US09633723B2
Providing for resistive random access memory (RRAM) having high read speeds is described herein. By way of example, a RRAM memory can be powered at one terminal by a bitline, and connected at another terminal to a gate of a transistor having a low gate capacitance (relative to a capacitance of the bitline). With this arrangement, a signal applied at the bitline can quickly switch the transistor gate, in response to the RRAM memory being in a conductive state. A sensing circuit configured to measure the transistor can detect a change in current, voltage, etc., of the transistor and determine a state of the RRAM memory from the measurement. Moreover, this measurement can occur very quickly due to the low capacitance of the transistor gate, greatly improving the read speed of RRAM.
US09633722B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device having a memory cell which comprises a transistor having a control gate and a storage gate. The storage gate comprises an oxide semiconductor and is able to be a conductor and an insulator depending on the potential of the storage gate and the potential of the control gate. Data is written by setting the potential of the control gate to allow the storage gate to be a conductor, supplying a potential of data to be stored to the storage gate, and setting the potential of the control gate to allow the storage gate to be an insulator. Data is read by supplying a potential for reading to a read signal line connected to one of a source and a drain of the transistor and detecting the change in potential of a bit line connected to the other of the source and the drain.
US09633718B1
There is provided a nonvolatile memory device having a writing error preventing function with high noise resistance. This structure includes a switch and a noise filter circuit connected in parallel to a clock terminal, wherein a clock pulse monitoring circuit compares the number of clocks input from the clock terminal with a prescribed number, and when detecting abnormality in the number of clocks, switches to a noise countermeasure mode in which the switch is turned off to validate the noise filter circuit.
US09633717B2
A circuit includes a first power node that receives a first operational voltage having a first operational voltage level and a second power node that receives a second operational voltage having a second operational voltage level different from the first operational voltage level. A memory cell is coupled with the first power node, the memory cell configured to store a logic value, and a tracking cell is coupled with the second power node, the tracking cell configured to generate a signal having a timing responsive to the second operational voltage level. The circuit is configured to read the logic value of the memory cell based on the signal.
US09633708B2
A memory circuit (100) includes a plurality of memory cells (50), an N-type MOSFET (30a) and an N-type MOSFET (30b). The drain of the N-type MOSFET (30a) is connected to one of a pair of bit lines, and the drain of the N-type MOSFET (30b) is connected to the other of the pair of bit lines. The gate of the N-type MOSFET (30a) is connected to the drain of the N-type MOSFET (30b), and the gate of the N-type MOSFET (30b) is connected to the drain of the N-type MOSFET (30a).
US09633705B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a block array having an m number of memory blocks in a row direction and an n number of memory blocks in a column direction (m being an integer of 2 or more and n being an integer of 1 or more), a page selection circuit configured to select a row in the block array from which a page is to be selected, and a page buffer configured to store data to be written in a page selected by the page selection circuit or data read from the page. Each of the memory blocks includes a memory cell array having a plurality of memory cells, a row selection circuit configured to select a row of the memory cell array, and a column selection circuit configured to select a column of the memory cell array.
US09633699B2
A data storage control device controls a memory card which, including a non-volatile rewritable memory, operates using an external power supply. A DC/DC converter generates, by having a power supply of a +B voltage, a card operating voltage for operating the memory card. When delayed ACC is completed after an accessory power supply of a vehicle is turned off, a main microcomputer, a shutdown signal control unit, and a transistor set a shutdown terminal of the DC/DC converter to a low level by setting a main control signal input terminal to a high level and, thereby, stops operation of the DC/DC converter. This inhibits the occurrence of a case in which, after the accessory power supply of the vehicle is turned off, the circuit supplying power to the memory card affects other devices mounted in the vehicle.
US09633698B2
Writing to and reading from dynamic random access memory (DRAM) by a system on chip (SoC) over a multiphase multilane memory bus has power consumption optimized based on bit error rate (BER) and one or more thresholds. The bit error rate (BER) may be measured and used to control parameters to achieve optimal balance between power consumption and accuracy. The bit error rate (BER) measurement, purposely adding jitter, and checking against the thresholds is performed during normal mission-mode operation with live traffic. Error detection may cover every memory data transaction that has a block of binary data.
US09633690B2
In one embodiment, a system for cycle-slip resilient iterative read channel operation includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to, in an iterative process until a maximum number of iterations has been reached or a valid codeword is produced, execute cycle-slip detection on signal samples to detect one or more cycle-slip events. Also, the logic is configured to selectively alter a timing estimate driving a phase-locked loop (PLL) during any time interval determined to experience a cycle slip in a first pass as indicated by one or more cycle-slip pointers. Additionally, the logic is configured to generate a set of decisions provided by a detector and generate a set of decisions provided by a decoder. Moreover, the logic is configured to output decoding information relating to the signal samples in response to a decoding algorithm producing a valid codeword.
US09633677B2
A system, according to one embodiment, includes a near field transducer; an adhesion layer on a media facing side of the near field transducer, the adhesion layer comprising Ni and Cr; and a protective layer on a media facing side of the adhesion layer. Other systems and methods are described in additional embodiments.
US09633676B2
A magnetic storage medium is formed of magnetic nanoparticles that are encapsulated within nanotubes (e.g., carbon nanotubes).
US09633670B2
Systems and methods are described to reduce undesired audio. An adaptive noise cancellation unit receives a main signal and a reference signal. The main signal has a main signal-to-noise ratio; the reference signal has a reference signal-to-noise ratio. The reference signal-to-noise ratio is less than the main signal-to-noise-ratio. The adaptive noise cancellation unit reduces undesired audio from the main signal. An output signal from the adaptive noise cancellation unit is input to a single channel noise cancellation unit. The single channel noise cancellation unit further reduces undesired audio from the output signal to provide mostly desired audio. A filter control creates a control signal from the main signal and the reference signal to control filtering in the adaptive noise cancellation unit and to control filtering in the single channel noise cancellation unit.
US09633657B2
A method for providing speech recognition to a user on a mobile device are provided, the method comprising: 1) receiving, by a processor, audio data; 2) processing the audio data, by a speech recognition engine, to determine one or more corresponding text, wherein the processing comprises querying a local language model and a local acoustic model; and 3) displaying the one or more corresponding text on a screen of the mobile device.
US09633656B2
Apparatus and methods to implement a technique for using a second display with a network-enabled television. In one implementation, this feature allows the user to conveniently register and manage their IPTV device directly from a second display device instead of going to a separate registration website. A typical current situation requires the user to either leave the living room for the PC which is inconvenient or perform the registration directly on the IPTV which often has a poor input interface. The second display could be a smart phone that can often be found beside the user, or a laptop or tablet PC, a desktop PC, or the like. After registration, certain convenient follow-up features can be implemented, such as directly selecting the device for browsing, or inheritance of configurations of other available devices for the newly-registered device.
US09633644B2
Provided is a vehicle vibration and noise reduction system that allows the stiffness of the suspension system to be varied while ensuring a favorable noise canceling performance under all conditions. A variable elastic member (4) is incorporated in a vehicle suspension system, and a noise control unit (56) causes a canceling sound to be emitted from a loudspeaker (32) according to a reference signal obtained from a strain sensor (31) provided on the variable elastic member and an error signal obtained from a noise detection unit (33) for detecting noises in the passenger compartment of the vehicle. The noise control unit is configured to change a noise canceling property of the noise control unit depending on the elastic modulus of the variable elastic member.
US09633641B2
Improvisation or playing along with a musical group or with a song is enjoyable to people and musicians of all ability levels. However, it is easy to play notes which do not harmonize with other notes and pitches which are being played. Provided herein is a method, computer program product and electronic device for assigning a set of pitches to a plurality of cells of an electronic device having a touch screen input device. The method may include the steps of obtaining an input chord, disassembling the chord into at least one base note and a plurality of individual voices, arranging a predetermined number of voices of the chord according to at least one predefined rule, and assigning at least one set of pitches to a plurality of cells of an electronic device, said set of pitches corresponding to the base note and arranged predetermined number of voices of the chord. The present method allows a musician to freely play along without the possibility of playing an errant note as the user does not control the actual pitch associated with the cells being indicated by a user on the touch screen.
US09633634B2
A snare drum attachment is disclosed. A mounted body is mounted to the snare drum and houses a first magnet. A moveable body is coupled to the mounted body. The moveable body is configured to retain tensioned snares a set distance from a snare head of the snare drum. The moveable body houses a second magnet magnetically coupled to the first magnet so as to generate a magnetic force. A manual actuator is coupled to the first magnet. Actuation of the manual actuator alters the magnetic force so as to displace the moveable body relative to the mounted body. The displacement changes the set distance of the tensioned snares from the snare head.
US09633633B1
Disclosed herein is an adjustable foot pedal for a percussion drum. In one example, the foot pedal utilizes a transversely split footboard having a heel end pivotably coupled to a heel plate and a toe end coupled to a step force transfer member. In one example the heel end is longitudinally adjustable relative to the toe end. A connecting rod may be utilized having an intermediate point coupled to the eccentric cam plate at a position offset from the axis of rotation of the rotational shaft so as to pivot and linearly slide relative thereto; a first end of the connecting rod fixed to the frame body; and wherein the connecting rod couples to the eccentric cam plate between the attachment to the frame body and at least one compression member. A pivot arm may be used pivotably coupled to the connecting member and pivotably coupled to the footboard.
US09633628B2
A method of driving a display device includes a writing operation and a reading operation. The writing operation includes writing first to Mth frame data in a first frame memory during first to Mth frame periods. The reading operation includes reading (L−M)th and (L−M+1)th frame data among the first to Mth frame data from the first frame memory during an Lth frame period. M may be three or more, and L may be an integer ranging from (M+1) to (2M−1). The frame data read from the first frame memory corresponds to an image to be displayed. Reading and writing operations are further performed for remaining ones of the frame memories.
US09633626B2
A system for adjusting an electronic display is provided herein. The system includes a gaze tracking device to capture an image of a pupil associated with a viewer of the electronic display, and a diameter of the pupil being ascertained via the image of the pupil. In another example, the system may also include an ambient light sensor receiver to logarithmically receive light information from an ambient light sensor; and a display adjuster to adjust a luminance of the electronic display based on a combination of a diameter and the light information.
US09633620B2
The invention provides a GOA circuit and a liquid crystal display device each including multiple cascade connected GOA units. An nth-stage GOA unit is for charging an nth-stage horizontal scan line in a display area. The nth-stage GOA unit includes a pull-up control circuit, a pull-up circuit, a transfer circuit, a first pull-down control circuit, a first pull-down circuit, a second pull-down control circuit, a second pull-down circuit and a main pull-down circuit, where n is a positive integer. The invention can improve the stage-transfer efficiency of GOA circuit, improve the output quality of scan drive signal so as to increase charging ratio of LCD tubes and also can accelerate the pull-down speed of scan drive signal.
US09633610B2
The present invention relates to a drive method for an electrophoretic cell and a device adapted to implement the method. The cell comprises a first storage electrode (24), a second storage electrode (22), a first target area electrode (28), a second target area electrode (30), a first type of particle (32) and a second type of particles (33), said second type of particles being of opposite polarity to the first type of particles. An area (31) extending between the target area electrodes (28, 30) is a target area. The method comprises a reset phase (110), wherein said first and second type of particle are reset to determined reset positions, a first write phase (120), wherein the first type of particles are moved to and/or from the storage electrodes and change in amount in said target area (31), a second write phase (140) similar to the first write phase but for the second type of particles, and a spread phase (150) so that the particles in said target area (31) distribute and mix. The method allows for short distance movements and two particle type in the same cell can be written comparatively fast.
US09633604B2
Provided is a display device including a pixel array unit that is made by arranging a drive transistor to drive a light emitting unit, a sampling transistor to sample a signal voltage, and a pixel circuit having a storage capacitor to store the signal voltage which is written by sampling with the sampling transistor, and a drive unit that makes a gate node and a source node of the drive transistor be in a floating state up to performing writing of the signal voltage with the sampling transistor, after writing an initialization voltage in the gate node when the source node of the drive transistor is in a non-floating state.
US09633601B2
A display device and a method of driving the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display device includes a gamma generator configured to generate emission duty data having an emission duty period based on input image data, a panel load calculator configured to calculate a load of the display panel, and a target driving voltage determiner configured to determine a target driving voltage. The display device also includes an emission duty controller configured to adjust the emission duty period and determine a target global current, driver configured to drive the display panel, and a driving voltage generator configured to supply the driving voltage to the display panel, measure driving currents flowing into the display panel, and adjust the driving voltage to include the target driving voltage based on the difference between the sum of the measured driving currents and the target global current.
US09633596B2
It is an object of the disclosure to generate a driving signal having large amplitude at the time of driving pixels, and there is provided a display unit, a display driving unit, a driving method, or an electronic apparatus that includes: a first transistor (Tr2) including a gate, a drain, and a source; a first capacitor (C2) including a first terminal and a second terminal that is connected to one of the drain and the source of the first transistor; and a unit pixel configured to be driven based on a voltage of the second terminal.
US09633593B2
An organic light emitting diode display panel is disclosed which is defined into a plurality of pixel regions and includes: first through third pixel drivers arranged in each of the pixel regions and configured to each drive respective organic light emitting diode; and first through third pixel electrodes arranged in each of the pixel regions and connected to the first through third pixel drivers. The first and second pixel drivers within an odd-numbered pixel region share a first power supply line with each other. The third pixel driver within the odd-numbered pixel region shares a second power supply line with the first pixel driver within an even-numbered pixel region adjacent to the odd-numbered pixel region. The second and third pixel electrodes are arranged along a first direction parallel to a major axis of the first pixel electrode and disposed to expend along second directions perpendicular to the first direction.
US09633592B2
A display device includes an acquiring circuit, a calculator, and a delay controller. The acquiring circuit acquires a gray scale voltage of a gray scale value of a pixel. The calculator calculates a first delay correction value based on a voltage currently retained on a data signal line to which the gray scale voltage is output and a gray scale voltage to be subsequently output to the data signal line. The delay controller determines a timing when the gray scale voltage is to be output to the data signal line based on the first delay correction value.
US09633589B2
A display device includes a first interconnection line, a first data driver, a second interconnection line, an electrostatic discharge (ESD) circuit, and a display panel. The first connection line transmits a data driving signal. The first data driver includes the first interconnection line and output a data signal based on the data driving signal. The second interconnection line passes through the first data driver and transmits a gate driving signal. The ESD) circuit in the first data driver and discharges static electricity transmitted through the second interconnection line. The first gate driver outputs a gate signal based on the gate driving signal transmitted through the second interconnection line. The display panel receives the data signal and the gate signal.
US09633584B2
A sign is combined with an electrical outlet plate which can mount near or to existing electrical infrastructure to provide information such as direction toward an exit. A protruding and/or outwardly visible surface of the sign may be painted or adorned with a sign appliqué, and can be illuminated and/or photoluminescent to provide maximum visibility with or without electrical power. Advantageously, the sign can be mounted at electrical outlets and/or electrical switches that are near the floor and away from the ceiling, such that the sign remains visible even when lines of sight within a building are impaired, such as from smoke. In one exemplary embodiment, the sign is integrated into a portion of a standard-sized duplex cover plate, which can be mounted to an existing electrical junction box to preserve the functionality of adjacent electrical outlets or switches.
US09633580B2
A label for in-mold molding, which comprises a laminate film comprising a substrate layer (A) and a heat-sealable resin layer (B), wherein the substrate layer (A) comprises a thermoplastic resin in an amount of from 40 to 90% by weight and at least one of an inorganic fine powder and an organic filler in an amount of from 10 to 60% by weight, the heat-sealable resin layer (B) comprises a thermoplastic resin in an amount of from 50 to 100% by weight, the laminate film is at least uniaxially stretched, the porosity of the laminate film is from 10% to 45%, the thermal conductivity of the label is from 0.04 to 0.11 W/mK, and the bonding strength of the label stuck to an adherend formed of a propylene-based resin at 200° C. and 60 MPa is from 250 to 1500 g/15 mm.
US09633568B2
A computing device includes a user interface, a network interface configured to receive vehicle data, driver information, and driver communications, a memory configured to store the vehicle data, the driver information, and the driver communications, and a processor configured to process the vehicle data, the driver information, and the driver communications into an electronic driver scorecard according to specified safety and efficiency criteria. The electronic driver scorecard comprises one or more alphanumerical ratings according to a selection of drivers as input by a user into the user interface.
US09633567B1
The present invention is a system and method for aircraft ground collision avoidance (iGCAS) comprising a modular array of software, including a sense own state module configured to gather data to compute trajectory, a sense terrain module including a digital terrain map (DTM) and map manger routine to store and retrieve terrain elevations, a predict collision threat module configured to generate an elevation profile corresponding to the terrain under the trajectory computed by said sense own state module, a predict avoidance trajectory module configured to simulate avoidance maneuvers ahead of the aircraft, a determine need to avoid module configured to determine which avoidance maneuver should be used, when it should be initiated, and when it should be terminated, a notify Module configured to display each maneuver's viability to the pilot by a colored GUI, a pilot controls module configured to turn the system on and off, and an avoid module configured to define how an aircraft will perform avoidance maneuvers through 3-dimensional space.
US09633566B2
A method of controlling a vehicle and trailer assembly comprises obtaining an image for a current position of the vehicle and trailer assembly from a GPS system. The image is displayed on a display screen and a location is selected to indicate a desired final position for the vehicle and trailer assembly. An intended trailer backing path is determined with the desired final position of the vehicle and trailer assembly and a predicted trailer backing path is determined based upon a steering angle of the vehicle and an angle between the vehicle and the trailer. The predicted trailer backing path and the intended trailer backing path are displayed on the display screen to assist the operator in steering the vehicle.
US09633564B2
A method and apparatus are provided for determining whether a driving environment has changed relative to previously stored information about the driving environment. The apparatus may include an autonomous driving computer system configured to detect one or more vehicles in the driving environment, and determine corresponding trajectories for those detected vehicles. The autonomous driving computer system may then compare the determined trajectories to an expected trajectory of a hypothetical vehicle in the driving environment. Based on the comparison, the autonomous driving computer system may determine whether the driving environment has changed and/or a probability that the driving environment has changed, relative to the previously stored information about the driving environment.
US09633557B2
A remote control device may be configured to be mounted over the toggle actuator of a light switch and to control a load control device. The remote control device may include a base portion and a rotating portion supported by the base portion so as to be rotatable about the base portion. The remote control device may include a control circuit, a wireless communication circuit, and a rotary encoder circuit. The rotary encoder circuit may be configured to translate a force applied to the rotating portion into input signals, and to operate as an antenna of the remote control device. The rotary encoder circuit may be configured to provide the input signals to the control circuit. The control circuit may be configured to translate the one or more input signals into control signals for transmission to the load control device via the wireless communication circuit.
US09633556B2
A remote receives an instruction to transmit and determines whether or not to include an acknowledgement request in the instruction based on statistics regarding receipt of acknowledgements associated with previously transmitted instructions. If so, the remote control device includes the request before transmitting. The remote control may determine whether or not to include the request in a variety of different ways in a variety of different implementations. In some implementations, the remote control may classify instructions into two or more different classifications and may treat instructions of different classifications differently. In other implementations, the remote control may treat the same instruction differently depending on the number of requested acknowledgements successfully received during a time period. In various other implementations, the remote control may perform various combinations of these approaches.
US09633541B2
A display system for tracking large numbers of persons or objects in real-time is disclosed. The display system utilizes a tracking system that employs various types of technologies, such as RFID, to determine the location of the person and/or objects being tracked. The displays of the present invention utilize colors, graphics, and the physical groupings of related data on a display device, usually a computer monitor, to present tracking information in a compact, readily changeable, and easily analyzed format in real-time.
US09633539B2
A collision sensor assembly is attachable to a stationary structure such as a pallet rack, a door frame, the corner of a wall, or the like. The collision sensor is configured to sense when a collision occurs with the stationary structure such as when a piece of movable machinery contacts the stationary structure. The collision sensor assembly includes a sensor operatively connected to a processor which determines when a collision occurs, and produces a signal to an output signal generator to provide an external indication of the collision.
US09633537B2
Systems and methods to detect and warn proximate entities of interest are described herein. An example method includes determining threat levels for hazards in a plurality of different zones within a building, classifying the threat levels into at least one of a first threat level and a second threat level, designating a first zone of the plurality of different zones having the first threat level with a first detectable indicator, and designating a second zone having the second threat level with a second detectable indicator.
US09633530B2
A doorbell device is provided. The doorbell device includes a user interface, a control circuit, a power switching circuit, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a charge/discharge control circuit. The user interface includes a button. The control circuit is coupled to the user interface and generates a power control signal according to a state of the button. The power switching circuit is coupled to the control circuit and outputs a first voltage signal at a first node to supply power to the control circuit according to the power control signal. The first capacitor is coupled to the first node. The charge/discharge control circuit is coupled between the first node and the second capacitor and controls whether the second capacitor is charged or discharged according to the first voltage signal.
US09633526B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to an electronic gaming device including a memory, a processor, and a plurality of reels. The memory may include one or more near field modules. A processor may generate one or more symbols to be located in the one or more areas. The processor may initiate one or more game play functions based on location data.
US09633522B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an apparatus, system, computer readable storage media, and/or method that involve or otherwise facilitate a card game or secondary card game played on a gaming device. The card game may be structured to use similar rules to a blackjack-styled card game. The card game may be played against an opponent, such as a computer, dealer, or another player. Alternatively, the card game may include the display of one or more cards and a process to determine if a total value of the cards meets a predefined criterion. A win against an opponent or satisfaction of the predefined criterion may progress the card game to another round of play. These rounds of play may continue until an opponent wins, or until the predefined criterion is not satisfied.
US09633518B2
A system for wagering during a wagering period having a wagering base with a first plurality of pools each with an outcome accessed by an input wager. A plurality of terminals is provided at which wagers are input, each directed to access an outcome in one of the pools. A processing system is configured to process the input wagers in a manner whereby each input wager either: a) accesses; or b) fails to access an outcome. The processing system is further configured so that there is an initial pre-assigned probability of accessing the outcome of each pool through an input wager. The processing system is further configured to identify a collective return by determining the number of input wagers that have accessed an outcome in a particular pool. The processing system is further configured to change the wagering base after the wagering period has begun and before the wagering period is concluded based upon one or more system operating parameters detected during the wagering period.
US09633507B2
A server includes a memory, a network interface configured to receive data related to a game available as part of a gaming system, and a processor. The processor is configured to receive the game data via the network interface, determine demand for the game within a gaming environment based on the game data and determine a weighting factor associated with the game based on the demand, and upload the game at one or more gaming machines within the gaming environment based on the weighting factor. The prominence of the game within the gaming environment varies according to the weighting factor.
US09633502B2
A controlled coin inlet or portal is described that allows for improved alignment of a coin with the coin entry slot of a coin acceptor mechanism. A coin entry slot having at least an upper or lower edge is dimensioned to allow entry of a coin of a desired maximum width in a substantially on-edge orientation. The coin portal may include at least one outwardly extending coin guide slot of substantially corresponding maximum width as the coin entry slot and positioned adjacent to the upper or lower edge of the coin entry slot.
US09633500B1
Currency processing systems, coin processing machines, computer-readable storage media, and methods of managing processed coins are presented herein. A method is presented for managing coins processed by a currency processing system. The method includes: receiving a batch of coins by the currency processing system; feeding the coins into a coin processing unit which includes one or more coin discriminating sensors; sorting the batch of coins into genuine fit target coins and reject coins; sorting the reject coins into a plurality of reject groups, each of which corresponds to a respective category of rejected coins; analyzing at least one of the reject groups to determine if any genuine target coins were mischaracterized and erroneously sorted into that reject group; and, crediting a user of the currency processing system for any genuine target coins in the reject group determined to have been mischaracterized and erroneously sorted.
US09633495B2
A method for wireless authentication of a device to a machine is provided. The device has a sensor and the method includes sensing, by a sensor of the device, a first input pattern of physical parameters received at the device. The method includes wirelessly transmitting, from the device, an identification signal to a machine upon said sensing of the first input pattern. The method includes wirelessly receiving, at the device, an authentication signal indicating an authentication of the device, wherein the device is configured to interact with the machine upon the wireless receiving of the authentication.
US09633485B2
System and method for the access to information contained in motor vehicles. The system comprises: —a control unit (206) configured for: •capturing determined information of the vehicle (100) coming from some electronic component, preferable from the ECU (214); •generating a data message from said information—an optical transmitter (216) for the transmission of said data message (122) by means of visible optical communication through some light (104) of the vehicle. The information is captured by a communications terminal (102) by means of an optical receiver (106) and is sent to an analysis terminal (114) for its processing, being able to be employed for the control of access or diagnostic of the vehicle, among other applications.
US09633478B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a transparent display; a scanner configured to scan an object seen through the transparent display, a position of the scanner being adjustable with respect to the transparent display; and a controller configured to provide information corresponding to the scanned object on the transparent display, in response to occurrence of a predetermined event.
US09633475B2
Systems and methods for modeling three-dimensional (“3D”) geologic surfaces, which represent a constraining surface and a constrained surface, in a stratigraphic conforming relationship that do not intersect or overlap.
US09633464B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method that receives a selection of an animation to apply to two or more graphical objects in a scene over a particular time duration. The method identifies parameters for each of the graphical objects. Based on the selected animation, the method generates modifications to at least one parameter for each of the graphical objects over the particular time duration. The parameter of a first graphical object is modified differently than the parameter of a second graphical object. The method stores the modifications as data for the scene.
US09633460B2
A method implemented in an image editing device comprises determining a source region in a source image and determining a target region in a target image. At least one image characteristic of each of the source region and a region outside the target region is analyzed. The content in the source region is adjusted according to the at least one image characteristic of the source region and the at least one image characteristic of the region outside the target region. The adjusted content from the source region is inserted into the target region.
US09633453B2
A volume of an object is constructed from images obtained by imaging the object or the like and depicting the object. The calculator 102 of the image processing device 101 calculates a statistic of each of first material images depicting an object. The initializer 104 constructs a volume of the object from multiple second material images depicting the object and multiple second imaging directions associated respectively with the multiple second material images. The estimator 103 estimates the statistic associated with an observation direction from the calculated statistics. The render 105 renders an image by observing the constructed volume in the observation direction. The corrector 106 corrects the rendered image based on the statistic estimated in association with the observation direction. The constructor 107 constructs a volume of the object from at least the observation direction and corrected image.
US09633442B2
Systems with an array camera augmented with a conventional camera in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In some embodiments, the array camera is used to capture a first set of image data of a scene and a conventional camera is used to capture a second set of image data for the scene. An object of interest is identified in the first set of image data. A first depth measurement for the object of interest is determined and compared to a predetermined threshold. If the first depth measurement is above the threshold, a second set of image data captured using the conventional camera is obtained. The object of interest is identified in the second set of image data and a second depth measurement for the object of interest is determined using at least a portion of the first set of image data and at least a portion of the second set of image data.
US09633435B2
A computer-implemented method for automatically calibrating an RGB-D sensor and an imaging device using a transformation matrix includes using a medical image scanner to acquire a first dataset representative of an apparatus attached to a downward facing surface of a patient table, wherein corners of the apparatus are located at a plurality of corner locations. The plurality of corner locations are identified based on the first dataset and the RGB-D sensor is used to acquire a second dataset representative of a plurality of calibration markers displayed on an upward facing surface of the patient table at the corner locations. A plurality of calibration marker locations are identified based on the second dataset and the transformation matrix is generated by aligning the first dataset and the second dataset using the plurality of corner locations and the plurality of calibration marker locations. Then, a translation is added to the transformation matrix corresponding to a maximum height associated with the apparatus.
US09633424B2
A method and system for acquiring an image of an object using optical coherence tomography using an interferometer and a detector, wherein the object is irradiated with light emitted by the interferometer, light reflected by the object is fed back into the interferometer and detected by the detector, the image of the object is derived from the detected light, and a file containing information, in particular graphical information and/or photographic image information, relating to the object is assigned to and/or correlated with the image of the object.
US09633418B2
An image processing unit 36 includes an information acquisition unit 40, a filter acquisition unit 42, and a filter processing unit 44. The information acquisition unit 40 acquires imaging information of original image data which is acquired by capturing an object image using an optical system. In a case in which the imaging information includes the first imaging condition and does not include the second imaging condition, the filter acquisition unit 42 acquires a sharpening filter which is associated with the first imaging condition and is associated with a representative condition of the second imaging condition. The filter processing unit 44 applies the sharpening filter acquired by the filter acquisition unit 42 to the original image data to acquire sharp image data.
US09633417B2
An image processing device according to an embodiment of the present invention obtains recovery image data by performing restoration processing using a restoration filter based on a point spread function of an optical system, on original image data obtained from an imaging element by imaging using the optical system. The restoration filter used in this restoration processing (a combination filter and realization filter Fr) is generated by combining multiple base filters Fb. Base filter Fb may be arbitrarily selected from filters that are confirmed beforehand to be effective to prevent image quality degradation.
US09633411B2
Techniques are described for determining whether data of a variable for each of a plurality of graphics items is same. If determined that the data is the same, the techniques store the data in a storage location of a specialized shared general purpose register that is associated with the variable.
US09633409B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to predication. In one embodiment, a graphics processing unit is disclosed that includes a first set of architecturally-defined registers configured to store predication information. The graphics processing unit further includes a second set of registers configured to mirror the first set of registers and an execution pipeline configured to discontinue execution of an instruction sequence based on predication information in the second set of registers. In one embodiment, the second set of registers includes one or more registers proximal to an output of the execution pipeline. In some embodiments, the execution pipeline writes back a predicate value determined for a predicate writer to the second set of registers. The first set of architecturally-defined registers is then updated with the predicate value written back to the second set of registers. In some embodiments, the execution pipeline discontinues execution of the instruction sequence without stalling.
US09633407B2
A thread on one processor may be used to enable another processor to lock or release a mutex. For example, a central processing unit thread may be used by a graphics processing unit to secure a mutex for a shared memory.
US09633403B2
The present subject matter describes a method and a system for managing sustainable intellectual property (SIP) portfolio of an Enterprise, which comprises generating, by a processor, a sustainable intellectual property (IP) in atomicity of the Enterprise based on a set of sustainability differentiators. The sustainability differentiator is obtained, based on at least one of a strength parameter, a spread parameter, a duplicity parameter, and a difference parameter Further, a plurality of decomposed fragments of intellectual property landscapes are obtained by analyzing the sustainable IP in atomicity based on a plurality of intermediate datasets and data structures. The method further comprises creating a sustainable and optimized IP portfolio for the Enterprise by processing at least one of the sustainable IP in atomicity and the plurality of decomposed fragments based on optimization parameters and at least one multiple objective portfolio optimization function. An integrated system is developed that enables the method in totality.
US09633398B2
Methods and systems are provided for facilitating shopping for products that have been liked to a social media network. A product can be seen on a merchant's website, for example. The product can be liked by user to the social media website. When the same or a different user subsequently sees the liked product on the social media website, the same or different user can purchase the product from the social media website. Thus, the user is not required to visit the merchant's website to perform the purchase transaction. Upon completion of the purchase, the user can be allowed to leave feedback to rate the item according to a predefined scale, which can be visible to all those who view the item, as exhibited by a vendor on the social media platform.
US09633388B2
A computing system for searching for and identifying data repository deficits includes an interactive database of items, a data repository that stores a first type of information related to items, a search engine configured to identify items that do not have an amount of the first type of information that meets a first threshold, a candidate selection interface that provides functionality for the user to select an item from recommended candidate items needing the first type of information, a user interface via which the user can provide the first type of information for an item selected by the user, a game system configured to calculate for a game scores and rankings based at least in part on data stored in the data repository.
US09633386B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for determining categories of items to include in a search results listing. Items to include in a search result listing are identified in response to a search request. The items are classified in multiple categories. A particular seller of multiple sellers is identified based at least in part on the search request. A subset of the categories is determined for which corresponding items are to be included in the search results listing. The subset is determined by applying one or more rules specified by the particular seller.
US09633383B2
Methods and systems for facilitating payment of a bill are described. The methods use voice and context recognition to create an inventory of items for a specific user. When it is time to split the bill among a group at a table, each user is apportioned their share of the bill based on their inventory so that each user pays for what they ordered. The users may decide to split the bill differently, such as equally among themselves.
US09633382B2
A management apparatus and a billing method which calculates a billing charge by using a cumulative output amount for a target billing period. In the management apparatus and billing method a billing charge is calculated by using a cumulative output amount for a target billing period, a cumulative output amount quota having the cumulative output amount for the target billing period, and a quota unit price corresponding to the cumulative output amount quota of at least one image forming apparatus.
US09633375B2
A method of recommending and prioritizing multimedia content targeted to a user is provided. The method includes (i) obtaining a first set that includes one or more multimedia content based on a first set of parameters, (ii) obtaining a second set that includes one or more multimedia content based on a second set of parameters, (iii) computing (a) one or more priority indicators of the one or more multimedia content of the first set, and (b) one or more priority indicators of the one or more multimedia content of the second set, and (iv) prioritizing a subset of multimedia content targeted to the user based on at least one of (a) the one or more priority indicators of the one or more multimedia content of the first set, and (b) the one or more priority indicators of the one or more multimedia content of the second set.
US09633369B1
A method and apparatus of processing a call are disclosed. One example method may include receiving a request at a server for dealer information. The request may be initiated by a user via his or her mobile station. The example method may also include determining whether there is user preference information and user location information included in the request. The information may be used to limit the amount of search results to increase relevancy. The method may also include searching a database for at least one dealer based on the user preference information and the user location information, and transferring the at least one dealer information to the user.
US09633352B2
A method of processing a transaction between a customer and a merchant includes receiving from a mobile device of the customer or from another device of the customer an indication of consent to perform a cardless payment transaction with the merchant, receiving from the mobile device an indication that the customer is within a predetermined distance of the merchant, after receiving both the indication of consent and the indication that the customer is within the predetermined distance, sending to a computer system of the merchant an indication of the presence of the customer and personal identifying information for the customer, receiving data indicating a transaction between the customer and the merchant, and submitting the transaction to a financial service for authorization.
US09633345B2
A point of sale (POS) security system includes a POS device including a non-transitory memory, one or more hardware processors, and one or more environment sensors. A plurality of POS instructions are located on the non-transitory memory in the POS device and executable by the one or more hardware processors in the POS device to provide a POS engine that is configured to receive and transmit payment information for conducting a payment transaction associated with a purchase. A plurality of security instructions are located on the non-transitory memory in the POS device and are executable by the one or more hardware processors in the POS device to provide a security engine that is configured to receive environment signals from the one or more environment sensors in the POS device and analyze those environment signals to determine a security breach.
US09633344B2
The present invention includes device, system, and method of electronic payment. An operator server may transmit, to a smartphone or other portable wireless device of a patron, a unique time-sensitive and location-based code. The unique code may be used to create an ad-hoc linkage or association between the smartphone of the consumer, and a purchase tab of that patron at an establishment or merchant store. The patron may then utilize his smartphone in order to autonomously close his purchase tab at the establishment, and in order to perform remote electronic payment for the purchase tab to the establishment, without requiring involvement or assistant from waiters or establishment personnel.
US09633342B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for associating gift cards with accounts. An exemplary apparatus is configured to: receive information associated with a gift card; associate the gift card with the account; receive information associated with a transaction; determine the transaction qualifies for the gift card; and apply funds associated with the gift card to the transaction.
US09633334B2
With a computer processor, access is obtained to a sorted global tuple list of incident types, each tuple of which includes at least an incident identifier, a corresponding incident type, a corresponding context, and a corresponding impact factor. The latter specifies importance of solving the corresponding incident type in the corresponding context. Each tuple of the global tuple list is sorted by decreasing order of impact factor. At the computer processor, context information is obtained for at least one remote computing device; based on the context information and the sorted global tuple list, the computer processor sends, over a telecommunications infrastructure, data which causes an incident reporting display on the remote computing device to be re-ordered in accordance with the impact factors as they are ranked in accordance with the context information for the at least one remote computing device.
US09633329B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to staging manufactured items and provide a method, system and computer program product for staging items in a manufacturing environment. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for staging items in a manufacturing environment can be provided. The method can include defining attributes of staging locations in a distribution area of the manufacturing environment, defining a set of staging strategies for use in the distribution area of the manufacturing environment, receiving a manufactured item in the distribution area and obtaining characteristics of the manufactured item, and comparing the obtained characteristics of the manufactured item to the set of staging strategies to select the staging strategy to apply to the manufactured item.
US09633322B1
Systems and methods are provided for adjustment of difficulty level, quantity, and/or other parameters of knowledge-based authentication. The questions may be asked of a consumer based on one or more generated risk scores associated with the consumer's behavior, which may be derived from information received from the consumer, a representative responsible for entering information regarding the consumer, and/or from the consumer's computing device.
US09633320B2
An energy demand prediction apparatus according to an embodiment includes an image analysis unit and a prediction unit. The image analysis unit generates analysis data including at least one of human information and environment information of a prediction target area based on image data acquired by an image sensor. The prediction unit generates prediction data by executing an energy demand prediction based on the analysis data and an energy demand prediction model generated using previous data corresponding to the analysis data.
US09633314B2
A quantum qubit coupling structure is provided. The quantum qubit coupling structure includes a plurality of qubits and a variable capacitor electrically connected between the plurality of qubits to vary coupling constants of the plurality of qubits.
US09633313B2
The current application is directed to methods and quantum circuits that prepare qubits in specified non-stabilizer quantum states that can, in turn, be used for a variety of different purposes, including in a quantum-circuit implementation of an arbitrary single-qubit unitary quantum gate that imparts a specified, arbitrary rotation to the state-vector representation of the state of an input qubit. In certain implementations, the methods and systems consume multiple magic-state qubits in order to carry out probabilistic rotation operators to prepare qubits with state vectors having specified rotation angles with respect to a rotation axis. These qubits are used as resources input to various quantum circuits, including the quantum-circuit implementation of an arbitrary single-qubit unitary quantum gate, including a V gate.
US09633311B2
A method of generating a decision tree is provided. A leaf assignment for each proposed split in generating the decision tree is incremented using a Gray code.
US09633305B2
An antenna device includes an antenna coil member and an extension member. The antenna coil member includes a first base, and a spiral conductor is on a front surface of the first base. An inner-peripheral-end conductor is connected to an inner peripheral end of the spiral conductor, and an outer-peripheral-end conductor is connected to an outer peripheral end. The extension member includes a second base, and first and second extension conductor patterns are located on a front surface of the second base. First and second end-portion conductors are respectively connected to ends of the first and second extension conductor patterns. The extension member is arranged at a front surface side of the antenna coil member, the inner-peripheral-end conductor faces the first end-portion conductor, and the outer-peripheral-end conductor faces the second end-portion conductor.
US09633297B2
Provided are an IC module, an IC card, and an IC module substrate that can reduce the manufacturing cost without degrading the external appearance of a contact terminal. An IC module includes a contact terminal (10) provided on a front surface (1a) of a base member (1) and having a contact surface, for contact with an external terminal, formed of a gold plating layer (14); an IC chip (55) attached to a back surface (1b) of the base member (1); a conductive member (a wire (60), a first conductive layer (20), and a second conductive layer (30)) connecting the IC chip (55) and the contact terminal (10) to each other through a through hole (3) opened at the front surface (1a) and the back surface (1b) of the base member (1); and an insulating surface material (40) partially covering the front surface (1a). At least a part of a region, overlapping the IC chip (55) in plan view, of the front surface (1a) is set as a non-forming region where a noble metal plating layer is not formed, and the surface material (40) is disposed in the non-forming region.
US09633288B2
An image forming apparatus includes a density-measuring unit that has a substantially circular measurement field and that measures a density of a to-be-measured image for density measurement, which is moving in a moving direction, and a density-control unit that controls a density of an image and includes a to-be-measured image forming unit that forms the to-be-measured image having a shape following an outline of a density-measurement area defined by a path of the measurement field during a measurement rather than a substantially rectangular shape extending in the moving direction and including a front end of the to-be-measured image in the moving direction, the shape being within the substantially rectangular shape, a density-measuring section that causes the density-measuring unit to measure a density of the to-be-measured image, and a gradation-correction unit that performs gradation correction on the image by using the density of the to-be-measured image measured by the density-measuring section.
US09633283B1
An adaptive device and an adaptive method for classifying objects with parallel architecture are provided. The method stores a plurality of scene parameters and a plurality of classifier parameters. The method retrieves at least one image datum and then drags frames to enclose a plurality of obstruction images of the image datum and decides a frame range according to a range of each obstruction image. The method uses a plurality of image processing units to respectively calculate a plurality of obstruction characteristic data of the obstruction images in a one-by-one parallel processing way, and chooses and calculates the scene parameters and the classifier parameters corresponding to the obstruction characteristic data to obtain a plurality of classification data. When the method determines that the classification data belongs to the obstruction classification preset, positions of enclosed obstruction images are outputted to achieve real time detection for obstructions.
US09633281B2
Abstract A method comprising: providing a first three-dimensional (3D) point cloud obtained according to a first sensing technique, a second 3D point cloud obtained according to a second sensing technique and a first radius of a sphere covering a real object underlying the second first 3D point cloud and a second radius of a sphere covering a real object underlying the second 3D point cloud; defining scales of the first 3D point cloud and the second 3D point cloud based on said first radius and second radius; searching statistically substantially similar candidate regions between the first 3D point cloud and the second 3D point cloud using an ensemble shape function (ESF); aligning the statistically substantially similar candidate regions between the first 3D point cloud and the second 3D point cloud at least in vertical direction; and ranking the aligned candidate regions between the 3D point clouds based on their structural similarity.
US09633280B2
An image processing apparatus executes image processing on image data obtained by forming an image on an image pickup element. The image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain a pixel in the image data corresponding to a specific position in the image pickup element as a specific pixel, a determination unit configured to determine a target region including a target pixel and a reference region including a reference pixel which are used for determining a degree of similarity between the target pixel and the reference pixel in accordance with the specific pixel obtained by the obtaining unit, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a degree of similarity between the target pixel and the reference pixel by comparing the target region and the reference region determined by the determination unit.
US09633271B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide concepts for correcting optical character recognition (OCR) errors from and OCR scan result by sequentially applying an anagram hash (AH) and Levenshtein-Distance (LD) measurement for concurrent character identity-based (machine code) and character shape-based (OCR-Key) corrections. The OCR-Key classifies characters by shape into one or more disjoint and overlapping classes. Similar shaped-based classes appearing in consecutive characters are appended to a cardinality term, a repetition count of the class. The LD measurement groups OCR-Keys and differentiates on both class and cardinality to arrive at a shape-based mismatch error between competing candidate words from an associated dictionary and a target word from the OCR scan. The shape-based LD measurement errors are then functionally merged with the character identity-based deletion, substitution, and insertion errors to find a minimum error for the set of candidate words, corresponding to the preferred candidate word match to the target word.
US09633268B1
Disclose is a gait recognition method, firstly, extracting an initial gait feature of a gait video of a person to be recognized; secondly obtaining a corresponding optimized gait feature according to a trained sub neural network and the initial gait feature; then determining corresponding degrees of similarity according to the optimized gait feature of the person to be recognized and the optimized gait feature of each known person in a matching library, and determining information of the person to be recognized according to information of the known person in the matching library corresponding to the optimized gait feature which has the highest degree of similarity with the optimized gait feature of the person to be recognized.
US09633265B2
A method for tracking objects across a number of image frames includes tracking objects in the frames based on appearance models of each foreground region corresponding to each of the objects and determining if a plurality of the tracked objects overlap. Where a plurality of the tracked objects overlap, the method creates compensated appearance models for each of the plurality of overlapping objects by attenuating common appearance features among the corresponding appearance models; and tracks the plurality of overlapping objects based on the created compensated appearance models.
US09633260B2
A system and related method for acquiring high quality images of the iris of an unconstrained subject comprising a camera; a controllable focusing component; a focus controller component that controls the lens to focus at successively different points within a focus range, such focus control performed without any input from measurement of whether the image is in focus or out of focus, be it based from measurements of the image or other distance metrics to the subject; and a sharpness detection component that rejects the most out-of-focus images based on measurement of focus on the image is disclosed.
US09633251B2
A facial identification method includes changing an image size for facial identification, converting the image of changed size to an LBP domain, and detecting a face through scanning across the converted image. At least one or more of steps of converting and scanning is executed by a plurality of processing units.
US09633249B2
A data processing system for performing face detection on a stream of frames of image data, the data processing system comprising: a skin patch identifier configured to identify one or more patches of skin color in a first frame and characterize each patch in the first frame using a respective patch construct of a predefined shape; a first search tile generator configured to generate one or more first search tiles from the one or more patch constructs; and a face detector configured to detect faces in the stream by performing face detection in one or more frames of the stream within the first search tiles.
US09633246B2
An integrated auto-level and electronic rod reader is disclosed. In one embodiment, the integrated auto-level and electronic rod reader comprises a telescope and an image delivery device integrated with the auto-level which is configured for capturing an image of a standard grade rod visible through the telescope and a crosshair. Logic implemented by a processor automatically recognizes the crosshair, automatically compares the crosshair against a scale of the standard grade rod, and automatically determines an elevation of the standard grade rod based upon the comparing.
US09633245B2
In an optical information reading device configured to read a code symbol on a subject to be read by acquiring an image of the subject to be read with an image pickup portion and analyzing the image, a laser light source and an irradiation optical system is provided as an irradiator configured to irradiate the subject to be read to form a guide mark indicating an image pickup resolution of the image pickup portion. It is preferable that the irradiator is configured to emit a plurality of radially diffused light beams so as to form the guide mark at equal intervals on the subject to be read.
US09633243B1
An RFID tag device is associated with a mobile device to facilitate wireless transactions and identification. The RFID tag device includes two RF interfaces; one can communicate with RF tag readers, and one can communicate with the mobile device. The RFID tag device can be operated in a passive mode and stores transaction information for later retrieval by the mobile device, or it can be operated in an active mode where it is powered by the mobile device through the RF interface for communicating with the mobile device so that it can be read via the RFID interface. The RFID tag device can further detect and ignore communications between the mobile device and another device using the same communications mode and used by the RFID tag device to communicate with the mobile device.
US09633238B2
A method for interleaving time slots in a multi-antenna system for communication with RFID tags is disclosed. An example is shown for an eight antenna system. A first four antennas arranged side-by-side are sequentially energized to interrogate RFID transponders. A second set of four antennas arranged side-by-side, the first of which is adjacent to the last of the first set of antennas. A four-antenna sequence is performed for the first four antennas and a second four antenna sequence is performed for the second set of antennas. The first and second four antenna sequences are offset by only a marginal amount, sufficient to ensure that a transponder signal received four antennas away from an active antenna is not acknowledged because the receive window for the non-active antenna is delayed.
US09633228B1
A system and method for creating and retrieving verifiable media and in particular, such a system and method in which the circumstances related to the media are encapsulated along with the media to guarantee its authenticity.
US09633218B2
Techniques for identity management for permissions are described. According to various embodiments, a user establishes a communication relationship with another user, referred to herein as a “contact.” According to various embodiments, the contact is associated with multiple identities. Accordingly, embodiments discussed herein enable a primary identity to be specified such that permissions for the primary identity are enforced for interactions with the contact. Further, techniques discussed herein enable a primary identity to be updated based on a change in identity state of a contact.
US09633211B2
A method for realizing secure communication, comprises: Step 1, a card reader is powered on, determine a system working mode, perform an apple device verification and execute Step 2 if the system working mode is apple mode; execute Step 2 if the system working mode is USB mode; Step 2, wait for receiving an instruction, determine a first preset byte of the instruction, perform corresponding operation if the first preset byte is a first preset value; decrypt the instruction according to an initial encryption key, a key serial number and an algorithm corresponding to an algorithm flag, send the decrypted instruction to a card and execute Step 3 if the first preset byte is a second preset value; Step 3, when data returned by the card is received, the key serial number is updated, the algorithm according to the algorithm flag, the initial encryption key and the updated key serial number are configured to encrypt the data returned by the card, send the encrypted data to an upper computer via a corresponding interface according to the system working mode. According to the present invention, after a key agreement between the card reader and the upper computer, the key is updated, data is encrypted or decrypted by the updated key to improve safety of data communication.
US09633207B2
A method for downloading at least one software component onto a computing device, and associated computer program product, computing device and computer system are disclosed. In one aspect, the method is implemented by the computer device including an information processing unit having a memory. The downloading method includes downloading to the memory of a first application from a first distribution capability and connection to a second distribution capability via the first application. The connection to the second distribution capability is performed in a secure manner using an authentication code. The downloading method further includes downloading to the memory of a second application from the second distribution capability, secure connection to a third distribution capability via the second application, and downloading to the memory of each software component from the third distribution capability.
US09633202B2
A method, system, and/or computer program product manages a distributed denial of service attack in a multiprocessor environment. A determination is made of (a) a first upper threshold for a normal number of packets from the multiprocessor environment to multiple destination addresses, (b) a second upper threshold for a normal ratio of the packets from the multiprocessor environment to a single destination address compared to the packets from the multiprocessor environment to the multiple destination addresses, and (c) a third upper threshold for a normal ratio of packets from the multiprocessor environment to a single port at a single destination address compared to packets from the multiprocessor environment to the multiple destination addresses. In response to the first and second thresholds being exceeded, a specific port is monitored to determine if the third upper threshold is being exceeded at that port, thus indicating an apparent distributed denial of service attack.
US09633191B2
While an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface is in a screen reader accessibility mode, the device displays an application launcher screen including a plurality of application icons. A respective application icon corresponds to a respective application stored in the device. The device detects a sequence of one or more gestures on the touch-sensitive surface that correspond to one or more characters. A respective gesture that corresponds to a respective character is a single finger gesture that moves across the touch-sensitive surface along a respective path that corresponds to the respective character. The device determines whether the detected sequence of one or more gestures corresponds to a respective application icon of the plurality of application icons, and, in response to determining that the detected sequence of one or more gestures corresponds to the respective application icon, performs a predefined operation associated with the respective application icon.
US09633186B2
Systems and methods for controlling output of content based on human recognition data captured by one or more sensors of an electronic device are provided. The control of the output of particular content may be based on an action of a rule defined for the particular content, and may be performed when at least one human feature detection related condition of the rule is satisfied. In some embodiments, the action may include granting access to requested content when detected human feature data satisfies at least one human feature detection related condition of a rule defined for the requested content. In other embodiments the action may include altering a presentation of content, during the presentation of the content, when detected human feature data satisfies at least one human feature detection related condition of a rule defined for the presented content.
US09633185B2
A method of debugging a device which includes a plurality of processors is provided. The method includes verifying a request to initiate authentication that is provided to the device to a user; performing a challenge-response authentication operation between the user and the device in response to the request to initiate authentication being a request from a non-malicious user; activating or deactivating an access to a Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) port of each of the processors, based on access control information from the user; and permitting a debugging operation via an access that is activated.
US09633175B2
A computer-based sleep improvement system applying system intelligence to up-to-date user-reported data and/or recorded sleep data from a connected tracking device for assisting a user in the proactive improvement of sleep and treatment of insomnia includes a central server maintaining a library of information related to treatment of insomnia. The central server includes a video database of session video material, an audio database of session material, a case file database of information regarding the user and sleep habits of the user, and a plurality of tools assisting the user in treating insomnia. The system includes a session coordinator creating sessions of customized presentations for the user based upon the library of information and a user interface linked to the central server.
US09633162B2
An integrated circuit (IC) and fabrication method thereof is provided that include the steps of specifying a plurality of required tile modules suitable for a particular end application, each of the modular tiles being configured to perform a predetermined function and constructed to have approximately the same length and width dimensions. The modular tiles are used to form the IC in a standard IC fabrication process. In many implementations, physical layout of the IC does not include the step of routing. Capabilities also include configuring the modular tiles to have programmable performance parameters and configuring the modular tiles to cooperate usefully with one another based on a programmable parameter.
US09633146B2
A damage assessment module operating on a computer system automatically evaluates a property, estimating damage to the property by analyzing a point cloud of a property. The damage assessment module identifies individual point clusters or segments from the point cloud and detects potentially damaged areas of the property surface by identifying outlier points in the point clusters. The damage assessment module may be used to determine the financial cost of the damage and/or determine whether the property should be replaced or repaired. In addition to eliminating the need for an estimator to visit the property in person, the damage assessment module improves the consistency and accuracy associated with estimating damage to a property.
US09633141B2
Electronic comparison methods are described for determining changes in a current design model with respect to an earlier model and analyzing the impact of the identified changes. The method includes associating a priority value with a set of modified component objects using one or more algorithms and presenting a subset of the set of component objects, each of which has a priority value greater than a threshold value.
US09633136B2
Data specifying a new edge of a graph database may be received. A data store for storing the new edge may be identified from amongst a plurality of data stores utilized to store one or more portions of the graph database. Each of the plurality of data stores may be associated with a set of values corresponding to an aspect of edges of the graph database. The data store for storing the new edge may be identified based on the new edge being associated with a value corresponding to the aspect of edges of the graph database that is within a set of values corresponding to the aspect of edges of the graph database associated with the data store for storing the new edge.
US09633135B2
A method and system for extending the capabilities of resource-constrained embedded devices by leveraging the memory and processing resources of clients such as web browsers (‘clients’) installed on host computational devices (‘host computers’). The embedded device delegates computational tasks such as generation of content (e.g., user interfaces, reports, configuration files, etc.) to clients and acts as a simple file and data server. The embedded device provides static resource files to each client, including static template files and a client processing engine. The client processing engine: interprets processing instructions contained in static template files; utilizes managed communication channels to exchange dynamic data sets with the embedded device in real-time; generates various forms of content by processing, transforming, manipulating, and aggregating dynamic data sets and static resource files; and reads and writes arbitrarily large files from and to the host computer, overcoming resource limitations of the embedded device.
US09633131B2
A web browser configured to execute on a network element receives a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) document including HTML network service tags. The network service tags include commands to cause a corresponding network action to be taken in connection with the network element, such as configuring and/or causing information to be read from the network element. The web browser determines, based on each HTML network service tag, the command to cause the network action to be taken in connection with the network element. The web browser issues the determined command for each HTML network service tag to a corresponding application program interface (API), which in turn cause the network action to be taken in connection with the network element.
US09633124B2
Provided are methods and systems related to communications between a social media service or provider (e.g., Twitter®, Facebook®) or other resource (e.g., web page) and one or more content providers. In an aspect, provided are methods comprising receiving a request for content, wherein the request comprises a user agnostic identifier, determining user information associated with the request, determining time information associated with the request, determining media content associated with the user agnostic identifier based on the time information, determining one or more access rights to the media content based on the user information, and providing access to the media content based on the one or more access rights.
US09633113B2
Implementations of methods, apparatuses, or systems are disclosed to facilitate search related communications. In at least one implementation, a method may include processing search queries based at least in part on one or more search query parameters to identify candidate search queries for an exchange of related communications, wherein candidate search queries originate from different special purpose computing system resources and/or different users.
US09633112B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products configured to collect attributes (A) from a plurality of potentially-incompatible data sources (DS), and synthesize collected attributes into a streamlined, elegant presentation e.g. for further data processing and/or review by a user are presented. The inventive concepts include accessing the data source(s); identifying a number of attributes of the data source(s); associating at least two attributes to a set of associated attributes; and storing a retrieving profile (RP) according to which attributes of the data sources may be subsequently retrieved. In more approaches, data source(s) may be accessed using a retrieving profile, and the retrieving profile is configured to access desired content thereof. In even more approaches, the retrieving profile may be further configured to automatically access a particular expected data structure (EDS) of the data source. The expected data structure may reflect a previous structure of the data source as recently accessed.
US09633106B1
Analyzing log data, such as security log data and event data, is disclosed. Log data is obtained. Portions of the log data are clustered into clusters of similar data portions. A signature for each cluster is generated. Comparison of subsequent log data with the signature indicates whether the subsequent log data belongs in the cluster.
US09633097B2
Various methods and apparatuses are described for performing high speed translations of data. In an example embodiment, record layout detection can be performed for data. In another example embodiment, data pivoting prior to field-specific data processing can be performed.
US09633096B2
Methods and systems for extracting targeted data for real-time reporting are discussed. In an example, a system can include a data store, a server, and a denormalized database. The data store can maintain data created by an application. The server can be communicatively coupled to the data store. The server can include a data extraction module and a data compression module. The data extraction module can extract a subset of the data stored in the data store according to an extraction scheme. The data compression module can compress the extracted subset of the data into a set of aggregated key value pairs. The denormalized database can store the aggregated key value pairs.
US09633094B2
A source data file can be loaded into a database by extracting data from the source data file at a computing device, validating the data from the source data file at the computing device, transforming the data from the source data file at the computing device, requesting the data to be transferred to a first database at a first message processor module, delivering the data to the first database, and responding that the data has been transferred to the first database at the first message processor module to acknowledge receipt of the data in the database at the computing device.
US09633083B2
An aspect provides a method, including: accessing a tagging profile based on a store of historical user object information; determining, using the processor, a current user object search has been made by a user; determining, using the processor, a priority smart tag for providing results for the current user object search based on the tagging profile; and providing the results of the current user object search according to the priority tag determined. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US09633082B2
Search result ranking includes recording user action information on displayed objects in search results obtained using one or more query words, upon receiving a switch-page request or switch-screen request, determining a commonality level of one or more attribute characteristics in a set of objects subjected to user actions, the determining of the commonality level being based on the user action information on the displayed objects, selecting attribute characteristics that comply with predetermined requirements to serve as reference norms for ranking objects that are to be displayed or ranked, the selecting of the attribute characteristics being based on the commonality level, and adjusting rank of objects that are to be displayed or to be ranked and whose attribute characteristics comply with the reference norms.
US09633081B1
A method for providing a scored list of applications for use in recommending applications to a user includes storing an application signature for each user of a cloud computing service, where the application signature for a first user stores a usage total for the first user for each application in a set of available applications, and storing a user similarity matrix across all users, where a first similarity value in the user similarity matrix measures the similarity between the first user's application signature and a second user's application signature. The cloud computing service receives a request to provide a scored list of applications for the first user, constructs the scored list, where a score of each application is a function of the usage totals for the application in the application signatures for each user and each user's similarity value to the first user, and outputs the scored list of applications.
US09633079B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for generating and using temporal metadata partitions. Metadata can be stored in temporal metadata partitions based upon a time range included in the metadata. Furthermore, metadata can be stored in multiple temporal metadata partitions to which the metadata is relevant. As such, metadata can be stored in manner that allows event data to be understood in the context of temporally accurate and/or relevant metadata. Functionality for executing queries of event data and providing results in view of metadata, as well as the merging of multiple temporal metadata partitions also are disclosed.
US09633076B1
A method dynamically combines data from multiple data sources. A visual specification for a data visualization requires data from a primary data source and one or more secondary data sources. The primary data source is independent of the secondary data sources. The visual specification includes a first set of dimension fields that specify a hierarchical level for the data visualization. A second set of dimension fields specify a hierarchical level for joining data sets from the data sources. The hierarchical level for joining data sets is more granular than the hierarchical level for the data visualization. For each data source, a query is generated, and a data set is retrieved from the data source using the query. A single combined data set is formed that includes the dimension fields in the first set. The combined data set is rolled-up and a data visualization is displayed using the rolled-up data.
US09633064B2
Systems and methods for reconstructing unified data in an electronic storage network are provided which may include the identification and use of metadata stored centrally within the system. The metadata may be generated by a group of storage operation cells during storage operations within the network. The unified metadata is used to reconstruct data throughout the storage operation cells that may be missing, deleted or corrupt.
US09633060B2
The disclosed subject matter includes systems, methods, and computer readable medium for reliable implementation of a table data cache proxy (TDCP). An electronic message requesting table data can be received at TDCP-server that can be coupled to data servers having a table data service accessible via an electronic messaging protocol. The TDCP-server can cache data from and aggregate subscriptions to the data servers. When TDCP-server contains a cached copy of the requested table data, an electronic message providing the cached copy can be transmitted from the cache in response to the first electronic message. The data received from at least one of the data servers and stored in the cache is authoritative due to a data model of the data servers. When TDCP-server does not contain a cached copy, the requested table data can be requested from a server determined to be appropriate and a received response can be filtered.
US09633059B2
A computer program product to optimize a database is provided. A processor determines a frequency of search for a plurality of columns in a table. A processor determines a length of the plurality of columns. A processor determines a rank for the plurality of columns based, at least in part, on both the frequency of search and the length of the plurality of columns. A processor generates a first set of combinations of the plurality of columns. A processor determines an optimization of the first set of combinations of the plurality of columns. A processor selects an optimal combination of the first set of combinations, wherein the optimization of the optimal combination is greater than the optimization for all other combinations in the first set of combinations. A processor moves the plurality of columns excluded from the optimal combination.
US09633049B2
A searching apparatus comprising: a storage unit that stores therein indexes for searching for an object included in an image and cooperative information indicating a function of cooperating with the object in association with each other; a receiving unit that receives a captured image; an extracting unit that extracts an object included in the captured image; a calculating unit that calculates a degree of similarity between the object searched for by an index stored in the storage unit and the object extracted from the captured image by the extracting unit; a searching unit that searches for one or more objects based on the degree of similarity from the storage unit; and a presenting unit that presents the cooperative information associated with the index corresponding to the object as a search result of the searching unit to a source of the captured image.
US09633036B2
A plurality of server processor workers is configured for the distributed parallel processing of deduplicated data entities in a plurality of chunks. The deduplicated data processing rate is regulated using a rate control mechanism. The rate control mechanism incorporates a debt/credit algorithm specifying which of the plurality of workers processing the deduplicated data entities must wait for each of a plurality of calculated required sleep times, the calculated required sleep times being calculated as a best fit between a maximum allowable sleep time, a delta vector, and a limit per time vector, wherein the required sleep time is one of the plurality of calculated required sleep times.
US09633030B2
An approach is provided for a data analysis and reporting. A data collection manager generates a graphical user interface (GUI) and displays the GUI on a display of a client device. The GUI includes a plurality of dialog boxes for receiving one or more user inputs. The data collection manager receives one or more file type selections via one or more first dialog boxes, and one or more target selections via one or more second dialog boxes, and then generates and deploys a collector. The collector is configured to: selectively determine one or more data files that have certain characteristics specified by the one or more file type selections and that are hosted on one or more target devices specified by the one or more target selections; collect the one or more data files from the target devices; and store the one or more data files in a network server.
US09633023B2
Searching for objects in a distributed version control system. A method includes accessing a single index. The single index indexes objects in a plurality of pack files. Each pack file is a single object container aggregating the content of what would otherwise be loose objects of a version control system within the single object container such that the single object container includes the aggregated content. The method further includes from the single index, determining a location of a version control system object by determining from the index which pack file from among the plurality of pack files the object is stored in, and a location in the pack file where the object is stored. The method also includes retrieving the version control system object from the pack file.
US09633008B1
A computer-implemented method for reviewing content of a presentation is provided. The method includes obtaining, using a processor system of a device, content of an electronic presentation, wherein the content is associated with a first slide of the presentation. The format of the content is determined wherein the content includes natural language content and non-natural language content and the non-natural language content is converted into natural language content using the processor system. The sentiment and tone of the natural language content is analyzed using the processor system. A textual summary is created. The sentiment, tone and textual summary of the natural language content of the slide of the presentation is evaluated and a summary of the natural language content of the slide is presented using a display based upon the evaluation of the sentiment, tone and textual summary.
US09633002B1
In some aspects, systems, methods, and computer-readable media for selective feature activation for coreference resolution are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving text data comprising a plurality of mentions corresponding to entities, and determining a plurality of data features, comprising semantic features and syntactic features, for comparing a particular pair of mentions from the plurality of mentions. The method also includes selectively activating a subset of features from the plurality of data features based on semantic and syntactic context of the particular pair of mentions within the text data, and determining, using weights associated with the activated subset of features and at least one machine learning function, whether a first mention of the pair of mentions and second mention of the pair of mentions refer to a same entity.
US09632988B2
Techniques are described for outputting web page components, or gadgets, on a web page or other graphical user interface. A gadget automatically conforms to particular styles based on the styles of the other gadgets and of controlling relationships to the other gadgets that are determined from page analysis and other policies.
US09632984B2
In some embodiments, a system identifies content for display on a user device. The system determines a device category associated with the user device. The system determines that the content for display on the user device comprises at least one of a group comprising a plurality of bank product options, a user assistance option associated with one or more of the plurality of bank product options, a plurality of questions associated with one or more of the plurality of bank product options, and a disclosure associated with acceptance of a selected bank product option of the plurality of bank product options. The system determines a presentation format for the content according to presentation rules that determine presentation format for the content on the user device according to the content and the determined device category.
US09632982B2
An orthogonal transform apparatus includes: an interchanging unit which interchanges MDCT coefficients contained in a first half of a prescribed interval with MDCT coefficients contained in a second half thereof; an inverting unit which inverts the sign of the MDCT coefficients contained in the second half of the prescribed interval after the interchange; an inverse cosine transform unit which computes the real components of QMF coefficients by applying an IMDCT using FFT to the MDCT coefficients contained in the first half and the sign-inverted MDCT coefficients contained in the second half; an inverse sine transform unit which computes the imaginary components of the QMF coefficients by applying an IMDST using FFT to the MDCT coefficients contained in the first half and the sign-inverted MDCT coefficients contained in the second half; and a coefficient adjusting unit which computes the QMF coefficients by combining the real components with the imaginary components.
US09632981B2
A method and system for calibrating a wireless sensor device are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises determining a vertical calibration vector and determining a rotation matrix using the vertical calibration vector to line up native axes of the wireless sensor device with body axes. In a second aspect, a wireless sensor device comprises a processor and a memory device coupled to the processor, wherein the memory device includes an application that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to determine a vertical calibration vector and to determine a rotation matrix using the vertical calibration vector to line up native axes of the wireless sensor device with body axes.
US09632974B1
A method for transferring data utilizing direct memory access. The method includes a computer processor establishing a networking connection, using a proxy, between at least a first computing entity and a second computing entity. The method further includes determining a shared memory space for the established networking connection between at least the first computing entity and the second computing entity. The method further includes allocating the shared memory space from heap memory. The method further includes transmitting data over the established networking connection between at least the first computing entity and the second computing entity utilizing a direct memory access protocol and the allocated shared memory space.
US09632968B2
A system and method are provided that implement the use of mmWave directional communications to replace wired interconnects for inter-processor communication in multi-core computing systems. Using highly directional, low interference mmWave transmissions in the 60 GHz frequency range, an alternative interconnect scheme is provided to support inter-processor communication in multi-core computing systems for operations and testing. Wired interconnects between the multiple cores and a bus interface are replaced with cooperating mmWave transmitting/receiving devices on each of the core side and the bus interface side. The ability to transmit and receive separate high data rate, directional low interference signals for individual core communication is thus facilitated between the bus interface and each of the multiple cores in the multi-core computing system.
US09632967B2
The invention relates to a method of controlling a door drive having a plurality of components which are communicatively connected to one another via a digital bus system, wherein at least one component is a safety component which reports the occurrence of a safety-relevant event over the data bus, and wherein the bus protocol reserves a cyclic safety phase for reporting a safety-relevant event and at least one component recognizes an undefined data transmission during the safety phase as a report of a safety-relevant event.
US09632965B2
Ethernet physical sublayer (PHY) devices each provide PHY register data. One or more of the Ethernet PHY devices are connected to each of one or more management data input/output (MDIO)/management data clock (MDC) interfaces to which a number of MDIO/MDC controllers are connected. Each MDIO/MDC controller polls a corresponding MDIO/MDC interface to receive the PHY register data from the one or more Ethernet PHY devices connected thereto. The MDIO/MDC controllers store portions of the PHY register data received from the Ethernet PHY devices to a memory to which an interface is connected. A processor connected to the interface accesses the portions of the PHY register data stored to the memory. The processor can retrieve the portions of the PHY register data over the interface more quickly than the MDIO/MDC controllers can retrieve the PHY register data over the MDIO/MDC interfaces.
US09632957B2
A data processing apparatus has a plurality of processors and a plurality of interrupt interfaces each for handling interrupt requests from a corresponding processor. An interrupt distributor controls routing of interrupt requests to the interrupt interfaces. A shared interrupt request is serviceable by multiple processors. In response to the shared interrupt request, a target interrupt interface issues an interrupt ownership request to the interrupt distributor, without passing the shared interrupt request to the corresponding processor, if it estimates that the corresponding processor is available for servicing the shared interrupt request. The shared interrupt request is passed to the corresponding processor when an ownership confirmation is received from the interrupt distributor indicating that the processor has been selected for servicing the shared interrupt request.
US09632956B2
An expandable memory system that enables a fixed signaling bandwidth to be configurably re-allocated among dedicated memory channels. Memory channels having progressively reduced widths are dedicated to respective memory sockets, thus enabling point-to-point signaling with respect to each memory socket without signal-compromising traversal of unloaded sockets or costly replication of a full-width memory channel for each socket.
US09632955B2
A system-on-chip integrated circuit 2 includes interconnect circuitry 4 for communicating transactions between transaction sources and transaction destinations. A reorder buffer 26 serves to buffer and permit reordering of access transactions received from the transaction sources. Processing circuitry performs processing operations in parallel upon a given access transaction taken from the reorder buffer. Hazard detection and repair circuitry serves to detect an ordering hazard arising between the processing operations and if necessary cancel and repeat that processing operation. The access transactions and the reorder buffer are such that access transactions other than the access transaction for which a hazard has been detected may proceed independently of the necessity to cancel and repair that transaction thereby reducing the cost associated with cancelling and repair.
US09632953B2
An input/output virtualization (IOY) host controller (HC) (IOV-HC) of a flash-memory-based storage device is disclosed. In one aspect, an IOV-HC is coupled to input/output (I/O) clients via corresponding client register interfaces (CRIs), and is also coupled to a flash-memory-based storage device. The IOV-HC comprises transfer request list (TRL) slot offset registers indicating slots of a shared TRL that are assigned as base slots to each of the CRIs. The IOV-HC further comprises TRL slot count registers indicating how many slots of the shared TRL are assigned to each of the CRIs. When a transfer request (TR) directed to the flash-memory-based storage device is received from a CRI, the IOV-HC is configured to map the TR to a slot of the shared TRL based on a TRL slot offset register and a TRL slot count register of the plurality of TRL slot count registers corresponding to the CRI.
US09632945B2
An amount of sequential fast write (SFW) Tracks are metered by providing an adjustable threshold for performing a destage scan that moves the SFW tracks from a SFW least recently used (LRU) list to a destaging wait list (DWL). Priorities are set for the destaging of the SFW tracks from the DWL.
US09632942B2
In at least some embodiments, a processor core generates a store operation by executing a store instruction in an instruction sequence. The store operation is marked as a high priority store operation in response to detecting a barrier instruction in the instruction sequence immediately preceding the store instruction in program order and is not so marked otherwise. The store operation is buffered in a store queue associated with a cache memory of the processor core. Handling of the store operation in the store queue is expedited in response to the store operation being marked as a high priority store operation and not expedited otherwise.
US09632937B2
Disclosed are a pre-decoding analysis-based configuration information cache management system, comprising a streaming media processing module, a configuration information prefetch FIFO module, a configuration information storage unit, and a cache controller module. Also disclosed is a management method for the pre-decoding analysis-based configuration information cache management system. The present invention allows for increased dynamic reconfiguration efficiency of a large-scale coarse-grained reconfigurable system.
US09632919B2
An example request change tracker may be used to create, modify, monitor, and report events occurring within a development and testing pipeline with respect to one or more computing applications. A request change tracker may include a pipeline event detector, a testing stage detector, a control module, and a reporting module. The pipeline event detector detects a pipeline event indicative of a status of a code module with respect to a pipeline. The testing stage detector determines the associated testing stage in the pipeline, based on the pipeline event. The control module initiates actions with respect to the pipeline, based on the determined testing stage. The reporting module updates a reporting log with information related to the state, progress and results of a testing stage in the pipeline.
US09632912B1
A system and method of debugging a program may include obtaining a selection of a portion of the program which is between trackable inputs and outputs. The method may also include simulating an execution on the portion of the program, by providing input data via the inputs that was input through said inputs during a recorded execution of the program. The method may further include presenting information relating to the simulated execution on an output device.
US09632909B2
User script code that is developed to be run in a host application, for example, as a macro can be transformed into debuggable code so that the host application may continue to operate during a debugging stop operation. Traceback methods can be created that call back into the host application to allow the host application to cooperatively operate and update its user-interface. The user script code can be transformed by injecting callbacks to the traceback methods at respective locations in the code where a stopping operation may be installed during debugging. Further, two or more debugging features can be combined into a single user script code transform using an iterator pattern function.
US09632906B2
Data is identified that represents a path of a transaction that includes a plurality of transaction fragments associated with a plurality of software components. The transaction returns a particular value and a particular one of the plurality of software components is identified as a source of the particular value. A test action is generated that, when executed, is to attempt to verify the particular value from the particular software component.
US09632903B2
Techniques for distributed testing are provided. Resources are identified for performing tests over a network. The tests and policies are sent to the resources and a proxy. The proxy delivers data for the tests to the resources and enforces the policies during the tests. The proxy also gathers statistics and results from the resources, which are executing the tests, and the proxy reports the statistics and results to one or more third-party services for subsequent manipulation and analysis.
US09632892B1
Implementations are provided herein for establishing a failover cluster in a distributed file system that upon the occurrence of failover event, allows clients to actively migrate during ongoing file system activity from a source cluster to a target cluster without having to unmount an NFS export from the source cluster and remount the NFS export on the target cluster. Upon the occurrence of a failover event, clients can be rerouted to a target cluster that contains mirrored copies of the data the client was expecting to be stored on the original source cluster. However, in attempting to access the data, without unmounting and remounting an export, the client will continue to reference source cluster FSID and LIN identifiers when making NFS calls to the target cluster. Thus, implementations are provided herein for translating the requests of an NFS client on a target cluster after a failover event has occurred. A client can make NFS calls using FSID and LIN information of the original source cluster, and that information can be translated, e.g., through a reverse LIN map, to the unique LIN's of the target cluster, such that any failover migration of the client is transparent to the client.
US09632891B2
Techniques for faster reconstruction of segments using a dedicated spare memory unit are described. Zone segments in memory units are associated with a dedicated spare memory unit. The zone segments are reconstructed in the dedicated spare memory unit in response to a failed memory unit except for an identified failed zone segment of the failed memory unit. The identified failed zone segment of the failed memory unit is retained in the dedicated spare unit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09632888B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a memory data migration method and apparatus, and a computer, to migrate memory data that is in the computer. After acquiring a first trigger instruction, an operating system of the computer can suspend a task that is being executed, to execute memory data migration, determine a source memory card that stores to-be-migrated memory data, determine a backup memory card for the source memory card, and instruct a memory controller associated with the source memory card to perform the memory data migration, so that the memory controller associated with the source memory card reads memory data of the source memory card according to an instruction of the operating system, and writes the read memory data of the source memory card into the backup memory card.
US09632884B2
Maintaining operability of a network-connected data processing apparatus is provided. In response to a requirement for failover from a first resource to a second resource, one or more processors tests an availability of the second resource, wherein the first and second resources are redundant resources of a network-connected data processing apparatus that is communicatively coupled to at least one host computer. In response to a positive determination of the availability of the second resource, one or more processors initiates the failover; and in response to a negative determination of the availability of the second resource, one or more processors provides an indication of unavailability.
US09632877B1
The present disclosure describes implementing a virtual image file system, or IMGFS. A mount point directory is created in a local file system, where the local file system organizes files on a storage device. The mount point directory corresponds to a proxy backup image file stored on the storage device. The proxy backup image file stores an image file system. The image file system is mounted on the local file system at the mount point directory, using a virtual file system that implements an interface configured to access the image file system. In some embodiments, a notification is provided to a recovery manager that indicates the recovery manager should catalog one or more database files of the proxy backup image file. One or more database files can be restored to a second storage device, such as a group of physical disks that are managed as a single storage unit.
US09632875B2
Techniques for adjusting the frequency of data backups and initiating event-driven backups in a storage system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a self-adjusting backup frequency, known as a “Change Rate Objective,” is defined to conduct or delay backups for one or more volumes in the storage system on the basis of an associated policy value. The Change Rate Objective may be tied to one or more business or data activity events, such as the amount and type of data changes since a last backup. The storage system may also be tailored to conduct or delay full or incremental backups on the basis of a Change Rate Objective that measures whether a full or incremental or differential backup is more appropriate. Various data or system failures, or data or business events may also be used to adjust the retention periods of continuous data protection (CDP) data and delay a rollup of CDP data.
US09632873B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a first file system for use within a data storage array. A first temporary storage space is defined within the data storage array for use during a file system recovery event. The size of the first temporary storage space is defined based, at least in part, upon the actual utilization of the first file system.
US09632870B2
A data memory system is described, where there may be an asymmetry in the time needed to write or erase data and the time needed to read data. The data may be stored using a RAID data storage arrangement and the reading, writing and erasing operations on the modules arranged such that the erasing and writing operations may be performed without significant latency for performing a read operation. Where a failure of a memory module in the memory system occurs, methods for recovering the data of the failed module are disclosed which may selected in accordance with policies that may relate to the minimizing the possibility of irretrievable data loss, or degradation of latency performance.
US09632863B2
In general, techniques are described for performing track-error-correcting code on data. A hard drive comprising a storage device and a read channel may be configured to perform the techniques. The read channel may be configured to read data from a track comprising a plurality of data sectors each comprising a plurality of bits, and a parity sector comprising a plurality of parity bits, wherein the data includes a plurality of bit groups, each bit group including a single bit from each data sector, and wherein each parity bit corresponds to a respective bit group, perform a track parity check, and, responsive to determining that the data includes an error, identify one or more data sectors as possible sources of the at least one error and adjust a log-likelihood ratio for at least one bit from the bit group.
US09632851B1
A secure inter-process communication channel is provided to enable application to share data objects. An application may provide an export file type definition indicating data objects that may be shared with another application. Sharing data object between application may include obtaining the export file type definition from the application and displaying a graphical user interface based at least in part on the export file type definition. Data objects may be selected through the graphical user interface and provided to another application based at least in part on the selection.
US09632841B2
An electronic device has a processing system and a management circuit. The processing system executes an application. The management circuit detects an operating behavior of the application during execution of the application, analyzes the detected operating behavior of the application to generate an application identification result, and configures an application-dependent task according to at least the application identification result.
US09632832B2
Technologies are generally described for methods and systems to assign threads in a multi-core processor. In an example, a method to assign threads in a multi-core processor may include determining data relating to memory controllers fetching data in response to cache misses experienced by a first core and a second core. Threads may be assigned to cores based on the number of cache misses processed by respective memory controllers. Methods may further include determining that a thread is latency-bound or bandwidth-bound. Threads may be assigned to cores based on the determination of the thread as latency-bound or bandwidth-bound. In response to the assignment of the threads to the cores, data for the thread may be stored in the assigned cores.
US09632826B2
A task is marked as dependent upon a preceding task. The task that is attempted to be taken for execution from a head of a pending task queue that is marked is deferred. The deferred task is removed from the pending task queue and placed in a deferred task queue. The deferred task is reinserted back into the pending task queue for execution upon determining that the preceding tasks are completed.
US09632824B2
A system includes multiple applications executing on a device. One or more user-interfaces connect with the device. The one or more user-interfaces interact with the applications as user-interface activities. A processor sends or receives an indication of the user-interface activities for the multiple applications. The multiple applications are closed or locked, or the device logged out, based on the indication of the user-interface activities for the multiple applications.
US09632820B2
Discontiguous storage locations are prefetched by a prefetch instruction. Addresses of the discontiguous storage locations are provided by a list directly or indirectly specified by a parameter of the prefetch instruction, along with metadata and information about the list entries. Fetching of corresponding data blocks to cache lines is initiated. A processor may enter transactional execution mode and memory instructions of a program may be executed using the prefetched data blocks.
US09632818B2
A mechanism is provided for identifying a performance bottleneck of a transaction in a transaction processing system. At a predefined time point, status information of an interaction between the transaction and a processing component among one or more processing components in the transaction processing system is collected. A duration of the interaction on the basis of the status information is determined. In response to the duration exceeding a predefined threshold, the interaction is identified as the performance bottleneck of the transaction in order to make changes to the transaction processing system thereby improving performance.
US09632811B2
A virtual instance of a hardware device is generated from device profile model data. The virtual instance of the hardware device simulates operation of the hardware device. The simulated operation includes interacting with a software service over a network connection by generating, at the virtual instance, message data to push to a host of the software service over the network connection, receiving request data from the software service over the network connection, and generating a simulated response to the request data. The simulated operation further includes sending the simulated response from the virtual instance to the host over the network connection and modeling a physical effect measured by the hardware device during the interaction with the software service. Data sent by the virtual instance during the interaction is based on the modeled physical effect.
US09632809B2
A virtual-machine managing apparatus includes a delay storage unit that stores delay times between a plurality of managers managing a virtual machine; a route extractor that extracts a migration route from a source manager to a target manager based on the delay times between the managers stored in the delay storage unit such that the delay times between the managers are equal to or shorter than a threshold; and a migration controller that migrates the virtual machine from the source manager to the target manager through the migration route while maintaining the operation of the virtual machine.
US09632805B2
A firmware loading system including a first memory device and a calculation unit. The first memory device includes a first firmware code, wherein the first firmware code has a predetermined code and a plurality of parameter tables, and the parameter tables are arranged to set up a plurality of registers of a second memory device. The calculation unit is arranged to perform a firmware insertion procedure, wherein, during the firmware insertion procedure, the calculation unit selects one of the parameter tables according to a selection signal, compiles the selected parameter table and the predetermined code into a second firmware code, and writes the second firmware code in a flash memory of the second memory device.
US09632801B2
Conversion of an array of structures (AOS) to a structure of arrays (SOA) improves the efficiency of transfer from the AOS to the SOA. A similar technique can be used to convert efficiently from an SOA to an AOS. The controller performing the conversion computes a partition size as the highest common factor between the structure size of structures in AOS and the number of banks in a first memory device, and transfers data based on the partition size, rather than on the structure size. The controller can read a partition size number of elements from multiple different structures to ensure that full data transfer bandwidth is used for each transfer.
US09632800B1
A method for accessing information in a software application using a computing device, the computing device comprising one or more processors, the one or more processors for executing a plurality of computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions for implementing the method for accessing information, the method comprising the steps of determining that a pointer is hovering over an icon, the icon associated with icon specific information, displaying a Tooltip including a heading, a display window and an action button, the action button for launching an action in the application, displaying the icon specific information in the display window, detecting that a user has selected the action button, and launching the action.
US09632795B2
An electronic device including a control unit, an embedded controller and a battery module is provided. During a booting procedure of the electronic device, the embedded controller reads a reported battery capacity and a battery temperature of the battery module. The embedded controller determines whether the reported battery capacity is lower than a minimum capacity, and further determines whether the battery temperature is lower than a minimum temperature when the reported battery capacity is lower than the minimum capacity. When the reported capacity is lower than the minimum capacity and the battery temperature is also lower than the minimum temperature, the embedded controller generates a fake battery capacity, according to which an operating system of the electronic device performs various operations. In this application, the battery module of the electronic device remains working even when the electronic device is in a low-temperature and low-battery activation environment.
US09632788B2
A method and system for instruction fetching within a processor instruction unit, utilizing a loop buffer, one or more virtual loop buffers, and/or an instruction buffer. During instruction fetch, modified instruction buffers coupled to an instruction cache (I-cache) temporarily store instructions from a single branch, backwards short loop. The modified instruction buffers may be a loop buffer, one or more virtual loop buffers, and/or an instruction buffer. The instruction fetch within the instruction unit of a processor retrieves the instructions for the short loop from the modified buffers during the loop cycles of the single branch, backwards short loop, rather than from the instruction cache.
US09632771B2
Systems and methods are described that enable metadata to be associated with source code at various levels of granularity (e.g., at the level of files, classes, functions, lines, statements and expressions) and that enable such metadata to be accessed independently of the source code with which it is associated. Such metadata may be used to track provenance and history of source code within and across source code repositories, associate ratings or other indicia of quality or reliability with source code, wherein such ratings may be exposed to developers and wherein such ratings may be used to better manage the automated check-in, testing and analysis of source code, and facilitate a process by which a component that manages a source code entity is notified about updates made to a related source code entity and by which like changes may be to the source code entity in a manual or automated fashion.
US09632769B2
A method or software program that provides an analysis of a build, which can provide a developer with views of the build processes, is disclosed. Data is collected from the build. The collected data can include information regarding file access patterns from determining which files are accessed for read and which files are accessed for write by one or more software build tools and project interdependencies. The collected data can also include certain project properties, build configurations, intermediate directories such as logs, and other metadata of the build. The collected data is injected into a relational database that can be queried. The information developed in a database query can be applied to optimize the build.
US09632764B2
A computer-controlled method of managing third party installations within an enterprise can include inventorying the third party installations, specifying a number of configuration parameters for each third party installation, and storing the configuration parameters for the third party installations in a WSM metadata repository.
US09632760B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using tiered arrays to represent aggregated software dependencies. One of the methods includes receiving a request to generate a range of contiguous indexes having non-default values represented by a tiered array, wherein each non-default element of each tier is a reference to a catalog at a lower tier except for a bottom-most tier of the tiered array that stores non-default values. After descending one or more tiers to identify a first index that (i) is greater than or equal to the start index and (ii) has a non-default value, a system ascends one or more tiers in the tiered array and subsequently descends again to identify a second index that is a last index in a contiguous sequence of indexes having non-default values from the first index up to and including the second index.
US09632743B2
A display component and an electronic device using the display component are described. The display component includes a light source unit configured to emit source light; at least two beam splitting units configured to receive the source light and generate at least two reflected lights, wherein directions of the at least two reflected lights match with each other; a display unit configured to receive the at least two reflected lights and adjust the at least two reflected lights to become initial light by adding information of an image to be displayed into the at least two reflected light.
US09632736B1
Methods and apparatus for image conversion are provided. A computing device can receive image data having line(s) of pixels encoded using a first format. The first format can specify a repeat count for a corresponding line of pixels. The computing device can convert the image data from the first format to a second format. The conversion can include: for a designated input line, determining whether the repeat count for the designated input line is greater than one; and after determining that the repeat count is greater than one: decompressing the designated input line into a decompressed line, duplicating the decompressed line a number of times based on the repeat count, and generating designated output line(s) of image data encoded in the second format that correspond to the duplicated decompressed lines of image data. The computing device can provide an output comprising the image data encoded in the second format.
US09632734B2
Systems, devices, and related methods for shaping near field interrogation signals are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a spindle supported near field communication (NFC) device including a spindle configured to mount to a mounting surface, and a beam shaping NFC device. The beam shaping NFC device may include: a ferromagnetic component including a core portion, wherein the core portion defines a core cavity and the spindle is inserted within the core cavity; and a wire coil disposed around the core portion. The ferromagnetic component may be configured to concentrate near field interrogation signals generated by the wire coil toward a near field interrogation region and away from the mounting surface, or other components capable of causing interference or degradation of the near field interrogation signals.
US09632726B1
A modular system including a set of functionality tiles and a control tile storing a storage structure, an initialization file, and operation instructions. The method for operating a custom device made using the modular system includes: sending operation settings for each tile to the respective tile upon device initialization; operating each tile based on the operation settings; writing the output from each tile to the storage structure; monitoring data streams within the storage structure for a trigger event; reading data off the storage structure in response to occurrence of the trigger event; and processing the read data according to a processing function specified by the operation instructions.
US09632724B1
A method and system for storage copy with chain cloning are provided, including providing a volume with one or more snapshots in the form of a dependency chain, where the volume and one or more snapshots are volume nodes in the dependency chain and providing associated metadata required to maintain the one or more snapshots; cloning the dependency chain to create at least one a sparse copy chain including sparse copies of the volume and the one or more snapshots resulting in sparse volume nodes, resulting in a lattice structure of the dependency chain of volume nodes and one or more sparse copy chains of cloned volume nodes.
US09632716B1
Method, system, and computer program product for consistent asynchronous replication of local backup
A first asynchronous mirroring session is initiated to asynchronously copy first primary volumes to first secondary volumes. Point in time copy operations generate a local backup copy from the first primary volumes. Second primary volumes are generated from the local backup copy. A second asynchronous mirroring session is initiated to asynchronously copy the second primary volumes to second secondary volumes.
US09632715B2
A method and system are provided for back-up and restoration of data between volatile and flash memory. The method for controlling back-up of data to flash memory includes: organizing back-up data into stripes, wherein a stripe is a set of pages across all available flash memory devices, dies and planes which have the same block and page address; maintaining metadata indicating locations of known bad planes and grown bad planes; using the metadata when writing back-up data to determine which planes to send cache program commands to; and sending cache program commands to three or more stripes of data simultaneously including providing an indication in the stripe that the stripe is handling a cache program command. If a grown bad block is encountered while saving a stripe of data, the stripe of data is re-written to the next available page address avoiding the grown bad block.
US09632704B2
A storage controller maintains extent space efficient storage volumes in a primary allocation space and a secondary allocation space. An indicator is used to indicate that extents of the secondary allocation space are available for an extent pool, without releasing the extents from the secondary allocation space.
US09632697B2
An information processing apparatus comprises: a status change unit configured to change, if a drag operation required to drag an object is made by bringing an instruction member into contact with a screen which is configured to accept a multi-touch instruction, an object, for which the drag operation is made, of a first page to a drag state; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not an instruction requested by bringing the instruction member into contact with the screen during dragging of the object is a page change instruction; a page change unit configured to change, if it is determined that the instruction is the page change instruction, a display target page from the first page to a second page during dragging of the object; and an arrangement unit configured to arrange the dragged object on the second page.
US09632692B2
A method and system to implement a quasi-user interface to manage application state transitions by activating quasi-states on an electronic device is disclosed. The method allows a user to maintain the activated quasi-states for an application for the duration determined by the presence of an object within the proximity on the electronic device. The quasi-state activated applications can be switched between a quasi-state and a non-quasi-state supported on the electronic device. Further, the method deactivates the quasi-states and the quasi-user interface when the object is lifted away from the proximity of the electronic device.
US09632687B2
A control method according to the present disclosure causes a computer of an information apparatus to: display on a display a display screen representing a floor plan of a building; display on the display screen device icons respectively representing one or more target devices, the device icons being movable when dragged and including a humidifier icon that represents a humidifier; and when it is sensed that the humidifier icon is selected, and is moved on the floor plan, display an effect range in which an effect of the humidifier extends, in a region corresponding to a room in the floor plan where a drop of the humidifier icon is sensed.
US09632683B2
An apparatus for enabling manipulation of one or more audio objects may include a processor and memory storing executable computer program code that cause the apparatus to at least perform operations including detecting at least one audio object and operating a pointer in a selected direction by a user. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to detect a gesture of the pointer in response to the operating of the pointer in the selected direction. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to control at least one characteristic of the detected audio object in response to the detected gesture of the pointer or an indication of a selection of the at least one characteristic. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided.
US09632672B2
Techniques for navigating a user interface and for selecting a utility node from within a cluster of utility nodes are described herein. The user interface may display an icon representing the cluster of utility nodes. A selection (e.g., made by a user) of the icon may be received and a list of the utility nodes that are represented by the icon may be displayed. Selection of a particular utility node from the list may be received, and an action may be performed on the selected utility node. The action may include displaying utility information associated with the utility node, zooming in on the utility node, and/or receiving information from an individual with which to configure the utility node.
US09632671B2
A computer implemented system and method for displaying information pertaining to physical infrastructure in a building or on a property via a mobile software application operating or a mobile device are provided. The mobile software application includes steps of (a) optionally displaying a list of selectable buildings and/or areas at a property, (b) optionally displaying a list of selectable floors if a building having multiple floors is selected, (c) displaying a list of points of interest for the selected floor, building or area, and (d) displaying a floor plan or area map with selected points of interest highlighted.
US09632670B2
The disclosure generally describes computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for allowing provisioning of open data protocol (OData) services on top of a generic interaction layer (GenIL). One computer-implemented method includes receiving an OData-compliant request for data, determining a GenIL data provider to receive the OData-compliant request for data, determining the memory location of the data, requesting the data from the determined memory location, receiving the requested data from the determined memory location, converting, using at least one computer, the received data into an OData-compliant format, rendering an OData-compliant response, and transmitting the OData-compliant response.
US09632668B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing instructions is disclosed. The instructions, when executed by one or more hardware processors, causes performance of operations including (i) for a plurality of wireless signals received by a first access point located in a physical environment, determining (a) a corresponding plurality of received signal strength values and (b) a corresponding plurality of locations from where the plurality of wireless signals were transmitted, and (ii) generating a reverse heat map for the physical environment such that a plurality of zones in the reverse heat map are defined based on (a) the corresponding plurality of received signal strength values and (b) the corresponding plurality of locations determined for the plurality of wireless signals.
US09632662B2
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for placing menu items in a radial menu. A radial menu may be displayed in response to receiving a predefined gesture made with a screen pointer. A plurality of global menu items may be placed at predefined locations in the radial menu. A set of local menu items that are to be displayed in the radial menu be determined and displayed in the radial menu based on one or more predefined relationships between the local or global radial menu items.
US09632654B1
A system and method to present global and local context sensitive augmented content in accordance with multiple criteria, including one or more user's preferences, and present the augmented content via a transparent layer on top of the original content for less obtrusive and more efficient browsing, knowledge discovery and exploration experience. The original content remains visible to the user while the augmented content is being viewed or interacted with. The global context sensitive augmented content is generated using metrics based on the overall document or content being viewed, while the local context sensitive augmented content is generated using metrics based on the currently viewed or selected object within the document or content being viewed. Real-time and theme based augmentation are used to further enhance the user's experience. The local and global augmentation represent an in-situ user customized augmented network of concepts and relationships that are of interest to knowledge discovery of the topic at hand.
US09632653B2
Provided is a mobile terminal including a display unit to which multiple divisional screen regions are output, and a control unit that when an input for entering a division mode in which the display unit is divided into the multiple screen regions is received, generates a list region including a list of multiple applications, divides the display unit into first and second screen regions with the list region in between, and executes first and second applications selected from among the multiple applications on the first and second screen regions, respectively, in which the controller executes an application selected from among the multiple applications included in the list on the list region, and in which when an object included in the application being executed on the list region is selected, at least one of the first and second applications uses the selected object.
US09632648B2
A method of controlling a plurality of mobile terminals connected to an externally connected image display device. The method includes transmitting screen information from a first mobile terminal to the image display device; transmitting screen information from a second mobile terminal to the image display device; displaying a first mirroring screen corresponding to the screen information of the first mobile terminal in a first region of a display of the image display device, and displaying a second mirroring screen corresponding to the screen information of the second mobile terminal in a second region of the display of the image display device; tracking a cursor on the display of the image display device input from an input unit of the image display device; and controlling the first mobile terminal from the image display device when the cursor is within the first region of the display and controlling the second mobile terminal from the image display device when the cursor is within the second region of the display.
US09632646B2
Provided is an electronic apparatus including a casing, a display unit, an electrostatic capacitive touch panel, a gravity sensor, and a step. The display unit is disposed in the casing, has a predetermined shape, and displays predetermined information. The electrostatic capacitive touch panel has a shape substantially the same as the predetermined shape and determines a two-dimensional coordinate indicated by an instructing object which has some conductivity and display of the display unit passes through the electrostatic capacitive touch panel. The gravity sensor enables detection of a perpendicular direction. The step is disposed along a side of the predetermined shape, is low on an inside of the predetermined shape and is high on an outside of the predetermined shape. A nullification region at which the two-dimensional coordinate is nullified is enabled to be disposed along the side and the nullification region is disposed along the side in a perpendicular direction.
US09632637B2
A sensor device includes: a first sensor including a first electrode board including a plurality of first capacitive elements arranged in a matrix, a first conductor layer facing the first electrode board, a first support layer arranged between the first electrode board and the first conductor layer, the first support layer being deformable, and a first operation input surface provided on the first electrode board or the first conductor layer, the first electrode board and/or the first conductor layer being flexible; and a second sensor layered on the first sensor, the second sensor including a second electrode board including a plurality of second capacitive elements, a second conductor layer facing the second electrode board, and a second support layer arranged between the second electrode board and the second conductor layer, the second support layer being deformable, the second electrode board and/or the second conductor layer being flexible.
US09632631B2
A signal detecting method for a touch panel, a touch panel, and a display device are disclosed. The touch panel includes: several driving lines, several sensing lines, several driving electrodes, and several sensing electrodes; and also includes: a driving module configured to provide driving signals to the respective driving electrodes to drive the respective driving electrodes; a first detection module configured to detect a first signal representing a capacitance between a particular driven driving electrode and each of the sensing electrodes; a reusing module configured to, when one of the driving electrode is driven, reuse at least one driving electrode other than the driven driving electrode to additionally function as a sensing electrode; and a second detection module configured to detect a second signal representing a capacitance between the driven driving electrode and the at least one reused driving electrode which additionally functions as a sensing electrode.
US09632620B2
A touch panel, a method for determining a touch point and a display device are provided in the present disclosure, to solve low sensitivity of an existing touch panel. The touch panel includes a first transparent conductive layer and a second transparent conductive layer opposite to and away from each other. A first voltage signal terminal and a second voltage signal terminal opposite to the first voltage signal terminal are arranged on the first transparent conductive layer, a third voltage signal terminal and a fourth voltage signal terminal opposite to the third voltage signal terminal are arranged on the second transparent conductive layer, and an extension direction of the first voltage signal terminal is perpendicular to an extension direction of the third voltage signal terminal. The second voltage signal terminal and the fourth voltage signal terminal are short-circuited. The touch display panel further includes a voltage output unit, a read unit and a calculation unit.
US09632618B2
A method, system and computer program product for expanding the touch zones of graphical user interface (GUI) widgets. The coordinates of the screen location of the device (e.g., mobile device) where a GUI widget is displayed on the screen is captured in response to detecting the GUI widget being displayed on the screen. A list of objects, including GUI widgets, that are currently being displayed on the screen and corresponding screen location coordinates are obtained. A GUI widget is then identified from the list of objects by matching its screen location coordinates with the captured location coordinates. An algorithm to expand the touch zone (e.g., in a right-to-left alternation) of the GUI widget is then identified based on the type of widget (e.g., list) is the identified GUI widget. In this manner, the user is able to expand the touch zones of GUI widgets in an easy manner.
US09632617B2
The present invention provides a transmitter which is configured to transmit an electrical signal to a touch sensitive device according to a transmitter status. After analyzing the electrical signal, the touch sensitive device is able to find out the transmitter status and a relative position of the transmitter with respect to the touch sensitive device. The electrical signal is mixed from a plurality of signals having different frequencies.
US09632613B2
When an item is selected with a touch from an item list, if display of a guidance is set to ON, the item is selected by a first touch and the guidance is displayed to view another item. A determination operation is performed by a second touch to the same item. If the display of the guidance is set to OFF, a determination operation of an touched item is performed by the first touch without displaying the guidance. Thus, when it is set that the guidance is not displayed, inconvenience that a user needs to touch the same option twice even the guidance display is not required to shift a screen to a sub-screen can be eliminated, and increase of troublesomeness for a shift operation to the sub-screen can be prevented.
US09632609B2
The efficiency of a product cycle is considerably enhanced by avoiding loss from designing to production including member loss matching various sizes of touch sensor panels.Unit sensor sheets having a square outer shape on which a multiple number of sense lines 21 as a multiple number of conductive wirings are arranged in parallel, are disposed in 3 row, 3 column. Each end of each of the multiple number of sense lines 21 as a multiple number of conductive wirings is sequentially matched one-to-one between unit sensor sheets, for example, between the sensor sheets 2A and 2B, or the sensor sheets 2B and 2C, and electrically connected with each other, and thereby the respective multiple number of sense lines 21 as a multiple number of conductive wirings are connected in a longitudinal direction thereof and are integrated, in the 3 row, 3 column of the unit sensor sheets 2A-2I.
US09632605B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for input classification for multi-touch systems. In one aspect, a method includes maintaining a history of prior state information related to a touch sensitive display. The method further includes detecting that a previous contact with the touch sensitive display was incorrectly classified. The method further includes updating a classification of the previous contact based on the detection that the previous contact was incorrectly classified. The method further includes rewinding a state of the touch sensitive display to reflect a state that would have resulted had the previous contact been correctly classified based on the history of prior state information and the updated classification of the previous contact.
US09632592B1
Systems and techniques for detecting gestures of a user based on analysis of acquired depth maps as well as identified distortion within one or more acquired color images. For instance, a system may project content onto a display surface within an environment. A user may then interact with the content via gestures, which may include hand gestures, gestures with a stylus or the like. In some instances, the content includes multiple selection portions, such as soft buttons, icons, and the like, that a user may select by pointing or touching with a finger or other type of selection tool. For instance, the projected content may include one or more projected icons and the user may select one of the icons by touching the display surface onto which the respective display icon is being projected.
US09632589B2
A method includes the following steps. A speech input is received. At least two speech recognition candidates are generated from the speech input. A scene related to the speech input is observed using one or more non-acoustic sensors. The observed scene is segmented into one or more regions. One or more properties for the one or more regions are computed. One of the speech recognition candidates is selected based on the one or more computed properties of the one or more regions.
US09632586B2
A method for an audio driver user interface comprising: capturing at least two audio signals (1 1, 14, 101); determining a trajectory of an audio source from the at least two audio signals (103); and generating a user interface input dependent on the trajectory of the audio source (105).
US09632582B2
A magnetic suspension system is disclosed for use in mounting an electronic touch screen. The magnetic suspension system may be designed to provide more or less movement in any direction, i.e., along the x-axis, the y-axis, and/or the z-axis, depending upon the application. The magnetic suspension system includes a first programmable magnet coupled to a first body and a second programmable magnet coupled to a second body. The programmable magnets simultaneously repel and attract each other in a nominal configuration such that the second body is suspended a programmed spaced-apart distance from the first body. The programmable magnets also allow movement between the first and second bodies in reaction to a force applied to the second body by a haptic actuator with a programmed spring force such that the first and second bodies return to the nominal configuration when no force is applied to the second body.
US09632581B2
One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a sensor configured to detect a user interaction with a touch surface and transmit a sensor signal including data associated with a pressure of the user interaction. The illustrative system also includes a processor in communication with the sensor, the processor configured to: receive the sensor signal; determine, based on the sensor signal, a pressure level; determine a user interface level based at least in part on the pressure level; perform a function associated with the user interface level and the user interaction; determine a haptic effect based at least in part on the user interface level and the user interaction; generate a haptic signal based at least in part on the haptic effect; and transmit the haptic signal. The illustrative system further includes a haptic output device in configured to receive the haptic signal and output the haptic effect.
US09632578B2
Provided are a task switching method capable of rapidly and easily accessing a task of interest by using a button that may receive a touch-based input and a device for executing the task switching method. The device includes a button configured to receive an input; a display configured to display task switching screens; and a processor configured to set a task switching mode in response to the button receiving a first input, and control the display to display the task switching screens in response to the button receiving a second input.
US09632566B2
The present embodiments provide a system that dynamically controls power consumption in a computing device. During operation, the system measures the performance of the computing device while executing a work-loop. Next, the system determines a derived completion time for the work-loop based on the measured performance. (For example, the derived completion time can be an expected completion time, a maximum completion time, or more generally a completion time distribution.) The system then determines a deadline-proximity for the work-loop based on a comparison between the derived completion time and a deadline for the work-loop. (For example, the deadline-proximity can be an expected deadline-proximity, a minimum deadline-proximity, or more generally a deadline-proximity distribution.) Finally, the system controls the power consumption of the computing device based on the determined deadline-proximity for the work-loop.
US09632565B2
A power supply mode switching method and apparatus applied to an electronic device are described. The method includes detecting a mode switching signal of the electronic device; switching a power supply mode of the electronic device from a first power supply mode to a second power supply mode if the mode switching signal detected indicates to switch the electronic device from a first mode to a second mode; switching the power supply mode of the electronic device from the second power supply mode to the first power supply mode if the mode switching signal detected indicates to switch the electronic device from the second mode to the first mode. The power supply mode switching method makes the electronic device not enter into the power-off mode immediately when the user presses the power button by accident in the second mode of the electronic device.
US09632559B2
Embodiments relate to storing data in memory. An aspect includes applying a power savings technique to at least a subset of a processor. Pending work items scheduled to be executed by the processor are monitored. The pending work items are grouped based on the power savings technique. The grouping includes delaying a scheduled execution time of at least one of the pending work items to increase an overall number of clock cycles that the power savings technique is applied to the processor. It is determined that an execution criteria has been met. The pending work items are executed based on the execution criteria being met and the grouping.
US09632557B2
Methods and apparatus relating to Active State Power Management (ASPM) to reduce power consumption by PCI express components are described. In one embodiment, a special packet with embedded information triggers entry into a lower power consumption state. The embedded information may include flow control credit information outstanding between two agents and the target power consumption state. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US09632539B2
A device includes a flexible display for displaying media; an actuator for changing a shape of the flexible display; and a processor executing a shape determination application to apply a rule to a shape input to determine a desired shape for the flexible display in response to the shape input; the processor generating a command signal and providing the command signal to the actuator to place the flexible display in the desired shape.
US09632527B2
A shift register is configured by connecting unit circuits 1 in multiple stages. An output transistor Tr1 switches between whether or not to output a clock signal CKA in accordance with a gate potential. A drain terminal of an initialization transistor Tra is connected to a gate terminal of the Tr1, and a source terminal thereof is connected to an output terminal OUT or a clock terminal CKA. The source terminal of the Tra is connected to a node which has a low-level potential at the time of initialization and has a potential at the same level as the clock signal when the clock signal having a high-level potential is outputted. Thus, at the time of outputting the clock signal having the high-level potential, application of a high voltage between the source and the drain of the Tra is prevented, and degradation and breakdown of the initialization transistor are prevented.
US09632522B2
Current mirror bias circuit with voltage adjustment. A biasing system can include an input configured to receive an input current and an output configured to provide an output current. The biasing system can include a first transistor having a first base coupled to the input and a first collector coupled to a supply voltage. The biasing system can further include a second transistor having a second base coupled to the output, a second collector coupled to the input, and a second emitter coupled to a ground voltage. The biasing system can include a voltage adjustment component having a voltage adjustment input coupled to a first emitter of the first transistor and a voltage adjustment output coupled to the output. The voltage adjustment component can be configured to reduce a voltage from the voltage adjustment input to the voltage adjustment output substantially independent of a magnitude of a current through the voltage adjustment component.
US09632517B2
An air conditioner includes: an air-conditioning control unit; a data read and write unit; a data control unit; and an operation unit. The air-conditioning control unit controls air-conditioning running based on running information; the data read and write unit to which a storage medium configured to store therein data can be removably connected; the data control unit transfers the running information and the operation setting information transmitted from the air-conditioning control unit to the data read and write unit; and the operation unit can input the operation setting information for performing an operation of the air-conditioning running.
US09632516B2
A gas-supply system includes a gas container filled with gas, a gas flow controller coupled to the gas container, and an operation device electrically connected to the gas flow controller. The gas-supply system further includes a buffer tank coupled to the gas flow controller and configured to receive the gas from the gas container via the gas flow controller. Furthermore, a pressure transducer disposed on the buffer tank and configured to generate a pressure signal to the operation device according to the pressure of the gas in the buffer tank. The operation device is configured to generate a control signal to the gas flow controller according the pressure signal, and the gas flow controller is configured to adjust the flow rate of the gas according to the control signal to keep the pressure of the gas in the buffer tank in a predetermined pressure range.
US09632514B2
An electronic shower system including a mixing valve operably coupled to a mixing valve drive, and a diverter valve operably coupled to a diverter valve drive and in fluid communication with the mixing valve. A controller is in communication with the mixing valve drive and the diverter valve drive. A user interface includes a removable module in communication with the controller.
US09632500B2
Exemplary embodiments for configuring a system for monitoring the performance of a control loop of an industrial plant includes reading in first process data derived from measurements of at least one sensor inside the control loop during a specified control situation, calculating from the first process data a corresponding at least one performance index indicating the behaviour of the control loop and determining a first quality of the control performance depending on the difference between the at least one performance index and a corresponding threshold value. In case that the first quality of the control performance is determined to be less than good, a second quality of the control performance is determined either by calculating the second quality from an analysis of second process data or by processing a user input from a user of the system which indicates the second quality.
US09632494B2
A method and an engineering system for generating and handling component applications (CA1 . . . CAn) for physical components (C1 . . . Cn) such as a programmable control (Programmable Logic Control (PLC)), Human Machine Interface (HMI) and/or a Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Unit (SCADA) of a control system (CA), in which instances (ICF1 . . . ICFn) of component functions (CF1 . . . CFn) for the components (C1 . . . Cn) are produced and from which the component applications (CA1 . . . CAn) are generated, the generated component applications (CA1 . . . CAn) being loaded to the physical components (C1 . . . Cn).
US09632492B2
This disclosure provides an automation controller method, system and apparatus including a redundant watchdog utilizing a safety partner controller. According to an exemplary controller, the controller includes a first processing unit, a second processing unit, and an integrated circuit configured to receive as inputs fault indicator signals from the first and second processing units, and the integrated circuit configured to disable I/O communications for a fault condition detected by the first or second processing units.
US09632486B2
A circuit includes a reset circuit, a counter and a comparator. The reset circuit generates a reset signal based on a reference signal and a controlled signal. The reference signal and the controlled signal are to be sent to the TDC for detection of phase difference. The counter counts to a predetermined value associated with the reference signal and the controlled signal, and is reset to an initial value in response to the reset signal. The comparator compares a count from the counter and the predetermined value, and generates a mask signal when a count from the counter equals the predetermined value. The mask signal masks a portion of pulses of the controlled signal from entering the TDC.
US09632475B2
A lubricant applicator includes a lubricant, a supply member contactable against the lubricant to supply the lubricant to a target, and a lubricant gauge to detect whether an amount of lubricant remaining is less than a threshold value. The lubricant gauge includes a rotary member rotatable about a shaft, a pressing member to press and rotate the rotary member as the lubricant is consumed, a contact part of the rotary member pressed by the pressing member, and a detection part of the rotary member opposite to the contact part across the shaft of the rotary member.
US09632473B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, a drive mechanism, a rotating member, an urging member, and a retracting system. The retracting system includes first and second retracting mechanisms. The first retracting mechanism includes a first gap-maintaining member that maintains a gap between the image carrier and the rotating member, and cancels the retracted state at one end in an axial direction by moving the first gap-maintaining member and cancelling a gap-maintaining state established by the first gap-maintaining member. The second retracting mechanism includes a second gap-maintaining member that maintains a gap between the image carrier and the rotating member, and cancels the retracted state at the other end by enabling the rotating member to be rotated by the image carrier, moving the second gap-maintaining member, and cancelling a gap-maintaining state established by the second gap-maintaining member.
US09632470B2
According to an example of an image forming apparatus, the apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a toner image by developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an image carrier using a toner and fixes the toner image on a recording medium, a count unit configured to count a use amount of a consumption component or an apparatus which are used in the image forming unit according to a image forming condition in the image forming unit, and a count changing unit configured to determine the toner used in the image forming unit and changes a count method of the count unit set according to the image forming condition in response to a determined result.
US09632468B2
An arrangement structure of a main power switch includes an apparatus body, the main power switch, and a movable member. The apparatus body has a dead space on a front side. The main power switch is disposed in the dead space. The movable member is disposed in the apparatus body to cover the main power switch. The movable member is drawable from the apparatus body in a horizontal direction. The movable member includes an opening opposed to the main power switch, to expose the main power switch to outside.
US09632461B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearer, a toner image forming device, a nip forming device, a power source, a controller, and a temperature-and-humidity detector. The toner image forming device forms a toner image on the image bearer. The nip forming device contacts the image bearer to form a transfer nip. The power source outputs a transfer bias, in which an alternating current component is superimposed on a direct current component, to transfer the toner image onto a recording medium interposed in the transfer nip. The temperature-and-humidity detector detects a temperature and humidity. The controller controls the power source to output the transfer bias including the direct current component with a smaller absolute value as at least one of the detected temperature and humidity increases.
US09632432B2
The present invention provides an exposure apparatus which transfers a pattern of a reticle onto a substrate, including a stage configured to place the reticle, a holding mechanism configured to hold the reticle placed on the stage, a driving unit configured to drive the stage, a determination unit configured to determine a feature including at least one of a type or shape of the reticle placed on the stage, and a decision unit configured to decide, based on the feature determined by the determination unit, at least one of a holding state of the reticle held by the holding mechanism, or control regarding driving of the stage.
US09632429B2
A system and method that bends a reticle and senses a curvature of a bent reticle in real-time. The system includes movable reticle stage, reticle vacuum clamps, sensor systems, and reticle bender. The reticle bender comprises piezo actuators. The sensor systems comprises measurement targets and corresponding sensors. The sensors are attached to the movable reticle stage and the measurement targets are attached to the reticle clamps, the reticle bender, or on reticle surfaces. The system is configured to determine a width of the reticle or distance between measurement targets at opposing ends of the reticle, measure a first rotational angle at a first end of the reticle, and measure a second local rotational angle at a second end of the reticle that is opposite to the first end. Based on the width or distance and the first and second angles, a field curvature of the reticle is determined.
US09632426B2
An apparatus includes a wafer stage configured to secure a wafer; and a cleaning module including a tank adjacent to the wafer stage, and is positioned outside the region occupied by the wafer. The cleaning module is configured to receive de-ionized (DI) water into the tank and extract the DI water out of the tank. The tank is configured to hold DI water with a top surface of the DI water substantially level with a top surface of the wafer.
US09632419B2
A radiation source having a fuel stream generator (110) that generates and directs a fuel stream (102) along a trajectory towards a plasma formation location (104). A pre-pulse laser radiation assembly directs a first beam of laser radiation (100) at the fuel stream at the plasma formation location to generate a modified fuel target (106). A main pulse laser radiation assembly directs a second beam of laser radiation (108) at the modified fuel target at the plasma formation location to generate a radiation generating plasma (117). A collector (122) collects the radiation and directs it along an optical axis (105) of the radiation source. The first beam of laser radiation being directed toward the fuel stream substantially along the optical axis.
US09632415B2
A negative pattern is formed by applying a resist composition onto a substrate, exposing the resist film, and developing the exposed resist film in an organic solvent developer. The process further involves coating the negative pattern with a shrink agent solution of a polymer comprising recurring units capable of forming lactone under the action of acid in a C7-C16 ester or C8-C16 ketone solvent, baking the coating, and removing the excessive shrink agent via organic solvent development for thereby shrinking the size of spaces in the pattern.
US09632414B2
A coating liquid to be applied to resist pattern, which can be used in place of the conventional rinsing liquid. A coating liquid to be applied to a resist pattern having a polymer having a structural unit of the following Formula (1) and a structural unit of the following Formula (2), and a weight average molecular weight of 500 to 3,500, and a solvent containing water as a main component (where R1 is a C1-8 organic group).
US09632407B2
According to an embodiment, a mask processing apparatus is provided. The mask processing apparatus includes a stage, a laser light source and a rotary mechanism. The stage is configured to hold a mask formed with a pattern to be transferred to a transfer target substrate. The laser light source is configured to output laser light that is radiated into the mask and thereby alters the mask. The rotary mechanism is configured to rotate the stage in an in-plane direction of a pattern formation surface of the mask.
US09632405B2
The present invention relates to a theater parameter management apparatus including: a parameter creation unit for creating parameters showing a structure of a theater based on input information; a database for storing the parameters created by the parameter creation unit; and a data processing unit for performing a data processing using the parameters stored in the database.
US09632402B2
The disclosure includes a light source apparatus that emits a light. In one example, the light source apparatus includes a connector that electrically connects the light source apparatus to a light source driver in a projector and a light source apparatus housing that houses the light source apparatus. The light source apparatus housing includes a rotatable handle having two positions, a standing position used to grasp and remove the light source apparatus in a pulling-out direction, and a housed position used to house the rotatable handle. The handle includes two shaft portions that are inserted into the light source apparatus housing. The tips of the shaft portions face each other. The positions of the medial axes of the shaft portions are mutually offset from each other.
US09632394B2
An image pickup device includes: a focal plane shutter including: a board including an opening; a shutter moving to open and close the opening; an actuator moving the shutter; and a detection portion detecting that the shutter passes through a predetermined position, an image pickup element which light enters through the opening; and a drive control portion that controls the actuator to move the shutter, wherein the drive control portion performs movement control to move the shutter at least until the shutter passes through the predetermined position, and performs brake control to decelerate the shutter while the shutter is moving after the shutter passes through the predetermined position.
US09632390B1
An apparatus for modulating a beam of light with balanced push-pull mechanism. The apparatus includes a first waveguide comprising a first PN junction on a silicon-on-insulator substrate and a second waveguide comprising a second PN junction on the silicon-on-insulator substrate. The second PN junction is a replica of the first PN junction shifted with a distance. The apparatus further includes a first source electrode and a first ground electrode coupled respectively with the first PN junction and a second source electrode and a second ground electrode coupled respectively with the second PN junction. The apparatus additionally includes a third ground electrode disposed near the second PN junction at the distance away from the second ground electrode, wherein the first ground electrode, the second ground electrode, and the third ground electrode are commonly grounded to have both PN junctions subjected to a substantially same electric field varied in ground-source-ground pattern.
US09632384B2
A mobile device lens assembly having an electrically activated lens component with an electro-optic portion is disclosed. More particularly, embodiments of the mobile device lens assembly include the electro-optic portion and an interlock feature to engage a second lens element. The second lens element may have an interlock surface, which when engaged or mated with the interlock feature of the electrically activated lens component, may maintain alignment of the lens components along an optical axis. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US09632373B2
A display panel including a driving substrate, a display film, a first protection film, a first adhesion layer, and a sidewall structure is provided. The display film is disposed on the driving substrate. The first protection film is adhered on the display film through the first adhesion layer. The display film is located between the driving substrate and the first protection film. A material of the first adhesion layer is thermal melt-able. The sidewall structure is in contact with a side surface of the display film and includes the material of the first adhesion layer which is melted and re-solidified. In addition, a manufacture method of the display panel includes irradiating the driving substrate the first protection film and the first adhesion layer with a laser to form the sidewall structure in contact with the side surface of the display film.
US09632371B2
The present invention discloses a display panel comprising: a cholesteric liquid crystal cell in which a cholesteric liquid crystal exhibiting a planar texture state distribution is filled; a first light modulator provided at a light output side of the cholesteric liquid crystal cell, configured to generate a phase retardation in a polarized light passing therethrough so as to modulate a polarization of the polarized light, and comprising a liquid crystal layer and a drive electrode for driving liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer to deflect so as to regulate an amount of the phase retardation of the polarized light passing through the liquid crystal layer; and a first linear polarizer provided at a side of the first light modulator opposite from the cholesteric liquid crystal cell and configured to selectively permit the polarized light modulated by the first light modulator to pass therethrough. The present invention also discloses a display apparatus.
US09632370B2
A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposed to each other with a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first substrate has a plurality of drain signal lines and a plurality of gate signal lines, and a plurality of pixel regions are defined by the drain signal lines and the gate signal lines. Each of the pixel regions includes a first electrode having a plurality of strip-like portions extending in an extension direction of the drain signal lines, the strip-like portions having at least one bent portion so that extension directions of each two parts of the strip-like portions separated by the at least one bent portion are different from each other, and a second electrode formed between the first substrate and the first electrode, and being overlapped with the strip-like portions in plan view.
US09632369B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, as well as a display device, which relates to the field of display, and can increase transmittance at the edge of a pixel, thereby improving display effect. The array substrate provided by the present invention comprises: a common electrode and pixel electrodes, the array substrate further comprises an auxiliary common electrode arranged between adjacent pixel electrodes and electrically connected with the common electrode.
US09632366B2
A mask and a method of manufacturing photoresist spacers with the mask are provided. The method includes: using the mask to expose and develop to a coated negative resist material, so as to form at least one sub photoresist spacer with at least one predetermined height, wherein an area of the shading portion of the first penetration region is determined according to the predetermined height of the sub photoresist spacer. Using the mask and the method of manufacturing photoresist spacers with the mask, different heights of the sub photoresist spacers can be obtained.
US09632362B2
A liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device containing the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel of the present invention comprises: a first substrate with a pixel electrode region and a non-pixel electrode region; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; a first alignment layer disposed on the pixel electrode region and the non-pixel electrode region; and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. Herein, the first alignment layer on the pixel electrode region has a first thickness, that on the non-pixel electrode region has a second thickness, and the first thickness is larger than the second thickness.
US09632357B2
A display device comprises a display panel and a backlight unit. The backlight unit comprises: a bottom cover; a light source module mounted on the bottom cover and including: light sources arranged at uniform intervals; and a circuit board on which the light sources are mounted; a reflective layer placed above the light source module to reflect the light emitted from the light sources towards the display panel; a screening layer disposed over the reflective layer at a distance therefrom and having patterned holes to allow only a portion of the light reflected from the reflective layer to be transmitted; and a spacer disposed between the reflective layer and the screening layer to form a light guide layer defined by a vacant space between the reflective layer and the screening layer and to maintain the uniform height of the light guide layer.
US09632348B2
A pixel array is disposed on a first substrate and comprises a pixel having a first electrode layer including a plurality of electrode portions. A light-blocking layer is disposed on a second substrate along a first direction and includes a first and second light-blocking portions. The first electrode layer is between the first and second light-blocking portions. The first light-blocking portion has a first edge away from the first electrode layer, and the electrode portions include a first electrode portion adjacent to the first light-blocking portion. A brightness distribution of the pixel along the first direction has a first maximum brightness corresponding to a first position on the second substrate. PTB denotes the minimum width from the first position to the first edge, Px denotes the width of the pixel along the first direction, conforming to the following equation: 3.9 + 77.1 ⅇ - Px 2.7 + 4.5 ⅇ - Px 34.3 + 0.5 - Px 0.1 ≤ P T B ≤ 8.9 + 77.1 ⅇ - Px 2.7 + 4.5 ⅇ - Px 34.3 + 0.5 ⅇ - Px 0.1 .
US09632344B2
A system and method for implementing a display which also serves as one or more of a tactile user interface touchscreen, proximate hand gesture sensor, light field sensor, lensless imaging camera, document scanner, fingerprint scanner, and secure optical communications interface. In an implementation, an OLED array can be used for light sensing as well as light emission functions. In one implementation a single OLED array is used as the only optoelectronic user interface element in the system. In another implementation two OLED arrays are used, each performing and/or optimized from different functions. In another implementation, an LCD and an OLED array are used in various configurations. The resulting arrangements allow for sharing of both optoelectric devices as well as associated electronics and computational processors, and are accordingly advantageous for use in handheld devices such as cellphone, smartphones, PDAs, tablet computers, and other such devices.
US09632339B2
A three-dimensional (3D) image display device includes a display panel including an upper substrate and a lower substrate, the lower substrate having a pixel array area overlapped with the upper substrate and a pad area formed on at least one side of the lower substrate outside the pixel array area, wherein the display panel displays a left eye image and a right eye image; and a patterned retarder attached to the display panel and having retarder patterns to apply first and second polarizations to light from the display panel corresponding to the left eye image and the right eye image, respectively, wherein the pad area includes a first area in which data pads extending from data lines of the pixel array area are formed, and a second area in which gate pads extending from gate lines of the pixel array area are formed, and wherein the first area is exposed when the display panel and the patterned retarder are attached.
US09632334B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel which displays an image, a driving substrate which is disposed adjacent to the display panel in a first direction, and extends in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, a connecting part connecting the display panel to the driving substrate, and a receiving container which receives the display panel, the driving substrate and the connecting part, where an angle between the display panel and the driving substrate being greater than about 90 degrees and less than about 180 degrees.
US09632321B2
An illumination device includes: a light source that emits first light at a first wavelength; an integrator optical system that the first light enters; a wavelength conversion element that converts the first light transmitting through the integrator optical system into second light at a second wavelength different from the first wavelength; a wavelength separation element provided on an optical path of the first light between the integrator optical system and the wavelength conversion element; a pickup optical system that is provided between the wavelength conversion element and the wavelength separation element and receives the first light and the second light; and a chromatic aberration-correcting optical element provided at least one of between the integrator optical system and the wavelength separation element on the optical path of the first light and at downstream of the wavelength separation element on an optical path of the second light.
US09632313B1
Disclosed are various implementations for updating information displayed in a user interface for a worker in a fulfillment center. Information changing relative to a previous user interface can be provided in response to location data that indicates the worker's location within a fulfillment center.
US09632309B2
In a two-dimensional optical deflector including: a mirror; two first torsion bars coupled to the mirror along a first axis; an inner frame surrounding the mirror; two piezoelectric actuators each coupled between the first torsion bars and supported by the inner frame; an outer frame surrounding the inner frame; and two second torsion bars coupled between the inner frame and the outer frame along a second axis; a first permanent magnet layer formed on at least a part of a rear-side surface of the inner frame. A base supports the outer frame. A coil is formed at the base. A magnetic flux generated from the coil interacts with a magnetic flux of the first permanent magnetic layer.
US09632301B2
An instrument and method for scanning a large microscope specimen uses a light source and at least one lens to focus light from the specimen onto a detector array. The specimen holder is located on a scanning stage and the detector array is dynamically tilted about a scan direction during the scan to maintain focus across the width of the scan strip as the scan proceeds. A degree of tilt varies during the scan as is required to maintain lateral focus relative to the detector array.
US09632300B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image input unit configured to input a plurality of images acquired by imaging a specimen stained with non-fluorescent dye at a plurality of wavelength bands that are different from one another and a characteristic amount calculation unit configured to calculate a characteristic amount representing auto-fluorescence emitted by the specimen based on the plurality of images.
US09632296B2
In a microscope for high resolution scanning microscopy of a sample, said microscope comprising—an illumination device for illuminating the sample, —an imaging device for scanning at least one point spot or line spot across the sample and for imaging the point spot or line spot into a diffraction-limited, stationary single image with magnification into a detection plane, —a detector device for detecting the single image in the detection plane for different scanning positions with a spatial resolution, which, taking into consideration the magnification, is at least twice as high as a full width at half maximum of the diffraction-limited single image, —an evaluation device for evaluating a diffraction pattern of the single image for the scanning positions from data of the detector device and for generating an image of the sample, said image having a resolution that is increased beyond the diffraction limit, provision is made for—the detector device to have a detector array, which has pixels and is larger than the single image, and —a non-imaging redistribution element, which is disposed upstream of the detector array and distributes the radiation from the detection plane in a non-imaging manner among the pixels of the detector array.
US09632295B2
An optical member includes a refractive portion adapted to refract light, a first total internal reflection surface adjacent to and disposed about at least a portion of the refractive portion, and a second total internal reflection surface displaced from the first total internal reflection surface distal to the refractive portion and disposed about at least a portion of the first total internal reflection surface.
US09632294B2
Micro-channel-cooled UV curing systems and components thereof are provided. According to one embodiment, a lamp head module includes a high aspect ratio, high fill factor array of light emitting devices and a submount. The array includes multiple groups of electrically seriesed light emitting devices that are connected in electrical parallel. The submount is of monolithic construction and includes multiple L-shaped patterned circuit material layers. Each of the L-shaped patterned circuit material layers includes an arm portion and a stem portion. The arm portion functions as a light emitting device bond pad and the stem portion functions as a wire bond pad and a circuit trace. Each light emitting device of a group is affixed to a corresponding arm portion of the submount. The stem portions are located external to the array, run parallel to the length of the array and perform a primary current carrying function for current flow between adjacent light emitting devices of the group.
US09632293B2
The present application provides a micromechanical (MEMS) based zoom lens system, for use in miniature device applications, such as miniature electronic imaging devices. The MEMS-based zoom lens system comprises at least four optical elements, or two Alvarez or Lohmann lenses, that are configured for passage of optical signals therethrough along an optical signal path. Each optical element is MEMS-driven and displaceable in a direction substantially transverse to the optical signal path. In use, the transverse displacement of the optical elements vary an overall focal length of the MEMS zoom lens system such as to provide an optical zoom function. A method of manufacturing a MEMS zoom lens system is also provided in a further aspect.
US09632288B2
An imaging lens consists of a negative first lens, a positive second lens, a negative third lens, a positive fourth lens, a positive fifth lens, and a negative sixth lens in order from the object side. The Abbe number of the material of the sixth lens with respect to the d-line is less than or equal to 30. When the radius of curvature of the object side surface of the third lens is taken as R3F, the radius of curvature of the image side surface of the third lens is taken as R3R, and the Abbe number of the material of the third lens with respect to the d-line is taken as νd3, the following conditional expressions are satisfied: 1.35<(R3F+R3R)/(R3F−R3R)<6.0 (1) νd3<30.0 (2).
US09632283B2
Present invention provides an electronic device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element positioned in an order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens element has negative refractive power, the second lens element has a convex portion formed on the object side surface and a concave portion formed on the image side surface, the third lens element has a convex portion formed on the object side surface and the fifth lens element has a convex portion formed on the image side surface. Through controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces, designing parameters satisfying an inequality and/or the refracting power of the lens elements, the field of view is broadened, and the better image performance is maintained.
US09632279B2
A voice coil motor array module includes a carrier frame defining a plurality of receiving spaces and a plurality of magnet-mounting spaces disposed in pairs and in symmetry around the receiving spaces. Any two adjacent receiving spaces have only one magnet-mounting space therebetween. A plurality of magnetic components are respectively disposed in the magnet-mounting spaces. Each magnet-mounting space receives only one magnetic component. The magnetic components surrounding a corresponding receiving space have same magnetic poles facing each other. A plurality of displacement components are respectively disposed in the receiving spaces. Each displacement component includes a lens carrier and a coil.
US09632271B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to modular cable management systems for a rack, the rack including frame members. The systems can include a first support plate and a second support plate. The first and second support plates can be mountable in a horizontal orientation relative to the frame members of the rack. The systems can include a media patching assembly mountable in a vertical orientation relative to the rack. Embodiments are also directed to methods of mounting cable management systems to a support structure or a rack.
US09632268B2
An enclosure includes a housing and a sealing unit that fits within a sealing unit opening of the housing. The sealing unit provides a seal around cable ports and provides a peripheral seal between the housing and the sealing unit. The sealing unit can include a sealant arrangement and an actuation arrangement for pressurizing the sealant arrangement within the sealing unit opening. The actuation arrangement can include inner and outer pressurization structures between which the sealant arrangement is positioned. The actuation arrangement includes first and second actuators each movable between a non-actuated position and an actuated position. When the first and second actuators are moved towards the actuated positions, the first and second actuators generate first and second seal pressurization forces that press the sealant arrangement between the first and second pressurization structures, and the first and second seal pressurization forces are transferred through respective first and second springs.
US09632260B2
A transmitter and receiver integrated optical sub-assembly includes a housing including a side wall structure and a bottom wall, a transmitter-side optical receptacle and a receiver-side optical receptacle attached to the side wall structure, a second circuit board inserted into the housing, laser diodes and photo diodes arranged on the bottom wall, a transmitter-side optical system that is disposed on the bottom wall and combines optical signals from the laser diodes, a receiver-side optical system that is disposed on the bottom wall and splits an optical signal from the receiver-side optical receptacle, a driver integrated circuit, and an amplifying integrated circuit. In the transmitter and receiver integrated optical sub-assembly, electrodes formed at the other end portion of the second circuit board are connected to the driver integrated circuit and the amplifying integrated circuit.
US09632248B2
The present invention relates to an integrated photonic device comprising a photonic substrate, and an integrated waveguide provided in or on this substrate. The waveguide is adapted for conducting radiation of a predetermined wavelength. The device further comprises a sub-wavelength grating optically connected to the waveguide, which provides a first periodic variation of the refractive index in at least one first spatial direction. The device also comprises a diffracting grating arranged over the sub-wavelength grating for coupling radiation of the predetermined wavelength in and/or out of the integrated waveguide via the sub-wavelength grating. The diffracting grating provides a second periodic variation of the refractive index in at least one second spatial direction. The first periodic variation has a first pitch that is less than half of the predetermined wavelength, while the second periodic variation has a second pitch that is at least half of the predetermined wavelength.
US09632246B2
There is provided an opto-electric hybrid board in which a metal reinforcement layer is in intimate contact with an insulative layer of a flexible circuit board without an adhesive layer interposed therebetween, the metal reinforcement layer allowing the proper mounting of an element while deformation due to pressing load applied during the mounting is suppressed. In the opto-electric hybrid board, a flexible double-sided circuit board in which electrical interconnect lines are formed on the front and back surfaces of an insulative layer having flexibility is used as an electric circuit board. A metal reinforcement layer is formed by plating on at least part of the electrical interconnect line on the back surface side which corresponds to a mounting pad on the front surface side. An optical waveguide is formed in contact with the electrical interconnect line on the back surface side of the flexible double-sided circuit board.
US09632241B2
An optical fiber capable of achieving both of the ZSA property and the rapid curability is provided. The optical fiber includes a glass optical fiber 13, a primary coating layer 16 that coats an outer periphery of the glass optical fiber 13, and a secondary optical fiber 17 that coats an outer periphery of the primary coating layer 16. Young's modulus of the primary coating layer 16 is 1.2 MPa or less and Young's modulus of the secondary coating layer 17 is 800 MPa or more. Sulfur content of the surface of the glass optical fiber 13 is 0.2% by atom or more. Sulfur is not present in the vicinity of the outer periphery of the primary coating layer 16.
US09632240B2
A lighting apparatus includes a ring-shaped light guide including ring-shaped light entry and light exit faces; and light-emitting devices arranged in a ring at predetermined intervals, at positions opposite the light entry face. The light guide includes collimating portions that collimate light emitted from the light-emitting devices. Each of the collimating portions includes light-reflecting faces for collimating, in the direction of the optical axis of the collimating portion, light emitted from the corresponding light-emitting device. The light-reflecting faces include: an outer reflecting face; an inner reflecting face; a lateral reflecting face; and a large radius reflecting face. A distance from the optical axis to an optical axis-side end portion of at least one of the outer reflecting face, the inner reflecting face, and the lateral reflecting face is less than a distance from the optical axis to an optical axis-side end portion of the large radius reflecting face.
US09632231B2
A light guide plate includes a light exit surface, a reflection surface opposite to the light exit surface, and at least one light incidence surface connecting to the light exit surface and the reflection surface. The reflection surface includes a plurality of minute projection structures projecting toward interior of the light guide plate. Each of the minute projection structures includes at least two side faces coated with a high reflectivity material. The at least two high reflectivity material coated side faces form at least one included angle pointing toward the at least one light incidence surface. The minute projection structures have a distribution density that is decreased with an increase of a distance thereof from the light sources.
US09632226B2
An optical waveguide comprises at least two TIR surface and contains a grating. Input TIR light with a first angular range along a first propagation direction undergoes at least two diffractions at the grating. Each diffraction directs light into a unique TIR angular range along a second propagation direction.
US09632225B2
A zoned waveplate has a series of transversely stacked birefringent zones alternating with non-birefringent zones. The birefringent and non-birefringent zones are integrally formed upon an AR-coated face of a single substrate by patterning the AR coated face of the substrate with zero-order sub-wavelength form-birefringent gratings configured to have a target retardance. The layer structure of the AR coating is designed to provide the target birefringence in the patterned zones and the reflection suppression.
US09632223B2
Structures and methods of making wire grid polarizers having multiple regions, including side bars, strips, and/or side ribs along sides of a central region. The central region can include a single region or multiple regions. Each region can have a different function for improving polarizer performance. The various regions can support each other for improved wire grid polarizer durability.
US09632222B2
This disclosure relates to a method for manufacturing a color filter being capable of suppressing a surface of a colored pattern from being rough in a planarization treatment, a color filter and a solid-state imaging device.
US09632218B2
A two-in-one colored and translucent film structure suitable for use in backlit displays having a multi-point illumination source. The film structure utilizes a colored layer and a light-diffusing layer that reduces variations in the amount of light transmitted through different areas of a backlit sign. The light-diffusing layer includes light-diffusing particles dispersed in a transparent matrix material, and scatters light transmitted therethrough. The light-diffusing particles have an index of refraction that is different than an index of refraction of the matrix material.
US09632212B2
To provide a medical device which is excellent in wettability and lubricity and is also scarcely broken since it is soft, by a medical device in which a layer made of an acidic polymer and a basic polymer is formed on at least a part of a surface of a low water content soft base material, the low water content soft base material containing, as a main component, a copolymer containing a monofunctional monomer component M having one polymerizable functional group and one silicone moiety per molecule.
US09632208B2
A rotational gravity gradiometer includes a first member, a second member, a drive member and a motor. The first member is disposed above the second member orthogonal to and centered with respect to the second member. The first member includes support arms extending from the center of the first member. The second member includes a second pair of support arms extending from a center point of the second member. A mass unit is attached at a distal end of the respective first member and second member. A sensor element is attached between each mass unit a connection point of the opposite member for sensing movement of the mass unit. The drive member is coupled to the motor to drive the first member and the second member rotationally. The respective sensor elements generate a signal in response to deflection of the support arm induced by an external mass.
US09632198B2
An airborne electromagnetic survey system that determines a calibration factor for its receiver system by combining low frequency sensitivity for its magnetic induction sensors, with measurements of high frequency response obtained using calibration loops.
US09632191B2
Disclosed is a sound source detection device 1 which compares information of sound collected by sound collectors 13, 14, 15, and 16 to detect a predetermined sound source. The sound source detection device 1 includes a target determination unit 22 which arranges sound collectors at the same distance from a noise source inside a mobile object to determine a detection-target region of a sound source, and a sound source detection unit 25 which detects the direction of the predetermined sound source using information of sound of the detection-target region determined by the target determination unit 22. Accordingly, the sound source detection unit 25 does not determine sound input to the sound collectors 13, 14, 15, and 16 at the same timing as a detection target, making it possible to eliminate the influence of a noise source other than a sound source inside the mobile object in advance.
US09632190B2
A neutron imaging system, including: a plurality of Li-III-VI2 semiconductor crystals arranged in an array, wherein III represents a Group III element and VI represents a Group VI element; and electronics operable for detecting and a charge in each of the plurality of crystals in the presence of neutrons and for imaging the neutrons. Each of the crystals is formed by: melting the Group III element; adding the Li to the melted Group III element at a rate that allows the Li and Group III element to react, thereby providing a single phase Li-III compound; and adding the Group VI element to the single phase Li-III compound and heating. Optionally, each of the crystals is also formed by doping with a Group IV element activator.
US09632185B2
The present invention provides a scintillator panel which is provided with a narrow-width barrier rib with high accuracy in a large area, and also has high luminous efficiency and realizes clear image quality. The present invention provides a scintillator panel including a sheet-like substrate, a barrier rib provided on the substrate, and a scintillator layer filled in cells divided by the barrier rib, wherein the barrier rib is made of a material containing a low melting point glass as a main component, and the scintillator layer is made of a phosphor and a binder resin.
US09632184B2
Various arrangements are presented for managing coexistence of a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receiver with a radio access technology (RAT) transceiver. A coexistence manager may receive an indication of a characteristic of a RAT transceiver for a scheduled operating event. Based on the characteristic of the RAT transceiver for the operating event, the coexistence manager may select a space vehicle of a GNSS to use for a location determination by the GNSS receiver. The GNSS receiver may then receive a signal from the space vehicle of the GNSS during the operating event of the RAT transceiver. Location determination using the signal received from the space vehicle received during the operating event of the RAT transceiver may then occur.
US09632181B2
A method for wirelessly transmitting geographic coordinate information and a system and apparatus implementing the method. The method may include obtaining a latitude coordinate and a longitude coordinate, correlating a first radio frequency to the latitude coordinate, correlating a second radio frequency to the longitude coordinate, transmitting a signal at the first radio frequency, and transmitting a signal at the second radio frequency.
US09632177B2
An object detecting apparatus includes a first transmission and reception unit having a first transmitter and a first receiver, a second transmission and reception unit having a second transmitter and a second receiver, and a failure judging section. The first receiver produces a first output signal corresponding to a transmission wave, which is transmitted directly from the second transmitter to the first receiver. The second receiver produces a second output signal corresponding to a transmission wave, which is transmitted directly from the first transmitter to the second receiver. Using at least one of the first output signal and the second output signal, the failure judging section judges whether a failure of the first transmitter or the second receiver has occurred, or judges whether a failure of the first transmission and reception unit or the second transmission and reception unit has occurred.
US09632174B2
An apparatus for testing the performance of a synthetic aperture radar is provided. The apparatus for testing the performance of a synthetic aperture radar includes: a three-axis motion platform that is coupled to an antenna and driven in roll, pitch, and yaw directions so as to reproduce motion components generated from a pointing plane of the antenna; a target simulator configured to reproduce a ground target; and a system simulator that allows the three-axis motion platform and the target simulator to work in conjunction with each other in real time, and controls the three-axis motion platform and the target simulator. Here, the three-axis motion platform may include a three-axis driver that determines the attitude of the three-axis motion platform, based on position and speed information received from the system simulator. The target simulator may include a target modulator that adjusts the amplitude of an output signal, performs range and phase delays, and reproduces a Doppler component, based on simulation target information received from the system simulator.
US09632171B1
A system and method for tracking aircraft, helicopters and/or other objects at an airfield using acoustics of the aircraft, helicopters and/or other objects. A method receives first acoustical data at a first sensor and second acoustical data is also received at a second sensor. The first and second sensors may be carried by a first structurally supportive body member. Based at least in part on the first acoustical data and the second acoustical data a range and a bearing of the aircraft is determined from a predetermined location at the airfield. The range and bearing can be determined by using a beam forming algorithm. Based on the range and the bearing, the method displays the location the aircraft on a display.
US09632169B2
A method and apparatus for using inertial navigation for obtaining calibration data for an indoor positioning system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises tracking motion of a device between known locations within a structure using inertial navigation, collecting a plurality of Wi-Fi signatures with the device while tracking the motion of the device between the known locations, and matching each of the plurality of Wi-Fi signatures to a point between the known locations, where the matched Wi-Fi signatures are for use in comparing to Wi-Fi signatures being received by the indoor positioning system to identify an indoor location of a device within the structure.
US09632157B2
The present invention discloses a 3-dimension magnetic resonance imaging method which comprises: applying a slab selection gradient to a subject; transmitting a radiofrequency pulse to the subject, and exciting a slab of the subject to produce magnetic resonance signals with a continuous frequency bandwidth; performing a spatial encoding gradient across three dimensions to encode the magnetic resonance signals, wherein an equivalent encoded field of view which along the selected acceleration direction is controlled by the spatial encoding gradient, and the equivalent encoded field of view is shorter than the excited slab size of the subject; applying a separation gradient along with the spatial encoding gradient; and receiving and reconstructing the encoded magnetic resonance signals to produce 3D images.
US09632152B2
A phased array RF coil module and an imaging apparatus using the same can receive a magnetic resonance signal generated from a target object at high receive sensitivity and improve a signal to noise ratio. The phased array RF coil module includes at least one first phased array RF coil unit generating a magnetic field having a component horizontal with the surface of a target object and a second phased array RF coil unit formed horizontally with the surface of the target object and generating a magnetic field having a component vertical to the surface of the target object. The imaging apparatus using the phased array RF coil module is a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus.
US09632150B2
In one embodiment, a TMR field sensor utilizes existing one or more self-test current lines in a configuration to extend magnetic field measurement range without sacrificing measurement sensitivity. The self-test current lines are energized to facilitate magnetic field measurement when the measured magnetic field reaches a threshold. The magnetic field created by self-test coil opposes an external magnetic field being measured to keep the net magnetic field within a desired range where the magnetic field sensor has linear output and desired sensitivity.
US09632140B2
An integrated circuit is configured to receive a test clock input and includes circuitry configured to generate test clocks from the test clock input, and test circuitry configured to use the test clocks in a test mode.
US09632130B2
An apparatus and method for detecting a cable fault which simultaneously apply a plurality of measurement frequencies mutually orthogonal to a cable and estimate reflection coefficients at the measurement frequencies using filters for filtering only the respective measurement frequencies to reduce a time taken to detect a cable fault.
US09632124B2
Methods are described for measuring data in a test setup including an impedance tuner. In an exemplary embodiment, the data is data for measuring noise parameters. The data is measured versus a sweep parameter for one tuner state at a time.
US09632106B2
An angular position is determined for an electronic module fixed to the inner face of the tread of a tire fitted to a wheel of a vehicle. A sensor for measuring the radial acceleration of the wheel is integrated into the electronic module, and a variation of the radial acceleration is detected that corresponds to a position of the electronic module when it contacts the ground. This variation is used to determine a frame of reference defined by an origin and a reference unit corresponding to an angular sector of the tire having a length is shorter than a mean length of the footprint of the grounded tire, in order to determine angular positions of the electronic module in the frame of reference.
US09632103B2
A diagnostic analyzer system includes a linear track, at least one pipetting device, and at least one diagnostic module. The linear track includes a pre-treatment lane disposed parallel to at least one processing lane. The linear track moves reaction vessels, containing samples, held by the pre-treatment lane and by the at least one processing lane. The pre-treatment lane pre-treats the samples in the reaction vessels of the pre-treatment lane. The pre-treatment lane is not connected to any diagnostic module for testing the samples in the reaction vessels of the pre-treatment lane. The at least one pipetting device transfers the pre-treated samples from the reaction vessels in the pre-treatment lane to the reaction vessels in the at least one processing lane. The at least one diagnostic module is connected to the at least one processing lane for testing the pre-treated samples transferred into the reaction vessels in the at least one processing lane.
US09632092B2
The present invention provides antibodies useful for diagnosing and treating tumors as well as methods of screening for antitumor agents. More specifically, tumors can be diagnosed and treated using an anti-phosphorylated p62 antibody that recognizes phosphorylation of serine at position 351 of an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No. 1 or at a position corresponding thereto. An antitumor agent can be obtained by screening for a substance that inhibits the phosphorylation or that dephosphorylates the phosphorylated serine.
US09632089B2
The present invention includes compounds that are useful in perturbing or disrupting the function of a transmembrane or intracellular protein, whereby binding of the compounds to the transmembrane or intracellular protein induces proteasomal degradation of the transmembrane or intracellular protein. The present invention further includes a method of inducing proteasomal degradation of a transmembrane or intracellular protein. The present invention further includes a method of identifying or validating a protein of interest as a therapeutic target for treatment of a disease state or condition.
US09632082B2
[Problem] To provide a motor protein device capable of efficiently transporting and detecting a target antibody.[Solution] A motor protein device of the present invention includes a collection region where a carrier molecule collects a target molecule using antigen-antibody reaction, and an unloading region where the target molecule is unloaded from the carrier molecule using chemical equilibrium. Further, the motor protein device includes a transport path provided between the collection region and the unloading region through which the carrier molecule can transport the target molecule, and an analysis portion which detects a change in concentration of the target molecule in the unloading region. The unloading region includes certain antibody having capture force higher than predetermined antibody being modified to the carrier molecule and the target molecule is concentrated in the unloading region. The carrier molecule includes actin obtained by modifying the predetermined antibody, and the transport path includes immobilized myosin.
US09632074B2
In alternative embodiments, the invention provides compositions and methods for overcoming or diminishing or preventing Growth Factor Inhibitor resistance in a cell, or, a method for increasing the growth-inhibiting effectiveness of a Growth Factor inhibitor on a cell, or, a method for re-sensitizing a cell to a Growth Factor Inhibitor, comprising for example, administration of a combination of a TBK1 inhibitor and an RTK inhibitor. In alternative embodiments, the cell is a tumor cell, a cancer cell or a dysfunctional cell. In alternative embodiments, the invention provides compositions and methods for determining: whether an individual or a patient would benefit from or respond to administration of a Growth Factor Inhibitor, or, which individuals or patients would benefit from a combinatorial approach comprising administration of a combination of: at least one growth factor and at least one compound, composition or formulation used to practice a method of the invention, such as an NFKB inhibitor, such as a lenalidomide or a REVLIMID™, or IKK inhibitor; or an inhibitor of Galectin-3.
US09632071B2
A device is presented. The device includes an electromagnetic guiding device to provide electromagnetic radiation, a reflector that reflects a portion of the electromagnetic radiation to generate a reflected portion of the electromagnetic radiation, wherein the reflector is fully immersed in a multiphase fluid, and a processing subsystem that analyzes the multiphase fluid based upon at least a portion of the reflected portion of the electromagnetic radiation, wherein a principal optical axis of the electromagnetic guiding device substantially aligns with a principal optical axis of the reflector.
US09632063B2
The invention relates to a diagnostic apparatus 1 for detecting delamination in the thickness of a panel of laminated composite. The diagnostic apparatus can be used to inspect a panel having a non-constant thickness along its length.The diagnostic apparatus comprises an ultrasonic probe 30 intended to be brought into contact with the front face of the panel to be inspected, an electronic device 40 for controlling the emission and reception of ultrasonic pulses 51 by the ultrasonic probe 30, and a display device 41 having, notably, indicators showing the presence or absence of delamination in the panel.
US09632059B2
A potentiostat/galvanostat employs a controller for providing digital control signals to a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) that generates an analog output signal in response to digital control signals. A high current driver produces a high current output in response to the analog output signal from the DAC. A high current monitor monitors the output from the high current driver to produce a feedback signal for the high current driver to control the current produced by the high current driver and to produce an output dependent on the current supplied from the high current driver for monitoring by the controller. A counter electrode contact for a counter electrode is connected with the output of the high current monitor. A working electrode contact for a working electrode is electrically connected with a fixed stable voltage potential to enable electrochemical analysis of material between the counter electrode and the working electrode. A low current driver produces a low current range output in response to an analog output signal from the DAC. A low current monitor monitors the working electrode contact to detect current at the working electrode contact to supply an output dependent on the current detected for monitoring by the controller and for providing a feedback signal to the low current driver in order to control the output of the low current driver to control current between the counter electrode contact and the working electrode contact.
US09632055B2
In some aspects, an analyte sensor is provided. The analyte sensor has a plurality of fuse members associated therewith. The fuse members may be burned in sequence and the burn values (related to current, voltage, or time) may be used to extract/decode information. The decoded information may include calibration constant, expiration or manufacture date, counterfeiting codes, warnings, etc. Systems and methods for burning and detecting such burn values of the plurality of fuse members and decoding the coded information related to the sensor are provided, as are numerous other aspects.
US09632052B2
A sensor module includes a sensor element with a transducer for emitting an electric analog primary signal, which depends on a measured value; and a circuit assembly for conditioning the primary signal and for unidirectional data communication of a digital signal, which depends on the primary signal, to a superordinated unit. The circuit assembly has the following components: a signal input for receiving the primary signal, which depends on the measured value; a secondary side, inductively coupling, plug connector element for connection to a primary side, inductively coupling, plug connector element of the superordinated unit for receiving an energy signal and for transferring a measurement signal; an energy supply circuit, which rectifies the energy signal and provides at least one direct voltage for supplying the sensor module components; an analog signal conditioning circuit for conditioning the primary signal to a secondary signal; an analog-digital converter for converting the secondary signal to a digital measurement signal; a modulator for modulating the received energy signal for transferring the measurement signal to a superordinated unit by means of load modulation; and a microcontroller for controlling the components of the circuit assembly.
US09632051B2
A sensor for determining gas content of a two phase fluid flowing in a flow line, the sensor including a sleeve configured to be arranged in the flow line in a stream of fluid. The sleeve includes a plurality of measurement electrodes that, in pairs, define a plurality of subdivision spaces subdividing a flow section of the sleeve. The sensor also includes switch and measurement members coupled to the measurement electrodes to control switching of each subdivision space of the sleeve between a measuring state and a non-measuring state. The switch and measurement members are configured to selectively switch the state of each of the subdivision spaces independently of one another.
US09632050B2
A flexible chemiresistor (CR) sensor for sensing a molecule of interest in a fluid (liquid or gas) is provided. The flexible CR sensor comprises a flexible chemiresistor (CR) module. The flexible CR module comprises a flexible substrate such polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polyethylene naphthalate (PEN) or polyimide (PI), and a thin film nanoparticle assembly assembled on the flexible substrate. The thin film nanoparticle assembly comprises metal or metal alloy core, ligand-capped nanoparticles and molecular linkers connecting the nanoparticles. The flexible CR sensor and an intelligent pattern recognition engine can be incorporated in a handheld device that can detect a molecule of interest in a fluid (e.g., a liquid or gas) accurately, rapidly, and without false positives. Any sensing array nanomaterial, pattern recognition, and compact/or electronic hardware can be integrated to achieve a desired detection limit and response speed.
US09632047B2
A method and apparatus for detecting properties of fluid media within a predefined process using impedance spectroscopy, the method detecting an initial impedance curve, including a plurality of characteristic points on said initial impedance curve determining an initial value of the properties of the fluid medium, determining respective surrounding frequency ranges around each of the characteristic points, conducting further detections of current impedance curves determining respective characteristic points of the current detections within the surrounding frequency ranges of the initial impedance curve, determining differences between the characteristic points of each of the current detections of the impedance curve for at least one of the characteristic points and the respective corresponding characteristic point on the initial impedance curve and comparing the difference with a predetermined reference range, and performing control measures on the process for the purpose of continuing said process if said difference is within the reference range.
US09632034B2
The present invention provides near-infrared fluorogenic and/or chromogenic formulations, methods, systems and kits. Upon contacting an azine with an oxidant and a peroxidase, the azine is converted to an azine derivative which is both visibly colored and fluorescent. This invention also provides high sensitive methods to detect biological molecules, showing better sensitivity than chemiluminescence methods. Advantageously, the formulation and reaction is free of luminol or luminol derivatives.
US09632031B2
The invention relates to a system for the in vitro detection and/or quantification, by fluorometry, of at least one analyte in a sample of fluid constituting a biological material, in particular for an immunological test, including a radiation source, followed by an optical splitter for splitting the main beam into a sample-energizing beam and a reference beam, with a first photodetector means for detecting a fluorescence ray emitted by the sample and a second photodetector means for the reference beam, said system also including a generator outputting a sinusoidal carrier signal and at least one digital demodulation signal, and a digital processing means for processing, by demodulation, the signals from the two photodetector means in order to extract a fluorescence value that is characteristic of the amplitude of the fluorescence ray and a second reference value that is characteristic of the amplitude of the reference beam.
US09632026B2
A referencing method for an optical biosensor system using a single sensing region is provided. The method involves limiting the ligand immobilized in a single sensing region to only a portion thereof. In one embodiment, this is accomplished by selectively deactivating a portion of the sensing surface to prevent immobilization of ligand to that portion. As a result, a reference response can be recorded in the same sensing region as a molecular interaction response. Thus, the bulk refractive index can be accurately accounted for in measuring the kinetics of a molecular interaction.
US09632017B2
The present invention provides the method and apparatus to acquire three-dimensional images of cells. The present invention comprises (a) preparing the solid-state specimen containing (i) cells, (ii) viruses, (iii) the liquid containing the cells, or (iv) the liquid containing the viruses; (b) acquiring the surface information on the said solid-state specimen; (c) removing the surface of the said solid-state specimen and forming a new surface; and (d) acquiring the information on the new surface. According to the present invention, provided is the cell imaging method to acquire information to grasp practically the condition of the cell. Also, the present invention can provide information on the molecules and atoms consisting various biomolecules and organelles present in the cells. Furthermore, the present invention can provide the information on the interaction between the biomolecules present in the cells and the organic relationship among intracellular organelles.
US09632013B2
Various medical systems and methods are described, including a medical monitoring system. The medical monitoring system can have a fluid system configured to receive bodily fluid and optically analyze said fluid to determine analyte concentration. The fluid system can have a removable portion. The removable portion can have an opening with a port. The system can also have a container configured to contain anticoagulant. The container can have a portion configured to mate with the port of the removable portion. The container can be further configured to not fit into a conventional luer fitting. An anti-coagulant insertion apparatus is also described. The apparatus can have a syringe, a dock with a port, and an adapter configured to connect the syringe to the port. The dock can also have a tab configured to move with the port.
US09632011B2
A method of testing a gas turbine is provided. The gas turbine includes a first compressor and an expansion turbine coupled by a drive shaft. The method includes operating the gas turbine and a second compressor at a first steady load and a first steady drive shaft speed. The second compressor is rigidly coupled to the drive shaft. The method also includes changing a load of the second compressor by a known amount, and measuring a time required for the gas turbine to stabilize at a second steady load and a second steady drive shaft speed in response to the changed load of the second compressor.
US09632005B1
Fizeau interferometers, in-flight metrology systems and methods of testing optical systems are described. Collimated or near collimated light is directed to interact with at least one diffractive focusing element of an optical system. The collimated or near collimated light is modified by the diffractive focusing element to form first diffracted light. The first diffracted light is directed to an image surface of the diffractive focusing element. A portion of light directed from the image surface is reflected by the diffractive focusing element back to the image surface as second diffracted light. The second diffracted light has a different diffraction order than the first diffracted light. The second diffracted light is detected to characterize the optical system.
US09632002B2
A leak test system and a leak test method are provided for testing whether a semi-finished product of a speaker has a leak. The semi-finished product of the speaker includes a case. An interface is installed on a surface of the case. The leak test system includes a covering element, a vacuum generator, and a pressure gauge. The covering element is attached on the surface of the case, so that the interface of the semi-finished product of the speaker is covered by the covering element. A negative pressure value of the covering element is generated by the vacuum generator. If the equilibrium pressure value is lower than a default negative pressure value, the leak test system judges that the semi-finished product of the speaker has the leak. Consequently, the testing efficiency is enhanced.
US09631999B2
An NOx detection apparatus computes a first NOx concentration NOxpo on the basis of a second pumping current Ip2, and sets correction coefficients a, b (concentration variation correction information) on the basis of the first NOx concentration NOxpo. Therefore, the NOx detection apparatus can set the correction coefficients a, b in accordance with the concentration of NOx actually contained in a to-be-measured gas. Since the NOx detection apparatus uses Equation 3, determined by the correction coefficients a, b, for correction of the first NOx concentration NOxpo, the NOx detection apparatus can correct the first NOx concentration NOxpo in accordance with the state of change of the NOx concentration even when the magnitude of an output variation caused by a pressure change changes depending on the NOx concentration.
US09631996B2
According to an embodiment, a method of sensing motion includes receiving a first signal from a first pressure sensor and a second signal from a second pressure sensor, comparing the first signal and the second signal, and characterizing a motion based on the comparing.
US09631981B2
Provided is an apparatus for measuring a thermoelectric device. The apparatus includes a high temperature heater controlling a temperature of a first side of a sample, a low temperature heater controlling a temperature of a second side of the sample, a fine control heater controlling the temperature of the first side of the sample by a smaller unit than the high temperature heater, a temperature control and voltage measuring unit controlling the high temperature heater, the low temperature heater, and the fine control heater and measuring voltages of the first and second sides of the sample, and a thermal conductivity measuring unit measuring thermal conductivity of the sample by using a high temperature output voltage generated in the first side of the sample and a low temperature output voltage generated in the second side of the sample.
US09631979B2
Methods and apparatus for characterizing a beam parameter associated with an electromagnetic beam of a light source. The light source exposes a phase-shifted target through a set of focal distances relative to a focal plane of a substrate. At each focal distance of the set, registration values are measured and used to determine one or more registration slopes as a function of focal distance. The registration slopes are compared with baseline registration slopes to characterize the current relative state of the beam parameter in question. Beam parameters that may be characterized in this manner include degree of polarization and polarization rotation relative to an initial polarization direction. Phase shift test patterns advantageously used for beam characterization are described.
US09631975B2
An optical sensor circuit includes a capacitor, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, and a fifth transistor. The capacitor includes a first terminal and a second terminal. Each transistor includes a first terminal, a control terminal, and a second terminal. The second terminal of the capacitor is coupled to a reference voltage terminal. The first terminals of the third transistor and the fourth transistor are coupled to a first voltage terminal. The second terminal of the fifth transistor is coupled to a readout line.
US09631971B2
A photoacoustic probe and photoacoustic device implementing the photoacoustic probe may reduce an artifact caused by an ultrasonic wave generated in the photoacoustic probe without mounting a separate device. The photoacoustic probe and photoacoustic device implementing the photoacoustic probe may reduce an artifact by changing a configuration or a structure provided in the photoacoustic probe. The photoacoustic probe may receive a photoacoustic signal generated from an inner material of an object absorbing light of a predetermined wavelength and may include a piezoelectric module to convert the photoacoustic signal into an electric signal, and an object contact unit disposed on the front surface of the piezoelectric module, the object contact unit contacting the object and not absorbing the light of a predetermined wavelength.
US09631969B1
A scale for mounting on a semi-trailer having an air bag in the suspension and an air line connected to the air bag includes a pressure transducer for connecting to the air line and measuring the pressure in the air bag, and to send a signal correlated to the sensed pressure, a process module in electric communication with the pressure transducer and configured to receive the signal therefrom wherein the process module is configured to correlate the signal from the pressure transducer to a weight of a load on the trailer, and a display module configured to receive a signal from the process module indicating the sensed weight and display the sensed weight of the load on the semi-trailer. A method for monitoring weight includes converting pressure in the air line to a weight of the semi-trailer, which can be monitored in real-time.
US09631968B2
A fluid detector for determining a presence of a fluid within a container, the detector including a sensor assembly with a lens and a sensor element that outputs a first ultrasonic signal in response to an input electrical signal. A generally cylindrical wall extends outwardly from an outer surface of the container and defines a housing with a cylindrical central bore having a base surface. The sensor assembly is coupled to the lens so that the lens focuses the first ultrasonic signal toward the wall. The sensor assembly is positioned such that it receives a second ultrasonic signal from the wall that results from the first ultrasonic signal. The sensor assembly then generates an output electrical signal corresponding to the second ultrasonic signal.
US09631962B2
A flowtube assembly for a magnetic flowmeter is provided. The flowtube assembly includes a flowtube configured to receive a flow of process fluid. A magnetic core is mounted relative to the flowtube and includes a plurality of layers of a magnetically permeable material. Each layer is substantially planar and is electrically insulated from others of the plurality of layers. A coil is disposed to generate a magnetic field having field lines that are substantially orthogonal to the plane of each layer.
US09631960B2
A pitot tube includes a substantially cylindrical body portion having an interior defining a flow passage, and a tip portion extending along a pitot tube axis from the body portion. The tip portion includes an inlet opening, a radially tapered outer surface extending from the body portion toward the inlet opening, one or more bulkheads disposed at the interior to limit travel of particles ingested into the interior, at least one drain opening disposed directly adjacent to one of the one or more bulkheads, and one or more electrical coils comprising one or more coil wraps disposed at an interior of the pitot tube. The one or more coil wraps establish a variable watt density along the interior of the pitot tube. The one or more coil wraps also establish a variable watt density downstream of one or more of the one or more bulkheads.
US09631959B1
A dam-shaped throttling block for use in a pipe, for the measurement of the flow rates of fluids. The shapes of four successive flat surfaces on the throttling block angularly-displaced relative one another in the flow direction, together with an aperture in the one of the flat surfaces extending parallel to the pipe longitudinal axis, create reduction of a cross-sectional area in one step from one that is unthrottled to one that is throttled, extending for a limited distance in the pipe, and then expansion of the cross-sectional area in two steps from the throttled one back to the unthrottled one so to provide for accurate measurements and an improved lifetime. Flow rates of highly viscous fluids and fluids that contain solid particles can be measured. Other benefits include reduced head loss, wide measurement range and reduced installation space.
US09631958B2
A device for measuring the flow rate of steel melt near the surface thereof. The device has a flow rate detecting rod and a deflection device for the flow rate detecting rod. The deflection device for the flow rate detecting rod has a flow rate detecting rod counterweight, a deflection bearing sleeve, a deflection bearing, a deflection angle indicating board, a deflection angle pointer and a flow rate detecting rod fastening bolt.
US09631946B2
An information retrieval system includes a mobile communication terminal independently performing a retrieval service provided by a server that is placed outside a vehicle, and a vehicle device equipped to the vehicle and operating in cooperation with the mobile communication terminal to perform the retrieval service via the mobile communication terminal. The vehicle device includes a first vehicle-side input section that enables an input of an intended keyword by multiple times of user manipulation and a second vehicle-side input section that is preliminarily assigned with a frequently used keyword and enables an input of the frequently used keyword by single time of user manipulation. The mobile communication terminal includes a first terminal-side input section that enables an input of the intended keyword by multiple times of user manipulation and a second terminal-side input section enables an input of a predetermined keyword by at least two times of user manipulation.
US09631945B2
A method of providing a sequence of turn-by-turn navigation instructions on a device traversing a route is provided. Each turn-by-turn navigation instruction is associated with a location on the route. As the device traverses along the route, the method displays a turn-by-turn navigation instruction associated with a current location of the device. The method receives a touch input through a touch input interface of the device while displaying a first turn-by-turn navigation instruction and a first map region that displays the current location and a first location associated with the first turn-by-turn navigation instruction. In response to receiving the touch input, the method displays a second turn-by-turn navigation instruction and a second map region that displays a second location associated with the second turn-by-turn navigation instruction. Without receiving additional input, the method automatically returns to the display of the first turn-by-turn navigation instruction and the first map region.
US09631939B2
Systems and methods are presented for sequencing locations and events and determining routing and itineraries for the sequence. In some embodiments the system may receive a starting location, a first location, and a second location in a default order. The system may determine a sequence from the starting location for the first location and the second location. The system may generate a route for the sequence with the route having transportation directions between the starting location, the second location, and the first location indicative of the sequence. The system may display the route in a graphical user interface of an application.
US09631937B2
An information processing apparatus may be implemented as a route navigator, which uses a route navigation method and a computer program product. A processing circuit is used to calculate respective passage frequencies of passageway segments in a passage history. The processing circuit then selects a navigation route to a destination, includes at least one passageway segment with a passage frequency that is a low or zero passage frequency.
US09631936B2
A system for autonomously navigating a vehicle is disclosed. The system may include at least one processor and the at least one processor may be programmed to receive from a rearward facing camera, at least one image representing an area at a rear of the vehicle and analyze the at least one rearward facing image to locate in the image a representation of at least one landmark. The at least one processor may be further programmed to determine at least one indicator of position of the landmark relative to the vehicle and determine a forward trajectory for the vehicle based, at least in part, upon the indicator of position of the landmark relative to the vehicle. Additionally, the at least one processor may be programmed to cause the vehicle to navigate along the determined forward trajectory.
US09631935B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for generating a road network. An embodiment of the present invention provides a method comprising: identifying a target area to be refined in a road network skeleton; and refining the target area using at least one trajectory associated with the target area to generate the road network. Another embodiment of the present invention provides a corresponding system.
US09631919B2
A measurement tool for measuring an electrical parameter of a metal film deposited on a front side of a workpiece includes an electrical sensor connected to a workpiece contact point, an energy beam source with a beam impact location on the front side, a holder and a translation mechanism capable of translating the holder relative to the workpiece support, the beam source supported on the holder, and a computer programmed to sense a behavior of an electrical parameter sensed by the sensor.
US09631900B1
Camouflage patterns on a substrate such as a fabric comprise in a first aspect a substrate having a camouflage pattern with a set of intermixed colored blotches thereon, the colors of the set of intermixed colored blotches being selected from a group of colors comprising an Olive 527 color, a Dark Green 528 color, a Tan 525 color, a Brown 529 color, a Bark Brown 561 color and a Dark Cream 559 color. In another aspect the colors of the set of intermixed colored blotches being selected from a group of colors comprising an Olive 527 color, a Dark Green 528 color, a Light Sage 560 color, a Tan 525 color, a Brown 529 color, a Bark Brown 561 color and a Dark Cream 559 color.
US09631885B2
A rifle stock assembly adapted to receive and support a bolt action rifle barreled receiver is disclosed. The assembly includes a rifle stock/chassis having an elongated recess and a cage removably fastened to the chassis in the recess to receive a bolt action rifle receiver therein. The assembly may also have a pair of magazine collets fastened to the bottom of the forward portion of the chassis defining a magazine well beneath the cage. Cages having different internal surface shapes may be utilized to accommodate different barreled receivers in the same rifle stock/chassis. Different magazine collets may also be utilized to accommodate different caliber magazines used with the different barreled receivers.
US09631878B2
Provided is an aluminum alloy tube with superior corrosion resistance and a joining layer for brazing. In addition, a heat exchanger using a fin which utilizes a bare material of low cost and higher availability, rather than a clad material, is provided. A manufacturing method of an aluminum alloy tube, including the steps of forming a sacrificial anticorrosion layer comprising Zn, by ark spraying Zn with purity of 95% or more, onto a surface of aluminum alloy tube with a spraying amount of 3 to 10 g/m2 and a spraying speed of 150×103 to 350×103 mm/sec; and forming a joining layer for brazing by applying a joining material for brazing comprising a mixture obtained by mixing Si powder with purity of 95% or more and flux, onto a surface of the sacrificial anticorrosion layer, so that the amount of the Si powder is 1.2 to 3.0 g/m2, is provided.
US09631857B2
Provided is a refrigerator which allows a pivoting bar to pivot to seal a gap between a pair of doors regardless of whether the door at which the pivoting bar is not installed between the pair of doors is open or closed. The refrigerator includes a guide device which induces the pivoting bar to pivot. Here, the guide device includes a rack that is moved forward and backward linearly depending on opening and closing of the second door and includes a second magnet built therein, a pinion gear engaged with the rack and pivoting when the rack is moved linearly, and a guide unit which includes a guide groove guiding a guide protrusion and is engaged with the pinion gear to move linearly in a direction opposite to that of the rack to allow the pivoting bar to pivot when the pinion gear pivots.
US09631854B2
An ice maker for a refrigerator is provided that may accurately and simply supply a predetermined amount of water to an ice tray. The ice maker may include an ice tray for receiving water for freezing into ice, a water container including a body for storing and supplying a predetermined amount of water to the ice tray and a lid coupled to the body and having holes for discharging water from the water container, and a housing for installing the water container in a case of the ice maker.
US09631839B2
Methods and systems for providing an impedance heat transfer fluid heating system in association with a parabolic trough solar concentrator are provided. The system includes an intermediate terminal connector that electrically interconnects a receiver tube of the parabolic trough solar concentrator to a power supply. The intermediate terminal connector can include a pair of plates running parallel to the receiver tube. The system additionally includes a pair of end terminal connectors. Each end terminal connector features a receiver tube plate having an aperture that completely surrounds the receiver tube assembly pipe. The end terminal connectors can additionally include a terminal connector extension that is at an angle to the receiver tube plate. A current return conductor extends between an end terminal connector and the power supply. The current return conductor is supported by the collector frame or structure and/or a receiver tube support structure.
US09631834B2
One aspect provides a dehumidifier that has a dehumidifying circuit and includes an evaporator, a first portion of a condensing circuit, and a first blower configured to direct a first air stream along a first flow path and through the evaporator and the first portion of the condensing circuit, for reducing the humidity of the first air stream. The dehumidifier also comprises a heat removing circuit, comprising a second blower configured to direct a second air stream along a second flow path and through a second portion of the condensing circuit for removing heat from the second portion of the condensing circuit. The first and second condensing circuits are fluidly coupled.
US09631833B2
A climate control system includes a conditioning system for controlling air conditions of a space and a drain fitting coupling a condensate drain line to an air circulation unit of the conditioning system. The drain fitting includes multiple sensors configured to detect a water level in the air circulation unit relative to the drain fitting, and to output a signal to a controller indicative of contact with water. The controller is then configured to output a signal to a thermostat of the conditioning system upon determining that the water level is indicative of the drain line being plugged or blocked. The climate control system may also include a remote service provider system that allows remote interaction with the conditioning system.
US09631829B2
An air conditioner capable of achieving both user comfort and power reduction is provided. The air conditioner includes a mean room temperature sensing mechanism 13 for sensing the mean room temperature of an indoor space, a normal target pressure memory 14 storing a normal target pressure set to a target value during normal control operation of a compressor controller and related with the outdoor temperature and air-conditioning load of the indoor space, a normal temperature difference computation unit 15 for calculating a temperature difference between a normal saturation temperature corresponding to the normal target pressure and the mean room temperature as a normal temperature difference, and a power reduction temperature difference computation unit 16 for calculating a power reduction temperature difference reduced from the normal temperature difference on the basis of a target power consumption decrement with respect to power consumption during normal control of the air conditioner, a compressor controller 18 is configured to control a compressor 5 by changing a power reduction target pressure, which is a saturation pressure corresponding to a power reduction saturation temperature calculated on the basis of the mean room temperature and the power reduction temperature difference, to the target value.
US09631821B2
A furnace system includes an air intake that includes a pipe portion and a seal component configured to couple with the pipe portion. The furnace system also includes an internal drain disposed internal to the air intake. The internal drain includes a trough configured to collect liquid flowing along an inner surface of the pipe portion. The internal drain also includes an opening in the trough configured to guide the liquid collected in the trough to a passage through the air intake to a location outside the air intake.
US09631819B2
A home cooking appliance with a side swing door is provided. The home cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking cavity, and a side swing door movable about at least one hinge between a closed position and an open position to provide access to the cooking cavity. The at least one hinge includes a friction hinge configured to impede rotational motion of the side swing door.
US09631818B2
A fireplace gas insert comprising: a fire box; a gas burner tube located inside the fire box; four legs attached to the fire box, and configured to create an air gap below the fire box; a first support bar attached to at least one of the four legs, the support bar extending generally away from the from the fire box; a gas valve attached to the first support bar, and in fluid communication with the gas burner tube; an ignition module attached to the first support bar; a remote control receiver unit attached to the first support bar; a cover configured extend from the left side of a fireplace to the right side of the fireplace, and to extend from the rear of the fireplace to the front of the fireplace, and to present a front face to the room the fireplace is located in, the cover comprising: a top; a front attached to the top and located generally orthogonally to the top; an air draw opening located in the front; a firebox opening located in the top; where the top and front generally encloses and hides from view the first support, gas valve, ignition module, remote control receiver unit, and the convection sleeve, where the firebox opening is in fluid communication with the interior of the firebox; and where the air draw opening is in fluid communication with the firebox opening. A fireplace gas insert system comprising: a fireplace, a fireplace gas insert located in the fireplace, the fireplace gas insert comprising: a fire box; a gas burner tube located inside the fire box; four legs attached to the fire box, and configured to create an air gap below the fire box; a first support bar attached to at least one of the four legs, the support bar extending generally away from the from the fire box; a gas valve attached to the first support bar, and in fluid communication with the gas burner tube; an ignition module attached to the first support bar; a remote control receiver unit attached to the first support bar; a cover configured extend from the left side of the fireplace to the right side of the fireplace, and to extend from the rear of the fireplace to the front of the fireplace, and to present a front face to the room the fireplace is located in, the cover comprising: a top; a front attached to the top and located generally orthogonally to the top; an air draw opening located in the front; a firebox opening located in the top; where the top and front generally encloses and hides from view the first support, gas valve, ignition module, remote control receiver unit, and the convection sleeve, where the firebox opening is in fluid communication with the interior of the firebox; and where the air draw opening is in fluid communication with the firebox opening.
US09631810B2
The present invention provides a method of treating an exhaust gas stream 12 from a processing chamber 10. The method comprises the steps of: conveying the exhaust gas from the processing chamber using a vacuum pumping arrangement 11, 22 or atmospheric line; abating the exhaust gas in an abatement region 18 of an abatement device 14; and injecting a cooling agent, such as a liquid 26, downstream of the abatement region to cool the abated gases in a cooling region 24 by phase change of the cooling agent.
US09631801B2
A flexible flat cable (FFC) connector includes a bottom seat, a top cover rotatably hinged on the bottom seat, at least one elastic part disposed on the bottom seat, wherein, a top portion of the elastic part is protruded out from a top surface of the bottom seat and a bottom portion of the elastic part is extended out from a bottom surface of the elastic part, and a positioning part protruded on the top surface of the bottom seat. A free end of the top cover is provided with a bent extension portion, and the bent extension portion is used for fixing the top cover on the bottom seat. A backlight module and a cable arrangement device are also disclosed. The FFC connector can fix the FFC well. A reliable electric connection can be achieved. The assembly efficiency of the backlight module can also be increased.
US09631796B2
Various embodiments may relate to an illumination unit for medical use and an illumination device for medical use, wherein the illumination unit includes a light source and a first reflecting structure, the light source has a connecting structure, and the light source is detachably installed on the first reflecting structure by means of the connecting structure. The illumination unit for medical use and the illumination device for medical use according to various embodiments provide a convenient and simple detachable installation structure between the light source and a reflecting structure, such that the installation and maintenance are simple, and the effect of adjusting the color temperature also can be achieved according to different selection of the light source.
US09631793B2
A stack of layers 100, a lamp, a luminaire and a method of manufacturing a stack of layers is disclosed. The stack of layers 100 comprises a first outer layer 102, a second outer layer 106 and a luminescent layer 104. The first outer layer 102 and the second outer layer 106 are of a light transmitting polymeric material and have an oxygen transmission rate lower than 30 cm3/(m2-day) measured under standard temperature and pressure (STP). The luminescent layer 104 is sandwiched between the first outer layer 102 and the second outer layer 106 and comprises a light transmitting matrix polymer and a luminescent material 108 being configured to absorb light according to an absorption spectrum and convert a portion of the absorbed light towards light of a light emission spectrum.
US09631790B2
An illumination tens includes a light incident surface that defines a cavity and has a flat top surface and lateral flanks, the light incident surface configured to receive light from an underlying light emitting element, a light exiting surface having a central indentation and surrounding toroid, and a bottom surface connecting the light incident surface and the light exiting surface. The lateral flank includes a first region extending from the top surface and a second region extended from the first region, the second region is a curved surface, of which the center of the curvature thereof lies on the illumination lens, an intersection of the second region and a horizontal optical axis forms a first point, and the first point is disposed lower than a second point where the bottom surface and the light exiting surface intersect.
US09631788B2
A light shielding structure for an LED lamp contains: a lamp holder, a light cover, and a light shade. The lamp holder includes an LED light disc mounted on a top surface thereof and a support frame fixed proximate to an outer peripheral side of the top surface of the lamp holder. The light cover includes a connecting rack disposed in a top end thereof and connected with the support frame. The light shade is made of translucent material and is fitted with the LED light disc. Thereby, lights emit gently and evenly form the LED light disc via the light shade, and a light shadow of the connecting rack does not project upwardly. Preferably, the light shielding structure prevents insects or objects from dropping into the LED lamp.
US09631787B2
An electronic device includes a cover module and a host having a lighting unit. The cover module has a light permeable cover, a system signal indicator, and a transmission unit. The cover has an outer surface, an opposite inner surface, and a fixing structure extended from the inner surface. The system signal indicator has a transparent portion having a plurality of indicating icons and an opaque portion. The transmission unit is fixed on the fixing structure, and the system signal indicator is sandwiched between the transmission unit and the inner surface. The cover module is installed on the host, and the transmission unit is aligned with the lighting unit. Thus, the transmission unit is used for transmitting light, emitted from the lighting unit, to the outer surface via the system signal indicator and the inner surface in turn, for showing the indicating icons on the outer surface.
US09631781B2
The invention is directed to the provision of an optical integrated device wherein provisions are made to be able to mount components on a substrate with high accuracy and high packing density without having to heat the components. The optical integrated device includes a substrate, an optical device optically coupled to a first device, and an electrical device mounted on top of the optical device or on top of a second device, wherein the optical device is bonded to the substrate by surface activated bonding via a first bonding portion formed from a metallic material on the substrate, and the electrical device is bonded to the optical device or the second device by surface activated bonding via a second bonding portion formed from a metallic material on the optical device or the second device.
US09631780B2
A thoroughfare lighting device comprising a housing configured to be attached to a thoroughfare surface, a plurality of LEDs configured to selectively illuminate individual lanes of the thoroughfare surface, the plurality of LEDs comprising a first set of LEDs configured to emit a generally white light and a second set of LEDs configured to emit colored light that is operable to selectively emit light so as to illuminate individual lanes of the thoroughfare surface, a driver circuit configured to operate the second set of LEDs to emit a colored light indicating the condition of a first lane of the thoroughfare surface, and an optic carried by the housing and positioned in optical communication with the plurality of LEDs.
US09631779B2
An optical system is provided having a first optical element for directing LED light received outwards, and two second optical elements each disposed to receive a portion of the light from a different one of two opposing ends of the first optical element so that the second optical elements redirects such portion of the light received outwards. Light from the optical system is preferably collimated along a first dimension, and non-collimated along a second dimension perpendicular to the first dimension. The first optical element and second optical elements are disposed in an integrated structure to facilitate mounting of the optical system upon a circuit board having LEDs which provide light to the first optical element. A light bar is also provided having multiple sets of LEDs on circuit boards, where each set provides light to a different one of the optical systems.
US09631777B2
An apparatus able to regulate a raw material concentration, in a mixed gas of carrier gas and raw material gas, accurately and stably to supply the mixed gas to a process chamber, with a flow rate controlled highly accurately, thereby detecting a vapor concentration of the raw material gas in the mixed gas easily and highly accurately and displaying the concentration in real time without using an expensive concentration meter, etc.
US09631776B2
Systems and methods are provided for controlling a selective catalyst reduction (SCR) system having a SCR reactor. A reductant slip set point indicative of a target slip is received as a control variable is to be utilized for maintaining an amount of a NOx composition included in a combustion gas below a selected limit. A signal transmitted by a sensor is received, and is indicative of the reductant slip downstream of the SCR reactor. An amount of a NOx reductant to be introduced to the SCR reactor is determined based, at least in part, on a relationship between the target reductant slip and the reductant slip downstream of the SCR reactor indicated by the signal. A control signal is transmitted to cause introduction of the amount of the NOx reductant to the SCR reactor to maintain the amount of the NOx composition in the combustion gas below the selected limit.
US09631773B2
A shipping container for shipping thermally active materials includes a plurality of structural panels that define a container interior, and are configured for receiving the thermally active materials. The container also includes an exterior disposed adjacent to an environment in which the shipping container is disposed. A thermal barrier member is placeable between the thermally active materials and the environment in which the container is placed. The thermal barrier includes a thermal barrier interior panel and a thermal barrier external panel defining a heat absorbing material receiving cavity. A flowable polymer based heat absorbing material is disposed within the heat absorbing material receiving cavity. The thermal barrier is configured to substantially surround the thermally active materials to reduce the passage of thermal energy between the thermally active materials and the environment in which the shipping container is disposed.
US09631768B1
A vertically disposed post or pole which is comprised of a lower tube having upper and lower ends and an upper tube having upper and lower ends. The lower tube has a swaged upper end portion which is configured to receive the lower end of the upper tube. A novel connection structure is provided which ensures that the upper and lower tubes will be perfectly aligned when connected together. A plurality of the upper and lower tubes may be joined together if so desired.
US09631765B2
Methods and systems for duct protection of a vehicle are provided. The methods and systems provided include an apparatus for directing flow discharged from a facture in a duct. The apparatus includes a ballistic containment layer, an air containment layer substantially surrounding the ballistic containment layer, and a vent defined in the ballistic containment layer and the air containment layer. The vent is configured to direct a flow discharged from the duct fracture.
US09631749B2
A quick release connector is provided, including: a female connector, including an inner sleeve member, an outer sleeve member slidably sleeved on the inner sleeve member, a first elastic member abutting against between the inner and outer sleeve members, an blocking member disposed on and partially protrudable into the inner sleeve member and a first elastic abutting assembly disposed in the female connector; a male connector, including a connecting protrusion, the connecting protrusion being movable between a stuck position and a releasing position relative to the inner sleeve member, the connecting protrusion elastically abutted by the first elastic abutting assembly to be in the stuck position normally. Wherein, when the connecting protrusion is in the stuck position, the male connector is non-withdrawable from the female connector; and when the connecting protrusion is in the releasing position, the male connector is withdrawable from the female connector.
US09631748B2
A clamping belt for a pipe coupling for connecting smooth-end pipes in a force-closed manner has ends that overlap each other, where the width of the two ends of the clamping belt that overlap each other together is no more than the width of the clamping belt in the longitudinal section between the ends. A pipe coupling using the clamping belt has a sealing element and an anchoring element that surrounds the sealing element. The anchoring element includes elements that follow one another in the circumferential direction.
US09631747B2
This invention relates to a partially carbonitriding heat treated stainless steel ferrule, having a first region with a first hardness and a second region with a second hardness, wherein the first region includes a nitrogen layer having a nitrogen concentration higher than a carbon concentration, and a carbon layer formed under the nitrogen layer and having a carbon concentration higher than a nitrogen concentration, so that the first hardness is greater than the second hardness. Thereby, partial heat treatment is effective at preventing rotational torque of the region, except for the portion to be heat treated, from increasing due to the total hardening.
US09631742B2
A marine pipeline installation vessel for laying a pipeline on the seabed, the vessel at least being adapted to carry out the reel lay method, wherein the vessel includes at least a first and a second storage reel for storage of the pipeline to be laid, which storage reels are positioned in or onto the vessel; a pipeline launch tower mounted to the vessel, which pipeline launch tower is adapted to launch the pipeline in a firing line along said tower; a pipeline guide which is mounted at an elevated position to the pipeline launch tower, which pipeline guide has a pipeline guide surface member providing an essentially circular or semi-circular pipeline guide surface, which pipeline guide is adapted to—in a primary pipelaying position thereof relative to the tower guide a pipeline from a first storage reel over the pipeline guide into the firing line, wherein the pipeline contacts the pipeline guide surface at a first contact point fore of the firing line and departs the surface at a first departure point into the firing line.
US09631741B2
A casing puller includes a body and at least one arm. The body has first and second ends, at least one end connectable to a drill pipe. The body defines a longitudinal axis and sized for insertion into a casing pipe. The at least one arm is disposed on the body and moves between a stowed position and a deployed position. The at least one arm extends away from the longitudinal axis when in its deployed position and is arranged to engage an arm receiver defined by the casing pipe.
US09631740B2
A faucet handle includes a fluid supply line, fluid return line, and valve cartridge. A first portion of the valve cartridge provides a connecting passage between fluid supply line and fluid return line and allows fluid flow when the valve cartridge is open. A valve body having first and second openings houses the first portion of the valve cartridge. A second portion of the valve cartridge extends through first opening and extends from first portion to second portion in a direction that is substantially parallel to a mounting surface. A control handle contacts second portion of the valve cartridge. When control handle is rotated in a first direction around an axis along which the valve cartridge extends the valve cartridge is opened allowing flow from supply line to return line, and when the valve cartridge is rotated around the axis in an opposing direction the valve cartridge is closed.
US09631739B2
An apparatus can include a housing, a plunger configured to reciprocate along an axis within the housing, and an internal fluid chamber disposed in the housing. A valve, having a valve base and a deformable seal, can also be included in the apparatus. The apparatus can further include a seat having an aperture therein. The valve is configured to move into and out of contact with the seat when the plunger reciprocates within the housing, based upon a fluid pressure in the internal flow chamber. In addition, an outer diameter of the deformable seal of the valve is less than an outer diameter of the seat.
US09631735B2
Electrohydraulic solenoids with improved filtering of venting fluid are provided herein. In some embodiments, an electrohydraulic solenoid comprises a hollow cylindrical bobbin having a flange at a first end with a core having a cavity open at one end disposed in the hollow of the bobbin. An armature is disposed within the cavity and supported for axial movement within the cavity. A portion of a pole piece is disposed in the hollow of the bobbin at the first end with an axial face of the portion abutting the open end of the cavity and a shoulder axially spaced from the flange forming a gap. A vent path is formed between the cavity and an outer environment, the vent path comprising at least a portion of the gap, with a magnet disposed in a portion of the vent path.
US09631730B2
A valve includes a lower valve housing, a diaphragm, and an upper valve housing. A top surface of a piezoelectric pump is bonded to a bottom surface of the lower valve housing. A circular hole portion is provided in a central portion of a region of the diaphragm that opposes a projecting portion of the lower valve housing. The diaphragm is bonded to the upper valve housing and the lower valve housing, and a divided interior of a valve housing configures a first lower valve chamber, a second lower valve chamber, a first upper valve chamber, and a second upper valve chamber. A groove is located in a wall portion of the upper valve housing that opposes the diaphragm in the first upper valve chamber.
US09631729B2
A closure element for a valve device for fluids and a valve device for fluids is described. The closure element includes a membrane and a valve device protruding from the membrane. The valve device has an outer diameter recess which is configured so that the closure element can be locked by means of a locking slide which can be moved toward the outer diameter recess substantially orthogonally to a feed axis.
US09631726B2
A sealing member for a machine may include an elastomeric body configured to fit at least partially into a recess defined in at least one of two sealing surfaces of two mating parts of the machine. The elastomeric body may include a visible indicator portion extending out from between the two mating parts. The elastomeric body may further include an elastomeric compound, and at least one of a thermochromic dye and a piezochromic dye mixed into the elastomeric compound, wherein the thermochromic dye is adapted to change color upon exposure of the elastomeric body to a temperature above a threshold temperature, and the piezochromic dye is adapted to change color upon exposure of the elastomeric body to a pressure above a threshold pressure.
US09631725B2
Seal sections for electric submersible pumps. Seal sections are described which include a combination of a barrier fluid to protect a seal from unfavorable ingress and control of differential pressure across the face of the seal.
US09631714B2
A bicycle sprocket comprises a sprocket body and a chain engagement structure. The chain engagement structure includes a plurality of sprocket teeth. The plurality of sprocket teeth include at least one first tooth and at least one second tooth. The at least one first tooth has a first tooth top extending non-parallel to a sprocket-plane perpendicular to a rotational center axis when viewed from a radial direction of the bicycle sprocket. The at least one first tooth has a first axial chain-engagement width that is larger than an inner link space defined between a pair of inner link plates of a bicycle chain and smaller than an outer link space defined between a pair of outer link plates of the bicycle chain. The at least one second tooth has a second axial chain-engagement width that is smaller than the inner link space.
US09631711B2
An improved actuator arrangement for operating a driven element with different actuators. The actuator arrangement comprises a first actuator that drives a driven element in a first direction via a first output member and a second actuator that drives the driven element in a second direction opposite to the first direction via a second output member. The first and second actuators are configured to work in a counter-acting manner to move the driven element in the first and second directions. An additional connecting and supporting device is connected between the first and second output members to support the output members to bear transversal forces transversal to the moving direction and/or to bear pre-load force for pre-loading the actuators.
US09631701B2
A planetary gear set has a sun gear, multiple planetary gears mounted on a planetary carrier, and a ring gear enclosing the planetary gears, which is designed in split form perpendicular to its axis of rotation and is formed from two ring gear parts arranged coaxially to each other. An adapter component that, for the purpose of a torque-transferring or torque-supporting operative connection of the planetary carrier, is connected in a torque-proof manner to an additional component in a mounted state with the planetary carrier, and is guided, viewed radially, outward by the ring gear parts.
US09631700B2
A control knob for an appliance includes an outer control ring, a stationary hub, a rotation modulating mechanism coupled to the outer control ring and engaged with an outer surface of the stationary hub, wherein the outer control ring is rotationally operable about the stationary hub at a first rate, an indicial ring positioned around the stationary hub, wherein the indicial ring engages a portion of the rotation modulating mechanism, wherein rotation of the outer control ring at the first rate causes the rotation modulating mechanism to rotate the indicial ring about the stationary hub at a second rate, the second rate being different than the first rate and an encoder shaft positioned within the stationary hub, wherein an inner gearing mechanism extends between an exterior surface of the encoder shaft and one of the outer control ring and the indicial ring.
US09631696B2
The invention relates to a centrifugal force pendulum (100) for suppressing torsional oscillations in a drive train, comprising a first and a second flange (105, 110) that are non-rotatably connected to the drive train and a first and a second pendulum mass (125, 135) that are arranged axially offset between the flanges. The pendulum masses have different suppressing frequencies.
US09631685B2
An electric actuator includes a shaft member, a nut member, a power transmission member, and a guide portion. A spiral groove is formed on an outer circumference of the shaft member. The nut member is fitted onto the shaft member. A power transmission member is disposed between an inner circumference of the nut member and the groove. The guide portion is configured to guide linear motion of the shaft member. Rotation of the nut member about the shaft member by means of a rotational driving force of an electric motor results in the linear motion of the shaft member. The guide portion includes a rotating mechanism portion configured to rotate the shaft member about an axis when the shaft member is in the linear motion.
US09631675B2
A lightweight construction connection device is provided for a shaft, formed from an end section of a pipe segment, over which the shaft can be slid and having a knurling on the radial outside surface thereof. A support ring is arranged in the interior of the end section of the pipe segment.
US09631665B2
A screw-locking element in the form of an H cross-section profile is fitted into a longitudinal slot through a bushing sidewall that captures opposing recesses of the insert. When assembled to the bushing, the locking presents a base on the outside of the bushing and a screw-engaging longitudinal strip on the inside along the threads. The bushing may have more than one locking insert and the inserts are preferably composed on Nylon.
US09631658B2
An improved pull-up bolt assembly adapted to be used for supporting a high-weight structure to a hinge component using an opening or recess in the high-weight structure, the bolt assembly having a pull-up bolt member, a nut component, a tapered member, and an expandable friction member, where the improvement includes one or more threads helically disposed about the expandable friction member, the one or more threads each having a height, a width and a helical angle.
US09631653B2
A re-usable push-in fastener includes a fastener grommet including a plurality of deflectable legs and a fastener pin which is inserted into the fastener grommet. The grommet and pin have a pre-installation relative position in which the pin is held in the grommet, with the legs of the grommet in relaxed positions. A full installation relative position for the grommet and pin includes the pin urging the legs outwardly against the surface of a hole in an object in which the grommet is installed.
US09631650B2
A fastening device for fastening an element to the slot of a C-profile rail with a gripping element which can be inserted through the slot into the interior of the profile rail and which can be turned in the profile rail around at least one screw-in axis in such a way that it grips behind the leg of the profile rail that delimits the slot is provided. The gripping element has at least one receptacle that runs perpendicular to the screw-in axis and that serves to secure a threaded rod.
US09631641B2
Provided are a pump system with pumps aligned parallel to each other and a method for cleaning strainers easily and conveniently. Provided are the pump system and the method of controlling the same by which the frequent block of the strainers by particulates and/or debris and thereby the cleaning of the strainers can be done easily. Provided are the pump system and the method of controlling the same by which the time loss and expenses can be saved much in contrast to conventional pump systems occurring the efforts to loosen and tighten each of the bolts of the strainer during the exchange of the strainers, inconvenience and expenses loss of gasket exchange and its damages during the cover disassembled, and needs to remove insulating means and heat new insulating means, thereby to minimize the efforts in management of the pump system and save time and expenses thereof.
US09631638B2
A thinned heat dissipation fan with core reversely installed includes: a base including a bottom plate and a lateral wall formed at the periphery of the bottom plate; a circuit unit disposed on the bottom plate; a core welded in a core welding hole formed on the bottom plate of the base or welded in a core welding hole of a sleeve seat fastened on the base; and a rotor set including a hub, a plurality of blades disposed at the periphery of the hub, a bearing module and a permanent magnet disposed at the inner sides of the plural blades, wherein the hub is formed with a bearing opening, the bearing module is fastened in the bearing opening, and the core is inserted in the bearing module. The above-mentioned welding means is preferably to be a laser welding means.
US09631634B2
The turbocharger according to the invention has a rotor with a compressor wheel as well as a turbine wheel that is connected in a rotationally-fixed manner to the compressor wheel by means of a common shaft. The compressor wheel and the shaft are form-fittingly tensioned with one another, wherein respectively at least one or two torque-transmitting contact surfaces, which lie one atop the other, between components force-fittingly tensioned with one another, is provided with a friction-increasing coating.
US09631630B2
The present invention relates to a pump (10) comprising a shaft (15) supported for rotation by a bearing (38) carried by a bearing carrier (48), said bearing carrier having a generally outer radial portion (52) which is fixed relative to a pump housing (12) and a generally inner radial portion (54) which is fixed relative to the bearing, wherein the carrier is stiff in a radial direction between said inner and outer portions and flexible in an axial direction for restraining radial movement of the bearing and allowing axial movement.
US09631614B2
An oil supply system may include a first hydraulic pump pumping oil to a low pressure portion through a first main line, a second hydraulic pump pumping oil to a high pressure portion through a second main line, first and second check valves that are respectively disposed at one side of the first and second main lines, a first convert valve supply the oil flowing the second main line to the low pressure portion depending on the pressure of oil that is transferred from a front side of the first check valve of the first main line, and a second convert valve supplying oil flowing the first main line to the high pressure portion depending on the pressure of oil that is transferred from a front side of the second check valve of the second main line.
US09631600B2
A wave energy converter to float in water, including a first body assembly having a first body and a sub-body rigidly connected to the first body by an assembly arm and a second body wherein the first body assembly and the second body being connected to one another via a first arm, the first arm being pivotally connected to at least one of the first body assembly and second body, the first body assembly and the second body also being connected to one another via a linkage that, via movement of at least a part of that linkage, allows for movement of the first body assembly and second body relative to one another in an anti-phase manner, and separation between the first body and the sub-body provides for tunability to tune the wave energy converter for use in a particular wave field.
US09631598B2
A high building power generation device includes a plurality of water storage tanks and at least one power generation unit. The water storage tanks are arranged at specific floors of a high building so that a predetermined vertical distance is provided between adjacent ones of the water storage tanks. The water storage tanks are connected to each other with pipes. A control valve is mounted at a connection of each water storage tank with the pipes. The power generation unit is arranged at a bottom floor of the high building. The pipes connecting with the water storage tanks have a lower opening that is located above the power generation unit. The water storage tanks accumulate and store used water from multiple floors and the control valves are openable to release the used water to impact and drive the power generation unit to generate electrical power.
US09631597B2
A voltage stabilization device is proposed for use in a motor vehicle. The voltage stabilization device comprises a first terminal for connecting the device with an energy source, in particular to a vehicle battery; a second terminal for connecting the device having a starting device of a motor vehicle; a current limiter module for limiting a starting current; a control unit for controlling the current limiting module, and at a starting operation detector coupled with the control unit for detecting a starting operation, wherein the current limiting module carries out a starter current limiting action on the basis of a start signal of the process startup detector.
US09631591B2
A system, comprising, a combustion chamber, and a free-radical injector configured to inject free radicals into the combustion chamber at an ignition timing to trigger combustion of a fuel-air mixture.
US09631590B2
A filter cartridge (30) for filtering fuel, comprising a filter wall (31) having a tubular shape, a first support plate (32) fixed to an end of the filter wall (31) and a second support plate (33) fixed to the opposite end of the filter wall, each support plate (32, 33) defining a respective portion (324,325;335,336) of a discharge conduit (324,325; 50; 335,336) of the water which separates from the fuel during filtration of the fuel; the peculiarity of the invention consists in the fact that it comprises a connecting cannula (50) able to connect the portions (324,325;335,336) and arranged externally of the filter wall (31).
US09631578B2
A pivot thrust reverser includes a first pivot door forming a first portion of a nacelle when stowed and second pivot door forming a second portion of the nacelle when stowed. The first pivot door and second pivot door each form a portion of a surface of a bypass duct when in a stowed position. In the deployed position the first pivot door and the second pivot door circumferentially surround a portion of an inner surface of a bypass duct such that when the pivot thrust reverser is deployed during engine operation a fan bypass stream is redirected while both a core stream and a nacelle ventilation stream flow in substantially the same manner as when the pivot thrust reverser is stowed.
US09631577B2
A divergent segment includes a stationary divergent portion and a movable divergent portion suitable for occupying a retracted position and a deployed position. The threaded rod has a head supported by a support secured to the stationary divergent portion in cooperation with a rotary drive for driving the threaded rod in rotation, and a tip suitable for being inserted in a holder sleeve secured to the stationary divergent portion. The threaded rod cooperates with a nut secured to the movable divergent portion so that rotation of the rod causes the movable divergent portion to move. The tip presents an enlargement having at least one groove passing axially therethrough.
US09631576B2
Exemplary piston assemblies and methods of making the same are disclosed. An exemplary piston may include a piston body defining a piston axis, the piston body having a skirt and forming a lower surface of a cooling gallery. The body may include radially inner and outer body mating surfaces. The piston may further include a cooling gallery ring cooperating with the piston body to form the cooling gallery. The piston body and cooling gallery ring may be joined together along radially inner and radially outer interface regions to form a generally one-piece piston assembly. In some exemplary approaches, mating surfaces of the body and ring may be positioned adjacent a support surface configured to inhibit or prevent weld spatter formed in a process joining the ring and body from the cooling gallery.
US09631575B2
Systems and methods for restarting an engine are presented. In one example, fuel is injected to cylinder ports before the engine is stopped such that the injected fuel is not inducted into the cylinders before an engine restart is requested. The method may improve fuel vaporization during engine restarting.
US09631571B2
The embodiments herein provide a fuel anti-freeze system comprising a temperature sensor, an Engine Control Unit (ECU), a combustion rail pump and two electrical valves. The temperature sensor reports an atmospheric temperature of a fuel rail to the ECU. The ECU controls the combustion rail pump and the electrical valves to control a depletion of the fuel from the fuel rail to a fuel tank, when the atmosphere temperature in the fuel rail is below a threshold temperature. The system empties the fuel rail when the atmosphere temperature is below the threshold temperature, thereby preventing freezing and stiffing of the fuel in the fuel rail of an internal combustion engine. The first electrical valve transfers the fuel from the fuel rail to the fuel tank, and the second electrical valve transfers the fuel from the fuel rail to the fuel tank.
US09631570B2
An engine operation control apparatus and engine operation control method of a vehicle are provided. The engine operation control apparatus includes a coolant temperature sensor that detects a coolant temperature of a coolant line which passes through an engine. Further, the apparatus includes first and second maps in which corresponding engine operating points are mapped to a vehicle speed, a gear stage, a driver requesting torque, and an electric field load amount of the vehicle. A controller determines a candidate operating point using any one of the first and second maps based on a comparison between the coolant temperature and a predetermined threshold value and determines an optimal operating point of the engine using the candidate operating point.
US09631569B2
A method involves comparing a determined operating parameter of an engine, with a predefined operating parameter. The method further involves controlling a fuel source and an ignition source of the engine so as to operate at least one engine cylinder in a skip fire mode for at least one cycle of a crank shaft when the determined operating parameter is greater than the predefined operating parameter. The controlling involves transitioning the fuel source from a normal mode to the skip fire mode for the at least one cycle of the crank shaft either before transitioning the ignition source from the normal mode to the skip fire mode or when the ignition source is operated in the normal mode.
US09631564B2
Systems and methods for determining the presence or absence of deposits that may accumulate within a compressor recirculation valve positioned in parallel with a turbocharger compressor are presented. The systems and methods adjust actuators to maintain engine operation such that it may be more difficult for a driver to become aware that a compressor recirculation valve diagnostic is being executed.
US09631561B2
The present invention is equipped with: a valve opening/closing timing control mechanism that sets the opening/closing timing of an exhaust valve; and a lock mechanism that holds the rotation phase of the valve opening/closing timing control mechanism in a first lock phase, in which the open state of the exhaust valve is maintained when the intake valve opens.
US09631559B2
A fuel control method for a gas turbine with a combustor being formed of at least two groups of a pluralities of main nozzles for supplying fuel, and that supplies fuel from the main nozzles of all groups upon ignition of the combustor (S1), and supplies fuel from three main nozzles of a group A during subsequent acceleration of the gas turbine (S3). Because fuel is injected from a small number of the main nozzles during acceleration, the fuel flow rate per one main nozzle is increased, thereby increasing the fuel-air ratio (fuel flow rate/air flow rate) in a combustion region and improving the combustion characteristics. Accordingly, the generation of carbon monoxide and unburned hydrocarbon is reduced, whereby no bypass valve is required and manufacturing costs are reduced. Because fuel is supplied from the main nozzles of all groups and burned in the entire area of the combustor upon ignition, it is possible to easily propagate a flame to all the other adjacent main nozzle groups, thereby improving the ignition characteristics of the whole gas turbine.
US09631558B2
A gas turbine engine includes a flex mount for a fan drive gear system. A very high speed fan drive turbine drives the fan drive gear system.
US09631555B2
An air intake guide for a jet propulsion power plant for a supersonic aircraft comprises an intake aperture, an intake center body and an intake adjustment device. The intake aperture has an intake lip, an intake center body is positioned within the aperture, and an intake adjustment device is positioned on a radially inwardly facing surface of the air intake guide downstream of the intake lip. The intake adjustment device comprises a flexible panel and an actuator with the actuator being adapted to deflect the flexible panel in a radially inwardly direction so as to reduce a cross-sectional area of the intake aperture and thereby to position a shock wave at the intake lip.
US09631554B2
An inlet particle separator system for an engine includes an inner flowpath section, an outer flowpath section, a splitter, a first electrostatic discharge device, and a second electrostatic discharge device. The outer flowpath section surrounds at least a portion of the inner flowpath section and is spaced apart therefrom to define a passageway having an air inlet. The splitter is disposed downstream of the air inlet and extends into the passageway to divide the passageway into a scavenge flow path and an engine flow path. The first electrostatic charge device is disposed between the air inlet and the splitter and is electrostatically charged to a first polarity. The second electrostatic charge device is disposed downstream of the first electrostatic charge device and is electrostatically charged to a second polarity that is opposite to the first polarity.
US09631552B2
A tensioner for a start-stop accessory drive comprises a movable support, a pulley carried by the support to contact a belt of the drive, a spring to load the support so as to tension the belt, and an actuator controlled and movable to push said pulley against the belt in one direction by means of a load in parallel and additional with respect to that of the spring and an irreversible device which enables the action of the actuator and prevents a displacement of said support in response to the loads of the belt.
US09631549B2
In a fuel injection spray pattern for an opposed piston engine, the individual spray plumes have both radial and tangential components with respect to an injection axis (102, 114, 121), which adds a swirl component to a spray pattern of fuel directly injected into the combustion chamber of the opposed piston engine.
US09631535B2
In an internal combustion engine, a hydrocarbon feed valve (15) and an exhaust purification catalyst (13) are arranged in an engine exhaust passage. When releasing the stored NOx from the exhaust purification catalyst (13), usually combustion gas of a rich air-fuel ratio is generated in the combustion chamber (2) to make the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) rich. When releasing the stored NOx from the exhaust purification catalyst (13) in case where the temperature of the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is low, the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust purification catalyst (13) is made rich by injecting hydrocarbons from the hydrocarbon feed valve (15).
US09631531B2
A device for determining a regeneration abnormality of a particulate filter has a temperature sensor detecting an exhaust temperature on an entry side of a particulate filter and a controller feedback controlling an injection amount of fuel to be added to a fuel addition valve to keep the exhaust temperature on the entry side of the particulate filter to a target regeneration temperature upon forced regeneration in a predetermined temperature range around the target regeneration temperature. The controller is configured to calculate the exhaust temperature on the entry side of the particulate filter based on the commanded injection amount to the fuel addition valve and detect any abnormality in feedback control based on deviation between the calculated exhaust temperature on the entry side of the particulate filter and the actually measured value by the temperature sensor.
US09631515B2
The present invention relates to a gas turbine with a turbine stator wheel, which is fitted with stator vanes and includes a ring segment-shaped vane root, where the stator vanes are designed hollow and have a vane interior which can be supplied with cooling air, where a ring-shaped sealing element of an inter-stage seal is arranged radially on the inside, relative to an engine axis, on the vane root, where in the vane root at least one outflow duct is provided, characterized in that between the vane root and the sealing element an annular space extending substantially in the axial direction is formed, into which the outflow duct issues and which discharges into the area of the inter-stage seal.
US09631510B2
According to an aspect of an exemplary embodiment, there is provided a turbine seal assembly comprising: a seal installation groove formed inside a casing; at least one seal member that has at least one tip portion formed in a blade direction and is installed in the seal installation groove; at least one elastic member for elastically connecting the casing to the seal member, wherein an inlet for an inflow of compressed gas is formed in the seal installation groove, and wherein a first space which the compressed gas enters is formed in the seal member, and at least one flow pathway which connects the first space to a space between a blade and the seal member is formed in the seal member.
US09631508B2
A contact seal assembly for a shaft of a gas turbine engine includes a seal runner adapted to be connected to the shaft and rotatable relative to a carbon ring. The seal runner includes concentric inner and outer annular portions radially spaced apart to define at least one internal fluid passage between the inner and outer annular portions of the seal runner.
US09631503B2
Disclosed is a dynamic turbine, capable of altering the sweep area in a large interval by moving a first fixing structure, a second fixing structure and blades to and from an essential same plane along an axis of rotation of the turbine.
US09631502B2
A fastening element (12) for arrangement in a receptacle of a rotor blade connection (17) of a rotor blade (5). The receptacle is formed on the rotor hub-side end of the, preferably flange-free, rotor blade (5). The fastening element (12) is arranged in the receptacle between an inner fastening side and an outer fastening side of the rotor blade (5) and the fastening element (12) introduced into the receptacle (10) is connected to the inner fastening side and the outer fastening side of the rotor blade (5). The fastening element (12) is formed tapered in the longitudinal extension thereof. The fastening element (12) has a connector (15) transverse, particularly perpendicular, to the longitudinal extension for a lightning protection conductor (18) of the rotor blade (5).
US09631501B2
Wind turbine blade has a longitudinal direction and includes a shell structure made of a fiber-reinforced polymer material including a polymer matrix and reinforcement material comprising a plurality of carbon fiber layers embedded in the polymer matrix. At least a portion of the shell structure is formed of a laminate 6 comprising at least one metal filament layer 15, 18 comprising metal filaments and being sandwiched between two carbon fiber layers 16, 16; 17, 18 comprising carbon fibers only. The carbon fiber layers are arranged contiguously with the metal filament layer.
US09631494B2
A rotor structure is provided. The rotor structure includes a plurality of wheels, a main axial tie rod passing through the plurality of wheels and a first shaft and a second shaft each attached to one extremity of the main tie rod, wherein the main tie rod and the bore of an end wheel in contact with one of the first and second shafts delimit a hydraulic chamber configured to receive a hydraulic fluid, and wherein the main tie rod, the hydraulic chamber and the end wheel form an internal hydraulic tension device configured to preload the main tie rod.
US09631493B2
A turbine engine including a casing, a turbine engine shaft extending axially, a guide bearing for guiding the turbine engine shaft in the casing, the guide bearing including an inner circumferential ring rigidly connected to the turbine engine shaft, an outer circumferential ring fitted in a housing of the casing, and gripping rolling members, and a damping cavity configured to receive a damping fluid to form a damping fluid film for damping the guide bearing, the cavity being delimited radially between an outer surface of the outer ring and an inner surface of the housing. The outer surface of the outer ring and the inner surface of the housing are conical surfaces.
US09631491B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for forming an underground tunnel. The apparatus comprises a cutting head for removing material from a wall portion of the tunnel and thereby forming a portion of the tunnel. Further, the apparatus comprises a support structure for supporting a previously formed portion of the tunnel. The support structure is arranged to provide a supporting force against a surface of the tunnel when stationary and when being moved along the tunnel. Further, the apparatus comprises a conveyor for conveying removed material from the cutting head to a location remote from the cutting head during formation of the portion of the tunnel.
US09631485B2
A system for downhole telemetry employs a series of communications nodes spaced along a tubular body such as a pipe in a wellbore. The nodes allow hybrid wired-and-wireless communication between one or more sensors residing at the level of a subsurface formation and a receiver at the surface. The nodes employ electro-acoustic transducers providing node-to-node communication up a wellbore at high data transmission rates. A method of transmitting data in a wellbore uses a plurality of data transmission nodes situated along a tubular body to deliver an alternating electrical and acoustic transmission of data along the wellbore.
US09631481B1
A semiconductor device includes a die pad, a plurality of first lands each having a first land first top recessed portion disposed on a first land first end distal to the die pad, and a plurality of second lands each having a second land first bottom recessed portion disposed on a second land first end distal to the die pad. A semiconductor die is electrically connected to the first and second lands. A package body, which defines a bottom surface and a side surface, at least partially encapsulating the first and second lands and the semiconductor die such that at least portions of the first and second lands are exposed in and substantially flush with the bottom surface of the package body.
US09631456B2
A safety valve includes a housing defining first and secondary piston bores in fluid communication with each other via a port. A first piston is movably arranged within the first piston bore and has a first piston rod extending longitudinally from the first piston and coupled to a flow tube. A second piston is movably arranged within the secondary piston bore and has a secondary piston rod extending longitudinally from the second piston and axially engageable with the flow tube. Hydraulic fluid pressure acts on the first piston until the first piston axially moves and exposes the port, whereby the hydraulic fluid pressure is then able to enter the secondary piston bore and also act on the second piston.
US09631447B2
A method is for removing casing from a well. The method includes setting a first sealing element into fluid-sealing engagement with the inside of the casing, lowering a flow-through string into the well, a cutting tool and a second, reversibly expandable sealing element being connected to the string, forming perforations into the casing by means of said cutting tool, expanding the second, expandable sealing element into fluid-sealing engagement with the inside of the casing, passing a pressurized fluid through the string and into the annulus via the perforations, so that the viscous and/or solid mass is displaced up the annulus, cutting the casing around its entire circumference; and pulling a length of the casing up from the well.
US09631445B2
A downhole-adjusting impact apparatus (DAIA) mechanically coupled between opposing first and second portions of a tool string, wherein: the tool string is conveyable within a wellbore extending between a wellsite surface and a subterranean formation; the first tool string portion comprises a first electrical conductor in electrical communication with surface equipment disposed at the wellsite surface; the DAIA comprises a second electrical conductor in electrical communication with the first electrical conductor; and the DAIA is operable to: detect an electrical characteristic of the second electrical conductor; impart a first impact force on the second tool string portion when the electrical characteristic is detected; and impart a second impact force on the second tool string portion when the electrical characteristic is not detected, wherein the second impact force is substantially greater than the first impact force.
US09631438B2
A connector is disclosed for connecting components of a subsea conduit system extending between a wellhead and a surface structure, for example, a riser system. Male and female components are provided, and a latching device to releasably latch the male and female components together when the two are engaged. The male and female components incorporate a main sealing device to seal the male and female components together to contain the high pressure wellbore fluids passing between them when the male and female components are engaged. The latching device also incorporates a second sealing device configured to contain fluids when the male and the female components are disengaged, so that during disconnection, any fluids escaping the inner conduit are contained.
US09631432B2
A technique facilitates drilling of a variety of a wellbores. The technique comprises providing a directional drilling system with a drill bit mounted at the end of a collar having an internal flow passage for drilling fluid. The collar is rotatably positioned in a steering structure to which a plurality of steering members is mounted for lateral motion with respect to the steering structure. The design allows the steering structure to remain rotationally stationary with respect to the surrounding borehole wall as the collar and drill bit are rotated to perform a drilling operation. The drilling orientation of the collar and the drill bit may be adjusted by routing drilling fluid from the internal flow passage to at least one of the steering members to cause lateral displacement of the steering member while the steering structure remains in the rotationally stationary position.
US09631426B1
The automatic window blind system provides gear driven window blind control. A solar power with back up battery provides energy to operate the window blinds and a light emitting diode strip that changes light colors depending upon daylight and night conditions. A plurality of toothed rack drives is driven by and drives rack gears in ensuring a positive operation of window blind hooks in pivoting window blinds that snap into the window blind hooks. A printed wiring board assembly controls functions and is accompanied by a rack sensor that cooperates with an optical sensor. The optical sensor and the rack sensor automatically position window blinds based upon light intensity.
US09631415B2
The fenestration structures include external frame segments facing the interior and exterior surfaces of a building wall, and an internal frame segment “sandwiched” between the external frame segments. The external frame segments are made from a relatively hard, dense and/or resilient material, such as hard wood, while the internal frame segment is made from paulownia which is a moisture-resistant, dimensionally stable thermal barrier material. The external frame segments therefore provide durable and attractive exterior and interior surfaces of the fenestration frame, while the internal paulownia segment provides superior resistance to thermal transfer across the frame, while also remaining dimensionally stable across a variety of moisture and temperature levels. Internal paulownia segments may be positioned around the entire periphery of the fenestration frame to create a comprehensive thermal barrier.
US09631413B2
Disclosed is a method of effectively controlling a vehicle power trunk/tailgate in a vehicle power trunk/tailgate control system by performing a synchronization procedure between the left and right spindles in a vehicle having a power trunk/tailgate. Since a speed difference is not generated between the left and right spindle motors, the power trunk/tailgate can be driven more stably.
US09631411B2
An actuator for moving a movable furniture part includes at least one movably mounted actuating member for moving the movable furniture part, a spring device for applying a force to the actuating member, and a setting device by which a force of the spring device that acts on the actuating member can be set. The setting device has a threaded portion and a screw nut mounted adjustably between two end positions, and the force of the spring device acting on the actuating member can be set by adjusting the screw nut along the threaded portion. At least one supporting element is provided which relieves the screw nut in at least one of the two end positions of the force of the spring device.
US09631409B2
An interactive sliding-door device has a track assembly, a door assembly, and an interacting assembly. The track assembly is mounted on a top end of an inner space of a building, and has multiple elongated members disposed side by side. The door assembly has multiple boards mounted in the elongated members respectively. Each of the boards has two wheel assemblies, and the wheel assemblies are slideable relative to the elongated members. Therefore, the boards can slide in two ways, and are unrestrained from a construction layout of the building. The wheel assembly is adjustable according to a height of the board. The interacting assembly may be mounted on the board directly or by two mounting assemblies. The interacting assembly has two clamps, two positioning wheels and a cord. The cord is mounted in the positioning wheels and clamped by the clamps and then the boards can slide interactively and stably.
US09631408B2
A hinge structure includes an attachment recessed part, an attachment member, a first rotating body and a second rotating body. The attachment recessed part is configured to have inlet and outlet part in an upper part thereof. The attachment member is configured so that an upper end part thereof is pivotably connected to the document cover. The first rotating body is configured to be provided in the apparatus main body so as to come into contact with a side of the document mounting surface of the attachment member in the inlet and outlet part in the attachment recessed part. The second rotating body is configured to be provided in a lower part of the attachment member so as to come into contact with the attachment recessed part at an opposite side of the position in which the first rotating body is provided.
US09631403B2
An actuation device for a flap mounted pivotably on a compartment, with a push-push kinematic, includes a first actuation part to be fastened on the flap and a second actuation part to be fastened on the component. The first actuation part engages with the second actuation part when the flap is moved from its opened position into its closed position, so that after a first stroke of the first actuation part in the direction of the second actuation part and a subsequent backstroke of the first actuation part, the actuation parts are held on each other in an arresting position. The arresting position is released by a second stroke of the first actuation part in the direction of the second actuation part so that the flap can be moved into its opened position, wherein the first actuation part and the second actuation part are disengaged.
US09631401B2
A padlock comprises a lock body, a hoop which is displaceably held at the lock body, a cylinder core into which at least one core pin is inserted and which is supported directly in a reception opening rotatable about a cylinder axis in order selectively to lock or release the hoop at the lock body, and a tumbler housing into which at least one housing pin is inserted and which is received in a fixed position in the lock body.
US09631393B2
A structural module includes a first strut pair including a first strut and a second strut pivotably connected to each other at a first strut pair pivotable connection point, a second strut pair including a third strut and a fourth strut pivotably connected to each other at a second strut pair pivotable connection point, a first hub, a first end of the first strut and a first end of the third strut being pivotably connected to the first hub, a second hub, a first end of the second strut and a first end of the fourth strut being pivotably connected to the second hub, and a stop arrangement attached to at least one of the first hub, the first strut, and the third strut, the stop arrangement including an abutment end. The structural module is movable between a closed position in which longitudinal axes of struts of the first strut pair and the second strut pair are substantially parallel to one another. A collapsible structure and a method of erecting a collapsible structure are also disclosed.
US09631392B2
A post anchoring support device comprising a ground anchor having a shaft with a threaded upper portion terminating in an upper end that may be engaged and rotated by a drive tool for rotating the shaft about a vertical axis, and a lower portion for insertion into the ground, and a post receiving bracket having a base with an elongate aperture adapted to receive the externally threaded portion of the shaft, a support portion defining a support surface for abutting the end of the post, vertical planar walls extending above the support surface, each planar wall having an inside surface for abutting a side of the post, and each planar wall defining a plurality of vertically oriented elongate holes and having a raised portion on the outside surface adjacent each elongate hole adapted to abut a lower surface of a head of a fastener passing through the elongate hole and into the post to allow the fastener to travel within the elongate hole upon the application of a vertically force to the post anchoring support device sufficient to overcome a coefficient of friction between the head of the fastener and the raised portion.
US09631389B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for cleaning an immersed surface, comprising a hollow body, guiding and driving members, a filtration chamber which is provided in the hollow body and which has at least one liquid inlet, at least one liquid outlet and a hydraulic circuit for circulation of liquid through a filtering device. An accelerometer device is fixedly joined to the hollow body and which is adapted to provide instantaneous measurements of at least one acceleration component of the terrestrial gravity in at least one fixed direction which is fixed relative to the hollow body, and a processing unit for processing the acceleration measurements supplied by the accelerometer device.
US09631385B1
A convertible floor panel assembly incorporates a metal wire mesh subfloor and a polymer deck overlying the wire mesh subfloor. A plurality of alignment heads project from an underside of the polymer deck, and are designed to extend through respective mesh openings defined by the wire mesh subfloor. A plurality of panel retainers engage respective alignment heads, and are adapted for removably attaching the wire mesh subfloor and the polymer deck together. The floor panel assembly is thereby convertible between a substantially open-surface sound permeable safety structure and a continuous solid-surface structure for increased floor load capacity.
US09631384B2
A reconfigurable seating system may include a bank of seating units disposed in rows. Associated chairs may be arranged in the seating units, supported on support beams by chair brackets. The reconfigurable seating systems may be installed on flat floors or sloped floors and may be arranged in linear-rows and/or arched-row configurations.
US09631380B2
Disposable protective sheeting covers decks and floors during construction and the like. The protective sheeting includes a first layer of a barrier material impervious to liquid and pervious to vapor and a second layer of an overlay material providing a slip-resistant upper surface that is bonded to the first layer. Alternatively, the sheeting can be a single layer of barrier material treated to be slip resistant. The sheeting can be provided in rolls and temporarily secured to the decks and floors at the construction site or pre-installed onto decking materials off-site. When construction is complete, the disposable protective sheeting is removed to expose a contamination and damage free surface.
US09631379B2
A lifting device for lifting an upper portion of a building which comprises a roof and a method of constructing a building using such a lifting device. The lifting device includes a base plate arranged to be mounted to an edge region of a support and a lifting platform attached to an actuator and capable of vertical movement by means of the actuator. The base plate has a first portion arranged to abut a substantially horizontal face of the support and a second portion arranged to abut a substantially vertical face of the support. The actuator is adjustably mounted to the base plate such that the position of the actuator is horizontally and/or vertically adjustable relative to the base plate to ensure a plumb lift.
US09631373B2
In certain embodiments, a system includes a curtain wall member and a first curtain wall member mounting apparatus coupled to a first end of the curtain wall member. The first curtain wall member mounting apparatus includes a mounting plate and an arm having one or more projections. The first curtain wall member mounting apparatus engages with a first curtain wall member supporting channel having a vertically-disposed member and a horizontally-disposed supporting member having a receiving-and-retaining member extending from an end opposite the vertically-disposed member. The receiving-and-retaining member engages with a channel adjacent to one or more projections of the first curtain wall member mounting apparatus. The first curtain wall member mounting apparatus is adapted to be rotated into position such that a connection mechanism at a second end of the curtain wall member engages with a second curtain wall member supporting channel to retain the curtain wall member in position.
US09631361B2
Sound absorbing or attenuating laminate flooring materials are provided, which are directed to be used in the production of floor covering, floor panels, furniture panels, cabinets, counter-tops and wall panels. As well, the methods for producing such products are provided. In particular, abrasion resistant panels, with a laminated structure, created by forming an assembly which consists of laminating a heat-activated resin impregnated paper wear layer, a decorative layer with printed graphics or a wood veneer decorative layer, a medium density (MDF) or high-density (HDF) natural fiber-based core and a resin impregnated paper balancing layer. To achieve sound absorbing and/or attenuating properties, any or all paper layers may be pre coated with an additional flexible elastomeric coating, film or material prior to assembly of the panel, or the natural fiber core panel may be coated with a flexible elastomeric coating, film or material prior to assembly with the papers. The flexible elastomeric coating, film or material acts to absorb, reduce, and/or ameliorate the sound transmissions inherent in laminated panels.
US09631356B2
A monitoring and alert methodology ascertains conditions that may result in a combined sewer overflow (CSO) event. The method employs a semantic model of a combined sewer system that includes specification information describing the components of the combined sewer system. Sensors distributed throughout the components of the combined sewer system sense operating parameter information for those components. A monitoring and alerting (MA) information handling system (IHS) receives operating parameter information from the sensors. The MA IHS analyzes the operating parameter information received from the sensors together with the specification information in the semantic model of the combined sewer system to determine if a combined sewer overflow (CSO) event is possible. The MA IHS generates an alert to provide notification of a possible CSO event if the MA IHS determines that a CSO event is possible. In this manner, an operator may take early corrective action before a CSO event occurs.
US09631348B2
A water saving control mechanism includes a main body and a dynamic distribution device disposed in the main body. The main body is a three-way configuration having two water outlets and a water inlet. The dynamic distribution device includes a stopper disposed in a water channel of the main body and a drive assembly driven by water flow to bring the stopper to move. When the stopper is driven by the drive assembly, the stopper is to block one of the water outlets by turns for water outflow. The present invention not only saves water but also provides a massage effect to relieve fatigue.
US09631340B2
A topsoil separating and spreading apparatus includes a grate and rotor assembly that can be pivotally mounted on the top of a standard loader bucket for operation. The spreader member includes an arcuate grate formed with slotted openings and a rotor rotatably mounted concentrically with the arcuate grate so that disks mounted on the rotor shaft will move adjacent to the arcuate grate to push topsoil through the grate openings. The spreader member is pivotally movable between opened and closed positions and is powered by the prime mover. The opening of the spreader member allows a supply of topsoil to be loaded into the bucket loader, after which the spreader member can be closed against the bucket to force topsoil to be discharged therefrom through the grate openings. The rotor breaks up clumps within the bucket, while the grate prevents the discharge of non-frangible debris from the supply of topsoil.
US09631332B2
A moveable plow for a locomotive suitable for operating in sandy environments is provided. The moveable plow comprises a body and a wearable lip. The body forms a curl at its top edge along substantially the entire body width to channel the flow of sand outwardly. The lip is removably affixed to the body and contacts a rail. The moveable plow is attached to a bogie by a pneumatically operated height adjusting mechanism that can raise or lower the moveable plow. The moveable plow and rail define a sweep angle equal to or greater than an angle of repose of the sand in the surrounding environment.
US09631321B2
Fibrous structures that exhibit a novel combination of properties and to methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
US09631319B2
The present invention concerns a process of making paper, board or paperboard in which a cellulosic thin stock is provided and subjected to one or more shear stages and then drained on a moving screen to form a sheet which is dried, wherein the process employs a treatment system which is applied to the thin stock, said treatment system comprising as components, a) a cationic organic polymer of charge density of at least 3.0 meq/g with a molar mass Mw of up to 3 million Daltons or poly aluminum chloride (PAC), b) a cationic polymer having an average molar mass Mw of at least 500,000 Daltons and a charge density not exceeding 4.0 meq/g; c) a microparticulate material; in which components (b) and (c) are added to the cellulosic thin stock after the last shear stage before the head box and component (a) is added to the cellulosic thin stock before the said last shear stage.
US09631304B2
A variable timing system for a sewing machine is provided comprising a shuttle hook having a hook tip, a first helical gear mounted on the shuttle hook, a lower shaft configured to rotate the shuttle hook in synchronization with a needle bar, and a second helical gear mounted on the lower shaft and capable of engaging with the first helical gear. In accordance with embodiments, at least one of the helical gears is axially movable. The variable timing system may comprise a control device configured to generate a control signal representative of a current sewing situation. A drive force mechanism may receive the control signal and in response, transmit axial movement to the axially moveable helical gear to move the gear into proper position relative to a threaded needle of the sewing machine.
US09631303B2
Mechanisms and methods for forming a tubular braid are described. The mechanism for braiding includes a disc, a mandrel, a plurality of catch mechanisms, a plurality of actuators, and a computer program. The disc defines a plane and a circumferential edge. The mandrel extends from a center of the disc and is adapted to hold a plurality of filaments extending radially from the mandrel toward the circumferential edge of the disc. The plurality of catch mechanisms are positioned circumferentially around the edge of the disc and are adapted to engage a filament. The plurality of actuators are configured to move relative to one another and are adapted to move the plurality of catch mechanisms in a substantially radial direction relative to the circumferential edge of the disc.
US09631298B2
The invention relates to a method for the production of a precursor for the production of carbon—and activated carbon fibers according to the wet—or air-gap spinning method, in which a solution of lignin and a fiber-forming polymer in a suitable solvent is extruded through the holes of a spinning nozzle into a coagulation bath, the formed thread is stretched and subsequently treated, dried at an elevated temperature and then wound up. The lignin-containing thread is an economical starting material for the production of carbon—and activated carbon fibers.
US09631294B2
A method and device for vertical galvanic metal deposition on a substrate, the device including at least first and second device elements arranged vertically parallel to each other, the first device element including at least a first anode element having a plurality of through-going conduits and at least a first carrier element having a plurality of through-going conduits, the at least first anode element and the at least first carrier element firmly connected to each other; and the second device element including at least a first substrate holder adapted to receive at least one substrate to be treated, the at least one substrate holder at least partially surrounding the at least one substrate along its outer frame after receiving it; the distance between the first anode element and the at least first substrate holder ranging from 2 to 15 mm.
US09631293B2
Electrodeposition baths, systems and methods are provided. In some embodiments, the baths, systems and methods are used to deposit metal alloy coatings.
US09631288B2
The present invention discloses a gas generator with a cooling system and comprises an outer tank, an inner tank, and an electrolytic tank module. The outer tank is accommodated a coolant for cooling the electrolytic tank module and inner tank configured in the outer tank, whereby the temperature of the gas generator will be decreased to prevent the hydrogen explosion. Furthermore, in the present invention, the hydrogen-oxygen gas generated by the electrolytic tank module will be inputted to the inner tank, and the temperature of the hydrogen-oxygen gas will be further decreased through the liquid water in the inner tank to decrease the probability of the hydrogen explosion.
US09631285B2
A process is provided for synthesizing synthesis gas from carbon dioxide obtained from atmospheric air or other available carbon dioxide source and water using a sodium-conducting electrochemical cell. Synthesis gas is also produced by the coelectrolysis of carbon dioxide and steam in a solid oxide fuel cell or solid oxide electrolytic cell. The synthesis gas produced may then be further processed and eventually converted into a liquid fuel suitable for transportation or other applications.
US09631278B2
Methods for depositing or forming a metal silicide layer are disclosed. A metal halide layer is deposited, cleaned by a halogen and subjected to a siliciding agent to form the metal silicide.
US09631274B2
Provided is a plasma processing apparatus comprising an exhaust path extending from the exhaust hole to the pump, wherein the pump is configured to depressurize inside of the processing container and the exhausting path, wherein the exhaust path includes a horizontally linearly extended portion, wherein the horizontally linearly extended portion of the exhaust path has a rectangular or oval cross-section having a horizontal length longer than a vertical length; wherein the plasma processing apparatus further includes a pressure control valve disposed in the horizontally linearly extended portion of the exhaust path; and wherein the pressure control valve is formed of a pressure control valve plate having substantially same shape and size as those of the cross-section and a shaft formed in the pressure control valve along the horizontal length of the cross-section, in such a manner that the pressure control valve plate rotates about the shaft.
US09631263B2
The present invention relates to a sliding bearing with improved wear resistance which is manufactured in a sintered body type, and more particularly, to a bush type of sliding bearing that has excellent friction and wear characteristics with a shaft usually made of an iron-based material even under very poor sliding conditions of high-surface pressure, low speed, and irregularity, such that the lubrication cycle of may be extended, and also has excellent hardness such that load feed capability, plastic deformation suppression, and fatigue strength can be improved.
US09631261B2
An alpha-beta Ti alloy having improved mechanical and ballistic properties formed using a low-cost composition is disclosed. In one embodiment, the Ti alloy composition, in weight percent, is 4.2 to 5.4% aluminum, 2.5 to 3.5% vanadium, 0.5 to 0.7% iron, 0.15 to 0.19% oxygen and balance titanium. The exemplary Ti alloy exhibits a tensile yield strength of at least about 120,000 psi and an ultimate tensile strength of at least about 128,000 psi in both longitudinal and transverse directions, a reduction in area of at least about 43%, an elongation of at least about 12% and about a 0.430-inch-thick plate has a V50 ballistic limit of about 1936 fps. The Ti alloy may be manufactured using a combination of recycled and/or virgin materials, thereby providing a low-cost route to the formation of high-quality armor plate for use in military systems.
US09631258B2
Methods for extracting rare-earth metals and preparing gypsum plaster from phosphogypsum hemihydrate
The present invention relates to a method for complex processing of apatite concentrate resulting in producing concentrate of rare earth metals (REM) and plaster from phosphogypsum, a waste of sulphuric acid technology for producing phosphoric acid from apatite. The method comprises recrystallization of hemihydrate or anhydrite of calcium sulphate into dihydrate of calcium sulphate in the presence of a soluble calcium salt at concentrations of 0.075-3.75 M (in terms of Ca2+) at subacidic conditions (pH>1), and dissolution with strong acid (pKa<0) at a concentration of 0.2-8.0 M (in terms of H+). Recovery of REM into solution is up to 95%, the residual content of impurities of phosphorus, fluorine and alkali metals in dihydrate of calcium sulphate does not exceed 0.3 wt. %, 0.1 wt. %, 0.05 wt. %, respectively.
US09631252B2
A system and method of induction heat treating a gear includes a workstation. The workstation has a power source, an inductor coil, and a rotational mechanism. The gear is induction heat treated at a first portion of the gear and a second portion of the gear remains untreated by induction hardening. The gear has an inner surface. The inner surface includes the first portion and the second portion. The first portion has a first width. The second portion has a second width. The inductor coil includes at least one heating loop and at least one non-heating loop. The inductor coil is energized to a predetermined frequency to create an alternating magnetic field, where the alternating magnetic field developed in the heating loop induces an eddy current in the first portion of the gear.
US09631250B2
A steel sheet has a microstructure including ferrite phase: 40% to 60%, bainite phase: 10% to 30%, tempered martensite phase: 20% to 40%, and retained austenite phase: 5% to 20% by volume fraction, and satisfying a condition that a ratio of tempered martensite phase having major axis length ≦5 μm to a total volume fraction of the tempered martensite phase is 80% to 100%.
US09631229B2
With respect to molecular biology, medicine, and biotechnology, provided is a method related to the performance of Polymerase Chain Reaction. The method includes using the device for identification of nucleic acids containing a microchip with at least one reaction zone on its surface. The microchip contains a heat-conducting substrate made of aluminum while each reaction zone is separated from the heat-conducting substrate by a layer of the passivating material covalently bound to the surface of the heat-conducting substrate while over the layer of the passivating material one or several dried components of the polymerase chain reaction is placed. In this method the ratio of the aggregate thermal mass of the microchip to thermal conductance of the microchip substrate does not exceeding 0.04 s. The technical result is reduced duration of the analysis, higher reliability, accuracy, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the analysis.
US09631227B2
Provided herein are methods for ligation of polynucleotides containing modified ligation components, particularly modified ligase cofactors, modified acceptors and modified donors. The methods readily applied to ligation-based assays for detection of a nucleic acid sequence where the use of the modified cofactor improves discrimination between matched and mismatched templates. Furthermore, the use of the modified ligation components reduces or eliminates the ligation in the absence of nucleic acid template. In addition, methods are applied to the preparation of nucleic acid libraries using modified acceptor probes and modified donor probes that reduce or eliminate probe dimerization during the ligation process.
US09631215B2
Recombinant microorganisms, plants, and plant cells are disclosed that have been engineered to express recombinant genes encoding UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGTs). Such microorganisms, plants, or plant cells can produce steviol glycosides, e.g., Rebaudioside A and/or Rebaudioside D, which can be used as natural sweeteners in food products and dietary supplements.
US09631210B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for increasing production of 3-methyl-2-butenol in a de novo synthetic pathway in a genetically modified host cell using isopentenyl disphosphate (IPP) as a substrate.
US09631199B2
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to compositions, organisms, systems, and methods for expressing a gene product in a plant (e.g., a monocot) using a promoter operable in one or more plant tissues and/or cells. In some embodiments, an artificial nucleic acid may comprise an expression control sequence having the sequence selected from the sequence of nucleotides 1-4710 of SEQ ID NO: 1 and the sequence of nucleotides 1137-4710 of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein the expression control sequence has stem-regulated promoter activity in at least one monocot (e.g., at least two monocots).
US09631195B2
This disclosure concerns methods for producing a spinosyn producing host cell that comprises modifying a nucleic acid molecule encoding for spinactin by introducing, mutating, deleting, replacing or inactivating a nucleic acid sequence encoding one or more activities of a polypeptide encoded by the nucleic acid molecule. Methods for producing a modified Saccharopolyspora spinosa organism or strain are also disclosed.
US09631191B2
The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for the production of chimeric antibodies that specifically bind an antigen of interest.
US09631188B2
Human cystathionine β-synthase variants are disclosed, as well as a method to produce recombinant human cystathionine β-synthase and variants thereof. More particularly, the role of both the N-terminal and C-terminal regions of human CBS has been studied, and a variety of truncation mutants and modified CBS homologues are described. In addition, a method to express and purify recombinant human cystathionine β-synthase (CBS) and variants thereof which have only one or two additional amino acid residues at the N-terminus are described.
US09631186B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for generating a single-stranded break in a target sequence, which facilitates targeted integration of one or more exogenous sequences.
US09631183B2
The present invention relates to DNA polymerases displaying increased substrate scope such as improved reverse transcriptase and DNA polymerase activities, as well as improved activities for incorporating and extending modified nucleotides. In particular, the present invention relates to DNA polymerases derived from wild-type Thermus aquaticus (Taq) polymerase, comprising the mutations S515R, I638F, and M747K with regard to the wild-type amino acid sequence. The present invention further relates to nucleic acids coding for the DNA polymerases of the present invention, vectors containing said nucleic acids, host cells containing said vectors or nucleic acids, methods for the generation of DNA molecules using said DNA polymerases, kits containing said DNA polymerases, and uses thereof.
US09631181B2
The present disclosure relates to non-naturally occurring monooxygenase polypeptides useful for preparing prazole compounds, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, and methods of using the polypeptides.
US09631179B2
The disclosure relates to an apparatus for segregating particles on the basis of their ability to flow through a stepped passageway. At least some of the particles are unable to pass through a narrower passageway bounded by a segregating step, resulting in segregation of the particles. The breadth of the leading edge of at least one step of the apparatus is significantly greater than the overall width of the passageway in which the step occurs, permitting high and rapid sample throughput. The apparatus and methods described herein can be used to segregate particles of a wide variety of types. By way of example, they can be used to segregate circulating tumor cells from a human blood sample.
US09631173B2
A tissue engineered model (TEM) structure, an apparatus and method for making a TEM structure, and methods of using a TEM structure are disclosed. In an embodiment, the TEM structure includes at least one TEM segment. Each TEM segment includes a frame defining a bounded area, the frame having a height, a first edge, and a second edge opposite the first edge, each of the first edge and the second edge defining a perimeter of the bounded area, and the height defining a distance between the first edge and the second edge; a membrane affixed to the first edge about a perimeter of the frame; and a solidified gel and cell matrix disposed within the bounded area within the frame, wherein the solidified gel and cell matrix substantially fills a volume defined by the bounded area and the height of the frame.
US09631169B2
Provided herein are methods of detecting responses of bio-artificial tissues to agents by performing assays using three-dimensional bio-artificial tissues. The methods are adaptable to high-throughput platforms.
US09631159B2
The invention provides a lubricating composition containing an oil of lubricating viscosity and an amine or ammonia salt of a carboxylic acid compound where said carboxylic acid is characterized in that it is functionalized with a hydroxy-substituted aromatic moiety. The invention further relates to methods of lubricating an internal combustion engine by supplying the described lubricating composition to the internal combustion engine. The invention further relates to the use of the salt of the carboxylic acid compound as an antiwear agent or an antioxidant.
US09631158B2
Disclosed are processes for forming an oligomer product by contacting a feedstock olefin containing trisubstituted olefins with a solid acid catalyst. The oligomer product can be formed at an oligomerization temperature in a range from −20° C. to 40° C. Polyalphaolefins produced from the oligomer product can have reduced viscosities at low temperatures.
US09631157B2
A bearing surface of an oilfield component is treated by applying a surface treatment having a low coefficient of friction to the bearing surface of the oilfield component by weld fusing an overlay of a Cu—Ni—Sn alloy material to the bearing surface. Weld fusing the overlay of the Cu—Ni—Sn alloy material to the bearing surface can involve laser surface cladding the overlay of the Cu—Ni—Sn alloy material to the bearing surface, gas tungsten arc welding the overlay of the Cu—Ni—Sn alloy material to the bearing surface, or plasma tungsten arc welding the overlay of the Cu—Ni—Sn alloy material to the bearing surface.
US09631156B2
A modified dryer operates on a different principle from that used by the prior torrefaction plants. The subject invention utilizes thermal conduction to torrefy the biomass in a vibratory reactor in which a heated solid unperforated plate is sealed in the reactor to separate the biomass above from the gas used to heat the plate below. This permits using inert flue gas to heat the reactor which in turn permits the use of a cool air damping system to prevent thermal runaway. Also syngas evolved from the process is utilized to power a gas engine, the exhaust output of which is recirculated to heat the reactor plate. When the gas engine is coupled to an electric generator, waste energy is recovered for use in other parts of the plant or exported elsewhere.
US09631149B2
A process for reducing the sulfur content of a hydrocarbon stream is disclosed. A full range cracked naphtha is contacted with a hydrogenation catalyst to convert at least a portion of the dienes and mercaptans to thioethers and to hydrogenate at least a portion of the dienes. The full range cracked naphtha is fractionated into a light naphtha fraction, a medium naphtha fraction, and a heavy naphtha fraction. The heavy naphtha fraction is hydrodesulfurized. The medium naphtha fraction is mixed with hydrogen and gas oil to form a mixture, which is contacted with a hydrodesulfurization catalyst to produce a medium naphtha fraction having a reduced sulfur concentration. The light, heavy, and medium naphtha fractions may then be recombined to form a hydrodesulfurized product having a sulfur content of less than 10 ppm in some embodiments.
US09631148B2
Disclosed here is a method for hydrocarbon conversion, comprising contacting at least one graphene-supported assembly with at least one hydrocarbon feedstock, wherein the graphene-supported assembly comprises (i) a three-dimensional network of graphene sheets crosslinked by covalent carbon bonds and (ii) at least one metal chalcogenide compound disposed on the graphene sheets, wherein the chalcogen of the metal chalcogenide compound is selected from S, Se and Te, and wherein the metal chalcogenide compound accounts for at least 20 wt. % of the graphene-supported assembly.
US09631145B2
Processes are provided including quenching a hot vapor stream to improve rapid thermal conversion processes for efficiently converting wood, other biomass materials, and other carbonaceous feedstock (including hydrocarbons) into high yields of valuable liquid product, e.g., bio-oil, on a large scale production.
US09631139B2
A polymer-encapsulated mineral acid solution and a method for forming the polymer-encapsulated mineral acid solution. Introducing a strong mineral acid solution to a monomer solution occurs such that a primary emulsion that is a water-in-oil type emulsion forms. Introducing the primary emulsion to a second aqueous solution forms a secondary emulsion that is a water-in-oil-in-water type double emulsion. The monomer in the secondary emulsion is cured such a polymerized shell forms that encapsulates the strong mineral acid solution and forms the capsule. The strong mineral acid solution has up to 30 wt. % strong mineral acid. A method of stimulating a hydrocarbon-bearing formation using the polymer-encapsulated mineral acid solution includes introducing a capsule suspension into a fissure in the hydrocarbon-bearing formation to be stimulated through a face in a well bore. The capsule is maintained within the fissure until the polymer shell degrades.
US09631135B2
Process for enhanced oil recovery employing an aqueous solution comprising at least one linear or structured water-soluble copolymer obtained by polymerization: of at least 10 mol % of 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid monomer in the free acid and/or salified form, of at least 10 mol % of at least one comonomer chosen from the group consisting of acrylamide, N-vinylpyrrolidone (NVP) and acrylamide-derived monomers of formula (I): in which: R=H or CH3 or CH2COOR′, where R′ is an alkyl comprising at most 3 carbon atoms, A is an N heterocycle comprising, in its ring, from 4 to 6 carbon atoms and optionally an ether functional group or a ketone functional group.
US09631133B2
This invention relates generally to novel foamer compositions for treatment of oil and gas wells to enhance production. The invention provides a method of foaming a fluid. The method includes introducing into the fluid a foam-forming amount of a composition comprising at least one long chain fatty acid and at least one organic solvent. An example of the long chain fatty acid is tall oil fatty acid and an example of the organic solvent is ethyleneglycol monobutyl ether.
US09631132B2
A variety of methods and compositions, including, in one embodiment, a method that comprises providing a treatment fluid comprising a carrier fluid and temperature-activated polymeric particulates. The temperature-activated polymeric particulates may include a compressible gas trapped in the temperature-activated polymeric particulates. The method may further comprise introducing the treatment fluid into a well bore annulus.
US09631119B1
Methods of forming and using a polymer dispersion are described herein. The polymer dispersion includes a plurality of polythioaminal microparticles in a fluid medium that does not dissolve the plurality of polythioaminal microparticles. The fluid medium may be aqueous, for example water. The polymer dispersion may be applied to a substrate, and the fluid medium removed, to form an article substantially made of a polymerized polythioaminal mass. The dispersion, and any article made from the dispersion, may include pigments and active ingredients, such as biocides.
US09631117B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of highly reactive, low-viscosity and water-dilutable polyisocyanate reaction products which contain activated groups which react, by polymerization, with ethylenically unsaturated compounds under the action of actinic radiation. The present invention furthermore relates to a process for the preparation of such products and their use.
US09631113B2
An UV- and thermally curable, solventborne clearcoat material suitable for automotive refinishing comprises: (A) at least one polyhydroxy-functional poly(meth)acrylate having grafted-on unsaturated (meth)acrylate side groups, (B) at least one polyisocyanate-functional, poly(meth)acrylate-functional aliphatic urethane, (C) at least one (meth)acrylate-functional aliphatic urethane free from isocyanate groups, (D) at least one hydroxy-functional, (meth)acrylate-functional aliphatic component free from isocyanate groups and from urethane groups and having a molecular weight of not more than 1000 g/mol and a (meth)acrylate functionality of at least 4, (E) at least one aliphatic polymercaptan, (F) at least one phosphoric acid or phosphonic acid blocked with an amine, the amine possessing a pKb of ≧3 and a boiling point under atmospheric pressure of >100° C., and (G) at least one photoinitiator selected from the group consisting of α-hydroxyalkyl phenyl ketones and monoacylphosphine oxides. Component (A) may be an intermediate in the production of the clearcoat material.
US09631108B2
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.
US09631102B2
A pigment dispersion liquid is a pigment dispersion liquid for a solvent-based ink including a base metal pigment and an organic solvent, in which the base metal pigment is subjected to a surface treatment by a fluorine-based compound, and in which the concentration of a fluorine element is from 8 atm % to 35 atm % when an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) analysis of the surface of the base metal pigment is performed.
