calculated from the first analyte concentration value and corrected for temperature effects, fill time and capacitance to provide for a final analyte concentration value.
US09632041B2
A straight trajectory CT device can be used in radiation imaging. The device includes: a ray-generating unit that generates a ray within a specific range of field angle; a channel for an object to be inspected though which the object to be inspected passes; a first collimator; and a ray receiving unit provided on both sides of the channel for the object to be inspected. The ray beam is received by the ray receiving unit after penetrating the first collimator and the object to be inspected in order. The ray generating unit is static and the first collimator moves in the same direction as the ray receiving unit. This direction is parallel to the channel for the object to be inspected. The device can complete computed tomography with a minimum of one ray receiving unit, thereby simplifying the structure of the device and reducing its cost.
US09632040B2
A differential phase contrast X-ray imaging system includes an X-ray illumination system, a beam splitter arranged in a radiation path of the X-ray illumination system, and a detection system arranged in a radiation path to detect X-rays after passing through the beam splitter.
US09632035B2
Described is a light emitting diode (LED) linear illumination system that includes a linear array of LED groups, high efficiency non-imaging optics and aberration corrected imaging optics. Each LED group can include one or more LEDs. The system provides uniform high intensity in near and far fields. System applications include machine vision and inspection of high reflectivity targets. Illumination can include one or more colors, including white light. The described system has improved thermal and optical performance and is generally more compact and lower in cost relative to conventional systems based on pre-packaged commercially available LED devices.
US09632033B2
A technique relates to determining a presence of a known nucleic acid sequence of a known molecule in a sample. A sample surface is coated with a select segment of the known molecule. Beads are coated with a first molecule. A targeted nucleic acid sequence is attached to a second molecule that binds to the first molecule, such that the targeted nucleic acid sequence is attached to the beads via first and second molecules. The sample is placed on the sample surface. The sample includes the liquid medium, beads, and targeted nucleic acid sequence being tested. Brownian motion of beads is monitored to determine whether the Brownian motion of the beads is restricted or not restricted. When the Brownian motion of beads is restricted, the presence of the known nucleic acid sequence is in the sample, thus indicating that the targeted nucleic acid sequence is the known nucleic acid sequence.
US09632024B2
An optical sensor apparatus includes an optically transmissive structure (e.g., a prism) having two planar faces and a third planar face that connects the two planar faces, two or more light sources located outside the structure, and a photodetector array located outside the prism. The structure, light sources, and photodetector array are configured such that light from the light sources that is totally internally reflected at an optical interface between the prism and a sample outside the structure proximate one of the two planar faces is incident on a portion of the photodetector array that depends on a refractive index of the sample. The light sources are positioned with respect to the structure and photodetector array such that the totally internally reflected light from each light source corresponds to a different range of refractive index of the sample and maps to a corresponding portion of the photodetector array.
US09632023B2
A V-block refractometer capable of enhancing measurement accuracy is provided. An incident angle of measurement light incident on a V-block prism 1 from a collimator lens 48 is changed through the rotation of a motor 7, and the measurement light from the V-block prism 1 at each incident angle is detected by a detector 2. This configuration eliminates the need to provide the detector 2 near the motor 7 as in the conventional art, whereby deterioration in measurement accuracy caused by an increase in load to the motor 7 can be prevented, and the measurement accuracy can be enhanced.
US09632022B2
The disclosure relates to processing SPR signals, in particular signals obtained by illuminating a conductive surface with light at two wavelengths. Processing SPR signals can involve processing a first and second signal indicative of an intensity of light, received from a conductive layer at which SPR has occurred, as a function of angle of incidence, reflection or diffraction at the layer. The first and second signals each have two dips corresponding to a respective wavelength of the light at a respective angle at which surface plasmon resonance occurs for the respective wavelength and a peak between the two dips. The processing includes deriving a first and second value of a quantity indicative of signal magnitudes in the region of the peak. The first and second values can be compared to detect a change in refractive index at the layer after the first signal and before the second signal was captured.
US09632018B2
A device is configured to monitor the integrity of a connection system between first and second fluid containing systems comprising first and second pulse generators. A pressure sensor is arranged in the first fluid containing system to detect first pulses originating from the first pulse generator and second pulses originating from the second pulse generator. The device operates a monitoring method, by generating (42) a time-dependent pressure signal based on measurement data obtained from the pressure sensor such that the pressure signal contains a sequence of apparent pulses. The apparent pulses represent a superposition of the second pulses on the first pulses when the connection system (C) is intact. The device processes (44) the pressure signal to calculate a parameter value based on a pulse feature of at least one of the apparent pulses in the pressure signal. The parameter value represents a disturbance caused by the superposition of the second pulses on the first pulses, and may be given as a measure of statistical dispersion, pulse-to-pulse symmetry, or first pulse similarity. The device determines (45) the integrity of the connection system based at least partly on the parameter value. The first fluid containing system may be an extracorporeal blood circuit, and the second fluid containing system may be a human or animal subject.
US09632016B2
A fastener strain measurement system employs a probe incorporating a laser emitter to provide a laser beam and an acoustic detection device. A system controller is configured to detect an acoustic wave resulting from the ablation created by the laser beam and calculate fastener strain based on the detected acoustic wave.
US09632010B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for monitoring APU turbine vane fracture and rotor shaft jam. The method for monitoring APU turbine vane fracture and rotor shaft jam comprises: acquiring APU messages at multiple time points within a period; obtaining the operation parameters of the APU according to the APU messages, the operation parameters including at least the start time STA; calculating the average value AVG and the deviation index δ of the start time STA within the period; and determining the circumstance of the turbine vane fracture and rotation shaft jam of APU is in stable phase, decline phase or malfunction phase according to the deviation index δ.
US09631993B2
The disclosed embodiments include a capacitance diaphragm gauge that includes a self-heated micro-electro-mechanical-system sensor for measuring pressure. The self-heated micro-electro-mechanical-system has at least one integrated heater component and at least one membrane on the self-heated micro-electro-mechanical-system.
US09631990B2
A device for testing mechanical seal performance includes a main shaft (4), a working chamber (18) with two end covers (6, 13) respectively located at two ends thereof, and two groups of mechanical seals to be tested (7); wherein a shaft sleeve (5) and the main shaft (4) form a clearance fit and penetrate through the end covers (6, 13) at two ends of the working chamber (18) together; the shaft sleeve (5) extends outside U-shaped openings (23) which are arranged at two ends of the end covers (6, 13) and arranged on the same generatrix; driven pins (15) are arranged on the locations of the main shaft (4) corresponding to the U-shaped openings (23); the middle part of the shaft sleeve (5) is provided with two segments of threads having the same thread pitch and opposite rotating directions.
US09631987B1
A force-sensitive capacitive sensor that includes a first conductive plate, a second conductive plate that is spaced apart from the first conductive plate, and a compressible dielectric insulator positioned between the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate. The sensor also includes a first protective insulator, a second protective insulator sealed to the first protective insulator to encase the first conductive plate, the second conductive plate, and the compressible dielectric insulator, and a circuit attached via wires to the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate. The sensor may also include electromagnetic shielding. The circuit is configured to sense a change in capacitance between the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate caused by compression of the compressible dielectric insulator resulting from a person occupying the sensor or a support surface positioned above the sensor, and transmit output based on the sensed change in capacitance.
US09631977B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus for calibrating a device using augmented data are disclosed. For example, the method measures k spectral values of each patch for a first plurality of patches generated by the device and a second plurality of patches generated by the reference device, creates a first augmented data set by selecting a delta (δ), wherein the first augmented data set comprises the δ applied k times to each one of the k spectral values of each one of the first plurality of patches, initializes initializing a function to create a second augmented data set for the reference device, solves the function to obtain a matrix of calibration values of the device that is based upon the first augmented data set and the second augmented data set and calibrates the device using the matrix of calibration values.
US09631954B2
A moving platform roll sensor system comprises an ellipsometric detector capable of detecting a polarized beam within the detector's line-of-sight, and measuring the beam's polarization state, such that the polarization state indicates the rotational orientation of the moving platform with respect to a predefined coordinate system. The ellipsometric detector comprises a venetian blind component through which the polarized beam passes, arranged such that the intensity of the exiting beam varies with its incident angle with respect to the moving platform, a polarizing beamsplitter which splits the exiting beam into components having orthogonal circular polarizations, the relative intensities of which vary with the relative polarization vector of the beam, and first and second detectors which receive the first and second orthogonal circular components and generate respective outputs that vary with the intensities of their received components. The beamsplitter preferably comprises a quarter wave plate and a polarization grating.
US09631949B2
A rotation angle detecting device includes: a magnet member placed in a shaft member to face a magneto-electric conversion element and detecting a rotation angle of the shaft member in response to a relative rotation of the magnet member with respect to the magneto-electric conversion element, wherein the magnet member has a magnet where a groove formed in a rectangular parallelepiped body having maximum surfaces orthogonal to an axis of the shaft member is formed to be open to one maximum surface side of the rectangular parallelepiped body and extend in parallel to a short-side lateral surface of the rectangular parallelepiped body, and is magnetized along the groove with respect to the magnet.
US09631940B2
Various embodiments relate to determining a route for efficient energy consumption. Data defining one or more routes and one or more consumption influencing parameters which influence a consumption of an energy source of the vehicle along the one or more routes may be received at a vehicle computer. Based on the route data and the consumption influencing parameters, at least one route which minimizes the consumption of the energy source for the vehicle may be determined. For the at least one route, one or more braking strategies may be determined for implementation by a vehicle operator in the vehicle in accordance with reducing the consumption of the vehicle energy source. The one or more braking strategies may be output in the vehicle.
US09631931B2
Techniques for watching a location of a device with respect to a destination target include obtaining a current location of a device from a localization operation, calculating an interval, and performing a next localization operation after the interval has expired. The interval may be calculated based on a velocity and a distance from the current location to a destination target. The techniques may also include calculating a displacement distance from the current location and adjusting the interval based on the displacement distance to thereby adjust a time for performing the next localization operation. The techniques may include performing state detection to determine a motion state of the device and performing the next localization operation based on the determined motion state.
US09631928B2
A microelectromechanical gyroscope structure that comprises a seismic mass, a body element, and a spring structure suspending the seismic mass to the body element. In primary oscillation at least part of the seismic mass oscillates in out-of-plane direction. A first conductor is arranged to move with the seismic mass, and a second conductor is attached to the body element. The conductors include adjacent surfaces that extend in the first direction and the third direction. A voltage element is arranged to create between the first surface and the second surface a potential difference and thereby induce an electrostatic force in the second direction and modulated by the primary oscillation of the seismic mass.
US09631927B2
Disclosed herein is an angular velocity sensor. The angular velocity sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention is configured to include a mass body, a first frame disposed at an outer side of the mass body so as to be spaced apart from the mass body, a first flexible part connecting the mass body to the first frame in an X-axis direction, a second flexible part connecting the mass body with the first frame in a Y-axis direction, a second frame disposed at an outer side of the first frame so as to be spaced apart from the first frame, a third flexible part connecting the first frame with the second frame in an X-axis direction, and a fourth flexible part connecting the first frame with the second frame in a Y-axis direction.
US09631926B2
A vibration element includes a vibrating portion, a support portion that supports the vibrating portion, and a suspension arm that couples the vibrating portion to the support portion. In addition, the suspension arm includes a meandering portion extending out the support portion and an inclination portion that couples the meandering portion to the vibrating portion.
US09631925B2
An apparatus and method for measuring the horizontal position uses a gas bubble in a bubble level. The gas bubble is in a cylindrical sealed housing that is partially filled with liquid. At least two light-emitting devices are used to illuminate the gas bubble and an inner bottom surface of the bubble level. A corresponding number of receiving devices are used to receive the light that is either reflected by the inner bottom surface or is reflected and refracted by the gas bubble. The amount of light received is translated into an electrical signal and is sent to a processing unit to calculate the position of the gas bubble. The light-emitting devices and the receiving devices are disposed in an alternating manner at the periphery of the cylindrical sealed housing.
US09631921B2
A method for measuring a distance includes modulating the light beam at a first frequency, receiving a second beam by the optical detector to produce a first electrical signal having the first frequency and a first phase; modulating the light beam at a second frequency different than the first frequency; receiving the second beam by the optical detector to produce a second electrical signal having the second frequency and a second. After these steps, the retroreflector is moved while modulating the light beam continuously at the second frequency; and a first distance to the retroreflector is determined based at least in part on a the first and second frequencies and phases.
US09631918B2
A sensor device for a pedal which is set up to determine at least one actuating variable regarding an operation of the pedal by a user of a device which is actuable by means of the pedal, and to output information corresponding to the at least one determined actuating variable, the sensor device additionally being set up to determine as the at least one actuating variable, at least one variable regarding a position and/or a change in position of an input rod disposed on the pedal, which is able to be set into at least a rotary motion by operating the pedal, in relation to a specified spatial direction. Furthermore, a method for providing information regarding an operation of a pedal is described.
US09631915B2
An arm type three-dimensional measuring machine includes: a multi-jointed arm mechanism comprising a probe in a distal end; a processing part for computing a position of said probe; and an inclinometer configured to detect an inclination amount of a base part from a vertical direction in the base part for supporting the multi-jointed arm mechanism, wherein the processing part computes a position of the probe using the base part as a criterion and corrects the position of the probe using the base part as the criterion in a time-series manner based on an output from the inclinometer.
US09631911B2
The present invention relates to a lifting plug for a high explosive projectile capable of forming a vent by a thermal fuse, in which the lifting plug is mounted to a front part of a shell of the high explosive projectile such that the vent can be formed in the lifting plug by the thermal fuse when unexpected accidents such as fires or terrorism occur during storage of the high explosive projectile, so the lifting plug can induce burning or deflagrating of the thermal fuse without allowing the high explosive projectile to be detonated or exploded by accumulated heat in the high explosive projectile due to the vent, thereby improving safety of the high explosive projectile.
US09631910B2
An expanding subsonic projectile has a body having an ogive of greater than about 8 calibers. The body at least partially defines a hollow bore and a hydrostatic ram disposed proximate a first end of the bore.
US09631905B2
A stationary target shooting system includes a main body having a horizontal member, a vertical member, and a base. The horizontal member is coupled to a first end of the vertical member. The base is coupled to a second end of the vertical member. At least one paper target holder is disposed on the horizontal member. At least one non-paper target holder depends from the horizontal member. The stationary target shooting system is portable and can be easily broken down and reassembled for use on a variety of surfaces. The stationary target shooting system may be adapted for target shooting with both firearms and archery.
US09631904B2
A dynamic target stand comprising pivotally interconnected platform members including two horizontal parallel swing arms pivotally mounted to a base on two vertical parallel pivot posts and a plurality of horizontal cross members pivotally connected to both swing arms on vertical pivot axes. A motor drives the swing arms in reciprocating clockwise and counterclockwise motion. The cross members travel in reciprocating arcuate paths but maintain a fixed angular (or rotational) orientation with respect to a person taking target practice. Targets mounted to the swing may face the user's line of sight throughout their arcuate paths. Multiple targets may be mounted on the platform creating a dynamic group of targets moving at different speeds, in different lateral directions, and crossing paths from the user's perspective. The target stand is compact, portable by person, and rapidly set up and taken down without tools.
US09631903B2
The present disclosure is an explosive matrix assembly that has a first single detonating cord formed into a first grid, and the first grid has a first plurality of detonating cord portions lying in a first plane and a second plurality of detonating cord portions lying in a second plane and the first plurality of detonating cord portions perpendicularly overlay the second plurality of detonating portions. Additionally, the matrix assembly has a second single detonating cord formed into a second grid, and the second grid has a third plurality of detonating cord portions lying in a third plane and a fourth plurality of detonating cord portions lying in a fourth plane and the third plurality of detonating cord portions perpendicularly overlay the fourth plurality of detonating portions. Further, the matrix assembly has a third single detonating cord formed into a third grid, and the third grid has a fifth plurality of detonating cord portions lying in a fifth plane and a sixth plurality of detonating cord portions lying in a sixth plane and the fifth plurality of detonating cord portions perpendicularly overlay the sixth plurality of detonating portions. The matrix assembly also has a first fastener coupling the first grid perpendicular to the second grid, a second fastener coupling the first grid perpendicular to the third grid, and a third fastener coupling the second grid perpendicular to the third grid thereby forming a partial cube.
US09631898B2
A helmet shell formed from two types of high tenacity fibers in multiple layers of fibrous materials. The fibrous materials are in the form of layers of fibrous networks in a resin matrix. There are a plurality of each type of fibrous layers. Preferably the outer set of fibrous layers is formed from aramid fibers and the inner set of fibrous layers is formed from high tenacity polyolefin fibers. There may also be employed a third type of fibrous material as an additional set of fibers and used as the outer layers of the helmet shell. The third type of fibrous layers is formed from glass fibers that are also in a resin matrix. The helmet is lightweight, has excellent ballistic resistant properties and is useful for both military and non-military applications.
US09631896B2
Described herein are technologies related to a weapon-mounted scope to facilitate an aiming of a projectile (e.g., bullet, arrow, etc.) towards an intended target.
US09631895B2
A device for mounting on a weapon or weapon station, including, an encasement for enclosing the device, a core element that provides a functionality of the device, a planar spring that is connected internally to a side of the encasement; and wherein the core element is coupled to one side of the planar spring, so that the core element is not in physical contact with the encasement.
US09631891B2
Improvements in an airsoft kit to convert an airsoft gun to fire paintballs is disclosed. The airsoft kit to convert an airsoft gun to fire paintballs to fire paintballs. The firing of paintballs can be with firing individual paintballs, a burst of about three paintballs successive paintballs rapid fire as paintballs are sprayed in a general area of an opponent. The kit converts an airsoft gun to fire paintballs to handle feeding either airsoft projectiles or paintball projectiles depending upon the installed kit. The kit allows for a user to purchase a single reliable gun that can be used for either activity and then install or remove a fit that allows the gun to be used in either of the two activities. The conversion requires little or no tools and can be performed in the field as the user prepares for their next combat.
US09631887B2
The present invention relates to rifling of a gun barrel to provide grooves and bores in the gun barrel separated by a single edge area and a polygonal area.
US09631881B2
A conditional climate control system is presented for maximizing the comfort level of the climate within a building while minimizing the usage of an on-demand energy source. An energy reserve created by an intermittent energy source or sources is monitored, and when it has surpassed a predetermined threshold level the climate conditions of a building are set to more desirable but energy intensive levels from energy-saving levels.
US09631880B2
A heat exchanger door and heat exchanger core optimization method are provided. The door resides at an air inlet or outlet side of an electronics rack, and includes an air-to-coolant heat exchanger with a heat exchanger core. The core includes a first coolant channel coupled to a coolant inlet manifold downstream from a second coolant channel, and the first channel has a shorter channel length than the second channel. Further, coolant channels of the core are coupled to provide counter-flow cooling of an airflow passing across the core. The core optimization method determines at least one combination of parameters that optimize for a particular application at least two performance metrics of the heat exchanger. This method includes obtaining performance metrics for boundary condition(s) of possible heat exchanger configurations with different variable parameters to determine a combination of parameters that optimize the performance metrics for the heat exchanger.
US09631877B2
A coupling to connect a primary heat exchanger to a condensing heat exchanger of a furnace includes a coupling box extending between a primary heat exchanger and a condensing heat exchanger. The coupling box defines a flow path for flue gas between a primary heat exchanger outlet and a condensing heat exchanger inlet. A tube sheet is located at a distance from the tube sheet in the coupling box. The liner and the tube sheet define an insulating liner space therebetween reducing condensation on the liner.
US09631870B2
A method and apparatus comprising a cure of a curable material. A cure of a curable material is initiated by using cure parameters. The cure parameters are based on material data related to curing the curable material. Temperature values are obtained based on temperatures measured periodically during the cure by a plurality of sensors. A cure setting is adjusted during the cure based on at least one cure parameter of the cure parameters and at least one temperature value of the temperature values to substantially maintain a desired effect. The cure parameters comprise a hot threshold, a cold threshold, a hot alarm, and cold alarm.
US09631869B2
A powder supply device 1 includes a powder feed pipe, at least part of which is an expansion/contraction part, a load cell, a pressure indicator, and a controller, wherein the controller obtains a powder weight or a rate of change in powder weight in the feed tank by using a value obtained by subtracting a value proportional to the pressure in the expansion/contraction part from the load applied by the feed tank to the load cell and adding a value proportional to a rate of change in pressure in the expansion/contraction part, and controls the flow rate of the powder to be fed to the outside of the feed tank by using the powder weight or the rate of change in powder weight.
US09631865B1
A method and apparatus for the liquefaction of natural gas or conversion of other gases to liquids that uses nanosecond or femtosecond pulse laser machined structures on surfaces of heat exchangers. The heat exchanger has metal plate and plate fin surfaces with increased surface area to volume ratio from the nanosecond or femtosecond pulse laser machined structures on its surfaces. Heat transfer and cooling are accelerated by exposing the gas to nanosecond or femtosecond pulse laser nanomachining structures. Fluid refrigerant flows through the structures in the heat exchanger metal plate and plate fins, and exchanges heat with refrigerant flowing through the structures.
US09631864B2
A method and apparatus of removing heavy hydrocarbons from a natural gas feed stream, the method comprising using first and second hydrocarbon removal systems in series such that the first system processes the natural gas feed stream to produce a heavy hydrocarbon depleted natural gas stream and the second system processes at least a portion of the heavy hydrocarbon depleted natural gas stream from the first system to produce a natural gas stream lean in heavy hydrocarbons, wherein one of said systems is a adsorption system that comprises one or more beds of adsorbent for adsorbing and thereby removing heavy hydrocarbons from a heavy hydrocarbon containing natural gas, and the other of said systems is a gas-liquid separation system for separating a heavy hydrocarbon containing natural gas into a heavy hydrocarbon depleted natural gas vapor and a heavy hydrocarbon enriched liquid.
US09631859B2
A refrigerator has a storage chamber opened and closed by a door and a water supply system to supply water to a water taking port disposed at the door. The water supply system includes a water tank and a plurality of connecting pipes. The water tank includes an elongated cylindrical shaped body and a cap configured to form a reservoir such that a section of the cap overlaps the body, a first port having a passageway integral with the elongated cylindrical shaped body, and a second port integral with the cap, the second port being aligned in a direction different from a longitudinal axis of the water tank. The connecting pipes include a first water line positioned in an opening of the first port in a direction different from the longitudinal axis of the water tank, and a second water line positioned in an opening of the second port.
US09631852B2
A variable speed drive (VSD) can be used to vary the voltage-to-frequency ratio (V/f) supplied to a compressor motor of a heating, ventilation, air conditioning or refrigeration (HVAC&R) system to compensate for varying conditions in the HVAC&R system.
US09631844B2
There is disclosed herein a layer assembly for a heat exchanger, the layer assembly comprising: at least one heat pump module, the module comprising a thermo-electric cooler (TEC) attached to an island formed from a flow-permissive material; a flow-permissive layer provided with an island-reciprocating recess for substantially corresponding to and accommodating the island; a thermal storage layer comprising a heat transfer matrix material charged with a phase-change material, and provided with a TEC-reciprocating recess for substantially corresponding to and accommodating the TEC, wherein the TEC is attached to the thermal storage layer at a surface of the TEC-reciprocating recess, and the flow-permissive layer and the thermal storage layer are arranged such that the island of flow-permissive material extends into the island-reciprocating recess and a separation exists between the island and the flow-permissive layer.
US09631838B2
An apparatus comprises a sensor circuit configured to detect activation of at least one circulator arranged to circulate liquid from a boiler through at least one circulation loop and back to the boiler. An analog up/down timer circuit has an input coupled to an output of the sensor circuit and generates a variable threshold signal that varies as a function of an activation time of the at least one circulator. A burner control circuit receives the variable threshold signal from the analog up/down timer circuit and generates an ignition control signal based at least in part on comparison of a temperature sensor signal of the boiler with the variable threshold signal. An ignition driver receives the ignition control signal from the burner control circuit and generates an ignition signal for a burner configured to burn fuel to heat the liquid in the boiler based at least in part on the ignition control signal.
US09631836B2
The invention relates to a device for electrically heating fluid for a motor vehicle, characterized in that it comprises: at least one heating module (2a, 2b) comprising at least one heating element (7a, 7b) and defining a circuit (7a, 7b) for guiding the fluid to be heated; a means (3) for controlling the heating element (7a, 7b), comprising an electric current switch (14a, 14b) connected to said heating element (7a, 7b) and a heat sink (15) having a first surface (19), which is to contact the fluid, and a second surface (19), which is to contact a sole plate (16) of said electric current switch (14a, 14b). The invention also relates to a heating and/or air-conditioning apparatus for a motor vehicle, including at least one such electric-heating device (1).
US09631831B2
A method for controlling the opening of a valve (10) in an HVAC system (100) to regulate the flow φ of a fluid through a thermal energy exchanger (2) of the HVAC system (100) and adjust the amount of energy E exchanged by the thermal energy exchanger (2). According to the method, an energy-per-flow gradient ⅆ E ⅆ φ is determined, and the opening of the valve (10) is controlled depending on the energy-per-flow gradient ⅆ E ⅆ φ . The energy-per-flow gradient ⅆ E ⅆ φ is determined by measuring at consecutive points in time the flow φ1, φ2, through the valve (10), by determining the amounts of energy E1, E2 exchanged by the thermal energy exchanger (2) at these points in time, and by calculating the energy-per-flow gradient ⅆ E ⅆ φ = E 2 - E 1 φ 2 - φ 1 from the flow φ1, φ2, and exchanged energy E1, E2.
US09631823B2
A desiccant air conditioning system for treating an air stream entering a building space includes a conditioner having structures arranged in a substantially vertical orientation with an air stream gap between adjacent structures. An air stream flows through the air stream gaps and is exposed to the liquid desiccant and dehumidified when in some of the flow paths and exposed to water and humidified when in other flow paths. Each structure further includes a separate collector at a lower end of the at least one surface of that structure for collecting the liquid desiccant or water that has flowed across the at least one surface of the structure. The system also includes a diverter for diverting a portion of the air stream that has been dehumidified to a flow path where it is exposed to water where it absorbs a portion of the water and is thereby cooled.
US09631820B2
A combination oven and cutting board. A bench-top oven having a metal upper surface; the oven further including: a cutting board; and wherein the upper surface having features that cooperate with the cutting board; and the cutting board having heat resistant feet that interlock with the features.
US09631816B2
A bundled tube fuel nozzle includes a fuel distribution body. The fuel distribution body includes a substantially flat aft wall having an inner surface axially spaced from an outer surface, a fuel stem collar axially spaced from the inner surface of the aft wall and a contoured forward wall that extends between the fuel stem collar and the aft wall. The contoured forward wall and the aft wall define a fuel plenum within the fuel distribution body. The bundled tube fuel nozzle further includes a plurality of injector tubes that are in fluid communication with the fuel plenum. Each injector tube extends from the contoured forward wall to the aft wall within the fuel distribution body and defines a premix passage through the contoured forward, the fuel plenum and the aft wall.
US09631813B2
An insert element for closing an opening inside a wall of a hot gas path component of a gas turbine includes a plate like body with an opening sided surface. The surface provides at least one first area which projects beyond at least one second area of said surface which surrounds the at least one first area frame-like. The at least one first area is encompassed by a circumferential edge corresponding in form and size to the opening such that the circumferential edge and the opening contour limit a gap at least in some areas, while the at least one second area contacts directly or indirectly the wall of the hot gas path component at a rear side facing away from the hot gas path. The plate like body provides at least a first functional layer-system, providing at least one layer made of heat resistant material, defining the first area of the surface (S).
US09631806B2
A device for housing electronics and optics at the leading edge of a fire suppression operation. The device can be attached to a fire hose, water discharge outlet on a fire engine/ladder truck. The device can enhance fire ground visibility by means of a lighting source, enhance fire ground communication by means of a video monitoring source, enhance operation using infrared thermal imaging and enhance fire fighter safety by means of an atmospheric/biological metering/monitoring/warning source. All of these enhancements are preferably contained in one, unit with the ability to be deployed anywhere on the fire scene.
US09631792B2
Provided is a projection system, a light source system, and a light source assembly. The light source system (100) comprises an excitation light source (101), a wavelength conversion device (106), a color filtering device (107), a drive device (108), and a first optical assembly. The wavelength conversion device (106) comprises at least one wavelength conversion region. The optical filtering device (107) is fixed face-to-face with the wavelength conversion device (106), and comprises at least a first optical filtering region. The drive device (108) drives the wavelength conversion device (106) and the optical filtering device (107), allowing the wavelength conversion region and the first optical filtering region to act synchronously, and the wavelength conversion region is periodically set on the propagation path of the excitation light, thereby converting the excitation light wavelength into converted light. The first optical assembly allows the converted light to be incident on the first optical filtering region. The first optical filtering region filters the converted light, so as to enhance the color purity of the converted light. The light source system is simple in structure, easy to implement, and highly synchronous.
US09631784B2
A recycled tire rubber barrier modular system comprising an elongated core of recycled rubber, polymer adhesive, and hardener; a base coupled to the elongated core; and two concave elongate walls which may be coupled to the elongated core and to the base. Additionally, two oppositely positioned sidewalls each of which may be coupled to the elongated core and to the base, and each sidewall may be joined to the concave elongate wall. The barrier system may further have a lateral hooking arm coupled to the elongated core above the concave elongate wall which is coupled to both sidewalls.
US09631769B2
Television mounting devices that can be stand-alone wall mounted, wall mounted with furniture positioned in front, or attached/mounted to furniture, and that also accommodate differing types of television or other electronics and wires in an efficient and visually appealing manner.
US09631767B2
This application discloses a camera including a holding element and a base assembly. The holding element further includes a camera portion for holding a camera sensor, an extended portion that extends from the camera portion, and a fastener structure coupled to an end of the extended portion located opposite another end of the extended portion where the camera module is located. The base assembly further includes a base shaped to rest against a supporting surface, a joint structure configured to mate with the fastener structure, and a magnet configured to magnetically couple the camera to the supporting surface. In some implementations, the camera further includes a mounting structure that is configured to be attached and fixed onto the supporting surface. The camera is mounted onto the supporting surface when the base of the base assembly magnetically adheres onto the mounting structure.
US09631760B2
An oil drain connector includes a main body and a sleeve. When it is required to release pressure, a sleeve is turned to loosen an upper section of an outer threaded portion of the main body relative to a container. Because an air outlet is slightly higher than a liquid inlet in the vertical direction, the liquid inside the container is first contact with a liquid inlet to pass through a first channel and then to be drained through a liquid outlet. At this time, the air enters a second channel through an air inlet, and then enters the container for the liquid to be drained smoothly.
US09631755B2
A carrier for an implement that can be operably coupled to a power machine. In one example, an implement carrier can be mountable to a power machine for securing an implement for use with the power machine. The implement carrier can include an implement carrier frame, a locking feature for securing an implement, and a coupler block that is pivotally mounted to the implement carrier frame for engaging couplers on the implement.
US09631752B2
An expansion joint that is provided between a steam turbine outlet and a condenser inlet, including: an upstream baffle tube that has one end secured to an upstream fixing end and the other end as a free end, and forms a steam channel; a downstream baffle tube that has one end secured to a downstream fixed end and the other end as a free end, the free end being relatively movable outside the free end of the upstream baffle tube; and a flexible cylinder that is formed of a non-metal material using a resin sheet, and deformable while airtightly surrounding the baffle tubes.
US09631746B2
A method of coupling first and second pipe elements in end-to-end facing relationship includes obtaining a coupling, the coupling including an annular gasket, at least one segment, and a fastener, each segment being approximately semi-circular and including at least two ends, each end including at least one of a tongue and a groove, each tongue protruding circumferentially from at least one end, each groove defined circumferentially in at least one end; slipping the coupling onto the first pipe element beyond any groove proximate the end of the first pipe element; aligning the second pipe element in end-to-end facing relationship with the first pipe element; slipping the coupling onto the second pipe element such that the segments of the coupling straddle the ends of the first and second pipe elements; and engaging each fastener to deform each segment into contact with the outer surfaces of the first and second pipe elements.
US09631744B2
An in-flight refueling hose and method. The hose includes an inner braid including pseudoelastic shape memory alloy (e.g., nitinol) wires. These wires undergo a stress induced phase change absorbing energy to dampen oscillations of the hose in use.
US09631734B2
A fluid control device manifold includes a first body, a second body, and a connection part configured to interpose a seal member between the first and second bodies and allow a connecting tool to engage with engagement surfaces of the bodies. When a load is applied to the engagement surfaces to draw the first and second bodies close to each other, the seal member is press-fitted into the bodies. This press-fitted state is held by a clamp. One or both of the first and second bodies are internally provided with a plurality of the engagement surfaces extending in a nearly perpendicular direction to a drawing direction.
US09631731B2
A valve for diverting the flow of fluid has a housing with an inlet and a plurality of outlets arranged in spaced relation around the housing. A body is positioned within the housing. The body is rotatable relatively to the housing and has an intake port and an exhaust port joined by a void space. The intake port is aligned with the housing inlet and both the intake port and the housing inlet are coaxially aligned with the axis of rotation of the body. The exhaust port is positioned eccentric to the axis and may be aligned with any one of the plurality of housing outlet ports upon rotation of the body relatively to the housing. A seal is positioned between the body and the housing. The seal surrounds the outlets and the exhaust port to prevent leakage when the exhaust port is aligned with an outlet.
US09631724B2
A master-cylinder seal housed in a groove around a piston has a core connected to three annular and concentric lips. The core rests against a side of the groove and has: a surface provided with an interior edge followed by a peripheral platter cut by at least one channel, and an exterior crown provided with a connection zone formed by an interruption in the crown and deformable due to pressure within the seal to recreate the crown's continuity and impermeability while facilitating purging the brake system when there is no pressure in the channel and the connection zone.
US09631723B2
When a vehicle driver selects reverse while a vehicle is moving forward, a transmission controller applies friction shift elements within the transmission to create a partial tie-up condition to decelerate the vehicle. Once the vehicle slows below a threshold speed, the controller engages a selectable one way brake and releases some of the friction shift elements to engage a reverse gear ratio.
US09631717B2
Provided is a planetary gear train for transmission of e-bike motor, including: a carrier protrusively formed in a center with a stator axis insertion boss provided with a stator axis insertion groove in a shape corresponding to that of the stator axis for insertion of the stator axis, and mounted with a plurality of gear installation units; a plurality of planetary gears interposed rotatably mounted at an upper surface of the gear installation unit of the carrier; and a fixing pin rotatably mounting the plurality of planetary gears on the gear installation units, wherein the fixing pin includes a pin head preventing the planetary gears from deviating.
US09631716B2
A pin assembly for use in a planetary gear, including a pin defining a blind bore therein, the blind bore extending axially from an opening and terminating with an end face, the pin defining an inlet bore and an outlet bore, and a plug including a substantially cylindrical body including a circular base wall and a sidewall extending from its outer perimeter, the sidewall defining an inlet recess and an outlet recess. The inlet recess and outlet recess of the plug are aligned with the inlet bore and outlet bore, respectively, of the pin when the plug is inserted in the pin.
US09631715B1
A transaxle for a vehicle has a case adapted to retain a transaxle oil. A chain transfers torque between transaxle gears, and a snubber is disposed along the tension side of the chain. The snubber comprises a molded base plate with a pair of mounting inserts extending transverse to the base plate to mount the snubber to a case of the transaxle. A snubber plate is integrally molded with the base plate and extends substantially transversely from a longitudinal side of the base plate to frame an edge of the chain. A ramp plate is integrally molded with the base plate and extends substantially transversely from the base plate and obliquely with respect to the snubber plate. A scoop is integrally molded with the base plate and extends from the ramp plate configured to transversely deflect a flow of transaxle oil directed to the scoop by the ramp plate.
US09631703B2
A transmission is provided having an input member, an output member, four planetary gear sets, a plurality of coupling members and a plurality of torque transmitting devices. Each of the planetary gear sets includes first, second and third members. The torque transmitting devices may include clutches and brakes and are selectively engageable in combinations of at least two to establish at least eight forward speed ratios and at least one reverse speed ratio between the input member and the output member.
US09631693B2
A lateral support element (304) include an element wall with a first surface facing away from an associated flexible wall (264) and a second surface facing toward the associated flexible wall. The lateral support element is disposed along the associated flexible wall such that an interface (334) is formed between an outer surface of the associated flexible wall and the second surface of the lateral support element. The interface is operative to generate a lateral spring-rate profile in an associated gas spring assembly that varies according to lateral displacement of the associated flexible wall and the lateral support element relative to one another. The interface can include a quantity of friction-reducing material and/or can be at least partially formed by a cross-sectional profile of the lateral support element that includes a convex profile segment. Gas spring assemblies and methods of assembly are also included.
US09631689B2
A method for applying friction lining elements to a friction lining support is provided. The invention is characterized in that friction lining elements are applied simultaneously to opposite sides of the friction lining support.
US09631686B2
An electric parking brake device holds a parking brake in a braking state by a rotation-linear motion conversion mechanism that converts rotation of an electric motor into a motion in a linear direction, and releases the parking brake by the rotation-linear motion conversion mechanism. In a case of releasing the parking brake, the electric motor is controlled by combining PWM control and ON/OFF control with each other. When the electric motor is driven according to the PWM control, and a predetermined time has elapsed after start of the PWM control, then the electric motor is changed to drive according to the ON/OFF control. In the ON/OFF control, a change in which a drive current of the electric motor is decreased stepwise is detected, whereby a torque drop of the rotation-linear motion conversion mechanism is detected.
US09631672B2
A separator 8 including a solid lubricant is disposed between adjacent rolling elements 7. Relative movement of the adjacent rolling elements 7 and the separator 8 in a direction of separating apart in a circumferential direction is restricted by restricting members 10, and the restricting members 10 are disposed at plural locations in the circumferential direction. A minute gap α is provided between the adjacent restricting members 10, to allow relative movement therebetween. This can provide a solid-lubrication rolling bearing capable of stably preventing rotational locking and unintended disassembling of the bearing for a long period.
US09631671B2
A roller bearing assembly for a motor vehicle drive train is provided. The roller bearing assembly includes a bearing including an inner ring, an outer ring and roller elements rotatably supporting the inner ring with respect to the outer ring. The roller elements include a first roller element and a second roller element. The inner ring includes a first section for supporting the first roller element on the head of the pinion and a second section for supporting the second roller element on the tail of the pinion. The first section is thinner than the second section.
US09631657B2
A fastening element comprises a guide body which serves to be received in a receptacle, and at least one clamping tab which is arranged on the guide body and has art outer edge which is provided for cooperation with the inner surface of the receptacle. The outer edge of the clamping tab extends obliquely to a plane that is perpendicular to the central axis of the guide body, and the outer edge is in the form of a part of a thread such that thread effect is achieved with which the fastening element can be unscrewed from the receptacle.
US09631655B2
A component connection includes a first component which has a through-hole, from the hole rim of which at least one clamping element projects towards a first side of the first component, and a second component which has a through-hole, from the hole rim of which at least one clamping element projects towards a first side of the second component. The two components bear against one another with their sides remote from the first sides. A connecting element has at least two spherical or spheroidal elements and extends through the two through-holes such that the at least one clamping element of the first component bears against a first of the at least two spherical or spheroidal elements and the at least one clamping element of the second component bears in a clamping manner against a second of the at least two spherical or spheroidal elements.
US09631652B2
Devices that allow for the attachment of one or more accessory instruments to a host instrument are disclosed, including a mounting assembly which permits the removable attachment of one or more percussion accessory instruments to a drum hoop. In some embodiments, attachment can be accomplished at least partially via a magnetic force provided by a magnet within or attached to the mounting assembly.
US09631651B2
A stretcher clamp mountable on a gurney designed to be quickly opened for inserting a cylindrical stretcher handle and then quickly closed. When closed, the stretcher clamp remains in a closed, locked position regardless of bumps and jolts received when the gurney is moved across rough terrain. When the gurney reaches its destination, the novel stretcher clamps are easily and reliably openable to release the stretcher handle therefrom. Unlike stretcher clamps of the prior art, the stretcher clamp of the invention is not prone to jamming caused by bending or other distortions during transit. The clamp has two major components: an elongated latch handle and an elongated handle retainer, both rotatively mounted in a rigid, U-shaped frame or base. These two components are interconnected by a linkage assembly that is rotatively connected to the elongated latch handle and the elongated handle retainer and positioned therebetween.
US09631633B2
A rotor structure for a centrifugal flow machine includes working vanes attached to the hub of the rotor without any support disc or shroud. Additionally, the vane has a device for efficiently flushing the sealing chamber behind the rotor.
US09631631B2
A bearing housing for use with a centrifugal pump can include a bracket and a cradle separated from the bracket by a gap. A plurality of ribs can connect the bracket to the cradle across the gap. The ribs can be sized and configured to improve cooling to help minimize operational temperatures of the cradle.
US09631628B2
A turbocharger includes: a turbine housing including a through-hole through which a turbine impeller is bypassed; and a wastegate valve configured to open and close the through-hole. A biasing portion biases the wastegate valve and a support plate in opposite directions, and restrains rotation of the wastegate valve relative to the support plate.
US09631626B1
Devices, systems and methods of using a single turning rotatable fastener, such as a screw, with two or three mounted posts to align and lock ceiling fan blades to a ceiling fan blade brackets/irons. One single rotatable fastener on each blade and arm can be turned clockwise to attach each blade to each arm. Rotating the fastener counter-clockwise can allow each blade to be removed from each arm.
US09631625B2
A statorless axial turbine for a turbocharger has a turbine housing assembly defining a meridionally divided scroll extending circumferentially and surrounding the turbine wheel, the meridionally divided scroll defining a first scroll extending substantially fully about the turbine wheel and a separate second scroll extending substantially fully about the turbine wheel. The turbine housing assembly defines a separate inlet for each of the first and second scrolls through which a separate exhaust gas stream is received, and separate first and second outlets for each of the first and second scrolls, respectively, through which the respective exhaust gas streams are fed into an inlet side of the turbine wheel generally in an axial direction of the turbine wheel.
US09631621B2
A compressor includes a drive shaft, a housing, an annular rotor, and cradles. The rotor has cradle windows. The rotor can rotate within the rotor chamber together with the drive shaft while being in sliding contact with the housing at the circumferential surface. The cradles are provided in the cradle windows to be pivotable about pivot axes. When pivoting, the cradles maintain the compression chambers in an airtight state by being in contact with the housing at pivoting ends of the cradles, the pivoting ends extending along the direction parallel to the axis. The rotor chamber includes an outer operation chamber located on the outside of the rotor, and an inner operation chamber located on the inside of the rotor. The cradles, and the outer operation chamber and/or the inner operation chamber form the compression chambers, the volumes of which are varied by the rotation of the rotor.
US09631617B2
A piston pump, in particular for a hydraulic assembly of an electronically controllable vehicle brake system, includes a cylinder element that has a pressure chamber with an outlet formed on the inside. The piston pump further includes an outlet-restricting element held on the outside of the cylinder element on a component by a first holder.
US09631616B2
A device and a method for dosing an uptake or a release of a liquid. The device comprises a pump pumping a fluid, a pump drive driving the pump, and a fluid channel connected to the pump. A tip is connected to the fluid channel comprising an opening for the uptake or the release of the liquid. At least one flow sensor measures a flow rate of the fluid in the fluid channel. A controller monitors and adjusts the flow rate and/or pressure in the fluid channel.
US09631611B2
Systems and methods for monitoring operation of a pump, including verifying operation or actions of a pump, are disclosed. A baseline profile for one or more parameters of a pump may be established. An operating profile may then be created by recording one or more values for the same set of parameters during subsequent operation of the pump. A value for a goodness of fit measure comparing the operating profile and baseline profile can be established. If the goodness of fit measure is insufficient, an alarm may be sent or another action taken, for example the pumping system may shut down, etc. An example goodness of fit measure is an R-squared measure.
US09631606B2
The present subject matter is directed to a system and method for dynamically controlling a wind turbine. The method includes operating the wind turbine based on a thrust set point and a speed set point. A next step includes determining a desired change in actual speed of the wind turbine in response to control actuations starting from an instantaneous operating point. The method also includes determining a desired change in thrust of the wind turbine in response to control actuations starting from the instantaneous operating point. Next, the method determines at least one parameter set point that achieves the desired change in speed and the desired change in thrust and controls the wind turbine based on the parameter set point so as to maintain the actual thrust and the actual speed of the wind turbine within a certain tolerance of the thrust set point and the speed set point, thereby regulating loads acting on the wind turbine while simultaneously maintaining optimal or near optimal power output.
US09631595B2
Systems and methods for starting an engine are described. In one example, engine cranking speed for an engine of a hybrid vehicle is adjusted in response to operating conditions. The engine cranking speed may be reduced when capability of a battery that supplies power to rotate the engine is less than an amount of power to rotate the engine at a higher speed.
US09631594B2
A fuel injector with an anti-rotation clip for use in conjunction with a twist lock fuel injector inserted into a receiving fuel cup. The clip includes at least one connector leg which extends at least partially over the electrical connector for the fuel injector and locks the clip against rotation relative to the fuel injector electrical connector. A protrusion on a fuel cup arm engages a notch formed in the fuel cup to lock the arm against rotation relative to the fuel cup.
US09631584B2
A heat storage member housed in a canister together with an adsorbent capable of adsorbing fuel vapor has a sealed container and a phase-change material housed in the sealed container. The phase-change material becomes semisolid gel state at the melting point of the phase-change material. The phase-change material is disposed along an entire inner surface of the sealed container such that a space capable of compensating for volume alteration of the phase-change material caused by phase-change is formed at a center of an inner space of the sealed container.
US09631582B2
A system includes an internal combustion engine having a number of cylinders, with at least one of the cylinders plumbed to have a complete recycle of the exhaust gases from the cylinder. The system further includes the completely recycled cylinder having an EGR stroke cycle, and the non-recycled cylinders of the engine having an exhaust stroke cycle. The system includes the EGR stroke cycle being distinct from the exhaust stroke cycle. An amount and composition of the exhaust gases from the recycled cylinder are distinct from the amount and composition of the exhaust gases from the non-recycled cylinders, at least at certain operating conditions of the engine.
US09631574B2
When injecting fuel from a direct injector and a port injector such that a requested fuel injection amount is obtained in an internal combustion engine, the direct injector is driven in the following manner. After a target fuel injection amount for the fuel injection with the higher priority among fuel injection in the late stage of a compression stroke and fuel injection in the early stage of an intake stroke in the direct injector has been set on the basis of the engine operating condition, the target fuel injection amount for the fuel injection with the lower priority is set on the basis of the engine operating condition. Moreover, the direct injector is driven in such a manner that the target fuel injection amount for each of the abovementioned fuel injections set in this manner is obtained.
US09631573B2
Systems and methods for improving fuel injection of an engine that includes a cylinder receiving fuel from two different fuel injectors is disclosed. In one example, fueling errors for each of the two fuel injectors are determined based on fractions of fuel supplied by the two fuel injectors during different engine operating conditions.
US09631568B2
A method to monitor an operating characteristic in a combustion engine: creating a monitoring matrix divided into a number of sections for storage of information, wherein each section is associated with specific intervals of engine speed ω and torque requested from the engine T1. When the engine is used during an operational time window with a pre-determined duration, measuring or estimating an operating characteristic and associating the characteristic with the monitoring matrix's respective section, associated with the current engine speed and the torque requested. For each section in the monitoring matrix, calculating at least one statistical parameter describing the operating characteristic associated with this section during the current operational time window; storing the statistical parameter(s) in the respective section. At the end of the operational time window, storing information in the monitoring matrix in an individual storage matrix associated with the operational time window, wherein the monitoring matrix is emptied of information.
US09631562B2
A variable cylinder engine is provided. The engine includes an engine body having a plurality of cylinders, a cooling mechanism for cooling the engine body by using a coolant, and a controller for controlling a temperature of the coolant and changing the number of active cylinders according to an operating state of the engine. The controller reduces the number of active cylinders in a reduced-cylinder operating range set within a partial engine load range, and expands the reduced-cylinder operating range to a higher engine load side as the coolant temperature becomes lower.
US09631557B2
A sealing device for a nozzle of a turbomachine turbine including a turbine rotor. The turbine nozzle includes at least one inner annular platform. The turbine rotor includes a downstream spoiler disposed substantially axially. The sealing device includes at least one sealing sheet disposed, radially, between the inner face of the inner platform and the downstream spoiler of the rotor of the turbine so as to form an overlap clearance.
US09631550B2
An internal combustion engine enabling asymmetric port timing has an engine mechanism including a crankshaft having a crankpin to which each piston of an opposed pair of pistons is connected and by which the pistons are reciprocatable in a respective one of axially inline cylinders. The mechanism also includes a crosshead having opposite ends on each of which a respective piston is mounted, and a coupling between the crosshead and the crankpin by which the pistons are caused to oscillate circumferentially as the pistons are driven to reciprocate.
US09631546B2
The embodied invention is directed toward providing a flexible power belt routing to peripheral components by relocating the water pump to a substantially central location on the engine. This is accomplished by designing two adaptor plates which route the coolant water between the water pump and the engine coolant ports. When the water pump is centrally located on the engine, other peripheral belt driven components, such as air conditioning and power steering, can be suitably located around the front of engine so as to permit the motor to be retrofitted into various engine spaces in a variety of cars, trucks, and vehicles.
US09631543B2
In an exhaust pipe spherical joint X, a spherical annular seal member 36 is fitted and fixed to a pipe end portion 42, the spherical annular seal member 36 is seated by abutting against a flange 43, a flared portion 47 formed of an Fe—Cr base stainless steel and containing 17.00 to 19.00% by mass of Cr is secured to a downstream-side exhaust pipe 44, and an inner surface 48 of a concave spherical surface portion 45 is brought into slidable contact with a composite surface 40 in which a surface 38 constituted by a reinforcing member 5 and a surface 39 constituted by a solid lubricant are present in mixed form in an outer surface 37 of an outer layer 35 of the spherical annular seal member 36.
US09631541B2
A vehicular component protection system is provided that includes: a controller and a vehicular component; two electrodes electrically coupled to the controller and near the component; a shorting element coupled to the component; and a resistor electrically coupled to the element and controller. The controller activates an alarm upon detecting a change in capacitance between the electrodes or continuity between the element and the resistor. Further, the controller may activate the alarm upon detecting a change in capacitance between the electrodes that exceeds the predetermined capacitance over a predetermined time threshold. In addition, the predetermined capacitance and time threshold can be set to filter false positives caused by one or more of weather conditions, wind-driven objects, and animals.
US09631536B2
A system for storing and delivering gaseous ammonia to a consumer unit (30) including: a plurality of gaseous ammonia storage cells (10) each including: a storage material (102) that is a gaseous ammonia absorber, a pressure adjuster for adjusting an internal pressure of each cell independently of the other cells of the plurality, including a heater (106), an outlet interface (40) connecting the plurality of cells (10) to the consumer unit (30) allowing gaseous ammonia to leave the cell (10) when the internal pressure is higher than a pressure downstream, a control device (50) common to the plurality of cells (10) allowing control, independently of the other cells of the plurality, of the activity of each cell (10) in delivering ammonia to the outlet interface (40) using a controller (502) which controls the heater (106) for the pressure adjuster (10).
US09631534B2
An assembly and method for reducing nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and hydrogen gas in exhausts of internal combustion engines and simultaneously generating electrical power, wherein the exhaust is acted upon in a first stage catalytic converter and is at least in part passed through a thermoelectric generator for production of electrical power. The exhausts are thereafter directed to a second stage catalytic converter.
US09631528B2
A reduced emission apparatus is coupled to a vehicle such that the vehicle is enabled to operate in a reduced emission mode by use of the reduced emission apparatus. A data acquisition apparatus is mounted on the vehicle and configured to acquire data relating to operation of the vehicle. Security may be provided for the reduced emission apparatus and vehicle-mounted data acquisition apparatus. The credits from operating the reduced emission apparatus apply to resources for deploying the reduced emission apparatus.
US09631520B2
Provided is a steam turbine system including: at least one high pressure turbine, and/or at least one intermediate pressure turbine, and at least one first low pressure turbine, mounted on a first rotary shaft that is coupled to drive at least one first electrical generator; and at least one further low pressure turbine, mounted on a further rotary shaft that is coupled to drive at least one further electrical generator; and the turbine system further including a steam supply system to supply low pressure steam to the low pressure turbines provided with a steam outlet to enable extraction of auxiliary process steam from a location in the steam supply system upstream of the further low pressure turbine but not upstream of the first low pressure turbine.
US09631518B2
An exhaust diffuser and method for manufacturing an exhaust diffuser is provided. An exhaust diffuser for a torque-generating turbine, in particular a torque-generating gas turbine is provided, the exhaust diffuser having an inner member, and the inner member having an outer surface. The outer member having an inner surface, and the inner member and the outer member forming an annular channel at least a first supporting strut connecting the inner member and the outer member, the supporting strut extending essentially radially from the inner surface to the outer surface, the supporting strut having a middle section, the middle section having a first airfoil and an outer section having a second airfoil, and the second airfoil having a higher angle of incidence than the first airfoil. Furthermore, it is described a method for manufacturing an exhaust diffuser.
US09631511B2
An engine wash system includes a manifold for delivering wash liquid to an engine. The manifold includes an internal engine contour segment shaped to correspond with at least a portion of the engine case at the inlet; a wash delivery segment connected to the internal engine contour segment which follows the engine case curvature in an axial direction and hooks around an outside of the engine case at the inlet; an inlet on the wash delivery segment to receive wash fluid; a nozzle on the wash delivery portion directed to spray into the compressor inlet of the engine; and a guide extending from the pipe and shaped to align the manifold with respect to the engine so that the nozzle sprays into the engine aft of the inlet particle separator.
US09631504B2
A guide vane is disclosed. The guide vane includes a button, a trunnion connected to the button, and an airfoil connected to the button. The airfoil includes an overhang portion wherein the overhang portion extends from one end of the button to a distal end of the airfoil. The guide vane includes a button corner located near the beginning of the overhang portion. The guide vane includes a variable fillet extending into the overhang portion. The variable fillet includes sections of different radiuses along the length of the fillet.
US09631499B2
A cooling system (10) for a turbine airfoil (12) of a gas turbine engine, wherein the airfoil (12) has a bowed configuration is disclosed. The airfoil (12) may be configured such that the leading edge (16) or trailing edge (18), or both, may have midsections that are positioned further upstream than outer ends of the leading and trailing edges (16, 18). One or more cooling channels (28) of the cooling system (10) may have a larger cross-sectional area proximate to an end of the airfoil (12) than at a midspan location. One or more cooling channels (28) may have one or more corner blockers (30) that extend chordwise in the cooling channel (28) and extend from a corner (54) toward a centerline axis (34), thereby reducing a cross-sectional area of the cooling channel (28). The corner blockers (30) may be positioned within the cooling system (10) to maintain the flow of cooling fluids through the airfoil (12) within desired design parameters.
US09631497B2
A laminar air flow development device for use with stationary web material testing equipment is disclosed. The laminar air flow development device has a machine direction, a cross-machine direction orthogonal thereto, and a Z-direction orthogonal to both the machine and cross-machine directions. The stationary web material testing equipment has a first web material support having a Z-direction thickness, D. The device has first and second surfaces contactingly and matingly engaged to form an airfoil having a machine direction length, L, a cross-machine direction width, a leading edge, and a trailing end. The airfoil has a chord disposed between the first and second surfaces. The trailing end has a width equal to the Z-direction thickness, D. The device has a ratio of L/D ranging from about 1 to about 70 and provides machine direction laminar air flow to at least one surface of the first web material support.
US09631496B2
A fan rotor of an air cycle machine includes a hub with fan blades extending from the hub. Each of the plurality of fan blades includes a main airfoil portion located distally from the hub. The main airfoil portion generally has a uniform thickness along its span. A base portion located between the hub and the main airfoil portion of each of the fan blades has a chord length that is longer than a chord length of the main airfoil portion.
US09631490B2
A milling drum adapted to be rotated in a cutting direction about an axis defined by the cylindrical surface of the drum. A plurality of pairs of overlapping recesses in the cylindrical surface of the drum. A tooth or cutting bit with a base configuration matching a first of the pair of the overlapping recesses, and a lower portion of a side surface including a retainer engagement feature. A retainer has a base configuration matching a second of the pair of overlapping recesses, and a side surface including a tooth engagement feature. A fastener secures the retainer in the second of the overlapping recesses so that the tooth engagement feature of the retainer engages the retainer engagement feature of the tooth or cutting bit to hold the tooth or cutting bit in the first of the overlapping recesses.
US09631489B2
A method of measuring parameters of a formation along multiple axes is disclosed. A formation tester tool is introduced into a wellbore. The formation tester tool includes a first probe oriented at an angle from a second probe about an axis of the formation tester tool. The first and second probes are positioned against a surface of the wellbore. Fluid is injected via at least one of the first and second probes. Pressure parameters corresponding to the fluid injected into the formation are monitored. Formation stresses about the formation fractures along multiple axes are determined based, at least in part, on the pressure parameters.
US09631486B2
A method and system are presented for transmitting data along tubing in a borehole, comprising generating an acoustic signal using a transmitter at a first location on the tubing, and receiving the acoustic signal at a receiver at a second location on the tubing. The method and system further comprise: (i) generating the acoustic signal at the transmitter at a first frequency and bit rate; (ii) receiving the acoustic signal at the first frequency at the receiver and attempting to synchronize the receiver at the first frequency, and (iiia) if the synchronization is successful, continuing to transmit the acoustic signal so as to pass the data from the transmitter to the receiver; or (iiib) if the synchronization is unsuccessful, adjusting the frequency and/or bit rate of the signal and repeating steps (i)-(iii) on the basis of the adjusted signal.
US09631483B2
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to process acoustic signals according to joint time-frequency processing. The joint time-frequency processing can combine features of both time-based processing and frequency-based processing. This processing may be based on delay calculation from amplitude phases generated from the acoustic signals. The joint time-frequency processing may be applied to a variety of applications to evaluate properties associated with a borehole or surrounding formations. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US09631477B2
A method for determining a drilling state of a bottom hole assembly in a wellbore includes acquiring one or more downhole sensor measurements and processing the sensor measurements using a downhole processor to determine a drilling state of the bottom hole assembly. An operating state of the bottom hole assembly may be automatically changed in response to the determined drilling state. A method for computing a dynamic drilling energy of a bottom hole assembly includes acquiring at least one sensor measurement and processing the sensor measurements to obtain at least one of (i) an energy of axial motion of the bottom hole assembly, (ii) an energy of rotational motion of the bottom hole assembly, and (iii) an energy of lateral motion of the bottom hole assembly.
US09631474B2
A matrix acidizing monitoring system wherein a sensor array is operably associated with a matrix acidizing bottom hole assembly and contains first and second sets of sensors that detect a matrix acidizing operational parameter at different times at one or more particular locations along the wellbore. This allows the effectiveness of the acidizing to be modeled.
US09631472B2
A well pump assembly includes rotary pump and a submersible motor. A shroud surrounds the pump intake and the motor. The shroud has an open upper end in fluid communication with the pump intake. A tubular member of smaller diameter is secured to and extends downward from a lower end of the shroud. The tubular member may have an open lower end for drawing well fluid along a lower flow path up the tubular member to the pump intake. An upper flow path at the upper end of the shroud may have a minimum flow area that is smaller than a minimum flow area of the lower flow path. The tubular member has a smaller outer diameter than an outer diameter of the shroud. The tubular member may have a closed lower end to define a debris collection chamber with a drain valve.
US09631468B2
In situ channelization treatment fluids are used in a multistage well treatment. Also, methods, fluids, equipment and/or systems relating to in situ channelization treatment fluids are used for treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore.
US09631467B2
A method of performing a squeeze treatment comprises pumping a treatment fluid under pressure through a wellbore into a subterranean formation, wherein the treatment fluid includes a hydrogen sulfide scavenging compound that adsorbs onto the subterranean formation in a region around the wellbore. Production fluids are then allowed to flow from the subterranean formation into the wellbore, wherein the production fluids contact the adsorbed hydrogen sulfide scavenging compound as the production fluids flow through the region around the wellbore, and wherein the production fluids contain hydrogen sulfide that reacts with the hydrogen sulfide scavenging compound to reduce an amount of hydrogen sulfide in the production fluids before the production fluids flow into the wellbore.
US09631466B2
Systems for simultaneously injecting and producing in a well having multiple zones. One system includes a wellbore providing first perforations extending into a first subterranean formation and second perforations extending into a second subterranean formation, a production tubing having influx ports defined therein and an annulus defined between the wellbore and the production tubing, first and second pairs of wellbore isolation devices arranged about the production tubing and axially straddling the first and second perforations to define first and second formation zones, respectively, a first bypass conduit extending between the first pair of wellbore isolation devices, a second bypass conduit extending between the second pair of wellbore isolation devices, and an injection outlet defined on the first bypass conduit for injecting a portion of the fluid into the first subterranean formation and push hydrocarbons toward the second formation zone to be produced.
US09631463B2
An artificial lift system for use with a subterranean well can include a cylinder having a piston reciprocably disposed therein, the piston having opposing sides, one side being selectively communicable with at least one accumulator, and the other side having two areas, each of the areas being selectively communicable with a hydraulic pressure source and a hydraulic reservoir, and a gas pressure source connected to the accumulator, the gas pressure source including a gas compressor connected between at least one gas container and the accumulator. A method of controlling an artificial lift system can include connecting a cylinder to a hydraulic pressure source and to at least one accumulator, the accumulator being connected to a gas pressure source, and operating a gas compressor of the gas pressure source, thereby increasing hydraulic pressure applied to the cylinder from the accumulator.
US09631462B2
A perforating gun is run in the hole with a valve assembly. Both are remotely actuated with known telemetry techniques. The gun is fired and flow takes place through the gun and is regulated remotely from the surface without further wellbore intervention. The valve assembly can be a sliding sleeve that can be regulated between end positions and in between for flow regulation. Other valve types are contemplated. Signaling can be by acoustic or pressure pulse patterns that work in association with a processor to actuate the gun and the valve assembly in the needed sequence.
US09631460B2
A system for producing well production fluids through a tubing hanger connected with a tubing string, in certain embodiments, includes a subsea tree and a tubing spool. The subsea tree includes a production flow passage, and the tubing spool includes a longitudinal bore configured to receive the tubing hanger and a lateral production flow passage configured to transfer well production fluids to the production flow passage of the subsea tree. The subsea tree and the tubing spool are configured to be run and retrieved independently of one another in any order.
US09631455B2
A subsea drilling, production or processing actuation system comprising a variable speed electric motor (10) adapted to be supplied with a current, a reversible hydraulic pump (8, 28) driven by the motor, a hydraulic piston assembly (92, 101, 111, 121, 131) connected to the pump and comprising a first chamber (2), a second chamber (3) and a piston (4) separating the first and second chambers and configured to actuate a valve (91) in a subsea system, a fluid reservoir (14) connected to the pump and the hydraulic piston assembly, the pump, hydraulic piston assembly and reservoir connected in a substantially closed hydraulic system, and a pressure compensator (13, 65) configured to normalize pressure differences between outside the hydraulic system and inside the hydraulic system.
US09631454B1
The present invention provides wellbore pressure control system and method for well cementation stages, and relates to the offshore oil and gas exploitation field. The wellbore pressure control system comprises: an injection pump; and a control device, configured to control the injection pump to inject a fluid or gas through an injection pipeline to a return pipeline that communicates with an annular space of the wellbore to decrease the pressure in the return pipeline and thereby decrease the pressure in the annular space, wherein, the density of the fluid or gas is lower than the density of a drilling fluid in the annular space. The technical scheme of the present invention can effectively prevent leaky zones from being fractured by high-density cement slurry in the well cementation process that may cause safety accidents such as well kick and well blowout, etc.
US09631452B2
A mandrel for downhole isolation tools includes multiple composite pieces assembled about a common longitudinal axis at one or more common joint surfaces to form said mandrel, wherein each of said composite pieces is configured having a cross-sectional area less than the cross-sectional area of said mandrel, and an attachment mechanism configured to secure together said common joint surfaces.
US09631450B2
The present invention relates to offshore oil and gas exploration drilling field and, in particular, to a surface layer conductor running tool for deep-water well drilling, which is used to run a conductor to a designated position, so that the drill stem can be released and the drilling can be continued. The surface layer conductor running tool for deep-water well drilling comprises a mandrel, an inner sleeve, an outer sleeve, and a main body, wherein the inner sleeve, the outer sleeve, and the main body are fitted over the mandrel sequentially; the inner sleeve can slide up and down but cannot rotate in relation to the mandrel, the outer sleeve and the inner sleeve are connected via a transmission thread pair, and the main body is situated on the inner sleeve; a retaining pawl penetrating the main body and radially slidable in horizontal direction; and an anti-rotation pin penetrating the main body and the outer sleeve, so that the outer sleeve can move up and down in the main body only, but cannot rotate.
US09631449B1
Adapters for inclusion on the lower end of a completion/work-over riser includes a flow loop in fluid communication with a production flow loop hub and a production bore to facilitate testing and calibration of a subsea multi-phase flow meter during completion operations. The flow loop can be in fluid communication with one or more flow loop isolation valves, one or more production bore isolation valves, one or more annulus bore isolation valves, or one or more cross-over valves. In addition, a pressure/temperature sensor can also be included in the adapter. The adapters disclosed herein permit production fluid to flow through the subsea multi-phase flow meter while the riser is still attached to the subsea Christmas tree and before production operations have begun.
US09631442B2
A method of deploying a jointed tubular string into a subsea wellbore includes lowering the tubular string into the subsea wellbore from an offshore drilling unit. The tubular string has a slip joint. The method further includes, after lowering, anchoring a lower portion of the tubular string below the slip joint to a non-heaving structure. The method further includes, while the lower portion is anchored: supporting an upper portion of the tubular string above the slip joint from a rig floor of the offshore drilling unit; after supporting, adding one or more joints to the tubular string, thereby extending the tubular string; and releasing the upper portion of the extended tubular string from the rig floor. The method further includes: releasing the lower portion of the extended tubular string from the non-heaving structure; and lowering the extended tubular string into the subsea wellbore.
US09631441B2
Described herein is a tubular apparatus for making rigid tubular structures, comprising a flexible cylindrical wall (11, 11′) defining inside it a hollow passage (19), and suited for being wound, in particular on a spool, and continuously laid for use. According to the invention, said cylindrical wall (11, 11′) comprises a fabric (12, 13, 15, 12′, 13′, 15′) comprising inside it at least one gap (14;14′), which develops in the axial direction of said cylindrical wall (11, 11′), said fabric (12, 13, 15; 12′, 13′, 15′) comprising means suitable for operating under traction (15, 15′) when present within said at least one gap (14; 14′) is a fluid (20), injected under pressure for stiffening the tubular apparatus (10; 10′).
US09631434B2
An underreamer for increasing a diameter of a wellbore. The underreamer may include a body with first and second cutter blocks coupled to the body. The first cutter block may have a recess formed therein, and the second cutter block may be positioned in the recess. The first and second cutter blocks may move between retracted and expanded states. In the retracted state, the first and second cutter blocks may have an outer diameter less than or equal to an outer diameter of the body. In the expanded state, the first and second cutter blocks may have different outer diameters, with each being greater than the outer diameter of the body. A method may include running the underreamer into a wellbore, expanding the first and second cutter blocks, and moving the underreamer axially in the wellbore to increase the diameter of the wellbore.
US09631433B2
The invention relates to a method for sinking or introducing cavities in rock, wherein the face of the cavity (2) is melted using electrical plasma generators. In order in such a method to produce an energy density at the face of the cavity (2), the energy density being sufficient to completely or partially evaporate the in-situ stone, the invention proposes arranging a heat shield (4) immediately over the face of the cavity (2), the heat shield (4) forming with the face of the cavity (2) a dynamic pressure space (7) in which a temperature of more than 2000° C. is established at a pressure of more than 2 bar by heating with plasma generators (8). This supply of energy is sufficient to melt the stone in-situ at the face of the cavity (2), to completely or partially gasify it and to remove it from the cavity (2).
US09631424B2
A door, in particular a roll-up door, having a curtain that can be moved between a closed position in which it is arranged, at least in sections, approximately in a plane and an open position in which it is wound, preferably at least in sections, on a winding shaft, said curtain having at least one thermally insulating region such as an insulating body, preferably made of PE form. The insulating region is formed by a pocket bordered at least partially by strip-shaped, deformable reinforcing layers, in particular made of plastics, particularly preferably made of PVC.
US09631417B2
A screen frame includes at least two lineal members and a corner brace securing the two lineal members together. A turn piece latch is rotatably secured in an aperture in the corner brace. The turn piece latch includes a latch portion releasbly securing the screen frame to a window structure.
US09631406B2
A magnetic gate latch comprises magnetic materials and a latching mechanism attracted into a keeper when the gate latch is closed by a first magnetic force and retained in a unlatched position by a second magnetic force. For example, the latching mechanism comprises a pin without a spring or other biasing mechanism biasing the spring in a direction opposite of a magnet in the keeper assembly. In one example, the pin comprises a magnet on an end of the pin opposite from the keeper assembly, which is attracted toward a ferromagnetic material when the pin is retracted into the housing.
US09631400B2
A lock assembly (10) that has a first lock state and a second lock state. The lock assembly (10) includes a latch assembly (30) that has a latch (55) movable between an extended position and a retracted position, and a handle operatively coupled to the latch (55) to move the latch (55) between the extended position and the retracted position. The lock assembly (10) also includes a hub that is coupled to the handle for movement therewith, a member that is operatively coupled to the handle to permit or prevent movement of the latch (55) and a lock element. The member is engaged with the hub to permit or prevent movement of the hub. The lock element is engaged with the member in the second lock state such that the member prevents movement of the handle, and the lock element is disengaged from the member in the first lock state such that the member permits movement of the handle.
US09631399B1
A very small and efficiently compact electronic cam lock has a motor-driven worm drive lock/unlock actuator that moves a blocking pin to block or to allow unlocking rotation of a locking cam of the device. A spring in the actuator provides for the actuator to move to the locking position while the cam is still in the unlocked position, but to spring into the locking position when the cam is moved back to the locking position. The lock housing includes a threaded bore for a mounting machine screw, strategically placed within the limited space of the lock mechanism.
US09631394B2
A tent frame for carrying a tent cloth has at least five rods (2) each configured to have one end (3) resting on a ground, to extend from that end divergingly towards a top (4) of the tent and carry a tent cloth bearing outside thereon, as well as an arrangement configured to interconnect the rods to hold them in a determined mutual position. This arrangement has non-stretching elements (8) interconnecting every second rod in the circumferential direction of the frame as seen from above so that each rod will be internally passed by an element interconnecting the two adjacent rods on both sides thereof.
US09631387B2
An apparatus captures and evacuates air from an area above a body of liquid, particularly a swimming pool. The apparatus exhausts the contaminants and water vapor to an area outside of an enclosure housing the swimming pool. The invention comprises an assembly mounted to a wall adjacent the body of liquid. The assembly is comprised of a top section, opposing side sections connected by the top section, and at least one flange extending from an edge of at least one side section. The wall-mounted and bench assembly may be formed integrally, but also may be formed from two or more pieces.
US09631374B2
This specification describes a tray substrate for tile flooring that can be used in narrow grout line modular floating tile assemblies. The tray is preferably made of plastic and has vertical tray edges around the top of the tray substrate with upward and downward tabs protruding from the sides of the tray substrate wherein some of the tabs are at least partially recessed under the surface of the tray.
US09631372B1
A wall panel adapted to engage with an extrusion that is secured to an existing wall structure, in order to mount the wall panel in covering relation to the existing wall structure, includes a main wall panel section, the main wall panel section presenting a three-dimensional shape in cross-section, the main wall panel section including a plurality of sections extending at different angles relative to each other; and at least two bent end sections extending at an angle from different edges of the main wall panel section, each bent end section adapted to engage the extrusion in order to mount the wall panel in covering relation to the existing wall structure.
US09631370B2
The invention provides an air operated cleaning head for a roof gutter. The head has a housing defining an airflow passage with an impeller located inside the passage. A gear arrangement connects the impeller to a drive shaft for a pair of driven wheels. Guide formations maintain the wheels in engagement along an outer rail of a roof gutter. The guide formations are configured to straddle the rail with a counterbalance provided to maintain the head in balancing engagement on the rail. The counterbalance is an underslung air supply downpipe extending pivotably from the head The guide formations are provided as a radial flange on the outside of the wheels and a radial spoke arrangement on the inside of the wheels. The spoke arrangement is freely rotatable on the wheel axles. The impeller is supported in a dividing wall of the flow passage. Drive shaft switching means includes a flap valve movable between seats on opposite sides of the dividing wall to reverse rotation of the impeller and thus also the wheels. The flap valve is secured to a pivot pin with a lever extending from the pin away from the flap valve connected to the downpipe by a spring, whereby pivoting of the downpipe in one direction produces a bias on the flap valve in an opposite direction.
US09631367B2
A roofing product has a substrate having a binder layer and roofing granules on a majority of the binder layer, such that an exposed portion of the binder layer does not have the roofing granules. In addition, particles may be located on the exposed portion of the binder layer. The particles are smaller in size than the roofing granules, and the reflective particles have a solar reflectance of greater than 10%.
US09631363B2
A steel plate structure and a steel plate concrete wall are disclosed. A steel plate structure, which includes: a pair of steel plates, which are separated to provide a predetermined space; a structural member, which is positioned in the predetermined space, and which is structurally rigidly joined to one side of the steel plate in the direction of gravity; and a strut, which maintains a separation distance between the pair of steel plates, can be utilized to reduce the overall thickness of a steel plate concrete wall for efficient use of space, and to reduce the thickness of the steel plates for better welding properties and larger unit module sizes. Also, the axial forces or lateral forces applied on the steel plate concrete wall may be effectively resisted.
US09631360B2
The present invention concerns an insulating wall system for a building structure, wherein said wall system comprises a first wall having an exterior surface with insulation material fitted to said exterior surface of said first wall and retained by at least one elongated support member abutting the insulation material which via fastening members extending through the insulation material substantially perpendicular to the exterior surface is anchored in the first wall, and wherein the elongated support member comprises an elongated beam with one or more nail plates mounted on the insulation abutting inner surface of said beam for enhancing friction.
US09631359B2
A prefabricated module has a lateral side to be connected to a plurality of panels and slabs for forming a part of a building. The module includes four walls extending between a floor and a roof to form a rectangular cuboid shape; interior equipment, at least some of which are connected to technical installations arranged within the cuboid shape; and a compartment within the cuboid shape which is provided with waterproof layers on the interior walls and floor for creating a wet area within the module.
US09631358B1
A modular building system that is all-inclusive for completing a structural project from the foundation up using unskilled labor is provided. The modular building system includes a plurality of modular sections, each modular section formed from the interconnection of floor, wall, roof, and arch panel components, wherein all panel component interconnections are brought to a locking engagement by way of the same interlocking tabs and rails assembly, so that an unskilled laborer may complete a complete structural project interconnecting various types of modular building sections.
US09631355B1
A septic drainage system includes a vehicle that has a septic tank and the septic tank has an outlet. A hose is selectively fluidly coupled to the outlet. Thus, the hose may drain the septic tank. The hose has a distal end with respect to the outlet. The distal end may be fluidly coupled to an inlet of a sewer thereby facilitating the septic tank to drain into the sewer. A supporting unit is provided and the supporting unit may be positioned on a support surface. The hose is positioned on the supporting unit such that the hose is inhibited from becoming uncoupled from the outlet and the sewer. Thus, the supporting unit enhances draining the septic tank.
US09631352B2
The present invention is a toilet having auxiliary discharge path and valve and adapted to prevent accidently overflows of the toilet. The auxiliary discharge valve is actuateable so as to allow the contents of a toilet to bypass the trap of a toilet and flow through the discharge path and into a sewer line.
US09631351B2
A tube device including concentric inner and outer tubes to form an annulus to receive an upright stem in a toilet tank and adjustable relative to the stem. A keeper limits travel of a float to prevent opening of a control valve absent flushing of the toilet. In one aspect, the present invention includes an elongated catch device pivotally mounted intermediately to an inlet tube device and carrying at its upper extremity a keeper selectively disposed in the path of a float device to, unless a toilet has been flushed, block lowering of the float device and consequent opening of the control valve.
US09631350B2
A flush toilet has a reservoir tank, a toilet main unit, a water supply apparatus, a water discharge apparatus, and a control device for controlling flushing of the bowl portion of the toilet main unit; wherein this control device includes a time measurement device for measuring the time after the water discharge apparatus has been driven for a predetermined time to discharge flush water, until the water level rises from a dead water level inside the reservoir tank with the water discharge apparatus in an off state to a predetermined stopped water level prior to start of flush; and the driving time of the water discharge apparatus responsive to pressure losses in the toilet main unit is adjusted by comparing the water level rise time measured by the time measurement device with the water level rise time in a standard toilet.
US09631347B1
System and method for automatically and remotely maintaining acceptable levels of chlorine residual in the dead end branches of potable water mains so as to protect the users from high levels of coliform organisms by pumping stagnant water from the dead end branch back to a flowing water main. A solar panel serves as the source of power with batteries being used to store energy. A water circulation pump evacuates water through an insertable rigid flexible tubing from a point near the distal end of the dead end branch to the nearest flowing water main. A programmable logic controller is used to operate the pump during periods of time when there is enough available solar energy or when the batteries are sufficiently charged.
US09631344B1
A work vehicle includes an engine, a variable displacement hydraulic pump, a hydraulic motor, an exhaust treatment device, and a controller. The engine drives the variable displacement hydraulic pump. The variable displacement hydraulic pump is configured to change the discharge direction of the hydraulic fluid. Depending on the discharge direction of the hydraulic oil from the variable displacement hydraulic pump, the hydraulic motor is configured to change the driving direction to the forward direction or the reverse direction. The exhaust treatment device is configured to treat the exhaust from the engine. The controller is configured to increase the speed of the engine to a predetermined first speed or greater and to change the discharge direction of the variable displacement hydraulic pump to a neutral state during regeneration of the exhaust treatment device.
US09631331B2
A roadway, guard rail or safety barrier having a post and beam construction wherein the beam is mounted to the post by means of a carriage, the beam being secured to the carriage by a securement means, the carriage being adapted to travel longitudinally relative to the post in the event of a collision, the post further including at least one carriage support means, and one or more engagement means on an outer face of the post, the engagement means being adapted to be engaged by the securement means to provide resistance to movement of the carriage with respect to the post, wherein the carriage is sized and shaped so as to not engage or to minimize engagement with the engagement means during the movement.
US09631330B2
A transportable foldable bridge that has a folded transport state and an unfolded installation state. The bridge includes a first ramp element, a second ramp element and an intermediate element with two opposing ends. A first end of the intermediate element is connected to the first ramp element and the other end of the intermediate element is connected to the second ramp element. An articulating connection is provided between the first ramp element and the intermediate element. In the transport state, the first ramp element and the intermediate element are folded and the second ramp element constitutes an extension of the intermediate element.
US09631327B2
A method for seaming artificial turf at its edges is provided. In some embodiments, the method includes providing a tape having a lower surface resting on a support surface, an upper surface underlying the edges of the artificial turf, and a hot melt pressure sensitive adhesive provided on the upper surface of the tape. After application of heat sufficient to soften the hot melt pressure sensitive adhesive, the layer of hot melt adhesive is bonded to the lower surface of the edges of the turf to the tape while the adhesive extends into valleys of the underside of the turf. Also provided is a heating cart for heating the adhesive and a method of using the heating cart to heat the adhesive.
US09631324B2
A track structure component that includes a triangular girder having a top plate, a first side plate and a second side plate with a lower surface of the top plate abutting the first edge of the first side plate, the lower surface of the top plate abutting the first edge of the second side plate and the second side edge of the first side plate abutting the second side edge of the second side plate and a rail component that includes at least one rail positioned adjacent to an upper surface of the top plate.
US09631310B2
A method for wetting laundry in a laundry treating appliance having a rotatable treating chamber in which laundry is received for treatment according to an automatic cycle of operation comprises forming an annulus of laundry within the treating chamber prior to wetting the laundry, spraying liquid onto the annulus while the treating chamber is being rotated, after the formation of the annulus, redistributing the laundry, after the redistributing, rotating the treating chamber to form an annulus of laundry, and, while the treating chamber is rotated, recirculating the liquid through the laundry.
US09631301B2
A device including an array of aligned conductive channels. The conductive channels are operable for directional transport of species selected from the group consisting of electrons, ions, phonons, and combinations thereof. The conductive channels are provided for by nanofibers in a form selected from the group consisting of ribbons, sheets, yarns, and combinations thereof.
US09631295B2
Provided is a method for producing SiC single crystals while maintaining a temperature gradient such that the temperature decreases from within an Si solution inside a graphite crucible toward the solution surface, with the SiC seed crystals that have contacted the solution surface serving as the starting point for crystal seed growth, wherein when the crystal growth surface of the SiC seed crystals, which serves as the starting point for SiC single crystal growth, contacts the solution surface, the height by which the solution rises to the side of the SiC seed crystals is within the range where the SiC single crystals that have grown from the crystal growth surface and the SiC single crystals that have grown from the side grow as one SiC single crystal unit. Also provided is a device for producing an SiC single crystal comprising a graphite crucible, a heating device for heating and melting base materials in the crucible to form a base material solution and maintaining a temperature gradient required for growth of SiC single crystal, a support rod which holds a SiC seed crystal at its bottom end, and a holding structure which maintains the holding by the support rod so that a height by which the solution rises to the side of the SiC seed crystal is within a range where the SiC single crystal that have grown from the crystal growth surface and the SiC single crystal that have grown from the side grow as one SiC single crystal unit.
US09631284B2
The invention relates to methods for creating high value liquid fuels such as gasoline, diesel, jet and alcohols using carbon dioxide and water as the starting raw materials and a system for using the same. These methods combine a novel solid oxide electrolytic cell (SOEC) for the efficient and clean conversion of carbon dioxide and water to hydrogen and carbon monoxide, uniquely integrated with a gas-to-liquid fuels producing method.
US09631279B2
A printed circuit board includes a laminate substrate. The laminate substrate includes catalytic core material that resists metal plating except where a surface of the catalytic material is ablated. Metal traces are formed within in trace channels within the laminate substrate. The channels extend below the surface of the catalytic material.
US09631272B2
Methods of forming metal carbide films are provided. In some embodiments, a substrate is exposed to alternating pulses of a transition metal species and an aluminum hydrocarbon compound, such as TMA, DMAH, or TEA. The aluminum hydrocarbon compound is selected to achieve the desired properties of the metal carbide film, such as aluminum concentration, resistivity, adhesion and oxidation resistance. In some embodiments, the methods are used to form a metal carbide layer that determines the work function of a control gate in a flash memory.
US09631270B2
The invention relates to a carbon-based coating (2) which as well as carbon as principal ingredient has at least one first element selected from a group consisting of the transition metals from groups 3 to 10 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, the carbon in the coaling (2) being present predominantly in sp2-hybridized form, and the coating (2) comprising at least one further element from a group encompassing silicon, germanium, aluminum, and the transition metals from groups 3 to 10 of the Periodic Table of the Elements, with the proviso that said at least one further element is not the same as the first element, and the cumulative fraction of said at least one further element in the coating (2) is between 0.1 at % and 5 at %, and the cumulative fraction of said at least one first element is between 0.5 at % and 10 at %.
US09631269B2
A method for manufacturing a solid-state battery device. The method can include providing a substrate within a process region of an apparatus. A cathode source and an anode source can be subjected to one or more energy sources to transfer thermal energy into a portion of the source materials to evaporate into a vapor phase. An ionic species from an ion source can be introduced and a thickness of solid-state battery materials can be formed overlying the surface region by interacting the gaseous species derived from the plurality of electrons and the ionic species. During formation of the thickness of the solid-state battery materials, the surface region can be maintained in a vacuum environment from about 10−6 to 10−4 Torr. Active materials comprising cathode, electrolyte, and anode with non-reactive species can be deposited for the formation of modified modulus layers, such a void or voided porous like materials.
US09631266B2
Provided is a method that enables manufacture, with good productivity, of a high-strength cold-rolled steel with improved elongation (EL), stretch-flangeability (λ), bendability (R), and balance of these properties (TS×EL×λ/1000), outstanding composite workability as evaluated by Erichsen test, and a tensile strength of at least 980 MPa. A steel material satisfying a prescribed constituent composition is held and soaked for at least fifty seconds at a temperature at or above the Ac3 point, after which the steel material is cooled at an average cooling rate of at least 15° C./sec to a discretionary temperature (T) that satisfies expression (1) below, held for 5-180 seconds in a temperature range that satisfies expression (1) below, then heated to a temperature region that satisfies expression (2) below, held for at least 50 seconds in this temperature region, and then cooled. 300° C.≦T1(° C.)<400° C. (1) 400° C.≦T2(° C.)<540° C. (2)
US09631259B2
A method allowing production of high-purity perrhenic acid from rhenium sulfide by applying pyrometallurgical process is provided. A method for producing an aqueous solution of perrhenic acid, comprising: 1) a step for performing a first roasting process of rhenium sulfide under an oxygen-containing gas to generate rhenium oxide and sulfur oxide, the sulfur oxide being gasified for discharge and the rhenium oxide being obtained as a roasted residue; 2) a step for performing a second roasting process of the roasted residue under an oxygen-containing gas to collect gasified rhenium oxide; 3) a step for cooling and solidifying the gasified rhenium oxide, or a step for dissolving the gasified rhenium oxide into water while water-cooling to obtain the aqueous solution of perrhenic acid; and 4) in case where the rhenium oxide is solidified, a step for dissolving the solidified rhenium oxide into water, or heating and gasifying the solidified rhenium oxide and then dissolving the gasified rhenium oxide into water, to obtain the aqueous solution of perrhenic acid.
US09631254B2
A solvent extraction method for hydrometallurgical liquid-liquid extraction processes, in which method solution phases are separated from a dispersion while the dispersion flows horizontally in a settler from a feed end to a discharge end. The mass flow of the dispersion and solution phases is divided into a plurality of parallel and mutually separated plug flows flowing in the settler from the feed end to the discharge end. The settler (1) comprises a plurality of elongated settler sections (4) which are mutually separated and side by side in parallel to each other, Inc settler sections (4) extending from the feed end (2) to the discharge end (3), forming a plurality of mutually separated parallel plug flow channels.
US09631249B2
Martensitic mixed phase stainless steel, which has in well balance between excellent strength and formability and excellent fatigue properties, and is inexpensive, and suitable for spring members, has: a chemical composition comprising C: 0.1-0.4%, Si: at most 2.0%, Mn: 0.1-6.0%, Cr: 10.0-28.0%, N: at most 0.17%, the remainder of Fe and impurities, and a metallurgical structure which includes a ferrite phase and a martensitic phase, and also a retained austenite phase of 5 volume % or less if necessary, and which satisfies a relationship of CM/CF≧5.0 where an average value CF of C content existing in the ferrite phase, and an average value CM of C content existing in the martensite.
US09631243B2
The disclosure relates to methods and compositions for detecting the presence of Prototype and/or Archetype JC virus in a biological sample from a subject. In some embodiments, the methods include amplifying and detecting a first nucleic acid sequence unique to Archetype JC virus in a biological sample, and a second nucleic acid sequence common to both Archetype and Prototype JC virus in the biological sample. In several embodiments, the methods can be used to identify JC virus in a biological sample from a subject at risk for progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. Compositions and kits for use in the disclosed methods are also provided.
US09631239B2
Methods for classifying and for evaluating the prognosis of a subject having breast cancer are provided. The methods include prediction of breast cancer subtype using a supervised algorithm trained to stratify subjects on the basis of breast cancer intrinsic subtype. The prediction model is based on the gene expression profile of the intrinsic genes listed in Table 1. This prediction model can be used to accurately predict the intrinsic subtype of a subject diagnosed with or suspected of having breast cancer. Further provided are compositions and methods for predicting outcome or response to therapy of a subject diagnosed with or suspected of having breast cancer. These methods are useful for guiding or determining treatment options for a subject afflicted with breast cancer. Methods of the invention further include means for evaluating gene expression profiles, including microarrays and quantitative polymerase chain reaction assays, as well as kits comprising reagents for practicing the methods of the invention.
US09631238B2
The present invention provides novel mutations identified in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene that can be used for a more accurate diagnosis of cystic fibrosis (CF) and CF related disorders. Methods for testing a sample obtained from a subject to determine the presence of one or more mutations in the CFTR gene are provided wherein the presence of one or more mutations indicates that the subject has CF or a CF related disorder, or is a carrier of a CFTR mutation.
US09631233B2
The present invention provides methods to obtain dry compositions of reaction compounds that maintain the biological activity of the compounds upon re-solubilization after a certain storage time. Preferably, the dry composition comprises a polymerase, and the dry composition is usable for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification after re-solubilization.
US09631228B2
Provided herein is technology relating to isolating nucleic acids. In particular, the technology relates to methods and kits for extracting nucleic acids from problematic samples such as stool.
US09631226B2
Control agents for immunoprecipitation assays, methods of using the control agents and kits comprising the control agents are provided.
US09631221B1
Rapid methods that identify sepsis-causing bacteria or yeast aid the physician in critical therapeutic decision-making, thus decreasing patient mortality rates. The methods described herein employ plating microorganisms directly on to a MALDI-MS plate, adding concentrated formic acid, and identifying the microorganism by mass spectrometry. Optionally, an organic solvent may be combined with the formic acid, or added to the sample before or after the concentrated formic acid is added thereto. The methods enable direct extraction of proteins from microorganisms without the need for liquid protein extraction methods and yields positive identification results for gram-positive bacteria, gram-negative bacteria and yeast in minutes.
US09631213B2
The present invention relates to methods for degrading or converting a cellulose-containing material, comprising: treating the cellulose-containing material with an effective amount of a cellulolytic enzyme composition comprising a polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, and one or more (several) components selected from the group consisting of a CEL7 polypeptide having endoglucanase activity, a CEL12 polypeptide having endoglucanase activity, a CEL45 polypeptide having endoglucanase activity, a CEL7 polypeptide having cellobiohydrolase activity with a cellulose binding domain, and a CEL7 polypeptide having cellobiohydrolase activity without a cellulose binding domain. The present invention also relates to such cellulolytic enzyme compositions.
US09631212B2
The invention pertains to the field of production of natural products and, in particular, in the field of production of cornexistin and hydroxycornexistin. It provides polynucleotides encoding polypeptides involved in the biosynthesis of cornexistin and hydroxycornexistin as well as vectors and recombinant microorganisms comprising such polynucleotides. Also provided are methods for the production of natural products, in particular methods for the production of cornexistin and hydroxycornexistin, using such polynucleotides and polpeptides encoded therein, as well as vectors and recombinant microorganisms comprising such polynucleotides and polypeptides.
US09631209B1
A method for fermenting stalks of the Poaceae family is provided. This includes sugarcane, sorghum and maize stalks. This method compresses stalks between rollers to between 20% and 90% of their diameter while the stalks are submerged in an aqueous reagent solution. This fractures the stalks in the axial direction without significant loss of juice while simultaneously pulling the reagent solution into the resulting network of cracks in the parenchyma tissue. In some variants, the aqueous reagent solution contains fermentation organisms, the sugars diffuse from the parenchyma cells, come into contact with the fermentation organisms located in the cracks in the stalks and produce ethanol and lactic acid within the stalks. In some variants, combinations of enzymes, acids and Fenton reagent in the aqueous reagent solution diffuse into and degrade the lignocellulosic matrix in the stalks.
US09631208B2
Biomass feedstocks (e.g., plant biomass, animal biomass, and municipal waste biomass) are processed to produce useful products, such as fuels. For example, systems are described that can convert feedstock materials to a sugar solution, which can then be fermented to produce ethanol. Biomass feedstock is saccharified in a vessel by operation of a jet mixer, the vessel also containing a liquid medium and a saccharifying agent.
US09631192B2
Auto-recognizing therapeutic R/DNA chimeric nanoparticles (R/DNA NP) are described that are pairs of DNA/RNA hybrids where the DNA molecules have complementary toehold sequences that promote the re-association of the R/DNA NPs when mixed resulting in the formation of RNA/RNA duplexes that act as siRNAs.
US09631182B2
The invention provides nucleic acids and polypeptides for nucleic acid polymerases from a thermophilic organism, Thermus brockianus. The invention also provides methods for using these nucleic acids and polypeptides.
US09631178B2
The present invention relates to isolated human cells that are precursors of endothelial cells other than embryonic stem cells, to isolated murine cells that are precursors of endothelial cells, and to methods using same. In particular, the present invention relates to established cell lines of isolated human cells that are precursors of endothelial cells other than embryonic stem cells and established cell lines of isolated murine cells that are precursors of endothelial cells. The present invention can be used in particular in the medical and/or veterinary fields, in particular in the field of therapeutics and/or in the field of studies of cellular mechanisms.
US09631166B1
The heated soap bar-forming device includes a housing with a storage compartment adjacent to a heating compartment. The heating compartment is responsible for melting soap remnants into a soap bar in order to re-use said soap remnants. Both the storage compartment and the heating compartment include a removable lid. The heating compartment includes a heating element that is horizontally oriented within the heating compartment. A removable soap tray is able to be placed atop of the heating element, and/or removed from the heating compartment. The heating compartment features an insulator and tray guide that ensures the removable soap tray is able to be properly seated and removed from the heating compartment. Located on the housing, and adjacent to the heating compartment is a control member that adjusts the output of heat and operation of the heating element.
US09631165B2
The invention relates to stabilization systems for capsules in washing and cleaning compositions, wherein the capsules contain active ingredients or other ingredients and have an average particle size distribution from 0.1 nm to 1000 μm.
US09631160B2
The present invention relates to functional fluid compositions containing friction modifiers, and specifically stable compositions containing friction modifiers with limited solubility in and/or limited compatibility with the functional fluids with which they are used. In particular the present invention deals with functional fluids used in internal combustion engines, such as engine oils, and friction modifiers that contain one or more amide functional groups, where the friction modifier is present in the functional fluid composition at levels that would otherwise cause the composition to be unstable and/or hazy.
US09631153B2
The invention relates to a method for the chemical conversion of mixtures of materials produced from solid and liquid hydrocarbons into gas/vapor mixtures and carbonaceous materials by thermal actions, catalysis and other processes and a device comprising jacket-heated, vertically and horizontally oriented reactors known per se with conveying devices and further apparatus in a process cycle.
US09631152B2
A method of forming a composition comprising contacting a fuel and at least one compound of Formula I: wherein X is carbon, oxygen, or sulfur; R1 and R2 each independently are hydrogen, a C1 to C20 alkyl, or a C6 to C10 aryl; R3 and R3′ each independently are hydrogen or a C1 to C4 alkyl; R4 and R4′ each independently are hydrogen, a C1 to C4 alkyl, a C4 to C10 cycloalkyl, or a C6 to C10 aryl; R5 and R5′ each independently are a C4 to C10 alkyl; R6 and R6′ each independently are hydrogen or a C1 to C6 alkyl; and R7 and R7′ each independently are hydrogen or C1 to C4 alkyl; and wherein the compound of Formula I when subjected to GC-MS using electron ionization at greater than 70 eV produces at least one ion having a mass-to-charge ratio of 300 to 600.
US09631143B2
The present invention relates to a composite material, a liquid crystal film, a method for preparing the film, a temperature-responsive device comprising the film, and a circular polarizer made therefrom. The liquid crystal film comprises the composite material of the present invention, wherein the composite material comprises a polymer network of a cholesteric liquid crystal material, and a chiral material capable of hydrogen-bond-assisted self-assembly, and wherein the chiral material is dispersed in and restrained by the polymer network. The obtained liquid crystal film can exhibit a high reflectivity and a high transmittance as well as a broad band reflection. And, the liquid crystal film is applicable for an industrial development because it can be produced with a simple process and at a lower cost, and requires a lower UV luminous intensity.
US09631141B2
Highly luminescent nanostructures, particularly highly luminescent quantum dots, are provided. The nanostructures have high photoluminescence quantum yields and in certain embodiments emit light at particular wavelengths and have a narrow size distribution. The nanostructures can comprise ligands, including C5-C8 carboxylic acid ligands employed during shell formation and/or dicarboxylic or polycarboxylic acid ligands provided after synthesis. Processes for producing such highly luminescent nanostructures are also provided, including methods for enriching nanostructure cores with indium and techniques for shell synthesis.
US09631140B2
In a light-emitting device, a 50%-area average diameter of primary particles of a Eu-activated β SiAlON fluorescent material is 10 μm or more, a scattering probability of scattering materials at a peak wavelength of excitation light emitted from an excitation light source is 0.1 mm−1 or more and 0.5 mm−1 or less, and the Eu-activated β SiAlON fluorescent material is entrapped inside a transparent member in a dispersed state together with the scattering materials.
US09631137B2
A proppant for use in fracturing geological formations is made from bauxitic ores and a calcium containing compound. The proppant has a calcium containing crystalline phase.
US09631134B2
A process of treating a subterranean well comprising a plurality of flow channels and at least one of the flow channels is impaired. The treatment is used for alleviating the impairment. The process comprises a flow of gaseous carrier fluid supplied into the subterranean well. The gaseous carrier fluid pushes liquids out of the plurality of the flow channels. A liquid treatment agent is created. To create the liquid treatment agent, first, a surfactant solution is created and diluted with a solvent. The surfactant solution is created by compounding a plurality of non-ionic ethoxylated sorbitan fatty acid ester surfactants together until a proper hydrophilic-lipophilic balance is achieved. At some point, the liquid treatment agent is atomized. This atomized liquid treatment agent is blended with the gaseous carrier fluid, to create an atomized treatment fog. The atomized treatment fog is supplied into the subterranean well.
US09631130B2
A heat-dissipating sheet having a density of 2.0 g/cm3 or more and an in-plane thermal conductivity of 580 W/mK or more, which comprises carbon black uniformly dispersed among fine graphite particles, a mass ratio of fine graphite particles to carbon black being 75/25 to 95/5, and the carbon black being composed of channel black and ketjen black and/or acetylene black is produced by applying a dispersion of fine graphite particles, carbon black and an organic binder in an organic solvent to a surface of a die, drying it; burning the resultant resin-containing composite sheet to remove the organic binder; and then pressing the resultant composite sheet of fine graphite particles and carbon black for densification.
US09631125B2
In the preferred embodiment, the present invention relates to a dissolvable, adhesive construction comprising a host material; a dissolvable facestock with an upper surface and a lower surface; an adhesive layer with an upper surface and a lower surface wherein the upper surface of the adhesive layer is in contact with the lower surface of facestock; and a dissolving material formulated to dissolve the facestock material wherein the facestock material disintegrates or disperses when it comes into contact with the dissolving material.
US09631120B2
Stable organosiloxane coating compositions that provide transparent, abrasion-resistant, chemical-resistant, low-tack, and water-washable anti-fog coatings when cured, are described herein. The coating compositions comprise an epoxy functional alkoxysilane, a tetrafunctional alkoxysilane, an alkoxysilyl functional polymer having polyethylene oxide segments, an alkoxysilyl functional cationic surfactant, and a carboxylic acid functional compound. Articles coated with the coating compositions, processes for coating substrates with the anti-fog coating compositions, and processes for making the coating compositions are also described herein.
US09631114B2
A coating composition includes a colloidal suspension of specific zirconia nano-particles, at least one epoxysilane and at least one catalyst. A method for preparing this composition, and its use for coating a transparent optical substrate, an optical article, such as an ophthalmic lens, including a transparent polymer substrate, especially an acrylic substrate, and a coating prepared from the composition, which is directly applied on the substrate, are also described.
US09631111B2
The present invention relates to a primerless base painting composition for parts of a vehicle comprising a resin component including a non-chlorinated modified polyolefin resin and an acrylic resin; a pigment; additives; and a solvent selected from an aqueous solvent and an oil solvent, a kit comprising the same, painted parts of a vehicle comprising the same, and a method for painting and varnishing parts of a vehicle using the same.
US09631109B2
According to the invention, there is provided a recording method including adhering a reaction liquid to a recording region of a recording medium, the reaction liquid containing a reagent which causes aggregation or thickening of a colored ink composition; adhering the colored ink composition to the recording region to which the reaction liquid has been adhered, the colored ink composition containing a resin and a coloring material; and adhering a clear ink composition which contains a resin, to the recording region to which the reaction liquid has been adhered, in which a resin which causes a volume of a calcium acetate aqueous solution of 0.085 mol/kg to be equal to or smaller than 7 mL is contained as the resin contained in the colored ink composition, the calcium acetate aqueous solution being required for aggregating a liquid of 3 mL, which contains the resin so as to have a content of 1 mass %.
US09631107B2
This disclosure relates to an ink composition (e.g., a hot melt ink composition or a radiation curable ink composition) that has a relatively low conductivity. This disclosure also relates to a continuous printing process using such a composition and a product containing such a composition.
US09631106B2
Ink is manufactured by mixing unoxidized metallic particles to a binder. The ink is printed on an object and hardened for forming a conductor. The process is performed in an inert atmosphere or in vacuum for maintaining the electrical conductivity of the conductor.
US09631104B2
The present disclosure provides orthogonal non-Newtonian inkjet inks and related methods. In one example, an orthogonal non-Newtonian inkjet ink can comprise a low molecular weight organic gelator in an amount ranging from 0.1% to 10% by weight; a metal oxide in an amount ranging from 0.1% to 10% by weight; a first salt in an amount of 0.05% to 20% by weight; a second salt in an amount of 0.05% to 20% by weight; and an organic solvent. The metal oxide and the first salt form a first structured network and the low molecular weight organic gelator and the second salt form a second structured network.
US09631103B2
An ink jet ink composition includes an organic solvent in an amount between 60% and 95% by weight of the ink composition, a binder resin, a stabilizing agent, which may be provided by the binder resin, and a pH sensitive dye. An image formed by the ink composition changes from a first color to a second color when exposed to water, wherein the first color is different than the second color.
US09631101B2
A method of producing metal flakes (72′) is provided. The method includes: applying a layer of ionic liquid (70) to a substrate (24); forming a layer of metal (70) on the substrate (24) over the ionic liquid (70); and removing the layer of metal (70) from the substrate (24).
US09631085B2
A polymer blend including a first polymer having a unit represented by Formula 1 and a second polymer having a unit represented by Formula 2: wherein in Formulae 1 and 2, R1 through R13, l, and m are the same as defined in the detailed description.
US09631084B2
An elastomeric composition, and method of making the same, useful for forming thin films and sheets, comprising 55-60% hydrogenated SEEPS having a number average molecular weight of 90,000 to 100,000, 7-12% polystyrene, 15-30% oil, and 5 to 20% of an aliphatic hydrogenated hydrocarbon resin.
US09631082B2
A water-in-oil microemulsion, including a polyacrylamide, a fatty acid, a surfactant, an oil continuous phase, and an aqueous discontinuous phase in the oil continuous phase. The fatty acid includes a tall oil fatty acid, oleic acid, or a combination of a tall oil fatty acid and oleic acid. The water-in-oil microemulsion contains 6 to 48 parts by weight of the polyacrylamide, 30 to 62 parts by weight of the fatty acid, and 20 to 44 parts by weight of the surfactant per 100 parts by weight of the polyacrylamide, the fatty acid, and the surfactant combined.
US09631069B1
The present invention relates to the technical field of polymer composites, in particular to a poly (cyclic butylene terephthalate)/silicon dioxide nanocomposite, wherein the added silicon dioxide is catalyst-modified nanosilicon dioxide.
US09631064B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a coloured effect pigment, comprising the steps of (a) preparing in an aqueous coating medium at least one layer of a hydroxyl-containing metal oxide on a substrate, thereby obtaining in the aqueous coating medium a first coloured pigment material CPM1 comprising the substrate coated with the hydroxyl-containing metal oxide, wherein the substrate is made of aluminium or aluminium alloy which optionally comprises at least one passivating layer, and wherein the hydroxyl-containing metal oxide is a hydroxyl-containing iron oxide or a hydroxyl-containing titanium oxide or a mixture thereof, (b) providing the first coloured pigment material CPM1 in a liquid post-treatment medium comprising one or more high boiling organic liquids, and (c) heating the liquid post-treatment medium to a temperature of at least 90° C. so as to convert the first coloured pigment material CPM1 to a second coloured pigment material CPM2.
US09631061B2
A fiber-reinforced composite material obtained by reinforcing a matrix resin with fibers, wherein the matrix resin contains a thermoplastic resin and a carbon black, the fibers are discontinuous carbon fibers, a part of the discontinuous carbon fibers forms fiber bundles, and the thickness of a thinnest part of the matrix resin which is located between an outermost surface of the composite material and the fibers existing in an inside of the composite material is less than 100 μm. Further, it is preferred that the thermoplastic resin is a polyamide-based resin, that the discontinuous carbon fibers have a length of from 3 to 100 mm, and that the orientation of the discontinuous carbon fibers is random. Furthermore, it is preferred that the size of the primary particle diameter of the carbon black is within a range of 7 to 75 nm.
US09631057B2
In one embodiment the instant invention generally pertains to a method for producing glucose for fermentation. The method comprises first treating a biomass with acid and heat under conditions sufficient to produce a composition mixture comprising cellulose suitable for enzymatic hydrolysis. Next, at least a portion of the cellulose of step (a) is enzymatically hydrolyzed under conditions sufficient to form a composition comprising glucose. The glucose is then fermented. Advantageously, one or more reaction conditions are more efficient because they are selected by first measuring an initial hydrolysis rate of said biomass and then selecting one or more appropriate reaction conditions based upon said initial hydrolysis rate.
US09631056B2
A method is provided for synthesizing a core-shell nanoparticle that includes the following steps: providing a polymeric seed (in a solvent) that includes mono-vinyl monomer cross-liniked with a cross-linking agent to form the core of the nanoparticle, the core has an average diameter of from about nanometers to about 10,000 nanometers, and the core has polymer chains with living ends; adding a stabilizer to stabilize the seed and prevent the seed from precipitating out of solution; and grafting a shell species onto the living ends of the core to form the shell of the nanoparticle. A core-first synthesized nanoparticle, along with a rubber composition and tire product are also provided.
US09631050B2
Antimicrobial cationic polymers having one or two cationic polycarbonate chains were prepared by organocatalyzed ring opening polymerization. One antimicrobial cationic polymer has a polymer chain consisting essentially of cationic carbonate repeat units linked to one or two end groups. The end groups can comprise a covalently bound form of biologically active compound such as cholesterol. Other antimicrobial cationic polymers have a random copolycarbonate chain comprising a minor mole fraction of hydrophobic repeat units bearing a covalently bound form of a vitamin E and/or vitamin D2. The cationic polymers exhibit high activity and selectivity against Gram-negative and Gram-positive microbes and fungi.
US09631044B2
A method for preparing a comb-like polyurethane, including: 1) adding a diol to a reaction vessel, stirring, heating, vacuum dehydrating, and cooling the diol; adding a diisocyanate to the diol, and pre-polymerizing the diisocyanate and the diol under vacuum to yield a polyurethane prepolymer; 2) dissolving lysine in a mixture of water and an organic solvent to yield a first solution, adding the first solution to the polyurethane prepolymer to yield a first reaction mixture; stopping stirring and allowing the first reaction mixture to stand for between 10 and 12 hrs, pouring the first reaction mixture into water, and drying a precipitate to yield a polyurethane elastomer containing carboxyl groups; 3) dissolving the polyurethane elastomer in an organic solvent to yield a second solution; adding an epoxy-terminated polyethylene glycol to the second solution, and stirring a resulting mixture at between 110 and 130° C.
US09631043B2
A stable partly cured polyisocyanate composition is disclosed which comprises polyisocyanurate (intermediate polyisocyanurate comprising material) and which is further curable. Furthermore a process for making the intermediate (partly cured) polyisocyanurate comprising material and a process for further curing the partly cured polyisocyanurate composition is disclosed. Also polyisocyanurate comprising materials made or obtainable from partly cured intermediate polyisocyanurate comprising material are disclosed and processes for further curing a partly cured polyisocyanurate comprising composition (intermediate material).
US09631039B1
A chain transfer agent composition comprises at least one branched C10 mercaptan selected from 5-methyl-1-mercapto-nonane, 3-propyl-1-mercapto-heptane, 4-ethyl-1-mercapto-octane, 2-butyl-1-mercapto-hexane, 5-methyl-2-mercapto-nonane, 3-propyl-2-mercapto-heptane, 4-ethyl-2-mercapto-octane, 5-methyl-5-mercapto-nonane, or combinations thereof. The chain transfer agent composition can be a component of an emulsion polymerization mixture and can be used in a process for emulsion polymerization for the production of polymers, for example, via free-radical polymerization.
US09631035B2
The present disclosure relates to a process for separating polymeric and gaseous components of a reaction mixture obtained by high-pressure polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of free-radical polymerization initiators into in a gaseous fraction and a liquid fraction, wherein the separation is carried out at a pressure of from 15 MPa to 50 MPa and a temperature of from 120° C. to 300° C. in a separation vessel which has a vertically arranged cylindrical shape with a ratio of length to diameter L/D of from 4 to 10 and which is equipped with an inlet pipe which extends vertically from the top into the separation vessel; and the ratio of the inner diameter of the inlet pipe at its lower end and the inner diameter of the separating vessel in its cylindrical part is in the range of from 0.2 to 0.4.
US09631033B2
The present invention provides an N-phenylmaleimide compound that can improve the quality of the obtained copolymer by using N-phenylmaleimide containing impurities in specific amounts or less as at least one component of the copolymerization monomers. The N-phenylmaleimide compound of the present invention contains 0.1% by weight or less of N-(2,5-dioxo-1-phenyl-3-pyrrolidinyl)-N-phenylmaleamic acid (PPMA) and/or 0.3% by weight or less of N-phenylfumaramic acid (PFA).
US09631032B2
A method for manufacturing a modified hydroxyethyl starch carrying a heptonic acid residue on at least one of its termini. Within this method, the following steps are carried out: a) dissolving hydroxyethyl starch in water, b) adjusting the pH value to a value of 8.0 to 10.0, c) adding a cyanide compound to the hydroxyethyl starch solution, heating the solution to a temperature of 80 to 99° C. and keeping it at this temperature for a first time period, and d) adjusting the pH value to a value of 2.0 to 4.0, bringing the solution to a temperature of 50 to 90° C. and keeping it at this temperature for a second time period.
US09631028B2
A method of inhibiting or preventing laminin assembly in a basement membrane is disclosed. The method comprising contacting a tissue with an agent which inhibits QSOX1 activity or expression, thereby inhibiting or preventing laminin assembly in the basement membrane.
US09631023B2
The present invention relates to the field of glycosylation engineering of proteins. More particularly, the present invention relates to glycosylation engineering to generate proteins with improved therapeutic properties, including antibodies with increased antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity.
US09631021B2
Use of antagonists to IL-31 are used to treat inflammation and pain by inhibiting, preventing, reducing, minimizing, limiting or minimizing stimulation in neuronal tissues. Such antagonists include antibodies and fragments, derivative, or variants thereof. Symptoms such as pain, tingle, sensitization, tickle associated with neuropathies are ameliorated.
US09631004B2
Modified FGF-21 polypeptides and uses thereof are provided, for example, for the treatment of diseases associated with fibrosis. Modified FGF-21 polypeptides are disclosed that contain an internal deletion and optionally replacement peptide, optionally modified with at least one non-naturally-encoded amino acid, and/or optionally fused to a fusion partner.
US09630998B2
The present inventors have solved the crystal structure of an Escherichia coli bacterial lipocalin polypeptide, which depicts a monomeric protein. Previous crystal structures have been reported, but these appear to he inaccurate, as they predicted, e.g., a dimeric protein. The crystal structure of a bacterial lipocalin provided by the present invention leads to numerous uses. For example, the present invention provides for the design, construction and use of recombinant libraries of diversified bacterial lipocalins resulting from a bacterial lipocalin polypeptide “backbone”.
US09630993B2
The present invention provides cyclic peptides comprising a dimer of peptides, each peptide comprising a sequence corresponding to the HER2 splice variant HER2Delta16, wherein the cyclic peptide is cyclized via a disulfide bond between the peptides and via an amino acid linking the peptides. The invention also provides methods of making antibodies that specifically bind to HER2Delta16 homodimers using said cyclic peptides.
US09630988B2
The present invention provides a method for preparing a composition comprising highly concentrated antibodies by ultrafiltration in batch concentration mode having a first constant feed rate step and a second controlled feed rate step.
US09630973B2
The present invention provides the compounds of formulae (3) and (1) wherein n is 0 or 1, R13 and R14 are the same or different and are selected from the group consisting of NHR310, NR311R312, OR313, SR314 and R315, or R13 and R14 together are selected from the group consisting of (a), (b) and (c), and X is CI, Br of I, and a process for the preparation of compounds of formula (3) comprising the compounds of formula (1) as key intermediates.
US09630968B1
The application relates to a compound of Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, tautomer, prodrug, solvate, metabolite, polymorph, analog or derivative thereof, which modulates the activity of BTK, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound of Formula (I), and a method of treating or preventing a disease in which BTK plays a role.
US09630964B2
The present invention relates to fluoro-9-methyl-β-carbolines, their preparation as well as their medical use and pharmaceutical compositions containing fluoro-9-methyl-β-carbolines.
US09630948B2
The invention relates to 2-oxo-1-pyrrolidinyl triazole derivatives, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use as pharmaceuticals for enhancing the cognitive function or to counteract cognitive decline.
US09630946B2
The present invention relates to maleate salt forms of (E)-N-{4-[3-chloro-4-(2-pyridinylmethoxy)anilino]-3-cyano-7-ethoxy-6-quinolinyl}-4-(dimethylamino)-2-butenamide, methods of preparing crystalline maleate salt forms, the associated compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions containing the same. The maleate salts are useful in treating cancers, particularly those affected by kinases of the epidermal growth factor receptor family.
US09630945B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds of formula (I) (I) that are autotaxin inhibitors, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments containing them and to their use in the treatment of an ATX-dependent or ATX-mediated disease or condition.
US09630936B2
The present disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising Gamma-glutamyl cycle inhibitors (GGCI) and certain pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and methods of use.
US09630935B2
The present invention relates to novel compounds and their use in the prophylactic and/or therapeutic treatment of hypertension and/or fibrosis.
US09630931B2
The invention provides compounds which inhibit or modulate the activity of Chk-1 kinase and which are useful in the treatment of cancer. The compounds have the general formula (1): and salts, N-oxides and tautomers thereof, wherein m is 2, 3 or 4; n is 0 or 1; Q1 is selected from a bond; C(═O); S(O); SO2; and an alkylene chain of 1 to 4 carbon atoms in length between the moiety R4 and the nitrogen atom. N, wherein (a) one or more of the 1 to 4 carbon atoms of the alkylene chain may optionally be substituted with one or two C1-4 alkyl groups; and/or (b) one carbon atom of the 1 to 4 carbon atoms of the alkylene chain may optionally be replaced by a cyclopropane-1,1-diyl or 1,1-cyclobutanediyl group; and/or (c) one carbon atom of the 1 to 4 carbon atoms of the alkylene chain may optionally be replaced by C(═O), S(O), or SO2, provided that Q1 contains no more than one C(═O), S(O), or SO2 moiety; R1 is selected from hydrogen, methyl, chlorine and bromine; R2 is selected from hydrogen, methyl, methoxy and a group —(O)p-Q2-R5; R3 is selected from hydrogen, a group Hyd1, a group —O-Hyd1 and a group —(O)p-Q2-R5; provided that when one of R2 and R3 is —(O)p-Q2-R5, the other is selected from hydrogen, methoxy and methyl; and R4 is selected from amino, NH-Hyd2, N(Hyd2)2; and a non-aromatic carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring of 4 to 7 ring members containing 0, 1, 2 or 3 heteroatom ring members selected from O, N and S and oxidized forms thereof; the carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring being optionally substituted with one or two substituents R9. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and methods for making the compounds.
US09630920B2
Industrial methods for producing arylsulfur pentafluorides are disclosed. Methods include reacting arylsulfur halotetrafluoride with hydrogen fluoride in the absence or presence of one or more additives selected from a group of fluoride salts, non-fluoride salts, and unsaturated organic compounds to form arylsulfur pentafluorides.
US09630907B2
The invention relates to novel methods for synthesizing a synthon for γ,δ-dihydroxyisoleucine 1 (CAS No. 55399-94-5] as building block for the synthesis of amatoxins, and for novel methods for synthesizing amatoxins using such building block.
US09630892B2
The invention relates to a process for converting hydrocarbon feeds by thermal steamcracking to at least one olefin-containing product stream comprising at least ethylene and propylene, with at least partial conversion of a first hydrocarbon feed in at least one first cracking furnace (1) and of a second hydrocarbon feed in at least one second cracking furnace (2). According to the invention, the second hydrocarbon feed comprises predominantly hydrocarbons having a carbon number of 5 or/and 4 and consists for the most part of one or more recycled fractions (P, T) which are obtained from the product stream, and the second hydrocarbon is converted in the second cracking furnace (2) with cracking conditions that lead to a ratio of propylene to ethylene of 0.7 to 1.6 kg/kg.
US09630891B2
The invention relates to a process for converting feeds composed of hydrocarbons by thermal steamcracking to at least one olefin-containing product stream comprising at least ethylene and propylene, with at least partial conversion of the feeds in at least one first cracking furnace (1) and in at least one second cracking furnace (2). According to the invention, a fresh feed (B) is fractionated into at least one first and one second fresh feed fraction (B1, B2), and the first fresh feed fraction (B1) is conducted at least partly into the first cracking furnace (1) and the second fresh feed fraction (B2) at least partly into the second cracking furnace (2).
US09630887B2
The present invention relates to novel urea-formaldehyde polymers coated with an active ingredient, a method of making the same, and their use.
US09630885B2
A method of forming a composite article includes impregnating an inorganic fiber preform with a slurry composition. The slurry composition includes a particulate, a solvent, and a pre-gellant material. Gelling of the pre-gellant material in the slurry composition is initiated to immobilize the particulate and yield a gelled article, and substantially all solvent is removed from the gelled article to form a green composite article. The green composite article is then infiltrated with a molten infiltrant to form the composite article.
US09630882B2
A coil electronic component includes a magnetic body containing a ferrite; and a coil part including a plurality of conductive patterns disposed in the magnetic body. The ferrite contains 48 to 50 mol % of iron oxide calculated in terms of Fe2O3, 8 to 12 mol % nickel oxide calculated in terms of NiO, 28 to 31 mol % zinc oxide calculated in terms of ZnO, and 7 to 13 mol % copper oxide calculated in terms of CuO.
US09630878B2
A cementitious composition including: a binder containing (a) 60-94%, by weight, of at least one pozzolanic material; (b) at least 0.5% calcium sulfoaluminate (CSA), by weight; (c) 1.2-11% by weight, expressed as SO3, of at least one inorganic sulfate selected from the group of sulfates consisting of a calcium sulfate hemihydrate, an anhydrous calcium sulfate, a calcium sulfate dihydrate, a sodium sulfate, and a sodium calcium sulfate; and (d) a total sulfate content of at least 3%, by weight, expressed as SO3, the cementitious composition including, at most, 3% natural lime, the cementitious composition including, at most, 10% alumina cement, the contents of the composition being calculated on a dry, aggregateless basis.
US09630877B2
A formaldehyde-free sizing composition for products based on fibers, in particular mineral fibers, such as glass or rock fibers, which includes at least one humic acid and/or one fulvic acid or a salt of these acids, at least one saccharide, and at least one inorganic acid ammonium salt.
US09630876B2
The invention relates to low-emissivity and anti-solar glazing systems that change only very little in properties when they are subjected to a heat treatment. They comprise a stack of thin layers comprising an alternating arrangement of n infrared radiation reflecting functional layers and n+1 dielectric coatings, characterized in that: (i) the first dielectric coating comprises a layer made from an oxide in contact with the substrate, (ii) the portion of the coating stack between two functional layers comprises, in order: a barrier layer, a zinc oxide-based layer, a layer of zinc-tin mixed oxide, a nucleation layer, and (iii) the last dielectric coating comprises a layer made from an oxide other than silicon oxide with a thickness greater than 3 nm overlaid with a layer made from a silicon nitride or a silicon oxide with a thickness greater than 10 nm superposed thereon.
US09630875B2
A coated glass pane comprising at least the following layers in sequence: a glass substrate; a lower anti-reflection layer; a silver-based functional layer; a barrier layer, comprising at least the following three partial barrier layers in sequence from the silver-based functional layer, a lower partial barrier layer based on an oxide of Zn, Ti, ZnSn, InSn, Zr, Al, Sn and/or Si, and/or an (oxi)nitride of Si and/or of Al, having a thickness of at most 5 nm, a central partial barrier layer based on an oxide of Zn, Ti, Zn Sn, InSn, Zr, Al, Sn and/or Si, and/or an (oxi)nitride of Si and/or of Al, having a thickness of at most 5 nm, and an upper partial barrier layer based on an oxide of Zn, Ti, Zn Sn, InSn, Zr, Al, Sn and/or Si, and/or an (oxi)nitride of Si and/or of Al, having a thickness of at most 10 nm; and an upper anti-reflection layer; wherein the central partial barrier layer has a different composition to both the lower partial barrier layer and the upper partial barrier layer.
US09630872B2
In the method for manufacturing a glass-fine-particle-deposited body according to the present invention, at least a part of a gas supplying pipe 25 from a temperature controlled booth 24 to a burner 18 for cladding is temperature-controlled so that the temperature at the burner side becomes high and temperature gradient becomes 5° C./m or more. The temperature control is performed so that the temperature gradient becomes preferably 15° C./m or more, more preferably 25° C./m or more. Specifically, the part is controlled to the predetermined temperature gradient by winding a tape heater 26 that is a heating element on the outer circumference of the gas supplying pipe 25 from the temperature controlled booth 24 to the burner 18 for cladding and temperature-controlling the tape heater 26.
US09630867B2
Systems and methods are provided for the treatment of caustic wastewater. Specifically, systems and methods are provided for combining refinery spent caustic and ethylene spent caustic solutions and treating the combined spent caustic mixture using a wet air oxidation process.
US09630851B2
A molecular species is covalently attached to elemental carbon by exposing the carbon to a reaction mixture containing a strong base and a compound of the formula (I) or (II) in which X denotes a covalently attached atom or group capable of forming an X− anion and each Z is a moiety comprising a plurality of atoms, but which does not have a hydrogen atom directly attached to the atom which itself is directly attached to the —CH2X or —CHX group. The carbon substrate may be graphite or carbon nanotubes.
US09630846B2
A silicon nitride substrate including silicon nitride crystal grains and a grain boundary phase and having a thermal conductivity of 50 W/m·K or more, wherein, in a sectional structure of the silicon nitride substrate, a ratio (T2/T1) of a total length T2 of the grain boundary phase in a thickness direction with respect to a thickness T1 of the silicon nitride substrate is 0.01 to 0.30, and a variation from a dielectric strength mean value when measured by a four-terminal method in which electrodes are brought into contact with a front and a rear surfaces of the substrate is 20% or less. The dielectric strength mean value of the silicon nitride substrate can be 15 kV/mm or more. According to above structure, there can be obtained a silicon nitride substrate and a silicon nitride circuit board using the substrate in which variation in the dielectric strength is decreased.
US09630840B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to cooling shale gas via reaction of methane, light hydrocarbons, or a combination thereof, with water. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of cooling syngas. The method includes contacting the hot syngas with methane or light hydrocarbons. The hot syngas includes water and has a temperature of about 800° C. to about 3000° C. The contacting is effective to endothermically react the methane or light hydrocarbons with the water in the hot syngas to form carbon monoxide and hydrogen and to provide a cooled syngas having a lower temperature than the hot syngas.
US09630838B2
The invention relates to aqueous dispersions, comprising particles based on a magnetic iron oxide with dimensions of ≦20 nm, the surface of which is modified by the grafting of aminated groups R with a covalent bonding to the surface of said particles, wherein the isoelectronic point of particles with such a modified surface is ≧10. The invention further relates to a method for production of said aqueous suspensions and a method for modification of the surface of the particles present in said dispersions, in particular, by the immobilisation of polysaccharides such as dextrans, particularly for the formulation of magnetic compositions which may be administered in vivo and in particular for the formulation of injectable compositions of contrast agents for MRI.
US09630835B2
A MEMS device is formed by applying a lower polymer film to top surfaces of a common substrate containing a plurality of MEMS devices, and patterning the lower polymer film to form a headspace wall surrounding components of each MEMS device. Subsequently an upper polymer dry film is applied to top surfaces of the headspace walls and patterned to form headspace caps which isolate the components of each MEMS device. Subsequently, the MEMS devices are singulated to provide separate MEMS devices.
US09630831B1
The present disclosure provides a CMOS structure, including a substrate, a metallization layer over the substrate, a sensing structure over the metallization layer, and a signal transmitting structure adjacent to the sensing structure. The sensing structure includes an outgassing layer over the metallization layer, a patterned outgassing barrier over the outgassing layer; and an electrode over the patterned outgassing barrier. The signal transmitting structure electrically couples the electrode and the metallization layer.
US09630825B1
A can opener contains: a first holder, a second holder, a transmission device, an eccentric gear, a rotating roller, a connector, a washer, a guiding roller, and a metal piece. The first holder includes a battery chamber, a cover, and a first switch. The second holder includes a first accommodation room, a plurality of first posts, and a second accommodation room. The transmission device includes a motor, a plurality of first driving gears, and a second driving gear. The eccentric gear includes an opening and a plurality of coupling pillars. The rotating roller includes a second post, and the connector includes a second arcuate orifice, a plurality of second coupling stems, and two second positioning pillars. The washer includes a third arcuate orifice and a fixing hole. The guiding roller includes a first pore and an abutting portion, and the metal piece includes a second pore and a contacting gear.
US09630822B2
A method of weighing a load lifted by a lifting arm of a machine is disclosed and includes receiving a signal from an axle sensor, said signal representing a force exerted on an axle as a result of lifting the load, receiving a further signal from a further sensor, said further signal representing an angle or slope of the lifting arm relative to a chassis of the machine, and calculating, from the received signal and the received further signal, the weight of the load lifted by the lifting arm.
US09630821B2
A clamping assembly for a load-carrying vehicle capable of exerting an adjustable clamping force, comprises first and second clamp arms, and first and second clamp arm sensing elements. The first and second clamp arms are movable towards and away from each other to contact and exert a clamping force on a load sufficient for lifting the load and transporting the load. The first clamp arm sensing elements are positioned at spaced apart locations on the first clamp arm. The second clamp arm sensing elements are positioned at spaced apart locations on the second clamp arm. The first clamp arm sensing elements and the second clamp arm sensing elements are configured sense and feed back forces exerted by the first and second clamp arms, respectively, in engaging the load such that the clamp arms can be moved relative to each other to adjust the clamping force applied to the load.
US09630820B2
An automatic lift stand and case. The automatic lift stand and case includes a body having an opening and containing a platform. A latch mechanism is configured to maintain the platform in a lower position within the body. One or more resilient stored force devices are configured to move the platform from the lower position towards the opening of the body when the latch mechanism is released. One or more springs are pivotably coupled to the body and the platform, the length of each spring is substantially parallel to the platform when the platform is in the lower position and pivots to lift the platform as the platform is lifted towards the opening of the body by the one or more resilient stored force devices. Each spring is configured to lift the platform to a higher position when the resilient stored force devices pull the platform towards the opening of the body.
US09630811B2
A tubular handling system and method for handling tubulars are provided. The tubular handling system includes a load transfer sleeve. The load transfer sleeve includes a body defining an inner diameter and a tapered bowl extending outward from the inner diameter, with the bowl defining a landing surface. The load transfer sleeve also includes a load bushing comprising a plurality of load bushing segments that are slidable along the bowl. The load bushing radially expands and contracts by axial translation of the plurality of load bushing segments relative to the body. Further, the plurality of load bushing segments each define an axial engagement surface configured to engage an upset of a tubular and a landing surface that engages the landing surface of the bowl when the axial engagement surface engages the upset.
US09630797B2
The container may hold a material, such as, plastic wrap. The first container portion may include a first leg with an engagement member. The engagement member may engage the second leg during the cutting process. In addition, the engagement member may disengage from the second leg during or after the cutting process. When the user wishes to cut the material, the user pushes down on the first container portion. The material is held between the engagement member and the second leg at a first location. The third leg may assist in holding the material at a second location. The holding of the material in tension may facilitate the cutting of the material. As the user continues to push down on the first container portion, the engagement member disengages from the second leg. The user can remove the portion of material without opening the first container portion.
US09630781B1
Linear induction motor-driven divert mechanisms may be installed or associated with conveying systems and may cause a change in velocity of one or more objects (i.e., a change in direction and/or a change in speed) to passing through the conveying systems. The divert mechanisms may include one or more spherical rotors including magnetizable slugs, and the spherical rotors may be rotatably positioned above positioned above one or more stator plates. Energizing one or more of the stator plates causes the corresponding spherical rotors to rotate in a given direction. Therefore, the divert mechanism may be used to transport or direct objects within conveying systems by controlling the rotation and angular velocity of one or more of the spherical rotors, which may impart motion to the objects.
US09630778B1
A compression apparatus for gripping and carrying objects having walls is provided. The apparatus comprises the two U-shaped brackets, one U-shaped having a handle and an upper and a lower rounded bars at the bottom of the bracket and the other U-shaped bracket having a handle and a single rounded bar. When the apparatus handle portion comes together, the single rounded bar fits at least partially between the upper and lower rounded bars. During compressive use an object's walls would be squeezed and gripped between the upper and lower rounded bars and the single rounded bar.
US09630776B1
Features are disclosed for using location awareness, bin capacity, and environmental cues to provide in context guidance to the associate when stowing items such as at a fulfillment center. In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, the associate may scan an item he or she may want to stow. In response, lights on the bins in the associate's vicinity are illuminated to indicate bins in which the item can be stowed (e.g., because the item fits in the bin) without breaking stow etiquette. For example, in order to prevent mix up, stow etiquette may indicate that two types of erasers should not be stored in the same bin. As yet another example, stow etiquette may indicate that an item should not be stowed in a bin, even if it fits and there is room, so that a total weight for the bin is not exceeded.
US09630771B2
The cup (1) contains a pot (11), which preferably is filled with a concentrate of nutrition (19). The pot is closed by a lid (18) and is arranged close to the bottom of the cup and held against a vertical force, which may be applied, when the lid of the pot is torn off to use the contents of the pot. The pot shows a recess (16) at its outer structure, which is correlated to a shoulder (7) of the wall of the cup. When the pot is vertically inserted the recess snaps into the shoulder and provides a mechanical fixation.
US09630769B2
A stringed seasonal light storage device allows stringed seasonal lights to be maintained on a structure and alternatively positioned to be displayed extending from a housing or obscured by positioning within the housing. The device includes a base having a rear face, a pair of sidewalls and an open bottom. Each of a pair of laterally aligned slots extends the sidewalls to receive a light string therein positioning a light between the sidewalls and pivotable between a display position and a storage position. A cover coupled to the base is pivotable between an open position and a closed position to permit moving of the light between the display position and the storage position and inhibit movement of the light between the storage position and the display position when the cover is in the closed position.
US09630767B2
The invention described herein generally pertains to in-situ applications of liquid chemicals mixed and dispensed as a spray or a foam and more specifically, to in-situ application of polyurethane foam or froth and the measurement of the temperature of the chemicals used therewith employing temperature-indicating one-component or two-component foam gun nozzles and/or at least one temperature-indicating hose which employs at least one thermochromic material disposed within the foam gun nozzle and/or hoses.
US09630758B2
An elongated tie strap comprising a head having a plurality of similarly dimensioned through-holes, a body having a plurality of axially oriented ridges on opposite lateral surfaces, and a tail having a thickness less than that of the body. The cross-sectional dimensions of the body are substantially equal to the cross-sectional dimensions of the through-holes, and the distance between adjacent ridges is substantially equal to the through-hole depth, such that the body may couple to the head when inserted through one or more through-holes.
